1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. Yeah. 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 2: Oh oh man. I think at one point in twenty twenty, 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 2: I just went through a bunch of episodes and only 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 2: listened to roll calls. I'm like, as so, let me 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 2: see how he did. Okay, let me see they're good. 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 2: Bring there, you know, bring everybody together at at the beginning. 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: Not yet, not yet yet, not yet? Yeah yet? Okay, 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: now yet Supremo. 9 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 3: Sun, Supremo Roll, Supreamo Supremo ro. 10 00:00:43,840 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 4: Sure, will Supremo Annimal be? Yeah? 11 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: What's love Supreme? Yeah with a nice Kienni. Yeah, what's up? 12 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 3: My name is Fante, Yeah, and I'm feeling free. Yeah, 13 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 3: rap for fourteen minutes? Yeah, kept about three. 14 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: Supremo, Suprema Supremo. Who my name is Sugar? 15 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 4: Yeah? 16 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: And on we go. 17 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 4: Yeah. 18 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: I'm from New York. Yeah, where they filmed the Cosmic Show. 19 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 5: Sure, hey Bill, Yeah, but I think it's clear. 20 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna ditch this life for a rap career. 21 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 6: Whoa Supremo roll call Supremo Supremo roll It's lucky. 22 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 2: Yeah that's Hannimal birds Yeah right in front of him. Yeah, 23 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: got me stores Supreme Smo Supremo Roll my name is Hannibal. 24 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 2: Don't call me lecta when I make music. 25 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: You call me as Supremo, Supremo, roll. 26 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 7: Supria. 27 00:02:40,040 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: You didn't know this, motherfucker. Yeah, Harmonica, so oh my god, Yo, 28 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 1: that's the first of the gate. 29 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 8: That's the first between Q tips, head Libs, Charlie Wilson. 30 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 4: This this might have. 31 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: Happened to be in his pocket, you know, travels home. 32 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 8: God you ship. There is another episode? What it's another 33 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 8: episode of Question of Supreme Team Supreme. Hello, we are 34 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 8: we are in Los Angeles having Uh, that's not when 35 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 8: I say los Angeles is Oh. 36 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's the end of living single. 37 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,119 Speaker 6: Oh oh, you're talking about the production. You are such 38 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 6: a deep dive anyway, he's talking about after the. 39 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: Production. 40 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 8: Anyway, I will implement the sound anymore claps or whatever. Anyway, Supremes. 41 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 8: How's life going out here? 42 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: Good man? We were trying to make this one happened 43 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: for a long time. Oh yeah, this. 44 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 8: Is his first episode and my mind, Hannibal was like 45 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 8: a repeat on the books before. 46 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 47 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 2: Well yeah, I just never wanted to do the Zone 48 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 2: one and yes, and. 49 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 1: Then we were supposed to. 50 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 2: Picnic and stuff. But this is it. 51 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 6: Happens when it's supposed to. 52 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: Okay, that's what's up. 53 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 8: Well, you know, it's kind of weird because I really, 54 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 8: unlike our other guests, I truly, truly, truly know our 55 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 8: guest today. Of course, I guess I first met you 56 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 8: walking in the hallways of thirty Rock. Yeah, and I 57 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 8: believe I saw your first ever late night stand up. 58 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 2: You're talking about the Yes, I had done a couple 59 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 2: before then, but that was the one of the most 60 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 2: impactful ones because it led to me getting Saturday Y 61 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 2: Live from there. 62 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 8: Yeah, I was gonna say that was you know, I 63 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 8: know many of stars born movements when it comes to 64 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 8: the music acts on the show that were like, you know, 65 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 8: on Grande's first time or whatever, like people that are 66 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 8: going to be like impactful. But I definitely remember in 67 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 8: the comedy world, if you make Higgins excited, which Higgins 68 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 8: runs SNL like, that's the first time I heard him 69 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 8: like give feedback on a comedian. So I was like, oh, wow, 70 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 8: that's important. But you know, I will say that that's 71 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 8: how I first met you. But of course you was 72 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 8: listening out there. You're familiar with our guests, of course, 73 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 8: as be it on the Eric Andre Show, or or 74 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 8: on broad City or any of the Spider Man franchise movies. 75 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. 76 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 8: Is unhealthy the amount of times I've committed to watching TAG, Like, 77 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 8: if it's on, you watch it anyway. Yeah, that's for 78 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 8: some reason. I want to ask you about that because 79 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 8: my fear is running well, especially I want to know 80 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 8: what the audition was like. But not to mention you know, 81 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 8: of all the pivots that we talked about on the show, 82 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 8: he's had the most interesting pivot as an MC lord knows. 83 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 8: I did not see that coming in the beginning, and 84 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 8: first I thought you were trying to troll us, but 85 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 8: then I realized, like, you are dead serious about this 86 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 8: new craft of m seeing which I wasn't familiar with before, 87 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:23,359 Speaker 8: and we're going to get into that. Ladies and gentlemen, 88 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 8: welcome Hannibal Birds to. 89 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: Man Rapping because I'm rapping. I love it. 90 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 2: Man, excited to be here with y'all. 91 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 6: Man. 92 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 8: Yeah, I was about to say this is this is 93 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 8: a new glowing Hannibal that I see, and I want 94 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 8: to figure out the secrets, like I guess I want 95 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 8: to start even before your life. I want to know 96 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 8: what did you do in the pandemic that made you 97 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 8: almost this new enlightened Hannibal two point zero. 98 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: It was just I think it was what I wasn't 99 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 2: able to do because stuff being shut down. So stand 100 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 2: up was shut down outside of the terrible drive intur 101 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 2: that I did, and so acting was weird during the time. 102 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 2: When projects did start up, you had to get COVID 103 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 2: tested in multiple times. Oh you yeah, we were about 104 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 2: to film, but you staying in this hotel and and 105 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 2: all of this, and so I had to decide do 106 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: I want to do that to go not be myself? 107 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 8: Do I? 108 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 2: And so a lot of times the answer was no. 109 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 2: But the studio process and that energy you could still 110 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 2: get that no matter what was going on. So I 111 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 2: just kind of enjoyed recording a lot and had a 112 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 2: lot of fun just being in the in the studio, like. 113 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: It would be like three in the morning, Hey man, 114 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: I did this check this out? Yeah? 115 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 8: That's what I want to know, Like, were you and 116 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 8: was I relate to train? Like were people aware of 117 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 8: this other talent of yours or was it just like 118 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 8: something in the pandemic where you're just like, all right, 119 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 8: rhymed a little bit, but let. 120 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 2: Me Yeah, it was just where I was able to 121 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 2: do it and focus on it and having a lot 122 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 2: of having a lot of fun and then also just 123 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 2: send it to people because people were bored and available. 124 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 2: So I remember when I did and when I recorded 125 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 2: the first version of Kept about three, it was really 126 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 2: fourteen minutes long, and I was I was so hyped 127 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 2: about a couple of moments of it, and I sent 128 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 2: it to so many people. So I wouldn't do now, 129 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 2: I wouldn't send a rough like that, but at the moment, 130 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 2: I was really really proud of it, and uh, the 131 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 2: the world. Yeah, And so I've been dabbling. I started 132 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 2: out actually I did music before I ever did any 133 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 2: stand up comedy. I recorded some songs with my homie Dave, 134 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 2: uh video Dave No no homie Dave that I grew 135 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 2: up on my on my block in Chicago. We recorded 136 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 2: some some songs, probably in two thousand and one or so. 137 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 2: I started comedy in two thousand and two, and then 138 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 2: I was always adjacent to music. I even battle rap 139 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 2: in college just to get stage time because battle rappers 140 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 2: about getting reaction from the from the crowd and everything, 141 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 2: and uh yeah, it was doing you know, hosting hip 142 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 2: hop events and you know a lot of my early 143 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 2: stuff references uh references music, So it was I was 144 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 2: always around it, but just you know, started doing stand 145 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 2: up less friction and stand up with that because you 146 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 2: just show up and do stand up too, you know 147 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 2: what I mean. You ain't gotta go to the studio 148 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 2: and all this is. You go to open mic, you 149 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 2: sign up, boom, You're doing stand up. 150 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 1: What's more challenging for you? 151 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 2: Stand up is more? Is more challenging. Yeah, stand up 152 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 2: is is a little more. Is more challenging, but easier 153 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 2: to execute because you just show But so yeah, stand 154 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 2: up as a performance is more more challenging. And then 155 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:54,839 Speaker 2: creative music is really fun because you don't have to 156 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 2: do it in front of the crowd. There you can 157 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 2: kind of create to your taste and tweak and and 158 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 2: and make it in this bubble. But then performing stand 159 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 2: up is tough. For performing music with the band, I 160 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 2: really enjoy it because you can kind of take breaks 161 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 2: and be a fan of music while you while you 162 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 2: performing music. So you know what I mean, you let 163 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 2: the solo go off and you can just kind of vibe, 164 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 2: like and sometimes when I'm up there with the band 165 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 2: and I'm like you hear something like damn, what what 166 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 2: like that's who rocking with me? 167 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: Right now? 168 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 2: What do you just do? 169 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: Like whoa? 170 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 2: And so those moments is really cool because you don't 171 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 2: have to be on every every single second and uh, 172 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 2: just you know, figuring it out man, and figuring out 173 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 2: the just getting the show better. I think you can 174 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 2: make jumps in the music performance. As far as making 175 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 2: your show better, you can. You can make big jumps 176 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 2: a short short amount of time. I feel like as 177 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 2: a comedian you can make jump but they take a while. 178 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 2: But as far as music, you can kind of you 179 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,839 Speaker 2: can do your show and then you go watch a 180 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 2: few folks that's really doing that shit. You're like, Okay, 181 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 2: we need to rehearse more. We got our visuals right. 182 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 2: We need to bring our own sound guy. We need 183 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 2: to bring our own monitor guy. We need to get 184 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 2: the visuals on point. We need to all wear the 185 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 2: same ship. We need to do to that. I need 186 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 2: to work with a moving coach. 187 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 8: I need to you're more advanced than me, because I'll 188 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 8: be honest with you. After enrolling in Camp Cool Jay 189 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 8: for seven weeks, I've realized that we have yet to 190 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 8: even scratch the surface of what our potential is because 191 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:42,599 Speaker 8: llll is just such a forceful being on stage. It 192 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 8: was almost like the equivalent of someone waking us up 193 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 8: from a CRIMEA well, I realized, like I've never like 194 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 8: you know, you see rock drummers doing like smells like 195 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 8: teen spirit like that, Like I've never done that in 196 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 8: my f Like I craft roots music so I could 197 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 8: just chill. 198 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: Eat a peanut butter sandwich and all that, and suddenly 199 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: like I became like this drummer. 200 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 8: Yeah, and I didn't realize like how much he attacks 201 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 8: the stage and it's weird, like you know, maybe the 202 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 8: first week and a half, like we got jokes and 203 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 8: that stuff, but then it becomes like osmosis where suddenly 204 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 8: like what we were once mocking now we're doing. And 205 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 8: so yeah, I mean the fact that you have the 206 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 8: wherewithal because for me, it was just like getting through 207 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 8: a show without getting booed was my goal, which is 208 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 8: why like every Root show that like we've never I. 209 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: Don't have an ending for any Root song whatsoever. 210 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 8: Like literally I attached songs and just because I never 211 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 8: wanted to end the song. 212 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: Here like everybody's right, melon man, you know. 213 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,959 Speaker 8: So I mean the fact that you at least start 214 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 8: watching the playback or not watching the playback, like looking 215 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 8: at the highlight reel to see how it can prove 216 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,079 Speaker 8: like that's how the Great Prince recorded every show, and 217 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 8: then we'll make the revolutions sit in his room watch 218 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 8: the show that night, like that. 219 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: Three hours show they just did, be like all right, 220 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: see here you almost fell off stage. That's fifty bucks. 221 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: And you know so I think that's awesome. 222 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 4: Man. 223 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 6: You just started combining the two right, because you weren't 224 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 6: always doing them together. 225 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 226 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 6: I just started a subscriber on your page asking us. 227 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, last year, I was in my stubborn music mode 228 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 2: where I was I'm only doing music, and I'm only 229 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 2: doing people will coming to me for with comedy gigs 230 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 2: are like past, yeah, and now it's just like, okay, 231 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,599 Speaker 2: I gotta be more practical about this, and you know 232 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 2: I can't. I can't just quit like that. And it's 233 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 2: been fun to just really give that full show like 234 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 2: that while I'm doing the comedy set and then doing 235 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 2: the doing the music after. 236 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 8: How do you sort of present that to promoters that 237 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 8: want Hannibal to come to this particular venue? 238 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: And then you're like, yeah, I. 239 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,079 Speaker 2: Think it's just if I'm doing I'm giving them what 240 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 2: they know. That's the thing is that they hannibal sales 241 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 2: ticket and it's I'm also doing this, so it's not 242 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 2: people still getting the hour fifteen hour thirty of stand 243 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 2: up and then I'm doing our music afterwards. So it's 244 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 2: a full it's a full show. It's the first time 245 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 2: where I'm after I'm really just really tired. Like man, 246 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 2: I really did it. Before doing stand up, I wouldn't 247 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 2: be Maybe if you did two or three, I'll be like, 248 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: oh man, but now it's I really feel feel spent 249 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 2: after the show. So it's been it's been dope. Man. 250 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 6: It's not a lot of people. I was trying to 251 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 6: think outside of you, but in my lifetime, I'm like you, 252 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 6: Jamie Fox. I remember when Jamie Fox did a whole 253 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 6: tour like. 254 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 8: This, Edward Reagan Murphy the last last because I don't 255 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 8: know if you guys remember there was when that What's 256 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 8: Up with You album that the Motown record Loves all 257 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 8: Right record right. He did some spot dates like at stadiums, 258 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 8: like his very last run of doing like stand up comedy, 259 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 8: but yeah, he would open his own shows and like 260 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 8: Larry's Yeah, Like even to this day, like I've gotten 261 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 8: calls to like, you know, come drum on this thing, 262 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 8: like he'll employ the best musicians to come. 263 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: I mean he did that song with snoop line that 264 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: was all. 265 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 2: Right, and that was all right, that was all right. 266 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 6: That was really kind of suspisingly, right, suspisingly despisingly. 267 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: Yes, no, it goes right there in the blow titshes. 268 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 8: But yeah, like Eddie would do a half hour with 269 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 8: Larry Graham as his band leader, and then he would 270 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 8: do some stand up. 271 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 2: Gambino his twenty eleven tour that I Am Donald, he 272 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: opened with stand up in it and music. 273 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 8: Believe it or not, Like I'm actually glad you're doing this. 274 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 8: Because the thing was when Dante y seen thank You, 275 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 8: I was I was about to say yeah, but I 276 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 8: didn't even know you was a why word like wait wait, 277 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 8: wait wait you said when y'all seen first came on 278 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 8: the scene as most deaf, that was the first time 279 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 8: that I saw an MC really have communication skills to 280 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 8: that of a stand up comedian, Like he was. 281 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: Literally like working in this crowd. 282 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 8: I mean he was doing crowd work and like to 283 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 8: watch him in from ninety six till about ninety eight 284 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 8: was like just a thing to behold, and then he 285 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 8: kind of morphed and sort of lost the you know, 286 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 8: and I don't notice the thing that rappers go through 287 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 8: where it's like I gotta lose this happy, go lucky 288 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 8: perception of me and then I gotta be serious serio, 289 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 8: and then then I'm angry, then I'm hardcore, and then 290 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 8: I don't change my name or whatever. 291 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: So I mean, it happens. 292 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 8: But even with Tarik, like Tarik got really made a 293 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 8: mark in at performing arts for his ability to play 294 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 8: the dozens in freestyle. 295 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: So you know, as long as. 296 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 8: There's somebody choose to talk about or a hole in 297 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 8: their you know, jeans or whatever, that enabled me to 298 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 8: be cool because I was this guy, yeah, while he 299 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 8: was just freestyle and talk about people's like you know. 300 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 8: So I think that actually those two things go hand 301 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 8: in hand with each other. Are you from Chicago? Yeah, okay, 302 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 8: Can you explain something to me? Why is Chicago the 303 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 8: epicenter of American comedy. 304 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 1: For such a place that is also. 305 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 8: Perceived as one of the most dangerous cities in which 306 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 8: I don't even know if that's t were not either. 307 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 2: Degregated as fuck. Why is Chicago It's I don't know, man, 308 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 2: the city itself is the organization of the city of Chicago. 309 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 2: In my experience, it's just a petty place that's always 310 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 2: taken from you, so it gives you an edge earlier 311 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 2: take it from you in what way. It's just you know, 312 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 2: through ticketing, through all these different taxes. And I'm still 313 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 2: scarred because they took my car because I had parking 314 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 2: tickets and then they booted it, and then they just 315 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 2: took it, and then it was just and then I 316 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 2: still owed the parking tickets, but they had sold the car. 317 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 2: But it's just the cars. They sold the car, they 318 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 2: disappeared my car, man, and so I still had to 319 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 2: pay it to get my license right. So it's just, 320 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 2: you know, there is every a lot of aspects, like 321 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 2: an every might be I think what happened to me? 322 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,120 Speaker 6: Yeah, if you just like build up a lot of tickets, yeah. 323 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 2: But I feel like you're just going how you go. 324 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 2: There's the logic owner, and you know I used that 325 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 2: to go get the money right, right right, So now 326 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 2: you make it real tough for everybody. Now I gotta 327 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 2: have a hole. Now I gotta go. I gotta get 328 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 2: l Four years later, they're gonna fix all this. 329 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 1: First of all, where did you grow up in Chicago? 330 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 2: The West side of Chicago, North Boston, finally not the 331 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 2: South A lot of south Side. 332 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 8: Yeah, so I feel like Chicago, and some of these 333 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 8: Chicago luminars have been on the show might be slightly exactly. 334 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 8: I'm not looking at you, Sally Richards. I definitely believe 335 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 8: you from the South side of Chicago. 336 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: You show me that ship, you cleared that up right. 337 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:56,919 Speaker 8: However, similar to Detroit, like sometimes you know, every Detroit 338 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,200 Speaker 8: claims the east Side and then a friend of mine, like, 339 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 8: everyone's going to clean the east side because that's where 340 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 8: like the realness is from, but no one wants to 341 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 8: emit that they're from the west side of you know, 342 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 8: where Barry Gordy lives, Like a nice part of Detroit. 343 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 8: Is Chicago, like is the south side supposedly like across 344 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 8: the tracks where you're not supposed to go. 345 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 2: Or the south Side is a is a big place. 346 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 2: So there's there's hood neighborhoods in on the south Side, 347 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 2: and then there's also Bronzeville and Hyde Park, which is 348 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 2: where Obama's house is that's kind of the the Harlem 349 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 2: of Chicago, where you know, you got nice houses and stuff. 350 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 2: So the South Side is just is a it's pretty 351 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 2: much a city in itself with other areas. And you 352 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 2: got white neighborhoods on the south side, you got Latino neighborhoods, 353 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 2: you got you know, so it has. Yeah, it's it's 354 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 2: some tough spots on the South Side, and there's some 355 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 2: some nice ones too, but they kind of bore, you know, 356 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,959 Speaker 2: and that can change into black. You're like, whoa, it's 357 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 2: nice over here. Whoa, Okay, I'm not safe. 358 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,199 Speaker 8: In the beginning, like I uh well, you know, uh 359 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 8: big George right, uh George record the. 360 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: Record, George's music, George Music. Oom right, George Daniels, George, Okay, 361 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:17,919 Speaker 1: say big. 362 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 8: George George Daniels. Like when in the beginning when you 363 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 8: would have to like do in store appearances and whatnot, 364 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 8: and he would take us around to these various record spots, 365 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 8: like literally he'll be like, oh, yeah, there's a Oprah's 366 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 8: condos over there, and then literally we'll be like cabried 367 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 8: and green like in mere seconds, like yeah, the projects 368 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 8: and the condominiums are were in proximity. 369 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, three ninety six. 370 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, Cobrina Green was really close, is really close, was 371 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 2: really close to downtown in a few minutes, super close. 372 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: Yeah. So we're like, what is the west Side like 373 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: for you? 374 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 2: My area on the west side is North Avenue on Austin, 375 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 2: so it borders Oak Park, which is a suburb, but 376 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 2: it's a a suburb that's there's suburbs. That's outer suburbs 377 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 2: where you gotta get on the highway and drive twenty 378 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 2: thirty minutes, and then there's suburbs whereas it's like this 379 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 2: side of the street is Chicago, this side of the 380 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 2: street is Oak Park. So my area had Chicago, but 381 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 2: it also had part suburban field because it was adjacent 382 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 2: to that. So that's where I was at. So North 383 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 2: Avenue that was like middle class family. Yeah, but it 384 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 2: still had its It had still had bullshit going on occasionally, 385 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 2: but it wasn't You didn't feel unsafe all the time. 386 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 2: It's just like watch yourself folk. My dad worked at 387 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 2: the railroad at Union Pacific Railroad, and then my mom 388 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 2: worked at mental hospital for a while and then worked 389 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 2: at my old school, Saint Paul Lutheran School as a 390 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 2: as a teacher's assistant. 391 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: Oh god, so you had to go to school while 392 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: your mom was there? 393 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 2: She wasn't she worked there after I left. 394 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: Actually I left that school because that's that's too much. 395 00:22:58,800 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, it would have been, it would have been not 396 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 2: way too much pressure. 397 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 8: Uh during that time period, like were you Chicago has 398 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 8: so many luminaries from the past, president future, Like were 399 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 8: you in proximity of anyone that was. 400 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: Chicago based and socially? Socially, Hey, in my high school, 401 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: there's common word you know in my screen? 402 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:26,919 Speaker 2: Uh No, well, fifth and sixth grade, we played against 403 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,479 Speaker 2: We played basketball against this kid. It was a kid 404 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 2: Amari Sawyer that ended up going to the pall and 405 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 2: he he cooked us man. He cooked the hell out 406 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 2: of us man. You know, because it's fifty sixth grade basketball. 407 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 2: There's no there's no scouting report. You just find out 408 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 2: on the court. There's no like, yeah, we gotta watch 409 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 2: make sure that if you just get out there and 410 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 2: he's like, what was that? 411 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: And he starts hearing for his science what that? 412 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 2: What was that? And it was a play. It was 413 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 2: a play where the ball was going out of bounds 414 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 2: off of him. He saved the ball, jumped mid there 415 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 2: threw it off of me. 416 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: Out of bound. 417 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 2: But that was not a fifth and sixth grade play. 418 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 2: I just confused. I remember, give him a tech right now, 419 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 2: get him out of here. He's a grown man. Let 420 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 2: us kids enjoy ourselves. Get him about here. So that 421 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 2: was an early encounter with greatness in fifth and sixth grade. Well, 422 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 2: he's seeing somebody really different from us. 423 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 8: So in general, did you what were your aspirations as 424 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 8: a kid, Like it's hard to figure out where Comedy 425 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 8: interested in his life. If you had another talent or 426 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 8: if you had another dream for being an electrician or. 427 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't have any specific goals. Man, I was 428 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 2: a smart kid, you know, tested well, and so I 429 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 2: think even going into college, I played you know, I 430 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 2: played football in high school. I was okay, I was 431 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 2: on the debate team. I enjoyed that. 432 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: Your only child or. 433 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 2: Not the only child, and I'm the youngest with a 434 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,239 Speaker 2: with a decent gap, So maybe I think, yeah, next 435 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 2: sibling is ten years older. 436 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: Is anyone sinking the temptations right now? 437 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 2: I just think it was spoiling. 438 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 1: Okay, So you're the baby and. 439 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 8: Your siblings are decades older than you, So it was 440 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 8: kind of like you were the only kids. 441 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean my I guess my sister kind 442 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 2: of took on more of a motherly role before she 443 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 2: went to college and everything, you know, like. 444 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 1: Anyway exactly, I love you doing getting a time machine. 445 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, but going to college, I think I just went 446 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 2: just because that was what you were supposed to do. 447 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 2: It wasn't. It wasn't with a real vision. It was 448 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:00,919 Speaker 2: just kind of supposed to go to college. 449 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: And where did you go again? 450 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 2: Southern Illinois University. Major A changed. My first major was 451 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 2: business and then I failed finite math twice, and I said, 452 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 2: I guess business not for me. At least their idea 453 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,639 Speaker 2: of business ain't for me. Then I changed the education 454 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 2: for a little bit. 455 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,159 Speaker 8: Actually many a business major, but literally doesn't know what 456 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 8: what that entails in college? 457 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: Like, so what classes are they? 458 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 2: I didn't make it until where you took the actual classes. 459 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 2: I was still in the you know, yeah, in the 460 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 2: in the freshman levels, so they had general a general. 461 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 2: I didn't get into that. Yeah, So it wasn't. I wasn't. 462 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 2: I wasn't there yet. You didn't stay but for how 463 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 2: long in college? Oh? No, I stayed there the amount 464 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 2: of time four years but I didn't. Well, I decided I. 465 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: Was finished. 466 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 2: Years of your money and then yeah, I mean it is. 467 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,160 Speaker 2: I mean, you know, state school, so it wasn't super. 468 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 6: I started out in state school a miir. If you 469 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 6: go to your state school, that's for instance. I went 470 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 6: to Morgan State for two years. My tuition was like 471 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 6: fifteen hundred. It's a semester. I'm stupidly transferred to Atlanta. 472 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 6: Now one hundred thousand dollars on thirty thousand. 473 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: That's what still you're paying off. 474 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 6: Now one hundred and fifty five thirty thousand student loans. 475 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:25,960 Speaker 6: Oh wow, all that money and people be like, you 476 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 6: got your degree? 477 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 2: Yeah I did. 478 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,479 Speaker 1: I don't know where it is, okay, Yeah where did 479 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: you graduate? 480 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 2: Like, I'm sorry, ninety nine is supposed to be ninety eight. 481 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: Okay, Clark Atlanta University. 482 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. 483 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 8: I know you went to college, but for some reason, 484 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 8: most black people go to college. Like this is like 485 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 8: then I dropped out my junior year whatever I didn't jesus, 486 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:54,400 Speaker 8: Yeah I finished, no one, I came. 487 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, two degrees and there yeah what I mean three 488 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: d well are a given? Right? 489 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 7: Yeah? 490 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: Wait, that's just what happened. Wait, everyone in the squad. 491 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: I'm the only one that's not edumacated. 492 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 6: Yes, the richest. 493 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't have a record. Yeah yeah, no. 494 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 6: Not really. 495 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: I feel horrible. 496 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 2: No, you should be proud, like you know, unless you 497 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 2: just wanting to buy. 498 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you get in the shop five shout out 499 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:28,879 Speaker 1: to Joe Biden. I'm waiting. 500 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,719 Speaker 8: Well, there was a second when Swizz, When Swizz went 501 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 8: to Harvard, there was a brief moment where you could 502 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 8: take like Harvard, yeah, business things, but that I couldn't 503 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 8: do it, but I want to do it before I'm seventy. 504 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 2: So I was telling you to go to Harvard. 505 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah you can. You can go to 506 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: the BRONC. You know what I mean. There's a lot 507 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: of Phoenix yeah. 508 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 2: Phi, Yeah, you jumping. Yeah, all right, somebody five hundred 509 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 2: dollars to film the classes, you know what. 510 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,959 Speaker 8: You know what during during the Black Album period, there 511 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 8: was a moment where I think I had him on 512 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 8: the fence where I was like, yo, you know, be dope, 513 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 8: because this is the point where I realized that Jay 514 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 8: had put the Mitchell Nessa out of business when he 515 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 8: started like, hey I'm wearing Buttimore. Yeah I did, right, 516 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 8: So when we were rehearsing just before that album came out. 517 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 8: Before that album came out, do you know a boy 518 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 8: who h was like the yes, thank god you because 519 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 8: I literally and she went to college. 520 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: Sorry, Big all right, you get that one. Finally we've 521 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: been here for two days. 522 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 7: I got my. 523 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: All right. 524 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 4: Yeah. 525 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 8: So the whole point was that I was like, whoa, 526 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 8: if you're this powerful, if you're this because Big Rube 527 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 8: actually hit them up and said, hey, help, like, can 528 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 8: you let me know the exact date this. 529 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: Album's coming out? 530 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 8: Because I feel like that's going to be another four 531 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 8: point six situation where you shut They had a history 532 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 8: of shutting businesses down, and they were like, yes, that 533 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 8: album comes out and da da da da, and they 534 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 8: just had like a yes. They literally had a fire sale, 535 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 8: and then of course the shirts went down for a 536 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 8: spell and then everyone's buying button ups. I was like, wow, 537 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 8: if you have the power to do that, I say, 538 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 8: if you went to college, everybody would follow suit and 539 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 8: go to college. 540 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 2: So I was like, I thought he was gonna get 541 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 2: him to teach a class. He needs to teach, motherfucker 542 00:30:59,560 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 2: he did. 543 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, but you know, I was I had 544 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: hope for us. 545 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 2: So a shirt is he just left. 546 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 5: College? 547 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 2: Shirt boom go to Rosses twenty bucks? I got a shirt. 548 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 2: I'm jay Z. 549 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: Right, you tell me. I got to fill out a fast. 550 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 2: Doing what I gotta stay in the room with a stranger. 551 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: I don't know. Hope, I still got hope, man, I 552 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: still got hope. Do you remember your first like the 553 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: first time you got on stage and did comedy? 554 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 2: Like, yeah, the first time. 555 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: Where was it was? 556 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 2: It was s I U in the student center the 557 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 2: it's called the Big Muddy Room. They had open mics. 558 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 2: Uh did you put that? 559 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: Was that footage of that at the end? I feel 560 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: like I saw you put it. 561 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 2: Online or something at the beginning of Miami. That's what. Yeah, 562 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 2: I was like, I feel like, so that was the 563 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 2: performance that wasn't it. That was something that was something 564 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 2: in the first year or so. But that wasn't the 565 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 2: first one. That was the same place. Okay, Actually that 566 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 2: show it was an open mic and I went the 567 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 2: month before my homeboy Cheety was performing at the same 568 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 2: open mic, and I just kind of I was watching 569 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 2: folks and it just kind of it demystified stand up 570 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 2: for me because before that I was seeing everything televised 571 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 2: with people's polished killing it. And so then that showed 572 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 2: me that, oh I could try this, and it's low stakes. 573 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 2: If it goes cool, it goes cool. If it don't, 574 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 2: it don't. And so then I wrote some stuff and 575 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 2: went back the next month and tried it, and it 576 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 2: went all right, but it was enough to kind of, 577 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 2: you know, to keep me going. I remember my legs 578 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 2: just shaking afterwards, like. 579 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 8: Oh shit, were you generally known as the funny guy 580 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 8: in the crew or were you the class clown or like, 581 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 8: were you generally known it's funny or were you just 582 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 8: observation on humor guy? 583 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 2: It depends sometimes I will, you know, in the right group, 584 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 2: I would be funny and over the top or roasting 585 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 2: and what. But some people, if you asked me, oh no, 586 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 2: he quiet, he seemed. I know, I thought he was 587 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 2: quiet because we probably weren't that cool. But but the 588 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 2: folks that knew, you know, thought I thought I was funny, 589 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 2: and uh but yeah, after that I caught the bug 590 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 2: and was just really locked in, just appreciated that feeling 591 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 2: and being on campus too. That was the cool thing 592 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 2: about doing it in the college setting was that there 593 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 2: was this bubble on his own. So, you know, after 594 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 2: my first show, or it was another show that I 595 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 2: did on campus. Actually Little Reil was on that show 596 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 2: and Wildcat, UH two Face and Shady. It was you know, 597 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:41,479 Speaker 2: they were bringing down comics from UH Comicsview and I, uh, 598 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 2: Kevin from Triple Team Promotions let me get a spot 599 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 2: even though I only had My only experience was one 600 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 2: open mic before that, and so I did my set, 601 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 2: walked out to actually All I Need by jay Z 602 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,480 Speaker 2: and uh and it went cool. And then the next 603 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 2: day after that, because it's a college campus, you run 604 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 2: into folks like, yeah, you did stand up, and so 605 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 2: it was cool to do it in that that setting. 606 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 2: And it also was easy to relate because you can 607 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 2: do oh, well the launch, the cafeteria, food, campus security, 608 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 2: what's up? What? You know? You had all these this 609 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 2: stuff because you talking to other eighteen to twenty two 610 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 2: year olds that's living in the same place. So I 611 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 2: think it was a it was a benefit. 612 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: To Was this a time when you and over my 613 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,839 Speaker 1: eagle because you were his ari? 614 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 2: He was my Alrady? 615 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: Oh he was your ri. 616 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,719 Speaker 2: He was my Alra. Yeah, ok, yeah, yeah, Mike was 617 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 2: my ra. He actually put me on to uh once 618 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 2: I I showed him it was I went up to 619 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 2: this place, Jukebox Comedy Club. I drove up there to 620 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,320 Speaker 2: do a guest spot and perform, and I had a 621 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 2: VHS tape of my set and I was hyped about it. 622 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,439 Speaker 2: And then I went up to his room and showed 623 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 2: him the tape and that was back, it's VHS. So 624 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 2: you it wasn't just you sent the lincs. It's like, 625 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,919 Speaker 2: I did this, Let's watch it, Let's go together, let's 626 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:08,880 Speaker 2: watch the ship. I did you just look and so 627 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 2: uh he from there he sent me some the audio 628 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,719 Speaker 2: from Dave Chappelle killing him softly, just the audio from it. 629 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 2: Some hadburg stuff, but the killing him softly. That's when 630 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,080 Speaker 2: I heard. When he did the the from Dave, I'm 631 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 2: going to raise some that bit. Uh. I knew it 632 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 2: was a bad idea, but I was high. I tried 633 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 2: to tell him it was a bad idea, but all 634 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,320 Speaker 2: it came out was ship. Sometimes you gotta race, nigga, 635 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,480 Speaker 2: I don't know, and that it was a revound I rewound. 636 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 2: I just thought it was the timing and delivery on 637 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 2: that was so crazy. I rewound that so many. 638 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 8: Times Okay, when crafting, well wait, when I come back, 639 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 8: I want to talk about the crafting of the show. Yeah, 640 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 8: but we're going to take a break for the you know, 641 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 8: for the costs. All right, so we're back with our guests, 642 00:35:59,200 --> 00:35:59,759 Speaker 8: Hannibal Bird. 643 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 5: Yes, I'm being professionals. We're taking it's called commercial taking. 644 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 5: I overheard a conversation we take commercial breaks now. I well, 645 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 5: you know, we got Bill, so it's best to be 646 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 5: you know, professional. It only took us six years, right, 647 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 5: So yeah, when I first got my drum machine, the 648 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,440 Speaker 5: first thing I did was like, well, when I got 649 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:31,640 Speaker 5: Seve hundred. 650 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 1: I would I remade the entire low in theory. 651 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,239 Speaker 8: I challenged myself to make at least side one of 652 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,320 Speaker 8: nation and millions, like you got to practice other people's beats. 653 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,279 Speaker 8: And then Dylan would do the same, all those people 654 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,719 Speaker 8: I can interlude. He would redo them ships and then 655 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 8: try to figure out how to do it his version. 656 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,840 Speaker 8: So for comedian though, like I know, like you know, 657 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,839 Speaker 8: Eddie Murphy would say like, yeah, I just take Richard 658 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 8: record and remix his things were people that didn't hear 659 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 8: it in my school or whatever. 660 00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 1: But for you, how does that work? Like? What are 661 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,359 Speaker 1: the ingredients that you're taken from. 662 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 8: So you're saying that killed me softly from Chappelle was 663 00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 8: a seminal moment for you where you just studied. 664 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,480 Speaker 2: The just that bit. I like that just as a 665 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:27,000 Speaker 2: as a fan. As far as creating my stuff, I 666 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 2: don't know. I just watched a lot of folks. I 667 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 2: didn't early on a lot of folks. You you sort 668 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 2: of like Mitch Hebburg, But Mike played me miss Hebburg, 669 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 2: based on what I had just played him from that 670 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 2: from that show, and he put me on to Mitch Hebburg. 671 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,240 Speaker 2: So maybe absorbed. I'm sure you know, just through osmosis, 672 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 2: you might sound like folks sometimes and you just try to, 673 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,399 Speaker 2: you know, find your own and be be as true 674 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 2: to your your shit as you can. 675 00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,040 Speaker 1: But you know, we what does we feel like? 676 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:04,400 Speaker 8: Hepburg's observation rude that has been long vacant and you 677 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,160 Speaker 8: know somebody has to walk that path. Is that all 678 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 8: comedians look at things like, Okay, well this guy is 679 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,759 Speaker 8: the singing comedian, and this guy is the you know, 680 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 8: the family storyteller, and this person's the you know, lane 681 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,279 Speaker 8: the street community Like is that? 682 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: Are they compartmentalized like that? 683 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,480 Speaker 2: Or it wasn't It wasn't that calculated at that time. 684 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,279 Speaker 2: It was just really just trying to get better, just 685 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 2: try to you know, just have your your not bomb. 686 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 2: Really that was the thing, is not just how to 687 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 2: do it. Do you remember what was the first the 688 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,680 Speaker 2: first joke that you wrote that hit, the first one 689 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 2: that I that uh that hit. It was one I 690 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:52,800 Speaker 2: talked about how people just have just all these different 691 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:57,239 Speaker 2: ways to call you dark skin like, damn you black 692 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 2: as hell, You're so black if you you lay on 693 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,200 Speaker 2: if you stand by the wall, it's a cave, if 694 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 2: you lay on the ground, it's a whole You're so black, 695 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,320 Speaker 2: you purple African like. It was just kind of a 696 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 2: run of just all these. 697 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,640 Speaker 8: Is that everyone's entry in the comedy world, because even 698 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 8: Chris Rock said he had a good three minutes about 699 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 8: Miles Davis being black and that's what that's what made 700 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,000 Speaker 8: Eddie Murphy invited him to you know, Beverly Hills. 701 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,160 Speaker 1: It's almost like that's an entry point. 702 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just you just think about I mean, yeah, 703 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,680 Speaker 2: you just you know, repeating things that people said to 704 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,320 Speaker 2: you that you didn't understand why they said. 705 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,279 Speaker 1: It, Like blackness is the birth place of. 706 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,160 Speaker 2: What why am I an African booty scratch? 707 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:39,640 Speaker 6: Right? 708 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:47,239 Speaker 2: Man, I'm just existing African booties gratch what I'm ten. 709 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,240 Speaker 8: So okay, when you're crafting, don't speak from your professional 710 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:04,440 Speaker 8: mind now. But back then, when you're crafting like pre roots, 711 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,960 Speaker 8: you know, there's a point where your eyes are open. 712 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,560 Speaker 8: You suddenly realize, like what a hook is? You know, 713 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,480 Speaker 8: what makes what makes things work on an audience. Unfortunately, 714 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,399 Speaker 8: it took me to the pandemic to really learn how 715 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:17,319 Speaker 8: to make a song. 716 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,880 Speaker 1: Really, yes, because in Fumish college, so what do you expect. 717 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,800 Speaker 2: We've had records, We've gotten lucky. 718 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,600 Speaker 8: But I never knew the science of songwriting or what 719 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,840 Speaker 8: makes a song work, like what makes it affect and 720 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,840 Speaker 8: what makes it non effective. And it wasn't until the pandemic, 721 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,719 Speaker 8: in which I'm literally stuck five hours every day going 722 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 8: through every song to know, oh, okay, this is why this. 723 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,440 Speaker 8: I don't know why I just never studied the science 724 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 8: of You knew it, you just no, I didn't. Because 725 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,240 Speaker 8: the thing is is like we would never write songs. 726 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,279 Speaker 8: We've never demo song. We just jamming sound check. Oh 727 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,399 Speaker 8: that sounds dope, you know, like next move was made 728 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,879 Speaker 8: like in a sound check in Hawaii, it's like, oh, 729 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 8: recording the table quick, and we did it for like 730 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,759 Speaker 8: two minutes and then came back and did that jam. 731 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,359 Speaker 8: But I didn't realize it got me with scientific that's 732 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,320 Speaker 8: because Scott Storch, not Black Roads, you got me. No, 733 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,560 Speaker 8: I'm just saying that, you know, all right when when 734 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,600 Speaker 8: I'm when the motor role of two two way pages 735 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,360 Speaker 8: came out, that's when I realized. 736 00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,040 Speaker 3: Like in programming on a two way that that's that's 737 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,240 Speaker 3: a hit, Like yeah, because you need a part the whistle, 738 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:39,880 Speaker 3: Like all right, Prince is delirious. 739 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:46,040 Speaker 1: You know, we never had a what's the of the 740 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:51,759 Speaker 1: next movement? There's that's background vocals. See that's for me. 741 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,040 Speaker 8: But I feel what you're saying, like Prince is the 742 00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,000 Speaker 8: master of He'll do the intricate ship that interests like 743 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,200 Speaker 8: all the music nerds. 744 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,200 Speaker 1: But it'll have the. 745 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,120 Speaker 8: Thing, right, I don't want to say the idiot factor 746 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,160 Speaker 8: or whatever, like the common man's thing that attracts them 747 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,360 Speaker 8: to it. Yeah, pop songs there you gotta have that 748 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,279 Speaker 8: sticky part that people remember and then you wind to 749 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:15,920 Speaker 8: a dress. 750 00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,360 Speaker 6: It with did you know this with a mirror speaker? 751 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:20,800 Speaker 2: I get what he's talking about. I'm just shocked to 752 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:21,040 Speaker 2: hear that. 753 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,880 Speaker 8: He Yeah, I didn't know how to format songs or 754 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:28,279 Speaker 8: any of that stuff until two years ago. For you, though, 755 00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,239 Speaker 8: did you know the science of comedy or was it 756 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,719 Speaker 8: just like I'm gonna go out here and just say 757 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:35,960 Speaker 8: what I feel and then. 758 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,600 Speaker 1: Or do you learn when you bomb? Like when's the 759 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:40,720 Speaker 1: first time you bombed? 760 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:47,839 Speaker 2: First time really bombed? There was a show in Carbondale 761 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,839 Speaker 2: that it was a It was an Apollo style show 762 00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 2: with multiple discipline soul music, dance, poetry, comedy, and it 763 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,160 Speaker 2: wasn't produced well. There was no microphone and so I 764 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,920 Speaker 2: was kind of just up there talking no stage. A 765 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,719 Speaker 2: friend of mine at the time was actually the so 766 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,480 Speaker 2: called Samman, and I was trying to I was somebody 767 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,279 Speaker 2: interrupted me and I didn't know how to handle that 768 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,520 Speaker 2: at the time or control of the room and I'm 769 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,680 Speaker 2: up there with no mic and then so then he 770 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,840 Speaker 2: starts vamping towards the stage and so then they started 771 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:31,960 Speaker 2: getting more hyped. Yeah, and then they booing and then 772 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,680 Speaker 2: he just you know, Samman traditionally dances you off stage. 773 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,400 Speaker 2: For some reason, he picked me up and threw me 774 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 2: over his shoulder. And your friend your friend, Yeah, we 775 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:52,360 Speaker 2: were in the same performance. Yeah, and so then and 776 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,400 Speaker 2: I actually had somebody I got the footage of it. 777 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,520 Speaker 2: I'm like looking into the camera like stop the tag, 778 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,800 Speaker 2: stop the tag. But that one, that one was that 779 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,080 Speaker 2: was a rougherence right there for the Yeah, it's I 780 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,239 Speaker 2: think I learned you just it's trial and error, and 781 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:12,040 Speaker 2: you see kind of what people connect with more So, 782 00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:16,440 Speaker 2: I think the first two bits that were really that 783 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:18,600 Speaker 2: kind of really connected with people in a in a 784 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,320 Speaker 2: in a different way than the others were talking about 785 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:26,960 Speaker 2: kicking pigeons and flicking pickle juice with the one, and 786 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 2: I think that's also this premise choice too. It's just 787 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,760 Speaker 2: you know, speaking comedians something. 788 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:41,719 Speaker 1: That's hilarious. Don't worry about. 789 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:43,680 Speaker 2: So how are you? 790 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:48,360 Speaker 1: Aybody a see I heard it's not going. 791 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:53,840 Speaker 2: Just figgured it out, you know. 792 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. Wait, when's the last time this happened? When uh 793 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,440 Speaker 1: No walked in? 794 00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you want to take one of your famous 795 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:05,919 Speaker 2: commercial breaks now. 796 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:06,200 Speaker 4: Man. 797 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,960 Speaker 6: Farrell is so hot and tall and now get me 798 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,680 Speaker 6: out here, give me out of here, please. 799 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,239 Speaker 7: And that's where we're gonna end Part one. This is 800 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,480 Speaker 7: unpaid bill for the Team Supreme We had such a 801 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,680 Speaker 7: good time with Hannibal Burrus in Hollywood. I mean, come on, 802 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,440 Speaker 7: who brings a harmonica to the gig? Felt so good 803 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,280 Speaker 7: to be back in the studio with my QLs family, 804 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:27,640 Speaker 7: and it will be so good when we give you 805 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,080 Speaker 7: the rest of this interview next week. In the meantime, 806 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,240 Speaker 7: Hannibal's playing his biggest hometown show in Chicago and November 807 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,760 Speaker 7: two at the Chicago Theater. If you're anywhere nearby, please 808 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:37,279 Speaker 7: check it out. 809 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,320 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to The Quest Love Supreme. 810 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,120 Speaker 3: This podcast is hosted by a mere Quest Love Thompson, 811 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,640 Speaker 3: The Boss Man, Light Here, Saint Clair, So Black and 812 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,839 Speaker 3: the Black Myself, Fon, tigelow, Fonte Coleman, The Sugar. 813 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,640 Speaker 1: Steed Mandell, and Unpaid Bill Sherman. 814 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,480 Speaker 3: The executive producers are mere Quest Love Thompson, Sean g 815 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,279 Speaker 3: and the Unbothered Brian Calhoun. Produced by Brittany Benjamin, My 816 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:07,680 Speaker 3: Dog Cousin, Jake Payne, My Motherfucking Man, and like Ia 817 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:12,360 Speaker 3: Saint Clairs My work Wife. Edited by Alex Conroy. 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