_We're back this week with an episode of What's Poppin' - this week we dive into the latest, right before we wrap up 2025. Tune in, and let's get into it! _

1. Brandy & Monica “The Boy is Mine Tour”
2. The Chocolate Nutcracker review Our picture featured on ABC news
3. Happy Holidays!! Snoop hosts a star studded half time show in AZ
4. New Shows: High Horse - Compton Cowboys featured (Peacock) Bel-Air (Final Season on Peacock) Anjela Johnson Comedy special - Say I Won’t Dave Chapelle Comedy special “The Unstoppable Nigger” 50 Cent’s Diddy documentary on Netflix Music Box series on HBO
5. New Movies: Marty Supreme w/ Timothy Chalamet and Tyler Okonma, Gweneth Paltrow Avatar Fire and Ash - Nubia the Creator Favorite Christmas Movie -
6. Jake Paul & Anthony Joshua fight (Jake finally got his ass KO’d)
7. Jamie Foxx comes to Compton!! Invited by ChefBoy
8. Beyonce, Venus Williams & Nicole Kidman will co-chair the next Met Gala in May 2026 Venus Williams gets married Andrea Preti Beyonce and Jay-Z expand their home - next album is rock & roll - we suspect In September, Nicole Kidman filed for divorce from Keith Urban. Ya’ll know she Australian?

*Article in OK Magazine: Three Siblings, One Mic, and the Art of Uncovering Conversations on Pop Culture & Politics
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We're back with this episode dedicated to NEW MUSIC - tune in!

New Music

• Amber Mark & Anderson.Paak - Don’t Remind Me

• Isaiah Falls & Chase Shakur - Enticing (from Lucky You EP)

• UK R&B
  * Elmiene - Miss Hot July
  * Mnelia - burn
  * Nippa - Insecure

• Kali Uchis & Mariah the Scientist - Pretty Promises

• Stacy Kidd & Tiffany Jenkins - Look in My Eyes

• Coflo - Yapperz

• Stimulator Jones - Paradise Untold (Single)

• Cardi B & Lourdiz - On My Back

• Chance the Rapper - STAR LINE (Album)

• Chris Brown feat Bryson Tiller & Usher - It Depends (The Remix)

• (un) Folded - Kehlani & Brandy

_We're back this week with an episode of What's Poppin' - you know there's been so much goin on lately, especially with losing some great entertainers. Did you hear about Debbie Allen's new barbie? Or about Bad Bunny being the halftime show for 2026 Super Bowl? Let's talk about it!
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• Celebrity Deaths:

  • D’Angelo
  • Diane Keaton
  • Ace Fehley
  • Sam Rivers, Bassist from Limp Bizkit

• Brandy & Monica Tour -

  • Nikki Minaj & Cardi B - * Is Nikki on drugs? * Cardi B feud

• New Barbie

  • Debbie Allen is the inspiration for a new Barbie Doll!

• Sports
  * Dodgers are going to the World Series!
  * They've been to the World series 5x in the past 9 years.

• New Movies / TV

  • Him (movie) - Marlon Wayans & Tyric Withers -
  • Monster - Netflix (based on true events)
  • Loot - Apple TV
  • Golden Bachelor - getting divorced!
  • Love is Blind (netflix)
  • Super Bowl:
  • Halftime show- Bad Bunny will be the performer! * Controversy related to him being selected.

• 2025 Taste of Soul - on Crenshaw on 10/18

We're back this week with Happy Hour (like we used to do), recording live together (socially distanced) instead of via Zoom. Listen in as we catch up on New Music, What's Poppin' and Politricks.

NEW MUSIC

Toni Braxton feat. HER - Gotta Move On (Single)
Tweet - Neva Felt This Way (Single)
Jazmin Sullivan - Lost One (Single)
Verzuz: Brandy v. Monica
Monica & Lil Baby - TRENCHES (Single)
Cardi B. & Meg Thee Stallion - WAP (Single) - song hits #1 on Billboard

WHAT'S POPPIN

VMA’s on basically every cable channel and CW

Keke Palmer first black female host since 1987 - where are all the masks?!
Chadwick Boseman RIP dies from colon cancer at 43, terrible loss
Conversation on Sex Trafficking: U.S. Marshall found 39 missing children in Georgia, that were possibly sex trafficked.
Taking calculated measures.
Broadway Federal bought another bank in D.C. to make second largest black owned bank in country - 1billion in assets
Netflix: Lovecraft Country; Hulu: Love in the time of Corona
Anthony McClain shot in Pasadena in mid-Aug, released body cam of police shooting him in the back

POLITRICKS

DNC and RNC Conventions
Affirmative Action
Jacob Blake

Kyle Writtenhouse
U.S. Post Office - updates on Trumps trickery
SB 731 CA Legislation - Kenneth Ross Jr. Police de-certification bill does NOT pass
Article in The Guardian about white militia infiltrating police departments

We're back this week to bring you New Music, What's Poppin' and Politricks!

NEW MUSIC

• Brandy - New Album “B7”
• Jessie Ware - What’s your pleasure
• Gaidaa - Stranger (feat. Saba)

WHAT'S POPPIN

• Beyoncé's BLACK IS KING on Disney+
• Netflix adds classic Black television from UPN/CW/WB: Girlfriends, Moeisha, One on One
• Meg the Stallion makes comeback on IG. Not appreciating ppl commenting on situation when they know nothing about what happened.
  • Draya got fired from SAVAGExFENTY
• Abuse at the Ellen Show
  • details of patterns of abuse by lead producers of the Ellen show that impacted many who called the show their first job experience.
• Malik B of the legendary Roots crew passes away at age 47.
• 18yr old brother of Frank Ocean passes away in car crash
• Logic shares that Joe Budden’s statements (“he should’ve retired along time ago;” “he’s the worst rapper”) saying that such statements make people want to commit suicide.
  • the rapper is retiring after releasing his 9th studio album.
• G HEARBO launches “SWERVIN’” initiative to team up to fund therapy for 8-12 weeks for black youth 18-25.
  • he shared candidly about his own diagnosis of PTSD.
• Black & White photo challenge: what is is about? Women Empowerment??

POLITRICKS

• Bill Clinton was with two young girls on an island with Jeffrey Epstein.
• Officer who shot Michael Brown will not face any charges. St Luis prosectors decline to file charges against Darren Wilson.
• Expiration of the $600 additional fund for unemployed.
• due to Republicans wanting liability waivers for employers to send employees back to work.
• Trump wants to postpone election.

Lil Kim - Found You (Single); Sabrina Claudio - Truth Is (Single); Da Baby - Gospel; Brandy - Freedom Rings; char ell the Dope - Summervibes (single);
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WHAT'S POPPIN'

Tekashi Snitch-9 shares details in court case regarding his gang ties.
Chris Brown will release 10 new songs to Indigo (32 were on album already)
Snoop Dogg’s grandson (Cordell’s son) passes away 10 days after birth. RIP.
Emmy Awards:
Jharell Jerome wins Best Lead Actor (limited series) Emmy for When they See Us.
Billy Porter is the first openly gay black man to win lead actor in a drama for Pose.
RuPaul wins for drag race.
Alex Borestein wins for Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Real Housewives of Atlanta returning.
22 year old woman with a form of dwarfism acts likes an 8 year old girl to get adopted.
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POLITRICKS

Heather Lynn Patterson screams profanity at a CVS parking lot.
Executive order passed to ban all flavored vape products.
Boy bullied and beaten to death in Moreno Valley.
How should parents respond?
Trump’s EPA comes after California’s exemption to set vehicle emissions standards.
Trump demands Ukraine to make an investigation against Joe Biden’s son who obtained millions of dollars from a Ukrainian oil company.

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