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Jun 9, 2024 • 2h 9min

The Everything Episode: Blocking Celebrities or Centering them?

Follow Olay's Friends: @FDSignifire   @herbyxrevolus   @KhadijaMbowe   @ForeignManinaForeignLand  Quei: https://x.com/QueiTann Join the channel to support the show! https://www.YouTube.com/@Olurinatti/join Follow Olay on all socials @msolurin Twitter: https://twitter.com/msolurin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msolurin/ CashApp: $oolurin11 Olay's Website: https://www.olayemiolurin.com/ Subscribe to Olurintatti on Sub Stack: https://olurinatti.substack.com/ Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats0:00 Intro1:40 Slandering Eminem6:34 Houdini & Misogyny9:38 Eminem (and white people) in Black Spaces13:37 Beyonce's (and famous people's) place in Activism24:40 Consumerist Activism35:10 The Overton Window shifting on Palestine39:47 The Left's Hierarchy Of Oppression41:40 Patience When Radicalizing44:17 Man vs Bear46:13 The Fantisization Of White Men Online57:37 Dating White Men vs. EXCLUSIVELY Dating White Men58:54 Unlearning Mysandrist Resentment1:01:28 "Idealizing What You Have Not Experienced"1:04:53 "Talking About The System, But Not The Disease"1:10:29 Colorism and White Supremacist Beauty Standards1:14:18 The Hypervisibility Of Conservative Black Men1:20:38 Black Men Don't Have The Space To Be...1:26:58 Hiphop and Homophobia1:30:53 "Black Men Are Not (Seen As) Men."1:33:28 Black Women And Queerphobia1:39:28 Yung Maiama at the GLAAD Honors1:43:34 Your Art Is Not Yours1:46:15 Bisexual Men1:52:47 Queer Stealthing ("They Don't Owe You How They Identify")2:00:57 The Rhetoric That Deflects From Violence
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May 26, 2024 • 1h 46min

Diddy, Camron & Hip Hop's Problem With Abuse

Follow Olay's Friends:TahoeTV:  @soshamelesspodcast   @RebeccaAzor   @KennieJD  Christina Brown: https://twitter.com/keatingssixthPierre Fleury: https://twitter.com/pierrefleury_ Join the channel to support the show! https://www.YouTube.com/@Olurinatti/join Follow Olay on all socials @msolurin Twitter: https://twitter.com/msolurin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msolurin/ CashApp: $oolurin11 Olay's Website: https://www.olayemiolurin.com/ Subscribe to Olurintatti on Sub Stack: https://olurinatti.substack.com/ Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:00 The New Diddy Video & The Discussion Around The Case 25:08 Where do these problems start? 1:24:18 Camron's behavior on CNN
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May 21, 2024 • 1h 59min

Drake, DJ Akademics & Diaspora Discussions

@ForeignManinaForeignLand  tricked me into this discussion so just know it’ll never happen again. Follow Olay's Friends:  @ForeignManinaForeignLand   @ToonrificTariq   @RebeccaAzor  Delaney: https://twitter.com/delaneypv15 Marquise: https://twitter.com/marquisedavon Join the channel to support the show! https://www.YouTube.com/@Olurinatti/join Follow Olay on all socials @msolurin Twitter: https://twitter.com/msolurin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msolurin/ CashApp: $oolurin11 Olay's Website: https://www.olayemiolurin.com/ Subscribe to Olurintatti on Sub Stack: https://olurinatti.substack.com/ Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:12 Drake Talk Spill Over 3:52 Cultural Appreciation or Appropriation 7:44 Coming Into Blackness 10:21 Drake's Lack of Positive Racial Identity 16:21 Diaspora In Hip Hop 22:47 How the World Looks at Black Countries 30:58 Diaspora Wars is White Supremacy 34:20 Cultural Humility 39:06 The World's View Of Black People 48:37 Racism in Cartoons 50:21 "We Even See Ourselves In The Coded Context Of Whiteness" 53:31 Navigating Blackness In Society & Media 1:07:30 Akademics Lawsuit 1:10:21 Patriarchy 1:13:10 Xenophobia in the Comments 1:19:17 Black Americans Have Their Own Culture 1:25:41 Selling Culture 1:27:10 Bahamian Schooling 1:32:11 Identity Holding People Back 1:38:31 Immigration 1:48:40 "Sit With Different People" 1:51:00 "Immigration is A Black Issue in America." 1:57:00 Ending Chatter & Outro
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May 12, 2024 • 2h 13min

Kendrick & Hip Hop's Beef With Drake: Round 2

Follow Olay's Friends:  @FDSignifire   @KennieJD   @RebeccaAzor   @ZaidTabani  Tahoe:  @soshamelesspodcast  Marlon:  @ThatdudeMCFLY  Antoinette: https://x.com/antoinettewashere Follow Olay on all socials @msolurin Twitter: https://twitter.com/msolurin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msolurin/ CashApp: $oolurin11 Olay's Website: https://www.olayemiolurin.com/ Subscribe to Olurintatti on Sub Stack: https://olurinatti.substack.com/ Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:20 Where we are now Vs Last Week 2:41 The Heart Part 6 3:50 Not Like Us 5:20 When Did Drake Lose? 9:32 What Was This Battle About? 16:10 Drake Did Not Have The Range 17:32 Did Drake Plant Information? 22:24 Is Drake Stupid Or Ill Prepared? 29:32 The Abuse Allegations Against Kendrick 34:30 How Can You Trust An Artist? 38:00 The Public Narrative 41:00 Drake's Identity Coming Back In 45:00 Did Drake Change Styles for Survival? 49:40 "Yes, This is Hate" 51:00 Did Drake Contribute or Take? & Do We Ever Trust Him? 1:02:00 Is Hip Hop Culture On The Decline? 1:09:00 Drake In the Industry 1:14:00 Drake With Stake.com 1:18:00 People's Real Problem With Drake 1:20:00 How Much of Black Culture Are We Willing To Sell? 1:25:00 Akademics, DJ Vlad, Adam 22 1:32:00 The Slave Line 1:35:00 Drake's Expectations & Deeply Rooted Issues 1:40:00 We Want Drake To Get Better 1:44:00 Raheem comment remove/ Drake Shouldn't be at the top 1:48:20 Kendrick Appreciation 1:56:00 Should Drake Have Brought In Everyone Else?
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May 5, 2024 • 1h 38min

Kendrick & Hip Hop's Beef with Drake: Round 1

Follow Olay's Friends:  @FDSignifire   @KennieJD   @lilbilliam   @RebeccaAzor  Tahoe:  @soshamelesspodcast  Follow Olay on all socials @msolurin Twitter: https://twitter.com/msolurin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msolurin/ CashApp: $oolurin11 Olay's Website: https://www.olayemiolurin.com/ Subscribe to Olurintatti on Sub Stack: https://olurinatti.substack.com/ Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:43 Our Overall Thoughts on The Beef 6:13 Drake's Place in Hip-Hop & Black Culture 29:48 The Issues With Drake 39:03 Drake's Fluid Identity & What He Does With Black Culture 54:18 Euphoria Exposing Drake 1:17:10 Kendrick & Drake as Artists
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Apr 28, 2024 • 1h 16min

The Diddy Deep Dive: The Lawsuits & The Discourse

Follow Olay's Friends: Natalie Lawyer Chick:  @natalielawyerchick  JaShawn Combs: https://twitter.com/shawnjay92 Delaney Vandergrift: https://twitter.com/delaneypv15 Rebecca Azor:  @RebeccaAzor  ThinkpieceTribe:  @ThinkpieceTribe  Follow Olay on all socials @msolurin Twitter: https://twitter.com/msolurin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msolurin/ CashApp: $oolurin11 Olay's Website: https://www.olayemiolurin.com/ Subscribe to Olurintatti on Sub Stack: https://olurinatti.substack.com/ Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:06 The Details of The Case 6:37 Why are people only concerned about him being gay? 7:39 Patriarchy and capitalism in the Black Community 16:07 Why won't they believe women with evidence? 19:26 Homophobia & Black Capitalism 26:46 What is masculinity supposed to be? 34:44 "Every famous n**** that gets arrested, is not Nelson Mandela" 39:52 Who deserves your support and who doesn't? 42:36 "Black boys are not being raised" 45:19 We have to be careful about who our Black role models are 51:37 "Yall are really white supremacists most valuable puppet" 58:27 The danger of antisemitism in Kanye and Candace Owens 1:02:40 Black people that use others in community to climb out of it. 1:09:45 The Black Community's relationship with stereotypes
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Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 43min

Why are so many Black people Pro-Police??

Follow Olay's friends: Malcolm Mays: https://www.instagram.com/imalcolmmays Rena Karefa Johnson: https://twitter.com/ReenNahMean Imani Gandy: https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady Lil Bill:  @lilbilliam  Masai Lord: https://www.lordlawgroup.com Follow Olay on all socials @msolurin Twitter: https://twitter.com/msolurin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msolurin/ CashApp: $oolurin11 Olay's Website: https://www.olayemiolurin.com/ Subscribe to Olurintatti on Sub Stack: https://olurinatti.substack.com/ Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:05 The bIack perception of copaganda & politicians 10:00 BIack respectability politics & classism 15:46 Why is society conditioned to trust the police? 28:50 Can the police be made better? 40:37 How do we get resources to the right people? 43:54 Black politicians that hurt the community 50:11 The challenge of mobilizing our communities 1:00:29 Speaking out against systems is not profitable 1:12:09 It comes back to Capitalism & the symbol of BIack Excellence 1:19:53 We need to stop celebrating exploiters as symbols 1:26:45 Does the left have a marketing problem? 1:31:42 Activism can't be done for free all the time 1:36:42 Back to Marketing
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Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 34min

What's Happening to the Black Vote?

Follow Olay's Freinds: Benjamin Dixon:  @TheBenjaminDixonShow  Charles P: https://twitter.com/@_CharlesPreston Rebecca Azor:  @RebeccaAzor  Reecie Colbert: https://twitter.com/@ReecieColbert Frederick Joseph: https://twitter.com/@FredTJoseph Follow Olay on all socials @msolurin Twitter: https://twitter.com/msolurin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msolurin/ CashApp: $oolurin11 Olay's Website: https://www.olayemiolurin.com/ Subscribe to Olurintatti on Sub Stack: https://olurinatti.substack.com/ Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats
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Apr 10, 2024 • 2h 3min

Is Black Media in Crisis??

Follow Olay's Friends FDSignifier:  @FDSignifire  Foreign:  @ForeignManinaForeignLand  Rebecca Azor:  @RebeccaAzor  Kassandra Frederique: https://twitter.com/@Kassandra_Fred Conscious Lee:  @TheConsciousLee  Join the channel to support the show! https://www.YouTube.com/@Olurinatti/join Follow Olay on all socials @msolurin Twitter: https://twitter.com/msolurin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msolurin/ CashApp: $oolurin11 Olay's Website: https://www.olayemiolurin.com/ Subscribe to Olurintatti on Sub Stack: https://olurinatti.substack.com/ Edited By: https://twitter.com/sherlock0ats
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Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 39min

Vilifying Amanda Seales but Celebrating Candace Owens?

Black women in the public eye - dissecting the criticism toward Amanda Seales and Candace Owens, navigating communication challenges in journalism, discussing likability vs. upliftment in media, analyzing Candace Owens' messaging impact, challenging untenable viewpoints in media, debating experts vs. influencers, unpacking propaganda, navigating activism and representation challenges, exploring intersection of white supremacy and anti-Semitism, unfair vilification of Amanda Seales.

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