What’s up?
It’s Emile Ennis Jr. here with Clevver News and Willow Smith and Tyler Cole just fueled
their ongoing romance rumors with his first Red Table Talk appearance.
Alright, so in case you aren’t familiar with Tyler Cole, he’s an actor, musician,
filmmaker, and longtime friend of the Smith family.
Tyler and Willow have been close for years now and he’s even referred to Willow as
his “best friend.”
Though more recently fans have been wondering if these two could possibly be more than just
friends.
While Willow and Tyler tend to keep their relationship out of the spotlight, they did
release an album together earlier this year called The Anxiety.
And now, Tyler just made his first appearance on the Smith family’s famous show Red Table
Talk.
The Red Table is definitely a special space for Jada, Willow, and Adrienne, so it’s
a big deal when they welcome a new person to the table.
Before Tyler joined the mother, daughter, grandmother trio, Jada refers to him as a
new family face joining them at the Red Table.
And fans pointed out how excited Willow seemed for him to be joining for this important episode.
“Alright well let’s bring Tyler out.
Eeee!
Yay Tyler!
Welcome.
This is beautiful so much brighter than it looks on TV.
Tyler is a talented musician, filmmaker, actor, and close family friend.”
While we typically wouldn’t think twice about Tyler being quote “ a close family
friend,” we all now know what really went down with August Alsina, who was also once
referred to as a close family friend… just sayin’!
Anyway, Tyler joined Jada, Willow, and Adrienne for this extremely important episode where
they spoke with Ice Cube and Van Jones about Ice Cube’s "Contract With Black America,"
which aims to drive change and equality.
“There was another point of the contract that I just loved.
It was the mandatory civil rights and anti-racism classes.
Huge.
That’s so important.
We gotta teach our history.
It's important for us to not sit back.”
The group had very poignant conversations about everything from representation to police
reform to the music industry.
Tyler chimed in with his own experiences saying to Ice Cube that quote, “I feel like a huge
dilemma for us as Black people is that the media and the industry want to see us in a
certain light.
In the music industry, you're taught that, oh, if you're Black and you rap about violence
and money, that's going to make you more money.
Labels are going to want to sign you if you're talking about violence more so than if you're
a conscious artist.”
Ice Cube gave Tyler some advice saying quote, “It's really all about having the courage
to break the molds when you're an artist and not letting anybody put you in a box, not
even your own community.”
And Willow also spoke candidly about education and why it’s important for historically
Black colleges and universities AKA HBCUs to have more funding.
“Cause what you’re saying Cube, I always be saying stuff like that and people be looking
at me like…
No.
And I’m like no this is real.
And they’re just.
And people think that’s not how it works but it does.
Yeah.
And it’s a real issue.
Yeah.”
If you haven’t had a chance to read Ice Cube’s entire contract, we’ve linked it
down in the description for you to have a look at.
He makes a lot of important points and we obviously can’t get to all of them in this
video.
But overall it seemed like Tyler fit right in with the conversation and was welcomed
by fans.
As soon as Tyler shared the news that he’d be on the episode fans wrote things like “Finally
the guest I was waiting for.. can’t wait to watch.”
And “I was waiting for you at that Red Table. can't wait to see.”
This fan also wrote, “Very proud of you for joining in on such an important and necessary
conversation, listening, learning and expressing your views.
Also I believe this is the first appearance of @theanxiety together on a show.”
Others brought up Tyler and Willow’s potential relationship like this person who wrote “oooh
tyler and willow.
We stan these two” And this fan who said “Ay..... this is big!
Y’all have been very private man so this is good!”
And regardless of their relationship status,
we were just excited to see Tyler at the Red Table and glad he could be a part of this
important conversation.
Hopefully he joins them again for another episode soon!
If you want more on the Smith family, click right over here to find out what Will Smith
thought about all those “entanglement” memes.
Also, let us know down in the comments below if you think Tyler and Willow are together
or just friends.
I’m your host Emile Ennis Jr., bye guys!