8 Things We Learned from Amanda Seales on The Breakfast Club

Most people recognize Amanda Seales from he reoccurring role as Tiffany Dubois on Insecure and the brains behind Smart Funny & Black, but heads like us been rocking in the game since she was dropping rhymes as the artist formerly known as Amanda Diva. So y’all know we ridin’ with her.

Today one of the most woke women in the game who’s about to become only the second Black woman to have her own HBO comedy special I Be Knowin’ stopped by The Breakfast Club to give listeners a preview of what to expect from her comedy special this Saturday night (January 26).

Speaking with Angela Yee, DJ Envy and Charlamage Tha God, Amanda Seales opens up about why she’s focusing on her comedy game right now, her feelings on people who stand by R. Kelly, and why she wouldn’t mind people saying she sexed her way up to the top.

Here are the 8 things we learned from Amanda Seales on The Breakfast Club.

1. Saturday Night Special

Amanda feels that comedy specials are important because they’re the last unfiltered way to get some truth from entertainers. Even rappers and singers need to abide by what their record labels and teams want them to go by. She even feels that this is her new calling stating “committing myself to being a comedic voice for change is my life’s turning point.”

2. Larry King

During an interview with Larry King, Amanda Seales found out that Larry has a thing were he doesn’t do his research on the people he talks to and told her “cause you got to sell it to me” referring to her HBO special. Amanda in turn said “I ain’t selling nothing to a white man!” HA! She felt the need to put that out there in case they cut that part out of their conversation.

3. Blackness

For all those who criticize Amanda Seale’s Blackness because her mother is from Grenada and she isn’t the descendent of Black American slaves, it might serve y’all to know that her father is “Black American” and “his grandparents were descendants of Arkansas slaves.” Y’all probably still gonna get on her for being light skinned though so she might be wasting her breath on y’all.

4. Haters

That being said, Amanda says that she hates when people say she got put on because she’s light skinned. “I’d rather you say ‘you got put on for sucking d*ck.’” Well, damn.

5. Boston Creep

At one point some unnamed known fool from Boston slid in Amanda’s DM’s and they seemed to have hit it off for a second. But when she did her homework on dude it turned out he had predatory behavior that a few women told her about. Needless to say Ms. Seales deaded him by telling him “Stay up.”

6. R. Kelly

As for R. Kelly, Amanda feels that Kelly “tore himself down” and is “sad” at the way people are still caping for him. “What are you really defending? Are you defending your own villainy? Are you defending the denial of your own victimhood? You know? Are you defending your own willful ignorance at this point and is just like ‘I’m gonna double down on the fact that I didn’t care before and I’m still not care.’”? All those sound like are viable reasons.

7. Cardi B & Offset

Touching on the whole Offset interrupting Cardi B’s performance to woo her back, Amanda admits that she doesn’t know anything about their relationship but feels he went about it the wrong way. That being said she also admits that it once happened to her when some dude sat in the front row of one of her shows while she was performing. “It throws you off. As a performer that’s mad disrespectful!” Us men gotta start doing better, y’all.

8. Insecure

Sorry Insecure fans, but Amanda admits that she doesn’t feel emotionally connected to her character, Tiffany Dubois. “But I love Tiffany in a way now that I didn’t before.” Well, at least.