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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Deon Cole On Norm Macdonald, Code Switching, Old Spice, Blackish, Paying Dues In Chi, And More

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Deon Cole is a comic’s comic. His name has been dropped many times on our show and his appearance on People’s Party feels way overdue. Well... better late than never. We’re thrilled to finally have the legendary comic, Blackish and Barbershop star, and creator of the fantastic special, Cole-Hearted on set. The convo between Cole, Kweli, co-host Jasmin Leigh spans the comedian’s career, drops in on fantastic stories from his early years on the Chicago stand up circuit, and dives deep into the many complexities of the Black experience in America. The episode is funny and thoughtful in equal measure -- a perfect representation of Cole himself!

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0:00.0

Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.

0:03.8

You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented

0:08.0

co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our

0:12.8

episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattich,

0:18.4

subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. When you said turn your blackness up,

0:23.9

when you said black people can't be black all day long we have to choose when to be black I

0:28.0

felt that in my heart in my soul and my spirit and every fiber in my being. Please break down

0:34.5

where you got that from. Yo, it's just real and I got that I got that joke from being that

0:43.2

Conan. Yeah, it was me working that Conan and me just like you know I used to catch myself

0:52.6

talking white at work and shit sometimes when I used to be like what am I doing this?

0:56.9

Yeah, I'm just like I'm stopping this shit. I said I shouldn't have to conform to fit in.

1:04.8

Like I should just be me and that's just it and a lot of people go through that.

1:09.6

It's a lot of people watching this right now. You know you got two voices.

1:14.3

You use your white voice, you work for a work voice. That's that code switch and that you learn

1:18.4

when you use a key. Go to the suburbs. But I just feel like why black people always have to

1:23.2

uh everybody else is coming out. Everybody else is being free. Everybody standing up for how they are

1:29.9

and being who they want to be and I just don't understand why black people are free when you

1:36.9

just so much on us already burden yourself with what you think you need to be done. It's just

1:44.9

more pressure on you. You should just be you in a sense, right? Things that turn it like

1:51.7

just when they have like that Instagrams and they show all the they had showed things and

1:55.7

was like oh someone didn't want a black doctor and then it had all of these black women that

1:59.1

were coming or a nurse or whatever and they had like different natural hair styles and stuff

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