... But what I do like, if we're talking about tying it into contemporary music and black music, there is a song on the Game Gear Sonic. ...

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But what I do like, if we're talking about tying it into contemporary music and black music, there is a song on the Game Gear Sonic. Let me play a little of this.
In Context
... But like, they're in the credits. Michael Jackson doesn't write everything he does. Like from scratch, he has help all the time. And those people are credited. And it's just like, God damn the internet is lazy. No one's ever done this. But what I do like, if we're talking about tying it into contemporary music and black music, there is a song on the Game Gear Sonic. Let me play a little of this. - It's better than Michael Jackson. (upbeat music) ♪ Where I go ♪ ...
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... - Okay, okay, so getting back into it, T.L. wanted to do a thing like why black people like Sonic? I could make, I could poo-poo him here, but I won't, because the only thing being like, I think everybody likes Sonic. ...
... And I think what TL is trying to tie in, that's kind of the currency black entertainment had that white entertainment didn't is because those skills were kind of learned naturally through the course of a much different way of life. ...
... - I sort of want to know what you like about Sonic the Hedgehog, and I know that not everybody out there can comment on Sonic's blackness comfortably, or like what, but I do like that we brought it up like that. ...
and more people to play games than ever, and that's why we have conversations like that, like, I don't mean to insert politics or political beliefs in your show, but like, hey, we can't get to the bottom of it without it, you know, and TL, Black History Month, - Black History Month, yeah. ...
... And I looked up a whole thing about black median household incomes. And I bored myself because I barely understand it. ...
... Shadow's cool, but-- - I gotta say, on the internet, people think Shadow is for real black. Like, just-- - No. ...
... - I think also, as Emmett being, I know Emmett being a black leftist, seeing a show by a black leftist written in 2005, so interesting, so very interesting. ...
... - Yeah, well, I think it's one of the things where it's, I think there's a lot of mixing between black music and at the time, the big thing in Japan is like, oh, it's City Pop, right? ...
... - The weird thing is, my weird thing, 'cause the thing that I like about Sonic, and the reason why he's different than other characters, is that he is kind of just the embodiment of cool, and as a black nerd, as someone who's been-- - Wait, wait, can I say that? ...
- Yeah, I'll actually, I'll start mine, 'cause I do think it's something, like you said, I think it's something very, like, it's something that is very, like, cultural touch to it, like, for me, it does, like, I think also why, like, I think Sonic is for black, like, it was like, loved by black people, it was like the first game outside of my family, like, I just got a lot of people who were like, who would, like, get me really into it, so, like, for me, when we moved to Jacksonville, my late uncle, his…
... - Exactly, and I, I, I'm hardly grew up poor, but I was just a firmly middle-class black kid. You can't see me, they don't know. ...
... Jordan 1s you can get for $120 normally. Black and white Jordan 1s, great shoes, great shoes. - I want the miles wearing so bad. ...
... Like, so like, I hate bringing it up, 'cause I talked about it sometimes in the goofy movie, when representation of black characters is so poor. Sometimes all you need is the absence of whiteness. ...
... - I'm glad you mentioned that, because I just made a bunch of Sonic nerds cream their jeans with the first appearance of Sally Acorn, who has a Tisha Campbell haircut, and is kind of unmistakably black as a character, and naked, just always naked. ...
... - That is a, that is a pin in a show that we should do it sometimes, because I have been, I have been thinking about that, 'cause like it's also been a conversation people had about like anime. A lot of black people who have been like, well, I like anime and people were bullying me. ...
... - That's, I forgot. We had a regular Mario Black tally on the show. ...