Stuck with Damon Young returns with more off-the-cuff conversations inspired by today’s most culturally relevant headlines and round ups of Damon-approved listener-submitted questions. Each episode, award-winning author Damon Young is joined by some of the best, brightest, and Blackest people he knows including special guests Kiese Laymon, Roy Wood Jr., Elaine Welteroth, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others. Come explore the uncomfortable, hideous, and hilarious absurdity of our human behavior. Listen to Stuck with Damon Young on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Stuck with Damon Young returns with more off-the-cuff conversations inspired by today’s most culturally relevant headlines and round ups of Damon-approved listener-submitted questions. Each episode, award-winning author Damon Young is joined by some of the best, brightest, and Blackest people he knows including special guests Kiese Laymon, Roy Wood Jr., Elaine Welteroth, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others. Come explore the uncomfortable, hideous, and hilarious absurdity of our human behavior. Listen to Stuck with Damon Young on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
What About Pittsburgh, Beyonce? (with Shamira Ibrahim & Kyla Jenee Lacey)
Stuck with Damon Young
46 minutes
2 years ago
What About Pittsburgh, Beyonce? (with Shamira Ibrahim & Kyla Jenee Lacey)
Cultural critic Shamira Ibrahim consoles Damon while he laments Pittsburgh's removal from Beyonce's international tour. Nestled deep in the heart of Taylor Swift country, Pittsburgh, or as Damon likes to call it, the Paris of Appalachia is the only stop so far to be struck from the tour. Shamira helps Damon unpack why that may be and quantify the effect of the decision of Pittsburgh's black community. Then on Dear Damon, spoken word poet Kyla Jenee Lacey helps Damon advise a listener who doesn't know how to react when R. Kelly's music plays in public.
Chapters:
00:00-00:36 Open
00:42-01:46 Introduction
01:50 Shamira Ibrahim welcome
02:40 Pittsburgh least livable city for Black people
06:25 Beyonce cancels tour stop in Pittsburgh
21:01 Doja Cat doesn’t love her fans
25:50 Damon Hates cupcakes
28:12 Damon and performing spoken word artist Kyla Jenee Lacey discuss supporting problematic artists
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Stuck with Damon Young
Stuck with Damon Young returns with more off-the-cuff conversations inspired by today’s most culturally relevant headlines and round ups of Damon-approved listener-submitted questions. Each episode, award-winning author Damon Young is joined by some of the best, brightest, and Blackest people he knows including special guests Kiese Laymon, Roy Wood Jr., Elaine Welteroth, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others. Come explore the uncomfortable, hideous, and hilarious absurdity of our human behavior. Listen to Stuck with Damon Young on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
