He broke Kanye West in the UK before College Dropout dropped. He filmed Drake's first ever UK interview in Hyde Park — paid the cameraman £50 out of his own pocket because the station didn't care. He flew to New York to sign Fatman Scoop and got aired for a week until a 4am diner meeting sealed the deal. Ghostface Killah called his book the Bible of hip hop. Chuck D wrote the foreword in five minutes.

And before any of that, he was an 8-year-old kid in North Manchester who discovered what the N-word meant because there was a game in the playground called "Catch The N****r." This is DJ Semtex. And this is the conversation I've been waiting to have.

Semtex: Instagram · X · TikTok · YouTube · djsemtex.com

Marvyn: Instagram · Podcast IG · X · TikTok · YouTube · marvynharrison.co.uk

Dope Black Dads: Instagram · dopeblackdads.com

Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.

In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.

Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.

This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

View the images in order, here! https://canva.link/4eacwrp87m3qfxh

I've known Dane Baptiste for 20 years. I watched him find five minutes at the beginning of my Sunday Show when nobody knew his name. I watched the crowds not get it. I watched him come back anyway. This conversation is the full story, from his first day at Haberdashers, to being the only deadpan Black British comic in a room full of animated performers, to writing a sitcom that got picked up by Fox and Apple, to walking into Paramount and HBO alone because his seven-months-pregnant manager couldn't walk any further.

We talk about:

• Growing up as the first male in a generation of cousins — raised in a matriarchy
• The Sunday show years: following Jay Pharoah, competing with Usain Bolt's world record, going on after a biscuit eating competition
• Why admitting you take the bus was a passion killer in Black British culture
• Finding his deadpan voice when every Black comic was expected to be animated
• Steph McGovern giving him a TV segment when nobody else in the industry would
• Writing Sunny D and pitching it to Lionsgate, Fox, Apple, HBO, Paramount — with no writers, no team
• Keenan Ivory Wayans and Saladin Patterson joining the project
• The actress from Sunny D who passed away from bowel cancer
• Being misrepresented and the crisis of confidence and depression that followed
• Meeting Dave Chappelle on Valentine's Day with David Haye — the full circle moment
• Mo Gilligan: timing, craft, and why his crossover worked
• Why he left his management and what independence looks like now

This is 20 years of friendship in one sitting. If you care about Black British comedy, the entertainment industry, or what it actually takes to build something when nobody's behind you, this one's for you.

LINKS:

• Dane Baptiste: @danebaptiste on Instagram
• Marvyn: @themarvynharrisonpodcast / @dopeblackdads
• YouTube: https://youtu.be/gy3ZrUnG0RM

Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.

In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.

Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.

This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She trained as a social worker. Spent 15 years watching what happens when relationships destroy people. Built a community of 250,000 women on Instagram. Wrote a Sunday Times bestseller. And then sat across from me and said: "I don't know if this is working. Nothing's changing."

This is Layla, Lalalaletmeexplain and this is not the conversation you're expecting.

We go into:

• Her dad leaving her mum for the woman who lived opposite, and what it did to her at 7 years old
• Why she resented her mother for years and idolised the man who left
• How her self-worth was built entirely on whether men wanted her, and the expensive therapy it took to undo it
• Dating apps losing 600,000 users and why in-person events aren't working either
• The confidence gap: women buying out dating events in 10 minutes, men not showing up
• Why men have stopped approaching women IRL — and why that's a misreading of what women actually asked for
• Family courts: the myth that they favour mothers (she breaks this down with 15 years of evidence)
• The manosphere as a grooming pipeline — and who's actually vulnerable to it
• The question we both carry: how do you keep telling the truth about harm when the people you're trying to reach are getting more defensive, not less?
• Why she thinks her audience radicalised her — and what she's doing about it
• I share my own experience of being in an abusive relationship at 19

This is two people doing the same work from opposite sides of the room, meeting in the middle for the first time. If you care about men, women, relationships, fatherhood, or just trying to figure out how we fix the gap, this one matters.

Layla Instagram: @lalalaletmeexplain TikTok: @lalalaletmeexplain X: @lalalaletmeexp2 Book: Block Delete Move On (Penguin)

Marvyn Instagram: @discoverwithmarvyn / @dopeblackdads X: @Marvyn_Harrison YouTube: @MarvynHarrison TikTok: @marvyn_harrison Website: marvynharrison.co.uk

Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.

In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.

Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.

This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.