The show kicked off with first time S.E. comer, Edith Kearns, getting the birthday surprise of a lifetime.  LeVar and Derrick sang her happy birthday, what a fun-tas-trophe that was! Ooh and they  were the "real" strippers as  LeVar and Derrick tried to imitate the lap dance thing and wow...

Of course you know with Speak Easy there is never a dull moment and to add more propane to the fire SE introduced the new "Don Juan" of R&B, CARDYE!  Let's just say that his swagger started real mellow as he began his set with a rendition of Anthony Hamilton's song, "COOL". I, myself was trying not to bogard the crowd's view by standing right in front of the microphone while CARDYE sang, but I backed off while he did two more of his own originals, "DO WHAT YOU DO'' and "THUG ON THE GRIND". Like I said, I only backed off to be nice (because you know I have a man and I was trying to give others a chance Ha! HA!). Seriously, it was great, but there's more from where all that came from.

After warming up with such a heated topic we finally moved on to CAN A WOMAN TRULY RAISE A BOY TO BE A MAN AND VICE VERSA?  LeVar got all professor with some statistics for this one. He stated that 70% of households in America are single mother homes and after that it was on! The first statement by a SE newcomer was, "Truly no. A little boy NEEDS to see a man to BE a man! He can be taught to take care of a woman, but not truly become a man." Now you know there had to be that one gentleman in the crowd to put in his two cents, but he blew us away with it. " A woman hands down can raise a boy to be a man because they will have support from uncles or other male figures." Hallelujah, finally some props to us single mothers from a baby maker himself! The issues arise when this little boy doesn't have any male influences.

 

And as promised at the beginning of this conversation, CARDYE came back to give us more with his second set and started with his original song, "FOURPLAY". Let me just state here and now that every woman in the room was wishing that they were CARDYE'S guitar or the lap of the girl he played his guitar off of! Can you just imagine the vibrations going through her body while he was strumming that guitar? I had to pause writing this for a minute because I was beginning to feel those vibrations myself... ANYWAY, he topped off that performance with his MYSPACE single, "JUST DON'T SPILL MY DRINK" . It definitely didn't seem as though anyone were spilling any drinks because the women were too busy spilling over themselves to get to this guy! Wow! How did LeVar and Derrick come back and top such a genius performance?  Easy, they had the genius topic to end the night: