Tommy Davidson on Strictly Business, Meeting his Birth Mother, In Living Color, and Witnessing Diddy’s Empire Building

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Tommy Davidson is an icon. Straight up and no doubts. No two or three ways about it. And we’ve got him on the show in classic form—laughing, having fun, doing impressions… But also: going deep, getting raw about his childhood, and telling little-known stories about his early career. If you know the name Tommy Davidson, you need to hear this interview . It’s raw, it’s real, it’s funny as hell, and it's heartfelt.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our
0:12.8	episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.4	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. You know, you are heavily invested in hip-hop,
0:24.7	and connect to me and pop. And strictly business, that movie was important to me because it's first
0:29.9	time I saw an authentic hip-hop character on screen that I related to, how you dressed, how you
0:36.7	talked. That's how I was living at that time. And you asked me about being in, whether or not I was
0:42.0	in the scene, I wasn't. But the scene when Halley Berry walks in. And that was like her debut
0:47.7	for us into the culture because she had been in Jungle Fever before, but she was living. She
0:51.9	cracked it. Right. Right. Now we see you didn't see her. You didn't see her. You saw Vivienne. Yeah.
0:56.4	Yeah. Now when she's on the dance floor, first of all, you got Henry and Stretch. Those are my
1:02.2	brothers. They went on to dance for Mario Carrie. Later you got Peter Paul out there dancing.
1:07.2	These are the dudes that I was in the club. So I'm watching a movie like, yo, you would be
1:13.2	the dude. I know them. I know them. You know what I'm saying? That was the first movie that I saw
1:18.4	have that. And you know, shout out to Kim Coles as they are Washington. Oh, the whole.
1:24.1	Sam Sam, Jack Cory Samuel Sam Samuel Jackson. Sam Jackson. Sam Jackson. Yeah.
1:29.7	Emory Johnson. Sam Rockwell. Dennis Leary. This is like all star and all star cast, even the
1:38.2	supporting parts. But my favorite part of the movie is the first time I saw a blunt being
1:45.2	a smoked on screen. Was that in the projects of tear? Yeah. Right. And is you a nice smooth,
1:52.4	even me a nice smooth and redhead and red. Yeah. My grandmother, Javote, who my label's named after
1:58.1	was in a redhead kingpin video. Oh, really? You know how in the plan B, she was actress. So she's
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