Joy-Ann Reid

The Big Fight: MAGA Fascist Camps & The Texas Steal | The Joy Reid Show LIVE! Congressman Al Green is messing with Texas

Friday night on TJRS: An Epstein cover-up, a national sick day, what's up with the ICC, and fighting fascism as a "free Democrat" with Rep. Al Green open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

He should put this interview on his campaign finance forms…

I’m currently in a hotel listening to @cnn give Andrew Cuomo millions of dollars in free advertising; having him on to comment on the recent shooting and now asking leading questions, prompting him to attack Zohran Mamdani as an antisemite who hates police. This is some wild state police shit…

A Daily Reid: When we call them fascists, it's because they ARE A brave teenager filmed MAGA secret police brutalizing him and other teenagers, and bragging about a $30,000 kidnap bonus. So no, we don't have to respect ICE or whoever.

The latest at Joy's House: calling a thing a thing. www.joyannreid.com/publish/post...

And yes, I've always been a hater. Never liked Trump or Puffy, or whole song "sampling," which IMHO undermined the creativity of hip hop. Happy Saturday, fam!

YouTube video by Biggie Smalls TV The Notorious B.I.G. - Dolly My Baby [Hip Hop Remix] [Feat. Super Cat, Mary J. Blige & Third Eye]

So here's the song. Judge for yourself if Puffy was exactly what @yevkras.bsky.social & @chantalalive.bsky.social called him: a dork, inserting himself into an otherwise hot song and ruining it. Let me know in comments if you agree. #puffycantrap #thediddler #blacksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N1Y...

The other rappers on the track? A brother called Third Eye, who honestly I didn't really feel, but clearly Puffy did because in his bars he COPIED HIS STYLE ... and the Notorious B.I.G., who apparently Puffy wasn't savvy enough (or daring enough) to try to copy. Plus background vocals by Mary J.

So anyhoo, we put the remix on Video Dub Plate, and it was one of our audience's favorites. When a track was hot, Jason in the edit would pull up and rewind. Well this one was hot ... EXCEPT for Puffy's verse -- because of COURSE he put a verse on the remix. (Picture me rolling my eyes...)

Cat released the original in 1992, and a year later Columbia Records put out a remix, "produced" by Puffy (who I was told when I interviewed Brian McKnight back in the day for an article, meant he walks into the studio with the actual producers, listens in and says "I like that," then records it...)

One of the main features of the show was the "pull up and rewind," where Jason (who directed and edited the show) would put in a record scratch and rerun the track, DJ style. One of the most popular videos we would play on the show was "Dolly My Baby" by legendary dancehall artist Super Cat.

...and a 19-year-old, pre dreads, Buju Banton. Through the legendary Angelo Ellerbee, we met Damien Marley when he was a kid literally eating breakfast cereal, the brothers from FUBU, and the iconic June Ambrose. We even got a Vibe writeup. It was one of the most fun times ever in my life.

...to produce a local NY reggae music TV show called Video Dub Plate. This was during the height of the MTV, Ralph McDaniels, BET music video era. The show actually got popular. We won an award, interviewed some incredible artists including a young Shaggy, Beres Hammond (at his house, no less...)

Let me prove to y'all once and for all that the two posts below are 1000 percent true. Let me tell you a story. Back in the '90s, Jason and I had our first production company: Isle One Productions. We formed it with a group of our homies (really his homies who adopted me into the group...)

A Moral Outrage: Mass Deportation & Starving Gaza | The Joy Reid Show The Joy Reid Show July 26, 2025 episode

ICYMI: On Friday’s show, I proposed that the U.S. and Israel are currently the world’s most prolific human rights violators, and spoke with immigration expers Nana Gyamfi and Angela Fernandez, Rula Jebreal, Lizz Winstead and Jill Wine Banks. Catch the episode here! www.joyannreid.com/p/a-moral-ou...

A Weekly Reid: Goodnight, '80s and '90s... This week we've said goodbye to Theo Huxtable, Ozzy, Hulk Hogan and what's left of our Gen X innocence

I wrote about the death of Generation X’s “age of innocence,” and the cluster of 80s-famous stars we lost this week. www.joyannreid.com/p/a-weekly-r...

Truth and Consequences: Trump Is In The Epstein Files | The Joy Reid Show LIVE! YouTube video by The Joy Reid Show

Tonight on The Joy Reid Show, I spoke with Luther Campbell (AKA Uncle Luke) about the Trump Mar a Lago parties that were too much for him to remain at, and Angelo Carusone of Media Matters about Trump's clear fear of the Epstein Files ... www.youtube.com/live/cFc4gEH...

Is it possible to speak from Hell???

Speaker Johnson called an #EpsteinRecess to stop people from talking about Trump’s wonderful “pal”, or how their relationship was “a wonderful thing” and Donald’s birthday wish for Jeff was “may every day be another wonderful secret.”

Watch Epstein react to questions during his depositions 2009-16

tick tock tick tock Donald...

A 'The Joy Reid Show' Special: Losing Altadena The families who lost everything in the January fires are still struggling to recover.

In this special episode of The Joy Reid Show, we follow the stories of Altadena residents still struggling to recover from the historic January wildfires. www.joyannreid.com/p/a-the-joy-...

He'll do anything to get his base off the subject, including having his insane clown posse threaten to arrest Barack Obama on some bullshit.

A Daily Reid: What if the Q-anoners were (sort of) right? It does feel like there's a broad conspiracy of sorts, to protect sexually predatory men; it's just not coming from where the conspiracists want it to.

Maybe there IS a conspiracy to protect predators … www.joyannreid.com/p/a-daily-re...

A Weekend Reid: our maga autocracy is on autopilot, while Trump crashes out on Epstein The police state autocracy continues to erect itself, while Donald runs on swollen ankles from the Epstein files and that birthday book

While Trump loses his mind over his dead pedo pal, whom his base just won’t get over, the autocracy he’s long dreamed of ruling is self-installing www.joyannreid.com/p/a-weekend-...

CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’ CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night

Devastating. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Alligator Alcatraz: A legal black hole, hidden in a swamp Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.

If you read one thing today… jasongarcia.substack.com/p/alligator-...

The Bari Weiss path is
A) join legacy media
B) complain loudly, don’t do actual journalism, resign in a huff
C) complain loudly, don’t do actual journalism, start your own media company that caters to billionaires
D) cash in

Why is there such intense censorship on this one issue? Someone please explain it to me like I’m five.

The ACLU just paid their bond to ensure that Trump’s birthright citizenship ban will remain blocked for a class of all babies.

They included this image of the bond in court papers. www.allrisenews.com/p/birthright...

BREAKING

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties, including Los Angeles.

This looks like an occupied, wartorn country, not the U.S.