Toure Show
Episodes
Finding Kendrick Johnson
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Jason Banks–I’m Living The Dream
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Banks is an hilarious comedian who was working in a bank not long ago but thanks to Tiktok and courage he’s become a full time working comedia...
Djimon Hounsou - I'm An Actor
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 26, 2021 Toure Show Ep 247: I'm An Actor Djimon Hounsou is the star of A Quiet Place Part II and an actor with uncommon intens...
Gabrielle Dennis–I’m Acting
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Chef Jerome Grant–I Chef
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chef Jerome Grant was the leader of the restaurant at the Black Smithsonian and it was an amazing extension of the museum where you could eat food fro...
Wyclef Jean - I Am Music
22 Aug 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...
Dancehall Music
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Blood Orange–I Am Music
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Blood Orange aka Dev Hynes is a brilliant musician who does things his own way. Amazing conversation with a genius musicmaker. You can get half of thi...
Corinne Bailey Rae - I Am Music
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: January 13, 2021 Toure Show Ep 209: I Am Music Corinne Bailey Rae is a brilliant musician who lives and breathes music. We’re th...
Josh Johnson–I’m Funny
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Vernon Reid–I Am Guitar
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vernon Reid is one of the greatest guitar players alive. He was the lead guitarist in Living Colour and he’s a brilliant musical mind. We talk ab...
The Lox - We Out Here
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Toure Show Ep 185: We Out Here Original Air Date: Oct 21, 2020 Jadakiss and The Lox are red hot after that Verzuz battle with Dipset so let’s throw...
Yolonda Ross–I'm An Actor
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Big Daddy Kane–I'm The Smooth Operator
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Big Daddy Kane. One of the best rappers of all time. I’ve been hoping to interview him for years. Get half of this for free, get the whole interview...
Jeezy - I'm the Snowman
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: November 25, 2020 Touré Show Ep 195: Jeezy - I'm the Snowman Young Jeezy is one of the most iconic Southern MCs of all time. We’...
Nore Davis–I'm Funny
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Jody Watley–I'm Larger Than Life
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jody Watley is a legend. Such an honor to have one of the great, unforgettable singers from the 80s and 90s on the show. We talk about her music as we...
Levar Burton - I Am Who I Am
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: January 20, 2021 Touré Show Ep 227: Levar Burton - I Am Who I Am Levar Burton is guest hosting Jeopardy right now so it’s a grea...
Wesley Morris–I Write
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Reggie Watts–I Am
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Reggie Watts is a comedic legend, a musician, an improviser, a genius. This conversation is epic. You can get half of it for free. For the whole amaz...
Isiah Thomas - I'm A Champion
18 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: September 30, 2020 Touré Show Ep 179: Isiah Thomas: I'm A Champion As we move through the NBA Finals it’s a good time to throwba...
Lynae Vanee–I’m Gon Keep It Black
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Omari Hardwick–I'm An Actor
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Omari Hardwick is an actor of power, strength, handsomeness, and a deep sense of Blackness. I always love watching him onscreen in Netflix’s Army of...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life
11 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 2, 2018 Touré Show Ep 27: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-How To Ball In Life In honor of the NBA Finals, we throwback to our interview wi...
Michael Harriot–I Write Black AF
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Jim Jones–I'm The Man
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Jones is a Harlem legend. Rapper, director, crypto coin creator—the man has been in the streets and in the culture forever. I wanted to talk to ...
Susan Rogers–I Made Music With Prince
04 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air date: June 13, 2018 Touré Show Ep 33: Susan Rogers-I Made Music With Prince I hope you’re listening to my new Prince docuseries Who Wa...
Nick Jones Jr.–I Am Obama's Friend
02 Jul 2021
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Tiffany Aliche–I Am The Budgetnista
30 Jun 2021
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. T...
Andre Cymone-I Grew Up With Prince
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Touré Show Ep 32: Andre Cymone-I Grew Up With Prince Original Air date: June 9, 2018 In celebration of our new Prince docuseries Who Was Prince? her...
Flying Lotus–I Am Music
25 Jun 2021
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Tarell McCraney–I Love Writing
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tarell McCraney is an extraordinary screenwriter who’s exploring the Black male through amazing films like Moonlight and High-Flying Bird and the TV...
Susannah Melvoin - On Loving And Almost Marrying Prince
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Susannah Melvoin was the love of Prince’s life. Nothing Compares 2 U is about her. If I Was Your Girlfriend is about her. They started dating before...
Hit-Boy - I Make Hits
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hit-Boy is a major producer who worked on monster songs for Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, Travis Scott, Lil Wayne, and many more. We talk about making music ...
Raven-Symone–I'm So Raven
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Raven-Symone is a lifelong actress who doesn’t really like acting. She dreams of leaving showbiz behind and living on a farm with her wife and a ton...
Joe Budden - I Am Hip Hop
13 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air date: July 8, 2020 Joe Budden is… an original. There’s no one like him. You can see why he’s a great broadcaster in this throwback ...
Laurieann Gibson–I Am Dance
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Laurieann Gibson is a legend, an icon, and a critical part of dance and hiphop culture for decades. So much of what we have loved about culture comes ...
Tamika Mallory–I Love Black People
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tamika Mallory is a warrior who’s constantly fighting for Black people. Her new book State of Emergency lays out how we should fight to change Ameri...
Sam Jay - I Feel Funny
06 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 1, 2019 Sam Jay has a hot new HBO show called Pause and we love that because she’s hysterical and she’s had a really fascin...
Rob Morgan–I Act
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Morgan is one of the greatest character actors working today. He truly becomes the role. He gave me a master class in how to act, how to slide int...
Hill Harper–I Love Bitcoin
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows Hill Harper as an actor but he’s become such a big fan of Bitcoin that he’s opened theblackwallstreet.com in hopes of helping Black...
Patrisse Cullors - How to Make it Out Alive
30 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: January 17, 2018 Patrisse Cullors is stepping away from BLM so it’s a good time to look back at our 2018 interview diving into he...
Cool & Dre–We Are Music
28 May 2021
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Djimon Hounsou–I'm An Actor
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Djimon Hounsou is the star of A Quiet Place Part II and an actor with uncommon intensity. It really seems like a fire burns inside of him. We talk abo...
Nikole Hannah-Jones - I Live In A Slaveocracy
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: January 8, 2020 Nikole Hannah Jones is in the news because UNC turned her down for a professorship even though she’s a MacArthur ...
Isaiah Jackson–I Love Bitcoin
21 May 2021
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Ian Dunlap–I Am The Master Investor
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Dunlap is the Master Investor, Mr. Stock Market, the man who understands the game and dispenses wisdom about how to build wealth on the podcast Ma...
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms - I Love Atlanta
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: August 21, 2019 Mayor Keisha recently announced that she is not running for re-election so now’s a good time to look back at a g...
Tracy K. Smith–I'm A Poet
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy K Smith is one of America’s great poets—she was Poet Laureate from 2017-2019. We talk about poetry and writing and America and the time we w...
Roy Wood Jr–I'm The Man
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Roy Wood Jr is en Fuego. He’s on the Daily Show, he’s got a new podcast, he’s got TV shows he’s producing and a standup special he’s creatin...
Maxine Waters - I'm in the House
09 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: March 10, 2021 Maxine Waters is one of the most powerful and charismatic people in Congress. But how do you get important things p...
Salim Akil–I Make TV
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Salim Akil is a major TV creator—he’s created, executive produced and directed lots of shows—Black Lightning, Being Mary Jane, The Game, Girlfri...
Sananda Maitreya–I Am Music
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sananda Maitreya is one of the greatest singer-songwriters of his time. I have been a huge fan of the artist formerly known as Terrence Trent D’Arby...
Billy Porter - I Am Realness
02 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Airdate: June 26, 2019 Billy Porter is the star of Pose, one of the best shows on TV. Their final season starts on May 2. Porter is an incre...
Javicia Leslie–I'm Batwoman
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Javicia Leslie is the star of Batwoman on the CW and she’s an amazingly inspiring young actress who’s out and proud and living her best life. We t...
Chris Redd–I Run SNL
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Redd is an SNL cast member and an hysterical stand up comic who’s also a rapper on the low. Amazing to talk to him about hiphop and comedy and...
Dr. Phillip Goff - I Study Police
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: June 10. 2020 We need a new system of policing—it’s not about bad apples, it’s about a system that incentivizes arrests and ...
Shaun Robinson–I've Got Access
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun Robinson is a veteran TV star, the host of Access Hollywood and the global phenomenon 90 Day Fiancee. We talk all about 90 Day Fiancee and her i...
Don Lemon–I Am CNN
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don Lemon is a broadcaster who wears his heart on his sleeve. Every night on CNN he goes out and tells it how he sees it. He just wrote a powerful boo...
Elaine Welteroth—I Am More Than Enough
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Welteroth is fierce and brilliant and bold. She’s now one of the hosts of The Talk on CBS and she was on Project Runway. She was the editor i...
Nipsey Hussle Biography with Rob Kenner
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nipsey Hussle is one of the most interesting people in recent hip hop history. His biographer Rob Kenner, author of The Marathon Don’t Stop, talks a...
Them with Creator Little Marvin
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Them is an extraordinary new show on Amazon Prime about a Black family in the 50s who integrate Compton and end up living in a virtual horror movie be...
Salman Rushdie - I Write
11 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Salman Rushdie is a legendary novelist and one of my literary idols. I’m proud to also call him a friend. Here in this throwback ep we talk about wr...
Adepero Oduye–I'm An Actor
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adepero Oduye is an amazing actor who’s been in some of the most interesting projects of the past few years. We talk about her new Disney plus Marve...
Bad Trip with Eric Andre
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bad Trip on Netflix is hilarious and insane. It’s Eric Andre’s prank movie with Lil Rel and Tiffany Haddish where he goes around putting people in...
Amy Sherald - I Painted Michelle Obama
04 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Sherald painted the awesome official portrait of Michelle Obama that’s hanging in the National Portrait Gallery and she now has a new show at Ha...
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney–I’m An Actor
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney is an actor’s actor. She’s been in Malcolm X, New Jack City, What’s Love Got To Do With It, the Inkwell, and many more. ...
Angie Thomas–I’m Your Kids Favorite Author
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Angie Thomas is an amazing writer who’s had multiple bestsellers and multiple books turned into movies. We talk writing and how to deal with Hollywo...
Eric Andre - I Am Crazy
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Andre is an amazing absurdist comedian who’s got a crazy new prank flick on Netflix called Bad Trip and a bananas show on Adult Swim called the...
Kym Whitley–I Feel Funny
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kym Whitley is hysterical. Every time I see her I just want to smile. She’s been on a million shows throughout her career. How has she kept it going...
Charles Blow–I Want You To Move South
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Blow has a very interesting idea: Black Americans should move to the South to create political power. If half of the Black people who live out...
Judas and the Black Messiah with the Lucas Bros
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Judas And the Black Messiah is up for Best Picture and two Supporting Actor awards so if you just rewatched it or just watched it for the first time, ...
Jon Batiste–I'm A Dreamer
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Batiste is an extraordinary Juilliard-trained musician who grew up in a musical family from one of America’s greatest music towns, New Orleans. ...
I Got A Story To Tell
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Biggie was one of the greatest rappers ever and one of the most compelling people and just when you thought you knew everything about him here comes a...
En Vogue - We Were Born To Sing
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
En Vogue is one of the greatest singing groups ever. We talked about how they sing, how they manage to get along, and what ever happened to the other ...
Maxine Waters–I'm In The House
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maxine Waters is one of the most powerful and charismatic people in Congress. But how do you get important things passed when Republicans want to obst...
Tiffany Haddish-I Am Winning
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Toure Show Ep 43: Tiffany Haddish-I Am Winning Original Air Date - August 22, 2018 Tiffany Haddish is fresh off of hosting the Golden Globes, another...
Julie Dash–I'm A Director
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Dash is one of the most brilliant filmmakers of our time. She made the landmark 1991 film Daughters of the Dust. It’s one of the Blackest movi...
Bresha Webb–I Feel Funny
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bresha Webb is an hysterical actress and standup who’s been on A Black Lady Sketch Show, Black AF, the Last OG, Marlon and many more. She kept me la...
Who Killed Malcolm X
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Toure Show Ep 115: Who Killed Malcolm X Original Air Date: February 19, 2020 As we learn more about the assassination of Malcolm X and how the NYPD wo...
Heather McGhee–I Slay Racism
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Heather McGhee has just published a brilliant book about racism and how it's functioned throughout generations called The Sum Of Us: What Racism Costs...
Andy Roddick–I Was #1 In The World
24 Feb 2021
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...
Arlan Hamilton - I Steal White Privilege
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Touré Show Ep 29 Original Air Date: May 16, 2018 In 2021 we’ve got to start working smarter, not harder. You don’t need to work 50 hours a week t...
Chanda Rubin–I Was #6 In The World
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Judas and the Black Messiah–with the Lucas Bros
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Judas and the Black Messiah is a hot new movie starring Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield about Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and the F...
Lucas Bros–I Am Him
14 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Toure Show Ep 100 Original Air Date: November 20, 2019 The hot new film Judas and the Black Messiah started in an idea created by the Lucas Bros who a...
Elaine Brown–I Am The Black Panther Party
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Kehinde Wiley - How To Make It In Art
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Toure Show Ep Original air Date: January , 2018 Kehinde Wiley is one of the greatest visual artists working today and a. bonafide art world superstar....
Zina Garrison–I Was A Tennis Legend
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zina Garrison was a tennis superstar—world #4 in 1989, Wimbledon finalist in 1990, she defeated Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and many more. But during h...
Mama Phife–I Raised the Funky Diabetic
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Steve McQueen–I Am The Small Axe
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Small Axe is a brilliant series of five films by legendary director Steve McQueen streaming on Amazon right now. These are genius films about the Blac...
Marc Lamont Hill - I Grew Up With Kobe
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Toure Show Ep 110 Original air Date: January 29, 2020 Dr. Marc Lamont Hill grew up in Philly playing basketball with Kobe Bryant. Marc played one on o...
Robert Kool Bell–I Love Music
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Dr. Carl Hart–I Do Drugs
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Carl Hart is a drug researcher and an occasional drug user because you can be a respectable, intellectual, high-functioning professional and a lov...
Donnell Rawlings - I'm RICH, BEEATCH!!!
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Toure Show Episode 35 Original Air Date: June 27, 2018 Donnell Rawlings is an amazing comic who you know from Chappelle’s Show and The Wire. In this...
Crack
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Levar Burton–I Am Who I Am
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Levar Burton is Reading Rainbow. He is Star Trek. He is Roots. He is so much in the American experience from the past to the future because he is a de...
DMC—I Was Suicidal
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Toure Show Episode 90 Original Air Date: September 11, 2019 He’s the King of Rock, there is none higher. DMC from Run-DMC one of the greatest groups...
Bern Nadette Stanis–I Was Thelma On Good Times
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Corinne Bailey Rae–I Am Music
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Corinne Bailey Rae is a brilliant musician who lives and breathes music. We talk about what she loves about singing, her upcoming album, and how she s...