Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 3: Everybody is the j Envy just hilarious.
Speaker 1: Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got
Speaker 1: some special guests in the building. Yes, indeed, we got
Speaker 1: the cast of the wire.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm gonna say the stage names.
Speaker 3: You say their real names, all right, all right?
Speaker 5: We got Poop Trey Oh Tree changey, I guess.
Speaker 6: Okay, trade change j D william.
Speaker 4: Hi Son Johnson on one.
Speaker 5: Oh, you don't wanted me to get that because you
Speaker 5: wanted me to mess it up. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: he was saying. But it's on one.
Speaker 4: And one and one. Welcome fellas.
Speaker 1: How your feeling twenty three years morning? Number?
Speaker 4: What does that mean to you?
Speaker 1: When y'all hear that, it's crazy because I tell people,
Speaker 1: see this the first time in a minute we've been
Speaker 1: together and be doing an interview. But I always say
Speaker 1: when I get interview, I don't care what none of
Speaker 1: y'all say.
Speaker 4: We didn't know what we was doing, yeah, shooting them up.
Speaker 4: All we was trying to.
Speaker 1: See was whose called time was the next morning so
Speaker 1: we could go out and get something to drink, hang
Speaker 1: out for I was on the continuous from Odds, so
Speaker 1: I knew we had something special.
Speaker 4: I had picked that up.
Speaker 3: I had picked that up.
Speaker 1: It was the first time, like I'm looking at people
Speaker 1: that's coming up that I was watching they work the
Speaker 1: same way they was watching my work.
Speaker 3: When I did Odds.
Speaker 1: Everybody was already kind of famous, already you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But when we got here that made us
Speaker 1: and I saw I saw that work coming down.
Speaker 7: But I think the thing with me, nobody don't know.
Speaker 7: The Wire was my first job as an actor, so
Speaker 7: that was my first time I ever auditioned for a role,
Speaker 7: first job. So just being around these guys, I'm like, yo,
Speaker 7: I remember asking JD a whole bunch of questions, Bro,
Speaker 7: what is.
Speaker 3: What is the trailer?
Speaker 7: You know, telling me to do it look like rehearsal.
Speaker 7: I'm like, all right, But you know, like I said,
Speaker 7: it may be here twenty three years later and still
Speaker 7: just getting to it.
Speaker 3: You know, everybody healthy, living and breathing, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's people finding new every day.
Speaker 1: Somebody find the show in the day, so it don't
Speaker 1: really more.
Speaker 4: Popular now some years later than it was it.
Speaker 8: None of y'all knew it was going to be a
Speaker 8: cultural staple.
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 1: That I ain't know that cultural statement. You know, when
Speaker 1: you're moving around anywhere in the world though they know you,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like somebody might just stop
Speaker 1: and say, man, run them lines real quick. They quote
Speaker 1: your lines, you know. I mean it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but it's like the study part of it.
Speaker 1: Like when I first came on set, try and tell
Speaker 1: you we was right there. We was an interesting trailer
Speaker 1: and we was running lives and just like what else
Speaker 1: you've been on. I was like, this is my first
Speaker 1: time outright. He was like the first time I aware,
Speaker 1: I say, first time on the block. So we were
Speaker 1: shooting in the funeral home in Baltimore, like broad day
Speaker 1: night funeral home, and we was there. A lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know the twelve hours twelve hours hot days
Speaker 1: turn around, you turn around. So we out there, we
Speaker 1: busting it and we randomized. We were out there, it
Speaker 1: was raining, and we take Bresh for lunch. It was
Speaker 1: just a family and we still family to today.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, Now I want to talk from the beginning of
Speaker 1: the wire. So when y'all got the call, to do
Speaker 1: the wire break that down when you first read the script,
Speaker 1: and how did y'all know that y'all wanted to do it?
Speaker 7: So they I initially auditioned for we Beae initially character,
Speaker 7: and I remember going in there with Pat Moran out
Speaker 7: there in Baltimore and she like, YO, quote this monologue.
Speaker 7: So two weeks later I get a call she said,
Speaker 7: we got some bad and good news. She said, the
Speaker 7: bad news is you didn't get the characters we maye,
Speaker 7: but you was cast for the character Poop. And I
Speaker 7: was only supposed to be in the first two episodes
Speaker 7: in the first season.
Speaker 3: And then spoil Alert ended up getting.
Speaker 7: Poop all five seasons last you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: So I was just happy, you know, getting that script.
Speaker 7: And throughout the years, throughout the seasons, it never said
Speaker 7: I was getting killed, you know.
Speaker 3: Because think with the wires, you never knew was getting off.
Speaker 3: They didn't tell you before.
Speaker 7: They were just you get the script and you read
Speaker 7: that's like when Snoop shot at me, you know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying, They like, Poop falls to the ground, he's bleeding.
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, this is it.
Speaker 4: And then I went up take this in the consideration trade.
Speaker 1: How you just said that. I don't know if y'all
Speaker 1: remember or not. The why almost ain't even take.
Speaker 2: Off because we auditioned before.
Speaker 1: Nine to eleven, right, and the ship was shut down
Speaker 1: for three weeks at least, I'm gonna stand down, so right,
Speaker 1: anything to lower Manhattan. So that was Holland Tunnel, the
Speaker 1: Ferry and back, and the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge
Speaker 1: was shut You could only come in from g w
Speaker 1: or the Lincoln Tunnel for three weeks. I was selling
Speaker 1: sneakers at the time, so I was just busting moves
Speaker 1: back and you know.
Speaker 4: Over the call as soon as they opened up.
Speaker 1: But the thing is the callbacks was after they opened
Speaker 1: the city back of Alexa started.
Speaker 4: Calling us back. I forgot all about this, that's true,
Speaker 4: I ain't think. So when I went in, I auditioned
Speaker 4: for D'Angelo.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, brother, see down there it was open because
Speaker 1: Baltimore was opening. So actually when I auditioned, I auditioned
Speaker 1: for Marlo Stanfield. I auditioned for Marlow and then when
Speaker 1: I got the call they called me back. I was
Speaker 1: actually coming back from Houston with Steve Francis and I
Speaker 1: got the call. Pet was like, hey, you and she
Speaker 1: get it. She was like, you just laying the slim
Speaker 1: Charles on HBO and that was it. Moving character one
Speaker 1: slim char she told me.
Speaker 3: She told me I was going to be body like
Speaker 3: I said. I wanted to.
Speaker 1: I wanted to audition for d Angelo because I was like,
Speaker 1: I just came from playing a tough guy for it's
Speaker 1: gonna make me worse than I was already. And then
Speaker 1: she was like, no, this your part, read this part.
Speaker 3: Just go and do your job. I went in, came out,
Speaker 3: and they built under characters so much.
Speaker 1: I didn't know where it was gonna go with, but
Speaker 1: I'm glad I think we were. David Simon leaned over
Speaker 1: the clock and said.
Speaker 4: He leaned over the clock and said, we may. And
Speaker 4: I was so hot because I was tearing my ship up.
Speaker 4: I was in the zone.
Speaker 1: I caught my side like yo, hold on, relaxed. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you're in the room, that's your moment.
Speaker 3: You take it.
Speaker 2: You can go off in there.
Speaker 1: You go off as long as it's taking or so
Speaker 1: they threw me off, but I caught it.
Speaker 4: But that's where they were.
Speaker 1: Saying, like what it is that guy, this guy, you're
Speaker 1: that guy, but you gotta get in carry till though,
Speaker 1: because like, that was my first audition. So when I
Speaker 1: read for Marlow, they was like, you know, come in,
Speaker 1: you don't care about nothing hooding. First do my hoodie.
Speaker 1: And I went in there and read for it, and
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, it was like, what's your name?
Speaker 1: I said, Marlow? She said what's your name? I said Marlow?
Speaker 1: She said, I said he had don't you understand.
Speaker 4: Different?
Speaker 1: Roots said in my back because that was my first audition,
Speaker 1: So she said no, that was great. That was also.
Speaker 1: I read again and then I came out and I
Speaker 1: was like, so what am I supposed to do now?
Speaker 1: She's like, no, we're gonna get your call. So I
Speaker 1: didn't really know. That's why I said, we don't really
Speaker 1: know what we want.
Speaker 9: You alreadykneway, that was my first because I should see
Speaker 9: all in the club every night with me.
Speaker 1: That proximity. That's proximity though, and everything. Come on now, man,
Speaker 1: I should sit right next to you and just behave.
Speaker 4: We was getting arrested on the weekend out it was day.
Speaker 4: I think I was the first one.
Speaker 1: I got that club dream and a dream, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: players was and there what was it they played for
Speaker 1: the team they played for they was.
Speaker 3: The college was college dude?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was me and him idrisy.
Speaker 3: Little club never changed.
Speaker 1: And that's what side on us, ye on us and
Speaker 1: dream club dreaming like who Fred was like that's where Fred,
Speaker 1: that's my bro.
Speaker 2: You don't go You ain't have to head off.
Speaker 3: Friend family.
Speaker 4: And smack everything like you're getting in trouble.
Speaker 1: And like Georgia and David and was like the big
Speaker 1: the uncles they come to because I know I was
Speaker 1: on the show. I got locked up for a gun.
Speaker 1: They had me in legal times and everything. They came
Speaker 1: for me and everything. They came to court and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is there for me? And they was
Speaker 1: like no, no, it's good. You got you reason blow
Speaker 1: the way that we should because we didn't get in
Speaker 1: trouble the right way.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It was quiet. We was quiet.
Speaker 3: We have respect for each other.
Speaker 10: We didn't.
Speaker 1: We wasn't just completely messing up. If we would have
Speaker 1: got had some type of scandal or something like that,
Speaker 1: it would have caught on.
Speaker 3: Like the second season.
Speaker 4: Mailed me out like twice in the lobby at the precincts.
Speaker 3: You know what so you know what. You know, what's
Speaker 3: so crazy?
Speaker 7: Social media wasn't what it is now that all the
Speaker 7: stories and things getting locked up in different situations like that.
Speaker 7: It wasn't video like when I was in the Just
Speaker 7: think natural, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: That is what I was never understand.
Speaker 1: That is what I never understand about Hollywood.
Speaker 11: Everything they say doesn't work always works and works in
Speaker 11: historic ways. Not only was the Wire name the greatest
Speaker 11: TV show the twenty first century majority black cast, and
Speaker 11: you're telling me that that was that was like a
Speaker 11: lot of y'all's first time even at that they.
Speaker 8: Didn't know what they was doing.
Speaker 4: That's shot.
Speaker 1: That's crazy because it was like we were the largest
Speaker 1: African American cast and thirty principal role everybody, everybody, everybody
Speaker 1: had a main character. Crazy how you keep up with that?
Speaker 8: So how does Hollywood convince people that black ship don't work?
Speaker 1: I don't know, because but behind closed doors you get
Speaker 1: them exacts respectfully. I tell you your how y'all the
Speaker 1: ones we get all that ship from y'all. I mean,
Speaker 1: just to show y'all story, y'all keep letting us do it.
Speaker 1: I said, now, how the gate keeper telling me how
Speaker 1: did this.
Speaker 10: Another thing Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Most of the time they only want one at a time,
Speaker 1: one or two people at a time. That's real. So
Speaker 1: they're gonna squeeze you in and squeeze you out if
Speaker 1: you figure out how to make your own niche and
Speaker 1: that's it. But the time they're not gonna grind it
Speaker 1: out on fire still on five Man, it'll blow your mind.
Speaker 1: I read for so many roles, man, my head, like
Speaker 1: what you're doing. I'm reading, kid, I'm reading. I just
Speaker 1: read for this. I just read for four episodes on FBI.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm getting for that shoe, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. They can't have a good TV
Speaker 1: show without somebody from the Wire on it. No show
Speaker 1: out right now without somebody from Me and.
Speaker 7: JD did six seasons on Saintsan Centers, Bounce TV, Hulo,
Speaker 7: me and JD. Okay being Meth season two and season three,
Speaker 7: Me and j D. You know what I'm saying, So
Speaker 7: like us being like the dynamic duo. It started on
Speaker 7: the Wire together with Homeboys on the Wire. Now it's
Speaker 7: I think Satan Senters. Though we were at odds, we
Speaker 7: was enemies senior.
Speaker 1: Like that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: The script was improv though how much did y'all improv?
Speaker 6: Did y'all go off script?
Speaker 10: Because none of its not a lot.
Speaker 4: That's how ill it was. It was all on the paper.
Speaker 1: Ye can't. They don't let you do like you might
Speaker 1: just say one word and that, but they want that
Speaker 1: They say, cut, hey, you need your line, run them
Speaker 1: in this line. I always said, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: want nobody to say, throw me my line. Facts. I
Speaker 1: just closed the though I cut everything off of study.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the ad leven, they don't really go for it.
Speaker 1: Like respectfully, I did not say or the ad lib
Speaker 1: or improv that Knicks line. And season one Angelot come
Speaker 1: back and I said, he said, what you doing? I said,
Speaker 1: on watching the Knicks? Fuck they draft up right, that's
Speaker 1: exactly what we said. That's like, I wonder how they
Speaker 1: let me in the guard and after that, But David
Speaker 1: wrote that they would let me get away.
Speaker 3: He would let me get away with a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: But I would test it out first, like I would
Speaker 1: use it on one take and then if they like it,
Speaker 1: they just say, don't do that.
Speaker 10: But then most of the time they said say that
Speaker 10: again'll do that.
Speaker 1: A lot of times I used to like and that
Speaker 1: was because also with the dynamic that my group, my
Speaker 1: crew had, we had this fill up kind of space,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We got Andre Royal over
Speaker 1: acting up, we got us having this communication.
Speaker 10: And then we got the young boys. So it was
Speaker 10: always something in it.
Speaker 1: But but most of the time, like you said, especially
Speaker 1: because we had to figure out that.
Speaker 10: Be more dialect a lot of times. How was that?
Speaker 3: That was hard? We ain't doing it, I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of hard for New Yorkers.
Speaker 1: To get the action. But see, I'm from DC, just
Speaker 1: like the the doug you know, get you know what.
Speaker 1: DJ Baltimore will pour your neck out if they know
Speaker 1: you faking it. You can't. You can't drag it too
Speaker 1: long with it. You just gotta do it. Like like
Speaker 1: even with New York, Like when I did Deduce, I
Speaker 1: had to learn dialogue, you know. I mean we shot that,
Speaker 1: We shot that in Brooklyn and then we went the
Speaker 1: Silver Cup the Queens, so I shot that whole show.
Speaker 1: We was back there. We did it, and it's just
Speaker 1: like you gotta sit outside of New York to smell
Speaker 1: it air to know what the New York would go
Speaker 1: through to fill it. You got to get in that
Speaker 1: into that character. So it's like, damn, it's right here,
Speaker 1: we hear.
Speaker 10: I want to get stuck with that accent.
Speaker 11: I think that depends on the era of New York,
Speaker 11: Super New York.
Speaker 1: Snoop with Felicia she as years ago. She got that,
Speaker 1: she got that Baltimore that that is in her. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's snoop a.
Speaker 10: That y'all would have never understood.
Speaker 3: Nothing like.
Speaker 1: This brother come in see it like this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, nice like that guy. But that was so many
Speaker 3: Baltimore I was filming out there.
Speaker 4: It was fun.
Speaker 1: That was fun, just like that they got they got
Speaker 1: the food coming off.
Speaker 4: Meth was getting his head braided outside.
Speaker 3: It was just like.
Speaker 1: They opened you up, but when you messing that money up,
Speaker 1: they'll let you know. Man, y'all y'all got going to block.
Speaker 1: Y'all know, yeah, like really they was like really sure,
Speaker 1: we want to.
Speaker 4: Shut down for a little ten minutes.
Speaker 1: But they wasn't packing up though they weren't.
Speaker 8: It was a quick rainstorm.
Speaker 3: What about the all about food?
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me say this one times come out.
Speaker 1: We were not sing saying they eat all our food.
Speaker 1: We were shooting the scene. It was like maybe five
Speaker 1: below out it'd be more and we took a break hold.
Speaker 1: It was me, bangor Lisha, a couple of other people
Speaker 1: and they ordered pizza bro They had like ten pieces
Speaker 1: on the thing. It was like the pi. This mean
Speaker 1: jumped up on the table, knocked the pizza that everybody broke,
Speaker 1: and they just came jumped, jumped on the joont knocked
Speaker 1: the whole boxes off, and then everybody just bumped big
Speaker 1: joints first, Big Ben. He jumped up and knocked everything down. Yeah.
Speaker 1: With the with the shootout when I shot Mike, know
Speaker 1: when he shoot me, there's a rat running across the
Speaker 1: ship in the background. He did that in the episode
Speaker 1: like this and be more look like this like dogs.
Speaker 1: Did y'all did y'all Did y'all recognize the greatness and
Speaker 1: interests back then? Did y'all see where it could go?
Speaker 4: Or with something like issues? Was funny? I met him?
Speaker 4: What's the hotel on Saint Paul right downtown?
Speaker 3: Treat Treat double.
Speaker 1: The first the night before we feel so it was
Speaker 1: the Grant and the Forming fight, Grand Informant for it,
Speaker 1: Grandman Grant feel.
Speaker 4: It might have been Holy Feel and Grant Fight. That
Speaker 4: night I met it's just in the lobby.
Speaker 1: We was gonna walk down to the harbor to the
Speaker 1: Hyatt and watch it down there. It's just talking regular
Speaker 1: with a with a regular accent. Time and got on
Speaker 1: the phone with his mother and I stopped walking down
Speaker 1: the block. He just started talking that that chatting started
Speaker 1: that London ship and I stopped.
Speaker 4: Walking. He probably looked back like what was like.
Speaker 2: Acting like the Bronx or something, and he was practicing
Speaker 2: on us.
Speaker 4: But you, uh, I knew it right there, like you
Speaker 4: wanted the one things.
Speaker 1: It was a scene what we did, me and him
Speaker 1: sitting in the cars, the scene where my character does
Speaker 1: this with his with my waist. And we were sitting
Speaker 1: in that car for a couple of hours and we
Speaker 1: was just talking and I remember us getting to the
Speaker 1: point I was like, yo, because he wanted to have
Speaker 1: this magazine in the car that I ain't gonna get
Speaker 1: too deep about it. They told him not to have
Speaker 1: it because of who was on it. So he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going after this anyway. Anyway, we're gonna be that alone.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we're in the car and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: when you leave here, you you're gonna be that guy
Speaker 1: like he's like, well, I think a couple of us
Speaker 1: gonna do it.
Speaker 10: I'm like yeah, but like you kind of like right
Speaker 10: under Denzel looking like.
Speaker 3: Look like you about to go to him.
Speaker 1: Look. And he said it was crazy because when it
Speaker 1: was time for his character that, you know, to happen,
Speaker 1: he didn't want that because we was filming. We filmed
Speaker 1: that whole morning. Yo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, was like.
Speaker 3: Cloud come, yeah. He had no idea that it was
Speaker 3: turned out.
Speaker 4: You got the tip because look, we used to film.
Speaker 4: They do the tandems now.
Speaker 1: So they do these blocks where you can shoot two
Speaker 1: or three episodes. We really shot the two week episodes
Speaker 1: and we started on a Monday, and we wrapped the
Speaker 1: next week Thursday, and then it was a rehearsal Friday
Speaker 1: and on Monday.
Speaker 3: Yes, thirteen times.
Speaker 10: They're gonna change something.
Speaker 4: They changing within that.
Speaker 1: The thing is, look, we we wrapped on an episode
Speaker 1: your new scripts in your trailer, the new stript right
Speaker 1: in your trailer right there.
Speaker 4: Look, everybody started catching on and doing this. They head
Speaker 4: out the trailer.
Speaker 1: Going out tonight. Somebody always was like tough, bro, don't
Speaker 1: know you know whoever getting killed that opening that door.
Speaker 4: Like that, it was had Michael like, oh, that's what
Speaker 4: we taking you out tonight, drinksing up.
Speaker 6: Had to die, especially the angel the Angelo that I
Speaker 6: thought he was going to get get away with it though,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, such.
Speaker 1: My memory, who kills brother Maso Omar bro Yeah who
Speaker 1: put the head on?
Speaker 4: It wasn't the Angelo.
Speaker 3: Mother that was.
Speaker 1: Zo was going back to get the revenge, said, oh
Speaker 1: my joint, put down yourself.
Speaker 3: You know he was supposed to pee on him.
Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, I wasn't gonna bring that.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, interest treat you all afterwards?
Speaker 8: Did he ever like himself from you?
Speaker 11: All that?
Speaker 1: But he was gone reach him. Everybody is always reachable, Broy.
Speaker 1: We're family. That's just like the plate.
Speaker 4: Just get kind of thick and you gotta work like
Speaker 4: we always talk talk.
Speaker 7: We talked interesting interested the intro for my documentary Underniable,
Speaker 7: the trade changing story which all of us are are
Speaker 7: part of. And reaching out to him. It wasn't It
Speaker 7: wasn't hard to, you know, reach out to him started together.
Speaker 3: You know, he across the him doing that. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, It really was. It was a good
Speaker 3: look for me. Was a young kid at the time. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 3: and was with him and seeing his success.
Speaker 7: Well for me, I mean me, him and Jad always
Speaker 7: was together on set, even my separate scenes that I
Speaker 7: had with Michael B.
Speaker 3: Jordan. It was, you know, he was special. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You knew that early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was in the.
Speaker 4: Trailer with him and they had too many scenes with him.
Speaker 4: But I used to kick it with his mother.
Speaker 3: I love how family oriented he was.
Speaker 1: Bro Mom, Duke, I love you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Got him to get yeah, and it was it was
Speaker 1: good money because he said he had a lot of
Speaker 1: big brothers to watch out for him and what he
Speaker 1: was doing. Like the way me and him, like he
Speaker 1: used to come up, come out with me all the time.
Speaker 1: She used to let him come out with me. I
Speaker 1: took him to Vegas, went the Magic you.
Speaker 4: Know, all the little places.
Speaker 10: And so we was always around.
Speaker 1: But we all got together and he came up with
Speaker 1: the right mindset and so he was like set up
Speaker 1: pretty good from getting he was. But when we did this,
Speaker 1: when we did the scene we took the killing, he
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna never work again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said that I was setting.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 4: He that he felt at that time to heat it.
Speaker 1: Man. Right now trade, yeah, because he was messed up
Speaker 1: behind that only on one season he did one.
Speaker 3: They smoked him in episode twelve right ends, Yeah.
Speaker 4: And he set up Saturday.
Speaker 3: We gave, We hugged him up.
Speaker 1: Somebody was said, look, man, at the after this episode
Speaker 1: go off, they're gonna be looking for your name and
Speaker 1: there and nobody never gonna forget you.
Speaker 4: They always gonna be.
Speaker 1: Looking for you.
Speaker 3: And then he do Hardball he did ye from.
Speaker 11: Do you think the Y could be made today in
Speaker 11: like the same raw way? I'm gonna have to be
Speaker 11: sensitive death because it.
Speaker 4: Wasn't an HD but.
Speaker 1: Raw. But but yeah, that too, another city made, not
Speaker 1: the why not Baltimore game? I think he would have
Speaker 1: to be a whole nother city. I don't even think
Speaker 1: they'll let them be like they was.
Speaker 4: It was, it was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was too authentic like that.
Speaker 4: That's not like human resource problem, like more like you.
Speaker 1: Can't get no city like chump city like it was.
Speaker 1: It's just beautiful, like the people, everything about Baltimore, how
Speaker 1: we shot it, the family, it was just a family.
Speaker 1: It's too aumaic, man, What about the extras? Like just was.
Speaker 4: And you can't get.
Speaker 1: Right there they knew, they knew everything about Baltimore to
Speaker 1: cut the alleys like you can go like whenever, you know,
Speaker 1: the same when I killed the guy in the alley,
Speaker 1: like you had to like clean the alley like ten times.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say no name, but one person they
Speaker 1: want to for one person, they want to fall in
Speaker 1: the alley. Bro, Bro, you got it's down in But
Speaker 1: it was. It was a moment I said, we falling
Speaker 1: out is all the time, So it's not. It's the
Speaker 1: difference between us growing up and we from the hood,
Speaker 1: and then you get on the hood show it's like,
Speaker 1: it's not hard, it's not you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it just was a blessing because the show saved
Speaker 1: my life. But I don't care. Nobody said, you know,
Speaker 1: Brown one of the top five gangster characters ever to play,
Speaker 1: and that wasn't easy. So I don't care what nobody say,
Speaker 1: Like as much as they think it's easy for us
Speaker 1: to pull like as were from the Inner.
Speaker 2: City or this that, it's not people, it's not easy.
Speaker 8: There's been growing up in the hood and actually being
Speaker 8: a criminal.
Speaker 2: About clinging clips something.
Speaker 3: All that, and we go to the wire.
Speaker 1: What's what's your opinion on that off and reboot to
Speaker 1: But that's when you had said something else.
Speaker 4: Ala, Man, where would you start envy? Where would you
Speaker 4: pick it up at?
Speaker 1: Michael k not here, which I'm sure would be a
Speaker 1: real center stupid residentston Pia.
Speaker 4: Michael K Right, that's who you would definitely have to have,
Speaker 4: right lands Gone.
Speaker 3: There's so many people, right, what would you even if
Speaker 3: you try to pick up off where it.
Speaker 4: Left off with with with Matt right with Trista where
Speaker 4: he killed Snoop. He was supposed to be like.
Speaker 10: Follow him or you could follow Marlow wherever he gonna
Speaker 10: hide out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because Marlow got out him out. I bought the
Speaker 1: connect at the end from Marlow. But it was crazy
Speaker 1: because the whole pard was when prop Joe, you know,
Speaker 1: when meth he did that and not killed me, kill Cheese.
Speaker 1: Everything was flipping around because we had the co op.
Speaker 1: We were sitting there. It was on us at first,
Speaker 1: body on us, off people.
Speaker 7: Just even my character, the character arc from on the
Speaker 7: streets and I ended up working at foot Log.
Speaker 3: So it's like character to come to a.
Speaker 8: Different city, take somebody and move into another city.
Speaker 3: Yeah, coming to Bridge City be a.
Speaker 1: Three O. Ma was in New York and then they
Speaker 1: never even showed that again he did come up, but
Speaker 1: then he came back, remember they they they wow, remember
Speaker 1: and said when he came back, he came back for something.
Speaker 10: I forgot why, but get somebody.
Speaker 6: I just don't think I'll be able to be written
Speaker 6: like because you see extra was any of it? Impriv
Speaker 6: it was like real dialogue. I'm from Baltimore, like talk
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 1: I got one hundred percent my whole.
Speaker 3: Life growing up.
Speaker 6: I literally thought all of y'all from Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Just growing up.
Speaker 1: I thought it was so I knew it.
Speaker 5: Just elbow wasn't because it was a.
Speaker 4: Couple get mad and.
Speaker 1: That actually that part you might be telling, that part
Speaker 1: when he tried to get me to kill Clay Davis.
Speaker 11: He was like.
Speaker 3: Mad a little bit. Yeah, man, now I gotta ask
Speaker 3: right here, you hate this mean?
Speaker 1: I didn't use that right because nobody understood it. Nobody
Speaker 1: under I knew where you knew. Nobody understood it. But
Speaker 1: then it started catching on, especially with the younger kids.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I get my uncle on with the educate
Speaker 1: them to where that they will be like, that's you
Speaker 1: from the mean, but they don't know where it's from
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I mean, oh, what is this dope and show in
Speaker 4: the world?
Speaker 3: Not because I was on it, but because it's dope
Speaker 3: fact and then check it out.
Speaker 4: It made it timeless. The memes just made everything time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, it don't get oh it don't get old, don't
Speaker 3: get don't I came front.
Speaker 8: Wasn't ask that y'all mentioned how did?
Speaker 1: How did?
Speaker 8: The loss with Michael K.
Speaker 1: Williams and pack Yard was tough. I was mad, Hey,
Speaker 1: remember when we I was on the balcony in l A.
Speaker 1: They was We was on the phone FaceTime JD Tray
Speaker 1: Mike and I had just talked to Mike to a
Speaker 1: before that because he was like some people was looking
Speaker 1: for me for a role and he was like, bro
Speaker 1: we down here, you gotta get down here, get out
Speaker 1: of that city, come down. I was like Wow. Then
Speaker 1: he wanted He called me about another piece that they
Speaker 1: was trying to get me to work on the boot
Speaker 1: my band Backyard d C. So after that, I told
Speaker 1: to Trey and we was talking and then I had
Speaker 1: just talked to him and snoop. Then it hit. But
Speaker 1: that don't crushed me.
Speaker 3: It crushed me because that was might always say, Michael K. Williams,
Speaker 3: he was they were doing. Michael K. Williams wasn't an
Speaker 3: industry person he was. He was more so like bro
Speaker 3: how's your mom, dad, your wife, your kids?
Speaker 7: Like he was that I was trying to say the
Speaker 7: world man and talking to him before that he passed.
Speaker 3: It was just like.
Speaker 4: You know, I say what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You say they climbed well like the people that served him,
Speaker 1: they slimmed back because because they knew what they was doing,
Speaker 1: they knew who Mike was, and it was all out
Speaker 1: of bounds and anybody with a heart. That's why when
Speaker 1: they did catch up caught up with him, I didn't
Speaker 1: feel bad at all. Throw him under the jaz know,
Speaker 1: hustlers gotta feed their family.
Speaker 4: But y'all, slim my.
Speaker 3: Broca got him b y'all that how thirsty because it
Speaker 3: was COVID right.
Speaker 1: Right, so so so any other under any other circumstances,
Speaker 1: Mike wanted to put itself on the.
Speaker 4: Front line like that man, but like a real one.
Speaker 1: Two right, oh, he in the streets looks Irvington all
Speaker 1: of essence County right and for the I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but for the last like three years that he was
Speaker 1: around me.
Speaker 10: We was always kind of.
Speaker 1: Always in the same area. So you my daughter was
Speaker 1: born after we had finished the show my daughter was doing.
Speaker 1: For some reason, he only lived a couple of blocks
Speaker 1: away from in East Orange, and I'm like, we was
Speaker 1: on the block. Yeah, we can't say it on that, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I over there my daughter, you know, first time person,
Speaker 1: I'm showing my daughter and everything, and and then going
Speaker 1: up from then all the way up till now, like
Speaker 1: we were cross paths on shows. We did a couple
Speaker 1: more shows together. We would just be in the same neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: family friends.
Speaker 3: It was just something.
Speaker 10: I don't know why we ended up being around each
Speaker 10: other so much when that happened.
Speaker 1: So when it did happen, and he had a special
Speaker 1: type of service in the UH in thea Stornge where
Speaker 1: we were, and it was like, you know that stuff
Speaker 1: don't feel real to you at first, You're like, how
Speaker 1: you do all of this?
Speaker 10: And then now it's just.
Speaker 3: You do all of this right because he like that, he.
Speaker 1: Was that hands on her FaceTime, You're like, pick up
Speaker 1: that phone, like and it was it was just like
Speaker 1: you know, you used to seeing that and hearing that,
Speaker 1: but you don't got it no more of that, Jon't
Speaker 1: it hits you man, Mike and checked you like like
Speaker 1: my story that I'll never forget with Mike. And I
Speaker 1: think just when I was staying at the Clarion though,
Speaker 1: by the monument on Charles, so every Sunday might go
Speaker 1: to church. He ain't come knock on my door to
Speaker 1: go to church, but at the church, he come knock
Speaker 1: on my door every Sunday.
Speaker 4: And we walk up to the to the market, to
Speaker 4: the to the to the We're I'm trying to say
Speaker 4: les about.
Speaker 2: I don't know what was talking about.
Speaker 1: We walk up there and gonna get that lump crab
Speaker 1: cake shout out fries the cold slore with the crackers
Speaker 1: in the funny that used to be thirteen dollars, two
Speaker 1: biggest lump crab cakes in your face.
Speaker 2: For thirteen dollars.
Speaker 4: Sunday, I got you. You got me? Next week, I
Speaker 4: got you.
Speaker 1: Just looked every Sunday.
Speaker 4: Can he ain't gonna do it like police though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I'm coming.
Speaker 4: You just can't from praising the.
Speaker 7: Lord when he's seen it in Atlanta, my daughter, when
Speaker 7: he's seen it in Atlanta, like a couple of weeks
Speaker 7: before he passed. We were out there shooting Saints and
Speaker 7: centers and uh, I'm in the grocery store. I get
Speaker 7: to tap on my shoulder, Dray, come on, let's get
Speaker 7: in the car. That was the first thing he said,
Speaker 7: just out of note.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what you doing?
Speaker 3: Like I'm filming something out here. I think he was doing.
Speaker 3: Happen leonter out thereater with him.
Speaker 7: It ended up turning into a whole like party, like
Speaker 7: we went in the jone he was cooking, like called JD.
Speaker 3: Tasha Smith. Shout out to Smith. He was in there
Speaker 3: just kicking it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Why was his balcony across the street from my balcom.
Speaker 1: From where we were staying at the twelve And he's
Speaker 1: standing at the street, so like we can kind.
Speaker 10: Of see each other again, hold on and angel for what.
Speaker 4: Was going on.
Speaker 8: He took groceries back to his house and y'all cooked.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, that's.
Speaker 3: No way the grocery store in public. We was just staying.
Speaker 3: I was staying at the twelve.
Speaker 7: People staying across the street at another hotel, so he
Speaker 7: was in there with somebody. They were grabbing food. I
Speaker 7: was grabbing food. He like bro come to come to
Speaker 7: my place. Tell JD to pull up.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be over here cooking, y'all. Just pull up.
Speaker 3: So I took my groceries back to my hotel, and
Speaker 3: then I went across the street. I kept my food.
Speaker 11: I want to ask you, how hard was it the
Speaker 11: breakout of your wide characters when it came time to
Speaker 11: audition for other roles.
Speaker 7: Man, I'm gonna tell y'all, man, I didn't the wire
Speaker 7: ended in two thousand and eight. I didn't work again
Speaker 7: what they would consider mainstream into twenty fifteen when I
Speaker 7: booked Saints and Centers, which was a six season show,
Speaker 7: a job, I guess, but being you know what they
Speaker 7: call typecast or whatever. All right, I'm going into rooms
Speaker 7: with the cast and directors, with the directors, producers, but
Speaker 7: with me, not like booking certain jobs or whatever. I
Speaker 7: just started creating my own you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: So when I started changing Vision Entertainment, my company, I'm
Speaker 7: partnering up with cash like food with the camera, shout
Speaker 7: out to my brother. I'm producing my own films in Lives,
Speaker 7: Lovin Larsty. I'm partnering up with people like Anthony Clark,
Speaker 7: Dana Freeman and were just doing a whole bunch of
Speaker 7: like my own independent projects, which is really you know
Speaker 7: what got me to the place booking what they considered mainstream.
Speaker 7: We own this city, being f because I stood on
Speaker 7: the streets of Washington, d C. From third from twenty
Speaker 7: ten to twenty fifteen selling all of my independent films
Speaker 7: out the trunk of my car. That was something that
Speaker 7: most celebrities wouldn't dare do, you know. So it's people
Speaker 7: walking up like, man.
Speaker 3: You put from the wire, what you doing out here?
Speaker 3: I'm like, bruh, the wire was the wire, and I
Speaker 3: learned a lot.
Speaker 7: But if we're gonna sit up here and consider myself
Speaker 7: a working actor, yeah, yeah, I'm out here. I'm out
Speaker 7: here taking it back to the street. I'm pumping my
Speaker 7: own website chainywait dot com. And then that led to
Speaker 7: my man, George Pierre, who was casting for Saintsan Centers, Like, yeah,
Speaker 7: shout out George Pierre, man passing me for Saintan sentence
Speaker 7: the Kishiko bio pic bingf like, that's that's our brother
Speaker 7: out there in Atlanta. But he called me one day like, yo,
Speaker 7: I heard what you're doing in the streets man, Like
Speaker 7: you pumped your own merch and your own movies out
Speaker 7: the trunk of your car, and I'm like, yeah, man,
Speaker 7: I mean but just the way that I'm getting it.
Speaker 7: And I was like creating, like really developing my fan
Speaker 7: base because people seeing like celebrity out on the street
Speaker 7: just getting to it.
Speaker 3: You know, it just helped me in so many ways.
Speaker 3: And now it did in.
Speaker 6: Your work, Like I've seen that even before you hit
Speaker 6: BM Math and on uh We're on the City.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of your projects on TV.
Speaker 6: I've watched them. Yeah, I appreciate that definitely, So definitely
Speaker 6: was out here still.
Speaker 3: I just produced this joint called Hitting Lives.
Speaker 7: Like I said, you know, I exacutive produced, I started,
Speaker 7: and I cast with my brother j D Williams.
Speaker 3: Clifton is me Cliff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We just having the fun with that one. Like I said, Underniable.
Speaker 7: The Trade Chaney Story is out right now on my
Speaker 7: YouTube channel, Trade Chaney One YouTube channel. I've been putting
Speaker 7: out a lot of different projects and like I said,
Speaker 7: these brothers are are just involved in everything I'm doing.
Speaker 7: It feels amazing to call them and say, bro, man,
Speaker 7: let's go get to it. Doing like the Wind of
Speaker 7: reunion party.
Speaker 1: A reunion party.
Speaker 3: You said, what happened?
Speaker 1: How long it been twenty eight?
Speaker 4: How many?
Speaker 1: Twenty eight? Twenty eight years?
Speaker 3: Okay years.
Speaker 4: Twenty three plus together. It's just like the answer, like
Speaker 4: how you say, how do you break out for other role?
Speaker 4: It ain't even so much breaking out more so than
Speaker 4: that's what they want. Yeah, that's they want. The week,
Speaker 4: they the body when you come in the room.
Speaker 6: They definitely do because it's it's something that going viral
Speaker 6: of that's gone viral of you. I do not know
Speaker 6: where you can tell me so I can go watch it.
Speaker 6: You're like, I don't how you know what's best for
Speaker 6: my family?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I dude, listen. Yeah that was on Showtime okay
Speaker 1: for two seasons. They weren't ready for us. They were no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it was a blessing shout out show Time Now. But
Speaker 1: we didn't make it to that third to the contract yet.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's good you got like that.
Speaker 1: Man. It would have been like if we do this,
Speaker 1: not even that, not even anywhere to show where the
Speaker 1: story is going. Yeah, that would have changed the spectrum,
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, like the like the
Speaker 1: criteria for for cable TV. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because it's not it was on Showtime, it ain't Netflix,
Speaker 1: it ain't Hulu, it was none of that, and they
Speaker 1: just let me go.
Speaker 4: They let me go.
Speaker 1: It was like that was like it is watching that
Speaker 1: was hilarious.
Speaker 4: You don't have to.
Speaker 2: And I really don't.
Speaker 1: What the you know about my.
Speaker 4: That was one thing that doing that in one take
Speaker 4: and wouldn't have thought that would go viral. Yeah, exactly
Speaker 4: what you gonna want.
Speaker 1: It's the it's the pieces.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Like right after that, I was on.
Speaker 4: You know, I had to learn that.
Speaker 1: I had to learn like the parish, the accent of
Speaker 1: New Orleans, you know what I'm saying. So I had
Speaker 1: to do that and then come right back up. I
Speaker 1: was on the on the Duce for HBO. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: shot Paid Your paid your Pascale from Game of Throws.
Speaker 1: We shot Prospect and Seattle. I did that. I've been working,
Speaker 1: but it's like you, I had to learn to close
Speaker 1: the door and study. Man, when I watched when I
Speaker 1: watched j D, all these guys like they they know
Speaker 1: what they're doing. You gotta be able to say that
Speaker 1: director say I like work, I'll bring them back again.
Speaker 1: So they called me back out there and I shot
Speaker 1: Taste and then they shot the other parts, and in
Speaker 1: China came back and we shot the ones and I
Speaker 1: was I played the chef because they liked it what
Speaker 1: I did in Deduce. So I be getting my little joints.
Speaker 4: Man. But it's like a period.
Speaker 1: It was it a period, yeah, I had. I had
Speaker 1: like it was a throwback that look that it was
Speaker 1: on the musicians and to the music. Music, to the music.
Speaker 1: So it's like you get them, you get them rolls
Speaker 1: and then you then you don't get them rolls. And
Speaker 1: you used to be on the jone like that. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, bro, they ain't picking. And then I
Speaker 1: get into this and when we left you but baby,
Speaker 1: you're so tall. So even even like Bolwalk Empire, so
Speaker 1: audition for dumb personally. So when Michael Kate found out that,
Speaker 1: he said, Bro, Pistol, why you ain't call me? I said,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get in the surprise, got the role.
Speaker 1: He murdered the role the guy, and I gave him
Speaker 1: a hub for the permit. I said, Bro, you killed that. Joe.
Speaker 1: He was like, man, when I heard you was going
Speaker 1: out saying I want to get it. I said, Bro,
Speaker 1: you are dumb person. You gotta get the.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: Somebody that got on told me went out for did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he burned that role. So it's like I read
Speaker 1: for stuff all the time, like and I know my
Speaker 1: brothers know we we auditioned daily, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I just had some stuff. My agent shot up mister
Speaker 1: Hodie Robinson rn A management right here in Brooklyn, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it's like she sent me
Speaker 1: stuff like and you just gotta keep It's a road.
Speaker 7: It's a road that I need to manifest. Listen to
Speaker 7: this thirteen years in the projects. My mentality is, what, kid,
Speaker 7: you talk a good one, but you don't want it.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I wonder it sometimes what you want.
Speaker 8: You and J gonna do project?
Speaker 1: Well, no, we have it.
Speaker 7: Gave me his blessing me and haven't been talking for
Speaker 7: two and a half years, and you know the press
Speaker 7: is running with a TMZ and.
Speaker 3: And like right now, bro, definitely like we've been talking.
Speaker 7: And my thing is this like just studying everything, like
Speaker 7: because the project would have to be about what made
Speaker 7: them speak like this, even if we all got an
Speaker 7: idea of why they recorded these records.
Speaker 3: Or while they were speaking like that, It got it.
Speaker 7: It has to be the backstory, the mindset of why
Speaker 7: these nineteen year old brothers were we're doing this.
Speaker 8: Have you read Prodigy My Infamous Life?
Speaker 3: No, I'm glad that ship should be a movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I got a chance to have lunch with lunch and
Speaker 10: dinner with Prodigy a couple of times.
Speaker 1: And I was in a lot of the bunch and
Speaker 1: I was in a whole bunch of videos. I know
Speaker 1: how Prodigy is, and I got a chance to kick
Speaker 1: it with him. Even he was a good dude, real good,
Speaker 1: a lot of respect.
Speaker 10: If that comes around, that comes around, don't.
Speaker 3: Want to take it.
Speaker 7: And like I said, man, I'm well prepared. Like I'm
Speaker 7: well prepared, the beer will get shaved off. I'm already
Speaker 7: to get.
Speaker 3: Change.
Speaker 7: I'm in the gym at five forty five am every morning.
Speaker 7: I'm out by seven me Like, I'm well prepared. And
Speaker 7: Havoc knows this, you know, we've been having conversations, and
Speaker 7: like I said, man, it's just and I seen my
Speaker 7: brother J. D. Williams is Prodigy, and and when I
Speaker 7: was up at the beginning, you gotta start.
Speaker 3: It from hitting from the back, Yeah, that's the song, y'all.
Speaker 4: That's a song.
Speaker 1: You know it from the back of mobs first song
Speaker 1: that with commercial to go through the whole thing and
Speaker 1: happened I had done his Sonny.
Speaker 3: Language came.
Speaker 7: Just the conversations behind the scenes. It's like, all right,
Speaker 7: you know whenever it come into fruition. But I'm gonna
Speaker 7: bring it into fruition.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 8: That's why you gotta read My infamous life literally tell you.
Speaker 1: Now, you gotta get that.
Speaker 4: That's that's the movie.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's more the more proudig I.
Speaker 4: Mean, but you can't tell that.
Speaker 8: He don't tell his story without.
Speaker 1: Having of course, you gotta go through the whole thing
Speaker 1: for production, because I still think chook Ones is the
Speaker 1: best production that that.
Speaker 2: Hot that it was a movie.
Speaker 3: It was a movie. Yeah, bront Map Bridge opened up
Speaker 3: with Queens and going over Queen's Bridge.
Speaker 4: That was so on New York. That just was read
Speaker 4: the summer and some violent ship about to have.
Speaker 10: So look, we're gonna call down some funding for that.
Speaker 3: Anybody out there already it happened to Mom.
Speaker 1: The family, we would do it and me, I'm just
Speaker 1: they all know, I just I just stay as busy
Speaker 1: as I can I'm back and forth here, uh Georgia,
Speaker 1: back and forth to here.
Speaker 10: I just finished up, like you said, we just finish
Speaker 10: during this season of b m F. It's gonna be
Speaker 10: crazy as hell.
Speaker 3: I tell you that season bad.
Speaker 4: We don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, look the whole thing, that whole debacle or
Speaker 1: whatever that was, that was great promotion, like and so
Speaker 1: all I knew was like whether Fifth did it on
Speaker 1: his own or they all did together to make that
Speaker 1: was really looks sad every day. I don't think that
Speaker 1: this might be it, but they had already. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be fire. Everybody just like.
Speaker 10: And also trying to get into this space to not this,
Speaker 10: but you know, so it's just staying busy.
Speaker 7: But I want to shout out on Cannabis ten X
Speaker 7: because they, you know, for the twenty three year anniversary
Speaker 7: of the wire, they presented me with they said, trade
Speaker 7: you in the service business.
Speaker 3: You'd be promoting real hard.
Speaker 7: So this Cannabis ten X kind of ten X line
Speaker 7: with my man Ben Jason and Holly over there, they like, Yo,
Speaker 7: you need your own strains, we need lighters, you need
Speaker 7: merch So so I want to shout them out because
Speaker 7: like we're talking about doing more tours, you know, like
Speaker 7: Wire reunion tours and really just bringing the cast members
Speaker 7: together to do these meet and Greek panels to talk
Speaker 7: have discussions about what it felt like, you know, leading
Speaker 7: up to booking the Wire, after the Wire, in between,
Speaker 7: what the cast members are doing. So Man, Candaton X Man,
Speaker 7: those those are my people's over there, you know, so
Speaker 7: right now we just we're putting it together.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Is that a phone from the wire that you got?
Speaker 8: Body?
Speaker 5: Hey, yo, the same phone that you had when you
Speaker 5: was on the couch outside.
Speaker 3: I'm authentic.
Speaker 1: Burn galaxies over there in my bad but I'm saying
Speaker 1: that's right there. Yeah, that's my right there, because iody
Speaker 1: got it, and I know people forgot to see it.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, what one last question?
Speaker 6: So look that I forgot what season it was, But
Speaker 6: remember when I think it was the male one of
Speaker 6: them congressmen. Right, It was like because you'all would stop
Speaker 6: selling drugs or whatever. So he had a block designated Hamsterdam.
Speaker 1: When that was shut.
Speaker 6: Were they all people that y'all cast it or y'all
Speaker 6: just were they real cra because was that like a
Speaker 6: real thing?
Speaker 7: There was extious but all those people lived there they did.
Speaker 5: That block wasn't abandoned, No.
Speaker 4: Baltimore block.
Speaker 10: Like it was like only two people living in like
Speaker 10: the whole that whole block. So it was kind of empty.
Speaker 1: But you know that was the truth. That was true,
Speaker 1: that you really can go right there. That's why I
Speaker 1: said Baltimore is.
Speaker 3: You don't get locked up, you don't get you know nothing,
Speaker 3: You just gotta stay there.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. It's a lot of money
Speaker 1: in city. Don't go out there, a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: you're good. It's a lot of money.
Speaker 10: And it was control control crime.
Speaker 11: My last question, what do people still misunderstand about the
Speaker 11: Wire even after all these years.
Speaker 1: That's telling me, you know that that is not a
Speaker 1: black show. That's you know, that's what I think people,
Speaker 1: that's it's an American show. It's about America.
Speaker 3: It's just so happened. We telling the stories of mostly
Speaker 3: black people. But it got layers.
Speaker 1: It's about how the street affects the police, the police
Speaker 1: affect the politicians, politicians, street education.
Speaker 4: So that's what it's about.
Speaker 1: People, corn jobs coming in that show. The Wires taught
Speaker 1: you everything about what you need to know about life.
Speaker 7: And like I keep saying to all other shows that
Speaker 7: you see, and that's why you see cass Front the
Speaker 7: wires sprinkled in all other shows.
Speaker 4: And the retrospect.
Speaker 1: The people appreciate it because I get people all the time,
Speaker 1: like on Cameo when I do my little shoutouts I'm
Speaker 1: watching that.
Speaker 4: I'm watching the show with my husband. He being patient
Speaker 4: with me. But but I don't like all this stuff
Speaker 4: with the politics, and and I gotta hit them with a.
Speaker 1: Solas and I gotta hit them with a soliloquy like no, listen,
Speaker 1: you gotta stay paid be patient with him because the
Speaker 1: writing comes full circle.
Speaker 4: Like I was mad I didn't watch season two at first.
Speaker 4: Right now, I was like everybody else, like with the guys.
Speaker 1: And then if I would do it over, I would
Speaker 1: have I would have traded season two for season three.
Speaker 4: I would have bought ma all ow In earlier and
Speaker 4: the Greeks in them later.
Speaker 1: Sorty talent, and definitely we would have raised charlm Maine
Speaker 1: that we would have rightfully deserved at the time, because.
Speaker 4: If you think about it, we went on hiatus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people doing the show got it, never got canceled.
Speaker 4: We got cast five seasons in seven years.
Speaker 1: Six years year and then they just all the different
Speaker 1: characters started coming and the show just went crazy.
Speaker 4: But you got it.
Speaker 1: It was something that was ahead of its time. So
Speaker 1: when when David and them was pinning it, they was like, no,
Speaker 1: this is the sequence. I know he probably knew it. Yo,
Speaker 1: he ain't not gonna like this, but you know it'll
Speaker 1: come forth.
Speaker 3: It was the reason why.
Speaker 1: That was.
Speaker 4: My my favorite season is one and four.
Speaker 1: One and four.
Speaker 3: One and four was the beginning for it was the
Speaker 3: education the young Mac.
Speaker 1: That's one and four. Show you what your kids was
Speaker 1: doing while you was doing what you was doing. What
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's what that's what we
Speaker 1: need and like each Now I gotta plug my We
Speaker 1: got a nonprofit Hugs not slugs. Yeah, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to get my brothers to come through where we
Speaker 1: go to schools and talk to the kids. A lot
Speaker 1: of kids not getting hugs at home. They're only getting
Speaker 1: slugs when they walk out their building. As a little kid,
Speaker 1: I was going to school and they had a dead
Speaker 1: body by the trash can, still raining on the guy
Speaker 1: and then they finally put a top top on the
Speaker 1: middle and he's still there when we came out at
Speaker 1: three fourteen put the Newspeople and all that. So it's
Speaker 1: it's crazy to mess with your mind. So we hugs
Speaker 1: not slugs, and we gotta teach these kids, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. They gotta know you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They ain't getting no hugs at home. They don't even
Speaker 1: know what a hug is. Right as your brain right
Speaker 1: this backyard, this is backyard for ya.
Speaker 8: This guy.
Speaker 1: We had the Roof's picnic the thirty first for June
Speaker 1: first the Roof's Picnic, and then we at the Cousin's Festival.
Speaker 4: Will push your tea. Yeah yeah, so we're gonna be
Speaker 4: down there too. So shout out to my.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 4: So y'all.
Speaker 3: Real quick. I one shout out. I want to shout
Speaker 3: out my wife. I used your cheney. You know I've
Speaker 3: been I've been married for twenty years. She made this jacket.
Speaker 7: She's one of the biggest fashion designers in the world. Eyebody.
Speaker 7: When I walked in here, y'all see that. Y'all got
Speaker 7: the new Framerancey and it's all be available on Cheneywade
Speaker 7: dot com. I do director consumer up, so you come
Speaker 7: straight time. But my shout out to my wife, I
Speaker 7: used to shout out to my son, Malakai Cheney, who
Speaker 7: just finished this freshman year strong at Savannah State University,
Speaker 7: my daughter Martina, and my granddaughter Morocco.
Speaker 3: Morocco just turned from my grandfather.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yo, when I when I met my wife twenty three
Speaker 7: years ago, I met my eight year old daughter. Not
Speaker 7: only did I consider her, you know, I made a
Speaker 7: vow to her mother. Not only did I consider my daughter,
Speaker 7: I never consider it my step daughter. So I raised
Speaker 7: her from the time she was you.
Speaker 1: Know, your son bigger than you two in the game
Speaker 1: we was at the has not been now he's.
Speaker 3: My son is almost six ft.
Speaker 7: But I'm just proud, man, I'm proud to still be
Speaker 7: here man, doing what we love, taking care of our families.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm about to.
Speaker 4: Say, what's the three of us is grandfathers?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: They said you here over there.
Speaker 4: I just turned seventeen, shout out, but somebody here on
Speaker 4: my phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I know that.
Speaker 1: That's what is about.
Speaker 3: You want to get to that age your family?
Speaker 4: Twenty three years.
Speaker 3: You got, man. I love this.
Speaker 6: I love y'all so much. I watched the wire every
Speaker 6: year like I've never seen it before my life.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 3: I'm still putting people on with it.
Speaker 4: It's the best show.
Speaker 6: They cannot be implicated, can't be remade, can't none of it.
Speaker 3: I want to catch you in his last I want
Speaker 3: to I want to cast you in my new movie.
Speaker 8: Ask me some ship.
Speaker 3: It at the Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake that ass
Speaker 3: up in the morning.
Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club