blankSLATE with SaVon

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Ep. 6 | "Watch the Throne... Fall" | Culture Accountability Jul 13, 2026

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Nobody's off limits anymore, and the first name that comes to mind when SaVon thinks of untouchable is Jay-Z. This episode walks the straight-line path that got hip hop here — Me Too, R. Kelly, Diddy, and finally Drake and Kendrick — and lands on why the culture is now openly questioning a man who spent 30 years controlling the narrative without ever having to say a word. SaVon and Yassy also get into the Akademiks and Charlamagne proxy war, Jay-Z's quiet exits from Tidal and the Brooklyn Nets, and the Beyoncé brand symmetry that made both of them untouchable in the first place.

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"The Great Whites!" | Yassy's Radio Debut: Her Akademiks Origin, Trauma Bonding +MORE | blankSLATE Radio Jul 07, 2026

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Trauma bonding built this friendship, and now it's building a segment. Yassy makes her first crossover onto the Radio side, and before we even touch current events, we're going all the way back — how she actually linked with Akademiks (email, not a tweet, and yes, there's an Applebee's involved), what nobody knows about her radio dreams before blankSLATE, and why LA burned both of us out in almost identical ways. Then we get into it: Yassy's Mount Rushmore of white people, my rebuttal list, a genuinely humbling Mount Rushmore trivia round, and a teaser for the hip-hop Mount Rushmore conversation we're clearly going to have to finish another time.

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Episode 5 | "Lab Rats With Wi-Fi" | The Social Experiment Jun 30, 2026

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There used to be a line between watching entertainment and being used by it. This episode makes the case that the line is gone and that the audience became the experiment without ever agreeing to it.

SaVon and Yassy use Love Island, the Verzuz stage, and the long-running Tyler Perry and 50 Cent debate as entry points into a larger conversation about engineered attention, reaction turned into profit, and a culture that quietly turned its audience into the product. Three pillars that look unrelated on the surface, running the same play underneath.

The experiment isn't whether the entertainment works. It's whether anyone watching will ever do something it didn't already predict. Become a member of blankSLATE on Patreon — ad-free listening, early access, and a direct hand in shaping the show. Join here: https://www.patreon.com/blankslatehq

Episode 4 | "Famous At 5, Untouchable At 50" (with YassyTV) | The Monoculture Conversation Jun 22, 2026

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There used to be such a thing as monoculture — one moment everyone was tapped into at the same time. Michael Jackson was the last person to truly have it, and this episode makes the case for why the world will never make another. Everybody throws his name around — Kanye, Beyoncé, Chris Brown, Usher, even Taylor Swift — but SaVon and Yassy, joined by Karl aka FilmGawd, break down the seven buckets that made Michael Jackson untouchable, why the biopic worked for casuals but lost the real fans, and a Mount Rushmore of the artists who get closest — knowing none of them actually reach him. The thesis: universal fame is structurally over, and he was the last of it.

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"The Internet Had A Lot To Say" + Reacting To The Elliott Wilson $20k | blankSLATE Radio Jun 17, 2026

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SaVon breaks down exactly when the contract was signed, when payment was due, and why the "life happened" excuse doesn't hold up. This is the full story, for the last time.

Episode 3 | "Eat What You Kill" | The Elliott Wilson Story Jun 15, 2026

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The other half of the story, and the part that lingers. SaVon traces what happened after the work was done and the money never came — the silence, an offer that wasn't really an offer, and the question of who answers when the people at the top go quiet. Less about the $20,000 than what the whole thing revealed about Elliott Wilson, Roc Nation, and the business behind them.

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Episode 2 | "The $20,000 Mistake" | The Elliott Wilson Story Jun 14, 2026

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SaVon breaks down the $20,000 he lost on a high-profile podcast season tied to Elliott Wilson and backed by Roc Nation. He left a stable job to bet on himself and carried the risk alone. He was warned before he ever signed — and went anyway. Part 1 is how it started, what made him say yes, and what it ended up costing him.

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"Two Pimps, One Algorithm" — How Clip Culture Works | blankSLATE Radio Jun 12, 2026

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The internet found a way to make humiliation pay rent.

Deen the Great and Adrien Broner. Adam22 and Lena the Plug. Two arrangements, one machine — and a clipping economy that pays the most for your lowest moment. We pull it apart: where the money actually goes, why you can't escape these people, and what the algorithm is quietly training all of us to become.

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Episode 1 | "Reality Is Optional" | with YassyTV Jun 08, 2026

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For the first official episode of blankSLATE, SaVon and Yassy use Jay-Z's Roots Picnic freestyle, Dame Dash's ongoing criticism of his former business partner, Akademiks' interview with Daphne Joy, and the rapid rise of AI as entry points into a larger conversation about celebrity culture, internet narratives, parasocial relationships, and the growing gap between perception and reality.

The episode also includes firsthand insight from inside Roots Picnic and a discussion about why some stories refuse to die, why we speak about public figures as if we know them personally, and what happens when technology becomes good enough to make reality negotiable.

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"The Saddest Beef in Hip-Hop History" — JAY-Z vs Dame Dash | blankSLATE Radio Jun 03, 2026

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Two men built an empire together and haven't spoken business since 2004. Only one of them can't stop bringing it up.

Dame Dash and Jay-Z built Roc-A-Fella together. They haven't done business since 2004. Now one of them won't stop talking about the other. After Jay-Z's Roots Picnic freestyle, Dame responded the way he always does — a camera, a meme, a round of jokes. Everybody ran the same clip. But the response said more about Dame than it did about Jay.

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