WEBVTT - DC Young Fly 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.400 I ain't supposed to say this, but I'm gonna see 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.000 it anyway because I don't we get old. I don't care. 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:12.360 Chris Tucker out his mouth told me, told me literally 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:17.040 this year. Sorry, Oje, I'm said we're getting old. Okay, 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.040 he said, if I play his son, he would be 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.280 in a movie. All my life. Then grinding all my life, 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.520 sacri fice, hustle, peg Price, one slice, got theron dice 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.280 swadth all my life. I've been grinding all my life, 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.920 all my life, then running all my life, sacrifice hustle, 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.160 Peggy Price, one slice, got the dice to swaddy all 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.920 my life. I've been grinding all my life. Hello, welcome 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:46.919 to another addition of Club Sha Shay. I am your host, 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.440 Shannon Sharp. I'm also the proprietor of Club Sha Shay. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.560 And the guy that's stopping by for a conversation in 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.480 the drink today is an actor, writer, comedian, musician, producer, 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.760 podcast host father three All the way, I don't know 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:04.360 why you put this Adamville in over there, ye DC, 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:10.319 young flyer, We're good, baby, We're good. Thankful stopping by 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.280 the club man. Listen, it's all of that you only 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.720 understand man, been watching you since I was man. You 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.440 got to understand you the og listen the hood rock 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.960 with the ogn not what I'm talking about. Every time 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.520 I go back to the crib atl they showed me love. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.320 I really appreciate that. Man, y'all rocking with be popping you. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:29.960 You know what I'm saying. You be talking. You're talking 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.640 not only that to see how far you came. Like 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.160 people don't understand like we got to show each other love, 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.320 right versus watching you do it over everybody, everybody else 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.800 showing you. Listen, we got the starting a little right 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.280 as a younger generation a man. It's I appreciate that, bro. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.360 So how's life treating man? We blessed man. We just 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.760 got through shooting Wilding Out again on the road right 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.480 now with my ogs Carlos Milichico being shooting the eighty 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.080 five south right. We got the Wilding Out tour about 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.960 to pop off. You know, just you're working, trying to 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.920 stay in the mix. More music on the way right. 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.000 So you know I heard you got a new baby, 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.680 new baby, got a new baby. Boy man number three, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:13.040 number three, number three had ten kids. I need teen. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.720 Let me see this? How hard is it? Because You 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.680 mentioned all the irons that you're have in the fire right, 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.560 You got the Wild and Out tour right about to 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.040 come out with music, You have your own podcasts, you're 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.760 doing everybody else's podcast How hard is it for you 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.680 to be the father that you want to be, knowing 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.720 that you gotta make sacrifices so they can have down 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.560 the road. See, we was talking about that a couple 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.520 of days ago. Those are the things that we have 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.040 to have sacrifices. We gotta understand what are we gonna 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.600 be able to say, take a pause on in order 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.320 for me to do that? Right, Well, it's gonna be 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.560 like you may want to do that, but that's gotta 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.160 come to a complete start. So me being a father, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.760 as much as I want to do that every day 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.720 and want to be there us to watch my kids 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.639 grow up, that's the sacrifice that I have to take 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.880 in order for me to be able to go out 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.720 and provide so they can have the life that they have. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.920 But now that we're in a point in it, we 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:06.959 can and we have our tour going on, and we 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.920 got all this other stuff going on. Now, I'm just like, 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.120 I'm trying to reroute how can I be there before, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.160 so I don't have to be on the road as much. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.880 So there a lot of sacrifices during the pandemic with 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.600 pretty cool because everything was pretty much I've ever spent 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.400 with my truth right, but now being a comedian, basically 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.720 Friday Saturdy Sunday, you got thirty Friday sat the sun 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.520 and not on that and shoot the podcast on Tuesday, 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.160 come back Monday to refresh, then Wednesday go hand only 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.639 being with your children, thirst back on, back on again, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:34.839 back on again. You grew up on the West side 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:41.080 of Atlanta, Adam marl Luther King. I mean, I mean 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.640 it gets technically now, how have you you know how 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.720 you want to do that? Though, y'all take look first 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.360 of all, all college part East Port, all y'all over 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.800 with y'all take Cafcade, everything side West Atlanta, y'all all 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.880 that this one thing about the city of a lot 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.040 of George. We embraced everything. But I am really an 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.720 at alien Atlanta born on Natal right like my zip 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.440 code three h three three one. I went to fourteen 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.120 County school where fourteen County I stayed in four to 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.880 count but I went to Atlanta Public School, well high school. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.240 You are too. I went to Carver Maize and I 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.160 got right. Okay, it's on the east side. That why 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:18.320 I wrote with it, you know what I mean. But 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.480 it was Atlanta Public school, but it was a alternative school. Okay, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.360 I'm reading who Man got stabbed? So coke, rob broke 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:35.000 in the cars, gamble got locked up. Yeah, yeah, I mean, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.279 that's that's all. That's all in the life of growing 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:41.520 up in That's just that's just my my life decision, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.440 my choice, right, you feel what I'm saying. A lot 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.320 of people want to blame the surroundings and all that. Yeah, 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.880 we do what we see. But I chose to do 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.200 everything that was anything that was involved with my life. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.760 But God let bless me and he re directed my footsteps. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.880 And we was always a praying family. So my mother's 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.200 prayers were answered, you know what I mean. And buy 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.320 me find a guy. Before when I was at rock 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.120 bottom while all this is going on, that's what keeping 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.800 me motivated. I stayed prayed up, no matter what you 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.840 feel me. So we went through a lot of we 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.200 overcame a lot of adverse. You mentioned you were we 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.280 were talking off era that you don't drink, But I 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.320 meant you I'll see what you did. Drugs Molly's. Yeah, 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.480 you know it was a pampoper. Yeah, you know what 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.760 I mean. But but that that was a time in 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.560 my life when I was trying to figure out what 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.440 was going on, right, know what I mean? Like when 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.680 the time I got stabbed up. This is this is 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.080 a real a year for me. I was twenty one. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.799 I had First of all, I had got in trouble 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.880 with the law, right got got that out the way, 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.640 and then I end up getting to a screet brawl 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.440 with a couple of my brothers. You know what I mean. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.040 I got stabbed up. I got a big scar from 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.320 right here all the way around about right here, got 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.120 hit twice right here in his hand, got hit in 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.760 my back, got hit in the head with a pole. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.720 My brother died on the scene, but came back, and 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.480 my other brother got stabbed in his head. I almost 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.680 caught it, got his hand cut off on cut off 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.920 in the mixing. All that the Lord knew I was. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.720 I used to I see a dopes. He said, I 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.160 gotta take I gotta take your hands away from right 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.400 because I know you you you you ain't already had it, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.120 but you just to turn right you see what I'm saying. So, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.640 and and any time you work at something and you practice, 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.520 you get good at I don't need you to be 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.440 a good drug dealer. So if I take your hands away, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.560 now you got to use your brain. Right. So now 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.320 they had my hands for a couple of months, like 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.720 nine ten months, and all I could be. This is 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.640 when my memory started to get better, right because I 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.280 had to remember things. I never remember the phone number. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.039 I could remember twenty thirty folding the phone numbers because 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.440 I can't write. I can remember wraps and music because 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.279 I can't see down the right number. So I had 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.719 to go to the studio and remember it in my head. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.680 And then afterwards I was like I started to recuperate, 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.040 and I was still heading down the wrong path. I 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.360 wanted to see a dope and my partner fed and 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.400 Pag was like, bro, you need to do these vine videos. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.120 So I seen him on World Star one day, you know, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.120 to the to the black community. You see somebod on 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.000 World Star, that's like they made it? Yeah, you like 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.880 that's real, That's that's real TV. So I'm sitting that 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:03.680 stabbed up right now. I couldn't you use my hand 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.720 cause I all on with jacked up. So I just 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.280 had my THROMB. So I'm tapping in World Start with 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.440 my thromb and I'm just sitting there watching it and 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.880 my partner come on World Start. So as me, I always, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.720 I'm a motivator, Like if you see, if you do 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.440 a good on a tell I call him And this 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.840 is my potner. I said, why, I see your World Start, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.880 but you're doing your dang, but keep going. He like 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.320 when you are, I'm like nigga, at how you know 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.800 I'm gonna stabbed up with wo be like foo. I've 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.760 been telling these folks this is Vine. I've been telling them, 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.240 the folks about you, like I got a little partner. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:31.960 They're really funny. And if he was to come on here, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.200 you would go crazy. And I'm like, bruh, I say 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:35.920 a nope, you know I ain't standing all that right. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.880 But that was God message of him trying to tell 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.520 me right what I need to do. So he was 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.280 talking through him through my partner to tell me. And 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.360 once I started, I never forget. Once I started, It's 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.320 just the blessing just started coming abundantly. You feel me. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.160 I started that same, Yeah, I got in trouble with 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.000 the law, got stabbed up that same year, started doing 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.200 vine at the end of the year and never looked 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.400 quick shout out to my boyfriend and paid man money. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.280 Bad Marfia you at twenty five, you mentioned that you you, 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.360 your your family, your praying family. Your dad's a pastor. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.400 You know they say the pastor, son I enormous, the pastor, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.200 the daughter. But the past, the sun by the sun, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.960 past the sun sun wild. I'm the only one who 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:18.080 ain't du Cokay, you're the only one, only one, only child. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.800 How did your father? Did your mother see you down 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:25.680 and say, son, come on now? See oh man, we 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.960 were just saying this early too. As a black family, 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.000 we would know things that's going on, but we don't 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:36.360 have confrontation right, sit down right as a family, right, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.120 Like we can know our cousin as a crackhead, but 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.640 pretend we don't know. We pretend like we don't need 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.959 to see you a crackhead, and like act like we 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:45.720 don't even want to sit them down and be like, bro, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.440 why are you an't crack? Your family? As a family, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.319 we just accept it and just keep going and it's 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.720 like no, we'd be so embarrassed. We don't be embarrassed. 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.920 We just don't like to address or no. But you 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.360 know it's like, well, that's a that's a that's that's 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.439 young fly cousin. Man, he owned that stuff. Man, you 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.520 you tell Fly, I ain't told me. I ain't gonna 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.520 tell little you feel what I'm saying. So it was 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.439 like my parents. One thing my mother did say one 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.920 time that struck me because she always wanted to have 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.679 a boy, and I was her last child, right, and 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.120 I was just going on, just doing crazy stuff in 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:20.559 the streets, and she was like, man, you know what 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.959 you are almost really about to tell, like about to 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.640 make me like say the god that I think I had, 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.079 I asked for a mistake, right, Why did I have you? Then? 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.040 If you're gonna if this is what I prayed, right, 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.640 you I wish I don't you damn it? Boy made 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.520 me say I wish i'd head And that kind of 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.240 like you put a spark into me. I was like, man, 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.560 I gotta get myself again. You say you're the youngest 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.360 of six. What was it like growing up in the house? Man? 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.480 I got will you know I come from an older family, 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.439 older family. Everybody know my dad had me when he 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.320 was sixty one. So you get what yea my older 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:58.360 brother right now? City six? How city six? My body said, 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:02.400 I got a grand brother. Hold On, hold on, I 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.599 got a grand to be your daddy. Listen, man, I 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.280 got great granddad. I got great niece. I'm a great uncle. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.439 I'm a great I've been a great since I was twelve. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.839 So he listen, you got niece and nephews old as you. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.280 Huh listen here we had to change our relationshi because 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:18.679 they were they were old. He was like, look, just 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:23.160 started calling me. You couldn't he think I hain't called 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.480 you my uncle. I'd be damn. We go somewhere, and 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.600 they like, over there, my little uncle, brads in here? 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:37.160 In school? What was school like for you? School was fun? 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.480 School was fun because I always was associated with people 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.280 that that that had like great human right, and it 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.599 was something always about somebody just had great human I 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.480 was like, good, I could just you're gonna make my 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.520 time in school go buy so much easier because we're 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.560 just gonna see back and laugh. But having old parents, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.679 man and not they we wasn't all about that key 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.920 key kid though. They weren't always about the key ki kid. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.880 But when you know you're not really as fortunate as others, right, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.200 you don't really know because it's it's the norm. Fake clothes, yeah, handmade, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.680 hand me down clothes. Not knowing. Oh bro, we really 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.400 messed up in the hood. Yeah, you fem pobber got 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.160 on Jay. I ain't got the Jays. I don't know 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.719 when I'm gonna get the jade. I'm just hoping and 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.880 praying one day my people gonna get him the jade. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.720 But guess what, I'm not fault enough for not having 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.760 the jail. I got on some nikes. They might not 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.640 be at for one, right, but they nikes though. But 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.480 I don't know how to be clean with it right. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.240 So everybody who I was around always as setting my 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.280 honesty right. I used to wear face shoes and try 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.760 to get my partner to wear face shoe. I'm like, 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.040 why are you gonna spend on Homer when you can 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:42.960 go spend a Homer and get too pad easy. They 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.199 used to be like a little fly. Listen, Oh you're 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.280 a real one, but stop talking to me. Check this 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.160 out me. Like when I was in school, I was 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:53.920 I was a good athlete, but I talked with a list, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.719 and I made I made fun of other people so 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.439 people wouldn't joke at me. They wouldn't look at the 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.840 clothes that I got holes in my knees. My parents 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.319 were flood my you were messed up. Is that why 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.559 you became? No? Did you make fun? Did you play sports? 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.199 Play sports? Yeah? What did you play? Now? I played baseball, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.800 basketball and football. I played slide og. If I see 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.719 you come across and I was playing slide but I 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.960 get out the way exactly. I get all the way 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.079 out of the way. But you know I'm in the 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:25.040 class right now, fate one forty right now, listen, listen. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.160 At seventeen, you had to be like one little as 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.240 I am. I can take it hit yeah, and I 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.120 know how to hit, okay. So it was just it 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.120 was just the power is there. It just don't look it. 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.320 Don't look it, and don't look it. I would getting 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:40.920 low though, I would get low. I would get lower 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.200 than you though. But now it was a defense mechanism, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.920 like I was just funny, and by my parents being 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.000 old and by me not really just having to right 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.880 the latest fashion, it was like, well, let's see what 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.000 we can get away with on him, right, you can 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.320 do that with me, right, you talk about the fakes 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.920 you you bet to be. You see what I'm saying, 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.800 because it's like, who are you talking to? Right? I 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.959 want the one that's gonna be quiet. Right, So I 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.040 would kind of like beat the person who was fresh. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.000 I don't I don't matter if he was fresh and 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.120 he was the most populish, right, I would make you 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.559 see out of eye level with me boy, right, and 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.280 we and they're gonna be like, oh little little shout 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.559 it right there? He he you type, wasn'nna let it go. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.599 You ain't gonna get one of you gonna keep you 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:23.719 on the fight you Oh, oh, I don't know when 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.560 to stop. I don't know who you keep fighting. Don't 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.559 say nothing to me. You're gonna get put in it. This. 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.160 I let him get it cause hehouldn't. I'm gonna make 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.120 sure he don't ever pick on me ever. Right, So 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.520 that was my I would I don't mind fighting one 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.080 with that, but I was gonna be latest man. Right. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.520 So if you're gonna talk about me or you know, 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.280 my palmer, I'm right here. You know I'm gonna roashoot 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.920 first period? Right, second period? Oh, your Mama just came up. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.520 Oh you got three hub caps. You're gonna let the 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.199 wrong person see three hump cap right. Oh no, I'm 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.079 on you the whole scene. You're getting the guys. They're 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.599 laughing too, because you don't normally the guy. Okay, this 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:00.320 is the thing. If you grin you in, yep, because 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.000 that's gonna make you mad. Somebody laughing. Oh he said 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.880 that when you ain't mad at him, he la. So 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.439 that means you thought it was friend and that means 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.000 you thought about it too. Oh no, you grin you in. Listen. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.520 We used to roll so bad piece to be like 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.640 because they knew that was the rule with you grin 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.120 you in. But all that be one hunter was our 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.040 way of showing love to at the end of the day. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.000 It was comedy, right, me not even knowing that God 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.560 was training me on the way. Like I got voted 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.480 class clown in the twelfth grade and didn't even know that. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.520 Don't folk put my name on the ballot. No, they 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.040 just had. My peers looked at me as a damn clown. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.680 At no point in time when you growing up did 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.000 you ever think you know what, I can make money 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.080 doing this? I could be a comediann. No, he don't 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.600 know telling jokes. At one point in the time, being 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.520 funny was a saut a formal way of you being 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.920 friends or you scared, right, you feel what I'm saying. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.120 If you're trying to be everybody friends and you're trying 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.560 to make everybody last. That's why if you was my friend, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.600 you knew I was funny, right cause I'm I'm really 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.680 stand office. I ain't gonna be opening my mouth like 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.760 that cause you know, the lot of na get hit 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.880 in the mouth. You feel know what I'm saying, and 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.760 you know back then when you're talking out of turn, right, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.440 you need to be ready to back that ship up 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.520 talking out of turn back in the day, right, So 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.680 I had to learn that. So it was like, nah, 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.400 hell nah, you you was my friend and you knew 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.640 I was funny. But it was like God was showing me, listen, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.400 you already used to this since you was a jig, right, 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.000 even if you're not even knowing that this is what 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.720 you're supposed to. You was working on your craft and 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.560 didn't even know it, didn't even know it. I was 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.360 being like I was literally doing I'll never forget one 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.680 time I got kicked out of school, right, A dude 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.040 had only one time this the only time I got caught. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:40.960 It was it, and you know I was. I was 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.120 a smooth criminal. Lady. I know I'm talking my way 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.120 out of in it. And I'm like, you donna kick 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.320 me out. You're gonna kick Look at me? What I 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.440 really do? You can't kick this face out? Man? Then man, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.440 he said something about my mama was so bad. No, 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.440 he said something about my daddy, cause everybody knew my 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.880 daddy was old. I never forget this ship, this ship, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.240 this shit helped me to the day I was in 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.040 tenth grade. The chemistry clad Miss Taylor and Nigga said, 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.480 but John, I know you ain't talking about that. When 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.520 I heard your dad I'm gonna die last week, I'm 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.400 talking about the whole class went crazy. So I never 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.720 forget his mom ass big as can I say, titty, 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:19.239 big ass, titty, I'm talking about h don't talk mind stupid. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.880 So I grabbed two chairs. I said, I know you 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.920 ain't talking about that. Why your MoMA tedded this big 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.560 grabbed two chairs, put him to my chairs and walked 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.400 around the whole class. Nig I had the whole class 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.400 holler Nigga. The teacher were like when Phils sit out, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.080 and I was like, you don't know what he's said 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.960 about my daddy. Girl, Sit up, Nigga. I'm talking about Nigga. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.720 I felt that she gave me a fifth age. I 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.280 had to take our class again the next season. I 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.200 sat my ad down that time. I think you mentioned 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.160 that you got your start doing ye and I've heard 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.760 a lot. I've heard a lot of comedians say it's 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:57.440 easy to do internet comedy. You do sketches, but can 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.880 you do a thirty fifteen minute set? Can you do 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.360 thirty minute set sketches to five? There's nothing wrong with 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.880 sketch comedy, but can you do a set for thirty 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.320 forty five hour however long? You can you do that? 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.959 Sketching this part of writing, right, you know, And when 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.640 you come from the internet, you don't have an audience, right. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:14.760 I find a lot of stuff fun and when I'm 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.280 by myself, it's getting high. That's that's that's your humor. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.280 So that's how the Internet starts, kind of like start 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.720 the sprout. And once you start elevating your craft, you 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.120 have to transition and understand each business, each every aspects. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:30.800 It's a. It's a it's an essence of this thing, 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.320 and you have to really take your time and understand 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.879 what God is putting you into. Right, So, as a 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.840 whole entertainer with this whole comedian, I literally had to 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:44.919 sit all the way back to grasp that title as 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.480 being a comedian, what is it? From the beginning to 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.000 the end. And when I started doing it on the phone, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.840 it was cool, it was like, it was cool. But 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.440 then once they start calling saying, all right, we want 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:00.280 him to do stand up right, right, it was a 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.840 different ball. It was this. I never had this much pressure. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.080 So once I finally broke the ice. You did it 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.679 one time, I knew, I said, oh I was hooked, 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:11.800 but I knew it was It was a different from 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.600 the phone, right and having that mike. Because here's the thing. 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.560 When you're doing a live in a comedy show. The gratification, 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.480 the gratification of instantaneous. You know they like it immediately, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.720 yeah you crazy, boom or they just stepping, but not 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.480 even that. It's the it's the mentality of knowing that 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.040 you're gonna go out here and make people laugh. You've 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.600 never seen the day and never seen before in your life, right, 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.159 this is psych alot. This is crazy, right, It's like magic. 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.000 It's like a magician. Right, I'm gonna go out here 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.359 and do this magic tricking front of the people. I 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.600