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This 15-minute cut comes from the Black Music Month opener of the June 13 live broadcast. After Kashif, Evelyn “Champagne” King, and Whitney Houston opened the door, the desk moved into the Washington Post’s homepage games, Trump’s Iran threats, gas prices, possible war crimes in Iran, the Kennedy Center removing Trump’s name, Elon Musk’s trillionaire economy, the Karmelo Anthony verdict with Deuce Davis, Stephen A. Smith clapping back at Trump over the Knicks, the SPLC hearing, Jasmine Crockett, Graham Platner, and the mob that came for Lupita Nyong’o.
That was not random.
Music tells the truth before politics finishes lying.
The Cut
The countdown songs were Evelyn “Champagne” King’s “I’m in Love” and “Love Come Down.” Both connect us to Kashif, born Michael Jones, one of the architects of the sound that carried Black music out of the disco era and into the sleek, electronic, post-disco R&B world of the 1980s.
This is Black Music Month, so before we got into the headlines, I wanted to open the door the right way.
