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-Alright, we're back.
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Bashir, Diallo, we're talking
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about all the special guest stars...
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-Oh, yeah. -...on your "Spectacular."
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I mean -- so you have Questlove, Tariq.
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You got who -- who else?
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-Oh, man, we've got -- we've got --
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obviously, we got John Legend. -Mm-hmm.
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-We got Terrence J. We have Lil Rel.
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We have the Toms from "Vanderpump Rules."
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-That's right.
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-Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval came through.
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-No way. You got the Toms?
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-We got the Toms. -We got the Toms.
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[ Laughter ] -How are they?
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-They were really nice, man, and they had a really good time.
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And those guys were, like, game to have fun.
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And, you know, it's always cool when somebody shows up
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and they just want to -- they got the joke immediately,
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and they just want to have fun. -Yeah.
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-So that was -- -Oh, my God.
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Mario Van Peebles comes through...
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-That's right. -...and does something that I --
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honestly, if you've ever seen the movie "New Jack City,"
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you do not want to miss Mario Van Peebles
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on the "Black History Month Spectacular."
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-Yeah. -It's kind of amazing.
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-Sonny Spoon! -That's right.
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[ Laughs ] That's right. -Remember that?
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-Yeah, I remember that.
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-"Sherman's Showcase: Black History Month Spectacular,"
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this Friday, 10:00 p.m., on AMC.
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I can't wait for everyone to see it.
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Uh, sorry.
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Guys, you -- you look different.
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-Oh, uh, different?
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I mean, you noticed? -Oh, yeah.
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-You noticed that? -Yeah.
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-Yeah. -Yeah, this is --
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-We just decided to wear some Kente cloth.
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-Little Kente. -Oh, it looks good.
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Looks good. -Yeah.
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-Yeah. -Thank you very much.
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-Well, you know, like everything else,
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Kente cloth comes from Africa --
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West Africa, specifically. -Everything comes from Africa.
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That's right. You know --
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and a lot of people don't know this, but at graduation time,
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whether it be high school, middle school,
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college, grad school, a lot of black kids --
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black American kids will actually wear Kente stoles
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over their graduation robes.
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-Yes, Kente cloth is the --
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is at the center of a uniquely African-American tradition.
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-That's right. Grew up with it. That's right.
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And, you know, we love it. We love Kente so much.
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We think it's really a good part of any look you can have.
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In fact, for the "Spectacular," we made a music video about it
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called "Add Some Kente."
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And is it cool if we show you
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a little sneak peek right now, Jimmy?
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-Absolutely. -Alright.
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-Here is "Add Some Kente" from
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the "Sherman's Showcase: Black History Month Spectacular."
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-♪ Add some Kente ♪
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♪ To your Timbs ♪
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♪ Add some Kente ♪
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♪ To your rims ♪
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♪ Add some Kente ♪
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♪ To your jeans ♪
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♪ Add some Kente ♪
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♪ To the Marines ♪
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♪ Add some Kente ♪
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♪ To your Lambos ♪
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♪ Add some Kente ♪
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♪ To Rambo ♪
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-That is awesome. I can't believe --
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I can't believe you did that, like, months ago.
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But -- And, Diallo, I saw you in there, man.
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-Yeah, in the gas mask. -In the gas mask.
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-That was a total coincidence. We shot that in January.
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-That's right. -And Bashir -- the --
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my singer in the video -- that is --
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that's your sister Zuri.
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-That's true. That's right.
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Not only is that my sister,
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but I actually have her actual Kente stole
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from SIU, baby!
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Let's go, Salukis! -Whoa.
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-Salukis!
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-Wow, that is a keepsake right there.
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-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yep. And I saw her graduate, and I had two thoughts.
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I said, "Number one, how beautiful.
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Number two, I see a business opportunity here."
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-Yeah. Bashir called me immediately,
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and he saw dollar signs.
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So he had a guy who could get us Kente cloth wholesale.
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-I got a Kente guy.
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You know, we're gonna make quick buck every year --
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millions of kids graduate.
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I saw dollar signs.
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I was like, "This is gonna work out."
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-Yeah. Unfortunately, though, not really this year.
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-No, no, not at all.
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-Yeah, we got tons of overstock, Jimmy.
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-Never know when you're gonna be in a market correction.
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Here we are. -Here we are.
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Guys, "Sherman's Showcase: Black History Month Spectacular"
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airs on AMC, 10:00 p.m., June 19th.
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My thanks to Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle.
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More "Tonight Show" when we come back.
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I love you dudes.
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-Thank you so much. -Thanks, Jimmy.