Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh oh man. I think at one point in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: I just went through a bunch of episodes and only
Speaker 2: listened to roll calls. I'm like, as so, let me
Speaker 2: see how he did. Okay, let me see they're good.
Speaker 2: Bring there, you know, bring everybody together at at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Not yet, not yet yet, not yet? Yeah yet? Okay,
Speaker 1: now yet Supremo.
Speaker 3: Sun, Supremo Roll, Supreamo Supremo ro.
Speaker 4: Sure, will Supremo Annimal be? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's love Supreme? Yeah with a nice Kienni. Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 3: My name is Fante, Yeah, and I'm feeling free. Yeah,
Speaker 3: rap for fourteen minutes? Yeah, kept about three.
Speaker 1: Supremo, Suprema Supremo. Who my name is Sugar?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And on we go.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm from New York. Yeah, where they filmed the Cosmic Show.
Speaker 5: Sure, hey Bill, Yeah, but I think it's clear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna ditch this life for a rap career.
Speaker 6: Whoa Supremo roll call Supremo Supremo roll It's lucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's Hannimal birds Yeah right in front of him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: got me stores Supreme Smo Supremo Roll my name is Hannibal.
Speaker 2: Don't call me lecta when I make music.
Speaker 1: You call me as Supremo, Supremo, roll.
Speaker 7: Supria.
Speaker 1: You didn't know this, motherfucker. Yeah, Harmonica, so oh my god, Yo,
Speaker 1: that's the first of the gate.
Speaker 8: That's the first between Q tips, head Libs, Charlie Wilson.
Speaker 4: This this might have.
Speaker 1: Happened to be in his pocket, you know, travels home.
Speaker 8: God you ship. There is another episode? What it's another
Speaker 8: episode of Question of Supreme Team Supreme. Hello, we are
Speaker 8: we are in Los Angeles having Uh, that's not when
Speaker 8: I say los Angeles is Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's the end of living single.
Speaker 6: Oh oh, you're talking about the production. You are such
Speaker 6: a deep dive anyway, he's talking about after the.
Speaker 1: Production.
Speaker 8: Anyway, I will implement the sound anymore claps or whatever. Anyway, Supremes.
Speaker 8: How's life going out here?
Speaker 1: Good man? We were trying to make this one happened
Speaker 1: for a long time. Oh yeah, this.
Speaker 8: Is his first episode and my mind, Hannibal was like
Speaker 8: a repeat on the books before.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I just never wanted to do the Zone
Speaker 2: one and yes, and.
Speaker 1: Then we were supposed to.
Speaker 2: Picnic and stuff. But this is it.
Speaker 6: Happens when it's supposed to.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 8: Well, you know, it's kind of weird because I really,
Speaker 8: unlike our other guests, I truly, truly, truly know our
Speaker 8: guest today. Of course, I guess I first met you
Speaker 8: walking in the hallways of thirty Rock. Yeah, and I
Speaker 8: believe I saw your first ever late night stand up.
Speaker 2: You're talking about the Yes, I had done a couple
Speaker 2: before then, but that was the one of the most
Speaker 2: impactful ones because it led to me getting Saturday Y
Speaker 2: Live from there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was gonna say that was you know, I
Speaker 8: know many of stars born movements when it comes to
Speaker 8: the music acts on the show that were like, you know,
Speaker 8: on Grande's first time or whatever, like people that are
Speaker 8: going to be like impactful. But I definitely remember in
Speaker 8: the comedy world, if you make Higgins excited, which Higgins
Speaker 8: runs SNL like, that's the first time I heard him
Speaker 8: like give feedback on a comedian. So I was like, oh, wow,
Speaker 8: that's important. But you know, I will say that that's
Speaker 8: how I first met you. But of course you was
Speaker 8: listening out there. You're familiar with our guests, of course,
Speaker 8: as be it on the Eric Andre Show, or or
Speaker 8: on broad City or any of the Spider Man franchise movies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 8: Is unhealthy the amount of times I've committed to watching TAG, Like,
Speaker 8: if it's on, you watch it anyway. Yeah, that's for
Speaker 8: some reason. I want to ask you about that because
Speaker 8: my fear is running well, especially I want to know
Speaker 8: what the audition was like. But not to mention you know,
Speaker 8: of all the pivots that we talked about on the show,
Speaker 8: he's had the most interesting pivot as an MC lord knows.
Speaker 8: I did not see that coming in the beginning, and
Speaker 8: first I thought you were trying to troll us, but
Speaker 8: then I realized, like, you are dead serious about this
Speaker 8: new craft of m seeing which I wasn't familiar with before,
Speaker 8: and we're going to get into that. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 8: welcome Hannibal Birds to.
Speaker 1: Man Rapping because I'm rapping. I love it.
Speaker 2: Man, excited to be here with y'all.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was about to say this is this is
Speaker 8: a new glowing Hannibal that I see, and I want
Speaker 8: to figure out the secrets, like I guess I want
Speaker 8: to start even before your life. I want to know
Speaker 8: what did you do in the pandemic that made you
Speaker 8: almost this new enlightened Hannibal two point zero.
Speaker 2: It was just I think it was what I wasn't
Speaker 2: able to do because stuff being shut down. So stand
Speaker 2: up was shut down outside of the terrible drive intur
Speaker 2: that I did, and so acting was weird during the time.
Speaker 2: When projects did start up, you had to get COVID
Speaker 2: tested in multiple times. Oh you yeah, we were about
Speaker 2: to film, but you staying in this hotel and and
Speaker 2: all of this, and so I had to decide do
Speaker 2: I want to do that to go not be myself?
Speaker 8: Do I?
Speaker 2: And so a lot of times the answer was no.
Speaker 2: But the studio process and that energy you could still
Speaker 2: get that no matter what was going on. So I
Speaker 2: just kind of enjoyed recording a lot and had a
Speaker 2: lot of fun just being in the in the studio, like.
Speaker 1: It would be like three in the morning, Hey man,
Speaker 1: I did this check this out? Yeah?
Speaker 8: That's what I want to know, Like, were you and
Speaker 8: was I relate to train? Like were people aware of
Speaker 8: this other talent of yours or was it just like
Speaker 8: something in the pandemic where you're just like, all right,
Speaker 8: rhymed a little bit, but let.
Speaker 2: Me Yeah, it was just where I was able to
Speaker 2: do it and focus on it and having a lot
Speaker 2: of having a lot of fun and then also just
Speaker 2: send it to people because people were bored and available.
Speaker 2: So I remember when I did and when I recorded
Speaker 2: the first version of Kept about three, it was really
Speaker 2: fourteen minutes long, and I was I was so hyped
Speaker 2: about a couple of moments of it, and I sent
Speaker 2: it to so many people. So I wouldn't do now,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't send a rough like that, but at the moment,
Speaker 2: I was really really proud of it, and uh, the
Speaker 2: the world. Yeah, And so I've been dabbling. I started
Speaker 2: out actually I did music before I ever did any
Speaker 2: stand up comedy. I recorded some songs with my homie Dave,
Speaker 2: uh video Dave No no homie Dave that I grew
Speaker 2: up on my on my block in Chicago. We recorded
Speaker 2: some some songs, probably in two thousand and one or so.
Speaker 2: I started comedy in two thousand and two, and then
Speaker 2: I was always adjacent to music. I even battle rap
Speaker 2: in college just to get stage time because battle rappers
Speaker 2: about getting reaction from the from the crowd and everything,
Speaker 2: and uh yeah, it was doing you know, hosting hip
Speaker 2: hop events and you know a lot of my early
Speaker 2: stuff references uh references music, So it was I was
Speaker 2: always around it, but just you know, started doing stand
Speaker 2: up less friction and stand up with that because you
Speaker 2: just show up and do stand up too, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. You ain't gotta go to the studio
Speaker 2: and all this is. You go to open mic, you
Speaker 2: sign up, boom, You're doing stand up.
Speaker 1: What's more challenging for you?
Speaker 2: Stand up is more? Is more challenging. Yeah, stand up
Speaker 2: is is a little more. Is more challenging, but easier
Speaker 2: to execute because you just show But so yeah, stand
Speaker 2: up as a performance is more more challenging. And then
Speaker 2: creative music is really fun because you don't have to
Speaker 2: do it in front of the crowd. There you can
Speaker 2: kind of create to your taste and tweak and and
Speaker 2: and make it in this bubble. But then performing stand
Speaker 2: up is tough. For performing music with the band, I
Speaker 2: really enjoy it because you can kind of take breaks
Speaker 2: and be a fan of music while you while you
Speaker 2: performing music. So you know what I mean, you let
Speaker 2: the solo go off and you can just kind of vibe,
Speaker 2: like and sometimes when I'm up there with the band
Speaker 2: and I'm like you hear something like damn, what what
Speaker 2: like that's who rocking with me?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 2: What do you just do?
Speaker 1: Like whoa?
Speaker 2: And so those moments is really cool because you don't
Speaker 2: have to be on every every single second and uh,
Speaker 2: just you know, figuring it out man, and figuring out
Speaker 2: the just getting the show better. I think you can
Speaker 2: make jumps in the music performance. As far as making
Speaker 2: your show better, you can. You can make big jumps
Speaker 2: a short short amount of time. I feel like as
Speaker 2: a comedian you can make jump but they take a while.
Speaker 2: But as far as music, you can kind of you
Speaker 2: can do your show and then you go watch a
Speaker 2: few folks that's really doing that shit. You're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we need to rehearse more. We got our visuals right.
Speaker 2: We need to bring our own sound guy. We need
Speaker 2: to bring our own monitor guy. We need to get
Speaker 2: the visuals on point. We need to all wear the
Speaker 2: same ship. We need to do to that. I need
Speaker 2: to work with a moving coach.
Speaker 8: I need to you're more advanced than me, because I'll
Speaker 8: be honest with you. After enrolling in Camp Cool Jay
Speaker 8: for seven weeks, I've realized that we have yet to
Speaker 8: even scratch the surface of what our potential is because
Speaker 8: llll is just such a forceful being on stage. It
Speaker 8: was almost like the equivalent of someone waking us up
Speaker 8: from a CRIMEA well, I realized, like I've never like
Speaker 8: you know, you see rock drummers doing like smells like
Speaker 8: teen spirit like that, Like I've never done that in
Speaker 8: my f Like I craft roots music so I could
Speaker 8: just chill.
Speaker 1: Eat a peanut butter sandwich and all that, and suddenly
Speaker 1: like I became like this drummer.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I didn't realize like how much he attacks
Speaker 8: the stage and it's weird, like you know, maybe the
Speaker 8: first week and a half, like we got jokes and
Speaker 8: that stuff, but then it becomes like osmosis where suddenly
Speaker 8: like what we were once mocking now we're doing. And
Speaker 8: so yeah, I mean the fact that you have the
Speaker 8: wherewithal because for me, it was just like getting through
Speaker 8: a show without getting booed was my goal, which is
Speaker 8: why like every Root show that like we've never I.
Speaker 1: Don't have an ending for any Root song whatsoever.
Speaker 8: Like literally I attached songs and just because I never
Speaker 8: wanted to end the song.
Speaker 1: Here like everybody's right, melon man, you know.
Speaker 8: So I mean the fact that you at least start
Speaker 8: watching the playback or not watching the playback, like looking
Speaker 8: at the highlight reel to see how it can prove
Speaker 8: like that's how the Great Prince recorded every show, and
Speaker 8: then we'll make the revolutions sit in his room watch
Speaker 8: the show that night, like that.
Speaker 1: Three hours show they just did, be like all right,
Speaker 1: see here you almost fell off stage. That's fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: And you know so I think that's awesome.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 6: You just started combining the two right, because you weren't
Speaker 6: always doing them together.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just started a subscriber on your page asking us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, last year, I was in my stubborn music mode
Speaker 2: where I was I'm only doing music, and I'm only
Speaker 2: doing people will coming to me for with comedy gigs
Speaker 2: are like past, yeah, and now it's just like, okay,
Speaker 2: I gotta be more practical about this, and you know
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't just quit like that. And it's
Speaker 2: been fun to just really give that full show like
Speaker 2: that while I'm doing the comedy set and then doing
Speaker 2: the doing the music after.
Speaker 8: How do you sort of present that to promoters that
Speaker 8: want Hannibal to come to this particular venue?
Speaker 1: And then you're like, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think it's just if I'm doing I'm giving them what
Speaker 2: they know. That's the thing is that they hannibal sales
Speaker 2: ticket and it's I'm also doing this, so it's not
Speaker 2: people still getting the hour fifteen hour thirty of stand
Speaker 2: up and then I'm doing our music afterwards. So it's
Speaker 2: a full it's a full show. It's the first time
Speaker 2: where I'm after I'm really just really tired. Like man,
Speaker 2: I really did it. Before doing stand up, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be Maybe if you did two or three, I'll be like,
Speaker 2: oh man, but now it's I really feel feel spent
Speaker 2: after the show. So it's been it's been dope. Man.
Speaker 6: It's not a lot of people. I was trying to
Speaker 6: think outside of you, but in my lifetime, I'm like you,
Speaker 6: Jamie Fox. I remember when Jamie Fox did a whole
Speaker 6: tour like.
Speaker 8: This, Edward Reagan Murphy the last last because I don't
Speaker 8: know if you guys remember there was when that What's
Speaker 8: Up with You album that the Motown record Loves all
Speaker 8: Right record right. He did some spot dates like at stadiums,
Speaker 8: like his very last run of doing like stand up comedy,
Speaker 8: but yeah, he would open his own shows and like
Speaker 8: Larry's Yeah, Like even to this day, like I've gotten
Speaker 8: calls to like, you know, come drum on this thing,
Speaker 8: like he'll employ the best musicians to come.
Speaker 1: I mean he did that song with snoop line that
Speaker 1: was all.
Speaker 2: Right, and that was all right, that was all right.
Speaker 6: That was really kind of suspisingly, right, suspisingly despisingly.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, it goes right there in the blow titshes.
Speaker 8: But yeah, like Eddie would do a half hour with
Speaker 8: Larry Graham as his band leader, and then he would
Speaker 8: do some stand up.
Speaker 2: Gambino his twenty eleven tour that I Am Donald, he
Speaker 2: opened with stand up in it and music.
Speaker 8: Believe it or not, Like I'm actually glad you're doing this.
Speaker 8: Because the thing was when Dante y seen thank You,
Speaker 8: I was I was about to say yeah, but I
Speaker 8: didn't even know you was a why word like wait wait,
Speaker 8: wait wait you said when y'all seen first came on
Speaker 8: the scene as most deaf, that was the first time
Speaker 8: that I saw an MC really have communication skills to
Speaker 8: that of a stand up comedian, Like he was.
Speaker 1: Literally like working in this crowd.
Speaker 8: I mean he was doing crowd work and like to
Speaker 8: watch him in from ninety six till about ninety eight
Speaker 8: was like just a thing to behold, and then he
Speaker 8: kind of morphed and sort of lost the you know,
Speaker 8: and I don't notice the thing that rappers go through
Speaker 8: where it's like I gotta lose this happy, go lucky
Speaker 8: perception of me and then I gotta be serious serio,
Speaker 8: and then then I'm angry, then I'm hardcore, and then
Speaker 8: I don't change my name or whatever.
Speaker 1: So I mean, it happens.
Speaker 8: But even with Tarik, like Tarik got really made a
Speaker 8: mark in at performing arts for his ability to play
Speaker 8: the dozens in freestyle.
Speaker 1: So you know, as long as.
Speaker 8: There's somebody choose to talk about or a hole in
Speaker 8: their you know, jeans or whatever, that enabled me to
Speaker 8: be cool because I was this guy, yeah, while he
Speaker 8: was just freestyle and talk about people's like you know.
Speaker 8: So I think that actually those two things go hand
Speaker 8: in hand with each other. Are you from Chicago? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 8: Can you explain something to me? Why is Chicago the
Speaker 8: epicenter of American comedy.
Speaker 1: For such a place that is also.
Speaker 8: Perceived as one of the most dangerous cities in which
Speaker 8: I don't even know if that's t were not either.
Speaker 2: Degregated as fuck. Why is Chicago It's I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: the city itself is the organization of the city of Chicago.
Speaker 2: In my experience, it's just a petty place that's always
Speaker 2: taken from you, so it gives you an edge earlier
Speaker 2: take it from you in what way. It's just you know,
Speaker 2: through ticketing, through all these different taxes. And I'm still
Speaker 2: scarred because they took my car because I had parking
Speaker 2: tickets and then they booted it, and then they just
Speaker 2: took it, and then it was just and then I
Speaker 2: still owed the parking tickets, but they had sold the car.
Speaker 2: But it's just the cars. They sold the car, they
Speaker 2: disappeared my car, man, and so I still had to
Speaker 2: pay it to get my license right. So it's just,
Speaker 2: you know, there is every a lot of aspects, like
Speaker 2: an every might be I think what happened to me?
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you just like build up a lot of tickets, yeah.
Speaker 2: But I feel like you're just going how you go.
Speaker 2: There's the logic owner, and you know I used that
Speaker 2: to go get the money right, right right, So now
Speaker 2: you make it real tough for everybody. Now I gotta
Speaker 2: have a hole. Now I gotta go. I gotta get
Speaker 2: l Four years later, they're gonna fix all this.
Speaker 1: First of all, where did you grow up in Chicago?
Speaker 2: The West side of Chicago, North Boston, finally not the
Speaker 2: South A lot of south Side.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I feel like Chicago, and some of these
Speaker 8: Chicago luminars have been on the show might be slightly exactly.
Speaker 8: I'm not looking at you, Sally Richards. I definitely believe
Speaker 8: you from the South side of Chicago.
Speaker 1: You show me that ship, you cleared that up right.
Speaker 8: However, similar to Detroit, like sometimes you know, every Detroit
Speaker 8: claims the east Side and then a friend of mine, like,
Speaker 8: everyone's going to clean the east side because that's where
Speaker 8: like the realness is from, but no one wants to
Speaker 8: emit that they're from the west side of you know,
Speaker 8: where Barry Gordy lives, Like a nice part of Detroit.
Speaker 8: Is Chicago, like is the south side supposedly like across
Speaker 8: the tracks where you're not supposed to go.
Speaker 2: Or the south Side is a is a big place.
Speaker 2: So there's there's hood neighborhoods in on the south Side,
Speaker 2: and then there's also Bronzeville and Hyde Park, which is
Speaker 2: where Obama's house is that's kind of the the Harlem
Speaker 2: of Chicago, where you know, you got nice houses and stuff.
Speaker 2: So the South Side is just is a it's pretty
Speaker 2: much a city in itself with other areas. And you
Speaker 2: got white neighborhoods on the south side, you got Latino neighborhoods,
Speaker 2: you got you know, so it has. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: some tough spots on the South Side, and there's some
Speaker 2: some nice ones too, but they kind of bore, you know,
Speaker 2: and that can change into black. You're like, whoa, it's
Speaker 2: nice over here. Whoa, Okay, I'm not safe.
Speaker 8: In the beginning, like I uh well, you know, uh
Speaker 8: big George right, uh George record the.
Speaker 1: Record, George's music, George Music. Oom right, George Daniels, George, Okay,
Speaker 1: say big.
Speaker 8: George George Daniels. Like when in the beginning when you
Speaker 8: would have to like do in store appearances and whatnot,
Speaker 8: and he would take us around to these various record spots,
Speaker 8: like literally he'll be like, oh, yeah, there's a Oprah's
Speaker 8: condos over there, and then literally we'll be like cabried
Speaker 8: and green like in mere seconds, like yeah, the projects
Speaker 8: and the condominiums are were in proximity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three ninety six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cobrina Green was really close, is really close, was
Speaker 2: really close to downtown in a few minutes, super close.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we're like, what is the west Side like
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 2: My area on the west side is North Avenue on Austin,
Speaker 2: so it borders Oak Park, which is a suburb, but
Speaker 2: it's a a suburb that's there's suburbs. That's outer suburbs
Speaker 2: where you gotta get on the highway and drive twenty
Speaker 2: thirty minutes, and then there's suburbs whereas it's like this
Speaker 2: side of the street is Chicago, this side of the
Speaker 2: street is Oak Park. So my area had Chicago, but
Speaker 2: it also had part suburban field because it was adjacent
Speaker 2: to that. So that's where I was at. So North
Speaker 2: Avenue that was like middle class family. Yeah, but it
Speaker 2: still had its It had still had bullshit going on occasionally,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't You didn't feel unsafe all the time.
Speaker 2: It's just like watch yourself folk. My dad worked at
Speaker 2: the railroad at Union Pacific Railroad, and then my mom
Speaker 2: worked at mental hospital for a while and then worked
Speaker 2: at my old school, Saint Paul Lutheran School as a
Speaker 2: as a teacher's assistant.
Speaker 1: Oh god, so you had to go to school while
Speaker 1: your mom was there?
Speaker 2: She wasn't she worked there after I left.
Speaker 1: Actually I left that school because that's that's too much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would have been, it would have been not
Speaker 2: way too much pressure.
Speaker 8: Uh during that time period, like were you Chicago has
Speaker 8: so many luminaries from the past, president future, Like were
Speaker 8: you in proximity of anyone that was.
Speaker 1: Chicago based and socially? Socially, Hey, in my high school,
Speaker 1: there's common word you know in my screen?
Speaker 2: Uh No, well, fifth and sixth grade, we played against
Speaker 2: We played basketball against this kid. It was a kid
Speaker 2: Amari Sawyer that ended up going to the pall and
Speaker 2: he he cooked us man. He cooked the hell out
Speaker 2: of us man. You know, because it's fifty sixth grade basketball.
Speaker 2: There's no there's no scouting report. You just find out
Speaker 2: on the court. There's no like, yeah, we gotta watch
Speaker 2: make sure that if you just get out there and
Speaker 2: he's like, what was that?
Speaker 1: And he starts hearing for his science what that?
Speaker 2: What was that? And it was a play. It was
Speaker 2: a play where the ball was going out of bounds
Speaker 2: off of him. He saved the ball, jumped mid there
Speaker 2: threw it off of me.
Speaker 1: Out of bound.
Speaker 2: But that was not a fifth and sixth grade play.
Speaker 2: I just confused. I remember, give him a tech right now,
Speaker 2: get him out of here. He's a grown man. Let
Speaker 2: us kids enjoy ourselves. Get him about here. So that
Speaker 2: was an early encounter with greatness in fifth and sixth grade. Well,
Speaker 2: he's seeing somebody really different from us.
Speaker 8: So in general, did you what were your aspirations as
Speaker 8: a kid, Like it's hard to figure out where Comedy
Speaker 8: interested in his life. If you had another talent or
Speaker 8: if you had another dream for being an electrician or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't have any specific goals. Man, I was
Speaker 2: a smart kid, you know, tested well, and so I
Speaker 2: think even going into college, I played you know, I
Speaker 2: played football in high school. I was okay, I was
Speaker 2: on the debate team. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: Your only child or.
Speaker 2: Not the only child, and I'm the youngest with a
Speaker 2: with a decent gap, So maybe I think, yeah, next
Speaker 2: sibling is ten years older.
Speaker 1: Is anyone sinking the temptations right now?
Speaker 2: I just think it was spoiling.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're the baby and.
Speaker 8: Your siblings are decades older than you, So it was
Speaker 8: kind of like you were the only kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean my I guess my sister kind
Speaker 2: of took on more of a motherly role before she
Speaker 2: went to college and everything, you know, like.
Speaker 1: Anyway exactly, I love you doing getting a time machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but going to college, I think I just went
Speaker 2: just because that was what you were supposed to do.
Speaker 2: It wasn't. It wasn't with a real vision. It was
Speaker 2: just kind of supposed to go to college.
Speaker 1: And where did you go again?
Speaker 2: Southern Illinois University. Major A changed. My first major was
Speaker 2: business and then I failed finite math twice, and I said,
Speaker 2: I guess business not for me. At least their idea
Speaker 2: of business ain't for me. Then I changed the education
Speaker 2: for a little bit.
Speaker 8: Actually many a business major, but literally doesn't know what
Speaker 8: what that entails in college?
Speaker 1: Like, so what classes are they?
Speaker 2: I didn't make it until where you took the actual classes.
Speaker 2: I was still in the you know, yeah, in the
Speaker 2: in the freshman levels, so they had general a general.
Speaker 2: I didn't get into that. Yeah, So it wasn't. I wasn't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't there yet. You didn't stay but for how
Speaker 2: long in college? Oh? No, I stayed there the amount
Speaker 2: of time four years but I didn't. Well, I decided I.
Speaker 1: Was finished.
Speaker 2: Years of your money and then yeah, I mean it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, state school, so it wasn't super.
Speaker 6: I started out in state school a miir. If you
Speaker 6: go to your state school, that's for instance. I went
Speaker 6: to Morgan State for two years. My tuition was like
Speaker 6: fifteen hundred. It's a semester. I'm stupidly transferred to Atlanta.
Speaker 6: Now one hundred thousand dollars on thirty thousand.
Speaker 1: That's what still you're paying off.
Speaker 6: Now one hundred and fifty five thirty thousand student loans.
Speaker 6: Oh wow, all that money and people be like, you
Speaker 6: got your degree?
Speaker 2: Yeah I did.
Speaker 1: I don't know where it is, okay, Yeah where did
Speaker 1: you graduate?
Speaker 2: Like, I'm sorry, ninety nine is supposed to be ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, Clark Atlanta University.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: I know you went to college, but for some reason,
Speaker 8: most black people go to college. Like this is like
Speaker 8: then I dropped out my junior year whatever I didn't jesus,
Speaker 8: Yeah I finished, no one, I came.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two degrees and there yeah what I mean three
Speaker 1: d well are a given? Right?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wait, that's just what happened. Wait, everyone in the squad.
Speaker 1: I'm the only one that's not edumacated.
Speaker 6: Yes, the richest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't have a record. Yeah yeah, no.
Speaker 6: Not really.
Speaker 1: I feel horrible.
Speaker 2: No, you should be proud, like you know, unless you
Speaker 2: just wanting to buy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you get in the shop five shout out
Speaker 1: to Joe Biden. I'm waiting.
Speaker 8: Well, there was a second when Swizz, When Swizz went
Speaker 8: to Harvard, there was a brief moment where you could
Speaker 8: take like Harvard, yeah, business things, but that I couldn't
Speaker 8: do it, but I want to do it before I'm seventy.
Speaker 2: So I was telling you to go to Harvard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah you can. You can go to
Speaker 1: the BRONC. You know what I mean. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of Phoenix yeah.
Speaker 2: Phi, Yeah, you jumping. Yeah, all right, somebody five hundred
Speaker 2: dollars to film the classes, you know what.
Speaker 8: You know what during during the Black Album period, there
Speaker 8: was a moment where I think I had him on
Speaker 8: the fence where I was like, yo, you know, be dope,
Speaker 8: because this is the point where I realized that Jay
Speaker 8: had put the Mitchell Nessa out of business when he
Speaker 8: started like, hey I'm wearing Buttimore. Yeah I did, right,
Speaker 8: So when we were rehearsing just before that album came out.
Speaker 8: Before that album came out, do you know a boy
Speaker 8: who h was like the yes, thank god you because
Speaker 8: I literally and she went to college.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Big all right, you get that one. Finally we've
Speaker 1: been here for two days.
Speaker 7: I got my.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So the whole point was that I was like, whoa,
Speaker 8: if you're this powerful, if you're this because Big Rube
Speaker 8: actually hit them up and said, hey, help, like, can
Speaker 8: you let me know the exact date this.
Speaker 1: Album's coming out?
Speaker 8: Because I feel like that's going to be another four
Speaker 8: point six situation where you shut They had a history
Speaker 8: of shutting businesses down, and they were like, yes, that
Speaker 8: album comes out and da da da da, and they
Speaker 8: just had like a yes. They literally had a fire sale,
Speaker 8: and then of course the shirts went down for a
Speaker 8: spell and then everyone's buying button ups. I was like, wow,
Speaker 8: if you have the power to do that, I say,
Speaker 8: if you went to college, everybody would follow suit and
Speaker 8: go to college.
Speaker 2: So I was like, I thought he was gonna get
Speaker 2: him to teach a class. He needs to teach, motherfucker
Speaker 2: he did.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, but you know, I was I had
Speaker 1: hope for us.
Speaker 2: So a shirt is he just left.
Speaker 5: College?
Speaker 2: Shirt boom go to Rosses twenty bucks? I got a shirt.
Speaker 2: I'm jay Z.
Speaker 1: Right, you tell me. I got to fill out a fast.
Speaker 2: Doing what I gotta stay in the room with a stranger.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Hope, I still got hope, man, I
Speaker 1: still got hope. Do you remember your first like the
Speaker 1: first time you got on stage and did comedy?
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, the first time.
Speaker 1: Where was it was?
Speaker 2: It was s I U in the student center the
Speaker 2: it's called the Big Muddy Room. They had open mics.
Speaker 2: Uh did you put that?
Speaker 1: Was that footage of that at the end? I feel
Speaker 1: like I saw you put it.
Speaker 2: Online or something at the beginning of Miami. That's what. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was like, I feel like, so that was the
Speaker 2: performance that wasn't it. That was something that was something
Speaker 2: in the first year or so. But that wasn't the
Speaker 2: first one. That was the same place. Okay, Actually that
Speaker 2: show it was an open mic and I went the
Speaker 2: month before my homeboy Cheety was performing at the same
Speaker 2: open mic, and I just kind of I was watching
Speaker 2: folks and it just kind of it demystified stand up
Speaker 2: for me because before that I was seeing everything televised
Speaker 2: with people's polished killing it. And so then that showed
Speaker 2: me that, oh I could try this, and it's low stakes.
Speaker 2: If it goes cool, it goes cool. If it don't,
Speaker 2: it don't. And so then I wrote some stuff and
Speaker 2: went back the next month and tried it, and it
Speaker 2: went all right, but it was enough to kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, to keep me going. I remember my legs
Speaker 2: just shaking afterwards, like.
Speaker 8: Oh shit, were you generally known as the funny guy
Speaker 8: in the crew or were you the class clown or like,
Speaker 8: were you generally known it's funny or were you just
Speaker 8: observation on humor guy?
Speaker 2: It depends sometimes I will, you know, in the right group,
Speaker 2: I would be funny and over the top or roasting
Speaker 2: and what. But some people, if you asked me, oh no,
Speaker 2: he quiet, he seemed. I know, I thought he was
Speaker 2: quiet because we probably weren't that cool. But but the
Speaker 2: folks that knew, you know, thought I thought I was funny,
Speaker 2: and uh but yeah, after that I caught the bug
Speaker 2: and was just really locked in, just appreciated that feeling
Speaker 2: and being on campus too. That was the cool thing
Speaker 2: about doing it in the college setting was that there
Speaker 2: was this bubble on his own. So, you know, after
Speaker 2: my first show, or it was another show that I
Speaker 2: did on campus. Actually Little Reil was on that show
Speaker 2: and Wildcat, UH two Face and Shady. It was you know,
Speaker 2: they were bringing down comics from UH Comicsview and I, uh,
Speaker 2: Kevin from Triple Team Promotions let me get a spot
Speaker 2: even though I only had My only experience was one
Speaker 2: open mic before that, and so I did my set,
Speaker 2: walked out to actually All I Need by jay Z
Speaker 2: and uh and it went cool. And then the next
Speaker 2: day after that, because it's a college campus, you run
Speaker 2: into folks like, yeah, you did stand up, and so
Speaker 2: it was cool to do it in that that setting.
Speaker 2: And it also was easy to relate because you can
Speaker 2: do oh, well the launch, the cafeteria, food, campus security,
Speaker 2: what's up? What? You know? You had all these this
Speaker 2: stuff because you talking to other eighteen to twenty two
Speaker 2: year olds that's living in the same place. So I
Speaker 2: think it was a it was a benefit.
Speaker 1: To Was this a time when you and over my
Speaker 1: eagle because you were his ari?
Speaker 2: He was my Alrady?
Speaker 1: Oh he was your ri.
Speaker 2: He was my Alra. Yeah, ok, yeah, yeah, Mike was
Speaker 2: my ra. He actually put me on to uh once
Speaker 2: I I showed him it was I went up to
Speaker 2: this place, Jukebox Comedy Club. I drove up there to
Speaker 2: do a guest spot and perform, and I had a
Speaker 2: VHS tape of my set and I was hyped about it.
Speaker 2: And then I went up to his room and showed
Speaker 2: him the tape and that was back, it's VHS. So
Speaker 2: you it wasn't just you sent the lincs. It's like,
Speaker 2: I did this, Let's watch it, Let's go together, let's
Speaker 2: watch the ship. I did you just look and so
Speaker 2: uh he from there he sent me some the audio
Speaker 2: from Dave Chappelle killing him softly, just the audio from it.
Speaker 2: Some hadburg stuff, but the killing him softly. That's when
Speaker 2: I heard. When he did the the from Dave, I'm
Speaker 2: going to raise some that bit. Uh. I knew it
Speaker 2: was a bad idea, but I was high. I tried
Speaker 2: to tell him it was a bad idea, but all
Speaker 2: it came out was ship. Sometimes you gotta race, nigga,
Speaker 2: I don't know, and that it was a revound I rewound.
Speaker 2: I just thought it was the timing and delivery on
Speaker 2: that was so crazy. I rewound that so many.
Speaker 8: Times Okay, when crafting, well wait, when I come back,
Speaker 8: I want to talk about the crafting of the show. Yeah,
Speaker 8: but we're going to take a break for the you know,
Speaker 8: for the costs. All right, so we're back with our guests,
Speaker 8: Hannibal Bird.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm being professionals. We're taking it's called commercial taking.
Speaker 5: I overheard a conversation we take commercial breaks now. I well,
Speaker 5: you know, we got Bill, so it's best to be
Speaker 5: you know, professional. It only took us six years, right,
Speaker 5: So yeah, when I first got my drum machine, the
Speaker 5: first thing I did was like, well, when I got
Speaker 5: Seve hundred.
Speaker 1: I would I remade the entire low in theory.
Speaker 8: I challenged myself to make at least side one of
Speaker 8: nation and millions, like you got to practice other people's beats.
Speaker 8: And then Dylan would do the same, all those people
Speaker 8: I can interlude. He would redo them ships and then
Speaker 8: try to figure out how to do it his version.
Speaker 8: So for comedian though, like I know, like you know,
Speaker 8: Eddie Murphy would say like, yeah, I just take Richard
Speaker 8: record and remix his things were people that didn't hear
Speaker 8: it in my school or whatever.
Speaker 1: But for you, how does that work? Like? What are
Speaker 1: the ingredients that you're taken from.
Speaker 8: So you're saying that killed me softly from Chappelle was
Speaker 8: a seminal moment for you where you just studied.
Speaker 2: The just that bit. I like that just as a
Speaker 2: as a fan. As far as creating my stuff, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I just watched a lot of folks. I
Speaker 2: didn't early on a lot of folks. You you sort
Speaker 2: of like Mitch Hebburg, But Mike played me miss Hebburg,
Speaker 2: based on what I had just played him from that
Speaker 2: from that show, and he put me on to Mitch Hebburg.
Speaker 2: So maybe absorbed. I'm sure you know, just through osmosis,
Speaker 2: you might sound like folks sometimes and you just try to,
Speaker 2: you know, find your own and be be as true
Speaker 2: to your your shit as you can.
Speaker 1: But you know, we what does we feel like?
Speaker 8: Hepburg's observation rude that has been long vacant and you
Speaker 8: know somebody has to walk that path. Is that all
Speaker 8: comedians look at things like, Okay, well this guy is
Speaker 8: the singing comedian, and this guy is the you know,
Speaker 8: the family storyteller, and this person's the you know, lane
Speaker 8: the street community Like is that?
Speaker 1: Are they compartmentalized like that?
Speaker 2: Or it wasn't It wasn't that calculated at that time.
Speaker 2: It was just really just trying to get better, just
Speaker 2: try to you know, just have your your not bomb.
Speaker 2: Really that was the thing, is not just how to
Speaker 2: do it. Do you remember what was the first the
Speaker 2: first joke that you wrote that hit, the first one
Speaker 2: that I that uh that hit. It was one I
Speaker 2: talked about how people just have just all these different
Speaker 2: ways to call you dark skin like, damn you black
Speaker 2: as hell, You're so black if you you lay on
Speaker 2: if you stand by the wall, it's a cave, if
Speaker 2: you lay on the ground, it's a whole You're so black,
Speaker 2: you purple African like. It was just kind of a
Speaker 2: run of just all these.
Speaker 8: Is that everyone's entry in the comedy world, because even
Speaker 8: Chris Rock said he had a good three minutes about
Speaker 8: Miles Davis being black and that's what that's what made
Speaker 8: Eddie Murphy invited him to you know, Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1: It's almost like that's an entry point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just you just think about I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: you just you know, repeating things that people said to
Speaker 2: you that you didn't understand why they said.
Speaker 1: It, Like blackness is the birth place of.
Speaker 2: What why am I an African booty scratch?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: Man, I'm just existing African booties gratch what I'm ten.
Speaker 8: So okay, when you're crafting, don't speak from your professional
Speaker 8: mind now. But back then, when you're crafting like pre roots,
Speaker 8: you know, there's a point where your eyes are open.
Speaker 8: You suddenly realize, like what a hook is? You know,
Speaker 8: what makes what makes things work on an audience. Unfortunately,
Speaker 8: it took me to the pandemic to really learn how
Speaker 8: to make a song.
Speaker 1: Really, yes, because in Fumish college, so what do you expect.
Speaker 2: We've had records, We've gotten lucky.
Speaker 8: But I never knew the science of songwriting or what
Speaker 8: makes a song work, like what makes it affect and
Speaker 8: what makes it non effective. And it wasn't until the pandemic,
Speaker 8: in which I'm literally stuck five hours every day going
Speaker 8: through every song to know, oh, okay, this is why this.
Speaker 8: I don't know why I just never studied the science
Speaker 8: of You knew it, you just no, I didn't. Because
Speaker 8: the thing is is like we would never write songs.
Speaker 8: We've never demo song. We just jamming sound check. Oh
Speaker 8: that sounds dope, you know, like next move was made
Speaker 8: like in a sound check in Hawaii, it's like, oh,
Speaker 8: recording the table quick, and we did it for like
Speaker 8: two minutes and then came back and did that jam.
Speaker 8: But I didn't realize it got me with scientific that's
Speaker 8: because Scott Storch, not Black Roads, you got me. No,
Speaker 8: I'm just saying that, you know, all right when when
Speaker 8: I'm when the motor role of two two way pages
Speaker 8: came out, that's when I realized.
Speaker 3: Like in programming on a two way that that's that's
Speaker 3: a hit, Like yeah, because you need a part the whistle,
Speaker 3: Like all right, Prince is delirious.
Speaker 1: You know, we never had a what's the of the
Speaker 1: next movement? There's that's background vocals. See that's for me.
Speaker 8: But I feel what you're saying, like Prince is the
Speaker 8: master of He'll do the intricate ship that interests like
Speaker 8: all the music nerds.
Speaker 1: But it'll have the.
Speaker 8: Thing, right, I don't want to say the idiot factor
Speaker 8: or whatever, like the common man's thing that attracts them
Speaker 8: to it. Yeah, pop songs there you gotta have that
Speaker 8: sticky part that people remember and then you wind to
Speaker 8: a dress.
Speaker 6: It with did you know this with a mirror speaker?
Speaker 2: I get what he's talking about. I'm just shocked to
Speaker 2: hear that.
Speaker 8: He Yeah, I didn't know how to format songs or
Speaker 8: any of that stuff until two years ago. For you, though,
Speaker 8: did you know the science of comedy or was it
Speaker 8: just like I'm gonna go out here and just say
Speaker 8: what I feel and then.
Speaker 1: Or do you learn when you bomb? Like when's the
Speaker 1: first time you bombed?
Speaker 2: First time really bombed? There was a show in Carbondale
Speaker 2: that it was a It was an Apollo style show
Speaker 2: with multiple discipline soul music, dance, poetry, comedy, and it
Speaker 2: wasn't produced well. There was no microphone and so I
Speaker 2: was kind of just up there talking no stage. A
Speaker 2: friend of mine at the time was actually the so
Speaker 2: called Samman, and I was trying to I was somebody
Speaker 2: interrupted me and I didn't know how to handle that
Speaker 2: at the time or control of the room and I'm
Speaker 2: up there with no mic and then so then he
Speaker 2: starts vamping towards the stage and so then they started
Speaker 2: getting more hyped. Yeah, and then they booing and then
Speaker 2: he just you know, Samman traditionally dances you off stage.
Speaker 2: For some reason, he picked me up and threw me
Speaker 2: over his shoulder. And your friend your friend, Yeah, we
Speaker 2: were in the same performance. Yeah, and so then and
Speaker 2: I actually had somebody I got the footage of it.
Speaker 2: I'm like looking into the camera like stop the tag,
Speaker 2: stop the tag. But that one, that one was that
Speaker 2: was a rougherence right there for the Yeah, it's I
Speaker 2: think I learned you just it's trial and error, and
Speaker 2: you see kind of what people connect with more So,
Speaker 2: I think the first two bits that were really that
Speaker 2: kind of really connected with people in a in a
Speaker 2: in a different way than the others were talking about
Speaker 2: kicking pigeons and flicking pickle juice with the one, and
Speaker 2: I think that's also this premise choice too. It's just
Speaker 2: you know, speaking comedians something.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. Don't worry about.
Speaker 2: So how are you?
Speaker 1: Aybody a see I heard it's not going.
Speaker 2: Just figgured it out, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wait, when's the last time this happened? When uh
Speaker 1: No walked in?
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you want to take one of your famous
Speaker 2: commercial breaks now.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 6: Farrell is so hot and tall and now get me
Speaker 6: out here, give me out of here, please.
Speaker 7: And that's where we're gonna end Part one. This is
Speaker 7: unpaid bill for the Team Supreme We had such a
Speaker 7: good time with Hannibal Burrus in Hollywood. I mean, come on,
Speaker 7: who brings a harmonica to the gig? Felt so good
Speaker 7: to be back in the studio with my QLs family,
Speaker 7: and it will be so good when we give you
Speaker 7: the rest of this interview next week. In the meantime,
Speaker 7: Hannibal's playing his biggest hometown show in Chicago and November
Speaker 7: two at the Chicago Theater. If you're anywhere nearby, please
Speaker 7: check it out.
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