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Ratchet & Respectable

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

Ratchet & Respectable

Demetria L. Lucas & Studio71

Tv & Film, News, Entertainment News, Society & Culture

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Demetria (finally) has a long overdue chat with one of her favorite writers and bestie-in-her-head, Damon Young, co-founder of Very Smart Brothas and author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker. Your favorite writer's favorite writers chat about Game of Thrones, gentrification, public transparency, short sentences, Michelle Williams, why Darius Lovehall is the ultimate fuccboi and (so, so, much) more....  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Music

0:10.0

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you're listening to Ratchet and Respectable with Dimitria

0:17.6

Lookas.

0:19.6

Music

0:22.6

Can I tell you how I had, I have an incredible podcast planned out for you today.

0:32.0

Just before I was about to push the play button, Essence dropped its May cover featuring

0:38.6

Diddy and his daughters, right?

0:41.6

So the twins and chants, I posted the cover image on my page.

0:46.4

I talked about the beautiful brownness.

0:48.8

I talked about how the last time that I remember seeing Diddy on the cover of Essence, he was

0:54.3

with Kim and Kim was pregnant with the twins.

0:58.1

The twins are now 12, so it's been a long time since Diddy's been on the cover.

1:03.2

For me, it was very nostalgic.

1:05.6

I saw the girls, they look very much like their mother, they have a lot of Diddy in them.

1:11.3

They're a set of kids who, when they're standing with the father, they look like the father,

1:15.4

and they're with the mother, they look like the mother, they are a good blend of both

1:19.3

parents.

1:20.6

And then chants, she's the same age as the twins, but Kim is not her mom, she has a different

1:25.8

mom, but neither here nor there.

1:28.3

Families are defined in all sorts of different ways.

1:30.8

But I posted the cover, making the connection that now Diddy is on the cover again with the

1:36.5

twins, that it was a very full circle moment, and also very sad that Essence is doing a

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