Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is Steve j n V. Just hilarious, charlamage the guy.
Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest.
Speaker 2: In the building. We have comedian Ali Cid.
Speaker 1: Welcome, brother, man. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: You feel it.
Speaker 1: I'm good man. Man.
Speaker 3: Where you from?
Speaker 1: Houston?
Speaker 3: Houston? Okay, okay, all day, all day, man. I like
Speaker 3: the way you distribute your comedy. Man like you. You
Speaker 3: you dropping specials like little wings, to drop mixtapes.
Speaker 1: And they all funny. Yeah, thank you all. Going to
Speaker 1: Independent route keeping the independent. You know, I'm from Houston.
Speaker 1: We the capital of Independent. You know, ain't nobody coming
Speaker 1: out that way to look for us. We just got
Speaker 1: to do it. That's right after trunk, Wrap a lot,
Speaker 1: after after Trump, That's right. Yeah, everybody always say rap
Speaker 1: a Lot. I think that's our only label too. You know,
Speaker 1: we have some other labels, but you know they ain't
Speaker 1: stick around. You know, we got what we asked, right,
Speaker 1: you know. And then after that you you have the indipendent,
Speaker 1: you know, switch a house for sure, but wrap a
Speaker 1: lot is the is the staple. Absolutely, they should have
Speaker 1: did a comedy a comedy thing. We tried laugh a lot,
Speaker 1: but it didn't. It didn't stick.
Speaker 3: J Prince. J prince reputation precedes him. But he's a
Speaker 3: funny guy.
Speaker 1: He is. I've done I've roasted J Prince a lot.
Speaker 1: How was that that? I think that we have a
Speaker 1: healthy respect for each other. You know, the last time
Speaker 1: I wrote, I was hosting something, and it's not like
Speaker 1: I'm roasting him at a roast. This is me hosting something.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, man, so you got all these bodyguards.
Speaker 1: It was him and Floyd next to each other, like
Speaker 1: somebody bodyguards got to take off because can't nobody see, like,
Speaker 1: who's gonna jump on you next to J Prince? You see,
Speaker 1: I'm like, and he's small, he a small little look.
Speaker 1: You look at a lot of dudes around though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, and I know most of them.
Speaker 3: So when did you know when to quit?
Speaker 1: Did you do?
Speaker 3: Did he point the fingers?
Speaker 1: I don't never quit. He just I've on him for
Speaker 1: so long. It's just he just so there as well.
Speaker 1: You're talking to me today, like, yeah, I don't never
Speaker 1: say nothing topect me, don't. I don't need Chief and
Speaker 1: Steve to come talk to me in the corner. Hey
Speaker 1: let me, I mean, I let about you about the ball, said, man,
Speaker 1: Now I know.
Speaker 3: You from Houston. I don't know nothing in people. I'm
Speaker 3: about to write them names down.
Speaker 1: Chief and them them the guys like you see him.
Speaker 1: Then it's the dudes that you see around him. But them,
Speaker 1: not the ones. This is the the second layer. You
Speaker 1: gotta go to the second tier to see that the
Speaker 1: actual dudes who gonna do something got you, got you
Speaker 1: in the front of me and them, the big dudes like, oh,
Speaker 1: them the ones that did. He's like, nah, it was
Speaker 1: Chief and Steve.
Speaker 3: Are you supposed to be saying this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Old news. Now everybody knows Steve.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, how'd you get in the comedy?
Speaker 1: Man? Just being black? Really? You know, I've been funny
Speaker 1: since I was a kid. You know. I know people
Speaker 1: trying to think I was funny because I was inson,
Speaker 1: But nah, I was jovially sarcastic in prison. They was
Speaker 1: just I was the kid, the kid on the back
Speaker 1: of the bus. And then when I was in prison,
Speaker 1: I was the same way. Oh so y'all about to fight? Okay,
Speaker 1: who's gonna lose this fight? Twice? What you mean? I said?
Speaker 1: Because Okay, the mixplay one of y'all gonna win this fight,
Speaker 1: and then the CEO is gonna come in and beat
Speaker 1: up both of y'all. So wight. So that was my logic.
Speaker 1: You know, I was just I was just a sarcastic, jovial,
Speaker 1: sarcastic person, and when I got out, it was the
Speaker 1: It was the goal. It was definitely the goal. And
Speaker 1: that became funny how I even got to start doing
Speaker 1: the goal because you start comming to you actually don't
Speaker 1: know what to do. You've seen it, but where do
Speaker 1: you go now? You got to go to an open mic.
Speaker 1: I knew I needed close. That's what I definitely knew
Speaker 1: I needed was closed, because you know, comics always dressed,
Speaker 1: and I'm coming out of prison. I had at my
Speaker 1: my my sister sent me a Sears, little Sears outfit.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a little it was a little
Speaker 1: shirt from Sears. It was nice at the round tables.
Speaker 1: I knew that was from Sears and some khakis of
Speaker 1: the round. Man, it's a fake polo. My daddy bottom,
Speaker 1: My dadd bottom with polo is really in style. He came.
Speaker 1: Then I found these polos on discount. I said, man,
Speaker 1: that is not a polo man. That is a dude
Speaker 1: with a flag. And it's only you know, the Knights
Speaker 1: of the round Table only have three legs on that horse,
Speaker 1: the horse on they had three legs. Man.
Speaker 2: You know they got a store in Time Square. Nice.
Speaker 2: Then I was like, who's shopping in that?
Speaker 1: But and they and it was probably packed. N You
Speaker 1: never want.
Speaker 5: Nice around about the Polo Association.
Speaker 1: No, that US Polo Association is different. That's a that
Speaker 1: you can find them a lot of places. But that
Speaker 1: Nice of the round Table, you get them at Palace Royal.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's you don't want them, Okay, it's a
Speaker 1: polo man. He got the polo stick. His legs is
Speaker 1: horse has four legs. The nice of the round table.
Speaker 1: The man has a flag and it's halfway down and
Speaker 1: the horses missing legs. Same shirt not made out of
Speaker 1: the same fine cotton.
Speaker 3: But you're wearing now you know how to put it together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can put the thing together now, you know.
Speaker 1: Back then the kids knew it's like coming in with
Speaker 1: with Adidas with four stripes. Damn. He's like say, say,
Speaker 1: I don't think man, no, these no, these these really Adidas.
Speaker 2: Yeah they're not quite case. It's like, do you remember
Speaker 2: Jams Jams?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 1: I old you forty five, man, I'm fifty. You don't
Speaker 1: you remember Jams?
Speaker 2: We had no Jams.
Speaker 1: Y'all had the colorful shorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I had Jams.
Speaker 1: I had like the netting.
Speaker 3: Side of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you had the ones who didn't have the
Speaker 1: net Yeah, those are nothing. I know you're talking about.
Speaker 1: That was the brand name. You know. You can look
Speaker 1: at my they was jams. Kidding played warm. No, that's
Speaker 1: when you had money.
Speaker 3: Yes, about the basketball shorts, they would kind of like
Speaker 3: basketball short, but not really like a little fanny pack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with a pack. Yeah, it's the ladies like swim
Speaker 1: trunks almost more so like swim trunk more like. But
Speaker 1: if you ain't had that nettim, they knew that there
Speaker 1: was not the one it was. It was not the one.
Speaker 1: You know, it's you know, it's closed. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of knockoff clothes. Now. It's like like and I can
Speaker 1: tell like if you have the little bit time bag
Speaker 1: and your your straps never changed color, that's not the real.
Speaker 1: But it you know, it's like I saw a lady.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a grocery store. First of all,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even have to name in the
Speaker 1: grocer store. Just no, it's a grocery store. And she
Speaker 1: works in the grocery store. But she had the forty
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars lou of Tome bag and she's walking
Speaker 1: into work and I was like, Nah, ain't nowhere in
Speaker 1: the world this lady working in this grocery store and
Speaker 1: she bought this She bought this bag. I just bought
Speaker 1: that bag from my mom. I know. Definitely a lady
Speaker 1: who's a cashier cannot afford that bag. But in her mind,
Speaker 1: in her mind, it's like my brother and my brother
Speaker 1: got some ear rings and this is that only seen
Speaker 1: three people in the world with him. It was saying
Speaker 1: Oprah or Kelly when he was out and Dinah Ross
Speaker 1: and he got him in his head and he I'm like,
Speaker 1: so man, I told him, say, yo, you need to
Speaker 1: take them them fake it rings off? Mean what fake
Speaker 1: it rings? See, this is the problem with you is
Speaker 1: that you owe me forty dollars, but you think that
Speaker 1: I think that you got ten thousand, right, You're a
Speaker 1: crazy person.
Speaker 3: I don't even know why people do that, Like what's
Speaker 3: the point of fronting?
Speaker 1: Hey, what's the what's the saying fake it till you
Speaker 1: make it.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that. When I was young, I don't
Speaker 3: believe that.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. Then because of the knights of
Speaker 1: the round table, she knew that knew that CIRT was fake.
Speaker 1: I'm just in there looking crazy. My daddy said me, pressed,
Speaker 1: I'm like this, My daddy bout this. That's your only excuse,
Speaker 1: my daddy bot prison.
Speaker 3: That was your first out of prison.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my first shout of prison. Okay, a
Speaker 1: nice round table six years.
Speaker 3: What did you do?
Speaker 1: I used to be a street pharmaceutical rep, which very
Speaker 1: from very front. Like they when you sell drugs, they
Speaker 1: want you to have a jacket, go to like a
Speaker 1: CVS or Rite aid or somewhere. People come in with prescriptions.
Speaker 1: I was, you know, shortcutting it.
Speaker 3: What kind of drug was drug?
Speaker 1: Unfortunately? Crack? Okay you said the age said? You said, okay,
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Was that was was just ahead of your time.
Speaker 1: Marijuana. You know, I got fouting up, went to jail
Speaker 1: for marijuana, is like, and they and they knew it
Speaker 1: was wrong. They're like, man, this don't even make no sense.
Speaker 1: It's a leaf. Now what I did was definitely wrong,
Speaker 1: you know, like with this and and I'm still sad
Speaker 1: about what I did. If you look at the epidemic now,
Speaker 1: you you realize that you you contributed to this in
Speaker 1: some form of fashion from what you were doing in
Speaker 1: the in the early late eighties, early nineties, and then
Speaker 1: the spin off of these drug induced children that came
Speaker 1: from the product of those people who you infected with
Speaker 1: that chemical.
Speaker 3: You complaining about the crack babies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this they this day spent off and these
Speaker 1: kids take everything. You know, you know, generations, we had
Speaker 1: certain things. You know, you had the heroin, then you
Speaker 1: had weed, then you had coke, then you had cracked.
Speaker 1: But these kids, A man put it on the table.
Speaker 1: I'm doing all of it at once, crush it up.
Speaker 1: Just put in a ball.
Speaker 2: Host ex hero and hey, that's one.
Speaker 1: That's that's at noon. And I still I still got
Speaker 1: weed and drank and I'm a snorting little thumb. I
Speaker 1: made you. I don't know what I'm doing all day, Like, hey,
Speaker 1: what is called rolling? They and I don't I don't
Speaker 1: want to do it. I don'tant my kids doing it.
Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want people doing it. The
Speaker 1: fact that you only got six years back then is
Speaker 1: is because they were giving people football numbers. Who got
Speaker 1: six years D six? I had six on the I
Speaker 1: did six on the fifteen. Wow, And I had a
Speaker 1: fifteen and a ten that ran concurrent.
Speaker 4: I said, so they said you only got six.
Speaker 1: I said, g man, no, you mean somebody. No, I
Speaker 1: didn't know nobody. I knew real Harris, my attorney. First.
Speaker 1: When I first went in, it was a fair case.
Speaker 1: And they spect too. They come in there were just
Speaker 1: gonna give you three hundred months. And in your mind
Speaker 1: they stay like that, yeah, three hundred months, And in
Speaker 1: your mind you're like, okay, three hundred months. That ain't
Speaker 1: that ain't nothing. But I know math, and I'm like, nah, nah,
Speaker 1: you know three hundred months twelve Nah, we carried nah.
Speaker 1: So they because they said it months would sound like
Speaker 1: you can do it. Three hundred three hundred months out
Speaker 1: of it sound like days. But then when you do
Speaker 1: go to calculating. So then it got dropped down the
Speaker 1: state right in the state. The lady came in and
Speaker 1: she was wild and the prosecute. She said, well, I'm
Speaker 1: recommending ninety nine years.
Speaker 2: This is when ninety nine years.
Speaker 1: This is the thing heavy, how much crack you got on?
Speaker 1: Not only but it was five keys, right, So the
Speaker 1: thing is that Jesus, The thing is that I'm they're
Speaker 1: not supposed to let me in court because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say something. My attorney at he wasn't talking fast enough.
Speaker 1: He's like ninety nine years. And I said a very
Speaker 1: derogatory word to her that later, and I asked her
Speaker 1: who she thinks she caught. I'm like, man, I am nineteen.
Speaker 1: Who you think you caught? Ma'am? Esketball like, So we
Speaker 1: come back to court again, got reset off. She's talking
Speaker 1: about I think sixty years would be appropriate. Man again, ma'am, like,
Speaker 1: you want me to have a life as it is?
Speaker 1: So rio my attorney real hair, big shotut the real hairs.
Speaker 1: He he would in there, did what he did, and
Speaker 1: he came back. He said, man, I almost got you ten.
Speaker 1: I said, I almost got to meet ten. What happened?
Speaker 1: He said, your your cage started at fifteen, but you
Speaker 1: had to take fifteen, the lowest number. But I got
Speaker 1: that other team because I was on Judiford probation. And
Speaker 1: so they ran it concurrent and the crazy when they
Speaker 1: gave me the ten and the fifteen. My girlfriend at
Speaker 1: the time, she's gonna she's gonna faint in court because
Speaker 1: she's thinking it's twenty five years she's gonna. I said,
Speaker 1: are you really back there doing the movies?
Speaker 3: Respect her, man, respect.
Speaker 1: Respect man. Listen that lady, that lady eighty five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in one and fives in the trash bag in
Speaker 1: the house. Ask her how much? Asked me how much
Speaker 1: she sent me? While you're talking about she and their
Speaker 1: faint that dollar not a not a dollar. But now,
Speaker 1: my my extra check. You know what I'm saying, Kendra,
Speaker 1: extra check.
Speaker 2: Even my extra check?
Speaker 1: Is you got it? The extra check?
Speaker 3: You side, it is a derogatory term.
Speaker 1: It's bad. It's bad. It's an extra person in your life.
Speaker 1: You got you gotta have something like that, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't just be like inside now, my my extra
Speaker 1: joont Kendre. She she ain't got no but twelve grand.
Speaker 1: She bringing money up to the thing. Look how respectful
Speaker 1: that is. You know what I'm saying now eighty four
Speaker 1: over here out and man, it wasn't it was she
Speaker 1: gonna faint. Hendry Kindred in according the back too She's like,
Speaker 1: I got you. And then when I talked on the phone,
Speaker 1: she asked me, did I want to Did I want
Speaker 1: her to go by and get that money for paying
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But she's gonna rob her,
Speaker 1: you know, rob her to bring in my bread. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But you know, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta have a real First of all, I don't even
Speaker 1: do drugs. No, I don't even there do No. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm going into that life. I just
Speaker 1: I got too caught up. I'm about to say I'm
Speaker 1: gonna roby?
Speaker 3: When when? When the Judd telling you're gonna get three
Speaker 3: hundred months? At any point that you just say, who
Speaker 3: can I tell on?
Speaker 1: No? You ain't thinking about man, No, no, no, new
Speaker 1: that's that's that's cold you man. It's some dudes through
Speaker 1: me in a trunk when I got I got robbed.
Speaker 4: You need a hug, brother, long. The stuff you go through,
Speaker 4: it's amazing. I put this on the Specials.
Speaker 1: You got got a story to.
Speaker 2: Tell everybody after you get out the trunck and you
Speaker 2: the trunk man.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta see the Specials. MV. You gotta go.
Speaker 1: You gotta follow the I'm on three now trunk. I
Speaker 1: got thrown the trunk in two. I met out the trunk.
Speaker 1: I'm out the trunk. You like, call I seen this.
Speaker 1: I think the car shot. Yo, get out the trunk.
Speaker 1: And I've seen them, dudes. I ain't telling them.
Speaker 2: Dudes.
Speaker 1: You know you don't. You don't tell on people when
Speaker 1: you're in the streets. But now now I'm telling everybody.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'll tell everybody. Bring people. Ain't got nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it, man. I think Emmy was over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah right man, because let me tell you. Because when
Speaker 1: I was young, I could take the mattress in jail.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I've been to jail as a real adult.
Speaker 1: I was like forty six or something like that.
Speaker 3: Traffic stop and driving with no license, spend their license crazy.
Speaker 1: Now my license always, I don't trust my.
Speaker 3: Last time, I don't trust my license.
Speaker 1: I don't, man, I don't trust my license at all.
Speaker 1: Like like, if I come if you and jail, if
Speaker 1: I got to come bomb you out, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to send somebody because my license is is shaky. Just
Speaker 1: never know its I probably got to stopped somewhere I
Speaker 1: didn't remember, and then all of a sudden, You know,
Speaker 1: I came to get you out, and now they talking about
Speaker 1: can you step on this side for to get somebody.
Speaker 1: It's not an exchange, yo, you for him? Now, I
Speaker 1: came to get it. We're supposed to both be leaving together.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, he can't drop my car, man, and I don't.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't trust my license. But it's shaky sometimes.
Speaker 1: Damn man, But that matt you can't take that mattress. No,
Speaker 1: I slept, Man, It was funny. I went to jail
Speaker 1: in a in a and I thought, okay. And at
Speaker 1: the time, I was a spokesman for a bail bonds
Speaker 1: company and the c W I'm now the spo was,
Speaker 1: if you go to jail, we'll get you out. So
Speaker 1: it's no way in the world I'm gonna stay in there.
Speaker 1: But the you gotta make a phone call. Now. To
Speaker 1: make a phone call, you gotta get a bond first, right,
Speaker 1: So I said, okay, let me see the judge. I
Speaker 1: can get a bond. The man said, the judge is
Speaker 1: gone for the day. I said, but it's nine twenty
Speaker 1: a m. He's done all the judging, like he's done
Speaker 1: for today. Man. So I had to stay overnight to
Speaker 1: get a bond for them to even come get me.
Speaker 3: What time did the judge come in?
Speaker 1: Oh, this is my thing. This is my thing, Bassouri,
Speaker 1: in Bazouria County. I just wanted to let it be known,
Speaker 1: Bassouri County. The man done at ain't thirty and what?
Speaker 1: So you come on and he's early because the next
Speaker 1: day I had to get one. They wake you up
Speaker 1: at four thirty. You in there at five, he rule it.
Speaker 1: Everybody sitting in the room. He gone at a thirty.
Speaker 1: So I had to wait till the next day to
Speaker 1: get bothered out. I'm thinking nobody's gonna know me because
Speaker 1: it's all white people, white and hispanic. I'm walking with
Speaker 1: a little mattress. And I was on this show on
Speaker 1: Comedy Central. This is not happening. This white guy beat
Speaker 1: on that on that window at least. I'm oh, come on, man,
Speaker 1: I look, I said, what's up? Man? Man? He was
Speaker 1: on this is not happening. I said, yeah, and this
Speaker 1: is not happening. Man going on all night man and
Speaker 1: in prison is loud. I can't I couldn't take it.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was that loud when I was there,
Speaker 1: but I'm nineteen. I'm probably loud too loud too. And
Speaker 1: this dude rapping, and I'm nah, this ain't what we're doing.
Speaker 1: It's sleep time, it's bedtie. This boy rapping, another dude
Speaker 1: beating on he needed diabetic medicine. I say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you can't be doing crime if you sick, bro, you
Speaker 1: gotta be I was healthy when I was doing It's crazy.
Speaker 3: So when you get out of jail, you get out
Speaker 3: of prison, you get your your fake polo. Do you
Speaker 3: remember your first show?
Speaker 1: Yes, just joking, comedy cafe Thursday night, apollow night. I
Speaker 1: have on a suit because I working at Most. I
Speaker 1: got a job at the maw and so I'm working
Speaker 1: at most of the men's a peril store. Got a
Speaker 1: suit on. This is when you learn observation. So it's
Speaker 1: a lot of college kids in there because it's apollow night,
Speaker 1: and everybody up there doing everything. So I go up
Speaker 1: and all I said was hey, and them folks boom,
Speaker 1: super jacket off. I'm not even I didn't even tell
Speaker 1: her I'm talking about it was bad. So it was, man,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about them boozers. It was. It was in
Speaker 1: stereo two, so I came and sat down in my
Speaker 1: partner drake. Man, what happened? I said, bro, you I
Speaker 1: think you was born with them like you participated. And
Speaker 1: at the time NICKI she she asked me, said William,
Speaker 1: did my kids mom be talking? And I said, uh,
Speaker 1: She said what what whatere your jacket at? I said, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's going to stay. They booted off me because it
Speaker 1: was it was crazy.
Speaker 2: Damn you go back up there and get your jacket.
Speaker 1: Man, Yes, many people, man, it was. It was so
Speaker 1: I waited for two weeks, waiting for two weeks, came
Speaker 1: back T shirt and jeans, and I didn't write down
Speaker 1: what I was doing because everybody was singing. Man. And
Speaker 1: I never won at this bottle night because people hit
Speaker 1: you with the gospel songs. Even though I was I
Speaker 1: was good gospel song every man I heard I sang.
Speaker 1: The dude he was started rapping and was getting about
Speaker 1: to get booted and changed his song in the middle
Speaker 1: of the song, started singing about Jesus. So like this,
Speaker 1: how you spell relief? Jay? You asked you like, So
Speaker 1: I changed my whole thing, went back up every week
Speaker 1: for about a month and a half to the people.
Speaker 1: As soon as I would get there after that, people
Speaker 1: were like, yo, man, you're going up tonight. Oh he's funny.
Speaker 1: So I ended up becoming the host of that same
Speaker 1: place that I got booed and just joking, Comedy Cafe,
Speaker 1: and I was the host for like a year, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how it started.
Speaker 3: Do you remember the joke that that got him, that
Speaker 3: made you say, you know what, I can do this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I remember the jones that got him. It was
Speaker 1: a dude. A dude tried to boot me that was
Speaker 1: on the football team, and I told him that he
Speaker 1: was a he was a nose tackle. They wouldn't hike
Speaker 1: the ball because he liked the way the quarterback had
Speaker 1: his hands on this ball. You know. He was a center.
Speaker 3: You mean he's the center.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like, yo, he he, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like it. I remember it was that's when I was
Speaker 1: doing jokes you know, and stories, you know. So now
Speaker 1: it's it's a different thing. I don't think I've written
Speaker 1: a joke in maybe ten years.
Speaker 5: So how did you turn into the storyteller comedian? Because
Speaker 5: that's a lot of that's hard for people to do, Like,
Speaker 5: it's hard, but it's hard.
Speaker 1: Deal. Deal, I'm I'm on the road with d L
Speaker 1: and he he told me, he said, Yo, man, the
Speaker 1: funniest you're going to ever be in life is based
Speaker 1: on how honest you want to be. And this was
Speaker 1: after some people when I was writing jokes. I don't
Speaker 1: even blame the people anymore, because I think that when
Speaker 1: you have writers, that writers under the pressure of turning
Speaker 1: in something to another comic, and so they could see
Speaker 1: your show and then turn in, Man, I don't have
Speaker 1: nothing this week. But if you try to get that check,
Speaker 1: so you turn in somebody else's material to the person
Speaker 1: who you have no idea that you that you just
Speaker 1: sought it somewhere, and so now are you a thief?
Speaker 1: So now I just I switched from doing jokes to
Speaker 1: doing everything personally about me and if you would have to,
Speaker 1: and people still try to steal it. But it's hard
Speaker 1: because now you know, it's a lot of comics that
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they went to jail, but I
Speaker 1: went to prison. It's a different thing. Jailing a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the jail, but prison is two different things.
Speaker 1: So I would go up and people trying to doing
Speaker 1: jail stuff in front of me. I'm like, but you know,
Speaker 1: that's not what I'm doing. I'm I'm walking through my
Speaker 1: life from ten years old to now. So it just
Speaker 1: happens to be the first comedy series of specials like these.
Speaker 1: All these specials are tied together. So if you see
Speaker 1: three now, which came out Mother's Day, you can't go
Speaker 1: see you can't go see four without seeing one and two.
Speaker 1: So and one is one is the is the masterpiece,
Speaker 1: but three is the best one to me thus far
Speaker 1: that I that I see, and two has a different,
Speaker 1: a different cachet to it because I was showing a
Speaker 1: different skill set in the actual art of it, because
Speaker 1: it's two faces to comedy. You know, it's having a tragedy.
Speaker 1: So in two my sister passed, and well it's it's
Speaker 1: late now, you know, you know, twenty years I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it.
Speaker 3: All the time. Grief is not linear. I don't know
Speaker 3: how you're feeling this morning about.
Speaker 1: It, man, twenty years ago to say years old?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: Sorry, man, Well I'm man. We dealt with God's crazy,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, racked them up.
Speaker 7: About seven more. You can say, man, I can run
Speaker 7: him off. After my sister with my son, then it
Speaker 7: was my grandmother. Yeah, we we we mad hard ones.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: So that's why I heard about all of them.
Speaker 1: Brother, That's why I did loss, because that's one of
Speaker 1: the number one things in the black community that man,
Speaker 1: death runs to our family a little harder than just
Speaker 1: a loss. Like now you got to figure out how
Speaker 1: to bury them and and all this. Man, I don't
Speaker 1: I'm I don't want not another gold fund. Don't send
Speaker 1: me not another goal fund. Me. Let's try to figure
Speaker 1: out what is the situation that we need to prepare for.
Speaker 1: When it's inevitable, it's death is gonna happen, we won't
Speaker 1: even talk about it, which is hey, man, I think
Speaker 1: about death every single day, every single day. So I
Speaker 1: live a better life than most people because I know
Speaker 1: I don't have the time to be engaged in things
Speaker 1: that really I can't rectify. You know, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: hold a grudge behind something when I can get an
Speaker 1: apology or I can apologize, you know, like, you know,
Speaker 1: my whole intent to come up here because I was
Speaker 1: mad at you. Man, you were saying my name wrong,
Speaker 1: and you did it twice too. You know what I'm saying, Ali,
Speaker 1: I'm like this man, know how to say my name? Ali?
Speaker 1: You know, talking about my special with somebody. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's named Ali Ali. I'm like, and they send
Speaker 1: it to me break. I'm like, he knows how to
Speaker 1: say Ali.
Speaker 3: You know he knows because I kept hearing other people
Speaker 3: say Ali while you was listening to other people.
Speaker 1: You better than somebody call up there and asked them
Speaker 1: who his favorite box is? Probably Muhammad Ali. Just take
Speaker 1: the Muhammad out.
Speaker 3: Because when the first special came out, everybody I knew
Speaker 3: was talking about that special, especially in the comedy world.
Speaker 3: It was like, Yo, you gotta watch this due Ali.
Speaker 1: You know, nobody say that. Nobody, nobody says you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of ain't nobody saying anyone? Nobody said that.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like Ali wonng like he staid there all up.
Speaker 1: I want Look, I don't even know Charloe. I'm like Charlemagne,
Speaker 1: don't like me when when I get up, when I
Speaker 1: finally get to the record, I'm leading. I'm leading with man,
Speaker 1: why you're saying my name? Then I forget. Then I
Speaker 1: left it alone. It's like whatever, at least he mentioned me.
Speaker 1: That's all I had.
Speaker 3: But that first special took off though, Yeah, did you
Speaker 3: did you understand that it would do that, or it
Speaker 3: was just a risk coming Throw this on YouTube and
Speaker 3: see what happened.
Speaker 1: Man, I thought it was really good. And when I
Speaker 1: do a special, it takes a while for it to
Speaker 1: you know. I recorded probably three or four specials before
Speaker 1: that one, and it was like, no, it's not special.
Speaker 1: So Domino Effect the first one. I knew that it was.
Speaker 1: I knew it. It's like the first album I put out,
Speaker 1: talking loud saying something that's my reasonable doubt, you know.
Speaker 1: So I knew once I put this one out, I
Speaker 1: knew it. I had that feeling about I was too
Speaker 1: excited about it. Then it didn't have any flaws to it.
Speaker 1: And that's one thing when I look at something, I
Speaker 1: don't want it to have anything that somebody can grab
Speaker 1: on to. Like. But but what about this? So when
Speaker 1: when that happened, and then somebody said, well, what's the
Speaker 1: rest of the story, I said, what, Like, what happened
Speaker 1: after that? I said, you want to know?
Speaker 5: So they oh, so you had never even planned to
Speaker 5: make it to keep on going with a series.
Speaker 1: Well, if somebody asked me about what happened after that,
Speaker 1: and I said, okay, well I stopped at sixteen. So
Speaker 1: let's do it from sixteen to nineteen, and then when
Speaker 1: we get we did the first we did two, and
Speaker 1: then I said, yo, let's finish up how I even
Speaker 1: got incarcerated. People know I was there, but let's see
Speaker 1: how I got there. And then we did three, and
Speaker 1: we recorded three and four in DC at the same time.
Speaker 1: So we did two shows on that Friday and two
Speaker 1: shows on that Saturday. So four comes out Father's Day.
Speaker 1: So we strategically put one on Mother's Day, one on
Speaker 1: Father's Day, and four is two hours long, you know,
Speaker 1: versus the one thirty that I've been doing. And it's
Speaker 1: getting to the pinnacle of how what I went through,
Speaker 1: I was in side and how did I get jovial
Speaker 1: to come out and want to pursue comedy. So after
Speaker 1: this series, we're going to start another series called in
Speaker 1: the Shadows, which is the walk with me doing stand up,
Speaker 1: getting it, being in a public in a public space,
Speaker 1: trying to be private because I'm on parole, and on
Speaker 1: parole most people don't realize parole people. We try to
Speaker 1: stay out the way because we know anything can get
Speaker 1: us back incarcerated. So now you're trying to fight for
Speaker 1: your innocens from a disposition of being incarcerated, and incarceration is,
Speaker 1: especially mass incarceration is it's crippling. A lot of it
Speaker 1: cripples a family because it's wear and tearing on a family.
Speaker 1: And it's not just you. You know, people think that
Speaker 1: my mom was locked up right with me, you know,
Speaker 1: and because I'm there and she's concerned about me every day.
Speaker 1: It's like when somebody go to gym. My mom, Nicky
Speaker 1: would always say, why you always go get trade out
Speaker 1: of jail when he locked up? I said, man, because
Speaker 1: something can happen just by being in there. Is the
Speaker 1: oldest boy.
Speaker 3: Again, I mean just.
Speaker 1: The oldest boy, the oldest boy. You know, he's the
Speaker 1: only one that's been in trouble thus far. You know,
Speaker 1: hopefully nobody else is ever gets in trouble because my
Speaker 1: oldest daughter, Jaden, she's a chef. She's she's the she's
Speaker 1: the spinoff version of me I'm talking about. Man, It's
Speaker 1: nothing like having somebody respect your daughter in the streets
Speaker 1: like they respect you. And they always hey, man, I
Speaker 1: saw your daughter. Man, she's a g man like appreciate you.
Speaker 1: You know you raised I raised a good one. But
Speaker 1: you know that that raising daughters. You also have this fear,
Speaker 1: this constant fear, because you've been incss rated and you
Speaker 1: know how people that's not really good navigate. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've sat down and I've talked to people who have
Speaker 1: attacked women and you know, and did all these these
Speaker 1: file things in the world. So when you out in
Speaker 1: the street, everything I see is a red flag. It's
Speaker 1: just like you're like, man, so you know, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: this is a sign. They triggers them, you know, But
Speaker 1: you can't tell women I'm in I should be able
Speaker 1: to do yeah, but but but you know I should
Speaker 1: be able to do too, but I don't go.
Speaker 3: And then you don't want to raise your kids out
Speaker 3: of fear. But it's kind of hard not to, kind of.
Speaker 1: Hard not to because everything, everything that you've experienced, you know,
Speaker 1: even with my sons, man, I'm I'm very fearful of
Speaker 1: him having children out of wedlock with people that that
Speaker 1: don't serve him. Well, like, I'm not that father who
Speaker 1: like will tell my daughters this. Now, I'm more on
Speaker 1: my son. A man, keep your penis in your pans, bro.
Speaker 1: Before you end up in a situation that you can't
Speaker 1: get out of. Then some of these young men out
Speaker 1: here nowadays. Man, they need some real talking to. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about another young lady losing her
Speaker 1: life because her brother didn't understand no or or she
Speaker 1: want to leave. You know, it's a man and I
Speaker 1: have girls, and I'm and I'm I'm really concerned about
Speaker 1: the state of mind these young men because I'm like, yo, man,
Speaker 1: what is your deal? But I understand, I know where
Speaker 1: it comes from. I don't understand these situations, but I
Speaker 1: understand they don't. They don't communicate enough. They on this
Speaker 1: machine all day, on this phone, and you you you don't, man,
Speaker 1: I got turned down. You know you need to take
Speaker 1: that walk what I'm saying. And just at a at
Speaker 1: a table with friends, you decide you for to go
Speaker 1: higher as somebody and they look at it. Look, look, look, look,
Speaker 1: look you cattle shoes on. You're gonna pick the wrong
Speaker 1: one every time. And so hey, where you see me,
Speaker 1: I'm pregnant. You can't go to the next one. You know,
Speaker 1: you got to take that long walk of rejection back
Speaker 1: and forth. But I man, girls, also.
Speaker 3: We didn't have a sense of entitlement because think about
Speaker 3: even the note we used to write it was would
Speaker 3: you go out with me?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: No, even the maybe, so you were prepared for whatever.
Speaker 1: Man, do you understand having to ask the slow dance
Speaker 1: after ask the dance because now that you be dancing,
Speaker 1: somebody walking behind you. No, And man, I had to
Speaker 1: go over there. Would you like to dance? And no? Cool? Right,
Speaker 1: that's cool? Envy go ad? Would you like to dance? Ah?
Speaker 1: Like light skin light skin. I see what this is.
Speaker 1: I'll never ask her again. She got a type already,
Speaker 1: You already got a type. You gotta type, all right, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: all right? Not so because he likes it, all right,
Speaker 1: all right? And that's when I think that was a
Speaker 1: That was a little era where people were trying to
Speaker 1: be lighter. And I remember the bow legg era. You
Speaker 1: remember the bow legging air when dudes trying to stand
Speaker 1: like they were bow legged. No, do nothing, girl, dude.
Speaker 1: The South girls love girls love a bow legged dude.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sloop. I didn't even do that. I
Speaker 1: wanted to understand, like.
Speaker 5: I'm not a man, but I'm on the other side
Speaker 5: of it, though I did. It was something about some
Speaker 5: of them athletes, the way they're standing there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of.
Speaker 5: Your legs are like, you know a little like parentheses. Yeah,
Speaker 5: don't be pigeon told though, that's where it's different.
Speaker 1: Told and slewp for we ain't get no love like
Speaker 1: your shoes ain't look right if your knees not. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I ain't never like that man. Look, it's the only
Speaker 1: knock knee basketball player. I even respect the KENNI Smith.
Speaker 1: I just didn't and I didn't even know he was
Speaker 1: knock need. Man. It's just something about them I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I have just seen some girls so look like their
Speaker 1: legs and an x. Man, what's wrong with you? Man?
Speaker 1: How do you even get knockknee? Your faces? They should
Speaker 1: get a check.
Speaker 3: I want to ask you a question you said about
Speaker 3: your son. When you're telling your sons about you know,
Speaker 3: I guess women to stay away with, stay away from.
Speaker 3: How do you have that conversation with your with a
Speaker 3: son when you might be talking about his mama.
Speaker 1: Mm hm and saying I didn't say that. Man. Listen, listen,
Speaker 1: this is simmingy son. You see how you ma? Man,
Speaker 1: you don't want one who do that? You see right there?
Speaker 1: This is what you don't want that mother? See all
Speaker 1: this fat mother all this fat mile. But my younger
Speaker 1: son he has he has a little crisis going on hisself.
Speaker 1: That that's Hassan. Hassan is thirteen and you have to hey, bro,
Speaker 1: you need to respect your mother, respect your sisters. He's
Speaker 1: in he's entitled. And this is and this is my fault, man,
Speaker 1: these these kids, it's slightly my fault and slightly uh
Speaker 1: the lady who lived in the house. This is the thing,
Speaker 1: this is the thing. You have to give him chores.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have any respe He's not responsible for anything.
Speaker 1: So I think when you don't have chores, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna have a lack of respect for a
Speaker 1: lot of things. You know, when you have chores, Man,
Speaker 1: that's a but I had things that I had to do,
Speaker 1: and so I'm structured in that way now that man,
Speaker 1: I had, Hey, before I do anything, I gotta do
Speaker 1: this and that that goes when you become a grown man.
Speaker 1: You know, Hey, man, let me take care of this first,
Speaker 1: and then I get to that. If you don't have that,
Speaker 1: you got get that young, I get that young.
Speaker 5: Your your special part four comes out on Father's Day,
Speaker 5: Like you said, how much is how much of that
Speaker 5: involves like your dad or does it even involve man?
Speaker 1: My dad, he I put him all through the rest
Speaker 1: of them, and he has a small piece and four
Speaker 1: because he had Why I was incarcerated. My pops had
Speaker 1: at fifty almost sixty years old, got locked up for
Speaker 1: an assault, right and he my daddy thought he was
Speaker 1: on some big boss mob type thing because his two
Speaker 1: brothers was locked up. I was locked up. Then he
Speaker 1: gets locked up. So he sends five hundred dollars on
Speaker 1: everybody's books while he and while he locked up, and
Speaker 1: gonna write a letter. Yeah, just sent you some bread.
Speaker 1: We're not we're not in the family. Like you didn't
Speaker 1: see me nothing until you got locked up. I don't
Speaker 1: even understand this. I've been like him like four years now.
Speaker 1: He gonna, yeah, sent you some bread since we died
Speaker 1: here man, I rode back. Hey man tried to go home.
Speaker 1: In the next couple of years. He had less time
Speaker 1: than me. He beat me on anyway, But he said
Speaker 1: money to his brother his brothers, oh yeah, appreciate you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They thirstyself. Like my uncle Max, he's a g but
Speaker 1: my uncle Alfred he's a sucker.
Speaker 3: He's a sucker.
Speaker 1: Sucker. Wo man. My grandmother right, dementia, had dementia. I'm
Speaker 1: putting money in our books, the money coming up missing.
Speaker 1: He writing checks, had my grandmother sign them, and she
Speaker 1: had dementia. She got dimension you're stealing the boss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's wild, and then putting in a bad position where
Speaker 1: her bills not getting paid. And I don't know who
Speaker 1: my grandmother was when she was younger, but you know, dementia,
Speaker 1: they be staying stuff in their life. So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: taking care of her. One day because my cousin we
Speaker 1: rotating and I'm over, I give a coke and her
Speaker 1: coke is low. I come back to grab a coke
Speaker 1: to fill it up. She grabbed my wrists and say,
Speaker 1: put my glass down. I said, what you say, put
Speaker 1: my glass down before I drown you? I said, when
Speaker 1: was you drowned before? Grown men in your life? She
Speaker 1: must have been a mob. But she owned the cafe,
Speaker 1: so I don't know when she was doing it, but
Speaker 1: at some point she was drowning full grown. That's that
Speaker 1: ain't no regular threat. That's before.
Speaker 2: Put that down.
Speaker 1: I put it down. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: I just I'm not messing this.
Speaker 3: Later, you sound like DL sometimes when when just in
Speaker 3: regular conversation, you.
Speaker 2: Man called you all now you said, you sound like somebody.
Speaker 1: Else me and DL has a total different voice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have a totally different cadence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you can just hear it every now and
Speaker 3: then when you said it three times, he said, I
Speaker 3: like you.
Speaker 1: But you just know that, you just know you just
Speaker 1: you just looked in the files. You just you sound
Speaker 1: like Bill Bird?
Speaker 3: Which one which one of those guys you think has
Speaker 3: had the most impact on on your career?
Speaker 1: My career? How the whole? Uh?
Speaker 3: Does anybody d L?
Speaker 1: Definitely d L, Dick Gregory, Bill Bellamy. I can put
Speaker 1: him in order, the Dad's white Billy watch, Billy watch.
Speaker 1: Did you know? Yes, very well? Like but I don't
Speaker 1: have no by way? You say, did you know, because
Speaker 1: you know did you know? Said yeah, very well like?
Speaker 1: I know how that was. You took a serience too.
Speaker 1: You know it's crazy. I heard it once. You said it.
Speaker 1: I'm so a dope. I ain't even listen to her.
Speaker 1: I'm fitty. I I was just saying, I was saying
Speaker 1: pols and I would say none of that. Man, man,
Speaker 1: it's a nice next. That's a nice shirt. I don't
Speaker 1: have to say, pouls mind. I'm gone, he said. You know, Dick,
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, no, Dick, I'm like, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: just like very well and then but but but but
Speaker 1: you but you're making sense though, Charlemagne.
Speaker 2: There you go, Dick on the wall.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I want to do.
Speaker 3: I'm like, we had we had a Dick Gregory up here.
Speaker 3: We had he was up for like an hour forty
Speaker 3: five minutes.
Speaker 1: That's all. That's all. That's that's all he gave you
Speaker 1: our that was that's the interview. That's how long the
Speaker 1: interview was. No, No, that man, I've done. Let me
Speaker 1: let me see, let me see after the show, Dick
Speaker 1: Gregory right now, I all got a COMPLI come. So
Speaker 1: we talked two shows. I think it was six hours
Speaker 1: each night after the show. Yeah, and so I have
Speaker 1: very close times him and I don't care what nobody say.
Speaker 1: It was too many people around that night when that
Speaker 1: man told me in my face, you're going to take
Speaker 1: my place if you can maintain your attitude, said Ali,
Speaker 1: because you you a firecracker, yeah, he said, he said, man,
Speaker 1: and I understand because you're a Libra and you and
Speaker 1: he was a libra. So I'm I'm very good with balance.
Speaker 1: I like balance, and then I don't. I don't shuck
Speaker 1: and jove, I'm not gonna say nothing to you that
Speaker 1: I about you. I won't say in your face. I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna say it under silence. So I'm ready
Speaker 1: to say it in your face.
Speaker 3: I don't do the.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, yes, you know who's the somebody'? You know, No,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say who the somebody is? They said it.
Speaker 1: They I'm just I don't play them type of game.
Speaker 1: I'm just a straightforward person. And in its business, this business,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of funny ballognais man that you can
Speaker 1: just tell me, no, bro, I got tough skin. I
Speaker 1: don't need the fake and shake. And so when you
Speaker 1: try to handle me like that, I get a little,
Speaker 1: I get a little touchy and I and I'm not
Speaker 1: one of that. I don't miss word. If I say
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it, that's done. I'm not feel I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't play a lot. I wish I could with people,
Speaker 1: but I just don't play a lot with with the goofies.
Speaker 1: I just I can't do it. And and and it's
Speaker 1: a lot of them. It's a lot of people say
Speaker 1: say things and then act like they didn't say it,
Speaker 1: or because you have more popularity, you can throw something
Speaker 1: out there and people gravitate towards it. But man, I
Speaker 1: always think about Benny Blanco. You the way you handle people,
Speaker 1: that person is gonna eventually come back. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I tell people, Man, Benny Bonco from
Speaker 1: the Bronx, man, that man just wanted to talk to him.
Speaker 1: So I don't even handle young comics like that. It's
Speaker 1: certain things. I'm gonna tell you. I don't want you
Speaker 1: in the green room when I get there. It's not
Speaker 1: your green room. You know. It's a certain code to
Speaker 1: how I came up. I don't go in the green
Speaker 1: room in my home club. If you're the headliner, until
Speaker 1: you invite me into that green room, I'm outside and disrespect.
Speaker 1: It's just a it's just a colde. If I'm the
Speaker 1: feature or the host, I'm not going in the green room. Man.
Speaker 1: That man. What if I'm on the show, We'll watch
Speaker 1: this Dick Gregory between each show. He used to sleep
Speaker 1: just like Damon Wayne's. They sleep in between each show.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna keep walking in out of the green
Speaker 1: room while they're in there sleep, disrespectful, disrespectful. It doesn't
Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. But it's so many people think
Speaker 1: that they entire to a space because you was there
Speaker 1: at that club doing the open mic. That's the open
Speaker 1: mic is not the show, but it's it's levels. So
Speaker 1: it's levels to all of it and then stand up.
Speaker 1: I think the barriers have gotten broken due to a
Speaker 1: combination of things. When people used to talk about the
Speaker 1: internet comics, did they ally they taking our they taking
Speaker 1: our slots, just not taking your slot. Way the people
Speaker 1: who were doing sketches, they weren't taking your slot. The
Speaker 1: comedy club, it was like this, we have a building. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we need people, people, We need people, just as can
Speaker 1: you come on Wednesday and Thursdays? We have Faison Love
Speaker 1: on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, but we're going to make this
Speaker 1: money on Wednesday and Thursdays. And we had a magic
Speaker 1: show on Tuesday before you. Okay, I'm saying, and if
Speaker 1: I had defense, I had comedy defensive driving on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm trying the doors open so we can have a
Speaker 1: place to do comedy. You was looking people was looking
Speaker 1: at them as skipping the line. No, it's no skipping
Speaker 1: the line in his business. You can jump forward. But
Speaker 1: then what make you have to come back?
Speaker 3: Hm.
Speaker 1: Skill set when you first started, you know how to
Speaker 1: stand up, you on the screen. Now these people that
Speaker 1: you were, that you were getting on the screen, now,
Speaker 1: these people right here, it's no like I'm gonna okay, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all saw what I just did. I'm going to cut
Speaker 1: that and I'm gonna come back and say something different. No.
Speaker 1: Then then what happened was the Internet god started getting
Speaker 1: success and then they start big dogging the stand up
Speaker 1: experienced stand up saying, oh I'm I'm making my money.
Speaker 1: You run. But then pandemic happened. Now everybody got a
Speaker 1: humble their self again because I can't my editor and
Speaker 1: my people not in here. I don't have nobody to
Speaker 1: do these schedules with. Now, now comics were reigning supreme
Speaker 1: doing that. We just cutting the camera on boom, what's
Speaker 1: up baby, I'm here, you know. So that's how it
Speaker 1: now it's emerging. Now you haven't heard a beef about
Speaker 1: Internet versus traditional because now everybody is back. You had
Speaker 1: to go to the club and work. They had to
Speaker 1: come from behind the screen. Then people like me started
Speaker 1: using the screen to just promote that I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: somewhere instead of just instead of shutting because I'm I'm
Speaker 1: old school. I'm yo, man, I've been doing standing up
Speaker 1: twenty six years. I'm in the trenches. It's different for me,
Speaker 1: and now I have both, you know, now I have,
Speaker 1: But I wasn't trying to find out, trying to get
Speaker 1: on the way of the algorithms and all that. Now
Speaker 1: pay somebody to do that. But the slapsticks and the
Speaker 1: the the shock comics. Now we're back to at least
Speaker 1: with me, it is back to loan form. People told
Speaker 1: me that the what they told me they don't really
Speaker 1: listen to that much. They're not gonna watch the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So I started putting out longer than just an hour.
Speaker 1: He was like, nah, this is what I want to hear.
Speaker 1: Now you engaged in the story. If you watch Law
Speaker 1: and Order, you watched John Wick, Why you wouldn't watch
Speaker 1: a series of something That's funny because my only skill
Speaker 1: set is just tell stories the same way that I
Speaker 1: grew up hearing them. You know, my uncle, They that's
Speaker 1: how they started a man Let me tell you about
Speaker 1: this big legal lady. I just met you, Like what
Speaker 1: big leg lady? Then you you my grandma, she'd come
Speaker 1: in and tell my aunt. You know, I tell stories
Speaker 1: just like people in your family. So it's not a
Speaker 1: it's not a magic trick to it. I read books
Speaker 1: and I listened to the ancestors how they did things,
Speaker 1: and I try to put that together.
Speaker 3: And that's relatable.
Speaker 5: And a lot of people don't have that though, Like
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, a lot of it's not
Speaker 5: it's not it's easy for people like you know, like
Speaker 5: a lot of the like internet comics, they don't know
Speaker 5: how to keep people's attention like you can do that.
Speaker 5: You're a great storyteller, and like you said, you tell
Speaker 5: it like your family member, like you know, just like people,
Speaker 5: you know, people you grew up here and telling stories.
Speaker 1: People don't know how to do that. That's back and
Speaker 1: that's when I'm sitting down with when the last time
Speaker 1: you sat down and you listen to a story from
Speaker 1: somebody in your.
Speaker 2: Family like an aunt or all the time love it, yes,
Speaker 2: all the time you.
Speaker 1: Got you had it. So if you was telling the story,
Speaker 1: you would probably do it the same way that you've
Speaker 1: always seen it done. If people have these disconnected families
Speaker 1: and they don't never a man when the last time
Speaker 1: you saw your aunt? What? I don't know, but I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for my cousins to call me and say, man,
Speaker 1: let me tell you what your aunt did yesterday you
Speaker 1: almost fell off a boat, and I'm gonna listen to
Speaker 1: the whole story. I'm gonna listen to the whole entire
Speaker 1: story because and then I'm calling. Then I'm calling, oh,
Speaker 1: see you out here falling off boat. I can't even
Speaker 1: wipe the call. We told you that because I grew
Speaker 1: up with them, with the whole I never did nothing
Speaker 1: private in my family. If if I did it, my
Speaker 1: mother called everybody and then everybody know, I mean people
Speaker 1: that you didn't even think and you mind your own
Speaker 1: ben your uncle. So you just around here pining in
Speaker 1: the bed, Hey man, we are and I mean we
Speaker 1: we we out in the back. That's what you want
Speaker 1: to talk about. Now, I'm just saying, your mama tell
Speaker 1: me you with every day. I'm saying, you just just
Speaker 1: pissed through a mattress. What you talking?
Speaker 5: And these are still things that people are going through
Speaker 5: so it's relatable. It's gonna always be relatable.
Speaker 3: Family.
Speaker 1: Do you understand my uncle right now? He don't care
Speaker 1: nothing about no six Hey remember when you us being
Speaker 1: to what you so you won't say that in front
Speaker 1: of my kad, in front of my head, in front
Speaker 1: of my children. You want to bring that up. I'm
Speaker 1: just that I always win. I can't stand this.
Speaker 3: Man just dropped Domino Effect three on May twelfth, Oh man,
Speaker 3: and Domino Effect four sixteenth.
Speaker 1: That's right now. I think I'm gonna blow up now,
Speaker 1: I don't finally got up here. You want to do?
Speaker 3: You want to do like Netflix or something like that?
Speaker 3: Does it even?
Speaker 1: Man? No, I'm saying no, But well I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: if why not?
Speaker 3: Why I can't say no you the blessing down if
Speaker 3: it comes. But they come with twenty million and say,
Speaker 3: hey man.
Speaker 1: But if they own it, then this this is none
Speaker 1: of they can't get If they own it, they can't
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 3: You can make up a story, you can say anything.
Speaker 3: Take the twenty mini dollars.
Speaker 1: Check. Wait, man, see now they got I'm on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I got twenty million, and now they put out I
Speaker 1: didn't put out some nonsense. Now, people yeah, that boy
Speaker 1: ain't cold. Yeah, but I want to do it on it.
Speaker 1: He's doing what you're doing. They're like, yeah, yeah, never.
Speaker 3: You name.
Speaker 1: Said man Man, I'm man Netflix, and.
Speaker 3: What you're doing, you're doing so well. Now you definitely
Speaker 3: do it well.
Speaker 1: My brother man and I and I appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 1: I just can you know something. I just feel like
Speaker 1: an Emmy, it's gonna come my way since I made
Speaker 1: it this break because I used to always say, you
Speaker 1: know something enough people don't know me. I gotta get
Speaker 1: up there to see DJ Mvy. It wasn't really about you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because because once he hit it with that, this is
Speaker 1: a djoy know that that's the part that you wait,
Speaker 1: it ain't even the show that the show just came out. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm Charlamagne to God and it's just larous, Like what
Speaker 1: what what they think about? When we first started, we
Speaker 1: hated it.
Speaker 2: I was like, why we gotta keep saying our names?
Speaker 1: I don't want to see saying many But our program
Speaker 1: director of time is like, you keep saying your name,
Speaker 1: it stuck, It gets stuck in consultant him and keep
Speaker 1: saying your name, but introducing yourself.
Speaker 5: Even when he beef with people, they be like mocking him,
Speaker 5: like j it's a whole rhythm of it.
Speaker 1: You gotta say like that, just you gotta say this
Speaker 1: is But let me tell you that the the the
Speaker 1: thing that that makes me laugh like uncontrollably comes from
Speaker 1: the breakfast club. And I'm talking about me and the
Speaker 1: lady that living in the house. May let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. And if I don't care, how mad if
Speaker 1: that lady called man saying yeah, this is this sweet
Speaker 1: John Joe, y'all do that? What the boy who couldn't say,
Speaker 1: y'all name god? Man? Let me tell you something? It
Speaker 1: was true? That wasn't that was true?
Speaker 7: We know, we know.
Speaker 1: You're serious. Girl. Do you understand the type of I'm
Speaker 1: talking about? Man, if my day is going bad, come on, Webb,
Speaker 1: gonna get gonna get it. But somebody made a car
Speaker 1: through the gate. But yeah, y'all got.
Speaker 3: Him.
Speaker 1: Man, boy, it's like this. It was like our Sharpton
Speaker 1: versus a teleprompter.
Speaker 3: Damn that no oar.
Speaker 1: And the only reason I don't really say nothing about
Speaker 1: it much is because I did a es have you
Speaker 1: ever done a thing that they had the teleprop on
Speaker 1: absolutely just over the weekend, and it was it was
Speaker 1: going too fast. Yeah, and you have to like if
Speaker 1: I tell you I'm just up there and I'm dyslexic.
Speaker 1: That's the whole other thing. I don't. I don't do
Speaker 1: cold reads. Let me see it for let me take
Speaker 1: the picture of it in my brain. I can do it. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm in there with the cold with a cold read
Speaker 1: on the telepromptum and and I'm talking. They got on
Speaker 1: speed out just I'm like, I'm just up and the
Speaker 1: man I'm doing it. And the man looked like this,
Speaker 1: he's liker. I know, damn well, none of that. Whatever
Speaker 1: he's saying. Someone, what what are you looking at?
Speaker 6: Was like hey, man started saying stuff like I'm the
Speaker 6: king and changing my stuff to I tell you everything.
Speaker 6: Because sometimes they be going too fast. You can't get
Speaker 6: that fast many do you understand? The man had to
Speaker 6: look at the teleproblem. He no, damn like, bro, man,
Speaker 6: what are you looking at? Are you looking past me
Speaker 6: outside and something? I'm like, nah, bro, I'm looking.
Speaker 1: Dead at you. But you man, it's too fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Billy Currels go in after me for the same position.
Speaker 1: I said, Billy Man, they tell a propam, he said, Man,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't looking at them telling problem. I was saying
Speaker 1: what I thought they wanted, like we'll make up, got
Speaker 1: to make it up on the fly. How did they
Speaker 1: find you? Ali? Man? Ali? Man? And definitely because you
Speaker 1: know you're messing and this man still now here calling
Speaker 1: you Ali like ol I. He can't do nothing, man,
Speaker 1: Man spelled my name with an I s I D
Speaker 1: d i Q. I'm saying a L I first s
Speaker 1: I D d i Q. Man, it's a visit line
Speaker 1: killing him over here. Yeah, but yeah, you that's dot
Speaker 1: com or you can go on YouTube a lead comedy,
Speaker 1: you know. Man, just you know, stay linked in with
Speaker 1: me on my on my Instagram. Everything is the same.
Speaker 3: I'm following it right. I think I already follow you though.
Speaker 1: You already follow me, because I know you definitely follow
Speaker 1: my Man. What's what's what's the guy you be with
Speaker 1: all the time? And I just saw I just saw
Speaker 1: Andrew at the roast. I was at the roast. Tom.
Speaker 1: It's funny when you become a comics comic and you
Speaker 1: don't know and then you walking room and all these
Speaker 1: comics come over to you. Man, Hey brother, hey brother, man,
Speaker 1: why are you you bowing? Like man? I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: a big I'm a big fan. Like, hey man, what
Speaker 1: what what's the bowing about?
Speaker 3: Thought?
Speaker 1: And like Kevin was talking. I was walking around with
Speaker 1: Kevin talking to somebody. He turned around, Hey brother, I
Speaker 1: didn't know you was gonna be Hey man, what is
Speaker 1: wrong with y'all? Y'all see me? And then I'm walking
Speaker 1: into the party. I'm going to the to the farm
Speaker 1: to the Farm Club, and I've been wanting to go
Speaker 1: get you know, Madgi Johnson, one of my favorite players
Speaker 1: of all time. I just wanted to see what him
Speaker 1: and Bus was doing. They work at in this farm club.
Speaker 1: I'm in there and as I'm walking in, this is
Speaker 1: the biggest compliment I think I ever got. I'm talking
Speaker 1: a non this no out of nowhere. I'm walking into
Speaker 1: this party. Chappelle is coming this way, a bunch of
Speaker 1: people with him, and he just stopped, Hey, oh, Ali,
Speaker 1: you coming to Cincinnati man next weekend at the Task Theater.
Speaker 1: I'm want to try to come by there if I'm
Speaker 1: in town. And I'm, okay, how you know my schedule?
Speaker 1: And he said, man, take my number and call me. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I'm and I'm trying to play it cool cause
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah, whatever. Chapelle and walk right in there.
Speaker 1: The sam Jays sam My number, gave me his number,
Speaker 1: told me comment the Tall the man know my schedule.
Speaker 1: You know, he all in the files. Thank you, thank
Speaker 1: y'all for having me.
Speaker 2: Man, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that ass
Speaker 2: up in the morning.
Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club