For 40 plus years, Malcolm Jamal Warner gave us art as an actor, a poet, a musician, dancer, rapper and a director.

He WAS the culture. Thank you for your example.

REST IN PEACE, MALCOLM.

WE BYKE!!!!

CLASS OF 1995 song draft! 1995 was an AMAZING year for RNB and we're going to celebrate it with drafting a song per category.

As usual, the hijinx ensue almost immediately and you already know who they're picking on.

SORRY ABOUT THE AUDIO....

ENJOY!

This week I have Sherhara Burrell joining us.

Sherhara Burrell is the co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer of SpeakHaus, a leadership communication coaching company, she and her team aim to transform organizational culture through the power of storytelling and authentic leadership.

What up yall!? There were technical dificulties with the audio for this week's guest, so I'll kick it with you in this 50th episode!

I'm getting into the BLACK MUSIC MONTH and the #MusicSermon IG page that gives a different prompt for every day in June for use to post songs about. It's truly one of my favorite times of the year.

I'm talking about RNB MT. RUSHMORE and my online back and forth with Tank about his egregious Mt. Rushmore. We talk about the Billboard magazine Top 75 RNB artists of all time and how that may spawn another "Best Of" episode for us!!! You know those are my favorite lol

We talk about settling in to "UNC" phase, after partying with some young people. THAT AND MORE, PRESS PLAY!

In part 2 of the Larry Taylor interview, he talks about playing against LEBRON and KOBE, and that Olympic experience. Larry gives a great story about having the ball stolen from him by Kobe and the speed of the game in that moment.

Larry gets into his amazing journey from Division 2, to working a regular job, to a by chance tryout that led to playing ball in Brazil, where he has been for the last 15 years.

Larry also talks about his love for being a DJ and gives me pointers on the craft. Great times catching up!

WE BYKE!!!!! Today we are joined by LARRY TAYLOR, an olympian and professional basketball player from Chicago IL.

Larry talks about marriage, his son and his amazing journey from a Juco in IL, to playing against KOBE BRYANT and LEBRON JAMES on the world's biggest stage at the 2012 Olympics.

Larry and I talk about his love for Chicago, Brazil and Djing and of course his favorite songs, albums and concerts.

Larry and I were college teammates and we hadn't spoken in YEARS. The conversation was so good that we had to make it 2 Parts.

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SONG?

Dr. Gina Loring is a poet, vocalist, autoethnographer, and teaching artist. She is the Poet Laureate of the African American Policy Forum, a Master Artist Fellow through the city of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and served as Poet in Residence for UC Berkeley School of Law through the Henderson Center for Social Justice.

With a BA From Spelman College, an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and a Doctorate in Education for which she studied at USC and Clark Atlanta, she teaches in the Los Angeles Community College district.

Dr. Loring has been featured on Jane Fonda's Fire Drill Fridays, Rosario Dawson's The Assembly, 2 De La Soul albums, 2 seasons of HBS's Def Poetry, and has been commissioned to write poems for Susan and David Rockerfeller, Michalene Thomas, Greenpeace, and Quincy Jones.

Just wanted to rap with my people before the episodes start back. Tellin a couple concert stories about that time I snuck in a 112 concert with my sister in OKC.

NEW EPISODES BACK NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!