L.A. Hip-Hop Culture With Nana, and Sydney Sweeney Speaks

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Van and Rachel welcome rapper Nana to talk hip-hop culture in Los Angeles before they react to Sydney Sweeney’s comments on her infamous jean ad campaign. Then a boxing-style scoring of the best back-and-forths between Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman. (0:00) Intro (11:41) Jason Derulo on working with women (23:15) Nana joins the show (53:04) Sydney Sweeney on the “great jeans” ad (1:01:33) Stephen A. Smith vs. Max Kellerman Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Video Supervision: Chris Thomas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, thought warriors. What is up? How Learning is on his eye, Ray Latham, Jr.
0:12.5	And it's me, Rachel and Lindsay. I have a question before we start. This was a question
0:18.2	that was asked, and I wanted to know what you thought. Who's more famous?
0:22.7	I said I have two questions.
0:24.4	I'm going to start with the first one.
0:25.3	Who's more famous?
0:27.0	Michael Jackson or Mickey Mouse.
0:28.1	Ooh.
0:32.5	This was the topic of discussion at a party that I was at on Saturday.
0:36.7	I missed that conversation.
0:38.2	Yeah, it was late until the night.
0:39.8	Okay.
0:40.4	Well, this is really hard.
0:44.2	Who's more famous?
0:45.2	Michael came first.
0:46.3	I mean, I mean, sorry, Mickey came first.
0:48.4	So technically, Mickey's been famous longer.
0:54.1	Like, because the fame is equal, right?
0:56.1	Like, they're so equally known, obviously for different reasons,
1:00.3	in their own right.
1:01.7	But I'm gonna say Mickey because Mickey's been around longer,
1:09.6	because of Disney itself,
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