Now, we finally have an update on the

drowning death of Malcolm Jamal Warner.

Now, according to ABC7, they stated that

Malcolm Jamal Warner had drowned while

he was on vacation in Costa Rica. Now,

the article goes on to say that Warner

had drowned off the coast of Costa Rica

on Sunday.

Life is it’s fragile and in the blink of

an eye You never know.

You never You never know. So, speaking

of legacy, what do you hope that your

legacy is is going to be?

There is part of me that I will

be able to leave this earth,

you know, knowing and people knowing

that I

was a good person. So Cat Williams has

been saying for years that if you don’t

play by Hollywood’s rules, especially as

a black man, they’ll push you out. And

when you look at the late Malcolm Jamal

Warner’s career, that starts to make a

lot of sense. Malcolm didn’t chase the

spotlight, and he even turned down roles

that made black men look ridiculous. He

stayed away from the whole put on a

dress, act like a clown thing, and

because of that, he was sidelined. Not

because he wasn’t talented, because he

clearly was, but because he didn’t play

along. But now that he’s passed,

suddenly all these media outlets and

celebs are calling him a legend, talking

about how underrated he was. But where

were they when he was alive? Where was

all that love when he was doing real

work and on his own terms? And this

isn’t about conspiracy theories for

clicks. It’s about patterns. Cat

Williams has been calling this stuff out

forever and warning about the way the

industry treats people who say no. So,

let’s break down what Cat Williams has

been exposing, what Malcolm actually

stood for, and why all the praise

suddenly showed up after he died.

Because I’ve spent, you know, so much of

the early part of my life listening to

uh like being celebrated on one hand,

but paying way too much attention to the

naysayers.

Malcolm Jamal Warner, best known for his

role as Theo Huxable on the Cosby Show,

suddenly passed away on July 20th, 2025.

Malcolm was on a family vacation in

Lemon, Costa Rica, swimming with his

8-year-old daughter when they got caught

up in a rip current. This beach is known

for dangerous currents and often doesn’t

have lifeguards on duty. And that day,

no lifeguards were stationed because

resources were shifted to other beaches

after recent incidents.

These are the first things we saw when

we pulled up to the beach. Signs in

Spanish and English warning people about

potentially hazardous conditions. This

sign even giving a road map for how to

escape a rip current. Nearby surfers saw

the dad and daughter struggling and one

surfer rescued the girl while another

went after Malcolm. Unfortunately, by

the time first responders arrived, they

couldn’t revive him. Malcolm died of

asphixxia by submersion while the man

who tried to help him was taken to a

nearby hospital in critical condition.

Malcolm’s autopsy report was later

released and it confirmed that his death

was an accident. Freaking Beach where

officials say a dangerous rip current

swept away Malcolm Jamal Warner. The

Cosby Showst star drowning in secluded

paradise on Sunday. What makes that

beach so treacherous?

You know, it it’s similar to other

beaches where there are strong rip

currents that are deceiving. Mike Gist

helps run a volunteer lifeguard

organization here. He says while no

lifeguards were on duty that day, Gist’s

friend, who happens to be a trained

lifeguard, was there to surf and

discovered Warner unresponsive in the

water. Costa Rica’s Red Cross says they

were able to rescue another man alive

who was taken to a clinic in critical

condition.

Jesse officials say Warner’s autopsy is

now complete.

It was completed this morning according

to authorities, Tom, and they say that

it confirmed that Warner’s drowning

death was in fact an accident. Now, the

reason Malcolm’s death hit us all so

hard is because he was one of those rare

Hollywood child stars that stayed on the

right path and never did anything to

compromise himself. He was a self-made

multi-millionaire, Emmy nominated actor,

Grammyinning musician, accomplished

poet, director, and social activist. He

was also happily married while having

never been divorced, a devoted father

while having no kids out of

wedlock. So, even before

even before conception, we were very

clear we were having a girl. And I knew

that I needed a girl first to kind of

ease me into it because I, you know, I

have a pretty good idea of what kind of

father I would be. So I needed a girl to

kind of,

you know, slow me down and and and warm

soften me up, if you will.

Um,

so for me raising my daughter,

I came into fatherhood already with a

certain maturity. Um and uh you know

certain understanding of male female

dynamics uh you know and with a girl all

of that starts with the father.

So I’ve always since she came since I

literally pulled her out of my wife.

Malcolm was beloved by virtually all

peers who ever worked with him. He was a

true example of how a secure man moves

in this world. But then he dies suddenly

in a freak accident after 54 years of

good health while enjoying literal

paradise with his family. The only sad

part about Malcolm’s life was that it

was short. But he absolutely crushed it

at life and gave us all an example of a

life beautifully lived. But we need to

talk about how Hollywood ghosted him

while he lived and how Cat Williams

warnings now line up with this moment.

See, Malcolm didn’t fall off. He just

didn’t play the Hollywood game. After

the Cosby Show, Malcolm could have

crashed it. big network shows, loud

sitcom roles, slapstick movies. Instead,

he stayed low-key and intentional. He

said no to roles that made black men

look stupid or cartoonish. No dresses,

no clown acts, no playing to

stereotypes. He wanted to represent

something real. And that’s where Cat

Williams comes in. He has been screaming

this for years. Literally, in

interviews, standup specials, and

podcasts, he’s talked about how black

entertainers get boxed in. And if they

want to make it big, they got to play

their character.

Some of us make choices. I think it’s

not a biggest choice um for others. I’m

saying um at the end of the day, Kevin

doesn’t have to worry about what people

are going to say about him wearing a

dress because of the long line of dressw

wearing people before him. So now we had

Big Mama’s house one, two, and three.

I’ve never seen media in a pants suit. I

think she wears dresses. So now I’m

saying why we picking old poor little

Kevin Hart because it was his turn next.

Some of us are against the Illuminati

and we are against the Illuminati at our

own detriment. When people are against

the Illuminati, then they get punched in

the face all the time. The press hates

them and nobody likes them.

End quote.

We all love Dave Chappelle.

Exactly. Dave Chappelle has never been a

part of the Illuminati. They don’t want

him or me or people like us.

And Cat turned down those same roles.

fat suits, wigs, loud coonery, and

because of that, he was labeled as

difficult, crazy, and unreliable.

There has never been a person that has

been

parodyied nine times on Saturday Night

Live and yet never been invited other

than me. I at this point take it as a

badge of honor

um that they don’t [ __ ] with me. A lot

of times when people are doing an

impression of you, they’re really

showing you how they feel about you.

You know what I mean? So for Saturday

Night Live to have an impression of me

and have a woman do that means they

think I’m a [ __ ]

And I understand that that’s what

they’re saying when they do that. I

understand um how the game goes and I

understand that if you love me, I know

why you do. And if you don’t with me, I

understand why.

As for Malcolm, he was talented,

disciplined, and smart. But because he

didn’t fit the formula and he wouldn’t

[ __ ] for the camera, Hollywood kept him

on the sidelines. But Malcolm didn’t

care about Hollywood. He was doing just

fine without it. He started a podcast,

Not All Hood, where he often criticized

the way Hollywood and mainstream media

portray black people as a monolith. for

the title is combating the uh the

narrative of black life or black culture

that the media focuses on and you know

that we’re all one thing.

Yeah. And the whole concept is you know

we’re not all hood. Uh the black

community is not a monolith.

But instead of giving into Hollywood’s

demands, Malcolm chose projects that

focused on social justice and education

like producing and acting in plays and

documentaries about black history and

systemic racism. In 2021, he wrote an

op-ed for the television academy where

he pointed out that white network and

studio executives, white writers,

producers, and white directors are the

gatekeepers of black images on

television. Malcolm wrote, “During the

cycles where the gate hinges loosen

lightly and black creatives are given

some input and illusion of control, the

stereotypes often continue, even if the

black characters are given professions

and higher socioeconomic status.”

Malcolm also spoke out against modern

rap and hip hop. And he called out the

misogyny and toxic masculinity while

pushing for more accountability and

healing in the community.

This should be a moratorum on both of

those words in hip-hop because it’s

low-line fruit. It’s so easy. Everybody

[ __ ] does it to the point that it’s

corny. Like there are MC’s who I love

who I cannot listen to anymore because I

can’t I love JCole.

Mhm. But I had to stop listening to

JCole because I got tired of hearing

[ __ ] and [ __ ]

as much as

every two sentences because he’s proven

himself to be such a incredible lyricist

that you think it’s you think it’s just

too lowhanging fruit for him to use

those words.

I feel like

when that whole Kendrick versus Drake

beef went viral last year, Malcolm

didn’t hold back and he criticized how

hip hop only seems to get attention when

it’s promoting something negative. Drake

beat which you know they talk about how

much they hate each other and give all

these references to violence and that

sort of stuff. Do you think even though

we enjoy those songs and their bots, do

you think that has a detrimental impact

upon the culture ultimately?

Ultimately, yes. It’s been normalized

for, you know, us to call ourselves the

n-word, right? and and and we like to

talk about um how we’ve taken the power

of that word back, but I’m of the uh I’m

I’m of the

I’m of the school of thought if I’m

trying to speak love and upliftment to

my brother, why am I going to borrow a

word from people who use the word

because they hate me?

But

we get caught up in, oh well, we’re

turning the nword into a positive. But

our music is not reflecting

uh positivity, love, and upliftment of

our culture. And we’re at a point now

where so much of our especially our

music, so much of our black music uh

when you strip away the music and just

listen to the lyrics, so much of our

black music is really antilack.

Oh, you think so? When you think about

it, think of, you know, I mean, you you

you almost cannot have hip-hop without

talking about drugs, using the n-word,

and mking somebody, right?

You know, or calling a female, you know,

a [ __ ] or a hoe. Like, like like that’s

become such the we’ve normalized that so

much that I think we need a space where

we can say, “Wait a minute, wait, wait,

wait. That that’s not all who we are.”

So, when Cat Williams talks about how

the industry only lifts you up when they

can control the narrative, this is

exactly what he means. Malcolm wanted to

represent black men as smart, layered,

real human beings. People expected him

to stay in that teen heartthrob box or

take on goofy side roles, but he pushed

back and he said no to a lot of work

that would have made him more famous but

less respected. Meanwhile, you had other

black actors blowing up in the same era

by doing the exact opposite, leaning

hard into stereotypes, chasing the big

checks. And hey, some of them made it

work. But that wasn’t Malcolm’s path. He

stayed in his lane, and it came with

consequences. He even hinted in

interviews that his team told him he was

too serious and not marketable enough.

Basically, you’re too black, too smart,

too principled, so they stop calling.

And that lines up exactly with what Cat

Williams has been saying. If you refuse

to play the fool and accept the

humiliation ritual, they erase you. I

care how people

feel about the ritual.

It’s about does following the ritual

work.

And so

you can fool yourself into thinking

there isn’t one, but the evidence will

be clear. So like when I when I be like,

uh, oh, these guys are wearing dresses.

Everybody’s like, “Oh, he keeps talking

about people wearing dresses.” No, it’s

not weird.

It’s not like that. Look at it from a

different way. Look at it. Show me one

person that ever wore a dress in

Hollywood unsuccessfully.

But now that Malcolm is gone, suddenly

Hollywood and the media are all over

him. Tributes, social media posts, and

articles calling him a legend and a

pioneer. But where was all this love

before? Because he didn’t chase fame or

fall into the usual Hollywood traps. He

was largely ignored by the big platforms

and award shows. Now you’ve got

streaming services talking about

unreleased projects with Malcolm’s name

on them, networks hyping tributes, and

celebrities posting heartfelt stories.

It’s like overnight he became the safe

black icon everyone wants to celebrate.

And that’s the industry playbook. They

don’t uplift you for being real or

principled while you’re alive. They wait

until it’s safe to repurpose your image

for brand building, woke points, and

profit. Cat Williams called this out

years ago. The system only acknowledges

black talent when it fits their

narrative and when the person can’t push

back anymore. So the question is, is

this genuine respect or just the usual

Hollywood cleanup after the fact?

Because Malcolm’s career and his refusal

to sell out made him a target for being

sidelined, not celebrated. Malcolm Jamal

Warner wasn’t just another celebrity. He

was one of the few who stayed grounded,

thoughtful, and committed to his values

in an industry that rewards the

opposite. He chose purpose over

popularity, and that made him easy to

overlook until now. His death isn’t just

tragic. It’s a reminder of how rare it

is to see someone move with integrity in

Hollywood. But let’s hear your thoughts

on this tragic loss. Was Malcolm pushed

out for not playing along? Why does it

always take someone dying for the

industry to pay attention? Drop your

thoughts in the comments, and I’ll catch

you in the next video.