Speaker 1: Every day Up, Wake, click up the Breakfast Club finish
Speaker 1: for y'all done morning.
Speaker 2: Everybody is stej n V just hilarious.
Speaker 3: Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast Club law La
Speaker 3: Roses here as well.
Speaker 2: We got a special guests in the bill.
Speaker 1: A motherfucking legend of icon man. Stop introducing Mike Apps
Speaker 1: like you regular?
Speaker 3: Okay, God damn right then you said it died kind
Speaker 3: of legend, I said, But even though I hear he
Speaker 3: got so much going on that to check to see
Speaker 3: what he's up here for.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I saw that this day. Mike
Speaker 1: Epps was here for the week and one, so I said,
Speaker 1: it's a type on from the last time he was here.
Speaker 1: There's no way they about to go back out again again.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 4: Hey, how y'all doing out there in the world? Man,
Speaker 4: breakfast club? Baby, We're on a breakfast club. I've been
Speaker 4: watching this ship all the time. But you know, and
Speaker 4: I said to myself, I wonder when I'm going back
Speaker 4: again anytime.
Speaker 2: You want to.
Speaker 3: You did the first you did the Mike EPs did
Speaker 3: the first skit with the Breakfast Club We ever did
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 2: Yes, you did. I don't remember remember when the girl
Speaker 2: was holding the food and he smacked the food out here.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I never did anything out
Speaker 4: of there. I never did get nothing from it either.
Speaker 4: Never that got a check or a piece of cake,
Speaker 4: a bottle of wine or none of that. Hell no,
Speaker 4: ain't on the wall, man. But see, that's what I
Speaker 4: wanted to come here and talk about, saying. I wanted
Speaker 4: to talk about the neglect that has been going on
Speaker 4: with the Breakfast Club. Mike.
Speaker 2: No, Man, you're a legend.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: See, I'm ready to do like bird Man Brian Williams.
Speaker 4: All right now, all Tree you too, you too, Yeah,
Speaker 4: go ahead, Yeah, I ain't gonna I ain't gonna say
Speaker 4: it no.
Speaker 6: More be doing what happened.
Speaker 4: No, I was just sitting there watching all them clips.
Speaker 4: You almost got in like several different fights in here.
Speaker 2: That's articulous. God, I was worried about.
Speaker 4: I know it. But they was just showing all the
Speaker 4: different clips, and everybody never wanted to fight. You was
Speaker 4: like this close.
Speaker 6: Who you think the one out of him? And Beanie?
Speaker 6: That was the crazy sentiment, a.
Speaker 4: Wait from each other right there right there.
Speaker 2: I've been in worse situations, man.
Speaker 4: That is just hilarious. Though, I'm like, damn, what.
Speaker 1: Makes you want to go back out on the road
Speaker 1: so soon? I feel like y'all just ending this store.
Speaker 4: Well, you know what, that's my thing that I see.
Speaker 4: That's the thing about me. I never leave the people.
Speaker 4: And that's because Hollywood is they don't trust me. One
Speaker 4: hundred percent white men. Now, white people do not trust me, man,
Speaker 4: And I've been I've been working on it for years.
Speaker 2: Don't they trust you? No?
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know, man. You know, I feel
Speaker 4: like I feel like I've always deserved bigger opportunities, but
Speaker 4: I do be getting big opportunities, like.
Speaker 2: You just did six seasons of a sitcom on Netflix.
Speaker 4: Man, I know what you're talking. I'm greedy.
Speaker 6: You want every show?
Speaker 4: What's bigger than I want? I want? I really want.
Speaker 4: I want to be I want to be in some
Speaker 4: more movies with white people because it means money. You
Speaker 4: see me with if you catch me with a honkey,
Speaker 4: the money gonna go up.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: But you know, when you think about black.
Speaker 4: Honkys, make your money go up.
Speaker 2: Go ahead with that word.
Speaker 1: In a long time, when you think about black comedians,
Speaker 1: it's not too many black comedians who had a hit sitcom.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about sitcoms that have lasted.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, There's only a few, like
Speaker 1: you got The Cosby Show, you got a Stamford in the.
Speaker 2: Son right, Martin, Martin, Martin. I don't even know if
Speaker 2: Bernie Mack Bernie season. I don't even know. God blessed dead.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: No, I don't know. I don't know. But I've been
Speaker 4: a handful. Yeah, I've been blessed to do. I've been
Speaker 4: blessed to uh still be in the business. And that's
Speaker 4: how I stay in the business. Man. I never i'm I'm.
Speaker 4: I wake up every day like I'm just now getting
Speaker 4: in it, Like I'm I never got in it. I
Speaker 4: never celebrate myself being in the business. I'm never bragging
Speaker 4: or you know, I'm I'm. I'm always a fan still.
Speaker 4: I'm always looking at the business from a fan's eyes.
Speaker 4: Like if I look at the business from a fan's eye,
Speaker 4: I ain't gonna never fall off because I know what
Speaker 4: the fans like and what the fans want. And I'm
Speaker 4: even judging myself like a fan too, like, oh, that
Speaker 4: shit ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: Bernie Mack and Jamie Fox have five seasons. You got six.
Speaker 1: That's a big fucking deal. Man, The wains brother don't
Speaker 1: know how many seasons they had. That's a big deal, bro.
Speaker 4: It is. It's pretty good.
Speaker 2: And you're on Netflix.
Speaker 4: On Netflix, that's a big deal. One of the hardest
Speaker 4: platforms to get on and to be successful on. So
Speaker 4: shout out to all to Netflix, you know, giving me
Speaker 4: a test, surrander, giving me the opportunity and wind the
Speaker 4: Sykes and kim Fields. You know, just a great team
Speaker 4: of people, and that's that's the that's the key to succeeding.
Speaker 4: You have to have a great team. And nobody's doing
Speaker 4: this shit by theyself. You know, when you see somebody successful,
Speaker 4: you can best believe it's a team behind them that
Speaker 4: made them, that helped them prepare. You know.
Speaker 3: Now you're going back out on the road. Yeah, with
Speaker 3: the Ones comedy to a twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: You didn't It feels like you just got off the road.
Speaker 3: Right, How do you get a chance to create new material?
Speaker 3: Because usually they say material comes from living life.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 2: If you always on the road, where's the material coming from?
Speaker 4: I mean, if you look at the news, the ship
Speaker 4: is just hanging off the tree. It's just low hanging fruit.
Speaker 4: Every every day it's some new shit. And that's the
Speaker 4: thing about being a real comedian. A real comedian ain't
Speaker 4: sitting there writing shit. You Finnah, get it right off
Speaker 4: the cuff, just like you catching me coming out to
Speaker 4: both daggers, Damn Mike? Was that? And I say, some
Speaker 4: fun That's that's a real comedian right there. We ain't
Speaker 4: got a right. I ain't gotta right, ship, I ain't
Speaker 4: got a right. You catch me walking down the street,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be funny. Catch me at the drug store,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be funny. You catch me wherever you catch
Speaker 4: me at, I'm gonna be funny. And I just feel
Speaker 4: like that's that's what I do. That's that's how I write.
Speaker 4: And if you come and see me that night at
Speaker 4: the comedy show, you're gonna hear some ship that happened
Speaker 4: that day. I'm talking about it right on the stage,
Speaker 4: and then I'm gonna make it funny, you know, so
Speaker 4: I trust I trust my funny.
Speaker 2: You were talking about the Honkeys, right.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like Hollywood truly respects black comedy legends
Speaker 1: the same way they do white ones, or that respects
Speaker 1: something y'all still gotta fight for.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we definitely. Let me tell you something. Man,
Speaker 4: any anybody black, in any situation, you still gonna have
Speaker 4: to fight. It's a fight. You know. I never seen
Speaker 4: a race of people they quote unquote or success for
Speaker 4: and still have to prove themselves. Never I ain't. I
Speaker 4: don't see another race that has to still do it.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's even harder for us because we're
Speaker 4: doing it against each other. We are biggest competition each other.
Speaker 4: I was looking at I was at the strip club.
Speaker 4: This was years ago. Yeah, but I was at the
Speaker 4: strip club. She got ways of being like this man. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but but I was just in the strip club. I
Speaker 4: was just thinking to myself, Man, these dudes are really
Speaker 4: in here, uh uh, competing with each other throwing the money.
Speaker 4: And they got another guy to come out, and it's
Speaker 4: just a scenario for life. They got another guy to
Speaker 4: come out at the strip club and throw money. And
Speaker 4: then and then after you throw your money, he collect
Speaker 4: all the money and take it back there to the
Speaker 4: girls again. And that's what they that's how they get
Speaker 4: you to throw money. They said, yeah, they got a
Speaker 4: dude out there to throw the money. That's how Hollywood
Speaker 4: is too, That's how show business is.
Speaker 1: So somebody that starts it off it ain't even ain't
Speaker 1: basically straight plant, you know.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 7: So you still feel like you're proving, You're working to
Speaker 7: prove things to people in your career at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you know, I was just I was just
Speaker 4: listening to everybody talk about how bad of a movie
Speaker 4: that was that Denzel and Spike Lee just did. Right.
Speaker 4: They were just talking about, yeah, it wasn't a great movie,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, damn literally when they were talking about it,
Speaker 4: it damned that made you forget it that it was like, man,
Speaker 4: Denzel was in that movie, Like, you know, it wasn't
Speaker 4: a great movie. You damned never forgot about it everything
Speaker 4: he did because you was focusing on the fact that
Speaker 4: it wasn't a good movie, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So one bad, one mistake in art culture can cause
Speaker 4: you can cause people to not fuck with you, which
Speaker 4: is weird as hell to me. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: But what you said is true.
Speaker 4: They catch amnesia.
Speaker 2: But what you said is true. We pushed, We'll push
Speaker 2: the narrative.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, We'll go we'll go
Speaker 1: so hard against against each other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's what And that's another I mean, you
Speaker 4: know that's another reason why we're all great too as well.
Speaker 4: We put the pressure that we have against each other.
Speaker 1: It's crazy when that's Mike earlier, he said, charlamage your after.
Speaker 5: You on his ass.
Speaker 4: But see he but see you got a plant. The
Speaker 4: platform that you guys have is it's unstoppable. It's a
Speaker 4: whole lot different than coming inside of a church or
Speaker 4: coming inside of a political arena. This is the this
Speaker 4: is the real platform. It's people. Hell, yeah, you're touching everybody. Man.
Speaker 2: You know, I think about you, Mike do because you've
Speaker 2: been in funny your whole life.
Speaker 1: Man, because you've grown. What is being a comedian meaning
Speaker 1: you now compared to when you first started.
Speaker 4: But when I first started, it was confused. It was
Speaker 4: it was a disruption, you know what I mean when
Speaker 4: I was when I was a kid. Because you never
Speaker 4: seen black kids. You never see and you never will
Speaker 4: see black kids in a in a career center talking
Speaker 4: about they want to be a comedian. So if you
Speaker 4: see a young black kid being a comedian, he's being disruptive.
Speaker 4: They call that disruptive. Oh he's a disruptive. This is
Speaker 4: the motherfuckers disruptive. But that's what I was. I'm a comedian,
Speaker 4: you know, So a comedian career is not something that
Speaker 4: you can go to college and go get They don't
Speaker 4: teach it, and uh, you know in career class, this
Speaker 4: is some shit that just happens, and you you, you know,
Speaker 4: you take advantage of it. That's what I did. I
Speaker 4: always been funny, but now this shit then became a business,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So I gotta cut the
Speaker 4: phony funny on and cut it off. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: here come the money. I gotta do some business. Let
Speaker 4: me cut that funny or let me trim it down
Speaker 4: a little bit. I could still be funny, but I'm
Speaker 4: doing business. Let me trim it down a little bit
Speaker 4: so I can get the business done, you know. And
Speaker 4: but I you know, I know how to turn it
Speaker 4: on and off. When it's time to be funny, I'm funny.
Speaker 4: When it's time to talk talk real shit, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: talk real shit. And that's how I adjust my shit, man,
Speaker 4: That's how adjust everything.
Speaker 2: What's one thing that Mike Epps hates?
Speaker 3: I know, there's always a Friday question I know there's
Speaker 3: always a funnier than who who's not funny? Pass MEAs
Speaker 3: what's one thing you hate discussing and talking about that
Speaker 3: pisses you off.
Speaker 4: I'm so tired of talking. I'm so tired of talking
Speaker 4: about people, talking about other comedians and other artists. I'm
Speaker 4: sick of that shit.
Speaker 2: Gotrac of my questions.
Speaker 4: Well, no, no, no. The reason why I said that
Speaker 4: is because I'm like, it's just it's just running in
Speaker 4: a circle, man, you know what I mean. It's like
Speaker 4: I ain't got nothing to say about nobody at this point.
Speaker 4: Matter of fact, I feel fucked up talking about something.
Speaker 4: I'm so blessed. I feel fucked up talking negative about anybody,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I don't have no room
Speaker 4: to say nothing negative because I'm blessed. Now. If I
Speaker 4: wasn't doing so great, maybe so, But man, I'm so blessed.
Speaker 4: I don't find I don't have no room to talk
Speaker 4: shit about nobody.
Speaker 1: You know, you bought a whole block, man, you understand, Like,
Speaker 1: do you understand that's so many black people's dream to
Speaker 1: buy a whole and they and they community where they're from.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, No, it was in Indiana, though I wish,
Speaker 4: I wish it was in La but I know, yeah,
Speaker 4: more man, that ship is so boring.
Speaker 6: Man, do that to yourself.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: You know what though you don't stay on the sleep
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my son sleep in my room that I slept
Speaker 4: in when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: That yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: And what's crazy is people still getting murdered in the
Speaker 4: neighborhoods and niggas died in the alley and yeah, the
Speaker 4: detectives knocking on the door. We didn't see your camera,
Speaker 4: miss des, I said, Oh, man, I ain't got no
Speaker 4: cameras around. Well you see the camera, I said, don't
Speaker 4: none of that ship work. But it just goes to
Speaker 4: show you that it just goes.
Speaker 2: Tell nobody that.
Speaker 4: Man, No, it just goes to show No, it worked.
Speaker 2: But you know I'll get you yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: But you know it just goes to show you, man
Speaker 4: that nobody's paying If I could tell some of these stars,
Speaker 4: some of these people that are famous, nobody's paying attention
Speaker 4: to your mother fucking ass. That's another thing I hate.
Speaker 4: I'm like some of these people are in delusion, Like
Speaker 4: you're wasting fucking security money. Ain't nobody fucking thinking about you?
Speaker 4: I wish I could just take a chart and just
Speaker 4: show all the artists and just point at them and say,
Speaker 4: ain't nobody think about your motherfucking ass. Ain't nobody think
Speaker 4: about your motherfucking You can walk around by your goddamn
Speaker 4: self and save your security money. You don't need no security.
Speaker 4: People love you. Why do you have somebody around you
Speaker 4: all the time. Because I walk around this motherfucker by myself.
Speaker 4: I don't have no fucking security.
Speaker 1: You never got punched in the back of the head, though,
Speaker 1: se y'all ain't got punched in the head on camera
Speaker 1: Mike twice.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, well, well, Charlamagne, I think you I mean,
Speaker 4: I think you're gonna have to do something. What you
Speaker 4: gotta pop that pistol on somebody's ass or so at
Speaker 4: least once they gotta know you will do it. Fuck
Speaker 4: the security, they don't. Niggas gotta know you'll do it
Speaker 4: once they know you'll do that. Ship You can walk
Speaker 4: around this mother by yourself.
Speaker 1: Look at this nigga threw his whole life away, you know,
Speaker 1: because Mike has told me.
Speaker 4: Well, you ain't gotta shoot nobody. But this is the
Speaker 4: I just said that to say this that most most
Speaker 4: of these people walking around here that are in entertainment
Speaker 4: business just to live like you a normal person.
Speaker 2: I agree, Just live.
Speaker 4: Like you're a normal person, so so that you can
Speaker 4: enjoy this ship, because most of the people in the
Speaker 4: business are just pretending all this shit is copied.
Speaker 5: Ship.
Speaker 4: I see the entertainers walking with the I'm like, that's
Speaker 4: some ship he's seen somebody do with the coffee in
Speaker 4: the hand. And the dude that's walking to God got his.
Speaker 2: Hand on that ship.
Speaker 4: That shit that irrit takes the shit out of me.
Speaker 4: Some nigga watching me every fucking five minutes to see
Speaker 4: if somebody gonna do something to me. I always say
Speaker 4: to myself if I was, if I was trying to
Speaker 4: get somebody, I'm gonna fuck him in that security up
Speaker 4: fucking both of y'all. Up. I'm gonna get the fucking
Speaker 4: security first because that's who's supposed to be protaking. Let
Speaker 4: me get this nigga first, and then I'm gonna get
Speaker 4: just that. So the security shit don't work. That ship
Speaker 4: don't work. I guess it keeps shipped down. But if
Speaker 4: I catch a motherfucker that be talking shit with a security,
Speaker 4: get your punk ass out.
Speaker 2: Of here once you go for security, the other one going.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying, That's what I'm saying. The other
Speaker 4: one gone so so so so. Some of y'all need
Speaker 4: to save your fucking money. Ain't nobody thinking about your ass?
Speaker 4: You look crazy walking around with security and the damn
Speaker 4: whole foods?
Speaker 6: What Who did I seeing with the security?
Speaker 4: Who the fuck was that I seen in security?
Speaker 2: Don't follow for that. She's trying to get you to
Speaker 2: say a name.
Speaker 4: I think it was Bobby Valentino. Nigga had two big
Speaker 4: ass niggas in the city. I said, now, what is
Speaker 4: going on in there with the I couldn't even see
Speaker 4: the little nigga because of the security. I said, where
Speaker 4: are you? No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 6: I just starts streaming.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hell yeah, I'm gonna start streaming. I went on
Speaker 4: that little kid, what's the name?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: He was a straight food on them. And I'm sitting
Speaker 4: there looking at I'm I'm sitting on the streaming platform
Speaker 4: saying to myself, how the fuck is he getting paid?
Speaker 4: When they had the COVID. When the when COVID went down,
Speaker 4: I was on I was on live skating DJing. I
Speaker 4: was doing all this shit live on my Instagram. Then
Speaker 4: the shit became streaming and he's making all this money.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I was doing that shit and wasn't getting
Speaker 4: a dime, so now I got to see if I
Speaker 4: can get a dime.
Speaker 2: He was on the wrong platform. You know what I
Speaker 2: like about Kai.
Speaker 1: Kai got all that attention from social media, but it
Speaker 1: don't seem like it affects him up here. Meanwhile, you
Speaker 1: got a bunch of older motherfuckers on social media losing
Speaker 1: their mind because of that audience.
Speaker 2: But Kai mentally seemed more together than them.
Speaker 4: That's why it's working for him, because he's not affected
Speaker 4: by it. He ain't on that trying to show you
Speaker 4: how much he got, how much of a bigger star
Speaker 4: he is. He's just being himself and making money. And
Speaker 4: that's what you young kids. If y'all watching the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 4: you gonna make more money and get more success being
Speaker 4: yourself than anybody in the world. I know it's people
Speaker 4: that you admire, but even if it's somebody that you
Speaker 4: admire that you really like, you're like, ah, I kind
Speaker 4: of feel myself being like him. Start hating on him,
Speaker 4: start saying, fuck that motherfucker. I can't stand this because
Speaker 4: he's influencing, So you gotta hate on his ass to
Speaker 4: not be influenced.
Speaker 6: What's gonna be the like vibe of your stream, It's
Speaker 6: gonna be this, It's gonna.
Speaker 4: Be this right here, Comedy Whole Foods speaking on all
Speaker 4: like right now, all these fool stamps and then they
Speaker 4: didn't cut these food stamps off. I'm starting to see
Speaker 4: a lot of girls on dates that they normally wouldn't
Speaker 4: go on. Yeah, they got to eat.
Speaker 7: They doing that though, That's that's the thing. What's that
Speaker 7: you go on dates because you want to eat? Like
Speaker 7: people do that?
Speaker 2: She doesn't. She used to do that.
Speaker 6: First of all, I can feed myself, but.
Speaker 4: I never ever did it before.
Speaker 7: You mean, like, I want to go here, I don't
Speaker 7: want to pay for it. This is back in the day,
Speaker 7: not happening now. I'm great where.
Speaker 6: I'm getting money.
Speaker 7: You're getting money, but you go you don't want to
Speaker 7: pay for something. You have a person you call and
Speaker 7: be like, oh, I know he'll come and pay for it.
Speaker 2: So wow, crazy.
Speaker 4: So sugar daddies, if you're listening to this, listen to
Speaker 4: how you're getting screwed over.
Speaker 6: They know what time it is a sugar daddy though.
Speaker 2: Oh she loved going to an alumni party, that's her thing.
Speaker 1: What is that at the colleges? She like going to
Speaker 1: the old alumni party.
Speaker 6: I get paid.
Speaker 4: We're not going to do this.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to appreciate this. I don't need to
Speaker 6: be knowing them.
Speaker 2: You did.
Speaker 6: You went that little ball here.
Speaker 1: Going to the old alumni parties and them, old man
Speaker 1: beyond me. You told me that what do you get?
Speaker 4: What do you get from an old alumni?
Speaker 6: He's lying. I don't know what he's talking about.
Speaker 4: Just answer for another girl. What would a girl get
Speaker 4: from an old alumni?
Speaker 6: The date you're talking about and whatever she wants?
Speaker 3: Alumni, they graduated from college, they're successful, change, They got change.
Speaker 4: The old college niggas as cheap as hell. They ain't
Speaker 4: gonna spend the money on you like a nigga that
Speaker 4: get dope money.
Speaker 6: You know, because I never did that. Yeah, this trouble
Speaker 6: I think is hitting his head to her.
Speaker 3: You know what I want to know with comedians, right,
Speaker 3: do you ever look at a comedian set, let's say
Speaker 3: a special you call them be like, Yo, that wasn't funny.
Speaker 2: You should have did this better because you are the
Speaker 2: og Do you ever do that? Or you think comediansll be?
Speaker 4: I don't call people, and I'm pretty sure the fans
Speaker 4: will tell your ass. What I don't like is when
Speaker 4: niggas are blind and death and crazy and can't see
Speaker 4: and hear that you ain't ship. You got to be
Speaker 4: able to hear, see and know you ain't ship to
Speaker 4: become something, because that's the worst thing in the world
Speaker 4: is to think you the ship and you ain't the ship.
Speaker 4: And I guess, I guess you're supposed to do that.
Speaker 4: And that's what my I just shot a special called Delusion,
Speaker 4: And that's what the special is about, is you really
Speaker 4: got to be out of your mind and delusional to
Speaker 4: be successful and make it and keep going. You guys,
Speaker 4: are y'all mind to do this show? Right here? This
Speaker 4: ship is crazy.
Speaker 1: I just enjoyed that we get to talk to legends
Speaker 1: like you, like, Yes, that's that's amazing.
Speaker 4: It still got to be crazy though. You still you
Speaker 4: still got to be crazy because you're still holding the
Speaker 4: You're still holding a certain amount of power in your
Speaker 4: in your in your in your hand, in your tongue
Speaker 4: with with the people. This ship is powerful. Breakfast Club
Speaker 4: this ship is, you know.
Speaker 2: That's why I prey for direction. I pray for God
Speaker 2: every day that God leave my steps and God my tongue.
Speaker 4: That's it. He's not doing a great job because you're
Speaker 4: still talking ship on the here. I just seen you
Speaker 4: say some ship the other day. That was crazy. I said,
Speaker 4: you better start sucking with the monkeys. Man, the monkey's
Speaker 4: gonna get you, y'all.
Speaker 2: Man, you see you see what Trump? Trump call me racist?
Speaker 2: Leave back?
Speaker 4: He called you the How does that feel man to
Speaker 4: have I'm talking shit to you.
Speaker 1: Man on man, I don't even think about it, But
Speaker 1: like you, I go he know you huh, I guess.
Speaker 4: Don't go to jail. Yeah, he said some nasty ship
Speaker 4: about me, fuck the boy and ass nigga.
Speaker 2: But like you, I go home.
Speaker 1: So when it's all said that at least I can
Speaker 1: do I'm being talk. You're a lot of doing something.
Speaker 4: What did he doing right now? He's probably working out.
Speaker 4: They probably shooting ball right now. They probably shooting ball
Speaker 4: on the pen. What time is right now? They shooting
Speaker 4: ball right now?
Speaker 2: He works at the chapel. He works at the library
Speaker 2: at the chapel.
Speaker 4: Yes, he worked How the fact do you know this
Speaker 4: that nigga don't work. No, damn Chapel.
Speaker 2: Reported up in that era, that nineties New York era.
Speaker 2: I did definitely, yes you did, didn't you? Definitely yes
Speaker 2: he did. I was young, like fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 4: Back then, but I was looking at I see I
Speaker 4: was looking. I was looking at Diddy situation. I said
Speaker 4: to myself, God don't make mistakes. Sometimes he might have
Speaker 4: took that man off the street to save his life. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's how God works. So you know, look at it
Speaker 4: as a blessing. Sometimes sometimes are are are are our failures.
Speaker 4: Things that we fall in in life are blessings. You
Speaker 4: know what I mean. Every time I took a fall,
Speaker 4: I got a blessing out of it. So let's not
Speaker 4: stop looking at all this people falling and saying, damn man,
Speaker 4: they fail. Guess what now? God is called a setback
Speaker 4: is a comeback, you know what I mean. We all
Speaker 4: get set back so that we can come back. So
Speaker 4: you know, when black men fall, y'all, we gotta we
Speaker 4: keep we gotta stop teasing them.
Speaker 2: I think we gotta learn from it.
Speaker 1: To though minutes he said, He said, when you see
Speaker 1: a great man man fault on laugh, learn for real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he said, with the same thing that tempted him
Speaker 1: on the way up, you're gonna have to face these
Speaker 1: same temptations.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it and it's a whole It's a hundred
Speaker 4: different ways to get sucked up out here. Everybody think
Speaker 4: it's just one way or three ways, and now it's
Speaker 4: a hundred different ways to get fucked up.
Speaker 6: Out He jokes on stage.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, I got some Diddy jokes on. I got
Speaker 4: jokes about everybody, okay, because I'm a comedian and that's
Speaker 4: what I do. You know, I try to make sure
Speaker 4: I don't go too hard because I still got kids.
Speaker 4: You know, my kids. My daughter's no Diddy's daughters. They
Speaker 4: friends with some of that ship.
Speaker 2: Funny man, it's hilarious nipples.
Speaker 4: See I didn't. I didn't. I don't make jokes about
Speaker 4: that part of it. But you heard that though I
Speaker 4: didn't hear that. See you added some other ship on there.
Speaker 4: I ain't even heard that ship right there. That's crazy, man.
Speaker 4: That man ain't did no ship like.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he did or not. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying that's what That's what the prostitute said. Said that.
Speaker 6: During the time when they were having the conversations with Cassie.
Speaker 4: Yeah. See see I would go if I was them,
Speaker 4: I would get out and go quiet for a year,
Speaker 4: and everybody else get fucked up, all them snitches and ship.
Speaker 4: I'm fucking them up because, motherfucker you was in my
Speaker 4: backyard eating sliders and drinking free and all kinds of ship.
Speaker 4: Now you're gonna tell on the motherfucking all you got
Speaker 4: them sucking you up. I'm blowing your car up and
Speaker 4: all that shit.
Speaker 2: The problem.
Speaker 4: I'm a run fast and throw a brick through your
Speaker 4: motherfucking window while you're eating with you.
Speaker 2: When you talk about the upshall, why did the upshaw? Then?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 4: The upshaws ended because the writers Wander Sykes and the
Speaker 4: other Lady Regina Hicks, they just couldn't see how to
Speaker 4: I really, you know, the lady Virginia Hicks, they both
Speaker 4: did a great job. First of all, before I go
Speaker 4: any further, they did such a great job writing. We
Speaker 4: had the best writing team. I mean, man, the writing
Speaker 4: team was incredible. But you know, I think I think
Speaker 4: the lady Regina she has she had an agenda that
Speaker 4: she wanted to push with the show, you know, and
Speaker 4: everybody didn't agree with it all the time. You know,
Speaker 4: they wanted the show to go this way. Shows started
Speaker 4: off this way and then it starts slanting, and then
Speaker 4: it went over there, and then it went over there.
Speaker 4: We should have just kept it right there in the middle.
Speaker 4: Might have did ten ten seasons. But I think it
Speaker 4: was about in the writing. You know, I can't mix
Speaker 4: somebody's personal life with what's on paper. But what's on paper?
Speaker 4: And then it you know, whatever's on paper, and then
Speaker 4: you guys film it is what we see. You know,
Speaker 4: nobody's paying attention to nobody's personal life.
Speaker 7: You know when you say in the writing, though, is
Speaker 7: it how they were trying to bring it in? What
Speaker 7: the stories were around like the like what exactly in
Speaker 7: the writing is the issue then, though, because her personal
Speaker 7: sense has to come into her work on screen.
Speaker 4: Not necessarily she she played a straight woman on the show.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but Wanda Sex is very like like you're not
Speaker 7: going to make her do anything she doesn't want to do,
Speaker 7: stand up to anything, she doesn't want to sit next
Speaker 7: to right right, But she's an ally for a certain
Speaker 7: not even all, but like she speaks out openly about
Speaker 7: being a part of their community.
Speaker 4: Yes, but on the show her character was a straight woman,
Speaker 4: and that's what she portrayed on on on, on film,
Speaker 4: on camera, but in the script, and and that wasn't
Speaker 4: the issue with the script. That was just one out
Speaker 4: of a million things that, you know, I think personally
Speaker 4: might have kept the show from going. I mean, if
Speaker 4: you really want to think about it, the kids got grown.
Speaker 4: You know, we really couldn't go no further because of that.
Speaker 4: The kids, you know what I mean, the kids. You know,
Speaker 4: that's what they do on these TV shows when the
Speaker 4: kids get older, they cut the show off. Once the
Speaker 4: kids get older, you can't write stories around them because
Speaker 4: it's like, damn, the kids are grown now. But like
Speaker 4: I said, it was many reasons why the writing at
Speaker 4: the end started becoming a little different. We actually went back.
Speaker 4: We actually in the middle of the seasons we kind
Speaker 4: of lost it. But then in the end, when you
Speaker 4: see this season right here, you'll see we end up
Speaker 4: getting it back, you know, but it ran its course, man.
Speaker 4: And then again, I'm thankful that I've been able to
Speaker 4: be on be on TV for six years.
Speaker 1: But that frustrate you do when two people I guess
Speaker 1: can't get along to a whole production goes down.
Speaker 4: The dream yeah, hell yeah. And you know what's crazy
Speaker 4: about that situation. I used to go to Wanda all
Speaker 4: the time and tell like he wander, you know, I
Speaker 4: need somebody to fight for me in the rooms because
Speaker 4: I ain't in there to fight for him. And I've
Speaker 4: made it this far in my career being non confrontational.
Speaker 4: I let so much shit go. I let so much
Speaker 4: shit happen because it's not that serious, and I'm always
Speaker 4: looking at the big picture. I don't never look at
Speaker 4: the little, small potholes because I know I'm trying to
Speaker 4: make it to the end of the role. So you know,
Speaker 4: a lot of my successes I wouldn't even have it
Speaker 4: if I was, oh, man, well I got a problem
Speaker 4: with this, and no, y'all gotta change this and all
Speaker 4: that irritates. Man. You gotta go through life like whatever, what,
Speaker 4: what means the most and all that little shit because
Speaker 4: the little shit stops. You got to you gotta not
Speaker 4: pay attention to none of that little ship and focus
Speaker 4: on the prize. And that's what I did with this show.
Speaker 4: You know, I always focus on the prize. I never
Speaker 4: went in the writer's room. I might have went up
Speaker 4: there one or two times, but if I got a
Speaker 4: script and I'm sitting on the set and i'm reading it,
Speaker 4: I'm telling them and hell no, I ain't doing that.
Speaker 4: I ain't doing that because because when you're doing television
Speaker 4: and you're sitting at a table reading, you guys are
Speaker 4: doing a table read. When you come back the next
Speaker 4: day and you get on the set, the script gonna
Speaker 4: be different. You like, nah, this ain't the shit I
Speaker 4: read sitting at the table, because every night they going
Speaker 4: there and rewrite.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's the show is always felt like
Speaker 1: it was written from real life. So I always wanted, like,
Speaker 1: how much of you the man is hidden? And that
Speaker 1: shows like humor in the heart, like.
Speaker 4: All of that shit, because I think I think at
Speaker 4: some point they started going on the internet digging in
Speaker 4: my real life. Damn, what part all that shit watched
Speaker 4: the show? If you watch the show, you'll start seeing
Speaker 4: all kind of I'm like, damn, And I got offended
Speaker 4: by that, and then I say, you know what, this
Speaker 4: is what's gonna make the show good. I can't get
Speaker 4: offended about something that's real and true. Let him, let
Speaker 4: him write it. I'm getting upset about it because some
Speaker 4: of that ship is I'm like that shit is me.
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, the ship is on the internet. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the ship is on the Internet that I fell out
Speaker 4: with my daughter. The ship is on the Internet that
Speaker 4: I had multiple baby mamas. The ship is all. Everything
Speaker 4: you want to write is on the Internet. So you
Speaker 4: can write a whole script off just google Mike Apps.
Speaker 2: Damn. Yeah, been speaking of that.
Speaker 1: What they becoming a husband and father again as an
Speaker 1: older man, teach you that you didn't understand the first
Speaker 1: time around?
Speaker 4: On the second marriage? Yeah, yeah, I'm a new marriage.
Speaker 4: What did I learned this time that?
Speaker 2: What did you learn like having children later on in
Speaker 2: life as you older?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What did you What did that teach you that you
Speaker 2: didn't understand the first time? You know?
Speaker 4: I tell I tell people all the time man that
Speaker 4: especially adults and children, a lot of us are not
Speaker 4: It takes a lot. It takes us a long time
Speaker 4: to become an adult. Just because somebody say they're an adult,
Speaker 4: don't mean they're an adult. And a lot of times
Speaker 4: your kids don't realize that either. Most of us are
Speaker 4: still trying to find ourselves when we make kids. You
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, We're trying to find ourselves. So
Speaker 4: you're a kid too mentally, you know your mind ain't
Speaker 4: is not mature enough. So now you're raising a kid
Speaker 4: trying to figure yourself out. There's an old saying to say, man,
Speaker 4: we grew up together, me and my kids because because
Speaker 4: I was growing up too. But now I'm at the
Speaker 4: age now I got two new young kids. I'm the
Speaker 4: best father in the world. And I just told my
Speaker 4: wife the other day, I said, damn, I'm a good
Speaker 4: father now, and she busts out laughing. She laughed, it
Speaker 4: was funny because the ship is real now I feel
Speaker 4: like a real like man, I'm doing shit that that
Speaker 4: my my past wife was cussing me out about. But
Speaker 4: I just wasn't there. Man, Now I'm there, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. I'm like And then I look at
Speaker 4: my older kids and I'm like, damn, I wish I
Speaker 4: could have been that guy with them. I wish I
Speaker 4: could have been the same guy I am now when
Speaker 4: I had my first daughter, she would have got the
Speaker 4: real mic, the good mic. But unfortunately it takes time.
Speaker 4: I tell women all the time, it takes about fifty
Speaker 4: years for a man to get a ship right. So
Speaker 4: be patient, be patient. Out there, ladies, it takes fifty
Speaker 4: years for us to get our ship together, and then
Speaker 4: you will get the last ten or twenty wonder years.
Speaker 2: No, just look, listen your blessing. Mike getting an old alumni.
Speaker 6: I'm saying, send it home waiting for me right now.
Speaker 4: Hey, babe, he's waiting on your hunh.
Speaker 6: He's cool, dory.
Speaker 4: No, a nigga ain't got no job, she said. She
Speaker 4: I offended the niggas at home watching Jerry's springer right
Speaker 4: there waiting. He probably picked you up every day. His
Speaker 4: niggas sitting down inside with the two piggres.
Speaker 6: Don't do him, No, he does not.
Speaker 2: We're moving this week.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're moving. Yes, well you're moving to.
Speaker 6: Just two different places.
Speaker 4: That's nice. I'm glad you're in love. You seem like
Speaker 4: you're in love giving you.
Speaker 2: We're not.
Speaker 7: We're not moving together, but we just happened to both
Speaker 7: be moving this week. So no, I don't listen to
Speaker 7: you no more.
Speaker 4: He was dating too man at one time.
Speaker 6: I've always been very intentional about where I'm at right now.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know what was calling that nigga all
Speaker 2: over the city with.
Speaker 6: I was not I was one person video. And back
Speaker 6: to what you're saying, Yes, I should love.
Speaker 4: Don't let this nigga do like that.
Speaker 6: I'm sure questions or something.
Speaker 4: Don't let this nigga do you like that. All I
Speaker 4: can tell you if you're date more than one person,
Speaker 4: get you some antibiotics.
Speaker 6: Dating more than one person, keep.
Speaker 4: Your ear on the track. Cleaned out us Christ.
Speaker 6: You read in the interview we're the ones coming. Oh
Speaker 6: my god, my hair shorts going crazy?
Speaker 4: That ain't he.
Speaker 6: Always tried to pat stuff on me?
Speaker 2: What you mean that is not.
Speaker 4: Get your tickets twenty twenty. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 4: This comedy tour. I've had such a great time doing
Speaker 4: this comedy tour. This is our third year doing it. Man,
Speaker 4: this comedy tour is like a party.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you ever seen it before, but
Speaker 4: you know, you get eighty five South together and myself, Man,
Speaker 4: them niggas are a fool. And and this this comedy tour,
Speaker 4: I mean every city that we show up, man, some
Speaker 4: of the best rappers, some of the performers come out
Speaker 4: and every city go out and perform, man. And it's
Speaker 4: a party, you know what I mean. It's like going
Speaker 4: to wilding out. It's like going to a Fresh Fast.
Speaker 4: Because you got all these different artists on the show,
Speaker 4: and we the Ones man. Ain't nobody out here better
Speaker 4: than us. You go get a comedy line up and
Speaker 4: line them up with us. We're gonna spank their ass.
Speaker 4: I don't care who it is you got.
Speaker 2: You got Justinich what Mojo brooks Now?
Speaker 4: We then added t K on there.
Speaker 2: That's good, that's good.
Speaker 4: T K been looking for this spot for years.
Speaker 2: I love t.
Speaker 4: K is a veteran.
Speaker 6: Wait before you leave Last Friday, don't like that.
Speaker 4: I'm still talking about the Tool now. Yeahd make sure
Speaker 4: you go get the tickets to We the Ones Tour.
Speaker 4: We come. The first city we're coming to is my hometown, Naptown.
Speaker 4: Y'all niggas know, y'all better go out there and get
Speaker 4: them tickets for that, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 4: then we got another. Just go on there and check
Speaker 4: out the days and ship what you want to say
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 6: I wanted to know Last Friday is happening. Are we
Speaker 6: getting Chris Tucker back?
Speaker 4: I don't know if we're gonna get they said Chris
Speaker 4: Tucker Cube said he been talking to Chris Tucker, But
Speaker 4: I don't know. I might have to run around and
Speaker 4: catch his ass coming out of one of these Bible
Speaker 4: studies or something and see if it's real. But uh me,
Speaker 4: ice Cube, Aaron McGruder and uh dj Pool were just
Speaker 4: together sitting in the room writing this movie. This movie
Speaker 4: gonna be crazy. Now.
Speaker 1: You know, when you say Aaron McGruder, you excite the
Speaker 1: whole god damn in in it. Aaron, that's the creator
Speaker 1: of the Boondogs, Black Jesus.
Speaker 2: Yeople who don't know he's a genius. Yes, like that.
Speaker 2: That's something special right there.
Speaker 4: That's top tier writing. Yeah, And I think that's why
Speaker 4: ice qb when it got him, because he's gonna bring
Speaker 4: that to the movie. And not to say that we
Speaker 4: wasn't gonna make it hot like we've always made it hot,
Speaker 4: but this is gonna give it another extension on it.
Speaker 2: Aaron McGruder and DJ Pool need to be the only
Speaker 2: ones writing in that script.
Speaker 4: Aaron McGruder, DJ Pool, Dang, he took you off.
Speaker 1: I ain't think about Mike in there for the comedy,
Speaker 1: like like you know how they'll write and then they'll
Speaker 1: be like, Mike punched this up.
Speaker 4: What can I be honest with you, Nobody can really
Speaker 4: write for me anyway. They can write some shit on
Speaker 4: the paper, but I'm gonna say some shit funny, and
Speaker 4: then whatever you put on the paper's and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: give you yours, and then I'm gonna give you mine.
Speaker 4: And when you get in the edit in the room,
Speaker 4: you're gonna see which one was better. Hello, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm talking about? Yea, absolutely yeah. And that's how
Speaker 4: I feel about this comedy tour right here. Ain't nobody
Speaker 4: comedy tool better than And I'm headlining this year, see
Speaker 4: last all these other years I've been hosting, I go
Speaker 4: up for five minutes, six seven minutes. But if you
Speaker 4: really want to see a real Mike Epps hot thirty
Speaker 4: five forty minutes, come out to this tour right here.
Speaker 1: Hey, them niggas be fronting on you, Mike. I was
Speaker 1: having this argument behind the scenes about you the other day.
Speaker 1: They said, man might just be hosting. I said, you
Speaker 1: ain't watching the mic specials?
Speaker 4: Then, well they just seen that because they came to them, because.
Speaker 1: That's what I told him, because we were I didn't
Speaker 1: want to say it was you will go ahead. I
Speaker 1: was allgue with this nigga, and he said they were
Speaker 1: talking about comedians and it was like, well, Mike on
Speaker 1: the tour. I was like, well, Mike host the tour.
Speaker 1: I was like, you don't do a second man got hours.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. See people be sleeping on me
Speaker 4: because I ain't out here honking my horn and blowing
Speaker 4: and doing all that crazy shit. But that's how I
Speaker 4: like it. I like to be underestimated. I like you
Speaker 4: to not be paying attention and I sneaker behind you
Speaker 4: and bop you upside your head. That's how I love
Speaker 4: my life. I love it, and I've been doing that.
Speaker 4: That's how I've been doing the whole time. I've been
Speaker 4: watching all these dudes. They making plenty of money, they
Speaker 4: killing them. Guess what, I'm still standing right here and
Speaker 4: one hundred and ninety pounds. I can run, play basketball
Speaker 4: and chew bubble gum and talk ship and you know
Speaker 4: I mean a nice little pistol collection. I'm still down
Speaker 4: there maintaining my business, loving God. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Always loving God and keeping the faith. That's why I've
Speaker 4: told people in these fool stamps and stuff, get cut off,
Speaker 4: don't worry about that. See, black people, we've been getting
Speaker 4: our shit cut off, We've been getting our doors kicked
Speaker 4: in and stuff. This is not for us, So don't
Speaker 4: take this as personal about the fool stamps and all that.
Speaker 4: I'm actually glad they cutting some of these niggas off
Speaker 4: food stamps because some of us need to not be
Speaker 4: on fool stamps, because it's a trickle down the fit.
Speaker 4: You get the fool stamps, then you go buy the
Speaker 4: food that give you cancer. Then you eat the food
Speaker 4: to give you cancer. Then you're sad you walking around
Speaker 4: here upset. Your diet's fucked up. Now I'm to tell
Speaker 4: you some honest Scott true your diet then sent a
Speaker 4: lot of niggas to prison.
Speaker 1: They gonna take all this and put it on Fox News,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna say Mike says, you niggas don't need
Speaker 1: to be on food.
Speaker 2: You think you're gonna go viral and they gonna call
Speaker 2: you maga. Mike.
Speaker 4: Listen, listen, brothers, and listen, brothers and brothers and sisters.
Speaker 4: You don't know what this world is coming to. No,
Speaker 4: listen to this. No, they can't say that about me.
Speaker 4: See that's one thing about me, little boozy badass. We
Speaker 4: can't be canceled.
Speaker 1: No, y'all can't be canceled. But I'm just telling you that.
Speaker 1: Then they're gonna be mad. Dar Heugh, you're gonna.
Speaker 4: About you Internet bitch ass nigga and everybody out there
Speaker 4: that think they want.
Speaker 2: To be mad to say so fuck you man, And
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take you and say, Mike, yeah, this is
Speaker 2: after you. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Speaker 1: Every day a week ago, clicks up, the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: You don't finish for y'all done