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Richard Youngsta
Fake hip hop star played by real hip hop star Chris Brown in the "Richard Youngsta" episode of TV sitcom Black-ish (first aired 29 March 2017).
Main character "Dre" Johnson, a successful advertising executive (Anthony Anderson) hires this superstar rapper to appear in a UVO Champagne commercial. So casting hunh?! Chris Brown, right? Phew, right? He’s not in it a lot, tho.
They end up making a very offensive commercial with the slogan “Put some Uvo on it!” Rich Youngsta says as he douses boutique bubbly on everything in sight and magically upgrades it. One such upgrade finds a nagging black woman replaced by a more agreeable white woman. This causes some issues with other staff members, and they argue with Dre until he agrees to reshoot the commercial.
