WEBVTT - 1994 with Tone Bell 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.080 Our guest is here, and I'm excited to have this 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.360 person in studio kind of today. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.959 Yeah, we got to do your studio technology. We're gonna 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:12.880 be momon in here. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:13.280 Yeah. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:20.000 Actor, comedian, producer, writer, light skinned legend you know. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.599 From his breakout We're all on Survival of the Figs. Yes, sir, 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:25.560 Comedy Central. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.400 Boom, you know him from his comedy special tone Bill 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.760 can't cancel this, give. 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.800 It up for my good brother, like no other tone bell? 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:40.159 How did you like that tone? We'll just get to 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.000 the year. I mean, you picked nineteen ninety four. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:43.760 I did? 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:44.240 I did. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.680 How old are you in ninety four? 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:47.920 I was lever going on twelve? 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.040 I think me too. I was twelve. So you were 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:50.680 born in eighty one. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:52.120 I was born eighty two. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:52.919 I was one of eighty two. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.480 Okay, so I'm by My birthday's in January, so I 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.120 was like, okay, I'm twelve and ninety four, so we 0:00:58.200 --> 0:00:59.080 were the same age. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:01.440 What made you pick this year? 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.200 Like when we have a guest, we typically like for 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:04.880 you kind of to walk us through who you were 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.040 in ninety four and what made you pick this year? 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.679 I picked this year because it's been coming up a 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.760 lot over like the last couple of years of you know, 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.560 me getting to know my wife and I getting to 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.959 know each other over like the last five six years, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.920 and like little stuff that's been coming up and then 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.440 you know shit that your parents tell you that you 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.200 didn't really understand the time, but now you know, it 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.520 starts to unfold of oh, you made these decisions. But 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.760 in ninety four, every summer I was one of them 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.600 kids that went to Chicago or Saint Louis to go 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.080 spend time with my extended family, right the whole summer, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.160 parents just sent me away. When I came back to Atlanta, right, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.080 and we leave the airport and we pull on the 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.200 driveway like thirty minutes later, and a garage door opens, 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.480 and I'm like, who house we at? And they like, oh, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.840 we moved that go y'all moved and didn't tell me, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.360 And so like that been stuck in my head for 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.000 a long time. Wow, these niggas didn't even tell me 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.520 they had move houses. Which is kind of a wild 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.800 time for a twelve year old boy because you just 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.160 start to get into yourself. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.160 Yeah, was it a big move? 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.200 Was it like a huge like a you're in a 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.880 different neighborhood, different school type move Yeah. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.680 Yeah, like five miles down the road, but a new 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.880 school district, no friend, like all new shit was atuse. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.320 It turned out to be a better house. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.120 I say that my dad saw the neighborhood that he 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.600 was in about to turn and so we went to 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.040 a different neighborhood. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:31.280 So your dad saved your life. Sometimes you got to 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.400 jump in there and save your baby. You don't got 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:34.680 time to talk to him about it. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.320 Yeah, yeah, he saw it happening. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:37.760 So ninety four was like, was. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.960 Like that a transition a transition year for you? 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.960 Yeah? Yeah, going into sixth grade, not knowing nobody in 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.040 the neighborhood, not knowing I'm going to a new school. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.920 Was that your first like big move ever, Like you 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.040 didn't you weren't really moving around before that. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.600 No, we moved three times before that, but I was 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:53.640 always in the same school. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:54.639 Okay, got you. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.639 So neighborhood friends changed. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.639 But school was the same. So that was my first 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.840 time having to do both school. Yeah. 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:02.320 Yeah, did you move a lot, sir? 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:03.200 No? 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.040 I actually had a pretty stable childhood and kind of 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.720 stayed in one to two weeks. Okay, so then my 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.480 mom then my mom passed away when I was sixteen, 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.520 and then my life was unstable for a long time. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.040 But up until that, yeah, we were we were constantly moving. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.320 I was kind of like the same in the same 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.160 place for you know, for the most. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.080 Part, I truly was always in a different school every 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.160 other like until I got to middle school. Every other 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.040 like three years, I was in a brand new school 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:32.760 during the year. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:33.960 I just was always moving around. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:34.720 It explains a lot. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:36.640 What does it explain. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:44.520 I Well, my first like like I just remember like consciously, like, oh, 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.480 kindergarten through like middle of second middle of said kindergarten. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.760 I spent like I was raised in Detroit, and then 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.920 we left Detroit to go to like ann Arbor Ipsilani 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:55.720 for like three years of my life. So I spent 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.560 kindergarten through third grade in Ipsilany, like forty five minutes 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.520 outside of Detroit. I grew up with a bunch of 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:05.200 like different kids, like black, white, you know, Asian. It 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.680 was like very very like it because it's the university, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.480 Like that's like a college town. So everybody was like 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.800 raising their kids and going to school. My mom finished 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.600 getting a degree, we went back to Detroit and it 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.360 was time to be in the gig again. But I 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.280 had but I had that, I had that like diverse 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.000 school smell on me. So going back to Detroit in 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.560 like the middle of third grade was like a really tough. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:27.560 Yeah, I got to be shocking. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:29.240 It was very shocked. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:29.880 That's the problem. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.040 You had diverse school on you, and not homosexuality, Alex. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:34.000 You're talking about a. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.600 Third You're talking about now mind you were talking about 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:37.279 a third grader. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.160 Let's let's keep let's let's let's clear. Let's be clear. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.159 You can figure that you're just putting you down on 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:43.800 you didn't know gay kids. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.440 No, I wasn't a gay third grader. I was a kid. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.640 I think we were around time and the hell I 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.200 think we were around time and watched you in third grade. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:53.960 No, No, I hadn't grown up. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:54.120 I was. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:56.560 I was around a bunch of white kids, and I 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.360 was talking white, acting white, and I was going back 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.680 to Detroit in a little white kid, and these niggas, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.839 the nigga kids, was like, no, no, white white nigga boy, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:05.720 come be a nigga kid. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.080 We're gonna beat that out of you. And that's what 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:07.440 they did. 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.280 That's a spot. So when were you gay? Alex when 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:12.359 were you like, I'm gay, Nigga, I. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:22.920 Was in Giante yesterday, if we really want to talk 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.600 about it. But yeah, I just we did a whole 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.200 lot of moving in like anything like in relation to yours, Tom, 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.480 I didn't really get like a consistent like schooling until 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:33.159 like middle school. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.200 I had to find out until COVID that I didn't 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.920 live with my parents full time until I was like 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.840 five six years old. I would live with my grandparents 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.160 in Saint Louis for the first five years, and then 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:43.960 when I can go to school, that's when I moved 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:44.520 back to Atlanta. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.440 I just found this out like four years ago. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.960 All right, Jo, this is sounding like a tragic walk 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.800 through your life that we were not expecting. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.279 Next thing, you know, we're gonna be doing finding your roots. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:06.000 I just found out my daddy ain't. We looked at 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.200 this year and we started to dig in on some 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.640 things that we found particularly interesting. I didn't know if 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.280 something like stuck out to you, but it was a 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.040 major year. A lot of things happened. OJ and Nicole 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:21.200 Brown Simpson, you know, the murder happens. We have Nancy 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:26.040 Karragan and Tanya Harding. We have the death of Kurt Cobain. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.360 It was like a pretty gem packed year, nineteen ninety, 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.560 pretty violent year, pretty jam packed year was stuck out 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.360 to me first and foremost was like the Nancy Carrigan 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.360 thing was was. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:46.400 A very divisive time. I think, yes, in our country. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:51.279 I remember as a child just how upset white women 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:52.440 were around me about it. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.320 I do. I do. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.200 Like I went to a Catholic school, all all white teachers, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.360 and I remember like in school there was a lot 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.159 of tension around this, and then I'd go home and 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.720 it seemed like no one gave a fuck, you know 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.520 what I mean, I don't, I don't. It felt like 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.760 it didn't permeate the black community, and it's it was 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.320 just like, oh, that's crazy that happened. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:12.600 Yeah, those white girls. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.080 Are wilid, I think too, like ice skating whatnot. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.400 Think it's still not really I think, but yeah, it's 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.040 like gymnastics. We always been rocking with gymnastics. So if 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.000 it comes to an Olympics, spot were like that. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.920 I mean, niggas, niggas really unly like like track, they're 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.160 like they like runners and like like you said, like flip. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.240 The flippers, the winner, the winner Olympics. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:34.160 Flipping and ship. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:39.080 The winner Olympics is the White Olympics. But I will say, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.040 now black people are starting to turn up in the 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.120 Winter Olympics. We got snowboarders. Can we get that name? 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.160 We got uh? 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:49.800 Because I don't know any of these white people's names. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.240 I just know that they're they're popping. And then the 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:57.200 speed skater, the girl yeah yeah, uh dominating. Our snowboarder 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.160 is dominating. So do you think I'm thinking, like sometimes 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.160 this is like a time thing, like because black people 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.480 just wasn't doing winter sports because like just what our 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.840 access was in the world, and now that we just 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.240 have more access, now we're like trickling into winter sports, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.800 and then the Winter Olympics might also turn into the 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:16.600 Black Olympics. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:22.160 Here's here's my theory. My theory is that we we're 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.640 warm people, right, We're like, we're warm people, and we 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.560 we predominantly get better at poor sports. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:30.080 Yes, yes, don't. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.520 And we were meant to be in the in warmth. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.000 You were not made to be in snow. 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.520 So it took it took it took somebody's dad being 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.240 in the military to get stationed in Denver or Seattle 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.600 to be exposed to snowboard and hurling and whatever that 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.360 louse shit is where you still where you lay on 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.400 your stomach and go fast whatever that is, Like you 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.400 got it, yeah. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.560 Or you just gotta grow up someone Like we did 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.840 a lot of snowboarding in Boston. They would take us 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.719 up to like the ski stuff like school trips and 0:08:58.720 --> 0:08:59.319 stuff like that. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.240 I think you got to be somewhere where like cold 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:02.560 weather sports are a thing. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:03.679 Did you have it? 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:04.920 Did you have a snowboard? 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.400 Of course not. We were just renting all that stuff at. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.240 Yeah yeah, no no, no, no, no, no, we're not owning 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:11.920 any of this stuff. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:13.480 I know if he was walking to school with tucked 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:13.800 up on the. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.720 No no, no no, and I wasn't good at it, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.199 but I do remember being taken out to do it. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.200 I think, yes, I think that it is a little 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:22.520 bit of that. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.360 But also I feel like it's kind of like, I 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.560 don't know, We're just seeing like this, this next level 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.760 of black progression, and I'm like, now we're entering the 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.120 winter sports game, and like I have to pay attention. 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.360 I usually don't pay that much attention to the Winter Olympics, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.480 but I'm kind of locked in MM hmm. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:39.320 I don't know. With curling. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.680 Curling is always it's like it's it's a smooth ice. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.240 Shuffle board. Shuffle board, yeah, shuffle board. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.640 I still I mean, I watched it the other day 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.120 and I was trying to like really watch it with 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.240 the intention on knowing what I was watching, and I 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.720 still was just like, I don't really understand this point system. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.280 I don't really I don't know how you win. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:57.760 Yeah. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.200 I like I like them. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:09:59.880 I like the motion. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.040 Like all I saw was that like when the United 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.680 States like knocked one of them out and landed on 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.360 the line perfectly. And you know, have you seen the 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.200 meme of like Beyonce at Wimbledon, like celebrating Serena. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:13.840 That was me. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.240 I had to I was waiting on everybody else to 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:16.760 get hyped like, oh, we just did it, we did it. 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.640 Nineteen ninety four, what are you listening to? 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:21.960 Song? 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.600 Like this is a big year for music as well, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.560 But where where? What are you listening to? 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.360 So that's another that's another one. I remember coming back 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.559 from Chicago and hip hop had changed. I was staying 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.120 with my great aunt who was like, I mean seventy 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.319 something back then, and she's still kicking to this day, 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:38.480 she she, she lovely. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.120 Yeah, what music was getting you through your big moves 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.000 while you were in the U haul? 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.840 I mean I remember, I remember Hammer was still kind 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.760 of popping when I left. When I came back, nobody 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:55.840 was talking about Hammer and uh G Funk was out. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.360 Ice Q had a new record, Big Big was dropping. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:05.160 And who else is popping? Oh? Outcast for the City 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:06.360 Atlanta was popping. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:12.360 Yep, uh uh. Green Day had come out of nowhere 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.280 for the Yep, Dookie Weezer was popping. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.600 Are you listening to Are you listening to Green Day? 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:19.600 I mean radio? 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.720 Like if it comes on like forty radio or something, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.840 then I might hear it. But I'm not buying the albums. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:29.880 You got to downloaded on Spotify's downloaded. Yeah, that's what 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.160 I'm on. Now that's coming out, oh. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.800 Yeah now yeah, now it's in the Mexican. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.280 Say we're coming out the backpack and we traded CDs. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:38.000 That's what we're doing. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.400 Yeah huh yeah, yeah, we're still taping off the radio. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.560 Back then, radio and all that was all that was starting. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.880 I'm sure some more not thinking about this is no. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.640 Now you're ready, You're pretty right on point. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.920 Because it's the year of the Source Awards, the inaugural 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.680 Source Wars, the Big the Big Source Awards where the 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.080 fight broke out, where a chair was thrown. You got 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.000 Doctor Dre as Artist of the Year, you got a 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.840 tribe called Courses. The year the Chronic is out and 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.880 it gets Album of the Year. Snoop Dogg is New 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.319 Artists of the Year, and you're right Ice QB that 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.120 drop checked yourself and got Video of the Year. So 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.559 you're right on target with like, what at least was 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.680 going on in hip hop? Were you allowed to listen 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.600 to that shit? Because I wasn't allowed to listen to 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.840 this thuff. Like it was like I had to sneak 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.160 and listen to all this music. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:22.720 No I could not. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.560 I remember I did sneak to get the Chronic and 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.719 the only reason why because my dad. 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:28.120 Took him away. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.680 Originally because I think, man, I think the Brat dropped too. 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.040 I think that came out ninety four the Funk the 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:34.800 five album. If I'm not mistaken, I might be a 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.800 year off. But I remember having remember having these CDs 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.040 and then my dad was like, what are you listening to? 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.440 He put the headphones on, and then the only reason 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.160 why he let me keep the chronic is because he 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.320 had a lot of samples from George Clinton and the people. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.480 Your dad was like, sure he's snacking bitches, but the 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:53.080 boy knows me. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.480 That's a good track right there. I like that record. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.760 The boy gott yeah, George Clinton and be Booty Collins all. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:02.040 That like that. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.920 Yeah. Yeah, but they were steady saying like to put 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.319 your nuts in whose mouth? Yes, that was It was 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.480 a big nuts in your mouth era. There was always 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.720 some nuts in somebody's mouth. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.400 And I didn't know that was really gonna be a 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.160 thing at that moment, but it became, it really took off. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.880 Do you think nuts in the mouth was the predecetor 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:28.320 to degeneration excess suck it? Probably right, if you just 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.479 had to, if you had to follow a journey culturally. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.480 Yeah, I'm trying to follow like the map of like, yeah, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.200 like nuts in your mouth the pipeline to where we 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.520 get to like suck it. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:45.520 Because we're right, that's I'm saying. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.719 We weren't in a big suck a dick culture. And 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.320 then everything was like from the West Coast was like 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.680 but these nuts in your mouth bitch, and it was 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.680 like put mouths. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.880 This is probably not googleable, but but I would I 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.200 would love to know that you when these nuts really 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:01.840 took off. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.360 I think that is googlebo I'd be willing to bet. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.560 Like that because nuts. Really I think it led to 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.440 what you're talking about. I think that really was like 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:12.280 the but I. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.000 Think it is like a it's like a it's like 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:19.000 a nuts to suck it pipeline because it's like, yeah, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.480 nuts in the mouth. I think went to these nuts, 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.720 and I think went to suck a debt that I 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.360 think went to like suck it. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.200 I actually have the answer. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.200 The phrase these nuts originated from doctor Dre nineteen ninety two, 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.720 the chronic see I tell. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:35.280 You it started. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:36.840 Dray started two years prior. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.400 Things people don't get credit for it. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:43.360 Dre started the movement that got us to degeneration X's 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.240 suck It, which was a beautiful thing. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:47.280 And I'm proud of them. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.680 I listen when people are doing good work, we've got 0:14:51.760 --> 0:15:10.240 to respected. I was listening to the Backstreet Boys and 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.600 ship like that back then, like I was still I 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.120 was listening to all this, but I was in my 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.040 little boy band bag. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:16.320 I'm not gonna I'm not gonna. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:17.560 Hold you, and they are making the comeback. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.640 Yeah, they're at the They're at the spear and I'm 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:20.480 trying to go see that. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.120 Yes, I did you? Did you keep that? Did you 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.560 like them secretly? Or could you tell your friend y'all? 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:26.640 No? 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.120 No, no, no no no. We wasn't having those conversations. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:30.520 I liked them secretly. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.920 I kept that stuff away from my homies because I 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.320 was as hanging around with boys and they were like 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.040 tough and they was like doing boys stuff. I had, 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.400 like my one female best friend, she lived in my neighborhood, 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.320 and I could like tell her about that stuff. But 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.120 when I was at school, it was just like I 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.720 only listened to like rap rap, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.680 and then I couple my like Backstreet boys and like 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.760 stuff like that in the cut, you know what I mean? 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.720 Because because I would, I would hide my neda Baker 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.920 Love Okay, Okay, that's my mom listened to on the 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.320 way to work. So I'm like when she dropped me off, 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.160 I'm doing baking luthen. I'm like, I know them songs, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.240 but I'm like, oh no, nigga, I'm not really into 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:04.560 that shit. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.240 You like that mean lady music. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:12.400 Yeah, twelve years old walking down those middle school hallways. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:17.960 Over his school lunch pizza. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.760 Yeah, niggas have no idea what you're listening to. Walk man, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:23.480 walking down the hart of class. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.120 Everybody was bothering, I'm snapping this. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:30.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought this was interesting. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.840 In ninety four, the first genetically modified food hits the scene. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:41.240 In nineteen ninety four. The food is the flavors savor tomato. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.240 So here's the because I had just learned this shit. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.600 So basically, it was a tomato that could stay on 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:52.040 the vine longer and riping, so it was juicier, but 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.720 it was still firm. It didn't take off, but it 0:16:55.800 --> 0:17:00.000 was the barrier. It broke the barrier for genetically modify 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.200 fied food. And then you think about where we are today, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.560 and it's like we were, we were, We were in 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.800 such a better place with just a juicy or tomato. 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.880 Now now they literally make chicken completely in a lab. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.800 Like every time you eat chicken in adulta lounge, I 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.200 hope you know that it was completely grown. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:18.720 In a lab. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.960 Absolutely no real. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:25.080 Chicken ever took place. It's just a lab grown chicken. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.879 They grow it completely in the lab. Any place you're 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.800 getting cheap chicken, they're growing that thing. If the chicken 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:31.920 doesn't have a bone in it. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:38.280 Yeah, it's yeah, And that's what our cave give bones 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:43.240