In episode 10 of season 2, writer A. Zell Williams joined the Unofficial Official Story team to answer the question: Is rapper Cardi B an industry plant? In this episode, we try to figure out what exactly an industry plant is, whether it’s a bad thing or not, and answer the most important question, would we want to be an industry plant ourselves—our answers might surprise you. You can also support our show by becoming a Patreon supporter at https://www.patreon.com/unofficialofficialstory

ABOUT OUR GUEST Zell Williams is an award-winning playwright and TV producer whose work has been developed and performed at the Public Theater in New York, InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, and the Royal Court in London. As a TV writer, he’s worked on such shows as the Fox drama, neXt, NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, BET’s American Soul, and FreeForm’s Good Trouble. He is currently a writer for season two of AMC’s critically-acclaimed Interview with a Vampire. His play, Diversity, will have its World Premier on Broadway from the producers of Hadestown and The Piano Lesson with Samuel L. Jackson. Zell is also the co-host of The Inner Cities Podcast with author and attorney, Tochi Onyebuchi, for Highway Citizen Productions.

LINKS & RESEARCH Our researchers do most of their “research” on the Internet, so take our “facts” for what they are. With that in mind, much of the information we got for this episode was gleaned from the following sources: https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/415345-azealia-banks-calls-cardi-b-an-industry-plant-says-whiteness-couldnt-save-iggy-azalea-and-praises-as-news https://www.vibe.com/news/entertainment/azealia-banks-cardi-b-industry-plant-bodak-yellow-1234667690/ https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2020/03/what-is-industry-plant/ https://bubblegumclub.co.za/music/industry-plants-and-what-they-mean/ https://studybreaks.com/culture/music/industry-plants-tiktok/ https://www.kanyetothe.com/threads/list-of-rappers-that-were-are-industry-plants.316627/ https://youtu.be/oQBBsRMkFCI

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