Only time will tell if Katt Williams’ appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s couch will be equivalent to Suge Knight’s acceptance speech at the 1995 Vibe Awards.

If you’re familiar with my writing style, you know I use obscure pop culture references to illustrate the patterns I see.

Not since Suge Knight’s starter pistol of an acceptance speech (“any artist out there who wanna be a artist…stay a star…don’t want to have to worry about the executive producer trynna be…all in the videos…all on the record…dancing…come to DeathRow”) have the verbal implications of one man seemed to be felt by an entire culture.

While the maturity and wisdom of all involved ensure that the 1990s East Coast/West Coast-styled culture war won’t be replicated, it is worth watching all the same.

In my Generation X eyes, Katt Williams serves a cultural role for many of us, similar to how Richard Pryor did for the black boomers a few generations before. His voice is trusted because his choice of topics generally tends to be on everyone’s mind anyway.

For what its worth I’ll take Jay Pharoah’s imitation argument between Katt and Kevin Hart…over any back and forth that erupts from this interview..

If you pray, send a few up for Shannon Sharpe though… that man had a full day at work in only a few hours.

I will say, his timing and word choice are never to be negligible, and I think it’s too soon to speculate on Katt’s motives, but I’m confident there is a plan afoot, beyond ticket sales.

What comes next?

Does anything really have to? These are grown men who feed their families with their creativity. Imagining a path forward without additional cultural trauma shouldn’t be outside of everyone’s ability.

What happened in this moment was one man wanting to get his side of the story on record.

The stories Katt Williams opted to discuss were not only savvy in their selection but also telling of his strategic position. He’s always fearless but his candor revealed a suprising lack of exposure…

3000 books a year though?