WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Malcolm Mays On Decompression From Acting, Writing Credits, 50 Cent, Luke James + More 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.560 Wake that ass up in the morning. 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:08.039 The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody in Steve j Envy just hilarious, 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:08.760 charlamage the guy. 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:10.680 We are the Breakfast Club. You got a special guest 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:11.200 in the building. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.480 Yes, indeed, Malcolm made actor Michael. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.439 How you feel about bless Man, I'm here with you, yes, sir, Yeah, 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.200 actor and writer, Yes, ma'am. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.279 Yeah. So look, so I'm a jump straight into it. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:25.840 So how much hate did you receive the last season 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.680 of Power because you was acting up? 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:28.880 Oh? 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.800 Your man's just pressed me in the room. 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:32.080 Yeah. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.519 Bro came in there and was like, hey, man, so 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:36.680 like I funk with you, but like, I don't funk 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.360 with you. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:41.519 People don't see the role this. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:43.240 We take it serious. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:44.760 I mean I take it as a compliment. I told 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:46.080 him in the room. I was like, hey, Bro, it 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.520 just means that you really you know, I'm doing my job. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.760 I'm doing my work, so I appreciate it. Yeah, but 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.680 I'm I don't even drink, Bro, Like, what is this? 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.840 I'm a sober diggie, Like, what is it? I don't 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:00.880 be knowing with your restrictions, know I and all that? 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:02.760 Do People pressure though? When you're in the public, like 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:03.959 really upset with your rule. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.039 Niggas don't really you know what they do press me? 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:07.800 It's you know who press me, not the men. The 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.480 women are the ones who are like yo, I can't 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.720 like like, I can't believe you. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:13.960 Would do us like that. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.400 You are embarrassing us, like Aunties is like take it personal. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:19.400 So it's but it's love though I love it. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.840 I was in the mirt parking that happened to me, 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.080 like a woman with her baby and the stroller pulled 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.679 up on me, like pull like you're setting a bad 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.319 example for the family. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.920 What are you talking me? 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.200 What you talking about everybody? 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:35.840 But I realized that all the and I think all 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:37.679 the Power Universe men have to understand it's like you 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.440 belong to Black women want you in the Power Universe. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:40.120 It's just what it is. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.040 Will break that down a little bit more. 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:43.720 You know, everything in the culture to me is at 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.080 route black women. Honestly, Like if you just diged, whether 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.600 it's Drake, whether it's Paramour, whether it it don't matter 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.240 what it is, it don't shake unless they say it 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.800 go so like I feel like because this show is 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.200 pretty much a modernized. 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.400 Black soap opera. Uh huh. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.480 And in all the best ways. Then that means that, 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.560 like you know who our main component and who our 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.200 main advocate, and therefore you gotta honor that. You know 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:05.840 what I'm saying, Like you got to accept it. You 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.720 in a relationship that you has to be in and 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:09.520 you gotta. 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:10.240 Be okay with that. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.000 How hard did you get that character out of you? Want? 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:13.360 You not? 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.640 Like taping is a decompression is necessary? I feel like 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.520 for me, I you know, channeling is a thing, but 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.040 you gotta. You gotta know who you are. Like once 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:22.760 you know your north start, you can always get back home. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.240 That's so it takes time, but you just gotta I 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:30.280 don't get confused. Some people get confused, Like it's not 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.040 like two back of juice and those ship like that, 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:33.240 Like I know who I am? 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:34.600 What do you do to compress? 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:36.160 Really? 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.000 My Grandma everything, bro, Like I stay on it. Like 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.280 Grandma call every day every Sunday. We have like a 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.760 prayer called me her and my best friend rightn we 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.400 be going on like we read scriptures and and then 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.919 I call my peoples every day. My homies remind me 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.840 who I am every day. All of y'all, I'm sure 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.360 are the centrifugal force of your family, right, So you 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.560 can't be forgetting who you are because they gonna remind 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.639 you very quickly every time, Hey, look we got these, 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.040 we got Look your cousin's birthday. You got to go 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.680 to this graduation. I don't care where or who dj 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.960 MV Charlotte, Maine, jes Select. I don't give a fuck. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.280 I'm Rashawn, Sir Rashawn. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.960 With them, though it's tough for me. You know, you 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:14.720 know that hood, text, you know that family. You know, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.960 maybe this is trauma. Don't start listening. But I feel 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.960 like a triggered I let you know, don't do it 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:26.959 because because whether I fuck with them or not, I 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.600 done did a whole lot of ship that my family 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.800 deemed inappropriate. I don't been to jail all that, shot 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.680 stabbed all that, and they raised me pretty right. So 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.560 I feel victim to my environment. And none of them 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.080 ever abandoned me. So I can't abandon them even if 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.240 they being annoying, or they fall a short, or they 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.360 do something that's even egregious. I can fuck with you 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:43.960 from it, like not fuck with you from a distance, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.000 but I still got Like if you call and you 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:47.960 need that there's friends I don't talk to, but it's love. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:48.760 So you family. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.400 I don't have to like you, but if you need me, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.360 I'll be there. We ain't gonna speak. I beat the 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.640 dig up while I'm there and won't talk to you, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.400 but you're gonna be safe because that's duty to me. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.000 That's what manhood is, which is probably really fucked up 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.160 in toxic, but that's how I feel. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:02.880 But what about when you get them called like, hey man, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.920 let me get five thousand n til next Friday. Mind 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.480 you ain't never made five grand. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:07.360 Like, oh worse than that. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.320 You get through five thousand, it'd be like, hey, you 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:11.720 got a hundred bands. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:14.840 Were on the radio, is gonna start? 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.760 Let me get because. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.520 You know the misconception to see everybody forgets that y'all 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.719 get bag money. That's crazy and they think that we 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.840 got the money. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.240 Oh yeah, yeah, please say. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:27.080 Is are a big thing? 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.919 Yes every morning? 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.240 Oh man, yeah, I don't go out y'all, but yeah, 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.159 like we they think that were rich, Like man, we not. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:35.600 Most actors are actually not rich. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.240 Actually, my homeboy Matt Hinton, who's a stylist for like, uh, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.520 Rocky Ice Rocky in that and you really cool dude. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:43.800 He told me not to say nothing stupid when I 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.599 got on here. But one of the things that he 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.440 said to me the other day, we were shopping and 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.320 I was going getting ready for CAN and I usually 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.520 dress and slides and a T shirt wherever I go 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.160 because I don't really give a fuck, but you know, 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:54.880 put that ship on because I'm going to Can. And 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.880 he was like, hey, man, I thought you were broke. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.800 Actors are broke. I was like, Nikka, you mean like 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.400 because I'm frugal, I don't have money, Like no, I'm 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.080 just responsible. I'm just not out here doing shit. But 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.240 he thought I was broke, and he's right. Most actors 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.400 are broke like we. That's why the strike was important. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.320 The livable wage for acting and writing is horrendous. Less 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.480 than one percent of us work, less than one per 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.160 percent of us make more than fifty thousand. And you know, 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.880 in any place this apports city, Los Angeles, New York, 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.560 anywhere where the hub is, you can't live off that. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:24.520 So I'm blessed. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.640 Man, I'm fortunate, and I've been blessed enough to be 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:28.200 just kind of like frugal niggas. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.599 So now you said you earn cans where you on 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.400 the same red carpet as that security guard pushing people 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:33.760 out the way? 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.480 Did they better be glad I wasn't on that car. Yeah, because, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:37.960 like I said, I don't play be honest. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.039 Did you see that though, how disrespectful she was to 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:41.560 celebrities just trying to take pictures. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.560 French people are rude, bro straight up, and I'll say 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.080 it today they ruled now. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.279 Their beautiful relaxed. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.600 I ain't saying that they bad people, because like, hey, look, 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.279 New York people are rude, but they have a big heart. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:56.800 They don't want to give you the directions, but they 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.520 give you directions and it's gonna say to me, heyo, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:05:59.839 you got to go up the fucking third what the 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:05.919 You don't know what look uptown uptown, but they're gonna 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:06.400 show you. 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:07.679 But they're just saying really roughly. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.599 French people are a little more insidious with they with 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.800 their discrimination and all that. Yeah, I have experienced that. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.680 I can't lie and look, I love can I love 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.320 the organization and all that. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.039 But but had had I. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:21.520 Been on that carpet, it would have been a little 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.080 different situation. So I'm glad I wasn't there. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:24.520 Actually, we would have been asking you. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.520 Other questions wouldn't even been no ques, like what are 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:27.000 we talking about? 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:27.120 Bro? 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.000 Like, man, they did that to her, they did that 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.320 to another woman of color. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:30.839 Like they like. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.320 But they're in a tough position because they're trying to 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.120 move people and some of them don't even understand. 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.520 They're not connected to the culture. They don't know that Kelly. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.240 Is to us beyond they're all the same, you know, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.479 like it could have been shelling that muff were not 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.240 we're not playing behind them, but they don't really. They're like, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:49.800 but they have this weird rule where they can't touch you, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.159 but they got to move you. And and Kelly's taking 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.039 her pictures because she is a star and she is 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.760 on the carpet and she's right, she got boundaries. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:58.560 They was like move. 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:01.039 Like it was worse. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.600 Kelly wasn't even that bad as bad as the other one. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.919 They picked up her dress and she got to like, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.960 don't touch my touch my dress like it was nasty. 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:10.760 It's pretty bad. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.000 But it's a weird situation for everybody because what you're 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.320 going to like they're under pressure from the camp people 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.240 who don't give a fox or they're security, but at 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.080 some point you just don't touch nobody. Bro, Like if 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:20.960 somebody like I'm not moving, but then you need to 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.920 just you gotta take your l take your a. It's okay, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.960 we can all our egos ain't in this. It's just 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:26.720 fucking pictures. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.360 I want to go back from the start for people 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.240 that don't know who Malcolm is is, how did you 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.840 get started in the entertainment industry as far as acting 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:34.239 and writing? 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.520 How did you get started? What made you start loving 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:36.960 this game? 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.280 I think it was damn every time I feel like 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.600 Charlamagne is just trump like he's just gonna trauma trigger 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.000 me every time because because I talked to you know, 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.680 when my pops was around heavily in my life when 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.400 I was younger and my mom's was still like you know, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.320 like it was like a family thing, like you know, 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.720 going to Blockbuster for all those who are old enough 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.680 to remember Blockbuster Hollywood videos, going to drive in theaters 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.800 like it was communal, it was familiar, and it's a 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.720 time before everything kind of went left in my life, 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.280 before there was like street violence, before my pops had 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:07.840 to figure it out and did for a second before 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.920 things changed. And that's the thing I think that like 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.960 connected me to movies because you could go anywhere. You 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.720 could be with your family have a good time, and 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.760 you could be in the South of France watching James 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.080 Bond or watching you know, you know, Mobeta Blues. I 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.320 could experience New York in a certain time period. I 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.560 could like it was. It was a beautiful place and 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.920 where black men and women were kings and queens in 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.200 my household on television and on film, and I don't 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:33.599 have I didn't have that experience where they were like, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:34.400 we're not represented. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.120 I ain't had that shit. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.120 My house was full of black art, black music, black 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.240 so it was a place of comfort and I think 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.400 I fell in love with storytelling as a means of 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.079 transportation and empathy. And from that point, since I was 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:46.280 a kid, I was like five six, I was like, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:47.400 this what I want to do. I don't know what 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.000 this shit is, but I want to do it. And 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:50.679 my mom was like, that's what we're doing, you know. 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:51.800 So it's dope. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.439 Yeah, that is interesting about that era, right cause I 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.920 always say the same thing. I'm like, Yo, the conversations 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.200 that we have now by not having representation on TV 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.840 or not having positive we didn't grow up with that 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.720 and the nineties had everything you could want. That's a 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.560 black nuclear family. There was lawyers, there was doctors, there 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:13.280 was radio personalities, like there was everything covered on college. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.400 And ship bro like even the movies. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.360 Yeah, like, and it was cross like, it was cross 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.200 pollination of entertainment. Like you could see Denzel's poster in 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:21.880 Whitley's dorm. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:22.959 Room on the Different World. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.680 Before he was Denzel to the world, he was always 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.960 Denzel to us. And I think that kind of ethnocentrism 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.000 gets lost in the conversation because we we we always 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.760 admire in the other side. We always admiring what everybody 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.400 else got, which I'm not gonna get on on my 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:37.559 on my black panther, But you. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:38.880 Just said something that we forgot about. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.520 I forgot about the importance of Blockbuster, right, Yeah, because 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.520 Friday night, my parents used to get off work. We 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.520 used to go to Blockbuster and they would let me 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.240 pick a movie and then they would pick a movie 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.120 and then we would watch it as a family like 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:50.040 that was our thing. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.240 And then when Blockbuster got video games. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:52.680 Oh we were crazy. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.400 I used to be able to get one video game 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:55.199 for oh man, that. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:56.000 Was that was the thing. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:57.760 And then when your card, and when your mama or 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.320 your daddy forgot to play the bill on the card, 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.000 you have to start going to the library or switch 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:01.880 and use your cousin name. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:03.880 It was a whole situation. 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.240 So like man, I used to love and everybody would go, 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.480 like you, what movie you watch night? Or like man, 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.880 I hope they ain't rent Men in Black two out 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.959 or whatever. It was a beautiful thing that I miss community. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.960 I miss us being together. I love when we commune. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.560 And that's why I kind of love things like this 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.720 and institutions like this and Stars and the shows that 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.679 I'm wanting them too, and because they bring us home, 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.280 they bring us together to watch them going into something. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.240 Where you ever concerned about them killing lou Off the 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:29.880 last season? 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:31.959 Did you think that they were? 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:33.200 I don't give it. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.680 No, Like I'm less bro, like I won already, Like 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.080 I know, you know, it's so crazy people ask me that, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:40.920 were you ever worried about dying? I'm like, bro, I 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.800 got niggas dying, and really I don't care about them. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.880 I appreciate and love the fact that I got the 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.360 ability to experience the crew I have. Pa Tina Miller 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.040 is a genius, you know, London. Brown is amazing, Makay 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.480 is brilliant, like I love you know, Haley kill my 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.840 whole cast and crew sas Chapin the writer Courtney for 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:58.440 incepting it. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:59.080 All of it is. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.160 We have the coolest cool Like we don't have no egos, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.280 we have no problems, we don't argue, ain't no mess y'all, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.120 don't see us outside. London sometimes talks too much because 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.439 he's London and he's a comedian, and. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.679 I was gonna say he'd be staging on the commedity. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:10.320 He's a comedian. 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.559 It's not the same thing. But like, other than that, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:13.760 like we don't get no mess. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:14.600 We're gonna be outside. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:15.240 We be boring. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.560 That's why people don't really we bored as fuck. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.320 We come home, do our work and all that. So 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.320 I've been blessed to have a great work environment, to 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.480 make a little bit of change doing something I love 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.320 and do something interesting and different. If they killed me tomorrow, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.120 I told Sasha, like, bro, just let me know, so 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:29.240 I can, you know. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.800 Shake around with the mortgage. But other than that, I'm good, Bro. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.480 I had a great time. It was beautiful, We had 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:36.040 a great run. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.520 How involved his fifty and everything. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.760 Early on he was he was very much so involved, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.440 and then I think later on he got you know, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.160 like you set it up, you set up a business, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.319 and then you go do your shit, you know what 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.240 I mean, put the paint on the walls, make sure 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:49.320 ain't nobody's stealing from you. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:50.800 And then you're like, oh no, it's a good crew, 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.120 good workers, but your you know, business, and walk off 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:54.840 like yeah, fifty to fifty cool. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.120 You know he'd be doing this thing. I think he'd 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.080 be playing favorites though. Yeah, he played favorites, but he 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.000 don't know that. Man do no wrong. In my eyes, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:01.920 I don't give what he do. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.040 Honestly, you're saying that because you don't think you're one 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:05.600 of his favorites. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.560 Is basically I think that his favorites are based on 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.960 like a marketing matrix that he runs in his head. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.120 I don't know if it's like people he would actually 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.079 hang out with in real life. 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:16.440 I don't know. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.280 I can't say for that, but I do know that 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.680 he positions things so brilliantly. You know, if you're in 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.320 the running, it's because you're making the most money at 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.839 the table, or you are aligned with what he's doing. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.200 So that's what's going to get his attention, which makes 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.720 perfect sense for marketing for your product. But I know 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.640 that for me, I don't care whether he there or not. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.439 His presence has always felt like he nigga changed my life. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.839 I don't give what you're doing save me. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.240 Like in terms of shows, like everything art he be. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.720 Giving people money and ship like fifty is actually the nicest, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.240 sweetest dude ever. And when he be talking to the cancer, 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.880 I don't know what that meanstrological sign. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.120 Ye okay, so both y'allless. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:13:01.280 People the cancers of crabs. The exterior is hard, interior 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:02.560 it's soft. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:03.520 People don't know that about it. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:04.120 It's goind of Nope. 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:05.880 Actually people don't know that about him. 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:07.880 All the stuff that he does, the money that he 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.800 gives and how he helps people that they don't know 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.520 that part of fifty cent. They only see the cross 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:13.760 the fifty cent he going at you. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.480 And it's funny because he don't know that he like 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.840 he he purposely chooses to be delusional about his own fame, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.000 Like he be roasting the shit online and people think 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.200 he's like dead serious. And I remember asking him, like, bro, 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.360 why you be going up on people? Like, bro, you 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.240 you know you realized fifty I don't know why people chipping, like, 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.880 you know, we friends, we making fun of each other, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.600 like what's the problem, And I'm like, because you're fucking 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:35.320 fifty cent. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.120 And there's a certain level that he takes into people. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:43.599 People in the right. Yeah, like that's crazy, but he 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:44.720 just I kind of like it. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.920 Though. It's funny when you say that, you know, you're 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.840 I forgot how you're worried it. But the was the 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.120 marketing marketing matrix? Marketing matrix? Is it? Because like you're 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.280 not in the club, so you know, you can't have 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:56.240 his liquor. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.079 I don't know about that. 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.000 I just think that whoever hot and popping and whoever 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.040 he's invested the most time and energy in, they gonna 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.480 get to be where they at with it. And that's 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.440 fine by me because that's how it should be. I 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.800 also think that like that doesn't really have anything to 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.760 do with like who you are as a person. I 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.360 think that has everything to do with what you bring 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.840 to the tape, which once again, fifty is very business oriented, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.719 so that makes perfect sense. But of course we all 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.040 want to hang out with fifty cent, Like everybody want 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:22.880 to hang out fifty fifties fun. He's a fun guy. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.200 He's still in the club at age whatever, and it's 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.800 still lick. So we all enjoy that. But at the 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.960 same time, I don't envy or be jealous of his 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.400 relationships with people. The people been around for years and 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.720 been with him doing all types of stuff. You just 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.880 be glad when he comes through, like, hey man, fifth Folk, 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:39.760 glad you showed up. Bro. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:40.920 You don't have to even do that. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.960 Does it motivate you, like when you're shooting, like I 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.960 think you'll in production for Raisin Cannon for not. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.280 Right, Yeah, five on it? 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.240 Yeah? You know, So does it motivate you? Like, yeah, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.520 I'm gonna keep doing my You're gonna have to come 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:55.480 up with me Fifth. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.920 Well, well, I wasn't talking about my personal relationship. Fifty 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.480 then called me and told me, eight, if you stop 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.360 running around, excuse me. Fifty then told me, hey, look, bro, 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.720 I know that you're out here moving different. I got 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.440 you. You don't got to worry about that. I'll put you 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.280 with people, So I don't. I can't say that me 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:09.680 and fifty don't have a relationship. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.240 Hold on out because you were speaking nigga. But then 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.840 you stop yourself missing because I. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:14.960 Remember mad in my head like. 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.880 Viral did I run around that burner? Sounded like saying 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.080 stop run around to burn and get real secure. I'm saying. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.080 He was like, I'll give you fifties, like whatever you need, 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.800 I'll make sure you have it. Brother, And he called 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:29.680 me directly, and if I need him, I can call 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.200 him and reach out and he'll text back and all that. 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.320 So I can't say that I don't have a personal relationship. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.120 I just know that certain people he got a lot 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.200 of people to service, and certain people under the umbrella 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.160 of both power music or whatever sometimes feel a little neglected, 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.720 and I'm just telling them it's not personal. You can't 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.479 take it personal with you. But my relationship fine. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.320 Do you watch any of the other shows Power Universe? 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:56.760 I try, okay, because it's a bunch of damn shows. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.120 Yes, and then for me and then you're not much. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.360 If you're not only doing you're not only doing that show, 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.240 you're doing other things as well. But I asked that 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:09.200 because a lot of times I see people like saying 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.400 Monita Hada or Raquet, like who is the more of 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:14.000 a badass? 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:14.680 Who would you pick? 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.120 That's not fair because you know you're not gonna wrote. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:20.880 First of all, you're not gonna let me do what 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:21.760 fifty be doing. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:22.960 I'm not doing that. 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.600 You're not letting me put two black women against. What 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.200 I will say is I'm a I'm a person who 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.160 grew up in a very what they call it, tribalist environment. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.960 So you know I'm rocking with gang and can't nobody 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.640 fuck with Patina on television, not just against power and 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.440 this and that. Like, No, I don't care if it 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.880 was what's that white boy move show that's really good 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:48.800 Jason Bacmon show, Ozark, Oh, just as good Ozarks. I 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.960 don't give fuck if it's Ozark. I don't care if 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:55.360 it's Martin Scorsese's movie. Nobody, even though Lily Gladstone is amazing, 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.560 Patina Miller's top tier period, don't matter. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:16:59.160 She heard. 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.200 She needs to be acknowledged for it, with the awards 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.520 and all the things. He deserves it, so does everybody 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.200 else on the cast. So you're not gonna get me 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.520 like that. Look love Mary, love love Anti, but we're 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:10.159 not playing behind it. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.320 Why didn't they be fronting on the Stars shows? Though? 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.680 When it comes to like the awards and denominations and 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:15.280 stuff like that. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:17.800 I pleaded the fifth. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:18.960 I'm just here so I don't get. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:23.040 Fine, it's the network. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:24.840 I plead the fifth. I'm just here so I don't 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.119 get fine, damn, And. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:27.919 I say it like that. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.720 Love Stars, Love everything they've done for me. I can't 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.280 speak on anything that ain't in my purview. Learning to 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.600 shut the fuck up sometimes. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.240 Because Stars has you know, some of the best programming 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.119 on television, don't even like to call it black, some 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:40.879 of the best programs. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:42.359 Outlander was one of my favorite shows. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.680 God that's your herte American Gods. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:45.960 American Gods was mazing. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.400 I read the book before I saw the show Gaming 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.040 Gaming Fan Why I was a fan of that book 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:52.639 because I don't know why. I guess it was the 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.320 title and then when I, you know, just looked at 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.359 it and I was like, oh, new Gods versus. So 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:58.879 I just ended up reading it. I'm like, oh, this 0:17:58.960 --> 0:17:59.240 is dope. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:00.800 I mean, Neil Gaming been putting it down. He's been 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.320 one of my favorite ritis for all times. So like, yeah, 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.080 when they adapted that pretty well, even what's his name from? 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.600 You remember double Take or whatever what it was. It 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.840 was the Eddie Griffin movie with Malcolm Malcolm uh with 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:16.639 the other dude, He's like, really Jamal warned Eddie Griffin 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.000 had a movie where it was like called double Take 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.520 or some Ship, and it was with this one dude 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.280 who's a really good actor but we never remember his 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.119 name as fucked up because he's really great. And he 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.400 had a scene in American Guys where he went crazy. 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.160 He was talking like to the slaves. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:28.200 On the boat. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:35.000 Oh, Orlando, niggas amazing Orlando. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:36.159 He you were a legend. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.439 Bro, Hey, bro, you be stepping on ship like I 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:40.200 need to learn my name. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.440 I know he's executive produced the movie that it's called 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.640 eighty eight. It's actually on Stars. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.760 That's hard you are that scene he did in American 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.800 Guys where he went crazy talking to the slaves and 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.119 all that and was discussing all the hell yeah that man, 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.680 that boy. But yes, Stars produces great program I can't 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.640 speak towards their campaigns with our culture or the awards 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:04.880 with Emmys and the BAC. 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:05.560 I don't know. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.040 All I know is, you know, I wish that whatever 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.199 needs God, whatever's broken, let him fix it. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:12.879 That's all I can say because I ain't gonna talk 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:13.520 too much about that. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.080 Do you talk to the writing team about where you 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:17.440 want the character loo to go? 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.240 Are you just like, you know, I think Sasha is 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:22.960 good about letting us have input, but you let that 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.080 man cook. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. We 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:26.879 let that man cook, and he just basically because you 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.520 think I would have chose to be an alcoholic. 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:35.119 And feeling bad out of no way like that. But 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:36.800 you know, people take that shit serious and I gotta 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:37.160 go home. 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.920 And that's I keep hearing that from actors and actresses 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.120 nowadays and bugging me out. The first person I ever 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.080 heard say that was Making Good a couple of years ago, 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.600 and she was saying how she got to watch the 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:52.080 role she played now because people think that's actually you thatand. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:52.800 Well, there's two things. There's two things. 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:54.960 We know how human beings are bro like, it's all marketing, 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:56.480 even in your personal life. You know, if you dress 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:58.399 nice at school, you become the person who's the nigga 0:19:58.400 --> 0:19:59.800 the dress nice at school, and now you got to 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.040 keep that up. Like if you a nigga addressed bummy 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:03.880 and you're just nice once, everybody gonna be like, oh 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.480 ship Like. People's perceptions are manipulated and marketing is a 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.600 big deal. So like, if you want to be seen 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.720 as a leader, you can't keep playing somebody that's not. Yeah, 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.000 you know, people really don't look at Don Cheetah and 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.560 Jeffrey Wright and all the in g and Carlo Esposito 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.760 like they're leading men, but they have all of the 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.760 same tool sets that that god the Denzel has. 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:30.400 I always say, man, what's his name? Pregnancy brain? Pregnancy brain? 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:31.120 What is his name? 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:33.879 What's love got to do with it? 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.520 I turner, what frisch burn? 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.000 Until he was movie and then I was like, Okay, 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:40.960 now he's rubbing me up the right way. 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:41.679 Because you hated him. 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.320 Yeah, but he did, so that's how great he did. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:46.000 We was kids and we had and I was scared 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:46.760 of him, like, why. 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:47.760 Is he being up like that? 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:49.720 You know you like boys? 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:59.200 And yeah, I guess I've sayen that later. Yeah and yeah, 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.600 oh yeah him angel bad. I said, where parents again? 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.000 And boys in the hood because he was the mom 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.640 he was in there. But yeah, but you're right, it's 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.679 very implement influential, and marketing can be a bitch. 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.560 It is because my girl Raven was like, hey, I 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:13.840 seen him as ike at ten. I ain't stop hating 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.240 that man since and I was like that man them 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.520 been in Apocalypse now at seventeen years old with Francis Sport. 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:22.240 Coppola also that you could sit here and not want 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.440 to go watch him because he played the role too good. 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.320 And once I've seen that, I was like, oh, like, 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.320 you got to position yourself. You got to make sure 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.760 you're doing certain things. And so next time y'all see me, 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:32.720 I'll probably have on a suit. And then I ain't 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:33.720 gonna be selling no drugs. 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.560 I'll tell you, like, psychologically, how do you check yourself? 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.400 You just out in the box? Might you drunk? Rat? Oh? 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:40.119 My ego not it. 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:42.760 I'm not fucking my ego ain't in this. Like my 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:44.680 ego not in this. Like I lived a real life 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.080 where real shit happen, where niggas getting convicted and bailing 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.040 Jay dotsonsume green dots and jpas and real life shit. 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.240 So like, I'll just be happy people are excited about 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:55.600 the show. As long as you don't touch me or 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:56.359 disrespect somebody. 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:56.679 I'm with. 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:57.320 We all good. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:21:59.440 Do you think live out your fantasy? Bro? 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:04.160 Just don't touch nobody. I'm Kelly, don't touch me. Touch 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:05.399 I got boundaries. 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:07.400 But other than that, my nig do your shit because 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:07.960 it's just love. 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.400 You just confused a little bit, like your life probably, yeah, 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.680 way harder than mine right now, Like I know how 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.720 it goes. This is what you got, we hear. Matter 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:16.520 of fact, I might laugh with you, like, hey man, 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:17.119 it was tough. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:18.879 I didn't choose this. 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.120 You know, a lot of people relate to that character though, 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:25.439 like that's the character, Lou, that's all real shit, like 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:26.960 it is, a lot of people do relate to it, 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:29.080 and you play it so well. Another show i'm a 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:31.080 fan of is Them Both Season one? 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:31.439 Answer? 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.160 Now, you play in one as Calvin. Yeah, yeah, I 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:37.400 love that. A lot of people didn't catch that, but 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:40.639 I caught it and I just loved it, like you 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:42.760 know how you can switch because you obviously have ranged. 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:44.560 And then season two came out. 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:49.119 I thought you were so creative as a writer for that. 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:52.439 It was so many pieces on them to the scare. 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:54.560 How did you tap into that? 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:56.200 Well, first of all, it's a team of six people 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:58.120 in one room coming up with one idea, so that helps. 0:22:58.200 --> 0:22:59.800 So I'm not going to act like I'm just you know, 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.960 and little Marvin being ahead of the ship. Oh, my god, 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.480 Little Marvin is amazing. Yeah, and I say that to 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:08.239 say and I'm like, you know, and I'm gonna keep 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:10.679 doing this with Luke because I'm wonder the people that 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:12.640 when I'm wrong, I'm wrong just as loud as I 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:14.639 was when I was right, and I gotta be honest 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:15.280 if I fuck up. 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:17.480 I did not believe in Luke in this role. 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:18.240 I did not. 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:20.800 I did not believe in that man. I argued with 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:22.840 Tony Saltzman, who's the second in the room, and Little 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:24.920 Marvin about like that's the choice we going because the 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:28.560 character description looked nothing like him. The character description looked 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:31.679 more like a young Forced Whittaker. Literally, it had nothing 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:34.840 in Luke is handsome, he got ass, what the fuck 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:35.280 he gonna do? 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:37.480 Like you know what I mean, Like Kendrick, I hate 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:38.000 the Waiting. 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:42.639 As a person because you know, Luke was in an 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:44.159 R and B group when we was kids, when he 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:46.000 was teenagers, and he was singing his ass off. So like, 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:47.800 I've always been a fan of Luke's but I just 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:50.480 never was like, you know, I'm like, I don't think 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:53.280 he can do this, And so I fought like a 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:55.119 little bit I was bumping up against shit. When they 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:56.679 was like, we're not shooting in La was shoot at Land. 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:57.479 I'm like, Oh, this is bullshit. 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:59.400 Then they're like, also we're asking Luke James. 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:03.240 I'm like, I got me who y'all after all this 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:05.000 work we didn't put in to build this story and 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:08.720 how it was. Because if somebody, one actor can ruin 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:10.600 all of the story, it don't matter how good it is. 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:11.920 Y'all got to get up there and say the words. 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:13.040 So I was. 0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:16.920 I am humbled and appreciative to be wrong. Being wrong 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:19.800 it's a fun thing sometimes that ship beautiful as fuck 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:22.440 because I was so wrong that man is was. He 0:24:22.480 --> 0:24:24.480 did his stuff, he put his foot in it, he 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:26.280 stepped all over it. And I'm so glad that we 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:28.919 had people like Little Marvin with vision and Tony Saltsman 0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:30.919 with vision, and the casting directors and a team of 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:33.119 writers who are able to you know, we can disagree, 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:35.280 have differensive opinion and still get a great product. 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:38.520 I respect that because that's not hate, that's not ego driven, 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:41.080 that's man like, we've created this great product. I wanted 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:43.919 to continue to be good. I don't think that's the 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:46.560 person for it, but you you want to be wrong. 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:48.199 I want to be want to be wrong, And I 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:50.600 was did you speak a look about it? 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:51.800 No, I haven't had a chance to. 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:55.359 We've seen him on here Be the first time he 0:24:55.400 --> 0:25:00.119 sees it and bro you that nigga? You Heimmothy who 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:03.720 Timothy James Chapter three and five. That's you cause you 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:04.240 got to get people. 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:04.639 They flowers. 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:06.239 We don't see each other, we don't run into each other. 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:07.600 And then I went back and looked at some of 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:09.000 the stuff he did on the shot because I don't 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:10.800 watch the show. Yeah, and I was like, oh, this 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:13.119 last season he was really sensitive and really vulnerable and 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:16.160 playing some weird like doing some things that I appreciate 0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:18.119 as an artist because me, I talk shit, but not 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:20.000 about the person. Just like when you said, somebody come 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:21.399 up to me be like your role and like, I 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:23.720 can't believe you did ABNC. I don't take things personal. 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.680 So when I critique something, it's literally because I'm worried 0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:29.080 about the story, the art, giving our people quality so 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:31.359 that they can empathize with situations they never would have 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:33.640 empathized with, so they can go places they never would 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:37.440 otherwise win because you gotta dispect, like filmmaking and storytelling 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.200 is meant for one thing. It's an empathy machine. It's 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:43.760 supposed to make it so that you dispel disbelief so 0:25:43.800 --> 0:25:45.639 that you can really believe what's happening, so you can 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:47.760 have a real human experience and expand your mind, your 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:50.520 spiritual heart. So I take this shit for real because 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:53.360 it saved my fucking life, just like Kanye Well's first 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:56.000 album saved my life, just like watching Malcolm X save 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:59.320 my fucking life, just like why certain things change your life, 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:03.679 the unexplainable lightness of being, like these movies. And so 0:26:03.760 --> 0:26:06.800 when somebody say an actor, I don't. Yeah, there's personality there, 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:08.360 people who are fun that we like to watch. They're 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:10.600 great to watch their entertainment. But then there's niggas that 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:13.480 make you feel your soul and I don't. 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:13.840 Play with that. 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:15.919 So it wasn't because I didn't think Luke was a 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:18.480 good actor or talented. It's because, bro, this is precious. 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:21.080 I need you to caretaking guide this real. And he 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:21.560 did that. 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:24.399 Ship and that was a very complex role. When I 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:27.000 first when I when I seen him too, and then 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:27.639 I was like. 0:26:27.600 --> 0:26:30.800 How the fuck is Luke James gonna be right? Miss 0:26:30.800 --> 0:26:31.320 the games? 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:34.160 Like and what why he made himself ugly. I don't 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:34.760 know how he did that. 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:36.480 I don't either day. 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:38.760 And it was amazing because in the in the show, 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:42.000 I don't want to ruin it totally, but he couldn't remember. 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:43.359 He was trying to be an actor. 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:48.760 And the way it unfolded was he really couldn't get 0:26:48.760 --> 0:26:50.800 the hood thing down, but he was trying. 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:52.240 Like when he spooked the girl. 0:26:53.160 --> 0:26:53.600 It was crazy. 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:55.960 It was crazy with stock and shout out to the 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:57.520 team bro. Shout out to the whole gang game too, 0:26:57.560 --> 0:26:59.840 they went crazy. I love him niggas they are we 0:26:59.880 --> 0:27:01.000 are deserve our flowers. 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:03.760 Yeah, and even what you said, going back to when 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:07.000 you said one one character can like mess up the story. 0:27:07.040 --> 0:27:09.120 I ain't gonna lie. And this is my brother man. 0:27:09.480 --> 0:27:10.920 When I first saw youm on, I said, what the 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:12.640 fuck is he doing? Playing with somebody play? 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:15.159 He felt like somebody that right, you know? 0:27:15.640 --> 0:27:18.679 But as I'm watchingthing like oh ship, like this is 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:23.040 a star study cast for this And shout out to Deborah, Deborah, 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:25.520 she is amazing. 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:26.960 Season one and season two. 0:27:26.960 --> 0:27:29.000 I didn't know how y'all was gonna do it. But 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:32.880 I ain't even gonna tell you how to watch season one. 0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:35.240 In season two. You your penmanship is amazing. 0:27:35.240 --> 0:27:36.720 I just want to give you to be a part 0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:39.000 of team. It's number two on Amazon, so like we 0:27:39.200 --> 0:27:41.320 amazing our things. So shout out to the gang. Shout 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:44.159 out to dev deb another unhyped ted. I don't know 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:45.760 how that woman does what she does. And don't nobody 0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:47.080 say nothing. It's crazy to me. 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:49.280 I'll be like, what are you right do? 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:50.160 Yeah? 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:51.879 Y'all wrote a movie recently that I'm trying to get 0:27:51.920 --> 0:27:52.480 made right now. 0:27:53.000 --> 0:27:55.040 Is that Covers Covers? 0:27:55.080 --> 0:27:56.680 That was a can that was like the short version 0:27:56.680 --> 0:27:58.360 of a larger film that I did. They got into 0:27:58.359 --> 0:28:01.600 the camp okay, wow to come, which was a blessing. 0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:01.879 You know. 0:28:02.160 --> 0:28:03.840 The next one's gonna go crazy. It's called Program. 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:05.719 I'm doing meetings on it right now, raising money. It's 0:28:05.720 --> 0:28:06.680 gonna be. It's gonna be thinking. 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:11.119 I'm a directed, nice, lucrative, but acting or writing. 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:13.639 Depends. 0:28:13.760 --> 0:28:17.280 Now it's now it's almost equivalent. But like because my 0:28:17.520 --> 0:28:19.440 quotes is pretty high as a writer because wrote, oh 0:28:19.520 --> 0:28:23.480 I'm on your ass, I'm on your ass you, I'm 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:30.880 comfortable with my masculinity. Where's your book at? Anybody notice? 0:28:30.960 --> 0:28:32.600 Know what how I get down? Shout out to everybody 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:35.879 else's preferences. First time we came on, Remember I came out, 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:37.320 I was like where Charlemagne at I was on some 0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:39.320 I was on bumpers because I lost my with my godfather. 0:28:39.360 --> 0:28:40.760 At the time, I was pissed because. 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:43.800 You had made a Dunkey of the motherfucking Day for 0:28:43.840 --> 0:28:44.680 New Jack City Too. 0:28:45.360 --> 0:28:46.880 Yep, and you thought it was. 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:48.880 A reboot because everybody was saying it was a reboot, 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:50.120 so you made it Donkey of the Day. But I 0:28:50.160 --> 0:28:52.200 was trying to tell everybody, It's not a fucking reboot. 0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:52.960 It was a sequel. 0:28:53.760 --> 0:28:55.600 It was a sequel, yes, not a rebel. 0:28:55.680 --> 0:28:56.440 It was a sequel. 0:28:56.480 --> 0:28:57.360 What was the premise? 0:28:57.760 --> 0:29:00.840 Okay, so well I ain't gonna saying, you know, but 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:02.080 my quote was really high for that. 0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:02.720 That was the point. 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:06.920 But New York City Too is basically like years later, 0:29:07.200 --> 0:29:09.200 what happened with the people who were still alive? 0:29:09.240 --> 0:29:09.840 How about that? 0:29:10.120 --> 0:29:12.240 And I wanted in die in it, and I wanted 0:29:12.800 --> 0:29:15.120 David Washington in it. And you could imagine who those 0:29:15.200 --> 0:29:17.680 characters would be playing, these sons or daughters of and 0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:19.239 they were supposed to be on some like you know, 0:29:20.240 --> 0:29:23.440 on some like, uh, what's that movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:25.320 Mad Damon and all them people where they was like 0:29:25.560 --> 0:29:26.120 going at it. 0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:29.080 Oh and Jack Nicholson wasn't in the party. 0:29:29.320 --> 0:29:30.840 It was supposed to be more like that, you know, 0:29:30.880 --> 0:29:32.280 because that's what I wanted it to be. So it 0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:34.200 was more like that. But like when you gave me 0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:36.440 Dunky of Today, bro so pissed because I was like, nigga, 0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:38.280 it's not even true, like it's a it's a sequel, 0:29:38.320 --> 0:29:39.680 it's not a reboot. 0:29:39.400 --> 0:29:41.560 I remember that. I do remember now the story. I 0:29:41.560 --> 0:29:44.720 remember one of y'all saying, Yo, that dude, Michaelman up here. 0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:49.160 Look looking for you, because like, you know, your word 0:29:49.240 --> 0:29:51.240 really mattered, like you say, ship, people really be taking 0:29:51.240 --> 0:29:53.560 that man. But yeah, my quote got really high after 0:29:53.600 --> 0:29:56.080 writing that movie, and so now my quote's pretty good. 0:29:56.840 --> 0:29:58.960 But you know, it's not like it's not like you 0:29:59.000 --> 0:29:59.760 take that home, you. 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:02.160 Keep most of it, You split that shit up, your manager, 0:30:01.720 --> 0:30:03.120 your taxes. 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:04.200 All that like it don't really it get chopped down 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:07.040 pretty heavy and acting in two different states. I get 0:30:07.080 --> 0:30:08.800 heavy with the taxes too, So it's not what it 0:30:08.800 --> 0:30:10.880 looked like. But I've been blessed enough to put it 0:30:10.880 --> 0:30:11.480 all together. 0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:11.760 And it looked good. 0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:13.200 What happened to that script? 0:30:13.560 --> 0:30:15.760 Well, somebody gotta make. 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:17.680 It, because you don't throw scripts away, you. 0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:19.520 Just they still have it, they still have the IPI 0:30:19.560 --> 0:30:21.680 I hope they choose the direction I went in. I mean, 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:23.040 it's tough because you go on with an idea and 0:30:23.080 --> 0:30:24.400 you got to listen to everybody and shift in and 0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:26.600 shape it. That's the thing about writing on assignment rather 0:30:26.640 --> 0:30:28.880 than writing on spec. When you write on spec, you 0:30:28.880 --> 0:30:31.120 know you're your own boss. You're just creating. But when 0:30:31.120 --> 0:30:33.000 you write on assignment, you listen to somebody else and 0:30:33.040 --> 0:30:35.400 building a house. And I had a good time with 0:30:35.520 --> 0:30:38.280 Sheila Walcott, who's now a VP of Warner brother She's amazing. 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:41.440 And then you know it was it was dope. It 0:30:41.520 --> 0:30:43.720 was really dope. And Nija Queik Candol who now is 0:30:43.760 --> 0:30:46.720 at Netflix as ahead those people, like I said, Black Women, 0:30:46.720 --> 0:30:48.800 gave me my first real shot. I was twenty three. 0:30:48.920 --> 0:30:50.760 They gave me my shot at writing the studio movie 0:30:50.880 --> 0:30:53.120 about Mike Brown. That was the first one. And then 0:30:53.160 --> 0:30:55.239 I did New Jack City two and those quotes got 0:30:55.280 --> 0:30:57.280 it high. So I can't say that one is more 0:30:57.360 --> 0:30:58.880 lucrative than the other, because if I write a TV 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:00.800 show with Terroal McRaney, which I'm doing right now. 0:31:01.600 --> 0:31:03.200 That's gonna mm hmmm. 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:05.720 That's a lot of money if I'm just But if 0:31:05.720 --> 0:31:08.960 I'm booked the lead of a movie or a show 0:31:09.040 --> 0:31:12.360 after this, it's gonna be pretty nice. Yeah, Bok's pretty high, 0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:14.360 so it's uh, it can't be very little. 0:31:14.400 --> 0:31:19.280 Now. I understand the slides everywhere basketball show, that's writing. 0:31:19.360 --> 0:31:22.480 That's writer or time. I don't have time for nothing else. 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:26.840 They be locked away writing, they be comfortable writing. They 0:31:26.880 --> 0:31:28.560 come out for coffee, but also. 0:31:28.440 --> 0:31:29.680 From lam from South Central. 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:31.800 So like, you know, like if I could all wear 0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:33.560 diggies and the T shirt everywhere, I really don't give 0:31:33.560 --> 0:31:36.240 a fuck. I just really love fashion. I love when 0:31:36.240 --> 0:31:38.480 people put threads together and how we look. I enjoy it. 0:31:38.560 --> 0:31:40.160 But to put that ship on, it's like a costume 0:31:40.160 --> 0:31:42.840 every day. I'm like, every day, it's so much work. 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:44.560 I know, huh, you're looking at the new balances, you 0:31:45.120 --> 0:31:45.640 know what I'm saying. 0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:49.280 Just started the show dressing to the tea every day, 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:51.160 and Charlemagne and I said it's gonna last about a 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:51.600 month too. 0:31:51.920 --> 0:31:54.320 We said three months. It lasted thirty days. 0:31:54.600 --> 0:31:57.640 Yea sweat, Thank you and then I'm also pregnant to you, 0:31:57.960 --> 0:32:03.280 like you know, as soon as I dropped dropped the sweat. 0:32:03.560 --> 0:32:04.680 I like to be cute. 0:32:04.680 --> 0:32:06.000 But after way you wake up, you'd be like, I 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:08.640 don't got time. I gotta do radio at six. I 0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:10.120 gotta get up at four every morning. 0:32:10.640 --> 0:32:11.520 That's not you know. 0:32:11.640 --> 0:32:13.360 That black, that's black people. 0:32:13.360 --> 0:32:15.000 We didn't did that to ourselves. You know, we be 0:32:15.080 --> 0:32:16.640 on each other so bad you can't wear it. You 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:18.200 feel like you can't get caught in the same outfit, 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:20.800 the same Yeah, you feeling bad for the kids? They 0:32:20.880 --> 0:32:23.040 be coming up, pulling up in Rose Roys trucks for prom. 0:32:23.080 --> 0:32:24.800 I'm like, what in the fuck have we done? 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:27.040 Yeah, I won't say I feel like the kids. At 0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:30.040 least my daughter school, she's in high school. Kids be 0:32:30.080 --> 0:32:36.920 comfortable Slidesma pants, Gama pants, my kids love. I'm even 0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:38.560 saying to her, like, yo, y'all ain't like how we 0:32:38.600 --> 0:32:39.680 grew up. Every day was a fast. 0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:40.800 Yeah, we have to go for real. 0:32:40.840 --> 0:32:42.600 But I like the fact that it's not that they're 0:32:42.640 --> 0:32:43.240 not superficial. 0:32:43.400 --> 0:32:45.280 Look, I was poor. I went to public l a U. 0:32:45.320 --> 0:32:47.120 S D. School and I wore the same black Allen 0:32:47.200 --> 0:32:49.600 Iverson's every day, and I had to learn how to fight. 0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:50.880 That's how it was. 0:32:51.120 --> 0:32:53.760 And then when that's you know, so it's but it's 0:32:53.760 --> 0:32:55.560 funny because now I'm a grown man and I still 0:32:55.640 --> 0:32:57.240 kind of feel that, like I got to put it 0:32:57.280 --> 0:32:59.200 on fresh and and I and it's kind of like 0:32:59.200 --> 0:33:01.200 I gotta liberate my so from that like free to guys. 0:33:01.400 --> 0:33:01.600 You know. 0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:04.360 My boy on TikTok says that a lot. You know, 0:33:04.480 --> 0:33:06.240 He's like, you got a free to guys. And it's 0:33:06.240 --> 0:33:09.200 funny because I really feel that when I'm like if 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:10.440 I want to put it on, I'm and put it on. 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:11.960 If I feel like not, I feel like not because 0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:12.800 it's like it's it's. 0:33:12.600 --> 0:33:14.480 In you, not on you. Like I'm me, I'm a 0:33:14.520 --> 0:33:15.200 win regardless. 0:33:15.600 --> 0:33:18.600 Charl that's his what third time winning T shirt? And 0:33:18.800 --> 0:33:19.840 he just. 0:33:19.480 --> 0:33:24.680 Crazy, this is the second time. 0:33:25.560 --> 0:33:27.520 It's a grain one that you wore to day. 0:33:29.320 --> 0:33:30.360 Out for two days in a row. 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:30.959 So like it. 0:33:31.040 --> 0:33:33.320 If I like it and it's comfortable, I'm putting it on. 0:33:33.360 --> 0:33:34.600 He'd be going to different interviews. 0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:36.040 I'm like, damn, you're gonna be in that picture. You know, 0:33:36.080 --> 0:33:38.120 You're going to be in this outfit for like all 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:38.720 over the place. 0:33:38.760 --> 0:33:39.480 I don't care me. 0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:41.720 It's like it's like being athletes. Like we all know 0:33:41.760 --> 0:33:44.040 you have money. We saw the content, but it's like 0:33:44.800 --> 0:33:48.880 I saw money part. We saw the cont we saw it. 0:33:48.880 --> 0:33:51.400 It was public, you publicized it. You'll like talking about 0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:51.840 your money. 0:33:51.840 --> 0:33:55.160 I've never done that. I've never talked about my money. 0:33:55.200 --> 0:33:57.280 Now other people talk about it for you don't know 0:33:57.320 --> 0:34:00.920 what about it, even playing. 0:34:00.920 --> 0:34:01.880 I don't know what you're talking about. 0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:04.600 I ain't got no money, baby. 0:34:05.960 --> 0:34:08.840 But the last question I had for you is do 0:34:08.880 --> 0:34:10.879 you still do music? Because I know you put out 0:34:10.880 --> 0:34:12.800 Street Journal Volume one last year. 0:34:12.880 --> 0:34:14.960 But yeah, and I wrote on Brent's album. I wrote 0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:17.440 on Joey's album like I work with my friends. I 0:34:17.440 --> 0:34:19.399 got some music coming right now, some music with Joey, 0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:22.719 some music with my mina. Wally to sen say, oh, 0:34:22.760 --> 0:34:24.680 my non profit, I want to mention that. Yeah, I 0:34:24.680 --> 0:34:26.680 got a nonprofit call Seel of the Marie Foundation. We're 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:28.520 doing to give back to my neighborhood, in the same 0:34:28.520 --> 0:34:30.120 neighborhood I told you about when I first came here 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:30.800 in Jungles. 0:34:30.920 --> 0:34:33.160 You're doing that in late August for the kids. 0:34:33.200 --> 0:34:35.799 That's not no play play place to come out of brother, No, none, 0:34:35.840 --> 0:34:39.439 at all. Jungle is no joking anything about la It's home. 0:34:39.600 --> 0:34:41.239 It's for me, So I just want to get back 0:34:41.239 --> 0:34:42.879 to him, so like, yeah, so the music has helped 0:34:42.920 --> 0:34:44.800 me with that because the music is kind of connected 0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:46.920 to my neighborhood a lot. So that music coming. I'm 0:34:46.920 --> 0:34:48.839 gonna go crazy when it's time. But I like to 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:50.720 give everybody things and pieces. 0:34:50.920 --> 0:34:53.719 Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. The jungle is where 0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:58.640 then went train today. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, And 0:34:58.640 --> 0:35:01.799 that's what it's really like that like that, It's it's 0:35:01.800 --> 0:35:03.920 even more interesting now I'm miss home, you know. 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:06.120 But it's funny because gentrification is such a weird thing 0:35:06.480 --> 0:35:08.560 because now we got like white girls, white people on 0:35:08.600 --> 0:35:11.960 the like white girls drogging through the hood and jungle bruh, 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:13.480 and the home we be at the part we was 0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:15.080 at the park, which I should be, but I was 0:35:15.080 --> 0:35:17.000 at the park with the home and they was like, 0:35:17.040 --> 0:35:19.120 and I was like, who's this running like that? 0:35:19.239 --> 0:35:20.720 Sarah she go to usc blood. 0:35:20.719 --> 0:35:24.040 I'm like, what do you mean? 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:33.920 I'm just kidding. 0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:38.120 But it's the only reason I don't like it is 0:35:38.120 --> 0:35:40.759 because they're gonna be displaced to the Inland Empire and 0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:42.759 they're not gonna have, like the resources don't change. We 0:35:42.800 --> 0:35:44.279 just get brought out, we get changes. This happening to 0:35:44.640 --> 0:35:46.680 you know, the people I care about, with everybody, and 0:35:46.760 --> 0:35:48.959 I hate seeing it. I'm not you know, I don't. 0:35:49.520 --> 0:35:51.200 I don't really hate white people like that. I just 0:35:51.200 --> 0:35:52.280 don't like when they do ship. 0:35:53.880 --> 0:35:55.879 Because you know what happens to us, Yes, right, when 0:35:55.920 --> 0:35:58.440 that happens. When it happens to us, we get pushed out. 0:35:59.280 --> 0:36:00.600 You don't have no we don't don't have no job 0:36:00.600 --> 0:36:02.920 skill set training like you know, they take all that 0:36:02.920 --> 0:36:04.560 shit out the schools, they don't teach us, they don't 0:36:04.640 --> 0:36:06.760 update and be like, hey, look the new blue collar 0:36:07.239 --> 0:36:10.600 working trade skills is AI Like, they don't. 0:36:10.640 --> 0:36:11.319 Switch it out. 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:13.680 Everything's so late, so we're not gonna be able to 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:15.640 sustain anyway. And then, of course, you know, the gap 0:36:15.680 --> 0:36:18.760 between the minimum wage and to be able to afford 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:21.000 the American dream now was more gilded than it's been 0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:22.800 since the twenties and thirties, which, by the way, my 0:36:22.800 --> 0:36:24.640 grandma grew up in so she's able to tell me like, 0:36:24.760 --> 0:36:27.080 shit crazy, and I just really it breaks my heart. 0:36:27.239 --> 0:36:30.160 And like if I have made, if I like winning, 0:36:30.200 --> 0:36:32.360 if I get to like the level of Kendrick conjective 0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:34.239 niggas words all that money, I would have bought my 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:36.719 block easy, and I'll make sure people have some sustainable 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:38.799 like teachings to grow so that they could play back 0:36:38.840 --> 0:36:40.880 to interest and have a percent ownership of what we have. 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:42.799 I feel like equity is a big deal and we 0:36:42.920 --> 0:36:44.799 just don't care. We just be getting pushed out and 0:36:44.840 --> 0:36:46.879 niggas be leaving, and I get it because we. 0:36:46.880 --> 0:36:48.040 Be killing our own people. 0:36:48.440 --> 0:36:50.719 It's a fun It's a fucked up world because like, 0:36:50.760 --> 0:36:52.600 look what happened in it when you try to stay sure, 0:36:52.680 --> 0:36:55.440 you know, like it's always that and I just I 0:36:55.480 --> 0:36:58.359 want so much more for us, absolutely, I really do. Man, 0:36:58.360 --> 0:37:00.040 it really be breaking my heart, so I stand sof. 0:37:00.160 --> 0:37:03.640 Yeah you know what, speaking of hearts, I have to 0:37:03.680 --> 0:37:04.799 ask you this before you go. 0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:06.120 I know I said that was the last question. 0:37:06.160 --> 0:37:06.759 I know I have to. 0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:12.799 Okay, So what's going on with you and Gail Bean? 0:37:13.239 --> 0:37:13.759 That's my heart? 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:16.279 Man, I love her, that my personal life. 0:37:16.480 --> 0:37:19.120 I know you don't like, I ain't gonna like ourness, 0:37:19.120 --> 0:37:20.000 our business, but I love her. 0:37:20.239 --> 0:37:21.400 That's what I'm always love her. 0:37:21.400 --> 0:37:21.480 Like. 0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:23.640 Yeah, that's all you guys are. 0:37:23.600 --> 0:37:24.760 Gonna do a rom com together. 0:37:25.239 --> 0:37:26.520 That's dope. 0:37:26.920 --> 0:37:28.439 That's that's what's gonna be next. 0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:30.600 That's super dope. So shout out to Gail Bean and 0:37:30.640 --> 0:37:33.439 Malcolm's dog. Yeah, love the life. 0:37:33.480 --> 0:37:35.759 All right, Well, we appreciate you joining. I was surprised you, 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:37.840 being from Cali, that you went with Drake over Kendrick. 0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:38.920 But you know, I didn't. 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:43.359 Say that you didn't play with my top. We were 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:47.480 talking about the level of home this summer. You got 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:50.319 meybody way. 0:37:50.360 --> 0:37:52.839 There's only one right answer to that situation, the things 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:54.880 that's subjective that ain't want to The right answer is this. 0:37:55.000 --> 0:37:57.640 Aubrey has done great for music. Kendrick is for the 0:37:57.680 --> 0:37:58.440 people coaches. 0:37:58.640 --> 0:38:00.600 Yeah, when the last time Aubrey was standing for Mike 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:01.520 Brown and all them people. 0:38:01.560 --> 0:38:02.040 I love him. 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:04.239 He does great for us, He all that, But like 0:38:04.320 --> 0:38:05.520 it's Kate niggas gang. 0:38:05.920 --> 0:38:07.279 Yeah, I'm mad that you. 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:09.040 I hope y'all figure it out. That ain't my business. 0:38:09.040 --> 0:38:10.759 But if I have to, like, if you force me 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:13.919 on the side, I don't have a choice. Yeah, riding 0:38:14.000 --> 0:38:18.360 with Canada, it just don't make no sense. Record it 0:38:18.400 --> 0:38:20.360 stayed on records, and I don't think we'll go past that. 0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:22.520 I think that's smart enough. I prayed, Well, you know, 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:25.360 people's egos get into I just pray to everybody. Everybody 0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:28.040 figured that shou out be cool. Yeah, it's all weird, 0:38:28.160 --> 0:38:32.680 like because Kendrick went crazy on Marmon's room, the. 0:38:32.040 --> 0:38:34.360 Like he went on that first tour. He did the 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:35.080 heart and all that. 0:38:35.160 --> 0:38:37.480 That ship was beautiful and dope, like, y'all cut that 0:38:37.520 --> 0:38:40.520 ship out. We damn near forty on his tripping love y'all. 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:42.120 And if it's like that, then. 0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:45.920 But it gave the West Coast. It gave the West 0:38:45.920 --> 0:38:48.799 Coast and anthem it hasn't had in a long long time. 0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:51.880 And a super slapper. I was. 0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:53.920 I was in cann going up to that ship and 0:38:54.360 --> 0:38:54.880 that it was. 0:38:55.400 --> 0:38:56.640 We was were. 0:38:58.840 --> 0:39:04.000 Y'all, Hey, shout out, shout out to that man. It 0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:04.759 was aggressive. 0:39:04.800 --> 0:39:05.200 I love it. 0:39:07.640 --> 0:39:09.320 The best dish records, it's a fact. 0:39:09.880 --> 0:39:12.319 Not even close with best best disc records ever of 0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:15.080 all time. Come out of the West Coast park hit 0:39:15.120 --> 0:39:17.160 him up the energy. 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:19.920 It's the passion. We really disrespectful. We don't like your 0:39:19.960 --> 0:39:24.080 niggas respectfully, we just don't. Everybody else's communal. Everybody wants 0:39:24.080 --> 0:39:25.680 to hang out kids. You don't hang out with nobody 0:39:25.719 --> 0:39:27.320 just push ups on the park. Now, you playing with 0:39:27.360 --> 0:39:31.440 a man, leave alone, Leave me alone. Leave anybody from 0:39:31.440 --> 0:39:32.560 south central l A alone. 0:39:32.640 --> 0:39:33.480 Leave us alone. 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:37.120 Just be nice and leave us. Just please, thank you 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:37.920 guys for having us. 0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:40.359 It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. 0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:44.000 Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.