Corden went on to check in with his bandleader, Watts, asking, "How are you doing, Reg?"

"Ah, crazy, I don't know, feeling so much simultaneously, it's crazy," Watts replied. "I was fortunate

Corden went on to check in with his bandleader, Watts, asking, "How are you doing, Reg?"

"Ah, crazy, I don't know, feeling so much simultaneously, it's crazy," Watts replied. "I was fortunate to grow up in a place where I was pretty protected by my parents when it came to forms of racism that happened in my neighborhood. My mom was a fierce fighter and would get out of the house and get in people's faces about, you know, people calling me the N-word or whatever growing up and being different and stuff. So I feel really grateful that my parents and my father fought so hard to make my life feel normal and to have me grow up feeling like I'm a human being rather than I'm a demographic."

"And just going back in my history, my father growing up in the Midwest and being in Vietnam and not being able to get a job when he got out of the Army because he was black," Watts continued. "And the economy wasn't doing that well and he had to reenlist, got sent back to Vietnam. And then when my parents got married their marriage wasn't recognized in the U.S. because of laws prohibiting interracial marriage."

Watts also mentioned that his cousin, novelist Alice Walker, wrote about her experience in The Color Purple.