Jaded Forum: Event 2 (feat. Navy Blue)

Date Recorded: August 19th, 2025

In this episode, hosts Z and Yedoye Travis are joined by Navy Blue to discuss how to be of service in this moment, “self-care” as rebellion, the weaponization of music, and making conscious art.

Filmed LIVE at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, New York.

JADED FORUM is a series of open dialogues and parties based in New York City, host­ed by Z (@zetto.plus) and Yedoye Travis (@yedoye_).

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Tired, but here.

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00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:30 - Struggling to Be of Service
00:07:48 - Building Alternative Systems Without Looking Inward
00:08:58 - Navy Blue’s Family History
00:13:50 - Felling Like You’re Not Doing Enough
00:15:52 - “Take My Strong Hand”
00:17:30 - When Self-Care Becomes Avoidance
00:23:00 - Live Laugh Love
00:25:50 - Choosing Your Family
00:27:44 - Cultivating Core Values
00:32:31 - Enter the Tupac-Verse
00:35:39 - Cam’ron in the Audience?!
00:37:02 - Music as Poison
00:43:46 - Music as Medicine
00:47:59 - Are We Living Right?
00:54:07 - Albert Ellis’s REBT/ACT
00:55:21 - Live Without Being Exploited
00:57:42 - Donate to Jaded Forum
00:58:58 - Q&A: Balancing Self-Care and Doing Liberatory Work
01:09:05 - Q&A: Community-Minded Mental Health
01:19:10 - Q&A: Space for Spirituality in Organizing and Mental Health
01:32:56 - Q&A: Combatting Irony With Earnesty and Authenticity
01:38:40 - Q&A: Finding Creative Community
01:47:30 - Outro
01:49:25 - Spark
01:50:15 - Quorum