WEBVTT - Rip Michaels | ROC Solid w/ Memphis Bleek 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.080 What up, y'all? This is your main man, Memphis Bleak 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.720 right here. Welcome to Rock Solid, a production of iHeartRadio 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.680 and The Black Effect Network in partnership with my guys 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:09.879 over Ad Drink Champs. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:13.720 Yeah she your boy, Memphis Bleak right here. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.360 And before we get into this episode, I would like 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.120 to take a second to bring awareness to organ donation. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.040 April is National Donate Life Money. It's a reminder that 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.599 there are thousands of people right now waiting on a 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.760 life saving organ transplant. It's not something we talk about enough, 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.320 but one decision can literally save a life. Becoming an 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.440 organ donor doesn't cost you anything, but it can mean 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:40.080 everything to someone else. So take a minute, learn more, 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.920 and if you care, sign up to be a donor. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:48.080 Now let's get into this episode. You should nobody know, 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:57.880 you should know good know. Yeah, y'all, you already know 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.200 what it is. Yours truly back with another exclusive episode 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.480 of Rock Solid, and this time I got somebody special 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.520 with me. Man one of the funniest comedians you've seen 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.920 on TV. Been in many, many shows from MSG, NBC, 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.800 Carson Daily Man. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:15.759 This man has been. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.360 All over TV, Man The Wilding Out. I let him 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.520 tell you for itself. We got rip Michaels in the building, man, 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:22.720 and it's a pleasure to have. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.280 Thank you first of all, huge fan man, thank you 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.440 you chopping up a lot doing Man Studios, fire your 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.200 whole staff. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.360 Treat appreciate it. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.160 If you don't, you haven't been on it. You need 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:33.679 to come on it. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.280 Because the Dope Platform, Dope podcast, they gotta be solid. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:37.559 First. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.720 It's saying it's everybody can't sit on this couch because 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.440 a lot of these guys they're not solid. They veil 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.600 off the track of being solid. So everybody is we 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:48.840 welcome everybody, but. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.880 Not every Oh it's exclusive, Yes, it's not for I 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:54.240 got you. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.400 Yes, yes, definitely being from the ship man, you from 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.000 one of my favorite cities, the Chicago Man, the land 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.480 of No BBL is all natural. Yes, that is definitely true. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.040 I ain't learned that until I went. It was what 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:10.600 the fuck they got in the water out here? It 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.840 was like, goddamn, I might have to move to the shot. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.440 But yeah, man, being from the shot coming up as 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.960 a comedian yet ever, like, what was that like for 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:18.840 you in the beginning? 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.480 So the beginning for me was weird because I started 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.639 comedy when I was about twelve thirteen years old. So 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.239 like a lot of comedians you've seen now, like the 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.120 d Rays and the Corey Hocoms and and that Bill 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.880 Bellamans and Damon Williams, like I was the kid that 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.959 they wouldn't even let in the club, in the Cotton Club, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.040 they I would have to stand outside, and then when 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.040 it was my turn to go on stage, they made 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.840 me go back outside. And yeah, and it's a weird 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.880 thing to get into it because my dad's it was 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:44.639 my aunty. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:45.480 I called an aunty jockey. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.280 So that was my aunty, my aunty jockey, the one 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:48.720 it took me around and showed me what was going 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.440 on in Chicago fort me sing. But I found out 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.360 later on that wasn't my aunty yo my dad. That 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.760 was my dad's girlfriends, what we call it aunty jobs. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.760 I didn't know that. I didn't know that till my 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:58.480 one dad came home. 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.320 My mom was like, that, ain't your goddamnunty, this is 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:01.160 your daddy girlfriend. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.359 Go outside. Your uncle Charles's gonna take you to the zoo. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.919 So that stop right then and there, Yeah, is real 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:10.600 with your fake relative. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.760 I didn't know that. I didn't I had no idea 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:14.480 back in the day. That was creeping. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.280 Yeah, you just had a fake uncle, fake aunty. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:18.600 Yeah, yo, this is. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.840 My is my cousin from your your your dad's side, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:22.800 Like what yeah? 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.000 That was that was that generation and I didn't know 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:25.640 any better than that. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.840 But hey, my parents been together with forty three years 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:30.760 and they was cheating on each other for forty years. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:37.160 But they still together, so don't judge that. So they 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.520 don't judge my parents. They still together. That's right to 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.600 this day. My parents been together so long. They got 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.480 the same voice. Yoh, yeah, that's when you know. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:46.720 That's when you know you've been together. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.960 Like, hey, mama, na is your daddy? Hey daddy, y'all 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.360 is your mom? They got the same And I love 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:53.560 my parents big shutout to them. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.320 So like, you know, Chicago, I feel like the three 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.400 roughest cities to perform. Man, what a field of performing 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.960 you're in that's the toughest is New York, Philadelphia, Chicago? 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:07.240 You know what I mean? 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.800 Like the shot don't play, just like New York and Philly, 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.720 don't play what was performing there and getting the reaction 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.640 from the crowd in your hometown. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.200 First, teach you about being the comedian. 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:20.800 They taught me a lot man because you know, like 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:22.520 I was, I was a kid at the time. So 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.000 watching Dion Cole and watching him, like I remember watching 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.520 running about Deon Cole the very first time I did shot. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.520 I think it was in Gary, Indiana with him and 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.200 I was like, yeah, it was when def Jam came out. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.240 So def Jam for me was like the NBA for 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:34.800 like people who want to play basketball. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.279 Russ. Russ put a lot. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.680 Of watching that and then seeing Dion cold me like 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.080 a couple of weeks later and was like, Yo, man, 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:41.960 you a celebrity. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.680 Man, God damn celebrity. I came on an L train. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.680 What are you talking about? I got seven hundred dollars. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.800 It was different and and introducting into the into the scene. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.280 But comedy has always been like Chicago. That was back 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:56.920 in the era where you could boo people like now 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:57.679 no one really. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.760 Gets booed a heck o. That was in the era 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.880 you go boopy, Yeah that was an eff because now 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.679 it's edited out. I believe a lot of these things 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.240 is controlled. It's not live performances. Yeah, But back in 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:10.960 the day, like you know, I cut my teeth in Chicago, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.120 but you know, big shot of New York. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:13.520 You know I came from. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.400 That's when I got my real I would say, really 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.800 taking it seriously. After I graduated college, I came to 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.599 New York and like I came to New York, I 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.200 was homeless on the streets and I was like, if 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.800 it's if it's comedy thing, it's gonna mean anything. Because 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.480 Dave Chapelle told me that. Dave Seapelle was like, if 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.040 you ever want to find out if you really got 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:28.680 what it takes, you'll go to New York. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:30.680 And that was when he had the movie Blue Streak out, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.080 and I was like, all right, I never been here. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.400 Got off the Greyhound bus. 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.120 My daddy's girlfriend had died then, so I couldn't call her. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.719 Artie passed away the rest of peace. It's a different 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:47.560 thing when the side chick died so different and listen 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:48.960 to stories. So it was like, I'll make up an 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.880 here this ship my dad. WHILEY watched, he was like, yeah, 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.440 you know, so damn that's great. 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.320 But my mama boyfriend did too, so he gone. So 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.800 now you know, now it's really really committed. So now 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.880 it's all about them. But I came to New York 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:00.680 and I got off the Great Home Bus. I ain't 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.719 no shit about it at all. I ain't know nothing 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.239 about New York. So I got off the Great Houmebus 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:05.680 and I was like, I'm gonna do comedy here. And 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.000 I started walking around and people's giving out flyer in 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:09.520 Times Square, and that's kind of why I got cut 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.279 my teeth in. But I would say New York gives 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.360 you that that era of you know, because I used 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:14.240 to do comedy anyway. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.839 I'm talking about squads. I'm talking about the Adam. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.440 I'm talking about you name it, Bushit, I'm talking about Queens. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.239 I'm talking about forty projects. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:22.000 I'm on Baisley. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.279 I went anywhere that would actually Yeah, I did Mahattan proper, 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.039 I did all of those things. I got a chance 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.159 to do Peppermint a couple times in New Jersey and 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.240 it was just the era where they didn't like you, 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.400 they would move the hell out of you. And I 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.760 used to do this Jamaican spot I did. It's called 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.400 Footprints and Clarity. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:43.279 Yeah, yeah, we know footprints. You're from Brooklyn, you know footprints. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.200 They would throw shit at people. They would throw pepper 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.000 pot and sword fish and ickya all. They didn't give 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.200 a damn. That was that era when you. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.280 Know the crowd is tough. Yes, yes, that's the one 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.440 of the toughest crowds too. They don't play that ship. 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.320 But I didn't know that because you know, in New York, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.679 I mean in Chicago and growing up in the Midwest, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.520 you don't know that it's different. You just look at 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.560 black people like they black people like what brought Like, Yo, 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:04.440 you mean browed up? 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:04.560 Bro? 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.840 Your brother? I know, brother, are you that's ship? 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:10.720 Where you're from? 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.960 Jamaina Like, no, I'm Haitian, I'm I'm this. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:18.800 I mean, I'm Beijing, I'm Guyanese, I'm Guyanese. And if 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.440 you get it wrong, it's just like that with the 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.640 Latin community. They take that shit real serious. They do, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.280 even the Asians, and we fuck them all up. We 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.720 don't know our word up as black people. Still, I 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.280 still look at certain Jamaine like, Yo, you're from hate nigga, Man, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.520 I'm from fucking Ghya, Like you're from Africa, Nigga? Like 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:36.280 what the fuck? 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.520 Like word like, I still fuck it up? So I 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:44.240 feel you on that. How was it working with Carson Daly? 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:44.520 Man? 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.840 I know that had to be an experience in itself. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.640 So when I got into the comedy thing, I started 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.920 saying to myself, like, you know what, I gotta get 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.800 credits because I started noticing. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.600 That that they wouldn't put you up unless you had credits. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:57.920 Like I was doing all these open mics, and I 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.760 couldn't take my career to the next level. So I 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.920 start already doing warm up for a big shout out 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.040 to see the millions. I was like the first person 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.360 to ever be like, look, you know what I'm saying, 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.760 I'm gonna look out for you. And I used to 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.520 do because I did a show called Becoming It's wanna 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:12.040 beas I remember. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:12.960 I remember that back in the day. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:14.920 I was like, if you if you could, it was 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.360 like a contest and you got to be whatever rapper 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.640 you want and they make you a video or whatever whatever. 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.680 And I did that and believe it or not, I 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.000 was Jah Rule on the show. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.680 Yeah, I was what would that be without you? 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.400 I did such a good job order that fifty cent 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.400 hey to be back here. I'm joking, let me stop, 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:38.120 because fifty cent is pag yo yo. He just was 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:38.960 on my yo. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.160 He petted like I actually did show a fifty cent. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.000 He had a comedy show called fifty Central on BT 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.480 and I fell off the stage because like a faulty. 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:47.040 Thing like a beam. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.200 And I could tell that wasn't gonna get paid because 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:50.400 the fifty cent came over and he looked at the 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:51.520 beam and looked at me, and I was like this, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.000 and I was like, okay, you know what, I'm just. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.280 Gonna take a gu and the T shirt. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.240 Yo, shit, you know, like you're gonna pay. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.920 You on some bullshit. He's shooting that a but he 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.600 got mad drama, right? What smokey for? What is smoky? 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:06.680 Anybody dropping versus raps memes is mean walls. He even 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.840 put me in the mean war like nigga, what I said, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.480 I ain't got no record about you. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:11.080 Hoe me chill. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.760 Yeah, I'm petty fifty. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.719 That's a fact, yo. But God, Christine Milly y'ard, look 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.920 that's dope. You put me in and out to ask 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.040 you a question about Carson Daily. Like I started doing 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.520 Woman for every single MTV show. I started doing Woman 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.959 for TRL. I started doing Woman for every single thing, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.040 one or six parts. I was the official, like the 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.959 crowd got it to just beforehand to get in this 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.480 shit beach house all that. So and then Carson was like, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.200 you know what, because I was a woman guy for him, 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.720 he put me on his late night show it called 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.160 Late Night with Carson Daily, a whole bunch of other stuff. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.480 So big shout out to whole MTV team because it's 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:48.040 funny because I used to sleep outside of fifteen fifty Broadway, 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:49.839 like you know what I'm saying right outside, I used 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.480 to look up at the window, was like, one day I'm. 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:52.599 Gonna be on MTV. I'm gonna do this. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.400 I'm I'm gonna beat this person. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.440 So I started by just making people in the line 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.520 laugh how they was going up to the building and I. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:09:59.520 Was to start cracking joke. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.320 Yeah, and I started cracking jokes and the producers saw 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.000 me and it was like, you know what, won't you 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.400 come upstairs? And it started from that whole thing, and 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.839 just you know, transcending to meet Christina and doing the 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.120 jo Rule thing and just snowballing to be on Comic 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:12.839 View and Bad Boys of Comedy and all that stuff. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.600 Just kind of moved on that thing, and she even 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.240 put me in a movie Lotton cost of thing, So 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.400 big shout out to her and a Mom, Mama, Mileian. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.480 That's dope. I didn't even know you was in loved 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.120 on Cours, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. And Nick Kennon was 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.640 in that, moving, moving, grooving Yeah, shout out my dog 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.200 Nick Man. Then that so that obviously being in the 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:34.480 MTV I feel like system, that's the segue in the 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.679 wild now or did you meet Nick on a separate 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.160 occasion and the wild and out position happened. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.960 I met Nick for the first time at Lotto cost 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.600 thing and that was when I guess, you know, while 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:49.679 I wasn't out yet, it was. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.360 Just like a concept. And I remember Spanky Hayes. Spanky Hayes. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.360 Yeah, so Spanky Hayes on he was telling me that 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.200 he's like, yo, we're about to shoot this thing for MTV. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:58.800 But I when I came to New York, a lot 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.880 of people know I was a safe father. So the 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.480 whole time I was homeless, I was with my daughter. 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.319 I had focustody in my daughter since she was two 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.160 years old, and she was with me every single step 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.000 of the way. So when that opportunity came, I couldn't 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.840 take it. I couldn't do it. I couldn't go out 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.240 to audition because it's just me and my daughter. I 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.480 couldn't just you know, go to LA for the time 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.000 because so right after I just the movie, I came 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:18.920 right back home and I was just like, damn. I 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.240 felt I always felt like I missed that opportunity. But 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.520 you know, Nigga into Mary Mariah and they brought it 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.160 to New York and I was like, ah, I'm good now. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:31.400 So I was like, it's here. And I remember going 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.600 to the to the first season where they brought it 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.720 back and Spankey was like, yo, man, come through and 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.240 you know, I'm gonna look out for you. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:38.840 I'm gonna introduce you and bring you in here. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.600 And the funniest thing Spanky forgot to leave my name 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.320 at the door, or he didn't leave my name of 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:45.800 the door. So I'm standing there, I'm like, yeah, I'm 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.720 on Spanky's list, and it was like spank ain't gonna 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.000 damn list. Yeah, And I'm like, oh, I'm calling my 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.400 nigga and hen not adding the phone. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.400 It's just like I was like, oh, New York ship. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.320 We got a lot of old stories up here. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.959 But God always be on my side because the direct 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.400 was like one of the people that see pay. He 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.480 was one of the people that that directed TRL. So 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.720 he told me, he's like, rap, what are you doing here? 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.040 Like you doing a woman for the show. And I 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:10.600 was like no, I was trying to get in and 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.880 then speaking to leave my name. He's like, come on 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.240 in and and then I got that. And then you know, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.719 I used to you know, help and assist Shante and 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.800 shte Wayne started looking out. He started I started helping 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.800 other people in the big shot of Jack Thriller. Jack 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.959 Thriller really helped me get in. Yeah, Jack Thriller and 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.200 really helped me get in to start doing the warm 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.040 up and stuff like that. So I had to start 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.560 as the warm up coming even for that show. So 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.280 I started backing the same thing thing I was gonna 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:34.680 get on, but I didn't. I was the woman for 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.320 so long for that show. And then one day, I 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.240 believe a comedy man the name of Jimmy Martinez came. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.000 He's like, yo, man, they have an auditions, and I'm 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:42.520 mind you, I'm the woman guy, and even know they 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.760 have an audition. I'm doing a woman for like two years. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.600 Yeah, he get the information. He had an agent. This 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.079 is me freelancing the whole damn time. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.520 So I'm out here like trying to just figure out 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.080 how to maneuver myself through it because I'm like bam. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:57.760 And so then I'm doing a Woman. Jimmy's like, they're 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.959 gonna have auditions tomorrow. You should start asking about it. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.160 I'm gonna try to get you in and get you 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:03.160 on too, because I'm auditioning. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:04.040 I'm like, I bet. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.080 And so then I started doing a warm up and 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.079 I forgot her name, but she was one of the 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.679 producers on it. She was like, rip, I'm gonna try 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.640 to get you an audition because what happens when I 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:13.480 used to do warm up. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.320 I used to make the crowd so hysterically laughing. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.360 And the energy, so they would use my stand up 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.680 part of me doing stand up before the show, and 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.160 they would bank it and they would turn the cameras 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:25.520 on because normally when you do woman, they turn the 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.439 cameras off they go take lunch. So they started filming 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.000 the crowd when I would do warm up and taking 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.520 those those laughs and those bits and adding them to 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.240 the show. So I would sometimes you watch it show 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:37.959 you be like they h sterically laughing. That would probably 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:39.480 be when I was doing warm up, so there. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.400 Was In other words, they was cappin. They was using 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.439 your your action for somebody else jokes that wasn't slapping. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:47.559 I don't think it's cappin. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.959 I think that's just part of production because normally you 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.040 bank those things. Normally you have a person go out 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.440 and you bank them and you be like fake las, 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:54.880 fake clap, fake this, fake. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.960 Sons up back and yeah, everybody make noise. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:13:59.320 Yeah. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.640 So instead of of them shows like that, they would 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.240 just take my stand up and we would go straight 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:04.400 in and it would just keep me up there and 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:05.640 they start filming it. So and then it was like 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.360 eventually it was like, you know what, let's give him 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.000 an audition, Let's give him a shot. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.959 Do you feel like while' now, I feel like created 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.520 a lot of jobs in the black community, black comic 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:21.440 community for us. Like you had shows like Deaf Comedy Jam, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.800 you had Bad Boys of Comedy, you know what I mean. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.000 You had all those shows and then a lot of these, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.480 you know, comedians went on to do television. And now 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.880 when you look at television, you don't see no more, 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.800 not even just from comedians actors period. There's no more 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:40.240 real television shows or even shows for our community. Do 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.600 you feel like that's something that's missing that you want 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.120 to contribute or create more? A thousand percent That era 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.840 was dope man, super domed bro Man. With the era 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:54.040 of Martin different words, show the world all everything and 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.040 just show excellence and in living color. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:00.160 That was just the gods by showing the show, show. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.200 The different levels, all that stuff, all of that man, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.080 show different levels of our community. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:06.960 You know what I mean. Now it's just ignorance that 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:07.760 represents us. 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.440 So I definitely feel it's a it's a lost art 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.200 that's missing in television. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.080 With us, for sure, we always got loos and to. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.360 You, you got a red shirt, come back die it's 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.680 a blue shirt. You know what happens now? You got it? 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.200 You got a shout out to me. I love what 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:28.480 they do. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.440 They do actually give you a shot. They don't even 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.680 care if it whatever. They actually give people a shot. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.480 And that's what's dope about it, because all you could 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.440 do is try, man, you know what I mean, get better, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.320 like to get better at something. I always felt like 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.920 you had to fail before. You don't just start off great. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.160 I agree with that, you know what I mean, Failure 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.240 breeds greatness and a lot of failure. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.080 Yeah, a lot. I got booed a lot, a lot. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:53.280 Hot boot one time. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:53.640 Bro. 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.560 I swear, and I swear remember the Southwest commercial their 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.640 staff and they be like you want to get away 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.720 and they put the Southwest commerciery like you gotta yo, Bro. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.080 I had one of those moments in Baltimore. This is 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.680 being from New York not realizing there's a thin line 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.320 between Baltimore and DC, and I'm over there like, yeah, 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:19.120 peace in love DC. The niggas like boo who damn yo, bro, 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:20.640 I'm standing like what I did. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.440 Y'all just was rocking with me through the whole show. Niggas, 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:23.920 we don't care. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.560 Bull this's a VC they got Damn that DNV. Yeah, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.480 that's not the DMV that's bought. There's be more, yo. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:30.080 I swear. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.920 I learned the hardway, so I know about a bull 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.120 or too, you know what I mean? Like yo, Like 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.360 being from Chicago, you know, Chicago produced many legends from 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.480 the comedian side, from the music side. Did you get 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.240 any inspiration from any of those guys on to come up? 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.640 You started young though, so, oh my god, yes, of course, 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.960 man Idols, come on, Bernie Mac come, Yes, Are you serious? 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.280 Come on that like that to me was like like 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.520 the idol Yese Bernie mac legend. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.880 And then you look at the d Rays like everybody 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:02.760 when you come to New York. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:04.520 You look at all the great comedians that come from 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.280 New York, like Eddie Murphy's from here. You look at 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:07.080 Chris Rock, you look. 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.879 It's just been a plethora of black excellence, man like, 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:11.439 and just to be a part of that. Even the 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.280 people I work with now, And it's funny because I 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.199 get to call them peers now, you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.240 I got a show like even April Fools it's me, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.360 Michael Blaxton, Bill Bellamy. So just doing on the same 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:21.760 Marlin and being on the same show. 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:22.760 That's dope, man. 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.239 Y'all gonna be in the Barclays man shot that out, man, 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.720 let them know. I's going to create April Fool's Day 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.040 the Barclays Brooklyn is going down. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.280 Yeah, that's just it's just a dope thing that I've 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.280 been doing for Honestly, it's funny because you speak about 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.080 black excellence. That's the show I've been doing for about 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.040 fifteen years now. And it was just the concept of 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.800 me like looking to Like when I started my career, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.680 I wanted to go here, right. So when I start 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.920 doing all these rooms, a friend of mine named Rashie passed. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:48.280 Awy, I don't know. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:49.960 I remember Rashie. If you ever seen The Bad Boys 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.000 of Comedy. He was the one that had Uncle Dope 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.560 and he was like or Poppy ain't no snitch. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.000 Or he was like, he was like, I gotta I 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.200 gotta go back up. Yeah, and I probably remember the joke, 0:17:58.240 --> 0:17:58.960 but not the face. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:04.200 Yeah, he passed away, and that when he passed away, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.120 a lot of people tried to host his rooms because 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.520 I had a lot of rooms, and at one point, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.639 when it came to comedy in New York, you couldn't 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.120 come to New York whatever calling me because from Monday 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.200 all the way to Sunday, I had two rooms a night. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.280 And then when he passed away his room, I ended 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.520 up doing his rooms too because they were gonna disappear. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.080 And his brother in law was like, hey, man, Rip, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.000 they're gonna take these rooms away. 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:27.280 Would you mind hosting it? 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.080 And I was like, yeah, I'll host it, but when 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:31.680 I'm hosting it, I need you to whatever. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.040 I think the budget was like eight hundred dollars. 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.040 I was like, take the majority of the budget. Take 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.399 six hundred, give me two, and you give that to 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.840 his daughters and his family so I can keep that going. 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:41.479 I'm gonna take two. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.480 I'm gonna get a comedian a hunting and the rest 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.320 of y'all just divvy that up and do whatever y'all 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:46.960 want with that. And it's like, seriously, it's like, yeah, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.439 it's not we gotta keep this going because you know, 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.360 he had a heart attack at such a young age. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.320 He was on his way, bro, Like he was really 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:55.240 really on his way. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.119 Wow, man, damn bringing that up. Sorry to hear about it. Man, 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.399 I'm glad you sitting here a healthy stroug Man. You 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.080 know you suffered the heart attack. Yes, Sam, Man, it's 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.639 just you never know, man. And I set all that 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.800 to be like, you know, back then, I set up 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.399 this April Fools comedy jam, and I was like, you 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.960 know what, I stopped elevating my career because I started going. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.520 Like, you know what, I'm gonna bring us all up. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.360 I'm gonna show what we can do when we come 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:23.840 together conectively. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:25.920 And that's what the Aple Fools was. And I was like, 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.680 all right, cool. I'm gonna take me you and let's 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.960 go sell out the Barklay Center. Everybody thought I was crazy. 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.560 It was like, You're gonna sell out the Barclay Center 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.120 with a whole bunch of comedians and together we may 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:36.960 do like three hundred people. And I was like, nah, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.400 I'm gonna make it something dope. And when I did that, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.720 like I have mad rapper friends, I was like, you 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.320 know what, I'm gonna put you in. I got you, 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.160 We're gonna do you and you, and I made it 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.119 all about all the people I know. So that's how 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.480 the April Fool's Comedy Jam came about, and it. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.880 Became this big thing where you got people. 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.760 That would never normally be in an arena doing sixteen 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.280 thousand people like we do shows in a round. And 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.760 it's just been that cultivating thing like that which April 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.080 Food and if you fast forward, I own the Fall 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.679 Back in Love. And that's when I take all the 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:06.840 R and B stars that people thought they forgot about, 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:08.920 like I put Brandy on when she had been doing 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.280 a song in ten years, and Trade when he had 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.880 a court case every week, he still got a court 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:15.640 case every week. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:26.680 And that's my dog man shout out trace. Yeah, that's 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.199 the big homeo man. They're like Mario and like, if 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.520 you look at all of these people, I was like, we're. 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:32.240 Coming out of this club thing. 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:33.200 We're gonna be big. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.159 And I started this whole R and B bring back older, 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:38.440 older R and B artists that are now just probably 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:40.399 doing clubs and like. And so if you look at 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:43.040 April Fools, that's me and comedians and hip hop artists. 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:44.320 And if you look at fall Back in Love, that's 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:46.600 comedians and R and B artists. If you look at 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.480 the Wild Out Tour, there's something also started the Wild Out. 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.560 Tour in Queens and at Miszoura, a wall. 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.520 Place started that. Yeah, come on, I did. That was 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:56.760 fifteen hundred people in the room. I started that next thing. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:58.680 You know, I was number two on post Star and 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.119 we're selling out arenas And that's a five years strong 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:05.280 of doing nothing but sold out shows across the country. 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:08.760 That's a blessing. Man. 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:13.920 Looking back, do you credit the struggle years of your 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:19.119 comedian career to the businessman you are today? Did those 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.639 years you feel like carveew to the man and the 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.639 businessman you are today to make those decisions to create 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:29.520 all these new platforms to come together. I wouldn't say 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.600 I was thinking business at the time. I would say 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:35.200 that I was thinking more like, let's change, let's change 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:36.440 the perception of what we're doing. 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.880 I wasn't even thinking of it as no financial like, oh, 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:41.199 we don't kill them, We're gonna make a lot. 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.000 It was more like we. 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.960 Matter, Like we come together, we can, we can do 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.240 these great things that people just just think that we can't, 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.600 like honestly, like, I know you brought out the hard thing, 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:54.960 but like, and that's why I'm doing this now, Like 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.000 if you I was in the hospital and I hate 0:21:58.000 --> 0:21:59.680 to jump all over subjects, but I was in the 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:01.000 hospit and you know, I had. 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:01.440 A heart attack. 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:04.119 I had a heart attack at State Farm Arena on 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:08.720 the side of stage and eighteen thousand people there, and 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.480 I'm just like, okay, and I've been and I'm still 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:13.240 on a heart transplant. 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:14.800 At least it's not over. Like my heart is. 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:17.679 Still in nineteen percent and I'm sitting in the hospital 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:19.560 band I was like, yo, if I ever get well enough, 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:20.159 because it's not over. 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:21.119 It's still a. 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.200 Journey, Like today is a good day, but tomorrow maybe 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:27.000 a bad day. But I promised myself that if I 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:34.280 ever get a chance to do comedy again, I'm gonna 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:36.159 make it mean something. I'm gonna push myself and I'm 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.320 gonna push my brand. And because I realized that being 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:42.919 in there, you start to realize, like who really is 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:49.199 your friend, Who's business, who's. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.560 Not started to matter? You start to realize what really matters? 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:54.080 Dude, I lost my health insurance, right and so I'm 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:56.240 getting about to get kicked out the hospital. And I 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:59.120 called every single person I knew to like, just put 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:01.400 me in something, because I sack. So that's my assurance 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.480 is sack. So it's like I'm calling everybody I know 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:06.480 they got a movie or anything. I'm like, throw me 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:08.960 in this, don't put me in this. And I parked 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:10.359 the cars in the movie. I just need to make 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:13.520 like ten grand on on sacks so I can keep 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:15.480 my insurance, so I can stand in the hospital. And 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:17.359 the fact that I couldn't get one person to do 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:19.399 that for me, out of all the things I've done, 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:24.760 was just a wake up call, A wake up call, 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:26.720 A big shout out to you know, we in Jersey, 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:28.840 big shout to Justina. She was doing a little independent 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:30.439 movie and she was like, ill, rip, you could just 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:31.560 play whatever, just come by. 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:32.720 I got you. 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:35.480 That's what's up, man, And it was like a. 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:38.240 Person I would never think in a million years, like, 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:39.960 come on, are you serious. I don't know if you 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:41.480 know what Justina is, but like that's the girl with 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.440 wine with the red hair. And she got the same 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:48.600 face and ass as Gary Owens. Not no more, she 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:53.919 got done. I tell all the times she get Gary as. 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:55.919 She kind of looked like taught me from power in 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:59.240 the face. But that's my girl. She always joke on me. 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:01.720 But like she did that for me. No, man, that's 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:02.480 a blessing man. 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.280 And you know, like that's one thing and it's sad 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:07.560 and it's fucked up because as having a good being 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:09.879 a good person, you do so much for so many 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:13.040 people that when it's your turn for people in return, 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:16.320 there's no one never there. And that's one thing that 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:18.560 I always you know, people always like, yo, what's some 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:21.080 advice that Jay gave you that you take with you. 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:24.800 Is that, yo, no one's coming to save us. You 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:27.639 know what I mean, We gotta save ourself. We the 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:30.240 ones that when we save ourself, we in the position 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:32.880 to save others. But no one's coming to save us. 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:37.439 And that's something I always remember, like you gotta we 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:41.080 gotta get it. And it's sad reality, but it is, man, 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:44.560 that's the reality when when heartache and pain hits, is 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:47.919 just you and your loved ones, A lot of friends go. 0:24:48.119 --> 0:24:51.440 I was, I was one hundred deep before you know, 0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:54.439 I mean my brother accident. After my brother accident. You 0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:59.040 see you see the room, it's five of us, you 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:01.159 know what I mean, And that's just what it is. 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:03.840 The main ones stay, and the ones who just was 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:06.760 crowding on the boat they jump and it's cool. The 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:09.440 boat's still gonna go. You're still doing your thing, blessed. 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:13.120 And like you said April fourth, April Fool's Comedy Jam, 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:15.720 you're selling out the Barclays. So I'm pretty sure a 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:17.680 lot of people who jumped off the boat or didn't 0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:20.760 even throw you a life raft, begging you for a 0:25:20.800 --> 0:25:21.399 life raft. 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:23.360 Now you know what I mean, you know what it is. 0:25:23.440 --> 0:25:25.560 I still won't change me. I still I didn't take 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:28.240 that away. I didn't take that away, and I don't 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:30.919 because what I do for people, I did it with 0:25:31.080 --> 0:25:35.480 no expectations. So I don't expect anybody to do anything 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:37.240 for me, and I'm not mad or have an issue 0:25:37.359 --> 0:25:39.919 with anybody that don't. Just like I didn't do it 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:42.560 for that. I did it to do and help and 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:44.040 be there for others. And I'm gonna still be the 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:45.840 same person. So these people are still my friends. 0:25:45.840 --> 0:25:47.480 I still call these people to this day, and I 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:49.080 think that our relationship has got better. 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:51.639 But now I understand that God got me here for 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.680 a purpose, and I want to live in my purpose. 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:57.600 And so now it's time to be like, okay, because 0:25:57.680 --> 0:25:59.359 no one knew that I did all these things. No 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:01.399 one knew that I created the wound out tour in 0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:04.159 small place and fifteen hundred people in Amazura and Queens. 0:26:04.280 --> 0:26:06.680 I definitely and that shit started. 0:26:06.359 --> 0:26:07.760 Just because we was on the side of the stage 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:10.280 and Nick was like, I was working on a special 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:12.200 and I was right on the special, standing them the 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:14.159 shoe and he was like, man, I wish that I 0:26:14.160 --> 0:26:16.080 could sell out arenas and he was Cat Williams. We 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:19.199 want to go see Cat Williams and Ontario. And he 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:20.520 was looking at Cat and He's like, yeah, I wish 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:21.600 I could do arenas like this. 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:25.800 And I was like, really, you put all these people on, 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:28.400 you created the Cavs, you created, the Cats, you did 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:31.520 the mics, you created all these people. Well this this 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:32.199 is what you want to do. 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:33.719 And I looked at I was like, yo, Nick, man, 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:36.600 you changed my life by putting me on Wild's Out. 0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:41.040 Man, and you kept me on that show. And if 0:26:41.080 --> 0:26:43.200 this is what you want, I got you. 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:44.640 Man. That's dope. 0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:45.080 I got you. 0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:47.440 I said, give me six months, and I promise you 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:51.400 we're gonna do ten times more people that's in this room. 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:52.960 That's dope, man. And he forgot. 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:54.480 I booked him. I was like, we're gonna get his started. 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:55.720 So I put I was like, hey, man, we're gonna 0:26:55.720 --> 0:26:59.960 do this little room in Queen and Nick forgot all 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:01.760 about this shit. So I booked it and I was. 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:03.640 Like, yo, man, Nick, we got the show all the thirty. 0:27:03.680 --> 0:27:05.200 He was like, what are you talking about? Oh the thirtie, 0:27:05.320 --> 0:27:05.920 what are you talking I. 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:07.399 Said, Man, you told me back then that you had 0:27:07.480 --> 0:27:07.919 wanted to do. 0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:10.520 He was like, man, I got a show in Chicago 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:13.280 and I can't do your show. And I was like, look, Nick, 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:16.480 whatever they pay you in Chicago, I'm gonna give you Morening, 0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:18.560 I'm gonna give you more money they give you in Chicago. 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:21.800 I need you to move that and do this. And 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:23.280 he was like, you got. 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:24.520 The money now, and I was like, no, I got now, 0:27:25.920 --> 0:27:29.040 but I promised you I got before you touch the stage, 0:27:29.840 --> 0:27:32.120 you'll have all of your money plus morening what you're 0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:35.119 supposed to get in Chicago. And I didn't know how 0:27:35.320 --> 0:27:36.879 at the time because I was giving out wild off 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:37.879 flis and he was like, get out of here. 0:27:37.880 --> 0:27:39.240 As the kids showed, nobody want to see that. 0:27:39.280 --> 0:27:41.320 My daughter watched this show and everybody I thought they 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:43.600 would be like, oh with it, because you know. And 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:45.879 it turned out not only did I do one show, 0:27:46.119 --> 0:27:48.199 I did two shows at Atmosphere, and then we went 0:27:48.240 --> 0:27:53.000 out to Long Island and we did a Patchwock and Soundguarden. 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:55.119 We did three and that show was so packed that 0:27:55.200 --> 0:27:56.720 the mayor and the police came and shut it down 0:27:56.720 --> 0:27:58.520 because I had six thousand people in line because there 0:27:58.520 --> 0:27:58.920 was no ticket. 0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:02.719 Bat six thousand people lining up the people yards, damn 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:05.400 six thousand people show up. Yeah, the police showing up. Yeah, 0:28:05.440 --> 0:28:07.160 six hours hell going on over here. 0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:09.760 And it's a deeper long eye, so you know that's Patchworks. 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:13.200 So they was just like, what what there' it's going 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:16.240 on y'all got to get out of our yards so fast. 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:18.919 And then I thought that would catapult it into something. 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:21.280 But then they were like, this don't really matter. 0:28:21.520 --> 0:28:22.280 These numbers. 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:24.320 The powers that be was like these numbers don't mean this, 0:28:24.480 --> 0:28:26.320 and this don't mean that. And I was like, you 0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:29.160 know what, So because I did it on this scale, 0:28:29.200 --> 0:28:32.400 this don't matter. So I took my cars and took 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:36.199 everything I had on my bank accounts, and you've been 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:38.720 turn that shit into an arena. So I went and 0:28:38.720 --> 0:28:42.760 booked like ten. I think it's thirteen arenas. Book thirteen 0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:46.200 arenas and they'll go history like after that, signed every 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:48.040 single one of them. We was like, I was number 0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:50.200 two in the country on post it was Kelly Clarkston 0:28:50.440 --> 0:28:53.960 and it was me and it was wilding out. And 0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:55.880 to this day we still you speak about dcs. To 0:28:55.880 --> 0:28:57.640 this day, I still own the record for doing two 0:28:57.680 --> 0:28:59.600 arenas in one night. We did Show Palace, like twelve 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:02.200 thousand people in there. We took an FBI escort to 0:29:02.600 --> 0:29:04.479 the Capitol one arena at the time, and we did 0:29:04.520 --> 0:29:06.560 seventeen thousand and five and when we had a seven 0:29:06.560 --> 0:29:09.280 o'clock show and a nine to thirty show and two 0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:10.440 arenas in the same night. 0:29:10.800 --> 0:29:11.600 That's dope, man. 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:13.280 I had Nick up here, man, and I was just 0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:16.000 telling them, it's a blessing creating these shows and lasting 0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:20.800 what whil and now on they what twenty six seeds? Yo, 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:26.240 bro y'all doing Simpson's numbers over there? Man, Like, realistically, 0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:27.440 that's Simpson numbers. 0:29:27.560 --> 0:29:28.520 You gotta look what Nick created. 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:28.640 Man. 0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:29.480 Put the comedians out. 0:29:29.520 --> 0:29:33.440 Now, that's getting money come from that institution, like Matt Rife, 0:29:34.080 --> 0:29:36.240 Nate Jackson, eighty five South. 0:29:36.120 --> 0:29:39.640 Like, yup, yeah, you name it. Mike got eighty five South, yup, 0:29:39.680 --> 0:29:42.719 Mike Apps. Mike Apps a legend too, man like. And 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:45.480 then you you started so doing arenas I could. I'm 0:29:45.480 --> 0:29:48.080 pretty sure it feels natural like you you opened up 0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:52.920 of course Rihanna's shows, Jay z Drake, Like doing those arenas, 0:29:52.920 --> 0:29:57.840 did that help you prepare for the arenas towards you 0:29:57.600 --> 0:30:02.440 you put together like this, I think that open up 0:30:02.480 --> 0:30:06.200 for those people and seeing those things. It's funny because 0:30:06.200 --> 0:30:08.760 that was never like I never dreamed that big man. 0:30:08.760 --> 0:30:11.280 I'm like, I didn't dream that big. 0:30:11.320 --> 0:30:14.000 I just wanted to just be Actually my biggest dreaming 0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:15.880 of being a comedie. I was like, I just want 0:30:15.920 --> 0:30:17.560 to be on death comedy gym. 0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:21.200 That was crazy, bad thing. 0:30:21.400 --> 0:30:23.480 I like, I ever dreamed of doing that. 0:30:23.680 --> 0:30:25.360 The highest I thought it would take, I wouldn't like 0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:26.800 I want to be in the movie, I want to 0:30:26.800 --> 0:30:27.000 be this. 0:30:27.520 --> 0:30:29.000 And my other dream was to make sure that I 0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:32.160 could always make people fall out and create that same 0:30:32.360 --> 0:30:34.760 deaf comedy gym laughter when you just falling out the chair. 0:30:35.000 --> 0:30:36.920 And if you watch my Apollo special, like I sold 0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:40.120 out the Apollo last year and I had a heart 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:42.480 attack after that again had to be rushed to the hospital. 0:30:42.480 --> 0:30:44.640 But like, and then I did a huge City Winery 0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:46.760 tour and we sold out every one of those and 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:47.840 I sold out City Winery. 0:30:47.840 --> 0:30:50.760 And it's just I never thought that big. 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:53.160 It was just me always trying to do stuff for 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:55.480 other people and people shutting doors in our faces. 0:30:55.680 --> 0:30:58.160 Was like, all right, you told me we can't, we 0:30:58.200 --> 0:31:00.320 can't do this. I'm we're gonna do it, and we 0:31:00.400 --> 0:31:02.600 can't have this and this these people don't matter. Then 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:03.560 we're gonna do it. That's right. 0:31:03.760 --> 0:31:05.560 Always do that, And that's what it was always about. 0:31:05.640 --> 0:31:07.760 And and like my comedy when you watch it, if 0:31:07.760 --> 0:31:09.960 you watch my Apollo special, if you watch you know 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:12.320 all those years of doing warm up for so many people. 0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:15.840 I can always change my joke in fit the environment 0:31:15.920 --> 0:31:17.920 that I'm in, so whether I'm doing and you know 0:31:18.080 --> 0:31:20.040 I was, I was homeless, so there was not an 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:21.280 audience I didn't perform for. 0:31:21.560 --> 0:31:23.280 Like I would do living people's living rooms. I would 0:31:23.280 --> 0:31:24.560 do a basement, I would do a guy in these 0:31:24.560 --> 0:31:25.200 wedding I would do. 0:31:25.280 --> 0:31:26.600 I would form on the train, I. 0:31:26.520 --> 0:31:30.280 Would sell metroswipes. I got to the point where I 0:31:30.320 --> 0:31:32.080 was doing comedism, like I didn't even have a DVD. 0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:34.400 I used to sell other comedians DVD and they. 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:35.440 Would break me off a piece of it. Like this 0:31:35.480 --> 0:31:37.200 dude named Kareem Green. He had a DVD and he 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:38.920 was selling it for like fifteen, and I was like, 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:40.520 all right, look how much you pay for these? Like 0:31:40.560 --> 0:31:42.240 I pay five. I was like, so I'll give you ten, 0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:45.360 and I'll sell your DVD for fifteen and make five 0:31:45.400 --> 0:31:46.040 off each one. 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:47.560 And I would sell them to people and it was like, man, 0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:48.240 I watched the DVD. 0:31:48.280 --> 0:31:48.960 You not even on it. 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:50.640 And I was like, I never said I was on it. 0:31:51.080 --> 0:31:53.840 I said, it's a funny DVD. But if you keep 0:31:53.840 --> 0:31:55.920 buying them, I could produce my own special that's right. 0:31:56.320 --> 0:31:58.640 So I'm selling DVD. 0:31:58.800 --> 0:32:00.640 Ain No, I wasn't even on it. You should say 0:32:02.040 --> 0:32:02.800 that's hustling. 0:32:04.040 --> 0:32:07.040 I just think that's what really prepared me in all 0:32:07.040 --> 0:32:09.720 those years of being in the background. And I've wrote 0:32:09.760 --> 0:32:12.600 for so many comedians, like I was like the head writer. 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:13.280 For the Nick Cannon Show. 0:32:13.320 --> 0:32:15.120 I wrote on Wi Williams Show, wrote for so many 0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:18.160 different comedians and Brandy Jackson wrote for It's just so 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:22.800 many people that whose entire specials I've I've written and culptivated. 0:32:23.120 --> 0:32:24.760 And I think all. 0:32:24.640 --> 0:32:27.000 Of that, that journey being on my daughter the whole 0:32:27.000 --> 0:32:29.840 time prepare me for what I was doing. And you 0:32:29.880 --> 0:32:33.320 don't know that you're being prepared and guarded. God is 0:32:33.360 --> 0:32:35.760 sharpening you for something. The whole time you're going through it. 0:32:35.800 --> 0:32:37.440 You're like, you know, why is it no food on 0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:37.720 the table? 0:32:37.720 --> 0:32:38.200 Why is it? 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:40.880 Why am I not like this person? 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:44.200 This person? I'm so why so why is such a 0:32:44.200 --> 0:32:46.960 struggle for me? I said, you want like he just 0:32:47.000 --> 0:32:50.240 did that nice, He's just And I realized God was 0:32:50.280 --> 0:32:52.960 sharpening and sitting out in a hospital, it's my turnout 0:32:53.760 --> 0:32:54.480 and I'm ready for it. 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:55.760 Like I got four different specials. 0:32:55.800 --> 0:32:58.200 First special I put out did over a million in 0:32:58.200 --> 0:33:00.240 the first week, the next one I'm putting out, just 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:02.600 keep dropping these different things. And now thanks to you, 0:33:02.640 --> 0:33:05.560 I'm doing podcasts and I'm explaining my journey because. 0:33:05.480 --> 0:33:09.760 I didn't care for like, no way. I never was like, 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:13.600 hey man, it's about rip. It never ever was. But 0:33:13.640 --> 0:33:15.840 it was about, hey man, let's do this together. We're 0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:16.680 gonna do this cool. 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:18.000 And it was just when I do this, when we 0:33:18.000 --> 0:33:23.080 shake hands, then when it popped, you go left, okay. 0:33:23.000 --> 0:33:25.840 So we oh okay, so that didn't oh all right, 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:28.160 got it? And I just didn't even care. 0:33:28.240 --> 0:33:30.000 Then I was like, all right, cool, cool, then whatever, 0:33:30.440 --> 0:33:32.760 congratulations for you, me anything I could do, and then 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:37.400 being in a hospital coming out knowing I need a heart. 0:33:37.840 --> 0:33:40.720 This is about legacy. This is about sharing God's story 0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:41.400 and triumph. 0:33:41.440 --> 0:33:41.560 Man. 0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:44.479 And if I got two shows left for me, if 0:33:44.520 --> 0:33:45.400 I got one. 0:33:45.240 --> 0:33:47.560 Show left for me, if it's fifty fucking shows left 0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:49.400 for me, I'm gonna give my all and I'm gonna 0:33:49.400 --> 0:33:50.320 put my mind. 0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:51.960 I can't say my heart, but I'm gonna give it 0:33:52.000 --> 0:33:53.240 my all. Man. 0:33:53.880 --> 0:33:57.000 I'm just blessed to be here for it's just whether 0:33:57.000 --> 0:33:58.800 it's today, tomorrow. 0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:01.400 Life, I'm not stoffing. And I'm gonna keep creating. 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:04.840 I'm gonna keep keep growing this thing, and I'm gonna 0:34:04.880 --> 0:34:05.720 keep making people laugh. 0:34:05.800 --> 0:34:08.480 That's what's uping. Man, trust me. You gonna get it. 0:34:08.520 --> 0:34:11.080 Man. You you're a good guy. Somebody gonna give you 0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:14.879 that heart in return. Man, trust me. It's a sad 0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:16.960 way that we got to get it from someone else, 0:34:17.120 --> 0:34:17.680 like you know. 0:34:17.760 --> 0:34:20.120 But that is hard, waiting on life worker, Yes, that 0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:20.640 is it is. 0:34:20.760 --> 0:34:22.360 It puts your mind in a different mindset where you 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:24.960 wait on life worker because somebody has to to no 0:34:25.040 --> 0:34:27.360 longer need it for you to get it, for me 0:34:27.400 --> 0:34:27.839 to get it. 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:30.040 So now every time I hear eminence, I'll be like, God, 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:30.760 is that my blessing? 0:34:30.840 --> 0:34:33.680 Does that mean he gun? Like? 0:34:33.680 --> 0:34:34.640 Don't shoot him in the chest? 0:34:34.960 --> 0:34:41.680 Yo? Please? Was he ain't positive? Did anybody know you 0:34:42.120 --> 0:34:43.440 slow down of every carcident? Now? 0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:49.160 Okay yo, that's crazy. 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:50.600 But you gotta be able to laugh at yourself. You 0:34:50.640 --> 0:34:52.360 gotta be able to laugh. That's what I tell people. 0:34:52.360 --> 0:34:55.239 If you can't laugh at yourself, then you're looking at 0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:57.799 life too serious. Man. Life is to be enjoyed and 0:34:57.840 --> 0:34:59.920 you got a lot of life to give. Man, trust me, 0:35:00.080 --> 0:35:02.760 all this good. God keeps giving back, and I believe 0:35:02.840 --> 0:35:04.799 that blessing is definitely gonna come for you. 0:35:04.840 --> 0:35:07.200 Thank you, man, and he man. I'm not above running 0:35:07.239 --> 0:35:08.600 to you. You know, I know you still got the 0:35:08.600 --> 0:35:10.000 hook ups in the street. I still you know what 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:11.520 I'm saying. I might slide you to thirty five for 0:35:11.560 --> 0:35:13.399 you to bring me the little white the little rad 0:35:13.440 --> 0:35:15.560 cooler with the white toped black rip. I heard about 0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:17.400 your journey man, go drop twenty thousand pick up. 0:35:18.000 --> 0:35:20.000 You know I grew up on Marcy Avenue. They know 0:35:20.040 --> 0:35:22.320 what's on Lee Avenue high Land me and that I 0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:26.319 ain't got to say it positive, you know, yeah, I 0:35:26.320 --> 0:35:31.480 mean Lee Avenue plug high lad Me. Yo. You brought 0:35:31.560 --> 0:35:35.560 up DVD's right, And I remember when DVD's was the bro. 0:35:35.719 --> 0:35:37.960 They was moving through the street like hot kikes Bro. 0:35:38.000 --> 0:35:40.640 I remember when Jerry's Spring of Tapes was flying in 0:35:40.719 --> 0:35:44.640 the street. All the comedy shows was flying the era. 0:35:44.800 --> 0:35:47.799 How do you look at comedy has changed now with 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:51.560 social media, the Internet and the clips going viral now 0:35:51.600 --> 0:35:52.960 instead of the DVD era. 0:35:53.600 --> 0:35:55.080 I think that's fire man. 0:35:55.320 --> 0:35:57.239 Like if you take it back and you think about Q, 0:35:58.000 --> 0:36:02.200 godsk his soul from like you know you known Q right, No, 0:36:02.239 --> 0:36:03.239 I don't think so you got it. 0:36:03.239 --> 0:36:07.080 It's a lot of cues. Remember oh, Q from p 0:36:07.239 --> 0:36:11.120 from World Stars. Okay, yes, I know QB from World Star. Yeah, 0:36:12.000 --> 0:36:15.240 but I have a cousin name Q. You been talking about. 0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:19.040 It's like saying Ray Ray, I get it. You know, 0:36:21.680 --> 0:36:23.520 there's a lot of cues in New York. 0:36:23.840 --> 0:36:24.040 Yeah. 0:36:24.400 --> 0:36:27.160 Just I think that he kind of, you know, evolved 0:36:27.160 --> 0:36:29.880 that whole thing by taking people's mixtapes and putting them 0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:32.479 on YouTube and creating this whole war star things. 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:35.080 I think that the element the evolution of. 0:36:35.000 --> 0:36:38.839 It is it's fire. Yes, it's fire. It's getting audiences 0:36:38.840 --> 0:36:41.560 that probably would have never been in the comedy. Think 0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:41.840 about it. 0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:43.440 When you were a kid, you didn't watch no damn comedy. 0:36:43.440 --> 0:36:44.160 That wasn't your thing. 0:36:44.239 --> 0:36:47.439 Really, No, that's not true. Kid, like you were like ten. 0:36:48.400 --> 0:36:50.239 See, I had an older brother, so they used to 0:36:50.360 --> 0:36:52.960 remember we had They used to listen to comedy tapes. 0:36:53.440 --> 0:36:56.000 Remember what was the god's name that had the comedy 0:36:56.040 --> 0:36:58.040 tapes they used to listen to back in the day. 0:36:58.480 --> 0:37:03.239 The Jerky Boys, the jerky boy tearing the inside of me. Yo, Yo, 0:37:03.360 --> 0:37:05.880 you couldn't say that today. Yo, I got a Jerky 0:37:05.920 --> 0:37:07.200 Boys tapeger. 0:37:06.840 --> 0:37:08.680 Be like those dudes were hilarious. 0:37:08.719 --> 0:37:10.959 Yo, yo, dudes. I had all of them tapes. 0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:11.880 That's what I'm saying. 0:37:11.960 --> 0:37:16.920 Like comedy evolved from then tapes, movies, vhs, DVDs, but 0:37:17.040 --> 0:37:19.440 now you could just open up social media, go to 0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:23.839 your Instagram page, go to Twitter, and comedy is all over. 0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:27.760 Man. I feel like we live in the world that's serious. 0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:29.240 But still take the time to last. 0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:30.040 I believe that. 0:37:30.080 --> 0:37:30.239 Man. 0:37:30.280 --> 0:37:32.600 I applaud every single person to open up that door. 0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:34.319 And I will say that's why I shout out Q 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:36.640 because he was the first person to be like, you 0:37:36.680 --> 0:37:39.440 know what, these mixtapes ain't gotta be a mixtapes. These 0:37:39.480 --> 0:37:41.080 ain't got to be sold one twenty fifth Street on 0:37:41.080 --> 0:37:45.960 a blanket. Let me get booty talking number twelve, Let 0:37:46.000 --> 0:37:47.799 me get that state property. 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:49.520 We was definitely. 0:37:49.440 --> 0:37:52.399 Definitely, Brother, I have it before the movie, in the movie, 0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:53.120 before it comes out. 0:37:53.120 --> 0:37:53.719 I have it right now. 0:37:53.760 --> 0:37:54.960 What do what do you want to do? Please do 0:37:55.040 --> 0:37:59.400 watch two for five? Please, my friend, don't brother, it 0:37:59.480 --> 0:38:02.680 looks like a look at you're taking me back in 0:38:02.960 --> 0:38:04.640 down street because that's how it was. 0:38:04.719 --> 0:38:08.040 Boy, You get anything you want on these blocks on 0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:08.800 that blanket. 0:38:08.800 --> 0:38:10.719 They laid that with an open up shop and pull 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:12.280 it out the store, opening store closing. 0:38:12.320 --> 0:38:15.000 The two seconds seconds, bro, don't let the cops pull 0:38:15.040 --> 0:38:16.880 around and watch that blanket get wrapped up like a 0:38:16.920 --> 0:38:17.399 magic trick. 0:38:19.400 --> 0:38:21.200 So yeah, I think that that what they're doing now 0:38:21.280 --> 0:38:22.520 is great. I think it opened up the door and 0:38:22.560 --> 0:38:24.120 I think it stopped a lot of barriers that we 0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:25.960 had before because it used to be one of the time, 0:38:26.360 --> 0:38:28.120 and now it's no longer one of the Now you 0:38:28.160 --> 0:38:30.480 no longer have to go and wait for someone to 0:38:30.520 --> 0:38:32.160 go like I pick him and put him. 0:38:32.040 --> 0:38:32.399 In a movie. 0:38:32.400 --> 0:38:34.600 Now you can just go and captivate your audience on that. 0:38:34.680 --> 0:38:36.719 And I think that touching the fans. Now you don't 0:38:36.760 --> 0:38:38.759 have to wait. And I loved him for doing that, man, 0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:41.080 I loved him for open open those doors. And then 0:38:41.080 --> 0:38:43.080 they transition to the comedy. Look at DC Young Fly 0:38:43.400 --> 0:38:45.719 putting our sketches, putting out skates, and next thing, you know, 0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:47.560 one of the hottest communities in the country. 0:38:47.600 --> 0:38:49.640 That's right, DC Young Fly killing them. 0:38:49.680 --> 0:38:53.120 You named a lot of legends Deon Cole, like man, 0:38:53.160 --> 0:38:56.160 come on, man, I was a favorite, Like Eddie Griffin 0:38:56.320 --> 0:38:59.200 was my guy. Oh yeah, boy, Eddie griff and Eddie Murphy. 0:38:59.239 --> 0:39:01.879 All of Eddie's was funny. Your mom named you Eddy. 0:39:01.960 --> 0:39:05.440 You was funny. You gotta be funny. Who would you 0:39:05.480 --> 0:39:09.600 consider your top because you know, when I'm sitting somewhere else, like, YO, 0:39:09.640 --> 0:39:12.960 give me your top five rappers. But there's too many 0:39:13.080 --> 0:39:15.399 comedians for me to just narrow it down the five 0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:17.359 because somebody might be like, YO, you left me off. 0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:20.520 I'm gonna say, top Who would you put in your 0:39:20.560 --> 0:39:23.520 top list? Top ten, tops five, top seven, top six? 0:39:23.560 --> 0:39:24.640 Wherever you want to stop that? 0:39:24.760 --> 0:39:28.680 When did you say who is the best? 0:39:31.280 --> 0:39:39.960 Who do I trust? Because I spit hot fire. I 0:39:40.000 --> 0:39:41.720 think it's a lot of comedians that you'd be surprised 0:39:41.719 --> 0:39:43.560 if people sleep on. But I think Tony Roberts, and 0:39:43.600 --> 0:39:45.600 I think that if a comedy tells you Tony Roberts 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:49.280 isn't one of the funniest comedians in the country, someone 0:39:49.320 --> 0:39:54.080 that is like lying to you, that man is hysterically funny. 0:39:54.080 --> 0:39:57.160 You know you funny when all the comedians on the 0:39:57.200 --> 0:39:59.880 show run out to see your set, I think that 0:40:00.040 --> 0:40:02.120 he's best admitting that my next will be Rasheed. He 0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:04.360 was just cultivating the way he could tell a story 0:40:04.360 --> 0:40:05.920 and just bring you in it and be like, it's 0:40:05.920 --> 0:40:07.279 a lot of people in this world you can robe. 0:40:07.280 --> 0:40:09.120 But the old Spanish man. Ain't that nigga? 0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:11.480 That's right, sho you to. 0:40:11.880 --> 0:40:14.440 I don't give you nothing. Can you find out out 0:40:14.440 --> 0:40:15.839 your own to divide out and you take the vite out? 0:40:16.800 --> 0:40:19.080 Probably don't like somebody got killed on the third floor. 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:22.560 That's not me, baby, I wanta fight flop it. So 0:40:24.120 --> 0:40:27.680 I think that he was just a great, great comedian man, 0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:29.960 one of my mentors in this game. Like, I think 0:40:30.080 --> 0:40:32.440 that if he would have, you know, going on to 0:40:32.520 --> 0:40:36.000 live longer, he probably would have been top five. 0:40:35.840 --> 0:40:38.960 Period manure just getting it in. But his life was 0:40:39.000 --> 0:40:41.239 taken too short. I'm sorry they had about that. 0:40:41.280 --> 0:40:43.719 Man, I'm not gonna watch if you you don't want 0:40:43.719 --> 0:40:44.960 to talk about when you watch it, you'll be like 0:40:44.960 --> 0:40:46.560 he do do dude to Jamaican store. 0:40:46.800 --> 0:40:48.400 Right came in to the Jamaican store. He was like, 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:49.319 you're going to Jamaican storey. 0:40:49.320 --> 0:40:52.520 You're like, yah, I'm going back to watch it because 0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:54.360 def comedy jam is still available? 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:58.319 Man, what still available? Beast beast man. 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:00.320 He always when he said he go mess with Spanish 0:41:00.320 --> 0:41:02.399 people in the Spanish store, and he said, poppy water 0:41:02.440 --> 0:41:04.080 cat always sleep on the bread when I come in. 0:41:04.080 --> 0:41:06.640 He yo, And. 0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:09.920 That's if you live here. That's it, yo, every that's crazy. 0:41:09.960 --> 0:41:12.200 See New York, our store is done change hands so 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:14.440 many times. First it was the Puerto Ricans, then it 0:41:14.560 --> 0:41:17.080 was the Dominicans, then it was the Asians. 0:41:17.160 --> 0:41:19.040 Now it's the fuck the. 0:41:19.040 --> 0:41:21.719 Indians, and now it's the a rab Yeah, and them 0:41:21.760 --> 0:41:25.080 niggas selling butt out the store. I had cut had 0:41:25.120 --> 0:41:30.680 that seven for me. They do do the cigarettes yo, yo, 0:41:30.920 --> 0:41:35.640 Lucy yo lucy. I hate it when somebody be like, yo, 0:41:35.680 --> 0:41:38.080 go to the store, give me a lucy like by 0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:39.479 the pack yo broke as. 0:41:41.000 --> 0:41:41.520 No lucies. 0:41:41.560 --> 0:41:43.760 Yeah, they tell you too. They don't even tell you. 0:41:43.760 --> 0:41:46.160 You ain't give me your top list, So I'm sorry. 0:41:46.160 --> 0:41:51.120 Tony roberts Uh, I would say, Rashet a lot of people, 0:41:51.200 --> 0:41:52.520 and I'm glad he's getting shine now. 0:41:53.000 --> 0:41:53.719 T K. 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:58.120 Kirkling, Oh yeah, t K fee to the motherfucking word up. 0:41:58.200 --> 0:41:58.359 Man. 0:41:58.400 --> 0:42:01.640 He's been in the game, push, pushing. 0:42:01.840 --> 0:42:04.319 Changing, elevating. Just you know. 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:06.520 My next probably would be Dion Cole. 0:42:06.800 --> 0:42:08.480 So of course we all got the legends like the 0:42:08.560 --> 0:42:11.600 Chris Rocks to Dave Chappelle's all of those. 0:42:11.440 --> 0:42:13.839 Different people, and then Eddie Murphy's the Martins and all that. 0:42:13.880 --> 0:42:15.160 But I'm talking about soldiers. 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:18.360 Just been grinding but just never got that like break 0:42:18.480 --> 0:42:20.000 that break that that that. 0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:21.239 Can go up after anybody. 0:42:21.520 --> 0:42:24.279 It don't matter, and it don't matter, and that's that's 0:42:24.320 --> 0:42:26.600 I cultivate myself for. It don't matter who's going on stage. 0:42:26.600 --> 0:42:28.880 So I think that even when you you mentioned my 0:42:28.920 --> 0:42:30.279 name in comedy, people a like, yeah, I don't want 0:42:30.280 --> 0:42:33.040 to follow rip. I don't gonna kill it, and like, 0:42:33.520 --> 0:42:36.720 it's just something that and I like those gladiators. Everybody 0:42:36.719 --> 0:42:39.240 I name is a gladiator. Like, I mean, it's different 0:42:39.280 --> 0:42:41.560 ways of you know, doing comedy. It's joke structure, there's 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:43.560 different ways of people doing more intellectually. We can do 0:42:43.560 --> 0:42:45.960 it slapstick. But I just think that being able. 0:42:46.120 --> 0:42:47.200 To rock a crowd. 0:42:47.840 --> 0:42:49.040 And I'm not a person that be like, I don't 0:42:49.080 --> 0:42:50.600 care how you did it, but if I go in down, 0:42:50.600 --> 0:42:52.719 I'm looking like, yo, these people are having the time 0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:53.480 of their life. 0:42:53.480 --> 0:42:54.839 Because to me, that's what comedy is about. 0:42:55.360 --> 0:42:57.520 It's not about to me, in my personal opinion, it's 0:42:57.560 --> 0:42:59.680 not about me just getting my story out and just 0:43:00.080 --> 0:43:01.239 spitting my life at you. 0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:03.960 It's about changing. 0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:05.879 What you got going on in your life and being 0:43:05.920 --> 0:43:08.399 able to take a little bit of pain away. Because 0:43:08.400 --> 0:43:10.239 my name is actually not Rip Michael's if you look 0:43:10.239 --> 0:43:13.800 at the spelling, it's actually Rip Mike Heels, it's m 0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:17.560 I C h e Als. But people always pronounce the wrong. 0:43:17.640 --> 0:43:19.360 So I just let people. But that's always what it is. 0:43:19.440 --> 0:43:21.040 So that's what I try to do when I'm gonna stay. 0:43:21.080 --> 0:43:23.360 I try to like a lot of people, and I 0:43:23.360 --> 0:43:25.839 think a lot of Communist understand like this person being 0:43:25.840 --> 0:43:27.760 out of promote the shows and sometimes. 0:43:27.320 --> 0:43:28.200 Bring the people in. 0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:31.520 I see the person I gave a flyer too, and 0:43:31.600 --> 0:43:33.840 I see that this is their last twenty dollars. I 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:35.920 see that this person just fighting a court case or 0:43:36.160 --> 0:43:38.279 just had domestic violence, or just had this. And if 0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:40.000 you can just take a little bit of that away 0:43:40.200 --> 0:43:42.680 and make them and just take them away from their problems, 0:43:42.719 --> 0:43:44.880 that's what it's about, because that Mike can really. 0:43:44.640 --> 0:43:47.040 Really heal people. You can change. 0:43:46.760 --> 0:43:49.200 People's lives, in their in their perspective and what they're doing, 0:43:49.360 --> 0:43:50.359 and that's what I try to do. 0:43:50.480 --> 0:43:53.080 So I look for that. I look for you. Don't 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:55.359 blame me read that. Yeah. 0:43:55.480 --> 0:43:59.279 Who when you hit those Yeah, that's when you know 0:43:59.280 --> 0:44:01.560 you made somebody so laugh. That's a fact because you 0:44:01.680 --> 0:44:05.440 only hear that. I feel like three ways in the 0:44:05.440 --> 0:44:10.239 black community. When you're laughing, you get good food, or 0:44:10.239 --> 0:44:11.920 you see a relative you ain't seen it in a 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:15.640 long time. Oh yeah, that's when you get a real 0:44:15.719 --> 0:44:19.160 reaction from the black community. Because we get some food. 0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:24.000 You're gonna be like whoa like you dancing and like you're. 0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:25.520 Talking about eating chicken up right out the grease when 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:26.879 you come chase the chicken, when you're. 0:44:29.960 --> 0:44:33.120 Like, damn man, you make me train of thought with 0:44:33.280 --> 0:44:34.560 that one. 0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:38.960 I was just about to say something to you about 0:44:39.000 --> 0:44:39.720 somebody else. 0:44:40.280 --> 0:44:40.879 Damn man. 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:44.040 Where was I at with that one? What were some 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:45.440 of the moments. 0:44:45.360 --> 0:44:48.880 That you consider Did you ever consider a moment stepping 0:44:48.920 --> 0:44:51.360 away from comedy? No? 0:44:53.000 --> 0:44:57.760 No, not one time, Like it's funny because I wanted 0:44:57.800 --> 0:45:00.680 to do this since I was eight years old and 0:45:00.760 --> 0:45:03.839 I never want to do anything other than this. And 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:10.000 when I when I was in the male Clinic and Phoenix, 0:45:10.000 --> 0:45:14.040 Arizona and big shout out to them, I was when 0:45:14.080 --> 0:45:18.320 your heart fails, the rest of your organs start failing. 0:45:19.680 --> 0:45:20.760 And start falling apart. 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:26.319 So my kidneys started failing, and for like I want 0:45:26.320 --> 0:45:28.360 to say, like a month and a half, I couldn't 0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:31.600 see because you know, my sugar got so high, and 0:45:31.640 --> 0:45:35.440 you're diabetic, you can lose your sight. And for the 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:39.080 first time, I was like, damn, how am I going 0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:42.800 to do comedy because I can't even see the crowd 0:45:44.080 --> 0:45:46.000 and I can't even see to write the jokes down? 0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:49.759 How am I going to do comedy? And I would 0:45:49.800 --> 0:45:52.800 say that was the closest thing to me ever quitting. 0:45:53.280 --> 0:45:58.359 Then I was like, thank God for Siri, Siri, and 0:45:58.400 --> 0:46:00.600 now you got JAT So I think that, yo, that 0:46:00.640 --> 0:46:02.440 was probably my lowest of like thinking I couldn't do 0:46:02.440 --> 0:46:04.759 it because you can't see and your heart isn't good. 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:06.279 I was like, because I always thought this is something 0:46:06.320 --> 0:46:08.640 you could do to till you die, Like you know, 0:46:08.800 --> 0:46:10.200 long you can come out in the wheelchair, you can 0:46:10.200 --> 0:46:12.200 come out eighty years old. Like I got to see 0:46:12.239 --> 0:46:14.880 Paul Mooney and like work with him like a lot 0:46:14.960 --> 0:46:17.120 of times right before he passed, and I was like, man, 0:46:17.120 --> 0:46:19.080 you can do this forever. But that would probably be 0:46:19.080 --> 0:46:21.600 the closest I ever got to being like I don't 0:46:21.600 --> 0:46:22.600 want to I don't know how I'm. 0:46:22.480 --> 0:46:24.200 Gonna do this, but yeah, I figured a way. 0:46:24.440 --> 0:46:26.200 I was like, God was like, nah, you can just 0:46:26.360 --> 0:46:28.719 you can hear the crowd, that's right. But then I 0:46:28.719 --> 0:46:30.320 got my sight back, and you know, it took a 0:46:30.360 --> 0:46:31.959 lot of medicine and took a lot of walking around 0:46:32.120 --> 0:46:33.839 and like getting on a good regiment and shout out 0:46:33.880 --> 0:46:36.160 to the mail clinic, because those dudes at the male clinic, 0:46:36.560 --> 0:46:39.080 like are the reason I'm not restricted to a hospital 0:46:39.080 --> 0:46:40.960 bed and that you know, I can you know, just 0:46:40.960 --> 0:46:43.440 get at home, nurse and you know, take medicine and 0:46:43.640 --> 0:46:45.560 when I perform have EMTs on the side of the 0:46:45.600 --> 0:46:46.400 stage to even do this. 0:46:46.520 --> 0:46:49.080 So yeah, big shout out to them, man, that's what's something. 0:46:49.080 --> 0:46:51.000 Man. Shout out to all the medical staff, all the 0:46:51.040 --> 0:46:53.560 emergency workers out there putting their life on the line 0:46:53.600 --> 0:46:56.040 for our lives, you know, cause a lot. 0:46:55.960 --> 0:46:56.680 Go into it. 0:46:56.760 --> 0:46:58.640 Man, we take for granted, you know what I'm saying, 0:46:58.680 --> 0:47:01.399 And you don't really appreciate things until you sitting there 0:47:01.400 --> 0:47:04.439 on that bed, like hold on, man, the I gotta 0:47:04.520 --> 0:47:07.520 really put everything shit, putting everything in perspective and what's 0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:10.960 really important to me. Now, another question I wanted to 0:47:11.000 --> 0:47:13.759 ask you, like, even from myself, because I'm part of 0:47:13.800 --> 0:47:16.040 the audience. I'm not a comedian, So this is a 0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:20.840 question for you really from me, like what do you 0:47:20.920 --> 0:47:25.120 think us as the audience is a misconception or is 0:47:25.200 --> 0:47:30.279 misunderstood about stand up comedians or what the work that 0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:34.200 goes into the process of being a stand up comedian. 0:47:35.640 --> 0:47:38.560 I would say that a lot of people think that 0:47:38.760 --> 0:47:44.160 they're just silly people, but comedians are some of the smartest, 0:47:44.200 --> 0:47:48.600 most intelligent people that you'll ever come across, because we 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:54.400 normally take tragedy and we find a way of making 0:47:54.440 --> 0:47:57.279 it funny or finding a different perspective and an outlook 0:47:57.600 --> 0:48:01.520 to change it. And that is the misconception because you 0:48:01.560 --> 0:48:03.000 just look at a person and you're saying like, oh, 0:48:03.040 --> 0:48:05.839 this person is just silly and they can just do this. 0:48:05.920 --> 0:48:08.840 But it's a method to it that it takes twenty 0:48:08.880 --> 0:48:11.399 different times for you doing a joke on stage before 0:48:11.400 --> 0:48:12.919 it becomes an actual part of your joke. 0:48:13.200 --> 0:48:15.000 That we go through these things and you know, we 0:48:15.040 --> 0:48:15.920 just don't write it down and. 0:48:15.920 --> 0:48:17.640 Be like, oh, this is gonna be funny because y'all 0:48:17.640 --> 0:48:20.160 decide who's funny, or I can write a million things, 0:48:20.160 --> 0:48:22.400 but if it don't work in this room. It's not 0:48:22.480 --> 0:48:23.080 really funny. 0:48:23.160 --> 0:48:23.720 That's right. 0:48:24.560 --> 0:48:27.160 Same thing with music, so you never I think a 0:48:27.160 --> 0:48:28.799 lot of people think that you just get up there, 0:48:28.800 --> 0:48:30.080 and it is a it is. 0:48:30.360 --> 0:48:34.239 A hard, hard craft to master. I will definitely tell 0:48:34.239 --> 0:48:36.040 you that it's a hard craft to master. It's hard 0:48:36.080 --> 0:48:38.399 to find your voice, and it is hard to talk 0:48:38.400 --> 0:48:40.040 about some of these painful things because when you really 0:48:40.040 --> 0:48:42.320 look at a joke, there's nothing. 0:48:41.960 --> 0:48:45.240 Funny about child abuse. But you see so many comedians. 0:48:45.400 --> 0:48:47.600 My mamma used to whoop my ads. You ever got 0:48:47.640 --> 0:48:49.439 hit with this, You ever got hit with that, You've 0:48:49.440 --> 0:48:54.319 got a shoe thrown at you, and it's just those 0:48:54.360 --> 0:48:55.920 are real painful memories. 0:48:56.800 --> 0:48:59.040 You just found the way and you taking a different 0:48:59.040 --> 0:49:02.680 perspective on it and making people be able to laugh. Now, 0:49:03.080 --> 0:49:05.319 you give that person the power to let go of 0:49:05.360 --> 0:49:09.480 that pain, and you sometimes you pay relationships like that. 0:49:09.560 --> 0:49:09.759 Now. 0:49:09.960 --> 0:49:11.320 A lot of people be like, you know what, my 0:49:11.400 --> 0:49:13.759 childhood is not that bad. You know, my mom wasn't 0:49:13.760 --> 0:49:14.920 that bad. It's other moms like that. 0:49:14.960 --> 0:49:15.520 It's other dad. 0:49:15.520 --> 0:49:17.320 It's like that, that's not only a person that I 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:19.600 didn't go through that alone. It's just like when y'all 0:49:19.600 --> 0:49:21.480 write a great song and you touch somebody, someone comes 0:49:21.520 --> 0:49:22.000 up to you and. 0:49:21.960 --> 0:49:23.920 Go, man, I felt that. 0:49:24.000 --> 0:49:25.239 Man, I went through that same thing. 0:49:25.280 --> 0:49:26.799 I did a bit. I did this, I did that 0:49:26.880 --> 0:49:29.040 like that. That was real when you said that. And 0:49:29.080 --> 0:49:30.879 that's what we do it for it, bro cause it's 0:49:30.960 --> 0:49:33.520 just like you said, they make it a good song. 0:49:33.880 --> 0:49:36.239 All we do is think our thoughts are pain, our 0:49:36.280 --> 0:49:38.920 frustrations or our joys, and we write it down and 0:49:38.960 --> 0:49:41.920 we hope the world receive it the way we you 0:49:41.960 --> 0:49:44.399 know what I mean, we want them to. And when 0:49:44.400 --> 0:49:48.040 it works, trust me, that feels like the best day 0:49:48.080 --> 0:49:50.439 of your life. When because it's not easy to take 0:49:50.440 --> 0:49:52.440 your thoughts, put it on paper and make a thousand 0:49:52.480 --> 0:49:54.520 people agree with you. No, it is not, man. 0:49:54.560 --> 0:49:57.279 And like if you watch my Apollo special that I 0:49:57.280 --> 0:49:59.680 did and tempted to pollow, that was probably one of 0:49:59.680 --> 0:50:02.440 the hard the sets I've ever done in my entire life, 0:50:02.440 --> 0:50:03.040 because the whole. 0:50:02.920 --> 0:50:05.680 Time I'm on stage, I can't breathe. 0:50:06.360 --> 0:50:08.440 And halfway through my like if you watch it, and 0:50:08.480 --> 0:50:10.360 the ammunents had to pick me up, I collapsed on 0:50:10.400 --> 0:50:11.279 stage at the very end. 0:50:12.200 --> 0:50:13.640 They edited a lot of it out, but. 0:50:13.640 --> 0:50:17.520 It was bad. But then that special was a special. 0:50:17.520 --> 0:50:20.239 I promised myself that I would finish because I had 0:50:20.320 --> 0:50:24.280 sold out the Apollo and I had a heart attack 0:50:24.360 --> 0:50:26.440 right before, like two days before the show, and I 0:50:26.480 --> 0:50:28.399 had to cancel. And that's the whole infamous thing where 0:50:28.400 --> 0:50:30.960 everybody's like rips going to the hospital and he announced it, 0:50:31.000 --> 0:50:32.920 and that's what the whole viral thing, and then I 0:50:32.920 --> 0:50:35.359 promised myself, I get out, I'm gonna finish it. And 0:50:35.960 --> 0:50:40.920 to sit there and be struggling him for air the 0:50:41.080 --> 0:50:42.960 entire time, and then talking about things that were like 0:50:43.520 --> 0:50:47.000 that weren't even real jokes that I prepared, but just 0:50:47.040 --> 0:50:49.600 talking about the journey and trying to make light of it. 0:50:50.719 --> 0:50:52.959 That was really hard. 0:50:53.000 --> 0:50:55.080 And I love everybody in New York for that, cause 0:50:55.080 --> 0:50:59.239 they they came and the applauded and they participated, and 0:50:59.320 --> 0:51:02.160 it was really, really, probably one of the toughest sets 0:51:02.200 --> 0:51:04.319 I ever had to do to march it through, man, 0:51:04.320 --> 0:51:06.640 but they were with it, and a lot of stuff 0:51:06.640 --> 0:51:08.040 I was saying was sad. 0:51:10.040 --> 0:51:16.040 And for them not to feel sorry mm hm, and 0:51:16.120 --> 0:51:19.520 understanding that it was in and ride with me, that 0:51:19.600 --> 0:51:21.879 was fire. Yeah, that was fire man. 0:51:21.960 --> 0:51:25.160 I appreciate you even sharing your story because like you know, 0:51:26.520 --> 0:51:29.560 you said, you never did this. It's never about you, right, 0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:33.200 We never do it about us. It's about our journey 0:51:33.440 --> 0:51:37.160 and who can we inspire to take the journey further and. 0:51:37.200 --> 0:51:38.480 Do better than we ever thought? 0:51:38.520 --> 0:51:40.560 We told you so that's why I'm so excited and 0:51:40.640 --> 0:51:43.040 happy that you took the time out and to come 0:51:43.080 --> 0:51:44.799 to me to share it. You know what I mean, 0:51:44.840 --> 0:51:48.880 because you definitely enlightened me. Or I had no clue 0:51:49.440 --> 0:51:51.600 that got you, bro, I'll be watching wilding Out all 0:51:51.640 --> 0:51:53.759 the time. Nick, My god, Me and Nick had the 0:51:53.800 --> 0:51:56.360 same management. When he had rapper dreams. Oh okay, I 0:51:56.440 --> 0:51:58.560 wish i'd have took the comedian dreams. I'd have been 0:51:58.600 --> 0:52:01.000 right there with him, but shiit rap dream took me. 0:52:02.040 --> 0:52:04.359 But that's my bro, right there, man, you gotta take 0:52:04.400 --> 0:52:06.960 follos in that. And this is this is what I 0:52:07.040 --> 0:52:09.319 was gonna say, right I was throwing my producer under 0:52:09.360 --> 0:52:10.480 the bus shout out by girl. 0:52:10.520 --> 0:52:11.800 I'm not gonna say her dad. 0:52:12.040 --> 0:52:14.720 But listen, you see how you saying my name really 0:52:14.760 --> 0:52:19.520 not Riped Hamilton, I mean rip Michaels. It's rip Mike Hills. 0:52:20.400 --> 0:52:23.879 When I text my producer, yo, we and I think 0:52:23.880 --> 0:52:24.960 we get in this interview. 0:52:25.000 --> 0:52:25.960 I'm waiting to get the. 0:52:25.920 --> 0:52:28.319 Call back, and she like who And I just tept 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:31.160 text Ripped Michaels. She was like, damn, rest in peace 0:52:31.200 --> 0:52:35.600 to Michaels whoever he is, and no he ain't. That's 0:52:35.640 --> 0:52:38.439 who coming through. She like, oh ship, Like I thought 0:52:38.480 --> 0:52:40.600 you were saying your boy Michael passed away. 0:52:40.640 --> 0:52:42.240 And I'm like, hell. 0:52:42.120 --> 0:52:44.400 No, why would I write it like that? Hilarious? 0:52:44.400 --> 0:52:45.120 He can't make it to that. 0:52:45.160 --> 0:52:48.839 Who else you got, Mike? He ain't coming. 0:52:49.000 --> 0:52:50.160 Who else you got because you got it? 0:52:50.200 --> 0:52:53.080 Go on. I thought that was funny when you say, yo, 0:52:53.120 --> 0:52:57.319 my name not really ripped, Like, but when people hit 0:52:57.400 --> 0:53:00.360 the name Rip Michaels, what do you want them to 0:53:00.400 --> 0:53:01.279 associate that with? 0:53:02.680 --> 0:53:04.399 First of all, a lot of people think I just 0:53:04.719 --> 0:53:07.239 thought some hardcore name, and I think Rip is this. 0:53:07.320 --> 0:53:08.560 It's just short from Rippy. 0:53:09.320 --> 0:53:11.480 But nobody wants me called rippy, Like, no one in 0:53:11.520 --> 0:53:12.640 the world is gonna be Rippy. 0:53:12.719 --> 0:53:14.080 That's not a cool name. 0:53:14.120 --> 0:53:16.960 So I just took the pp wild Louisiana. 0:53:17.040 --> 0:53:18.920 It's only two rips that rep. 0:53:19.320 --> 0:53:23.359 Rip Hamilton from the Detroit Pistons was my favorite basketball 0:53:23.360 --> 0:53:25.120 player and Rip Michaels. 0:53:25.200 --> 0:53:27.520 It's one of my favorite comedians. You got ripped Horn 0:53:27.680 --> 0:53:28.800 and you got Rip Van Winkle. 0:53:28.960 --> 0:53:32.640 Ye ain't the rip right? Yeah, they ain't the right. 0:53:33.239 --> 0:53:34.520 I gotta lose the weight so I can rep it 0:53:34.600 --> 0:53:37.480 right and gains the weight. I look like right Michaels now, 0:53:37.520 --> 0:53:42.680 and they're like, look at that nigga, he ripe nigga 0:53:42.719 --> 0:53:45.799 sitting on this white couch with all them hips, that 0:53:45.880 --> 0:53:47.200 nigga hypocrite. 0:53:50.360 --> 0:53:53.640 I'm sorry, what would I want them to? 0:53:53.920 --> 0:53:54.240 Uh? 0:53:54.800 --> 0:53:56.200 I think your question was what do I want them 0:53:56.200 --> 0:53:58.719 to associate you with? 0:53:59.000 --> 0:54:00.600 Like you know what I mean, people hear the name 0:54:00.680 --> 0:54:02.960 rip Michaels, What you want them to associate you with? 0:54:02.960 --> 0:54:06.240 With your career? That's a really deep question, man. 0:54:08.640 --> 0:54:10.280 Elevation, that's right. 0:54:10.680 --> 0:54:13.719 I will want them to associate elevation and together. It's 0:54:13.840 --> 0:54:16.520 showing that we can break these barriers down, man, because 0:54:16.560 --> 0:54:19.120 when you look at what God has blessed me to 0:54:19.160 --> 0:54:22.440 be able to do, like, I think half the people 0:54:22.880 --> 0:54:26.520 has never experienced the things that God gave me the 0:54:26.600 --> 0:54:29.920 power and the things and the. 0:54:29.840 --> 0:54:34.520 Abilities to do like and it's just like this, I 0:54:34.600 --> 0:54:36.719 think that's what I want. I want people to understand, Like. 0:54:36.880 --> 0:54:40.239 I took our people and not I took our people. 0:54:40.280 --> 0:54:42.840 When I say our people, it's not the ones that 0:54:43.320 --> 0:54:46.880 they tell us this is the hottest man this go 0:54:47.000 --> 0:54:48.640 see him because we built this and we put this 0:54:48.680 --> 0:54:50.480 machine behind and this is the person. 0:54:50.520 --> 0:54:53.560 This is the one. I feel like I want people 0:54:53.560 --> 0:54:55.719 to associate like you don't need just one. It's all 0:54:55.719 --> 0:54:56.440 of us and collective. 0:54:56.480 --> 0:54:59.080 But we can do this like we do eighteen thousand 0:54:59.440 --> 0:55:03.160 people at State Farm Marina. We've done twenty two thousand 0:55:03.160 --> 0:55:06.319 people in the garden on a Wednesday with only three 0:55:06.360 --> 0:55:07.080 weeks of promotion. 0:55:07.760 --> 0:55:11.000 When Rich Homi Kwan passed away, bless Rich hold me. 0:55:11.320 --> 0:55:12.200 I did that. 0:55:12.640 --> 0:55:14.880 I turned my whole shot round because his brother called me, 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:16.279 and I turned my whole short around. 0:55:16.320 --> 0:55:18.319 I made it the biggest tribute ever. 0:55:18.480 --> 0:55:20.640 And I donated money to Asseamily because if the moment 0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:21.799 they told me it was like your rip, we don't 0:55:21.800 --> 0:55:23.239 know we're gonna do. We know we just booked him, 0:55:23.320 --> 0:55:24.680 and I just spoke to him the day before he 0:55:24.680 --> 0:55:26.960 passed away, and I was like, you know what, take 0:55:27.040 --> 0:55:29.799 all the money, keep the booking money, gainst because it's 0:55:29.800 --> 0:55:31.480 like people asking for the deposits back. 0:55:31.480 --> 0:55:32.920 We atten shows rip. I don't know what I'm doing. 0:55:32.960 --> 0:55:34.880 I say, take the money I gave you, keep all 0:55:34.880 --> 0:55:36.279 of that. I'm gonna pay you the back in on that. 0:55:36.440 --> 0:55:37.840 And on top of paying of the back end on that, 0:55:37.880 --> 0:55:39.920 I'm gonna raise money for you. On top of that. 0:55:40.440 --> 0:55:42.239 He was like, what are you gonna do? 0:55:42.239 --> 0:55:43.920 I was like, dude, just come, I'm gonna present yall 0:55:43.960 --> 0:55:45.680 to check. We're gonna play a song and we're gonna 0:55:45.680 --> 0:55:46.560 celebrate his life. 0:55:46.640 --> 0:55:47.960 That's right. That's dope, man. 0:55:47.960 --> 0:55:50.000 And then people were like, but I was like, no, 0:55:50.080 --> 0:55:52.239 that's what we're doing. It's not up to no one else. 0:55:52.280 --> 0:55:53.200 This is what we're doing. 0:55:53.400 --> 0:55:56.040 This is what we're doing. That's dope, man. Ridge holdy 0:55:56.120 --> 0:55:56.600 got that shit. 0:55:56.680 --> 0:55:59.400 And then when I tell you, we played the songs 0:55:59.719 --> 0:56:04.040 and a whole arena of when I tell you, it's 0:56:04.080 --> 0:56:07.000 not a seat, you could possibly it was people standing 0:56:07.520 --> 0:56:08.600 behind people. 0:56:09.080 --> 0:56:10.600 His music gonna last fast. 0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:12.920 And they played it in the whole to watch everybody 0:56:13.040 --> 0:56:15.239 stand up and then be able to do something like 0:56:15.280 --> 0:56:17.880 that and his family there, and then for them to 0:56:17.920 --> 0:56:21.920 stand up and like that's my son, that's my family. 0:56:21.960 --> 0:56:24.520 Look and to see the look on their faces, that 0:56:24.719 --> 0:56:28.600 to me elevation, Yes, showing people that we matter because 0:56:28.640 --> 0:56:29.440 we do matter, man. 0:56:29.480 --> 0:56:31.720 That's right all the time. Man, We're gonna do matter 0:56:31.719 --> 0:56:33.640 at them. Man. We are the culture. We set it. 0:56:33.640 --> 0:56:34.600 Do we set it? 0:56:34.640 --> 0:56:37.680 Man? We are the We are the people to follow, 0:56:37.800 --> 0:56:40.520 and it's not up for them to decide who goes 0:56:40.600 --> 0:56:43.959 when and who goes where. We go together. Yeah, it's 0:56:44.000 --> 0:56:46.359 just like that's a written rule in my neighborhood coming 0:56:46.440 --> 0:56:48.720 up with my homies. Man, when we travel somewhere together, 0:56:48.719 --> 0:56:51.600 as we all leave together or we don't leave like, 0:56:51.719 --> 0:56:53.319 you know what I mean, So we all gonna go, 0:56:53.520 --> 0:56:54.440 none of us gonna go. 0:56:54.480 --> 0:56:55.440 That's how we used to do it. 0:56:55.600 --> 0:56:57.799 Man. That's how you know how many clubs I show 0:56:57.880 --> 0:56:59.480 up too? You ain't letting all of them? Man, I 0:56:59.600 --> 0:57:02.080 give your money back. I'm not coming there, you know 0:57:02.080 --> 0:57:04.239 what I mean. And that's just how it is. Man. 0:57:04.280 --> 0:57:06.279 I'm for the team, So I respect you with that 0:57:06.400 --> 0:57:08.640 because I'm a team player from day one. I put 0:57:08.640 --> 0:57:12.160 the team first. It's no iron team, it's one hundred percent. 0:57:12.640 --> 0:57:17.800 So if someone was just to discover Rip Michaelson and 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:20.960 they're like, man, somebody told me about this comedian. Man, 0:57:21.000 --> 0:57:23.360 I'm gonna check them out. What would be the first 0:57:23.400 --> 0:57:26.560 performance or moment you will point them to to really 0:57:26.680 --> 0:57:28.840 understand you. It would be the first. 0:57:28.960 --> 0:57:34.240 That's a very man. You have best questions like I 0:57:34.240 --> 0:57:36.920 feel like I'm over here and the producers because she 0:57:37.000 --> 0:57:39.320 came through right like Maya Angelo. 0:57:39.480 --> 0:57:42.720 He was like, has a concrete rolls coming from the jungle, 0:57:43.600 --> 0:57:47.200 who came up as a delicate flower. That is now 0:57:50.640 --> 0:57:54.480 you have some deep bands, Jeremy there thrill this when 0:57:54.520 --> 0:58:00.240 you was gone and your dad left? What side you 0:58:00.520 --> 0:58:01.880 when you wear that that time? 0:58:03.160 --> 0:58:06.320 I think that was and a half. You got some 0:58:06.400 --> 0:58:07.760 of the best questions. 0:58:07.760 --> 0:58:07.920 Man. 0:58:07.920 --> 0:58:11.480 You were made appreciate that man really man Like, it's 0:58:11.520 --> 0:58:13.920 like when you see people who have a talent in 0:58:13.920 --> 0:58:16.520 the gift. Man, you have a gift and like you're 0:58:16.520 --> 0:58:17.840 pulling out of me. Man, I don't think I ever 0:58:17.960 --> 0:58:19.440 told this type of ship. You know, I don't know 0:58:19.480 --> 0:58:23.000 my cuts or not. On the Disney Network it's hip hop. 0:58:25.520 --> 0:58:27.240 I don't want to mess up to show. 0:58:27.240 --> 0:58:29.080 And you'll be like, oh man, we got a Disney 0:58:29.160 --> 0:58:31.160 Channel deal and I'm like, I'm not gonna make that episode. 0:58:33.080 --> 0:58:35.760 They gonna it's gonna they gonna it's gonna be nobody 0:58:35.800 --> 0:58:38.880 Pooty Tank episode. We both won't be here if it's 0:58:38.880 --> 0:58:41.840 all Disney. It'll be black. It'd be just the couch. Hey, 0:58:41.920 --> 0:58:45.160 the Disney. You would switching up a half hand of 0:58:45.200 --> 0:58:49.760 my time Canada when you chose Monley site I have, 0:58:49.880 --> 0:58:51.760 they I couldn't wear this. They'll be like, yo, you 0:58:51.760 --> 0:58:55.160 gotta be there like this, Hannah. So tell me I 0:58:55.200 --> 0:58:58.720 couldn't do this. They'll be like that hat now two gangster. 0:58:58.880 --> 0:59:01.200 No, yes you can because when you created, what I've 0:59:01.240 --> 0:59:03.720 learned is like I was able to turn down a 0:59:03.720 --> 0:59:06.479 lot of deals. Like I've said it the Live Nation table. 0:59:06.560 --> 0:59:08.000 They be like, hey, we want to do this with you, 0:59:08.400 --> 0:59:09.880 and we want to turn this and I was able 0:59:09.880 --> 0:59:11.320 to be able to like this deal don't. 0:59:11.120 --> 0:59:11.640 Make no sense. 0:59:11.960 --> 0:59:14.320 So you want me to take my stuff, bring it 0:59:14.360 --> 0:59:18.200 to Live Nation and we split the gate together. And 0:59:18.640 --> 0:59:20.960 you don't give me any Ticketmaster because you won't Ticketmaster. 0:59:21.520 --> 0:59:24.200 You are just trying to sell me your marketing. 0:59:24.760 --> 0:59:27.280 And you're giving me a cross collateralization deal, which means 0:59:27.480 --> 0:59:29.520 you're just not even really giving money. You're just giving 0:59:29.520 --> 0:59:32.040 me a loan against ticket sales, which means that if 0:59:32.120 --> 0:59:33.640 I don't sell it, I gotta pay the money back 0:59:33.680 --> 0:59:36.080 with interest. And then I got to use your production company, 0:59:36.120 --> 0:59:38.760 your marketing things. So you're getting paid like nine different 0:59:38.800 --> 0:59:41.160 ways exactly, and then you want me to split it. 0:59:41.160 --> 0:59:42.840 I'm not getting food and beverage. I'm not getting tket 0:59:42.840 --> 0:59:46.160 ba based I'm not getting anything. It's a terrible deal. 0:59:46.800 --> 0:59:47.920 It's a terrible deal. 0:59:48.120 --> 0:59:52.680 Who would sign this exactly? But everyone does? That's crazy, 0:59:53.480 --> 0:59:54.120 that's crazy. 0:59:54.440 --> 0:59:56.040 I why are we like that? Why? 0:59:56.280 --> 0:59:57.080 But everyone? 0:59:57.200 --> 0:59:59.240 Why is our culture like that where they put the 0:59:59.240 --> 1:00:01.120 bird in the hand and before the bush? 1:00:02.200 --> 1:00:05.640 I think that, you know, we fall short of like 1:00:06.840 --> 1:00:08.840 believing we could do things. So I was able to 1:00:08.840 --> 1:00:11.800 turn the deal down and constantly turn deals down like 1:00:11.800 --> 1:00:13.960 that because I went out and built it. 1:00:15.120 --> 1:00:18.479 So when you build it, it's on your turn. That's right, 1:00:18.560 --> 1:00:19.560 That's that's how. That's so. 1:00:19.680 --> 1:00:21.440 I wasn't like, hey, you know what, this is a 1:00:21.480 --> 1:00:23.360 dope idea and I go to them like, hey, this 1:00:23.400 --> 1:00:25.400 is a dope idea and let them go, hey, we're 1:00:25.400 --> 1:00:27.520 gonna put this together and put this. No, I build it. 1:00:27.600 --> 1:00:29.040 So when you come to a person that's number two 1:00:29.040 --> 1:00:31.640 in the country and post started doing sixteen seventeen thousand 1:00:31.800 --> 1:00:33.920 and did it in fourteen different arenas, you gotta you 1:00:33.920 --> 1:00:34.840 can't come to me like that. 1:00:34.840 --> 1:00:36.600 That's right, And they'll always try to tell you like. 1:00:36.600 --> 1:00:38.840 Oh, well, we can make it bigger instead of sixteen, 1:00:38.880 --> 1:00:42.120 we could do thirty like I did sixteen by myself. 1:00:42.160 --> 1:00:44.000 You don't think I could do thirty bumps exactly. You 1:00:44.000 --> 1:00:46.760 don't think I do forty bums. That's right. We're we 1:00:46.840 --> 1:00:51.200 elevating to what's the elevation, the elevation of just helping me. 1:00:51.240 --> 1:00:52.840 Do you do you want me to do more shows 1:00:52.880 --> 1:00:54.880 than I did by myself already, and then you're going 1:00:54.880 --> 1:00:56.920 half of what I'm getting just to open up fifteen something, 1:00:56.960 --> 1:00:58.720 So let me expect it. If I'm gonna do, I'm 1:00:58.760 --> 1:01:00.760 doing sixteen shows by myself, I'm gonna do with you. 1:01:00.800 --> 1:01:03.360 I could do thirty shows, but you won't have so 1:01:03.400 --> 1:01:04.600 I'm back to do a fifteen show. 1:01:04.680 --> 1:01:07.600 That's right. So what was the point. That's right. 1:01:07.640 --> 1:01:09.320 That's why I tell people all the time, man, it's 1:01:09.360 --> 1:01:11.920 greater later, man to check. If I look at it 1:01:11.960 --> 1:01:13.640 like this, if a person willing to give you a 1:01:13.760 --> 1:01:16.000 check up front, what is they gonna make on a 1:01:16.080 --> 1:01:16.440 back end? 1:01:16.480 --> 1:01:17.600 Because nothing is free. 1:01:17.640 --> 1:01:19.640 Nobody ain't gonna just be like yo, hu, take this 1:01:19.680 --> 1:01:22.400 million dollar advance and I'm gonna break even with this 1:01:22.440 --> 1:01:24.800 six hundred thousand back here. If I'm gonna give you 1:01:24.800 --> 1:01:27.080 this million, that means I'm gonna make three million on 1:01:27.120 --> 1:01:29.120 the back end, and you just gonna take your million 1:01:29.160 --> 1:01:30.880 and be cool, you know what I mean? That's really 1:01:30.920 --> 1:01:32.919 six hundred thousand if you still live in New York 1:01:33.120 --> 1:01:36.040 after taxes. Yeah. And you know what's funny, I didn't 1:01:36.040 --> 1:01:38.720 even realize that, right, Like, I'm doing all this whole time, 1:01:39.080 --> 1:01:42.240 not one by the money. I didn't realize that. Like 1:01:42.360 --> 1:01:43.040 I was dumb. 1:01:43.200 --> 1:01:47.400 I thought that all these people were selling out these shows. 1:01:47.480 --> 1:01:49.600 I thought that when somebody said, oh, okay, come see 1:01:49.640 --> 1:01:53.360 me live, that's them. Come to find out, I'm probably 1:01:53.360 --> 1:01:56.480 the only comedian to ever sell out his own arenas. 1:01:56.640 --> 1:02:00.280 It's always a machine behind him. It's always a a 1:02:00.280 --> 1:02:02.040 different company that's actually doing it. 1:02:02.320 --> 1:02:03.120 And I didn't know that. 1:02:03.600 --> 1:02:05.560 I had no idea until I started saying, hey, Rip, 1:02:05.600 --> 1:02:07.440 we want to do this with you, and they go like, well, 1:02:07.440 --> 1:02:09.120 we got to go talk to this company first. I'm like, 1:02:09.440 --> 1:02:13.600 but you're yeah, this isn't your tour. Yeah, so you 1:02:13.840 --> 1:02:17.920 just the face just a promotional Oh yeah, you man, 1:02:18.000 --> 1:02:19.640 say to me, that's the that's the thing. You'd be like, 1:02:19.680 --> 1:02:21.040 I want to do this. I'm like, okay, we doing 1:02:21.080 --> 1:02:24.160 That's right. This is I didn't know that. I didn't 1:02:24.200 --> 1:02:24.520 know that. 1:02:24.680 --> 1:02:26.920 It's a lot like that and all in all fashions 1:02:26.960 --> 1:02:28.880 of this business. That's like this part you're like, yo, 1:02:28.920 --> 1:02:30.080 can you kurkr? This is us? 1:02:30.160 --> 1:02:32.280 You see my production crew? You gotta ask man. 1:02:32.280 --> 1:02:34.200 No, but you got some real dudes, right yeah, but 1:02:34.280 --> 1:02:36.960 this is us, Like we we built this, we created it. 1:02:37.040 --> 1:02:39.520 You know. I shout out Noriega for seeing something in 1:02:39.600 --> 1:02:41.320 me that I didn't see because he like, bleek, I'm 1:02:41.320 --> 1:02:42.120 telling you you. 1:02:42.160 --> 1:02:42.800 Made for this ship. 1:02:42.880 --> 1:02:45.320 You need to definitely, and I'm like, hell no, I'm 1:02:45.360 --> 1:02:47.760 not no journalist. I'm not doing this ship. And look 1:02:47.840 --> 1:02:48.360 here I am. 1:02:48.680 --> 1:02:51.320 But Joe definitely nor read my brother, thank you. 1:02:51.360 --> 1:02:54.919 But I'm a firm believer in building your own cause 1:02:54.920 --> 1:02:57.400 you get the only You get to make the decisions 1:02:57.400 --> 1:02:59.960 and you get to drive the direction on where it's going. 1:03:00.120 --> 1:03:03.000 Because when you sell out, they can bring it and 1:03:03.040 --> 1:03:06.200 bring your company, your image and your likeness and carve 1:03:06.240 --> 1:03:08.560 it out to whatever they want the people to believe 1:03:08.600 --> 1:03:11.280 about you. When you own something, yourself is your word, 1:03:11.400 --> 1:03:14.520 your way, and they gonna know it's all you because 1:03:14.520 --> 1:03:17.880 they're gonna know who you are through your representation. 1:03:17.360 --> 1:03:19.120 Of your work. Man, you know what I'm saying. So 1:03:19.600 --> 1:03:21.520 what you built and what you're doing. 1:03:21.880 --> 1:03:24.200 You just saying that, yeah, I sold out fourteen to 1:03:24.280 --> 1:03:27.480 ring the sixteen shows, fourteen thousand, You saying that, like 1:03:27.560 --> 1:03:31.200 that's simple, bro, I might not sell out a thousand 1:03:31.240 --> 1:03:37.160 seed of right now. I guess it's not easy, bro. 1:03:37.360 --> 1:03:40.040 I guess I guess it seems And for me it 1:03:40.040 --> 1:03:43.360 seems easy because I never looked at it like that. 1:03:43.440 --> 1:03:46.080 But I never looked at it like that. I just 1:03:46.080 --> 1:03:48.160 always like, I want to put on the best show. 1:03:48.720 --> 1:03:50.880 I want to keep it affordable because I want people 1:03:50.880 --> 1:03:52.800 to be able to buy tickets from it, and I 1:03:52.840 --> 1:03:54.560 want to show people that look what we can do. 1:03:54.880 --> 1:03:57.000 And I thought that would bring just more people that 1:03:57.120 --> 1:03:58.880 be like, hey, let's do this, and not just hey, 1:03:59.000 --> 1:04:00.560 all right now we did this, go give it to 1:04:00.600 --> 1:04:03.160 this person so they can just I didn't know I did. 1:04:03.520 --> 1:04:05.760 I didn't think like that, no, you're doing it. 1:04:05.840 --> 1:04:06.480 Didn't think like that. 1:04:06.520 --> 1:04:09.040 And I do it in this God because I do it, 1:04:09.040 --> 1:04:11.760 and like sometimes like this Arena game and doing these 1:04:11.760 --> 1:04:15.440 things like the Garden gave me the garden, because like 1:04:15.480 --> 1:04:17.560 when you're just a person and you're just walking there like, hey, 1:04:17.560 --> 1:04:18.120 I'm Remichaels. 1:04:18.120 --> 1:04:18.760 I want to do the garden. 1:04:18.800 --> 1:04:21.680 They're like, it's five hundred thousand dollars to rent the garden. 1:04:23.640 --> 1:04:26.440 And you're sitting there and they go and they're expecting 1:04:26.440 --> 1:04:28.440 you to walk out. Remember like remember that scene and. 1:04:28.760 --> 1:04:33.320 Was it uh anyone from uh not coming to America? 1:04:34.080 --> 1:04:37.280 Nice boomerang when they was any thing and he say, 1:04:37.440 --> 1:04:41.360 he says, this jacket is ten thousand dollars and they 1:04:41.360 --> 1:04:41.920 don't pause me. 1:04:41.920 --> 1:04:43.400 He's like, what you thought that was gonna scare me 1:04:43.440 --> 1:04:44.080 or something like that. 1:04:44.640 --> 1:04:49.560 Bring. Yeah, So when you when you get to these 1:04:49.600 --> 1:04:52.920 places and and everybody's cool with me now, but when 1:04:52.920 --> 1:04:54.800 you get to these places and you're like, hey, I'm 1:04:54.880 --> 1:04:56.919 just I'm Remichaels and i want to do this type 1:04:56.920 --> 1:04:58.120 of show and I'm gonna do this, and they go 1:04:58.760 --> 1:05:02.040 who you with or who who's your representation? 1:05:02.120 --> 1:05:04.120 Would come? What are you doing? 1:05:04.480 --> 1:05:05.920 And I'm like, no, I'm gonna do the show. It 1:05:05.960 --> 1:05:07.560 was like it's five hundred thousand. I was like, okay, cool, 1:05:07.640 --> 1:05:08.560 So what dates do you have? 1:05:08.720 --> 1:05:09.240 That's right? 1:05:09.840 --> 1:05:11.480 And it's like well, we're gonna need and they do 1:05:11.840 --> 1:05:13.360 in the beginning, they give you deals that don't make 1:05:13.360 --> 1:05:13.720 any sense. 1:05:13.760 --> 1:05:15.440 They'll be like, but we need it all up front. 1:05:17.480 --> 1:05:19.720 We and that's that's that just doesn't make any sense. 1:05:19.760 --> 1:05:22.920 No business, no, no business that makes an decision. You 1:05:23.080 --> 1:05:25.680 had an arena to be so shitty to me that 1:05:25.800 --> 1:05:27.400 after I sold it out, the lady came to me 1:05:27.520 --> 1:05:31.200 and apologized. Damn at least apologize. 1:05:31.240 --> 1:05:33.840 She was like, I didn't believe that you would do 1:05:33.880 --> 1:05:35.400 any of the things that you said you was gonna do, 1:05:35.480 --> 1:05:39.280 And I'm sorry for you know everything, and how I 1:05:39.360 --> 1:05:39.880 treated you. 1:05:39.880 --> 1:05:42.440 You sold. This whole thing happened. 1:05:42.440 --> 1:05:44.600 I think like two weeks because they gave they give 1:05:44.640 --> 1:05:47.480 me dope, They give me dates and stuff that dates. 1:05:47.320 --> 1:05:48.880 They don't want to count and just give you throw 1:05:48.880 --> 1:05:49.360 away things. 1:05:49.400 --> 1:05:52.680 And it's a Tuesday, Like who definely garden on the Wednesday? 1:05:53.280 --> 1:05:56.240 Who is doing that? Word up unless you plan for 1:05:56.280 --> 1:05:58.760 the next Like the fuck, who's doing that? 1:05:58.760 --> 1:06:01.480 That's happening? That's it's a workday in the middle of 1:06:01.520 --> 1:06:02.800 the week. Two dude. 1:06:03.040 --> 1:06:05.600 Shit. The funniest thing about me doing the garden was like, 1:06:05.640 --> 1:06:09.120 you know, we all think about the gardener's like. 1:06:09.320 --> 1:06:13.280 We're doing a garden Mecca. We're doing this garden. That's 1:06:13.320 --> 1:06:13.880 a statement. 1:06:15.360 --> 1:06:17.960 I booked that around and do the whole thing. And 1:06:18.000 --> 1:06:19.600 that's why I said, you have solid people around, you'll 1:06:19.600 --> 1:06:21.959 do the whole thing. And they start, you know, they're 1:06:22.000 --> 1:06:23.840 like every day they're telling me like, this is not 1:06:23.880 --> 1:06:24.400 gonna happen. 1:06:24.720 --> 1:06:27.040 You only sold fifty tickets. You always sold sixty tickets. 1:06:27.120 --> 1:06:29.280 We need to cancel, and going like we gotta cancel this, 1:06:29.360 --> 1:06:31.000 cancel this. I'm like, no, just keep it going, keep 1:06:31.000 --> 1:06:33.080 it going. Well, we're gonna need it. Every day they say, well, 1:06:33.080 --> 1:06:34.880 we're gonna need this. Now, we're gonna need You paid 1:06:34.880 --> 1:06:36.160 the whole thing up from but now we're gonna need 1:06:36.200 --> 1:06:37.439 this insurance, we're gonna need your CEI. 1:06:37.480 --> 1:06:39.400 We're gonna need this. We're gonna just trying to give you. 1:06:39.440 --> 1:06:41.000 And you know this is not refundable, so if you 1:06:41.080 --> 1:06:43.880 cancel your fun I'm trying to give you ever hurdle 1:06:43.920 --> 1:06:46.560 to make you. And then once it start moving, they 1:06:46.560 --> 1:06:49.200 start telling me who I can have on my show 1:06:49.200 --> 1:06:51.760 and who I can't. And then I was like what 1:06:52.320 --> 1:06:57.320 It's like, yeah, we don't, we don't want I'm never 1:06:57.320 --> 1:07:00.840 gonna pull punches. Man, I'm dying soon, so whatever, I'm 1:07:00.840 --> 1:07:05.080 just saying. I'm just jo but uh, that was just 1:07:05.120 --> 1:07:07.680 telling me you can't have Bobby's murder. And I was like, 1:07:07.840 --> 1:07:09.440 and I was like, what do you mean I can 1:07:09.520 --> 1:07:12.640 bobably Well, he's not a somebody we really want here, 1:07:12.760 --> 1:07:14.800 and you know, da da da, and he's. 1:07:14.600 --> 1:07:18.439 Got a criminal record. I was like, so let's see, 1:07:18.440 --> 1:07:22.040 wait a minute. Half the rock artist you have have 1:07:22.160 --> 1:07:23.360 criminal records. 1:07:23.840 --> 1:07:26.960 Half the other people you have, so you're trying to 1:07:27.000 --> 1:07:28.400 signal this guy out. 1:07:28.680 --> 1:07:31.959 It was like, well, that's just, you know, our thing, 1:07:32.160 --> 1:07:33.880 and we don't want that. And I go, I'm going 1:07:33.920 --> 1:07:36.200 back and forth fighting, and I'm going back and forth. 1:07:36.840 --> 1:07:37.880 Mayan at three was the show. 1:07:37.880 --> 1:07:39.760 We're going back and forth, and I'm like, okay, So 1:07:40.280 --> 1:07:43.200 my publicist at least filmish, you know, recipeace, at least 1:07:43.400 --> 1:07:45.720 when I went to the hospital, she passed away. So 1:07:45.760 --> 1:07:49.200 she goes ripped. They're not gonna allow him to perform. 1:07:50.200 --> 1:07:55.120 They sent a straight no wow. So I go, okay, 1:07:55.160 --> 1:07:58.720 stop fucking respond to them. Tell him yes, we don't. 1:07:58.800 --> 1:08:01.320 Just stop responding. And so when I get in the garden, 1:08:01.360 --> 1:08:04.360 guess who the fuck is in the garden? And they 1:08:04.440 --> 1:08:07.600 look at me and I thought, we told you Bobby 1:08:07.600 --> 1:08:08.400 Smurder couldn't play. 1:08:08.520 --> 1:08:09.640 I was like, yeah, I got the email. 1:08:10.320 --> 1:08:13.520 I walk away and they look at me and go. 1:08:17.080 --> 1:08:18.160 They don't know what to do. 1:08:18.280 --> 1:08:20.439 So we all get in this room and like they 1:08:20.479 --> 1:08:25.160 put me in this room. And because before that I 1:08:25.160 --> 1:08:26.960 had an issue with getting in the arena for some reason, 1:08:27.280 --> 1:08:28.800 they told me I couldn't get in an arena. And 1:08:29.000 --> 1:08:31.240 mind you, it's my company, my face on the thing, 1:08:31.240 --> 1:08:34.000 and they go, well, you don't have the band, and 1:08:34.040 --> 1:08:35.639 I'm like, what band. It was like, well, you're supposed 1:08:35.640 --> 1:08:37.439 to get a band because they change over security. So 1:08:38.000 --> 1:08:39.479 if you do production, it's a band when you first 1:08:39.479 --> 1:08:42.160 get into loading, and there's another band for entertainers, right, 1:08:42.479 --> 1:08:43.800 So they're like, well you can't get in you have 1:08:43.840 --> 1:08:47.639 a band. So security treats me like total trash. They 1:08:47.680 --> 1:08:50.000 tell me I got to go out. I got it out, 1:08:50.000 --> 1:08:50.799 and I'm like, I'm. 1:08:50.680 --> 1:08:57.559 Reminchaeled remintsipate to have a ticket and yeah, and so 1:08:57.600 --> 1:08:59.280 then they was like and then they started pressing me 1:08:59.320 --> 1:09:01.519 more like So first it turned out to be like 1:09:01.560 --> 1:09:03.000 some kind of like oh okay. 1:09:03.240 --> 1:09:05.719 Then it went to like aggressive like and I'm like, okay, cool, 1:09:05.760 --> 1:09:09.400 So let me call everybody that's involved in this arena 1:09:09.760 --> 1:09:12.599 and let's all sit because we need to have a meeting. 1:09:13.320 --> 1:09:13.800 A sad. 1:09:14.160 --> 1:09:16.880 So I'm sitting there and I'm sitting there with like 1:09:17.000 --> 1:09:21.400 everybody in manage at the garden. I go, so, what 1:09:21.439 --> 1:09:23.720 did the money I gave you come with? That's the 1:09:23.720 --> 1:09:26.360 first thing I say, and they go, well, it comes 1:09:26.360 --> 1:09:28.880 with this, it comes with that. And I'm like, I 1:09:28.920 --> 1:09:32.160 just got one question. In that money I gave you, 1:09:33.160 --> 1:09:36.879 am I paying for security? And they go yeah. 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:40.559 So I say, oh, so this dude that's being an 1:09:40.600 --> 1:09:44.559 asshole to me and his staff are getting paid by me, 1:09:44.920 --> 1:09:46.480 So I'm paying people. 1:09:46.680 --> 1:09:47.719 To treat me like shit. 1:09:48.720 --> 1:09:51.920 And I go well, I'm like, look at the guys, 1:09:51.920 --> 1:09:54.600 and I'm like, you harassed me, and I'm helping you 1:09:54.640 --> 1:09:58.439 feed your family, like I'm paying for you to be here. 1:10:00.320 --> 1:10:02.320 And I was like, I want an apology, that's right, 1:10:02.400 --> 1:10:04.160 And I was like, I'm not fucking apologize when nothing. 1:10:04.160 --> 1:10:04.720 I said, Yo, we. 1:10:06.479 --> 1:10:08.559 We're gonna do one of two things. I'm gonna argue 1:10:08.560 --> 1:10:10.840 with y'all. I don't have none of these going back 1:10:10.880 --> 1:10:11.320 and forth. 1:10:12.240 --> 1:10:20.760 I go, either they apologize, ah, they go, oh, and 1:10:20.840 --> 1:10:23.360 you relieve them, because what I'm not gonna do is 1:10:23.400 --> 1:10:25.880 pay a whole staff to treat me like shit, or 1:10:26.560 --> 1:10:28.840 because this is your reader, I'm gonna go out there 1:10:28.920 --> 1:10:31.920 and I'm gona we're gonna cancel this show, and I'm 1:10:31.920 --> 1:10:35.080 going to tell every single person hows treated. 1:10:35.280 --> 1:10:37.719 Then you go, you're not gonna fucking cancel the show. 1:10:37.840 --> 1:10:40.800 It's got twenty some thousand people out there. I was like, 1:10:41.360 --> 1:10:46.000 what you don't realize is those twenty two thousand people. 1:10:47.200 --> 1:10:51.639 Came to see me. I brought them here, that's right, 1:10:52.880 --> 1:10:54.360 and I did it in three weeks. 1:10:54.640 --> 1:10:57.360 You don't think I can walk out there, give everybody 1:10:57.400 --> 1:10:58.880 free T shirts and tell them to meet me at 1:10:58.880 --> 1:11:00.000 the Barclay Center next week. 1:11:00.400 --> 1:11:06.559 Mm hmm hmm. And then they laugh and I go, okay, Nick, 1:11:07.280 --> 1:11:10.240 put your ship on, let's go, Gorilla, let's go. Let's 1:11:10.240 --> 1:11:10.800 all get in the car. 1:11:10.880 --> 1:11:10.920 Go. 1:11:11.040 --> 1:11:13.799 I explain it to y'all later, and every single entertainer 1:11:15.120 --> 1:11:17.400 gets in their suv and starts to. 1:11:19.040 --> 1:11:25.040 M hm hmmm, and there go okay, go home, do 1:11:25.120 --> 1:11:25.439 you show? 1:11:25.880 --> 1:11:29.080 Yeah, send the security home. I'd have relieved them a 1:11:29.280 --> 1:11:32.280 sad time to go. Ain't no waycause I'm not gonna 1:11:32.320 --> 1:11:36.679 let someone dictate that's right. 1:11:36.880 --> 1:11:39.080 Treat me like ship number one, tell me who in 1:11:39.200 --> 1:11:42.240 my community, because I didn't. 1:11:42.080 --> 1:11:44.400 Have any contract that you could dictate who I bring. 1:11:44.520 --> 1:11:45.040 That's right. 1:11:45.840 --> 1:11:48.280 Bobby Murder went on killed it. Everybody had a good time, 1:11:48.680 --> 1:11:51.880 that's right. Shout out Bobby Schmurder. Man, and we played 1:11:51.880 --> 1:11:55.360 the garden right, that's right man. That you can't that's how. 1:11:55.439 --> 1:11:57.720 And we was respectful, and that's how you earn the 1:11:57.800 --> 1:11:59.880 respect of those two like you know what I mean, 1:12:00.120 --> 1:12:02.800 can't I'm paying your staff. You treat me like shit, 1:12:02.880 --> 1:12:05.080 and I'm supposed to just be like, okay, that's cool. 1:12:05.120 --> 1:12:06.920 You know who I am. Now, we're good. Hell no, 1:12:07.120 --> 1:12:08.360 everybody go home, man. 1:12:09.000 --> 1:12:10.840 And that's why I say when you said camaraderie has 1:12:10.840 --> 1:12:13.080 a team, I said all that to be like, that's. 1:12:12.960 --> 1:12:14.839 Right, the team man, to stay together. 1:12:14.880 --> 1:12:16.799 Man, we leave together. 1:12:17.040 --> 1:12:18.439 I didn't even have to explain what was happening. 1:12:18.400 --> 1:12:21.200 I was just because everybody with you, and that's how 1:12:21.200 --> 1:12:23.960 it's supposed to go. We come together, we leave together, man, 1:12:24.360 --> 1:12:26.880 Even though that just sounded like some Torretto fast and 1:12:26.880 --> 1:12:34.000 the Furious shit. 1:12:32.320 --> 1:12:35.040 One sound, we die together. 1:12:35.680 --> 1:12:40.120 But so what's next you know what I mean outside 1:12:40.120 --> 1:12:43.080 of I know you're dealing with you know, personal things 1:12:43.080 --> 1:12:46.560 in the life side. But what's next for RIP in 1:12:46.640 --> 1:12:50.679 the entertainment world. What can people be expecting next besides 1:12:50.720 --> 1:12:53.320 the Eightpril fourth Comedy Jam at the Barkley Center. Make 1:12:53.360 --> 1:12:54.960 sure you beat him there, don't meet him there, and 1:12:55.000 --> 1:12:56.720 if you're outside, he might let you in. 1:13:00.280 --> 1:13:02.960 First of all, my tickets started, so I keep my ticket. Man, 1:13:03.479 --> 1:13:05.720 When do you go see something for thirty dollars? 1:13:05.760 --> 1:13:07.840 Nothing cost thirty a bagup, but take the tips is 1:13:07.920 --> 1:13:10.120 thirty dollars now, so you better get your ass in there. 1:13:10.360 --> 1:13:11.960 Then thirty dollars already gonna give you a bag with 1:13:11.960 --> 1:13:13.639 nothing but airing it. And it's like ten dollars worth 1:13:13.640 --> 1:13:16.759 of chips. You don't got that gen you squeeze. 1:13:16.800 --> 1:13:18.320 You used to be the top. It's all air. 1:13:18.400 --> 1:13:21.599 Now it's all air, crabs all air. So now you're 1:13:21.640 --> 1:13:23.719 you're looking at the different things. So now I'm taking 1:13:23.760 --> 1:13:28.160 into another space. I'm taking into like I've shot three specials, 1:13:28.200 --> 1:13:30.599 I got two more specials coming out. I'm showing people 1:13:30.600 --> 1:13:33.120 the elevation. So now I'm stepping more from behind the scenes, 1:13:33.160 --> 1:13:34.800 like no one whatever I would never speak like this. 1:13:34.840 --> 1:13:36.799 I was always the person that you didn't even realize 1:13:36.800 --> 1:13:38.519 it was me who had a show. I used to 1:13:38.520 --> 1:13:39.880 put people in front of me just to stand there 1:13:39.880 --> 1:13:41.800 and be like, oh, that's the guy in charge, just 1:13:41.800 --> 1:13:44.720 because I didn't want people to need to that. 1:13:44.720 --> 1:13:47.040 That was never my goal. So now I got to 1:13:47.080 --> 1:13:49.080 take a chance at life. So I'm going to produce 1:13:49.120 --> 1:13:52.280 some great stuff. I got the Specials. I got a 1:13:52.280 --> 1:13:54.920 podcast with my wife called Connor Sor to Marry. I 1:13:54.960 --> 1:13:57.120 got a show that me and Erica Mien are doing. 1:13:57.439 --> 1:13:59.320 I got two different movies with fifty one twenty that 1:13:59.360 --> 1:14:02.000 were producing. And I'm starting to constantly, constantly just come 1:14:02.040 --> 1:14:04.280 up with content. And I got like five different tours 1:14:04.320 --> 1:14:06.040 coming out. So now it's not only just the wild 1:14:06.040 --> 1:14:08.519 Out tours. So April Fool's Comedy Jam, it's just Fooling 1:14:08.520 --> 1:14:10.720 Comedy Jam. It's the wild It's the One Wild Night, 1:14:10.720 --> 1:14:12.559 which is a little festival. We're stepping in the festival 1:14:12.600 --> 1:14:14.720 space and that's happened in September fifth in Atlanta, and 1:14:14.760 --> 1:14:16.599 we're doing sixty thousand people at the festival and I'm 1:14:16.640 --> 1:14:19.040 taking every rapper and every every comedian that I know 1:14:19.280 --> 1:14:21.160 and put them on one huge festival, and I'm making 1:14:21.200 --> 1:14:22.840 it for all ages. I want everybody to be able 1:14:22.880 --> 1:14:25.599 to come and have a great time and show that 1:14:25.640 --> 1:14:27.080 you don't you don't have to go over here and 1:14:27.080 --> 1:14:27.800 pay all this money. 1:14:27.800 --> 1:14:29.960 And then for our talent and our creativity and what 1:14:30.000 --> 1:14:31.760 we do that we can do these numbers and we 1:14:31.800 --> 1:14:34.360 can do this and change things. So the life I 1:14:34.400 --> 1:14:36.519 got left, that's what we're doing. So you're gonna see 1:14:36.520 --> 1:14:37.880 one Wild Night. You're gonna see the Off the Rip, 1:14:37.920 --> 1:14:40.320 you gonna see the crowd Work Special, another special I'm 1:14:40.320 --> 1:14:41.640 shooting at the Apollo. You about to say the Air 1:14:41.680 --> 1:14:44.120 Committed Project. You about to see the new Wild Out Tour. 1:14:44.520 --> 1:14:46.640 About to see fall Back and Love Tour like you know, 1:14:47.120 --> 1:14:48.400 Tiya might even come back and do. 1:14:50.240 --> 1:14:53.120 To y'all got a hot record. He might be on 1:14:53.240 --> 1:14:56.439 tour for another. That was the Barkler for That was 1:14:56.439 --> 1:14:58.760 the nigga said when they booed Toy because he called 1:14:58.760 --> 1:14:59.000 me out. 1:14:59.000 --> 1:15:01.200 I'm wantly saying that because he went on nineteen different 1:15:01.200 --> 1:15:03.120 podcasts and said rip st me able to get booed 1:15:03.160 --> 1:15:03.519 and I did not. 1:15:03.760 --> 1:15:06.040 I just want to clear that I did not do that. 1:15:06.280 --> 1:15:08.400 He said people didn't know he was doing music, and 1:15:08.400 --> 1:15:10.200 he was like, oh, they thought they was gonna sing. 1:15:10.240 --> 1:15:12.280 They know, they knew he was doing comedy. 1:15:12.400 --> 1:15:12.960 They listened. 1:15:13.000 --> 1:15:15.080 It just wasn't that night. And that's just what it is. 1:15:15.160 --> 1:15:17.160 I'm only saying it because it happens to all of 1:15:17.240 --> 1:15:18.200 us t T. 1:15:18.560 --> 1:15:22.880 But it happens to every single comedian. We all get booed. 1:15:22.920 --> 1:15:25.800 It just any given Sunday, everybody. I got booed as 1:15:25.800 --> 1:15:27.920 a rapper. I wasn't even a community a comedian and 1:15:28.000 --> 1:15:30.040 got booed. So it happens all of us. 1:15:30.080 --> 1:15:33.600 The boo happens, and it makes sure don't happens the 1:15:33.720 --> 1:15:35.640 youth practice. And if you want to come back to 1:15:35.680 --> 1:15:37.960 ya and do it again, I got that same bag 1:15:38.000 --> 1:15:39.000 of game seet last time. 1:15:39.080 --> 1:15:40.400 We would love to see you in Brooklyn. 1:15:40.520 --> 1:15:44.280 That's right, April Fool's Comedy Jam to return the Tiayo. 1:15:44.439 --> 1:15:47.400 I appreciate you pulling up my guy, and I wish 1:15:47.479 --> 1:15:51.840 you many many more years of life, success, blessings, health, 1:15:52.200 --> 1:15:55.880 and I pray that you get that heart transplant you're 1:15:55.880 --> 1:15:56.840 desperately waiting for. 1:15:56.960 --> 1:15:58.680 Man, you know what I'm saying, I'm gonna holler some 1:15:58.760 --> 1:15:59.960 of your boys. I could tell her by the way 1:16:00.000 --> 1:16:01.559 looking at me like, we got you ripped forty grand 1:16:02.800 --> 1:16:03.400 I meet you now. 1:16:03.400 --> 1:16:05.240 I can just tell they was like, oh, we got 1:16:05.240 --> 1:16:06.679 the bag. We were gonna make that happening. 1:16:06.720 --> 1:16:10.759 You're gonna live from Lee Avenue Club, the Lee Avenue Plug, 1:16:10.800 --> 1:16:13.639 come highlight for your crew. 1:16:13.760 --> 1:16:16.040 Then I could definitely know I'm gonna go after the 1:16:16.080 --> 1:16:17.960 bark lay and get the check. I'm coming back here, 1:16:18.520 --> 1:16:21.400 Joe Chill. I'm buying hearts and Chrome Heart jeans. 1:16:23.960 --> 1:16:27.280 Yo. You know what it is, y'all. It's rock solid podcast. 1:16:27.479 --> 1:16:30.240 It's Rip Michael's hair and we holding it down. Man. 1:16:30.320 --> 1:16:37.160 Do say for life, Rock for life, Stay silent, stay true. Yeah. 1:16:37.840 --> 1:16:41.840 For more podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit iHeart Radio app, 1:16:42.080 --> 1:16:45.120 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows 1:16:45.160 --> 1:16:47.679 at And you can follow me on any social media 1:16:47.800 --> 1:16:51.240 platform under the name Memphis Bleak. 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