Kings & Queens! 👑🔥 Welcome back to your favorite Friday Jr. Happy Hour! Grab your snacks, pour your cocktail—or NAbeverage—and get in the comments because we have another PACKED episode, plus aspecial announcement!

We’re talking DMV happenings, major music news,Black culture, nostalgia, new TV trailers, relationship talk, and some debateswe KNOW y’all are going to have opinions on!

📍DOWN IN THE DMV

🎉 We recap ChefTony’s Epic Fish Fry, Friday’s Electric Cool Aid pop-up, and Ryan’sGreenehouse Studio Open House—where JoJo hit the floor for some interviews anda little tea. 👀
🏝️ We show love to everyone who took over the Bahamas for the BahamaBreeze Music Festival, featuring Anthony Hamilton, Floetry, Stokley, DougE. Fresh, Black Alley & more.
🏆 Plus, we salute everyone who attended NABJ in Atlanta, including MarissaMitchell, who received a special honor.
🎒 And shoutout to all the students heading back to school!

☕ CUP O’ JO

🗣️ Stephen A. Smithvs. NABJ: NABJ gives Stephen A. its 2026 “Thumbs Down” Award over hiscommentary involving prominent Black women—and Stephen fires back, calling it apolitical and personal hit job. Did his commentary cross the line, or did NABJgo too far?

🥊 Ray J gets thewin—but Brandy might've stolen Fight Night! We break down Ray J vs. OrlandoBrown, Brandy’s awkward viral encounter with Adrien Broner and Deen the Great,AB later flirting with Brandy, and Brandy showing up to support her brother.PLUS, Brandy returns to her Cinderella roots for Disney’s Princess celebration!

🖤 Janet Jacksoncelebrates 40 years of Control with a special filmed concert andglobal movie event!

👑 Spike Lee celebratesMichael Jackson & Prince with the return of his annual Brooklyn blockparty, while Emory University honors Spike’s legendary film career.

🔥 Usher & ChrisBrown’s R&B Tour gets even BIGGER with newly added dates—includingBaltimore and Atlanta!

🎤 Joe vs. Donell JonesVerzuz goes down TONIGHT! We make our final predictions before the twoR&B vets hit the stage.

💿 And pour one out for apiece of old-school music culture: Columbia House is shutting down after 71years! Who remembers getting all those CDs for a penny?! 😂

📺WHAT WE WATCHING!?

🎓 Netflix drops theofficial trailer for A Different World, bringing Hillman College backwith a new generation AND some familiar faces.

🔥 We get our first lookat The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, following Wanda and Leon from the druggame into the early-'90s West Coast music scene.

📺 PLUS: We’re officiallyheaded back to FOX 5 for Labor Day! JoJo returns for Celebrity Dish at10AM before JoJo & Nichelle join Marissa Mitchell for the Hot Sheet at11AM!

🗣️THE PONDEROSA

❤️ In honor ofNational Couples Day, Nichelle brings a GOOD one to the table: What happenswhen your partner and your friends or family simply DON'T get along?

How much do you tell your friends about yourrelationship? Should your partner always come first? And what happens when YOUforgive your partner…but your family and friends don't? 👀

We want YOU in the conversation!

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