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Speaker 1: of Rock Solid, and this time I got somebody special
Speaker 1: with me. Man one of the funniest comedians you've seen
Speaker 1: on TV. Been in many, many shows from MSG, NBC,
Speaker 1: Carson Daily Man.
Speaker 2: This man has been.
Speaker 1: All over TV, Man The Wilding Out. I let him
Speaker 1: tell you for itself. We got rip Michaels in the building, man,
Speaker 1: and it's a pleasure to have.
Speaker 3: Thank you first of all, huge fan man, thank you
Speaker 3: you chopping up a lot doing Man Studios, fire your
Speaker 3: whole staff.
Speaker 1: Treat appreciate it.
Speaker 2: If you don't, you haven't been on it. You need
Speaker 2: to come on it.
Speaker 1: Because the Dope Platform, Dope podcast, they gotta be solid.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: It's saying it's everybody can't sit on this couch because
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys they're not solid. They veil
Speaker 1: off the track of being solid. So everybody is we
Speaker 1: welcome everybody, but.
Speaker 2: Not every Oh it's exclusive, Yes, it's not for I
Speaker 2: got you.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, definitely being from the ship man, you from
Speaker 1: one of my favorite cities, the Chicago Man, the land
Speaker 1: of No BBL is all natural. Yes, that is definitely true.
Speaker 1: I ain't learned that until I went. It was what
Speaker 1: the fuck they got in the water out here? It
Speaker 1: was like, goddamn, I might have to move to the shot.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, being from the shot coming up as
Speaker 1: a comedian yet ever, like, what was that like for
Speaker 1: you in the beginning?
Speaker 3: So the beginning for me was weird because I started
Speaker 3: comedy when I was about twelve thirteen years old. So
Speaker 3: like a lot of comedians you've seen now, like the
Speaker 3: d Rays and the Corey Hocoms and and that Bill
Speaker 3: Bellamans and Damon Williams, like I was the kid that
Speaker 3: they wouldn't even let in the club, in the Cotton Club,
Speaker 3: they I would have to stand outside, and then when
Speaker 3: it was my turn to go on stage, they made
Speaker 3: me go back outside. And yeah, and it's a weird
Speaker 3: thing to get into it because my dad's it was
Speaker 3: my aunty.
Speaker 2: I called an aunty jockey.
Speaker 3: So that was my aunty, my aunty jockey, the one
Speaker 3: it took me around and showed me what was going
Speaker 3: on in Chicago fort me sing. But I found out
Speaker 3: later on that wasn't my aunty yo my dad. That
Speaker 3: was my dad's girlfriends, what we call it aunty jobs.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I didn't know that till my
Speaker 2: one dad came home.
Speaker 1: My mom was like, that, ain't your goddamnunty, this is
Speaker 1: your daddy girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Go outside. Your uncle Charles's gonna take you to the zoo.
Speaker 1: So that stop right then and there, Yeah, is real
Speaker 1: with your fake relative.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I didn't I had no idea
Speaker 2: back in the day. That was creeping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just had a fake uncle, fake aunty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yo, this is.
Speaker 1: My is my cousin from your your your dad's side,
Speaker 1: Like what yeah?
Speaker 2: That was that was that generation and I didn't know
Speaker 2: any better than that.
Speaker 3: But hey, my parents been together with forty three years
Speaker 3: and they was cheating on each other for forty years.
Speaker 3: But they still together, so don't judge that. So they
Speaker 3: don't judge my parents. They still together. That's right to
Speaker 3: this day. My parents been together so long. They got
Speaker 3: the same voice. Yoh, yeah, that's when you know.
Speaker 1: That's when you know you've been together.
Speaker 2: Like, hey, mama, na is your daddy? Hey daddy, y'all
Speaker 2: is your mom? They got the same And I love
Speaker 2: my parents big shutout to them.
Speaker 1: So like, you know, Chicago, I feel like the three
Speaker 1: roughest cities to perform. Man, what a field of performing
Speaker 1: you're in that's the toughest is New York, Philadelphia, Chicago?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like the shot don't play, just like New York and Philly,
Speaker 1: don't play what was performing there and getting the reaction
Speaker 1: from the crowd in your hometown.
Speaker 2: First, teach you about being the comedian.
Speaker 3: They taught me a lot man because you know, like
Speaker 3: I was, I was a kid at the time. So
Speaker 3: watching Dion Cole and watching him, like I remember watching
Speaker 3: running about Deon Cole the very first time I did shot.
Speaker 3: I think it was in Gary, Indiana with him and
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, it was when def Jam came out.
Speaker 3: So def Jam for me was like the NBA for
Speaker 3: like people who want to play basketball.
Speaker 2: Russ. Russ put a lot.
Speaker 3: Of watching that and then seeing Dion cold me like
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks later and was like, Yo, man,
Speaker 3: you a celebrity.
Speaker 2: Man, God damn celebrity. I came on an L train.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I got seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: It was different and and introducting into the into the scene.
Speaker 3: But comedy has always been like Chicago. That was back
Speaker 3: in the era where you could boo people like now
Speaker 3: no one really.
Speaker 1: Gets booed a heck o. That was in the era
Speaker 1: you go boopy, Yeah that was an eff because now
Speaker 1: it's edited out. I believe a lot of these things
Speaker 1: is controlled. It's not live performances. Yeah, But back in
Speaker 1: the day, like you know, I cut my teeth in Chicago,
Speaker 1: but you know, big shot of New York.
Speaker 2: You know I came from.
Speaker 3: That's when I got my real I would say, really
Speaker 3: taking it seriously. After I graduated college, I came to
Speaker 3: New York and like I came to New York, I
Speaker 3: was homeless on the streets and I was like, if
Speaker 3: it's if it's comedy thing, it's gonna mean anything. Because
Speaker 3: Dave Chapelle told me that. Dave Seapelle was like, if
Speaker 3: you ever want to find out if you really got
Speaker 3: what it takes, you'll go to New York.
Speaker 1: And that was when he had the movie Blue Streak out,
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, I never been here.
Speaker 1: Got off the Greyhound bus.
Speaker 3: My daddy's girlfriend had died then, so I couldn't call her.
Speaker 1: Artie passed away the rest of peace. It's a different
Speaker 1: thing when the side chick died so different and listen
Speaker 1: to stories. So it was like, I'll make up an
Speaker 1: here this ship my dad. WHILEY watched, he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, so damn that's great.
Speaker 3: But my mama boyfriend did too, so he gone. So
Speaker 3: now you know, now it's really really committed. So now
Speaker 3: it's all about them. But I came to New York
Speaker 3: and I got off the Great Home Bus. I ain't
Speaker 3: no shit about it at all. I ain't know nothing
Speaker 3: about New York. So I got off the Great Houmebus
Speaker 3: and I was like, I'm gonna do comedy here. And
Speaker 3: I started walking around and people's giving out flyer in
Speaker 3: Times Square, and that's kind of why I got cut
Speaker 3: my teeth in. But I would say New York gives
Speaker 3: you that that era of you know, because I used
Speaker 3: to do comedy anyway.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about squads. I'm talking about the Adam.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about you name it, Bushit, I'm talking about Queens.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about forty projects.
Speaker 1: I'm on Baisley.
Speaker 3: I went anywhere that would actually Yeah, I did Mahattan proper,
Speaker 3: I did all of those things. I got a chance
Speaker 3: to do Peppermint a couple times in New Jersey and
Speaker 3: it was just the era where they didn't like you,
Speaker 3: they would move the hell out of you. And I
Speaker 3: used to do this Jamaican spot I did. It's called
Speaker 3: Footprints and Clarity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we know footprints. You're from Brooklyn, you know footprints.
Speaker 2: They would throw shit at people. They would throw pepper
Speaker 2: pot and sword fish and ickya all. They didn't give
Speaker 2: a damn. That was that era when you.
Speaker 1: Know the crowd is tough. Yes, yes, that's the one
Speaker 1: of the toughest crowds too. They don't play that ship.
Speaker 3: But I didn't know that because you know, in New York,
Speaker 3: I mean in Chicago and growing up in the Midwest,
Speaker 3: you don't know that it's different. You just look at
Speaker 3: black people like they black people like what brought Like, Yo,
Speaker 3: you mean browed up?
Speaker 1: Bro?
Speaker 2: Your brother? I know, brother, are you that's ship?
Speaker 1: Where you're from?
Speaker 2: Jamaina Like, no, I'm Haitian, I'm I'm this.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm Beijing, I'm Guyanese, I'm Guyanese. And if
Speaker 1: you get it wrong, it's just like that with the
Speaker 1: Latin community. They take that shit real serious. They do,
Speaker 1: even the Asians, and we fuck them all up. We
Speaker 1: don't know our word up as black people. Still, I
Speaker 1: still look at certain Jamaine like, Yo, you're from hate nigga, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm from fucking Ghya, Like you're from Africa, Nigga? Like
Speaker 1: what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Like word like, I still fuck it up? So I
Speaker 2: feel you on that. How was it working with Carson Daly?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: I know that had to be an experience in itself.
Speaker 3: So when I got into the comedy thing, I started
Speaker 3: saying to myself, like, you know what, I gotta get
Speaker 3: credits because I started noticing.
Speaker 2: That that they wouldn't put you up unless you had credits.
Speaker 3: Like I was doing all these open mics, and I
Speaker 3: couldn't take my career to the next level. So I
Speaker 3: start already doing warm up for a big shout out
Speaker 3: to see the millions. I was like the first person
Speaker 3: to ever be like, look, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna look out for you. And I used to
Speaker 3: do because I did a show called Becoming It's wanna
Speaker 3: beas I remember.
Speaker 2: I remember that back in the day.
Speaker 3: I was like, if you if you could, it was
Speaker 3: like a contest and you got to be whatever rapper
Speaker 3: you want and they make you a video or whatever whatever.
Speaker 3: And I did that and believe it or not, I
Speaker 3: was Jah Rule on the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was what would that be without you?
Speaker 1: I did such a good job order that fifty cent
Speaker 1: hey to be back here. I'm joking, let me stop,
Speaker 1: because fifty cent is pag yo yo. He just was
Speaker 1: on my yo.
Speaker 3: He petted like I actually did show a fifty cent.
Speaker 3: He had a comedy show called fifty Central on BT
Speaker 3: and I fell off the stage because like a faulty.
Speaker 1: Thing like a beam.
Speaker 3: And I could tell that wasn't gonna get paid because
Speaker 3: the fifty cent came over and he looked at the
Speaker 3: beam and looked at me, and I was like this,
Speaker 3: and I was like, okay, you know what, I'm just.
Speaker 1: Gonna take a gu and the T shirt.
Speaker 2: Yo, shit, you know, like you're gonna pay.
Speaker 1: You on some bullshit. He's shooting that a but he
Speaker 1: got mad drama, right? What smokey for? What is smoky?
Speaker 1: Anybody dropping versus raps memes is mean walls. He even
Speaker 1: put me in the mean war like nigga, what I said,
Speaker 1: I ain't got no record about you.
Speaker 2: Hoe me chill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm petty fifty.
Speaker 3: That's a fact, yo. But God, Christine Milly y'ard, look
Speaker 3: that's dope. You put me in and out to ask
Speaker 3: you a question about Carson Daily. Like I started doing
Speaker 3: Woman for every single MTV show. I started doing Woman
Speaker 3: for TRL. I started doing Woman for every single thing,
Speaker 3: one or six parts. I was the official, like the
Speaker 3: crowd got it to just beforehand to get in this
Speaker 3: shit beach house all that. So and then Carson was like,
Speaker 3: you know what, because I was a woman guy for him,
Speaker 3: he put me on his late night show it called
Speaker 3: Late Night with Carson Daily, a whole bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 3: So big shout out to whole MTV team because it's
Speaker 3: funny because I used to sleep outside of fifteen fifty Broadway,
Speaker 3: like you know what I'm saying right outside, I used
Speaker 3: to look up at the window, was like, one day I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna be on MTV. I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna beat this person.
Speaker 3: So I started by just making people in the line
Speaker 3: laugh how they was going up to the building and I.
Speaker 1: Was to start cracking joke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I started cracking jokes and the producers saw
Speaker 3: me and it was like, you know what, won't you
Speaker 3: come upstairs? And it started from that whole thing, and
Speaker 3: just you know, transcending to meet Christina and doing the
Speaker 3: jo Rule thing and just snowballing to be on Comic
Speaker 3: View and Bad Boys of Comedy and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Just kind of moved on that thing, and she even
Speaker 3: put me in a movie Lotton cost of thing, So
Speaker 3: big shout out to her and a Mom, Mama, Mileian.
Speaker 1: That's dope. I didn't even know you was in loved
Speaker 1: on Cours, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. And Nick Kennon was
Speaker 1: in that, moving, moving, grooving Yeah, shout out my dog
Speaker 1: Nick Man. Then that so that obviously being in the
Speaker 1: MTV I feel like system, that's the segue in the
Speaker 1: wild now or did you meet Nick on a separate
Speaker 1: occasion and the wild and out position happened.
Speaker 3: I met Nick for the first time at Lotto cost
Speaker 3: thing and that was when I guess, you know, while
Speaker 3: I wasn't out yet, it was.
Speaker 1: Just like a concept. And I remember Spanky Hayes. Spanky Hayes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Spanky Hayes on he was telling me that
Speaker 3: he's like, yo, we're about to shoot this thing for MTV.
Speaker 3: But I when I came to New York, a lot
Speaker 3: of people know I was a safe father. So the
Speaker 3: whole time I was homeless, I was with my daughter.
Speaker 3: I had focustody in my daughter since she was two
Speaker 3: years old, and she was with me every single step
Speaker 3: of the way. So when that opportunity came, I couldn't
Speaker 3: take it. I couldn't do it. I couldn't go out
Speaker 3: to audition because it's just me and my daughter. I
Speaker 3: couldn't just you know, go to LA for the time
Speaker 3: because so right after I just the movie, I came
Speaker 3: right back home and I was just like, damn. I
Speaker 3: felt I always felt like I missed that opportunity. But
Speaker 3: you know, Nigga into Mary Mariah and they brought it
Speaker 3: to New York and I was like, ah, I'm good now.
Speaker 3: So I was like, it's here. And I remember going
Speaker 3: to the to the first season where they brought it
Speaker 3: back and Spankey was like, yo, man, come through and
Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna look out for you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna introduce you and bring you in here.
Speaker 3: And the funniest thing Spanky forgot to leave my name
Speaker 3: at the door, or he didn't leave my name of
Speaker 3: the door. So I'm standing there, I'm like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: on Spanky's list, and it was like spank ain't gonna
Speaker 3: damn list. Yeah, And I'm like, oh, I'm calling my
Speaker 3: nigga and hen not adding the phone.
Speaker 2: It's just like I was like, oh, New York ship.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of old stories up here.
Speaker 3: But God always be on my side because the direct
Speaker 3: was like one of the people that see pay. He
Speaker 3: was one of the people that that directed TRL. So
Speaker 3: he told me, he's like, rap, what are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Like you doing a woman for the show. And I
Speaker 3: was like no, I was trying to get in and
Speaker 3: then speaking to leave my name. He's like, come on
Speaker 3: in and and then I got that. And then you know,
Speaker 3: I used to you know, help and assist Shante and
Speaker 3: shte Wayne started looking out. He started I started helping
Speaker 3: other people in the big shot of Jack Thriller. Jack
Speaker 3: Thriller really helped me get in. Yeah, Jack Thriller and
Speaker 3: really helped me get in to start doing the warm
Speaker 3: up and stuff like that. So I had to start
Speaker 3: as the warm up coming even for that show. So
Speaker 3: I started backing the same thing thing I was gonna
Speaker 3: get on, but I didn't. I was the woman for
Speaker 3: so long for that show. And then one day, I
Speaker 3: believe a comedy man the name of Jimmy Martinez came.
Speaker 3: He's like, yo, man, they have an auditions, and I'm
Speaker 3: mind you, I'm the woman guy, and even know they
Speaker 3: have an audition. I'm doing a woman for like two years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he get the information. He had an agent. This
Speaker 2: is me freelancing the whole damn time.
Speaker 1: So I'm out here like trying to just figure out
Speaker 1: how to maneuver myself through it because I'm like bam.
Speaker 3: And so then I'm doing a Woman. Jimmy's like, they're
Speaker 3: gonna have auditions tomorrow. You should start asking about it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to get you in and get you
Speaker 3: on too, because I'm auditioning.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I bet.
Speaker 3: And so then I started doing a warm up and
Speaker 3: I forgot her name, but she was one of the
Speaker 3: producers on it. She was like, rip, I'm gonna try
Speaker 3: to get you an audition because what happens when I
Speaker 3: used to do warm up.
Speaker 2: I used to make the crowd so hysterically laughing.
Speaker 3: And the energy, so they would use my stand up
Speaker 3: part of me doing stand up before the show, and
Speaker 3: they would bank it and they would turn the cameras
Speaker 3: on because normally when you do woman, they turn the
Speaker 3: cameras off they go take lunch. So they started filming
Speaker 3: the crowd when I would do warm up and taking
Speaker 3: those those laughs and those bits and adding them to
Speaker 3: the show. So I would sometimes you watch it show
Speaker 3: you be like they h sterically laughing. That would probably
Speaker 3: be when I was doing warm up, so there.
Speaker 1: Was In other words, they was cappin. They was using
Speaker 1: your your action for somebody else jokes that wasn't slapping.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's cappin.
Speaker 3: I think that's just part of production because normally you
Speaker 3: bank those things. Normally you have a person go out
Speaker 3: and you bank them and you be like fake las,
Speaker 3: fake clap, fake this, fake.
Speaker 2: Sons up back and yeah, everybody make noise.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So instead of of them shows like that, they would
Speaker 3: just take my stand up and we would go straight
Speaker 3: in and it would just keep me up there and
Speaker 3: they start filming it. So and then it was like
Speaker 3: eventually it was like, you know what, let's give him
Speaker 3: an audition, Let's give him a shot.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like while' now, I feel like created
Speaker 1: a lot of jobs in the black community, black comic
Speaker 1: community for us. Like you had shows like Deaf Comedy Jam,
Speaker 1: you had Bad Boys of Comedy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You had all those shows and then a lot of these,
Speaker 1: you know, comedians went on to do television. And now
Speaker 1: when you look at television, you don't see no more,
Speaker 1: not even just from comedians actors period. There's no more
Speaker 1: real television shows or even shows for our community. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like that's something that's missing that you want
Speaker 1: to contribute or create more? A thousand percent That era
Speaker 1: was dope man, super domed bro Man. With the era
Speaker 1: of Martin different words, show the world all everything and
Speaker 1: just show excellence and in living color.
Speaker 2: That was just the gods by showing the show, show.
Speaker 1: The different levels, all that stuff, all of that man,
Speaker 1: show different levels of our community.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. Now it's just ignorance that
Speaker 2: represents us.
Speaker 1: So I definitely feel it's a it's a lost art
Speaker 1: that's missing in television.
Speaker 2: With us, for sure, we always got loos and to.
Speaker 1: You, you got a red shirt, come back die it's
Speaker 1: a blue shirt. You know what happens now? You got it?
Speaker 2: You got a shout out to me. I love what
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 1: They do actually give you a shot. They don't even
Speaker 1: care if it whatever. They actually give people a shot.
Speaker 1: And that's what's dope about it, because all you could
Speaker 1: do is try, man, you know what I mean, get better,
Speaker 1: like to get better at something. I always felt like
Speaker 1: you had to fail before. You don't just start off great.
Speaker 1: I agree with that, you know what I mean, Failure
Speaker 1: breeds greatness and a lot of failure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot. I got booed a lot, a lot.
Speaker 1: Hot boot one time.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: I swear, and I swear remember the Southwest commercial their
Speaker 1: staff and they be like you want to get away
Speaker 1: and they put the Southwest commerciery like you gotta yo, Bro.
Speaker 1: I had one of those moments in Baltimore. This is
Speaker 1: being from New York not realizing there's a thin line
Speaker 1: between Baltimore and DC, and I'm over there like, yeah,
Speaker 1: peace in love DC. The niggas like boo who damn yo, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm standing like what I did.
Speaker 2: Y'all just was rocking with me through the whole show. Niggas,
Speaker 2: we don't care.
Speaker 1: Bull this's a VC they got Damn that DNV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not the DMV that's bought. There's be more, yo.
Speaker 2: I swear.
Speaker 1: I learned the hardway, so I know about a bull
Speaker 1: or too, you know what I mean? Like yo, Like
Speaker 1: being from Chicago, you know, Chicago produced many legends from
Speaker 1: the comedian side, from the music side. Did you get
Speaker 1: any inspiration from any of those guys on to come up?
Speaker 1: You started young though, so, oh my god, yes, of course,
Speaker 1: man Idols, come on, Bernie Mac come, Yes, Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Come on that like that to me was like like
Speaker 1: the idol Yese Bernie mac legend.
Speaker 2: And then you look at the d Rays like everybody
Speaker 2: when you come to New York.
Speaker 1: You look at all the great comedians that come from
Speaker 1: New York, like Eddie Murphy's from here. You look at
Speaker 1: Chris Rock, you look.
Speaker 3: It's just been a plethora of black excellence, man like,
Speaker 3: and just to be a part of that. Even the
Speaker 3: people I work with now, And it's funny because I
Speaker 3: get to call them peers now, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 3: I got a show like even April Fools it's me,
Speaker 3: Michael Blaxton, Bill Bellamy. So just doing on the same
Speaker 3: Marlin and being on the same show.
Speaker 2: That's dope, man.
Speaker 1: Y'all gonna be in the Barclays man shot that out, man,
Speaker 1: let them know. I's going to create April Fool's Day
Speaker 1: the Barclays Brooklyn is going down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just it's just a dope thing that I've
Speaker 3: been doing for Honestly, it's funny because you speak about
Speaker 3: black excellence. That's the show I've been doing for about
Speaker 3: fifteen years now. And it was just the concept of
Speaker 3: me like looking to Like when I started my career,
Speaker 3: I wanted to go here, right. So when I start
Speaker 3: doing all these rooms, a friend of mine named Rashie passed.
Speaker 1: Awy, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I remember Rashie. If you ever seen The Bad Boys
Speaker 3: of Comedy. He was the one that had Uncle Dope
Speaker 3: and he was like or Poppy ain't no snitch.
Speaker 1: Or he was like, he was like, I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta go back up. Yeah, and I probably remember the joke,
Speaker 1: but not the face.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he passed away, and that when he passed away,
Speaker 3: a lot of people tried to host his rooms because
Speaker 3: I had a lot of rooms, and at one point,
Speaker 3: when it came to comedy in New York, you couldn't
Speaker 3: come to New York whatever calling me because from Monday
Speaker 3: all the way to Sunday, I had two rooms a night.
Speaker 3: And then when he passed away his room, I ended
Speaker 3: up doing his rooms too because they were gonna disappear.
Speaker 3: And his brother in law was like, hey, man, Rip,
Speaker 3: they're gonna take these rooms away.
Speaker 1: Would you mind hosting it?
Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, I'll host it, but when
Speaker 3: I'm hosting it, I need you to whatever.
Speaker 2: I think the budget was like eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: I was like, take the majority of the budget. Take
Speaker 3: six hundred, give me two, and you give that to
Speaker 3: his daughters and his family so I can keep that going.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take two.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get a comedian a hunting and the rest
Speaker 3: of y'all just divvy that up and do whatever y'all
Speaker 3: want with that. And it's like, seriously, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not we gotta keep this going because you know,
Speaker 3: he had a heart attack at such a young age.
Speaker 3: He was on his way, bro, Like he was really
Speaker 3: really on his way.
Speaker 1: Wow, man, damn bringing that up. Sorry to hear about it. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you sitting here a healthy stroug Man. You
Speaker 1: know you suffered the heart attack. Yes, Sam, Man, it's
Speaker 1: just you never know, man. And I set all that
Speaker 1: to be like, you know, back then, I set up
Speaker 1: this April Fools comedy jam, and I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I stopped elevating my career because I started going.
Speaker 2: Like, you know what, I'm gonna bring us all up.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show what we can do when we come
Speaker 2: together conectively.
Speaker 3: And that's what the Aple Fools was. And I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, cool. I'm gonna take me you and let's
Speaker 3: go sell out the Barklay Center. Everybody thought I was crazy.
Speaker 3: It was like, You're gonna sell out the Barclay Center
Speaker 3: with a whole bunch of comedians and together we may
Speaker 3: do like three hundred people. And I was like, nah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make it something dope. And when I did that,
Speaker 3: like I have mad rapper friends, I was like, you
Speaker 3: know what, I'm gonna put you in. I got you,
Speaker 3: We're gonna do you and you, and I made it
Speaker 3: all about all the people I know. So that's how
Speaker 3: the April Fool's Comedy Jam came about, and it.
Speaker 2: Became this big thing where you got people.
Speaker 3: That would never normally be in an arena doing sixteen
Speaker 3: thousand people like we do shows in a round. And
Speaker 3: it's just been that cultivating thing like that which April
Speaker 3: Food and if you fast forward, I own the Fall
Speaker 3: Back in Love. And that's when I take all the
Speaker 3: R and B stars that people thought they forgot about,
Speaker 3: like I put Brandy on when she had been doing
Speaker 3: a song in ten years, and Trade when he had
Speaker 3: a court case every week, he still got a court
Speaker 3: case every week.
Speaker 1: And that's my dog man shout out trace. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the big homeo man. They're like Mario and like, if
Speaker 1: you look at all of these people, I was like, we're.
Speaker 2: Coming out of this club thing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be big.
Speaker 3: And I started this whole R and B bring back older,
Speaker 3: older R and B artists that are now just probably
Speaker 3: doing clubs and like. And so if you look at
Speaker 3: April Fools, that's me and comedians and hip hop artists.
Speaker 3: And if you look at fall Back in Love, that's
Speaker 3: comedians and R and B artists. If you look at
Speaker 3: the Wild Out Tour, there's something also started the Wild Out.
Speaker 2: Tour in Queens and at Miszoura, a wall.
Speaker 3: Place started that. Yeah, come on, I did. That was
Speaker 3: fifteen hundred people in the room. I started that next thing.
Speaker 3: You know, I was number two on post Star and
Speaker 3: we're selling out arenas And that's a five years strong
Speaker 3: of doing nothing but sold out shows across the country.
Speaker 2: That's a blessing. Man.
Speaker 1: Looking back, do you credit the struggle years of your
Speaker 1: comedian career to the businessman you are today? Did those
Speaker 1: years you feel like carveew to the man and the
Speaker 1: businessman you are today to make those decisions to create
Speaker 1: all these new platforms to come together. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: I was thinking business at the time. I would say
Speaker 1: that I was thinking more like, let's change, let's change
Speaker 1: the perception of what we're doing.
Speaker 3: I wasn't even thinking of it as no financial like, oh,
Speaker 3: we don't kill them, We're gonna make a lot.
Speaker 1: It was more like we.
Speaker 3: Matter, Like we come together, we can, we can do
Speaker 3: these great things that people just just think that we can't,
Speaker 3: like honestly, like, I know you brought out the hard thing,
Speaker 3: but like, and that's why I'm doing this now, Like
Speaker 3: if you I was in the hospital and I hate
Speaker 3: to jump all over subjects, but I was in the
Speaker 3: hospit and you know, I had.
Speaker 1: A heart attack.
Speaker 3: I had a heart attack at State Farm Arena on
Speaker 3: the side of stage and eighteen thousand people there, and
Speaker 3: I'm just like, okay, and I've been and I'm still
Speaker 3: on a heart transplant.
Speaker 2: At least it's not over. Like my heart is.
Speaker 3: Still in nineteen percent and I'm sitting in the hospital
Speaker 3: band I was like, yo, if I ever get well enough,
Speaker 3: because it's not over.
Speaker 1: It's still a.
Speaker 3: Journey, Like today is a good day, but tomorrow maybe
Speaker 3: a bad day. But I promised myself that if I
Speaker 3: ever get a chance to do comedy again, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: make it mean something. I'm gonna push myself and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna push my brand. And because I realized that being
Speaker 3: in there, you start to realize, like who really is
Speaker 3: your friend, Who's business, who's.
Speaker 1: Not started to matter? You start to realize what really matters?
Speaker 3: Dude, I lost my health insurance, right and so I'm
Speaker 3: getting about to get kicked out the hospital. And I
Speaker 3: called every single person I knew to like, just put
Speaker 3: me in something, because I sack. So that's my assurance
Speaker 3: is sack. So it's like I'm calling everybody I know
Speaker 3: they got a movie or anything. I'm like, throw me
Speaker 3: in this, don't put me in this. And I parked
Speaker 3: the cars in the movie. I just need to make
Speaker 3: like ten grand on on sacks so I can keep
Speaker 3: my insurance, so I can stand in the hospital. And
Speaker 3: the fact that I couldn't get one person to do
Speaker 3: that for me, out of all the things I've done,
Speaker 3: was just a wake up call, A wake up call,
Speaker 3: A big shout out to you know, we in Jersey,
Speaker 3: big shout to Justina. She was doing a little independent
Speaker 3: movie and she was like, ill, rip, you could just
Speaker 3: play whatever, just come by.
Speaker 1: I got you.
Speaker 2: That's what's up, man, And it was like a.
Speaker 3: Person I would never think in a million years, like,
Speaker 3: come on, are you serious. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: know what Justina is, but like that's the girl with
Speaker 3: wine with the red hair. And she got the same
Speaker 3: face and ass as Gary Owens. Not no more, she
Speaker 3: got done. I tell all the times she get Gary as.
Speaker 3: She kind of looked like taught me from power in
Speaker 3: the face. But that's my girl. She always joke on me.
Speaker 3: But like she did that for me. No, man, that's
Speaker 3: a blessing man.
Speaker 1: And you know, like that's one thing and it's sad
Speaker 1: and it's fucked up because as having a good being
Speaker 1: a good person, you do so much for so many
Speaker 1: people that when it's your turn for people in return,
Speaker 1: there's no one never there. And that's one thing that
Speaker 1: I always you know, people always like, yo, what's some
Speaker 1: advice that Jay gave you that you take with you.
Speaker 1: Is that, yo, no one's coming to save us. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, We gotta save ourself. We the
Speaker 1: ones that when we save ourself, we in the position
Speaker 1: to save others. But no one's coming to save us.
Speaker 1: And that's something I always remember, like you gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta get it. And it's sad reality, but it is, man,
Speaker 1: that's the reality when when heartache and pain hits, is
Speaker 1: just you and your loved ones, A lot of friends go.
Speaker 1: I was, I was one hundred deep before you know,
Speaker 1: I mean my brother accident. After my brother accident. You
Speaker 1: see you see the room, it's five of us, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And that's just what it is.
Speaker 1: The main ones stay, and the ones who just was
Speaker 1: crowding on the boat they jump and it's cool. The
Speaker 1: boat's still gonna go. You're still doing your thing, blessed.
Speaker 1: And like you said April fourth, April Fool's Comedy Jam,
Speaker 1: you're selling out the Barclays. So I'm pretty sure a
Speaker 1: lot of people who jumped off the boat or didn't
Speaker 1: even throw you a life raft, begging you for a
Speaker 1: life raft.
Speaker 2: Now you know what I mean, you know what it is.
Speaker 3: I still won't change me. I still I didn't take
Speaker 3: that away. I didn't take that away, and I don't
Speaker 3: because what I do for people, I did it with
Speaker 3: no expectations. So I don't expect anybody to do anything
Speaker 3: for me, and I'm not mad or have an issue
Speaker 3: with anybody that don't. Just like I didn't do it
Speaker 3: for that. I did it to do and help and
Speaker 3: be there for others. And I'm gonna still be the
Speaker 3: same person. So these people are still my friends.
Speaker 1: I still call these people to this day, and I
Speaker 1: think that our relationship has got better.
Speaker 2: But now I understand that God got me here for
Speaker 2: a purpose, and I want to live in my purpose.
Speaker 3: And so now it's time to be like, okay, because
Speaker 3: no one knew that I did all these things. No
Speaker 3: one knew that I created the wound out tour in
Speaker 3: small place and fifteen hundred people in Amazura and Queens.
Speaker 2: I definitely and that shit started.
Speaker 3: Just because we was on the side of the stage
Speaker 3: and Nick was like, I was working on a special
Speaker 3: and I was right on the special, standing them the
Speaker 3: shoe and he was like, man, I wish that I
Speaker 3: could sell out arenas and he was Cat Williams. We
Speaker 3: want to go see Cat Williams and Ontario. And he
Speaker 3: was looking at Cat and He's like, yeah, I wish
Speaker 3: I could do arenas like this.
Speaker 1: And I was like, really, you put all these people on,
Speaker 1: you created the Cavs, you created, the Cats, you did
Speaker 1: the mics, you created all these people. Well this this
Speaker 1: is what you want to do.
Speaker 3: And I looked at I was like, yo, Nick, man,
Speaker 3: you changed my life by putting me on Wild's Out.
Speaker 1: Man, and you kept me on that show. And if
Speaker 1: this is what you want, I got you.
Speaker 2: Man. That's dope.
Speaker 1: I got you.
Speaker 3: I said, give me six months, and I promise you
Speaker 3: we're gonna do ten times more people that's in this room.
Speaker 2: That's dope, man. And he forgot.
Speaker 3: I booked him. I was like, we're gonna get his started.
Speaker 3: So I put I was like, hey, man, we're gonna
Speaker 3: do this little room in Queen and Nick forgot all
Speaker 3: about this shit. So I booked it and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, yo, man, Nick, we got the show all the thirty.
Speaker 1: He was like, what are you talking about? Oh the thirtie,
Speaker 1: what are you talking I.
Speaker 2: Said, Man, you told me back then that you had
Speaker 2: wanted to do.
Speaker 3: He was like, man, I got a show in Chicago
Speaker 3: and I can't do your show. And I was like, look, Nick,
Speaker 3: whatever they pay you in Chicago, I'm gonna give you Morening,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you more money they give you in Chicago.
Speaker 2: I need you to move that and do this. And
Speaker 2: he was like, you got.
Speaker 3: The money now, and I was like, no, I got now,
Speaker 3: but I promised you I got before you touch the stage,
Speaker 3: you'll have all of your money plus morening what you're
Speaker 3: supposed to get in Chicago. And I didn't know how
Speaker 3: at the time because I was giving out wild off
Speaker 3: flis and he was like, get out of here.
Speaker 1: As the kids showed, nobody want to see that.
Speaker 3: My daughter watched this show and everybody I thought they
Speaker 3: would be like, oh with it, because you know. And
Speaker 3: it turned out not only did I do one show,
Speaker 3: I did two shows at Atmosphere, and then we went
Speaker 3: out to Long Island and we did a Patchwock and Soundguarden.
Speaker 3: We did three and that show was so packed that
Speaker 3: the mayor and the police came and shut it down
Speaker 3: because I had six thousand people in line because there
Speaker 3: was no ticket.
Speaker 1: Bat six thousand people lining up the people yards, damn
Speaker 1: six thousand people show up. Yeah, the police showing up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: six hours hell going on over here.
Speaker 2: And it's a deeper long eye, so you know that's Patchworks.
Speaker 1: So they was just like, what what there' it's going
Speaker 1: on y'all got to get out of our yards so fast.
Speaker 3: And then I thought that would catapult it into something.
Speaker 3: But then they were like, this don't really matter.
Speaker 1: These numbers.
Speaker 3: The powers that be was like these numbers don't mean this,
Speaker 3: and this don't mean that. And I was like, you
Speaker 3: know what, So because I did it on this scale,
Speaker 3: this don't matter. So I took my cars and took
Speaker 3: everything I had on my bank accounts, and you've been
Speaker 3: turn that shit into an arena. So I went and
Speaker 3: booked like ten. I think it's thirteen arenas. Book thirteen
Speaker 3: arenas and they'll go history like after that, signed every
Speaker 3: single one of them. We was like, I was number
Speaker 3: two in the country on post it was Kelly Clarkston
Speaker 3: and it was me and it was wilding out. And
Speaker 3: to this day we still you speak about dcs. To
Speaker 3: this day, I still own the record for doing two
Speaker 3: arenas in one night. We did Show Palace, like twelve
Speaker 3: thousand people in there. We took an FBI escort to
Speaker 3: the Capitol one arena at the time, and we did
Speaker 3: seventeen thousand and five and when we had a seven
Speaker 3: o'clock show and a nine to thirty show and two
Speaker 3: arenas in the same night.
Speaker 2: That's dope, man.
Speaker 1: I had Nick up here, man, and I was just
Speaker 1: telling them, it's a blessing creating these shows and lasting
Speaker 1: what whil and now on they what twenty six seeds? Yo,
Speaker 1: bro y'all doing Simpson's numbers over there? Man, Like, realistically,
Speaker 1: that's Simpson numbers.
Speaker 2: You gotta look what Nick created.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Put the comedians out.
Speaker 3: Now, that's getting money come from that institution, like Matt Rife,
Speaker 3: Nate Jackson, eighty five South.
Speaker 1: Like, yup, yeah, you name it. Mike got eighty five South, yup,
Speaker 1: Mike Apps. Mike Apps a legend too, man like. And
Speaker 1: then you you started so doing arenas I could. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure it feels natural like you you opened up
Speaker 1: of course Rihanna's shows, Jay z Drake, Like doing those arenas,
Speaker 1: did that help you prepare for the arenas towards you
Speaker 1: you put together like this, I think that open up
Speaker 1: for those people and seeing those things. It's funny because
Speaker 1: that was never like I never dreamed that big man.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I didn't dream that big.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to just be Actually my biggest dreaming
Speaker 3: of being a comedie. I was like, I just want
Speaker 3: to be on death comedy gym.
Speaker 1: That was crazy, bad thing.
Speaker 2: I like, I ever dreamed of doing that.
Speaker 1: The highest I thought it would take, I wouldn't like
Speaker 1: I want to be in the movie, I want to
Speaker 1: be this.
Speaker 3: And my other dream was to make sure that I
Speaker 3: could always make people fall out and create that same
Speaker 3: deaf comedy gym laughter when you just falling out the chair.
Speaker 3: And if you watch my Apollo special, like I sold
Speaker 3: out the Apollo last year and I had a heart
Speaker 3: attack after that again had to be rushed to the hospital.
Speaker 3: But like, and then I did a huge City Winery
Speaker 3: tour and we sold out every one of those and
Speaker 3: I sold out City Winery.
Speaker 1: And it's just I never thought that big.
Speaker 3: It was just me always trying to do stuff for
Speaker 3: other people and people shutting doors in our faces.
Speaker 2: Was like, all right, you told me we can't, we
Speaker 2: can't do this. I'm we're gonna do it, and we
Speaker 2: can't have this and this these people don't matter. Then
Speaker 2: we're gonna do it. That's right.
Speaker 1: Always do that, And that's what it was always about.
Speaker 1: And and like my comedy when you watch it, if
Speaker 1: you watch my Apollo special, if you watch you know
Speaker 1: all those years of doing warm up for so many people.
Speaker 1: I can always change my joke in fit the environment
Speaker 1: that I'm in, so whether I'm doing and you know
Speaker 1: I was, I was homeless, so there was not an
Speaker 1: audience I didn't perform for.
Speaker 3: Like I would do living people's living rooms. I would
Speaker 3: do a basement, I would do a guy in these
Speaker 3: wedding I would do.
Speaker 2: I would form on the train, I.
Speaker 1: Would sell metroswipes. I got to the point where I
Speaker 1: was doing comedism, like I didn't even have a DVD.
Speaker 1: I used to sell other comedians DVD and they.
Speaker 3: Would break me off a piece of it. Like this
Speaker 3: dude named Kareem Green. He had a DVD and he
Speaker 3: was selling it for like fifteen, and I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, look how much you pay for these? Like
Speaker 3: I pay five. I was like, so I'll give you ten,
Speaker 3: and I'll sell your DVD for fifteen and make five
Speaker 3: off each one.
Speaker 1: And I would sell them to people and it was like, man,
Speaker 1: I watched the DVD.
Speaker 2: You not even on it.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I never said I was on it.
Speaker 1: I said, it's a funny DVD. But if you keep
Speaker 1: buying them, I could produce my own special that's right.
Speaker 1: So I'm selling DVD.
Speaker 2: Ain No, I wasn't even on it. You should say
Speaker 2: that's hustling.
Speaker 3: I just think that's what really prepared me in all
Speaker 3: those years of being in the background. And I've wrote
Speaker 3: for so many comedians, like I was like the head writer.
Speaker 2: For the Nick Cannon Show.
Speaker 3: I wrote on Wi Williams Show, wrote for so many
Speaker 3: different comedians and Brandy Jackson wrote for It's just so
Speaker 3: many people that whose entire specials I've I've written and culptivated.
Speaker 1: And I think all.
Speaker 3: Of that, that journey being on my daughter the whole
Speaker 3: time prepare me for what I was doing. And you
Speaker 3: don't know that you're being prepared and guarded. God is
Speaker 3: sharpening you for something. The whole time you're going through it.
Speaker 3: You're like, you know, why is it no food on
Speaker 3: the table?
Speaker 1: Why is it?
Speaker 2: Why am I not like this person?
Speaker 1: This person? I'm so why so why is such a
Speaker 1: struggle for me? I said, you want like he just
Speaker 1: did that nice, He's just And I realized God was
Speaker 1: sharpening and sitting out in a hospital, it's my turnout
Speaker 1: and I'm ready for it.
Speaker 2: Like I got four different specials.
Speaker 3: First special I put out did over a million in
Speaker 3: the first week, the next one I'm putting out, just
Speaker 3: keep dropping these different things. And now thanks to you,
Speaker 3: I'm doing podcasts and I'm explaining my journey because.
Speaker 2: I didn't care for like, no way. I never was like,
Speaker 2: hey man, it's about rip. It never ever was. But
Speaker 2: it was about, hey man, let's do this together. We're
Speaker 2: gonna do this cool.
Speaker 1: And it was just when I do this, when we
Speaker 1: shake hands, then when it popped, you go left, okay.
Speaker 2: So we oh okay, so that didn't oh all right,
Speaker 2: got it? And I just didn't even care.
Speaker 3: Then I was like, all right, cool, cool, then whatever,
Speaker 3: congratulations for you, me anything I could do, and then
Speaker 3: being in a hospital coming out knowing I need a heart.
Speaker 2: This is about legacy. This is about sharing God's story
Speaker 2: and triumph.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: And if I got two shows left for me, if
Speaker 2: I got one.
Speaker 3: Show left for me, if it's fifty fucking shows left
Speaker 3: for me, I'm gonna give my all and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: put my mind.
Speaker 2: I can't say my heart, but I'm gonna give it
Speaker 2: my all. Man.
Speaker 3: I'm just blessed to be here for it's just whether
Speaker 3: it's today, tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Life, I'm not stoffing. And I'm gonna keep creating.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep keep growing this thing, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep making people laugh.
Speaker 2: That's what's uping. Man, trust me. You gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Man. You you're a good guy. Somebody gonna give you
Speaker 1: that heart in return. Man, trust me. It's a sad
Speaker 1: way that we got to get it from someone else,
Speaker 1: like you know.
Speaker 2: But that is hard, waiting on life worker, Yes, that
Speaker 2: is it is.
Speaker 1: It puts your mind in a different mindset where you
Speaker 1: wait on life worker because somebody has to to no
Speaker 1: longer need it for you to get it, for me
Speaker 1: to get it.
Speaker 2: So now every time I hear eminence, I'll be like, God,
Speaker 2: is that my blessing?
Speaker 1: Does that mean he gun? Like?
Speaker 2: Don't shoot him in the chest?
Speaker 1: Yo? Please? Was he ain't positive? Did anybody know you
Speaker 1: slow down of every carcident? Now?
Speaker 2: Okay yo, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: But you gotta be able to laugh at yourself. You
Speaker 3: gotta be able to laugh. That's what I tell people.
Speaker 1: If you can't laugh at yourself, then you're looking at
Speaker 1: life too serious. Man. Life is to be enjoyed and
Speaker 1: you got a lot of life to give. Man, trust me,
Speaker 1: all this good. God keeps giving back, and I believe
Speaker 1: that blessing is definitely gonna come for you.
Speaker 3: Thank you, man, and he man. I'm not above running
Speaker 3: to you. You know, I know you still got the
Speaker 3: hook ups in the street. I still you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I might slide you to thirty five for
Speaker 3: you to bring me the little white the little rad
Speaker 3: cooler with the white toped black rip. I heard about
Speaker 3: your journey man, go drop twenty thousand pick up.
Speaker 1: You know I grew up on Marcy Avenue. They know
Speaker 1: what's on Lee Avenue high Land me and that I
Speaker 1: ain't got to say it positive, you know, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Lee Avenue plug high lad Me. Yo. You brought
Speaker 1: up DVD's right, And I remember when DVD's was the bro.
Speaker 1: They was moving through the street like hot kikes Bro.
Speaker 1: I remember when Jerry's Spring of Tapes was flying in
Speaker 1: the street. All the comedy shows was flying the era.
Speaker 1: How do you look at comedy has changed now with
Speaker 1: social media, the Internet and the clips going viral now
Speaker 1: instead of the DVD era.
Speaker 2: I think that's fire man.
Speaker 3: Like if you take it back and you think about Q,
Speaker 3: godsk his soul from like you know you known Q right, No,
Speaker 3: I don't think so you got it.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of cues. Remember oh, Q from p
Speaker 1: from World Stars. Okay, yes, I know QB from World Star. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I have a cousin name Q. You been talking about.
Speaker 2: It's like saying Ray Ray, I get it. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of cues in New York.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just I think that he kind of, you know, evolved
Speaker 3: that whole thing by taking people's mixtapes and putting them
Speaker 3: on YouTube and creating this whole war star things.
Speaker 2: I think that the element the evolution of.
Speaker 1: It is it's fire. Yes, it's fire. It's getting audiences
Speaker 1: that probably would have never been in the comedy. Think
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: When you were a kid, you didn't watch no damn comedy.
Speaker 1: That wasn't your thing.
Speaker 2: Really, No, that's not true. Kid, like you were like ten.
Speaker 1: See, I had an older brother, so they used to
Speaker 1: remember we had They used to listen to comedy tapes.
Speaker 1: Remember what was the god's name that had the comedy
Speaker 1: tapes they used to listen to back in the day.
Speaker 1: The Jerky Boys, the jerky boy tearing the inside of me. Yo, Yo,
Speaker 1: you couldn't say that today. Yo, I got a Jerky
Speaker 1: Boys tapeger.
Speaker 2: Be like those dudes were hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yo, yo, dudes. I had all of them tapes.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like comedy evolved from then tapes, movies, vhs, DVDs, but
Speaker 1: now you could just open up social media, go to
Speaker 1: your Instagram page, go to Twitter, and comedy is all over.
Speaker 2: Man. I feel like we live in the world that's serious.
Speaker 1: But still take the time to last.
Speaker 2: I believe that.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I applaud every single person to open up that door.
Speaker 3: And I will say that's why I shout out Q
Speaker 3: because he was the first person to be like, you
Speaker 3: know what, these mixtapes ain't gotta be a mixtapes. These
Speaker 3: ain't got to be sold one twenty fifth Street on
Speaker 3: a blanket. Let me get booty talking number twelve, Let
Speaker 3: me get that state property.
Speaker 1: We was definitely.
Speaker 4: Definitely, Brother, I have it before the movie, in the movie,
Speaker 4: before it comes out.
Speaker 2: I have it right now.
Speaker 4: What do what do you want to do? Please do
Speaker 4: watch two for five? Please, my friend, don't brother, it
Speaker 4: looks like a look at you're taking me back in
Speaker 4: down street because that's how it was.
Speaker 1: Boy, You get anything you want on these blocks on
Speaker 1: that blanket.
Speaker 3: They laid that with an open up shop and pull
Speaker 3: it out the store, opening store closing.
Speaker 1: The two seconds seconds, bro, don't let the cops pull
Speaker 1: around and watch that blanket get wrapped up like a
Speaker 1: magic trick.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think that that what they're doing now
Speaker 3: is great. I think it opened up the door and
Speaker 3: I think it stopped a lot of barriers that we
Speaker 3: had before because it used to be one of the time,
Speaker 3: and now it's no longer one of the Now you
Speaker 3: no longer have to go and wait for someone to
Speaker 3: go like I pick him and put him.
Speaker 1: In a movie.
Speaker 3: Now you can just go and captivate your audience on that.
Speaker 3: And I think that touching the fans. Now you don't
Speaker 3: have to wait. And I loved him for doing that, man,
Speaker 3: I loved him for open open those doors. And then
Speaker 3: they transition to the comedy. Look at DC Young Fly
Speaker 3: putting our sketches, putting out skates, and next thing, you know,
Speaker 3: one of the hottest communities in the country.
Speaker 2: That's right, DC Young Fly killing them.
Speaker 1: You named a lot of legends Deon Cole, like man,
Speaker 1: come on, man, I was a favorite, Like Eddie Griffin
Speaker 1: was my guy. Oh yeah, boy, Eddie griff and Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1: All of Eddie's was funny. Your mom named you Eddy.
Speaker 1: You was funny. You gotta be funny. Who would you
Speaker 1: consider your top because you know, when I'm sitting somewhere else, like, YO,
Speaker 1: give me your top five rappers. But there's too many
Speaker 1: comedians for me to just narrow it down the five
Speaker 1: because somebody might be like, YO, you left me off.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, top Who would you put in your
Speaker 1: top list? Top ten, tops five, top seven, top six?
Speaker 1: Wherever you want to stop that?
Speaker 2: When did you say who is the best?
Speaker 3: Who do I trust? Because I spit hot fire. I
Speaker 3: think it's a lot of comedians that you'd be surprised
Speaker 3: if people sleep on. But I think Tony Roberts, and
Speaker 3: I think that if a comedy tells you Tony Roberts
Speaker 3: isn't one of the funniest comedians in the country, someone
Speaker 3: that is like lying to you, that man is hysterically funny.
Speaker 3: You know you funny when all the comedians on the
Speaker 3: show run out to see your set, I think that
Speaker 3: he's best admitting that my next will be Rasheed. He
Speaker 3: was just cultivating the way he could tell a story
Speaker 3: and just bring you in it and be like, it's
Speaker 3: a lot of people in this world you can robe.
Speaker 3: But the old Spanish man. Ain't that nigga?
Speaker 1: That's right, sho you to.
Speaker 3: I don't give you nothing. Can you find out out
Speaker 3: your own to divide out and you take the vite out?
Speaker 3: Probably don't like somebody got killed on the third floor.
Speaker 3: That's not me, baby, I wanta fight flop it. So
Speaker 3: I think that he was just a great, great comedian man,
Speaker 3: one of my mentors in this game. Like, I think
Speaker 3: that if he would have, you know, going on to
Speaker 3: live longer, he probably would have been top five.
Speaker 2: Period manure just getting it in. But his life was
Speaker 2: taken too short. I'm sorry they had about that.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm not gonna watch if you you don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about when you watch it, you'll be like
Speaker 1: he do do dude to Jamaican store.
Speaker 2: Right came in to the Jamaican store. He was like,
Speaker 2: you're going to Jamaican storey.
Speaker 1: You're like, yah, I'm going back to watch it because
Speaker 1: def comedy jam is still available?
Speaker 2: Man, what still available? Beast beast man.
Speaker 3: He always when he said he go mess with Spanish
Speaker 3: people in the Spanish store, and he said, poppy water
Speaker 3: cat always sleep on the bread when I come in.
Speaker 2: He yo, And.
Speaker 1: That's if you live here. That's it, yo, every that's crazy.
Speaker 1: See New York, our store is done change hands so
Speaker 1: many times. First it was the Puerto Ricans, then it
Speaker 1: was the Dominicans, then it was the Asians.
Speaker 2: Now it's the fuck the.
Speaker 1: Indians, and now it's the a rab Yeah, and them
Speaker 1: niggas selling butt out the store. I had cut had
Speaker 1: that seven for me. They do do the cigarettes yo, yo,
Speaker 1: Lucy yo lucy. I hate it when somebody be like, yo,
Speaker 1: go to the store, give me a lucy like by
Speaker 1: the pack yo broke as.
Speaker 2: No lucies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they tell you too. They don't even tell you.
Speaker 2: You ain't give me your top list, So I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Tony roberts Uh, I would say, Rashet a lot of people,
Speaker 3: and I'm glad he's getting shine now.
Speaker 1: T K.
Speaker 2: Kirkling, Oh yeah, t K fee to the motherfucking word up.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: He's been in the game, push, pushing.
Speaker 1: Changing, elevating. Just you know.
Speaker 2: My next probably would be Dion Cole.
Speaker 1: So of course we all got the legends like the
Speaker 1: Chris Rocks to Dave Chappelle's all of those.
Speaker 3: Different people, and then Eddie Murphy's the Martins and all that.
Speaker 3: But I'm talking about soldiers.
Speaker 1: Just been grinding but just never got that like break
Speaker 1: that break that that that.
Speaker 2: Can go up after anybody.
Speaker 3: It don't matter, and it don't matter, and that's that's
Speaker 3: I cultivate myself for. It don't matter who's going on stage.
Speaker 3: So I think that even when you you mentioned my
Speaker 3: name in comedy, people a like, yeah, I don't want
Speaker 3: to follow rip. I don't gonna kill it, and like,
Speaker 3: it's just something that and I like those gladiators. Everybody
Speaker 3: I name is a gladiator. Like, I mean, it's different
Speaker 3: ways of you know, doing comedy. It's joke structure, there's
Speaker 3: different ways of people doing more intellectually. We can do
Speaker 3: it slapstick. But I just think that being able.
Speaker 2: To rock a crowd.
Speaker 3: And I'm not a person that be like, I don't
Speaker 3: care how you did it, but if I go in down,
Speaker 3: I'm looking like, yo, these people are having the time
Speaker 3: of their life.
Speaker 2: Because to me, that's what comedy is about.
Speaker 1: It's not about to me, in my personal opinion, it's
Speaker 1: not about me just getting my story out and just
Speaker 1: spitting my life at you.
Speaker 2: It's about changing.
Speaker 3: What you got going on in your life and being
Speaker 3: able to take a little bit of pain away. Because
Speaker 3: my name is actually not Rip Michael's if you look
Speaker 3: at the spelling, it's actually Rip Mike Heels, it's m
Speaker 3: I C h e Als. But people always pronounce the wrong.
Speaker 3: So I just let people. But that's always what it is.
Speaker 3: So that's what I try to do when I'm gonna stay.
Speaker 3: I try to like a lot of people, and I
Speaker 3: think a lot of Communist understand like this person being
Speaker 3: out of promote the shows and sometimes.
Speaker 1: Bring the people in.
Speaker 3: I see the person I gave a flyer too, and
Speaker 3: I see that this is their last twenty dollars. I
Speaker 3: see that this person just fighting a court case or
Speaker 3: just had domestic violence, or just had this. And if
Speaker 3: you can just take a little bit of that away
Speaker 3: and make them and just take them away from their problems,
Speaker 3: that's what it's about, because that Mike can really.
Speaker 2: Really heal people. You can change.
Speaker 3: People's lives, in their in their perspective and what they're doing,
Speaker 3: and that's what I try to do.
Speaker 2: So I look for that. I look for you. Don't
Speaker 2: blame me read that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Who when you hit those Yeah, that's when you know
Speaker 1: you made somebody so laugh. That's a fact because you
Speaker 1: only hear that. I feel like three ways in the
Speaker 1: black community. When you're laughing, you get good food, or
Speaker 1: you see a relative you ain't seen it in a
Speaker 1: long time. Oh yeah, that's when you get a real
Speaker 1: reaction from the black community. Because we get some food.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be like whoa like you dancing and like you're.
Speaker 2: Talking about eating chicken up right out the grease when
Speaker 2: you come chase the chicken, when you're.
Speaker 1: Like, damn man, you make me train of thought with
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 2: I was just about to say something to you about
Speaker 2: somebody else.
Speaker 1: Damn man.
Speaker 2: Where was I at with that one? What were some
Speaker 2: of the moments.
Speaker 1: That you consider Did you ever consider a moment stepping
Speaker 1: away from comedy? No?
Speaker 3: No, not one time, Like it's funny because I wanted
Speaker 3: to do this since I was eight years old and
Speaker 3: I never want to do anything other than this. And
Speaker 3: when I when I was in the male Clinic and Phoenix,
Speaker 3: Arizona and big shout out to them, I was when
Speaker 3: your heart fails, the rest of your organs start failing.
Speaker 1: And start falling apart.
Speaker 3: So my kidneys started failing, and for like I want
Speaker 3: to say, like a month and a half, I couldn't
Speaker 3: see because you know, my sugar got so high, and
Speaker 3: you're diabetic, you can lose your sight. And for the
Speaker 3: first time, I was like, damn, how am I going
Speaker 3: to do comedy because I can't even see the crowd
Speaker 3: and I can't even see to write the jokes down?
Speaker 3: How am I going to do comedy? And I would
Speaker 3: say that was the closest thing to me ever quitting.
Speaker 3: Then I was like, thank God for Siri, Siri, and
Speaker 3: now you got JAT So I think that, yo, that
Speaker 3: was probably my lowest of like thinking I couldn't do
Speaker 3: it because you can't see and your heart isn't good.
Speaker 3: I was like, because I always thought this is something
Speaker 3: you could do to till you die, Like you know,
Speaker 3: long you can come out in the wheelchair, you can
Speaker 3: come out eighty years old. Like I got to see
Speaker 3: Paul Mooney and like work with him like a lot
Speaker 3: of times right before he passed, and I was like, man,
Speaker 3: you can do this forever. But that would probably be
Speaker 3: the closest I ever got to being like I don't
Speaker 3: want to I don't know how I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna do this, but yeah, I figured a way.
Speaker 3: I was like, God was like, nah, you can just
Speaker 3: you can hear the crowd, that's right. But then I
Speaker 3: got my sight back, and you know, it took a
Speaker 3: lot of medicine and took a lot of walking around
Speaker 3: and like getting on a good regiment and shout out
Speaker 3: to the mail clinic, because those dudes at the male clinic,
Speaker 3: like are the reason I'm not restricted to a hospital
Speaker 3: bed and that you know, I can you know, just
Speaker 3: get at home, nurse and you know, take medicine and
Speaker 3: when I perform have EMTs on the side of the
Speaker 3: stage to even do this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, big shout out to them, man, that's what's something.
Speaker 1: Man. Shout out to all the medical staff, all the
Speaker 1: emergency workers out there putting their life on the line
Speaker 1: for our lives, you know, cause a lot.
Speaker 2: Go into it.
Speaker 1: Man, we take for granted, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And you don't really appreciate things until you sitting there
Speaker 1: on that bed, like hold on, man, the I gotta
Speaker 1: really put everything shit, putting everything in perspective and what's
Speaker 1: really important to me. Now, another question I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you, like, even from myself, because I'm part of
Speaker 1: the audience. I'm not a comedian, So this is a
Speaker 1: question for you really from me, like what do you
Speaker 1: think us as the audience is a misconception or is
Speaker 1: misunderstood about stand up comedians or what the work that
Speaker 1: goes into the process of being a stand up comedian.
Speaker 3: I would say that a lot of people think that
Speaker 3: they're just silly people, but comedians are some of the smartest,
Speaker 3: most intelligent people that you'll ever come across, because we
Speaker 3: normally take tragedy and we find a way of making
Speaker 3: it funny or finding a different perspective and an outlook
Speaker 3: to change it. And that is the misconception because you
Speaker 3: just look at a person and you're saying like, oh,
Speaker 3: this person is just silly and they can just do this.
Speaker 3: But it's a method to it that it takes twenty
Speaker 3: different times for you doing a joke on stage before
Speaker 3: it becomes an actual part of your joke.
Speaker 2: That we go through these things and you know, we
Speaker 2: just don't write it down and.
Speaker 1: Be like, oh, this is gonna be funny because y'all
Speaker 1: decide who's funny, or I can write a million things,
Speaker 1: but if it don't work in this room. It's not
Speaker 1: really funny.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Same thing with music, so you never I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people think that you just get up there,
Speaker 1: and it is a it is.
Speaker 3: A hard, hard craft to master. I will definitely tell
Speaker 3: you that it's a hard craft to master. It's hard
Speaker 3: to find your voice, and it is hard to talk
Speaker 3: about some of these painful things because when you really
Speaker 3: look at a joke, there's nothing.
Speaker 1: Funny about child abuse. But you see so many comedians.
Speaker 1: My mamma used to whoop my ads. You ever got
Speaker 1: hit with this, You ever got hit with that, You've
Speaker 1: got a shoe thrown at you, and it's just those
Speaker 1: are real painful memories.
Speaker 3: You just found the way and you taking a different
Speaker 3: perspective on it and making people be able to laugh. Now,
Speaker 3: you give that person the power to let go of
Speaker 3: that pain, and you sometimes you pay relationships like that.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: A lot of people be like, you know what, my
Speaker 3: childhood is not that bad. You know, my mom wasn't
Speaker 3: that bad. It's other moms like that.
Speaker 1: It's other dad.
Speaker 3: It's like that, that's not only a person that I
Speaker 3: didn't go through that alone. It's just like when y'all
Speaker 3: write a great song and you touch somebody, someone comes
Speaker 3: up to you and.
Speaker 1: Go, man, I felt that.
Speaker 2: Man, I went through that same thing.
Speaker 1: I did a bit. I did this, I did that
Speaker 1: like that. That was real when you said that. And
Speaker 1: that's what we do it for it, bro cause it's
Speaker 1: just like you said, they make it a good song.
Speaker 1: All we do is think our thoughts are pain, our
Speaker 1: frustrations or our joys, and we write it down and
Speaker 1: we hope the world receive it the way we you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, we want them to. And when
Speaker 1: it works, trust me, that feels like the best day
Speaker 1: of your life. When because it's not easy to take
Speaker 1: your thoughts, put it on paper and make a thousand
Speaker 1: people agree with you. No, it is not, man.
Speaker 3: And like if you watch my Apollo special that I
Speaker 3: did and tempted to pollow, that was probably one of
Speaker 3: the hard the sets I've ever done in my entire life,
Speaker 3: because the whole.
Speaker 2: Time I'm on stage, I can't breathe.
Speaker 1: And halfway through my like if you watch it, and
Speaker 1: the ammunents had to pick me up, I collapsed on
Speaker 1: stage at the very end.
Speaker 2: They edited a lot of it out, but.
Speaker 1: It was bad. But then that special was a special.
Speaker 3: I promised myself that I would finish because I had
Speaker 3: sold out the Apollo and I had a heart attack
Speaker 3: right before, like two days before the show, and I
Speaker 3: had to cancel. And that's the whole infamous thing where
Speaker 3: everybody's like rips going to the hospital and he announced it,
Speaker 3: and that's what the whole viral thing, and then I
Speaker 3: promised myself, I get out, I'm gonna finish it. And
Speaker 3: to sit there and be struggling him for air the
Speaker 3: entire time, and then talking about things that were like
Speaker 3: that weren't even real jokes that I prepared, but just
Speaker 3: talking about the journey and trying to make light of it.
Speaker 2: That was really hard.
Speaker 1: And I love everybody in New York for that, cause
Speaker 1: they they came and the applauded and they participated, and
Speaker 1: it was really, really, probably one of the toughest sets
Speaker 1: I ever had to do to march it through, man,
Speaker 1: but they were with it, and a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: I was saying was sad.
Speaker 2: And for them not to feel sorry mm hm, and
Speaker 2: understanding that it was in and ride with me, that
Speaker 2: was fire. Yeah, that was fire man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you even sharing your story because like you know,
Speaker 1: you said, you never did this. It's never about you, right,
Speaker 1: We never do it about us. It's about our journey
Speaker 1: and who can we inspire to take the journey further and.
Speaker 2: Do better than we ever thought?
Speaker 1: We told you so that's why I'm so excited and
Speaker 1: happy that you took the time out and to come
Speaker 1: to me to share it. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because you definitely enlightened me. Or I had no clue
Speaker 1: that got you, bro, I'll be watching wilding Out all
Speaker 1: the time. Nick, My god, Me and Nick had the
Speaker 1: same management. When he had rapper dreams. Oh okay, I
Speaker 1: wish i'd have took the comedian dreams. I'd have been
Speaker 1: right there with him, but shiit rap dream took me.
Speaker 1: But that's my bro, right there, man, you gotta take
Speaker 1: follos in that. And this is this is what I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, right I was throwing my producer under
Speaker 1: the bus shout out by girl.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say her dad.
Speaker 1: But listen, you see how you saying my name really
Speaker 1: not Riped Hamilton, I mean rip Michaels. It's rip Mike Hills.
Speaker 1: When I text my producer, yo, we and I think
Speaker 1: we get in this interview.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to get the.
Speaker 1: Call back, and she like who And I just tept
Speaker 1: text Ripped Michaels. She was like, damn, rest in peace
Speaker 1: to Michaels whoever he is, and no he ain't. That's
Speaker 1: who coming through. She like, oh ship, Like I thought
Speaker 1: you were saying your boy Michael passed away.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, hell.
Speaker 1: No, why would I write it like that? Hilarious?
Speaker 2: He can't make it to that.
Speaker 1: Who else you got, Mike? He ain't coming.
Speaker 2: Who else you got because you got it?
Speaker 1: Go on. I thought that was funny when you say, yo,
Speaker 1: my name not really ripped, Like, but when people hit
Speaker 1: the name Rip Michaels, what do you want them to
Speaker 1: associate that with?
Speaker 3: First of all, a lot of people think I just
Speaker 3: thought some hardcore name, and I think Rip is this.
Speaker 2: It's just short from Rippy.
Speaker 3: But nobody wants me called rippy, Like, no one in
Speaker 3: the world is gonna be Rippy.
Speaker 2: That's not a cool name.
Speaker 1: So I just took the pp wild Louisiana.
Speaker 2: It's only two rips that rep.
Speaker 1: Rip Hamilton from the Detroit Pistons was my favorite basketball
Speaker 1: player and Rip Michaels.
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite comedians. You got ripped Horn
Speaker 2: and you got Rip Van Winkle.
Speaker 1: Ye ain't the rip right? Yeah, they ain't the right.
Speaker 1: I gotta lose the weight so I can rep it
Speaker 1: right and gains the weight. I look like right Michaels now,
Speaker 1: and they're like, look at that nigga, he ripe nigga
Speaker 1: sitting on this white couch with all them hips, that
Speaker 1: nigga hypocrite.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what would I want them to?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: I think your question was what do I want them
Speaker 2: to associate you with?
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean, people hear the name
Speaker 1: rip Michaels, What you want them to associate you with?
Speaker 2: With your career? That's a really deep question, man.
Speaker 1: Elevation, that's right.
Speaker 3: I will want them to associate elevation and together. It's
Speaker 3: showing that we can break these barriers down, man, because
Speaker 3: when you look at what God has blessed me to
Speaker 3: be able to do, like, I think half the people
Speaker 3: has never experienced the things that God gave me the
Speaker 3: power and the things and the.
Speaker 1: Abilities to do like and it's just like this, I
Speaker 1: think that's what I want. I want people to understand, Like.
Speaker 2: I took our people and not I took our people.
Speaker 3: When I say our people, it's not the ones that
Speaker 3: they tell us this is the hottest man this go
Speaker 3: see him because we built this and we put this
Speaker 3: machine behind and this is the person.
Speaker 2: This is the one. I feel like I want people
Speaker 2: to associate like you don't need just one. It's all
Speaker 2: of us and collective.
Speaker 3: But we can do this like we do eighteen thousand
Speaker 3: people at State Farm Marina. We've done twenty two thousand
Speaker 3: people in the garden on a Wednesday with only three
Speaker 3: weeks of promotion.
Speaker 2: When Rich Homi Kwan passed away, bless Rich hold me.
Speaker 2: I did that.
Speaker 3: I turned my whole shot round because his brother called me,
Speaker 3: and I turned my whole short around.
Speaker 2: I made it the biggest tribute ever.
Speaker 3: And I donated money to Asseamily because if the moment
Speaker 3: they told me it was like your rip, we don't
Speaker 3: know we're gonna do. We know we just booked him,
Speaker 3: and I just spoke to him the day before he
Speaker 3: passed away, and I was like, you know what, take
Speaker 3: all the money, keep the booking money, gainst because it's
Speaker 3: like people asking for the deposits back.
Speaker 2: We atten shows rip. I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: I say, take the money I gave you, keep all
Speaker 3: of that. I'm gonna pay you the back in on that.
Speaker 3: And on top of paying of the back end on that,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna raise money for you. On top of that.
Speaker 2: He was like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, just come, I'm gonna present yall
Speaker 3: to check. We're gonna play a song and we're gonna
Speaker 3: celebrate his life.
Speaker 2: That's right. That's dope, man.
Speaker 1: And then people were like, but I was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing. It's not up to no one else.
Speaker 1: This is what we're doing.
Speaker 2: This is what we're doing. That's dope, man. Ridge holdy
Speaker 2: got that shit.
Speaker 3: And then when I tell you, we played the songs
Speaker 3: and a whole arena of when I tell you, it's
Speaker 3: not a seat, you could possibly it was people standing
Speaker 3: behind people.
Speaker 2: His music gonna last fast.
Speaker 3: And they played it in the whole to watch everybody
Speaker 3: stand up and then be able to do something like
Speaker 3: that and his family there, and then for them to
Speaker 3: stand up and like that's my son, that's my family.
Speaker 3: Look and to see the look on their faces, that
Speaker 3: to me elevation, Yes, showing people that we matter because
Speaker 3: we do matter, man.
Speaker 2: That's right all the time. Man, We're gonna do matter
Speaker 2: at them. Man. We are the culture. We set it.
Speaker 2: Do we set it?
Speaker 1: Man? We are the We are the people to follow,
Speaker 1: and it's not up for them to decide who goes
Speaker 1: when and who goes where. We go together. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like that's a written rule in my neighborhood coming
Speaker 1: up with my homies. Man, when we travel somewhere together,
Speaker 1: as we all leave together or we don't leave like,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, So we all gonna go,
Speaker 1: none of us gonna go.
Speaker 2: That's how we used to do it.
Speaker 1: Man. That's how you know how many clubs I show
Speaker 1: up too? You ain't letting all of them? Man, I
Speaker 1: give your money back. I'm not coming there, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And that's just how it is. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm for the team, So I respect you with that
Speaker 1: because I'm a team player from day one. I put
Speaker 1: the team first. It's no iron team, it's one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So if someone was just to discover Rip Michaelson and
Speaker 1: they're like, man, somebody told me about this comedian. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check them out. What would be the first
Speaker 1: performance or moment you will point them to to really
Speaker 1: understand you. It would be the first.
Speaker 2: That's a very man. You have best questions like I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm over here and the producers because she
Speaker 2: came through right like Maya Angelo.
Speaker 1: He was like, has a concrete rolls coming from the jungle,
Speaker 1: who came up as a delicate flower. That is now
Speaker 1: you have some deep bands, Jeremy there thrill this when
Speaker 1: you was gone and your dad left? What side you
Speaker 1: when you wear that that time?
Speaker 2: I think that was and a half. You got some
Speaker 2: of the best questions.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: You were made appreciate that man really man Like, it's
Speaker 3: like when you see people who have a talent in
Speaker 3: the gift. Man, you have a gift and like you're
Speaker 3: pulling out of me. Man, I don't think I ever
Speaker 3: told this type of ship. You know, I don't know
Speaker 3: my cuts or not. On the Disney Network it's hip hop.
Speaker 1: I don't want to mess up to show.
Speaker 3: And you'll be like, oh man, we got a Disney
Speaker 3: Channel deal and I'm like, I'm not gonna make that episode.
Speaker 1: They gonna it's gonna they gonna it's gonna be nobody
Speaker 1: Pooty Tank episode. We both won't be here if it's
Speaker 1: all Disney. It'll be black. It'd be just the couch. Hey,
Speaker 1: the Disney. You would switching up a half hand of
Speaker 1: my time Canada when you chose Monley site I have,
Speaker 1: they I couldn't wear this. They'll be like, yo, you
Speaker 1: gotta be there like this, Hannah. So tell me I
Speaker 1: couldn't do this. They'll be like that hat now two gangster.
Speaker 3: No, yes you can because when you created, what I've
Speaker 3: learned is like I was able to turn down a
Speaker 3: lot of deals. Like I've said it the Live Nation table.
Speaker 3: They be like, hey, we want to do this with you,
Speaker 3: and we want to turn this and I was able
Speaker 3: to be able to like this deal don't.
Speaker 1: Make no sense.
Speaker 3: So you want me to take my stuff, bring it
Speaker 3: to Live Nation and we split the gate together. And
Speaker 3: you don't give me any Ticketmaster because you won't Ticketmaster.
Speaker 2: You are just trying to sell me your marketing.
Speaker 3: And you're giving me a cross collateralization deal, which means
Speaker 3: you're just not even really giving money. You're just giving
Speaker 3: me a loan against ticket sales, which means that if
Speaker 3: I don't sell it, I gotta pay the money back
Speaker 3: with interest. And then I got to use your production company,
Speaker 3: your marketing things. So you're getting paid like nine different
Speaker 3: ways exactly, and then you want me to split it.
Speaker 3: I'm not getting food and beverage. I'm not getting tket
Speaker 3: ba based I'm not getting anything. It's a terrible deal.
Speaker 3: It's a terrible deal.
Speaker 2: Who would sign this exactly? But everyone does? That's crazy,
Speaker 2: that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I why are we like that? Why?
Speaker 2: But everyone?
Speaker 1: Why is our culture like that where they put the
Speaker 1: bird in the hand and before the bush?
Speaker 3: I think that, you know, we fall short of like
Speaker 3: believing we could do things. So I was able to
Speaker 3: turn the deal down and constantly turn deals down like
Speaker 3: that because I went out and built it.
Speaker 2: So when you build it, it's on your turn. That's right,
Speaker 2: That's that's how. That's so.
Speaker 3: I wasn't like, hey, you know what, this is a
Speaker 3: dope idea and I go to them like, hey, this
Speaker 3: is a dope idea and let them go, hey, we're
Speaker 3: gonna put this together and put this. No, I build it.
Speaker 3: So when you come to a person that's number two
Speaker 3: in the country and post started doing sixteen seventeen thousand
Speaker 3: and did it in fourteen different arenas, you gotta you
Speaker 3: can't come to me like that.
Speaker 2: That's right, And they'll always try to tell you like.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, we can make it bigger instead of sixteen,
Speaker 1: we could do thirty like I did sixteen by myself.
Speaker 2: You don't think I could do thirty bumps exactly. You
Speaker 2: don't think I do forty bums. That's right. We're we
Speaker 2: elevating to what's the elevation, the elevation of just helping me.
Speaker 1: Do you do you want me to do more shows
Speaker 1: than I did by myself already, and then you're going
Speaker 1: half of what I'm getting just to open up fifteen something,
Speaker 1: So let me expect it. If I'm gonna do, I'm
Speaker 1: doing sixteen shows by myself, I'm gonna do with you.
Speaker 1: I could do thirty shows, but you won't have so
Speaker 1: I'm back to do a fifteen show.
Speaker 2: That's right. So what was the point. That's right.
Speaker 1: That's why I tell people all the time, man, it's
Speaker 1: greater later, man to check. If I look at it
Speaker 1: like this, if a person willing to give you a
Speaker 1: check up front, what is they gonna make on a
Speaker 1: back end?
Speaker 2: Because nothing is free.
Speaker 1: Nobody ain't gonna just be like yo, hu, take this
Speaker 1: million dollar advance and I'm gonna break even with this
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand back here. If I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: this million, that means I'm gonna make three million on
Speaker 1: the back end, and you just gonna take your million
Speaker 1: and be cool, you know what I mean? That's really
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand if you still live in New York
Speaker 1: after taxes. Yeah. And you know what's funny, I didn't
Speaker 1: even realize that, right, Like, I'm doing all this whole time,
Speaker 1: not one by the money. I didn't realize that. Like
Speaker 1: I was dumb.
Speaker 3: I thought that all these people were selling out these shows.
Speaker 3: I thought that when somebody said, oh, okay, come see
Speaker 3: me live, that's them. Come to find out, I'm probably
Speaker 3: the only comedian to ever sell out his own arenas.
Speaker 3: It's always a machine behind him. It's always a a
Speaker 3: different company that's actually doing it.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: I had no idea until I started saying, hey, Rip,
Speaker 3: we want to do this with you, and they go like, well,
Speaker 3: we got to go talk to this company first. I'm like,
Speaker 3: but you're yeah, this isn't your tour. Yeah, so you
Speaker 3: just the face just a promotional Oh yeah, you man,
Speaker 3: say to me, that's the that's the thing. You'd be like,
Speaker 3: I want to do this. I'm like, okay, we doing
Speaker 3: That's right. This is I didn't know that. I didn't
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 1: It's a lot like that and all in all fashions
Speaker 1: of this business. That's like this part you're like, yo,
Speaker 1: can you kurkr? This is us?
Speaker 2: You see my production crew? You gotta ask man.
Speaker 1: No, but you got some real dudes, right yeah, but
Speaker 1: this is us, Like we we built this, we created it.
Speaker 1: You know. I shout out Noriega for seeing something in
Speaker 1: me that I didn't see because he like, bleek, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you you.
Speaker 2: Made for this ship.
Speaker 1: You need to definitely, and I'm like, hell no, I'm
Speaker 1: not no journalist. I'm not doing this ship. And look
Speaker 1: here I am.
Speaker 2: But Joe definitely nor read my brother, thank you.
Speaker 1: But I'm a firm believer in building your own cause
Speaker 1: you get the only You get to make the decisions
Speaker 1: and you get to drive the direction on where it's going.
Speaker 1: Because when you sell out, they can bring it and
Speaker 1: bring your company, your image and your likeness and carve
Speaker 1: it out to whatever they want the people to believe
Speaker 1: about you. When you own something, yourself is your word,
Speaker 1: your way, and they gonna know it's all you because
Speaker 1: they're gonna know who you are through your representation.
Speaker 2: Of your work. Man, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 2: what you built and what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You just saying that, yeah, I sold out fourteen to
Speaker 1: ring the sixteen shows, fourteen thousand, You saying that, like
Speaker 1: that's simple, bro, I might not sell out a thousand
Speaker 1: seed of right now. I guess it's not easy, bro.
Speaker 3: I guess I guess it seems And for me it
Speaker 3: seems easy because I never looked at it like that.
Speaker 3: But I never looked at it like that. I just
Speaker 3: always like, I want to put on the best show.
Speaker 3: I want to keep it affordable because I want people
Speaker 3: to be able to buy tickets from it, and I
Speaker 3: want to show people that look what we can do.
Speaker 3: And I thought that would bring just more people that
Speaker 3: be like, hey, let's do this, and not just hey,
Speaker 3: all right now we did this, go give it to
Speaker 3: this person so they can just I didn't know I did.
Speaker 3: I didn't think like that, no, you're doing it.
Speaker 1: Didn't think like that.
Speaker 3: And I do it in this God because I do it,
Speaker 3: and like sometimes like this Arena game and doing these
Speaker 3: things like the Garden gave me the garden, because like
Speaker 3: when you're just a person and you're just walking there like, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm Remichaels.
Speaker 1: I want to do the garden.
Speaker 2: They're like, it's five hundred thousand dollars to rent the garden.
Speaker 2: And you're sitting there and they go and they're expecting
Speaker 2: you to walk out. Remember like remember that scene and.
Speaker 3: Was it uh anyone from uh not coming to America?
Speaker 3: Nice boomerang when they was any thing and he say,
Speaker 3: he says, this jacket is ten thousand dollars and they
Speaker 3: don't pause me.
Speaker 2: He's like, what you thought that was gonna scare me
Speaker 2: or something like that.
Speaker 1: Bring. Yeah, So when you when you get to these
Speaker 1: places and and everybody's cool with me now, but when
Speaker 1: you get to these places and you're like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm Remichaels and i want to do this type
Speaker 1: of show and I'm gonna do this, and they go
Speaker 1: who you with or who who's your representation?
Speaker 2: Would come? What are you doing?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, I'm gonna do the show. It
Speaker 3: was like it's five hundred thousand. I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 3: So what dates do you have?
Speaker 1: That's right?
Speaker 3: And it's like well, we're gonna need and they do
Speaker 3: in the beginning, they give you deals that don't make
Speaker 3: any sense.
Speaker 1: They'll be like, but we need it all up front.
Speaker 1: We and that's that's that just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: No business, no, no business that makes an decision. You
Speaker 1: had an arena to be so shitty to me that
Speaker 1: after I sold it out, the lady came to me
Speaker 1: and apologized. Damn at least apologize.
Speaker 3: She was like, I didn't believe that you would do
Speaker 3: any of the things that you said you was gonna do,
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry for you know everything, and how I
Speaker 3: treated you.
Speaker 2: You sold. This whole thing happened.
Speaker 3: I think like two weeks because they gave they give
Speaker 3: me dope, They give me dates and stuff that dates.
Speaker 2: They don't want to count and just give you throw
Speaker 2: away things.
Speaker 3: And it's a Tuesday, Like who definely garden on the Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Who is doing that? Word up unless you plan for
Speaker 1: the next Like the fuck, who's doing that?
Speaker 2: That's happening? That's it's a workday in the middle of
Speaker 2: the week. Two dude.
Speaker 1: Shit. The funniest thing about me doing the garden was like,
Speaker 1: you know, we all think about the gardener's like.
Speaker 2: We're doing a garden Mecca. We're doing this garden. That's
Speaker 2: a statement.
Speaker 3: I booked that around and do the whole thing. And
Speaker 3: that's why I said, you have solid people around, you'll
Speaker 3: do the whole thing. And they start, you know, they're
Speaker 3: like every day they're telling me like, this is not
Speaker 3: gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You only sold fifty tickets. You always sold sixty tickets.
Speaker 1: We need to cancel, and going like we gotta cancel this,
Speaker 1: cancel this. I'm like, no, just keep it going, keep
Speaker 1: it going. Well, we're gonna need it. Every day they say, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna need this. Now, we're gonna need You paid
Speaker 1: the whole thing up from but now we're gonna need
Speaker 1: this insurance, we're gonna need your CEI.
Speaker 2: We're gonna need this. We're gonna just trying to give you.
Speaker 3: And you know this is not refundable, so if you
Speaker 3: cancel your fun I'm trying to give you ever hurdle
Speaker 3: to make you. And then once it start moving, they
Speaker 3: start telling me who I can have on my show
Speaker 3: and who I can't. And then I was like what
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, we don't, we don't want I'm never
Speaker 3: gonna pull punches. Man, I'm dying soon, so whatever, I'm
Speaker 3: just saying. I'm just jo but uh, that was just
Speaker 3: telling me you can't have Bobby's murder. And I was like,
Speaker 3: and I was like, what do you mean I can
Speaker 3: bobably Well, he's not a somebody we really want here,
Speaker 3: and you know, da da da, and he's.
Speaker 2: Got a criminal record. I was like, so let's see,
Speaker 2: wait a minute. Half the rock artist you have have
Speaker 2: criminal records.
Speaker 1: Half the other people you have, so you're trying to
Speaker 1: signal this guy out.
Speaker 3: It was like, well, that's just, you know, our thing,
Speaker 3: and we don't want that. And I go, I'm going
Speaker 3: back and forth fighting, and I'm going back and forth.
Speaker 2: Mayan at three was the show.
Speaker 3: We're going back and forth, and I'm like, okay, So
Speaker 3: my publicist at least filmish, you know, recipeace, at least
Speaker 3: when I went to the hospital, she passed away. So
Speaker 3: she goes ripped. They're not gonna allow him to perform.
Speaker 3: They sent a straight no wow. So I go, okay,
Speaker 3: stop fucking respond to them. Tell him yes, we don't.
Speaker 3: Just stop responding. And so when I get in the garden,
Speaker 3: guess who the fuck is in the garden? And they
Speaker 3: look at me and I thought, we told you Bobby
Speaker 3: Smurder couldn't play.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I got the email.
Speaker 1: I walk away and they look at me and go.
Speaker 2: They don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: So we all get in this room and like they
Speaker 3: put me in this room. And because before that I
Speaker 3: had an issue with getting in the arena for some reason,
Speaker 3: they told me I couldn't get in an arena. And
Speaker 3: mind you, it's my company, my face on the thing,
Speaker 3: and they go, well, you don't have the band, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, what band. It was like, well, you're supposed
Speaker 3: to get a band because they change over security. So
Speaker 3: if you do production, it's a band when you first
Speaker 3: get into loading, and there's another band for entertainers, right,
Speaker 3: So they're like, well you can't get in you have
Speaker 3: a band. So security treats me like total trash. They
Speaker 3: tell me I got to go out. I got it out,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 1: Reminchaeled remintsipate to have a ticket and yeah, and so
Speaker 1: then they was like and then they started pressing me
Speaker 1: more like So first it turned out to be like
Speaker 1: some kind of like oh okay.
Speaker 3: Then it went to like aggressive like and I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 3: So let me call everybody that's involved in this arena
Speaker 3: and let's all sit because we need to have a meeting.
Speaker 2: A sad.
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting there and I'm sitting there with like
Speaker 1: everybody in manage at the garden. I go, so, what
Speaker 1: did the money I gave you come with? That's the
Speaker 1: first thing I say, and they go, well, it comes
Speaker 1: with this, it comes with that. And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just got one question. In that money I gave you,
Speaker 1: am I paying for security? And they go yeah.
Speaker 3: So I say, oh, so this dude that's being an
Speaker 3: asshole to me and his staff are getting paid by me,
Speaker 3: So I'm paying people.
Speaker 1: To treat me like shit.
Speaker 3: And I go well, I'm like, look at the guys,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, you harassed me, and I'm helping you
Speaker 3: feed your family, like I'm paying for you to be here.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I want an apology, that's right,
Speaker 3: And I was like, I'm not fucking apologize when nothing.
Speaker 2: I said, Yo, we.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do one of two things. I'm gonna argue
Speaker 1: with y'all. I don't have none of these going back
Speaker 1: and forth.
Speaker 3: I go, either they apologize, ah, they go, oh, and
Speaker 3: you relieve them, because what I'm not gonna do is
Speaker 3: pay a whole staff to treat me like shit, or
Speaker 3: because this is your reader, I'm gonna go out there
Speaker 3: and I'm gona we're gonna cancel this show, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to tell every single person hows treated.
Speaker 1: Then you go, you're not gonna fucking cancel the show.
Speaker 1: It's got twenty some thousand people out there. I was like,
Speaker 1: what you don't realize is those twenty two thousand people.
Speaker 2: Came to see me. I brought them here, that's right,
Speaker 2: and I did it in three weeks.
Speaker 3: You don't think I can walk out there, give everybody
Speaker 3: free T shirts and tell them to meet me at
Speaker 3: the Barclay Center next week.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm hmm. And then they laugh and I go, okay, Nick,
Speaker 2: put your ship on, let's go, Gorilla, let's go. Let's
Speaker 2: all get in the car.
Speaker 1: Go.
Speaker 3: I explain it to y'all later, and every single entertainer
Speaker 3: gets in their suv and starts to.
Speaker 2: M hm hmmm, and there go okay, go home, do
Speaker 2: you show?
Speaker 1: Yeah, send the security home. I'd have relieved them a
Speaker 1: sad time to go. Ain't no waycause I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: let someone dictate that's right.
Speaker 3: Treat me like ship number one, tell me who in
Speaker 3: my community, because I didn't.
Speaker 2: Have any contract that you could dictate who I bring.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Bobby Murder went on killed it. Everybody had a good time,
Speaker 1: that's right. Shout out Bobby Schmurder. Man, and we played
Speaker 1: the garden right, that's right man. That you can't that's how.
Speaker 1: And we was respectful, and that's how you earn the
Speaker 1: respect of those two like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: can't I'm paying your staff. You treat me like shit,
Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to just be like, okay, that's cool.
Speaker 2: You know who I am. Now, we're good. Hell no,
Speaker 2: everybody go home, man.
Speaker 1: And that's why I say when you said camaraderie has
Speaker 1: a team, I said all that to be like, that's.
Speaker 2: Right, the team man, to stay together.
Speaker 1: Man, we leave together.
Speaker 2: I didn't even have to explain what was happening.
Speaker 1: I was just because everybody with you, and that's how
Speaker 1: it's supposed to go. We come together, we leave together, man,
Speaker 1: Even though that just sounded like some Torretto fast and
Speaker 1: the Furious shit.
Speaker 2: One sound, we die together.
Speaker 1: But so what's next you know what I mean outside
Speaker 1: of I know you're dealing with you know, personal things
Speaker 1: in the life side. But what's next for RIP in
Speaker 1: the entertainment world. What can people be expecting next besides
Speaker 1: the Eightpril fourth Comedy Jam at the Barkley Center. Make
Speaker 1: sure you beat him there, don't meet him there, and
Speaker 1: if you're outside, he might let you in.
Speaker 3: First of all, my tickets started, so I keep my ticket. Man,
Speaker 3: When do you go see something for thirty dollars?
Speaker 1: Nothing cost thirty a bagup, but take the tips is
Speaker 1: thirty dollars now, so you better get your ass in there.
Speaker 3: Then thirty dollars already gonna give you a bag with
Speaker 3: nothing but airing it. And it's like ten dollars worth
Speaker 3: of chips. You don't got that gen you squeeze.
Speaker 1: You used to be the top. It's all air.
Speaker 3: Now it's all air, crabs all air. So now you're
Speaker 3: you're looking at the different things. So now I'm taking
Speaker 3: into another space. I'm taking into like I've shot three specials,
Speaker 3: I got two more specials coming out. I'm showing people
Speaker 3: the elevation. So now I'm stepping more from behind the scenes,
Speaker 3: like no one whatever I would never speak like this.
Speaker 3: I was always the person that you didn't even realize
Speaker 3: it was me who had a show. I used to
Speaker 3: put people in front of me just to stand there
Speaker 3: and be like, oh, that's the guy in charge, just
Speaker 3: because I didn't want people to need to that.
Speaker 1: That was never my goal. So now I got to
Speaker 1: take a chance at life. So I'm going to produce
Speaker 1: some great stuff. I got the Specials. I got a
Speaker 1: podcast with my wife called Connor Sor to Marry. I
Speaker 1: got a show that me and Erica Mien are doing.
Speaker 1: I got two different movies with fifty one twenty that
Speaker 1: were producing. And I'm starting to constantly, constantly just come
Speaker 1: up with content. And I got like five different tours
Speaker 1: coming out. So now it's not only just the wild
Speaker 1: Out tours. So April Fool's Comedy Jam, it's just Fooling
Speaker 1: Comedy Jam. It's the wild It's the One Wild Night,
Speaker 1: which is a little festival. We're stepping in the festival
Speaker 1: space and that's happened in September fifth in Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: we're doing sixty thousand people at the festival and I'm
Speaker 1: taking every rapper and every every comedian that I know
Speaker 1: and put them on one huge festival, and I'm making
Speaker 1: it for all ages. I want everybody to be able
Speaker 1: to come and have a great time and show that
Speaker 1: you don't you don't have to go over here and
Speaker 1: pay all this money.
Speaker 3: And then for our talent and our creativity and what
Speaker 3: we do that we can do these numbers and we
Speaker 3: can do this and change things. So the life I
Speaker 3: got left, that's what we're doing. So you're gonna see
Speaker 3: one Wild Night. You're gonna see the Off the Rip,
Speaker 3: you gonna see the crowd Work Special, another special I'm
Speaker 3: shooting at the Apollo. You about to say the Air
Speaker 3: Committed Project. You about to see the new Wild Out Tour.
Speaker 3: About to see fall Back and Love Tour like you know,
Speaker 3: Tiya might even come back and do.
Speaker 1: To y'all got a hot record. He might be on
Speaker 1: tour for another. That was the Barkler for That was
Speaker 1: the nigga said when they booed Toy because he called
Speaker 1: me out.
Speaker 3: I'm wantly saying that because he went on nineteen different
Speaker 3: podcasts and said rip st me able to get booed
Speaker 3: and I did not.
Speaker 2: I just want to clear that I did not do that.
Speaker 3: He said people didn't know he was doing music, and
Speaker 3: he was like, oh, they thought they was gonna sing.
Speaker 1: They know, they knew he was doing comedy.
Speaker 2: They listened.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't that night. And that's just what it is.
Speaker 1: I'm only saying it because it happens to all of
Speaker 1: us t T.
Speaker 3: But it happens to every single comedian. We all get booed.
Speaker 3: It just any given Sunday, everybody. I got booed as
Speaker 3: a rapper. I wasn't even a community a comedian and
Speaker 3: got booed. So it happens all of us.
Speaker 1: The boo happens, and it makes sure don't happens the
Speaker 1: youth practice. And if you want to come back to
Speaker 1: ya and do it again, I got that same bag
Speaker 1: of game seet last time.
Speaker 2: We would love to see you in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: That's right, April Fool's Comedy Jam to return the Tiayo.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you pulling up my guy, and I wish
Speaker 1: you many many more years of life, success, blessings, health,
Speaker 1: and I pray that you get that heart transplant you're
Speaker 1: desperately waiting for.
Speaker 3: Man, you know what I'm saying, I'm gonna holler some
Speaker 3: of your boys. I could tell her by the way
Speaker 3: looking at me like, we got you ripped forty grand
Speaker 3: I meet you now.
Speaker 2: I can just tell they was like, oh, we got
Speaker 2: the bag. We were gonna make that happening.
Speaker 1: You're gonna live from Lee Avenue Club, the Lee Avenue Plug,
Speaker 1: come highlight for your crew.
Speaker 3: Then I could definitely know I'm gonna go after the
Speaker 3: bark lay and get the check. I'm coming back here,
Speaker 3: Joe Chill. I'm buying hearts and Chrome Heart jeans.
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