Shaun King-I'm Controversial

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Shaun King is… controversial. IG has banned him. How you feel about that depends on how you feel about him. Is he an activist or a con man? I’ve known Shaun for years, so in this throwback interview from 2020, I asked him point blank about his work and his troubles—why so many people have questions about his finances, why so many people doubt his Blackness, why so many people question his intentions, why he puts so many traumatic images in our faces through his social media. He answers everything. Toure Show Ep 172: I'm Controversial Original Air Date: Sept 4, 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Music Lover It's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock
0:06.9	Open for fun gone old school with some beep up open for fun
0:11.1	bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibing, playing can be exciting till you feel
0:17.0	the need for dancing.
0:18.0	Here we go!
0:19.0	I've heard drum and bass!
0:21.0	Oh, just 110 pounds! Tom Bola! Open for fun!
0:27.0	Terms apply 18 plus, please play safely. We have a We've counted almost 300 different things people say I'm lying about. The two things that have stuck are that I'm lying about my race and that I'm
0:55.0	my race and that I'm actually stealing a ton of money.
0:58.0	And both of those are juicy and have proven to be really effective.
1:04.0	And because they are affected and won't go away,
1:08.0	my gut tells me from now until the day I die
1:12.0	people are going to be saying this shit.
1:14.0	When you say...
1:15.0	Not going away.
1:16.0	When you say effective, has it impacted your ability to do what you wanted to do?
1:20.0	Oh yeah.
1:21.0	I have had events canceled over this type of stuff. I've had people decide not to work with me because they saw something that was complete misinformation, but purported to be true by people they thought they could trust.
1:36.3	When I'm popular, politicians will retweet me. On a day where I'm trending for some bullshit,
1:43.0	people won't touch me with a 10 foot pole.
1:45.0	Sean King is an activist who's often out helping families
1:51.0	who are in the midst of crisis.
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