00:00I'm Dana Johnson and welcome to Essence Live, your new go-to destination for candid convos
00:09and the inside scoop on everything from entertainment, news, fashion, and of course, love and relationships.
00:14Liv and my boo Jake are back from the island.
00:17Is he your boo or?
00:18Well, in my head we're dating.
00:19Okay, a booty call, I mean, it was mentioned nine times.
00:23Booty call.
00:24The booty call.
00:25Booty call.
00:25Can a booty call be romantic?
00:27Absolutely.
00:28What?
00:28Dear black women, did you know that cornrows are trendy again thanks to Rita Ora and Kristen Stewart?
00:34What?
00:34How is that a new trend?
00:36How to get away with murder.
00:39Murder.
00:40Yes.
00:40We've already seen Viola pulling up her panties.
00:42I want to introduce you to the steam room.
00:45What's the last thing you dreamed about?
00:47German chocolate.
00:48On my wife.
00:50Hey, steam room.
00:51Whether it is reality TV or your favorite scripted drama, it seems that the relationships depicted
00:56on television are way too close to real life.
00:59This show definitely illustrates the importance of you always putting yourself first.
01:02A man cannot be your identity.
01:04Is there a new black or should we still consider ourselves African-American?
01:08You know, I think it's on her that if she feels as though she doesn't know where her roots
01:12is, you know, maybe there's an Ancestry.com.
01:14No shit.
01:15Slade or Shade is a round-robin game of, you know, some hits or misses from the week.
01:20Part of their story is, is that they're going to have a hard time raising this biracial child
01:25in an all-white community.
01:27Oh, so it's not a struggle as two lesbians?
01:30As much as I want to shade, I say Slade because I will be tuning in religiously.
01:34Yes, hello!
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