The Urban Breakdown

Have you subscribed to THE URBAN BREAKDOWN Podcast ? Do so now... worth the listen . Today's hosts and guests; Odofoley Oquaye, Tashia Scott, Mercedes Wright, Mercer Prescott, Dubb Slim, and F. Khristopher Blue discuss... Mike Ditka, America’s Dinosaur  Does Not Believe Blacks Have Been Depressed in Last 100 Years. More #MAGA, the saddest short stories on Twitter . Freeing slaves for the second ti...

Mercer Prescott and his band of eclectic cronies (on this occasion Odofey Oquaye and  F. Khristopher Blue) bring you this week's 'POLI-TRICKS' (Have You Subscribed? Do So Now... Worth The Listen) Nazis get mad over a 35 year old video game Mike Pence and his very expensive photo op. Las Vegas shooting victims can’t afford healthcare. --------------- Guns, Guns, Guns The five main reasons we’re in...

Featured guest... Mercedes Wright -- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees -- Cam Newton and the hypocrisy of the Right -- NRA asking Congress to regulate Bump Stocks - Scandal (scandalous television series) Commentary by Nation, OD, Mercer, and F. Khristopher as well as guest commentator, Mercedes Wright. - Jeremy Lin (dreads and culture appropriation?) - Vegas Shooting (conspiracy theories anyone?...

Guests hosts: Splash Gordon of The Verdict Podcast and Najee (yes, the 80's jazz artist) along with Mercer Prescott, Odofoley Oquaye, and F. Khristopher Blue. --Las Vegas Shooting. ---Kaepernick: Soldiers Stories. --Trump, Geraldo, and the Right’s hatred of Puerto Rico. (Greg Abbott holding funds for Houston). --Changing the system is hard, so let’s not do it at all.  

Why Trump fans can’t find dates. Why do African Americans rag on other African Americans who side with Trump? (If we don’t get to this, I’ll talk about it on Monday for a bit) https://thefederalist.com/2017/09/19/refusal-date-conservatives-one-reason-donald-trump/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/maybe-women-wont-date-you-because-youre-awful Cardi B's finally done it. She scored the No. 1 spot on the...

Mercer Prescott with his eclectic cronies Nation and F. Khristopher Blue discuss: Sports, Reality, and the National Anthem: missing the point.  Graham/Cassidy try to bribe the last Healthcare repeal holdouts. Will it work? Trump fans are beyond redemption, no matter what you say. Changing the system is hard, so let’s not do it at all. 

360 Degrees, a show brought to you by The Urban Breakdown... original broadcast date 9/24/2017.   Most pathetic thing of the week? Maternity nurses insulting black babies on Snapchat. Cop shoots deaf man. Jimmy Kimmel rips Brian Kilmeade and hurts his feelings. Hillary Drones harping over her book sales. Melania Trump’s hollow anti bullying speech. Today's featured hosts: Mercer Prescott - politic...

Mercer Prescott and his eclectic cronie, F. Khristopher Blue being you the political week in review from the perspective of The Urban Breakdown

Original broadcast date September 16, 2017... the week in review with Mercer Prescott, Oquaye Odofoley, and F. Khristopher Blue

Let's talk about what's up... as well as 9/11

360 Degrees: In the Future They Will Look Back and Be Like... Something They Can't Believe  

In violent times You shouldn't have to sell your soul In black and white They really really ought to know Those one track minds That took you for a working boy Kiss them goodbye You shouldn't have to jump for joy You shouldn't have to shout for joy Shout Shout Let it all out These are the things I can do without Come on I'm talking to you Come on New Music from MEAT... Let Me Do Me

Joel Olsteen is a LIAR. His church should have its non profit status removed. Secret Service update... cut those guys their check! Paper beats Rock, and drone beats wall... duh, you seen how riddled with plot holes this mission already has... multiple videos show the issues with it all around. Republicans are a lost cause, stop trying to reach out to them. Democrats, get your ish together. The gen...

The cronie Nation asks about our thoughts about The National Anthem and the crew gives their perspectives.  Jersey burning.... why are you mad at the player, he was traded, he did not ASK for a trade. It's a business, its the franchise that is accountable not the player in the Isaiah Thomas case. OD is going to Made in America... Philadelphia, PA. Merc talks about Colin Kaepernick, Cops support th...

THE TRUTH FOR A CHANGE all of a sudden surrounded by evil acts of spying satellites flying // is illegal eagles picture on geen money may sound funny // many search for this needle in a haystack its so wack // fact that man will kill for a dollar bill ill wit sin causes him to slave other men // a battle that no body ever win been whips lashing whole lot of secret stashing // what will happen in t...

Channel zero went off the air.. and I slipped into darkness.. choked and clicked on reality. after all this time, it still had not yet been rated. Once again, as always, staring off into the distance from my dwellings in East Medina... lookin' off my terrace, staring down the throat of the belly of the beast- I clicked on channel *Life* and I watch n*ggas harrass the new and the old and young and...

Today's Quotation: Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise. Dillon Burroughs Today's Meditation: "Give us this day our daily bread." Most of us know the feeling of being without something we want or desire. However, for how many of us has that thing been a necessity of life such as food or water? So many people--who are less fortunat...

On the front lines,  video from Charlottesville  showed chaos during and after a white supremacist rally. Also,  police arrested James Alex Fields  for ramming his vehicle into a crowd of protestors. Elsewhere, NFL players Malcolm Jenkins and Marshawn Lynch  made a statement  during the national anthem. Omarosa Manigault spoke  at this year's National Association of Black Journalists convention an...

In this episode we talk about the riots in Charlottesville Virginia and the impact will have on the rest of the country as well as how Trumpageddon dropped the ball. We talk about Sony and how they will likely mess up the Spiderman universe because they do not want to cede control to Marvel who does a better job at handling their movies than Sony ever has. We talk about the HBO series by Issa Raye...

HBO is fighting to keep  Confederate  alive amid intense  media backlash from people like  New York Times  columnist Roxanne Gay, who described the premise of the show as “ slavery fan fiction .” “My exhaustion with the idea of  Confederate  is multiplied by the realization that this show is the brainchild of two white men who oversee a show that has few people of color to speak of and where sexua...

They have Trumpageddon on the ropes… The grand jury that Mueller is putting together may be the undoing of this presidency. It is about time… but more than likely he will escape this like he escaped other lawful actions against him… He may be the true definition of mob ties, this guy is untouchable. Have you heard about a case of an African-American males being convicted of a sex act and will be p...

I don't know what you came to do, but I came to make a difference. I don't know what the people were thinking when they voted for Trumpagedon but if they have not realized by now that this is the antichrist I do not know what to say. The rhetoric he speaks online, and forums, discussion groups, his tweets, his small hands and feet, I just don't know… Like Mercer Prescott said, this is just the con...

Yes Trump can pardon at will. No, Trump can not pardon himself. Kushner contradicts. Trump up his sleeve has a few more tricks. The Somali Cop seems to be at odds with The Force, Black Lives Matter is on the side of the victim, based on Black history, this is expected of course, not! Well, yeah... do you know the Willie Lynch story? The Democrats ran a poll recently and though votes are swinging o...

The Urban Breakdown is a fusion between live hosts conducting interviews, having discussions, pre-records, music, poetry, and as always, well researched topics, opinions, and perspectives broken down into various “segments” indicated by a hashtag of some sort. Each show will vary on what segments are broadcasted as well as segment length.  The focal points of the show are the hosts who bring forth...