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Get Write To It
by Chris Stevens
Get Write To It with Chris Stevens is a culture/music/society podcast hosted and produced by Chris Stevens, a journalist, writer, random thinker and inquisitive person. Chris shares his thoughts on the world as whole with the world and has great conversations and discussions with guests from all walks of life. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/getwritetoit/support
Episodes
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Back To The Real
8 weeks away ends with a brand new episode of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens! Chris returns to talk about the NBA Draft, Malika Andrews doing her job, how the Russian Coup attempt is professional wrestling, the dope parts of the BET Awards and some final thoughts about professionalism being...
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Vampire In...Dover?
On the newest edition of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, Chris discusses this past weekend's discovery of Brian McKnight being a terrible person as well as some thoughts on BuzzFeed news and Vice potentially closing up shop. Chris also announces the relaunch of his music blog On The Groove…
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Housecleaning
In this newest episode of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, Chris discusses the firings of TucKKKer Carlson and Don Lemon, how they're more alike than the realize and how the younger generation is poised to change things. Also, Chris gets real about the travels to being a better human being.
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A New Day
On this episode of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, Chris talks about the Pew Journalism study that shows how white journalism is, how Black people get priced out of sports and how people like Charlemagne and DJ Akademiks make things even worse for Black media. Also, Chris talks about the...
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Outside Calls
On this week's edition of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, Chris talks about the college basketball game that turned into a race war, and why the Angel Reeses of the world deserve our support and our defense as Black men. Also, Chris discusses why art is subjective and how that influences his...
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Unsung Journalism Stories ft. Shameika Rhymes
On the latest episode of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, veteran entertainment journalist Shameika Rhymes (MofoChronicles/CheckThe_Rhymes on Twitter) joins the podcast to talk about TVOne's Unsung series turning 15 years old, her career as a broadcast and print journalist, how to create a…
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The Return: Backshots, Bootleg Indictments and Building Back Better
It's been 65 days since the last Get Write To It with Chris Stevens was released, but I'm back and hopefully never to leave you guys without a strong pod to listen to ever again. This episode, I discuss the reason for my absence, Chloe Bailey catching Hell for no real reason and why a potential…
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Traveling at the Speed of Thought
On the latest edition of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, Chris is back with more thoughts about the battle of the sexes with Lori Harvey's dating life fanning the flames on social media. Chris also discusses why the USA is far behind everybody else in terms of infrastructure and public...
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Once...Twice...15 times a fool
Welcome to 2023! Get Write To It with Chris Stevens returns for a new year with a new episode. In this ep, Chris discusses the foolishness that was the House Speaker vote and what he feels President Joe Biden should focus on this year. Chris also talks about his favorite TV show of 2022 as well…
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Home for the Holidays
First solo episode in a month? First solo episode in a month! On the newest episode of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, I'm back after a long hiatus to talk about once again the death of Twitter at the hands of Apartheid Clyde, the continued embarrassment of Black men trolling Black women and...
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20 years of Blueprint 2 ft. Tee The Gem
Finally back with a new episode of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens and it's a DelState Hornet Homecoming! My good friend from undergrad Tee (@TeeTheGem on Twitter) joins the show to discuss one of our favorite albums from our time together on the Hornet newspaper staff, Jay Z's Blueprint 2, an...
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Stop Leadin' with the Bleedin'
On this week's episode of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, I discuss the sky NOT falling regarding midterm elections and how the young voters are clearing the way for hopefully a better country while the stuck on stupid generation needs to get it together. I also talk about why and how...
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Catching Flights and Feelings
Back to business here on Get Write To It with Chris Stevens! This week, I discuss my first airplane journey in 16 years and how that is still something I hope I don't have to do regularly. I also talk about Kyrie Irving's embarrassing Anti-Semitism and why we should beware of making this fool a...
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Talking Book turns 50 ft. Evan Barnes
On October 27, 1972, Stevie Wonder released "Talking Book," an essential album in his legendary Classic Era and the unofficial start of his Classic Era. To discuss the album in totality, I am pleased to have Evan Barnes, who covers University of Memphis football for the Memphis Commercial-Appeal,...
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No Shame - We All Stink
In this episode of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, I talk about the fact that all of our shit stinks - learning how to do away with the notion that we are perfect people or should even aspire to be perfect because humanity doesn't work like that. I explain some of my internal issues that did…
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Show Your Work, PLEASE!
I'm back with another episode of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens and man...we really need to take it back to math class with a lot of how the world is going. This episode, I'm talking about the Georgia senate debate that featured fake badges and faulty reasoning, along with why we should be...
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Happy 10:10 Day!
WHERE YOU BEEN?! DIDJA GET MY MESSAGE?! On this newest edition of Get Write To It with Chris Stevens, I'm talking about the greatness that is Ginuwine while battling the horny allegations launched at me by my fellow indie novelists. I thought this was America, people! Also, I finally unload on…
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The Podcasting Renaissance Begins!
Man oh man, it has been a while, but I am back and so is my personal podcast with a new name and a new aim - Get Write To It with Chris Stevens (RIP Chris' Pod N' Thangs) is a lifestyle, culture and entertainment podcast that will talk about the world as a whole and I am so excited to rebrand and...
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Black Music Month 30 - Prime Of My Life
The conclusion of the #BMM30 series here on the #CPNTShow takes a look at Phyllis Hyman's final studio album "Prime Of My Life" and her career and life as a whole. By extension, thoughts on mental health and depression are in this episode as well. Mostly, it's about the talent of Phyllis Hyman…
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Black Music Month 30 - Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood
DMX was a personal hero of mine, so of course I had to review the album that literally was my soundtrack my senior year of high school, "Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood." It was his second Number One album of 1998 and the one I closely held onto as I tried to make sense of my teenage angst…
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Black Music Month 30 - Control
Janet Jackson stepped out on her own in the winter of 1986 as a young woman ready to, well, take Control of her life. And that's what she did on her third studio album, the first with the legendary production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on the boards and it proved to be a mission statement…
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Black Music Month 30 - Cold Blooded
Final week of the #CPNTShow's #BMM30 series leads off with the late, great (and somehow underrated) Rick James and his 1983 album "Cold Blooded," the last album to really do well commercially and critically for Rick, who deserves more love as one of the greatest musicians to ever walk the planet.
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Black Music Month 30 - The Heat Is On
We couldn't get through June without discussing the greatest American band of all-time. The Isley Brothers topped both R&B and Pop Charts in 1975 with "The Heat Is On" and the heat is definitely present on this album. Angry protest songs, aggressive musicianship and smooth grooves to close it out...
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Black Music Month 30 - Breakwater
Black Music Month is a fun time to discover hidden gems of musicians, artists, songs and albums from the past and today is no different. This #CPNTShow #BMM30 series spotlight is on Philly funk band Breakwater, who had a brief run on Clive Davis' Arista Records in the late 70s/early 80s with two...
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Black Music Month 30 - Chocolate City
We're going to Chocolate City! Parliament's April 1975 album is George Clinton's love letter to Washington, DC and the Blackness therein, which makes the album great. It's next up in the #CPNTShow #BMM30 series as we discuss the importance of the album from a P-Funk standpoint, as well as...
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Black Music Month 30 - Hot Buttered Soul
Day 23 of the #CPNTShow #BMM30 takes us to Memphis and Isaac Hayes' breakthrough album "Hot Buttered Soul," a game-changer from so many different angles in the music business.
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Black Music Month 30 - Phoenix Rising
We get into some old soul for Day 22 of the #BMM30 series - the Temptations' 1998 album "Phoenix Rising," a tribute to the spirit of the original Tempts with contemporary R&B production, also a very important album in the romantic soul of a then 17 year-old Chris.
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Black Music Month 30 - Ryde or Die Vol. 2
TUGBOATS! We kick off Day 21 of the #BMM30 series with a look back at Ryde or Die Vol. 2, a more refined and feature-heavy Ruff Ryders compilation that still has memorable moments aplenty.
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Black Music Month 30 - We Are The Streets
Day 20 of the #CPNTShow #BMM30 series takes it to the streets - The LOX's Ruff Ryders' debut "We Are The Streets" to be exact. Talking about the backstory behind the Let The Lox Go Campaign which led to this album and how it introduced the group to the masses individually and as their full selves.
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Black Music Month 30 - Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Pendergrass went solo in the Summer of 1977 with his self-titled debut album, a proper introduction for a man who had an elite but all-too brief run at the top of the R&B/Soul charts. Day 19 of the #CPNTShow #BMM30 series talks about the greatness of the album and the man, who did things…
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Black Music Month 30 - Family Reunion
Day 18/Album 18 of the #CPNTShow #BMM30 series takes a look at the classic O'Jays album "Family Reunion," an album that narrates the black experience of the mid-70s to perfection.
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Black Music Month 30 - Cosmic Slop
For Day 17 of the #BMM30 series, the #CPNTShow looks into the dark, twisted mind of George Clinton and Funkadelic's Cosmic Slop, a deep album with bare bones rock styling.
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Black Music Month 30 - Kiss Of Death
Starting the 2nd half of our #BMM30 series with some more early 2K hip-hop and Jadakiss' Kiss of Death album is the topic. Chris discusses his thoughts on the album and how influential of an MC 'Kiss has been for close to 25 years now.
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Black Music Month 30 - Forever, For Always, For Love
Halfway home! And today the 15th album of our #BMM30 series is Luther Vandross' second solo studio album, 1982's Forever, For Always, For Love, the album which Chris feels is the best in Luther's catalog. You'll want to listen to the reasons why.
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Black Music Month 30 - Diplomatic Immunity
We venture into the realm of baggy jean shorts, American Flag bandanas and throwback jerseys in Day 14 of the #CPNTShow #BMM30 series. We're talking The Diplomats' Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam debut Diplomatic Immunity and the back story behind it all.
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Black Music Month 30 - Ask Rufus
Lucky No. 13 in the #CPNTShow's #BMM30 series is Ask Rufus, the 1977 album where Chaka Khan's vocal wizardry is on full display because funk, rock and soul instrumentation from the musicians that made up Rufus.
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Black Music Month 30 - Fulfillingness' First Finale
Day 12 of Black Music Month and the #CPNTShow's #BMM30 series is a reflective one as we look at the truly reflective album in Stevie Wonder's Classic Era, Fulfillingness' First Finale, which of course came on the heels of a car accident that almost took Stevie from us at age 23.
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Black Music Month 30 - Sands of Time
We get deep into the history of music on the newest #BMM30 - The featured album is the SOS Band's Sands of Time and how bands like SOS and many others suffered greatly once technology took over music in the 1980s.
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Black Music Month 30 - Candy
We're West Coastin' into Day 10 of the #BMM30 series and today, we're talking the criminally underrated band that is Con Funk Shun and their 1979 album "Candy," where everything good and great about this Vallejo, CA crew was on display.
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Black Music Month 30 - Ruff Ryders' First Lady
For Day 9 of Black Music Month, we get into Eve's debut album Let There Be Eve - Ruff Ryders' First Lady, discussing everything from Swizz Beatz's production to Eve's storytelling capability and some quick thoughts on the Ruff Ryders hierarchy.
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Black Music Month 30 - I Want You
For Day Eight of our #BMM30 series, Chris is talking about Marvin Gaye's 1976 classic "I Want You," an album about pursuing someone you feel very strongly about with great musicianship and instrumentation.
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Black Music Month 30 - 1999
June 7th is Prince Day, so for the #CPNTShow's #BMM30 series, Chris is discussing the wonder that is 1999, the album before Purple Rain and an album with a certain sound that marked a change in Prince's production that people would try to duplicate, but simply couldn't.
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Black Music Month 30 - Feel Good
For Day Six of Black Music Month, the #CPNTShow #BMM30 series explores a rarity - a 21st century R&B band. The Internet's second studio album "Feel Good" was the predecessor to the wildly successful Ego Death and Chris talks about the instrumentation and the aura that makes Feel Good...well, Feel...
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Black Music Month 30 - Open Our Eyes
Day Five of the #CPNTShow #BMM30 series and today, Chris is talking Earth Wind & Fire's "Open Our Eyes," a great album that displayed all the elements that made The Elements great.
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Black Music Month 30 - Rapture
Time to get up and clean house! Well at least that's what it was in Black households when Anita Baker's Rapture began blaring over speakers on Saturday mornings starting in 1986. For Day 4 of Black Music Month, Chris discusses how Rapture came to be and how it will continue to be the standard for...
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Black Music Month 30 - 4eva N a Day
Getting into some rap for Day Three of #BMM30 and Chris is talking about one of his favorites from the consistently dope Big K.R.I.T, 4eva N a day. The discussion is about the album itself and the motivation behind it, which makes it one of K.R.I.T's absolute best.
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Black Music Month 30 - Central Heating
Day Two of the CPNT Show Black Music Month 30 takes us to...Europe via Dayton Ohio as Chris discusses the funk/soul/disco masterpiece that is Heatwave's Central Heating album. It is Heatwave's best album with their core membership intact (though they wouldn't stay intact for long) and Chris...
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Black Music Month 30 - Head Hunters
Welcome to June, which is Black Music Month! From the mind and heart of Chris Stevens, we will be giving you 30 album reviews for 30 days in June. Chris will share the albums that shaped his musical tastes, albums from artists and bands that are essential listening in their catalog and just all...
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Politics As Usual
In the newest edition of the CPNT Show, Chris gets real about the anti-voting sentiment pushed by Uncle Luke and others, makes an announcement about a fun future project for the show and shares some thoughts about talking yourself into (and out of) things and how to use your discretion in that...
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White traditions and Journalism's joke state
In this latest edition of the CPNT Show, Chris talks about the tragic and senseless domestic terrorism act in Buffalo, NY this past weekend and how young white men are ready to uphold old white men's ideals of racism and violence. Also, a discussion of Kehlani's interview on the Morning Hustle…
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Get Write To It with Chris Stevens is a culture/music/society podcast hosted and produced by Chris Stevens, a journalist, writer, random thinker and inquisitive person. Chris shares his thoughts on the world as whole with the world and has great conversations and discussions with guests from all walks of life. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/getwritetoit/support
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