Marc Lamont Hill
American academic and author
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Nov 11, 2026
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I mean, you got me thinking about relationships now, and I don't know, man.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
But again, the establishment doesn't want him to get the kind of support that he's getting.
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speaker_6UNKNOWN
Let's not hate from outside
Joe BuddenHOST
Because Brandy was talking about New York school, I mean, school systems and the teachers and the kids and all
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
Because part of what she's saying, what Brandy's saying, and other people have said is, look, I live politics.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
Well, the first thing that Ben said is absolutely correct, and that's that historically these are – going to go in favor of whoever's not in power.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
You know, Americans are very skeptical of one party or one group of people having too much political power at one time.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
And so if the White House is one way, you're going to often see it go the other way.
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Mona LoveHOST
whole time you're just around niggas acting differently, what were you pretending then or what?
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I've seen a lot of people go through a lot of changes over this Trump shit, good and bad.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
They announced that he had an SVT, which was a superficial vein thrombosis.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
And one of the things I said here was, There's a chance that could become a DVT, an embolism.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
You get what I'm saying? Like, yo, everybody in the feds, if you somebody, got a phone, right? So Puff not the nigga saying, "Look at me, I got a phone." Other people are coming in there, taking pictures of him, doing all this dumb shit because he is who is it, he is.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
It's not like, "Yo, I'm the one that's leaking all the information about my privileges here."
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
... and there's this guy who gets paid two more zeros than you, and you're like, "What does this guy even do?" And that's a question I find, uh, myself asking myself a lot, 'cause we're in the era of independent media, so you could go out and do your thing and make your own thing shake.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I- I'd like to start by just saying that this conversation should be civil and respectful, and I don't think we need to name call or, or lump each other into, into offensive piles.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
Um, I think that, uh, the important thing to do when we make assessments, particularly when we talk in percentages about our community, uh, is to actually have evidence or data or statistics.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
So when we say, "Only 20 of, 20% of Black people are doing this," or, "80% of Black people feel like that," uh, I always would love to hear or see, um, evidence, data, statistics, some sort of expert opinion, uh, informed opinion, uh, placed into the conversation so that we're not just hurling random provocative statements.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I think it's dope that whoever he is, whatever he is, forget his sexuality for a minute, just- That's true ... how he's talking, his nails, the pigeon toe stance, all that.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
[laughs] So you should know from a medical standpoint that masturbation is healthy.
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Right.
speaker_13UNKNOWN
Mm-hmm.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
They've been trying to come up with reasons why her appearance looks the way they do, and I fucking hate it.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
And I wanna be very clear, I'm only bringing it up now 'cause I, I didn't wanna comment on it a- and, and push back because that would just draw more attention to it.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
She stated in court documents that her claims were false and that she'd never even met him.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
Mr. Carter never engaged in any inappropriate conduct toward me whatsoever.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
There is no truth to any of my claims against Mr. Carter." She also said that she understood her, quote, "False accusations have caused Mr.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
Um, and I thought that was powerful, and I would not have expected a Jay-Z versus Kap narrative even a year ago, even though I knew that there were tensions.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I knew the tensions, and I've heard the tensions behind the scenes and in front, but I didn't expect it to be public because neither of them tends to move that way.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
Um, I think part of where it hit that, uh, really bumpy road was the Roots picnic.
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speaker_15HOST
Oh, yeah
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speaker_13UNKNOWN
I don't know.
Nana GyamfiGUEST
And if one out of every Black persons in this country is either an immigrant or a child of an immigrant such as myself, such as you, and others that we know and love, how do you get rid of 20% of your population by just declaring that they're not a part of you? We can have unity without uniformity.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
in general, that there are experiences shared by everybody who is identifiably Black throughout the diaspora.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I show particular solidarity to African people and Afro-descendant people everywhere in the world.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I don't spend that much time Thinking about whether you're Afro-Cuban or Afro-Palestinian or Afro-Colombian or whatever, there's a way that we have to bind together because of this global condition of Blackness and how it plays out.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
The thoughts, views, and opinions expressed by this podcast as well as its hosts are for entertainment purposes only.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
No one is exposing, revealing, indicting, or telling you anything about themselves.
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We are trained professionals who do not have your best interest at heart, or our own.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
That was one of the moments where everybody was on the same page in terms of watching the same thing.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
song.... hour and a half into the sh- hour and a half show, I would say maybe f- 30 minutes in he was on key.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
But my point is, when you stand up and say, "Woo, God don't play about me.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I do this, I do this, I do this, these..." It, it, it, it suggests that somehow you were more deserving.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
You know what I mean? If you show up to the draft and I know what you on and you know what I'm on, that's okay.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I still think it's predatory, and I don't think it's okay in terms of when, when the person's 30 [laughs] or ...
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
You know what I mean? And the kid is 18, but if I'm 21 and you 18 and y'all wanna ...
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
And you wanna date a ballplayer and, and he wanna date a model or somebody who's a Instagram influencer or whatever, that's on y'all.
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Joe BuddenHOST
Ish, where, where you stand? Do you disagree with him? Do you agree with him? How do you feel?
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
For example, with Elliott, I don't know if Elliott did a interview with Vlad.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
It might be a thing where I've already done s- done a solid for you, and now you gonna do one for me.
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We wanna know.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
If I go through all of that and it turns out that Roc Nation has a axe to grind against Drake, and they're fucking up his career, undermining him- I don't feel like that would be a well u- good use of my time.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I've, I watched that, uh, what's that thing called? What's the Dirt? The What's the Dirt.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
If you never do put nobody's Donkey of the Day And then one day you make this one person donkey of the day for going against Roc Nation, it does look like you're being influenced by Roc Nation or you have some kind of relationship with him.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
I don't think he works for them, but there is some kind of, clearly some kind of relationship there.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
We've all had, I don't know about y'all, I didn't mean to say all, I've had relationships with companies where they'll, they'll, they don't tell me what to do, but they'll send me a text or send me a note saying, "Hey, did you see this thing, or that story you said, we'd rather you not do that", and we move on it.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
So if you don't have, if you're not being influenced by Roc Nation, the donkey of the day and the Instagram post may, did the opposite of that, 'cause it makes it, it definitely looks a way.
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Marc Lamont HillGUEST
... and Royce White have both been making headlines because they have been, uh, declaring their intention to enter the 2027 WNBA draft.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
The reason why they're doing that is because they say that the WNBA doesn't have a clear position on whether trans women can play in the league.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
A part of why this is happening is because, you know, we saw interviews with the Indiana Fever, we saw interviews with, um, what was another player, too.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
Uh, but we've seen players offer different positions on the, on, on whether or not they think trans women should play.
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
But of course, the dominant position, publicly anyway, from the WNBA players has been we're down to play with or against trans women.
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ParksHOST
Mm-hmm
Marc Lamont HillGUEST
... uh, the other day at, after a very long and productive, uh, life and career.
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