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Speaker 1: What up, y'all? This is your main man, Memphis Bleak

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Speaker 1: right here. Welcome to Rock Solid, a production of iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: and The Black Effect Network in partnership with my guys

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Speaker 1: over Ad Drink Champs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah she your boy, Memphis Bleak right here.

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Speaker 1: And before we get into this episode, I would like

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Speaker 1: to take a second to bring awareness to organ donation.

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Speaker 1: April is National Donate Life Money. It's a reminder that

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Speaker 1: there are thousands of people right now waiting on a

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Speaker 1: but one decision can literally save a life. Becoming an

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Speaker 1: organ donor doesn't cost you anything, but it can mean

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Speaker 1: Now let's get into this episode. You should nobody know,

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Speaker 1: you should know good know. Yeah, y'all, you already know

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Speaker 1: what it is. Yours truly back with another exclusive episode

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Speaker 1: of Rock Solid, and this time I got somebody special

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Speaker 1: with me. Man one of the funniest comedians you've seen

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Speaker 1: on TV. Been in many, many shows from MSG, NBC,

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Speaker 1: Carson Daily Man.

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Speaker 2: This man has been.

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Speaker 1: All over TV, Man The Wilding Out. I let him

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Speaker 1: tell you for itself. We got rip Michaels in the building, man,

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Speaker 1: and it's a pleasure to have.

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Speaker 3: Thank you first of all, huge fan man, thank you

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Speaker 3: you chopping up a lot doing Man Studios, fire your

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Speaker 3: whole staff.

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Speaker 1: Treat appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: If you don't, you haven't been on it. You need

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Speaker 2: to come on it.

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Speaker 1: Because the Dope Platform, Dope podcast, they gotta be solid.

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Speaker 2: First.

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Speaker 1: It's saying it's everybody can't sit on this couch because

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Speaker 1: a lot of these guys they're not solid. They veil

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Speaker 1: off the track of being solid. So everybody is we

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Speaker 1: welcome everybody, but.

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Speaker 2: Not every Oh it's exclusive, Yes, it's not for I

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Speaker 2: got you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, definitely being from the ship man, you from

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite cities, the Chicago Man, the land

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Speaker 1: of No BBL is all natural. Yes, that is definitely true.

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Speaker 1: I ain't learned that until I went. It was what

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Speaker 1: the fuck they got in the water out here? It

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Speaker 1: was like, goddamn, I might have to move to the shot.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, man, being from the shot coming up as

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Speaker 1: a comedian yet ever, like, what was that like for

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Speaker 1: you in the beginning?

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Speaker 3: So the beginning for me was weird because I started

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Speaker 3: comedy when I was about twelve thirteen years old. So

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Speaker 3: like a lot of comedians you've seen now, like the

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Speaker 3: d Rays and the Corey Hocoms and and that Bill

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Speaker 3: Bellamans and Damon Williams, like I was the kid that

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Speaker 3: they wouldn't even let in the club, in the Cotton Club,

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Speaker 3: they I would have to stand outside, and then when

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Speaker 3: me go back outside. And yeah, and it's a weird

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Speaker 3: thing to get into it because my dad's it was

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Speaker 3: my aunty.

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Speaker 2: I called an aunty jockey.

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Speaker 3: So that was my aunty, my aunty jockey, the one

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Speaker 3: later on that wasn't my aunty yo my dad. That

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I didn't know that till my

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Speaker 1: My mom was like, that, ain't your goddamnunty, this is

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Speaker 2: Go outside. Your uncle Charles's gonna take you to the zoo.

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Speaker 1: So that stop right then and there, Yeah, is real

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Speaker 1: with your fake relative.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I didn't I had no idea

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you just had a fake uncle, fake aunty.

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Speaker 1: My is my cousin from your your your dad's side,

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Speaker 2: That was that was that generation and I didn't know

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Speaker 3: But hey, my parents been together with forty three years

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Speaker 3: and they was cheating on each other for forty years.

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Speaker 3: But they still together, so don't judge that. So they

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Speaker 3: this day. My parents been together so long. They got

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Speaker 1: That's when you know you've been together.

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Speaker 2: Like, hey, mama, na is your daddy? Hey daddy, y'all

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Speaker 1: So like, you know, Chicago, I feel like the three

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Like the shot don't play, just like New York and Philly,

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Speaker 1: don't play what was performing there and getting the reaction

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Speaker 2: First, teach you about being the comedian.

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Speaker 3: They taught me a lot man because you know, like

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Speaker 3: watching Dion Cole and watching him, like I remember watching

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Speaker 3: running about Deon Cole the very first time I did shot.

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Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, it was when def Jam came out.

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Speaker 3: So def Jam for me was like the NBA for

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Speaker 3: Of watching that and then seeing Dion cold me like

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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks later and was like, Yo, man,

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Speaker 2: Man, God damn celebrity. I came on an L train.

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I got seven hundred dollars.

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Speaker 3: It was different and and introducting into the into the scene.

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Speaker 3: But comedy has always been like Chicago. That was back

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Speaker 3: in the era where you could boo people like now

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Speaker 1: Gets booed a heck o. That was in the era

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Speaker 3: That's when I got my real I would say, really

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Speaker 1: And that was when he had the movie Blue Streak out,

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Speaker 3: My daddy's girlfriend had died then, so I couldn't call her.

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Speaker 1: Artie passed away the rest of peace. It's a different

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Speaker 1: here this ship my dad. WHILEY watched, he was like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: But my mama boyfriend did too, so he gone. So

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Speaker 3: my teeth in. But I would say New York gives

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about squads. I'm talking about the Adam.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about you name it, Bushit, I'm talking about Queens.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about forty projects.

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Speaker 1: I'm on Baisley.

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Speaker 3: I went anywhere that would actually Yeah, I did Mahattan proper,

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Speaker 3: it was just the era where they didn't like you,

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Speaker 3: used to do this Jamaican spot I did. It's called

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Speaker 3: Footprints and Clarity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we know footprints. You're from Brooklyn, you know footprints.

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Speaker 2: They would throw shit at people. They would throw pepper

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Speaker 2: pot and sword fish and ickya all. They didn't give

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Speaker 1: Know the crowd is tough. Yes, yes, that's the one

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Speaker 1: of the toughest crowds too. They don't play that ship.

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Speaker 3: But I didn't know that because you know, in New York,

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Speaker 3: black people like they black people like what brought Like, Yo,

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Speaker 3: you mean browed up?

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Speaker 1: Bro?

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Speaker 2: Your brother? I know, brother, are you that's ship?

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Speaker 1: Where you're from?

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Speaker 2: Jamaina Like, no, I'm Haitian, I'm I'm this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm Beijing, I'm Guyanese, I'm Guyanese. And if

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Speaker 1: still look at certain Jamaine like, Yo, you're from hate nigga, Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm from fucking Ghya, Like you're from Africa, Nigga? Like

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Speaker 2: Like word like, I still fuck it up? So I

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Speaker 2: I know that had to be an experience in itself.

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Speaker 3: So when I got into the comedy thing, I started

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Speaker 3: Like I was doing all these open mics, and I

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Speaker 3: to see the millions. I was like the first person

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna look out for you. And I used to

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Speaker 2: I remember that back in the day.

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Speaker 3: I was like, if you if you could, it was

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Speaker 3: like a contest and you got to be whatever rapper

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Speaker 3: you want and they make you a video or whatever whatever.

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Speaker 3: And I did that and believe it or not, I

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Speaker 3: was Jah Rule on the show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was what would that be without you?

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Speaker 1: I did such a good job order that fifty cent

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Speaker 1: hey to be back here. I'm joking, let me stop,

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Speaker 1: because fifty cent is pag yo yo. He just was

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Speaker 3: He petted like I actually did show a fifty cent.

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Speaker 3: He had a comedy show called fifty Central on BT

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Speaker 3: and I fell off the stage because like a faulty.

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Speaker 1: Thing like a beam.

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Speaker 3: And I could tell that wasn't gonna get paid because

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like while' now, I feel like created

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Speaker 1: So I definitely feel it's a it's a lost art

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Speaker 1: They do actually give you a shot. They don't even

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Speaker 1: And that's what's dope about it, because all you could

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot. I got booed a lot, a lot.

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Speaker 1: Hot boot one time.

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Speaker 1: I swear, and I swear remember the Southwest commercial their

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Speaker 2: Y'all just was rocking with me through the whole show. Niggas,

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Speaker 1: Bull this's a VC they got Damn that DNV. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not the DMV that's bought. There's be more, yo.

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Speaker 2: I swear.

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Speaker 1: I learned the hardway, so I know about a bull

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Speaker 1: or too, you know what I mean? Like yo, Like

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Speaker 2: And then you look at the d Rays like everybody

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Speaker 1: You look at all the great comedians that come from

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Speaker 3: It's just been a plethora of black excellence, man like,

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Speaker 3: get to call them peers now, you know what I'm saying, Like,

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Speaker 3: I got a show like even April Fools it's me,

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Speaker 3: Michael Blaxton, Bill Bellamy. So just doing on the same

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Speaker 2: That's dope, man.

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Speaker 1: Y'all gonna be in the Barclays man shot that out, man,

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Speaker 1: let them know. I's going to create April Fool's Day

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Speaker 1: the Barclays Brooklyn is going down.

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00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just it's just a dope thing that I've

438
00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,280
Speaker 3: been doing for Honestly, it's funny because you speak about

439
00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,080
Speaker 3: black excellence. That's the show I've been doing for about

440
00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,040
Speaker 3: fifteen years now. And it was just the concept of

441
00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,800
Speaker 3: me like looking to Like when I started my career,

442
00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,680
Speaker 3: I wanted to go here, right. So when I start

443
00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,920
Speaker 3: doing all these rooms, a friend of mine named Rashie passed.

444
00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:48,280
Speaker 1: Awy, I don't know.

445
00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:49,960
Speaker 3: I remember Rashie. If you ever seen The Bad Boys

446
00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,000
Speaker 3: of Comedy. He was the one that had Uncle Dope

447
00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,560
Speaker 3: and he was like or Poppy ain't no snitch.

448
00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:56,000
Speaker 1: Or he was like, he was like, I gotta I

449
00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,200
Speaker 1: gotta go back up. Yeah, and I probably remember the joke,

450
00:17:58,240 --> 00:17:58,960
Speaker 1: but not the face.

451
00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:04,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, he passed away, and that when he passed away,

452
00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:07,120
Speaker 3: a lot of people tried to host his rooms because

453
00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:08,520
Speaker 3: I had a lot of rooms, and at one point,

454
00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,639
Speaker 3: when it came to comedy in New York, you couldn't

455
00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,120
Speaker 3: come to New York whatever calling me because from Monday

456
00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,200
Speaker 3: all the way to Sunday, I had two rooms a night.

457
00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,280
Speaker 3: And then when he passed away his room, I ended

458
00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,520
Speaker 3: up doing his rooms too because they were gonna disappear.

459
00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,080
Speaker 3: And his brother in law was like, hey, man, Rip,

460
00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:26,000
Speaker 3: they're gonna take these rooms away.

461
00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:27,280
Speaker 1: Would you mind hosting it?

462
00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,080
Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, I'll host it, but when

463
00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,680
Speaker 3: I'm hosting it, I need you to whatever.

464
00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,040
Speaker 2: I think the budget was like eight hundred dollars.

465
00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,040
Speaker 3: I was like, take the majority of the budget. Take

466
00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,399
Speaker 3: six hundred, give me two, and you give that to

467
00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,840
Speaker 3: his daughters and his family so I can keep that going.

468
00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:41,479
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take two.

469
00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,480
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get a comedian a hunting and the rest

470
00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,320
Speaker 3: of y'all just divvy that up and do whatever y'all

471
00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:46,960
Speaker 3: want with that. And it's like, seriously, it's like, yeah,

472
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,439
Speaker 3: it's not we gotta keep this going because you know,

473
00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,360
Speaker 3: he had a heart attack at such a young age.

474
00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,320
Speaker 3: He was on his way, bro, Like he was really

475
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Speaker 3: really on his way.

476
00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,119
Speaker 1: Wow, man, damn bringing that up. Sorry to hear about it. Man,

477
00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,399
Speaker 1: I'm glad you sitting here a healthy stroug Man. You

478
00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,080
Speaker 1: know you suffered the heart attack. Yes, Sam, Man, it's

479
00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,639
Speaker 1: just you never know, man. And I set all that

480
00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,800
Speaker 1: to be like, you know, back then, I set up

481
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,399
Speaker 1: this April Fools comedy jam, and I was like, you

482
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,960
Speaker 1: know what, I stopped elevating my career because I started going.

483
00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,520
Speaker 2: Like, you know what, I'm gonna bring us all up.

484
00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show what we can do when we come

485
00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,840
Speaker 2: together conectively.

486
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,920
Speaker 3: And that's what the Aple Fools was. And I was like,

487
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,680
Speaker 3: all right, cool. I'm gonna take me you and let's

488
00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:30,960
Speaker 3: go sell out the Barklay Center. Everybody thought I was crazy.

489
00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:32,560
Speaker 3: It was like, You're gonna sell out the Barclay Center

490
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,120
Speaker 3: with a whole bunch of comedians and together we may

491
00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,960
Speaker 3: do like three hundred people. And I was like, nah,

492
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,400
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make it something dope. And when I did that,

493
00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,720
Speaker 3: like I have mad rapper friends, I was like, you

494
00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:43,320
Speaker 3: know what, I'm gonna put you in. I got you,

495
00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,160
Speaker 3: We're gonna do you and you, and I made it

496
00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,119
Speaker 3: all about all the people I know. So that's how

497
00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,480
Speaker 3: the April Fool's Comedy Jam came about, and it.

498
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,880
Speaker 2: Became this big thing where you got people.

499
00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,760
Speaker 3: That would never normally be in an arena doing sixteen

500
00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,280
Speaker 3: thousand people like we do shows in a round. And

501
00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 3: it's just been that cultivating thing like that which April

502
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,080
Speaker 3: Food and if you fast forward, I own the Fall

503
00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,679
Speaker 3: Back in Love. And that's when I take all the

504
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,840
Speaker 3: R and B stars that people thought they forgot about,

505
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,920
Speaker 3: like I put Brandy on when she had been doing

506
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,280
Speaker 3: a song in ten years, and Trade when he had

507
00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,880
Speaker 3: a court case every week, he still got a court

508
00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:15,640
Speaker 3: case every week.

509
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:26,680
Speaker 1: And that's my dog man shout out trace. Yeah, that's

510
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,199
Speaker 1: the big homeo man. They're like Mario and like, if

511
00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 1: you look at all of these people, I was like, we're.

512
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,240
Speaker 2: Coming out of this club thing.

513
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:33,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna be big.

514
00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,159
Speaker 3: And I started this whole R and B bring back older,

515
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,440
Speaker 3: older R and B artists that are now just probably

516
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,399
Speaker 3: doing clubs and like. And so if you look at

517
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 3: April Fools, that's me and comedians and hip hop artists.

518
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 3: And if you look at fall Back in Love, that's

519
00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,600
Speaker 3: comedians and R and B artists. If you look at

520
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 3: the Wild Out Tour, there's something also started the Wild Out.

521
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 2: Tour in Queens and at Miszoura, a wall.

522
00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 3: Place started that. Yeah, come on, I did. That was

523
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,760
Speaker 3: fifteen hundred people in the room. I started that next thing.

524
00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,680
Speaker 3: You know, I was number two on post Star and

525
00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,119
Speaker 3: we're selling out arenas And that's a five years strong

526
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 3: of doing nothing but sold out shows across the country.

527
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 2: That's a blessing. Man.

528
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:13,920
Speaker 1: Looking back, do you credit the struggle years of your

529
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:19,119
Speaker 1: comedian career to the businessman you are today? Did those

530
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,639
Speaker 1: years you feel like carveew to the man and the

531
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,639
Speaker 1: businessman you are today to make those decisions to create

532
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 1: all these new platforms to come together. I wouldn't say

533
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,600
Speaker 1: I was thinking business at the time. I would say

534
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 1: that I was thinking more like, let's change, let's change

535
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 1: the perception of what we're doing.

536
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,880
Speaker 3: I wasn't even thinking of it as no financial like, oh,

537
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:41,199
Speaker 3: we don't kill them, We're gonna make a lot.

538
00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: It was more like we.

539
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 3: Matter, Like we come together, we can, we can do

540
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 3: these great things that people just just think that we can't,

541
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 3: like honestly, like, I know you brought out the hard thing,

542
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 3: but like, and that's why I'm doing this now, Like

543
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 3: if you I was in the hospital and I hate

544
00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,680
Speaker 3: to jump all over subjects, but I was in the

545
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 3: hospit and you know, I had.

546
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:01,440
Speaker 1: A heart attack.

547
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 3: I had a heart attack at State Farm Arena on

548
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 3: the side of stage and eighteen thousand people there, and

549
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 3: I'm just like, okay, and I've been and I'm still

550
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 3: on a heart transplant.

551
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 2: At least it's not over. Like my heart is.

552
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,679
Speaker 3: Still in nineteen percent and I'm sitting in the hospital

553
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 3: band I was like, yo, if I ever get well enough,

554
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:20,159
Speaker 3: because it's not over.

555
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 1: It's still a.

556
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,200
Speaker 3: Journey, Like today is a good day, but tomorrow maybe

557
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 3: a bad day. But I promised myself that if I

558
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 3: ever get a chance to do comedy again, I'm gonna

559
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 3: make it mean something. I'm gonna push myself and I'm

560
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 3: gonna push my brand. And because I realized that being

561
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 3: in there, you start to realize, like who really is

562
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 3: your friend, Who's business, who's.

563
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 1: Not started to matter? You start to realize what really matters?

564
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 3: Dude, I lost my health insurance, right and so I'm

565
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 3: getting about to get kicked out the hospital. And I

566
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,120
Speaker 3: called every single person I knew to like, just put

567
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,400
Speaker 3: me in something, because I sack. So that's my assurance

568
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 3: is sack. So it's like I'm calling everybody I know

569
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 3: they got a movie or anything. I'm like, throw me

570
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 3: in this, don't put me in this. And I parked

571
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 3: the cars in the movie. I just need to make

572
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 3: like ten grand on on sacks so I can keep

573
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 3: my insurance, so I can stand in the hospital. And

574
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 3: the fact that I couldn't get one person to do

575
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,399
Speaker 3: that for me, out of all the things I've done,

576
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 3: was just a wake up call, A wake up call,

577
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 3: A big shout out to you know, we in Jersey,

578
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 3: big shout to Justina. She was doing a little independent

579
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,439
Speaker 3: movie and she was like, ill, rip, you could just

580
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 3: play whatever, just come by.

581
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Speaker 1: I got you.

582
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 2: That's what's up, man, And it was like a.

583
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 3: Person I would never think in a million years, like,

584
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 3: come on, are you serious. I don't know if you

585
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 3: know what Justina is, but like that's the girl with

586
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 3: wine with the red hair. And she got the same

587
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 3: face and ass as Gary Owens. Not no more, she

588
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 3: got done. I tell all the times she get Gary as.

589
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 3: She kind of looked like taught me from power in

590
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 3: the face. But that's my girl. She always joke on me.

591
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 3: But like she did that for me. No, man, that's

592
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 3: a blessing man.

593
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: And you know, like that's one thing and it's sad

594
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: and it's fucked up because as having a good being

595
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: a good person, you do so much for so many

596
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: people that when it's your turn for people in return,

597
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: there's no one never there. And that's one thing that

598
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: I always you know, people always like, yo, what's some

599
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: advice that Jay gave you that you take with you.

600
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: Is that, yo, no one's coming to save us. You

601
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 1: know what I mean, We gotta save ourself. We the

602
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,240
Speaker 1: ones that when we save ourself, we in the position

603
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,880
Speaker 1: to save others. But no one's coming to save us.

604
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,439
Speaker 1: And that's something I always remember, like you gotta we

605
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: gotta get it. And it's sad reality, but it is, man,

606
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: that's the reality when when heartache and pain hits, is

607
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,919
Speaker 1: just you and your loved ones, A lot of friends go.

608
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 1: I was, I was one hundred deep before you know,

609
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,439
Speaker 1: I mean my brother accident. After my brother accident. You

610
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 1: see you see the room, it's five of us, you

611
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And that's just what it is.

612
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: The main ones stay, and the ones who just was

613
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: crowding on the boat they jump and it's cool. The

614
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 1: boat's still gonna go. You're still doing your thing, blessed.

615
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,120
Speaker 1: And like you said April fourth, April Fool's Comedy Jam,

616
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 1: you're selling out the Barclays. So I'm pretty sure a

617
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 1: lot of people who jumped off the boat or didn't

618
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: even throw you a life raft, begging you for a

619
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 1: life raft.

620
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 2: Now you know what I mean, you know what it is.

621
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 3: I still won't change me. I still I didn't take

622
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 3: that away. I didn't take that away, and I don't

623
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 3: because what I do for people, I did it with

624
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 3: no expectations. So I don't expect anybody to do anything

625
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 3: for me, and I'm not mad or have an issue

626
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 3: with anybody that don't. Just like I didn't do it

627
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 3: for that. I did it to do and help and

628
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 3: be there for others. And I'm gonna still be the

629
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 3: same person. So these people are still my friends.

630
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: I still call these people to this day, and I

631
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: think that our relationship has got better.

632
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 2: But now I understand that God got me here for

633
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 2: a purpose, and I want to live in my purpose.

634
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 3: And so now it's time to be like, okay, because

635
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 3: no one knew that I did all these things. No

636
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 3: one knew that I created the wound out tour in

637
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 3: small place and fifteen hundred people in Amazura and Queens.

638
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 2: I definitely and that shit started.

639
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 3: Just because we was on the side of the stage

640
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 3: and Nick was like, I was working on a special

641
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 3: and I was right on the special, standing them the

642
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 3: shoe and he was like, man, I wish that I

643
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 3: could sell out arenas and he was Cat Williams. We

644
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 3: want to go see Cat Williams and Ontario. And he

645
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 3: was looking at Cat and He's like, yeah, I wish

646
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 3: I could do arenas like this.

647
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: And I was like, really, you put all these people on,

648
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 1: you created the Cavs, you created, the Cats, you did

649
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: the mics, you created all these people. Well this this

650
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 1: is what you want to do.

651
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,719
Speaker 3: And I looked at I was like, yo, Nick, man,

652
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 3: you changed my life by putting me on Wild's Out.

653
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: Man, and you kept me on that show. And if

654
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: this is what you want, I got you.

655
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 2: Man. That's dope.

656
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: I got you.

657
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 3: I said, give me six months, and I promise you

658
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 3: we're gonna do ten times more people that's in this room.

659
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 2: That's dope, man. And he forgot.

660
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 3: I booked him. I was like, we're gonna get his started.

661
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 3: So I put I was like, hey, man, we're gonna

662
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 3: do this little room in Queen and Nick forgot all

663
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 3: about this shit. So I booked it and I was.

664
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,640
Speaker 1: Like, yo, man, Nick, we got the show all the thirty.

665
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: He was like, what are you talking about? Oh the thirtie,

666
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: what are you talking I.

667
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 2: Said, Man, you told me back then that you had

668
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 2: wanted to do.

669
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 3: He was like, man, I got a show in Chicago

670
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 3: and I can't do your show. And I was like, look, Nick,

671
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 3: whatever they pay you in Chicago, I'm gonna give you Morening,

672
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you more money they give you in Chicago.

673
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 2: I need you to move that and do this. And

674
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: he was like, you got.

675
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 3: The money now, and I was like, no, I got now,

676
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 3: but I promised you I got before you touch the stage,

677
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 3: you'll have all of your money plus morening what you're

678
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 3: supposed to get in Chicago. And I didn't know how

679
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 3: at the time because I was giving out wild off

680
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 3: flis and he was like, get out of here.

681
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: As the kids showed, nobody want to see that.

682
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 3: My daughter watched this show and everybody I thought they

683
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 3: would be like, oh with it, because you know. And

684
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 3: it turned out not only did I do one show,

685
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 3: I did two shows at Atmosphere, and then we went

686
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 3: out to Long Island and we did a Patchwock and Soundguarden.

687
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 3: We did three and that show was so packed that

688
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 3: the mayor and the police came and shut it down

689
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 3: because I had six thousand people in line because there

690
00:27:58,520 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 3: was no ticket.

691
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,719
Speaker 1: Bat six thousand people lining up the people yards, damn

692
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 1: six thousand people show up. Yeah, the police showing up. Yeah,

693
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 1: six hours hell going on over here.

694
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 2: And it's a deeper long eye, so you know that's Patchworks.

695
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: So they was just like, what what there' it's going

696
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: on y'all got to get out of our yards so fast.

697
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 3: And then I thought that would catapult it into something.

698
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 3: But then they were like, this don't really matter.

699
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: These numbers.

700
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 3: The powers that be was like these numbers don't mean this,

701
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 3: and this don't mean that. And I was like, you

702
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 3: know what, So because I did it on this scale,

703
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 3: this don't matter. So I took my cars and took

704
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 3: everything I had on my bank accounts, and you've been

705
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 3: turn that shit into an arena. So I went and

706
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 3: booked like ten. I think it's thirteen arenas. Book thirteen

707
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 3: arenas and they'll go history like after that, signed every

708
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 3: single one of them. We was like, I was number

709
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 3: two in the country on post it was Kelly Clarkston

710
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 3: and it was me and it was wilding out. And

711
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 3: to this day we still you speak about dcs. To

712
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 3: this day, I still own the record for doing two

713
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 3: arenas in one night. We did Show Palace, like twelve

714
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 3: thousand people in there. We took an FBI escort to

715
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,479
Speaker 3: the Capitol one arena at the time, and we did

716
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 3: seventeen thousand and five and when we had a seven

717
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 3: o'clock show and a nine to thirty show and two

718
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 3: arenas in the same night.

719
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 2: That's dope, man.

720
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: I had Nick up here, man, and I was just

721
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: telling them, it's a blessing creating these shows and lasting

722
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: what whil and now on they what twenty six seeds? Yo,

723
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: bro y'all doing Simpson's numbers over there? Man, Like, realistically,

724
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: that's Simpson numbers.

725
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 2: You gotta look what Nick created.

726
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: Man.

727
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 2: Put the comedians out.

728
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: Now, that's getting money come from that institution, like Matt Rife,

729
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 3: Nate Jackson, eighty five South.

730
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: Like, yup, yeah, you name it. Mike got eighty five South, yup,

731
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,719
Speaker 1: Mike Apps. Mike Apps a legend too, man like. And

732
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: then you you started so doing arenas I could. I'm

733
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: pretty sure it feels natural like you you opened up

734
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: of course Rihanna's shows, Jay z Drake, Like doing those arenas,

735
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: did that help you prepare for the arenas towards you

736
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: you put together like this, I think that open up

737
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: for those people and seeing those things. It's funny because

738
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: that was never like I never dreamed that big man.

739
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, I didn't dream that big.

740
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 3: I just wanted to just be Actually my biggest dreaming

741
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 3: of being a comedie. I was like, I just want

742
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 3: to be on death comedy gym.

743
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: That was crazy, bad thing.

744
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 2: I like, I ever dreamed of doing that.

745
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: The highest I thought it would take, I wouldn't like

746
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: I want to be in the movie, I want to

747
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: be this.

748
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 3: And my other dream was to make sure that I

749
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 3: could always make people fall out and create that same

750
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 3: deaf comedy gym laughter when you just falling out the chair.

751
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 3: And if you watch my Apollo special, like I sold

752
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 3: out the Apollo last year and I had a heart

753
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 3: attack after that again had to be rushed to the hospital.

754
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 3: But like, and then I did a huge City Winery

755
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 3: tour and we sold out every one of those and

756
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 3: I sold out City Winery.

757
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: And it's just I never thought that big.

758
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 3: It was just me always trying to do stuff for

759
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 3: other people and people shutting doors in our faces.

760
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 2: Was like, all right, you told me we can't, we

761
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 2: can't do this. I'm we're gonna do it, and we

762
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 2: can't have this and this these people don't matter. Then

763
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 2: we're gonna do it. That's right.

764
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: Always do that, And that's what it was always about.

765
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: And and like my comedy when you watch it, if

766
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: you watch my Apollo special, if you watch you know

767
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: all those years of doing warm up for so many people.

768
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: I can always change my joke in fit the environment

769
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: that I'm in, so whether I'm doing and you know

770
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: I was, I was homeless, so there was not an

771
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: audience I didn't perform for.

772
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 3: Like I would do living people's living rooms. I would

773
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 3: do a basement, I would do a guy in these

774
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 3: wedding I would do.

775
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 2: I would form on the train, I.

776
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: Would sell metroswipes. I got to the point where I

777
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: was doing comedism, like I didn't even have a DVD.

778
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: I used to sell other comedians DVD and they.

779
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 3: Would break me off a piece of it. Like this

780
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 3: dude named Kareem Green. He had a DVD and he

781
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 3: was selling it for like fifteen, and I was like,

782
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 3: all right, look how much you pay for these? Like

783
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 3: I pay five. I was like, so I'll give you ten,

784
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 3: and I'll sell your DVD for fifteen and make five

785
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 3: off each one.

786
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: And I would sell them to people and it was like, man,

787
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: I watched the DVD.

788
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 2: You not even on it.

789
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: And I was like, I never said I was on it.

790
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: I said, it's a funny DVD. But if you keep

791
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: buying them, I could produce my own special that's right.

792
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: So I'm selling DVD.

793
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 2: Ain No, I wasn't even on it. You should say

794
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 2: that's hustling.

795
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 3: I just think that's what really prepared me in all

796
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 3: those years of being in the background. And I've wrote

797
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 3: for so many comedians, like I was like the head writer.

798
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 2: For the Nick Cannon Show.

799
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 3: I wrote on Wi Williams Show, wrote for so many

800
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 3: different comedians and Brandy Jackson wrote for It's just so

801
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 3: many people that whose entire specials I've I've written and culptivated.

802
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: And I think all.

803
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 3: Of that, that journey being on my daughter the whole

804
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 3: time prepare me for what I was doing. And you

805
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 3: don't know that you're being prepared and guarded. God is

806
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 3: sharpening you for something. The whole time you're going through it.

807
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 3: You're like, you know, why is it no food on

808
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 3: the table?

809
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: Why is it?

810
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: Why am I not like this person?

811
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: This person? I'm so why so why is such a

812
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: struggle for me? I said, you want like he just

813
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: did that nice, He's just And I realized God was

814
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: sharpening and sitting out in a hospital, it's my turnout

815
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: and I'm ready for it.

816
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 2: Like I got four different specials.

817
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 3: First special I put out did over a million in

818
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 3: the first week, the next one I'm putting out, just

819
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 3: keep dropping these different things. And now thanks to you,

820
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 3: I'm doing podcasts and I'm explaining my journey because.

821
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 2: I didn't care for like, no way. I never was like,

822
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 2: hey man, it's about rip. It never ever was. But

823
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: it was about, hey man, let's do this together. We're

824
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 2: gonna do this cool.

825
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: And it was just when I do this, when we

826
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: shake hands, then when it popped, you go left, okay.

827
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 2: So we oh okay, so that didn't oh all right,

828
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 2: got it? And I just didn't even care.

829
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 3: Then I was like, all right, cool, cool, then whatever,

830
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 3: congratulations for you, me anything I could do, and then

831
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 3: being in a hospital coming out knowing I need a heart.

832
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 2: This is about legacy. This is about sharing God's story

833
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 2: and triumph.

834
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: Man.

835
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,479
Speaker 2: And if I got two shows left for me, if

836
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 2: I got one.

837
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 3: Show left for me, if it's fifty fucking shows left

838
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: for me, I'm gonna give my all and I'm gonna

839
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 3: put my mind.

840
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 2: I can't say my heart, but I'm gonna give it

841
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 2: my all. Man.

842
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 3: I'm just blessed to be here for it's just whether

843
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 3: it's today, tomorrow.

844
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 2: Life, I'm not stoffing. And I'm gonna keep creating.

845
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep keep growing this thing, and I'm gonna

846
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: keep making people laugh.

847
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: That's what's uping. Man, trust me. You gonna get it.

848
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: Man. You you're a good guy. Somebody gonna give you

849
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: that heart in return. Man, trust me. It's a sad

850
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: way that we got to get it from someone else,

851
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: like you know.

852
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: But that is hard, waiting on life worker, Yes, that

853
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: is it is.

854
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: It puts your mind in a different mindset where you

855
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: wait on life worker because somebody has to to no

856
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 1: longer need it for you to get it, for me

857
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: to get it.

858
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 2: So now every time I hear eminence, I'll be like, God,

859
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:30,760
Speaker 2: is that my blessing?

860
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: Does that mean he gun? Like?

861
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 2: Don't shoot him in the chest?

862
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: Yo? Please? Was he ain't positive? Did anybody know you

863
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: slow down of every carcident? Now?

864
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 2: Okay yo, that's crazy.

865
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 3: But you gotta be able to laugh at yourself. You

866
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 3: gotta be able to laugh. That's what I tell people.

867
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: If you can't laugh at yourself, then you're looking at

868
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: life too serious. Man. Life is to be enjoyed and

869
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: you got a lot of life to give. Man, trust me,

870
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: all this good. God keeps giving back, and I believe

871
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: that blessing is definitely gonna come for you.

872
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 3: Thank you, man, and he man. I'm not above running

873
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 3: to you. You know, I know you still got the

874
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 3: hook ups in the street. I still you know what

875
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I might slide you to thirty five for

876
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 3: you to bring me the little white the little rad

877
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 3: cooler with the white toped black rip. I heard about

878
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 3: your journey man, go drop twenty thousand pick up.

879
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: You know I grew up on Marcy Avenue. They know

880
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: what's on Lee Avenue high Land me and that I

881
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: ain't got to say it positive, you know, yeah, I

882
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: mean Lee Avenue plug high lad Me. Yo. You brought

883
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: up DVD's right, And I remember when DVD's was the bro.

884
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: They was moving through the street like hot kikes Bro.

885
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: I remember when Jerry's Spring of Tapes was flying in

886
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: the street. All the comedy shows was flying the era.

887
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: How do you look at comedy has changed now with

888
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: social media, the Internet and the clips going viral now

889
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: instead of the DVD era.

890
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 2: I think that's fire man.

891
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 3: Like if you take it back and you think about Q,

892
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 3: godsk his soul from like you know you known Q right, No,

893
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 3: I don't think so you got it.

894
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: It's a lot of cues. Remember oh, Q from p

895
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: from World Stars. Okay, yes, I know QB from World Star. Yeah,

896
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: but I have a cousin name Q. You been talking about.

897
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 2: It's like saying Ray Ray, I get it. You know,

898
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 2: there's a lot of cues in New York.

899
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

900
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 3: Just I think that he kind of, you know, evolved

901
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 3: that whole thing by taking people's mixtapes and putting them

902
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,479
Speaker 3: on YouTube and creating this whole war star things.

903
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 2: I think that the element the evolution of.

904
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 1: It is it's fire. Yes, it's fire. It's getting audiences

905
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: that probably would have never been in the comedy. Think

906
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: about it.

907
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 2: When you were a kid, you didn't watch no damn comedy.

908
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: That wasn't your thing.

909
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,439
Speaker 2: Really, No, that's not true. Kid, like you were like ten.

910
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: See, I had an older brother, so they used to

911
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: remember we had They used to listen to comedy tapes.

912
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: Remember what was the god's name that had the comedy

913
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: tapes they used to listen to back in the day.

914
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: The Jerky Boys, the jerky boy tearing the inside of me. Yo, Yo,

915
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: you couldn't say that today. Yo, I got a Jerky

916
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: Boys tapeger.

917
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 2: Be like those dudes were hilarious.

918
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,959
Speaker 1: Yo, yo, dudes. I had all of them tapes.

919
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.

920
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: Like comedy evolved from then tapes, movies, vhs, DVDs, but

921
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: now you could just open up social media, go to

922
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: your Instagram page, go to Twitter, and comedy is all over.

923
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,760
Speaker 2: Man. I feel like we live in the world that's serious.

924
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 1: But still take the time to last.

925
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 2: I believe that.

926
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: Man.

927
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 3: I applaud every single person to open up that door.

928
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 3: And I will say that's why I shout out Q

929
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 3: because he was the first person to be like, you

930
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 3: know what, these mixtapes ain't gotta be a mixtapes. These

931
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 3: ain't got to be sold one twenty fifth Street on

932
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 3: a blanket. Let me get booty talking number twelve, Let

933
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 3: me get that state property.

934
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: We was definitely.

935
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 4: Definitely, Brother, I have it before the movie, in the movie,

936
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 4: before it comes out.

937
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 2: I have it right now.

938
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 4: What do what do you want to do? Please do

939
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 4: watch two for five? Please, my friend, don't brother, it

940
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 4: looks like a look at you're taking me back in

941
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 4: down street because that's how it was.

942
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: Boy, You get anything you want on these blocks on

943
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: that blanket.

944
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 3: They laid that with an open up shop and pull

945
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 3: it out the store, opening store closing.

946
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: The two seconds seconds, bro, don't let the cops pull

947
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: around and watch that blanket get wrapped up like a

948
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:17,399
Speaker 1: magic trick.

949
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think that that what they're doing now

950
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 3: is great. I think it opened up the door and

951
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 3: I think it stopped a lot of barriers that we

952
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 3: had before because it used to be one of the time,

953
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 3: and now it's no longer one of the Now you

954
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 3: no longer have to go and wait for someone to

955
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 3: go like I pick him and put him.

956
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 1: In a movie.

957
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 3: Now you can just go and captivate your audience on that.

958
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 3: And I think that touching the fans. Now you don't

959
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 3: have to wait. And I loved him for doing that, man,

960
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 3: I loved him for open open those doors. And then

961
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 3: they transition to the comedy. Look at DC Young Fly

962
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 3: putting our sketches, putting out skates, and next thing, you know,

963
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 3: one of the hottest communities in the country.

964
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 2: That's right, DC Young Fly killing them.

965
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: You named a lot of legends Deon Cole, like man,

966
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: come on, man, I was a favorite, Like Eddie Griffin

967
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: was my guy. Oh yeah, boy, Eddie griff and Eddie Murphy.

968
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 1: All of Eddie's was funny. Your mom named you Eddy.

969
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: You was funny. You gotta be funny. Who would you

970
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: consider your top because you know, when I'm sitting somewhere else, like, YO,

971
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: give me your top five rappers. But there's too many

972
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 1: comedians for me to just narrow it down the five

973
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: because somebody might be like, YO, you left me off.

974
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, top Who would you put in your

975
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: top list? Top ten, tops five, top seven, top six?

976
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: Wherever you want to stop that?

977
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 2: When did you say who is the best?

978
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 3: Who do I trust? Because I spit hot fire. I

979
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,720
Speaker 3: think it's a lot of comedians that you'd be surprised

980
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 3: if people sleep on. But I think Tony Roberts, and

981
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 3: I think that if a comedy tells you Tony Roberts

982
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 3: isn't one of the funniest comedians in the country, someone

983
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 3: that is like lying to you, that man is hysterically funny.

984
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 3: You know you funny when all the comedians on the

985
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 3: show run out to see your set, I think that

986
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 3: he's best admitting that my next will be Rasheed. He

987
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 3: was just cultivating the way he could tell a story

988
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 3: and just bring you in it and be like, it's

989
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 3: a lot of people in this world you can robe.

990
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 3: But the old Spanish man. Ain't that nigga?

991
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: That's right, sho you to.

992
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 3: I don't give you nothing. Can you find out out

993
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 3: your own to divide out and you take the vite out?

994
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 3: Probably don't like somebody got killed on the third floor.

995
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 3: That's not me, baby, I wanta fight flop it. So

996
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 3: I think that he was just a great, great comedian man,

997
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 3: one of my mentors in this game. Like, I think

998
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 3: that if he would have, you know, going on to

999
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 3: live longer, he probably would have been top five.

1000
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 2: Period manure just getting it in. But his life was

1001
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 2: taken too short. I'm sorry they had about that.

1002
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: Man, I'm not gonna watch if you you don't want

1003
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: to talk about when you watch it, you'll be like

1004
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: he do do dude to Jamaican store.

1005
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 2: Right came in to the Jamaican store. He was like,

1006
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 2: you're going to Jamaican storey.

1007
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: You're like, yah, I'm going back to watch it because

1008
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: def comedy jam is still available?

1009
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 2: Man, what still available? Beast beast man.

1010
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,320
Speaker 3: He always when he said he go mess with Spanish

1011
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 3: people in the Spanish store, and he said, poppy water

1012
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 3: cat always sleep on the bread when I come in.

1013
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 2: He yo, And.

1014
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: That's if you live here. That's it, yo, every that's crazy.

1015
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: See New York, our store is done change hands so

1016
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: many times. First it was the Puerto Ricans, then it

1017
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: was the Dominicans, then it was the Asians.

1018
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 2: Now it's the fuck the.

1019
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: Indians, and now it's the a rab Yeah, and them

1020
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: niggas selling butt out the store. I had cut had

1021
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: that seven for me. They do do the cigarettes yo, yo,

1022
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: Lucy yo lucy. I hate it when somebody be like, yo,

1023
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: go to the store, give me a lucy like by

1024
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,479
Speaker 1: the pack yo broke as.

1025
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 2: No lucies.

1026
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, they tell you too. They don't even tell you.

1027
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 2: You ain't give me your top list, So I'm sorry.

1028
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 3: Tony roberts Uh, I would say, Rashet a lot of people,

1029
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 3: and I'm glad he's getting shine now.

1030
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: T K.

1031
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 2: Kirkling, Oh yeah, t K fee to the motherfucking word up.

1032
00:41:58,200 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: Man.

1033
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 2: He's been in the game, push, pushing.

1034
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: Changing, elevating. Just you know.

1035
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 2: My next probably would be Dion Cole.

1036
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: So of course we all got the legends like the

1037
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: Chris Rocks to Dave Chappelle's all of those.

1038
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 3: Different people, and then Eddie Murphy's the Martins and all that.

1039
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 3: But I'm talking about soldiers.

1040
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: Just been grinding but just never got that like break

1041
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: that break that that that.

1042
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 2: Can go up after anybody.

1043
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 3: It don't matter, and it don't matter, and that's that's

1044
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 3: I cultivate myself for. It don't matter who's going on stage.

1045
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 3: So I think that even when you you mentioned my

1046
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 3: name in comedy, people a like, yeah, I don't want

1047
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 3: to follow rip. I don't gonna kill it, and like,

1048
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,720
Speaker 3: it's just something that and I like those gladiators. Everybody

1049
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 3: I name is a gladiator. Like, I mean, it's different

1050
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 3: ways of you know, doing comedy. It's joke structure, there's

1051
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 3: different ways of people doing more intellectually. We can do

1052
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 3: it slapstick. But I just think that being able.

1053
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 2: To rock a crowd.

1054
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 3: And I'm not a person that be like, I don't

1055
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 3: care how you did it, but if I go in down,

1056
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 3: I'm looking like, yo, these people are having the time

1057
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 3: of their life.

1058
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 2: Because to me, that's what comedy is about.

1059
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: It's not about to me, in my personal opinion, it's

1060
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: not about me just getting my story out and just

1061
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: spitting my life at you.

1062
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 2: It's about changing.

1063
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,879
Speaker 3: What you got going on in your life and being

1064
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 3: able to take a little bit of pain away. Because

1065
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 3: my name is actually not Rip Michael's if you look

1066
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 3: at the spelling, it's actually Rip Mike Heels, it's m

1067
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 3: I C h e Als. But people always pronounce the wrong.

1068
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 3: So I just let people. But that's always what it is.

1069
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 3: So that's what I try to do when I'm gonna stay.

1070
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 3: I try to like a lot of people, and I

1071
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 3: think a lot of Communist understand like this person being

1072
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:27,760
Speaker 3: out of promote the shows and sometimes.

1073
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: Bring the people in.

1074
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 3: I see the person I gave a flyer too, and

1075
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 3: I see that this is their last twenty dollars. I

1076
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 3: see that this person just fighting a court case or

1077
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 3: just had domestic violence, or just had this. And if

1078
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 3: you can just take a little bit of that away

1079
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 3: and make them and just take them away from their problems,

1080
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 3: that's what it's about, because that Mike can really.

1081
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 2: Really heal people. You can change.

1082
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 3: People's lives, in their in their perspective and what they're doing,

1083
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:50,359
Speaker 3: and that's what I try to do.

1084
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 2: So I look for that. I look for you. Don't

1085
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 2: blame me read that. Yeah.

1086
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: Who when you hit those Yeah, that's when you know

1087
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: you made somebody so laugh. That's a fact because you

1088
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: only hear that. I feel like three ways in the

1089
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: black community. When you're laughing, you get good food, or

1090
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: you see a relative you ain't seen it in a

1091
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: long time. Oh yeah, that's when you get a real

1092
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: reaction from the black community. Because we get some food.

1093
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna be like whoa like you dancing and like you're.

1094
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 2: Talking about eating chicken up right out the grease when

1095
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 2: you come chase the chicken, when you're.

1096
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: Like, damn man, you make me train of thought with

1097
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: that one.

1098
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 2: I was just about to say something to you about

1099
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:39,720
Speaker 2: somebody else.

1100
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:40,879
Speaker 1: Damn man.

1101
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 2: Where was I at with that one? What were some

1102
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 2: of the moments.

1103
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: That you consider Did you ever consider a moment stepping

1104
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: away from comedy? No?

1105
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,760
Speaker 3: No, not one time, Like it's funny because I wanted

1106
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 3: to do this since I was eight years old and

1107
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 3: I never want to do anything other than this. And

1108
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 3: when I when I was in the male Clinic and Phoenix,

1109
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 3: Arizona and big shout out to them, I was when

1110
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 3: your heart fails, the rest of your organs start failing.

1111
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 1: And start falling apart.

1112
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 3: So my kidneys started failing, and for like I want

1113
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 3: to say, like a month and a half, I couldn't

1114
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 3: see because you know, my sugar got so high, and

1115
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 3: you're diabetic, you can lose your sight. And for the

1116
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 3: first time, I was like, damn, how am I going

1117
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 3: to do comedy because I can't even see the crowd

1118
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 3: and I can't even see to write the jokes down?

1119
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 3: How am I going to do comedy? And I would

1120
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 3: say that was the closest thing to me ever quitting.

1121
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 3: Then I was like, thank God for Siri, Siri, and

1122
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 3: now you got JAT So I think that, yo, that

1123
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 3: was probably my lowest of like thinking I couldn't do

1124
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 3: it because you can't see and your heart isn't good.

1125
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 3: I was like, because I always thought this is something

1126
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 3: you could do to till you die, Like you know,

1127
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 3: long you can come out in the wheelchair, you can

1128
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 3: come out eighty years old. Like I got to see

1129
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 3: Paul Mooney and like work with him like a lot

1130
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 3: of times right before he passed, and I was like, man,

1131
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 3: you can do this forever. But that would probably be

1132
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 3: the closest I ever got to being like I don't

1133
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 3: want to I don't know how I'm.

1134
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 2: Gonna do this, but yeah, I figured a way.

1135
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 3: I was like, God was like, nah, you can just

1136
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 3: you can hear the crowd, that's right. But then I

1137
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 3: got my sight back, and you know, it took a

1138
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:31,959
Speaker 3: lot of medicine and took a lot of walking around

1139
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 3: and like getting on a good regiment and shout out

1140
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 3: to the mail clinic, because those dudes at the male clinic,

1141
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 3: like are the reason I'm not restricted to a hospital

1142
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 3: bed and that you know, I can you know, just

1143
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 3: get at home, nurse and you know, take medicine and

1144
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 3: when I perform have EMTs on the side of the

1145
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 3: stage to even do this.

1146
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 2: So yeah, big shout out to them, man, that's what's something.

1147
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: Man. Shout out to all the medical staff, all the

1148
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: emergency workers out there putting their life on the line

1149
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: for our lives, you know, cause a lot.

1150
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 2: Go into it.

1151
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: Man, we take for granted, you know what I'm saying,

1152
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 1: And you don't really appreciate things until you sitting there

1153
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,439
Speaker 1: on that bed, like hold on, man, the I gotta

1154
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: really put everything shit, putting everything in perspective and what's

1155
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: really important to me. Now, another question I wanted to

1156
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: ask you, like, even from myself, because I'm part of

1157
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: the audience. I'm not a comedian, So this is a

1158
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 1: question for you really from me, like what do you

1159
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: think us as the audience is a misconception or is

1160
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: misunderstood about stand up comedians or what the work that

1161
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: goes into the process of being a stand up comedian.

1162
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 3: I would say that a lot of people think that

1163
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 3: they're just silly people, but comedians are some of the smartest,

1164
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 3: most intelligent people that you'll ever come across, because we

1165
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 3: normally take tragedy and we find a way of making

1166
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 3: it funny or finding a different perspective and an outlook

1167
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 3: to change it. And that is the misconception because you

1168
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 3: just look at a person and you're saying like, oh,

1169
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 3: this person is just silly and they can just do this.

1170
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 3: But it's a method to it that it takes twenty

1171
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 3: different times for you doing a joke on stage before

1172
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:12,919
Speaker 3: it becomes an actual part of your joke.

1173
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 2: That we go through these things and you know, we

1174
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 2: just don't write it down and.

1175
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: Be like, oh, this is gonna be funny because y'all

1176
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: decide who's funny, or I can write a million things,

1177
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: but if it don't work in this room. It's not

1178
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: really funny.

1179
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:23,720
Speaker 2: That's right.

1180
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: Same thing with music, so you never I think a

1181
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: lot of people think that you just get up there,

1182
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: and it is a it is.

1183
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 3: A hard, hard craft to master. I will definitely tell

1184
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 3: you that it's a hard craft to master. It's hard

1185
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,399
Speaker 3: to find your voice, and it is hard to talk

1186
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 3: about some of these painful things because when you really

1187
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 3: look at a joke, there's nothing.

1188
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,240
Speaker 1: Funny about child abuse. But you see so many comedians.

1189
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: My mamma used to whoop my ads. You ever got

1190
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:49,439
Speaker 1: hit with this, You ever got hit with that, You've

1191
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: got a shoe thrown at you, and it's just those

1192
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: are real painful memories.

1193
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 3: You just found the way and you taking a different

1194
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 3: perspective on it and making people be able to laugh. Now,

1195
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 3: you give that person the power to let go of

1196
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 3: that pain, and you sometimes you pay relationships like that.

1197
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: Now.

1198
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 3: A lot of people be like, you know what, my

1199
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 3: childhood is not that bad. You know, my mom wasn't

1200
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 3: that bad. It's other moms like that.

1201
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: It's other dad.

1202
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 3: It's like that, that's not only a person that I

1203
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 3: didn't go through that alone. It's just like when y'all

1204
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 3: write a great song and you touch somebody, someone comes

1205
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 3: up to you and.

1206
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: Go, man, I felt that.

1207
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 2: Man, I went through that same thing.

1208
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: I did a bit. I did this, I did that

1209
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: like that. That was real when you said that. And

1210
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:30,879
Speaker 1: that's what we do it for it, bro cause it's

1211
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: just like you said, they make it a good song.

1212
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: All we do is think our thoughts are pain, our

1213
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: frustrations or our joys, and we write it down and

1214
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: we hope the world receive it the way we you

1215
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 1: know what I mean, we want them to. And when

1216
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: it works, trust me, that feels like the best day

1217
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,439
Speaker 1: of your life. When because it's not easy to take

1218
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: your thoughts, put it on paper and make a thousand

1219
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: people agree with you. No, it is not, man.

1220
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 3: And like if you watch my Apollo special that I

1221
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 3: did and tempted to pollow, that was probably one of

1222
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 3: the hard the sets I've ever done in my entire life,

1223
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 3: because the whole.

1224
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 2: Time I'm on stage, I can't breathe.

1225
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: And halfway through my like if you watch it, and

1226
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:10,360
Speaker 1: the ammunents had to pick me up, I collapsed on

1227
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 1: stage at the very end.

1228
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 2: They edited a lot of it out, but.

1229
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: It was bad. But then that special was a special.

1230
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 3: I promised myself that I would finish because I had

1231
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 3: sold out the Apollo and I had a heart attack

1232
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 3: right before, like two days before the show, and I

1233
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,399
Speaker 3: had to cancel. And that's the whole infamous thing where

1234
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 3: everybody's like rips going to the hospital and he announced it,

1235
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 3: and that's what the whole viral thing, and then I

1236
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 3: promised myself, I get out, I'm gonna finish it. And

1237
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 3: to sit there and be struggling him for air the

1238
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 3: entire time, and then talking about things that were like

1239
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 3: that weren't even real jokes that I prepared, but just

1240
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 3: talking about the journey and trying to make light of it.

1241
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:52,959
Speaker 2: That was really hard.

1242
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: And I love everybody in New York for that, cause

1243
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 1: they they came and the applauded and they participated, and

1244
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: it was really, really, probably one of the toughest sets

1245
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 1: I ever had to do to march it through, man,

1246
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: but they were with it, and a lot of stuff

1247
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: I was saying was sad.

1248
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 2: And for them not to feel sorry mm hm, and

1249
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 2: understanding that it was in and ride with me, that

1250
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 2: was fire. Yeah, that was fire man.

1251
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate you even sharing your story because like you know,

1252
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: you said, you never did this. It's never about you, right,

1253
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: We never do it about us. It's about our journey

1254
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: and who can we inspire to take the journey further and.

1255
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 2: Do better than we ever thought?

1256
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: We told you so that's why I'm so excited and

1257
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: happy that you took the time out and to come

1258
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:44,799
Speaker 1: to me to share it. You know what I mean,

1259
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 1: because you definitely enlightened me. Or I had no clue

1260
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: that got you, bro, I'll be watching wilding Out all

1261
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: the time. Nick, My god, Me and Nick had the

1262
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 1: same management. When he had rapper dreams. Oh okay, I

1263
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: wish i'd have took the comedian dreams. I'd have been

1264
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: right there with him, but shiit rap dream took me.

1265
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: But that's my bro, right there, man, you gotta take

1266
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: follos in that. And this is this is what I

1267
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 1: was gonna say, right I was throwing my producer under

1268
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: the bus shout out by girl.

1269
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:11,800
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say her dad.

1270
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 1: But listen, you see how you saying my name really

1271
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: not Riped Hamilton, I mean rip Michaels. It's rip Mike Hills.

1272
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,879
Speaker 1: When I text my producer, yo, we and I think

1273
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: we get in this interview.

1274
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to get the.

1275
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,319
Speaker 1: Call back, and she like who And I just tept

1276
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: text Ripped Michaels. She was like, damn, rest in peace

1277
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 1: to Michaels whoever he is, and no he ain't. That's

1278
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,439
Speaker 1: who coming through. She like, oh ship, Like I thought

1279
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: you were saying your boy Michael passed away.

1280
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 2: And I'm like, hell.

1281
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: No, why would I write it like that? Hilarious?

1282
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 2: He can't make it to that.

1283
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 1: Who else you got, Mike? He ain't coming.

1284
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 2: Who else you got because you got it?

1285
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: Go on. I thought that was funny when you say, yo,

1286
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 1: my name not really ripped, Like, but when people hit

1287
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: the name Rip Michaels, what do you want them to

1288
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: associate that with?

1289
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 3: First of all, a lot of people think I just

1290
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 3: thought some hardcore name, and I think Rip is this.

1291
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 2: It's just short from Rippy.

1292
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 3: But nobody wants me called rippy, Like, no one in

1293
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 3: the world is gonna be Rippy.

1294
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 2: That's not a cool name.

1295
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: So I just took the pp wild Louisiana.

1296
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 2: It's only two rips that rep.

1297
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 1: Rip Hamilton from the Detroit Pistons was my favorite basketball

1298
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: player and Rip Michaels.

1299
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite comedians. You got ripped Horn

1300
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 2: and you got Rip Van Winkle.

1301
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: Ye ain't the rip right? Yeah, they ain't the right.

1302
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: I gotta lose the weight so I can rep it

1303
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: right and gains the weight. I look like right Michaels now,

1304
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: and they're like, look at that nigga, he ripe nigga

1305
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: sitting on this white couch with all them hips, that

1306
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: nigga hypocrite.

1307
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what would I want them to?

1308
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:54,240
Speaker 1: Uh?

1309
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 2: I think your question was what do I want them

1310
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 2: to associate you with?

1311
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean, people hear the name

1312
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: rip Michaels, What you want them to associate you with?

1313
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,240
Speaker 2: With your career? That's a really deep question, man.

1314
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,280
Speaker 1: Elevation, that's right.

1315
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 3: I will want them to associate elevation and together. It's

1316
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 3: showing that we can break these barriers down, man, because

1317
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 3: when you look at what God has blessed me to

1318
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 3: be able to do, like, I think half the people

1319
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 3: has never experienced the things that God gave me the

1320
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 3: power and the things and the.

1321
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: Abilities to do like and it's just like this, I

1322
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: think that's what I want. I want people to understand, Like.

1323
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 2: I took our people and not I took our people.

1324
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 3: When I say our people, it's not the ones that

1325
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 3: they tell us this is the hottest man this go

1326
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 3: see him because we built this and we put this

1327
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 3: machine behind and this is the person.

1328
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 2: This is the one. I feel like I want people

1329
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 2: to associate like you don't need just one. It's all

1330
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 2: of us and collective.

1331
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 3: But we can do this like we do eighteen thousand

1332
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 3: people at State Farm Marina. We've done twenty two thousand

1333
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 3: people in the garden on a Wednesday with only three

1334
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 3: weeks of promotion.

1335
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 2: When Rich Homi Kwan passed away, bless Rich hold me.

1336
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:12,200
Speaker 2: I did that.

1337
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 3: I turned my whole shot round because his brother called me,

1338
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 3: and I turned my whole short around.

1339
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 2: I made it the biggest tribute ever.

1340
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 3: And I donated money to Asseamily because if the moment

1341
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:21,799
Speaker 3: they told me it was like your rip, we don't

1342
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 3: know we're gonna do. We know we just booked him,

1343
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 3: and I just spoke to him the day before he

1344
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 3: passed away, and I was like, you know what, take

1345
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:29,799
Speaker 3: all the money, keep the booking money, gainst because it's

1346
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 3: like people asking for the deposits back.

1347
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 2: We atten shows rip. I don't know what I'm doing.

1348
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 3: I say, take the money I gave you, keep all

1349
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 3: of that. I'm gonna pay you the back in on that.

1350
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 3: And on top of paying of the back end on that,

1351
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 3: I'm gonna raise money for you. On top of that.

1352
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,239
Speaker 2: He was like, what are you gonna do?

1353
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, just come, I'm gonna present yall

1354
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 3: to check. We're gonna play a song and we're gonna

1355
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 3: celebrate his life.

1356
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 2: That's right. That's dope, man.

1357
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: And then people were like, but I was like, no,

1358
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing. It's not up to no one else.

1359
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: This is what we're doing.

1360
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 2: This is what we're doing. That's dope, man. Ridge holdy

1361
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 2: got that shit.

1362
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 3: And then when I tell you, we played the songs

1363
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 3: and a whole arena of when I tell you, it's

1364
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 3: not a seat, you could possibly it was people standing

1365
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 3: behind people.

1366
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 2: His music gonna last fast.

1367
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 3: And they played it in the whole to watch everybody

1368
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 3: stand up and then be able to do something like

1369
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 3: that and his family there, and then for them to

1370
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 3: stand up and like that's my son, that's my family.

1371
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 3: Look and to see the look on their faces, that

1372
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 3: to me elevation, Yes, showing people that we matter because

1373
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 3: we do matter, man.

1374
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:31,720
Speaker 2: That's right all the time. Man, We're gonna do matter

1375
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 2: at them. Man. We are the culture. We set it.

1376
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 2: Do we set it?

1377
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: Man? We are the We are the people to follow,

1378
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: and it's not up for them to decide who goes

1379
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,959
Speaker 1: when and who goes where. We go together. Yeah, it's

1380
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: just like that's a written rule in my neighborhood coming

1381
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,720
Speaker 1: up with my homies. Man, when we travel somewhere together,

1382
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: as we all leave together or we don't leave like,

1383
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, So we all gonna go,

1384
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: none of us gonna go.

1385
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 2: That's how we used to do it.

1386
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:57,799
Speaker 1: Man. That's how you know how many clubs I show

1387
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: up too? You ain't letting all of them? Man, I

1388
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: give your money back. I'm not coming there, you know

1389
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: what I mean. And that's just how it is. Man.

1390
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 1: I'm for the team, So I respect you with that

1391
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: because I'm a team player from day one. I put

1392
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: the team first. It's no iron team, it's one hundred percent.

1393
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: So if someone was just to discover Rip Michaelson and

1394
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: they're like, man, somebody told me about this comedian. Man,

1395
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check them out. What would be the first

1396
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: performance or moment you will point them to to really

1397
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 1: understand you. It would be the first.

1398
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 2: That's a very man. You have best questions like I

1399
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 2: feel like I'm over here and the producers because she

1400
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 2: came through right like Maya Angelo.

1401
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: He was like, has a concrete rolls coming from the jungle,

1402
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: who came up as a delicate flower. That is now

1403
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: you have some deep bands, Jeremy there thrill this when

1404
00:57:54,520 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: you was gone and your dad left? What side you

1405
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: when you wear that that time?

1406
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 2: I think that was and a half. You got some

1407
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 2: of the best questions.

1408
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: Man.

1409
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 3: You were made appreciate that man really man Like, it's

1410
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 3: like when you see people who have a talent in

1411
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 3: the gift. Man, you have a gift and like you're

1412
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 3: pulling out of me. Man, I don't think I ever

1413
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 3: told this type of ship. You know, I don't know

1414
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 3: my cuts or not. On the Disney Network it's hip hop.

1415
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: I don't want to mess up to show.

1416
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 3: And you'll be like, oh man, we got a Disney

1417
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 3: Channel deal and I'm like, I'm not gonna make that episode.

1418
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 1: They gonna it's gonna they gonna it's gonna be nobody

1419
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: Pooty Tank episode. We both won't be here if it's

1420
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 1: all Disney. It'll be black. It'd be just the couch. Hey,

1421
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: the Disney. You would switching up a half hand of

1422
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: my time Canada when you chose Monley site I have,

1423
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: they I couldn't wear this. They'll be like, yo, you

1424
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: gotta be there like this, Hannah. So tell me I

1425
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: couldn't do this. They'll be like that hat now two gangster.

1426
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 3: No, yes you can because when you created, what I've

1427
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 3: learned is like I was able to turn down a

1428
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,479
Speaker 3: lot of deals. Like I've said it the Live Nation table.

1429
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 3: They be like, hey, we want to do this with you,

1430
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 3: and we want to turn this and I was able

1431
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 3: to be able to like this deal don't.

1432
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: Make no sense.

1433
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 3: So you want me to take my stuff, bring it

1434
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 3: to Live Nation and we split the gate together. And

1435
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 3: you don't give me any Ticketmaster because you won't Ticketmaster.

1436
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 2: You are just trying to sell me your marketing.

1437
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 3: And you're giving me a cross collateralization deal, which means

1438
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 3: you're just not even really giving money. You're just giving

1439
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 3: me a loan against ticket sales, which means that if

1440
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 3: I don't sell it, I gotta pay the money back

1441
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 3: with interest. And then I got to use your production company,

1442
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 3: your marketing things. So you're getting paid like nine different

1443
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 3: ways exactly, and then you want me to split it.

1444
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 3: I'm not getting food and beverage. I'm not getting tket

1445
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 3: ba based I'm not getting anything. It's a terrible deal.

1446
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:47,920
Speaker 3: It's a terrible deal.

1447
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 2: Who would sign this exactly? But everyone does? That's crazy,

1448
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 2: that's crazy.

1449
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: I why are we like that? Why?

1450
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 2: But everyone?

1451
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: Why is our culture like that where they put the

1452
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: bird in the hand and before the bush?

1453
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 3: I think that, you know, we fall short of like

1454
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 3: believing we could do things. So I was able to

1455
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 3: turn the deal down and constantly turn deals down like

1456
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 3: that because I went out and built it.

1457
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,479
Speaker 2: So when you build it, it's on your turn. That's right,

1458
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 2: That's that's how. That's so.

1459
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 3: I wasn't like, hey, you know what, this is a

1460
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 3: dope idea and I go to them like, hey, this

1461
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 3: is a dope idea and let them go, hey, we're

1462
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 3: gonna put this together and put this. No, I build it.

1463
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 3: So when you come to a person that's number two

1464
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 3: in the country and post started doing sixteen seventeen thousand

1465
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 3: and did it in fourteen different arenas, you gotta you

1466
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 3: can't come to me like that.

1467
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 2: That's right, And they'll always try to tell you like.

1468
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: Oh, well, we can make it bigger instead of sixteen,

1469
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 1: we could do thirty like I did sixteen by myself.

1470
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 2: You don't think I could do thirty bumps exactly. You

1471
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 2: don't think I do forty bums. That's right. We're we

1472
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 2: elevating to what's the elevation, the elevation of just helping me.

1473
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: Do you do you want me to do more shows

1474
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: than I did by myself already, and then you're going

1475
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: half of what I'm getting just to open up fifteen something,

1476
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: So let me expect it. If I'm gonna do, I'm

1477
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: doing sixteen shows by myself, I'm gonna do with you.

1478
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: I could do thirty shows, but you won't have so

1479
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: I'm back to do a fifteen show.

1480
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 2: That's right. So what was the point. That's right.

1481
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: That's why I tell people all the time, man, it's

1482
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 1: greater later, man to check. If I look at it

1483
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: like this, if a person willing to give you a

1484
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: check up front, what is they gonna make on a

1485
01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: back end?

1486
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 2: Because nothing is free.

1487
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: Nobody ain't gonna just be like yo, hu, take this

1488
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: million dollar advance and I'm gonna break even with this

1489
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand back here. If I'm gonna give you

1490
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 1: this million, that means I'm gonna make three million on

1491
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 1: the back end, and you just gonna take your million

1492
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: and be cool, you know what I mean? That's really

1493
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,919
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand if you still live in New York

1494
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: after taxes. Yeah. And you know what's funny, I didn't

1495
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: even realize that, right, Like, I'm doing all this whole time,

1496
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: not one by the money. I didn't realize that. Like

1497
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: I was dumb.

1498
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 3: I thought that all these people were selling out these shows.

1499
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 3: I thought that when somebody said, oh, okay, come see

1500
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 3: me live, that's them. Come to find out, I'm probably

1501
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 3: the only comedian to ever sell out his own arenas.

1502
01:01:56,640 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 3: It's always a machine behind him. It's always a a

1503
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 3: different company that's actually doing it.

1504
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 1: And I didn't know that.

1505
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 3: I had no idea until I started saying, hey, Rip,

1506
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 3: we want to do this with you, and they go like, well,

1507
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 3: we got to go talk to this company first. I'm like,

1508
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 3: but you're yeah, this isn't your tour. Yeah, so you

1509
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 3: just the face just a promotional Oh yeah, you man,

1510
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 3: say to me, that's the that's the thing. You'd be like,

1511
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 3: I want to do this. I'm like, okay, we doing

1512
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 3: That's right. This is I didn't know that. I didn't

1513
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 3: know that.

1514
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:26,920
Speaker 1: It's a lot like that and all in all fashions

1515
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 1: of this business. That's like this part you're like, yo,

1516
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: can you kurkr? This is us?

1517
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 2: You see my production crew? You gotta ask man.

1518
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: No, but you got some real dudes, right yeah, but

1519
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 1: this is us, Like we we built this, we created it.

1520
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: You know. I shout out Noriega for seeing something in

1521
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: me that I didn't see because he like, bleek, I'm

1522
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 1: telling you you.

1523
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 2: Made for this ship.

1524
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 1: You need to definitely, and I'm like, hell no, I'm

1525
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: not no journalist. I'm not doing this ship. And look

1526
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: here I am.

1527
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 2: But Joe definitely nor read my brother, thank you.

1528
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:54,919
Speaker 1: But I'm a firm believer in building your own cause

1529
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: you get the only You get to make the decisions

1530
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: and you get to drive the direction on where it's going.

1531
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: Because when you sell out, they can bring it and

1532
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 1: bring your company, your image and your likeness and carve

1533
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: it out to whatever they want the people to believe

1534
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: about you. When you own something, yourself is your word,

1535
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 1: your way, and they gonna know it's all you because

1536
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna know who you are through your representation.

1537
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 2: Of your work. Man, you know what I'm saying. So

1538
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 2: what you built and what you're doing.

1539
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: You just saying that, yeah, I sold out fourteen to

1540
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: ring the sixteen shows, fourteen thousand, You saying that, like

1541
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: that's simple, bro, I might not sell out a thousand

1542
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: seed of right now. I guess it's not easy, bro.

1543
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 3: I guess I guess it seems And for me it

1544
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 3: seems easy because I never looked at it like that.

1545
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 3: But I never looked at it like that. I just

1546
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 3: always like, I want to put on the best show.

1547
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:50,880
Speaker 3: I want to keep it affordable because I want people

1548
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:52,800
Speaker 3: to be able to buy tickets from it, and I

1549
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 3: want to show people that look what we can do.

1550
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:57,000
Speaker 3: And I thought that would bring just more people that

1551
01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 3: be like, hey, let's do this, and not just hey,

1552
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 3: all right now we did this, go give it to

1553
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 3: this person so they can just I didn't know I did.

1554
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 3: I didn't think like that, no, you're doing it.

1555
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 1: Didn't think like that.

1556
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 3: And I do it in this God because I do it,

1557
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 3: and like sometimes like this Arena game and doing these

1558
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 3: things like the Garden gave me the garden, because like

1559
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 3: when you're just a person and you're just walking there like, hey,

1560
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 3: I'm Remichaels.

1561
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: I want to do the garden.

1562
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 2: They're like, it's five hundred thousand dollars to rent the garden.

1563
01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 2: And you're sitting there and they go and they're expecting

1564
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 2: you to walk out. Remember like remember that scene and.

1565
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 3: Was it uh anyone from uh not coming to America?

1566
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 3: Nice boomerang when they was any thing and he say,

1567
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 3: he says, this jacket is ten thousand dollars and they

1568
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 3: don't pause me.

1569
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 2: He's like, what you thought that was gonna scare me

1570
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 2: or something like that.

1571
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: Bring. Yeah, So when you when you get to these

1572
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 1: places and and everybody's cool with me now, but when

1573
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: you get to these places and you're like, hey, I'm

1574
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:56,919
Speaker 1: just I'm Remichaels and i want to do this type

1575
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 1: of show and I'm gonna do this, and they go

1576
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 1: who you with or who who's your representation?

1577
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 2: Would come? What are you doing?

1578
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, I'm gonna do the show. It

1579
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 3: was like it's five hundred thousand. I was like, okay, cool,

1580
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 3: So what dates do you have?

1581
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 1: That's right?

1582
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 3: And it's like well, we're gonna need and they do

1583
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 3: in the beginning, they give you deals that don't make

1584
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 3: any sense.

1585
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:15,440
Speaker 1: They'll be like, but we need it all up front.

1586
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 1: We and that's that's that just doesn't make any sense.

1587
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 1: No business, no, no business that makes an decision. You

1588
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 1: had an arena to be so shitty to me that

1589
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: after I sold it out, the lady came to me

1590
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 1: and apologized. Damn at least apologize.

1591
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 3: She was like, I didn't believe that you would do

1592
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:35,400
Speaker 3: any of the things that you said you was gonna do,

1593
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry for you know everything, and how I

1594
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 3: treated you.

1595
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,440
Speaker 2: You sold. This whole thing happened.

1596
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:44,600
Speaker 3: I think like two weeks because they gave they give

1597
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 3: me dope, They give me dates and stuff that dates.

1598
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 2: They don't want to count and just give you throw

1599
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 2: away things.

1600
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 3: And it's a Tuesday, Like who definely garden on the Wednesday?

1601
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 1: Who is doing that? Word up unless you plan for

1602
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 1: the next Like the fuck, who's doing that?

1603
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 2: That's happening? That's it's a workday in the middle of

1604
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 2: the week. Two dude.

1605
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: Shit. The funniest thing about me doing the garden was like,

1606
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 1: you know, we all think about the gardener's like.

1607
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 2: We're doing a garden Mecca. We're doing this garden. That's

1608
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 2: a statement.

1609
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 3: I booked that around and do the whole thing. And

1610
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 3: that's why I said, you have solid people around, you'll

1611
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:21,959
Speaker 3: do the whole thing. And they start, you know, they're

1612
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:23,840
Speaker 3: like every day they're telling me like, this is not

1613
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 3: gonna happen.

1614
01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: You only sold fifty tickets. You always sold sixty tickets.

1615
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 1: We need to cancel, and going like we gotta cancel this,

1616
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 1: cancel this. I'm like, no, just keep it going, keep

1617
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 1: it going. Well, we're gonna need it. Every day they say, well,

1618
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna need this. Now, we're gonna need You paid

1619
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 1: the whole thing up from but now we're gonna need

1620
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:37,439
Speaker 1: this insurance, we're gonna need your CEI.

1621
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 2: We're gonna need this. We're gonna just trying to give you.

1622
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 3: And you know this is not refundable, so if you

1623
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 3: cancel your fun I'm trying to give you ever hurdle

1624
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:46,560
Speaker 3: to make you. And then once it start moving, they

1625
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 3: start telling me who I can have on my show

1626
01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 3: and who I can't. And then I was like what

1627
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, we don't, we don't want I'm never

1628
01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 3: gonna pull punches. Man, I'm dying soon, so whatever, I'm

1629
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 3: just saying. I'm just jo but uh, that was just

1630
01:07:05,120 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 3: telling me you can't have Bobby's murder. And I was like,

1631
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 3: and I was like, what do you mean I can

1632
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 3: bobably Well, he's not a somebody we really want here,

1633
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 3: and you know, da da da, and he's.

1634
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:18,439
Speaker 2: Got a criminal record. I was like, so let's see,

1635
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 2: wait a minute. Half the rock artist you have have

1636
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 2: criminal records.

1637
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 1: Half the other people you have, so you're trying to

1638
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: signal this guy out.

1639
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:31,959
Speaker 3: It was like, well, that's just, you know, our thing,

1640
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 3: and we don't want that. And I go, I'm going

1641
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 3: back and forth fighting, and I'm going back and forth.

1642
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 2: Mayan at three was the show.

1643
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 3: We're going back and forth, and I'm like, okay, So

1644
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 3: my publicist at least filmish, you know, recipeace, at least

1645
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 3: when I went to the hospital, she passed away. So

1646
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 3: she goes ripped. They're not gonna allow him to perform.

1647
01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 3: They sent a straight no wow. So I go, okay,

1648
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 3: stop fucking respond to them. Tell him yes, we don't.

1649
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 3: Just stop responding. And so when I get in the garden,

1650
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 3: guess who the fuck is in the garden? And they

1651
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:07,600
Speaker 3: look at me and I thought, we told you Bobby

1652
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 3: Smurder couldn't play.

1653
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I got the email.

1654
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:13,520
Speaker 1: I walk away and they look at me and go.

1655
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:18,160
Speaker 2: They don't know what to do.

1656
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 3: So we all get in this room and like they

1657
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 3: put me in this room. And because before that I

1658
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 3: had an issue with getting in the arena for some reason,

1659
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:28,800
Speaker 3: they told me I couldn't get in an arena. And

1660
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 3: mind you, it's my company, my face on the thing,

1661
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 3: and they go, well, you don't have the band, and

1662
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:35,639
Speaker 3: I'm like, what band. It was like, well, you're supposed

1663
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 3: to get a band because they change over security. So

1664
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:39,479
Speaker 3: if you do production, it's a band when you first

1665
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 3: get into loading, and there's another band for entertainers, right,

1666
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 3: So they're like, well you can't get in you have

1667
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:47,639
Speaker 3: a band. So security treats me like total trash. They

1668
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:50,000
Speaker 3: tell me I got to go out. I got it out,

1669
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:50,799
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'm.

1670
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 1: Reminchaeled remintsipate to have a ticket and yeah, and so

1671
01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: then they was like and then they started pressing me

1672
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: more like So first it turned out to be like

1673
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: some kind of like oh okay.

1674
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:05,719
Speaker 3: Then it went to like aggressive like and I'm like, okay, cool,

1675
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 3: So let me call everybody that's involved in this arena

1676
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 3: and let's all sit because we need to have a meeting.

1677
01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 2: A sad.

1678
01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting there and I'm sitting there with like

1679
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 1: everybody in manage at the garden. I go, so, what

1680
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 1: did the money I gave you come with? That's the

1681
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: first thing I say, and they go, well, it comes

1682
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 1: with this, it comes with that. And I'm like, I

1683
01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 1: just got one question. In that money I gave you,

1684
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:36,879
Speaker 1: am I paying for security? And they go yeah.

1685
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 3: So I say, oh, so this dude that's being an

1686
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 3: asshole to me and his staff are getting paid by me,

1687
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:46,480
Speaker 3: So I'm paying people.

1688
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:47,719
Speaker 1: To treat me like shit.

1689
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 3: And I go well, I'm like, look at the guys,

1690
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:54,600
Speaker 3: and I'm like, you harassed me, and I'm helping you

1691
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 3: feed your family, like I'm paying for you to be here.

1692
01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 3: And I was like, I want an apology, that's right,

1693
01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:04,160
Speaker 3: And I was like, I'm not fucking apologize when nothing.

1694
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:04,720
Speaker 2: I said, Yo, we.

1695
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:08,559
Speaker 1: We're gonna do one of two things. I'm gonna argue

1696
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:10,840
Speaker 1: with y'all. I don't have none of these going back

1697
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 1: and forth.

1698
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:20,760
Speaker 3: I go, either they apologize, ah, they go, oh, and

1699
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:23,360
Speaker 3: you relieve them, because what I'm not gonna do is

1700
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 3: pay a whole staff to treat me like shit, or

1701
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:28,840
Speaker 3: because this is your reader, I'm gonna go out there

1702
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 3: and I'm gona we're gonna cancel this show, and I'm

1703
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 3: going to tell every single person hows treated.

1704
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:37,719
Speaker 1: Then you go, you're not gonna fucking cancel the show.

1705
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 1: It's got twenty some thousand people out there. I was like,

1706
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 1: what you don't realize is those twenty two thousand people.

1707
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:51,639
Speaker 2: Came to see me. I brought them here, that's right,

1708
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 2: and I did it in three weeks.

1709
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:57,360
Speaker 3: You don't think I can walk out there, give everybody

1710
01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 3: free T shirts and tell them to meet me at

1711
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 3: the Barclay Center next week.

1712
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 2: Mm hmm hmm. And then they laugh and I go, okay, Nick,

1713
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 2: put your ship on, let's go, Gorilla, let's go. Let's

1714
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 2: all get in the car.

1715
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 1: Go.

1716
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:13,799
Speaker 3: I explain it to y'all later, and every single entertainer

1717
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 3: gets in their suv and starts to.

1718
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 2: M hm hmmm, and there go okay, go home, do

1719
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:25,439
Speaker 2: you show?

1720
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, send the security home. I'd have relieved them a

1721
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 1: sad time to go. Ain't no waycause I'm not gonna

1722
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:36,679
Speaker 1: let someone dictate that's right.

1723
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 3: Treat me like ship number one, tell me who in

1724
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 3: my community, because I didn't.

1725
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 2: Have any contract that you could dictate who I bring.

1726
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:45,040
Speaker 2: That's right.

1727
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,280
Speaker 1: Bobby Murder went on killed it. Everybody had a good time,

1728
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:51,880
Speaker 1: that's right. Shout out Bobby Schmurder. Man, and we played

1729
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 1: the garden right, that's right man. That you can't that's how.

1730
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:57,720
Speaker 1: And we was respectful, and that's how you earn the

1731
01:11:57,800 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: respect of those two like you know what I mean,

1732
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: can't I'm paying your staff. You treat me like shit,

1733
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to just be like, okay, that's cool.

1734
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 2: You know who I am. Now, we're good. Hell no,

1735
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 2: everybody go home, man.

1736
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: And that's why I say when you said camaraderie has

1737
01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: a team, I said all that to be like, that's.

1738
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:14,839
Speaker 2: Right, the team man, to stay together.

1739
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:16,799
Speaker 1: Man, we leave together.

1740
01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:18,439
Speaker 2: I didn't even have to explain what was happening.

1741
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:21,200
Speaker 1: I was just because everybody with you, and that's how

1742
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:23,960
Speaker 1: it's supposed to go. We come together, we leave together, man,

1743
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 1: Even though that just sounded like some Torretto fast and

1744
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 1: the Furious shit.

1745
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 2: One sound, we die together.

1746
01:12:35,680 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: But so what's next you know what I mean outside

1747
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: of I know you're dealing with you know, personal things

1748
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:46,560
Speaker 1: in the life side. But what's next for RIP in

1749
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:50,679
Speaker 1: the entertainment world. What can people be expecting next besides

1750
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:53,320
Speaker 1: the Eightpril fourth Comedy Jam at the Barkley Center. Make

1751
01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 1: sure you beat him there, don't meet him there, and

1752
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:56,720
Speaker 1: if you're outside, he might let you in.

1753
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 3: First of all, my tickets started, so I keep my ticket. Man,

1754
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:05,720
Speaker 3: When do you go see something for thirty dollars?

1755
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:07,840
Speaker 1: Nothing cost thirty a bagup, but take the tips is

1756
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,120
Speaker 1: thirty dollars now, so you better get your ass in there.

1757
01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:11,960
Speaker 3: Then thirty dollars already gonna give you a bag with

1758
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:13,639
Speaker 3: nothing but airing it. And it's like ten dollars worth

1759
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:16,759
Speaker 3: of chips. You don't got that gen you squeeze.

1760
01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 1: You used to be the top. It's all air.

1761
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:21,599
Speaker 3: Now it's all air, crabs all air. So now you're

1762
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:23,719
Speaker 3: you're looking at the different things. So now I'm taking

1763
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 3: into another space. I'm taking into like I've shot three specials,

1764
01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:30,599
Speaker 3: I got two more specials coming out. I'm showing people

1765
01:13:30,600 --> 01:13:33,120
Speaker 3: the elevation. So now I'm stepping more from behind the scenes,

1766
01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 3: like no one whatever I would never speak like this.

1767
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:36,799
Speaker 3: I was always the person that you didn't even realize

1768
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 3: it was me who had a show. I used to

1769
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 3: put people in front of me just to stand there

1770
01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:41,800
Speaker 3: and be like, oh, that's the guy in charge, just

1771
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:44,720
Speaker 3: because I didn't want people to need to that.

1772
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 1: That was never my goal. So now I got to

1773
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 1: take a chance at life. So I'm going to produce

1774
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:52,280
Speaker 1: some great stuff. I got the Specials. I got a

1775
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 1: podcast with my wife called Connor Sor to Marry. I

1776
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 1: got a show that me and Erica Mien are doing.

1777
01:13:57,439 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 1: I got two different movies with fifty one twenty that

1778
01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 1: were producing. And I'm starting to constantly, constantly just come

1779
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 1: up with content. And I got like five different tours

1780
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 1: coming out. So now it's not only just the wild

1781
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,519
Speaker 1: Out tours. So April Fool's Comedy Jam, it's just Fooling

1782
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:10,720
Speaker 1: Comedy Jam. It's the wild It's the One Wild Night,

1783
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:12,559
Speaker 1: which is a little festival. We're stepping in the festival

1784
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:14,720
Speaker 1: space and that's happened in September fifth in Atlanta, and

1785
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,599
Speaker 1: we're doing sixty thousand people at the festival and I'm

1786
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: taking every rapper and every every comedian that I know

1787
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 1: and put them on one huge festival, and I'm making

1788
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:22,840
Speaker 1: it for all ages. I want everybody to be able

1789
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:25,599
Speaker 1: to come and have a great time and show that

1790
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 1: you don't you don't have to go over here and

1791
01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 1: pay all this money.

1792
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 3: And then for our talent and our creativity and what

1793
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:31,760
Speaker 3: we do that we can do these numbers and we

1794
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 3: can do this and change things. So the life I

1795
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 3: got left, that's what we're doing. So you're gonna see

1796
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:37,880
Speaker 3: one Wild Night. You're gonna see the Off the Rip,

1797
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 3: you gonna see the crowd Work Special, another special I'm

1798
01:14:40,320 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 3: shooting at the Apollo. You about to say the Air

1799
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 3: Committed Project. You about to see the new Wild Out Tour.

1800
01:14:44,520 --> 01:14:46,640
Speaker 3: About to see fall Back and Love Tour like you know,

1801
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 3: Tiya might even come back and do.

1802
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:53,120
Speaker 1: To y'all got a hot record. He might be on

1803
01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:56,439
Speaker 1: tour for another. That was the Barkler for That was

1804
01:14:56,439 --> 01:14:58,760
Speaker 1: the nigga said when they booed Toy because he called

1805
01:14:58,760 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: me out.

1806
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 3: I'm wantly saying that because he went on nineteen different

1807
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 3: podcasts and said rip st me able to get booed

1808
01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 3: and I did not.

1809
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:06,040
Speaker 2: I just want to clear that I did not do that.

1810
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:08,400
Speaker 3: He said people didn't know he was doing music, and

1811
01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 3: he was like, oh, they thought they was gonna sing.

1812
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 1: They know, they knew he was doing comedy.

1813
01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 2: They listened.

1814
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 1: It just wasn't that night. And that's just what it is.

1815
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm only saying it because it happens to all of

1816
01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 1: us t T.

1817
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 3: But it happens to every single comedian. We all get booed.

1818
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 3: It just any given Sunday, everybody. I got booed as

1819
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 3: a rapper. I wasn't even a community a comedian and

1820
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 3: got booed. So it happens all of us.

1821
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:33,600
Speaker 1: The boo happens, and it makes sure don't happens the

1822
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:35,640
Speaker 1: youth practice. And if you want to come back to

1823
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:37,960
Speaker 1: ya and do it again, I got that same bag

1824
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: of game seet last time.

1825
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:40,400
Speaker 2: We would love to see you in Brooklyn.

1826
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 1: That's right, April Fool's Comedy Jam to return the Tiayo.

1827
01:15:44,439 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 1: I appreciate you pulling up my guy, and I wish

1828
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: you many many more years of life, success, blessings, health,

1829
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 1: and I pray that you get that heart transplant you're

1830
01:15:55,880 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 1: desperately waiting for.

1831
01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 3: Man, you know what I'm saying, I'm gonna holler some

1832
01:15:58,760 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 3: of your boys. I could tell her by the way

1833
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 3: looking at me like, we got you ripped forty grand

1834
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 3: I meet you now.

1835
01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 2: I can just tell they was like, oh, we got

1836
01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:06,679
Speaker 2: the bag. We were gonna make that happening.

1837
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:10,759
Speaker 1: You're gonna live from Lee Avenue Club, the Lee Avenue Plug,

1838
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,639
Speaker 1: come highlight for your crew.

1839
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 3: Then I could definitely know I'm gonna go after the

1840
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:17,960
Speaker 3: bark lay and get the check. I'm coming back here,

1841
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 3: Joe Chill. I'm buying hearts and Chrome Heart jeans.

1842
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 1: Yo. You know what it is, y'all. It's rock solid podcast.

1843
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: It's Rip Michael's hair and we holding it down. Man.

1844
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: Do say for life, Rock for life, Stay silent, stay true. Yeah.

1845
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:41,840
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1846
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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows

1847
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:47,679
Speaker 1: at And you can follow me on any social media

1848
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:51,240
Speaker 1: platform under the name Memphis Bleak. You see anybody fraud

1849
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:52,200
Speaker 1: and flagging