[ laughter ] and then i was just like, i would do stuff like, you know, luther vandross was big so i uld sing the alphabets and stuff, you know, so -- [ laughter ] it was like that stuff. >> jimmy: you could do a a luther vandross doing the alphabet. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. that was like a big bit of mine right then. >> jimmy: i wish we had a video of that so we could watch it. >> oh man. i don't have a video, but, you know -- you know what i could do it just -- i could, like, re-introduce myself. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i think it's ready for a "tonight show" debut. >> me, too. ♪ [ audience chants "cheerio" ] >> jimmy: wow! cheerio. cheerio. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the comedy stylings of cheerio! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ what's up y'all ay say go cedric go cedric go go cedric ♪ ♪ go cedric go go cedric go cedric go ♪ ♪ go cedric go cedric go ♪ ♪ >> yeah. yeah, man. hey guys. so you know how luther vandross is so smooth. this is how he used to swoon the ladies when he was in elementary school. ♪ ♪ a, b, c d, e f, g h, i, j, k ♪ ♪ l m, n, o, p q, r, s, t, u, v, w

. >> i play a lot of smokey robinson, luther vandross -- new artists and that sort. i specialize in making sure folks are comfortable when they get home from work. >> great music. we are going to come back in the next segment and look at your "all tied up." >> thank you. >> we are back with ahmad car. thank you for joining us. >>> welcome back to mosaic. i'm ron swisher. i am with ahmad carr. he will tell us about "all tied up." >> all tied up started in august of 2016, august 11th. it was an opportunity for me to really express a part of me that has kind of developed over my manhood. over the years. the way it started, i went to a school in richmond -- actually, i was called upon by a football coach in richmond. she coached -- yes, she -- coached the richmond high football team, junior varsity, to be exact. i was on the radio one night and she reached out to me asking me if there is anything i can do as a radio personality to help young men that are their lives -- whether it is backpacks -- whether it is school supplies -- i referred her to a couple of different org

of our weapons and they are beautiful pictures of fearsome armaments yeah some people throw on luther vandross when they make. brian williams throws on the sound of screaming children. you know it's funny in those clips and in all the mainstream media i've ever watched i missed the part where any of them said the military has misplaced twenty one trillion dollars. dollars and when the media isn't actively promoting war they're just filling the airwaves with show so the in higher and higher of country can't even a hair ourselves take for a dog tags are all my escape is overflowing with nonsense and bake at celebrity bowls then while no one is looking the largest theft in history is going on beyond our backs covered up under the guise of national security it's that adds to the security kind of like i cover up my aardvark sex to pay by dressing up the little fella anabolic tie in a top pad are you you know keep it classy how do you wash your dishes. ok joe. camel is take the news from behind in louisiana more than thirty thousand nursing home a vixen notices were sent out yesterday the state is k

i haven't heard anybody this natural since back when i discovered luther vandross. see her on that piano? [classical music playing] ♪ she learned that today. ♪ self-taught. that's prince-level [bleep]. we should be honored to be in the presence of a musical genius like this. in our lifetime, a vocalist like this will never-- - this guy. bragging about me again. [chuckles] you know, i think the key is... treating your voice like it's an instrument. like any other instrument. a guitar. um, an electric guitar. piccolo. hold on. i've been singing my whole life, from the time i was a little kid. and dulcé has been singing for-- - i just started...today. - well, lucky for you, i'm a professional, so i will get you up to speed. [both flapping lips] but bigger. [flaps lips loudly] - [flaps lips] - and then, ha! ha! - this is gonna be a powerful song... for women. - and black women. - [vocalizing] - yeah, yeah. yeah, that's good. no, that's good. that's good. you just-- but a little more like... [vocalizing off-key] ♪ oh, yeah ah! you always end with "ah!" is that good? - ye

i go in the back of the studio and he says ♪ she says she wants to marvin gay, a little luther vandrossay, some ♪ >> he said, what are you doing? >> i said i'm the r&b singer. and this is when i knew kanye was in control. he said, "don't do that." ( laughter ) "just sing the song regular, we'll be good." in my mind i'm thinking this song is whack. he ain't going to make it. i begrudgingly sing the song. went off, did a bad movie for, like, eight weeks. came back, and when i came back, the song was number one in the country. so that's the end of the story. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: well, look, okay, look, you got-- you won a grammy. >> yeah. >> stephen: you won a agreement 2009 for "blame it," best r&b performance. you were nominated for "intuition" "love changes" "unpredictable, "creepin" and nominated for slow jams. okay, what's it like to-- you've featured, you feat on a lot of songs. how do you get into that game? i would like to feat. feat, stephen colbert, or even just wo, stephen colbert. >> you want to know the real secret? >> stephen: yes. >> you have to barge into peo

at night, he got some luther vandross songs [laughter] quarters,o the slave had sexual relations andad many children with sally hemmings. his loins trumped his logic. when he talks about postmodernism, i don't know what he is talking about. i teach postmodernism. it is fun. people who have been marginalized now begin to speak. the reason these people grew into existence and had a voice was because they were denied. group identity was foisted upon us. we were not seen as individuals. babe ruth, went he broke the home run record, he didn't that against the best all players, he batted against the best white ballplayers. you are born on third base and think you here a triple -- and think you hit a triple, at the toronto blue jays game. look at the indigenous names and the first nation names, toronto, saskatchewan, winnipeg, tim hortons. [laughter] an i will tell you, there is envy of the freedom and liberty that people of color and other minorities bring, because we bring the depth of knowledge in our body. there is a jealousy of that. as the canadian philosopher said, jealousy is just l

at night, he got some luther vandross on, went out to the slave quarter, and engaged in sexual relationsd had many children with sally hemmings. his loins trumped his lemmings. i teach postmodernism. it is fun. michlle -- michelle about it in postcolonial theory. the reason these people -- theseand people grew up -- our group identity was forced upon us if we were not seen as individual. babe ruth when he broke the home run record, he did not bat again st all the best players, he batted against the best white players. here we are, deriving our sense of identity from the culture we ignore. look at the indigenous names. timipeg, to importance -- horton's [laughter] nd of is an envy of the ki freedom and liberty people of, and other minorities bring because we bring the depth of knowledge in our body. it is the jealousy of it. living canadian philosopher aubrey graham said, -- we should not be nasty and combative. i do not see nastiness and combativeness. i see them making a desire to have their individual identities respected. when i get shot down for another reason that i am black, when i