Spilling the Mama Tea with Tina Knowles
Baby, this is Keke Palmer
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Keke is LIVE from the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles for a fun and inspiring conversation with Tina Knowles, affectionately known as Mama T. Tina shares powerful life lessons from her memoir, Matriarch, and gets radically honest about love, marriage, betrayal, loss, and self-liberation. She talks about raising her superstar daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, with intention and in the public eye, as well as the importance of family, legacy, and Black womanhood. Keke also gets into chosen family and what being a matriarch to others really means, shining a light on Mama T’s wisdom, strength, grace, and resilience. Plus, surprise guests and unexpected moments as we celebrate this incredible matriarch!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is presented in partnership with Airbnb. Baby, Memorial Day weekend is all about family, food, and kicking off summer. And with Airbnb, you can celebrate in one of the most loved homes in America. All right, y'all. Let's dive in. |
| 0:18.5 | What was it like to finally open up and decide to share so many personal things? |
| 0:23.6 | I started off being very careful about what I put in it, and the next thing you know, |
| 0:28.6 | it just came out and everything was there. Some of it I had to take out of this. |
| 0:33.6 | Because I would have gotten a lot of trouble, you know. |
| 0:42.8 | A lot of those days were much happier than the days that I had when I started making my own money. |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.4 | What you started when you were five? |
| 0:46.5 | Nine. |
| 0:50.6 | I had to get to work soon because I was poor. |
| 0:55.0 | Talking about your marriage and then leaving. Yes. |
| 0:56.0 | What was the moment that told you it was time to go? |
| 0:59.0 | Well, there were many moments that told me it was time to go. |
| 1:03.0 | The day that I had a baby, I said to my baby, and this is the honest about truth, I said, I screwed up a bunch of stuff, but I'm not going to screw this up. |
| 1:14.6 | I'm going to get this right. I'm not going to screw it up, and I didn't. |
| 1:18.6 | You know, I mean, I didn't. I made you. |
| 1:20.6 | You definitely did not. |
| 1:22.6 | No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling, purple Amazon music, sit back and listen. |
| 1:34.8 | Life, love, sex, science, coven, it all, especially live back in money dollars, you know. |
| 1:39.6 | No matter what it is, people make it make sense. |
| 1:41.4 | Please welcome the multi-talented Miss Kiki Poma. |
| 1:46.0 | Welcome to God |
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