WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Hannibal Buress Part 1 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:06.800 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. Yeah. 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.760 Oh oh man. I think at one point in twenty twenty, 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:12.880 I just went through a bunch of episodes and only 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:17.360 listened to roll calls. I'm like, as so, let me 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:22.319 see how he did. Okay, let me see they're good. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.200 Bring there, you know, bring everybody together at at the beginning. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:32.640 Not yet, not yet yet, not yet? Yeah yet? Okay, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.440 now yet Supremo. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:40.800 Sun, Supremo Roll, Supreamo Supremo ro. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:01:04.080 Sure, will Supremo Annimal be? Yeah? 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:16.440 What's love Supreme? Yeah with a nice Kienni. Yeah, what's up? 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.920 My name is Fante, Yeah, and I'm feeling free. Yeah, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.440 rap for fourteen minutes? Yeah, kept about three. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:35.240 Supremo, Suprema Supremo. Who my name is Sugar? 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:35.880 Yeah? 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:36.920 And on we go. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:37.920 Yeah. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.360 I'm from New York. Yeah, where they filmed the Cosmic Show. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:53.160 Sure, hey Bill, Yeah, but I think it's clear. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.960 Yeah, I'm gonna ditch this life for a rap career. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:06.880 Whoa Supremo roll call Supremo Supremo roll It's lucky. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.799 Yeah that's Hannimal birds Yeah right in front of him. Yeah, 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:23.160 got me stores Supreme Smo Supremo Roll my name is Hannibal. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.160 Don't call me lecta when I make music. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:33.880 You call me as Supremo, Supremo, roll. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.799 Supria. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:03:02.600 You didn't know this, motherfucker. Yeah, Harmonica, so oh my god, Yo, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:04.959 that's the first of the gate. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:10.480 That's the first between Q tips, head Libs, Charlie Wilson. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:11.320 This this might have. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.200 Happened to be in his pocket, you know, travels home. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:26.400 God you ship. There is another episode? What it's another 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.880 episode of Question of Supreme Team Supreme. Hello, we are 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:35.520 we are in Los Angeles having Uh, that's not when 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.240 I say los Angeles is Oh. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.880 Yeah, now that's the end of living single. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.119 Oh oh, you're talking about the production. You are such 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.440 a deep dive anyway, he's talking about after the. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:49.680 Production. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:58.160 Anyway, I will implement the sound anymore claps or whatever. Anyway, Supremes. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.840 How's life going out here? 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.600 Good man? We were trying to make this one happened 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.240 for a long time. Oh yeah, this. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.600 Is his first episode and my mind, Hannibal was like 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.240 a repeat on the books before. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:14.680 Yeah. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.320 Well yeah, I just never wanted to do the Zone 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:18.680 one and yes, and. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:19.479 Then we were supposed to. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:22.880 Picnic and stuff. But this is it. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:23.800 Happens when it's supposed to. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:25.279 Okay, that's what's up. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.920 Well, you know, it's kind of weird because I really, 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.200 unlike our other guests, I truly, truly, truly know our 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.440 guest today. Of course, I guess I first met you 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.320 walking in the hallways of thirty Rock. Yeah, and I 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:42.840 believe I saw your first ever late night stand up. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:47.000 You're talking about the Yes, I had done a couple 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.280 before then, but that was the one of the most 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.200 impactful ones because it led to me getting Saturday Y 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:53.800 Live from there. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.040 Yeah, I was gonna say that was you know, I 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.680 know many of stars born movements when it comes to 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.520 the music acts on the show that were like, you know, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.359 on Grande's first time or whatever, like people that are 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.200 going to be like impactful. But I definitely remember in 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.560 the comedy world, if you make Higgins excited, which Higgins 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.480 runs SNL like, that's the first time I heard him 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:21.400 like give feedback on a comedian. So I was like, oh, wow, 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.840 that's important. But you know, I will say that that's 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.960 how I first met you. But of course you was 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.080 listening out there. You're familiar with our guests, of course, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.360 as be it on the Eric Andre Show, or or 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.000 on broad City or any of the Spider Man franchise movies. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.760 Yeah, I love it. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:46.240 Is unhealthy the amount of times I've committed to watching TAG, Like, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.240 if it's on, you watch it anyway. Yeah, that's for 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.200 some reason. I want to ask you about that because 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:58.600 my fear is running well, especially I want to know 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.200 what the audition was like. But not to mention you know, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.800 of all the pivots that we talked about on the show, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:09.479 he's had the most interesting pivot as an MC lord knows. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.840 I did not see that coming in the beginning, and 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.560 first I thought you were trying to troll us, but 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:17.200 then I realized, like, you are dead serious about this 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.680 new craft of m seeing which I wasn't familiar with before, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.359 and we're going to get into that. Ladies and gentlemen, 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:24.479 welcome Hannibal Birds to. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:32.360 Man Rapping because I'm rapping. I love it. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.000 Man, excited to be here with y'all. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:34.240 Man. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.320 Yeah, I was about to say this is this is 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.160 a new glowing Hannibal that I see, and I want 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.920 to figure out the secrets, like I guess I want 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.400 to start even before your life. I want to know 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.200 what did you do in the pandemic that made you 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.600 almost this new enlightened Hannibal two point zero. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.440 It was just I think it was what I wasn't 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:02.080 able to do because stuff being shut down. So stand 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.520 up was shut down outside of the terrible drive intur 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.840 that I did, and so acting was weird during the time. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.600 When projects did start up, you had to get COVID 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.040 tested in multiple times. Oh you yeah, we were about 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.680 to film, but you staying in this hotel and and 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.480 all of this, and so I had to decide do 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.720 I want to do that to go not be myself? 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:28.000 Do I? 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.880 And so a lot of times the answer was no. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.560 But the studio process and that energy you could still 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.320 get that no matter what was going on. So I 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:40.120 just kind of enjoyed recording a lot and had a 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.400 lot of fun just being in the in the studio, like. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.440 It would be like three in the morning, Hey man, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.280 I did this check this out? Yeah? 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.080 That's what I want to know, Like, were you and 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.120 was I relate to train? Like were people aware of 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.520 this other talent of yours or was it just like 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.240 something in the pandemic where you're just like, all right, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:01.400 rhymed a little bit, but let. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.360 Me Yeah, it was just where I was able to 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.440 do it and focus on it and having a lot 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.400 of having a lot of fun and then also just 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.320 send it to people because people were bored and available. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.120 So I remember when I did and when I recorded 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.360 the first version of Kept about three, it was really 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.880 fourteen minutes long, and I was I was so hyped 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.600 about a couple of moments of it, and I sent 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.360 it to so many people. So I wouldn't do now, 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.680 I wouldn't send a rough like that, but at the moment, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.840 I was really really proud of it, and uh, the 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:37.679 the world. Yeah, And so I've been dabbling. I started 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.520 out actually I did music before I ever did any 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.600 stand up comedy. I recorded some songs with my homie Dave, 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.360 uh video Dave No no homie Dave that I grew 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.880 up on my on my block in Chicago. We recorded 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.280 some some songs, probably in two thousand and one or so. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.280 I started comedy in two thousand and two, and then 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.880 I was always adjacent to music. I even battle rap 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.560 in college just to get stage time because battle rappers 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.920 about getting reaction from the from the crowd and everything, 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.480 and uh yeah, it was doing you know, hosting hip 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.520 hop events and you know a lot of my early 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.640 stuff references uh references music, So it was I was 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.600 always around it, but just you know, started doing stand 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.800 up less friction and stand up with that because you 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.360 just show up and do stand up too, you know 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:27.760 what I mean. You ain't gotta go to the studio 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.959 and all this is. You go to open mic, you 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.000 sign up, boom, You're doing stand up. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:33.679 What's more challenging for you? 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.600 Stand up is more? Is more challenging. Yeah, stand up 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.959 is is a little more. Is more challenging, but easier 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:45.800 to execute because you just show But so yeah, stand 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.400 up as a performance is more more challenging. And then 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.839 creative music is really fun because you don't have to 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.320 do it in front of the crowd. There you can 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.880 kind of create to your taste and tweak and and 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.800 and make it in this bubble. But then performing stand 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.920 up is tough. For performing music with the band, I 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.840 really enjoy it because you can kind of take breaks 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.160 and be a fan of music while you while you 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.760 performing music. So you know what I mean, you let 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.960 the solo go off and you can just kind of vibe, 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.240 like and sometimes when I'm up there with the band 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.640 and I'm like you hear something like damn, what what 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.319 like that's who rocking with me? 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:26.800 Right now? 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:28.360 What do you just do? 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:28.880 Like whoa? 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.880 And so those moments is really cool because you don't 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:36.160 have to be on every every single second and uh, 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.040 just you know, figuring it out man, and figuring out 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.280 the just getting the show better. I think you can 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:47.800 make jumps in the music performance. As far as making 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.400 your show better, you can. You can make big jumps 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.319 a short short amount of time. I feel like as 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.920 a comedian you can make jump but they take a while. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.839 But as far as music, you can kind of you 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.839 can do your show and then you go watch a 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:08.160 few folks that's really doing that shit. You're like, Okay, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.240 we need to rehearse more. We got our visuals right. 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.040 We need to bring our own sound guy. We need 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:13.920 to bring our own monitor guy. We need to get 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.079 the visuals on point. We need to all wear the 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.880 same ship. We need to do to that. I need 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:18.880 to work with a moving coach. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:23.400 I need to you're more advanced than me, because I'll 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.360 be honest with you. After enrolling in Camp Cool Jay 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:32.160 for seven weeks, I've realized that we have yet to 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.240 even scratch the surface of what our potential is because 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:42.599 llll is just such a forceful being on stage. It 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.600 was almost like the equivalent of someone waking us up 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.240 from a CRIMEA well, I realized, like I've never like 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.400 you know, you see rock drummers doing like smells like 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.319 teen spirit like that, Like I've never done that in 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.079 my f Like I craft roots music so I could 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:55.679 just chill. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:00.320 Eat a peanut butter sandwich and all that, and suddenly 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.320 like I became like this drummer. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:08.440 Yeah, and I didn't realize like how much he attacks 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.240 the stage and it's weird, like you know, maybe the 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.319 first week and a half, like we got jokes and 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.480 that stuff, but then it becomes like osmosis where suddenly 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:22.120 like what we were once mocking now we're doing. And 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.120 so yeah, I mean the fact that you have the 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.880 wherewithal because for me, it was just like getting through 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:33.000 a show without getting booed was my goal, which is 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.960 why like every Root show that like we've never I. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.240 Don't have an ending for any Root song whatsoever. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.520 Like literally I attached songs and just because I never 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:43.480 wanted to end the song. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:50.360 Here like everybody's right, melon man, you know. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.959 So I mean the fact that you at least start 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.960 watching the playback or not watching the playback, like looking 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.320 at the highlight reel to see how it can prove 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.079 like that's how the Great Prince recorded every show, and 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.360 then we'll make the revolutions sit in his room watch 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:07.440 the show that night, like that. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.840 Three hours show they just did, be like all right, 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.760 see here you almost fell off stage. That's fifty bucks. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.800 And you know so I think that's awesome. 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:15.960 Man. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.240 You just started combining the two right, because you weren't 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.360 always doing them together. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:20.280 Yeah. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.160 I just started a subscriber on your page asking us. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.440 Yeah, last year, I was in my stubborn music mode 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.520 where I was I'm only doing music, and I'm only 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.240 doing people will coming to me for with comedy gigs 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.280 are like past, yeah, and now it's just like, okay, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.599 I gotta be more practical about this, and you know 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.840 I can't. I can't just quit like that. And it's 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.319 been fun to just really give that full show like 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.760 that while I'm doing the comedy set and then doing 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:51.240 the doing the music after. 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.640 How do you sort of present that to promoters that 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.240 want Hannibal to come to this particular venue? 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.240 And then you're like, yeah, I. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.079 Think it's just if I'm doing I'm giving them what 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.240 they know. That's the thing is that they hannibal sales 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.160 ticket and it's I'm also doing this, so it's not 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:17.400 people still getting the hour fifteen hour thirty of stand 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.440 up and then I'm doing our music afterwards. So it's 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.920 a full it's a full show. It's the first time 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.840 where I'm after I'm really just really tired. Like man, 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.920 I really did it. Before doing stand up, I wouldn't 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.320 be Maybe if you did two or three, I'll be like, 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.840 oh man, but now it's I really feel feel spent 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.320 after the show. So it's been it's been dope. Man. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.000 It's not a lot of people. I was trying to 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.160 think outside of you, but in my lifetime, I'm like you, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.600 Jamie Fox. I remember when Jamie Fox did a whole 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:47.040 tour like. 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:53.000 This, Edward Reagan Murphy the last last because I don't 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:58.160 know if you guys remember there was when that What's 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.280 Up with You album that the Motown record Loves all 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:08.560 Right record right. He did some spot dates like at stadiums, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.760 like his very last run of doing like stand up comedy, 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.680 but yeah, he would open his own shows and like 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:20.880 Larry's Yeah, Like even to this day, like I've gotten 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.640 calls to like, you know, come drum on this thing, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.720 like he'll employ the best musicians to come. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.120 I mean he did that song with snoop line that 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:30.680 was all. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.640 Right, and that was all right, that was all right. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:37.000 That was really kind of suspisingly, right, suspisingly despisingly. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.040 Yes, no, it goes right there in the blow titshes. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:46.560 But yeah, like Eddie would do a half hour with 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:51.280 Larry Graham as his band leader, and then he would 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:52.240 do some stand up. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.600 Gambino his twenty eleven tour that I Am Donald, he 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.280 opened with stand up in it and music. 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.960 Believe it or not, Like I'm actually glad you're doing this. 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:11.040 Because the thing was when Dante y seen thank You, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:12.840 I was I was about to say yeah, but I 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.480 didn't even know you was a why word like wait wait, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:20.360 wait wait you said when y'all seen first came on 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.840 the scene as most deaf, that was the first time 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.800 that I saw an MC really have communication skills to 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.760 that of a stand up comedian, Like he was. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:34.880 Literally like working in this crowd. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.520 I mean he was doing crowd work and like to 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.000 watch him in from ninety six till about ninety eight 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.240 was like just a thing to behold, and then he 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.680 kind of morphed and sort of lost the you know, 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.320 and I don't notice the thing that rappers go through 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.240 where it's like I gotta lose this happy, go lucky 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.640 perception of me and then I gotta be serious serio, 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.440 and then then I'm angry, then I'm hardcore, and then 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:02.640 I don't change my name or whatever. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:03.920 So I mean, it happens. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:09.680 But even with Tarik, like Tarik got really made a 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.400 mark in at performing arts for his ability to play 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.000 the dozens in freestyle. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.480 So you know, as long as. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.560 There's somebody choose to talk about or a hole in 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.800 their you know, jeans or whatever, that enabled me to 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.080 be cool because I was this guy, yeah, while he 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.440 was just freestyle and talk about people's like you know. 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.120 So I think that actually those two things go hand 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:40.680 in hand with each other. Are you from Chicago? Yeah, okay, 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:45.920 Can you explain something to me? Why is Chicago the 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.480 epicenter of American comedy. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:54.399 For such a place that is also. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.040 Perceived as one of the most dangerous cities in which 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:00.840 I don't even know if that's t were not either. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:07.720 Degregated as fuck. Why is Chicago It's I don't know, man, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:12.560 the city itself is the organization of the city of Chicago. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.120 In my experience, it's just a petty place that's always 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.240 taken from you, so it gives you an edge earlier 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.840 take it from you in what way. It's just you know, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:30.280 through ticketing, through all these different taxes. And I'm still 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.520 scarred because they took my car because I had parking 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.480 tickets and then they booted it, and then they just 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.680 took it, and then it was just and then I 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.840 still owed the parking tickets, but they had sold the car. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:44.680 But it's just the cars. They sold the car, they 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:50.119 disappeared my car, man, and so I still had to 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.320 pay it to get my license right. So it's just, 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.080 you know, there is every a lot of aspects, like 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.680 an every might be I think what happened to me? 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.120 Yeah, if you just like build up a lot of tickets, yeah. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.040 But I feel like you're just going how you go. 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.840 There's the logic owner, and you know I used that 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:16.800 to go get the money right, right right, So now 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.040 you make it real tough for everybody. Now I gotta 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.800 have a hole. Now I gotta go. I gotta get 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.800 l Four years later, they're gonna fix all this. 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:29.919 First of all, where did you grow up in Chicago? 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.280 The West side of Chicago, North Boston, finally not the 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:34.840 South A lot of south Side. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.520 Yeah, so I feel like Chicago, and some of these 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.120 Chicago luminars have been on the show might be slightly exactly. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.040 I'm not looking at you, Sally Richards. I definitely believe 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:47.439 you from the South side of Chicago. 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.760 You show me that ship, you cleared that up right. 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.919 However, similar to Detroit, like sometimes you know, every Detroit 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.200 claims the east Side and then a friend of mine, like, 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.000 everyone's going to clean the east side because that's where 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:03.720 like the realness is from, but no one wants to 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.320 emit that they're from the west side of you know, 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.439 where Barry Gordy lives, Like a nice part of Detroit. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:14.919 Is Chicago, like is the south side supposedly like across 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.560 the tracks where you're not supposed to go. 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.520 Or the south Side is a is a big place. 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:26.520 So there's there's hood neighborhoods in on the south Side, 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:31.960 and then there's also Bronzeville and Hyde Park, which is 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:36.880 where Obama's house is that's kind of the the Harlem 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.879 of Chicago, where you know, you got nice houses and stuff. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.600 So the South Side is just is a it's pretty 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.240 much a city in itself with other areas. And you 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.040 got white neighborhoods on the south side, you got Latino neighborhoods, 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.240 you got you know, so it has. Yeah, it's it's 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:55.960 some tough spots on the South Side, and there's some 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.359 some nice ones too, but they kind of bore, you know, 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.959 and that can change into black. You're like, whoa, it's 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.080 nice over here. Whoa, Okay, I'm not safe. 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.199 In the beginning, like I uh well, you know, uh 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:12.439 big George right, uh George record the. 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.960 Record, George's music, George Music. Oom right, George Daniels, George, Okay, 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:17.919 say big. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:22.320 George George Daniels. Like when in the beginning when you 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.240 would have to like do in store appearances and whatnot, 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.159 and he would take us around to these various record spots, 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:33.399 like literally he'll be like, oh, yeah, there's a Oprah's 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.400 condos over there, and then literally we'll be like cabried 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.920 and green like in mere seconds, like yeah, the projects 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:43.080 and the condominiums are were in proximity. 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:44.200 Yeah, three ninety six. 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.200 Yeah, Cobrina Green was really close, is really close, was 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:50.240 really close to downtown in a few minutes, super close. 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.399 Yeah. So we're like, what is the west Side like 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:53.680 for you? 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:58.320 My area on the west side is North Avenue on Austin, 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:03.840 so it borders Oak Park, which is a suburb, but 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:08.160 it's a a suburb that's there's suburbs. That's outer suburbs 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.600 where you gotta get on the highway and drive twenty 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:12.680 thirty minutes, and then there's suburbs whereas it's like this 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:14.879 side of the street is Chicago, this side of the 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:18.320 street is Oak Park. So my area had Chicago, but 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.240 it also had part suburban field because it was adjacent 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.440 to that. So that's where I was at. So North 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:27.080 Avenue that was like middle class family. Yeah, but it 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.400 still had its It had still had bullshit going on occasionally, 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:34.760 but it wasn't You didn't feel unsafe all the time. 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:39.560 It's just like watch yourself folk. My dad worked at 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:42.920 the railroad at Union Pacific Railroad, and then my mom 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.440 worked at mental hospital for a while and then worked 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.480 at my old school, Saint Paul Lutheran School as a 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:50.560 as a teacher's assistant. 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:52.880 Oh god, so you had to go to school while 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:53.600 your mom was there? 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:55.520 She wasn't she worked there after I left. 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:58.600 Actually I left that school because that's that's too much. 0:22:58.800 --> 0:22:59.879 Yeah, it would have been, it would have been not 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:01.600 way too much pressure. 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:06.359 Uh during that time period, like were you Chicago has 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:09.840 so many luminaries from the past, president future, Like were 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:12.879 you in proximity of anyone that was. 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:17.800 Chicago based and socially? Socially, Hey, in my high school, 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:20.639