Toure Show

Jennifer Esposito–I Made A Film

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Esposito is a veteran actress who mortgaged her house to finish making the movie she’s wanted to make since she was a teenager. She wrote, ...

DMC—I Was Suicidal

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

DMC is one third of Run-DMC the most important group in hiphop history. Run-DMC were rap’s first superstars and their success helped the genre becom...

Yo-Yo–I Am Cookin

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yo-Yo is a rap star who’s become a cooking star. Her new TV show Downright Delicious With Yo-Yo lets us see her show off her creativity in a whole n...

Toure Show presents Being Black - The 80’s

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

N.W.A’s “Dopeman” Is one of the illest songs ever made because it takes you deep into the drug dealer’s perspective on selling drugs. The crac...

Bresha Webb–I'm Like A Puppy

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this very recent interview, we throw back to Bresha Webb, who is the most hilarious person I know. She’s a comedic actress currently starring in ...

Babyface

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Babyface is a legend. Songwriter, producer, singer—he’s made lots of the greatest songs of the past few decades. We talk about music—how this ob...

John Salley-I'm A Champion

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The NBA Finals are here and John Salley has been there. He’s a 4 time NBA champ as well as an extremely cool and funny brother. We talk about trash ...

Bresha Webb–I'm Like A Puppy

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bresha Webb is the most hilarious person I know. She’s a comedic actress currently starring in Run the World on Starz and she’s a longtime stand u...

Isiah Thomas - I'm A Champion

04 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As we move through the NBA Finals it’s a good time to throwback to my epic convo with Isiah Thomas the two time NBA champ and one of the greatest po...

Ruth Carter–I Dressed Black Panther

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ruth Carter is the Costume Designer behind Black Panther, Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing and many more. She’s got two Academy Awards. We go in depth ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life

28 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kareem Abdul Jabbar is one of the greatest basketball players ever, but he thinks of himself as a writer who played basketball. I loved talking to him...

IDK–I Rap

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

IDK is a hot MC with a new album out called F65. His plan to become a rapper started when he was in prison and now he’s living his dream.   Ple...

Tiffany Aliche–I Am The Budgetnista

21 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tiffany Aliche aka the Budgetnista went from sleeping on her parents’ couch to being a multi-millionaire all based on teaching financial literacy. I...

Robert Townsend

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Townsend is one of the great film directors of his era. I’ll never forget sitting in the theater and watching his first film Hollywood Shuffl...

Jordan E Cooper–I Made Ain’t No Mo

14 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan E. Cooper is an amazing young playwright who created the Tony nominated Broadway play Ain’t No Mo which is about a moment where every Black A...

Diamond D–I Am Hiphop

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Diamond D is a hiphop legend. Rapper, producer, and lover of the culture. I love talking the people who help create the culture every day.    Pl...

Don Lemon–I Am CNN

07 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Don Lemon was let go by CNN recently after an amazing 17 year run there, so let’s throwback to our interview from 2021 where we talk broadcasting, T...

Major Jackson–I'm A Poet

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Major Jackson is one of America’s great poets. Amazing conversation about what it means to write poetry for a living.    Please fill out our l...

Wyclef Jean–I Am Music

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Wyclef Jean. Genius. Producer. Rapper. A throwback to our 2020 interview. Original Air Date: Aug 12, 2020 Toure Show Ep 165: Wyclef - I Am Music ...

Symone Sanders–I Shine

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Symone Sanders is an MSNBC star who has been an advisor to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. She loves politics and understands what the ga...

Brent Faiyaz–I Made Wasteland

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this 2022 interview, Brent Faiyaz talks about his latest album Wasteland.  Toure Show Episode 334: Brent Faiyaz Original Air Date: July 13, 20...

Sherri Shepherd–I Feel Funny

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sherri Shepherd is a comedian, a host of the daily talk show Sherri, an actress, and an all around lovely person. Whenever I see her I start to smile....

Joey Bada$$–I Am Hiphop

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joey Bada$$ is one of the leaders of the modern generation of MCs. In this throwback episode from 2022, we discuss his latest album 2000. It is deep a...

Kel Mitchell–I Love Jesus

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kel Mitchell is famous for making Good Burger and starring on Kenan and Kel but his life in comedy also includes a life in the church. He’s a youth ...

Sanaa Lathan

09 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sanaa Lathan is a legendary actress who’s becoming a director. She shot the film adaptation of Angie Thomas’s novel On The Come Up. We talk about ...

Walter Mosley

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Walter Mosley is the author of Every Man’s A King and more than 40 other novels because he writes every single day no matter what. He’s one of the...

Jermaine Dupri

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jermaine Dupri is a legend and we had a legendary conversation. We talk about dating Janet, producing Mariah, working with Jay-Z, visiting Magic City,...

Carla Hall–I Cook With Love

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carla Hall is a legendary chef who talks about cooking with love. But what does that really mean? And what does it mean to be a great chef? And what’...

Zadie Smith–How to Be Free

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Zadie Smith is one of the best writers and coolest people around. It’s a good time to revisit our 2018 talk about writing and Jay-Z and Chappelle. ...

Dominique Fishback

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dominique Fishback is the star of Donald Glover’s awesome new Amazon show Swarm. It’s a wild show and Fishback is extraordinary as a super fan sla...

Elaine Welteroth—I Am More Than Enough

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Elaine Welteroth is fierce and brilliant and bold. In this throwback episode from 2019, she’s one of the hosts of The Talk on CBS and she was on Pro...

Seal

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Seal. Crazy. Kiss From A Rose. Superstar. Talking about his music, his development as a singer, his youth, the history of the scars on his face, and m...

Isabel Wilkerson-I'm A Writer

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Isabel Wilkerson is one of the great writers of her generation. The author of The Warmth Of Other Suns and now Caste is creating narrative non-fiction...

Conscious Lee - I Know Why Education Is Elevation

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Conscious Lee is an educator who uses TikTok and the classroom to teach about Blackness. He says education is elevation and his work is inspiring. We ...

Amy Sherald- I Painted Michelle Obama

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Sherald painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama that’s hanging in the National Portrait Gallery but there’s an awesome story around ho...

Bomani Jones-I Am Game Theory

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bomani Jones is the host of Game Theory on HBO and a longtime writer/broadcaster who can talk about absolutely anything. The guy has three advanced de...

Terry McMillan-I Love My Characters

26 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Terry McMillan is one the most famous and successful writers of her time because she knows how to really connect with her audience. And the reason why...

Dream Hampton - Activist. Filmmaker. Revolutionary.

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dream Hampton is an activist and a filmmaker who made the incredible doc “Surviving R. Kelly” and co-wrote Jay-Z’s Decoded. She’s got an inspi...

Who Killed Malcolm X

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Now that two men have been exonerated in the murder of Malcolm X, who killed him? Well there’s a Netflix doc that has an answer: “Who Killed Malco...

Vinnie From Naughty By Nature

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vinnie from Naughty By Nature is an old friend so he’s come by to break it all down. He talks about how and the guys started out dealing on the bloc...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the greatest basketball players ever, but he thinks of himself as a writer who played basketball. I loved talking to him...

Jermaine Dupri

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jermaine Dupri is a legend and we had a legendary conversation. We talk about dating Janet, producing Mariah, working with Jay-Z, visiting Magic City,...

Nikki Giovanni–How to Make It in Poetry

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nikki Giovanni is one of the greatest living poets in the world and she is a joy to be around. She’s funny, smart, humble, and very cool. She’s th...

Tommy Davidson

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tommy Davidson is back. He’s hysterical and his life story is incredible—he was abandoned by his biological mom and adopted by a white family. And...

Nikole Hannah-Jones—I Live In A Slaveocracy

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nikole Hannah-Jones is the creator of the 1619 project which explains how America is still impacted by the legacy of slavery. It is not past, we are, ...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner–I'm Way More Than Theo

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Malcolm-Jamal Warner was Theo on the Cosby Show but his career and his life are way bigger than that. We go through his whole career from Cosby to Mal...

Darrelle Revis–I Am Football

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Darrelle Revis is one of the best NFL players of his era—definitely the greatest cornerback of his day. We talked about football—how he became the...

LisaRaye–I'm A Bad Bitch

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

LisaRaye is an icon. She’s been a star since her first film Ice Cube’s The Player’s Club and today she’s on ALLBLK’s A House Divided. She’...

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries—I Am Open To Impeaching Trump

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is one of the most important people in Congress because he knows how to get things done. In this throwback interview from ...

Talent–I Got Jokes

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Talent is a legendary veteran stand up comic. We talk about comedy and I try to keep it together while he makes me laugh like crazy. Toure Show Epis...

Tyler James Williams-I Act

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tyler James Williams is a star on Abbott Elementary and he’s now Emmy nominated but he first blew up years ago on Everybody Hates Chris playing youn...

MC Lyte

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

MC Lyte is a legendary MC who was a star in the 80s. She’s now the star of a sitcom called Partners In Rhyme on ALLBLK. It was awesome to talk to he...

Toure

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show x Toure because I wrote another book, this one is called The Ivy League Counterfeiter and it’s about a friend of mine from high school wh...

Mozhan Marnó - A Look At Iran

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Right now in Iran we are witnessing a massive revolution—the people are rising up to demand freedom from the repressive regime. That regime is respo...

The Central Park 5—We Are Free

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Exonerated 5, formerly known as the Central Park 5, now have an entrance into Central Park named in their honor, a stunning turnaround for men who...

Jordan E. Cooper–I Made Ain’t No Mo

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ain’t No Mo is an amazing new Broadway play about a moment where every Black American is being given a one way plane ticket to Africa. This play, wh...

Michael Eric Dyson—I’m In Jay-Z’s America

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Dyson is the intellectual heavyweight champion and someone who’s amazingly fun to talk to. In 2019 we talked about the genius of Jay-Z and his ...

Toure

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show x Toure because I wrote another book, this one is called The Ivy League Counterfeiter and it’s about a friend of mine from high school wh...

Nikole Hannah-Jones- I Live in A Slaveocracy

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nikole Hannah-Jones is the creator of the amazing 1619 project which explains how America is still impacted by the legacy of slavery. We are, today, i...

Elvis Mitchell–I Love The Movies

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Elvis Mitchell is an esteemed film critic and the director of Is That Black Enough For You?!? a fascinating Netflix doc about Black film history. Amaz...

Greg Tate–I Am The Iron Man

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The late Greg Tate is one of the greatest writers of our time. He’s an intellectual hero of mine. He’s a mentor. He’s a writer, a guitarist, a g...

Santigold

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Santigold is back with a new album Spirituals and a new podcast Noble Champions and she’s an old friend so we had an amazing conversation about maki...

Malcolm Gladwell-I Am

27 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Malcolm Gladwell is a genius. This is a throwback to our interview from 2020. Toure Show Ep 126: I Am Original Air Date: 3/27/2020   Support t...

Capt Kirk Douglas–I Love To Rock

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Capt Kirk Douglas is the guitarist for the Roots and the man behind a new solo album New Unknown. I love talking to musicians about their music, their...

J. Alexander-I Am Fashion

20 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Miss J. Alexander is a fashion world icon and an incredible person. Toure Show Ep. 344 Original Air Date: Sept. 21, 2022 Support the show: https:/...

Toure Show–In The Deep [Feed Drop]

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week I want to highlight a new podcast I’m loving. It’s called In The Deep: Stories That Shape Us and it’s a gripping look into the lives o...

Michael R. Jackson–I Made A Strange Loop

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A Strange Loop is the best Broadway play I’ve seen in a while. It won the Tony for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and it’s blowing pe...

Billy Porter-I Am Realness

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Billy Porter is one of the most captivating actors working today. We talk about Pose and kissing on camera and wearing a masculine dress to the Oscars...

Jemele Hill–I'm Living My Best Life

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jemele Hill is back with a spicy memoir called Uphill where she talks about growing up in poverty and her rise and fall at ESPN. We get all into the s...

Rep Ilhan Omar

06 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is one of the most progressive and most inspiring elected officials in this country. She’s an immigrant, she’s Muslim, sh...

Sarah Jones–I'm An Actor

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Jones is an extraordinary actress who’s made an incredible documentary about the sex work industry called Sell/Buy/Date where she talks to lot...

Chris Redd–I Run SNL

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Redd was an SNL star because he’s an hysterical comic and he’s also a rapper on the low. Amazing to talk to him about hiphop and comedy and ...

Sean Patrick Thomas–I'm An Actor

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Patrick Thomas is a great actor and one of the stars of Till the new biopic about the courageous Mamie Till and her murdered son Emmett. I talk t...

Lil Yachty-I Am The King of The Youth

23 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lil' Yachty is one of my favorite modern rappers. In this convo from 2020 we talk about his style and his musical influences, and get a deep look at t...

Sanaa Lathan

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sanaa Lathan is a legendary actress who’s becoming a director. She just shot the film adaptation of Angie Thomas’s novel On The Come Up. We talk a...

Eric Andre–I Am Crazy

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Andre is in the news because he’s fighting back against some airport racism so let’s throwback to our 2020 interview and see who he really is...

JeVon McCormick–I'm A Modern Leader

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jevon McCormick is reinventing business leadership. His book Modern Leader explains principles for a more worker-friendly workplace. McCormick learned...

Earthquake–I Am Comedy

09 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Earthquake has become a legendary stand up comic and like so many, there’s a lot of pain in his background. He spent over a decade in the Air Force ...

Ben Crump–I Defend Black People

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Crump is a lawyer who’s made it his mission in life to defend and protect Black families who have suffered massive tragedies. He was there for T...

Nikki Giovanni–How to Make It in Poetry

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nikki Giovanni is one of the greatest living poets in the world and she is a joy to be around. She’s funny, smart, humble, and very cool. She’s th...

Rep Ilhan Omar

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is one of the most progressive and most inspiring elected officials in this country. She’s an immigrant, she’s Muslim, sh...

Chris Redd-I Run SNL

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Redd just retired from SNL. So let’s throwback to our amazing talk with him about comedy and hiphop and how to make people laugh and the stre...

J. Alexander–I Am Fashion

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Miss J. Alexander is a fashion world icon and an incredible person. I love this conversation.     Please fill out our listener survey: https:/...

Sheryl Lee Ralph-I'm An Actor

18 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sheryl Lee Ralph is a legend. So many of us were overjoyed to see her win an Emmy for her work on Abbott Elementary. In this throwback we talked about...

Josephine and Billies

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I’m going inside the marijuana business with Whitney Beatty the owner of Josephine & Billie’s an LA dispensary that caters to Black women. We talk...

Andy Roddick-I Was #1 in The World

11 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Roddick was a tennis legend—#1 in the world, US Open winner, 3x Wimbledon finalist, and he held serve over 90% of the time for his career. We t...

Pipcorn

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pipcorn is one of my favorite snacks and after watching it’s founders on Shark Tank I had to talk to them about how the my created and popularized a...

James Blake-I Beat Federer

04 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Blake was once #4 in the world and #1 in America. He beat both Federer and Nadal. But what’s most amazing is that he played his best tennis af...

Open Mike Eagle–I Live Hiphop

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Open Mike Eagle is a brilliant MC and podcaster (I love his show What Had Happened Was). We talk about hiphop and the intricacies of MCing and his upc...

City Girls—I’m From the Bottom

28 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

City Girls is a hot rap group from Miami and there’s a lot to their story. I spoke to Yung Miami back in 2018 when her partner JT was still in priso...

Josh Johnson–I Know Funny

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Johnson is hysterical. Please fill out our listener survey: https://forms.gle/vSXPsDdMGcSbKrfY9 Toure Show Episode 340 Host & Writer: Touré...

Puffy-How to Make a Billion

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Puff (or Sean Combs, or Diddy) is one of the greatest business minds in the country today. He’s closing in on being a billionaire and he’s done it...

Charles Booker–I Want To Be Kentucky's Senator

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Booker is the Democratic nominee for Senate from Kentucky, a man running to unseat Rand Paul. He gained national fame when he shot an ad showi...

Salman Rushdie-I Write

14 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In solidarity with my friend Salman Rushdie, who was tragically stabbed this week, I’m re-airing our 2019 interview so you can hear him speak about ...

Joey Bada$$–I Am Hiphop

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joey Badass is one of the leaders of the modern generation of MCs. His new album 2000 is deep and so is our conversation. I didn’t expect to talk ab...

Joy Bryant-I Love The Supermarket

07 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joy Bryant is a great actress who grew up in the Bronx with nothing then ended up studying at Yale and is now a longtime working actress. She’s fun,...

Christian Smalls–I Will Organize Amazon

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Christian Smalls is the revolutionary Amazon worker who’s building a nationwide Amazon union in a battle with Amazon’s leadership. He’s got an a...

Matthew Knowles-I Managed Beyoncé

31 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Knowles is Beyonce’s father and he served as her manager for many years and according to him he is central to her success. If you want to kn...

Elizabeth Alexander–I Know The Trayvon Generation

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Alexander is an amazing poet, writer, professor, and person, and the author of a fascinating new book The Trayvon Generation that explores h...

Neneh Cherry-I'm Still In A Buffalo Stance

24 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show Ep. 196: Neneh Cherry-I'm Still In A Buffalo Stance Patreon Original Air Date: November 27, 2020 Neneh Cherry became a pop culture phenomen...