Toure Show

Jim Jones is a Harlem legend. Rapper, director, crypto coin creator—the man has been in the streets and in the culture forever. I wanted to talk to him about hiphop but Jim Jones is impossible to corral so we spiral all over the place and it’s amazing. Get half of this for free, get the whole interview at Patreon.com/toureshow Toure Show Episode 259 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Gar...

Original Air date: June 13, 2018 Touré Show Ep 33: Susan Rogers-I Made Music With Prince I hope you’re listening to my new Prince docuseries Who Was Prince? It’s an 8-ep deep dive into his work, his life, his youth, and his personality. This week we’re throwing back to my interview with engineer Susan Rogers who worked with Prince in the studio, engineering his best albums. Susan tells us what son...

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Nick Jones Jr. was a Marine for many years but he left to become a Hollywood screenwriter and is now working on Yasuke on Netflix. We talk about the Marines, getting to k...

Tiffany Aliche aka the Budgetnista went from sleeping on her parents’ couch to being a multi-millionaire all based on teaching financial literacy. Tiffany is the author of Get Good With Money and she’s here to help us get good with money! She’s brilliant with money and she knows how to make her tips on money really easy and accessible. You don’t want to work for every dollar you ever make! You hav...

Touré Show Ep 32: Andre Cymone-I Grew Up With Prince Original Air date: June 9, 2018 In celebration of our new Prince docuseries Who Was Prince? here’s a throwback to our interview with Prince’s childhood best friend André Cymone who tells the truth about who Prince was as a teenager. Prince and Andre lived together throughout their teens and they played together for years. Who was young Prince? A...

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Flying Lotus is one of the most incredible producers ever and it makes sense that he comes from an amazingly musical family. This is a deep conversation about music with...

Tarell McCraney is an extraordinary screenwriter who’s exploring the Black male through amazing films like Moonlight and High-Flying Bird and the TV show David Makes Man which airs on OWN and HBO Max. We talk about writing and David Makes Man and Black men and Moonlight and the moment they won the Oscar which was not marked by joy but by fear. Amazing conversation. Toure Show Episode 255 Host & Wr...

Susannah Melvoin was the love of Prince’s life. Nothing Compares 2 U is about her. If I Was Your Girlfriend is about her. They started dating before Purple Rain. They got engaged just before he started shooting Under The Cherry Moon. My Prince docuseries Who Was Prince? is out now so let’s throwback to this convo with Susannah where she talks all about their relationship and the story behind “Star...

Hit-Boy is a major producer who worked on monster songs for Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, Travis Scott, Lil Wayne, and many more. We talk about making music and the stories behind some of his hits. To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us ke...

Raven-Symone is a lifelong actress who doesn’t really like acting. She dreams of leaving showbiz behind and living on a farm with her wife and a ton of kids. She is by far one of the most interesting people I’ve ever talked to on this show and this conversation goes way off the rails—Raven’s a doomsday prepper—and it’s so amazing. You gotta hear the whole crazy thing. You can get half the show for...

Original Air date: July 8, 2020 Joe Budden is… an original. There’s no one like him. You can see why he’s a great broadcaster in this throwback interview from 2020 and why he doesn’t need anyone else to be big in media. We talk about how he made it big as a podcaster and his music as well. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch...

Laurieann Gibson is a legend, an icon, and a critical part of dance and hiphop culture for decades. So much of what we have loved about culture comes from her mind. I’ve known her forever and it was a thrill to talk to her about dance, culture, hiphop, and how she made it. To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patre...

Tamika Mallory is a warrior who’s constantly fighting for Black people. Her new book State of Emergency lays out how we should fight to change America to be more just and equitable for Black people. She’s inspiring and powerful and it’s an honor to be her friend. We talk about Breonna Taylor and all the ways she’s fighting for Black people. Get half of this for free, get the whole interview at Pat...

Original Air Date: May 1, 2019 Sam Jay has a hot new HBO show called Pause and we love that because she’s hysterical and she’s had a really fascinating life. We talked about her journey from Boston to professional comedy in this 2019 interview where she gets into how she couldn’t be her best self onstage until she fully came to grips with who she really is.  Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toure...

Rob Morgan is one of the greatest character actors working today. He truly becomes the role. He gave me a master class in how to act, how to slide into the character, how to deal with rejection, how to be unforgettable. To listen go to patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe for just $5 a month you can this and all of our Friday Patreon exclusives. Toure Show Episode 250 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Pr...

Everyone knows Hill Harper as an actor but he’s become such a big fan of Bitcoin that he’s opened theblackwallstreet.com in hopes of helping Black people learn about and buy Bitcoin. It’s an amazing investment opportunity that a lot of people are curious about but haven’t tried yet. Check out our in depth convo about crypto and see if it’s is for you. We also get into Hill’s acting career in which...

Original Air Date: January 17, 2018 Patrisse Cullors is stepping away from BLM so it’s a good time to look back at our 2018 interview diving into her incredible life that includes victories over poverty, homophobia, family incarceration, and a police force the criminalized her as a child—She dealt with all the pain, chaos and repression in her life and grew strong. She helped build and run Black L...

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Cool & Dre are two of the baddest producers in the game. We talk about musical philosophies, how they make music, why they become successful, and what it’s like to work w...

Djimon Hounsou is the star of A Quiet Place Part II and an actor with uncommon intensity. It really seems like a fire burns inside of him. We talk about his acting and his new movie and what it was like to be young and broke and homeless in Paris. He’s had an amazing life journey. Toure Show Episode 247 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor:...

Original Air Date: January 8, 2020 Nikole Hannah Jones is in the news because UNC turned her down for a professorship even though she’s a MacArthur Genius grant recipient and a Pulitzer Prize winner so it’s a good tome to throwback to our 2020 interview. But what’s really going on is she’s the creator of the amazing 1619 project for The NY Times and that project is frightening to the right because...

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Isaiah Jackson has been deep in the Bitcoin world for years and he’s done well and he’s trying to get others involved because this is a world where you can build wealth....

Ian Dunlap is the Master Investor, Mr. Stock Market, the man who understands the game and dispenses wisdom about how to build wealth on the podcast Market Mondays. I’ve been listening to what he says and building a strategy around his teachings and watching the money grow. But it takes years… Listen to this episode only if you want build wealth and work toward a comfortable financial future. Those...

Original Air Date: August 21, 2019 Mayor Keisha recently announced that she is not running for re-election so now’s a good time to look back at a great conversation with an extremely inspiring elected official who’s made big changes to criminal justice systems in Atlanta and re-opened the investigation into the infamous Atlanta Child Murders of 1979-1981. She also talks candidly about being a kid...

Tracy K Smith is one of America’s great poets—she was Poet Laureate from 2017-2019. We talk about poetry and writing and America and the time we were in creative writing grad school together. This is a Patreon exclusive—go to http://patreon.com/toureshow to subscribe and for just $5 a month you get four exclusives plus the full 60 minute version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help support o...

Roy Wood Jr is en Fuego. He’s on the Daily Show, he’s got a new podcast, he’s got TV shows he’s producing and a standup special he’s creating. He’s been productive during the pandemic! We talk about his work, his process, and what it means to be funny. Toure Show Episode 243 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers:...