Sunset Monae answers Da'Vinchi's 'lazy' remark on Lamont Tyson
Viewers replied with their own working lives, from a sixty-something who says she is simply tired to a climb from checking receipts to aerospace engineering.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 108,494 views a day, 7.1 times a normal first day on this channel (15,346).
Sunset Monae Fires Back at Da’Vinchi Over “Lazy” Comments #DaVinchi #BlackCulture #LamontTyson
Lamont Tyson's channel runs mostly on short political clips: Trump at a rally, Gavin Newsom firing back, a no-bid jet contract at Homeland Security. Most of them settle at around 15,000 views in a day. His clip of Sunset Monae passed 57,000 in nine hours.
The argument started on Cam Newton's Funky Friday podcast. Actor Da'Vinchi, known for playing Terry Flenory in the Starz drama BMF, was asked why Black actors from outside the U.S. sometimes land Black American roles. According to the video's description, he said American culture keeps people dependent longer and called the country's work ethic "lazy and poor." The remark quickly grew into a wider debate about Black Americans, immigration and tensions within the diaspora.
The clip itself is credited to @povafro. In it, Sunset Monae pushes back, and the description closes by asking whether Da'Vinchi had a point or crossed a line in how he made it.
In the comments, many people answer with their own résumés. One describes rising from a store security guard to aerospace engineer while working full time and raising a family. Others bring up slavery and the long history of the "lazy" label, and an immigrant parent writes about raising Black American children. Several say they are done watching his work.
A day later, Tyson posted a second response, from comedian Godfrey. Its description notes that Da'Vinchi has since said some of his comments were too general.
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- Channel
- Lamont Tyson
- Subscribers
- 713,000 ▲ 8,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 15,461,690
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,362,213 (on a normal day: 1,876,652)
- Video published
- October 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 57,756 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 108,494
The numbers
One clip about an actor's podcast remark ran far ahead of everything else the political channel posted that day.
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Cam Newton, host of Funky Friday, was named NFL MVP for the 2015 season while playing for which team?
Newton won the 2015 MVP award with the Panthers and led them to Super Bowl 50 that season.
