EFREM GRAHAM: At Number 5, this week the NBA's Steph Curry

scores points on the court.

But his wife is reaching professional goals

in the kitchen.

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

That's your cookbook right there.

This is like genuine nerves.

[END PLAYBACK]

EFREM GRAHAM: Ayesha Curry's cookbook, "The Seasoned Life,"

has just made the New York Times Best Sellers List.

It was beautiful to see you opening the book on video

for the very first time.

What's it been like these last few weeks out promoting it?

It's been insane.

Everybody keeps asking me if I'm tired of it or if I'm over it.

And I'm not.

I love it.

EFREM GRAHAM: At Number 4--

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[END PLAYBACK]

--queen of country Dolly Parton goes

from sold-out concert tours to yet another Number 1 album.

This one is called "Dolly: Pure and Simple."

And it's all about love.

You are approaching 50 years of marriage yourself.

Are they the example for you and your husband?

My husband has always loved my dad and my mom.

But I think my husband's and my relationship

really just was a godsend because God

knew I was going to need somebody

like him because I was going to be doing all this crazy stuff.

EFREM GRAHAM: And at Number 3--

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]|

Performing "Blessings" featuring Anthony Hamilton,

Ty Dollar $ign, Raury, and DRAM, please welcome

Chance the Rapper. [CHEERING]

[END PLAYBACK]

EFREM GRAHAM: --gospel comes to late night--

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

(SINGING) Are you ready?

Oh.

[CHEERING]

[END PLAYBACK]

EFREM GRAHAM: --with Chance the Rapper

performing a version of his spiritually-inspired song

"Blessings" on Jimmy Fallon.

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

(RAPPING) I speak of wondrous, unfamiliar lessons from

childhood, make you remember how to smile good.

[END PLAYBACK]

EFREM GRAHAM: We head to Paris and Justin Bieber for Number 2.

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

(SINGING) I will sing of your love forever.

I will sing of your love forever.

[END PLAYBACK]

EFREM GRAHAM: On his Purpose tour

in Europe and in the middle of his set,

the Biebs led an acoustic sing along of the classic worship

song, "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever."

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

[CHEERING]

[END PLAYBACK]

And his fans quickly caught on and joined in.

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

I will sing of your love forever.

I will sing of your love forever.

[END PLAYBACK]

EFREM GRAHAM: Now to Number 1.

So, I'm excited.

I've been in the studio working.

And we'll see what happens.

How soon?

I don't know.

We'll see.

You have to wait and find out.

EFREM GRAHAM: We're still waiting on the album,

but we have at least one new song from the hip-hop superstar

Lecrae.

He's teamed up with singer Leon Bridges

on a powerful song for the soundtrack of the film "Birth

of a Nation."

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

Boy, you better say something and quick.

Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves

and to all the flock over the which

the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.

[END PLAYBACK]

EFREM GRAHAM: This film tells the story of a slave rebellion

led by preacher Nat Turner.

And the Lecrae and Leon Bridges tune is called, "On My Own."

[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

LACRAE: (RAPPING) I've been pushing hard.

I've been praying harder.

Only heaven can help me.

They took my earth--

[END PLAYBACK]

Well, Efrem, welcome back to the show.

Good to be back.

And let's start off on a little lighter note.

Yes!

[LAUGHTER]

Yes, please.

Ayesha, she's got a cookbook.

Have you gotten it?

Yes, I've gotten the cookbook.

I interviewed her about the cookbook.

GORDON ROBERTSON: Have you cooked out of it?

I have.

I've made one thing.

GORDON ROBERTSON: What is that?

It's not good for you.

But it's so, so good.

It's brown sugar chicken.

It's her mom's recipe.

And it is unbelievable, unbelievably good.

It is really, really good.

The next thing I will say about Ayesha Curry-- Number 1,

as sweet as she could be, as generous with her time

as she could be.

We spent a lot of time together in the Williams-Sonoma kitchen.

I learned that not only did she create

all the recipes in there, but the artwork inside the cookbook

is her own.

She actually got in the kitchen.

And she was pointing out to me in the book

all the flaws in the pictures to prove, you know,

I did this myself.

What I also loved about her is she

talked about finding her purpose.

She actually wanted to be an actress, moved from Charlotte

to LA fresh out of high school to pursue acting,

got gigs but was not comfortable there.

She just felt like this really isn't for me.

This isn't for me.

And this is pre-Steph Curry days for her.

I mean, they were just dating at the time.

And she walked away from that, went back to Charlotte, home

to sit and pray and say, OK, God.

What is it you want me to do because obviously

the acting thing is not what my purpose is?

And in getting married, becoming a wife and mom,

she realized her love for cooking

and found her purpose in that.

And she was not doing it for glitz and glamor.

She was doing it because she grew up and saw

the love of a family sitting around the dinner table

and was so in love with that process.

And now she's got a cookbook, a cooking

show coming out in a matter of just a couple of weeks.

And she was denied the cookbook option before.

She was denied the cooking show before.

But God has opened all the doors for her now.

And she is a hard, tireless working woman.

Well, I've been a long proponent of the family meal.

At dinner, you've got to sit around.

You've got to talk.

You've got to put those cell phones away.

Absolutely.

And absolutely Sunday supper has got to be a special event.

Absolutely.

And when you do that, families that do tend to stay together.

Yeah.

I've got a little guilt story.

We had dinner the other day at my house.

And it was a weekend.

Brown sugar chicken?

No, something else!

But we were eating around the dinner table,

and it wasn't Sunday.

And my daughter said, this feels like Sunday.

I was like, why?

And she goes, because we're sitting

around the table talking.

I was like, ooh.

We've got to do this more than just on Sunday.

It's got to happen more often for us.

Yeah.

When it happens, magic happens.

Yes, it does indeed.

And it's great.

All right, well let's also talk about a little magic.

Here's Dolly Parton with a number-one record.

How did that happen?

How do you do this?

How do you do this?

And the whole entire album is focused on love.

She releases it.

She's on a 60-city tour-- this woman, 60-city tour.

And she does not fly.

She rides a bus all over the country, sleeps on the bus.

She doesn't like the whole get out and go into a hotel thing.

No, she packs the bus.

And that's where she stays.

GORDON ROBERTSON: Is there a lot of Red Bull on the bus?

I tell you!

[LAUGHTER]

But she is tireless.

She loves it.

And is not going to stop at all.

GORDON ROBERTSON: You go girl.

You got it.

She's amazing.

Yeah.

I'm proud of her.

Me, too.

I want that energy when I get there.

[LAUGHTER]

I'm closer than you.

I don't know if I have that energy at all.

Well, we've got a Chance the Rapper.

We've got to talk about this late night television.

He's singing a spiritual song.

Yes, "Blessings."

He's singing a song.

And it's not the first time he's done it,

but it's a new version of the song.

And he is among those that we're watching in the hip-hop world.

Something is definitely happening.

We have Chance the Rapper.

We have Kanye West.

And they're teaming up with people like Kirk Franklin

and obviously seeking something.

And it's good to see.

And I know the Christian community can sometimes

be quick to blast them and look at their lives and the things

that they're doing wrong and some of the other music

that they sing.

But I embrace it and celebrate it

because obviously something's happening.

Something's happening in their hearts

because this music doesn't just come from nowhere.

I mean, it comes from a place of longing.

GORDON ROBERTSON: Oh, it definitely inspired.

You've got to be hungry for that experience to go on stage

and say, I want to share this.

This is what I'm going through.

And I applaud them for doing it.

Absolutely.

And we see Justin Bieber do the very same thing.

To sing "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever,"

to bring out his acoustic guitar there,

and to begin to lead the entire audience in Paris

in that song-- amazing.

Yeah.

And they knew the lyrics.

They knew the lyrics.

They knew the lyrics.

That was in Paris.

Yes.

They knew the lyrics in English, which-- yay!

You know, we're hearing a lot of negative headlines.

That, for me, gives me hope.

EFREM GRAHAM: Yes.

It's like planting the seed.

Somebody else will come along and water.

GORDON ROBERTSON: You know, we're saying something

with millennials.

Is there now a change that they want

an authentic spiritual experience?

Absolutely.

I believe they do.

And they can sniff out a phony quicker than anybody.

You have children.

I have children.

And they can smell it when it's not real.

And they want that authenticity, that real experience.

OK.

We're together.

It's Wednesday, so we've got to talk about racial injustice

in America today.

We must.

It seems to be our thing.

You know, when I read the title "Birth of a Nation,"

I think of a very racist movie.

And, you know, when you see that and you

see the beginnings of cinema in America, you go, wait a minute.

That was such a pioneering film-- 1915, DW Griffith.

I'll never forget it.

I remember sitting in cinematography class

and that film, watching it with my diverse classmates,

seeing, I mean, the Ku Klux Klan being celebrated in this film.

Glorified.

Yes, glorified.

But at the same time, we're watching

the film not because of that.

We're watching it because of its pioneering cinematography.

But the subject matter's painful.

We now have "Birth of a Nation" 2016.

Nate Parker is essentially taking that title back

and telling a slave rebellion story, a true story based

on the life of Nat Turner, who did lead a slave rebellion not

too far from where we're sitting right now.

He led a slave rebellion.

And it was bloody, at least 60 people killed as far

as slave owners and their families,

but in return 200 slaves, at least,

killed-- violent but true to life

in terms of what was going on.

And to watch how scripture played out in all of this,

it's a powerful film.

I have seen it.

Are we finally going to get the real story of Nat Turner?

Because when I was growing up going

to public schools in Virginia, slave rebellion was bad.

Yes, absolutely.

Nat Turner was bad.

And, you know, it was always the emphasis

of the number of people that died.

And it was curious because the Civil Rights Movement

was happening at the same time.

And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was very much committed

to pacifism.

I admire him for that.

Are we going to get the spiritual roots of the slave

rebellion?

I believe, yes.

Because a lot of people don't know that.

No, absolutely not.

I believe we are.

Like I said, I've seen the film.

It is rated R because of the violence.

It's rated R because of the language, as you can imagine.

But the true story-- he is true to it as he possibly can be,

really diving into scripture, talking about the fact

that, for every scripture that was used to justify slavery,

there's another scripture that counteracts that,

and giving the true picture and watching his transformation.

Think about this, a slave as a kid who learned to read.

And he learned to read just one book.

And that's the Bible because the slave owners

believe you could handle the Bible because it's not going

to plant any seeds of doubt.

It was actually illegal for him to learn that.

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

People that would teach slaves to read faced jail.

Absolutely.

But his slave owners opted to teach him

but only taught him to read the Bible.

And literally that unfolded in his life

in a great, powerful way.

Yeah.

Beautiful.

It's always great to have you.

Thank you.

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Thank you.