Once Upon A Time In Music
"Once Upon a Time in Music" is where culture. Each episode takes you back through the sounds, stories, and style that shaped generations — from classic tracks and unforgettable albums to iconic movies, favorite foods, and random pop culture gems you might’ve forgotten. It’s music history, fun memories, and good vibes all in one show.
Once Upon A Time In Music
We Thought They Were Black!
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It’s a NEW YEAR and EL and Cheryl Poison kick off the year with laughs, side-eye, and a whole lot of music nostalgia on Once Upon a Time in Music. Before getting into the topic, they break down the New Year’s resolutions everybody swears they’re going to keep—cutting bad habits, losing weight, saving money, and “leaving people in last year”… yeah, right.
The main conversation dives into artists you swore were Black when you first heard them. From soulful voices and reggae vibes to smooth R&B and crossover hits, the duo revisits classic songs and artists that had the culture fooled before music videos and social media told the full story. Expect throwbacks, honorable mentions, wild commentary, and plenty of “wait… THEY weren’t Black?” moments.
Of course, it wouldn’t be the show without Kiss, Marry, Kill, hilarious side stories, playful debates, and unfiltered opinions that only L and Cheryl can deliver. Funny, nostalgic, and a little reckless—this episode sets the tone for the year the only way they know how.
Sunny day, sweep the gun dance away on my way to where the air is Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Susanist Stream? Come and play everything's okay. Family neighbors said that's where we be. Can you tell me how to get how to get to Sass and the Stream? How to get to Sass and the Stream?
SPEAKER_06A Sets in the Street.
unknownHow to get to Sassy.
SPEAKER_07Oh ho ho ho. Someone is crazy up in here. What about that's a new way to start a new day in a new year? We back.
SPEAKER_01Back in effect.
SPEAKER_07I'm L.
SPEAKER_01I'm Cheryl Poison.
SPEAKER_07This is Once Upon a Time in Music. And uh we got another show for you.
SPEAKER_01Another one.
SPEAKER_07Happy New Year! Ha ha ha ha! Merry New Year's! You ready for the new year? This is it. This is it. This is New Year's Day.
SPEAKER_01You ready for it though? Are you ready?
SPEAKER_07Let's go. Let's get it started again.
SPEAKER_012020. Let's do it.
SPEAKER_07Let's do a whole new. You know what? Let's start the show off like this. New Year's resolution. New Year's resolutions that we know y'all ain't gonna do. How about that?
SPEAKER_01All right, let's do that.
SPEAKER_07Let's do that. That's not what the show's about, but we're gonna kick it off with that. Um, yeah. You got you got a list? I got a list. Go ahead. What you got? Give me one.
SPEAKER_01One of mine is well, not what I'm gonna do, but what I hear people say. I'm gonna stop a bad habit. I'm gonna stop smoking. I'm gonna stop drinking.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay. That's that's definitely two and one. And they you know what they do? Neither one? They soap, say smoke and drink and talk about it.
SPEAKER_01Like I'm gonna stop. I gotta stop. I tried. Every time I drink, I gotta smoke. I tried.
SPEAKER_07Uh sorry, bitch. Alright, I got one. What's yours? And everybody does this. You do it. I do it. Uh-uh. I don't do this. Yeah, you do. Everybody say, I'm gonna lose some weight. I'm gonna work out more. That first that first two weeks. Yeah, Planet Fitness.
SPEAKER_01No, they might go for a month. They might go to the gym for a month. After that month, they don't know what a diet is.
SPEAKER_07By the time Planet Fitness done hit their account the next time, dang it.
SPEAKER_01Dang there, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Sorry, bitch.
SPEAKER_06I wonder why they don't stick to the routine.
SPEAKER_07I don't know why we don't.
SPEAKER_01Give me another one. Uh oh. This one they say all the time. I'm gonna cut off so-and-so. I'm not bringing so-and-so into the new year.
SPEAKER_07Oh guess what they do? Bring them back.
SPEAKER_01They bring so-and-so into the new year. Pinky. Tyrone peanut.
SPEAKER_07Tyrone peanut.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, bitch. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Uh let's see. What else we got?
SPEAKER_05Uh, I'm gonna take more trips. I'm gonna take where they go.
SPEAKER_07Uh Myrtle Beach. They don't go nowhere. They don't even go to Myrtle Beach. They don't go to nowhere. They don't go nowhere. I'm out of town. Yeah, you in the town over 15 minutes away.
SPEAKER_06Sorry.
SPEAKER_07Uh give me another one. I know you got one more.
SPEAKER_01I got another one.
SPEAKER_07What you got?
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna save more money. I'm gonna get my finances straight.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, all right. You know what that means? Uh get it down, bitch. You is wildin' today. I told you today. This new year is gonna be off the hook. Like, this is the new us.
SPEAKER_01This no, this is the new you.
SPEAKER_07No, this new us.
SPEAKER_01No. You're not about to make me be ratchet. You ratchet up in here, y'all.
SPEAKER_07Oh boy. Well, do you want to tell the people what today's show is about?
SPEAKER_01Today's show is about singers who you may have thought were black.
SPEAKER_07Yep, they're not black. But they want soulful white boy. Soul for white lemon ladies, uh soulful white.
SPEAKER_01You can't even tell the difference. You can't tell. You can't. They're soulful.
SPEAKER_07Honorable mentions.
SPEAKER_01Let's start off with uh if you never would have seen videos, you would still think these people are black.
SPEAKER_07Let's start off with an honorable mention of somebody that's not on the list. Justin Timberlake.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_07Uh Bruno Mars. Who else you got? You got some you got?
SPEAKER_01I I ain't had no honorable mentions.
SPEAKER_07I'm just thinking, I'm going off the top of my head. Uh who else is uh what's that guy? George Michaels.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_07Wham.
SPEAKER_01Wig me up.
SPEAKER_07Back then uh radio didn't have color on it though. Because Tina Turner was on every station. Every station. Yeah, so uh we're gonna do that. Uh what else we got? Kiss Mary Kill.
SPEAKER_01Kiss Mary Kill.
SPEAKER_07I got some good ones for you this week. That's what you say every week. Last week was good. The week before that was good. I didn't I didn't, you know, hit you with no crazy ones like I have been. Like two girls and a guy, or we do like sometimes. Shaba ranks and seal. That was a funny one.
SPEAKER_01I seen a post about chaba ranks.
SPEAKER_07That's crazy, right?
SPEAKER_01Every time we do something, they said chaba ranks wasn't ugly. We just didn't like dark-skinned guys back then.
SPEAKER_07Uh I don't know. Cause uh he don't he don't I'm not gonna say if he looked bad or not, but uh he looked the same right now. I seen a concert when he don't know, that can't be it.
SPEAKER_01I guess once one person be like, oh, they ugly, they ugly.
SPEAKER_07The people just go with it. Name somebody you think is ugly.
SPEAKER_01You put me on the spot? Yeah, baby. That's what you're gonna get in the cricket. Because I can't even think of nobody.
SPEAKER_07I don't I don't usually call people ugly. I know, but you you think it in your mind.
SPEAKER_01See, you put to just think it in your mind. Yeah. I don't be like the ugly and he ain't for me.
SPEAKER_07Ladies too. Whoopi Goldberg? I think she's ugly. She was like at the top of that list back in the 90s and 80s.
SPEAKER_01Because of the color purple, but she wasn't ugly. Yeah, but Whoopi, um if you had three braids in your hair and an old grandma dress on, anybody'll be ugly.
SPEAKER_07I guess you're right about that. You might be right now. I don't think she was ugly. I want to know who you think was ugly, though.
SPEAKER_01I don't think I have anybody who I think is ugly.
SPEAKER_07I don't even believe it. I don't believe you. I think you're telling a story.
SPEAKER_01I can't think of nobody right now. Like, if I go home and I think of somebody, I'ma text you. I mean like this. I won't say they're ugly, but I wouldn't want them. But you know who I think is not ugly?
SPEAKER_07Please don't say the name because uh this oh we're gonna do a ban that name.
SPEAKER_01No, we not from um 2026 is gonna be me and Nas. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07You and who?
SPEAKER_01Me and Nas.
SPEAKER_07You and who? Oh my god, Eddie. Why? Your mic muted? What happened? Now, but who and you and who?
SPEAKER_01Me and my boy.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, we're not we gotta try not to say his name. Holl at me, Nas. I I seen your um your post be crazy too. They're a borderline. This girl's crazy.
SPEAKER_01I'm not crazy.
SPEAKER_07You're crazy over him.
SPEAKER_01Just because I like somebody.
SPEAKER_07Alright.
SPEAKER_01You ain't never had a crush.
SPEAKER_07You one post away from being the crazy girl. Well, then I'm the crazy girl. No, you know why you're not the crazy girl? Wow. Because you don't tag them in each one.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_01So that'd be if I tagged him, that'd be crazy.
SPEAKER_07Ooh. Just imagine you was like, oh, this girl again. Oh, this girl again.
SPEAKER_01I had thought of it like that.
SPEAKER_07So you good?
SPEAKER_01Well, he might be. Oh, this girl again. Hit that inbox. Oh. Uh-huh. You never know.
SPEAKER_07That's where I get flu down.
SPEAKER_01Holler at me. I would hop on that plane real quick. You would. You think I wouldn't? I'll be on that plane fast.
SPEAKER_07What if you say he wants you to feature on a song? Would you do it?
SPEAKER_01Oh my God. That would be like a dream thing.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but can you still rap?
SPEAKER_01I guess I would I would bring it out of here.
SPEAKER_07That's what he's saying.
SPEAKER_01I don't think you ever lose it.
SPEAKER_07Oh, so you can still rap.
unknownI can still rap.
SPEAKER_01I don't think you lose it. You just don't put as much energy into it.
SPEAKER_07This year.
SPEAKER_01Like every day, when I get in the shower, I'm gonna do a hot 16.
SPEAKER_07No, for real? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna be in there rapping.
SPEAKER_07You nah, somebody else's song or your song?
SPEAKER_01My song. What? I would I just come up with stuff.
SPEAKER_07Alright, we're gonna send the camera.
SPEAKER_01But by the time I get out the shower.
SPEAKER_07You sing in Nas.
SPEAKER_01No, I'm not gonna remember what I said. I'm gonna be like, damn what I said, so I can write it down.
SPEAKER_07Okay, yeah, you do be carrying books. I'm gonna have to steal one of those books. I know some rhymes.
SPEAKER_01Oh, ain't no rhymes in there, but I do have a rhym book. Alright, we're gonna get a segment where you gotta have to drop so if Nas asks me to feature on a song, I'm gonna have to come with it.
unknownOh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna have to come with it. She said the name. My baby.
SPEAKER_07She said the name.
SPEAKER_01My man, my man, my man. My baby bear.
SPEAKER_07Alright, let's see what we got here. Okay. Um spotlight of the year, 1999. A rapper by the name of Silk the Shaka. Drop Maid Men. Silk the Shaka.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, what's wrong with Silk? I got a friend. She loves Silk the Shaka.
SPEAKER_07I like Silk the Shaka.
SPEAKER_01I don't think I ever heard anyone say they like Silk the Shaka.
SPEAKER_07I did.
SPEAKER_01I did.
SPEAKER_07And also, a week after that, January 29th, uh, Foxy Brown put out China Dog.
SPEAKER_01China White.
SPEAKER_07China Doll by Foxy Brown.
SPEAKER_01I can't ride with you no more.
SPEAKER_07I think those are two albums, it's like, yeah, who cares?
SPEAKER_01You didn't like that? I like um Foxy Brown.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, she was cool.
SPEAKER_01I can't you no more.
SPEAKER_07That was one of the rhymes?
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay. Well, maybe we do like her. I like you, Foxy. Alright, um, you ready for kiss marry kill?
SPEAKER_01I guess.
SPEAKER_07Alright. You say you want to go first because you're a woman.
SPEAKER_01No, you say you want me to go first. I'll go first. I don't mind.
SPEAKER_07I'm ready.
SPEAKER_01Alright. Here's your three people.
SPEAKER_07Kiss, kiss, kiss them.
SPEAKER_01Demi more.
SPEAKER_07I don't know. Her face kind of tight. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01Brittany Spears.
SPEAKER_07Oh, kill. Easy.
SPEAKER_01Ah, she's gonna be in there dancing for you with her little underwear on. She's nuts good. Crazy girls be the good girls.
SPEAKER_07What do you mean? Tell me.
SPEAKER_01Why do you think guys like crazy girls?
SPEAKER_07I don't know. Why?
SPEAKER_01I'm just saying, just use your imagination.
SPEAKER_07And you are kind of crazy, so you I'm not crazy.
SPEAKER_01I'm cool. So I'm the opposite. Go ahead. And Christina Aguilera.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Why are you giving me these? You ran out of people to get. Um, we're definitely still killing.
SPEAKER_06You gonna kill Brittany?
SPEAKER_07Of course. I guess I'll marry Demi Moore and kiss Christina Aguilera.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_07That was easy. That kill was easy.
SPEAKER_01I wouldn't think you would kill Britney.
SPEAKER_07When she shaved her head off, it was over. She is nuts. She's nuts. She is nuts.
SPEAKER_01A fun girl. She just trying to have some fun. She's just trying to have some fun. Don't kill it all.
SPEAKER_07Alright, I got one for you. These are all good ones.
SPEAKER_01That would you say?
SPEAKER_07El Dabard. Luther Vandros. And Johnny Gill. You can't tell me that was on good ones.
SPEAKER_01Luther Vandros.
SPEAKER_07You wanna kill him. Cause he's already dead. But go ahead.
SPEAKER_01No, we gonna kill Johnny Gill.
SPEAKER_07What? Are you serious? Mm-hmm. He's still young. He's still I heard stories of him.
SPEAKER_01I don't think I wanna.
SPEAKER_07I'll let you hear the podcast.
SPEAKER_01Ain't nothing wrong with him. He's just not my type. Johnny's not my type.
SPEAKER_07He's black as shoes. He's dark skinned. You like dark-skinned guys, don't you?
SPEAKER_01Yes, I do. But you got to have something else with it. And he don't have it. Just cause you can sing don't mean I want you. My my. That's not gonna work on me. Nigga, get out of my face. So we gonna we're gonna kill Johnny Gill. Are you serious? Sorry, I I like him, but not like that.
SPEAKER_07Ugh, you're gonna kiss Luther Vandros.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna marry Luther.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_01A chair is still a chair.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Well, I'm gonna be um kiss Elder Bar.
SPEAKER_01I'll be getting a lot of checks marrying Luther.
SPEAKER_07You gonna kiss Elderbarge?
SPEAKER_01I guess I'll um kiss Elderbarge.
SPEAKER_07You guess.
SPEAKER_01I ain't gonna tongue up down though.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you are.
SPEAKER_01He's too pretty, boy, for me. He ain't pretty boy. No, I don't like him light skinned. I like him chocolate. Chocolate? Chocolate or caramel?
SPEAKER_07All right. Well, since we're talking about singers, today's show is about uh did you know that artist was black? Or that artist wasn't black? And uh what we did was we came up with a list, somewhat together, and we're gonna go through that list of some of the artists. Some of the artists, I I know we I know the people I pick once I got older, I knew they were white. But when I first heard the songs back in the day, you didn't know. Yeah, you didn't know. Some of the ones back in the day. It's a lot of back in the days now, you never know. Well, you do know because social media and all that, yeah, you know before you know the person.
SPEAKER_01It's easier now to see people, yeah. Dang, that's how old we are. That's how old you are. Dang. That's sick. I'm a Tinderoni.
SPEAKER_07Tinderoni. Uh all right. You want to start the first one?
SPEAKER_01I guess you're gonna go first.
SPEAKER_07All right, the first one is uh, this was a hit back in '97. And it's KP and Envy. One was a black girl and one was a white girl. But the singing one is the white girl. Right?
SPEAKER_01They used to kill the song out.
SPEAKER_07To me, this is a down south song. This is a song my way. When I first came down south, I was like, what the hell is that? Oh hell no. Back in the day, that was big.
SPEAKER_01Who cares about the rapping part? We just want to hear the singing. Yeah, the singing part.
SPEAKER_07That's what it was. The rapper was the black girl. The white girl was the singing.
SPEAKER_01And you don't even want to hear the black girl.
SPEAKER_07I don't think I ever seen them like perform this.
SPEAKER_01I'm surprised because they they ran the song in the ground.
SPEAKER_07Oh no, you know what? I did see it on Soul Train.
SPEAKER_01You saw them on Soul Train?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I did see it on Soul Train.
SPEAKER_01Alright.
unknownAlright.
SPEAKER_07So that was one. Give me another one.
SPEAKER_01Okay. The next one, I know everybody thought this was a black guy.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and to social media kind of gave this one up.
SPEAKER_01Bobby. Bobby Caldwell. I always loved this song. This is definitely even when I was younger.
SPEAKER_07This remake makes me think of riding in the backseat of that oversized whatever it was.
SPEAKER_01And this is on the radio, right?
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Late at night or something. Like coming back from somewhere.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. And you half sleep, half woke.
unknownAnd I can't let it go.
SPEAKER_01Alright. Bobby is not black.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, Bobby Cartwell is white. He just passed, what, a couple years ago? A couple of years ago. Two years ago or so.
SPEAKER_01Bobby. Rest in peace, Bobby.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, that was a good one. Um, the next one we both picked. And I don't know which song is more popular, but we're gonna go with your song. I think your song might be more popular. It was?
SPEAKER_01That's what I think.
SPEAKER_07You wanna go with mine?
SPEAKER_01Go with yours.
SPEAKER_07Since the same person I love this person. I even listened to this. This person put an album out in 2000 under cash money.
SPEAKER_01She sure did.
SPEAKER_07And I got that album. And I listened to it. I listened to it back then. Uh let her know who it is.
SPEAKER_01Tina Marie.
SPEAKER_07Yep, Tina Marie.
SPEAKER_01Everybody get up.
SPEAKER_07What um Don't ask you what year? Yeah, I don't have the year.
SPEAKER_01All I know we was at the house parties in the basement. Listening to this song.
SPEAKER_07Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Little nine-year-old me dancing.
SPEAKER_07I was four.
SPEAKER_01He wasn't dancing off this.
SPEAKER_07It's a good one.
SPEAKER_01That's a classic. Yeah, that's a classic.
SPEAKER_07That's a real classic right there.
SPEAKER_01Mine was Love a Girl. I don't think it was as popular as that one.
SPEAKER_07Was it a ballad? Oh yeah, yeah. I don't care about Prince.
SPEAKER_01I got a vibe on you the first time that I saw you.
SPEAKER_07I think this was uh like a prince vibe.
SPEAKER_01It was, but it was Rick James. Rick James is writing.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Rick James bitch.
SPEAKER_07Rick James bitch. Get in there and sing this home. Alright, let's see. Alright.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Tina. Tina was with the black girls growing up, I think.
SPEAKER_07She had to be.
SPEAKER_01Had to be.
SPEAKER_07She was in the hood. You know what? No, she wasn't. She wasn't.
SPEAKER_01How you know?
SPEAKER_07Because I seen a um a documentary about her.
SPEAKER_01It was like uh in the hood.
SPEAKER_07Nah, I don't think so. She was like a little white girl. Um, not behind the music. What's the other one? I got him on. I forgot the name of him.
SPEAKER_01Sure they behind the music.
SPEAKER_07I think it was something else. Un unsung. That's what it was. Yes, okay. Unsung. Yeah. That um I think I've seen one with her, but I do remember seeing pictures of her and everything. She wasn't as soulful as we thought.
SPEAKER_01Wow.
SPEAKER_07Alright. Everybody knows this one. Everybody was shocked on this one.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_07It was a group.
SPEAKER_01And they played this song.
SPEAKER_07Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01Three hundred billion times.
SPEAKER_07Every single radio station played this song.
SPEAKER_01Every station. Soft rock.
SPEAKER_07Yep.
SPEAKER_01Rock rock.
SPEAKER_07Yep. There was one black guy in the group, and I don't even think he could sing. I think he just He was just there. They just rounded a number on it.
SPEAKER_01Sprinkle him in. Say, you know what? Let's sprinkle him in there.
SPEAKER_07Instead of three of us, let's make four.
SPEAKER_01And let's let him be black.
SPEAKER_07So, and they put the fake um the what they the crochet braids in his hair.
SPEAKER_01Why do you think they was fake?
SPEAKER_07Come on, man. They look crazy back then.
SPEAKER_01That was his hair.
SPEAKER_07Nah, not the crochet look. Nah, they either way.
SPEAKER_01The name of the group is Color Me Bad.
SPEAKER_07I want to sex you up. This was played everywhere. Everywhere. It don't matter what they was talking about. They played it everywhere.
SPEAKER_01I think it didn't matter what they was talking about.
SPEAKER_07Nah, because they played on the radio. What'd they say? Did they how was the edit? Love you up?
SPEAKER_06It wasn't.
SPEAKER_07That's crazy. Color me bad. We're gonna we're gonna change their names.
SPEAKER_01My favorite.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_07Alright, um we're gonna change their names. That's how we do it. We it's a new year. We we we wildin' to it. We're wildin' this year. The new new name is I'm gonna give you my new name, and you give me your new name.
SPEAKER_01I'm not.
SPEAKER_07You you a you a freestyle person. You can write, you can do something real quick. I'm gonna call them three white guys and a black guy.
SPEAKER_01You are stupid. Hey. I'm gonna call them the guys.
SPEAKER_07Oh, you're so nice.
SPEAKER_01They're the guys. Color me bad. I wonder what why they came up with that name.
SPEAKER_07I got another name for them.
SPEAKER_01What? I can't remember the other two. I can only remember the black guy and the singer, the pretty boy singer.
SPEAKER_07It was three white guys. One was a weird-looking guy. One had the the painted on five o'clock shadow.
SPEAKER_01Let me see.
SPEAKER_07And then they had the pretty boy one.
SPEAKER_01So ain't nobody. We only like the pretty boy one.
SPEAKER_07My new name, since it was three guy, three white guys and a black guy. The new name of the group is going to be My Best Friend's Black. You is stupid. My best friend's black. I even got black friends. The black guy probably made the group. He probably that's what it is. He put the group together.
SPEAKER_01He put the group together. He heard his friend singing. It was like, man, you can sing.
SPEAKER_07My best friend's black. That's stupid. My best friend is black.
SPEAKER_01Alright. Let's move on. Because you are retarded.
SPEAKER_07This is when it gets sketchy. This when I knew something was wrong with the world. 1983. Dag, that was a long time. It couldn't have been.
SPEAKER_01Lord, I used to hear this on the radio. It was 83?
SPEAKER_07No, it couldn't have been. It had to be 88. Around 88, 87. The social media thing is wrong. It's gotta be wrong. There's no way 83. Either way, I knew things were gonna. I knew things were wrong in the world. When they had this.
SPEAKER_01Y'all so stupid. Why had to be something wrong with the world?
SPEAKER_07Because it was, oh my gosh. Well, I'm just gonna say the name. And I guarantee the listeners are not gonna know who that is.
SPEAKER_01I bet you then though. If they music lovers, they know this.
SPEAKER_07Alright. I knew I knew something was wrong when UB40 put out a banger?
SPEAKER_01Like a real banger?
SPEAKER_07No, no, no, no. U B40 put out a reggae song.
SPEAKER_01Red red wine.
SPEAKER_07I mean red, red wine.
SPEAKER_01Red, red wine. Crosses. It made me feel so fine.
SPEAKER_07Come on, man. They played this everywhere.
SPEAKER_01Everywhere.
SPEAKER_07They played this at resort. Where it was only black people working.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_07Yes. You are so right. And the resort people were singing it. I don't know if this is a slap in the face.
SPEAKER_01I don't think so. I think they're paying homage.
SPEAKER_07I guarantee. Bob and Junior.
SPEAKER_01I'm probably still getting checks from this.
SPEAKER_07Oh, yes. They're still playing it. Every resort still plays it. UB40.
SPEAKER_01Red, red, wine.
SPEAKER_07Red, red wine.
SPEAKER_01That's how he said it. Red red. Red, red red red.
SPEAKER_07Red, red, why they seem so fine. Come on. Chill out, dog.
SPEAKER_01I like the song.
SPEAKER_07Back then in 80, whatever, there was no such thing as a white guy talking patois.
SPEAKER_01Well, guess what?
SPEAKER_07These are what? These are regional. Yes. A regional white boy.
SPEAKER_01That's right. They was like, let's do something different. Yeah, I bet. Let's do something different. Oh boy. He might have got with a uh a black Jamaican girl. And they bring out that.
SPEAKER_07Nah, she was looking at him sideways. They did this.
SPEAKER_01It's like, I we can sing. He got a girlfriend. He was like, oh, I got to give props to my girlfriend.
SPEAKER_07She was like, Bet you, that's what it was. La, these white boys. Alright, what's the next one? The next one, I like this guy. His last two albums.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, pretty good, right?
SPEAKER_07You can listen to the whole thing.
SPEAKER_01When I first heard this, I didn't think it was a white guy.
SPEAKER_07Night uh 2020 is this one. I think this one you first.
SPEAKER_01And I heard that little first part and then uh saw the video. When you when you start playing, man, I'll tell you what I like.
SPEAKER_07That ain't that ain't what I thought. I was like, what?
SPEAKER_01What is this? Jack Hollow.
SPEAKER_04That beat.
SPEAKER_01I don't know who made this beat, but they did it.
SPEAKER_04I can put the ball in the end zone, put a bad bitch in the friend zone. What's poppin'? I got options. All his albums.
SPEAKER_07So how do you feel about do I like vanilla? You do. If it ain't dog, dog trucker, you'll go for vanilla.
SPEAKER_01You have to be extra cool. What?
SPEAKER_07That's not cool enough.
SPEAKER_01I like chocolate.
SPEAKER_07Jack Hollow.
SPEAKER_01Jack Hollow. And he's young. He's cool, but he's so young. I could probably be his mama.
SPEAKER_07Did you see the video with him and Drake? No. Well, it was on uh it was at the Derby. The Kentucky Derby.
SPEAKER_01I think I know what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_07Well, the um the Kentucky Derby, they the video shoot was there. So they had to everybody gave him slack because he had his bodyguard carry him over the dirt? Over the dirt because there was so much it was shit and stuff like that in it. So it looked crazy. The black big bodyguards carry him to where he needs to be. It looked crazy. He got a lot of slack from it.
SPEAKER_01I don't know.
SPEAKER_07But I don't think it was meant like that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_07But the pictures? He might have had on some new shoes. He did. He had like I think he had like white dress shoes on or something. They were dressed up, I think.
SPEAKER_01I don't blame him then. Please carry me. Nah, you know what? I wouldn't do it. If I got my sneakers fresh out the box.
SPEAKER_07Carry you. But you a girl. Carry me. You a girl though. A guy? Grown ass man? Sneakerheads don't care.
SPEAKER_01Sneakerheads and I pay you. This is what I pay you for.
SPEAKER_07He didn't have sneakers.
SPEAKER_01To protect me. But you protecting my shoes.
SPEAKER_07They better not give you no money because the real you just came out right there. Whatever. You better.
SPEAKER_01You better carry me. Carry me. I'm paying him.
SPEAKER_07It's wet out here. I don't want to get no.
SPEAKER_01I don't want to get my shoes wet.
SPEAKER_07Or your hair.
SPEAKER_01Carry me. Oh, yeah. Or I don't want no smoke in my hair. What kind of smoke? Cigarette smoke. Any kind of smoke. Weed smoke. Weed smoke stay with you forever. I went to a little hole in the wall club. When recent? No, this was a while ago. And I'll never forget. I first I got a contact because they were smoking so much weed in there. I can't think of what the name of the club was. That was the first thing. Where was it? Is it where we at? Lynchburg? Oh, okay. In the woods. Second of all, they were so deep in this club. And one of the guys kept popping a rubber band on me. On your butt? Just on my, like on my the back of my arm. Why?
SPEAKER_07You're just trying to get your attention?
SPEAKER_01Pop a rubber band. I'll pop a rubber band on you. And I did not know what he was talking about until I heard Gucci Man's song. And I was like, that's what that guy was talking about. He'll pop a rubber band on me. Boy, if you don't stop popping me with this rubber band.
SPEAKER_07Did he look like he was?
SPEAKER_01No, he didn't look like he had a rubber band. That was the only thing he had was that rubber band and nothing inside of it. My clothes were smoked for days. I had to put my clothes outside. That's how smoky my clothes was. Supposed to wash them, I think. I couldn't put it in the washing machine. They were smoked out. Weed smoke out. I never went back there again. I put on my good clothes to go to this club. Uh yeah. That's my little story. No weed smoke in my hair. No smoke in my hair.
SPEAKER_07Alright. Next time I tell you to come to Cigar Lounge, you better come now.
SPEAKER_01I know it'd be smoky up in there.
SPEAKER_07It does, but especially if you're sitting in the chairs, the chairs are low and they got the vacuum stuff to go, you know. Kind of clears it up a little bit.
SPEAKER_01It'd be about to be on the off week. Like I wash my hair one week. That next week, I could be around smoke. I don't want to be around smoke, but I can be. At first week, I'm not gonna be around smoke. Sorry.
SPEAKER_07I guess we had to do an outside thing.
SPEAKER_01All right.
SPEAKER_07Where are we at? Next one.
SPEAKER_01Where are we at?
SPEAKER_07So I had my little rant about UB40. I swear that was like 88. 1988, I think.
SPEAKER_01I think so too. 87, 88, or 89. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it was around then. So later on, I think in '93. Once again, they brother another white boy.
SPEAKER_01Why are you hating on these people?
SPEAKER_07I'm not hating on because these were hit. This was another one. White guy. You hear the guy talking? You you heard the guy that was talking that was introducing him?
SPEAKER_01That's not him.
SPEAKER_07That's not him. But you know who that is?
SPEAKER_01No, who is that?
SPEAKER_07That's the person that found him and produced all this stuff.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_07MC Shan.
SPEAKER_01Is that MC Shan?
SPEAKER_07That's MC Shan.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_07So he's the one that found the reggae artist slash rapper Snow.
SPEAKER_06Oh, I never knew that.
SPEAKER_05You know what I'm saying? Yo, Snow, they came around looking for you the other day. Word, word, bossy.
SPEAKER_07If you don't know who Snow is, once the intro kicks in, I mean, once the chorus kicks in, you'll know. You'll know.
SPEAKER_00I lick your boom boom down.
SPEAKER_07So if you know Patois, can you translate I'll lick your boom boom down to me?
SPEAKER_01I don't even know. Um I don't think that is all the way.
SPEAKER_07I lick your boom boom down.
SPEAKER_01I don't think I know what he's saying.
SPEAKER_07I know he's talking about shooting somebody, but I don't think they call somebody a boom boom.
SPEAKER_01I lick your boom boom down. That's not what I think.
SPEAKER_07What do you think? Is a guy gonna lick a butt?
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_07No, because Jamaicans don't they don't do that. They don't know. Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_01That's what I think when I hear that.
SPEAKER_07Oh, that's the white side talking.
SPEAKER_01Like you don't know nothing else he's saying, but you know that part.
SPEAKER_07I lick it boom boom down.
SPEAKER_01So if you do know that, please um write in and let us know. You know what? Let us know what it means.
SPEAKER_07We got we got a um We got a specialist, a Jamaican specialist. And matter of fact, you know what? We'll try to get that person to send a message in in Potwa.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_07And um I'll lick you boom boom down.
SPEAKER_00Hold on, let me um say that I'm a stomach. You know, say that I'm a stomach of blam. I lick on one now, take the my nit, that I'm a stomach, somewhere down the lane. I like um there, take the my keep on one there, take the my keep on one now, take the I like your boom boom down.
SPEAKER_07I just messed the whole song up for me now. Forever now. That's the only part I'm gonna hear.
SPEAKER_01That's the only part people know anyway. Yeah, that's they know the in forma, and they don't know nothing else he's saying until he gets to that part. That's so stupid.
SPEAKER_07Yes, that was uh that was Snow, Informa.
SPEAKER_01And he will lick your boom boom down.
SPEAKER_07You lick your boom boom down. If you didn't know, he is Caucasian. And I'm gonna say this. We're not making fun, we're just saying I didn't know that.
SPEAKER_01I wonder, did he just always rhyme like that? Or is it just for the show? I mean for the song. He was supposed to be in the streets.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. He's supposed to be a rude boy.
SPEAKER_01Snow.
SPEAKER_07Snow's supposed to be a rude boy. Um I think there's interviews, Vlad, Vlad interviews with him.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_07And like I said, we're not making fun. We're just, you know. We're poking fun. We're just having fun. At the same time, these are songs that we pick. These are hits that we liked back in the day, also.
SPEAKER_01Because everybody liked that song. They could say they didn't. Oh, yeah. But they lying.
SPEAKER_07That was on the radio too. That UB40. I mean, they that those crossed crossed over when he wasn't even supposed to cross over.
SPEAKER_01UB40 played on all the video um channels. When you turned on the radio, it was on the radio, every station.
SPEAKER_07Yep.
SPEAKER_01It was just a hit.
SPEAKER_07Alright, you ready for the next one?
SPEAKER_01Yes. Now this one was a hit too.
SPEAKER_07Oh, it was. This was a classic. 1989.
unknownZoom out.
SPEAKER_07Lisa Stansfield. The name of the song is All Around the World, but everybody says In around the world.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I can't find my baby. I don't know when I don't know why.
unknownWhy he's gone away.
SPEAKER_07That was a classic.
SPEAKER_01I've been all around the world too, and I can't find my baby.
SPEAKER_07I ain't been around the world, but this was it.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna find him.
SPEAKER_07You probably already find him already.
SPEAKER_01This this was a a classic for real.
SPEAKER_07It was.
SPEAKER_01I mean, they played this out on BET the videos. They did? Yes.
SPEAKER_07See, this is 89.
SPEAKER_01I don't think he's coming back.
SPEAKER_07I wasn't even watching videos. No, I was watching videos, but there wasn't RB videos at 89.
SPEAKER_01I didn't watch one RB video in 89. I was. And they played this out on BET.
SPEAKER_07I don't even know if I had BET at 89.
SPEAKER_01I don't think he's coming back.
SPEAKER_07Alright.
SPEAKER_01Um Lisa Stansfield.
SPEAKER_07Lisa Stansfield. Um wasted too much time. That's a classic. I'll listen to that today.
SPEAKER_01I would too.
SPEAKER_07Alright. Um, what's the next one?
SPEAKER_01Okay. I like this guy because I love how he talked. Once I I'll tell my story after you play the song. Okay. But oh well. Sitting sideways. I just knew this was a black guy.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, his voice. There we go. 2005, Paul Wall's People Champ. And the name of the song is Sittin' Sideways.
unknownJoe and Box Trump bump like chicken pox. Turn the bass up just a match.
SPEAKER_06You see them blade shopping.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, that's that that might be the if you never heard him before, this is probably the shocker of them all. Because he sounds he sounds like, you know, Texas he sounds like Slim Thug or one of the motherfuckers.
SPEAKER_01My story is I met a guy at the club. He was a little white guy. And he talked like Paul Wall. Yeah, that little. Where you meet him at? One of these clubs I went to. It was a long time ago. I just always remember him because I only wanted to talk to him because I liked the way he talked.
SPEAKER_07Okay, so did you talk to him?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we talked for a while.
SPEAKER_07And what happened?
SPEAKER_01He never went nowhere. I didn't like him like that. I just liked how he talked. So why he just We just would talk about a little stuff. I don't know how it faded out, but yeah. He was talking like Paul Wall.
SPEAKER_07He used the guy just for him talk.
SPEAKER_06He sounded like Paul Wall.
SPEAKER_07That's bad. I'm gonna go with that. That was a hit though. Sitting sideways.
SPEAKER_01Sitting sideways.
SPEAKER_072005. Paul Wall. Alright, we got another one. Is this a I'm I'm gonna let this play. I remember this.
SPEAKER_01You remember the song?
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah, 1985. Simply read.
SPEAKER_01Was it really 85?
SPEAKER_07I hope so because uh streaming platform said 85. Yeah, this was. This this might even be older than that. It can't be. Think so?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, 85. Listen to that.
SPEAKER_07The name of the song is Holdin' Back the Years.
SPEAKER_01The artist is simply red. Yes, he had red hair.
unknownListen to the beautiful.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, this is a good one. I was trying, I was gonna double check, but I think that was 85? 85. This song and what was that other song we said? Um was it Lisa Stansfield?
SPEAKER_01No. Um red, red wine.
SPEAKER_07Nah, it was this and Lisa Stansfield, I think. With stay on the radios. It just had a that vibe to it. Alright. Well, it's definitely red.
SPEAKER_01I can't believe it was 85.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I think it was. Uh we could double check it, but I think it was 85.
SPEAKER_01I really was listening to this on the radio.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, this was on the radio. You know, back in the days, radios, they didn't you couldn't say, alright, I don't want to listen to this kind of music now. I'm gonna go to another station.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_07I could see this on infomercials or something like that.
SPEAKER_01I can see this on everything.
SPEAKER_07You know those commercials where they used to sell CDs? Well, they used to sell cassettes. Not the CDs. They used to sell cassettes. All right.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that was a good one though.
SPEAKER_07This is another one.
SPEAKER_01This is a good one, too.
SPEAKER_07Just the beat by itself, you knew where it was. Shout out to De LaSole for this. They sample. The name of the song is I Can't Go for That.
SPEAKER_01No can do.
SPEAKER_07No can do by Hall Daryl Hall and John.
SPEAKER_01John Oates. Now that name.
SPEAKER_07The black people call him Hall and Oates. Just the singing part.
SPEAKER_01The singer had a lot of soul to him.
SPEAKER_07His voice. Both of them are white, too. I'm gonna let it go all the way until he starts. But that beat right there.
SPEAKER_01That beat is hard.
SPEAKER_07They played this at your your people's um barbecues and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_01House parties in the basement.
SPEAKER_07There was no color back there. That's crazy. Here we go. You ready?
unknownDon't even think about it. Say no go.
SPEAKER_07I thought you were gonna say it.
SPEAKER_01I'll do anything.
SPEAKER_07That was a classic.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's a classic.
SPEAKER_071981. Uh it's from the album Privatize, I think. Possibly.
SPEAKER_01I'll do anything you want me to do, but I can't go for that. I can't go for that. I can't go for that. No can do. I'm gonna have to say this from now on. I'm like, oh, I can't go for that.
SPEAKER_07No can do.
SPEAKER_01That's my new saying. Oh, I can't go for that.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, that was a good one. Hall of Notes. Black people call that haul of notes.
SPEAKER_01You make me want to um listen to that. Oh, listen to the whole thing.
SPEAKER_07This playlist is gonna be available. If you want this playlist that we just put together, people you didn't know were black. No, I'm I keep saying it wrong. People you didn't know were white.
SPEAKER_01Or people you thought were black. You just automatically assume this is a black person.
SPEAKER_07That's the new playlist. So we're gonna get a little closer to uh newer with this one.
SPEAKER_01I know everybody knows this one.
SPEAKER_07When this came out, they didn't care. If it was black, white, they just played this song.
SPEAKER_01And he was fine too. I wouldn't go that far. That didn't hurt that he was good on eyes. He white, right? He's good on eyes, though.
SPEAKER_07He's white though. Because he got his hair, is kind of mixed. I think he's old.
SPEAKER_01I think he's white.
SPEAKER_07And he did a song with Tupac, so the niggas love him.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. He's solidified.
SPEAKER_07So 1997. Artist John B. The name of the song is They Don't Know. They had so many other songs. They had like three other songs, I think.
SPEAKER_01He was Justin Timberlake before. Justin Timberlake.
SPEAKER_03You think so?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Why just wanna love you? Cause Justin. Don't listen to Don't listen to what people say. They don't know about you and me. Justin now?
SPEAKER_07You know what? Justin Timberlake didn't make this list.
SPEAKER_01Put her in the book.
SPEAKER_07Because I don't think I don't think so.
SPEAKER_01Because I think people automatically knew he was white.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Probably from the boy bands.
SPEAKER_01What I always get the two bands um confused. He was an NSYNC.
SPEAKER_07No or the Backstreet Boys. Backstreet Boys. No, he was an NSYNC. Okay. Yeah, NSYNC.
SPEAKER_01They already knew.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I think it's NSYC.
SPEAKER_01I think it was NSYN. They already knew him from NSYNC.
SPEAKER_07The lead singer of NSYNC. Yep. Well, I'm going to put this song with Lisa Stansfield. Simply Red. Uh what's another mellow one we did for today? Love a girl. And Bobby. I'm going to put this one right here. This this song right here.
SPEAKER_01Bobby Colwell.
SPEAKER_07Definitely was one of those smooth.
SPEAKER_01I love the song. And this was before Warren G um sampled it.
SPEAKER_07Give me give me your impression of him.
SPEAKER_04Of him?
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I keep forgetting. We're not in love anymore.
unknownI keep forgetting. We're not in love anymore.
SPEAKER_07The words are different when you get older. See, the words are different at your post.
SPEAKER_06That's what he's talking about. Oh shit, we keep forgetting. We supposed to be broke up. Every time you're new. Every time I see your smile.
SPEAKER_07That's a classic. So you know what that was about, right?
SPEAKER_01It was about.
SPEAKER_07It was about this chick he was talking with.
SPEAKER_01And they not together no way.
SPEAKER_07But she can only stay a while. So you know what that means, right?
SPEAKER_01What that means?
SPEAKER_07She double back.
SPEAKER_01No, she ain't double back. He probably just saw her somewhere. He keep forgetting. And like, oh, I can't, um, I can't stay.
SPEAKER_07Oh.
SPEAKER_01I can't stay long and talk to you. I got to go.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay. I thought it was. That's what you think? Oh. I thought it was all right now. What you about to do?
SPEAKER_01She spin the block.
SPEAKER_07She getting all comfortable. I keep forgetting we ain't we can't do this again.
SPEAKER_01I ain't never thought of it like that.
SPEAKER_07I can't ask you what guy you talking to. Because we ain't together no more.
SPEAKER_01Because we ain't together.
SPEAKER_07Alright. That's a good one though. That was a good one. That was a real good one. This one had to be. Alright, so 2012, they say. I might have to do some research on this one. I'm gonna put this with the other one? Yeah, definitely put this with the other one. Matter of fact, we're gonna make a whole reggae CD of white people singing reggae. The name of the CD is going to be White Reggae?
SPEAKER_01Vanilla Reggae?
SPEAKER_07White people with dreads. The name of the song is Rich Girl. Luchi Lu.
SPEAKER_01I never knew whose song that's really.
SPEAKER_07All I know is it's my song. It sounds like the one that was introducing her is black. But the singing part. Let me see some. I think that's the white girl.
SPEAKER_01I think so too.
SPEAKER_04What kind of rich?
SPEAKER_07So we know what scary happened now. That that was the black girl coming in, right?
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_07Cool. I thought I didn't know. But now I know. So we're gonna put this on the album with snow, UB40, uh, who else we had on the list?
SPEAKER_01So what, you just gonna keep adding to the list?
SPEAKER_07The reggae, the white reggae. We gotta come up with a good name for the rock. The white lion.
SPEAKER_01You're so stupid.
SPEAKER_07That's the new name of the white reggae album. White lion.
SPEAKER_01The white lion.
SPEAKER_07White jaw.
SPEAKER_01If I was a rich girl.
SPEAKER_07Oh boy. No, no, no, no, no, no. Yep, so um, that concludes.
SPEAKER_01They used to play that song out at the club when I was going to the club.
SPEAKER_07I think they still kind of play it.
SPEAKER_01Certain, I don't think they don't know. I haven't been to the club in ages, so I don't know.
SPEAKER_07I think they do play that though. Because that's a hit.
SPEAKER_01Back in my day, they played it out.
SPEAKER_07That's uh, yeah, that they they probably still playing that.
SPEAKER_01What year was that? What year that came out? Uh I think it's uh uh let me see.
SPEAKER_07I don't know. Oh, wait a minute. Let's see what year I was in the club. Uh Rich Girl. It's in 2012, but I know that was older than that. I don't think so.
SPEAKER_01I don't think it was 2012.
SPEAKER_07Oh, Rich Girl might have been 06. Uh 06, possibly.
SPEAKER_01It had to be earlier than that. I wasn't in the club like that in 06. Yeah, I feel earlier than that too.
SPEAKER_07But this could be a remake of the real Luci Lu.
SPEAKER_01Back in 99.
SPEAKER_07So this is what they look like. They look like tell the people what they look, what they look like to you.
SPEAKER_01Why are you always putting me on the spot? One look like a Spanish girl. Okay. And one just looked like uh Becky. Okay. We like Becky's. Becky and the Spanish girl came together and made a hit.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it kind of do look like that. It do look like uh karaoke night at a frat party.
SPEAKER_01You like the other one? You like um Spanish. Spanish is your type.
SPEAKER_07Now who said this?
SPEAKER_01Your list from before, from the other show. A lot of mercy.
SPEAKER_07A lot of mercy. All right, people. This was a good show. It definitely was. And I hope everybody enjoyed it.
SPEAKER_01I hope y'all enjoyed it. We are going to be we're here for y'all's enjoyment, pleasure.
SPEAKER_07Uh not me, not all the way, not for everyone.
SPEAKER_01I'm here. I'm here for y'all enjoy.
SPEAKER_07Hey, yo.
SPEAKER_01Especially one person.
SPEAKER_07I'm gonna shut your mic all the way up. I see. It's gonna be the one man should be.
SPEAKER_01It's gonna be okay. When me and Naz get together, don't think he's coming here to this show. Because I'm not gonna bring him here. I'm be like, mm-mm. He be hating. He was hating on our love. I'm not bringing him here.
SPEAKER_07Hate me now.
SPEAKER_01He's not doing no interviews.
SPEAKER_07So don't ask me.
SPEAKER_01Don't be texting me, be like, yo, extra man. No.
SPEAKER_07Ax your man.
SPEAKER_01Ask your man. Ask your man. I'm saying, no. Oh, I think. Don't hit that button on you. Don't do the crazy button on me.
SPEAKER_07Oh boy.
SPEAKER_01You can't have a crush. I mean, it's a crush, but I'm just saying. Sometimes you get with your crush.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but you don't hear me talking about Tony Braxton like that all the time. I can't. Janet Jackson.
SPEAKER_01That means you don't really like them like that. I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_07I don't know about that now.
SPEAKER_01Now you just feel something to your mom's like we may not be together, but we're gonna meet. I'm gonna meet him.
SPEAKER_07I'm not saying that much now, but if it happened it, if it happened it, you know, about 30 years ago, cool.
SPEAKER_01Whatever, it still happened.
SPEAKER_07He's over now. He's over. It was not just like the show.
SPEAKER_01He's fine like one.
SPEAKER_07The show is over.
SPEAKER_01ED's over.
SPEAKER_07You out of here.
SPEAKER_01It's your poison.
SPEAKER_07This is L. This is what the public music.