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If We Cross Paths, Leave You Cross-Eyed with Yamaneika Saunders

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If We Cross Paths, Leave You Cross-Eyed with Yamaneika Saunders

Yamanika Saunders joins the podcast to share a raw, personal, and socially conscious reflection on Black life, identity, and systemic oppression. She speaks candidly about the marginalization of Black women and trans individuals, criticizing societal hostility toward Black women who express themselves or transition. Drawing from her experiences in Baltimore and New York, she highlights the cultural importance of Black queer communities, especially in music like Go-Go, and the historical roots of community resilience. The conversation also explores gender dynamics, including how Black men transitioning to women face intense hostility, and how Black women are often disrespected in both public and private spaces. Yamanika reflects on her career in comedy and her return to New York, emphasizing the importance of authenticity and self-assertion. She critiques celebrity culture, referencing Ray J and the media’s portrayal of Black women, and underscores the need for Black women to be seen and respected. A fan’s humorous voicemail about Pusha T’s “Hard Piano” adds a layer of satire, reinforcing the podcast’s blend of social commentary and cultural insight. Overall, the episode serves as a powerful exploration of identity, resistance, and the ongoing struggles faced by Black women in contemporary society.

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normally i would say what the f is up but i was just talking to my homegirl and she she has a little kid and she said she started listening to the podcast and normally i say what the boop is yeah and she was like she was like i don't want my little kid listening to this so now i'm starting the pot different sarah if you listen to this just know you changed the whole thing y'all sarah if you're listening to this and you see me on this you might want to take your kid out the state is that what we're doing here you can say whatever you want i'm gonna say fuck sarah and the kids because ain't nobody moving nothing around for no kid you gotta get used to that if you live in new york city he done already heard this stuff in the womb and utero okay you know what you know what i'm changing next episode we going back to the original opening y'all what the fuck is up welcome to my favorite lyrics the podcast where we talk about music lyrics except for when we talk about other stuff and today we've got a very very special guest um if you've seen her you you're you're blessed yeah listen my name is yamanika saunders and let's just do that all these intros and shit you know i mean listen i've done a lot of amazing things right of course and i i want to promote them all and we'll talk about them at some point but like i'm yamanika i'm a comedian i'm just excited to be here and let's get started i don't think i ever had nobody just intercept the the opening for you the first person to do respect no no we don't have to do the pompous circumstance i'm not like that honestly you know what's funny about this pod is everybody don't even get a proper intro some like i'll just decide sometimes i'll say credit sometimes i'm just like welcome to the show right yeah yeah but you know what that was that was better than i would have did it so welcome to the show yamanika thank you for having me yes yes yamanika i just got done i just got done playing tennis and you got jim gear on yeah i got jim gear on can you tell the people where you're about to go work out because you told me off yes so i got a home girl i don't even should i even say no i can't say her name but she worked in the court system and there is a jungle gym by the course where she worked with all the pre going to jail niggas oops can i say that sarah but okay you can say niggas are niggas always a lot on this podcast you can always say joe okay i'm not puerto rican with an afro latino you know everybody in my family got an afro or especially the women on the down low and up low okay i just picked my afro out early today all right so i'm going to go see my friend she's by the pre going to jail niggas because they all go on the court they go on the court they can't pay the 36 dollars a month for child support they you know they don't stab somebody over you can't do that yeah all of that they you know out dope boys and shit like that so between they get to work out before they get locked up well some of them get to work out only when they shuffle with the chain you know that's a workout too yeah yeah that's cardio chains look heavy that's why they be so fit they be shuffling right and the chains feeling yeah but you know if they can't come out because they going to jail now right they're not on recess they on their way they on their way the public defender that's also taking care of them it's good for me to know him so that when i get to know his client right in a very intimate way i can also talk to the lawyer because i already know him and be like yo joe help my nigga out wait so y'all mean he could just so i'm clear yeah you be going and exercising with the niggas that's about you and you're not going to go to prison listen and always if you like a medium fat bitch because i'm medium right right okay like i used to be a fat bitch right now there's a fat bitch okay right right you gotta always have a workout clothes to make it look like you working out right because they don't want you they be like ah you ain't lost enough weight for that put on some of this fenty or fabletics okay okay that's where i'm at interesting interesting you always wait what do you think would happen if you was just wearing regular clothes they'd be like fat bitch you not working hard enough huh why you why you sit here regular you think you've earned regular clothes no every part of the day i have to look like i'm about to go into a lunge interesting interesting but you what if you just found somebody who just who wasn't who wasn't trying to get you to change i'm 47 years old i'm a plus size black woman the demo on us is in the tubes okay we the last ones anybody give a fuck about i hear you all right okay said what he said the most disrespected the most neglected the most unseen the most bothered unbothered and bothered is a black woman and he had to think about us just so he could think about saying that then he stopped thinking about it you think he gave up after that speech i'm not gonna do malcolm like that because you know they did get him out of here right so you know they very much did they can't stand people that like black women right they're gonna kill you on sight that's why there's so much trans when a trans woman is a trans woman because she's a trans woman uh-huh a transitioning into women black men transitioning to black women they're ready to kill him yeah they don't want no problem when you black man no problem suzy oh and you want to be a black bitch oh we got to kill you twice everybody knows black men no problems no queer black men transitioning to black women oh no that's why black women got to stand in the gap with transitioning black men to transition to women because they hate them now because they us ain't that crazy while you're arguing about sis who get to call your sis non-sis binary binary non-bar don't matter they all calling us a nigga bitch right i'd rather you call me sis matter of fact call me him him her as long as you don't call me nigga bitch you can call me it any pronouns yeah any pronouns any pronouns any pronouns but nigga bitch right yeah okay thank you so you hey whoever that message is for you know you know you know you know y'all tell you who it's for the person that's in the comments now going well she do look like a nigga hey don't write that in the comments if you ever you could think that to yourself if that's in your heart then i guess that's something you gotta face at the end of the day but don't put that in the comments don't if we put if you put that in the comments we're gonna find out where you live imagine if you had to face that at the end of your day imagine my friend listening to this with her two-year-old you know the kid is already in witness protection yeah yeah yeah yamanika appreciation appreciate you coming i'm looking forward to hearing how the workout goes yeah no i think it'll be great i'm just excited i'm excited about uh like being back in the city i've been traveling a lot you was on the road yes i've been opening up for chelsea handler nice um you know i've been having a really good time with that coming back to new york city is always the best just to be able to walk around we take for granted how we can walk around the city at any time there's something open you can find something to do there's some form of entertainment there's a place to go and when you're on the road it is really nice nothing you better order your dinner by 3 p.m because the chef goes home at 7 30 that's right soon if y'all do a late show if you do a late show it's a wrap no every place i go i'm like do you guys have supper any place that has supper they shutting down yeah yeah yeah last last last call for food is about 6 6 45 6 45 if they say no no you can't get nothing else so you get out that late show just hungry yeah enough right 6 45 and it's also it's also interesting like going on the road with somebody like chelsea going on the road for somebody that's like traveling lit yeah it's also one version of the experience and it's like i just came off the road doing my shows yeah yeah yeah and that is like a different like i've gone on the road with like people like that where it's like oh we on the oh we on the pj oh we staying in the suite oh yeah yeah no no no i scream poverty every time i'm around her she's got it is she does i'm like if there's a place where i can stay with you i'm staying with you i don't care if i got to be in the suitcase because the way these places are set up but i've gotten to gold status on delta which i love yeah yeah i got to gold status also my airbnb points are looking really good i didn't know they had a point system they do they and they give you like a kickback if you do so many if you go to hotels dot i'm not advertising but i haven't even told you that i have my own podcast called you're the problem with yamanika i'm up here advertising for hotels.com and delta delta i was like you got some points i was like you got a deal with some of these companies no i found a way listen i got i can hook up deals so good they owe me money when i stay there i like that yeah i like that yeah for sure my mom is like that my mom my mom will go to the store and come out with like a basket full of stuff and like get 12 back yeah oh yeah i think i'm old enough to be your mother that's probably why i don't think you if you was if i if you was my mom it would have been a kind of a sad story yeah well i mean you would have me at an age that people would not have been happy about sure i mean i grew up in you know in maryland no telling what they was doing out there and what do you mean they the surgeon general whatever the little white nigga came up and said young baby young girls ain't having enough babies remember that no like yeah but young like no he said the birth rate between women between first of all that's a problem between 15 to 19 is low 50 what should be low that's what we want that's what we it's called progress but the conservative republicans are like oh no they have more time to read and write yeah that's true yeah yeah no i hear you no good for these girls i'm glad good for you if you're a young woman out here don't let some baby impede on your life you can have a baby anytime it's enough niggas here as it is you don't need all these people running around i just got on the two train i couldn't even find a place to sit and it was a bunch of grown-ass men just sitting there with their legs wide open balls all over the place and you up here worrying about having more babies for what for what don't make a baby like that i will say it does not to be like not to be like a pick me type of man but i will say i was on the train on the way up here and it was a pregnant lady and nobody got up and it made me feel it made me feel a type of way and were you sitting down no no i was standing up i honestly i like standing up on a train just kind of general just because i'll be sitting down all throughout the day so when i'm on the train i'm like i'll just stand up i'm gonna tell you exactly the time that i want to sit down what's up when i see that there's a little bit of a seat that could happen but they all crowd in it right so yeah i'ma come i'ma steal your joy you'd be you'd be sitting in that little space you'd be knocking people and when i come back it is definitely all the sounds that the truck makes it's nothing but phabletics ass right in your face dropping down dropping down i don't care and i also tell people to get up if i see like an older person sometimes i'd be embarrassing older people though because i'm like come on sit down what you want to say hey get this man to see like oh i'm good you know because sometimes old people don't want to be old they'd be proud yeah they like i don't and but it's like man your entire kneecaps is like about to burst yeah you got you gotta sit down you got about 36 seconds left on them kneecaps before something terrible happens facts yeah also why are you even out here right at some point you got to be at an age where you like i'm not going past my porch i do feel that i feel that just in i mean i guess if you from here is different but like i don't think i'm not gonna be 80 in this city i'm not gonna be 80 in new york walking up the subway steps i'm gonna go somewhere with some land i'm gonna sit on it i'm gonna sit on a porch i'm gonna give me a little little stoop sit yeah yeah yeah something quiet yeah yeah yeah i'm not gonna be hobbling up them steps bent over like a cheese curl no no no no no because i had a lady bent over and she couldn't even see up and she was still moving around i'm like lady go sit down somewhere you don't need to be on here like no no no you're looking like one of them damn instruments from the dr seuss books and we're trying to figure out why are you still out here everybody looking like a quizophone everybody looking like an imaginary instrument it's very funny you're from you're from maryland yes you're from maryland i'm from maryland i was don't even worry about that i got them shades on 125th street for two dollars that's all right i it's true that's all right new york you can let me tell you something you come to new york you can get whatever you want you could look i ain't no reason for you to look bad in new york city you can get it even the rats are selling shit you understand everybody i saw a homeless bum the other day i didn't even know he was a homeless man you called him a homeless bum you know what as if there's a difference i know but i i'm old school right so i'm like generation x but i gotta be bothered with all these zennials and millennials and alpha niggas so now some of the conglomerate of nonsense in my conversation okay right yeah but a homeless bum and as john larson will tell you you can't even call him homeless you understand go to him for the rest of that shop you never thought was better and listen if he got a house he don't all i know is can he move away from where i'm at currently okay he don't have to be in a home situation but he needs to clear the space he needs to be away from you oh my god wherever he got on the bus he's taking like 75 bulls in the wind i said my god and you don't smell that no disrespect to him well maybe some maybe slight disrespect to him yeah because he's i i he i almost had to take some bc powder he almost gave me a head there's no way like as soon as you get in the train and everybody you got to know everybody doing this who you think they do that for you think every time you're somewhere and everybody's doing this that that's just everybody doing this or that it's you doing this to people doing this and please and like my grandmother used to do um my maternal grandmother charlene moore dr reverend charlene moore we used to have people come to the church and they would be stinking and stuff and if we had right we had a little baptism pool and my grandmother would draw a bath and do and get some potpourri and a little bath and she go listen we're gonna close the church down and you have a little bath for the baptism pool sometimes you gotta help people help themselves was she also baptizing them people in the baptizing water was she just giving them a bath and that's it that yeah no it was or was she giving them a baptism in hopes of mainly no it wasn't no no we closed the church down okay they could take a bath okay that's where the bath was got you because they got the big baptism because they got the back yeah so it was also he was getting baptized but he was also getting baptized in the funk she was scrubbing she was soaping there no yeah i mean we were scrubbing down but the spirit of funk was in there right you understand what i'm saying it's like like spirit of funk is like the ghostbusters to trap it in there you know that little stinky monster with the green shit right he was a stink monster that's the type of spirit that was in our church from all these people but my grandmother yeah it was inappropriate sure it was out of pocket but at least she was doing something you know she's going to embarrass you but it's all in good spirit right come down here and get this basket of potpourri the lord's been putting on my spirit that you stink i actually spent some time with god she would get people baskets she would call them down to the church and be we would go to the dollar store and pee shit together for people oh you know this one got an underarm problem let's get a couple masking dishes with her because it's smelling down her little bit panties imagine imagine you come into the house of god just to praise and worship and imagine somebody was like hey hey brother let me pull you to the side yeah it was all in good spirit let me tell you something and then and there was like hey my nigga you're smelly yeah you're smelly oh yeah the church we're gonna bless you with a bath at least she gave us you know i'm saying because people say oh you crazy i said no i'm not crazy i was raised by women yeah who sort of just escaped the great depression right right there was no back in those kind of times people called it what it is right now we're in a time where it's phony sure don't have the man come walk down here while the church sing in the name of jesus in the name of jesus hand him a basket but what a beautiful thing to do and i'm not gonna lie to you but what a beautiful thing to my grandmother will go to the dollar store and get them a little olive toilet little you know jordash perfume even though it's not really you know some toilet paper get you some little baby wipes that's before they had white wipes like that and you had to get the wipes the babies was using of course little um baby oil that's before johnson and johnson had to sell all they stuff to diddy because right yeah before he wiped out the stuff you know and like and sort of like the way these leaves are the little material she would take a basket and she would put little stuff like that we go to joann fabrics or something we put a little glue gun put a little bear in there and it's like yeah you stink but here right right of course and then they wash i get it we you know we i grew up in in aberdeen maryland you understand but in baltimore people were suffering and suffering hard homelessness was through the roof you know people didn't have any food kids were not being educated properly my grandparents took all their resources and they decided to put it you know have their own church and they did a lot of community outreach none of which reached them back in the way mm-hmm but they also weren't looking for that you know when you got people out here talking about they helping the community but all you see them is helping themselves in big rolls royces and bmws my grandparents were helping themselves and they were depreciating their own savings from my grandfather working in the mta my grandmother retiring early from general electric as an engineer doing things that people thought they would never be able to do owning their own nightclub at some point in time before they got saved so yeah it's sometimes things don't happen the way they should or sometimes people can feel off but sometimes the people that feel off you got to see what the intention behind it is because it they may not be able to communicate well i always think that's my problem too i'm a hard sell the reputation of me is hard what do you but i don't what do you think i know it's not even what i think it is what i know it is because i'm very direct yeah and i don't play any games and i say exactly what i mean right yeah and that is a crunch for a lot of people but i also live free and that's beautiful that's beautiful you know because it's like you never you never holding anything back nobody ever got to wonder whether they like where they stand with you absolutely not i feel lisa is like this as well yeah yeah yes yes a thousand percent her and i had a little come to jesus say it exactly but i i i also i adore her sometimes you gotta also it's like it's so funny i shouldn't even say this but you was talking about alex earlier yeah i love alex to death at one point i couldn't stand alex i told alex that makes sense right yeah i said yeah i couldn't stay i looked up one day one of my best friends i can't stand him he evolved into what for me from when i knew him a lot of that was just youth and i think just being us young and like whatever and and and it was beautiful because sometimes there's people i don't like and then i grow into liking them sometimes i'm not always right i always think i know exactly whether i can with a person or not sometimes i'm wrong and with alex i was wrong now funny enough maybe he don't like me maybe he don't like you know but it's like sometimes it's it's um you know it's a really good feeling just to like sort of be true to yourself even if it even if it hurts sometimes even if it's crunchy they kind of be true to yourself i'm not always the best person and everything some some situations i have been the villain in it yeah um but you know thank god that i'm somebody that started comedy at 16 i'm 47 years old and to see like just how this train keeps going and going all these different iterations of it and to still be in it and have you know veterans that are above me that have been doing it longer than me that are still in it thank god that's all i can say is thank god we get to do this thank god we get to be in this and then it spawns so many different avenues for us as well like podcasts and you know now i'm here running my mouth come on and welcome thank you for being here thank you for having me um i wanted to ask you to to the point of music yeah growing up in maryland what type of stuff were you listening to well maryland baltimore and dc have a feud over go-go music right and i always assumed it belonged to dc dc takes a lot of credit for it yeah i mean yeah they do you know what it is we used to have this this um i think the beef kind of started around we had this uh individual this they uh miss tony okay and miss tony was like one of the first i think trans people that i had known about but honestly in baltimore it was a lot of trans people i i i felt like baltimore was very queer i don't know if everybody was out loud accepting it but i was very familiar with like oh you know this uncle we call aunt so-and-so and he got his little man and his friend and we all had like it was no like big deal but we had miss tony and miss tony um was a trans black woman and had this song called said miss tony said how you want curry miss tony said how you want curry what's up what's up and it was sort of that like you know that kind of go-go and we had that go-go but see the thing about dc is dc is over there by this capital right so anywhere where the president is these get to say what time it is right right right because they know they didn't start go-go and if and i know the feud's been over but let's crank it back up yeah i didn't even know this was a few no and i'm calling my mother don't come for my mother though okay no i'm telling you my mother dj this is mickey moore there you go mr tony said how you want curry mm-hmm okay may she rest in peace i'm learning i'm learning about me okay and my mother dj absolutely and she had a with nobody everybody knew the that had a i thought that was ray jay for a second i thought don't that kind of that might be him the spirit of him ray jay is tapped into many many different spaces he's an old demon bro yeah because it's like every now and again you'll hear a story about ray jay and it'll be it'll be like hey you know ray jay was like dating whitney houston for a while and you're like what when did he do that because he let me tell you something what a gonna do he gonna gonna wander on some good right because ain't no way he should have had x access to whitney houston it's like when when did when was you doing that ray jay yeah also he must have been young as hell the amount i'm telling you what these niggas you you your guard is down right and they know when to come in on a woman when you vulnerable right like you just got out of something with a man that you knew you said the sierra prayer about you know and this guy was it and then it didn't work out and here come that he could smell it oh all i got to do is tell him that he should have had x access to whitney houston and you should have had x access to whitney houston right like you just got out of something with a man that you knew you said the sierra prayer about you know and this guy was it and then it didn't work out and here come that he can smell it oh all i got to do is tell him that he should have had x access to whitney houston right like you just got out of something with a man that you knew you said the sierra prayer about you know all i got to do is tell him that he should have had x access to whitney houston all i got to do is do two good things and she's mine and those good things are small things too right and those good things are small things too right and those good things are small things too right he bought you a werther's original he bought you a werther's original he bought you a werther's original just one right one just one right one just one right one not even a packet right not even the one not even a packet right not even the one not even a packet right not even the one the cat sat on the deli cat sat on the cat sat on the deli cat sat on it it was up the deli cat's ass and he it was up the deli cat's ass and he it was up the deli cat's ass and he brought you that and a lucy and you go brought you that and a lucy and you go brought you that and a lucy and you go at least he was thinking about you yeah at least he was thinking about you yeah at least he was thinking about you yeah he was thinking about you he brought you he was thinking about you he brought you he was thinking about you he brought you a lucy girl he doesn't care about your a lucy girl he doesn't care about your a lucy girl he doesn't care about your health health health and that's ray jack and that's ray jack and that's ray jack and the next thing you know and the next thing you know and the next thing you know it's late at night and you're just like it's late at night and you're just like it's late at night and you're just like i and it's i and it's i and it's you know when he's saying the right things you know when he's saying the right things you know when he's saying the right things and you've had a bunch of like and you've had a bunch of like and you've had a bunch of like wine coolers yeah you've had a long day wine coolers yeah you've had a long day wine coolers yeah you've had a long day you had a long day maybe something bad you had a long day maybe something bad you had a long day maybe something bad happened at work happened at work happened at work he brings you that one funky piece of he brings you that one funky piece of he brings you that one funky piece of candy and you're like you know what candy and you're like you know what candy and you're like you know what and he pulls his penis out yeah no yeah and he pulls his penis out yeah no yeah and he pulls his penis out yeah no yeah i would imagine that and it's not like i would imagine that and it's not like i would imagine that and it's not like it's not the greatest sure no but it'll it's not the greatest sure no but it'll it's not the greatest sure no but it'll do hey do hey do hey you know what i mean hey been there you know what i mean hey been there you know what i mean hey been there it'll it'll it'll it'll it'll it'll right right right it's like uh oh you know at least it it's like uh oh you know at least it it's like uh oh you know at least it ain't and it's his ain't and it's his ain't and it's his right and the next thing you know he at right and the next thing you know he at right and the next thing you know he at your funeral your funeral your funeral speaking on your behalf there you go there you go there you go i thought he funeral directed this i thought he funeral directed this i thought he funeral directed this thing thing thing he was everywhere he was carrying a he was everywhere he was carrying a he was everywhere he was carrying a casket grind on the crack casket he was casket grind on the crack casket he was casket grind on the crack casket he was telling where to sit he was telling telling where to sit he was telling telling where to sit he was telling dion the parker mercedes in the back and And stop smoking them palm oils and get in here. Ray J, if you're listening, we know that you are. Please come on the show, Ray J. We got so many things to talk to you about. Whitney was, yeah, she was trying to raise him. She was trying to, remember that show they had, Becoming Bobby Brown? Of course. There comes a point when you will exhale. Yeah, come on. Okay. Come on. Never forget, Whitney was out there. A few stolen moments is all that we share. That's right. You've got your family and they need you there. Say it. I know you're not talking about cheating on nobody, Whitney. May the estate of Whitney Houston and the grave have all the respect that's due to her. Right, of course. But Whitney was about that life. Y'all got to stop acting like she wasn't from Newark, New Jersey. She's having a good time. She was living a life, much like Ray J. And somehow, Ray J hasn't come up enough on this show, but he touches a lot of different parts of music history. Every day that I listen to him. Every day that I look up and he got a career and I'm still floundering for mine, I start to wonder. I don't, you know. No, because who's holding him up? I don't know that anybody really is right now. I don't know that it's going awesome for Ray J presently. I saw him in like a celebrity boxing tournament and that's how you know. And he got knocked out by like a YouTube content stream. I think when it starts to go down like that, it's not going awesome. Here's some pictures. Here's some pictures of Ray J with Pamela Anderson. This nigga was outside. He was with Kim Kardashian. He was with Kardashian, Pamela Anderson, Whitney Houston. He got to feel bad. The mom from Sister Sister. Oh yeah. Jackie Hurd? Yeah. I know you lying. It's true. She talked about it in an interview. I would have taken that straight to the grave and beyond. If there's any level, what's that movie, Encanto? When he went, he had to get his family from the grave? Oh. He's everywhere. Well, to be fair, Jackie Hurd did marry her gay hairstylist and kept telling us he was straight for 30 years. I was unaware of that. Yeah. And I think even he was at the wedding going, well, girl, you know I'm only here to do your hair. So we don't have time to be worrying about what she got. But it's the way that she said, I already had that because I know. I'd be into them YNs too. It's hard. Interesting. Because they into older women so crazy. Interesting. He's a predator. I think they, no, for real. They always talking about, oh, we predatorizing children. No, what about the old women? Huh? They predatorize us too. Interesting. Every young man I've been with has come to me. I have never seen a young man, legal by the way, before we started getting, because we are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just in case you was ever concerned. Yeah. It's all everything above. We talking 21 and up. 21 and up. As I get older, I don't want the age difference. Like I can do 10 years now probably. You know what I mean? And I have done 10 years, but I haven't, I can't go. I can't be like, some of my girlfriends are in their forties and they don't mind dealing with guys who are like early thirties. Like my cap has got to be like, you got to be like 38, 39 at this point. I can't do 35. Even that. That's a whole different mindset. Well, I'll tell you, I'm, I'm 35. I would say even me, I'm going to 27 at the lowest. That's just, that's as far down as I'm going. I can't because it's like 24, 25. I just, I can't, I can't go over there. Yeah. I'm gonna need you to, yeah, 27 is probably, that's probably, that's as young as I'm going at this stage of my life. Yeah. Cause I'm not a bimbo. Right. And I don't like a bimbo. Like I, I, I'm, I'm, I definitely have to be attractive. I'm not attracted to the person. Right. Of course. But if we can't have no conversation and some of these YNs, you look and it's the attraction, right? They, they cutting you down. They attract, you attract, you're like, oh, I still got it. Right. That's what it is. As you get older, you're like, oh, I still got it. Right. And then you realize after you've done, been with this kid and you're like, oh my God, is, is he really talking about like race cars? Right. Yeah. He's showing you videos of Kaisa. Yo, I was dealing with a guy. He's built. No disrespect to him, wherever he is. Sounds like you're about to say something disrespectful. Very. I was on the phone with him while he put cars together. He was one of the, he raced cars and. Like, what do you mean? Like, like remote control cars? And I said, uh oh, not, and I'm perimenopausal almost. Or like on PlayStation. Is he playing on PlayStation or is he racing like. No, he's building these, and then telling me about, I, I'm with him going to hardware stores on FaceTime and he's showing me like, and this with the, and I understand. Like, if you're making bank at this and this is, like, really a thing thing, okay, but, like, where's this? You're making money just to do this. Uh-huh. Did you ever go to one of his car races? I went through FaceTime. He FaceTimed you while he was doing it? I was watching a thing and then he sent me video. While he was doing a remote control car race? At the time he was dicking me down, none of this was a problem. But once I stepped away from it, I go, I can't, girl, you wasted your time doing monster trucks. Sometimes, well, it's not, monster trucks would be way cooler than the thing that you're describing. Sure. Because monster trucks at least is kind of dangerous and, like, there's fireworks and stuff like that. You're talking about kind of, like, RC cars, like, race, where do they race those at? They race them outside? Or, like, that's too, they can't do them outside because a big car would run it over? The fact that I almost know the answer to that. Unless you know you was in some places that maybe you didn't need to be. Quite possibly. Fair. Quite possibly. Fair, fair, fair. Yeah, but I know, I understand that Ray J moving and slithering and stuff like that. I don't, I, as you get older, you start to understand. Some people who cannot, because I'm really shocked that, you know, even though I'm telling my story about being with a 20-year-old when I was 30. Yeah. It's like, I'm really shocked at Jackie and that response. That's so good. Like, and Whitney and them, it's just like, he looked like. A young kid. He looked, I can't, like, I can't, when they look young, like, like, he looked young. It's gross to me. Yeah. Well, Ray J, if you're listening, we know that you are. Just know, you got no shot with Yamanika. You might try it, but. No, he's not, no. It's not going to happen. I'm healing. He's not looking for no, he wants the broken dolls, baby. And I'm over here, nice and healed. I've had an opportunity to be in his presence a couple, I did Hip Hop Squares. And he was on that. I did a couple episodes. He was on that. Uh-huh. You know, he's, listen, he's seen, I don't know if it's an act or not an act, what he's got going on, if he's doing, but he's, the way he presents to you guys is also the way he's presenting behind the scenes. It's not like. That's nice. He's going and seen. That's, that's nice. Yeah. It's nice to know that he's, like, consistent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In that way. That's what I will say. Yeah. Anyway, I'm sorry. Back to the music. We got so far away from the music. We went to so many other places. I'm sorry. Let me be quiet. You lead this. No, you was talking about Go-Go. You was talking about Go-Go. Yes. You was talking about Miss Toni. Yes. Miss Toni said, how you want to carry it? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And what, so, so you was really into Go-Go. You was doing Go-Go when you were. I think we just always, like, soon as A. Marie's This One Thing came out. Come on. We were like, oh, they really, you know what I'm saying? Let me not, let me, let me spray some. If you got some Beehive spray, let me spray that. Because sometimes we, you got to have the conversation about Crazy and Love also had the Go-Go beat. And who had it first was A. Marie or Beyonce. I don't want to get into that. You know what I'm saying? But I just remember from personal experience, when A. Marie's One Thing came out, I said, oh, they done made this, our sound, like a global thing. I didn't realize there was a Go-Go beat. Yeah. That's like a, like, da-na-na-na-na, bam. You got to hit, da-na-na-na-na, be-na-na, you know. Oh, which is exactly the same thing that Beyonce did. Beyonce did. Na-na-na-na-na. Oh, yeah, I'm hearing it now. Yeah, I'm hearing it. Yeah. But we don't want to. No. We can't get, we can't engage that community. Not, it was just Beyonce's birthday. Yeah, we can't. We can't do that right now. I just. And I think they're cool. Yeah, I'm afraid of them. Yeah, I am too. I don't want them problems. Me neither. Hey, everything Beyonce did was above board. Board. And we love you, B. We love you, Beyonce. And please go buy that $949 box she got going on. What, she got a box too? Jay-Z got one. Jay-Z. He got a box? Yeah, yeah, he got a box with, I don't know, it's like all his albums or something like that. Yeah, that's what she has, her Beat Keeper crate. Oh, they're doing the same thing. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. You might cop? Yeah, but they're only making 500 of them. It's been sitting in my, I don't even know if I can check it out no more. It's in my checkout box. It's probably gone at this point. I know. Somebody probably. But I keep saying, one day I'll meet Beyonce. I'll just steal her from her house. You probably will meet Beyonce. That feels. Yeah, but I don't think, I wonder if I'll meet her without a restraining order, a separate the two of us. Yeah, sure. Because she don't seem like she goes anywhere. And she also seemed like she'd make a determination before she even see you and meet you. Whether or not you're. Whether you are. Because you saw how she was dodging Brandy at their concert. She was at every single Brandy Monica concert and was dodging Brandy like left and right. I said, my God in heaven. Well, I'd have to imagine there was a time where they were kind of rivals, right? Or not. Maybe not. Well, I don't know the way that they looked at it, but I think in the, in terms of them just being like young girls making like young black girls making pop music, they're. Sure. But they love Monica down. Well, yeah, they love Monica. I think it's, I think with Brandy is a personality thing. I think they can't stand her. I don't know much about whatever. I'm realizing I don't know much about Brandy's personality. Brandy was sort of forced on us. Let me say, no, no, for real. No, she was forced on us. I like Brandy's music. No, I'm not saying. No, no, no. Brandy was forced on us. With all the caboodle shit. Cause we was 15. Caboodles was big. They needed a black girl to hustle the caboodles and also be like. Wait, what's a caboodle? Oh my God. I don't have time. It was like a little kit. You know, you can open up. You don't know caboodles? No, I don't know what a caboodle is. Are you sure I'm not your mother's age? No, you really, you're not. I'm telling you it's caboodles and you had like your little hair tie thing and it was cute. You get, get him in pink. But anyway, Brandy was sort of like manufactured for us. Interesting. So we didn't have, we didn't have a really of a choice to choose her. It was the only option. Now, thank God I'm, I'm a hundred percent behind them saying that Brandy is the vocal Bible. Can't nobody to me touch Brandy and what Brandy does and that no disrespect to Beyonce and the rest of the girls. Brandy for sure has that, that voice, right? And we glad that we got her, but whatever it is about a spirit, most of the other girls in music don't really be fucking with her like that. Even Monica. Monica looked like they had to put her on some type of damn pills so that she could like be regulated to be around her. Do you think, do you think maybe it's because, uh, do you think Ray J is attached to this as well? I think Brandy, you know, listen, I'm from Maryland, but I went to the LA County high school for the arts. Um, it was a theater conservatory. Well, it was a performing arts conservatory. I studied theater there, classically trained. I'm telling you right now, them girls in LA around that time was mad fucking annoying. I'm not even, I'm not even going to hold you. They thought. They thought they was cute. They was all, especially the black girls. They all thought they was cute. They was running to the Beverly center, knowing they didn't want them at the fucking Beverly center, running around Crenshaw time back when, before LeMert was really doing what he was doing and acting a fool. And they thought they was cute. They was annoying. And you think Brandy was, I'm telling you, cause my East coast spirit, when I came to LA and I had to deal with that spirit out there, you know, from the East coast, we don't fuck around like that. You say what you mean, mean what you say. Started to show off with that. I don't want, I don't bitch got in my face. I don't care who you, who, and then they had another school Hamilton that was also like a performer and they tried to rival with us and shit. And I was like, I don't give a fuck about you niggas. You can't act around me, nigga. You niggas is frauds. You understand? So it was that kind of shit. I'm telling you, be, um, Brandy is the problem. Somewhere down the line, Brandy need to come out. I know she did a tell all and I understand she was sad about certain things that happened in her life. And yeah. It didn't make no sense for dark child to go scrambling over there with Beyonce, but Brandy, you got to keep it real. Beyonce was light skin. Come on. Just the marketing of it. We know brand Beyonce is talented, but if he going to go put his chips in what's marketable, then braids, you was rocking. Then you had the baby. You start, you know how niggas are just baby and braids. They can't stand a black bitch with baby and braids. Okay. That's the reason why they had to shuffle. Um, what's her name? Um, Rosa Parks. And they cut a thing. Cause the bitch had the baby had to grow. I had 15 year old girl. Sorry. It looked like I was digging in my ass. I wasn't digging in my ass. I never thought you were. I never thought she was. And if you're watching, you think she was digging in her ass, then wait, maybe change the way you looking at the world. Maybe change, maybe change, maybe change what you got going on. It's not, we don't do that on this show. And she don't do that. She don't do that. Except for in the privacy of her own home. She's not doing that. Here. Stop being. He also wiped his hand on his pants. Yeah. Let me tell you. Well, that's different. That's a different thing. That's yeah. I wiped my hand on my pants. Different than digging in my ass. That's crazy. I thought we were on the same page and I was just, but I just noticed I was digging in my pants. It's different. It is different. Let's just say that. Oh my God. I apologize. Uh, Yamanika, you, you came to us with some lyrics today. Yes. You came to us with some lyrics today. Yes. Um. Can I just say this about the person that I want to hit the lyrics on? Yeah. Say whatever you need to. Let me tell you something. Um, Tierra Whack, right, is, I'm a huge fan of Tierra Whack. Huge. I'm going to say something controversial. Can't wait. Because Doce is here. Interesting. We're not getting what we need to get from Tierra Whack. I'm sorry. They're not going to let two black girls in the same. Same aesthetic rock at the same time. Well, it's also, it's, it's also tough because Doce looks like. like a model you know what i'm saying it is like though she's also just like so stunningly like no yeah but she's but they're not really we know right because we can appreciate it they're not they're not doing that because she's a dark-skinned girl but i you're the book yes everything about what she got going on the book she kind of got the total package and she could sing she could pop and this is not to put down tiara whack i think tiara whack is beautiful yeah the the but it it's kind of like you're saying with brandy and beyonce right it's a it's a different it's a different they're just different things why and one of and one of them can get off a little easier than the other one because doce yeah i wouldn't say compromises herself but is more accessible and vulnerable to peeling layers of herself that sometimes white people need a ease into how they get into black artists and you got to come to them with some type of here i am and i don't see tiara whack doing that's why i pulled these lyrics here she on this album she on this song with four niggas that think they out here rapping and doing the shit that they can do and she dusting these niggas off you gotta go it's called td right it's on little yadi's album yes asap rocky is on a no disrespect to little yadi i don't know him like that but the young people love him i like yadi okay asap rocky who can i what can i say about rihanna's baby daddy nothing negative not on my watch right tyler the creator i've been fucking with him even back when they was doing their little skits and shit yeah back when they was just supposed to be comedians and then all of a sudden these niggas became rappers i'm proud of them yeah and you got tiara whack now all the guys i mentioned they are great this whole song to me is hitting it but the flow the potential pedameter right now tiara is moving with it and hitting it can i can i yeah you got it hear the lyrics i did it all with the passion and a god i'm a god in this fashion niggas trying to fit in with their armies arms in my jacket sorry i'm fucking it up that's why i don't rap you got it had to pull myself together like it's all elastic did you hear what i just said niggas trying to fit me fit in with their arms in my jacket uh had to pull myself together like it's elastic got the heart of a dragon i'm a star call me patrick punch bob hello heard the bitch was talking shit so i caught him in traffic i'm the type to walk in your house and shit on your mama's mattress disrespectful fuck your mama mattress bitch and the voice of the late charlie murphy yeah slow down you're spitting everywhere they had to say they had to interject she interjected on herself i love how she pulls personalities yeah i'm good you could take it all away she don't even give a fuck i'm good you follow me because i know the way i'm good you could take it all away i'm good you follow me because i know the way I'm in Philly, and we all fly. That's the only thing I'm going to push back on. Okay? No disrespect to Philly. I'm going to be more bitch. Sorry, Reggie. All right, yeah. And all them Philly niggas. Shout out to them. Yeah. All right? If you don't got the whip, we do the walk-by. She means she going to get up close and personal with you. Yeah, yeah. It's no drive-by. She going to push face-to-face. Walk you down. On your new picture, we archive. If we cross paths, leave you cross-eyed. Had to slap a bitch. She chose the wrong side. And that's what I'm saying. When you got friends, and they like, oh, if I'm friends with so-and-so and so-and-so, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Depend on how I'm not or am friends with them. Because, nigga, if you friends with my enemy, go over there. If you friends with a bitch and we just don't kick it like that, all right. But my enemy? Mob ties. Bitch, you got hog-tied. Shouldn't have chose the wrong side. I hate when they talk about the mob. No disrespect. Right? Because black people love quoting the mob. The mob ain't doing shit for niggas. And if you knew what the mob was saying about black people, you would stop. Like, all this Al Pacino, Papa, well, you know, maybe they do. The Sicilians do be fucking black women on the low. On the low. On the low, low. Not on public, but I have had. I'm going to tell you, that Sicilian dick is kind of thorough. No disrespect to they people. Because them damn Sicilian bitches will come for you. They think they sisters. So no disrespect to the Sicilian bitches. I know how y'all get down. Y'all also black. I hate to tell y'all that, but, you know, you'll find that out. Mrs. Whack, I love your flow. Nobody rhyming like that. Had to clean out my trunk to put your mama in the back. That's the only other thing I'm going to push back on. Stop her and Rihanna, all this. Everybody, you shat on the mama mattress. Leave it alone. She did say that, yeah. You ain't got to put her in the back. Yeah, she killed your mom. No. That's a little disrespectful. But I want to take the time out to say something I've normally said. The reason why women get this tight about the mother is because the mother allowed the nigga on earth. You understand? A lot of you cats is here because your mother didn't have access to a pamphlet. Okay? And sometimes you hate the mother because of that. You're saying that a lot of times women are tight about the dudes they see as mothers because the mothers allowed those men to be on earth. Earth. To even exist. She was a dollar. Short of the $4.99 she needed to get you up out of here, and your daddy didn't have it. Right? A lot of you niggas is alive because your mother didn't have the funds to get you up out of here. So then you got to go back to the mother. And the reason why we go to the mother, because most of the time you can't find the daddy to blame the daddy. The daddy over there at the prison gym working out where I'm supposed to be after this podcast. Having a conversation with Yamanika. Yeah, absolutely. He everywhere except for where he's supposed to be. I guess. Maybe he's supposed to be with you depending on how you look at it. Depending on which side you're looking at it from. Absolutely. Yeah. The cops pull me over. They don't know your mom in the back. Okay? Right. Big whack making niggas take herbal and naps. These hoes can't rap. They need a permanent pack. I ain't fucking with you boys. Need the cervical cap. Oh! Oh! Oh my God. It all goes back to some form of abortion. Cervical cap. Yeah. You know how much a bitch don't fuck with you when she got to put a cap over her cervix? She really not. That's like a trampoline that the sperm is going to bop off, bop off, bop off. Right? Yeah, of course. And it's going to shoot some of it back into the urethra. So you're going to get recycled sperm. And that's how much a bitch don't want to fuck you. Bounce, bounce. Sarah, I hope your child has been in bed since this podcast started. She stopped listening a long time ago. Of course. You may have lost her as a friend. Yeah. And then she goes, okay, I'm bored. Okay, I'm tired, sleepy. She fell asleep on this. And then she yawns. She goes, okay, I'm bored. I'm tired. I'm sleepy. Hmm. And then the verse is over. I'm proud of her. Yeah. I love this young lady so much. I would see her in anything. I'm going to be honest with you. I'd love to see her and Doja together on a track. Interesting. No, it would be crazy. Can you go in a little bit? Can you speak on this? Doja and Tierra Whack thing a little bit more? Because I'm curious to hear this. You know, first of all, a lot of people was making it during the pandemic. If I knew that was going to be the next round of people making it, I would have worked harder. Interesting. Right? It did happen. There was a shift. Everybody, I, because people were like, you know, back in 2020 when I started my, I'm like, start it? Yeah. Nigga, I started in 1995. Ooh. Yeah. That was, okay. Yeah. That was a different. That was a different time than I started. Yeah. I started in 1995. Do you understand that TGR Fridays with Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, all of that shit was still running on television. It was just about to get full house, was in bloom. Fresh Prince. Fresh Prince. Mm-hmm. I started back with a, hey, Macarena, hi-ya. Yeah. The OJ trial was going on. Oh, it divided. It divided my school. Yeah. It divided. And we were all watching it. I remember going to get some McDonald's off campus and I came back with some fries and we were all sitting around just eating the fries while we waited for the verdict. And it was insane. And it was like, and then you saw a subtle shift in the, like all the white students went here and all the black students went over here. And then all the Latin students just stood in the middle and said, we're going to wait until Donald Trump is about to be president. And then we're going to go over there with the white people. Wait, were you in LA during the OJ trial? Were you in LA during the OJ verdict? Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. So you was really in it. I was in LA for a lot when Biggie got shot. Whoa. When Pac got shot. I might have been causing some of these niggas getting shot. You think you might have been connected in some way? I might have been. Don't say that in a public forum, because that's how homie is about to get locked up. He was talking about it on a podcast. Oh. No, they would love to blame it on me. Right. Before we get out of here, Yamanika, we got a voicemail from the fans. Oh, yes. Let's grab these headphones. Okay. Hey, Devin, what's up? Love the show. I just wanted to talk about a song that I think that you would find hilarious, too, based on the episodes I've listened to. It's Hard Piano by Pusha T featuring Rick Ross. I'm not going to bother trying to actually rap this, because one, I'm white, and two, I think it's funnier when they're just red normally. Respect. Respect for being a white man who understands it's not time to rap on this podcast. Just a shout-out to you. I forget what your name was, brother, but you're on the right page. Keep doing what you're doing. So the song starts, Don't trust a bitch who finds love in a camera. She will fuck you and then turn around and fuck a janitor, which is just insane. And it goes on and says, Set the parameters. You're either with the pro ballers or the amateurs. That's fine. I won't let you ruin my dreams or Harvey Weinstein the kid. Good morning, Matt Lauer. Can I live? Very Me Too of the times. Then he says, Look at my new digs. The rooftop can host a paint and sip for like 40, which I think is a lot. I think it's just the funniest thing to talk about how big your house is to look at your roof and say, Yeah, I can probably put 40 people up here for a paint and sip. And then later on, this song also has one of the best things that a rap song can have, which is a feature from Rick Ross. And later on, he says, My homie amputated but gonna stand for something. I'm dying to find a way to get a Grammy from it, which is just one of the most savage things I feel like that you could say. Anyway, love the show. Thanks, Evan. Bye. Beautiful young man. I might have gamed with you at some point. You sound like one of the couple of kids I gamed with. Here's what I'm going to say. Thank you also for not rapping. Yeah, we like that. Never trust a bitch who finds love in a camera. She will fuck you, then turn around and fuck a janitor. You red pill niggas come in all flavors. Right. That is the wildest shit. You know, this idea that women are out here any time a woman smiles or does duck lips, all of a sudden she's a whore. She wants to wear a bathing suit. And yeah, there's nothing wrong with a woman wanting to be sexy and see sex. I came on here with my sexy shit knowing Devin doesn't even want to fuck with me like that. What? Hey, just to be clear, I don't fuck the guests. That's not, that's never been a part of it. None of the guests. I'm making a point. I never fuck none of the guests. And this is the same as that. Just want to say that. What I'm saying is, there's a part and there's a time. Never fuck, I don't do that. We've never had anyone on here that I've, if I've had sex with the person, they don't come, they don't get to sit in the seat. And even if he had, so fucking what? So what? Yeah. So what? Even if I did. I'm going to have guests on my shoulder. I for sure have fucked. What? Hey, why not? Okay. And we do, and we run our shows differently. And that's okay. And that's okay. We got different stuff going on. You never know who I fucked. No, I don't. I don't know. Well, congratulations though. It seems like. No, no, no. Some of you go to your PTA meetings. Oh. Yeah. Somebody dead. Definitely a principal or two. Hey. Hey. Why you think, why you think he's being so gracious in the morning? That's what I'm saying. Remember that scene in, what was that scene in Forrest Gump? Yeah, she fucks. Yeah. She fucks the principal. That's also me. I'm also doing it for the two students. Somebody pointed out to me that the school that she's trying to get him into is a public school. So it's not a public school. It's not like, it's not like a special, it's not like a special magnet school or like a school that you have to test into. It's a school that presumably everyone's allowed to go to because it's school. So she fucked the principal to get him into regular school, which does imply that he was. Definitely. He was challenged in a way. Yeah, he was challenged. That they were like, we can't do nothing with this. We're in Alabama. We don't even know where to start with that boy. But that's a whole separate, that's a whole separate sentence. I want to, because I have to, this first line, I'm telling you, it bothers me. I hear you. In a lot of ways. It's like, you know what happens? This is why you men have a problem with women. Because you all congregate together and have these little nonsensical conversations about what you think a woman, just because she feels good about herself. And because you guys don't want her to feel good, she's smiling at camera. And first of all, the bitch is going to smile in the camera. Yeah. Is not going to fuck the janitor. The bitch that's fucking the janitor is hiding. Yeah. She's not taking no selfies nowhere. No, she doesn't. She's fucking a janitor. Yeah. If she could do better, she would be in front of the camera. Yeah, if she's fucking the janitor, her self-esteem not crazy high. Yeah. And don't disrespect anybody. If you're listening and you're a janitor, hey, shout out to what you got going on. Yeah, sure. But you're also, you're probably not knocking down IG women. You're probably not knocking down like, Not even TikTok bitches. Not the, not the, not the, Yeah, not Snapchat, You're not. None of that. Not a booty model. Not Duolingo, babe. None of it. You're not, like, none of it. You're probably not doing that. You're probably having a nice time enjoying what you got going on. Yeah. It's just probably not the Instagram women that Pusha T's referring to. Also, the pussy is better on the women that don't look good. Just keeping it real. Hey, I'm not going to fight you on this. I'm not going to fight you on this whatsoever. And people don't want you to know that. They want you to think that the BBL girl has got the best situation going on. Hey. I'm telling you. And I mean, not traditionally good, because we're not here to shame nobody, but the girls that y'all prop up, sure, a few of them got the kneecaps right, and they can do a couple bounces here and there, and a lot of it is you getting off because you've got this woman that you like it. But I'm telling you, a lot of the stuff that's available that's out here that's really going to snatch your soul is going to be at the woman at the five below and the muumuu. I'm telling you, that's the woman. That's her. Yeah, you're looking for the IG models. You need to be looking for. Me, I guess. You pinpointed me. You need to be looking at a dental hygienist in the tri-state area. That's who you need to be looking around for. You need to be. Yeah, okay, you're looking for a million followers. You know what you actually need to be looking for? One of the best realtors in Milwaukee. That's about to give you. Look, hey, and I'm not going to say too much else, but let me just say, I couldn't agree with you more. Of course. Definitely in New Jersey. Start there. Yeah, it's not. And then the further up you get up the Triborough, it gets drier. Right, right, right, sure. Okay. Yeah, she might work at your local grocery store. Look, she going to. Look, it's not. See who your grandmother and them got around. I'm telling you, it may be Dorothy. I'm not going to say no. I've never been around Dorothy and them. Listen, cheese gets better with age, and so does vagina. People don't talk about it. They don't talk about it. You want that taut little. Right on top of your pasta. Also, just going down here, Pusha T goes, I won't let you ruin my dreams or Harvey Weinstein the kid. Can I live? What was that about? To me, kind of implies that he's doing filthy stuff. To me, that's he saying, I won't let you Harvey Weinstein me. That kind of implies that either he. He's doing Harvey Weinstein stuff or that he believes that the women who are saying this stuff about Harvey Weinstein are trying to just damage his reputation. And then he says, Matt Lauer cannot live. You don't want to be living like Matt Lauer. That's bad, Pusha. That's not where you. That's not where you trying to be at. And, you know, there's a possibility that we'll clip this out and then people will be like. No, don't clip it. Keep it. Because. No, no, I'm saying clip it. Like, put it out on the internet. Like, make this into a clip. Yeah, no, put for sure. Because men think. Go ahead, baby. I'm sorry. I just think that people will say that I'm getting this wrong, but I don't think there's a lot of other ways to interpret that. I feel like he is kind of. This bar feels like he is kind of on the side of these two men. It feels like he is identifying with those men. I agree with you. Yeah. And I also agree with the flip side that you said, that it's about the woman. Like, the woman is trying to do this to him. Yeah, it does feel like that. These men. A lot of these lyrics are so toxic and dangerous. And this is why women are having a problem with these. Straight cis males who keep doing all this. You keep villainizing women. What woman's doing this? Why do you guys think every woman is out to get you? First of all, you ain't got shit. And the niggas you with ain't got shit. He got a whole line set. My homie is amputated, but gonna stand for something. He don't even have a full-bodied nigga in his repertoire. And he thinks somebody trying to take some shit from him. You got an amputee nigga and you weren't. And then you took my. You got the. And then you're gonna use him for a bar? But he gonna stand for something. He's not standing for anything, nigga. He can't stand. And you worrying about a woman, but I bet his friends sitting there going, man, I wish I could say something to my boy because he just embarrassed me on wax. All for he. Because he said he won a Grammy. But you won't look at how toxic you fucking are. You're gonna look at the woman who's just innocently taking a fucking selfie. Now she's a whore. Oh, she got a bunch of girlfriends and she wants to go on vacation with them. Oh, she's a whore. Oh, she ain't gonna "Harvey wants to eat me because she's doing Oh, she a whore. Oh, she don't want to go 50/50. She wants the man to be there for her. Oh, she's a whore. Oh, I got to go to the passport. Get the fuck out of here. The fact that you niggas are still even getting fucked by bitches is a testament to how amazing bitches are, because I'm sick of y'all. This entire song is crazy disgusting, and Pusha T should be embarrassed, because I keep hearing Pusha T being run around in the names of legacy rappers. Yeah, of course. He's supposed to be so conscious and this and this and that, and this is what's being pulled out? That's insane, and don't nobody need Rick Ross on no album. Go ask Tia Kemp about that, because she not out here talking positive about the nigga. Rob Markman: He also had that line about putting molly in a girl's drink, which is pretty crazy. Do you know about this line? I don't know about this. Rob Markman: Here's a line from this song from 2013 called "You Don't Even Know," where he goes, "I put molly on her champagne. She ain't even know it. I took her home and I enjoyed that. She ain't even know it." And then afterwards, he was like, he got removed from a bunch of sponsorship deals, and afterwards he was like, "I didn't never mean nothing non-consensual about it, as if there was another way to think about it." It's really crazy. It's like a wild ass song. Tia Kemp: Listen, you can put whatever you want in my drink, honey. I'm 47. My internal system has survived a colonoscopy twice. Rob Markman: So you can't get her- Tia Kemp: You can't. Roofie me, nigga. It's a placebo. Rob Markman: Yamanika, thank you so much for being here. Tia Kemp: Thank you for having me, Devin. I had such an amazing time. Rob Markman: This was a very good time. Do you have anything you'd like to plug for the people watching? Before you get out of here? Tia Kemp: I just want everybody to know, please, everything at Yamanika, when you're Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, I'm on YouTube, go Yamanika. Also, I have my podcast, which I hope you come on, for sure. Rob Markman: Yes, we'd love to. Tia Kemp: It's called You're the Problem with Yamanika. You can listen to it on iHeart or anywhere you listen to your podcast. It's on my sister Chelsea Handler's network, Dear Chelsea. So please, would love for you guys to listen. Thank you guys for entertaining me this long. Sarah, I apologize. It was all in fun. Rob Markman: Sorry, sorry, Sarah. You probably didn't listen to this whole episode, but if you did, I love you. And thanks for listening. And thanks for being my friend. All right. Bye, y'all. Rob Markman: My Favorite Lyrics is a production by DiscoNap. If you guys like what you hear, leave a review and tell a homie about the show. And make sure to follow us at My Favorite Lyrics Pod on all social platforms, except for Twitter. We offer that. You can learn more about this week's guest and the My Favorite Lyrics team by checking out the show's notes. And thank you to the guys that made this show happen. Rob Markman: Executive producer, Lauren Mandel. Tia Kemp: Thank you. Rob Markman: Producer, Carmen Carrigan. Our editor, Nicole Lyons. And yeah, that's all the people that I'm going to thank for now.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Yamanika Saunders, a comedian and podcast guest, shares her personal experiences and social observations, highlighting issues of racial dynamics, gender, and societal neglect.
  2. She critiques the treatment of Black women and trans individuals, emphasizing how they are systematically dismissed and targeted in society.
  3. The conversation touches on the normalization of violence and marginalization, especially regarding Black men transitioning to women and the resulting hostility.
  4. Yamanika reflects on her journey in comedy, her time on the road with Chelsea Handler, and her return to New York City, which she values for its cultural vibrancy and accessibility.
  5. A central theme is the importance of self-expression, authenticity, and resistance against societal expectations, especially for Black women in public and personal spaces.
  6. She references the cultural significance of Go-Go music and its roots in Baltimore, celebrating Black queer and trans contributions to music and community.
  7. The podcast critiques celebrity culture, especially Ray J’s presence and legacy, while questioning how Black women are often sidelined in mainstream narratives.
  8. A fan voicemail highlights the humor and social commentary in Pusha T’s “Hard Piano,” reinforcing the show’s commitment to blending satire with real-world issues.

Summary:

Yamanika Saunders joins the podcast to share a raw, personal, and socially conscious reflection on Black life, identity, and systemic oppression. She speaks candidly about the marginalization of Black women and trans individuals, criticizing societal hostility toward Black women who express themselves or transition. Drawing from her experiences in Baltimore and New York, she highlights the cultural importance of Black queer communities, especially in music like Go-Go, and the historical roots of community resilience.

The conversation also explores gender dynamics, including how Black men transitioning to women face intense hostility, and how Black women are often disrespected in both public and private spaces. Yamanika reflects on her career in comedy and her return to New York, emphasizing the importance of authenticity and self-assertion. She critiques celebrity culture, referencing Ray J and the media’s portrayal of Black women, and underscores the need for Black women to be seen and respected.

A fan’s humorous voicemail about Pusha T’s “Hard Piano” adds a layer of satire, reinforcing the podcast’s blend of social commentary and cultural insight. Overall, the episode serves as a powerful exploration of identity, resistance, and the ongoing struggles faced by Black women in contemporary society.

FAQs

She expresses concern that children might be exposed to inappropriate content on the podcast, emphasizing the need to protect young listeners from mature or controversial material.

She highlights the challenges black women face in the industry, noting how they are often overlooked, disrespected, or marginalized, and stresses the importance of amplifying their voices and experiences.

She shares that Baltimore had a strong queer and trans presence in its Go-Go music scene, citing Miss Tony as a pioneering trans Black woman who helped shape the genre's cultural identity.

She argues that black women are often reduced to stereotypes like 'nigga bitch' or 'mother figures,' and that such depictions dismiss their autonomy and humanity, especially in conversations about race, gender, and power.

She warns against allowing children to listen to the podcast, stating that its content may be inappropriate and could normalize harmful ideas, especially around race, gender, and sexuality.

She reflects on starting comedy at age 16 and continuing through the years, emphasizing authenticity, honesty, and resilience in a field where directness often faces resistance.

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