WEBVTT - Donnell Rawlings Has A Serious Sit-down With The Breakfast Club 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:05.400 Wake that answer in the morning for Breakfast Club morning, everybody, 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:21.440 Oh say bye Angela yelling the good times that maids 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:32.960 laugh made them cry. I thought right to stop talking 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:43.760 about Booty, but the Booty bandits never dude, it's so 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:56.600 hard to say goodbye to Angela. He beautiful. I don't 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:03.160 know where show because I'm voting to get you off 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.600 this show. I don't know where this show it's going 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.319 to lead. Would you like to take my place on 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:14.720 the hell? No? Yo, I've never had really mental issues, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.360 but I really guarantee you if I became a member 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.360 of the Breakfast Club, I would definitely be reading all 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.119 of this dude's book. Who's not here? Where is he? 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.839 He's getting ready for you? He's right there. That's him. Well, 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:30.760 that's him, that guy, he's really not here though he 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.160 said he didn't feel like doing it. It's all good. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.480 I don't have problem that, Okay, I pay him back. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.600 Oh do show. It's about to be a hell of 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:46.240 a week. I bought this for him too, that's just whatever. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.040 He's Yeah, well, now you don't got to worry about it. Actually, 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.400 he usually tapes tomorrow, but he has to tape today 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.600 because all the political things. We don't have to talk 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.240 about him. I'm not here for that. I'm not here 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.960 for that. I'm telling you what we're here from. What 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:03.760 are we here for? How do I say goodbye? And 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.040 y'all don't understand that. I know normally your business. I 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.560 just what are you promoting? I'm promoting friendship, I'm promote love. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.160 And I thought that first off, I don't know if 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:17.040 Angeli is ever gonna leave. She's not gonna leave, don't leave. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.080 At the same time, I'm was saying another two weeks, 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:21.960 She's like, I'm out in. She got the same thing 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:23.839 comment as a needle. I needle. Don't know what if 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.480 she let me explain something to y'all, I've been trying 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.200 to leave. I went to leave, Okay, I know you 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.720 want to leave, you know. But every time they keep 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.600 on being like, because you know, Andy, don't we want 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.240 to do the rumors and the news. So they're dragging 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.520 a car show, let the car show, short, a car 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.639 show let a car show. I feel like he went 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.639 behind the scenes him. I was like, like, we just 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.680 want to keep Angela until a vacation, until the you know, 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.800 And I'm like, I really wanted some time off I 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.519 was excited. I don't playing the trip, and they're like, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.240 we actually need you to stay until December second, that's 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.440 like four days from birthday. But I'd be quite honest, 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.720 I didn't know we could do whatever. Congratulations down there, 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:11.040 bought a house, thank you. But I've just found out 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.359 that I think I'm more of a country country boy 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.360 than anything. The River guy. Yellow Springs, Ohio, Ohwaio. Yeah, okay, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.960 just like Ohio. I fell in well, I'm not a 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:23.880 huge fan of Ohio, but I became a huge fan 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.639 of Yellow Springs, and during a pandemic, I really got 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.800 connected there. I was just like two summers in a row. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.160 I like the piece. I like it's no crime, dear. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.040 I got good friends since the community dere and I 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.600 just fell in love with the place. And I was like, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.040 and I'm like a lot of people that during a 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.240 pandemic left the city, left for a different lifestyle, for 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.440 another lifestyle, and I chose a yellows man Ohio for 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.840 a place for me to He was on we actually 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.560 um just for clarity, all right. He had a team 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.360 and I had a team. He's from the creeks, I 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.320 was from the streets, right. It was a kickball because 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.240 I'm a sports who won. Well, first off, you cheated. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.800 It was the Streets versus the Creeks in the foot 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.480 in the kickball team. Tylve qual Lip was supposed to 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.320 be the name is televe qual. You know what I'm saying, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:13.280 Tomato tomato right, But tyleb was uh uh the captain 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.880 of the Streets team. But he got in the middle 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:24.200 of a tweeting confrontation. No, he just go off anyway. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.160 It don't don't even matter. It could be any day. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.679 It was the only verse I know respond to each 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.160 in every comment, I'm like, how do you got the time? 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.400 He invented the thing to keep his glasses on his 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.800 head because he'd been Texas so quick and put them 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:40.680 around him. He's not even on the phone. I'm like, 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.560 when is he doing this? Yeah, but he was a 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.680 he was a captain of the street team and he 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.479 couldn't make us. So Angelique came in and I will 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.800 say that her team beat us in the kickball in 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.560 the kickball game, and they were undefeated prior to that. Yeah, 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.400 we were undefeated. We had like six six we were 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.440 six and the team from the Creeks, uh, people from 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:01.880 the woods, hamstring or something very early on in the 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:08.320 first all right, sustained an injury. That so now he 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.040 plays what's this bart you're playing now? Pickle ball? Okay, 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.600 I'm in pickle ball. Yeah, so there's a whole pickle 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.720 gift to pickleball. You don't know about pickleball. My kids 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.960 play pickaball. You do you play pickaball? I do not 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.800 play pickaball. So you wear your kids clothes, but you 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.560 don't play with your sports and they play something. You 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:28.120 do wear your son's jeans, yo or vice versa. And 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:29.840 I got a gift for you. This is my parting guest. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.320 This is a gift from me, from me and Jamie 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.200 Fox to you. And the pickle ball is a phenomen 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.960 I'm surprised that no I did. Yeah, she's leaving. This 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.359 is not But you can come to somebody show. You 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.360 give him a gift. Now you want you're like her 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.200 first guest on her first on her show, so you're 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.440 not gonna see her again. So you want them? Yeah, 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.599 I want the pickleball thing? Do you want them? You 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.760 already have it. Your kids play. I didn't know anything 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:00.680 about a nut joke. Come on, come on, time about 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.800 for nut Joe. You just can't go past that joke. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.960 You know, that was a wonderful nut jokes. It was 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.040 a good feels so much better than back to Ohio. 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.680 How so like, oh, he loves it, Yeah, he loves 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.120 no right now like well, me and my baby mama, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.160 we're not together no more. That's like not happening. I'm 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.880 not don't have anything negative say, but right now, he's 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.320 in a really good school in la and I'm considering 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.599 after he once he gets to fifth grade to see 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.480 what the situation is gonna be there for him for 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.520 mid middle school. But he loves it out there, like 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.640 he loves uh the wid What I realized doing the pandemic, 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.279 it's simple things in life that make life super simple. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.000 I know that may sound crazy, but he appreciates going 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.279 down to the creek. He appreciates skipping rocks and stuff. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.480 He got some friends out there, and he just loves 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.120 the nature. I feel in love with nature during the 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.440 pandemic and couldn't leave. Danielle actually had a really amazing 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:57.440 Danielle Land event. Yes, um and everybody bought their kids too, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.280 and their families and my friend Dahlia came with your 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.440 daughter and her daughter had like the time of her life. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.200 She was like, I love it here. I never want 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.760 to leave me. I got kids. You know, there's a 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.400 reason why I don't invite you to anything. Hey, don't 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.400 you don't know, I will say, and we will come 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.040 to a common show. But the last couple of years, 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.320 I don't know what happened your attitude to change. I 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.160 don't know once you once you started Beijing in your chin, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.720 you know, it comes just things just change and there's 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.000 nothing to do. And then look, I don't even know 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:29.160 he was a giant fan. Now you sold all you 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.840 sold all your giant stuff. Last year you sold all 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.920 your Giant stuff, your wackcast commanders. I was never a three, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.920 I mean, just a whack name. Yeah, But okay, I'm 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.000 not arguing with you're on happening. I still think that 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.000 this slightly racist because when you say commander is you 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.920 ended with chiefs, so you still got the native side 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.239 of it. But I'm excited that we won three games 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.120 a row, by how many points, by how we did it, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.680 I don't care, but we did it. Okay, I want 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.320 to talk about some of your comedy. So you've been 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.160 on the road a lot, Yeah, are you still enjoying 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.840 in love and common? I do love it. I will 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.119 say this, I um, I feel like something's about to happen. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.600 It's the problem with no right, No, I just said 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:13.480 he wants a real interact. Something's gonna happen, you know 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.880 what he says, Hey, what about this? My nuts like, no, 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:17.960 how do you expect me to give your trust issues? 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.840 Trust issues? I have trusts trust, I have trust trust, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.120 I have trust issues with you. But back to your 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.080 question to ask him and give a real INVI, No, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:29.960 do I still love comedy? And I do it. I've 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.640 been doing it for thirty years, and I don't know 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.840 of a lot of people can say that. I feel 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.840 like after thirty years into a thirty year career, every year, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.000 I feel like I get better. You know, he has 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.640 some people to get hot for a couple of years, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.679 didn't be like what happened, they fell off. But I 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.800 feel like for thirty years, like every year I get better. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.920 And you also talking about somebody that each year he 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.440 thinks he's at that point, but we'll find something to 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.079 go to the next level. So I do feel like 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.920 I get better every year and I enjoyed it. A 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:01.320 career also has taken off yea as well. Congratulations for that. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.800 Thank you. I've been lucky enough. Like I don't really 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.320 I tell people all the time. He said, what are 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.839 you like more? Acting? The winning time? Winning time? You 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.719 asked me what do you like most? The acting or 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.480 stand up comedy? Um, I'm in more controling my career 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.640 with stand up, but acting is more more challenging. To him, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.720 it is, you know, like I could go in front 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.000 of fifteen thousand people have no issue, but then once 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.120 they say action and that camera come on, it's a 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.680 whole different ball game. The difference between stand up you 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.680 get immediate response, you know what's going to happen immediately. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.079 With actor, you don't know to the reviews come in 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.440 to you see the dailies you think you might get. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.400 I was part of a team that wanted to ask 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.640 her what the what was this? Soul? Just say, you 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.360 got an Oscar down now too? I got an Oscar? Yeah, 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.040 well I didn't get an Oscar. I got Oscar ree, 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.920 I got a piece of acte. Yeah you know how 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.280 I would be like dudes, I was in the background 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:49.559 and I still got it. But I was a part 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.079 of that. But I wasn't acting for you because you 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.080 know we're acting. Of course there's lines, there's other actors. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.400 Do you feel like you're an actor? Or you still 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.760 doubting yourself and keep asking like how'd I do? I don't. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.679 I don't doubt myself, but I know that, um, that's 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.120 something I always can grow. I feel like I always 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.520 can get better, especially when I see some people work, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.400 I see some people get down. I'm like, damn, this 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.520 dude is doing this for real, and for me it's 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.920 just it's still fun for me. I don't take myself 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.199 that serious. I think about probably got a little bit 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.640 more training and focused on I could get more acting work, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.640 but I've made a name for myself and stand up 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.320 so much. If I get an acting yea, it's just 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.079 only a bonus on top of some other things that 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.640 I do and being an actor as well. Now, yes, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.600 what you're playing, I can't tell you. I'm I'm in 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.080 the series East New York. Okay, it's a Brooklyn Base's 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.079 got to be. It's probably one of the biggest shows 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.760 on CBS now. So it's a lead black woman who 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.360 does her damn thing. But I was going to ask you, 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.480 when do you consider yourself a legend in comedy, right. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.160 And the reason I ask that is because you you 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.520 do comedy with so many legendary people. A lot of 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.160 times people they compare you to the legends, whether it's 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.080 Chris Rock, whether it's Dave Chappelle, whether whoever it may be. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.720 When I'm talking legends, you can see yourself a legend. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.800 Yet when it comes to comedy, no, I don't. I 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.319 don't connect to any words like that. I'm a humble 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.040 person and I don't. I don't want to say that 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.440 I legend. Yeah, I would be Crisipe, this a legend. Yeah, 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.680 so the legendary term, you know, but you just don't. 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.600 I don't associate with that. I don't associate with legend. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.280 I don't associate with goat. I don't associate with the greatest. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:19.559 I think once you get caught up in that, you 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.120 start believing, and that's when things turn. You know. Now, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.280 if somebody else want to say that, that's one thing. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.400 But I'm never gonna say I'm a legend. Don't you 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.840 know him? It's just it's just a set up. And 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.720 then these are new words they found out, new ways 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.120 envy to call you old. This was a new generation. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.880 They they don't. They don't call you oldhead. They call 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.760 you legend, they call you goat. You know you old 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.120 when they call you unc what's up? UN's up? Yeah? 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.680 What's up? What's up? Og? So yeah, they call me 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.600 they look at my beard, and I'm not. I don't. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.720 I don't even die my you've never died it. I 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.319 died it once. I didn't feel comfortable. I feel like 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.560 I was tricking people like R Kelly. I felt in 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.360 a way, Oh my God, presented to be something that 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:01.080 I really was. That's what I'm saying. Allegedly, Yeah, it 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.640 just I mean, if you gonna hire me for a 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.800 job for that whatever, but I don't see it. And 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.560 I went through that stage. You're like, oh my god, 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:14.920 I'm getting older. I think you're saying you really want 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.240 to do this, but I'm saying, take you. Why you 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.720 take your head off? Hut? Well you guys, you spray 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.520 paint your joint, side your hair, go for dark skin 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.200 of light skinning twenty four hours. Good, you spray your joint. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.480 I guaranteed look at his hairline. Now, the next time 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.480 you get a haircut, your joint is gonna be shocked. Haircut. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.920 Does it makes no no, No, you're gonna get that fiber. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.760 I know you're doing that. You're gonna consiber the fibers. 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:39.959 I don't know anything about the fiber. You're gonna do 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.400 the five to you back being a legend though I 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.120 don't consider myself alleged. I don't consider myself any of that. 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.640 But the person loves what they do and continue to 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.600 get better doing it, and you take great on that 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.640 snoop um the compilation that he had killed that the 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:58.480 snoop jaw. It's so crazy because I was slotted to 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:03.040 do at which I did, uh Netflix special with Dave Chappelle. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.160 That's it's a long story with that. I did it, 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.280 but then like a couple of weeks before were supposed 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.920 to air it, we had to air date and everything. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.200 He called me. He was like, um, I want to 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.240 go again. And I didn't get upset, but I wanted 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.000 to understand how did we go from us doing Chess 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.959 Bumps high five standing ovation too? You want to shoot 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.720 it again? And I was ready for the constructive criticism. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.840 But at the same time, I'm like, I knew it 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.000 was funny and it was like Daniel I could put 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.480 you in front of an audience and you could rip 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.560 all day every day, he said, but that doesn't make 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.520 it a great special And one of the things he 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.079 pointed out, and you you came out one of the 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.040 things that it was it was very strenuous protocol um 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.719 uh COVID protocol masks right. So when my audience was 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.360 supposed to be a full audience, it went from a 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.680 court of that audience. So that was one to strike 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.920 against it. The production of it, it just wasn't like 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.199 the right It wasn't the right mix. So the back 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.720 that you know, because I mean it was playned like 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.439 you was ready for this shot? Now like again do 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.560 you have that same energy? Do you do different jokes? 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.120 Who were like how do you change it up? Or 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.720 I did it again? Already did it again. But the 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.880 feeling was I could have been petty and saying screw 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.720 that whatever, But it also realized that M Dave got 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.440 me a check, the biggest check I ever seen in 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.480 my career at one shot. How much was it? I 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.520 don't want to talk about that, but it was, it was, 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.040 it was, it was it was nice. Yeah I'm asking 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.320 you that. Let me tell you. Now you see the 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.600 suit you go out with Donelle forty people. Danielle got 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.160 the bell, he got the check, but I figured out 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:35.720 the way to write it off with taxes for a thing. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.920 That's why we hang. But that's just a just a 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.440 just a uh back to what you were talking about 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.200 the show when you doing an old and yeah, I 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:44.360 could have winned. There was a lot of things I 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.320 could have done. I could have been mad saying screw 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:47.960 that whatever, But I knew the check it clear right, 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.120 but also knew that the God is giving me this 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.440 advice and this criticism. Is a guy that got like 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.400 seven or eight specials under his belt, and he knows 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.560 what he's talking about, you know. So I looked at 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.480 it like I had an opportun I need to do 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.160 at that time. I'll revamp the set and I'll do 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:05.840 it again. And when I think about if you if 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.080 you see me do my stand up. The jokes, even 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.480 though I may do some jokes whatever, they're always growing. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.480 So I was like, I'll just stay on track to 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.880 of what I do and then when we're ready to 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:20.080 do it again, it'll pop. We'll motivates Donnelle Rollins, Well, 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.200 there's different things to motivate me now, it's the comedy. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.680 I should say. Austin motivates me on a different in 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:32.280 a different, different level. But what motivates me is I 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.800 just want to be great. You know what I'm saying, like, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.160 I just want to be good, and I do mentor 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.680 a lot of young comments coming up right, and they 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.320 always ask these questions like so I need an agent, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.720 I need this. They always talk about what they need 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.480 and I was like, what you need to do is 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.840 every time you go on stage, rip, That's going to 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.280 answer all your questions. When you're good at what you do, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.600 people gonna find you. You don't have to ask for 0:15:55.680 --> 0:16:01.040 favors or anything. That A very popular UM manager back 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:02.920 in the day, Barry Catch he still has. He had 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.080 all the top talent in New York. And this is 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.320 when I was making my transition from DC to New York, 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.120 from the chiling circuit of black circuit to m more 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.600 mainstream right, and I want to help by X Barry. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.000 I'll say, look, I'm funny. I know you you got 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.240 all your your your clients in these clubs. Can you 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.720 put a phone calling for me? He was like, Danielle, 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.840 all you gotta do just rip, He said, if you 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.640 rip everywhere you go, you won't be you can't be denied. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.440 And I tell young it's the same way they want 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.800 shortcuts and everything. All you gotta do is be good. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.440 I never wanted to be famous. I never anybody to 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.360 tell you yet I never was a lot of people 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.480 in this business day Like when I was young, I 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.080 knew that always. I didn't expect to be a stand 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.960 up comic. Only thing I knew I wanted to be good. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.360 And I realized if that, if you're good, then that 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.560 will turn into all the other things you want out 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.560 of it. But I never looked for it like I'm 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.080 gonna be this, I'm gonna be rich or famous. I 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:58.680 just want to be good. You never also chase a 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.920 check either, which I think is good. Like Danelle is 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.680 not motivated by money. He does things because he enjoys it, 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.080 he wants to do it. He's always coming up with ideas. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.399 The last thing he thinks about his compensation, you know, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.560 for it. And I mean and I thought that has 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.239 probably cost me um a lot of money. Yeah, you know, 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.879 it has a lot of money. Like Danielle, you should, 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:21.760 you know. And I'm always tending to think a ways 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.280 to get Danielle checks like she does too. But you 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.640 know it's one of two things could happen. I could 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:28.880 have got caught up on that. I know I lost 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:30.960 a lot of money, but you know, my soul feels 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:32.360 good about what I do and I think I make 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.479 right decisions. It's gonna make me feel good. You get 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:35.760 it back. I was gonna ask, you know, when you 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.280 do shows with like a Dave Chappelle's or Chris Rocks 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.240 or whatever commedians. You do shows with Kevin Hard, Uh, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.359 you do you look at them as a competition and 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.280 not competition where like we're going back and forth, but 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.000 like if I DJ with somebody, it's not a competition 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.000 in my friends, but I still want to be better, right, 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.160 Do you feel like it's called healthy competition? Yeah? You better. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:56.600 You know what I'm saying. It's way and that's the 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.399 only way you get stronger. You know, even when I 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.639 work with Dave. Dave will tell you, he said, I 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.040 know when I work with you, he said, I could 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.800 feel a difference from the audience. I never especially with 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.600 those guys. Their names are so big. There's no competition, 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.320 a sense that when I work with them, I'll open 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.359 for them. So people come to see them. They paid 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.439 the money. I'm a bonus, you know what I mean. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.680 I'm excited when I go out there and they say, 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.080 you see them on HBO's the Wire, you see them 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:21.720 on so and so, and then they say, but you 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.400 fell in love with him, as ask Larry, and then 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.879 the audience goes nuts, you know. But no, there's no competition. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.560 But I know that when I'm on the same plan 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.280 field with them, I represent now. Also, I was gonna 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:33.840 ask you know some of the things that's going on 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:35.760 in the world before we get into that. Well, yeah, 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.040 beginning you prep for when you're on my show, since 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.159 you'll be since the breakfast Club is opening for me. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.000 Oh yeah, well it's going to lead into your show, right, 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.520 I'm excited about that. I'm really excited about that. Yeah, 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.359 we're gonna do some topics with you. This is for 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.440 you to get ready to be back on radio again. 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.399 Kanye West, what are your thoughts? My thoughts is I 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.960 can't let anybody else's emotions control my emotions. And people 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:03.560 that let anything that kind YE says affect them in 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.040 any kind of way, I think they're foolish. I don't 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.040 agree with a lot of things that he say. One 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.400 thing in particular, Kanye West says, I don't have no 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.240 friends through true friends in Hollywood. To that, I want 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.600 to say, Kanye called Dave Chappelle. Yeah, Dave will stand 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.159 by you through problematic times, okay, and not even problematic 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.960