Conscious Approach

Jan 29 2025 10 ep. 163 mins 1

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Welcome to the Conscious Approach podcast, your garden variety of social commentary. Whether the topic is sports, music, relationships, society and culture, or how it is all interrelated, we have fun giving big opinions on social issues. Join JVWins and Dogon SS in the discussion. Thanks for listening!

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1/28/25: Snoop Dogg Doubles Down; New Rival for the NBA; New and Improved Brittany Renner

Jan 29 2025 163 mins

We’re back with a fresh stream, and this week we kick it and discuss Snoop Dogg taking a similar path to Nelly, seemingly doubling down on his decision to perform at Trump’s Crypto Ball and letting everyone know that the backlash isn’t bothering him. Should we heed Snoop’s words? We also discuss Brittany Renner, who has made the transition from being an industry woman to be

1/21/24: Nelly Backlash; Drake’s UMG Suit Sets Bad Precedent; Cam Newton Sad He’s Not Superman

Jan 23 2025 158 mins

After accepting an invitation to perform at the Crypto Ball, an event honoring Donald Trump’s inauguration, Nelly is getting dragged all over the place. From getting called an idiot by Amanda Seales to even Ashanti fans shutting fan pages on Instagram down, Nelly opting to perform at this event is being met with a lot of anger. Nelly is doubling down, saying it’s about respecti

1/14/25: Acclaimed Actor Struggling; Meta Rolls Back DEI; Zion Williamson Suspended

Jan 16 2025 173 mins

The world of culture, sports and society has a lot on the books for the show this week. We will get into interesting comments made by acclaimed actor Djimon Hounsou, who is lamenting struggling financially as an actor despite being nominated for Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. He blames it on systemic racism, but is there more to what he is going through? We will also discuss Me

1/7/25: Fox Sports Drama; Draya Michele's Double Standard Take; Professor Lupe Fiasco

Jan 07 2025 172 mins

This week, we're getting right into our thoughts on the sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Fox Corporation by former Fox Sports hairstylist Noushin Faraji, alleging that Joy Taylor leveraged sexual relationships with a high-ranking executive as well as on-air personality Emmanuel Acho to advance her career. Furthermore, she is alleged to have told Faraji to get over it after F

12/31/24: Trump Saving Tik Tok? Tina Knowles Defends Beyonce; DDG Buys Son a Ferrari

Jan 01 2025 129 mins

As the fate of Tik Tok looms in the balance, Donald Trump’s second administration could be the app’s saving grace as he has requested that the Supreme Court’s ban be delayed in an effort to seek a political solution. Are these points in Trump’s favor before he even takes office? There has also been a little noise in the aftermath of Beyonce’s performance during half time

12/24/24: Fat Joe on FBAs; Dame Dash on Jay-Z; 50 Cent Scolds Female Rappers

Dec 24 2024 182 mins

Merry Christmas Eve to everyone out there! This week, we discuss our thoughts on Fat Joe slamming the organization of Foundational Black Americans as “Black racists” for trying to assert that Blacks and Puerto Ricans did not share a hand in creating hip-hop, something Fat Joe believes to be true. Is he right to label FBAs as Black racists, or do FBAs have a point that hip-hop w

12/17/24: Usher Opens Creator Studio; Chris Brown Crushes South Africa; Jason Kelce Doesn't Babysit

Dec 17 2024 179 mins

Usher has opened a content studio to help foster creativity and artistic talents and endeavors for youth at a Boys & Girls Club in Atlanta. This falls right in line with our belief of what is the right way to help close the wealth gap for the underprivileged, so we get into our thoughts on this development. We also discuss Chris Brown crushing his performance in South Africa de

12/10/24: Waka Flocka Hates Wealth; Carmelo Anthony Defends Painted Nails; Ne-Yo the Womanizer

Dec 10 2024 170 mins

In a perspective that is rather anti-hip-hop, Waka Flocka has lamented his thoughts on wealth, stating that being wealthy is selfish and he prefers to give much of his money away because he doesn’t know what he’d do with $20 million in his bank account when he doesn’t need that much to eat whatever he wants, live how he wants to live, and drive what he wants. Are his thoughts

12/3/24: Freddie Gibbs is Anti-Gangsta; IShowSpeed on 9-to-5s; Nick Cannon’s Diagnosis

Dec 04 2024 146 mins

Hip-hop veteran Freddie Gibbs lamented his wishes to not be a gangsta rapper and rap about the streets or selling drugs during an appearance on The Berkeley Forum to students at the University of California, Berkeley, saying that he wishes he had never committed to being a street rapper in light of being a family man. We get into his interesting comments. We also discuss popular st

11/25/24: Andrew Schulz on Kendrick Lamar; Katt Williams Buys Studio Land; Jaleel White on College

Nov 27 2024 156 mins

Kendrick Lamar set the music world on fire with the surprise release of his GNX album. He also took shots at white comedians who joke about black women, which caught the attention of Andrew Shulz who responded to the line. He asks whether Kendrick is too woke to understand a joke. Is this a valid question? We also talk about Katt Williams, who has purchased land in Alabama to creat