Speaker 1: In case you missed it, Usher is married officially now.
Speaker 1: He married his longtime girlfriend music executive Jennifer go Chachia
Speaker 1: Uh in a secret ceremony done at the Fast Lane
Speaker 1: Drive Through Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. Usher and Jennifer
Speaker 1: were in the front seat of an old school convertible
Speaker 1: for the ceremony, and Usher and Jennifer's kids were on
Speaker 1: the back seat, all dressed in white. Usher's mother was there.
Speaker 1: The after party or wedding reception was at Flipper's Roller
Speaker 1: Boogie Palace. It was a star studded event and Soup
Speaker 1: Dog performed sounds that sounds fun? Yes, congratulations, Russia loves.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: All right, Moving on, this is some sad news. After
Speaker 1: five decades are performing, Frankie Beverly has announced his retirement UH.
Speaker 1: In an exclusive statement to Billboard, Frankie said, I want
Speaker 1: to share with my life flung fans and associates that
Speaker 1: I'll be going out on the road one last time
Speaker 1: then retire. Thank you so much for the support given
Speaker 1: to me for over fifty years. Fifty years. Frankie farewell
Speaker 1: tour is appropriately named I Want to Thank You, and
Speaker 1: it will visit five cities starting in March. El Dubarge
Speaker 1: and Shaka Khan will be featured guests on the tour.
Speaker 3: By No game though, Franky though, Steve, I know, man,
Speaker 3: that dude, man, thank you, dude.
Speaker 2: That dude gave us some moments. Man, I know, I know.
Speaker 2: It's not what it used to be. Man. You know,
Speaker 2: good man, Lord have mercy. He got enough bank shows
Speaker 2: for me. Go out on talk great ones.
Speaker 1: You were on vacation, Steve, but Frankie Field in for
Speaker 1: you one morning and he was great. Yeah, he did
Speaker 1: a great job.
Speaker 2: That's my man, right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, best live live, oh for sure, live at
Speaker 1: the same God.
Speaker 2: Silky Soul.
Speaker 1: That was the first one, right.
Speaker 2: What silky so first album?
Speaker 1: That was the first album. I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just know live first that was about Marvin gay right, right,
Speaker 1: because Marvin Gaye discovered them, right yeah, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll believe. Well, we will miss you, Frankie, We will
Speaker 1: miss you, and thanks for all the decades of great music.
Speaker 1: What about Sunday's huh, I'm sorry? What about.
Speaker 2: Yeah adult they waited?
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, all right, Moving on to Sunday Super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty eight, making history with one of the biggest
Speaker 1: TV ratings in American history, with viewership of one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty three point four million people. Fans are already
Speaker 1: looking forward to next year's big Game in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: and they've been debating over who deserves to headline the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Super Bowl halftime show. One popular pick
Speaker 1: is jay Z jay Z himself, whose company Rock Nation
Speaker 1: helps to organize the ententame entertainment portion of the halftime show.
Speaker 1: Earlier this year, when asked about doing it, Jay responded,
Speaker 1: I thought it would be selfish to pick myself so early.
Speaker 1: Maybe one year, maybe New Orleans native Lil Wayne is
Speaker 1: also interested. He is boldly stated, we are praying, we praying,
Speaker 1: We keeping our fingers crossed. I'm working hard. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make sure this next album and everything I do is killer.
Speaker 1: I want to just make it hard for them not
Speaker 1: to holler at boy. Uh yeah. Also, T Payne has
Speaker 1: thrown his name out there as a headliner too, So
Speaker 1: if you guys giving it any thought, I know you
Speaker 1: said pain can.
Speaker 2: Say, but I don't think he's as popular. You know,
Speaker 2: Lou Wayne is so popular and and and people are
Speaker 2: saying are arguably one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Speaker 2: And I'm not I'm not a hip hop connor Swift's ain't.
Speaker 1: Wheezy is a lyricist.
Speaker 3: I'm just concerned CBS gonna be able to.
Speaker 1: Well taken. I don't know, man, what you said earlier,
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm telling you that. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 2: what they're gonna go that route. I think they'll put
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift out there. They are white people, have.
Speaker 3: God, somebody, I'm just gonna saying something up.
Speaker 2: Oh, let me tell you some man. I know that
Speaker 2: I know this country right here. I've been in this
Speaker 2: country sixty seven years. They can't fool me at all
Speaker 2: if you don't think there's some discuss about too many
Speaker 2: blacks in a row on the Super Bowl in a
Speaker 2: row man, hundred and twenty some million viewers, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna keep giving that to these black people. See, I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, man, that's from a real discussions about this.
Speaker 2: The NFL owners has got to have this discussion with
Speaker 2: Roger Goodell. Roger Goodell got to go to Rock nationause
Speaker 2: because jay Z running this thing. Now, when all y'all
Speaker 2: was mad at jay Z for taking the job. Colin Kapanio,
Speaker 2: he took the job. Jay Z's smart man. Y'all, y'all
Speaker 2: need to understand. Listen to me, and I'm not saying this,
Speaker 2: but this is the parable art happen to you. You
Speaker 2: have to talk to the enemies. If two enemies don't talk,
Speaker 2: we never have peace. You have to in order to
Speaker 2: bring about change. You can't stay over there and they
Speaker 2: stay over there. The two opposing parties have to come
Speaker 2: together and talk for anything to change, y'all. Quit quit
Speaker 2: saying stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Jay Z.
Speaker 2: And now look at what he's done, and he's not
Speaker 2: getting enough credit for what he's done. Rihanna was out
Speaker 2: there a snoop, Neil was out there, USh was out there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you understand. That's called the jay Z.
Speaker 1: All right, Steve coming up at twenty minutes after the hour.
Speaker 1: If you could trade bodies with any celebrity or another
Speaker 1: person on the planet, who would it be. We'll talk
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