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b'A big reason why you always saw Aretha Franklin carrying a purse onstage is because she required promoters to pay her in cold hard cash or she wouldn\\u2019t sing.

Madonna\\u2019s in hot water again for ruining another celebrity tribute at the MTV Video Music Awards. Adorned in jewelry from her children\\u2019s home country of Malawi, Madonna presented the Video of the Year Award, and much like her tribute to Prince turned it into a story of herself.

The tribute quickly went off the rails as Madonna told the audience how Aretha Franklin\\u2019s song Natural Woman spared her from \\u201cbeing mistaken for a prostitute\\u201d living above a crack house in New York City.

Today the hilarious Matt Brown joins us to take a look at the life and music of the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin \\u2013 her infamous feuds with Patti Labelle and Dionne Warwick, her insistence on being pad in cold hard cash and why she didn\\u2019t leave a will.

MATT BROWN: https://www.mattbrowncomic.com

Plus,

\\u27a4 Designer Luke Song talks about Aretha\\u2019s iconic Obama Inauguration hat.

\\u27a4 Fausto Fern\\xf3s makes his debut as a reality TV bear on Camp Wannakiki.

\\u27a4 It\\u2019s the end of an era: the Feast of Fun car that drove hundreds of entertainers including some of the best known drag queens has died in a small town in Canada.'