The Down Low

The Down Low

By: The Down Low

Language: en

Categories: Comedy, News, Entertainment, Music, Commentary

Join Bernie Abambi and Ess in their bi-weekly discussions on music, politics, and general celebrity foolishness. The Down Low is hosted by two black, DL(ish), bisexual millennials in London, discussing both the fun and real topics of today, with a generous amount of shade for garnish. Email the show with your dilemmas, general life woes, fun questions or own music at deardownlow@gmail.com Find us on Twitter and Instagram at @deardownlow Hosts: Bernie Abambi: @bernieabambi Ess: @justt_ess

Episodes

Wicked Witch!
Dec 08, 2025

My milkshakes brings HMRC to the yard...

Duration: 01:45:40
Alienation of Affection
Nov 26, 2025

Definitely over it...

Duration: 01:48:23
The Five Year Engagement
Nov 11, 2025

Boyfriends are so out...

Duration: 02:56:19
Drunk In Love
Oct 26, 2025

The Spirit of Messica...

Duration: 01:50:49
Rappers & Raptures
Oct 05, 2025

The girls are still fighting...

Duration: 02:06:37
Empathy is a knife
Sep 20, 2025

Purrr...

Duration: 01:40:36
Spleen Says No!
Aug 24, 2025

Let her eat cake!

Duration: 02:18:23
Lord Of The Flies
Aug 13, 2025

Dijana affi go!

Duration: 02:34:07
Gayngel Of Mine
Jul 16, 2025

The timing was unfortunate...

Duration: 02:01:18
TOTTENHAM HOLD 'EM
Jul 07, 2025

WAH WAH WAH!

Duration: 01:54:31
Free Greta!
Jun 15, 2025

Who is Addison McRae?

Duration: 01:56:30
Side To Side
Jun 02, 2025

I wonder if there are any paintings...

Duration: 01:49:38
Who St*bbed Mr. Lanez?
May 18, 2025

That's the way the brookie crumbles...

Duration: 02:08:16
He Is Dead
Apr 26, 2025

Oops-a-daisy...

Trigger warning SA: 30-45 mins.

Duration: 02:03:46
Awful April!
Apr 07, 2025

Planning drone strikes in the lad's group chat...

Duration: 02:01:20
Socially Top/Fiscally Bottom
Mar 25, 2025

Bangers, mash and delusion...

Duration: 02:05:29
Standing On (Bi)dness
Feb 26, 2025

But BLM, right?

Duration: 01:56:11
Standing On (Bi)dness
Feb 26, 2025

But BLM, right?

Duration: 01:56:11
Born To DEI
Feb 09, 2025

It's against my religion to tell y'all my business...

Duration: 01:54:38
Short n' Sweet
Jan 26, 2025

A delicious nothing burger!

Duration: 01:38:44
Niggle, please!
Jan 19, 2025

Bunch of weirdos...

Duration: 01:57:42
THE DL WRAPPED: 2024
Jan 12, 2025

Kind of bad, but adequate...

Time stamps (approx)

DL UNCUT Promo - 50:26

Mini Low Down - 1:28:22

Sound Offs and DL Wrapped Quiz - 2:19:47

Duration: 02:36:19
Free Him!
Dec 15, 2024

Bad vibes all round...

Duration: 02:03:51
Green + White
Dec 04, 2024

Light skin men can't catch a break...

Duration: 02:04:58
Baby Daddy Lessons
Nov 19, 2024

Yes, bitch, I lied to Gayle King!

Duration: 02:05:09
101 D's
Oct 31, 2024

Sending apologies to Fergie...

Duration: 01:52:34
Barely Black
Oct 20, 2024

He was a mutt, she was a mutt...

Duration: 01:51:22
Alligator Tears
Oct 08, 2024

Pretty privilege is real... 

Duration: 02:01:58
Alligator Tears
Oct 06, 2024

Pretty privilege is real...

Duration: 02:02:03
Emotional Luggage
Sep 22, 2024

You thought I was feeding you?

Duration: 02:00:03
Bi On Bi Violence
Aug 22, 2024

Sucking what in the what?!

Duration: 01:53:39
Blackistan!
Aug 14, 2024

Unwashed legs, washed nation...

Duration: 02:02:48
Blackistan!
Aug 14, 2024

Unwashed legs, washed nation...

Duration: 02:03:02
Frenemies!
Jul 28, 2024

The coconut doesn't fall far from the tree...

Duration: 02:03:02
Freaky Friday
Jul 16, 2024

Chat shit, get shhh....

Duration: 02:04:50
For Coloured Girls
Jul 01, 2024

This is gonna ruin the world tour...

Duration: 01:59:54
Pride Sucks!
Jun 16, 2024

Fenty Shake and Go!

Spoilers

Queenie 38mins -39mins

I Kissed A Girl 39 mins - 49 mins

Love Island 49 mins - 1hr 4 mins

Duration: 02:01:56
Sadder Than Ever
Jun 01, 2024

Je suis Karen...

Spoilers:

The Ultimatum: South Africa (42:10 - 59:10)

I Kissed A Girl (59:10 - 1:11:00)

Duration: 02:10:39
Hateration Generation
May 18, 2024

For the haters in their late twenties!

I Kissed a Girl spoilers 0:48 mins - 1:02 mins

Duration: 01:58:18
Beyonc/A.I.
May 02, 2024

SHOW THE PROOF OF FUNDS!

@palestinesolidarityuk

@lgbtrightsghana

@eye.on.palestine

Duration: 02:53:33
The DL Wrapped: 2023
Jan 12, 2024

We’ll see y’all very soon! (Also, you know the drill - no skipsies.)

Duration: 03:23:05
Sloppy Bottom
Dec 26, 2023

The messiest person you know...

Duration: 01:58:06
Bleaches & Cream
Nov 30, 2023

Right in front of my salad?!

Duration: 02:01:41
Strictly Dickly
Nov 17, 2023

Thirty Seven!?

Duration: 01:59:11
Slurps Up!
Nov 03, 2023

We back - Fo Shiz, Fo Shiz!

Duration: 01:56:53
Bedbugs & Bullies
Oct 06, 2023

Don't let the bed bugs bite...

Duration: 02:05:59
Bad Vibes
Sep 07, 2023

Hanging on tenterhooks...

Duration: 01:59:08
Definitely Gay
Aug 28, 2023

Blessed rat girl summer...

Duration: 01:58:40
Definitely Gay
Aug 27, 2023

Blessed rat girl summer...

Duration: 01:58:40
Lift Every Voice and Swing!
Aug 11, 2023

BOOP, badu badu badu...

Duration: 02:06:25
Twenties-ish
Jul 30, 2023

It's the crickets...

Duration: 01:57:27
Ashes To Ashes
Jul 19, 2023

He didn't say I couldn't sing!

Duration: 01:56:33
Je Suis Submersible
Jul 02, 2023

It's giving sexyyy...

Duration: 01:55:11
Straight Outta Camden
Jun 18, 2023

Some birthday!

Duration: 02:01:08
He Lied, He Lied!
Jun 03, 2023

Straights to the back!

Duration: 01:52:15
Swirl To The World
May 22, 2023

We like paragraphs!

Duration: 01:51:10
Everyone Is Dead
May 07, 2023

Stay slay!

Duration: 01:55:09
Gorgeous, Gorgeous Girlies!
Apr 22, 2023

Are you trying to fuck me?

Duration: 01:54:34
Pr*cks Abroad
Apr 10, 2023

From Donald Duck to Donald Trump

Duration: 01:50:06
Monkey Business
Mar 23, 2023

WELL!

Duration: 01:59:26
Mean Girls
Mar 11, 2023

Wind your neck in!

Duration: 01:58:59
P**** Facing The World!
Feb 24, 2023

ANJULUH BASSEH DID THA THING!

(Love island spoilers 27:00 - 47)

Duration: 02:02:59
Jollof Wars!
Jan 27, 2023

The percs of being a wallflower...

Duration: 01:59:35
Death By Oxtail
Jan 14, 2023

Justice for Celine!

Duration: 01:59:01
The DL Wrapped: 2022
Dec 30, 2022

No skipsies!

Duration: 02:24:05
Stuntin’ At The Savoy
Dec 17, 2022

Dunno what you heard...

Duration: 02:01:38
Don’t Call Me (Nepo) Baby!
Dec 03, 2022

Just horsin' around...

Duration: 02:07:14
Silk Presses & Shenanigans
Nov 19, 2022

Some body that I used to know...

SPOILER ALERT: Wakanda Forever - from 1:17:00 - 1:23:50.

Duration: 02:13:28
Wilde Dressing!
Nov 05, 2022

Ratchet Happy Birthday!

Duration: 03:11:44
Rih-surface!
Oct 09, 2022

5 times?!?

Duration: 01:52:41
The Banks Witch Project
Sep 24, 2022

Ding dong, the [redacted] is [redacted].

Duration: 01:58:46
She/(s)Her(ee)
Sep 09, 2022

Read the room!

Duration: 02:07:04
Peg The Monarchy
Aug 13, 2022

I was born by the river, I was shaking that ass...

Duration: 01:51:40
Peg The Monarchy
Aug 13, 2022

I was born by the river, I was shaking that ass...

Duration: 01:51:40
Strange(r) Tings Are Happening
Jul 30, 2022

A pox upon your house!

Duration: 01:45:44
Conversations With Friends
Jul 09, 2022

Getting in our mailbag!

Duration: 01:55:32
Horton Stomps A Ho!
Jun 27, 2022

Release your trade!

Duration: 01:50:19
Delusional Gurl!
Jun 10, 2022

Alexa, play "Don't You Worry Child" by the Swedish House Mafia....   Link for Angel Maxine's GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/angel-maxine)

Duration: 01:46:36
Eton Messiness
May 28, 2022

4 eggs, Jeremy?! That's insane!

Duration: 01:50:05
Heart Stopped? Carry On!
May 12, 2022

I'm out here livin' tho!

Duration: 01:50:00
Bye The Bi
Apr 29, 2022

Start the queerbaiting - deadass.

Duration: 01:41:43
Pull Out & Prayers
Apr 15, 2022

Strrrrike!

Duration: 01:56:38
King Slap
Apr 02, 2022

The wild, wild western mailbag (p.s. it's moral absolutism!) 

Duration: 01:40:55
Partners in Grime
Mar 19, 2022

You better work b****!

Duration: 01:48:14
Stand Up!
Mar 05, 2022

Blac Chyna was Tyga pum pum!

Duration: 01:49:12
4TH Baby Mumma
Feb 17, 2022

Light, bright, take your man, I might!

Duration: 01:48:39
Unfortunate Events
Feb 04, 2022

She Who Shall Not be Named...

Duration: 01:44:20
Hot Sauce Bling
Jan 22, 2022

Got milk?

Duration: 01:47:51
Murder She Throat
Jan 07, 2022

I'm, I'm, I'm. I'm still queer...

Duration: 01:39:15
The DL Wrapped: 2021
Dec 23, 2021

Steppin' into 2022 like...

Duration: 02:34:15
Omicron Challenge
Dec 10, 2021

Free Tristan!

Duration: 02:02:20
Ciara‘s Nightmare
Nov 25, 2021

Our taxes are funding the Queen's BBL...

Duration: 02:13:52
Pardon My French
Nov 04, 2021

Team Nathan vs Team Lawrence!

Duration: 01:47:05
Lil Mix Race Ting
Oct 22, 2021

I don't want no chicken and chip boys!

Duration: 01:30:56
Misery Business
Oct 11, 2021

We've got nothing left!

Duration: 01:38:47
Vax The Rich!
Sep 24, 2021

And Peg Thee Patriarchy...

Duration: 02:00:39
Issa Mandem(ick)!
Sep 09, 2021

We will never forget!

Duration: 01:58:27
Crates In The Sky
Aug 27, 2021

Wash your babies!

Duration: 01:45:50
The Messy Mailbag
Aug 02, 2021

Secure the PLT deal!

Duration: 02:01:42
Let Us Pray
Jul 16, 2021

It didn't come home...

Duration: 02:36:35