Jennifer Hudson Show, January 1, 2025
Michelle Obama, Halle Bailey, Naturi Naughton-Lewis, and more — oh, my! Don’t miss the latest stars stepping into the “Jennifer Hudson Show” Spirit Tunnels. Watch D-Nice, Smokey Robinson, the cast of “No Good Deed,” and Lucky Daye. Plus, see Kerry Washington and the cast of “The Six Triple Eight” bring their moves to the hallway!
Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a January 1, 2025 YouTube video compilation of several Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnels.
The focus of this post is to document the words of these particular Spirit Tunnel chants.
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Jennifer Hudson and the staff of the Jennifer Hudson Show for conceptualizing, creating, and performing celebrity Spirit Tunnels. Thanks also to all the celebrities who are welcomed to the Jennifer Hudson Show by their personalized Spirit Tunnel.
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These are unofficial transcriptions of these chants with some assistance from the captions that are given in that compilation video. Thanks to my daughter Tazi Hughes for her additional assistance with these transcriptions.
Additions and corrections are very welcome.
The list below doesn't identify all of the celebrities by their names or by their professions/positions (i.e. singer, manager, actress, rapper, or the former First Lady of the United States).
Read my comments in the discussion section of this pancocojams post for some information (guesses) about the inspiration/sources for some of these particular Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnels.
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THE WORDS FOR SEVEN JENNIFER HUDSON SHOW SPIRIT TUNNEL CHANTS THAT ARE FEATURED IN THIS VIDEO COMPILATION (January 1, 2025)
(These chants are given in order of the celebrity’s/celebrities’appearance in
this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Sgplu-M7c&list=PLPED_CDTqSacAKsLVayYnVTJP-siCLJpw compilation.)
1. Naturi Naughton-Lewis (with Xavier "Two" Lewis)
JHud staff:
"We've got Naturi
and Two
and Two"
[Repeat this chant for the entire Spirit Tunnel]
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2. Six Triple Eight Cast
JHud staff
"1,2,3,4,5, 6 Triple eight
2,3,4,5, 6,Triple eight
1,2,3,4,5, 6 Triple eight
2,3,4,5, 6,Triple eight"
[Repeat this chant for the entire Spirit Tunnel]
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3. Michelle Obama (with Denise and Logan)
JHud staff:
"We've got Logan, Denise
And Michelle-
Women on the show.
You know it's going well"
[Repeat this chant for the entire Spirit Tunnel]
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Unlike the other clips in this compilation video, this Spirit tunnel was filmed post taping.Read my comments for the words to a Spirit Tunnel of Michelle Obama by herself.
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4. Halle Bailey & Smokey Robinson
JHud staff:
And Halle over there
At the Happy Place
(What. What.)
At the Happy Place.
Smokey, Smokey, Smokey
Halle, Halle, Halle
Smokey, Smokey, Smokey
Halle, Halle, Halle
Smokey, Smokey, Smokey
Halle, Halle, Halle
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5. D-Nice
D-Nice -Hey!
JHud Staff- D-Nice
(Who?)
It's DJ D-Nice
(Let's Go)
D.Nice- What?
JHud Staff- D-Nice
(Who?)
D. Nice-Keep it goin
JHud Staff- D-Nice
(Let's Go)
It's DJ D-Nice
(Who?)
D.Nice-What's my name?
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6. Lucky Daye
One woman from the JHud staff- We're lucky cause we've got Lucky Daye.
JHud staff:
Hey! It's our lucky day 'cause we got Lucky Daye.
Hey! It's our lucky day 'cause we got Lucky Daye.
Hey! It's our lucky day 'cause we got Lucky Daye.
[continues for the entire Spirit Tunnel chant. After the staff chants their line, Lucky Daye sometimes says "Hey", or "Hey Hey!", or "Um Um" or "What".
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7. No Good Deed Cast
JHud staff:
"No Good Deed. No Good Deed. No Good Deed."
[Repeat these words for the entire Spirit Tunnel]
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Here are my thoughts about some of the Spirit Tunnel that were included in this showcased YouTube video:
ReplyDelete- regarding former United States First Lady Michelle Obama's JHud Spirit Tunnel, who are the two women who are with Michelle Obama?
Michelle Obama also dances down the Jennifer Hudson Spirit Tunnel by herself to a personalized remix of Stevie Wonder's hit song "I Wish".
ReplyDeleteHere's my transcription of that Spirit Tunnel song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkpn_UVn8-E
JHud staff:
Attention everybody __ __ __ with us here today
(humming: do do do do
do do do do)
So honored to have you
Michelle Obama at the Happy Place
(do do do do
do do do do)
Michelle Obama’s walking.
We can’t let her go
She’s a classy lady
We just let her know
We’ve got Michelle Obama
at the Happy Place
We’ve got Michelle Obama
at the Happy Place
[repeat the last two lines until the end of that Spirit Tunnel.]
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Please correct and add to this transcription. Thanks!
D Nice's Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnel is inspired by his 1990 hit track "Call Me D-Nice".
ReplyDeleteThat rapper's ad lib "What's my name?" which he made among other ad libs while strutting down that hallway echoes the theme of that Hip Hop track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbWnRyPzce4.
The Jennifer Hudson Show's Spirit Tunnel chant for The Six Triple Eight (2024 movie) cast is inspired by the viral TikTok 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 challenge.
ReplyDeleteHere's an excerpt from Google Result:
"The "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 challenge" is a viral TikTok trend where participants film themselves rapidly counting from 1 to 8 while performing a specific, often synchronized dance move, usually with a rapid tempo and repetitive motions, all within the timeframe of the count; essentially, it's a quick dance routine timed to the numbers 1-8."...
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In a variation of that number challenge, one number is removed with each subsequent iteration. Here's a link to a YouTube short video of that variation of the number challenge: https://youtube.com/shorts/DdYf9jOP440?si=J4eZ9NLsiIAnUVdE "12345678 Challenge" published by @The Rush Fam", July 9, 2024
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JHud's staff's Spirit Tunnel for the cast of The Six Triple Eight movie is an abbreviated version of this counting down version of that numbers challenge. In their variation, the JHud staff counts 1, 2 ,3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ,8 and then counts 2,3,4,5,6,7, 8. That pattern is repeated for the entire Spirit Tunnel.
The first celebrity in that showcased compilation of Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnels is actress, singer, song writer Naturi Naughton.
ReplyDeleteThe man who danced down the hallway with her is Naturi's husband (talent manager and entrepreneur) Xavier "Two" Lewis.
Almost all of Jennifer Hudson Show's Spirit Tunnels that I've watched thus far are personalized with the celebrity's name/celebrities' names and/or with some reference to or a remix of a song that the celebrity/celebrities has recorded or a movie or television show that they are starring in (or starred in). or something else that the celebrities have been or are now associated with.
ReplyDeleteOne exception to that rule that I can think of is Blair Underwood's Spirit Tunnel.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/01/blair-underwoods-jennifer-hudson-show.html "Blair Underwood's Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnel (video, lyrics, and comments)."
Notice in this Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnel compilation and in some other videos of that daytime talk show's pre-show Spirit Tunnels how certain celebrities (mostly Black celebrities) add a response to the staff call & response chants. Those celebrities ad libbed during their strut or dance down that hallway saying something like "What?", "Come on" , "Let's go", and/or "Hey!".
ReplyDeleteThese ad libs/celebrity replies add flavor to these Spirit Tunnel chants and the transcriptions of those chants aren't complete without referring to those ad libs.
D-Nice's Spirit Tunnel in the video compilation that is showcased in this pancocojams post is an example of the ad libs I am talking about.
Blair Underwood is another example of a celebrity ad libbing during his Jennifer Hudson Show Spirit Tunnel.