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Toure Show

Kenya Barris–I Am Black AF

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Kenya Barris is one of the hottest TV creators in the game—he’s the creator and star of #BlackAF on Netflix, a show I love even though many don’t. We talk all about his new show, why it’s polarizing, why he loves that, and what it takes to be an elite TV creator. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 139 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I I don't think I want to do anything that doesn't have a polarizing effect anymore.

0:19.0

I feel like the nature of art, you know, you don't walk out of a museum and love all the paintings

0:23.5

what I'm saying and I kind of feel like someone told me today that what we do as

0:27.6

TV writers we forget some time or entertainment writers we forget some time it's art it's

0:31.6

art with a small a you know I feel like the nature of

0:36.2

art and the whole point of art is to start a conversation if you walk out of a movie after

0:40.3

seeing a movie you guys just walk out and say, you went to do some date?

0:43.3

That movie was a failure.

0:44.8

You know what I'm saying?

0:45.2

If they didn't have any, it starts to no conversation,

0:48.3

you have nothing to say about it.

0:49.4

It was not, you know, the art that is most impactful is the art that sort of starts the conversation

0:56.0

sticks with you.

0:57.0

Why is this show so polarizing?

1:00.5

I don't know.

1:01.5

I got into it, but we had a

1:03.4

Charlemagne said the show was whack on you know we were talking about

1:06.4

what show and I actually like charlame and you know and I feel like he's whack sometimes

1:11.0

but I feel like I like show the, but we text it in a really respectful way, you know, and he said he was like, you know, I'm not we're not monolithic. I know we're not monolithic, but I don't I don't know he's lacking like this. This isn't like people know. And I'm like, Charlemagne, do you not only

1:25.2

know any black people like this?

1:26.5

Do you also not know what monolithic means?

1:28.7

Because the idea of saying we're not monolithic,

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