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Happy #CombatJackDay to the Legendary & Iconic DISRUPTOR Reggie OSSE aka #CombatJack! Your voice & presence is missed sorely worldwide, INTERNETS let’s take today & remember all the gifts he blessed us with!🎂🎁🙏🏼❤️🕊👑

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Idris Elba says he was given one warning before auditioning for The Wire: don’t let them know you’re British.

Trevor Noah: “I’ve seen people get shocked when they find out you’re not American.”

Idris Elba: “I was unemployed, bro.”

“I was living in New Jersey. I was bartending, working the door, DJing.”

“Before you know it, you just start speaking like an American.”

“Then my casting director said, ‘This thing has come up. It’s called The Wire.’”

“‘But if you go in, you cannot let them know you aren’t American.’”

“‘This is about Baltimore. It’s very specific.’”

“So I auditioned for four weeks straight in an American accent.”

“Then at the fourth audition, they looked at me and said…”

“‘Idris… where are you from?’”

Trevor Noah: “‘Where are you from?’ That’s the phrase every immigrant is terrified of hearing.”

Idris Elba: “My palms started sweating.”

“I’m thinking… they told you not to say anything.”

“I looked at them and said…”

“‘I’m from East London.’”

“The room just exploded.”

“‘Oh my God… we had a bet.’”

“‘We knew you weren’t from Baltimore or Brooklyn, but we never guessed England.’”

“‘You got the job.’”

“‘We don’t want you to play Avon.”

“We want you to play Stringer Bell.’”

“I walked out thinking…”

“‘Did my life just change?’”

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Huey P. Newton being interviewed by 8 year old Kellita Smith (Aunt Wanda from The Bernie Mac Show) in Oakland, CA (1977)

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Mixed GHOSTFACE's classic "Nutmeg" verse on the CLIPSE "So Be It" instrumental

Good to hear Ghost spitting over some 🔥🔥 PHARRELL production

Should I drop the full version? Let me know 👇👇

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Michael Colyar talks about how Robin Harris’s passing led to Martin Lawrence becoming the host of Def Comedy Jam.

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She studied chemistry at Princeton because she believes bad forensic science has contributed to wrongful convictions—and now she’s going to law school to change that.
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Denzel Washington’s epic monologue towards the end of Training Day was largely improvised on set. Director Antoine Fuqua was so blown away by his performance, he says he thinks he "forgot to yell cut”. He explains…

“That’s Denzel. He was just in his zone. I mean, that was one of those moment...people talk about AI. Those are the moments where you go...it's a great tool. It's gonna be a great tool, I think...but the emotion, and the moment that an actor can bring - you can't predict that. That's something that's just inside of Denzel. And when that came out, I was just like - I hope I got it.

I just turned to my operator - who was shaking- I looked over at the guy - I was like, “please tell me you got that.” Because that was the take. That was it. There was no other take - I mean, how do you tell an actor like that, that that wasn't good enough?

…He walked over to me, and he just had this look in his eyes. I was like, “you good?” He said, “you good?” I said, “Yeah…”

Some of that was in the script, but he flipped it the way he did it. "Putting cases on all you." He kind of added some things in there. And then he just went into a whole other zone with the whole King Kong thing- with Pelican Bay - Denzel started that. That was Denzel. That was him, man. He just kind of lit up, and I think I forgot to yell cut.

I was just watching it, because everybody started walking away, and I'm just watching him, and then he lights a cigarette - and he's talking - and I'm just watching him.

I think at some point he probably looked at me like, you going to cut? And I'm like, “oh yeah, yeah, cut.”

He was still in it. That's the thing with Denzel. He was so Alonso…I'm just watching him for a while because I didn't know what else he was going to do. It was just so magical. And then I think he looked up at me and I was like, “Okay, cut, cut.”

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Charlie Wilson recently gave a powerful and emotional performance while headlining AFRAM’s 50th anniversary festival in Baltimore months after suffering several strokes.