Six Degrees: Music Edition

The Nod

Gimlet

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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June is Black Music Month, so Brittany and Eric decided to celebrate with a music-themed edition of Six Degrees of Black Separation… with a twist: the loser has to write and perform a song on a topic of the winner’s choosing. Will Eric FINALLY belt out that R&B slow jam about Oprah Winfrey’s Legends Ball? Will Brittany pen a ballad about The Real Housewives of Atlanta? Listen to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I feel like I would be betraying my family and the amount of black magazines that they've
0:05.3	held on to for the past 25 years if I didn't figure out a way to get from Bernie Mac to
0:13.4	the Jackson Five.
0:19.6	From Gimlett Media, this is The Knife, a podcast about black culture from Blackness's
0:24.6	biggest fans.
0:25.6	I'm Eric Gettings.
0:26.6	And I'm Brittany Loose.
0:35.5	Happy Black Music Month, Brittany.
0:37.7	Thank you.
0:38.7	Thank you.
0:39.7	You know, actually, I actually really enjoy Black Music Month.
0:42.4	Really?
0:43.4	Yeah.
0:44.4	I was thinking about it and I was wondering like, who actually, who got you into music?
0:47.1	Um, I would probably say my dad.
0:50.9	My father is technically, I would, I guess you could refer to him as a musician.
0:55.2	He sings and he plays a couple of instruments and he was in a band when he was younger.
0:58.8	That was managed by one of the original temptations.
1:00.9	Wow.
1:01.9	The late Eddie Kendrick's.
1:02.9	Um, so he used to like play us music in the car we were growing up and he would be like,
1:06.6	who played this bass?
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