S2E28: Brandy & Usher’s R&B Reunion Weekend, Remy Ma DRAGS Papoose, VMAs Recap, TRL Returns! + A Different World Hits #1 to Rave Reviews & Jasmine Guy Responds to Ageism & More!
👑🔥 KINGS & QUEENS—TIME TO GET IT POPPING! We’re back for another Friday Jr. Happy Hour, fresh off another BIG week! From celebrating Black culture at NMAAHC’s 10th anniversary festivities and another FOX 5 visit to an R&B reunion weekend, Remy Ma’s new music, A Different World taking over Netflix and a Ponderosa conversation we NEED to have—we’ve got A LOT to dish on!
And the momentum keeps MOMENTUM-ING: after our WHUR crossover, Joe Clair says he wants to pull up on the pod! 👀🎙️ Pasted text
📍 DOWN IN THE DMV
💜 We recap the National Museum of African American History & Culture’s 10th anniversary weekend, including Violet Vibes at The Anthem with Sway, Heather B, Rapsody, Noochie’s Front Porch, Ari Lennox, Sugar Bear, Ms. Kim + more!
🎬 The night also featured an incredible Waiting to Exhale 30th Anniversary tribute with Tamar Braxton, Deborah Cox, Melanie Fiona, Alex Vaughn, The Amours + more before The Roots closed it out!
📺 PLUS: Another trip to FOX 5 DC, where the building was PACKED with talent including Rapsody, Tone Stith, Yasmine Elhady + more! Pasted text
☕ CUP O’ JO
🔥 Brandy + Usher reunite TWICE in one weekend! Kehlani brings them both out in L.A., then Brandy pops up again during the Usher x Chris Brown Tour—with Kanye West joining the surprises!
👀 Ray J says Chris Brown is “50x better” than Usher while also opening up about his serious health issues—and Brandy shows her little brother some love.
💔 Remy Ma drops her first project in nine years, Alimony, and those Papoose jabs are NOT subtle! We get into the music, visuals, their back-and-forth and where their divorce stands.
🕊️ We remember beloved DMV radio and television legend Angela Stribling, who passed away at 58 after privately battling brain cancer.
📺 PLUS: Is TRL making a comeback?! A reunion special is reportedly in the works. Pasted text
📺 WHAT WE WATCHING!?
🏆 We get into the 2026 MTV VMAs and some of the biggest moments from the night.
👹 Gremlins 3 is officially happening!
👑 Casting is underway for the upcoming Queen Latifah biopic.
🎓 And A Different World has taken over Netflix! The continuation hit No. 1, the response has been overwhelmingly positive, and Cornell Young IV is emerging as a breakout star—with another Netflix opportunity already lined up. We also get into Maleah Joi Moon’s growing résumé and all that chemistry fans are talking about! 👀 Pasted text
🗣️ THE PONDEROSA: WHY ARE WE SO OBSESSED WITH WOMEN AGING?
After Jasmine Guy addressed criticism about her appearance in A Different World, we’re talking AGEISM and the impossible expectations placed on women to somehow look the same forever.
Have filters, fillers, Botox, surgery and celebrity culture completely distorted our idea of what natural aging looks like? And why are men often celebrated for getting older while women are picked apart for doing the exact same thing?
We’re taking it to The Ponderosa—and we want YOUR thoughts! Pasted text
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