Name: Adam FIRES BACK At DJ Vlad's INSANE Blackface Accusation
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Adam FIRES BACK At DJ Vlad's INSANE Blackface Accusation' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-21. Transcript available.

Let me start this week by addressing something.
I wish I didn't have to, but it seems I do.
As many of you know, in my last episode, I sat down with hip-hop legend G. Herbo,
and it sent shockwaves throughout the culture.
It seems like many of those in the establishment didn't take too kindly to a
new face,
breakdancing his way in to the hip-hop and R&B space.
My name has been dragged through the mud subsequently.
My reputation has been brought into question.
Most notably, libelist claims were levied at me by prominent anti-Semitic DJs,
Vlad, and academics.
Well, I kind of think it was really more of the bozo who was doing the
interview.
Right, what was his name?
I don't know his name.
Friedman or some motherfucking, it's like one of these like...
He wanted a...
He has a Jewish kid that probably got beat up, you know,
and finally has a little bit of a voice and is trying to be tough,
because he actually called you a bitch on Twitter and stuff like that.
Well, of course he...
He called you a bitch in the interview, too.
Well, yeah, he's trying to engage with me.
We already got the dossier on him.
We got him doing blackface, all the type of stuff.
I just don't want to...
What?
Yeah, we just don't want to engage.
What?
I got the pictures.
He does blackface?
Come on.
Yo, show me the picture.
Show me.
I want to see this shit.
Vlad, let me tell you.
Fuck that guy.
Because you know what I said?
Hey, man, I heard you want a debate.
Hit me up.
I said, you're a platform or mine.
Let's go.
Vlad.
He didn't even respond.
Show me the blackface.
This is him.
Okay.
And it's still over.
No!
Come on now.
Look at this.
Yo, listen.
We keep the files.
Look at this.
Look at this.
We keep the files on them.
Look at this.
You know?
So like...
But you're a racist.
Fuck you.
Now this allegation shocked me.
Anyone who knows me knows that I hate racism.
But if there's anything I hate more than racism, it's blackface.
I've never participated in it, and I've cut people out of my life for putting
it on.
So when it comes to blackface, I have a zero-tolerance policy.
So I went looking.
I looked for an answer to how this image could possibly exist.
I scoured the dark web for hits.
I consulted with ranking members of law enforcement.
I even considered perhaps that this photo was of a real African American that
looks exactly
like me.
In the end, the perpetrator was right under my nose.
Who is this Judas Iscariot?
Turns out it was none other than true crime podcaster Brace Belden.
Now, to avoid litigation, my lawyers negotiated a recorded statement by Mr. Brace
Belden himself,
where he explains that this whole situation was entirely his fault.
And I will play it for you now.
This video is addressed to DJs, Academics, and Vlad.
My name is Brace Belden, and I wish we were meeting under different
circumstances.
I've been a tremendous fan of both of your work for as long as I can remember.
Sometimes it feels like I'm on an amazing train being conducted by the two of
you that's
filled with art, drama, music, rappers, and mafiosi alike.
I've learned a lot of lessons, and one of the big lessons that I've learned is
that I need
to stand up for the truth no matter how unpopular that might be.
On a recent episode of one of your shows, I could not tell which, but you boys
were both
there, DJ Academics shows DJ Vlad a hurtful picture on his phone of a comedian
named Adam
Friedland wearing both blackface, as DJ Academics tells it, and a cowboy hat.
Now, DJ Academics, I know that you have a fidelity to the truth, and you wouldn't
say
anything that you didn't believe.
And so I have to let you in on a little bit of information that might damage my
reputation,
but at least will help burnish you with facts.
I made that picture.
And that's not a picture of Adam Friedland wearing blackface.
That's a picture of Adam Friedland wearing a cowboy hat that I ran through a
filter of an
application called FaceApp in the summer of 2017.
I want to stress that Adam had nothing to do with that picture.
There may well be, and there probably are, many pictures of Adam Friedland
wearing blackface
out there.
And if you want to damage his reputation or end his career or even his life, I
won't stand
in your way.
But that picture is not of Adam Friedland wearing blackface.
So to the DJs, Vlad, and academics, I'm here to stay.
And I'm actually a pretty good guy once you get to know me.
I've been at too many funerals over petty squabbles like this.
So here's your olive branch.
Meet me.
Face to face.
Here.
On the Adam Friedland show.
Before Twitter fingers turn to trigger fingers, let's sit down like men.
And I can't wait to see you soon.
And our guest today is Logic.
He's a rapper as well.
So please enjoy the show, guys.
We'll be right back.