_We're back with another episode of Oliver Happy Hour with our What's Poppin episode. You heard They Not Like Us? Listen up as we dive in...
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• They Not Like Us! Drake vs Kendrick beef
  • Kendrick’s performance at Forum:
  • The Pop Out: Ken & Friends (DJ Hed, DJ Mustard, Tommy the Clown, Black Hippie appearances)

• BET Awards 2024

  • How was the Host: Taraji P Henson?
  • Will Smith performance
  • Usher icon award - Childish Gambino, Keke Palmer, Teyana Taylor/Victoria Monet, Marsha Ambrosia, Coco Jones, Chloe Bailey, Tinashe,
  • Sexy Red
  • Tyla

• Diddy situation - updates - Revolt sold to employees

• Juneteenth - cancellation of Leimert Park Rising

  • What did you do for Juneteenth?
  • Black on the Block - Juneteenth event

• Rihanna’s Hair Care line. Is it better than Cecred? Taraji”s, Tracee Ellis Ross? Gabrielle Union?

• Movies/TV

  • Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
  • Bad Boys for Life
  • TV Shows: The Bear (new season)

• AWARDS Show (Emmys, Grammys - Jay Z speech, SAG - Barbara Streisand icon award, Oscars)
  Movies, TV shows (American Fiction, Origin, Criminal Record, One Love, Killers of the Flower Moon, Lil Richard, new Twister movie etc)

• Wendy Williams and dementia diagnosis - new documentary

• Beyonce turns to Country

• Why hasn’t she won album of the year, has more grammy’s than anyone.

• Monique interview with Shannon Sharpe “Club ShayShay”…and D.L Hughley exchange + Monique’s son Shalon Jackson’s response

• Taraji P. Henson and black balling in Hollywood

• SuperBowl

• Usher Concert & upcoming tour

• Predicting next year's performer. Daisy bets it will be Taylor Swift.

• Tyler Perry new movie “Mea Culpa” Kelly Rowland & Trevante Rhodes

• Tiny Desk: Juvenile, Young Jeezy

Update: !!Daisy Engaged!!

NEW MUSIC

• Remi Wolf - Hello Hello Hello
• H.E.R. - I Can’t Breathe - Single
• Megan Thee Stallion - Girls in the Hood
• City Girls - Enough / Better
• Kanye West - Wash Us in the Blood (feat. Travis Scott) - Single
• Pete Rock & Camp Lo - Meagan Good (feat. Mac Miller)

WHAT'S POPPIN

• BET Awards 2020 goes virtual
  • Amanda Seales was the host who was conscious and addressed the state of black culture to black empowerment.
  • Performers each did their own performances as pre-recorded “mini videos”
  • Favorite Performer?: Megan Thee Stallion, Anderson.Paak, Summer Walker + Usher; Jennifer Hudson, Kearra + Karen Sheard closing.
• Jada/Will + August? (You. Me. & He?)
• Officers in Breonna Taylor’s case have not been arrested.
• Cops in George Floyd case were released
• Kanye West - Running for President in 2020?

POLITRICKS

• Is Independence Day for all of us to celebrate?
• Statues of toppled in several American cities and across the world.
  • christopher columbus statue in Baltimore toppled by protestors.
• Bounty that Russia paid to Taliban to kill American soldiers.
• Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump for the drone strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
• #sayhername VANESSA GUILLEN - was murdered at Fort Hood and taken several miles off base and buried in a shallow grave.
  • Suspect allegedly shot himself in the head when military police attempted to apprehend him.
• Krisis of KARENS - Woman pulls her gun out on Black woman who she hit with her car in a parking lot. Husband looses job
• No Fucking Around Coalition appears in Stone Mountain, GA (birthplace of the KKK) armed to confront KKK.

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NEWS
Fires

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NEW MUSIC
Curren$y - Eyes Closed; Mahalia feat Ella Mai - What You Did; H.E.R. feat YG - Slide; Remi Wolf - You’re a Dog, Summer Walker feat Usher - Come Thru;

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WHAT’s POPPIN

SPORTS
>>Dodgers lost to Washingtion Nationals. Should Roberts be replaced?

China bans Houston Rockets for tweet GM makes.
Simone Biles - the most decorated gymnast of all time - won 25 medals thus far.

Film & TV
>>BET Hip Hop Awards - Lil’ Duval hosts, Meg the Stallion opens, Lil’ Kim honored
>>Dianne Carrol passes away at on October 4.
>>Tyler Perry opens Tyler Perry Studios, Now Hiring. What’s the beef with Tyler Perry.
>>Billy Porter will play fairy godmother in Sony’s Cinderella

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POLITRICKS

Bernie Sanders has heart attack
Is Ellen friends with George Bush? She says to “be kind”
Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, Black woman murdered in her home in Fortworth, TX after woman is shot through bedroom window.
Botham Jean case, Amber Guyger given 10 years, brother gives her a hug alongside judge. Joshua Brown killed days after trial ends.

The Best of 2018

New Music

The Dream 40 track CD.

Favorite Song of 2018: Devyn (I Like It - Cardi B from Episode 30 / H.E.R. - Fill Away); Daisy (Twerk-City Girls / H.E.R-Lord is Coming); Anthony (Period - City Girls / Her-Avenue); Darrin (Amber Mark / Could’ve Been / Stimulator Jones / Kali Uchis / The Internet)

Whats POPPIN

The Millenium Tour w/ B2K reunion
Trey Songz side chick is pregnant?
Netflix: Bird Box
Usher files for divorce from his wife Grace Miguel.
Forest Whitaker and Keisha Nash-Whitaker files for Divorce after 22 years
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth married after 10 year relationship
Chris Brown charged with 2 monkey related misdemeanors
Weird Blue Light in NY City sky
Barack Obama’s Favorites List: Music. Movies. Books - Obama’s are most admired people.

Politricks

Government shutdown…. and also shutdown earlier this year
8 year old died in U.S. custody on Christmas Eve
Climate Change: Special on Meet the Press

Question: What has 2018 revealed to us?

*New Music *

Ella Mai - self titled debut album; Quavo - Quavo Honcho; Usher & Zaytoven - “A;” Andersen.Paak - “Tints”

AMA’s on Tuesday - highlights

POP

Kanye West in the Oval Office
Bill Cosby’s lawyers appealing court ruling.
Dancing Queen - new Netflix show

Politricks & "Equanimity"

Brett Kavanaugh sworn in as new supreme court associate justice. within this weekend ruling from supreme court ruling in favor of voter id laws that will make it harder to native americans to vote.
New GOP rallying cry of the “mob” of democrats to urge their party to vote.

CornerstoreCaroline: 53 year old white woman calls police on young black boy who brushed up against her flat backside with his backpack.

“Black baby sitter” on google.
2020 election: Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker and Eric Garcetti already getting ready low-key.

**The QUESTION: **How do policies protect institutions rather than people of color?