Theo & Bubba's Mixtape - Season 3 Finale Pt. 1

You Had Me at Black

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4.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Welcome to pt 1. of our Season 3 finale! Today we're playing back stories recorded at our last kickback in Oakland. The first comes from Theo, a former child singer whose mom did whatever it took to support his career. The second, from Mani, who tried to run away from something that was rooted deep within. Produced by: Adizah Eghan After listening, head to youhadmeatblack.com/donate to back our Kickstarter campaign and bring live shows like this one to cities across the country. We have 9 days left to raise $12k!

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0:00.0	Welcome to you Hide Me at Black.
0:02.0	I'm Martina Abraham.
0:04.0	And this is the season three finale, Part 1.
0:07.9	This week we're playing back some of the stories recorded
0:10.4	at our last kickback in Oakland. I want you to breed all this.
0:14.4	This is you.
0:16.4	This is you had me at Black, the podcast with Black millennials tell true life stories.
0:27.0	Imagine you're in West Oakland on a warm spring night in March and we're at a
0:36.0	Lena Museum a co-working and art space for black creatives in the Bay Area.
0:42.0	You're in a room packed with 200 beautiful glowing black people and if you're
0:48.3	anything like me your little tipsy off some honey wine and enjoying the vibes brought by
0:54.2	DJ Mary B. You have me at Black, we are gonna be starting in five minutes so if
0:59.2	everyone can gather to the front that That would be much appreciated.
1:04.0	Five minutes.
1:05.0	The next story comes from Theo, who used to be a kid singer and his mom was
1:19.5	super involved in his singing career. So the year was 1996. I was living in a small town in Tennessee outside Nashville called Hendersonville, Tennessee.
1:39.0	Super White Town was actually where Taylor Swift graduated from high school.
1:43.0	No, seriously, yeah, like Google that, that's real.
1:48.0	And so back in the day, I was like, I had a little
1:53.4	child singing career.
1:54.4	I was like nine at the time.
1:55.7	I was like in all the school musicals
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