Toure Show

Malcolm Nance–I Understand Trump

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Malcolm Nance wrote a book about the Trump insurgency called They Want To Kill Americans and he’s come back from fighting in the Ukraine to talk abo...

Tyler James Williams-I Act

17 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show Ep. 315: Tyler James Williams-I Act Original Air Date: March 16, 2022 Tyler James Williams is a star on Abbott Elementary and he’s now Em...

Brent Faiyaz–I Made Wasteland

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Faiyaz has a new album Wasteland.     Toure Show Episode 334   
Host & Writer: TouréExecutive Producer & Talent Booker: Jennifer...

Jesmyn Ward-I Write

10 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show Ep. 136: Jesmyn Ward-I Write Patreon Original Air Date: May 1, 2020 Jesmyn Ward is one of the great writers of our time. She’s a two-time...

His Name Is George Floyd

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

His Name Is George Floyd is an incredible book about Floyd and the world he lived in that takes you deeper into his life than any book has. The author...

Black Music–This is How We Make Music

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This show has featured a lot of amazing musicians so this week we’re compiling the best advice and insight from some of the greatest musicians we’...

Denzel Curry–I See Your Future

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Denzel Curry is an MC with new album out called Melt My Eyez See Your Future. We talk about his music and about hiphop and about the tragic death of h...

Big Freedia-I Am Bounce

26 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 200: Big Freedia-I Am Bounce Original Air Date: December 11, 2020 Big Freedia is the Queen of Bounce music and the star of Beyoncé's ...

Bartees Strange–I Am Farm To Table

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bartees Strange has a new album out called Farm To Table and he’s a brilliant, artistic, fascinating musician’s musician who’s a joy to talk to....

D Smoke-I Won Rhythm + Flow

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 152: D Smoke-I Won Rhythm + Flow Original Air Date: June 26, 2020 D Smoke won Netflix’s hiphop reality competition show Rhythm + Flo...

Jamie Hector–I’m An Actor

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie Hector played Marlo Stanfield on the Wire and a controversial cop on David Simon’s newest drama We Own The City. He’s an incredible actor. W...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: May 2, 2018 Touré Show Ep 27: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life Kareem Abdul Jabbar is one of the greatest basketball playe...

Harlem Chocolate Factory

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There's a small business I love called Harlem Chocolate Factory that makes amazing chocolate. Their owner's story is hard and beautiful and inspiring....

John Salley-I'm A Champion

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 180: John Salley-I'm a Champion Original Air Date: October 2, 2020 The NBA Finals is here and John Salley has been there. He’s a 4 t...

Carlos King–I'm The King of Reality TV

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Carlos King is the King of Reality TV. He’s been huge in the space for over a decade and now he’s got a deal with OWN and he’s the EP of Love & ...

Isiah Thomas - I'm A Champion

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show Ep 179: Isiah Thomas–I'm A Champion Original Air Date: September 30, 2020 Isiah Thomas is a 2 time NBA champ and an NCAA champ and o...

Darrelle Revis–I Am Football

25 May 2022

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...

Sanford Biggers-I Am Art

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 128: Sanford Biggers-I Am Art Original Air Date: April 3, 2020 Sanford Biggers is an amazing visual artist who works in a wide variety...

Igwe Aka–I'm An MC

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Igwe Aka is a great young MC who was born in Nigeria and now lives in Sacramento. It’s fascinating to hear him talk about the Africanness of America...

Jam & Lewis–We Are A Part of the Rhythm Nation

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 298: Jam & Lewis–We Are A Part of the Rhythm Nation Original Air Date: December 1, 2021 Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are one of the gre...

Whipped Urban Dessert Lab–We Remade Ice Cream

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of Toure Show is a special podcast, part of the Dell PodFerence 2022.   Whipped Urban Dessert Lab is an amazing small business run b...

Alfre Woodard–I Act

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alfre Woodard is one of the great actresses of our time. Her intensity can burn a hole in the screen. She’s currently starring in BET’s The Porter...

Kendrick Lamar-How To MC

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 11: Kendrick Lamar: How To MC Original Air Date: January 24, 2018 Kendrick Lamar is the greatest MC of his era and with a new album ab...

Kid Capri–I Am Hiphop

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kid Capri has been a part of hiphop culture as a seminal DJ for decades so he’s got stories, he’s got interesting ideas, he’s got hiphop in his ...

Talib Kweli–I Am An MC

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 313: Talib Kweli–I Am An MC Original Air Date: March 2, 2022 The new Black Star album is almost here so I talked to Talib Kweli and ...

Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin–I Love Black People

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin is a brilliant woman who heads the African-American studies department at Columbia. She’s been a friend for a long time an...

Iyanla Vanzant–I Save People

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 159: Iyanla Vanzant–I Save People Original Air Date: July 22, 2020 Iyanla Vanzant is one of the most interesting guests I’ve ever ...

Chris Eubanks–I Play Tennis

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Eubanks is an amazing young pro tennis star with a monster serve. We talked about pro tennis from every angle from stroke technique to why there...

Jay Pharoah–I'm White Famous

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show Ep 161: Jay Pharoah–I'm White Famous Original Air Date: July 29, 2020 Jay Pharoah is an hysterical comedian who feels like his comedy an...

Jason Reynolds–I Write For The Kids

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Reynolds is a Children’s Lit Superstar as the author of tons of best-selling widely-loved titles. My kids love his work way more than mine. I ...

Eric Andre–I Am Crazy

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show 151: Eric Andre–I Am Crazy Original Air Date: June 24, 2020 Eric Andre is crazy. He’s an amazing absurdist comedian and he’s hilario...

Erika Alexander–I'm Unstoppable

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Erika Alexander is an amazing actress and an activist. Her new project is a podcast called Finding Tamika about the harrowing story of a Black woman w...

Will Packer-I'm a Hollywood Producer

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 48: Will Packer-I'm a Hollywood Producer Original Air Date: September 26, 2018 Will Packer produced the Oscars and a couple of years a...

Taylor Townsend–I Love Tennis

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Taylor Townsend is one of my favorite current professional tennis players because she’s unrelentingly aggressive. She’s a serve and volleyer which...

Nicole Ari Parker - I Am LTW

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: Jan 26, 2022 Original Title: Toure Show 307: I Am LTW HBO’s And Just Like That is coming back for a 2nd season so we’re throwi...

Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts–I Love Black Joy

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts the author of “Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration” on what Black joy is and how to claim...

Elie Mystal–I Want To Kill the Constitution

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Elie Mystal is the author of the NYT Best Seller Allow Me To Retort an amazing book about all that’s wrong with the Constitution and it’s roots in...

Tyler James Williams–I Act

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tyler James Williams is a star on Abbott Elementary but he first blew up years ago on Everybody Hates Chris playing young Chris Rock. He’s a great c...

Jeezy - I'm the Snowman

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: November 25, 2020 Original Show Title: Toure Show Ep 195: I'm the Snowman Jeezy is one of the most iconic Southern MCs of all time...

Leon–I Act

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Leon is an incredible actor who’s been around forever and been in many iconic projects. His latest is an action film called A Day To Die co-starring...

Jeffrey Wright - I'm An Actor

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: April 22, 2020 Original Show Title: Toure Show Ep 133: I’m An Actor  Jeffrey Wright is an amazing actor who’s part of the hot...

Talib Kweli–I Am An MC

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Talib Kweli is one of the greatest MCs of the modern era. There's a new Black Star album on the way and the story of it got made is kinda crazy. Kweli...

DJ Drama–I Am the Culture

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DJ Drama is a legendary mixtape DJ who’s become a music industry powerhouse. He’s running the label behind Lil Uzi Vert and Jack Harlow as well as...

Jim Jones–I Hustle

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Jones is back to talk about MCing, Harlem, hustling, Verzuz, fatherhood, and so much. Jimmy contains multitudes by which I mean he’s a deep dude...

Wyclef Jean–I Am Music

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Congressman Jamaal Bowman–I’m In The House

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jamaal Bowman is a first term Congressman from New York and the first male member of The Squad and a true progressive who’s close with AOC. But bein...

Malcolm Gladwell - I Am

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Guy Torry–I Am Phat Tuesdays

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Guy Torry is a legendary comic who helped change the game—his comedy night Phat Tuesdays gave a lot of comics the shot they needed to blow up. Now h...

Corinne Bailey Rae - I Am Music

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2021 Original Title Toure Show Ep 209: I Am Music  Corinne Bailey Rae is a brilliant musician and she’s on tour in Amer...

Larry Miller–I Ran Brand Jordan

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Larry Miller was the President of Brand Jordan and the author of Jump a memoir that tells the story of how he ran the iconic sneaker brand for years w...

Yvette Nicole Brown - I Am Sunshine

30 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: Dec 18, 2019  Original Title: Toure Show Ep 104: Yvette Nicole Brown: I Am Sunshine  Yvette Nicole Brown makes me happy every ti...

Nicole Ari Parker–I Am LTW

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nicole Ari Parker is one of the new stars of HBO’s And Just Like That and she’s been a friend of mine forever so this is a great conversation. She...

Andre Leon Talley - I Am Fashion

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep - 42: I Am Fashion Original Air Date: August 15, 2018  My friend Andre Leon Talley passed away this week. He was a fashion world icon...

Snoop–I Am The Game

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Snoop aka Felicia Pearson is a Baltimore legend, a hustler who became a star on The Wire and is now an actor. She’s had a crazy life and we get into...

James Mtume - I Am Music

16 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show Ep 168: James Mtume–I Am Music Original Air Date: August 21, 2020 The legendary James Mtume passed away recently so let’s throwback t...

Hrishikesh Hirway–I Song Explode

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hrishikesh Hirway is the man behind the amazing podcast and TV show Song Exploder and he’s a musician and an all around amazing person with an aweso...

Maxine Waters - I'm in the House

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: March 10, 2021 Original Title: Toure Show Ep 225 - I'm in the House Maxine Waters is one of the most powerful and charismatic peop...

Armand Hammer–We Rock The Mic Right

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Armand Hammer is a legendary underground hiphop duo that’s been rocking the mic for years. They’re brilliant and their rhyming is incredible and i...

Black Thought - How to MC

02 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: 2/2/2018 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 12: Black Thought-How To MC Black Thought is one of the greatest MCs of all time. How'd he ...

Doug Lyons–I Am The Drama

29 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Doug Lyons is a great young Broadway playwright as well as an actor, writer, director, and composer. He loves creating stories that will illuminate th...

Iyanla Vanzant - I Save People

26 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep - 159: I Save People Original Air Date: July 22, 2020 Iyanla Vanzant is one of the most interesting guests I’ve ever had. In this ta...

Zakiya Dalila Harris–I Write

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Zakiya Dalila Harris is the best-selling novelist who wrote The Other Black Girl, a book that took the publishing industry by storm. I love talking to...

Isabel Wilkerson - I'm A Writer

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: September 2, 2020 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 171: I'm A Writer Isabel Wilkerson is one of the great writers of her generation....

Michael Eric Dyson–I Love Blackness

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Eric Dyson is a brilliant public intellectual and a great friend. I love talking with him because he’s genius and because he loves Blackness...

Wendy Raquel Robinson–I'm Game

12 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Wendy Raquel Robinson is a star on The Game one of the longest-running shows on TV! We talk acting, affirmations, and how it is she’s managed to hav...

Greg Tate–I Am The Iron Man

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Tate passed away this week so I’m throwing back to an episode we did in 2020 where we talk about his career, Blackness, and his time interviewi...

Tananarive Due–I Am the Queen of Black Horror

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tananarive Due understands horror. She’s written it, she’s studied it, she teaches about it at UCLA in a class that has Jordan Peele come by to ex...

Jam & Lewis–We Are A Part of the Rhythm Nation

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis make up one of the great production teams of the modern era—they started with Prince, they helped make Janet Jackson a sup...

Tiffany Haddish - I Am Winning

28 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Touré Show Ep 43: Tiffany Haddish-I Am Winning Original Air Date: August 22, 2018 Tiffany Haddish is a Hollywood Superstar and she overcame so much ...

Rémy Ngamije–I Write

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rémy Ngamije is the author of the great new novel The Eternal Audience of One and he Zoomed from Namibia to talk about his book and writing and the p...

Who Killed Malcolm X

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: February 19, 2020 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 115: Who Killed Malcolm X  Now that two men have been exonerated in the murder o...

Alicia Garza–I Know Black Lives Matter

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alicia Garza. One of the founders of Black Lives Matter and Black Futures Lab. Organizer. Revolutionary. Author. Phenomenal woman. It was an honor to ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones - I Live In A Slaveocracy

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show Ep 107: Nicole Hannah-Jones: I Live In A Slaveocracy Original Air Date: January 8, 2020 Nikole Hannah Jones is the creator of the amazing ...

Yvonne Orji–I Love Jesus

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Yvonne Orji is a fantastic actress, an hysterical comedian, and someone who has a really close relationship with God. She listens when He tells her wh...

Jelani Cobb–I Love Black People

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jelani Cobb is a brilliant writer, thinker, professor, academic, NYer staffer, and the author of the new book The Matter of Black Lives. I love his mi...

Omar Dorsey–I Love Acting

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Omar Dorsey is a veteran actor who’s appeared in Halloween Kills, Harriet, When They See Us, Django Unchained and many more films. We talk about the...

Isiah Thomas–I'm A Champion

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Toure Show Ep 179: Isiah Thomas–I'm A Champion Original Air Date: September 30, 2020 The NBA season is back in swing so let’s throwback to my i...

Justin Simien–I'm Done With Dear White People

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Justin Simien, the creator of Dear White People talks about the show’s end, why the show had to end, how hard it was to do a major show, and why the...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life

24 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: May 2, 2018 Touré Show Ep 27: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life The NBA has returned so let’s throwback to my convo with ...

Celeste Headlee–I Wanna Talk About Racism

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Celeste Headlee is a longtime public radio star and the author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism. We talk deeply about her...

Adam Schiff–I’m Scared For Our Democracy

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Congressman Adam Schiff is the author of a fantastic new book Midnight In Washington that talks about living through the 1/6 insurrection, the Trump y...

Big Daddy Kane - I'm A Smooth Operator

17 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: August 4, 2021 Toure Show 267: I'm the Smooth Operator Big Daddy Kane. One of the best rappers of all time. Patreon.com/toureshow...

Khalil Muhammad–I Love History

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is an amazing History Professor at Harvard and an old friend of mine and the co-host of a new podcast called Some of My Best Fr...

Neal Brennan–I Feel Funny

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Neal Brennan is an hysterical standup and a great comedy writer. He was one of the minds behind Chappelle’s Show and now he’s doing a show called ...

Michael K WIlliams

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018 I interviewed the legendary actor Michael K Williams about his HBO documentary Raised In the System which gave him a chance to talk about crim...

Clint Smith–I Write

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Clint Smith is the author of a powerful book about the ways that slavery continues to impact America. He visited many places that where that influence...

Dres–I’m A Black Sheep

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dres from Black Sheep is an MC who made a lot of noise in the 90s and is still out here making music now—he’s got an album coming out next year wi...

Ibram Kendi - I Am Anti-Racist

03 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: October 16, 2019 Toure Show Ep 95: Ibram Kendi-I am Anti-Racist Dr. Ibram Kendi is a new recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant whic...

Hari Kondabolu–I Feel Funny

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hari Kondabolu is an amazingly influential comedian and comedic writer and the man behind the landmark doc The Problem With Apu. He’s a brilliant an...

Jordan Casteel–I Paint

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Casteel is a brilliant young painter who was just awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. Her work is extraordinary. We talk about painting, Blacknes...

Wyclef Jean–I Am Music

26 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: August 12, 2020 Toure Show Ep 165: I Am Music Wyclef Jean. Genius. Producer. Rapper. Throwback to our awesome 2020 interview.  P...

Elizabeth Hinton–I Study Police

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the fu...

Mekhi Phifer–I Act

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mekhi Phifer is a legendary actor. Was a privilege to speak about his craft and his journey through an amazing career. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagra...

Andy Roddick - I Was #1 In the World

19 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: Feb 24, 2021 Andy Roddick was a tennis legend—#1 in the world, US Open winner, 3x Wimbledon finalist, and one of best servers in ...

Elaine Welteroth–I Have Career Advice

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elaine Welteroth is the big sister you knew you needed but didn’t know where to find. She’s succeeded in magazines, books, TV, and now she has a M...

Stephanie Mills–I Sang

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Mills is a legendary singer. She’s been a star since she was a teenager and she’s got many timeless hits. We talk about singing, making ...

James Blake-I Beat Federer

12 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On the day of the US Open Finals let’s throwback to my 2018 convo with James Blake the tennis star who was once #4 in the world and #1 in America wi...

Alex Isley–I Sing

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Isley is an amazing young singer who’s the daughter of one of the legendary Isley Brothers and it’s like she was born to sing. She has an ama...

Michael K Williams

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018 I interviewed the legendary actor Michael K Williams about his HBO documentary Raised In the System which gave him a chance to talk about crim...

Mark Ronson - I'm Too Hot

05 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Original Air Date: July 31, 2019 Toure Show Ep 83: Mark Ronson - I'm Too Hot Mark Ronson is the host of Watch The Sound on Apple TV and a music produ...