00:00Yeah, welcome back, welcome back.
00:02Listen, I told y'all don't play with my DMV sister.
00:04She killed it, didn't you?
00:05She was killing it up there.
00:06She looking real good, too.
00:07Yeah, her outfit was given dancing for the songs.
00:08I got to put up my little son on the hook, man.
00:10She's like a snack for Zaire, though.
00:12How old is your son?
00:1326.
00:1426.
00:15She don't want it.
00:16He's still too young.
00:17He too young for her?
00:18Yes.
00:19You hear all that stuff I already be singing about?
00:20No, he like 6'11".
00:21She don't want no un-given, deceiving, head-aid person.
00:24Oh, why you trying to say I am so my son is?
00:27You know what?
00:28We gon' go to social media, what they got to say about Ari's performance.
00:31Somebody said, Ari looks and sounds amazing per usual.
00:34And y'all already know what it is.
00:36Yes, Lord, Ari Lennox knows she look good as a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich.
00:41That's who had to come from DMV.
00:42It had to come from Baltimore or D.C.
00:45Somebody said, Ari Lennox is a vocalist, honey, in this all-female band.
00:50Oh, yes.
00:51Listen, let's give it up for them.
00:52Bad.
00:53Bad.
00:54They was bad.
00:55They were absolutely bad.
00:56They just flourished year after year.
00:58Really brings me joy.
00:59My girl is on the Essence Fest stage.
01:00Let's go!
01:01Yes, yes, yes.
01:02Yes, for all the black women musicians.
01:05Yes, give it up again.
01:06They all look good.
01:07Yes.
01:08Incredible.
01:09Ari's outfit is everything.
01:10I was gonna wear that, too.
01:11You was gonna wear that?
01:12Yeah, I was gonna wear it.
01:13But then I knew Ari was wearing it, so I didn't wear it.
01:15So you was like, no.
01:16Yeah, and I ain't got the legs for her.
01:17All right.
01:18Somebody said, like I said, Ari Lennox never misses.
01:21She looked and sounded amazing tonight.
01:23Hashtag Essence Fest.
01:24Love that.
01:25Love that.
01:26Whatever point that Ari Lennox is trying to prove, she's proving it.
01:29Sheesh!
01:30Uh-huh.
01:31Hashtag Essence Fest.
01:32Ari Lennox looks so, so good.
01:35So classic.
01:36Yeah, and she did a thing.
01:37Speaking of good-looking and classic, y'all see who we got right here?
01:40Y'all see who we got right here?
01:41Y'all see who we got Miss Latoya Luckett is in the building!
01:44Latoya Luckett.
01:45Yes, we do.
01:46Hey, baby, how you doing?
01:47I'm wonderful.
01:48Refined woman and actress and all that.
01:50Aw, thank you.
01:51Listen, how does it feel to be here at the Essence Fest 2023?
01:54And we on Hulu, girl.
01:55First of all, if you know me, you know anything about Latoya Luckett,
01:58I love me some Essence Fest.
01:59Good.
02:00I've been coming for the past, what, 15-something-plus years?
02:02Yeah.
02:03Right.
02:04It's what I look forward to every single year, to see us come together,
02:07love on each other.
02:08It's like a big family reunion.
02:10Mm-hmm.
02:11Yeah, it is.
02:12With our favorite cousins performing.
02:13Are you one of them cousins that be walking down Bourbon Street?
02:16I don't quite make it to Bourbon.
02:18She don't even make it there.
02:20Because they be having me working and carrying on.
02:22But I love it.
02:23I love it.
02:24I love it.
02:25And the fans are absolutely wonderful, right?
02:27Yes.
02:28Everybody is so polite and nice.
02:29Everybody's so kind, and they're just excited to be here.
02:32And just, it's a feeling that I get nowhere else.
02:36Yeah.
02:37And it's an experience that I just love.
02:39And I love bringing my family and my friends to come and experience it with me.
02:43Absolutely.
02:44But yeah, here we are again.
02:45Yeah.
02:46So we're celebrating 50 years in hip-hop.
02:48Yeah.
02:49And we're also celebrating Lauryn Hill.
02:50She's also celebrating.
02:51Yeah.
02:5225 years.
02:5325 years.
02:54Of the Miss Education of Lauryn Hill.
02:5525 years?
02:56Yes.
02:57That album came out 25 years ago?
02:5825 years ago.
02:59I was 14.
03:00Oh my goodness.
03:01You were 14.
03:02I'm lying.
03:03I wasn't even born yet if that was the case.
03:06Do you know what else?
03:07Who else is celebrating 25 years?
03:09Who else?
03:10Destiny's Child.
03:11Oh my gosh.
03:12Yes.
03:13Yes.
03:14So all hell.
03:15No, it don't matter.
03:1625 years ago?
03:17Yes.
03:18But she still look good.
03:19You look amazing.
03:21Y'all do too.
03:22Good black don't crack.
03:23That's what they say.
03:25Look at y'all.
03:26The beginning of the girl group.
03:29Man.
03:30All I'll say is, first of all, it was such an honor and a blessing.
03:33Yeah.
03:34To be a part of such an amazing group of women.
03:36Just coming together and doing what we love to do, which was sing and entertain.
03:40Yeah.
03:41I will never, ever, ever take that experience for granted.
03:44Yeah.
03:45Wishing all the ladies love, love, love, love.
03:47But I'm so glad that I can still walk down the street and somebody go, man, when y'all
03:52put out bills, bills, bills, when y'all put out Say Your Name, when y'all put out, like,
03:56y'all don't know what that did for me.
03:57That's right.
03:58No, you don't know what that did for me.
03:59Yeah.
04:00You don't know what that did to men.
04:01Exactly.
04:02You had to say y'all name and pay your bills.
04:03You messed us up.
04:04Ah.
04:05Stop it.
04:06But that makes me feel good to be sitting here with you and you.
04:09Legendary.
04:10She's a legend.
04:11That was always on my radio.
04:12And you are too.
04:13Yes.
04:16Thank you so much.
04:17Both of y'all.
04:18I'm so proud of you.
04:19If you don't climb that ladder and it's not an easy one to climb, I'm proud of you.
04:23Because she talented.
04:24Yes.
04:25She talented.
04:26And she can go on TV with no makeup, y'all.
04:27She has absolutely a drip of makeup.
04:30There's no foundation.
04:31There's just skin.
04:32She's got a little powder over there.
04:33Latoya, they told me that this was going to be outside.
04:35I think I was talking to the wrong black people.
04:37They was like, yo, what's going to be outside?
04:38It's going to be like a black party.
04:39And y'all know how the heat is.
04:41It is.
04:42But listen.
04:43Look at you.
04:44Thank you so much.
04:45You talking about no pores.
04:46Yeah.
04:47Yeah.
04:48I can't see the pores, baby.
04:49Thank you so much, baby.
04:50It's giving.
04:51Not at all.
04:52I'm so glad that you are here sitting with us.
04:53Thank you so much for coming to talk to us.
04:57Y'all having a good time up here on this Hulu stage.
04:59Absolutely, man.
05:00Absolutely.
05:01Latoya Luckett in the building with us.
05:02We got a lot of more good stuff coming back.
05:05I don't know what a lot of more is, but I just said it.
05:07We'll be back.
05:08Hulu.
05:09Hulu.
05:10Hulu.
05:11Hulu.
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