Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls --

Please allow me to introduce my wonderful guest, Carlton Rashad, to the podcast.

Carlton is a son, a sibling, a singer, a songwriter, a performer, and a fantastic human being. He also makes an appearance on this program for the esteemed 200th episode, which -- if I'm not lying -- is pretty cool.

Know what else is cool?

Carlton.

He has a Instagram -- @imcarltonrashad -- you can follow. He has a Facebook, a TikTok, a Threads, a YouTube, and he has his stuff on Apple Music and Spotify. He's the 2021 Best Male Vocalist per the Kansas City People's Choice Awards, and he's a Kansas Citian through and through.

Carlton and I talked about his lifelong existence as a performer and a singer, a person with music always in his life, and his affinity for manifestation. We also talked about a few of his favorite albums, which were these:

Get Lifted (2004), John Legend

Mary Mary's self-titled release (2005)

Future Sex/Love Sounds (2006), Justin Timberlake

Lalah Hathaway's Lalah Hathaway Live! (2015)

the entire Beyonce catalog

Please go check out Carlton's stuff, and -- while I have you -- thank you for your continued support of the Badass Records podcast.

copyright stuff: I do not own the rights to the audio clips contained within this episode. They are snippets from a tune by Robert Walter's 20th Congress called, "Inversion Layer." It's a track from his 2013 release, Get Thy Bearings, and we have access to it c/o The Royal Potato Family.