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Speaker 3: Welcome to This is our fourth annual U Shaka Khan episode.
Speaker 3: If you're celebrating Hanakah Kwanza.
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Speaker 1: Sharon Jones, Sharon Jones and the dad Kings. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: eight days of.
Speaker 2: That only Honakkah was actually that funky and soulful. I'd
Speaker 2: be a happy guy.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, now's now's the now's the time to
Speaker 1: reverse that. Now that's one of my favorites. I like
Speaker 1: that record. Yeah, man, this is uh.
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Speaker 3: let people know that they should drink responsibly and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, because we know that this could be you know,
Speaker 3: a celebration for some people can be uh, not too
Speaker 3: celebratory for other people. Yeah, our guest today is a
Speaker 3: friend of the show. I gotta say that one of
Speaker 3: the biggest surprises of twenty twenty was actually how good
Speaker 3: of a DJ?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 1: This is real?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: YoY yo, Like, dude, I had zero clue that you
Speaker 3: were this serious on turntables.
Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome Dion cole course superior.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's just sha ka Khan.
Speaker 1: Edition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's going on, man, king? What's going on? Brother?
Speaker 2: How y'all doing? Everybody doing? Everybody good?
Speaker 1: We're good, brother, We're good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't think I did. I was thinking.
Speaker 5: I was like, man, I didn't think that Dion was
Speaker 5: such a big house head. But then I realized, I'm
Speaker 5: like shitty from Chicago.
Speaker 1: Of course he's out head. Like okay.
Speaker 3: So that's the thing though, Like, if you are, if
Speaker 3: you're of age in Chicago, especially in the eighties and
Speaker 3: the nineties when this is blossoming, I mean, am I
Speaker 3: to assume that that's house Music's almost like a birthright,
Speaker 3: Like everyone is indulged in in house music culture if
Speaker 3: you're from Chicago.
Speaker 6: Yeah, especially back then, Like back then, it was like everybody,
Speaker 6: everybody was engulfed in like it was it was something
Speaker 6: that was our own. It was almost like almost like
Speaker 6: a secret, like it was like our thing that we
Speaker 6: was doing. And then if you really, like like I
Speaker 6: was my age, you wasn't thinking about the world and
Speaker 6: them hearing it. You was just happy that it was
Speaker 6: like like how almost like how hip hop was our
Speaker 6: hip hop just came and it just was something that
Speaker 6: we felt like was ours, even like in Chicago, I
Speaker 6: remember HBK underground hip hop stations.
Speaker 2: It was just something that was just ours and we just,
Speaker 2: I don't know, we just embraced it. But everybody was.
Speaker 6: Everybody was into it, like everybody thugs, gangsters, pimps, everybody.
Speaker 3: Like That's what I'm saying. I would I would have
Speaker 3: thought it was just a niche like kind of a
Speaker 3: select if you were into this as an underground. But
Speaker 3: I slowly realized how damn near every person from Chicago,
Speaker 3: even Common's knowledge of house music history ran deep.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, cam Com always come on the page and be
Speaker 6: requested songs for me to play, like just always playing
Speaker 6: uh put.
Speaker 2: Us under.
Speaker 4: Take request?
Speaker 1: Is it all over my face?
Speaker 2: Is it all over my face?
Speaker 6: Sometime I do, Yeah, like he'll come on there, like
Speaker 6: he'll like text me or something and be like, yo,
Speaker 6: play this, and I'd be like, all right, now, I
Speaker 6: look it up and I'll play it definitely. But yeah, like, man,
Speaker 6: our days go back, even back in the day, Common
Speaker 6: me everybody used to be at this place called the
Speaker 6: Bizmark when we used to get down the music box
Speaker 6: a kas all disco and I'm talking like vice lords,
Speaker 6: disciples folks. Yeah, man, Common Common was a common was
Speaker 6: a mo a vice little and still to this day
Speaker 6: he got a little vice lord on them, you know
Speaker 6: how much of it.
Speaker 7: But that's crazy because no matter how hard you was,
Speaker 7: you still dance.
Speaker 2: To the music still. And that's and that's the point
Speaker 2: I was getting to.
Speaker 6: You're being there with like straight thugs with guns everything
Speaker 6: jamming like jamming the house because it was a spiritual vibe. Man,
Speaker 6: it was. It was almost tribal what it was, and
Speaker 6: it was something that we all got along with. And
Speaker 6: not only gangsters. We're talking like gay people, gangsters, regular people,
Speaker 6: everybody in the same room, politicians, uh prepastors, everybody. Because
Speaker 6: it was the disco era that ended and made it
Speaker 6: underground and it made people gravitate to it because it
Speaker 6: was you couldn't hear it on the radio no more
Speaker 6: once the disco era, and you can't really end on
Speaker 6: radio like that. So it was all these underground places
Speaker 6: that play music. And there was a place called the
Speaker 6: Warehouse where Frankie Knuckles used to be.
Speaker 5: Frank were you around for the were you around for
Speaker 5: like the Ron Hardy? Was that before your time?
Speaker 1: Or was that? Okay, man, let me.
Speaker 2: Tell you about Ron Ron? Yeah, yo, Ron.
Speaker 6: See Frankie Knuckles was like he was the one that
Speaker 6: was like it was like sophisticated house when Frankie would
Speaker 6: do it, and there would be mostly gay too, it
Speaker 6: would be like mostly gay sophisticated scene. But when Ron, yeah,
Speaker 6: all Jamie principal, all them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But then but then when but when when Ron started
Speaker 6: when when they was ending the warehouse, then the music
Speaker 6: box opened up and that's when Ron came in. And
Speaker 6: Ron took the music from being sophisticated to like taking
Speaker 6: chances with it, like you'll hear music that you ain't
Speaker 6: never really heard before, and your hear music looped in.
Speaker 2: A way that you thought it was a whole new
Speaker 2: song that you just didn't hear.
Speaker 6: And he had this thing where he'll play a song
Speaker 6: and then he would have a real to real, real
Speaker 6: to real, and he would blend in the real, the
Speaker 6: real from the turntable, but the real to realid be
Speaker 6: going backwards and.
Speaker 2: He would play and he would play the song backwards
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 8: Real the reel, and you will be dancing to it,
Speaker 8: going bserk that he's playing this track backwards and the
Speaker 8: track being played backwards sound.
Speaker 1: Like a whole new track.
Speaker 2: Then used to just like just zone out.
Speaker 6: And the sound system was like no sound system I've
Speaker 6: ever heard still to this day.
Speaker 2: And it came from uh, what's that place? Larry Levigne us.
Speaker 6: Garage, the dude who did the sound system in Paradise
Speaker 6: Garage did the sound system at the warehouse at Chicago,
Speaker 6: and it.
Speaker 2: Was yo, there it is and and never never.
Speaker 6: Heard nothing like that. To this day, I haven't heard
Speaker 6: the sound system like that. And he used to thump
Speaker 6: like through your soul dumb. So yeah, man, that that
Speaker 6: house scene was big. And the music that Rod that
Speaker 6: Frankie and them used to play at the warehouse, you
Speaker 6: couldn't really get it nowhere.
Speaker 2: It was exclusive. So what they would do they would
Speaker 2: make tapes and sell them.
Speaker 6: At the Wear at this this uh at this record
Speaker 6: company in High Park and they and they used to
Speaker 6: sell like the music. The people would go there and
Speaker 6: be like, yo, let me get some of that warehouse music. Yo,
Speaker 6: let me get that warehouse music. And after while they
Speaker 6: took the musica, they took the wearoff of it. It
Speaker 6: was just like, let me get some of the house music.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: Oh So that's that's the derivation of how uh.
Speaker 7: Chicago get salty When other cities started calling their ship house, I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna say, what's your relationship with Detroit? Because in Jersey, even.
Speaker 6: In Baltimore, No, I think that they always respected that
Speaker 6: it came from Chicago. From that I know of, they
Speaker 6: always respected it, respected that, but they knew that that's
Speaker 6: what that music.
Speaker 2: It came from Chicago, and that's what we called it,
Speaker 2: and that's just what it was.
Speaker 6: And then they started adapting it, adapting the two which
Speaker 6: was always love like I don't want nobody in Chicago
Speaker 6: never was against Baltimore Jersey.
Speaker 2: Or Baltimore had to respect Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 6: So it was it was it was just love like,
Speaker 6: ain't nobody I've never heard nobody in Chicago tripping over
Speaker 6: it like that, you know, But it's always been a
Speaker 6: part of our culture, man, and especially like then it
Speaker 6: was it was, it was.
Speaker 2: It was a hybrid because hip hop was.
Speaker 6: Like coming there raw and hard too, so it was
Speaker 6: like between.
Speaker 2: Both of them.
Speaker 6: It was just music heaven in Chicago at the time.
Speaker 3: When I go to Chicago, like I always find out,
Speaker 3: like when I go to the cities and figure out,
Speaker 3: like what the national anthem of that particular club culture is.
Speaker 3: So what is the my eyes Don't Cry of Detroit?
Speaker 3: I was about to say, I know the answer is, Baby,
Speaker 3: I'm Scared of You by Woolmack and Womack. But now
Speaker 3: I'm also thinking about stepping culture, like how does stepping
Speaker 3: culture is that different than house culture as well?
Speaker 1: Or did it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, stepping culture is a whole other culture of Chicago.
Speaker 6: Stepping culture is also back in disco era, taking a
Speaker 6: lot of that music and and just the seventies itself. Man,
Speaker 6: it was great music. Curtis Mayfield, all of them. They
Speaker 6: have music that had this certain rhythm and there's certain
Speaker 6: this certain beat pattern that was considered like a music
Speaker 6: that you can dance to with your woman and not
Speaker 6: slow dance, but not fast dance. But it was something
Speaker 6: cool that you could just move to because a lot
Speaker 6: of players, they ain't want to mess their shoes up,
Speaker 6: they ain't want to get all sweaty, and so it
Speaker 6: was a nice way to just be cool and just
Speaker 6: groove seven right, that's kind of yeah yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 6: you were groove and it was able for you to
Speaker 6: not not be sweaty, but groove, be with your lady,
Speaker 6: be tight coas to HRD. And it was just a
Speaker 6: good way of just grooving or whatever. So a lot
Speaker 6: of pimps used to do that, a lot of players,
Speaker 6: and uh that was a good way that they used
Speaker 6: to do it.
Speaker 2: And it was just it was just it just stuck around.
Speaker 6: It just always was a thing, you know, from back
Speaker 6: in the day, like my father, my.
Speaker 2: Mother, everybody used to step. Like to this day, people
Speaker 2: steps like championship level stepping tournaments.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all of that, like tournaments like like practicing all
Speaker 6: year long, going from party to party, practicing and then
Speaker 6: at the end of the year you you get into
Speaker 6: a stepping tournament.
Speaker 4: Like if you listening is the ultimate stepping teacher.
Speaker 5: Uh me and my wife we stepped we Uh I
Speaker 5: got her into it. I've been doing it for a
Speaker 5: couple of years kind of before we got together, but
Speaker 5: then I got her into it, and.
Speaker 1: So Tovid kind of stopped it because you.
Speaker 5: Know, we ain't get to, you know, be doing it
Speaker 5: like we used to. But we'll still we'll be in
Speaker 5: the kitchen.
Speaker 1: We're living.
Speaker 4: Everybody what everybody ain't patient? You trying to.
Speaker 5: You know because from various people, I hear that like
Speaker 5: Woo and Woo, Max Mayby, I'm scared of you.
Speaker 2: And then the that's Jeffrey, uh making love is gonna last.
Speaker 6: That's that's more stepping with this name Jeffrey something God
Speaker 6: his name.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I know you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Right, So like what what are those like Chicago only
Speaker 3: records that like of that era at least.
Speaker 6: Well when it like anything by the moments of the
Speaker 6: shotlights like some some cools, it's like.
Speaker 2: Yo stepping groog. But like I said, it's just a.
Speaker 5: Temples, Nah, come on, sexy mamas, not a fast Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's that tempo if you're in that tempo, because I
Speaker 5: tell you somebody, who's who people get because we we
Speaker 5: stepped to Earth win the Fire like Earth in the
Speaker 5: Fire is like a great great group.
Speaker 6: But I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you who
Speaker 6: people love. It's Kim like Chicago.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, man.
Speaker 4: Look.
Speaker 3: God, no, no, no disrespecting Kim, no different, but just
Speaker 3: the way he pops up on this the way he
Speaker 3: pops up on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I need to want to properly explain the power of Kim.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you, Kim is just cool, Yo, It's
Speaker 3: just it's just a cool.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 3: We don't know him personally, We don't know him personally,
Speaker 3: but the music just gott a.
Speaker 6: Groove, a sophistic like a cool pimp sophistication type thing
Speaker 6: that people love in Chicago.
Speaker 4: Man, everybody, everybody get.
Speaker 2: Maybe everybody I know in's Chicago. Yo, Kim you you.
Speaker 5: Roll listen, Yo, Kim is one of them artists, bro,
Speaker 5: Like for real, Kim is one of them artists that
Speaker 5: like nobody claims to like.
Speaker 1: But this nigga puts up numbers on the board.
Speaker 5: So it's like, listen, some of our niggas is lying
Speaker 5: cuz these records are not buying themselves, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 1: Niggas fuck with Kim.
Speaker 6: Do this concert and trench coats and.
Speaker 5: Mustache, Like, yeah, I learned I learned the power of
Speaker 5: Kim on a drive to New Orleans. I was driving
Speaker 5: while I was riding with my aunts from New Orleans
Speaker 5: to well, from Atlanta, New Orleans. We're going New Orleans
Speaker 5: from Mardi Gras and Nigga. When I tell you, it
Speaker 5: was a chemthon for six hours. That was when I
Speaker 5: got school. I was like, Okay, I get it. He
Speaker 5: he is the Auntie Whisperer Frankie.
Speaker 1: For real.
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, I gotta I gotta clear something else because
Speaker 5: I ain't trying to get a little showing.
Speaker 1: No more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no disrespect, disrespect to Kim. I just simply I'm
Speaker 3: not that familiar with Kim's discography. But again, I recognize
Speaker 3: he puts numbers on the boards open up shows for
Speaker 3: him in stadiums at like.
Speaker 1: Eighteen thousand Cedar.
Speaker 3: He Jill Scott opening for Kim, you know, damn near
Speaker 3: sixteen thousand Cedar in Philadelphia, Like he does the numbers.
Speaker 3: I just I've never studied him. And yes, as a
Speaker 3: casual listener, you might dismissively say, oh, okay, that's just
Speaker 3: algio whatever, But now I get so, Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 6: See the whole thing about Kim from I don't. I
Speaker 6: don't know his history and none of that need.
Speaker 2: All I knew was it was homeless.
Speaker 6: He got a deal and he blew up and it
Speaker 6: made people go wow, look at look at that and
Speaker 6: look at this guy's.
Speaker 2: Voice is amazing. He was homeless. Yo, we rock His
Speaker 2: story is crazy. Yeah, we rocking with We rock away.
Speaker 1: So that's okay, let's get Kim on the show.
Speaker 4: We gotta do al black first. But as soon as
Speaker 4: you get.
Speaker 6: A black first, No, but you're some stepping on, some
Speaker 6: stepping you throw some kim on. You could be in
Speaker 6: the middle of a fight you throw some Kimo. Mother's
Speaker 6: gonna be like, I better not see your ass around here.
Speaker 2: No more.
Speaker 1: Man, So, how how long have you been DJing? Just
Speaker 1: all your life? For a new pandemic skill? Like?
Speaker 2: Just no?
Speaker 6: Really, I was just talking about this the other day.
Speaker 6: I sung to a friend and I said.
Speaker 2: Can you believe I have not DJ a year yet?
Speaker 4: What I'm not so congression.
Speaker 6: I don't even know how to DJ on on CDJ.
Speaker 3: Wait, you saw the writing on the wall, got you
Speaker 3: some DJ equipment in March and then.
Speaker 2: DJ. No.
Speaker 6: No, I've had the equipment for three years and I
Speaker 6: had it sitting there.
Speaker 2: I was living in another house.
Speaker 6: I had it sitting there and I tried to use it,
Speaker 6: and I didn't have the time to practice.
Speaker 2: I had a catalog of music.
Speaker 6: I always had a catalog music because I just love
Speaker 6: collective music and especially disco music.
Speaker 2: That's my thing. So I always had music.
Speaker 6: But I had the equipment, and I never had time
Speaker 6: to do it. At the time I was filming Blackish, Grownish,
Speaker 6: Angi Tribeca man Conan, I was. I had no time,
Speaker 6: and so it just sat there, dusty everything, and I
Speaker 6: just never did nothing with it. Moved to my new
Speaker 6: place and still never did nothing with it. It was
Speaker 6: just sitting up in the box. And when the pandemic
Speaker 6: and I saw D Nice. I saw d Nice and
Speaker 6: I was like, and I was on d nice page.
Speaker 2: This one.
Speaker 6: D Nice had like one hundred and twelve people listening
Speaker 6: to him. So we was over there, you know, just
Speaker 6: just checking them out, and I just just like, man,
Speaker 6: it ain't nothing to do.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I should I should.
Speaker 6: Pull out my equipment and just see if I can
Speaker 6: just try try to do it. And I just did
Speaker 6: it and was playing around and people was like, don't
Speaker 6: quit your day job, and you're horrible and stick.
Speaker 2: To comedy and where's the joke? Said? They just kept
Speaker 2: doing it.
Speaker 6: And I was joking with him too, because I was like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I am horrible. Definitely, my blends are horrible and all
Speaker 6: of that. But I remember Ron Hardy in Chicago. Ron
Speaker 6: Hardy wasn't no great blend dude.
Speaker 1: What he what?
Speaker 2: It's what he played that was amazing.
Speaker 1: He was a selector.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I just always had that in mind, and
Speaker 6: I was like, you know what, but I got some
Speaker 6: music people don't know about.
Speaker 2: Like, I got some music, and so I just was like,
Speaker 2: let me just try it.
Speaker 6: And then I started thinking, you know what, it'd be
Speaker 6: hilarious if I learned how to DJ right in front
Speaker 6: of everybody's face, and I just I just didn't care
Speaker 6: and just did it and see to see what happened,
Speaker 6: and and plus let this music out that I got
Speaker 6: that people don't know about, that people don't know about.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell.
Speaker 5: You if you you've been like Emir, yeah, man, I've
Speaker 5: been doing this for about seventeen years.
Speaker 1: Eighteen I do a world class digit.
Speaker 2: You now have.
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: You you have an amazing toofer where now like I
Speaker 3: expect you to be your own after party DJ, after
Speaker 3: your comments.
Speaker 2: Two chicks, that's what that's that's what I want to do.
Speaker 4: Sing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I want.
Speaker 6: That's why I wouldn't call myself and I still don't.
Speaker 6: I don't be calling myself the DJ because I just don't.
Speaker 6: I feel like I feel like that's what I do,
Speaker 6: That's what i'd be doing. But I don't feel like
Speaker 6: I went through the trenches to call myself a DJ
Speaker 6: like that. Like I don't even I bag off of
Speaker 6: anybody even saying that. Sometimes I just be like, I
Speaker 6: don't think. I think I'm not, but I just think
Speaker 6: I play music that.
Speaker 4: But you have got requests for gigs.
Speaker 2: I bet man.
Speaker 6: I did the Chosen Few, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: I did Chosen Few this year. I did Rock the Vote.
Speaker 6: I did Rock the Vote with Louis Vega and DJ Spinner,
Speaker 6: and I did uh uh souling the horn.
Speaker 1: I just did that. That sounds like.
Speaker 3: Forget from one imposter syndrome to an other.
Speaker 1: Just accept it. Like we think you're a DJ, you're
Speaker 1: a DJ. Trust me on this one.
Speaker 4: When you're sweating while you're DJing, is that still nerves
Speaker 4: or is it hot in there.
Speaker 2: Man, I got air condition, I got I got I
Speaker 2: got air condition. No, I just be I just be
Speaker 2: kind of like losing it.
Speaker 6: This is what I do when I put a playlist together.
Speaker 6: I don't listen to it loud. I listened to it.
Speaker 6: It was very low speakers, and I just I just
Speaker 6: listened to the blends of it. I don't even really
Speaker 6: listen to the whole song because I know the song,
Speaker 6: or if it's a new song that I hear, I
Speaker 6: listen to it, but I won't listen to it loud.
Speaker 2: And I listened to it a couple of times.
Speaker 6: But the experience is when I'm playing it loud for
Speaker 6: the first time, everybody listening to it, and.
Speaker 2: I'm on, I'm on these, I'm on, I'm on these
Speaker 2: boys right here, these speakers, these and.
Speaker 1: Loud you last your music, Yo, I blast.
Speaker 2: Look at this. This is.
Speaker 1: Off my speaker, the size of.
Speaker 2: No, I be rattling, rattling, this whole joint be rap.
Speaker 4: You feel it through the screen when you're watching them.
Speaker 6: That's why I asked, oh yeah, and that joint too
Speaker 6: up there, like I be radling, rattling, and.
Speaker 2: So yo, I be feeling it.
Speaker 6: Man, I just be like, I feel music, man, I
Speaker 6: feel it. Like I always was saying to myself too,
Speaker 6: I was like, if I wasn't a comedian, I'll.
Speaker 2: Probably be an A and R somewhere. Man, Like, I
Speaker 2: just love music. And maybe I'm just maybe I don't
Speaker 2: know the ends and out of an R, but I
Speaker 2: just thought that. But I just love music, man, I
Speaker 2: just love feeling. Now.
Speaker 5: I think that's what comes through in your sets because
Speaker 5: you know the records. And that's the thing now with
Speaker 5: when I tell when I talk, the cats coming up, whatever,
Speaker 5: it's like with DJing like a mirror can give you
Speaker 5: his hard drive right and just you know twenty thousand songs.
Speaker 5: But if you don't know the songs, if you don't know, okay,
Speaker 5: this is the part, that's the break to play do
Speaker 5: with these into this. Yeah, if you don't know what
Speaker 5: to do with it, that shit is just files on
Speaker 5: the laptop.
Speaker 2: It means nothing.
Speaker 5: But if you know the records, that's what makes you
Speaker 5: good DJ because you know how to play them right.
Speaker 2: Like like even like request.
Speaker 6: The thing the thing that like like request is that
Speaker 6: certain like you can hear DJs play music and that's cool,
Speaker 6: But then you got DJs who play music where you
Speaker 6: want to know the origin of this music.
Speaker 2: You want to know who made it. You want to
Speaker 2: know who's selling. You want to know.
Speaker 6: You you want to know history of music just from
Speaker 6: the way somebody play it.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 6: And Man, as many times many nights haven't been on
Speaker 6: your page.
Speaker 2: Listen to you. Man, I've sat there.
Speaker 6: Like with another computer, Man, just like yo, what is it?
Speaker 1: But that's why I do it. I do it so
Speaker 1: cats can exam it and learn it.
Speaker 3: But that's what I'm saying, Like what you're doing and
Speaker 3: with your nariety and your popularity, Like even I have
Speaker 3: a deeper respect for disco culture and house music culture
Speaker 3: that I thought I had. But with you, I see
Speaker 3: that almost as an education. Like that definitely keep Sunday
Speaker 3: Service even when we quote stop wearing our masks and
Speaker 3: get out.
Speaker 2: Into the water.
Speaker 3: Nah, we need to make Sunday service a thing, Sunday
Speaker 3: afternoon service, you know, from wherever you are in LA
Speaker 3: or that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Thank you, man.
Speaker 6: And that's the goal, Man, to keep rocking with it,
Speaker 6: going from some different cities, man and coming through and
Speaker 6: get down and get down.
Speaker 2: With some other great cats. Man and we just have
Speaker 2: a night of it. Man. It just just make it happen.
Speaker 6: Man, it just just played good music man, and and uh,
Speaker 6: you know, excite each other, you know, because that's what
Speaker 6: it is. Man, that's exciting each other too. And uh,
Speaker 6: you know, just shining shining light on something because it
Speaker 6: it'd be so many people that come to my page
Speaker 6: and they'd be like, I love this and never heard.
Speaker 2: It, never heard life. They'd be like like, where did
Speaker 2: this come from?
Speaker 1: Existed?
Speaker 6: Never even knew it existed, and be like what is
Speaker 6: this music? It's called black white and they and they,
Speaker 6: and more importantly, they'd be like, I remember this woman
Speaker 6: was like, I don't know why I feel I feel
Speaker 6: this way.
Speaker 2: She said, I feel stupid sometimes like feeling good about this.
Speaker 2: She was like it's weird. And I was like, wow,
Speaker 2: that was important. When she said that, I was like, man,
Speaker 2: that's good.
Speaker 6: And that just drives you to just keep searching for
Speaker 6: music and pulling up music and all.
Speaker 7: People ain't used to music just moving their bodies before
Speaker 7: it even hit their minds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true and a big you know, and a
Speaker 5: big part of it is also, you know, now's the
Speaker 5: time for taste makers to sort of grab the brass
Speaker 5: ring again because you know, previously those who are leading
Speaker 5: in DJs were just.
Speaker 3: Basically doing this pump shit yeah, for the sake of,
Speaker 3: you know, their own popularity and their own but not music.
Speaker 3: They feel like all the times DJs tell me like, yo,
Speaker 3: man I just I wish I could do what you do.
Speaker 3: Like you just do what you want to do. You
Speaker 3: can make.
Speaker 6: You know, so hopefully now somebody told me that they
Speaker 6: was like, man, I wish I could play play the
Speaker 6: music like you play. And I was like, why can't
Speaker 6: you because, like you know, you just got to play
Speaker 6: with the people.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't agree.
Speaker 6: With that because they they they only get It's to me,
Speaker 6: it's kind of odd for you to get out the car,
Speaker 6: listen to the radio, going to a party and then
Speaker 6: hear what you heard on the radio, right, you know what.
Speaker 1: I could have kept my ass in the car.
Speaker 2: I could have got my ass in the car. I
Speaker 2: could have got my ass to the car.
Speaker 6: So no, it's for you to like break new music.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I definitely understand you got to get to
Speaker 6: people what they want. They love to sing some stuff,
Speaker 6: but it's just it's just a mixture. Man, it's just
Speaker 6: a mixture of of new, old and old that's new
Speaker 6: to you. You know, if you ain't never heard it,
Speaker 6: it's new.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Okay, you think you with with you doing the like
Speaker 5: your DJ sets, you say you pretty much were learning
Speaker 5: how to DJ live like in front of an audience.
Speaker 5: Do you think was that same kind of mentality as
Speaker 5: that what led you to do your comedy, Like when
Speaker 5: you put out your like I think the one hour
Speaker 5: set you put out of just you working stuff out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're working it out. It's it's yeah, it's like
Speaker 6: it's taking chances, man, that's all it is. And it's like,
Speaker 6: you know, you had these thoughts in your head of
Speaker 6: what you think and you don't know until you know.
Speaker 6: You know, Hell, I could probably be the best astronaut
Speaker 6: in the world. I don't know because I ain't never
Speaker 6: go up. But if you send me to the movie,
Speaker 6: I'm like, I might do some cool shit up there.
Speaker 6: I just don't know, you know, until I know.
Speaker 2: And shit, you know. So that's that's how I feel like.
Speaker 6: I was like, man with my with my my working
Speaker 6: it out comedy special thing, I was like, man, it'd
Speaker 6: be cool if I gave people material that I was
Speaker 6: not throwing away but wasn't used, and make a special
Speaker 6: out of material that I wasn't using. Because if people
Speaker 6: like this, wait till they see what I kept.
Speaker 5: So you're seeing your your Stevie Wonders story is a
Speaker 5: throwaway story.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 6: It was a story that I told before, but I
Speaker 6: didn't but I didn't use, but I didn't use in.
Speaker 2: My stand up like that.
Speaker 6: It'd be a story that I would just tell if
Speaker 6: people were talking about stories, I tell the story now
Speaker 6: I had as I had it as a joke before,
Speaker 6: and I did it as a joke before, but I
Speaker 6: think people. The funny thing was people wouldn't believe me,
Speaker 6: and so they thought that it was just fake, and so.
Speaker 5: I instantly believed that.
Speaker 9: Stevie a forty nine paragraph text.
Speaker 6: Anybody watching this right now, if you don't have a
Speaker 6: text from Quest love you, you don't know what texting is.
Speaker 2: Here. It's not about technical use. Quest text got fade
Speaker 2: in in the corners. Like I laughed.
Speaker 3: I've never laughed so hard a routine in my life,
Speaker 3: because yeah, I know that no one wants to believe you.
Speaker 2: And so so I quit doing it.
Speaker 1: But people was legendary.
Speaker 2: People were kind.
Speaker 6: Of like, man, don't talk about Stevie like that. And
Speaker 6: so I did the joke and then I just let
Speaker 6: it die down. And then when I was doing my special,
Speaker 6: I was like, I should bring this back up. And
Speaker 6: then I was like, you know what, I ain't gonna
Speaker 6: bring it back up, but I'm gonna tell people the
Speaker 6: story to fill time in the room because I couldn't
Speaker 6: think of no more new material I wanted to work on,
Speaker 6: so I just told the story at the same time.
Speaker 2: So when I was editing the special, I was like,
Speaker 2: I should.
Speaker 6: Throw this story in that, and I just was like,
Speaker 6: let me throw it in there.
Speaker 2: And give it to the people.
Speaker 6: And man, on I think Facebook alone, that story alone,
Speaker 6: just that story alone, that like one point eight million views.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: Have you heard anything recently since it's been out, since
Speaker 5: the special has been up?
Speaker 6: Oh no, I've heard nothing from his camp. Like there's
Speaker 6: this one girl from his camp. She used to always
Speaker 6: be like, take that down, don't do this, but she'd
Speaker 6: be cool though it wasn't no dish, she would be cool,
Speaker 6: she would be cool about it.
Speaker 2: But now I haven't heard nothing else from from them
Speaker 2: at all. But I see Stevie.
Speaker 6: Every now and then in La like I'll pop up
Speaker 6: somewhere and I'll be somewhere like that's what happened before.
Speaker 6: I was at this bar chilling and his boy came
Speaker 6: over and tapped me on the shoulder and was like, hey,
Speaker 6: Stevie in the corner, like, come on, you want to
Speaker 6: talk to you.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I ain't going over there.
Speaker 1: This boy.
Speaker 2: Come see what Stevie want.
Speaker 6: I'm like, no, man, I ain't going over there, Like dude,
Speaker 6: get over here.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I won't get into the specifics, but I got one time.
Speaker 1: I got what was.
Speaker 3: It called when you when you're left holding the bag?
Speaker 3: I got scapegoated into having.
Speaker 5: To be a bad guy about a musical decision that
Speaker 5: impacted him and.
Speaker 3: He was kind of left with the impression that that
Speaker 3: was a mirror's call or mir's fault that that happened.
Speaker 3: And this was at another event and I came to
Speaker 3: work to the Tonight Show the next week, the next Monday,
Speaker 3: and he was the guest on the show and instantly
Speaker 3: like to know my production manager, Keith, Like he, Keith,
Speaker 3: you got that one person in your life.
Speaker 1: That lives for telling you bad news.
Speaker 3: You know, like the day I got in trouble with
Speaker 3: Michelle Bachman, it was like, you're wanted in Lauren Lauren
Speaker 3: Michael's office, like which is basically you're about to get
Speaker 3: fired right now, like that sort of like he lives
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 1: She's like, it's important, Stevie Wonder wants to talk to
Speaker 1: you right now.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, wait, why you know I guess about
Speaker 5: last Friday, And I was like, that wasn't my fault.
Speaker 1: Well, he won't talk to you, just like he lives
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 5: And the whole thing was it was it was like
Speaker 5: somehow the Godfather where The thing I was amazed that
Speaker 5: was that he was sitting at a table and I
Speaker 5: guess he was warming up his voice because we were
Speaker 5: about to sound check, and he had these two scalding
Speaker 5: hot like crafts of tea, but they were sitting on
Speaker 5: the edge of the table.
Speaker 1: And it's only me and him in the group, me
Speaker 1: and him in the room.
Speaker 3: And on top of that, he has like a bag
Speaker 3: of muffins and butter and different jams and jelly, and
Speaker 3: I'm watching him just navigate like it's normal.
Speaker 1: But he's also like reaching his arm over ever so.
Speaker 5: Slightly to that hot craft of hot Tea and I'm
Speaker 5: on the receiving end, so it's like you could almost
Speaker 5: like like that sort of thing. And at one point
Speaker 5: he reached out too, like he was reaching for like
Speaker 5: more butter, and reached his arm out and I grabbed
Speaker 5: the craft.
Speaker 1: He said, no, no, no, no, I know where it is.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 1: I got it. Oh do you know what I'm doing
Speaker 1: right now? But the whole people knowing, man, yo, man,
Speaker 1: he knows.
Speaker 5: And the whole time he was like, yeah, so uh Friday, uh,
Speaker 5: And I'm like, I try to play it off like yeah, man,
Speaker 5: it was so much fun, Like I really try to.
Speaker 5: She's no man's you know. I just want to make
Speaker 5: sure we cool, you know.
Speaker 3: And then I just had to play dumb like I
Speaker 3: didn't know what happened, like I had to cut this
Speaker 3: song short or some ship you know that sort of
Speaker 3: thing and get him off the stage or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know, like when you're doing that
Speaker 1: high Boys ship.
Speaker 2: Problem. But I knew.
Speaker 5: I was like, Yo, he's going to he's going to
Speaker 5: spell this call and hot Tea on your lap. He's well,
Speaker 5: I guess at some point we should say since this
Speaker 5: is the Christmas episode Happy Holidays.
Speaker 7: I was like, I'm happy. I'm celebrating my holiday.
Speaker 1: What you're doing for ally Bro? What you're doing.
Speaker 2: Thaniel? Nothing?
Speaker 1: I know, Like, is it really Christmas?
Speaker 2: Is this is?
Speaker 5: I'm so happy to not have the pressure or the
Speaker 5: just the stress of traveling.
Speaker 2: Nigga.
Speaker 1: You got kids, and I'm certain they want a p
Speaker 1: S five.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with my son, he want the Xbox.
Speaker 3: And what's the difference because I'm talking to a bunch
Speaker 3: of kids that are like, I want an Xbox?
Speaker 5: Like what, so what is it like? It's like smartphone
Speaker 5: versus Apple, like versus It's not necessarily that. It's more
Speaker 5: sort thing of like with a particularly my son. So
Speaker 5: the way games are now, like gaming is basically just
Speaker 5: a whole another social network. And so if you're if
Speaker 5: you have an Xbox, then you know you can chop
Speaker 5: it up with aut your homies on Xbox.
Speaker 1: If you got PS five, then you know you can
Speaker 1: do it as well.
Speaker 5: And so for my son, he's fifteen, I listen, keep
Speaker 5: on slipping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's fifteen nine.
Speaker 5: So a lot of his homies they like be running
Speaker 5: two K and his kind of social network is all
Speaker 5: on the Xbox.
Speaker 1: So it's really a social thing for them.
Speaker 5: So to me, I'm a PS five guy, but I'm
Speaker 5: not a social gamer. Like my game is just solo.
Speaker 5: I'm not you know, talking to people online. I'm just playing.
Speaker 5: But for the younger kids, it's a social aspects O Xbox.
Speaker 5: From what I see, that seems to be where most
Speaker 5: of the youngest that's what they that's where they get
Speaker 5: it in.
Speaker 2: At God got it? God?
Speaker 5: Is there a world for me, like, you know, a
Speaker 5: world where I can fit in and just play like
Speaker 5: my regular two D games and whatnot, or I think
Speaker 5: you could if you come from the PS five. They
Speaker 5: got games that like you could it's like a yeah,
Speaker 5: ship you might get a man. Well, they do got
Speaker 5: all those simulators. So now they got all the simulators.
Speaker 5: You can get the Nintendo simulators, you can get them.
Speaker 5: And they got like all the game some games and yeah.
Speaker 2: What's a good what's a good virtual game?
Speaker 4: That's a good question like that that they have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the VR, I mean that's not really something I
Speaker 5: get into, but they but all the systems have them.
Speaker 5: I was running and U I was running Resident Evil
Speaker 5: seven I think like like two years ago, and it's
Speaker 5: like a survival horror joint.
Speaker 2: Oh I used all the time, nigga.
Speaker 5: And with the virtue Nigga. That ship is a whole
Speaker 5: nother spirit. I was like, no, I don't want this smoke.
Speaker 2: Blowing my mind right now.
Speaker 6: You're saying that they got it for virtual Uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: you can.
Speaker 5: Get the like that this headset or whatever like I speak,
Speaker 5: but Resident Evil seven bro, you can have that joint.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, right there, yeah, it's really like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I gotta do that.
Speaker 6: I gotta watch that. I gotta get that. I used
Speaker 6: to always play that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, it doesn't not that it doesn't
Speaker 3: feel like Christmas, but I don't know it is not.
Speaker 1: It is the most Christmas I feel.
Speaker 2: I've been bought no gifts for nobody.
Speaker 6: I've been bought nothing for nobody, even myself whole entire year,
Speaker 6: like nothing.
Speaker 7: Like on a birthday, not a not a nothing, nothing not.
Speaker 3: I just I bartered DJ gigs. I'll be like, yeah, DJ,
Speaker 3: you're party for an hour.
Speaker 2: So that's.
Speaker 5: Because I think the thing is I think just this year,
Speaker 5: like it really just causts us to slow down and stop.
Speaker 5: And you know, it's like you would give people gifts
Speaker 5: for them to use, you know, outside of their homes,
Speaker 5: Like Yo, I'm gonna sing you on a trip somewhere.
Speaker 5: I'm an and it's just like Nigga, we all in
Speaker 5: the house, Like so I.
Speaker 1: Go to Jordans. I can't do massages.
Speaker 5: And days at the spa ship like that. I would
Speaker 5: give my wife to the spa all the time.
Speaker 4: But that's why Amazon is killing the game.
Speaker 2: I thought, yeah, I mean they killing the game.
Speaker 6: But you know, you buy a gift for somebody, it's
Speaker 6: the wrong size, Like it ain't even worth it. It's like,
Speaker 6: everybody just chill this whole year. When next year come around,
Speaker 6: we're gonna make up for all of this. We're gonna
Speaker 6: make up for all our birthday, all our birthday parties.
Speaker 2: We're gonna make birthday. I know I'm gonna have a.
Speaker 6: Birthday party twice next year. Rt, I'm having two birthday parties.
Speaker 6: I'm going hard. I'm gonna double up on everything. But
Speaker 6: right now, we just gotta chill.
Speaker 4: It's like everybody, it ain't not next year, babe, twenty two.
Speaker 6: Twenty twenty two, twenty twenty two, so we gotta triple up.
Speaker 2: Then let's see.
Speaker 1: July and August of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: No, bab, I think it's gonna take at least a
Speaker 5: year for the vaccine everybody to kind of make the
Speaker 5: round take it to.
Speaker 6: Because we gotta find We gotta find out how long
Speaker 6: it lasts. Don't nobody know that. We don't know if
Speaker 6: it's forever or if it's for a year.
Speaker 7: I think it's for you'll there, to be honest, they haven't.
Speaker 7: They haven't decided yet. If it's gonna better, you got
Speaker 7: to keep taking They haven't decided yet. It's just like
Speaker 7: take it and we figure it out. Right now, you
Speaker 7: are on your face, like, my man, you know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Figure out? Ball player dude.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he fell on his face because he had COVID
Speaker 7: months before. My doctor, my doctor friend was just breaking
Speaker 7: it down to me because he was like with people,
Speaker 7: I think it's yes.
Speaker 4: People don't understand that.
Speaker 7: Like once you have covidus with your heart and the
Speaker 7: shape of your heart.
Speaker 1: And it changes the shape of your heart, you.
Speaker 4: Said, like, yeah, it has something to do with this SI.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 7: After it's over and out of your body, it does.
Speaker 7: It fucks with your heart.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, Wow, that's my man, Terry Hannah DJ Terry Hannah,
Speaker 6: he got Yeah, that's the home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, Terry got it. Terry got it. Wow, Terry
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 6: And Deebo when Deebo rest in piece to Deebo, Deebo
Speaker 6: had he had it before he got over COVID.
Speaker 2: That's the ended up catching it again.
Speaker 4: Same thing with the young Wow he had.
Speaker 6: It a minute ago, app and he caught it again
Speaker 6: and that's how Debo died.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know that was his cause of death.
Speaker 6: Of Even so, even so everybody talking about they catching
Speaker 6: it and they cool after they catch.
Speaker 2: It or they are mun Now I ain't.
Speaker 4: I am legend.
Speaker 5: We still don't know the long term We still don't
Speaker 5: know the long term effects of I think they're gonna
Speaker 5: be studying this ship for the next decade. Man, Like,
Speaker 5: we still don't know. Even if you quote unquote get
Speaker 5: over it, we still don't know what getting over it
Speaker 5: completely looks like.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: What we do know is by by the fall of
Speaker 7: twenty twenty one will probably if we're lucky, we're fifty masks,
Speaker 7: but we're not maskless until twenty twenty two.
Speaker 6: Fall twenty twenty one, people gonna we're gonna have We're
Speaker 6: gonna be able to be like, Okay, we can see
Speaker 6: how long this is going to affect people.
Speaker 2: They're gonna know more about it.
Speaker 6: If we should take a shot of the year nah,
Speaker 6: because they they tested people months earlier prior to this.
Speaker 6: So around the fall, that's gonna let us know if
Speaker 6: it wear off, if it doesn't or whatever.
Speaker 7: Dey'all was lucky that y'all got to get blackish out
Speaker 7: a little bit.
Speaker 4: Most people know they getting shut down.
Speaker 6: Hey, we're still shooting and it is I'm gonna tell
Speaker 6: you something, man.
Speaker 3: So yeah, what's the protocol of shooting a television show
Speaker 3: now during this period?
Speaker 5: Like what's take me through your day? Like how early
Speaker 5: do you have to get up? And what's testing?
Speaker 2: Like? Yo, let me tell you.
Speaker 6: So I get tested every day even if I'm not filming,
Speaker 6: because if if they have to they want to know.
Speaker 6: Also if they have to move a scene around, I'll
Speaker 6: be ready. So they make sure they make sure that
Speaker 6: you test like every day our day.
Speaker 2: Now it's way longer.
Speaker 6: So if it take us if it take us six
Speaker 6: hours to shoot the scene, now it take us like nine,
Speaker 6: well eight, After every scene we got to leave out,
Speaker 6: They got to disinfect, then we come back in and
Speaker 6: they got to move the cameras around. Everybody got to
Speaker 6: leave out. It's like a whole whole process, man.
Speaker 5: So question all right, because I don't know how what
Speaker 5: child labor laws are or whatever, and plus children now
Speaker 5: they're teenagers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but does that does that also change? In Hollywood?
Speaker 1: The uh?
Speaker 3: I know that there's a four to five hour limit
Speaker 3: for like actors under I think fourteen or fifteen or whatever.
Speaker 1: Does that also change? Does this also change that rule
Speaker 1: as well?
Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not sure, but I do know this.
Speaker 6: They get those kids in and out. They get them,
Speaker 6: They get them in and out, like definitely, Like like
Speaker 6: if you got a scene with one of the kids,
Speaker 6: you it's gonna move a little bit. It's still longer,
Speaker 6: but it's gonna move a little bit more faster because
Speaker 6: they're gonna get them in and out. So they do
Speaker 6: everything that they possibly can do in order to make
Speaker 6: sure everybody's cool or whatever. But but it's totally it's
Speaker 6: totally different now.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: You you have to mask everywhere where everybody in the
Speaker 6: individual trailers, and it's just nerve wracking because you got
Speaker 6: so many people. Because another thing too, when you do makeup,
Speaker 6: you can't put.
Speaker 2: A mask on.
Speaker 6: You got to put one of the plastic things on
Speaker 6: your face, and hopefully nobody's in six feet there.
Speaker 2: You you stay away.
Speaker 6: From them because if you put a mask on, it's
Speaker 6: gonna mess your makeup up.
Speaker 2: And uh so you.
Speaker 6: Gotta just stay away from everybody as much as possible.
Speaker 2: Man, And you know it.
Speaker 3: And does that give does that give enough time for
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what the protocol is, but
Speaker 3: I assume that, like you guys have to like rehearse
Speaker 3: lines and rehearse the rhythm.
Speaker 6: And so we come in and we rehearse and then
Speaker 6: we go back and we change and then we come
Speaker 6: back and we shoot it.
Speaker 2: But we rehearse with our mask on. Yeah, we do that.
Speaker 6: But uh yeah, it's it's it's it's it's so it's
Speaker 6: very tedious.
Speaker 2: It's very tedious. But we at the.
Speaker 6: Same token were working, and uh a lot of people
Speaker 6: wish they could be working, and.
Speaker 2: A lot of people losing their homes, you know.
Speaker 4: With l a right because it's such it's the industry.
Speaker 7: So y'all know, I mean, I don't know if everybody
Speaker 7: knows this but like a lot of these sets and stuff,
Speaker 7: these are essential services, Like the state has now said that,
Speaker 7: like movie sets are essential because this town will die.
Speaker 2: It will die, manole. It was and it was doing that.
Speaker 6: People were losing their ship left and right, and they
Speaker 6: still are and they.
Speaker 2: Still are, Like Hollywood is like, wow, right now you are.
Speaker 4: Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you and when to cruise?
Speaker 2: Ran taking y'all, y'all on my mama. I felt that,
Speaker 2: y'all in real life, in real life.
Speaker 6: I was like, Yo, it's Tom, Like, dude, do you
Speaker 6: know how many people shut.
Speaker 2: The fuck down and y'all got the opportunity to make
Speaker 2: it work.
Speaker 6: Y'all sitting around here bullshitting and walking around and whispering
Speaker 6: to each other.
Speaker 4: And ship already got shut down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, man, what are you doing whispering to a motherfucker?
Speaker 5: Like the worst way to communicate with a nigga during
Speaker 5: the during.
Speaker 6: The pandemic, right, I snacked out of here, you whispering
Speaker 6: through a sound like.
Speaker 1: Just text tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Yo.
Speaker 7: Tom was mad, like I'm a producer, like.
Speaker 6: I thought I thought.
Speaker 2: I heard him say nigga a few times.
Speaker 1: Around with you.
Speaker 2: Niggas, y'all, better.
Speaker 6: Tom, Yeah, Tom, Tom, Tom letting it out the way
Speaker 6: that it was.
Speaker 2: Supposed to be let out. Man, But it is, it's
Speaker 2: it's uh, it's it's tedious stuff.
Speaker 5: So like when y'all shoot, like, I guess I'm not
Speaker 5: a love scene, but like, is it no physical like
Speaker 5: if if Anthony has the kiss Tracy or something like,
Speaker 5: is it none of that?
Speaker 1: You know, none of.
Speaker 6: That if you if you look at this season of Blackish,
Speaker 6: we are especially the office scenes that we do, where
Speaker 6: we we nine times out of ten we are not
Speaker 6: in the office no more. We in a breakroom, but
Speaker 6: we can like spread out and we don't have to.
Speaker 2: Sit right next to each other.
Speaker 6: So we got a couple episodes where we're in the breakroom,
Speaker 6: but the majority of the season we we I mean,
Speaker 6: I mean a couple episodes where were in the office together,
Speaker 6: but the majority of season we're in the breakroom where
Speaker 6: we can stretch.
Speaker 2: Out out or whatever.
Speaker 6: But yeah, everybody kind of spaced out, definitely, definitely mentally.
Speaker 5: So how does that affect when you plan the scene?
Speaker 5: You know, when you know you're in a scene where
Speaker 5: you have to you know, ostensibly assumed it or portrayed it.
Speaker 5: Everything is fine or we're joking, we're laughing, but in
Speaker 5: your mind, you know, like nigga, it's a whole lass
Speaker 5: plague we try not to catch. How do you disassociate
Speaker 5: from that?
Speaker 6: I take a deep breath before I say my lines
Speaker 6: and then.
Speaker 1: Hold your breath.
Speaker 4: Ship.
Speaker 7: I was like, and if you're talking to Laurence Fishburn
Speaker 7: and Jennifer like you really.
Speaker 3: Yeah want boy, I'll be hold my breathna be your
Speaker 3: Navy seal right now, dude, way I know my breath.
Speaker 1: I turn on, I turn around, do my lines, and
Speaker 1: somewhere in the quarner.
Speaker 2: Man I thought I was the only one that did that. Serious.
Speaker 4: Lauren's up in the bubble wrap. Y'all make sure.
Speaker 6: They're good, lad, Lawrence, don't be playing Lawrence. Jennifer, both
Speaker 6: of them, they boy, they serious. They they will get
Speaker 6: on your ass. Laurence fish Burnt laws be like it
Speaker 6: in that calm voice. Mun't be like you must do
Speaker 6: what you're supposed to do in order for everyone to
Speaker 6: get through this. You want to stand, you'd be like this, yes, sir,
Speaker 6: I just stopped just talking my shirt saying for no reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you have to tell older black people.
Speaker 2: No oh no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: You younger people that.
Speaker 2: Are like feel invincible and ship.
Speaker 7: Yeah they yeah, they killing us, young people killing us. Man,
Speaker 7: I like to shorten it. That's what it is, young people.
Speaker 4: Niggas crackers.
Speaker 1: Uh tips.
Speaker 5: No, it's saying, oh the tip board, the tips is
Speaker 5: tipping the tips, the tips is they did you.
Speaker 1: Here today's black contract speech? There was?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Q made a speech?
Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah what was?
Speaker 2: What was?
Speaker 5: What was in today's more black? I mean, like, Biden's
Speaker 5: not in office yet, like you can't.
Speaker 4: He's he's demanding, he's giving his demand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm like, let him get on.
Speaker 7: It's okay, Biden said, let people demand from him that
Speaker 7: feel like they have added to, you know, bringing him
Speaker 7: to that place.
Speaker 4: Biden's okay, don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: A mirror, He's I know, not for that.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 1: I love Cube, man, that's my guy. We all do.
Speaker 2: Man, Like.
Speaker 5: I don't know, I just just just generally from anybody
Speaker 5: like that wants to give a hot take.
Speaker 1: I need them. I need to feel like they really
Speaker 1: know what the political process is first, where you just
Speaker 1: walk in the door.
Speaker 6: My whole thing is this though, I'm like this regardless
Speaker 6: if he knows, if he doesn't know, at least at
Speaker 6: least he's doing something like I don't see nobody else
Speaker 6: doing ship and so and and this is what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: Like I'd rather take something I believe the right place
Speaker 6: than nothing. Yes, I rather got something to nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1: Reading the wrong.
Speaker 9: Thing, something right right? I ran nothing again, Cubert, it's
Speaker 9: like Judo, all your work. Oh you talking about the game, Cuba.
Speaker 9: I was thinking about the actual Cubert. Djqban got the
Speaker 9: all the way funk out of.
Speaker 2: Here, Cuban watching me again. I just I just I
Speaker 2: don't know. I just respect what Cue did. Man, And
Speaker 2: I'm like.
Speaker 1: Just making I acknowledge his heart was in the right place.
Speaker 5: Yes he if he was gonna do that ship to me,
Speaker 5: you should have did that ship in twenty six like
Speaker 5: because it's you know what I'm saying, because it's one
Speaker 5: thing to say, Hey, listen, I didn't vote for this motherfucker,
Speaker 5: but listen, this is what we got.
Speaker 1: Let's try to work with what we got.
Speaker 5: You say that in twenty sixteen, top of twenty seventeen,
Speaker 5: nobody's mad.
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, well, let's let's see.
Speaker 5: But pulling this ship down, you know them three weeks,
Speaker 5: three weeks primary.
Speaker 6: It's like like, nigga, come on, but look, let me
Speaker 6: ask you this though, Like if he if he came
Speaker 6: to the table with no agenda as far as I mean,
Speaker 6: I ain't saying no agenda, but if he came to
Speaker 6: the table and he wasn't biased, and he wasn't towards
Speaker 6: being a Democrat, he wasn't a Republican. He just came
Speaker 6: to the plan going, who's gonna help up black people
Speaker 6: with this? And the Republicans go, man, we want to
Speaker 6: do it or we want to see it, and he
Speaker 6: go all I find cool?
Speaker 2: Like, Like though, is.
Speaker 3: That if I'm paying attention and a leopard, don't change
Speaker 3: the stripes like that.
Speaker 1: And they gonna change that ship three weeks for y'all
Speaker 1: niggas get ready to go vote.
Speaker 3: And the thing is is that I would have already
Speaker 3: known coming in from the door that this this is
Speaker 3: more about a photo opportunity or bragging right opportunity for
Speaker 3: Trump than it is about helping.
Speaker 5: You're not you should negotiate with a fucking scammer dog
Speaker 5: right right?
Speaker 4: I mean, the contract it's very long. I'm curious if niggas.
Speaker 7: I haven't said much because I ain't read the contract
Speaker 7: to comment.
Speaker 4: I do, but I'm just curious.
Speaker 1: That I did. I went through I went through this
Speaker 1: and so what it was.
Speaker 2: I read a little bit of it.
Speaker 6: Absolutely not not enough to not enough to say like
Speaker 6: it's horrible or it's not, but I read.
Speaker 2: I read through a little bit of it. But like
Speaker 2: I said, I've always just gave.
Speaker 6: Him credit for at least bringing the idea up because
Speaker 6: prior to him doing that, I can't recollec I can't
Speaker 6: recall anybody talking about them helping out black areas and
Speaker 6: black people and ship like that.
Speaker 4: I just black lives matter, but not like a celebrity.
Speaker 2: Yes, I always gave you love for that.
Speaker 1: I think it's celebrities.
Speaker 5: You have to use your voice, like if you're want to,
Speaker 5: you know, if you want to, you know, use your.
Speaker 1: Voice and commit.
Speaker 5: I would say, use your voice to like amplify the
Speaker 5: people that actually do the work in the community, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, People that know policy, people that
Speaker 5: like put your money behind that they actually do the
Speaker 5: work right into the political processing.
Speaker 2: But what are those people doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but moving with progress? I mean in comparison.
Speaker 3: There are people doing it, but you got to be
Speaker 3: actively you have to be actively active. I'm sorry, you
Speaker 3: have to be actively informed or who's doing the work.
Speaker 3: There are people on the ground doing the work. Of course,
Speaker 3: all news Georgia, the Stacy Abrams or whatever. But it's
Speaker 3: just like, you know, I'm not saying that, I'm not
Speaker 3: saying that Cubans trying to be performed.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, listen.
Speaker 3: And you know he clapped back at me on one post.
Speaker 3: I'm not thinking that Cubans trying to be performative. I
Speaker 3: believe that his heart is in the right place. But
Speaker 3: last I checked, absolutely, this entire administration is not.
Speaker 1: About the advancement of black people at all.
Speaker 5: A matter at all and just by even you taking
Speaker 5: that cont like because the thing is, because here's the thing.
Speaker 5: Let me just be a humpre sent clear, Like we
Speaker 5: love c Cuba's hip hop, Like say what you want
Speaker 5: about this shit he doing now, but Nigga Cube was
Speaker 5: one of my favorite like ever, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Deaf certificate is one of it.
Speaker 5: But the thing about it, you know that people that
Speaker 5: we were trying to understand is like listen, we're not
Speaker 5: ashamed or disappointed in Cube that he tried. We're disappointed
Speaker 5: that he didn't see the fucking game to begin with.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: It's like, nigga, you you got fucking scam, bro, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. Like they were never gonna give
Speaker 5: you a real shot. You were never gonna have a
Speaker 5: real conversation with Trump or any of them niggas.
Speaker 4: They were just he was above that.
Speaker 7: He might have thought he was the one, just like
Speaker 7: Steve Harvey thought he was the one, Like you know,
Speaker 7: it's a certain level of.
Speaker 3: But that that's the thing, like the thing that I
Speaker 3: knew that it's exhausting. And I brought this up before
Speaker 3: with people like, ah, man, I can't, I can't watch
Speaker 3: the news.
Speaker 1: I can't. And even this year, I stopped watching the.
Speaker 3: News as obsessive as obsessively as I used to. But
Speaker 3: it's like since twenty sixteen, Since January twenty twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: I've never I've not shut my eyes once. I mean sure,
Speaker 3: I was abreast on everything that was happening. And that's
Speaker 3: forward too. We don't have that luxury no more.
Speaker 6: Yah, Yeah, that's that's definitely true. Man, Like I said, Man,
Speaker 6: we don't. We don't know the blueprint to none of
Speaker 6: this shit. We we sitting up trying to figure this
Speaker 6: out as it goes along, and nobody got the answers
Speaker 6: to nothing. So the way I feel is, if anybody
Speaker 6: come with anything, I'm going that's cool. I'll let you
Speaker 6: know how I feel about it. But I'm glad you
Speaker 6: did something. Now let's keep it moving. Now what we're
Speaker 6: gonna do?
Speaker 2: Okay, So that was so this is what they tried
Speaker 2: to do. Okay, Now just look at the let's look at.
Speaker 6: The black contract, and let's see how we really can
Speaker 6: all come behind this and make it happen and come together.
Speaker 6: But we need we need a place to come together.
Speaker 6: We ain't ain't got no place to come together. But
Speaker 6: we ain't got nobody to talk to. We ain't got
Speaker 6: nobody to power with. Because he get if we if
Speaker 6: we had that kind of organization and that type of togetherness.
Speaker 2: Then he could have could have came to the to the.
Speaker 6: Table with a group of people that's over our kind
Speaker 6: or whatever, you know, just like when when Nick Cannon,
Speaker 6: when Nick Cannon did that ship, they had Nick Cannon
Speaker 6: talk to like the head of the Jewish community.
Speaker 2: Who they talked to. For we ain't got man, We
Speaker 2: ain't got a We ain't got a nigga to talk to.
Speaker 1: Not one had they had, They had talk to Charlamagne,
Speaker 1: you know what I know.
Speaker 6: And that's crazy, but that's what I'm saying, Like we
Speaker 6: we gotta come together and we all gotta stand out
Speaker 6: something and have a place to go to, have a
Speaker 6: place to talk type, a place to pow wow, and
Speaker 6: we and we don't even have that.
Speaker 2: So if he got something and he like, man, let
Speaker 2: me just bring it up.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I think I agree with just Indyan. I just
Speaker 5: think that we have to have those conversations. I think
Speaker 5: we just have to have those conversations privately. Think a
Speaker 5: big problem like social media like Twitter, Instagram, white people
Speaker 5: have never had unfettered access to the thoughts of niggas,
Speaker 5: and that is not necessarily always a good thing, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like they.
Speaker 1: Know too much. Like when you see all these you know,
Speaker 1: all these damn you know.
Speaker 5: People that got caught blackfishing, like the chick from the
Speaker 5: chick that was at that school and Rachel Docal and yeah,
Speaker 5: all the yeah, all the all the all them white
Speaker 5: women that was pretending to be.
Speaker 2: And that was like.
Speaker 5: Jessica whatever, the chick, the Jewish chick that was pretending
Speaker 5: to be black, Like I think much of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, man, yeah, the bitch of scamming like a motherfucker.
Speaker 5: But like, yeah, so I just think like we're seeing
Speaker 5: they're they're able to like put on that costume so
Speaker 5: readily easily, because never before in the history of this
Speaker 5: fucking country have you been able to see like our language,
Speaker 5: like our inside jokes, like what they call aa ve
Speaker 5: e whatever, like all the just.
Speaker 1: Our cultural shorthand that we have.
Speaker 5: Nigga, they see that shit, right, they can pick it
Speaker 5: up and you know, learn it and apply it.
Speaker 2: But how but how can they when we don't know
Speaker 2: what we want? We gotta know what we want.
Speaker 1: As much as a cliche it is.
Speaker 5: You know, when I first heard this term on like
Speaker 5: news programs, news pundits saying.
Speaker 1: We are not a mon oflift. We're not a mon oflift.
Speaker 3: I believe that now more than ever because I didn't
Speaker 3: realize one how conservative a lot of us are. I
Speaker 3: didn't realize how, you know, like there's like six to seven.
Speaker 2: We got apartments.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the thoughts of black people that aren't as unified
Speaker 3: as I thought.
Speaker 1: We were not at all, bro y'all.
Speaker 7: We're so not unified that that contract that ice Cube
Speaker 7: put out.
Speaker 4: I briefly ran through it, y'all. Black Lives.
Speaker 7: Matter manifesto from five years ago. And if the nigga
Speaker 7: would have read that ship and God would him sorry,
Speaker 7: no shade, but nigga would attitude that ship, maybe we
Speaker 7: could get at least get together on that.
Speaker 2: But that's what I'm saying. We gotta know what we want.
Speaker 6: Black people don't come together as many shades as it is.
Speaker 6: Of us as it is, there's been many different kind.
Speaker 1: Of different ideologies, ya, So we.
Speaker 2: We gotta come together. We gotta come together on what
Speaker 2: we want to be called. We gotta be we gotta
Speaker 2: come together.
Speaker 6: We don't we some niggas, some niggas school would be
Speaker 6: a nigga some nigga school would be.
Speaker 2: We gotta come together on what we're gonna be called.
Speaker 6: We gotta come together on what we're gonna take a
Speaker 6: stand on. We can't just be taking the stand on
Speaker 6: some ship for a hot man and then that's out.
Speaker 6: I remember everybody was like fuck Starbucks. Three months later,
Speaker 6: niggas was whipped cream the fuck out around us.
Speaker 2: Oh, everybody was muffing latte. They up the ass, that's
Speaker 2: what they was. Mother fucking Gucci. Fuck Gucci. Next thing,
Speaker 2: you know, Wonder War Show. Later, niggas was geez the
Speaker 2: fuck up. We got to know what we want. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, look, look.
Speaker 1: We we We was with Gucci for a second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look we so we so fucked up in the head.
Speaker 7: YO.
Speaker 6: As far as black people, that's why we don't have
Speaker 6: no long term black designers. You know why because black people.
Speaker 6: Because black people don't want to support ship. They think
Speaker 6: everything played the fuck out. They don't want to come
Speaker 6: together and be like, this is the brand that we're
Speaker 6: gonna have and now we're gonna rock. Fuck how you
Speaker 6: think it's played out and not we need. That's why
Speaker 6: we don't have long term black designers.
Speaker 2: We don't got no no motherfucking.
Speaker 6: Perry Yellois, no mother Ralph Lauren because niggas feel like
Speaker 6: it's played out and don't want to wear it. Instead
Speaker 6: of instead of motherfucking respecting ship and representing ship like
Speaker 6: like we should, we don't come together on that ship.
Speaker 1: I think I think that ideology is changing.
Speaker 3: I'm supporting like all gear, I'm rock and now and
Speaker 3: that's love.
Speaker 2: And always don't just wear it for the moment.
Speaker 1: Not just February.
Speaker 6: Always wear it because that's what why folks do. White
Speaker 6: folks when they when they when they fuck with Michael Cores, motherfucker,
Speaker 6: they gonna they're gonna wear that ship.
Speaker 1: They're gonna wear that.
Speaker 4: Michael.
Speaker 6: Black people. Black people be like, yeah, Cross Colors was cool.
Speaker 6: We out that ship, fucked us ship.
Speaker 4: Because it didn't keep Yeah, you're gonna go buy some
Speaker 4: footboom right now.
Speaker 2: They have to evolve too, I guess. I guess they
Speaker 2: have to evolve too. You know what I give you
Speaker 2: that they gotta evolve too. But it's up for us
Speaker 2: to let them know that as well.
Speaker 6: Like Yo, but we gotta stick with these companies. We
Speaker 6: gotta some of them try to us. Some I'm gonna
Speaker 6: try to evolve, but people just don't fuck with them
Speaker 6: no more.
Speaker 2: People be like But I think.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of that has to do with
Speaker 5: I mean, I think what there's some truth what you're saying.
Speaker 5: I think that's kind of just the gift in the
Speaker 5: curse of black people is that we because we are
Speaker 5: the most creative, the most kind of forward thinking in terms.
Speaker 1: Of just the stuff we create. We're always thinking forward.
Speaker 5: And so if you even look at music, right, if
Speaker 5: you look at every every art form of music, like
Speaker 5: every class of music black people we have, they have
Speaker 5: the same pattern. We create it, we'll nurture it, we
Speaker 5: elevate it, and then we abandon it. Yeah, gospel, blue's jazz,
Speaker 5: like I mean hip hop to some degree, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean. And so I think that's just kind
Speaker 5: of who we are. It's like we just make these
Speaker 5: things that we think are fantastic and the great, and
Speaker 5: then we're like, all right, I made that, Okay, onto
Speaker 5: the next ship. Meanwhile, white folks are looking at the
Speaker 5: ship that we're done left behind, like, oh my god, nigga,
Speaker 5: Like these niggas left this behind.
Speaker 1: They realize how much they sell it back to us.
Speaker 1: I get it, Like how they niggas selling that ship
Speaker 1: back to us.
Speaker 3: Let's give light to uh limblin, Let's give shots to uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, is is fifty dollars on or off?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Are we still on Virgil Virgin Virgil? Is he back
Speaker 1: in the house or not? Is Virgil back in the
Speaker 1: house off?
Speaker 3: White Virgil was kicked out the house for a seconded
Speaker 3: him out the house for there's I'm Preston uh Victor LeMond.
Speaker 1: I think shout out, shout.
Speaker 2: Out to my man, a collective thoughts in Chicago. Also
Speaker 2: my man, uh dirty.
Speaker 6: Milk, my man, Daniel Daniel, he got dirty milk and
Speaker 6: uh we Yeah, those are some great brands, right, Definitely Gucci.
Speaker 3: All right, there's celebrities. She's coming up in the world
Speaker 3: and Romeo Hunt. So there's But I think.
Speaker 6: I think the gold is not just to wear this stuff,
Speaker 6: but rock with them as long as you can and
Speaker 6: hold them accountable, to evolved and rock with them and
Speaker 6: let these people be the voice.
Speaker 2: Let let them speak.
Speaker 6: For us as long as other clothing designers come along, man,
Speaker 6: because right.
Speaker 2: Now it's just sad to me that we don't have
Speaker 2: no long term black clothes and designer take.
Speaker 4: Doesn't even think of none. I felt bad.
Speaker 1: A lot.
Speaker 5: You No, no, no, you're not old school. No no, no,
Speaker 5: I'm thinking of all the ones that passed like that
Speaker 5: was another one.
Speaker 1: I was thinking of college.
Speaker 2: All of that, you know.
Speaker 6: Not but it's another tracy yeah yeah, no, like no,
Speaker 6: and if it is one, I don't know about it,
Speaker 6: and I should.
Speaker 4: I don't even think we make a good shoe ship.
Speaker 6: Nothing because because like you know what you remember, you
Speaker 6: remember when Timberland.
Speaker 2: Timberland was like, we don't make our shoes from folks.
Speaker 6: Everybody went crazy, like, fuck Timberland, I ain't wearing that ship.
Speaker 2: I was personally, yeah, niggas.
Speaker 6: Like I told you before about the Starbucks, niggas be like, yeah.
Speaker 2: Fuck that ship, but then they go right back to it.
Speaker 6: But at the same token, when Timberland said that not
Speaker 6: hid the same thing, and I mean low key, I
Speaker 6: was like, I kid.
Speaker 2: It because I kind of get it. Because you don't
Speaker 2: want niggas.
Speaker 6: Coming through rock of your ship saying this played out
Speaker 6: and then the case because when niggas say it's played out,
Speaker 6: it's played out.
Speaker 5: Just as just as I'm not Dutch and true religion.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not too hip to the shoe game
Speaker 3: as I am the fashion game. But definitely there's there's
Speaker 3: some designers to look out for. J. J. Gray Uh.
Speaker 2: Okay, yev Rauh.
Speaker 1: There's a brother of Ellis and these are like high end.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: There's one l F l S like father like sons shoes,
Speaker 3: uh Keanna Barnes, Stella Hughes and these are like high.
Speaker 1: No, man, there's there's I'm telling you this.
Speaker 3: This could be the paradigm shift where you know, I'm
Speaker 3: definitely more uh you know, aware of black businesses then
Speaker 3: I was not previously or using my dollar for that.
Speaker 7: So that's what everybody's doing for the holiday season too.
Speaker 7: If you notice, it's been a lot of promotion about
Speaker 7: around small businesses, black business, like make sure you you
Speaker 7: know so.
Speaker 4: Ets he got a black business store.
Speaker 7: Everybody, I mean even Steve got a black business Christmas
Speaker 7: sweatshirt on with What.
Speaker 2: About my man, my man, my man Rich Fresh too.
Speaker 4: Rich Fresh Trush in the list we should actually you know.
Speaker 2: Rich Rush, he do clothes for everybody. Man do it
Speaker 2: for like black design? A cool dude.
Speaker 6: You do a lot of stuff for Layla Way that
Speaker 6: stuff she bear with the spring with the strike with
Speaker 6: like the yellow and black stripe, that's that's yeah, that's
Speaker 6: Rich Fresh Rich Fresh black design. And he called too,
Speaker 6: you do the only way uh everybody? Man, So yeah,
Speaker 6: shut out to.
Speaker 1: Rich definitely shut up. Wait a minute, this is weird.
Speaker 3: This is the the one episode where I had so
Speaker 3: many craft questions about your comedy that we didn't talk
Speaker 3: anything about your comedy setup. All right, so wait before
Speaker 3: we wrap, I do want to know how does one
Speaker 3: stay sharp when you don't have an audience to sort
Speaker 3: of work this on.
Speaker 6: So, like Dave Chappelle and a couple other comments, they've
Speaker 6: been doing shows, they've been going on, they've been doing show. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: they've been doing that, and that's cool. You know you
Speaker 6: feel comfortable enough to do that, and that's love. Me personally,
Speaker 6: I'm not sharp. I have not performed since February, and
Speaker 6: that is like a no no. I am terrified to
Speaker 6: get on stay to a lot of people don't know that.
Speaker 6: I am terrified to even perform right now. I've been
Speaker 6: stock stockpile of material left and right. That's why I
Speaker 6: dropped working working it out because I knew I haven't performed,
Speaker 6: and I was like, I want to get a people
Speaker 6: something until you know I can get back out there.
Speaker 6: But me going on stage, when I get back on stage,
Speaker 6: it's going to be something that I must record because
Speaker 6: I'm going to be terrify and I'm going to be unsure,
Speaker 6: no confidence, I'm gonna be scared shitless. All of that
Speaker 6: and so I am very nervous and I think about
Speaker 6: it at least three times a day.
Speaker 2: About me getting back on stage. And I have it
Speaker 2: because I know I'm not sharp, no more.
Speaker 1: So pre pre March twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: What not?
Speaker 1: What was your regiment? Okay?
Speaker 3: I know about the AVI spots like going to uh
Speaker 3: not comedy seller, the comedy store, But where's where's like
Speaker 3: a secret spot where you work shit out? Like is
Speaker 3: the Comedy Act theater still the thing like where Robin
Speaker 3: Harris and all those guys used to work out.
Speaker 2: Like noah, nah, it's not a thing.
Speaker 6: No more, Comedy Act used to be real dope. Shout
Speaker 6: out to Mike Williams on that. But uh, me personally,
Speaker 6: I would perform at the improv called the Lab and
Speaker 6: the lab room only seats forty people.
Speaker 2: That's where I got.
Speaker 6: The material from to put together for working it out. Okay,
Speaker 6: forty people in this room and work out there.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's that was my ideal spot to do. That.
Speaker 6: Do some open mics every now and then, pop in places,
Speaker 6: but that would be it for me personally because a
Speaker 6: lot of times when you perform in LA it's so
Speaker 6: Hollywood and the ain't no telling who in the audience,
Speaker 6: And when you get on stage, your mind is set
Speaker 6: to do one thing, but then it changes up because
Speaker 6: you're about to go and stay, and right before you
Speaker 6: go on, they go, oh, Ray Ramino is gonna do
Speaker 6: five in front of you, and then you gotta wait,
Speaker 6: and then Ray go on and kill it. So now
Speaker 6: what you had in mind to do, you can't do
Speaker 6: no more. And then you go up and you do
Speaker 6: your old shit, your greatest hits, yeah, your greatest his
Speaker 6: because you want to follow Ray Ramondo and it's all
Speaker 6: fucked up. So I personally go to small rooms and
Speaker 6: try to just work it out like that. Oh, I
Speaker 6: don't even tell people I'm coming, so I can keep
Speaker 6: the fan fit, keep people's expectations for people coming to
Speaker 6: see me.
Speaker 2: I don't want them to see me until I'll work
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 4: Has it been easier or harder to write the funny
Speaker 4: in these this year?
Speaker 2: You know what's odd?
Speaker 6: It's still comedy, right, I mean yeah, but when it
Speaker 6: comes to writing, you don't want to write with everybody
Speaker 6: else writing that's me, And I think of a joke
Speaker 6: that's too that I'd be like, I know everybody gonna
Speaker 6: do a joke about COVID and mask and this and that,
Speaker 6: and then I try to think about how can I
Speaker 6: say it this different? And then I go, well, I
Speaker 6: don't know, I think somebody gonna think like that.
Speaker 2: And sometimes I overthink myself. But I was talking to.
Speaker 6: I was talking to Chris Rock one day, and Chris
Speaker 6: Rock was like, don't underestimate yourself on how quick you
Speaker 6: write a joke. It was like, because Prince, it took
Speaker 6: Prince three months to write a song and then someday
Speaker 6: it took him an hour to come up with a hit.
Speaker 6: It was like, so if something come to you that easy,
Speaker 6: don't dismiss it like it's just maybe it just came
Speaker 6: to you easy that way, right, And so I'm learning
Speaker 6: to do that because I've thrown away so much material.
Speaker 1: Good Karen jokes that you were like everyone's telling the
Speaker 1: Karen jokes.
Speaker 6: When when nobody thought of it the way that I did,
Speaker 6: but I thought, but I thought that they did. And
Speaker 6: so I keep forgetting that I'm different, and.
Speaker 2: People do that. People think like, you keep forgetting that
Speaker 2: you're something else.
Speaker 1: This is something you're the difference. It's not the joke
Speaker 1: that's you.
Speaker 4: You that people need.
Speaker 6: To say, it's so busy, you're so busy trying to
Speaker 6: write the joke, you leave you out of it. And
Speaker 6: by you leaving you out of it, you dismissed the
Speaker 6: joke because it's.
Speaker 2: Kills the joke. Yeah, so that's what I've been learning.
Speaker 6: I've been learning to just go to trust myself and
Speaker 6: stockpile as much as possible, and then when it's time
Speaker 6: for me to finally get on stage and go rock,
Speaker 6: go rock, and just go do it. But I can't
Speaker 6: wait till that day man where I can get on
Speaker 6: stage and I can just stretch you out and just
Speaker 6: I know wherever I'm going, I'm going somewhere where I
Speaker 6: could do two hours straight no interruption.
Speaker 3: Just do you do you stockpile by like post it
Speaker 3: or just your phone, my phone.
Speaker 2: I voice record or just jotted down or whatever. And
Speaker 2: uh yeah, I just stockpil put it all together and
Speaker 2: put it all together.
Speaker 6: And it's no order, there's no nothing. I just got
Speaker 6: it all written down. So yeah, I can't wait to
Speaker 6: get up to finally go do it, though, But as
Speaker 6: of right now, somebody called me recently was like, Yo,
Speaker 6: we're doing the show.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a virtual thing. It's gonna be forty
Speaker 2: thousand people.
Speaker 6: I was like, nope, really, somebody offered me some big
Speaker 6: money and I said, nope.
Speaker 1: Really you didn't want to take the risk on.
Speaker 2: I haven't tried it. I have to go buy it.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have This might put you on the spot.
Speaker 3: But I always wanted to know, only because Gerrod produced
Speaker 3: this special and I never got to ask or gage
Speaker 3: a comedian what they thought of Drew Michael's audience list
Speaker 3: comedy show at his joint.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had Michelle wolf on. She hated it. She
Speaker 1: hated it.
Speaker 5: She was like Michelle wolf I asked Michelle about that
Speaker 5: about it was Drew Michael.
Speaker 3: Drew Michael did an HBO special where he did a
Speaker 3: comedy show with no audience and you know, you're right, Michelle.
Speaker 3: And I asked Dave about it as well, and you know,
Speaker 3: he said, yeah. The first thing I said to him
Speaker 3: was like, I hated it. But it was almost like
Speaker 3: it was almost like watching somebody that grew up on
Speaker 3: like East Coast Illmatic and.
Speaker 1: You know, like try call quests.
Speaker 3: It's like asking them what they think of the new
Speaker 3: like Migos or Little Baby album.
Speaker 1: You know, where.
Speaker 3: You know it's it was definitely weird to watch, like
Speaker 3: to watch somebody do comedy with no audience whatsoever, But.
Speaker 1: Clearly that shit predict itself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but clearly I think you know, the sign of
Speaker 3: true art is when something that you're not supposed to
Speaker 3: do becomes the norm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So, but I mean, would you I've never I've went
Speaker 6: online and done jokes with no audience just to camera.
Speaker 6: They're like fifteen minutes. I've done that before, but just
Speaker 6: trying out new material stuff.
Speaker 2: But to go up and to film a.
Speaker 6: Special with no audience, to me personally, I get it.
Speaker 6: You want to you want to flip the script, do
Speaker 6: something different, see push if it sticks or whatever.
Speaker 2: I get.
Speaker 6: I commend them on that. I haven't seen it. I
Speaker 6: didn't even know what it was. I haven't seen it,
Speaker 6: but I commend him for trying something. But me personally, man,
Speaker 6: that's like, that's like, that's like masturbation.
Speaker 1: It's like.
Speaker 2: It was like he masturbated, you know.
Speaker 10: Like.
Speaker 2: Everybody you need, you need, you need an audience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think because I think specifically for stand up.
Speaker 2: Woman need a man.
Speaker 6: A man need a woman in order to make this
Speaker 6: thing happen to do that, but for stand up, if
Speaker 6: you out there by yourself and no audience. Me personally,
Speaker 6: I thrive off of that. I thrive off of hearing
Speaker 6: an audience. That's why I'd rather a person boo rather
Speaker 6: than don't say nothing at all, because that quietness kills me.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't take the quiet like that. I rether.
Speaker 6: I gotta have some noise or something. But I can
Speaker 6: play off of that or something. I can play off
Speaker 6: of it something. I mean, I don't want to be
Speaker 6: booed at all. Yeah, because the thing is with silence.
Speaker 5: But silence I think for like a for a comedian
Speaker 5: like I would compare it as an EMC is like
Speaker 5: silence is like a three mic rating in the source,
Speaker 5: like when the source us the source right, It's like
Speaker 5: three mics.
Speaker 1: Is like idio.
Speaker 5: It's kind of inn and like I'd rather either if
Speaker 5: niggas ain't just laughing, you know, out their seats, which
Speaker 5: would be like a five mic, or if they booing you,
Speaker 5: which is a one mic like you kind of I
Speaker 5: enjoy being on those ends because at least that no
Speaker 5: you would listen, you listen to a real reaction, just.
Speaker 1: That middle of the road ship. She ain't doing nothing.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you this though to Steve Harvey taught me
Speaker 6: this as well. Though it all depends on how you
Speaker 6: play siting. Silence can work good too, like if you
Speaker 6: can make a whole room, if you can make a
Speaker 6: whole room silent, that's just as good as a laugh too,
Speaker 6: because they engaged.
Speaker 2: So it it all depends on how you play with
Speaker 2: that silence. And I just thought about that too, Like if.
Speaker 6: I can go into a room full of people and
Speaker 6: I can go you know what, I do that on
Speaker 6: purpose to lie, just to I act like I'm thinking,
Speaker 6: but I'm actually listening to see how quiet it is,
Speaker 6: to see if I got everybody, and then I go
Speaker 6: into a joke or whatever. It's a control the time
Speaker 6: of life like that, like a timment. But like I
Speaker 6: do that a lot, just to kind of test the
Speaker 6: room or whatever, just to see who's engaged and who
Speaker 6: not or itever. But when it comes to like doing
Speaker 6: the joke and the joke don't work, you can give
Speaker 6: me silence at first.
Speaker 2: But if I do three jokes in the role and
Speaker 2: they not working, and you.
Speaker 6: Silent, like I'm gonna need somebody to go bring your
Speaker 6: nigga something somebody else.
Speaker 2: Nobody got going I want.
Speaker 6: My money back or something money something, tell me something, niggas.
Speaker 3: That's pressure though, Like right now, right now, at the
Speaker 3: tonight show, we're allowed by the state to have ten
Speaker 3: people in the audience.
Speaker 2: Yes, So it's like.
Speaker 1: Uh, the thing is I liked I liked.
Speaker 3: Doing the show when it was just us with ourselves.
Speaker 3: It felt like a public access show. It's like Wayne's World,
Speaker 3: and when jokes didn't work, then we just laugh at
Speaker 3: each other and it was actually funnier than if the
Speaker 3: joke work. But it's a different thing when you have
Speaker 3: ten people in the audience because it's like we're kind
Speaker 3: of using the old model of what the show used
Speaker 3: to be, but only for ten people. And like if
Speaker 3: something doesn't work and it's a slow laugh, then it's
Speaker 3: like it's just harder to navigate.
Speaker 4: When you post that way. Employees like Wendy do we do.
Speaker 1: Like we oh, it's it's half employees.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean because thirty Rocks is such a big
Speaker 5: building that you know, there's other shows, so like like today, uh,
Speaker 5: Lawrence Scalliot who does traffic in the morning on NBC,
Speaker 5: like she was part of the audience, so like people
Speaker 5: will come in on their lunch break from like MSNBC,
Speaker 5: c NBC like those.
Speaker 4: Those they're not worried about losing their jobs. You need
Speaker 4: people's staff.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 1: They get it up.
Speaker 2: Acting.
Speaker 1: I see what you mean.
Speaker 4: Now, yes it is.
Speaker 2: I have a question. No it's Steve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steve, you're no Hanigha stories.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We ain't talked about the holidays, clear Stee. I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: So with regards to this like stockpile of jokes that
Speaker 10: you've been writing, presumably since February or March and haven't
Speaker 10: been able to are you worried about any of it,
Speaker 10: like being dated by the time you get to tell
Speaker 10: it on stage, or like you know, or or you
Speaker 10: specifically like trying to write stuff that will still make sense,
Speaker 10: you know, whenever you get to go back on stage.
Speaker 6: Oh well that's that's that's that's the beauty of how
Speaker 6: long it takes me to write. I don't you know,
Speaker 6: I can't just write some ship like that, Like I
Speaker 6: was just telling you, like, if I think a joke
Speaker 6: too simple, I ain't fucking with it, like I just
Speaker 6: I just if I feel like I think people thinking
Speaker 6: like that that they're gonna come up with something like that.
Speaker 6: I'm just I'm just not gonna fuck with it. So
Speaker 6: what I write is evergreen, sure, and I make sure
Speaker 6: I try to make sure everything I write is ever green.
Speaker 2: My shit be.
Speaker 6: Simple, my should be like, my shit be My shit
Speaker 6: is like I was talking to Jamie Fox one time
Speaker 6: and Jamie told me he was going to do a special,
Speaker 6: but after seeing my special, he was like.
Speaker 2: I threw my shit away. He was like, because damn
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 6: He said, I don't want to be Jamie Fox, the celebrity.
Speaker 6: He said, I want to be the motherfucker that's relatable.
Speaker 6: And he was like, and that's what cole harted was
Speaker 6: to me, it was relatable and I was like, I
Speaker 6: was like, yeah, like.
Speaker 2: My shit, I was talking about, man, you ever get
Speaker 2: god glory for a parking space?
Speaker 1: Like like you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Like my shit is like simplistic, like where everybody can get.
Speaker 2: It wasn't no celebrity shit, but none of it.
Speaker 6: It was like parking space, do you ever motherfucker don't
Speaker 6: want to pay the bill? Like it was like like
Speaker 6: very simple ship that that everybody can relate to. And
Speaker 6: that was a lane that I knewdn't didn't.
Speaker 2: Really didn't exist. So that's how I write, and I
Speaker 2: write like that to this day. Simplicity is key with me,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 6: So as far as writing all this COVID shit and
Speaker 6: Black Lives Matter shit, do I have that?
Speaker 2: I got? I do have some of that.
Speaker 6: But my job and what I'm going to do is
Speaker 6: when I do hit the stage, I'm gonna spend every
Speaker 6: bit of fucking seven minutes on that ship and I'm
Speaker 6: off of it.
Speaker 1: And it's the same way I look at the same
Speaker 1: way with being an MC.
Speaker 5: It's like, if you're writing rhymes, yeah, you could go
Speaker 5: on Twitter and look at the trending topics or whatever
Speaker 5: and just make that shit rhyme and it'll be hot today,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. But after that, like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you have to write stuff this ever green.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to do that.
Speaker 6: So the stuff that I write, man, and that's why
Speaker 6: I take me so so loan to write. It's like
Speaker 6: the stuff that I'm doing is like like I got
Speaker 6: a new bit that I'm working on now about women's
Speaker 6: needs and ship you know, just how they how I'm
Speaker 6: quite sure they miss him, But.
Speaker 11: I ain't gonna go no, first he's okay, yes, like like.
Speaker 2: D s no, older women needs just that. But but yeah,
Speaker 2: like I said, topics like.
Speaker 6: That, I ever agree, a women's need is gonna go
Speaker 6: out all the time and there's gonna be something that
Speaker 6: you can always use at all time. I talk about
Speaker 6: classic bags when when they throw the motherfuckers away?
Speaker 2: How big you got a closet full of the motherfuckers
Speaker 2: when you're gonna throw them away? Or how to use them?
Speaker 6: So it's so so y never right, So no, all
Speaker 6: right where it's ever green, you know, and it'll be
Speaker 6: and it'll be around for a while. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: not worried about I'm not worried about that at all.
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't think you're worried. I just wanted
Speaker 2: to ask you. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: not at all. I kid. I'm just saying, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 6: Anytime I think it's something that's funny, that's like in
Speaker 6: the moment, I probably try to make a video for
Speaker 6: the text it, tweet it out or whatever and put
Speaker 6: it out like that. But as far as materials concerned,
Speaker 6: I got a few of them jokes that I'm going
Speaker 6: to do definitely, But After seven minutes of that, I'm
Speaker 6: off of it. How do you like even with my special,
Speaker 6: even when my comedy is special, I ain't talk about
Speaker 6: no politics, I ain't talk about none of that ship.
Speaker 2: I ain't talking about none, none of it.
Speaker 6: My ship is like on the whole, it's everything is
Speaker 6: just really simple, simple and basic. I ain't say one
Speaker 6: thing about no organizations, no politics.
Speaker 1: Ain't contracts, no food, no.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 1: So how do you are you?
Speaker 3: How leary are you in going to these spots, especially
Speaker 3: in Hollywood, where I'm almost certain that it's easy for
Speaker 3: someone like is biting?
Speaker 2: Still?
Speaker 1: Is that a thing that comedians have to worry? Indeed?
Speaker 2: Man, it is.
Speaker 6: That's that's just so, that's just so terrible in the game, man,
Speaker 6: they bite that ship.
Speaker 1: So people are like intentionally biting and joking like.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And let me say this too, because I don't
Speaker 6: want to be missical, screwed or whatever. Those that do
Speaker 6: do current events stuff like that, man, and the ones
Speaker 6: that do it great man, love to them, and they
Speaker 6: do it amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that that is the wrong way to
Speaker 2: do it at all.
Speaker 6: I'm just saying the way that I write, like I
Speaker 6: I can't write like that, But I don't, yeah, because
Speaker 6: it's great, like ship Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle should be
Speaker 6: like top of cool as hell, and that motherfucker be
Speaker 6: crushing that ship the way that he put it out there,
Speaker 6: you know. But it's for the moment, it's for the time,
Speaker 6: and and but you can listen to it forever.
Speaker 2: That's that's the genius. That's the genius about there.
Speaker 6: You can listen to that ship forever and remember that
Speaker 6: moment in time.
Speaker 2: So I'm never knocking that on people who do that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: It's comics that do a lot of ship that I
Speaker 6: can't do. Corey holcom is one of the most ignorant,
Speaker 6: ignorant motherfuckers you ever go see do it, but.
Speaker 3: As hell more ignorant than neighbors.
Speaker 2: Or I don't know about them.
Speaker 3: But Cory Cory a wild boy, who's this Cory CORYL
Speaker 3: Cory holkme.
Speaker 2: Is the most clever, funny motherfucker you. I can't do
Speaker 2: what Corey do. Well.
Speaker 5: Corey had a joke, he had it on his special.
Speaker 5: He opened up this guy. It wasn't even a joke,
Speaker 5: it was just he just opened up and his first
Speaker 5: thing got his mouth. Shout out all the fat bitches
Speaker 5: riding dick with T shirts like I was like, Yo.
Speaker 6: Cory, Cory be ignorantly dope, clever, fucking funny ship y'all.
Speaker 2: I can't do that, but man, what he could do
Speaker 2: that ship wear with his eyes closed.
Speaker 6: And that's why he one of the fucking goats in
Speaker 6: this game.
Speaker 2: Man. Shout out to Corey too, got a special.
Speaker 1: Now called COVID. I got one day ago. What the fu? Yeah,
Speaker 1: my boy?
Speaker 5: We saw Hookham at at Charlie Good Nights, this club
Speaker 5: down out here Raley last ye year for the last.
Speaker 2: Week and Corey started together in Chicago. Shout out to.
Speaker 4: Is there a way? Not for nothing? Since we talked
Speaker 4: about this and it is COVID. It's interesting.
Speaker 7: Everybody ain't at Dion's dad is like, how are the
Speaker 7: comedians doing as used to? Like touring, and like, how
Speaker 7: do you support your favorite comedian in these times?
Speaker 6: Like, man, it's hard, man, it's hard on everybody. Man,
Speaker 6: it's hard. I don't I don't understand really how it's
Speaker 6: working for a lot of people. Man, you know I
Speaker 6: think about that a lot too. I'll be thinking like, man.
Speaker 4: It ain't no music matters for comedians.
Speaker 7: It ain't no like what is no R and B
Speaker 7: foundation like residuals.
Speaker 4: You ain't been in nothing, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: The red states that are open though, like Florida is
Speaker 3: open for business, Atlanta is open.
Speaker 6: Yeah, in a.
Speaker 4: Club with people laughing and your face, risk your.
Speaker 2: Life life like, but what do you to do though? Too?
Speaker 2: You know you got to make a living. You gotta
Speaker 2: make money. It's like, you know, you gotta do what
Speaker 2: you got to do whatever.
Speaker 6: And now I don't knock nobody doing what they got
Speaker 6: to do in order to get.
Speaker 2: It, but it is hard out here.
Speaker 6: It's hard, man, because I'm quite sure if they had
Speaker 6: other options they were using, you know, so you know,
Speaker 6: shut out to all the comics that still grinding and
Speaker 6: stay safe, man, stay safe.
Speaker 1: Do you do you miss late night life at all?
Speaker 3: Or was that just a nice experience you had? You
Speaker 3: was talking about late late nights as far as writing
Speaker 3: for television, writing for Cony.
Speaker 6: You know what, there's moments when I'm missing in this
Speaker 6: moments that I don't me being the only black writer
Speaker 6: for Coning and probably the fourth black writer in the
Speaker 6: history of late night That shit was like, that was
Speaker 6: the part that I.
Speaker 2: Really I wasn't. I wasn't feeling that shit at all,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 6: But my story was so crazy because those that kind
Speaker 6: of shitted on me, they ended up happening to write
Speaker 6: for me.
Speaker 2: So I flipped that.
Speaker 6: I flipped the game on them, Like I went from
Speaker 6: trying to write like them to them writing for me
Speaker 6: for Coning, and so that's what I was saying, for
Speaker 6: like Coning and shit like they had to write bits
Speaker 6: for me and shit, you know, and they had to
Speaker 6: write it in my voice, which is the same voice
Speaker 6: that I was trying to write. And the get go
Speaker 6: that they was shitting on me about when I was
Speaker 6: trying to get it to Coning.
Speaker 2: So I don't miss that kind of shit, you know.
Speaker 6: But I do miss I do miss the excitement of
Speaker 6: having a great show and certain guests come through. You'd
Speaker 6: be excited to see him and hang out and shit
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 2: Shit was cool too, you know.
Speaker 6: But Late Night was rigorous, man as far as coming
Speaker 6: up with material. Every night, new material, and then it
Speaker 6: was almost like a competition with other writers. You had
Speaker 6: to see if your shit get on TV and come
Speaker 6: up with a bit that was repetitious enough for him
Speaker 6: to use it every every week, every month or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that was that was grueling, but it made me. It
Speaker 6: helped me to this day to be like just sharp
Speaker 6: like that in order to like come up with something
Speaker 6: quickly because we had to do that for like, I
Speaker 6: wrote for ConA.
Speaker 2: For eight years. So yeah, uh, it definitely sharpened my sword.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you to man.
Speaker 5: You you produced the one woman show for my Girlftari. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: man maor we work on the Sherman showcase together and
Speaker 5: we worked and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Man, So I was curious, though, is that something you
Speaker 5: look to do more of, maybe like producing more.
Speaker 1: Artists.
Speaker 6: Well, I am switching gears and I would definitely come
Speaker 6: back on here and talk to y'all. And I hate
Speaker 6: I hate niggas. That'd be like, I tell you what
Speaker 6: it is.
Speaker 5: Listen, you walk up your bang, do not up the
Speaker 5: bat big ship like that.
Speaker 4: That's what it's real.
Speaker 2: Bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah I'm doing man, I just dove into something. I
Speaker 6: just produced this film. Executive produced this film and my
Speaker 6: partner Kelly Kelly Kelly, who's a fantastic director, director, and writer.
Speaker 6: We collabed on a couple of scripts that we're doing. Man,
Speaker 6: and uh, it's been amazing journey. Uh we got a
Speaker 6: lot of good stuff coming out. And uh man, that's
Speaker 6: all I can say about that.
Speaker 1: That's all you need to say. Bro, say no.
Speaker 2: I ran. I ran into Marlon Wayne's in the club Man,
Speaker 2: and he changed my whole.
Speaker 6: Thought process as far as like writing content, because people too,
Speaker 6: is he complaining about what they not getting?
Speaker 2: But you're not writing.
Speaker 6: Nothing for yourself. You're not even writing nothing for for
Speaker 6: who you are. Like, you gotta at least write something
Speaker 6: and show people what you what you what you buy.
Speaker 6: I don't care if it's a TV show, talk show, movie,
Speaker 6: whatever it is. If you can't just sit back going,
Speaker 6: I hope they give me something. You gotta show them
Speaker 6: what they gotta give you. So therefore, if you write
Speaker 6: that down and you give it to them, then yo,
Speaker 6: it's gonna be our love.
Speaker 2: I'm in New York.
Speaker 6: I'm at this club right and I'm doing a movie
Speaker 6: for Netflix, this Christmas movie, and I'm out there in
Speaker 6: the club Marlon Wayne's walking crew.
Speaker 2: They all sitting up in this section. I see Marlin.
Speaker 2: I go over there.
Speaker 6: I'm like, Marlon, we hugging it out and all this
Speaker 6: shit Marlin like, yo, what you're doing it?
Speaker 2: And why?
Speaker 12: I'm like, man, doing this movie. And he was like, oh, man, congratulations,
Speaker 12: man your movie. And I said no, no, I'm just
Speaker 12: doing this movie for Netflix. And he was like, okay,
Speaker 12: you produced it. I was like, nah, no, I'm just
Speaker 12: I'm just you know, I'm just starting it. He was like,
Speaker 12: oh you started. It's all you starting.
Speaker 6: And he was like, but you showed it to him, right,
Speaker 6: And I'm like, no, nigga.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just the movie.
Speaker 6: He was like this, Oh okay, he said, but it
Speaker 6: ain't shrure us.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like na. He was like why. He
Speaker 2: was like, so he said, he said, so you just
Speaker 2: gonna keep doing movies for everybody. You're gonna keep being
Speaker 2: funny for everybody and and not and not for you.
Speaker 6: And so I was like, I mean, ship man, I
Speaker 6: mean I hear what you're saying. But he was like, no,
Speaker 6: I don't think you do. He was like, dude, you
Speaker 6: one of the funniest motherfuckers.
Speaker 2: In the game. And he was like, are you still
Speaker 2: making other people funny?
Speaker 6: It was like he was like, dude, if you don't
Speaker 6: write you a movie or a show or something for yourself. Man,
Speaker 6: and he was like, they don't know. You said, they
Speaker 6: can say whatever they want to say about me. He
Speaker 6: was like, they just say my movie is horrible.
Speaker 2: They great.
Speaker 6: He was like, as long as they my movie, I
Speaker 6: rolled on. I produced them a hard that. He was like,
Speaker 6: they mind And he was like, and my budget steadily
Speaker 6: going up constant and I just froze and he was like,
Speaker 6: but yo, man, next time I see you.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: He was like, man, I hope I hope you write
Speaker 6: you something. And I said, man, thank you very much.
Speaker 6: Left left his section, went back over to the to
Speaker 6: the to the chicks and and my boy, and was like,
Speaker 6: I'll talk to y'all. Letter hopped in the cab, went
Speaker 6: to my hotel room and just laid there and stared
Speaker 6: at the wall. Yo, and was just like andbarrassed. I
Speaker 6: was a barrassed. I just I didn't even want to
Speaker 6: be out no more. I was embarrassed because motivated what
Speaker 6: from that day I've been writing And.
Speaker 7: So you did that right in this moment, in this moment,
Speaker 7: I mean it for me, but I don't matter.
Speaker 1: But I'm just I don't say that.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you like like when Marlin hit me with
Speaker 6: that Marlon He couldn't.
Speaker 2: He couldn't even fathom. He just kept going, it's yours, right,
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, oh, so you wrote it? No, okay,
Speaker 2: so you produced it. I'm like no, motherfucking no. He
Speaker 2: like like what do you mean? Like what do you mean?
Speaker 4: And some ship and you don't.
Speaker 2: And when and when and when I left Marlin.
Speaker 6: From that day on, I've been right and write write
Speaker 6: these scripts and like right now, we just finished one
Speaker 6: of the movies that we wrote, wet.
Speaker 2: We wrote another one. We got another one on the
Speaker 2: way that we write and get it and we just
Speaker 2: shot one of the movies. We just finished it.
Speaker 6: And that's why I was looking at your page too,
Speaker 6: and I want to congratulate you on your film opening
Speaker 6: up Sundance boy, y'all that's how you got.
Speaker 11: Thanks class, yo, that's how that's how you got to
Speaker 11: do that, dude.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, Like, when I seen your page, I
Speaker 6: was like, I'm right behind man, I'm right behind you.
Speaker 2: Quest like you got to do it, and you got
Speaker 2: to do it from your point of view and how
Speaker 2: you want to do that? Ship done? You know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Yo?
Speaker 7: Man, this is the greatest subconscious masterclass that I've ever
Speaker 7: been apart.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, like with the way that
Speaker 3: Kenya's popping off all these issues, like surely there's has
Speaker 3: the conversation ever happened with you having your own vehicle
Speaker 3: for a show, So no, no, no, I'm just saying
Speaker 3: that I feel like you're the next You're the fourth
Speaker 3: issue that should be coming.
Speaker 6: So so so Lawrence and Jennifer. They have their spin off,
Speaker 6: Grownish that they shooting right now. Oldest old I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: Oldest Grownish.
Speaker 2: They had me.
Speaker 6: We agreed that I would go to Grownish and we
Speaker 6: kicked the show off and like work with them until
Speaker 6: the show kicked off and then you know, we go
Speaker 6: from there.
Speaker 2: So I was great.
Speaker 6: I was you know, it was great for me to
Speaker 6: work on that show for like three years. But then
Speaker 6: when they hit the fourth year, the kids was graduate,
Speaker 6: so they're not going to be.
Speaker 2: In the school. Me being a dean at the school,
Speaker 2: wasn't that makes sense too much? Some more like that.
Speaker 6: So then I was like, you know what, you know,
Speaker 6: we we I'm an exit or whatever and we're still
Speaker 6: cool or whatever. But as far as my own show
Speaker 6: with Kenya producing, it never never, it never was brought
Speaker 6: up Damn.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the's a layup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it was never never brought up.
Speaker 6: It was it was just always like I said, he
Speaker 6: sent me over the Growners to kick Growner shop, and
Speaker 6: then when Gronish stopped flourishing with the kids, was getting
Speaker 6: down on the own, then I departed from there. And
Speaker 6: then yeah, I just all right, well then.
Speaker 7: Interesting because you popped off grown Its like there was
Speaker 7: a reason that Charlie needed to be on campus.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a reason why I had to be there,
Speaker 6: you know, so so so it was all good.
Speaker 2: But then once once the chemistry and the kids.
Speaker 6: It's amazing, they got it. Think, yeah, it was you know,
Speaker 6: it was time for me to step off. But uh,
Speaker 6: it was great. It was a great opportunity and all
Speaker 6: of that. And as far as like yeah, but as
Speaker 6: far as like him coming to me going, yo, you
Speaker 6: a spin off show, we never had that conversation.
Speaker 1: All right, well, I'm putting out there he needs his own.
Speaker 7: Marlon, his own don't want to come back here.
Speaker 6: We doing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but thank you, Dion, thank you so much. Man.
Speaker 1: This this is his EPISO Educate Edumacational.
Speaker 4: Questions, Episode A mirror. He's family.
Speaker 1: Second, go round and remember.
Speaker 4: And not but nothing.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to remember, but it was nothing one that
Speaker 7: helped us book Dion on the first episode in l.
Speaker 1: A she might have been.
Speaker 6: I think she might have been nothing monster to people
Speaker 6: don't know about.
Speaker 3: Thank you for doing the show. Uh. Oh by the way, Uh,
Speaker 3: this will be on for the holidays. Correct, Yes, the
Speaker 3: holidays show. It's just okay.
Speaker 1: It's the most on holiday holiday show. Send yeah.
Speaker 3: Speaking of holidays, let me remind people that I'm actually
Speaker 3: involved with three movies with the title Soul in it
Speaker 3: and one opens on Christmas Disney plus Soul. I am
Speaker 3: a Pixar character, a real Pixar character, Jamie Fox and
Speaker 3: Tina Fey and dav Diggs and Angela Bassett and Felicia Sad.
Speaker 1: It's it's amazing. I hope you guys enjoyed this show.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And and also shout out to Belvini for a for
Speaker 3: our spirits.
Speaker 4: I drink half of you tonight and I know Steve did.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 7: PS big up to Dion who does not who does
Speaker 7: drink responsibly and does not drink. I just wanted to
Speaker 7: pick you up at that funny because there's some little spirits.
Speaker 2: And sober no.
Speaker 3: But you know, let's have a prosperous uh twenty one
Speaker 3: and uh you know and and put we're gonna will
Speaker 3: Dion's empire.
Speaker 2: To the universe appreciate exactly. All right, thank you all many. Hey,
Speaker 2: this is Sugar Steve. Make sure you keep up with
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