Ella Mai and Ari Lennox recently dropped new R&B albums and the girls are loving them...but I have some juicy thoughts.

In today's Brain Squeeze episode I give my review on Ella Mai's new album, "Do You Still Love Me?" and Ari Lennox's "Vacancy." The gworlss are loving it from what I'm seeing on social media, but I think I'm a tough critic. Take a listen to my honest thoughts on these albums and what I feel like R&B is missing today.

This episode is a squeeze on the Super Bowl, and we’re talking way more than football.

I recap the night from Coco Jones’ powerful rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing to the tech and AI-heavy commercials that felt more like normalization than marketing. We get into the Ring “search party” ad and what it might say about surveillance because I know it wasn't just about no dogs!

I also break down Bad Bunny’s halftime show, his love letter to Puerto Rico, and why you don’t need to understand every lyric to feel the message. Plus, why Turning Point USA’s “counter halftime” was trash, and whether Chris Brown could really be next up on the big stage.

HAPPY FRIDAY!! We made it to the end of the week, and the first week of the Brain Squeeze Podcast, so we have to get into The Weekly Squeeze!

In today's Brain Squeeze episode I introduce The Weekly Squeeze, a chit chat about things that happened this week that can ease us into the weekend. Today I talked about how my Juice 75 is going (my version of the 75 Hard) and my experience as a guest reader for a few kiddo classes for Black History Month. Then I give a sour squeeze to rapper Glorilla's sister, Scar Face a.k.a. "Bro-Rilla" a.k.a. Victoria Woods, for talking too much trying to get her 15 minutes of fame using her sister's name smh.