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Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning Breakfast Club Morning.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We

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Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. And we got some legends in

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Speaker 1: the building, icons living wenute this time, we really he said,

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Speaker 1: special guests a lot. It's a little different icons, right.

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Speaker 1: We have Will Smith and Martin Lawrence absolutely rock them

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Speaker 1: around him my glass and god damn it, they boys.

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Speaker 1: And we didn't Martin so dirty. No, we didn't do nothing.

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Speaker 1: Stuck in the elevator, I said, what's going on here? Now?

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Speaker 1: Did you check the way capacity? Martin? How many people

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Speaker 1: was on the elevator with you? It was a lot

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Speaker 1: of people. That's what I'm saying. I've never seen an

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Speaker 1: entourage like this from anybody. We have a lot of rappings,

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Speaker 1: but what you're talking about on the elevator, I just

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Speaker 1: told him, nobody don't find please, don't do that. That

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Speaker 1: because you gotta make small talk and yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'd be like, hey, how you doing? Yeah, yeah, oh

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Speaker 1: what's that? Oh no, you're just happy to see me.

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Speaker 1: So you guys are brothers. You've done movies, your friends.

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Speaker 1: I want to start. I just want to ask you

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Speaker 1: guys a question. What's the craziest gift that you guys

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Speaker 1: received from each other? If anything, craziest gift. And I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you why in the second guy craziest gifts

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Speaker 1: because it's Martin. That's right, it's Martin inspired. Craziest gift

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Speaker 1: we got you give me just off golf clubs? Yeah

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Speaker 1: you never you didn't swing on one time? He not

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Speaker 1: not really, I don't go out there, no, I golf.

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Speaker 1: But I was like trying to get him because like

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Speaker 1: if you played any sport in your life, once you

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Speaker 1: get to a certain age, you know you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: be running ball. You know, got you so, But like golf,

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Speaker 1: you get to you know, set your friends and you

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Speaker 1: get to do you know, you get all of the

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Speaker 1: same kind of energy from golf, except you can do

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Speaker 1: it till you eighty. Got you. I was trying to

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Speaker 1: have Marty mar but yeah, yeah, he ain't take to it.

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Speaker 1: Still at least I have the club yet. So it's

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Speaker 1: this disrespectful right, So this is what Charlotta maagne my brother,

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Speaker 1: I guess you can call him that got me for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: It's right behind you, right, I mean, listen, Oh, Gina

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Speaker 1: got Martin something like this, Wow, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: My wife is a little upset you got you know?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is that little disrespectful? The word I'm just asking.

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's the deal you I don't I don't judge,

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Speaker 1: but by the cover. But what was the thinking? What

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Speaker 1: would you he always going for? He called me his

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Speaker 1: favorite asshole of time. Oh got it from yes, have

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Speaker 1: it at home to be reminded of the level of

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Speaker 1: antsholdness that he has to deal with. So yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: not like, yeah, we don't. We don't send each other

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Speaker 1: that kind everything that the whole boy. Let people smack

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Speaker 1: it when they walk in. That's so bad boys. Now,

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Speaker 1: why did it take so long to put this out

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Speaker 1: and get this done? This? No, it had to be

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Speaker 1: right man, it's um you know what the first bad Boys? Uh?

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Speaker 1: What it meant for the culture? You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: It was like it was at a time, you know,

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Speaker 1: the height of Martin and the height of Fresh Prince

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Speaker 1: and we came together and made this movie and it

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Speaker 1: for the culture at that point. It was Eddie, you know,

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Speaker 1: Eddie was the black dude that was holding it down,

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Speaker 1: and then we came together and created something. And then

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Speaker 1: we got to the second and I just didn't want

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Speaker 1: to mess it up. You know, It's like, I don't

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Speaker 1: Let's do one. I was like, no, if we're gonna

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Speaker 1: make a Bad Boys a third one, it has to

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Speaker 1: be deservant. There has to be messages and ideas. We

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Speaker 1: got to be talking about something and it's not just

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Speaker 1: you know, blowing some stuff up and and you know,

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Speaker 1: getting paid. I'm not confronted. Was leary because the first

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Speaker 1: or second one, you guys are doing stunts, You're driving

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Speaker 1: through thres your breathing. Will just said they played golf

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Speaker 1: because and I'm gonna be running around. Yeah, yeah, trying

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Speaker 1: But though in this one, yeah, we start we use them.

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Speaker 1: can I can do a stunt, right, and then they

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Speaker 1: they can just do it, so they can hold a

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Speaker 1: So you get to do as much as you or

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Speaker 1: as little as you want. You know, you didn't used

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Speaker 1: to be able to do that. Yeah, no, no, that's yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's speaking of budgets. How does money work in a

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Speaker 1: because there was a rumor that you was making like

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Speaker 1: ten million dollars more than Martin Nole. Okay, well we've

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Speaker 1: been we've been talking for four minutes. You don't go

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Speaker 1: we done. As we get ready for this movie. Though,

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Speaker 1: you do research on how Bad Boys started, and I

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Speaker 1: was reading that it was originally intended for John Lovitt

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Speaker 1: So how did you guys end up? Script came to me. Um,

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Speaker 1: they presented it to me first, and then they wanted

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Speaker 1: me to pick somebody to co star with me in

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Speaker 1: the movie. And my sister Ray brought Will's uh attention

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Speaker 1: to me, and so won't you do it? Well? And

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Speaker 1: I said, let's set up a dinner, and Will came

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Speaker 1: five minutes of talking to him, the rest is history. Man.

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Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't say no, Yeah, now we had

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Speaker 1: you you create a chemistry. The second we sat down,

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Speaker 1: We yeah, man, we had met, but we didn't we

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Speaker 1: He never looked at it like you watched the Early

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Speaker 1: if you remember, I used to say his lines right

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Speaker 1: before you, never looking none of that stuff, be like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I don't know about this. I Will

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Speaker 1: So I just was excited to work with m. I

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Speaker 1: was jealous as hell. I was jealous as hell of Martin. Really, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a matter of as hell. That's a

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Speaker 1: We donna call at a time. We don't call at

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Speaker 1: gonna get you for, figured out what I'm It's something

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Speaker 1: So I'll be home watching I was watching Biggie Martin

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Speaker 1: huge even after that. The great thing about a TV

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Speaker 1: that's fucking acting, right, And I was like, but you

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Speaker 1: but we were wondering, did Cali try to get you

425
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,439
Speaker 1: on the soundtrack? Yeah, yeah, we were talking, you know,

426
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 1: just the timing up, and I so wanted to try

427
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,439
Speaker 1: to try to jump on there. We worked together. We

428
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:14,719
Speaker 1: had he annoying. He was annoying the out of callin

429
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: is the best of the best man. Call was coming

430
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Speaker 1: to set a month before it was time for his seed,

431
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 1: ever to set, a month before it was time for

432
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: his seedy. It's like, let me tell you, but that

433
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: energy like you when you hit Miami, you know you

434
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 1: got you got you gotta kiss the rings when you

435
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 1: you know you hit Miami, you know you got to

436
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: shout out Kalid. But he um, you know he was

437
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: coming down to set. He was uh, you know he was.

438
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 1: He so loves the franchise. You know, he loved it.

439
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,439
Speaker 1: He wanted it to win, and he wanted to do

440
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 1: everything that he could do, uh to help us till kids.

441
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: You have to have a DJ Khalid level of annoyance. No,

442
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 1: that's real. I call it, well, I call it, uh

443
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: fearlessness and relentlessness. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta be fearless and relentless,

444
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: and Kalid is both of those. And and you know

445
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: that that type of energy is the energy that cuts

446
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: through you know that, you know you can't be quiet

447
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: about it. And you got to lean on it at

448
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 1: all times. The music questions, we're talking about music a

449
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: little bit, Fresh Prince, Will Smith, who's the better rapper? Um, well,

450
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: I think so. Somebody said. Somebody said, um, Will Smith

451
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: was a whack rapper, but Fresh Prince it was dope.

452
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 1: Somebody said that we're that somewhere. Yeah, hold on, let

453
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 1: me see. But in your personal you think, no, you

454
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 1: know what, there was a there was in that same thing.

455
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:59,160
Speaker 1: There was a certain amount of rawness and unbridled creativity

456
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,120
Speaker 1: during the first part of my career, and then once

457
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: I started winning, it did kind of narrow the avenues

458
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 1: of what I wanted to do. It was more important

459
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 1: to me to win than to be me, you know.

460
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 1: And you know, so there was there was a There

461
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: was a certain amount. There was a certain amount. The

462
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: Fresh Prince was wild and raw and um unapologetically you

463
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: know himself. And then Will Smith got a little bit

464
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: more polished, and um, why don't you line up a

465
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: couple of number ones in a row? You get that

466
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: the taste for blood in your mouth, and that that taste,

467
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: um uh, sort of destroys the vastness of your creative mind.

468
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 1: I remember hearing you on Radar podcast, and you said

469
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: that it was a point where you didn't even want

470
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: to curse. Yeah, well, my grandmother, my grandmother for you

471
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: in comedy? Does that work in comedy too? Like, as

472
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: you get more famous, you can't be as raw you

473
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: feel like as you're to because you're still doing comedy tours. Yeah,

474
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: I know you got a lot of comments coming out

475
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: with you, but how does that work in comedy? I

476
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't compromise my comedy. You know, I

477
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 1: never did in the past. Uh. You know, when I

478
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: put out You So Crazy, they wanted me to water

479
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 1: it down and give it an R rating, And I

480
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: took an NC seventeen just so I could say what

481
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to say. And yeah, you know, so I

482
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: don't like to compromise my comedy and I don't. I

483
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 1: don't do it today. I just do what I want

484
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: to do and have fun with it. Special difficult. What's

485
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: the worst decision that both of you guys made in

486
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: your career? Like, what's one thing you say, damn, I

487
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: shouldn't have did that. What's one thing you said that damn,

488
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have did that? Or what did you pass

489
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: up or something that you regret I made the Wild

490
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: Wild West and the Matrix. Yeah, what about you more?

491
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: I didn't go with him on the last press junket

492
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: and Bad for Bad Boys. He did it by himself.

493
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: And now that I see what we on this press

494
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: junk at all, that we got to do it and

495
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: the fun we had, why did you go? Well? I

496
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: it was it's different. It's it's in the wild face

497
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: when you was waving the gun on No, it was

498
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: just a different time. And you know, they didn't want

499
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,479
Speaker 1: to fly me private. I wanted to go private. It

500
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: was it's politics. So but but I've learned from that

501
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 1: from now and I would do something different. Now are

502
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: you still Are you still banned from now? I don't

503
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: give a damn. I don't give it was something with

504
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:50,479
Speaker 1: the monologue back because right, yeah, I didn't know anything. No,

505
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: but I'm not banned from No. They have banned me

506
00:27:53,359 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: from NBC at the time for a minute. Yeah, but

507
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: then they realized and they realized, you know, the way

508
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,360
Speaker 1: it went down wasn't what they thought. And then they

509
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: sent me apology letter. Warren little Field, I think that's

510
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: the president of something and he sent me a letter

511
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: and apologize and saying, welcome back to NBC and everything.

512
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: Did you say my dick you No? I just went

513
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: on the air and read it on Jay Lennon saying,

514
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: with comedy now, you know you see everybody so sensitive

515
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: with everything? Yes, would you do a comedy special now?

516
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: Because I'm thinking, like, like she said, the water glistening

517
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: all over your body? I can see people having a

518
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: problem with that. And you see Annie Murphy talking about

519
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: his past comments and saying that he is apologetic now

520
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: about them and you. The question is, would you have

521
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: a problem doing a comedy, especially doing what you want

522
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: to do, not care about what you say? Would you

523
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: curve your comedy? I probably would think about a lot more,

524
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying out of my mouth, just

525
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: because I have kids now and I care about how

526
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: to affects them and uh but um, for the most part,

527
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: I just want to give people what I'm feeling, you know,

528
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: and and that's what I do. How your kids look

529
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: at you when you do it? Do they look at

530
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: you as moret And the guy on comedy like, come on, dad,

531
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: wasn't one of those things that you just dad? The

532
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: same thing with you just dad, just dad? I'm just Dad. Dad,

533
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: he's so silly. I don't be doing anything that. He's

534
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: just silly dad. My kids don't know I'm hot. Like

535
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: I've been trying to tell, Like he made an icon living. Yeah,

536
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: it's like Jaden you know he made that. Man. When

537
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: I first heard that, I was like, what that record

538
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: was crazy? And I was like, I find myself like

539
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: I'm at breakfast with hey man, Yo, you think I

540
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: can jump on that, you know. I was like, this

541
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: is crazy, pointed if I want to jump orter. But yeah,

542
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,959
Speaker 1: it's like my kids. My kids, Yeah, they just they

543
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: they think I'm silly and I can't get them to

544
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: see I'm hot. I wanted to smile, bitch, my little dude.

545
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: But my best life because I mean, if you look

546
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: at the Graham, you are a person living in the the

547
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: best life. No, I'm definitely living my best life. Man.

548
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: It's like that when I jumped out of that that helicopter,

549
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: my whole I hit the next phase, uh you know

550
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: of my life in a way that um this this

551
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: last year has been the best year of my adult life. Jumped.

552
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: I was. I thought the movie wasn't gonna happen. I said,

553
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: damn it. Then he said he was swimming with shocks.

554
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: Damn well I heard you won't say, well that is

555
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: nothing your wife could do, Miss j D. Pickets. Fifth

556
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: to break up the relationship? How did as a husband?

557
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: How do you know that? Um? Now, we you know,

558
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: we we've we've been uh wildly tested, you know, we

559
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: we have we have we we have tested each other.

560
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: You know we we have attested um our commitment uh

561
00:30:55,360 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: to the partnership. We've tested our commitment to our famis Emily.

562
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: And you know there's a certain amount of of let's say,

563
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: battery that you have to subject each other two in

564
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: in order to know that you really down, you know,

565
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: and you know it ain't not and I'm talking about

566
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: on the breakfast club. But whatever, your whatever, your next

567
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: question is your next question, whatever your because no I

568
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: can because I've been watching you. I know your ignorant patterns.

569
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: You got a patterns you Yeah, you got to set up.

570
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: You do the set up, and then your eyes do

571
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: this little thing and you sit back, you put that,

572
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: you put an innocent face on, and you love one

573
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: out and then you come with the one that you

574
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: don't have that ain't none of your I just wondered,

575
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: did you ever were you ever jealous of the love

576
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: Jadahead for Tupac uh Oh fuck yeah, God, that dudelet

577
00:31:58,520 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: like and you know, and that was in the that

578
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: was in the early days. Yeah, that was in the

579
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: early days. And it was like, um, that's that was

580
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: a big regret for me too, because I could never um,

581
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: I could never open up to interact with with Poc,

582
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: you know, and because we had a little bit of

583
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: a thing, right because you know, um, you know, they

584
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: grew up together and you know, they loved each other,

585
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: but they never had that you know, they never had

586
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: a sexual relationship, but they had come into that age

587
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: where now that was a possibility. And then Jada was

588
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: with me, you know, so you know, Poc had a

589
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: little thing on that, um, but she just loved him

590
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: like he was the image of perfection. But she was

591
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: with the fresh prince, you know. So it was like

592
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: I just I never could like even we were in

593
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: the room together a couple of times, I couldn't speak

594
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: to him, you know, and you know he wasn't gonna

595
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: speak to me or but I wasn't gonna speak to him.

596
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: But comment, no, that's what Jada would say all the time.

597
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: She was like I'm telling you, y'all are so similar.

598
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: You will you love him and I just never you

599
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: know that that that was a huge regret of mine.

600
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: I just didn't. I couldn't. I couldn't handle it. You know.

601
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: I was just I was the soft rapper from Philly

602
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: and he was bocked right. Nothing exactly exactly, but yeah, no,

603
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: I was deeply, deeply um uh insecure um and just

604
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: I wasn't mad enough to handle that relationship. I go,

605
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: I gotta go, guy, So we got a relationship stuff

606
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: either one of y'all feel like y'all got something to proove.

607
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: Um Now, No, I don't feel like I have anything

608
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: to the pool, but I'm not finished. I felt like

609
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: I got so much more to do because where they

610
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: give you a lot of shit, like they talk about

611
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: a cold streak you're having at the box office, and

612
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: you know it was like one time you was larante

613
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: like does that stuff bother you? Like? You know what it's? Um,

614
00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: I have I transitioned from my material world journey to

615
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: my inner journey, and not in a weird way, just

616
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: in a way is I gotta be okay with me?

617
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: I can't give a fuck what anybody thinks, and it's like,

618
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: I don't even look at the box office anymore. I

619
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: don't even want that in my mind, comparing myself to

620
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: what other people doing. And I had a brief moment

621
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: there where I got stuck on the rock, you know,

622
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: and he doing all these billion dollar movies, and I

623
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: got stuck in and that that animal woke up again.

624
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: But I was like, you know what it's like, Um,

625
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: I realized, there's never enough. You'll never earn enough money,

626
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: You'll if you stick yourself on sex, you'll never have

627
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: enough sex, You'll never have enough of anything in the

628
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: material world. So I'm into my space now where I'm

629
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: letting go of that and I just gotta be good

630
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,399
Speaker 1: with me. I gotta walk around happy and comfortable with me,

631
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: no matter what the fuck nobody else think, you know.

632
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: And That's where I'm at right now, kind of detoxing

633
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: my addiction to numbers and wins in comparison. That's wow,

634
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,479
Speaker 1: because you're Will Smift and you're Martin Lawrence, Like, there's

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Speaker 1: no you should be in competition with nobody. But Martin,

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Speaker 1: has Netflix approached you about doing a special or seriously?

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Speaker 1: As you have the tour, you have all the comics

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Speaker 1: you have yourself. No, Yeah, but I'm sure I could

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Speaker 1: do one if I wanted to, with them and everything,

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Speaker 1: but I don't want to just do one just to

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Speaker 1: do do one. I want them to do one that's

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Speaker 1: that's special, that that has some because I feel like

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Speaker 1: you need to do a whole thing. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: were mister deaf comedy jam. You can have you know,

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Speaker 1: bring up some other up and coming comics, put them

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Speaker 1: on and do your own name. Yeah, and maybe the

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Speaker 1: lit tour. We may bring the littour to Netflix, all right,

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Speaker 1: but we appreciate you guys for we can talk about

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Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff. Keep doing, Keep doing what

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Speaker 1: y'all doing, you know, wall the time. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: really unique voice, and you know, you give voice to

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Speaker 1: people that would be voiceless otherwise, you know. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I love what you're doing. And uh, I've been dude.

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Speaker 1: You know you got another gear and I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing my brother and you could take you guld

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Speaker 1: take that ass? Would you take that? You guys have

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Speaker 1: that it's crazy though, it has the balls too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't want it to be no mistake, ye down

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Speaker 1: to be sat. I invited you to come. I'm good morning,