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Speaker 2: He's a legends every Queens rapper.
Speaker 3: He ain't sag greed as your boy in O r E.
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Speaker 1: When I tell you this man here is proving your point.
Speaker 1: The independent route, the IPO route. From what I understand,
Speaker 1: he wrote, produced, directed along with the Home You're Gonna
Speaker 1: bring him in a little later. They took that route.
Speaker 1: They wrote it in two thousand and eight, and it's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Hip hop is just one day older
Speaker 1: than him. So the man is out here monkey footing
Speaker 1: the game at fifty years old, doing what he gotta do.
Speaker 1: All his comedy specials he owned. From what I understand,
Speaker 1: he pays for himself walking it and paid for the
Speaker 1: movie himself. Oh, it is one of the illest sketch
Speaker 1: writers in the game. And I can keep going on
Speaker 1: and on. But in case you don't know who the
Speaker 1: fuck were talking about, we're talking about two days.
Speaker 3: I bet that before we go over, say my name.
Speaker 3: How do you say my name all day? You've been
Speaker 3: drinking to drinking. You know, it's crazy. Usually black people
Speaker 3: get your name right.
Speaker 1: It's like white people fucking your name up right, That's
Speaker 1: what That's what's making me puked up. I've been watching
Speaker 1: you for a whole week and I've been seeing that,
Speaker 1: you know, saying, I'm just lexing though I'm like real dyslexic.
Speaker 1: But the water in the sholass you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: read m So listen, there's two things I better on.
Speaker 1: One that you would be on time, says no way,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna man. You came three day early forty seven,
Speaker 1: three forty seven because we knew your schedule.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, your fan knows you.
Speaker 1: Very just but I understood, and I also bet that
Speaker 1: you would come in here on bright with bright colors
Speaker 1: on so I tried to get my light scared outfit
Speaker 1: on for you got you got what I'm saying, I.
Speaker 3: Try to get lights.
Speaker 1: Guy trying to get big birds meant that the two bets. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: The bet was that you're gonna have on bright colors. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've been watching you on on the tour run. You've
Speaker 1: been brightening it up, you've been seeing Yeah, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: not seeing the sway Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 3: Kelly Clarkson, I don't even know who she is. That's how.
Speaker 1: That's how normalhood. I was like, who is that? But
Speaker 1: I had to watch you know what I mean? But
Speaker 1: this movie, let's get straight into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: At first I felt like it was what is that ship?
Speaker 1: Like the ghost of Christmas Past? Like you know how,
Speaker 1: like how they show you like Scrooge, Like Scrooge, That's
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 3: So so like past president future? Right? Right? Is that something?
Speaker 1: Because that's something that I adapted. Am I the only
Speaker 1: one who saw that?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, overybody else picked that up. This movie is
Speaker 1: definitely a combination of some of my favorite movies, even
Speaker 1: down to it being called a hip hop story. I
Speaker 1: wanted to feel like a classic, like a Christmas story,
Speaker 1: a Christmas story, or on the music side, a children's
Speaker 1: story written great of course, So there is that element
Speaker 1: of Scrooge, like, let me show you what it was,
Speaker 1: let me show you where we are and where we
Speaker 1: possibly could go. Right, you know what I'm saying, the
Speaker 1: journey of the backpack wrapper talking to the successful hip
Speaker 1: hop billionaire who may have lost touch with where the
Speaker 1: culture is currently because he's so far up in the
Speaker 1: private jets and in the office buildings he doesn't really know, right, Interesting,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go where we're at. You pick it, being
Speaker 1: that you're not drinking. You pick what I drink, bakka
Speaker 1: or Japanese whiskey.
Speaker 3: Japanese whiskey. Let's go. Let's go. We're going Japanese whiskey.
Speaker 3: That was very interesting.
Speaker 1: You just picked the interview I didn't have to take
Speaker 1: about Okay, so I'm taking water. One thing that fucked
Speaker 1: me up. We searched you again. This time you were
Speaker 1: born in It was German, you know, Malina Germany.
Speaker 3: Born in North Carolina, Carolina, and then and then you
Speaker 3: grew up in Germany.
Speaker 1: But I didn't remember, Like, just why you don't remember?
Speaker 3: You don't what doing the interview. I do a lot
Speaker 3: of interview, you do. I don't. The Germany.
Speaker 1: We spoke about the Germany War. Really I need to
Speaker 1: ask about that again. How because is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite places on earth, the only place he ever mentioned. No, right,
Speaker 1: come on, is the only man was doing for good
Speaker 1: to me?
Speaker 3: Man? What good to me? Man?
Speaker 1: You had some good.
Speaker 3: Take out some good guy's going too far?
Speaker 1: But because I forgot that reitervate that being born in Germany,
Speaker 1: Like how is that?
Speaker 3: And like I mean, I mean, you know.
Speaker 1: Were raised I'm in I'm a mill North Carolina too.
Speaker 3: That's like two different.
Speaker 6: But here's the thing. My dad rest in peace. He
Speaker 6: was an army guy for Bragg at the time, but
Speaker 6: they changed the name. But for brad is the biggest
Speaker 6: military hub on the East coast, right, and a lot
Speaker 6: of the families get stationed in Germany, so there's a
Speaker 6: lot of uprooting and going overseas. You basically are touring
Speaker 6: with your dad. The whole family goes on tours. So
Speaker 6: you gotta uproot, go to a new school. And it's weird,
Speaker 6: like when you I went over there first time, I
Speaker 6: was five years old. I didn't even understand the concept
Speaker 6: of people speaking different languages.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You just go to this new place with your with
Speaker 1: your family, You think everybody's gonna talk like they did
Speaker 1: back home from North Carolina. Was you eating Chitlin's No, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, never know because your mom's just h You
Speaker 1: ate a lot of curry, a lot of little tea.
Speaker 1: I'm double I'm full of jerk chicken right now. You
Speaker 1: came from church and keo, so you know I'm full
Speaker 1: of jerk chicken. And then you just got coconuts. Bro,
Speaker 1: we just got over nuts from where's that Marrimart? And
Speaker 1: I had my friend right here brought me veggie jerk chicken.
Speaker 3: But let's still go back to you. Yeah, God damn it.
Speaker 3: Let me. Let me, let me.
Speaker 1: After a while me toring, I started to learn that
Speaker 1: if I wanted things American overseas, I would go.
Speaker 3: To an army basis. Yeah, so that like reminds you
Speaker 3: of home, being like being.
Speaker 7: On an army basis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what made it livable and adaptable. You were
Speaker 1: with other American families on base, right, so it just
Speaker 1: felt like a neighborhood that was from the States, but
Speaker 1: in Germany and this foreign land.
Speaker 3: Right. So even people ask me do I speak fluent German?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: You don't spreaking the line, now, you don't spreaking the Deutsch,
Speaker 1: spreaking the joy, spreaking the dorit client a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no planing, okay, yeah, yeah, kind so you don't. You're
Speaker 1: not married, right, we won't talk about personal shit. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying it's not personal. But it's not person
Speaker 1: But if you was to talk to somebody and you
Speaker 1: think you could get, you could hold a full conversation
Speaker 1: in Germany.
Speaker 3: Like no.
Speaker 6: Look, one time, that's what I was saying when I said,
Speaker 6: I'm not.
Speaker 3: Fluent, right, okay, but what means.
Speaker 1: Blew with means I could hold the full guns Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: But one time, one time, I mean, I'm with my brother. Look,
Speaker 1: we have compensations. Randomly, he was really gonna call me
Speaker 1: in four the more like yo.
Speaker 3: He is not.
Speaker 1: But one time, though, one time, I'm I'm working with
Speaker 1: Rockefeller Records. I see, my man, we're gonna be Rockefeller Records,
Speaker 1: Rockefeller Records.
Speaker 7: I didn't know. So they asked me to go to
Speaker 7: a fight.
Speaker 3: I didn't know. The fight that they were in was
Speaker 3: what was it? What was his name? My cord on
Speaker 3: my yoga.
Speaker 1: He had just signed to Rockefeller and he was against
Speaker 1: Tito Trinidad. And they sat me next to Tito Trinidad's mother,
Speaker 1: his brother, and his whole family.
Speaker 3: And at that moment I knew that.
Speaker 1: Rockefeller was trying to set me up. I refused to
Speaker 1: go out. I said, I can't go against my Puerto
Speaker 1: Rican people. But that when I had to say to myself, though,
Speaker 1: but do I know enough Spanish to get the fuck
Speaker 1: out of here?
Speaker 3: Crazy?
Speaker 1: If you put in a situation like that, do you
Speaker 1: know enough that you can get to the to the door.
Speaker 1: I know enough to get to the door, because I
Speaker 1: just want to see a black master Germans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I don't see that.
Speaker 1: That's not you got to you gotta call it Boris Kojo.
Speaker 3: He's fluent.
Speaker 1: He's actually German. Wow, yeah, Boris Krdjo. Oh yeah, he's German.
Speaker 1: He got mad at me one day. I told him
Speaker 1: to relax. It was I don't like that, said God.
Speaker 1: I was about to say, we're at okay, moving on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, moving on, okay. I got mad
Speaker 3: notes okay.
Speaker 7: To Kanye.
Speaker 1: Was that something that you had to go back in
Speaker 1: because I'm saying you wrote it in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so.
Speaker 6: Because I wrote it in two thousand and eight, the
Speaker 6: history doesn't change, and because I made it about my history,
Speaker 6: it doesn't change. So there were some references that I
Speaker 6: had to update, update, implement all that.
Speaker 3: Kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the kind of the face mask kind right, Definitely,
Speaker 1: My pen game was like, now, let's get in this computer.
Speaker 3: Let's that.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: At one point I didn't know if it was him
Speaker 1: or not because he was yelling at that's my man, savvy,
Speaker 1: the amusing. He does all the Kanye voiceovers online on
Speaker 1: i G. So that's my man. I was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: you gotta you got put the mask on and come
Speaker 1: do this role because you did that. You you impersonated
Speaker 1: Kanye before with the Rabbit on your show. Yeah so yeah,
Speaker 1: so I that's the thing, like I can do the
Speaker 1: Kanye voice and I've done the Kanye impression. But I'm
Speaker 1: already playing twelve to fourteen characters that this.
Speaker 6: I still haven't counted yet. That's why I keep sitting
Speaker 6: twelve to fourteen.
Speaker 5: The credits are crazy, name ridiculous, right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, why not spread the love to people that
Speaker 1: I know are like technicians, even my man Dylan from
Speaker 1: uh that place eminem or slimming them in the movie
Speaker 1: he does the eminem joints on. I G yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the same m TG, the one with the white shirt.
Speaker 1: And then at the end, yeah, same guy, same guy,
Speaker 1: the same guy. But I've done an eminem.
Speaker 3: I kept looking to you. Was you?
Speaker 1: I was like, everybody thinks that, but it's like, is
Speaker 1: that racist? I have done you? No, I put on
Speaker 1: the white face before. I've done the eminem impression before,
Speaker 1: and you've done the black face too. But Chris Rocks, well,
Speaker 1: there's no such thing as black face if I'm black,
Speaker 1: So I just put on darker makeup AS's happened. Yeah man,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I've done it. But yeah, I like to
Speaker 1: spread the energy out to people that can get down
Speaker 1: right and really get down. Now, what is the significance
Speaker 1: of changing these character names that based on real characters.
Speaker 6: It's kind of like my bizarro world of hip hop
Speaker 6: right to be able to tell the story.
Speaker 3: We know exactly who they are.
Speaker 6: But I just knew that the audience would be tickled
Speaker 6: by and it proved to be correct. When I watched
Speaker 6: the movie with a few different crowds. They love the
Speaker 6: name changes.
Speaker 1: Because it's just like kind of poking fun, like we
Speaker 1: know what it is, but.
Speaker 6: The creative take on the name, you know. And it
Speaker 6: also helps me to avoid anything legal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not saying this is actually fifty cent, this
Speaker 1: is actually jays see.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 7: That scene with fifties Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okrah Whitney, Oh yeah, on the Okra Whitney Show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I.
Speaker 1: Feel like I feel like Okrah is like Oprah in
Speaker 1: real life. You think so, Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: Oprah behind the scene, me telling me shut the fuck up.
Speaker 6: That's what we want to Yeah, we wanted to tap
Speaker 6: into what we thought people really are like.
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying, because they get to
Speaker 1: they they breaking points.
Speaker 3: Think about it.
Speaker 1: We most likely don't book guests, and guests come to
Speaker 1: us and we're we've been only doing this for eight years.
Speaker 3: Oprah been doing this for twenty eight thirty years.
Speaker 1: Well, she'd probably be like she probably be like, fuck
Speaker 1: you nigga, Like on the behind the scenes you never did.
Speaker 3: I'm sure she's got a couple of fuck you niggas
Speaker 3: in there. Yeah, I her dna, her dna. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You don't get to that powerful position without having to
Speaker 1: tell a few people to kiss your motherfucking know.
Speaker 3: You open niggas kill.
Speaker 1: Now, I got my bounce around the place, all look
Speaker 1: a little bit right, I know who you are. So
Speaker 1: so he's said that, like I want't supposed to know around?
Speaker 3: Would you ever go?
Speaker 1: I don't want to say I don't want to start
Speaker 1: with two B, but like a two beach type like place,
Speaker 1: yes to take here?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah, one hundred per tow B is business. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And it's also up ship
Speaker 3: to going.
Speaker 1: It's the people that they've opened a platform for entrepreneurs
Speaker 1: and for people who want to independently produce. It's not
Speaker 1: two be's fault that the people's production value.
Speaker 3: Isn't as high as we're used to, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: So no, I would definitely do to be This is
Speaker 1: a distribution outlet actually gets it to places.
Speaker 3: They take your movie. If you're spilming on your on
Speaker 3: your on your on your like, we can we can
Speaker 3: shoot a movie right now.
Speaker 1: We're shooting a movie right now today on my phone,
Speaker 1: right now, and we can put.
Speaker 3: It on, So why AMC.
Speaker 1: It's theater, it's theeter and we had a relationship with
Speaker 1: somebody at AMC, and so.
Speaker 3: The opportunity came.
Speaker 6: First of all, there's no we don't have any studio
Speaker 6: behind us, right, it's me and Domain. We financed it,
Speaker 6: and so we're it's like we're slaying in the movie
Speaker 6: out the trunk type of deal.
Speaker 5: And you told me that early on when you was
Speaker 5: hitting this up to be a part of it, y'all supposed.
Speaker 3: To be in the movie. Yeah, I'm I was.
Speaker 1: Not that you've seen it with the just seeing the
Speaker 1: trailer that I hit y'all last.
Speaker 3: Year, you know what I'm saying. After when I saw,
Speaker 3: I was like, this was supposed to be like Funk
Speaker 3: Flex or the Joe.
Speaker 6: But well, so we was gonna we were gonna blend it, right,
Speaker 6: So it's my portrayal as Joe Budden and the funk
Speaker 6: Flex scene we have my man Ski playing Funk.
Speaker 3: But those scenes and just the whole.
Speaker 6: Portrayal of everybody feels so real To add in some
Speaker 6: real face, like it just grabs like ras Cas and Fredro, right,
Speaker 6: So we.
Speaker 3: Wanted to have y'all.
Speaker 1: Actually there instead of doing an impression of y'all to
Speaker 1: have Roscoe come sit down with y'all, y'all do do
Speaker 1: an interview? Thought it was I thought when I watched
Speaker 1: the movie, I didn't think it was Roscoe that I
Speaker 1: thought it was the artist that that flex was playing.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 6: It's supposed to be Google and Roscoe and Google, Yah, Google.
Speaker 6: It was all it was in the script. But it
Speaker 6: didn't happen. But I'm here now, but let me no, No,
Speaker 6: it's because of Noor that it didn't.
Speaker 3: Was very.
Speaker 1: I was running on over all over the world. I was,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but we hear now right, stop bringing up
Speaker 1: old ship.
Speaker 3: Because for people who.
Speaker 1: Who like people, they only see the end of the marathon,
Speaker 1: like they don't my fault. I forgot to tell you
Speaker 1: the other reason why theaters. Okay, right, okay, this is
Speaker 1: a live concert type of a movie. Watching it on
Speaker 1: your phone or your laptop doesn't do it justice. We
Speaker 1: watched it in the theater at least seven times, and
Speaker 1: we had a big premiere in l A in the theater.
Speaker 1: The music in this movie is ship like I have real.
Speaker 3: Original, Yeah, all original, all original, but some sound a likes.
Speaker 6: But we got real easy mob, real producers them joints
Speaker 6: focused ron brows, my boy Devine O Bannon, We got
Speaker 6: a lot like real shit, me and Domain producing bets.
Speaker 6: We watched the audiences in the theater like oh, like nodding,
Speaker 6: like they had a concert, and shit, they're cheering at
Speaker 6: the end of the joint. So it's a different experience
Speaker 6: to do it in the theater. So that's that's the
Speaker 6: biggest reason why we wanted to do it in theater.
Speaker 6: And then, like I said, we had the plug and
Speaker 6: we took it to MC.
Speaker 3: Who doesn't want to see their movie in the theater anyway? Yeah,
Speaker 3: just seen the Bob Marley movie in the theater? Yeah
Speaker 3: I saw that. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The only problem is I want to smoke weed. Yeah
Speaker 1: it inspires that. Yes, yes, So we go to New York.
Speaker 1: I can tell that cool Heirk scene was in LA.
Speaker 1: Couldn't fake that New York To me, I was looking
Speaker 1: like that, ain't the bronx nowhere? Well, what is the
Speaker 1: purpose of that? Purpose of what? Like you know, because
Speaker 1: I see that you have real New York scenes like
Speaker 1: real yeah, did.
Speaker 3: You have you know things that we do it?
Speaker 1: Is it more of course effective doing it like that?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 6: Because imagine we fly the whole crew out to the
Speaker 6: Bronx and try to maneuver around there.
Speaker 1: No one lives in New York, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: So we have to put people up and do it.
Speaker 1: That's just way crazy. So we had to shoot in
Speaker 1: l A because that's all I could afford, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 3: It was It was dope because I could tell. But
Speaker 3: only real New.
Speaker 1: Yorkers know that, Like some people watching there, like yo,
Speaker 1: y'all shot at New York, right, You.
Speaker 3: Know I could tell the b roll.
Speaker 1: I could tell the difference, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: from from when, because I had that skill since sign Feld.
Speaker 1: You know, none of Seinfeld was filmed in New York
Speaker 1: at all, only only to be I don't know.
Speaker 3: If you know that. They also have a show called
Speaker 3: King King of Queens nowhere near Queens. It's all la.
Speaker 3: It's all la. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when I found that out, I start I start
Speaker 1: to see things like that. But is it like like
Speaker 1: when you started it in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: You know, most of us, you.
Speaker 1: Know, are kind of spoiled, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like most of us with success are kind of spoiled.
Speaker 3: And if you don't get it at that moment.
Speaker 1: It's like the idea goes away or you lose you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like you lose the enthusiasms, you
Speaker 1: lose the enthusiasm.
Speaker 3: Right, So did did did that happen? All this or
Speaker 3: how was this?
Speaker 1: It happens from time to time. But man, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a journeyman. I'm here for the long the long road.
Speaker 1: I've been in this game since ninety four, God damn it.
Speaker 1: So since you had braves all of that, let's not
Speaker 1: talk about Soul Train. We're not forgeting about us depth Jam,
Speaker 1: Soul Train, Apollo on it. But there being guys and
Speaker 1: women that I've seen along the journey that aren't here anymore, you.
Speaker 7: Know what I mean.
Speaker 6: And that's not to knock them or whatever. But I've
Speaker 6: just always been locked into There's always tomorrow. Okay, there's
Speaker 6: always tomorrow. We're gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, We're gonna get it, and just work your ass
Speaker 1: off until you get to it.
Speaker 3: That's right, special that right?
Speaker 5: How did you go ahead, like go about picking who
Speaker 5: you wanted to be featured in terms of the artists
Speaker 5: in the film.
Speaker 6: It was whoever we knew we could portray convincingly. Most
Speaker 6: of these these characters, We've already Me and Demane have
Speaker 6: already done parodies of them on YouTube, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean? For years, since early two thousands, we were
Speaker 6: already doing the jay Z, the Kanye, the Russell Russell,
Speaker 6: Jager Woods, Uh, Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3: He was doing the Freeway impression.
Speaker 6: So we just this was me wanting to write a
Speaker 6: movie that was like, all right, let's put all these
Speaker 6: characters in one place, but.
Speaker 3: Make it not feel like a spoof movie.
Speaker 1: Right, Let's lace a really dope message in here, and
Speaker 1: delivered that message with comedy as the backdrop.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. You know it was so
Speaker 3: dope about that.
Speaker 1: It was at times of the movie I couldn't tell
Speaker 1: what was real all faith, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like how you was like like you was like, you know,
Speaker 1: was redoing the story of hip hop and then automatically
Speaker 1: made me think that you was reading on all these stories,
Speaker 1: like you had inside information about all these stories, right,
Speaker 1: so I could, I honestly could, and I'm an industry dude,
Speaker 1: I honestly couldn't tell what was like official was like
Speaker 1: you know what I made to just be there So
Speaker 1: it's a really, really, really really fucking great movie.
Speaker 3: Man, Thank you man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it so for me.
Speaker 6: Because I wasn't in the Bronx and I didn't grow
Speaker 6: up with I didn't go to the cool mold versus
Speaker 6: busy beating battle. I mean, we know about it from
Speaker 6: YouTube and we know the audio, right, and I've seen
Speaker 6: enough documentaries. I never went to the park when herk
Speaker 6: was I was born then, So this, the whole movie
Speaker 6: in a sense, is fiction based on reality and based
Speaker 6: on real events. I like, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I like, that's another reason why we changed names. It's like, look,
Speaker 6: I'm not representing that this is the actual history, right
Speaker 6: because I wasn't there. This is my reimagining of the history.
Speaker 6: And then from what I said and from what we portrayed,
Speaker 6: you can go do your research. And I have people
Speaker 6: doing that now saying I didn't know who Heirk was.
Speaker 3: I didn't know who this.
Speaker 6: This person was, so I didn't know about this event.
Speaker 6: Was that a real thing? So the same thing that
Speaker 6: you said is pretty much what the mission was for us.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Now the download star is Jay bum who the download
Speaker 1: star or the whole movie is Jay he's the backpack.
Speaker 1: He's like the guy who kind of makes it make sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first at first he called him with jay Bum. He
Speaker 1: yells out the thing he yells out to Russell and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is one of them fucked up
Speaker 1: rappers that never made it.
Speaker 3: And then you know what I mean, and you.
Speaker 1: And they always have a bad story, those guys, and
Speaker 1: they always have dis records. But jay Bum wounded up
Speaker 1: being kind of like the.
Speaker 3: Hero at the end. Yeah, like he will.
Speaker 1: He ignites the hero in thel of the story Freeway exactly.
Speaker 3: He's the catalyst. Right.
Speaker 1: It's not saying that his point of view is right,
Speaker 1: because remember he's saying it's dead, it's fucked up. He
Speaker 1: represents the old heads right as we go along in
Speaker 1: the movie, we start understanding on us.
Speaker 3: He said, look, I added myself to that right white
Speaker 3: we don't ahead.
Speaker 1: And look that's the thing old heads don't want to
Speaker 1: admit that we old head there's a fucking there's a
Speaker 1: thing that happens that.
Speaker 6: Mid life shift when you look in the mirror you're like, god, damn,
Speaker 6: my headline A where.
Speaker 1: What ten years ago? And so he represents that old
Speaker 1: head conversation. But it doesn't start with him.
Speaker 6: If you remember in the barbershop scene, the same conversation
Speaker 6: is happening between Yeah, between soul versus blue.
Speaker 3: It's the same ship.
Speaker 1: There's always gonna be old versus young, And so what
Speaker 1: the what I hope to get to in the movie
Speaker 1: is no one is responsible for ruining it. No one
Speaker 1: is single handedly responsible. We all are as a culture
Speaker 1: as are We're all responsible for where hip hop is
Speaker 1: or isn't, where black culture is or isn't.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 6: So my thing was, I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 6: place the blame. But the j Bum character is the
Speaker 6: catalyst to get them on this journey of discovery to
Speaker 6: find out what the real problem is.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's the young niggast. I thought I
Speaker 1: thought he was going to be the mad rapper, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, he kind of is. You're right, he kind
Speaker 1: of is. He definitely is. Yeah, that's what he is.
Speaker 1: He's the backpack rapper, the purist if you will, All right, Okay, okay, there's.
Speaker 3: Some layers in this movie, man, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I went in my shit. It's deep. It's deep, man,
Speaker 3: It's deep. Okay, Okay, let me go on my notes.
Speaker 6: I got this nigga going to his notes. I stumped them.
Speaker 6: You can't never shut this.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, Now did we spoke about you
Speaker 1: being Chinese before too? Because that shit is just amazing
Speaker 1: the randomness of this nigga's mind. Yeah, my grandfather was
Speaker 1: Chinese Chinese Trinidadian. Yeah, which is not I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how exactly. I'm trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: kind of food that tastes like. It's definitely Curry's rotea
Speaker 1: chicken and all that egg.
Speaker 6: Right, No, Chinese, double Chinese, Trinidadian, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese m Trinidadian,
Speaker 6: but Chinese descent like the.
Speaker 1: Chinese Jamaicans the exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, they call them Chinese tiny hold him? What
Speaker 6: Chinese Chinese? Was that Chinese body?
Speaker 3: The Chinese? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so where did you take that up from the Chinese?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I I was, I was bugging. We visited the Germany thing,
Speaker 1: We visited the China thing.
Speaker 3: Germany and Chinese.
Speaker 1: U your mother Trinidadian? Like that ship is just like ill.
Speaker 1: I thought I was exotic. We both exig many a
Speaker 1: black and Puerto Rican.
Speaker 3: I was like, he kind of talked. He kind of
Speaker 3: took me out.
Speaker 1: He's in German, North Carolinian. This Nigga's all type of ship,
Speaker 1: all of it. So what's what's what do you like more?
Speaker 3: Stand up?
Speaker 1: Because I know you you took a break for fifteen
Speaker 1: years due said you wasn't doing that.
Speaker 3: But is it? Is it sketches or stand up? I
Speaker 3: like them all right?
Speaker 1: For me that it's just different ways to express.
Speaker 6: Stand up is how I pay for this movie. So
Speaker 6: stand up is a whole business model that and for me,
Speaker 6: it's like that's where I learned the timing and the
Speaker 6: pulse of what the culture is responding to in real time. Right,
Speaker 6: they're right in front of me. I can't escape that.
Speaker 6: Like I'll be in front of the hoodiest crowds to
Speaker 6: spend their hard earned money.
Speaker 3: You better make them laugh.
Speaker 1: They're like, don't waste my mother fucking money only had it.
Speaker 1: I ain't had this money. I had to take my
Speaker 1: girl out, you you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 1: had to dig in to the piggy bank to get this.
Speaker 1: So you got to understand the mentality and respect the
Speaker 1: people that you're in front of. And because I have
Speaker 1: that every weekend or every other weekend test of what
Speaker 1: my comedy muscle is. By the time I'm writing something
Speaker 1: and I don't have the immediate crowd in front of
Speaker 1: me judging.
Speaker 6: What I'm what I'm writing, I know that when I
Speaker 6: produce the movie or the TV show or the sketch,
Speaker 6: I know what they're gonna respond to it for sure.
Speaker 6: A strong sense of what's gonna be visceral. And that's
Speaker 6: what's been happening in these uh these screenings of Hip
Speaker 6: Hop Story. The ship that I knew they was gonna
Speaker 6: go crazy over, I see it happen.
Speaker 3: I know the rhythm, I know the timing, I know.
Speaker 1: The next scene is coming up, and I know they're
Speaker 1: gonna flip out over the Cornell West, I know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna respond to, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Cornell West, get manager. I never met him before.
Speaker 5: I don't know has anybody responded to you?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: But did you most for the most part, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know him, but I know everybody else.
Speaker 1: Communicated with everybody that I ain't complicated.
Speaker 3: Them all, but I know them, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Because for the most part, legs and it's very uncomfortable,
Speaker 3: but we just spoke to Russell last night. That's that's
Speaker 3: what you're talking about over. I was like the black
Speaker 3: professor like that, I'll get it.
Speaker 1: I say this at all the people in the movie
Speaker 1: that I portrayed, I'll take my chances in a fight
Speaker 1: with Cornell.
Speaker 3: I'll take my chancewers. But you know, respect to the
Speaker 3: to the o G.
Speaker 1: But I think I might be a little faster than him,
Speaker 1: so I'll run awwn in some of these cases.
Speaker 3: When did it makes sense.
Speaker 1: For like Joe Buttons to play Joe Buttons or Nigga.
Speaker 1: That's what I was trying to do with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would have made sense. It would have made tall
Speaker 1: fucking sense. It's funnier if I portrayed Joe Button though, right,
Speaker 1: and then you play yourself and then right, you know,
Speaker 1: you bounce off the fake Roscoe.
Speaker 3: Right, was that Beijing that you had on?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it was all the Beijing, the
Speaker 1: beard makeup because I had no facial hair the whole
Speaker 1: movie because I had to play the Rascal ball head
Speaker 1: all that. Yeah, so that my makeup artists, Coully called
Speaker 1: the Wrong and Karen Rhoades, they did hear and makeup
Speaker 1: like nobody's business.
Speaker 6: It was crazy. Wow, So hold on, I'm curious what
Speaker 6: did you like about it? What did you you just
Speaker 6: you seem really excited when I sat down.
Speaker 3: Can you just watched it? So, I mean it resonated
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 5: It got deep, like I thought, the moral of the
Speaker 5: story and kind of like.
Speaker 3: What you were trying to get across. It got a.
Speaker 5: Little deep, and towards this half, I'm kind of serious now.
Speaker 3: Because it's deep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But then I started having these these laugh out
Speaker 5: loud moments like the Corner West was the fifty cent
Speaker 5: Joe Budden, and it kind of like it brought something
Speaker 5: that was getting deep and serious to a humorous place.
Speaker 5: So I think it married those two things together really well.
Speaker 3: So it blended.
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially for like a hip hop purist or if
Speaker 5: someone that cares, you know, like like we need this,
Speaker 5: but we need to laugh at this as well for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I call it a spoonful of sugar method.
Speaker 6: Like we can theorize and do all kind of debating
Speaker 6: and all that, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: what always brings us together is a good laugh and
Speaker 6: good music.
Speaker 3: Right, So this movie has all of it. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Now, have you ever.
Speaker 1: Thought that comedians be out here acting like rappers, in.
Speaker 3: Some cases worse than rappers.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny, it's not new to me and
Speaker 1: anyone who's a comedian. The first time, this is the
Speaker 1: first time the public has seen it.
Speaker 3: That's the first time. None of this is new. Right.
Speaker 3: We all know who don't like each other. We all
Speaker 3: have heard the stories. We've all seen fights at the
Speaker 3: comedy you know, I'm just getting on. I'm just.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. I've said this before. It's it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the NBA. When NBA players.
Speaker 6: Fight on the court, they at the press conference afterwards
Speaker 6: or the post conference, they asked.
Speaker 3: Him about the fight. Do you really have a beef
Speaker 3: with Lebron? Do you really?
Speaker 1: And they always say the same shit, it's just fast talk.
Speaker 1: It's part of the game. I respect his game. He's
Speaker 1: very competitive. That's just what it is, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 6: The minute they start spilling out into the public with it,
Speaker 6: That's why the whole what's my man named him? And
Speaker 6: Lebron is going into what he called him old stealing Brooks.
Speaker 6: That's why that got blown out of proportion. It's because
Speaker 6: he perpetuated it. In the conference instead of you know
Speaker 6: what I mean, like it got disrespectful. That's what's going
Speaker 6: on in the comedy world right now.
Speaker 1: The public is not supposed to have a say soul
Speaker 1: in comedy beef. It's supposed to stay behind the lines.
Speaker 1: It's been saying they've been behind the lines.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's been behind the lines, and it should stay there.
Speaker 6: But now that everybody's you know, on the mic talking
Speaker 6: bringing shit up, it's like, now the public is weighing
Speaker 6: in on it and making it way bigger than it's
Speaker 6: supposed to be.
Speaker 5: Which is what's been happening and everything else. Yeah, except
Speaker 5: now it's it took a while for it to.
Speaker 3: Hit hit comedy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but Kat has always spoke his mind. He's always
Speaker 6: said these things. When he used to say them, the
Speaker 6: audience would call him crazy and that he was on drugs.
Speaker 6: Now the generation has changed a little bit. The audience
Speaker 6: is a little different. They're they're here for all the smoke.
Speaker 6: They want to hear that stuff. So now his message
Speaker 6: is resonating with them, and now it's getting out a
Speaker 6: little more monique.
Speaker 3: Same thing like at the end.
Speaker 1: Of the day, it's not a public conversation, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't live by that code.
Speaker 6: I stay silent if I don't like you. No one
Speaker 6: in the public will ever know it.
Speaker 1: Because I remember it was one Sunday. I believe it's
Speaker 1: during COVID. It was a Mother's Day and I turned
Speaker 1: on my Instagram lot and you and Kevin Hart was
Speaker 1: just trade and blow going for it.
Speaker 3: I believe he said you had a white woman's neck.
Speaker 3: I have never heard. Yeah, and y'all went at it.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about he crying, you crying.
Speaker 1: That's what the comedy I'm used to to tell you
Speaker 1: the truth, Like y'all even though y'all like trying to
Speaker 1: hurt each other's feelings but like not to or not
Speaker 1: even not too far, but you're trying to win, like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, we're testing with yeh was sparring, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And it was so in
Speaker 1: the moment, like that's just what that moment was.
Speaker 6: But never in my life will you see me talking
Speaker 6: shit about any comedian, you know what I mean. I'm
Speaker 6: actually the guy that, even if I don't fuck with
Speaker 6: you like that, I have positive shit to say about people.
Speaker 6: I respect people's craft, I respect people's artwork and the
Speaker 6: fact that we're all successful, there's no room for us
Speaker 6: to be fighting, Like, why is niggas mad?
Speaker 3: I'm like, what you mad for? Why is niggas mad?
Speaker 6: So you know, I got love for everybody and for
Speaker 6: those that I don't have love for you never, You'll
Speaker 6: never know it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lie. I'm gonna keep it honest. I was
Speaker 1: with Dave Chappelle just hanging out the other day stunt.
Speaker 1: I told him I just had to tell them. I
Speaker 1: just was like, yo, I kind of like, y'all be
Speaker 1: finished because you a rap for niggas.
Speaker 3: I wanted to make the we want to look very
Speaker 3: similar to what he's saying.
Speaker 1: You know, he said he didn't like it, and I
Speaker 1: realized it wasn't kind of like funny to him, Like
Speaker 1: I was like, I like you.
Speaker 6: And Niles better as friends than you talking about you
Speaker 6: gonna beat his asd.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna lie to you like it took
Speaker 1: me to see that to say, you know what, We're
Speaker 1: not just crazy. It's not just rappers. It's not just rappers.
Speaker 1: Everybody has feelings. Everybody like having this show taught me
Speaker 1: that the most powerful men in the world have feelings
Speaker 1: because they'll call me and they'll be like, I don't
Speaker 1: can't even say it, but you know what, people have feelings,
Speaker 1: and it was dope to see other people being humans, like,
Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, see comedians.
Speaker 3: Be humans, you know what I mean? Comedians were very sensitive,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: It takes a lot of vulnerability to get on stage
Speaker 6: and believe that you're funny, risk getting booed faster than
Speaker 6: any other art form, and you know, persevere through the
Speaker 6: years to build something that becomes successful, build a name,
Speaker 6: build a brand, build a voice for your comedy. It
Speaker 6: takes a lot to build it, man. But you know,
Speaker 6: like I said, I'm a I'm a.
Speaker 1: Purveyor of peace, but I'm the zen comedian, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Did you see Larry what was his name?
Speaker 1: Holmes and Larry what's his name? The comedian he was
Speaker 1: speaking with Donna Rowlands Like it looked like a rap
Speaker 1: korey ho ho both of them, is my guys.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Did you see how he was going back and forth,
Speaker 1: I'm rap padal Bro. What the fuck is the difference?
Speaker 1: Like That's when I knew comedians y'all going, y'all y'all going,
Speaker 1: I like it, you know, to each their own. You'll
Speaker 1: never see me yelling at another comedian. It's it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But one time I do try to heckle
Speaker 1: you though, right, and it's always you always get heckled.
Speaker 1: That was after Dave Chappelle. But that's before the Dave Chappelle,
Speaker 1: which time he's talking about you, talking about the I
Speaker 1: got on stage, the yeah, when the Karen got on
Speaker 1: say Karen, oh yeah, but it's always hecklers.
Speaker 3: Again, none of this shit is new. None of this
Speaker 3: ship is new.
Speaker 6: When it gets out into the public and it starts
Speaker 6: to circulate, that's when it starts to get blown out
Speaker 6: of proportion.
Speaker 1: But but we've been dealing with this ship. So you're
Speaker 1: saying that's that's when it happened. Karen has been coming
Speaker 1: on your stage.
Speaker 6: I'm just saying, heckling ship getting a little edgys shows
Speaker 6: that is not new, you know what I mean. As
Speaker 6: a rapper, you know, back in the day, there was
Speaker 6: some cities you went to when niggas was throwing beer
Speaker 6: cans or bottles like it was. Ship just happens in
Speaker 6: the art of performing, right, Depending on where you go.
Speaker 3: So there ain't nothing that it ain't nothing.
Speaker 1: That I fear or shy away from. I remember that
Speaker 1: happening to me, and I remember me particularly just saying,
Speaker 1: I'm only going to markets that I'm welcome. I learned,
Speaker 1: like the first year we had we had the war report,
Speaker 1: and the war report was music. It was straight for
Speaker 1: the streets. We could not go to certain places. So
Speaker 1: I remember immediately saying, Yo, take this off of the market.
Speaker 1: This is off of the off of the itinerary, this
Speaker 1: off of the schedule.
Speaker 3: Is that something you ever had to do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll do it for if I don't trust the
Speaker 6: club manager or if I feel like they was disrespecting
Speaker 6: me and my team, and I just won't fuck them.
Speaker 6: I won't go back to that city. I'm wanna go
Speaker 6: back to not the city. I won't go back to
Speaker 6: the venue. Okay, the people in the city, you know,
Speaker 6: if they if they are fans and they rock with me,
Speaker 6: I'll figure out another venture because it's limited.
Speaker 3: City.
Speaker 1: Degree make it take it out in the whole city,
Speaker 1: on the whole city.
Speaker 3: Don't I don't here.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 1: I love my fans, especially when I had the number
Speaker 1: one records. Because it's like when you have the number
Speaker 1: one record, it feels like I'm the number one dude,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you're supposed to get
Speaker 1: saucy when you get the number one shit, and then
Speaker 1: you go some places and then people are looking at
Speaker 1: you because you know they're I'm realizing that this record
Speaker 1: is just getting there. It's a regional record, it's just
Speaker 1: getting there.
Speaker 3: But I'm thinking I'm already to man, I'm number one.
Speaker 3: Mother fuck.
Speaker 1: What the fuck motherfuckers are sitting there looking at me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I never take this off, take this off
Speaker 1: of the ship. We're never coming back. Yes, I take
Speaker 1: the promoter out. I take it out on the club.
Speaker 1: The bartenders maybe times they always been cool with me
Speaker 1: sometimes how the show was set up, though Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: who you're with. They might just be really big fans
Speaker 1: of that person and then they don't give a fuck
Speaker 1: about who's coming on the stage before them. Yeah, out
Speaker 1: need to do that on certain things. But we got
Speaker 1: a game to be played here. It's called a quick
Speaker 1: Time with Slim. But before we do that, we want
Speaker 1: to give your flowers. You give more flowers. They spelled
Speaker 1: my name right the first time, so just so y'all know.
Speaker 1: I got two of these at the grid judge. One
Speaker 1: of them is spelled wrong. My last thing is spelled wrong,
Speaker 1: but they were gracious enough to send me correctly. But
Speaker 1: you can I can tell that as mister Lee's doing
Speaker 1: you could you think I speak fucked up?
Speaker 3: You hear this? He said?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're gonna play quick time with Slid.
Speaker 3: Said that, Oh not yet. What do you mean now yet?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, cool. I I got a couple of Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's go. It is right here.
Speaker 1: The movie's out, is already out. The movie's already out.
Speaker 6: We did a soft launch, only one hundred and fifty
Speaker 6: nine AMC screens. So this is let me educate people
Speaker 6: in the business of it.
Speaker 1: Most people think that when you see a movie, and
Speaker 1: especially with what we put into the production value, they
Speaker 1: just think, oh, this shit is gonna come to the
Speaker 1: theater right by my crib. It's gonna be on streaming
Speaker 1: next week. Oh man, this is this ship is lit.
Speaker 7: It's up.
Speaker 6: That's not how it works. Right again, there's no studio.
Speaker 6: It's just me and him.
Speaker 1: Most studios have a budget for marketing and placement and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff you have to pay per
Speaker 1: screen to house your your film there. Right, So again,
Speaker 1: all of this is out of my pocket, it ain't
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I ain't sitting on no
Speaker 1: no one f a Leprechaun pot of gold type of shit.
Speaker 1: It's just me investing in the business. So I spent
Speaker 1: the money on as many as I could, and I said, right,
Speaker 1: that's that's enough.
Speaker 3: For what we where we are, and then we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna have meetings with other companies to widen the net
Speaker 1: and of course do uh figure out the streaming deal
Speaker 1: as well. But it's not as easy as people think
Speaker 1: it is, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And the theaters have to approve your movie.
Speaker 6: If it was coming from a bigger company, a big,
Speaker 6: big name, of course they'd be like yeah, by all means,
Speaker 6: and that company has the budget to just put the
Speaker 6: movie in whatever theater they want. But because it's us,
Speaker 6: it's a little more scrutinized and they can fine tooth
Speaker 6: comit and say we don't want that movie here. There's
Speaker 6: no track record of me and him as producers with
Speaker 6: that theater.
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of elements Phil seats. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what big care. And that's fair like that business.
Speaker 1: We totally get that, you know what I mean. They want
Speaker 1: to make room for the cartoon or the big action
Speaker 1: hero movie that's gonna bring the people into the theater.
Speaker 1: So that's just a little bit of the business side
Speaker 1: of it. So people understand, like it's not just as
Speaker 1: simple as man, how come it's not playing in Detroit.
Speaker 3: They didn't approve it in Detroit. We couldn't get it
Speaker 3: in Detroit.
Speaker 5: But it performs well and the ones that it's in now,
Speaker 5: will it expand in some more theater.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's been happening.
Speaker 6: So it opened Friday last Friday, right the twenty third, Okay,
Speaker 6: and yes, a lot of the screens, especially in the
Speaker 6: bigger cities New York, LA, We've been adding shows. So
Speaker 6: it's it's been a really decent few days in the movie.
Speaker 6: But the biggest part about it was us watching the
Speaker 6: audience's reaction to it. Like they already gave us ninety
Speaker 6: percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a hard ranking system,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So the reaction has been consistent,
Speaker 6: damn near one hundred percent. Everyone is saying it's a
Speaker 6: brilliant movie, it's hilarious with a message. They loved the
Speaker 6: characters and how many scenes it was, and how many
Speaker 6: journey like the journey of it all, and they love
Speaker 6: love the music.
Speaker 3: And the cinematography. It's well made.
Speaker 5: Yeah, color correction looks ill for like the time period
Speaker 5: you're trying.
Speaker 3: To display, Like it's dope. It's very well made.
Speaker 5: So people watching this go and watch it if it's
Speaker 5: near you in a theater.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's still in the theater.
Speaker 1: If not, Like I said, we're going to restructure the
Speaker 1: deal and we're going to shop it around.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 3: Now that we have.
Speaker 6: A litmus test and a focus group, we have some
Speaker 6: evidence of what this movie can do.
Speaker 3: Again, it's just me and him doing it. So what's
Speaker 3: the What is the end result of this is to
Speaker 3: we upgate into a movie theater or for I would
Speaker 3: love to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love to do like a wide distribution worldwide.
Speaker 1: I would love for this movie to be one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars. You know what I'm saying. It's worthy of that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Compared to Bob Marley, Bob Marley is about an icon
Speaker 6: that we all know, right. Hip hop is iconic. It's
Speaker 6: a culture full of the movie has icons, in it.
Speaker 6: So it's like we have the same appeal as not
Speaker 6: to say that, you know, no disrespect to Marley at all.
Speaker 6: And I know those producers as well, and I love
Speaker 6: that the success that the having, but we would love
Speaker 6: to be able to have our film in that same
Speaker 6: type of conversation or that same type of success rate.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Is there a business model where a big studio comes
Speaker 5: in and says, you guys are performing well independently, We're
Speaker 5: going to come in and get no.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: But again we just we proved ourselves every step.
Speaker 7: Of the way.
Speaker 6: With an independent movie, you prove yourself and it's a
Speaker 6: different it's a different model.
Speaker 3: Not everyone is doing it this way. You know.
Speaker 6: Most people take it directly to a studio when it's
Speaker 6: still on the script, when it's still on the page,
Speaker 6: and you may give up most of the ownership.
Speaker 3: Of it, take money once you take money, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The whole people people have notes and they want to
Speaker 1: tell you let's do this and let's do that.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing.
Speaker 1: We made the movie we wanted to make from front
Speaker 1: to back. So that's another thing, like we made the
Speaker 1: movie we want to make, so we don't look at
Speaker 1: it as ah man, we got bad notes and we
Speaker 1: wish that scene was different. That's the movie we shot,
Speaker 1: in the movie we made.
Speaker 3: That we want to make.
Speaker 1: So because I heard you once say that you didn't
Speaker 1: recognize your show on Fox like after it, like you
Speaker 1: film completely opposite experience.
Speaker 3: So so how does that work?
Speaker 7: You film it?
Speaker 1: I mean you guys film it, I mean not you
Speaker 1: feel it, right, but you get a version and you
Speaker 1: approve a version, and then it has to go to
Speaker 1: the higher ups. And then now what they do, all
Speaker 1: they do is every step of the way in the
Speaker 1: editing process, right in post production, they're giving notes every day,
Speaker 1: sometimes every hour. Right, you send them a new cut
Speaker 1: and they'll be like change this.
Speaker 3: Do that. We don't like this, and we don't like that.
Speaker 1: It's always, you know, the people that know the least
Speaker 1: about what you're doing that's feeling you the most. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they spending the money, right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So you know, but again, it's business. We understand it.
Speaker 1: We're not We're not knocking the business. The business is
Speaker 1: what it is. We love the business, right because we're
Speaker 1: still succeeding in it. But this is just a new
Speaker 1: venture that we're like, all right, let's see what this goes.
Speaker 1: Like me, I'm always me and EFM. We always argue
Speaker 1: and he's always independent. I'm always major, right. But one time,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a scenario. I had a record with
Speaker 1: Jairou and the record was cool. We filmed the video,
Speaker 1: but it kind of really wasn't.
Speaker 3: Me and Leo Coles did have edits.
Speaker 1: Leo Colmes came to me and was like, listen, I
Speaker 1: kind of invested in Nori, not Jiro. Like it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't want a job popcorn He said it was popcorn.
Speaker 1: He was like, I don't want to jay tongue. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So and he was right this time, and you know
Speaker 1: what happened for that, I went and I made Homeboy.
Speaker 1: I came to party, so that record wouldn't even exist. So,
Speaker 1: and sometimes these producers are correct, I mean the executives.
Speaker 1: I mean to say the executives. Oh, there are some
Speaker 1: of course, but to lose owner for good I'm not saying.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: Let me finished my question.
Speaker 1: So as opposed, so let me ask, are you opposed
Speaker 1: to never working with a studio?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, no.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is this is something that we decided
Speaker 1: to do because we were passionate about it. We had
Speaker 1: a vision for it, and I had the money to
Speaker 1: be able to get it going.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, to do it my way. I'm still in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I still you know, work for other projects and audition
Speaker 1: and do all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: I still do all of that.
Speaker 6: But when it comes to independent filmmaking, this is the
Speaker 6: film that we wanted to make and it could change
Speaker 6: our lives based on how we've had to do things
Speaker 6: in the past, you know. I mean now, you said
Speaker 6: something in the past too, you said Hollywood could be.
Speaker 3: A little racist.
Speaker 1: You said, because there's never been a black man to
Speaker 1: play Batman. And then it wasn't rumors of a playing Batman,
Speaker 1: but it was rumors of a black man playing James
Speaker 1: James Bond. I feel like, I feel like that's colse
Speaker 1: of you. No, you don't want that, you don't want
Speaker 1: give you that's not because of me. And I'm saying
Speaker 1: because I'm saying you said it, and I think Hollywood
Speaker 1: is like, you know what, that'd be.
Speaker 3: Cool to have a black James Bond.
Speaker 1: I may have said it in jest, Yeah, but he's
Speaker 1: coming through maybe voices like yours your part, don't want
Speaker 1: those I'm.
Speaker 3: Giving you those props. Just take him just.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I think I would rather because it was approaching Idris
Speaker 1: Elba to be and everybody was saying that they wanted him.
Speaker 3: To do it. He got the ad already.
Speaker 6: I understand his mentality on it. He's just like, why
Speaker 6: why do we always have to do the black version
Speaker 6: of what they created? Why don't we just create our
Speaker 6: own like he did with Luther, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: Instead of said that, you know, he said that I'm paraphrasing.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, but but he was like, now, I would
Speaker 1: rather focus on Luther because he keeps getting asked if
Speaker 1: he's going to do the James Bond thing, and his
Speaker 1: answer as of right now that I know of, is no,
Speaker 1: that he doesn't. He's not interested in doing that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But again, I don't want to
Speaker 1: speak for him, but that's the understanding of it. But
Speaker 1: that's my my thing too, is like, look, we are
Speaker 1: very creative. We don't have to rehash anything or you know,
Speaker 1: be the new black version of this character that's been
Speaker 1: in their world for a long time. I think we're
Speaker 1: creative enough we could come up with some fire.
Speaker 3: I think I'm fifty to fifty on that.
Speaker 1: What if I grew up being a fan A Flash
Speaker 1: Gordon and I just want to see the black Flash Gordon.
Speaker 1: What ain't nothing wrong with that? Look, there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with That's the whitest and whitest character that I just
Speaker 1: like to push the culture to be more creative, that's what,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I don't always like to
Speaker 1: see a remake. Yeah, I agree, Like I.
Speaker 3: Don't want to get a black vidy, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: I get that just a shitload of remakes right now.
Speaker 1: So you know it's all, but it's sound.
Speaker 6: That I would like the play, Oh for sure. I
Speaker 6: mean I'm working on my action uh star leading man
Speaker 6: energy now, that's that's why I'm going next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm not the guy who's one dimensional. Who I mean
Speaker 1: you see this from the movie like I played, Yeah
Speaker 1: a thousand niggas a desjoyed So but I want to
Speaker 1: be very clear, we're me and Demaan are actual filmmakers.
Speaker 1: We're not just hey, let's do this spook movie because
Speaker 1: it's some some cultural ship and do it because it's
Speaker 1: it's an easy play let's put this film out. Let's succeed,
Speaker 1: and then let's go into our sci fi bag. Let's
Speaker 1: go into an action bag. Let's go on our kung
Speaker 1: fu bag. Like we got we are filmmakers. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta si mo. I want to smoke weed in.
Speaker 3: Space domain Write that down, write that down. I want
Speaker 3: to I want to.
Speaker 1: Always oh yeah, about to be like that ship, like
Speaker 1: because thinking about it, there's been a lot of space movies,
Speaker 1: but even one of my favorite ship on Netflix is
Speaker 1: a thing.
Speaker 7: Called Sports Space Force. You've never seen it, no, I
Speaker 7: heard it?
Speaker 3: I heard? Is it a movie? It's a comedy about
Speaker 3: like a fake Star Trek, like a spoof on Star Trek,
Speaker 3: isn't it?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say Star Trek, But it's like, what's this
Speaker 1: guy name for forty.
Speaker 7: Year old version?
Speaker 3: Paul Rudd? Steve that that dude, Yeah, for forty year version?
Speaker 1: Right, yeah yeah, yeah, so he's he's like the general
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, he got It's like dope.
Speaker 3: It's dope, but.
Speaker 1: It's like in space and it's like em you know,
Speaker 1: all right, like and that's what you want to do.
Speaker 1: But it's like, yeah, that's what I'm thinking. That was
Speaker 1: like nobody smoke in the space like I think you
Speaker 1: want to spend three in space?
Speaker 3: And Chong did those movies they do that? Yeah, but
Speaker 3: they did. I don't think like he was the new version.
Speaker 3: New version. Shit.
Speaker 1: They catch beef with China. China run run over all flag.
Speaker 1: It's America against China in space in space. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is real ship. They run over all flag, fly or
Speaker 1: run the moon like they're on the moon, on the
Speaker 1: moon and the flag this is real ship is in
Speaker 1: the in the thing. So the American flag is there
Speaker 1: and China just runs it over. So the people in America,
Speaker 1: the people like the generals because they have real min
Speaker 1: What do you put in your I ain't never before,
Speaker 1: but if it gives me that imagination, you got to.
Speaker 3: Face for it. I might at least want to smell it.
Speaker 3: So this is what they did.
Speaker 1: So they had me and this is the Navy, the army,
Speaker 1: and they're like, yo, the Navy, the Army, they all
Speaker 1: meet together because they're like, yo, you look the Chinese
Speaker 1: people destroy American flag. So they're like, yo, we got
Speaker 1: to attack. And this is in space watching space force
Speaker 1: sh is hall.
Speaker 3: How do y'all? How do you do it? How do
Speaker 3: you because you've seem very clear headed. And then there's
Speaker 3: story he's thinking about. I'm telling you, I.
Speaker 1: Promise you when you watch, you're gonna watch this to be.
Speaker 3: Like but let me ask you. Do you actually say
Speaker 3: my bad? But you always do? You always have like
Speaker 3: are you a d D? Do you have a D
Speaker 3: D A d h D? Yeah? The way it is
Speaker 3: all of this ship, all of the yea because you
Speaker 3: just you you.
Speaker 6: It's like we'd be having a conversation about one thing
Speaker 6: and you'll pull out a giraffett the giraffe that it's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be the promo po. I loved every second of that.
Speaker 3: Thank you, we're doing quick time was actually call him
Speaker 3: it to me. I don't know if you do that
Speaker 3: now now.
Speaker 7: It wasn't this.
Speaker 6: It was just I'm just trying to understand. I'm understanding
Speaker 6: how your your minds. Yeah, because you know it's just
Speaker 6: so much stake. I'm doing part two. Yeah, I'm studying you,
Speaker 6: got you gotta I'm studying you.
Speaker 3: Really? Is that serious? Wait? What wait? What happened? Okay? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: who's gonna have you?
Speaker 1: You want to bring anybody in, you want to bring anybody,
Speaker 1: you want to tell the comme you can be the
Speaker 1: designated drinking Now, who's talking about you?
Speaker 3: You want you want one of your people, you want
Speaker 3: want to people. None of us drink, None of y'all drinks.
Speaker 3: None of us drinks.
Speaker 7: So we're gonna you want something to you want to drink.
Speaker 3: Okay, you a big was happening. You don't get a
Speaker 3: good speech?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, give them give me a chair, right there, mister,
Speaker 1: you're Comminican, Dominican, Dominican to Dominican.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That that fade the Black scene. Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 3: was the faith the black scene. Yeah, because fade the
Speaker 3: black can't have dregs, no, no, but we did our
Speaker 3: version of like the newer version of that that energy. Okay,
Speaker 3: you can't. You can't do that kind of music. Jah,
Speaker 3: you can do that. We're talking about. This is this
Speaker 3: is Jesus smile.
Speaker 1: I said, slugs hit a bigger than you through your
Speaker 1: passionate side to ups ground you side.
Speaker 3: For I'm telling these niggas to be delivery man. That
Speaker 3: was hard, wet, that was hard. You made people want
Speaker 3: to do kwan. You can you can say one or
Speaker 3: the other if you pick both.
Speaker 1: Your man, you played this last time, right, Yeah, your
Speaker 1: man drinks, but we drink with them.
Speaker 3: We don't leave him out there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been waving my whole life for this movement.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool shout out. Shout out to Tonyo Skits. He's
Speaker 1: king of Miami comedy. And when I called him, he
Speaker 1: was like, Yo, I'll be there. He flew himself out
Speaker 1: to l A. He showed up on, said he knew
Speaker 1: his not like. The dude is a professional man. He
Speaker 1: really rocks out and he has his own brand. Like
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying no like me putting him on.
Speaker 1: This is him saying, nah, I want to be there
Speaker 1: for this moment of the theater. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Tonio is an affection. He's professionally drinking for you right now,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt, no doubt. Okay, Kevin Hart or
Speaker 1: Cat Williams who.
Speaker 3: Put Caddy Williams, Yo, take a drink. I speak fluid.
Speaker 3: I say fluid, mister Lee.
Speaker 7: Oh that's good.
Speaker 3: I know exactly what he meant. But look, I got
Speaker 3: some mamajuana.
Speaker 1: Okay, he said, bro bring me okay, little personal tupac
Speaker 1: or biggie.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a personal mamajuana for you.
Speaker 7: Thank you, I need more, I need more drinks.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's going. But what do you want
Speaker 3: to drink? You don't have to drink that, that's what
Speaker 3: you want you Yeah, because we got drink.
Speaker 1: We don't drink okay, yeah, because yeah, you can drink.
Speaker 3: Shake it, shake a little bit. Shake, Let them take
Speaker 3: that home.
Speaker 9: Home.
Speaker 3: Because we got we got we got mars, we got
Speaker 3: shots for you.
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I like this one that's in this
Speaker 1: cargo pocket, like keeping this Showtime at the Apollo or
Speaker 1: Soul Train, Showtime at the Apollo. Why because show Time Apollo.
Speaker 3: Came first.
Speaker 6: Apollo for me. Apollo for me has uh it just
Speaker 6: has a different rawness to it. And because I danced
Speaker 6: on Soul Train, I understand how exploitive Soul Train was
Speaker 6: to the dancers.
Speaker 1: And when you got the Soul Train, because it wasn't
Speaker 1: the Soul Train that you knew it. I already knew
Speaker 1: that it wasn't that. What I'm saying is for years
Speaker 1: they I mean for the whole run, they never paid
Speaker 1: the dancers, and the dancers are what made Soul train,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And you know I understand
Speaker 1: the legacy of Soul Train. It's it's legendary, it's iconic.
Speaker 1: The principle of not paying the dancers and seeing some
Speaker 1: of these people that I still know to this day
Speaker 1: and they're not financially well off. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: it's not right. So I would I would go show
Speaker 1: tell me the Apollo. But hold on, you sucking out
Speaker 1: my childhood. So you mean to tell me all these
Speaker 1: years of me watching, nobody got paid them people walking
Speaker 1: down that nobody got a minimum any cold fried chicken?
Speaker 3: Wow, damn that fucked me up. Okay, but did it
Speaker 3: apollow pay?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: No? I mean it's amateur Night, so it's a different
Speaker 1: it's a different muscle. Okay, it's a different it's a
Speaker 1: different system. The dancers on Soul Train were regulars, okay,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Every week you see these people.
Speaker 1: They became names off of it. So it was great exposure,
Speaker 1: but they didn't pay.
Speaker 3: Them, right.
Speaker 1: And new socks that you had on on Amateur Night,
Speaker 1: my white the white Sox, that was those the Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson had glittering and glitter.
Speaker 3: Kept focusing in. I'm sure I'm sure that was you know,
Speaker 3: Walmart or something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh really, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, come on,
Speaker 1: sketches and movies.
Speaker 6: I would say movies. I love sketch, but movies gives
Speaker 6: me the the range to to stretch out that that
Speaker 6: that muscle pause. Yeah, it gives me the range to
Speaker 6: exercise a different creativity, and it gives you the time
Speaker 6: to shape it in a way that that's that's different.
Speaker 3: Sketches so fast, you know what I mean? So I
Speaker 3: would I like movies and.
Speaker 1: Real quick it's the Bootlegger uptown. But he didn't have
Speaker 1: Michael Blacksmith play.
Speaker 3: I called him. He was in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: No, No, he was in Ghana because you know, he
Speaker 1: has a school out there, so he was in He
Speaker 1: was in Ghana taking care of that when we were
Speaker 1: filming it. So I definitely he was the first person
Speaker 1: I call. Yeah, start like him, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's his name?
Speaker 3: Michael? What Michael Blacksman? Blacks Men, Michael black Son. That's
Speaker 3: I'm bad. He knows what I mean, He knows what
Speaker 3: he knows what I mean. He knows what his Dave is,
Speaker 3: Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock mm hm. Take a drink.
Speaker 3: He already was taking one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah he was.
Speaker 3: He could wait.
Speaker 6: But No, both of those guys are goats for different reasons.
Speaker 6: But Chris is our og like Dave and I at
Speaker 6: the same age. So it's like Chris is still our og,
Speaker 6: but Dave is obviously, you know, the goat in his era.
Speaker 6: He's He's phenomenal in his output, his the way that
Speaker 6: he thinks. But if you notice in the movie I
Speaker 6: played the Chris Rock you know, a whole in his
Speaker 6: cadence and all that kind of stuff. So Chris is
Speaker 6: one of the people that I've studied for a long
Speaker 6: time and I've always respected his social uh social consciousness,
Speaker 6: if that makes any sense, that goes into his comedy.
Speaker 3: He's very brilliant and very smart in how he approaches it.
Speaker 1: Like that. You know, I'm sorry this is a boring
Speaker 1: one because I'm not gonna the controversy guy or Seinfeld.
Speaker 1: Curb Curb is the DNA of Seinfeld, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So you got to give props to a
Speaker 1: lot of people would say Seinfeld he wrote it, but
Speaker 1: Larry created time Lowry created so but that's what he's saying.
Speaker 1: You say, but I thought you said Curb is Curb
Speaker 1: is the DNA of Seinfeld. But because he created Seinfeld.
Speaker 1: He brought that same template to Curb, but it's him
Speaker 1: doing it. It's not him giving his formula to actors, right,
Speaker 1: it's him doing it. And you really see it the
Speaker 1: life in curve because he's playing a version of himself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's way more off the chain. It's it's HBO.
Speaker 1: You can cuss, So imagine Seinfeld could cuss. Then maybe
Speaker 1: I you know, Seinfeld was brilliant, but when you watch Curb,
Speaker 1: you gotta respect that.
Speaker 3: Oh this is the mind that Seinfeld came out of.
Speaker 3: So I got to go to the source. Did you
Speaker 3: realize that Seinfeld and Elaine was both horse? That there
Speaker 3: was what both horse? Horse? Oh? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they had a different day every week. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, being young and single in New York. Although
Speaker 1: they filmed in in l A. They filmed it in
Speaker 1: l A. I watched it, we like, I love it.
Speaker 1: So I go back and I visited and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I didn't peep it.
Speaker 3: They were horse.
Speaker 7: She was very promiscuous.
Speaker 3: Yeah she was.
Speaker 1: She's smashing everything was crack and was talking about it too, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I smashed him, I like his ship there, right, she
Speaker 1: smashed time fel too.
Speaker 3: Yes, but in all.
Speaker 1: Because we can't be sexist. So was Sienfeld. You said
Speaker 1: both of them he had, I mean.
Speaker 3: Don't remember I emphasized both of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but I just said, like Elaine, but I
Speaker 1: just want to say you said about it was justice guilty.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you started out with right, go ahead, e
Speaker 3: the next one. But you don't think you can read that.
Speaker 7: You think the English haunted house or soul Man.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go hunting House because that's the Ray Ray character,
Speaker 1: even though people love Leicester Leicesters. Yeah, a hundred house
Speaker 1: because Ray Ray that. I went and shot that scene
Speaker 1: for like a couple of hours. I never knew that
Speaker 1: that thing was gonna live on like it does. Like
Speaker 1: I'll be having little white kids come up to me
Speaker 1: like I don't give as.
Speaker 3: That is weird.
Speaker 1: That was the first time in that movie I heard
Speaker 1: I heard somebody say fuck the kids and peoples.
Speaker 3: Three kids. I say, holy Ship was like, word it up.
Speaker 1: Holy You felt him when he said that, And now
Speaker 1: I said Earthquakes say that on his special album the
Speaker 1: other day, and I was like, holy Ship, like that's cool.
Speaker 3: Now they put the kids.
Speaker 1: I never knew that. You said, yeah, yeah, Okay, m
Speaker 1: O per mob deep, take a drink. This is a
Speaker 1: great game for Tonio. Outcast or U g K, why
Speaker 1: would you do that?
Speaker 3: Man? Shout out to my man bun real Burgers.
Speaker 1: But I I listened more to outcasts growing up, so
Speaker 1: I would say outcasts, that's cool. Got stopped at the
Speaker 1: model the other day. Heard a call from the other
Speaker 1: way that I just came from. So Nigga was saying
Speaker 1: something tom about, hey, what's up? Remember me from school?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 1: Not really, but it kept smiling like a clown facial expression,
Speaker 1: looking silly. Then they kept asking, will kind of car
Speaker 1: you drive? I know you paid, I know you got
Speaker 1: Bootkool bill Folds from all them songs that shall have made.
Speaker 1: I replied that that I'm going through the same thing
Speaker 1: that he has. True, I got more fans in an
Speaker 1: average man, but not enough loot that last me to
Speaker 1: the end of the week.
Speaker 6: I live by to beat. Let you live, check the check.
Speaker 6: If you remove your feet, then I don't eat that.
Speaker 6: We let next to Nick.
Speaker 1: Yes, we don't come along. We let them send them
Speaker 1: as cigarettes from Virginia. This ain't gonna stop, so we
Speaker 1: just gonna continue.
Speaker 3: Me and you your mama and your.
Speaker 4: This bo.
Speaker 3: Go boom.
Speaker 1: Now this one, I'm very curious. This is I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is a regional question. Well, but it's
Speaker 1: a legendary question or just a classic question. N w
Speaker 1: A or Wu Tang clan take a fucking drink, that's both. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could never listen. Man, I'm thinking the amount of
Speaker 1: influence that both of those groups had West Coast. I
Speaker 1: mean n w A was West Coast, they were before
Speaker 1: Wu Tang, but they had influence on everybody and there
Speaker 1: was no real even though they was straight out of Compton,
Speaker 1: the level of skills, and that's kind of what the
Speaker 1: movie points to as well.
Speaker 3: When they came out.
Speaker 6: Even though they were from a different region, it's not
Speaker 6: about the region. They still had the formula of having skills.
Speaker 6: They had rhymes, they had ill beats. So we all
Speaker 6: rocked to them. We didn't care where they were from.
Speaker 6: We were big fans of them. And then Wu Tang
Speaker 6: they just in the whole. They're aliens, man. Both are movements,
Speaker 6: were sure movements, you know what I mean? So you
Speaker 6: respect every MC was crazy with it. Now, Yeah, shout
Speaker 6: out to n w ain't wo thinking we just ye, yes,
Speaker 6: he shout out the Snoop. Snoop is uh, you know,
Speaker 6: son of n w A and this thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, for sure, rest in peace, Snoop brother,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, rest in peace, being man. I told Snoop
Speaker 1: I was gonna wear the jacket for him, man, so
Speaker 1: rest in peace. It's crazy because I had text Snoop
Speaker 1: the other day and just just I said positive positive energy, right, blessings,
Speaker 1: and Snoop called me, called me and like me and him,
Speaker 1: look got more of a text bless his relationship.
Speaker 3: But he called me. I knew that it was something up.
Speaker 3: He was like, yo, yo, cud you.
Speaker 1: Know, I can't say what he yeah, you know, because
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was between me and him.
Speaker 1: But it was just like I texted him at a
Speaker 1: moment where you know, I think he just you know,
Speaker 1: found out what happened to us.
Speaker 3: For sure, for sure, rest in peace the Snoopers brother.
Speaker 6: You know, he called me around the same time because
Speaker 6: he when it had happened at the same time he
Speaker 6: found out about my movie, right, so he asked me.
Speaker 6: He's like, man, can I please see a screening of it?
Speaker 6: Just before it hit the theaters? Wow, He's like, man,
Speaker 6: is it any way I could, I could see I
Speaker 6: just need a laugh right now, and I was like,
Speaker 6: anything you need you know what I'm saying. So he's
Speaker 6: he's a big support of mine anyway, But in that moment,
Speaker 6: it felt it felt good to be able to just
Speaker 6: be able to, you know, have something that could.
Speaker 1: Ease some of the pain for him, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's something that I wish comedians y'all know that more
Speaker 1: of is we need y'all to make fun of. Not
Speaker 1: not that obviously, but you know we need to laugh
Speaker 1: sometimes when it's you're going through turmoil, you need to
Speaker 1: go look at something.
Speaker 3: You need to go you know what I mean, and
Speaker 3: just laugh, you know what I mean, like that shit
Speaker 3: is real.
Speaker 6: Well, that's one of the biggest compliments I've ever gotten,
Speaker 6: and consider get. It's people saying, man, you helped me
Speaker 6: through the pandemic.
Speaker 1: That's what's up by going on IG Live and acting
Speaker 1: facilly or your movies or your this wilding out whole episode.
Speaker 6: So I don't take my purpose in this comedy game lightly.
Speaker 6: I respect that, which is another reason why I will
Speaker 6: never talk bad about any other comedian publicly. I don't
Speaker 6: care who it is I actually like I got I
Speaker 6: got love for Cat. You know what, I haven't told
Speaker 6: any of these stories, so I'm gonna do it here
Speaker 6: on drink Jams.
Speaker 3: Can I do that? I love it.
Speaker 6: Kat Williams, we started out on Wilding Out. That's where
Speaker 6: I met him. I've seen Kat's heart at work. We
Speaker 6: was auditioning for the network, right. This is at the
Speaker 6: end of auditions when everybody's kind of like they chose
Speaker 6: all the people that they want as possible, and they
Speaker 6: get us all in a chemistry kind of.
Speaker 3: A reach their network TV continue.
Speaker 6: So they get us all in a chemistry kind of
Speaker 6: a read where we're all there, they mix and matching us.
Speaker 6: Let me see a Pan and d Ray do these jokes.
Speaker 6: Let me see Atheon and Corey Holcom do these jokes.
Speaker 6: Let me see how they all how they bounce off
Speaker 6: of each other. We were there all fucking day and
Speaker 6: we couldn't leave because it's an audition. We don't know
Speaker 6: when they're gonna call us back in the coats whatever.
Speaker 6: And this is at the time when Cat had.
Speaker 3: The money.
Speaker 6: Mike had already happened the Friday after next he was torn.
Speaker 6: He was already making a little bit of change at
Speaker 6: the time, so had all of us. He had more
Speaker 6: money than all of us.
Speaker 3: Right. He sent his driver to McDonald's.
Speaker 1: And came back and fed everybody that was there auditioning.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: He didn't do it for no accolades. He just was like,
Speaker 1: you know, people was like thank you, Kat. He was
Speaker 1: quiet about it. Another time, we did a wilding out
Speaker 1: live show in Vegas. This was the first time we
Speaker 1: did a wilding out live show. Now they're doing arenas
Speaker 1: and shit, but we were doing it and we did
Speaker 1: one in Vegas and Caesars Palace. Kat sees me after
Speaker 1: the show with some of my homies that live in
Speaker 1: Vegas is like a family settings, like twelve fourteen people
Speaker 1: at the table, and he comes up to me.
Speaker 3: He sees us, he weighs.
Speaker 1: Then he comes up to me about twenty minutes later,
Speaker 1: he says, your eighth just pay the tip.
Speaker 3: I was like what. So he took care of the
Speaker 3: bill like on the love Wow. He didn't owe me nothing.
Speaker 3: It was just him one. So he has this generous side.
Speaker 6: Of him that's like everyone says that's dope, and he
Speaker 6: doesn't want accolades for it. I've seen him throw cash
Speaker 6: up in the air on wild'n Out. You know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying that everybody grabbing for the cash. So he
Speaker 6: has a very giving heart. Cedric d entertainer, Obviously he
Speaker 6: kills it in this movie. One of the nicest niggas ever. Right,
Speaker 6: He's always been gracious with me. I mean when I
Speaker 6: first moved to LA, He's like, man, take my number down.
Speaker 6: If you ever need anything, just let me know. Most
Speaker 6: superstar guys don't do that kind of shit, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. I know Cat went at Ricky Smiley,
Speaker 6: but Ricky Smiley is another guy who early in my
Speaker 6: career gave me a lot of gems. He was already superstar.
Speaker 6: I called him up. This was before I moved to LA.
Speaker 6: I said, man, I'm doing this show at my college.
Speaker 6: We really need a big comedian to come down.
Speaker 3: Would you do it?
Speaker 6: Then it was like, of course he showed up immediately.
Speaker 6: I'm not nobody at the time, and he showed up.
Speaker 6: So I'm just going down the line if everybody that's
Speaker 6: involved in these in these things earthquake is the first
Speaker 6: person to pay me any money in the industry. On
Speaker 6: the Uptown, Yeah, the fancy Uptown that was off Peatrie
Speaker 6: in Buckhead Earthquake is the first person to pay me
Speaker 6: any money. He saw me doing stand up in Charlotte,
Speaker 6: North Carolina. He was like, Yo, you need to come
Speaker 6: down to my club. You got the skill set, you talented.
Speaker 6: I want to bring you down for a weekend opening
Speaker 6: for Steve Harvey. You know what I'm saying. So again,
Speaker 6: these are the types of stories that I want to tell,
Speaker 6: that I want to talk about with these people who
Speaker 6: are wildly successful. Steve Harvey's another one. When I was
Speaker 6: opening up for him, I was getting moved because they
Speaker 6: didn't give a fuck about me. That's why I was
Speaker 6: telling you earlier. Sometimes it matters who you're opening up for.
Speaker 6: They always the city.
Speaker 1: It's how the show is set up, set up for Steve, Steve,
Speaker 1: Steve's show.
Speaker 6: I'm nobody at the time. They don't know nothing about me.
Speaker 6: I'm just a local comedian opening up and they were
Speaker 6: just sitting there looking at me. Like to the point where,
Speaker 6: if you know anything about a stand up comedy club,
Speaker 6: when the headliner leaves the stage after they're performing, everyone
Speaker 6: else leaves and they're gone, right the crowd is still
Speaker 6: there because they're paying their bills.
Speaker 3: And I'm up there they want me to do.
Speaker 1: Another twenty minutes after he's off stage that I'm up
Speaker 1: there dying but a slow death. And then I hear
Speaker 1: from the back of the curtain, Hey, for'all man gone,
Speaker 1: sit on down, now gone, sit on down. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: wanted me to come on back out.
Speaker 3: Here because they said he up here just talking.
Speaker 6: And he does another like Q and able or and
Speaker 6: he stays out there for to give the club time to.
Speaker 3: Collect the bills.
Speaker 6: After that, he had every opportunity to just walk by me,
Speaker 6: shit on me, or do some whatever. Steve Harvey sits
Speaker 6: me down for an hour and gives me jewels about
Speaker 6: how talented he sees that I am.
Speaker 3: He said, fuck that show. He says, you got all
Speaker 3: the talent, you got, the characters you got, you can
Speaker 3: make millions at this.
Speaker 1: He said, you go to Hollywood, you can make millions
Speaker 1: at this. He said, don't give up, don't don't be
Speaker 1: concerned Hollywood. He's one of the one of the few
Speaker 1: that was that saw the magic in what I was doing.
Speaker 1: But he spoke to me for an hour after he
Speaker 1: just headlined two shows, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: he didn't have to do that he didn't know me
Speaker 1: from Adam.
Speaker 3: So these are the.
Speaker 1: Stories that I like to tell about people, man, because
Speaker 1: it's just what's going on right now with the public
Speaker 1: comedy beef. It's too divisive and it causes the audience
Speaker 1: to have to pick a side. And it's enough room
Speaker 1: for all of us to be out here and spread
Speaker 1: the love, spread the joy, spread the.
Speaker 6: Last and we're all making money. Everything Steve Harvey said
Speaker 6: to me that night was became true. So why would
Speaker 6: I ever, you know, sidewipe his name in any kind
Speaker 6: of way.
Speaker 1: So you said, like almost every the comedian, but you
Speaker 1: I think you forgot Kevin Harky.
Speaker 3: No, keV is my guy. Yeah, I mean like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yah history. So keV.
Speaker 6: keV actually financed one of my pilot ideas in the
Speaker 6: last two years after.
Speaker 3: We did the roast on the IG Live. Oh okay, that's.
Speaker 1: When I went to him with my first Standard special
Speaker 1: and was like, yo, let's let's do some business together.
Speaker 1: And my Standard Special was the first special that he
Speaker 1: liked on lolow on a network which lol They're on.
Speaker 3: Peacock, NBCP Cock and.
Speaker 6: There's a couple of Exfinity and Sumo and all these
Speaker 6: other other platforms. So partnering up with him had my
Speaker 6: standard special out to a lot of way bigger audience
Speaker 6: than if I would have self distributed. After that, I
Speaker 6: went to him with a pilot idea for a sketch show,
Speaker 6: and he heard me talking about it, and for a
Speaker 6: minute he was giving me his executive Kevin hartbring and
Speaker 6: he's telling me why it probably wouldn't work. And I
Speaker 6: just convinced him. I said, listen, man, I think the
Speaker 6: wrong people are doing sketch. That's why you're hesitant. That's
Speaker 6: why the networks are hesitant, I said, And I just
Speaker 6: gave him all the a couple of reasons that was
Speaker 6: like very you couldn't argue them.
Speaker 3: And he looked at me.
Speaker 1: He said, he I think you know exactly what the
Speaker 1: fuck you're doing. He said, I'm going to write the check.
Speaker 1: He said, you go shoot whatever you want and bring
Speaker 1: it back to me. And he said, just go shoot
Speaker 1: like two or three videos, shoot whatever you want. I
Speaker 1: went and shot a whole pilot with the money he gave.
Speaker 1: So I flipped that bird, chopped it up.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Boy, I got busy, But no, he's he's a true friend.
Speaker 1: He's a true professional. He's a he's a great guy.
Speaker 1: All these comedians are great man. Funk out of here,
Speaker 1: all this, all this.
Speaker 3: Beef, stop the balls ship keep going. What's man? Okay?
Speaker 3: Where we're at after n w A but we're still
Speaker 3: playing the game? My fulk No, no come up from this,
Speaker 3: please no, no, where's okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, shout out to Charlie Mack in the building. Charlie Mac,
Speaker 3: Charlie Max and them.
Speaker 1: Did not make this question though, the Columbian guy that
Speaker 1: the Dominican guy right there, famous hazard it sounds and
Speaker 1: mister Lee, you might see me jogging, you might see
Speaker 1: me walking. You might see me walking the dead rat
Speaker 1: with the dog with his head chopped off in the
Speaker 1: park with a spy Kyler holland at him because the
Speaker 1: son of a bitch won't quit parking, or lean out
Speaker 1: of a window with a cock shotgun driving up the
Speaker 1: block in the car of the shot pocking looking for
Speaker 1: bigs killers, dressing ridiculous blue and red like I don't
Speaker 1: see what the big deal is, uh, eminem And by
Speaker 1: the way, I worked out to him and the music
Speaker 1: twice the other day, is I just wanted to there
Speaker 1: I have witnessed this. I might have not filmed it,
Speaker 1: but I have. We gonna get Benzi know that drunk.
Speaker 3: If you watch it.
Speaker 1: We trying to stop it. I felt bad. I was
Speaker 1: like yo, from the beginning, we were like waves. But honestly,
Speaker 1: though the drunker he got, the more since that he
Speaker 1: was making. Yeah, he was right start ripping off the
Speaker 1: persona in a sense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly exactly. But what he was saying resonated. I
Speaker 6: feel the same way. We gotta come together, we gotta
Speaker 6: do better.
Speaker 7: Said he really had no real beef with eminem Yah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like it was. Yeah, the mask came on.
Speaker 7: What look at y'all gave him.
Speaker 3: Though we.
Speaker 1: Only have do say an Acus Spade here, so if
Speaker 1: this Hennessy here, they bring their own.
Speaker 3: He came on a mission, he came on.
Speaker 1: But that's the homie. Okay, much love to him. Man,
Speaker 1: John Candy or Chris Farley.
Speaker 6: Chris Farley, Man, I love John Candy, but Chris Farley
Speaker 6: just had a different Yeah, both.
Speaker 3: Of those guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Tommy boy is one of my favorite your Tommy boys. Yeah,
Speaker 6: Chris was that dude. And then his sn L days
Speaker 6: was highlights, highlight, real fat guy.
Speaker 3: And a little Cold Fat Guy and.
Speaker 1: Co yay or Pharrell whichever yay and whichever Farrall producer artists,
Speaker 1: which whichever version you want to pick.
Speaker 3: You gotta take a drink on that. Okay, Yeah, both prolific.
Speaker 6: You know, of course, I don't prefer the rank Kanye,
Speaker 6: but it made ran Kanye was good body right.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it made for great comedy in
Speaker 1: the movie. Go see a hip hop story, guys, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: exactly theater near you. Okay, I'm gonna if you go
Speaker 1: with that one.
Speaker 3: Walling out or Key and Peel Show, both great shows,
Speaker 3: but I gotta go with the home team.
Speaker 6: Shout out to Nick Cannon, but shout out to Key
Speaker 6: and Peel as well, because them motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 6: I still watching Peel to this day. I'll just be
Speaker 6: on tour and it's on Netflix, so I'll just I'll
Speaker 6: just catch them episodes.
Speaker 1: One of the greatest kids killing pill shows. When he's saying,
Speaker 1: how black people Obama.
Speaker 3: Obama shaking the hand, that's what that's my favorite sketch.
Speaker 3: That's my favorite sketch. That ship is legendary and.
Speaker 1: Keith Can said it really happened when they met Obama.
Speaker 1: He said, really, I felt like it. Really, it did happen.
Speaker 6: I did not want I did not said, I did
Speaker 6: not want the fact check just now, no son, He said,
Speaker 6: it happened for when when they show was popping, when
Speaker 6: it first came out and everybody was everyone was watching it,
Speaker 6: and they didn't realize Obama watched it and saw the
Speaker 6: impression of them and everything.
Speaker 3: So they went to I guess a.
Speaker 1: White house type of like press conference where they invite
Speaker 1: somebody entertainers there and they've watched him shake white people's
Speaker 1: hands very sternly, like hey, hey, hey, what are you
Speaker 1: doing all right?
Speaker 3: Make sure they say he stopped the beating down, he
Speaker 3: gave him the cookouts.
Speaker 7: What's going on?
Speaker 3: That's my favorite scam. I did not want to.
Speaker 7: I did not want that.
Speaker 3: You did you needed that? I needed? Uh Dre or
Speaker 3: Quincy Jones take a drink. Yep.
Speaker 6: But at the same time, you don't anybody. You don't
Speaker 6: have Dre without Quincy, you know what I mean? So
Speaker 6: but Dre understands that. Yeah, but it's not it's not
Speaker 6: one over the other. But Quincy's he's everybody's o g
Speaker 6: there he is. He went the next one but Dre
Speaker 6: is the big homie.
Speaker 1: So if I ever said, if I said somebody, if
Speaker 1: I chose another name over Dre, he'd be like, hey, nigga, and.
Speaker 3: Talking about Quincy, you've seen that? Uh that we are
Speaker 3: the world? Oh yeah, away Quinn.
Speaker 1: See master brilliant. That ship was crazy, Like who had
Speaker 1: this footage? All these I don't know about this story?
Speaker 1: Like who had all that footage? That's crazy?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 6: That ship was crazy because looking at it is almost
Speaker 6: as if they filmed the song yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, damn, that ship was crazy. Where we at Jim
Speaker 3: Carry or Bill Burr?
Speaker 1: I mean it's two totally different comedians. I'm a Jim
Speaker 1: Carrey influenced guy. Yeah, Color Yeah, yeah yeah, East Ventura.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean then you know Jim is.
Speaker 5: R O G.
Speaker 6: I think Bill Burr would have tested that. But Bill
Speaker 6: is just raw. He's raw. He's gonna give it to
Speaker 6: you the way he sees it. And he's a brilliant,
Speaker 6: brilliant comedian. I love what he does.
Speaker 3: And he married to a black woman. Yeah, he's got
Speaker 3: a sister. Who you pick? Jim Carry? Okay? Would you
Speaker 3: rather be feared? Bronx Tale? That's my movie. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go with Sonny on this one.
Speaker 6: Love it's a cool emotion, But I think when people
Speaker 6: fear you, there's a respect that comes along with that
Speaker 6: that could feel like love. But because they fear you,
Speaker 6: they won't get out of line and they won't cross you.
Speaker 6: Mad niggas that love you cross you because they that
Speaker 6: love is a vulnerability. I mean so yeah, I'd rather
Speaker 6: be feared.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: I mean, fear could make people do something erradic because
Speaker 5: they fear you. Also, I'll always keep people in line.
Speaker 3: Love doesn't keep you in the line. Neither of those
Speaker 3: motherfucking things keep you in line. I think fear does
Speaker 3: a little more.
Speaker 1: If I'm comparing the two, I would definitely say fears
Speaker 1: keeps some motherfucking line a lot more than love does.
Speaker 1: I can respect that. Push it to your fab, push
Speaker 1: your tea or fab. That's tough, take a drink, damn.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Because fab is.
Speaker 6: Punchline like one of one of the punchline kings. Him
Speaker 6: and Luda are my favorite punchline rappers, and I think
Speaker 6: I can add Cassidy to that too. But Push just
Speaker 6: has this. He has a very descriptive scorsesey kind of
Speaker 6: rhyme pattern. Or you know what I mean, the way
Speaker 6: he describes ship, and.
Speaker 3: He's gotten better at it. I feel mm hmm like.
Speaker 5: Clip stays to now. I think he's better even sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah that new joint who's in the homie from t
Speaker 5: D Yeah.
Speaker 3: Rayvon Rayvon.
Speaker 6: Yeah that that ship that's hard just great. But fab
Speaker 6: Fab gets the consistency thing. So he's been in the
Speaker 6: game for a long time. He just never lets off
Speaker 6: the gas. So he gets a ton of respect from
Speaker 6: me for that. And that's how I actually started working
Speaker 6: with the main. The main was doing Fabulous impressions on
Speaker 6: on YouTube back in the day and the early Freeway ship,
Speaker 6: so that's actually how we connected and it all led
Speaker 6: to this movie.
Speaker 3: I would like to add that Fabulous is half Dominican
Speaker 3: shut out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be throwing it out there too. I'll be
Speaker 1: making sure he remember. But does fab make music that
Speaker 1: makes people want to do quime? He Dominican sneakers at
Speaker 1: that time, and time has a little little flag on
Speaker 1: it of time that he went the next one.
Speaker 3: Hannibal Burrs or Craig Robinson. Mm hmmm, I don't know.
Speaker 6: The funny thing. I don't know Hannibal that well. I
Speaker 6: met him and we you know, know we know each other,
Speaker 6: but we just really linked last year. I will go
Speaker 6: Craig on that one because I've known Craig is a
Speaker 6: deaf comedy jamo g.
Speaker 7: He can't.
Speaker 6: He's one of the first people that brought up prop
Speaker 6: on stage. He had his piano in the stage and
Speaker 6: he did the whole joke about the DJ. You remember
Speaker 6: that joke. So he was he's at the piano and
Speaker 6: he was like, shout out to kick Capri. Last night
Speaker 6: after the taping we went we went to the bar
Speaker 6: across the street and we had a few drinks, some
Speaker 6: ladies in there. We have some laughs and as we
Speaker 6: were walking back across the street to the hotel, a
Speaker 6: bus was speeding down forty second Street and Craig didn't
Speaker 6: see the bus and he's about I was about to
Speaker 6: walk out and kick Capri. Just he grabbed me and
Speaker 6: he made sure that I was good. You know, he said,
Speaker 6: you had a little bit too much to drink, he said,
Speaker 6: last night a DJ saent Yo def comedy champ went up,
Speaker 6: shout up to Craig Robinson.
Speaker 3: It wasn't Annibal, the one that we was drinking with
Speaker 3: right here. You want to tell that story.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember, I think you got arrested. After that,
Speaker 1: I fell back and we were like, oh ship, we
Speaker 1: was just he was just with us. He was at
Speaker 1: the bar with there. I mean we didn't like get
Speaker 1: him on.
Speaker 3: He was already there there. I think he was already drunk.
Speaker 1: We seen each other that we had some drinks together.
Speaker 1: He left us and left up and he was he
Speaker 1: was he was already touched down Miami. That means you
Speaker 1: know he got arrested because you know, Miami is the
Speaker 1: place you come on vacation and you leave on probation.
Speaker 3: Hilarious, all right, cad DC Young Flyer d Ra take
Speaker 3: a drink. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Both my brothers man different errors, both brilliant, both my brothers,
Speaker 1: Jack Black or Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell, I just look
Speaker 1: at Will and just laugh. He's funny, motherfucker. He can't
Speaker 1: do no wrong with me.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 1: YEA.
Speaker 3: Elf is my favorite holiday movie. Elf, isn't. He's anchorman
Speaker 3: for me as far as as far as Will ferrell
Speaker 3: movies Holiday movie. That's hilarious, man, for sure. Brother, what's
Speaker 3: the ship with him and keV and they went to jail?
Speaker 3: Get hard? Yeah? But you know, slept on I love
Speaker 3: wedding rhetor ringer, wedding ringer. Oh yeah, well Will Ferrell
Speaker 3: wasn't in there. No, I'm saying I slept I was
Speaker 3: changing the subject. But you understood me. You just said
Speaker 3: you understood me? What? Yeah, yeah, I'm glad. Did you
Speaker 3: really know what he was going on? Because Kevin is
Speaker 3: in there. I was also trying his mind is kind
Speaker 3: of laughing, Yeah, kind of like, uh like how he
Speaker 3: beat like you need out? I like how I like
Speaker 3: how he was like this.
Speaker 1: Exactly as a therapist. It's like, listen, this is what
Speaker 1: you have to stop doing. You have to start focusing
Speaker 1: and fuck on. Yeah, I knew he was going with
Speaker 1: that because he heard the name Kevi and then he
Speaker 1: said wedding ringer because I've been trying to say that,
Speaker 1: pauls get this out for a long time. Read and
Speaker 1: Winger is one of the most under movies.
Speaker 6: It's a good movie, man, I love it's a good movie.
Speaker 6: Shout out to my boy Jeremy Garlic, the director. He's uh,
Speaker 6: he just has a different eye. Jeremy's one of them
Speaker 6: dudes that just too Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yep. Me and Corey Holkum was also one of the
Speaker 3: same death comedy Jam episode Yeah oh g o gs.
Speaker 3: So the leads me to my next question. Corey Hog Oh,
Speaker 3: Donald Rowlands.
Speaker 1: Take a drink, right? I wanted to take a drink
Speaker 1: to that too. I love them both, like how they battle.
Speaker 1: I'm not like beef.
Speaker 3: You like you like controversy you don't. I just want
Speaker 3: to make you like.
Speaker 1: Thatppers like we not only looked at it's crazy.
Speaker 3: I got you.
Speaker 1: I need everybody else to be like we normal. We
Speaker 1: all got feelings. Okay, everybody need.
Speaker 3: To chill out. There's the last one. Go ahead. Loyalty
Speaker 3: or respect? Mm hmmmm.
Speaker 1: I think respect Gardner's loyalty. So I'm gonna pick respect.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm glad because I didn't want to drink no more. Man,
Speaker 3: Can I tell them what the scene was? Yes, the
Speaker 3: joke of the scene. Do we want to save? In
Speaker 3: any case, we do it again?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Man, move, move a chair over, I whatever, get a champo,
Speaker 1: get a chairp.
Speaker 3: Here you there, you go now because we gotta talk
Speaker 3: about your freeway woe.
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Speaker 3: Come on, come ahead for this.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 3: Don't want to have me very scared of that first,
Speaker 3: but hold on.
Speaker 1: But we said talk about that. But let me let me,
Speaker 1: let me say something hilarious. Let me say something. We
Speaker 1: asked him earlier, did anybody like come at Adam because of.
Speaker 3: The freeway m At times, I didn't know, But the
Speaker 3: audience loves the freeway character fro Away. They love I
Speaker 3: love it me.
Speaker 1: He has one of the most quotable early everybody walking
Speaker 1: out saying early, and they're cheering for him when he does. Director,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say the scene, but they're cheering
Speaker 1: for him throughout this movie. So we even told freeway.
Speaker 1: That was like, look, man, so you're going to okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Okay. When I first see it, I'm like, okay, damn,
Speaker 1: where's he working at? But then you realize that it
Speaker 1: got all rappers working and you have to make a
Speaker 1: good point, right, it's an exaggerate if you just see
Speaker 1: it all exaggeration though, you're right, but for the think
Speaker 1: the culture, for the specific people.
Speaker 3: For the specific people's specifically.
Speaker 1: But then at the end he's he's at the self
Speaker 1: destruction Reckett. He's dead. So he actually makes it at
Speaker 1: the end, but at points it felt hard. It did
Speaker 1: feel like and even though it might not be true,
Speaker 1: I don't know how it felt.
Speaker 3: I think you're feeling. I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're feeling the sensitivity of the culture right now,
Speaker 1: because that that type of what you're talking about is harsh.
Speaker 1: Is it jokes, it's shown in its ros and he's
Speaker 1: close to it too. To be close to it also
Speaker 1: might be different from yeah I'm close to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm close to it because as I had a work rapper,
Speaker 1: which any of you what us can be at the time,
Speaker 1: any of us could be had of work rapper and
Speaker 1: it's not saying that y'all was saying that he was
Speaker 1: out of work, Rapps being off.
Speaker 3: But I know the point of that is we throw
Speaker 3: away our gems.
Speaker 1: And I've said this before as a culture hip hop,
Speaker 1: R and B black culture period, we throw our gems away,
Speaker 1: meaning meaning cooling.
Speaker 3: A gang, earth winning fire. They're not doing the numbers
Speaker 3: that you two is doing.
Speaker 1: You two can do arenas for the rest of their
Speaker 1: life by themselves, the cooling of gangs. They'll do a
Speaker 1: jam with a bunch of different artists and it's great.
Speaker 1: It's a theater, but it's not the same. And we're
Speaker 1: in a culture where we like to we want the
Speaker 1: new ship.
Speaker 3: We always want to do. That's the reason why we
Speaker 3: started drinking.
Speaker 1: But why that's the reason why to give a platform
Speaker 1: to the artists.
Speaker 3: And maybe people haven't forgotten about it. It starts with
Speaker 3: up Piers of the nineties.
Speaker 1: That's the reason why the point of just freeway part
Speaker 1: not everyone. Yeah, this three ray part felt a little
Speaker 1: too risky because I suppose people believe that and they're like,
Speaker 1: yof we wait, it's really working in the fucking grocery store.
Speaker 3: People can believe anything. Some people, some people can't believe that.
Speaker 3: Some people don't at all.
Speaker 1: There's still some people who just go to the movie
Speaker 1: theaters and don't have Instagram. Does that hurt his image?
Speaker 1: I'm asking, like I'm clearly doing.
Speaker 2: I'll say this, people have been probably hitting Freeway up
Speaker 2: and wanted to know about Freeway now more than Okay,
Speaker 2: then they have it, and he said it.
Speaker 7: The relevancy all of that stuff is just people are
Speaker 7: calling his name.
Speaker 2: Okay, remind you I've been doing that character for over
Speaker 2: twenty years, but a lot of people don't know it.
Speaker 7: No, they don't know that, Okay, but but he he knows.
Speaker 2: Remember when I first my first job was that Rockefeller
Speaker 2: Like I was the cameraman, Like I was that guy
Speaker 2: who traveled all around the world with the State Property,
Speaker 2: with the Dame, with everybody filming everything. So when State
Speaker 2: probably got signed and I've seen those guys come in,
Speaker 2: I've seen State Property come I spent time in Philly
Speaker 2: with them and all of that, he was a guy
Speaker 2: that stood out to me. He was somebody admired his
Speaker 2: voice because look, I never seen the be I never
Speaker 2: say any of that. I believe you said you never
Speaker 2: saw I wouldn't do in these parodies and I would
Speaker 2: go home and when I first did it, I did
Speaker 2: him fabulous all of that. I would go to Rockefeller
Speaker 2: and I would show him these videos. They would be
Speaker 2: in there. They loved it. Back then, I'm talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, early two thousands, So it's something that just stuck.
Speaker 2: So once me and a fian got together, it was
Speaker 2: it was he wrote it specifically for his friends. It
Speaker 2: was like, I want all my friends that are dope
Speaker 2: at what they do, and I'm gonna bring them together
Speaker 2: and we're gonna make this movie.
Speaker 1: You know, for the culture, for an all fairness. That's
Speaker 1: before hip hop had sensitivity. Once there was a ray
Speaker 1: J fabulous moment through social media, it was like everyone
Speaker 1: kind of got on point and everyone kind of changed
Speaker 1: because although we didn't take it serious, we knew that
Speaker 1: it was serious. So like, I have to take that
Speaker 1: in consideration as an artist, as a rapper, did you
Speaker 1: take that into consideration that someone might just take it
Speaker 1: too far? Remember fab was joking on ray J. He
Speaker 1: was playing with the ray Ja.
Speaker 3: He was, well, we what we are is.
Speaker 1: I'm just being Davids allocate. No, I get you, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the Angels at it, Okay.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: What we are and what we represent is when comedy
Speaker 1: was comedy, yes, and the Wayns was doing comedy, when
Speaker 1: Robert Townsend did Hollywood Shuffle. Yes, we represent niggas laughing
Speaker 1: again right and not taking themselves too seriously. So sure,
Speaker 1: anyone can believe whatever they want to believe. They can
Speaker 1: take something and twist it however they want to twist it.
Speaker 1: But I think what you when you walk away from
Speaker 1: this movie, you walk away feeling like you took a ride,
Speaker 1: you took an experience, and you laughed your ass off.
Speaker 1: You learned something, I learned something, and you heard some
Speaker 1: dope ass bars in the voices of these people.
Speaker 3: But it was all written by me, him and my
Speaker 3: other Homiejevin Smith.
Speaker 1: So I don't think there's anything disrespectful or anything overly
Speaker 1: sensitive about that.
Speaker 3: It's an experiences. It's a feel good movie. And for
Speaker 3: Freeway specifically, no, that's our guy, Early, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Early, and you.
Speaker 5: I don't want to go back, and because after watching
Speaker 5: I want to go back and listen to Freeways catalog.
Speaker 3: It reminds me I know that that's not him, but
Speaker 3: it reminded me how dope he is. You did that.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you're telling me that because I'm not
Speaker 1: looking at it like that. I'm looking at it from
Speaker 1: an artist point of view only you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And the artist point of view is just like damn,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be like you know, even putting
Speaker 1: that category like yo, okay, this is where you was
Speaker 1: at and now this is where you're at now, Like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I get like that because,
Speaker 1: like you said, he but then if you and if
Speaker 1: you watch the whole movie, then he's on the self
Speaker 1: destruction record.
Speaker 3: He's actually he actually makes it.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But you know what I mean, like up the movie's hero.
Speaker 1: Listen to the audience loves that character. I'm done with
Speaker 1: the shots, so I'm going straight to drink. He's quick times.
Speaker 1: We know the audience loves that character. He's one of
Speaker 1: the favorite He's one of the favorite character.
Speaker 3: Who's the body double running around?
Speaker 1: Oh man, you're run boy yeah boy key one key one,
Speaker 1: So one again, that wasn't a knock to freeway the
Speaker 1: main Yes, I'm.
Speaker 2: Six six right, so obviously you know, as I'm making
Speaker 2: a film, I'm on my knees and I have to
Speaker 2: play this character I've been through for twenty years.
Speaker 3: Pause.
Speaker 2: But when when we have to do full shots with
Speaker 2: them walking down the street or running whatever, I can
Speaker 2: be shuffling.
Speaker 7: So we had to get somebody just saw the double
Speaker 7: for that.
Speaker 3: It was funny. It was Hollywood shuffle. I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: your sucker.
Speaker 7: When she's fighting inside.
Speaker 1: The yeah was fighting in the bar. And then they
Speaker 1: showed the white dude with the mustard. Yeah, okay, right,
Speaker 1: that's fire.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We we paid homage to We tip our hat to
Speaker 1: all ab out o G's in this movie. To barbershop
Speaker 1: scene is reminiscent of Coming to America, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, the coming to I'm going to get you sucker,
Speaker 1: energy crush groove. The scene with a little little young
Speaker 1: Rasco New Jack City right the open Jack City is
Speaker 1: opening is New Jack City.
Speaker 3: The drone person that caught that right away, that right
Speaker 3: away midst of course that's the way it works.
Speaker 2: Just wait and I come back after the draft, and
Speaker 2: I risked, I risked it off of that drone shot
Speaker 2: them drone shots. I flew to New York with my
Speaker 2: drone and I went down to Brooklyn where you can't
Speaker 2: shoot no drones in New York City, none of that.
Speaker 2: And I flew it like flewid Yeah, I flew all
Speaker 2: over the city. And when I was landing in the drone,
Speaker 2: the FBI was right there. Way as I was landing
Speaker 2: in the drone, they tracked the drone down and it
Speaker 2: came up to me.
Speaker 3: It was like what are you doing? You know?
Speaker 2: You can't you know, And I tried to act like
Speaker 2: a tourist. I was like I do know what I
Speaker 2: was working. Yeah, And it was like Luckily I talked
Speaker 2: myself out of it, and they took all my drone
Speaker 2: information down, the cereal codes and all of that, and
Speaker 2: it was like, look, you can never fly just we
Speaker 2: was gonna shoot your drone down if we were about
Speaker 2: to shoot it there, you.
Speaker 3: Can't fly drone. Can't say you something.
Speaker 1: Then be places I'll be at and there'll be drones
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 7: So no, no, no tell you.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you if you if you go to
Speaker 2: places like that in the airports and you see drones,
Speaker 2: there's a drone hack that can tap into for your
Speaker 2: drone for dj I that will unlock certain areas that
Speaker 2: you can.
Speaker 3: Still fly in.
Speaker 7: So if there's a map that we have on it,
Speaker 7: on it, that's a map.
Speaker 2: That is when it's a big red circle, it's nothing
Speaker 2: in there can be your dron won't even take off.
Speaker 2: They'll be like, you can't take But if you is
Speaker 2: that act that allows you to bypass some of them,
Speaker 2: you know, some places. But this is a dumbo Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: You're saying I started them to shoot, but I was
Speaker 2: lying in Manhattan.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, man, So yeah, you was on your bed lane.
Speaker 3: Ship you gotta relax. Oh yes, was one by any
Speaker 3: means necessary to get it done? Everything great, agreed, Ship down,
Speaker 3: I would agree. Get it out of.
Speaker 1: There pays to a lot of a lot of our
Speaker 1: favorite films, including Fade the Black.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Like we just blended all
Speaker 6: these these these elements together. And that's where Tony came
Speaker 6: in with that scene. You had Google, let me ask
Speaker 6: you do you do you?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Why why why didn't you hit young Ghoul to
Speaker 3: play Young Gul? I hit Goo Goo is busy Goo
Speaker 3: is a college professor.
Speaker 1: All of the things, man, Because some of these characters,
Speaker 1: I felt like war was available.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like he hit drink Champs and they were not.
Speaker 3: So you gotta understand it too.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm spending my own money, right, and we got
Speaker 6: to work within a certain window when we have everybody available, right,
Speaker 6: I can't chase people down. I can't wait for one
Speaker 6: person type of dun. We gotta just we gotta go,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So it was a lot
Speaker 6: of that too. But I mean, look, everybody, I would
Speaker 6: say about ninety of the whole movie was my first choice.
Speaker 1: Was it was people that I saw that I wanted
Speaker 1: in these in these roles.
Speaker 6: I always saw Cedric as Biggie always because he's, first
Speaker 6: of all, he's one of the greatest comedians, I mean,
Speaker 6: of our generation.
Speaker 1: But to play the Biggie role, me and him playing
Speaker 1: off of each other is did he do something to
Speaker 1: make his voice that way, like something specifically. No, he
Speaker 1: just that was naturally he was able to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. He just came in.
Speaker 2: We had had for thirty minutes for said he was
Speaker 2: coming off doing his TV. Came from the dress already
Speaker 2: dressed adady. We had everything lit ready, just like how
Speaker 2: you guys have him.
Speaker 3: We sat down and it was like we walked about
Speaker 3: it just I could see this. I can see as
Speaker 3: you said, I see it.
Speaker 6: So it's me doing the Biggie voice on the track
Speaker 6: on the rat but the credits yeah yeah yeah, but
Speaker 6: now he did that, that's all him.
Speaker 5: And then Biggie and Jay talking about Brooklyn's funds.
Speaker 3: It's hilarious yea. And then you made your fade. You
Speaker 3: made your fade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got hair and makeup team, man, Karon, your
Speaker 1: hair makeup team was that it was on it. You
Speaker 1: felt like you was really back in the day though,
Speaker 1: when you like each era felt right, like the Big
Speaker 1: Daddy main scene. Big Daddy came MC hammer, we hit
Speaker 1: Latifa Light.
Speaker 6: We we we wanted to make sure we we kept
Speaker 6: it as authentic as possible to make you feel like
Speaker 6: you was taking a journey throughout time.
Speaker 3: And is it true that you had MC light come
Speaker 3: in and we make the rect one.
Speaker 1: Not only is it true that we made the record,
Speaker 1: you were actually in the studio actually did it absolutely? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Yo Light is I know people throw around the word
Speaker 1: that's my big sis, that's my big bro.
Speaker 3: She's really big cists like she really looks out. She's
Speaker 3: a heart of goal.
Speaker 6: And she's just very supportive, like whatever I need it
Speaker 6: she was like, no, you if you need that song,
Speaker 6: I figure out how we can make it work and
Speaker 6: shout out to my man Focus who redid the beat
Speaker 6: a big record big so he replayed.
Speaker 3: Everything live and it sounds just like the original ship.
Speaker 1: So she said it, but but it's different. The only
Speaker 1: difference is like a hip hop story at the beginning.
Speaker 3: I asked her to do because I think about it,
Speaker 3: She's one of the most iconic.
Speaker 5: Voices, and right now she's voicing everything, which is amazing, That's.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And her voice was already original, right and now she's
Speaker 1: voiced female.
Speaker 3: Samuel Jackson right now with the voice overs man with
Speaker 3: the voice you know how everything he doesn't do it
Speaker 3: as many voices. Mama, your min mama is mine.
Speaker 1: Because I was like, wait, what Samuel j Man was
Speaker 1: he got Capital one and some ship. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: was in your show to you hit him with the
Speaker 1: golf balls, Tiger Woods Wolde shout out to.
Speaker 2: All of the your shout out the light and the
Speaker 2: people who came in and lock at the end of
Speaker 2: the movie.
Speaker 3: That was.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, what the show that Charlie my show, and.
Speaker 5: They always I figured that's where it was, Yeah, did
Speaker 5: you guys ever having the script anything having to do
Speaker 5: with Park because I felt that that was the only
Speaker 5: one that might have made sense.
Speaker 2: To I got one more that I felt that hip
Speaker 2: hop is so big, there's so much story to telling
Speaker 2: him that you can't put it all in one ninety minute.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people also, got one more.
Speaker 6: Yeah, people that we can can insanely portray, because it's
Speaker 6: all kinds of people that would watch this movie, Like
Speaker 6: why they didn't do me?
Speaker 3: Grant Masters, isn't it? How Melly Mail?
Speaker 5: Isn't it?
Speaker 3: Who are ogs? They are the building blocks of this thing.
Speaker 6: But we wanted to make sure we could convincingly look
Speaker 6: like them, sound like them, and you know, just we
Speaker 6: just wanted to tell the story that we wanted to tell.
Speaker 6: But we're not trying to exclude anybody for any particular reason.
Speaker 6: It's just we have limited resources, and.
Speaker 1: Uh time, there was one character part eighteen.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of stories character.
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, why they ain't have that at
Speaker 1: this particular moment that's when you said hip hop is Dad?
Speaker 3: I felt like NAS should have been there at some
Speaker 3: point saying that. So it's funny, Well, shit, if I
Speaker 3: could have you, you can't blame us. This is the thing.
Speaker 1: Nas has always asked me to do an impression to him,
Speaker 1: because like, why how you ain't doing an impression me
Speaker 1: and I did the voiceover. I did a couple of
Speaker 1: cartoons with him and jay on on on I g
Speaker 1: and he heard that he was he was dying laughing
Speaker 1: at the ship.
Speaker 3: But Nas is a hard needed to get a hold of.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and again if we we we we gotta
Speaker 1: shoot within this window because think about.
Speaker 6: A movie, right. We have to rent the location. It
Speaker 6: all has to be available when we need it. But
Speaker 6: we have to rent the cameras, we have to pay
Speaker 6: the crew, we gotta feed people. It's so mainly Union.
Speaker 6: You were saying, I saw at the end of the
Speaker 6: second dot every every t and so yeah, we don't
Speaker 6: we Unfortunately, we can't just wait for whoever.
Speaker 3: What did you reach out to him for this?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I never saw Nas in it. No, I mean I
Speaker 1: saw a version of Nas in it where it said
Speaker 1: hip hop is over. Like maybe for one second you
Speaker 1: could have had to have move part on. I don't
Speaker 1: think I would pay it, guys, to be able to
Speaker 1: be to portray him on if you.
Speaker 3: Know you like sir, That don't mean I look like you,
Speaker 3: but you made it work. You made it work. Your
Speaker 3: makeup team what's their name again?
Speaker 6: Again favorite, the audience goes up for the Drake was
Speaker 6: again shout out the focus man. He was like it
Speaker 6: was in the studio, he said, y'all want to break
Speaker 6: the beat down right here? He did that ship, He
Speaker 6: played that R and B ship. He made that s
Speaker 6: in like three minutes. Wow, but it was perfect And
Speaker 6: the audience goes nuts every time.
Speaker 3: That's part imagine that. So how do you guys feel? Man?
Speaker 1: Man, we we're on a cloud right now for so
Speaker 1: not just because I'm contact high, but yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: giving probably yeah, give him a shot just because.
Speaker 2: Just like a full circle moment, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: when you work so hard to try to get to
Speaker 2: this point to let the world see your vision and
Speaker 2: your content and the stuff you want to do, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean?
Speaker 7: So if it feels you know, we don't fly out
Speaker 7: nine right and we.
Speaker 6: And we did a movie with our friends, like I
Speaker 6: was able to work with my guys like this is
Speaker 6: my guy, Jevin Smith, that's my dude, Charlie Mack that's big, bro.
Speaker 6: Charlie is the connector. He makes every call that we need,
Speaker 6: and he's positioning us. Honestly, he's positioning us on some
Speaker 6: will Smith shit I love, on some Martin Lawren shit.
Speaker 6: Like he's really trying to make sure he grooms us
Speaker 6: for the success that we've worked hard for, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean.
Speaker 3: And so we're always.
Speaker 1: Around those caliber of people or that caliber of people
Speaker 1: because of Charlie, and we're able to like just have
Speaker 1: to ask questions and talk to them about the movie
Speaker 1: making business.
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. When Charlie hit me, I said,
Speaker 3: did we do something wrong? He speak to you? I'm like,
Speaker 3: what the fuck did we say? What did we want
Speaker 3: to say?
Speaker 4: What said?
Speaker 1: When Charlie hit me, I was like listen, because you
Speaker 1: know Chris Rock said drink Champs called him a bitch.
Speaker 1: I said, I ain't got that was a lot drink
Speaker 1: Champs never called Chris Rock, I mean Willisonier bitch. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I told Charlie to call you all. That's what Chris
Speaker 1: Rock said on the special. By the way, we love
Speaker 1: the shout out. It just we didn't say that. No
Speaker 1: club who said that. I told Charlie to call you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because again me and you talk random hours. But just
Speaker 1: tell you you don't always answer my call when I
Speaker 1: tell you how. Let me tell you how gangster Charlie is.
Speaker 1: We're coming back from Leo cons Flex ship. We got
Speaker 1: the private plane Flex the grad Man.
Speaker 3: That was the most hip hop plane. That was the
Speaker 3: most hip hop. And I saw you that night.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there, Charlie. The only niggas film body don't
Speaker 1: say ship niggas like man, that's that's Charlie Man. That's
Speaker 1: Charlie man. Man trying to get up on anybody here.
Speaker 1: He's he's trying to document the motherfucking moment. And nobody said,
Speaker 1: I've never seen this before in my life, like nobody.
Speaker 3: He didn't care. He was just he was just filming
Speaker 3: every moment. Charlie was rock taking the ship. That's kind.
Speaker 5: And I do.
Speaker 1: That's what I said. This nigga is super, super super,
Speaker 1: by the way, been for years, been for years, such
Speaker 1: a great guy. God damn it.
Speaker 3: We don't know if he want to be on camera
Speaker 3: or not. We don't know. You don't know, pup, you
Speaker 3: can pull up, yeah, come on if you want to
Speaker 3: come on. Pull up, pull up. We got chairs. We're
Speaker 3: gonna make it.
Speaker 7: We're gonna make it happen.
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 3: He definitely need a little chair. He needs a big chere.
Speaker 4: Chair.
Speaker 3: What's happening? What's going on?
Speaker 1: Going on?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: Listen man, Noriyah, yeah you you you Yes, they say
Speaker 4: life imitates art, that we was on the true soul plane.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah, that was the true song plane. That like
Speaker 4: the moments, you know what I mean, you know they're
Speaker 4: gonna be created. But that was a moment in the sky.
Speaker 4: It was so badful, beautiful.
Speaker 3: She didn't know.
Speaker 4: I sure didn't know. Yes, people was on the plane,
Speaker 4: was gonna be on the plane. I think it was
Speaker 4: just me and Leora. It was like you fly on
Speaker 4: the paneky, cool, let's go. I'm like, Nori, yes, Eric sermon,
Speaker 4: it was that was That was when I say a moment.
Speaker 4: I had many moments, but that was a moment. Listen, listen,
Speaker 4: red MANA. Jeff was from the video in the air. Yes,
Speaker 4: but we're sitting.
Speaker 3: I believe it was Kane who who d J making.
Speaker 3: I think you know he was the DP. He was
Speaker 3: the DP. He was camera. Okay, he's holding the camera
Speaker 3: holding the cameras kicking.
Speaker 1: Pree that was kicking might have been playing with DJ okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm just sitting there.
Speaker 3: This was a great hip hop moment.
Speaker 1: So you know, Lee all gets a lot of slack
Speaker 1: from certain people in certain areas, and I wanted to big.
Speaker 3: I love Lee, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So so so okay, you guys got the script. What
Speaker 1: makes y'all say me bring Charlie mack in Charlie's hip hop? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Charlie hip hop. He's always been like a big brother
Speaker 1: to me. I mean we again, how yeah, I'm so
Speaker 1: connected through no comedy club. He was at the Laugh
Speaker 1: Factory in Hollywood. I said, what's up to him? At
Speaker 1: the time, he didn't know who I was. So when
Speaker 1: I sugar his hand, he kept the lockout, like you know,
Speaker 1: he the giant.
Speaker 5: He gave.
Speaker 4: And uh, bro your brother and every since don't love
Speaker 4: you right, so you can't bring people in you.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: But then a couple of weeks after that, he reached
Speaker 1: out because d J d Reck from Wilding Out Out
Speaker 1: Shout Out to Direct.
Speaker 3: He reached out and said.
Speaker 1: Charlie might want to get ahold of you for his
Speaker 1: party for Peace Weekends in Philly.
Speaker 3: So I ended up going out to maybe six of those.
Speaker 4: Everyone that I had every weekend I have, yeah, and uh,
Speaker 4: that's real weekend in party for Peace Weekend.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: He had everybody out there and the first one was
Speaker 1: like Will and Jada was there, t Sha Campbell to
Speaker 1: Sheena Arnold.
Speaker 3: Everybody was one hundred celebrities over a three day weekend.
Speaker 1: Run run like it was ridiculous. But it was through
Speaker 1: that that, you know, we were just able to connect
Speaker 1: and just you know, outside of the industry and just
Speaker 1: have real conversations. And we just created a friendship and
Speaker 1: a brotherhood and I respect him. We literally could talk
Speaker 1: about whatever and and so that's that's how I gauged
Speaker 1: my industry relationships.
Speaker 6: I don't like users. I don't like people that want
Speaker 6: to use me to get to somebody else. So the
Speaker 6: fact that we can talk about whatever, and this is
Speaker 6: the first time we've done bus together, That's that's how
Speaker 6: real our friendship is. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 6: he's he's brought me around the Will camp and all
Speaker 6: that kind of stuff, and most people clamor for that, right,
Speaker 6: But I've never asked him. He always reaches out to
Speaker 6: me and says, yo, man, come to this premiere, come
Speaker 6: to whatever this event. But I don't ask Charlie for anything.
Speaker 6: This is the first time that I was like, Yo, Charlie,
Speaker 6: we got this movie that I think you'd be interested in.
Speaker 3: And once he listen after you filmed a Pride to
Speaker 3: you film prior?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, because he was on set for every every day,
Speaker 6: especially the first half of what we shot. Charlie was
Speaker 6: there and because he experienced a lot of this stuff,
Speaker 6: he was there for it.
Speaker 1: It was nostalgia for him. He was on set like
Speaker 1: a kid, and the kid he stought. His camera was out,
Speaker 1: his phone.
Speaker 3: Was out, and he was documenting everything, like said ship like.
Speaker 2: He was my dialogue coach for all the freeway throway
Speaker 2: stuff I did, and he was doing everything.
Speaker 3: Every line.
Speaker 2: Make sure you sound like making sure you can't say John,
Speaker 2: you gotta say John, you gotta say you.
Speaker 3: Young bull that stuff.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Radio could I was, I was saying radio. He said
Speaker 2: you got that radio. You got to like the way
Speaker 2: he was radio.
Speaker 3: So you know it was authentic Phillys. Yeah, man, And
Speaker 3: one of my early Will Smith's spoofs. He plays Charlie Mack.
Speaker 1: We did a Hancocks bool for years when Hancock.
Speaker 3: First came out, and at the end of it, I
Speaker 3: had him step in and do.
Speaker 6: Charlie Mack impression and then that's their connection out, know
Speaker 6: what I mean, He's like young, young Charlie.
Speaker 3: I'm cracking up. Yeah, definitely cracking up.
Speaker 1: Sure, So I mean Charlie because you know, because we
Speaker 1: want to tell the people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, your story as well.
Speaker 4: Hey man, you say you can write a book, and
Speaker 4: fortunately enough I did write a book. So I want
Speaker 4: to come back. You know, I made but again, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. My story started nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 4: what you know was being a street team.
Speaker 3: I was doing that for my uncle.
Speaker 4: Started a label called April Records in nineteen seventy eight. Wow,
Speaker 4: I was like a street team a cat for m
Speaker 4: fourteen years old. That was kind of what actually hit me.
Speaker 4: I did that in a house party and I was bit.
Speaker 4: I was like entertainment because I wanted to I wanted
Speaker 4: to play basketball.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: Doctor J of course was in Philadelphia, me saying doctor J.
Speaker 4: I used to hang out with the Sixers. So all
Speaker 4: those moments you see there was clips. I was in
Speaker 4: the sixers, you know, at the spectrum seeing them. So
Speaker 4: for me, I thought it was basketball. But I seen
Speaker 4: I'm saying hip hop y figures. Hip Hop's nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 4: I'm eight years old now, I mean when hip hop
Speaker 4: was born, you know what I mean. So for me,
Speaker 4: it was like a love affair. And I said, I
Speaker 4: could never let down. Then then the opportunity to come
Speaker 4: from music, and he did R and B, but I signed.
Speaker 4: I signed the first rapper to the label. His name
Speaker 4: was Georgeous George. We did a record called cabbage Patch Fact.
Speaker 4: I remember the cabbage Patch Cames Up, came out, and
Speaker 4: I did a rooker called cabbage Patch Scratch. And that
Speaker 4: was like what actually got me into it. Because everybody
Speaker 4: thinks as Will and Jeff. It wasn't Will and Jeff.
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
Speaker 4: I I had already been in the business from seventy
Speaker 4: eight if my brother didn't come out to eighty six
Speaker 4: eighty seven.
Speaker 3: So I was already in the Yeah. So I was
Speaker 3: already in it. But I have a book coming. Who
Speaker 3: is Charlie Mack dot dot dot Mister Phillipia, Come on,
Speaker 3: let's make the first down, hope have me back.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you one more question. Philadelphia seems
Speaker 1: like a wow wow place.
Speaker 3: Like now. I don't know if it's always.
Speaker 1: Been like this. I mean since I've visited it, I've
Speaker 1: only been famous twenty five years.
Speaker 4: Only been famous twenty five years. Yea, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 4: think it realized twenty five years ago.
Speaker 1: And I've never known Philly for not being like a
Speaker 1: little bit like crazy. Has it always been like this?
Speaker 4: Because I think I think everything is heightened today, Okay,
Speaker 4: we heightened, like you know what I mean, Like he.
Speaker 3: Was saying earlier, like yeah, like you're saying filmed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what Will says the whole time, you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: racism didn't change, It just got filmed, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. So I think the thing about is which
Speaker 4: is unfortunately because the drill rap I didn't realize it
Speaker 4: was basically like you kill rap, right, they actually talkalking
Speaker 4: about how they're going to kill you.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 4: So I think everybody do things for clipbait, clickbait, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. But again, you know in the
Speaker 4: movie they say, actually cut they get something, go home, Raby,
Speaker 4: don't go home.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? When they when you murder somebody.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: And then that little kid, that little kid is going
Speaker 4: to the penitentiary, you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 4: think the thing about it is they don't think about
Speaker 4: it after the fact. They think about in the moment,
Speaker 4: and they want fames so bad that they willing to
Speaker 4: do whatever. That's the unfortunate thing. So, no, fell Off,
Speaker 4: You wasn't like that When I grew up. Violence was there,
Speaker 4: it just wasn't as prevalent as as today.
Speaker 1: That was one of the things that I wanted you
Speaker 1: to kind of focus on just a little more, was
Speaker 1: the young rap now of how they really murder killed
Speaker 1: rap right, Like it's really like, it's really like that now,
Speaker 1: Like what is it called drill?
Speaker 3: What you just said I just talked about doing. It's
Speaker 3: talked about.
Speaker 1: But what that characters that character, the young the young
Speaker 1: character that flex dropped the bombs one googie?
Speaker 3: Yeah, who who was he based on? Nobody?
Speaker 1: He's based on generations. Yeah, he's based on the generation.
Speaker 1: He's based on lazy rap.
Speaker 6: So it's not necessarily he's a representation of lazy raps.
Speaker 6: So it's not even necessarily young versus old. Because I
Speaker 6: say it all the time, there was garbage niggas in
Speaker 6: the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 3: Two you know what I mean. Yeah, so he represents
Speaker 3: lazy because his whole song is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah right, and most people would say yeah,
Speaker 1: which first in this year is good.
Speaker 3: One. We just flipped what's popular now what's dope? Now?
Speaker 3: We would have never let certain things slide and assume
Speaker 3: that that's an Uzi verb jab. But it's not like
Speaker 3: Uzi is my guy, like some people.
Speaker 1: I was some people thinking it's Uzi and some people
Speaker 1: thinking it's twenty one because of the nah the thing
Speaker 1: in the middle. I wasn't even thinking about twenty one.
Speaker 1: That's funny. But no, I used Uzzi's the tempo of
Speaker 1: his beat because that was a popular song. And it
Speaker 1: takes this now because then he goes like yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: But then the dude in the when they're watching the
Speaker 5: video in the store, the TV in the store, the
Speaker 5: kids dancing, Yeah.
Speaker 1: But it leaves over for a sequel to right, and
Speaker 1: it also leaves over flects to respond because I sincerely,
Speaker 1: one million percent believe that funk Flex has never took Paola.
Speaker 1: It's never what took Paola. I'm just being honest again,
Speaker 1: Never I know it's a comedy. I know it's a comedy,
Speaker 1: but he might watch this and be like, you know,
Speaker 1: as a as a DJ, Like I'm just let me
Speaker 1: ask you. Yeah, like I know it's comedy, like somebody,
Speaker 1: but if somebody says yo, I paid, yeah, yeah, of
Speaker 1: course I'm gonna get on drinks pay yeah. Because the
Speaker 1: way that people perceive things. Yeah, And I'm telling you
Speaker 1: from what I know, everything I know, Funk Flexes never
Speaker 1: took money from no one.
Speaker 3: I promised that.
Speaker 6: I believe again from what I know, the movie Salt
Speaker 6: and people don't really work in Dina right right, influence work.
Speaker 3: Is not a school teacher. But let me just be
Speaker 3: advocate because.
Speaker 1: Part it's something that he's been accused of before.
Speaker 3: I don't know that. Yeah, so I could. I don't
Speaker 3: know that I can take all DJs have been. It's
Speaker 3: a radio thing. I used to be a radio DJ
Speaker 3: and Charlotte but so yeah, that's what that even that
Speaker 3: term because not even says Polo anymore.
Speaker 1: I know that term because exactly people let's say dream Champs.
Speaker 1: You cannot platform that that gets things out. People are like,
Speaker 1: if they don't get it becomes a conspiracy. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: by no means do we really believe or are we accusing?
Speaker 1: It's a comedy. And this is why I keep saying people,
Speaker 1: I want the freedom to be able to write now again.
Speaker 1: He has the right to feel whatever he want to feel,
Speaker 1: if he feels a way. I don't think he does,
Speaker 1: but because I'm spoken to him.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I don't think
Speaker 3: he's done anything.
Speaker 1: He's just he just happened to be the relevant djail
Speaker 1: that I could, that I could use as a character.
Speaker 7: To make the point in the movie. But think about it,
Speaker 7: I don't think he will.
Speaker 1: But I think he's so engaged with like his haters
Speaker 1: and the people who don't like him, very engaged, very engaged,
Speaker 1: with a little bit tightened, so they will come back him.
Speaker 3: And then he'll might be like, man, why would these
Speaker 3: guys do that? And then he'll if you're watching, there's
Speaker 3: no you. I'm a fan.
Speaker 4: I supposed to. I called him up, I spoke to him. Okay,
Speaker 4: he said, whatever you need from me, yes, okay. That's
Speaker 4: what I think about.
Speaker 2: When was the last comedy that opened up this type
Speaker 2: of dog conversation about the whole post?
Speaker 3: And that's why hopefully not hip hop. You know, you
Speaker 3: know what, you know what?
Speaker 1: And this is just me being the devil's advocate advocate, right.
Speaker 1: I think Flex would have played himself. I think Joe
Speaker 1: Waddens would have played itself. I think whoever, I think
Speaker 1: most people would have played itself.
Speaker 3: What you need at the time, you.
Speaker 7: Don't love you? Yeah, yeah, you would have been funny,
Speaker 7: you know, a version of.
Speaker 3: Nord to come on like because he's already so.
Speaker 4: Characterstice you and then well you gotta play him.
Speaker 3: You gotta, you know what I mean, maybe.
Speaker 1: Have some approach on you, and you would have added
Speaker 1: more credibility to the old hip hop of it all.
Speaker 3: And it was me to me.
Speaker 1: I apologize because I was I was busy. I really
Speaker 1: wish I was a part of this. But even with
Speaker 1: us not being a part of I looked at this movie.
Speaker 1: I saw so I said by coming out. Hold On,
Speaker 1: hold on, I said, I saw no flaws in this,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I watched it and I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a comedy guy, contrary part of belief. I
Speaker 1: love music and everything, but you ain't coming to my
Speaker 1: house listening to music.
Speaker 3: You come into my crib.
Speaker 1: I got motherfucking living color playing Seinfeld.
Speaker 3: Kirbyan, You've always shown me that respect.
Speaker 5: Dave.
Speaker 1: We first met like you love like Yo, you a
Speaker 1: bad comedy so I know you you rock with the
Speaker 1: with comedy world.
Speaker 3: You know, I live and.
Speaker 1: Breathe comedy maybe more than I live and brief hip
Speaker 1: hop because hip hop is just it just comes to me.
Speaker 1: But comedy, I gotta want to feel that moment. I
Speaker 1: gotta be wanting to be like, yo, you know what,
Speaker 1: let me let me go laugh.
Speaker 3: It's a release, Yeah, it's a release. He's a release.
Speaker 1: But do you feel like this is a movie that
Speaker 1: you would watch over and over like classic and stuff?
Speaker 3: I feel like you might miss what you want to watch.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to the boy I did this. I
Speaker 3: watched it for this interview. Other than that, I would
Speaker 3: have went to the movie.
Speaker 1: Did for sure, Like I swear to god, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't say it like that, but I'm flying to
Speaker 1: a movie to go see this.
Speaker 3: This is what happened. Damian John, Damon John, you know
Speaker 3: you know up everybody.
Speaker 1: So he said to me, they'll come come watch the
Speaker 1: premier of Bob Marley and I was like, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: some flash.
Speaker 3: We spoke to you when you were down Flash.
Speaker 7: So I came.
Speaker 3: I went, I watched not even the premier. He didn't
Speaker 3: even do it.
Speaker 1: I didn't even make it to the permier. He did
Speaker 1: a private screening of it, and I went to it,
Speaker 1: but I said, I felt like I'm not supporting the family.
Speaker 1: So I went and I went to see it on
Speaker 1: my own. And that's exactly how I feel about this movie.
Speaker 1: It's like, as much as we're here when we're doing it,
Speaker 1: and like we're helping each other, but it's like, I
Speaker 1: gotta go to the movie. So I don't know where
Speaker 1: the ship is playing out in Florida, but I'm driving
Speaker 1: the ship.
Speaker 3: It's still in the Miami.
Speaker 4: This we in Miami, and you want that, you want
Speaker 4: the experience of the theater. We ain't saying ship go Thursday.
Speaker 3: You're popping out drink Champs Avage people to the movies.
Speaker 3: Where'd you go? Let's get this stre drink Champs screen.
Speaker 3: I'm in, I'm in. Yeah, I do about the.
Speaker 2: Can I give a quick full circle moment real quickly? Okay,
Speaker 2: So I'm working at Rockefeller the camera man only I
Speaker 2: never did anything in the film business like that. Besides
Speaker 2: filming people. Chlodi B says, hey, I want you to
Speaker 2: go to the studio because he's there working on the
Speaker 2: album or project. I go to the studio studio, I
Speaker 2: meet you there, you on in there and the music
Speaker 2: comes on and the first thing I hear was if.
Speaker 7: I'm a nigga again and some nigga he was doing
Speaker 7: with p d Krack.
Speaker 3: That's a classic.
Speaker 2: And I met you and I said, hey, man, I'm
Speaker 2: an upcoming writer, filmmaker, all of this stuff, and I
Speaker 2: just want to get some knowledge. He looked at me
Speaker 2: and he says, Yo, I'm making I want to make
Speaker 2: a movie. And you're the first person that let me
Speaker 2: write a script for you for the first time.
Speaker 3: We're going because I remember, I mean, I remember gas,
Speaker 3: I remember the gas. Remember I'm not about that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you look extra cold. It's just.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you don't see me sweating? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you a hole you with.
Speaker 3: Telling me I'm going.
Speaker 1: Drake sniggers because I begging you would feel this, because
Speaker 1: this this is my love of boys.
Speaker 3: This is Drake's exclusive night escort. I've been waiting for this.
Speaker 1: We show. Wherever did you I said, you know, I
Speaker 1: know y'all don't go to karate class. You Drake d
Speaker 1: j en Vy, y'all want of the same karate late
Speaker 1: street class.
Speaker 8: I know that, I know that.
Speaker 7: I heard it.
Speaker 1: I'm in a little bit. I'm on the other side
Speaker 1: of Luminadi. I'm the brownskin version. Charlie has seen some things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll kick your head straight off. Yeah, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: he can.
Speaker 3: I know, I know.
Speaker 7: I've seen him in a many pocket yard.
Speaker 3: I know it's going down. I'm peaceful man. And you
Speaker 3: like Bruce Lee Love, that's a teacher.
Speaker 1: So you be fucking with Bruce Lee moves? What do
Speaker 1: you What do you doing boost leak class when you're
Speaker 1: win ship out of a nigga? Because I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I heard you say you don't want to fight at all.
Speaker 1: Now I also heard you say you would like to
Speaker 1: kick people's head off. So I'm confused.
Speaker 6: I have the ability to kick people's heads, but I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but I don't. Yeah, I'm not at all.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, I'm the guy who's gonna talk my
Speaker 1: way out of some ship at first.
Speaker 3: That's what a kick ass. I don't want to fight you, right,
Speaker 3: I'm about to get your head kicked off and keep
Speaker 3: your head in turn the person who is trying to
Speaker 3: stop a fight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I get anxious when that that beef starts. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 6: this is about to happen.
Speaker 3: This is really But as long as you're talking, I'm
Speaker 3: not in any danger.
Speaker 1: The only time you're in danger is when a nigga
Speaker 1: is either pulling out something or if the fist is
Speaker 1: coming right towards your head or your face.
Speaker 6: You can say whatever you want from over there, right,
Speaker 6: I'd be like, word, no doubt. Look you mean the
Speaker 6: guy told y'all they being like rappers.
Speaker 3: Look that wasn't mean.
Speaker 1: You know, I ain't that I'm funny, but I ain't
Speaker 1: on you. God damn it, I'm not good guy. So
Speaker 1: so Charlie Mack you here man, Oh damn, here it comes,
Speaker 1: here it comes. Somebody told me said they was like,
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful. I'm like, so tell me the tome.
Speaker 1: He said, Besna, he's gonna slotted in there.
Speaker 4: But I remember, I remember, I remember the moment I came.
Speaker 4: When I first came, I went in two minutes, you thought, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like whoa, I'm like noriay where's the love? You know,
Speaker 3: I just love.
Speaker 7: It is love.
Speaker 1: But you're a legend, and I honestly think you were
Speaker 1: there that night. So the way you answer it, you
Speaker 1: can answer it.
Speaker 7: The way you want to know.
Speaker 1: You're going with it, so you you don't have you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, love love, Everybody get a moment.
Speaker 3: You want to say, but go ahead.
Speaker 1: Call we love, we want, we want will all heead
Speaker 1: we love Chris, and we love Chris absolutely.
Speaker 3: But what did you think when you saw that?
Speaker 10: Come on, why are you bringing up it already happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not even just saying that it really is love.
Speaker 4: But everybody get a moment in their life. Everybody get
Speaker 4: a moment.
Speaker 3: Like I was talking. He was talking to not name.
Speaker 3: He was with Martin on the beach yesterday out here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was saying that we would say, everybody get
Speaker 4: a moment. He said, I had a few, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, And so everybody had the moment missing
Speaker 4: human human, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's just what it is.
Speaker 4: It was just a uh, very unfortunately situation in time.
Speaker 3: But you move on from you, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: You listen, you have you go through with your own family.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it's the same thing I said about the
Speaker 6: comedians beefing is it was a moment that shouldn't have
Speaker 6: happened in the public.
Speaker 3: Guy, you know, but this ship happens. Learning. You move on,
Speaker 3: you know, learn and move on. I love you.
Speaker 7: My question is if we do do a sequel, you're
Speaker 7: gonna be available to be next one.
Speaker 3: I want to be there. Let me do, let me
Speaker 3: know we do came this suggest. I suggest good when
Speaker 3: you get your word, because you give us some work. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I think this, This is what I suggest.
Speaker 3: You start us now.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna we're gonna do three different scenes. We're
Speaker 1: gonna come with We're gonna come with different changes the
Speaker 1: outfits because we know how to cheat the camera, right right,
Speaker 1: three different If you want five, we can go five.
Speaker 3: Okay, you just want to drink that much?
Speaker 1: And then we're gonna no, no, no, We're gonna change
Speaker 1: do different scenes.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I want to interview money.
Speaker 3: He has nothing to do with hip hop.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but but that's that's what's going to make
Speaker 1: it funny. It's like, Yo, you want to fight fory Mayweather.
Speaker 3: Do you know you shouldn't, right?
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the movie.
Speaker 1: Let me let me get more shot, get more shots,
Speaker 1: let me get one more shot.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say we're going to interview drink Champs. Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna interview drink No, no, no, no, no, no
Speaker 1: one of the characters. We can't interview whole because you
Speaker 1: did you see Vince Staples. Just do it out there
Speaker 1: that drink Champs was on jay Z drunk? You think
Speaker 1: about drink Champs. Yeah, you want to take.
Speaker 3: A shot for the jay Z on drink chants. You
Speaker 3: really want jay Z on drink Champ. No, I really
Speaker 3: want you to show me how you feel like he
Speaker 3: would be. What what are you asking him? What are
Speaker 3: you asking Jason? Get him drunk? Oh, you want to
Speaker 3: get him drunk?
Speaker 7: So act like.
Speaker 3: Not regular jay Z? Can you do drunk jay Z
Speaker 3: on drinkings?
Speaker 1: And now he asked me to act? No acting, You
Speaker 1: asked me to act, okay, because you know we got
Speaker 1: the space. If he would be here, these will all
Speaker 1: be gone. That idea is limited.
Speaker 3: He knows that we know that idea is not making
Speaker 3: it back. He's thinking about his video game. So we
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 1: He knows that idea we've we've hung out for six
Speaker 1: hours drinking this and Japanese whisky and it was fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, uh what was the song when Jay Niles and Cali? Oh?
Speaker 5: I love that? H not?
Speaker 1: God did He's whiskey on the measin.
Speaker 3: That saw the video. I talked to you because that's
Speaker 3: how I started drinking. And now it was like, y'all
Speaker 3: like that I heard that verse Japanese.
Speaker 1: It's like, y'all got to go in the booth my ship,
Speaker 1: through my ship. I gotta call prect.
Speaker 3: It with the Japanese whiskey line. He was like, y'all
Speaker 3: Japanese whiskey. Yeah, get some flashy with the so like
Speaker 3: this f.
Speaker 1: Who he just dropped the wraps on Okay, recently, I
Speaker 1: don't know how this is got rather than to this conversation.
Speaker 3: Oh he's still drunk. I don't know if you noticed.
Speaker 3: I sold it up a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, drink.
Speaker 3: This is what we do.
Speaker 7: We navigating, Yeah, navigate.
Speaker 1: So next movie, Tyler Perry comes to y'all. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: saying Tyler Perry teller. I mean that we're taking the
Speaker 1: budget right. If Tyler Perry comes, right, Tyler Perry comes
Speaker 1: and says, whatever y'all want.
Speaker 3: What's my next check? What's the next movie y'all want
Speaker 3: to do? Cut the check? What what movie are y'all picking?
Speaker 1: I don't want to say what what the next movie?
Speaker 1: But we know what the next movie is.
Speaker 3: We want to do. But can you give us a
Speaker 3: giving us something? You said action? You did serious your movie? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, well and other movies as well, Like I see
Speaker 6: myself alongside the Mark Wahlbergs, the Will Smiths.
Speaker 3: I have that range, and I want to do the unexpected.
Speaker 1: You know, most people know me for being an animated comedian,
Speaker 1: but what I showed in this in this hip hop
Speaker 1: story was I actually have acting range as well.
Speaker 6: He has acting range. He's a director. We're both producers.
Speaker 6: So this isn't something that's just like a viral movie
Speaker 6: or its Internet level. We're like, nah, we really are
Speaker 6: Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan's Stephen Stephen Cable junior type
Speaker 6: type energy, like we're really filmmakers from.
Speaker 3: On screen from behind. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. I
Speaker 3: see it, be honest it again. I see it and
Speaker 3: I believe it. Clap it up for that.
Speaker 1: I guess it's easier for me to see it and
Speaker 1: believe it because of how y'all see it and believe
Speaker 1: in yourselves.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but we're talking about Michael Bay, Jerry Brookheimer level
Speaker 6: stuff like that's those are the people that.
Speaker 3: We admire, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: We admire big films, big action, high octane type of stuff,
Speaker 6: even on the TV side.
Speaker 3: Bruce Lee's daughter did Warrior, which.
Speaker 1: Was a concept that Bruce Lee made back in seventy four,
Speaker 1: not seventy four, sorry, he died in seventy three, but
Speaker 1: he made He had this treatment that he wrote and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't Hollywood wouldn't let him start it because they
Speaker 1: told him that Asian people wouldn't be able to lead.
Speaker 3: Projects.
Speaker 6: And she found the treatment and her and Justin Lynn
Speaker 6: partnered up and Warrior is incredible. I'm talking about the action,
Speaker 6: the camera work, everything about the writing.
Speaker 3: So I'm on that shit.
Speaker 6: He's on that shit, Like, we're not just hip hop
Speaker 6: comedy movie makers.
Speaker 3: This is just, you know, something very close to our hearts,
Speaker 3: and we could really do that too.
Speaker 6: The fact that we wrote bars in the voices of
Speaker 6: all these different iconic mcs was us saying no, we
Speaker 6: we actually are of the culture. But we're actors too.
Speaker 6: This isn't just an impersonation. We're acting as these people
Speaker 6: so that you really believe you're listening to a Joe
Speaker 6: Burden verse on that song, or free Way verse or
Speaker 6: a Drake verse.
Speaker 1: So whoever, whoever, we we imitate. E forty too short
Speaker 1: like what he was great, crazy that JEFFN. Smith crazy, But.
Speaker 2: Not only that, I just want to also just give
Speaker 2: my brother also flowers because his pen game is crazy,
Speaker 2: from his script pen game to his rap ping game
Speaker 2: is crazy.
Speaker 7: So I just got to give him his flowers.
Speaker 3: Put this right movie. Yeah, you're gonna finish it the
Speaker 3: whole time. Thank you, brother.
Speaker 2: He led me as a friend. He could have got
Speaker 2: anybody to direct this movie that he wrote for us
Speaker 2: a long time ago, but he put his trust in
Speaker 2: me and this is my first feature that I got
Speaker 2: to direct, and he put his trust in me and
Speaker 2: his money and allow me to do that.
Speaker 7: So I'm grateful to my brother.
Speaker 1: Let me tell y'all something. We tell you something what
Speaker 1: I see again because we said it earlier. It's like, yo,
Speaker 1: why do we have to do other people's movie? But
Speaker 1: I have no better example than what I'm about to say.
Speaker 3: Right now. So I'm gonna say it, y'all can be
Speaker 3: like the Adam Sandon you know where they go and
Speaker 3: do movies with the same crew and friends. Man, they
Speaker 3: say appetite Adam, I told you loyal. I love that comedy.
Speaker 3: You know the seth Rogans.
Speaker 1: They hire the same exact people, the Adam Sadler's hiding.
Speaker 3: The same exact people. And some of them most of
Speaker 3: them are some of them are black people. But there's
Speaker 3: now they're all.
Speaker 1: But when you got the director, of the producer, the
Speaker 1: writer and everybody and you continue to do that, that
Speaker 1: ship is just so like, for lack of a better term, attractive.
Speaker 7: To me, we've been doing that.
Speaker 2: You go back to his sketch show that he had
Speaker 2: back and fix all of the people that in there,
Speaker 2: all the people out doing this movie friends make up.
Speaker 3: All of this. Wow, yeah, same hair and makeup.
Speaker 1: Keep the people we already been makeup and now the
Speaker 1: world is starting to me hair and making the I'm
Speaker 1: about to hire them. Oh yeah, well he called her own.
Speaker 1: She was my makeup artist on Wild and Out. That's
Speaker 1: where we met.
Speaker 6: She was Knicks makeup artists for a while, but when
Speaker 6: we were on sets, she told me and we did
Speaker 6: some sketches there. But that's when I learned that she
Speaker 6: does special effects makeup too, and she can really transform people.
Speaker 6: She turned me into eminem when I did the dream
Speaker 6: just on YouTube. But she really knows what she's doing.
Speaker 6: Her her partner Karen Rhodes on the hair, she really
Speaker 6: knew the errors.
Speaker 3: And anytime we told her what we needed or who
Speaker 3: we wanted to portray, they did the googles, They pulled
Speaker 3: up the the images went right to work, and they
Speaker 3: started sending me images of the wigs being cut on
Speaker 3: the dummy heads.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: They would send me photos of like mc lights wig
Speaker 1: and this wig and that wig, and it already was
Speaker 1: looking like the person on the win on the dummy.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, ship, wait until we get this
Speaker 1: wig on little Mama, Like it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: Shut a little moments light. I had to look at
Speaker 3: it three times. She was light. She embodied like light.
Speaker 7: Men.
Speaker 1: Right, No, listen, the whole movie is on the page,
Speaker 1: like I wrote that ship nigga, I'm nice ship.
Speaker 7: Game cheese.
Speaker 5: But when you were around Rockefeller, were you involved in
Speaker 5: any of the films that the Dane was doing, like
Speaker 5: paper Soldiers, or anything like that.
Speaker 7: Death of a Dynasty.
Speaker 3: Okay, I heard you.
Speaker 2: During that time because I was just filming, and I
Speaker 2: was filming all the behind the scenes stuff with with
Speaker 2: all of that.
Speaker 3: So I was around State property too.
Speaker 7: I was around there.
Speaker 2: I was around filming all the behind the scenes of that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so I was around. I was around for everything.
Speaker 2: I still have all of that footage, I like and
Speaker 2: hundreds of tape of the whole Rockefeller like era of
Speaker 2: that time filming. So, man, nobody's gonna ever see that,
Speaker 2: like the guy with with his uh with his footage,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. At some point, yeah, at
Speaker 2: some point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, when it makes sense absolute Sometimes it
Speaker 1: just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: Some things at.
Speaker 1: And did you ever think that Rockefeller will break up
Speaker 1: when you first came to them?
Speaker 7: No, I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 7: You know, nobody ever thought that. I just kind of
Speaker 7: came out of nowhere. But I was a fly on
Speaker 7: the wall.
Speaker 3: How did you get man?
Speaker 7: I was filming the Harlem Shakers.
Speaker 2: The Halem Shaker has just got real big in New York, right,
Speaker 2: So I'm filming these guys. Yeah, g WebStar. It was
Speaker 2: like the the guys who danced you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You used to dance in the Eve video and all
Speaker 2: these other videos. And then uh, I believe Tone Hooker,
Speaker 2: Tone Hooker and Claudi By they reached out to me
Speaker 2: because they saw the stuff that I was doing around
Speaker 2: the lock around the neighborhoods, and it was like, hey man,
Speaker 2: they need somebody to come travel with him and film
Speaker 2: all the Rockefeller stuff. And they just brought me to
Speaker 2: the office and I got there to day Dame looked
Speaker 2: at me, He's like, yo, I got the camera, he
Speaker 2: gave me, gave me the camera, gave me the equipment,
Speaker 2: and proceeded to snap on me for about the next
Speaker 2: three or four hours at Rockefeller. That was like my
Speaker 2: intro to the to the initiation to the family, and
Speaker 2: and I just traveled around with that's I got to
Speaker 2: meet you man and write my.
Speaker 7: First script and all that.
Speaker 3: But was you with them in France?
Speaker 11: No, I didn't go to France. I didn't go to France. Yeah,
Speaker 11: some other people win. So yeah, Charlie Mann, Yes, sir,
Speaker 11: what's our chances again?
Speaker 3: Will Smith? Oh, very very well, he's here, he's.
Speaker 4: Here, He's gonna come. I give you that, he's definitely
Speaker 4: gonna come. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: Now if we get Will Smith and Mark what the hell.
Speaker 4: Is that's even I think that's a possibility as well,
Speaker 4: you know, with them tonight.
Speaker 3: So let them know. You gotta come to I love
Speaker 3: the floor, I got it. I just want to give
Speaker 3: them their flowers.
Speaker 7: Man. But but.
Speaker 3: But it's right, it's right then they come up. You
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Culture? You know is the new
Speaker 3: marketing campaign.
Speaker 1: This is it.
Speaker 2: This is on the top of the marketing in the
Speaker 2: world that you can go to. But to express your art,
Speaker 2: get your projects.
Speaker 3: Out, got it?
Speaker 4: Well you gotta Will Martin, you gotta come over here
Speaker 4: and sit with he and Nor.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I god, damn man, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just that I'm smiling. I'm just being honest.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been happy this whole time.
Speaker 3: That's beautiful. Let me tell us, no, no, you go,
Speaker 3: it's not no.
Speaker 1: I wanted to piggyback off of what he was saying
Speaker 1: about me give give me my flowers. The reason why
Speaker 1: I didn't go to some other director in Hollywood is.
Speaker 6: Because this is my guy. Like we've been doing this
Speaker 6: ship YouTube. So I already know what we think of, Like, right,
Speaker 6: I wrote this movie for us, and he's a genius.
Speaker 6: He knows, he really knows like cameras and editing and
Speaker 6: like he's a special effects guy. He does all kinds
Speaker 6: of shit. So I want to rewrite the narrative. Like
Speaker 6: Hollywood loves to hire the same people. They go to
Speaker 6: the same people over and over and over, and I
Speaker 6: think at some point those people hit their ceiling. They
Speaker 6: don't you know what I mean, Like they hit a wall,
Speaker 6: Like the creativity is not as great as it could
Speaker 6: be because they they're oversaturated. That he getting called So
Speaker 6: why not go to somebody who you know personally and
Speaker 6: give them the shot to become the next big director?
Speaker 3: Why not? And why not take that journey together?
Speaker 6: And I mean it shows on the screen like everything
Speaker 6: that we did worked really well together, from the writing
Speaker 6: to the directing to the casting.
Speaker 3: Friend, it's Tim's story, right, yeah, I mean it's my guy.
Speaker 4: But I could have been like, man, let me get story,
Speaker 4: but no.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tim story. Definitely.
Speaker 1: He read the script two years ago, but it's before
Speaker 1: the whole Kevin Hart movies and all that stuff. And
Speaker 1: but yeah, at the time, he was still looking to
Speaker 1: get his big movie. Malcolm Lee wanted to do it,
Speaker 1: but he was busy, he was doing other things. But
Speaker 1: it was meant to happen right now, you know, Hip
Speaker 1: Hop fifty.
Speaker 5: I think it should be said though, and that it's
Speaker 5: not just because people are your friends, it's because you.
Speaker 3: You trust that they have the skills to thousands.
Speaker 5: Even like when we're talking about Adam Sandler, the people
Speaker 5: they're funny. It's funny for what he's trying to accomplish.
Speaker 5: It's not just what he has, the skill sets that
Speaker 5: he has. And you're right, I was.
Speaker 3: I was more than willing, thank you.
Speaker 6: I was more than willing to put my money up
Speaker 6: and invest in him right the same way I'm willing
Speaker 6: to invest to me with your focus absolutely.
Speaker 1: So what we gotta do is, I'm just throw this
Speaker 1: out there. Besides the gas station movie, we gotta do
Speaker 1: a handball movie.
Speaker 5: Oh what you already have the I guess the pilot
Speaker 5: demo for the movie A handball Handball.
Speaker 3: You gotta listen because they did. They did Dollgeball. So
Speaker 3: it's not let's look at it.
Speaker 4: I'm just we can never know we're listening. But don't
Speaker 4: get don't get all the Jews handball. Don't get away
Speaker 4: all the Jews on there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, I grew up playing.
Speaker 3: I mean we need you got to show them the footage.
Speaker 1: We did, Like I even got like a like a
Speaker 1: handball baseball card picture, Like well, I'm like.
Speaker 3: When do we film that. We filmed that like in
Speaker 3: early two thousand. We did. Yeah, the footage is terrible
Speaker 3: now in terms.
Speaker 5: Of like the quality, the idea, the ideas there and
Speaker 5: there's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because yeah yeah yeah, and it's two things
Speaker 1: that's like hood handball and Bayes what I said, stickball,
Speaker 1: stickball and handball. It's very hood and you we do
Speaker 1: a handble we let yeah yeah, yeah, we go in
Speaker 1: the hood with the hood, play the hood in the hood,
Speaker 1: the hood and everything is good and everything is good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean playing. Yes, molested and there was double
Speaker 3: jall is in there, y'all, Like you gotta relax, by
Speaker 3: the way, there was no molester in that bar in
Speaker 3: at birth. Yeah you said that the whole time. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: I heard Court just said Court just after.
Speaker 8: What I heard.
Speaker 4: High.
Speaker 7: I'm like, so relaxed.
Speaker 3: How was it that the Rockefeller days it was great
Speaker 3: changed my life.
Speaker 7: It was the first obviously, this is the second thing
Speaker 7: that changed my life.
Speaker 2: That was the first introduction of just being around the
Speaker 2: people that imed forever and being a hip hop you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, seeing those guys. So it was
Speaker 2: a great experience, you know what I mean. It was
Speaker 2: just dope traveling the world and all of that fun stuff.
Speaker 7: It was just dope. Never I've never, I don't know
Speaker 7: any error. It's my favorite era of hip hop to me.
Speaker 3: So you don't got these other people's stories. It was.
Speaker 2: I was just the camera man me too, I said,
Speaker 2: I said h in, and I shot everything.
Speaker 3: That's it. Well, my whole Rockefella days was great.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: It was great. Alloise to Rockefeller. We guys signed Rockefella
Speaker 3: listens the manager to.
Speaker 1: I got a question for you. Yes, let me let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. When I keep studying you, your
Speaker 1: memory is too good. You remember everybody where you know them,
Speaker 1: from where you know them at, and the time you
Speaker 1: met them.
Speaker 3: Facts.
Speaker 1: So what are you about to say? I'm scared of
Speaker 1: that something. You know what I'm about to ask you.
Speaker 1: It's a legendary cipher DMX to your Mexican cannabis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they was jumping clue if you felt what
Speaker 1: I thought they was jumping me how.
Speaker 3: Because they knew each other? How you know them? I
Speaker 3: want to make sure what sighte were you talking about
Speaker 3: that when you was on that was? It was a clue?
Speaker 3: Who's a FlexE on the radio? On the radio? Yeah,
Speaker 3: wasn't it? Who was it was?
Speaker 1: There's a couple of if you know, you know, you
Speaker 1: tell me bringing this ship up and checking me this whole.
Speaker 3: Let me finish that motherfucker.
Speaker 1: He wanted too much, you had too much, too much
Speaker 1: more Because I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready to answer.
Speaker 6: No, you're you're a part of a legendary cipher with
Speaker 6: I'm part of a couple of a few.
Speaker 3: But that was my favorite one.
Speaker 1: I might have the the second best posse record, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe the third best problem TV from TV in the world.
Speaker 3: Was no one ever even realized I am got hooked? Yeah,
Speaker 3: So can I ask my question? I thought you finished? No? No, no, Like,
Speaker 3: how was that that energy for you? Like?
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that cipher? You cannabis and
Speaker 1: DMX going back and forth, Like that's that's a legendary joint.
Speaker 1: It traveled the world, and I don't know if you understand, Okay,
Speaker 1: the impact of that cipher.
Speaker 3: I feel like we're confusing a couple of different ciphers. Zoe,
Speaker 3: and you heard about that. It was cannabis and DMX
Speaker 3: cannabis MX seven.
Speaker 1: Okay, funk Flex, I'm the hottest dude in the world,
Speaker 1: but guess what SO is cannabis?
Speaker 3: So is DMX.
Speaker 1: I went up there and all I remember was funk
Speaker 1: Flex mowing it but not telling me. He's promoting it,
Speaker 1: and Pun hitting me immediately like, Yo, let's I'm coming
Speaker 1: up there, And I was just like what because I
Speaker 1: didn't know what I was walking into. It was two
Speaker 1: way days, so I walked in. I didn't know cannabis
Speaker 1: or DMX.
Speaker 3: Just legendary that Pun hits you about it is legendary.
Speaker 1: He was listening to Hot ninety seven, like back then
Speaker 1: that was our We didn't have links, right, we didn't
Speaker 1: have my Space, we didn't have such and us. So
Speaker 1: Pun knew what I was walking into before I knew when.
Speaker 3: I walked into it, and he was like, yo, tell
Speaker 3: Flex to let me up. And as the time, I
Speaker 3: don't think either. I didn't know cannabis or X, and
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: They rhymed, and when they rhymed at first, they gave
Speaker 1: each other five and I ain't like, like the fuck
Speaker 1: so you felt away from the door, you felt like
Speaker 1: I didn't, not from the door. I felt the way
Speaker 1: after the rhymes was spits right after the round spit,
Speaker 1: they like, it's like you and your comedia on me, like, yo,
Speaker 1: your finished your boom. But I'm like, damn, there's three
Speaker 1: of us, let's hit O the night cool. So I
Speaker 1: keep going in pun Is calling me, flexus calling me.
Speaker 1: And that's when me and d m X became friends,
Speaker 1: right because me and d m X and cannabis and cannabis, damn,
Speaker 1: because we gotta we got a big cannabis, then we.
Speaker 3: Gotta have cannabis.
Speaker 7: We gotta have cannabis, can cannabis.
Speaker 1: There's so many fake rumors of that's not whining cannabis
Speaker 1: on this fucking show, this fucking retardet. You gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta have them, you gotta have cannabis on all right.
Speaker 1: But listen, this is why I even brought it up.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's one of those ciphers that me and
Speaker 6: my boys listened to over and over and what was
Speaker 6: more impressive because I didn't grow up in New York, right,
Speaker 6: so I didn't hear all of the different stretch Armstrong
Speaker 6: and you know what I mean, all of those those ciphers.
Speaker 6: I heard about them later legendaries. This is what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: Like to hear guys that are already.
Speaker 1: On top, like superheroes are wrap three guys that aren't
Speaker 1: a group that are trading the mic. Yeah, like for
Speaker 1: John and Niggas rhyming for like forty five minutes to
Speaker 1: an hour, like it was crazy. It was something crazy,
Speaker 1: But I just had to bring it up because I
Speaker 1: don't know if you understand how how iconic that moment was.
Speaker 1: And they were really like the freshman class of that era. No,
Speaker 1: that is the freshman class. You look at the sort
Speaker 1: we're all on there. That's the reason why pun so
Speaker 1: mad that he can, Yeah, that he wanted to. That's
Speaker 1: that's me. You know, he hit me because he knew
Speaker 1: I didn't know the MX or Cannabis.
Speaker 3: He knew I didn't know. I think him and him
Speaker 3: and Cannabis kind of had that look because there was
Speaker 3: that other cipher happened most.
Speaker 1: Definitely that already had now had already happened, already got
Speaker 1: in my opinion, if you know, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, memory service serves me, right, But.
Speaker 1: One that was hitting me and it was like, I
Speaker 1: remember it's two way pages and he was like, let
Speaker 1: me upstairs.
Speaker 3: I wanted to be a two on two and I'm
Speaker 3: like and I was like, well, I didn't realize that
Speaker 3: he was saying that, like you know, cannabis and DMX
Speaker 3: know each other.
Speaker 1: And you don't know neither. And then eventually we did
Speaker 1: this sauce cover together with all of us.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, what you think is the
Speaker 3: precursor to the freshman eventually XL. That's what you said, precursor. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you felt like that was the first is it?
Speaker 1: That's no, it's no the way look at it, like
Speaker 1: we all got Google now, like we all got it now,
Speaker 1: like we all got it. Like I felt like I
Speaker 1: was exclusive when I had Google, Like we all got
Speaker 1: it now, Like it's yeah, you can Google. The first
Speaker 1: time you've seen artists on the first cover together, right,
Speaker 1: like the new artists of that era, new artist of
Speaker 1: that era, the DMX corrupt Cameron.
Speaker 3: And that was Elliot Wilson. Mean, that's a mean.
Speaker 1: Class, right, who did that cover? You gotta act has
Speaker 1: That's not my part of the job. If you were,
Speaker 1: but no, I brought I brought that up because I
Speaker 1: just want to know if you felt the if you
Speaker 1: felt how iconic that was, if you feel it the
Speaker 1: same way we were listening to it, if you felt
Speaker 1: like you was a part of a moment that was
Speaker 1: like really big in history. It's like me being on
Speaker 1: Deaf Comedy jam Right, I was on there, Jamie Fox
Speaker 1: was hosting me and Corey Hulkam on the same show.
Speaker 6: And now to see where we are? So now did
Speaker 6: you know it and looking back on it now? Yeah,
Speaker 6: but you didn't know it in the moment. No, you
Speaker 6: don't know it in the moment, but now I do.
Speaker 6: Now I'm looking at that ship like y'all is a
Speaker 6: part of something so okay.
Speaker 5: So now you can look back at those moments now
Speaker 5: living moments. Do you say to yourself now, in a moment,
Speaker 5: this is a moment because you know you didn't never
Speaker 5: look like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we have the experience of the moments. That's
Speaker 3: a great question. Some moments.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the last few hours, right, yeah, right, right,
Speaker 4: they had some moments. We created moments and they had
Speaker 4: some moments.
Speaker 3: But yeah, natively we have and it's of youth, you know,
Speaker 3: like we don't know. You're just living. You're just doing
Speaker 3: it you just like I did. That was legendary.
Speaker 5: Now you can kind of live in that moment and
Speaker 5: enjoy it more experienced looking back saying Okay, now I
Speaker 5: know what I was like, what I wasn't thinking about
Speaker 5: back then?
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, I don't smoke. I just had to try.
Speaker 3: I know, I feel like he's gonna be in the moment.
Speaker 3: I don't know in this moment now, I just feel
Speaker 3: like he's gonna be in the moment. I was saluting you,
Speaker 3: is what I was doing.
Speaker 6: You you wanted the icons of rat Man stopped playing,
Speaker 6: and uh, you know, we all know about your records
Speaker 6: and your platinum hits and your.
Speaker 3: But but the ciphers though, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I'm crazy. Also, when at.
Speaker 1: I was sowing a couple more, I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about it. You know, why leave that in the path?
Speaker 1: Oh look that's the cover right there.
Speaker 3: That's the cover right there. Oh yeah, who's the who's
Speaker 3: the editor on that one?
Speaker 7: Y'all?
Speaker 3: Engineery man high.
Speaker 1: I have to just text Elliott and ask him, bare,
Speaker 1: we don't know we're talking about with Benzino that I
Speaker 1: think we're talking.
Speaker 8: He didn't know neither. He was high as hell. That's
Speaker 8: my son, Ellie, it is my son. Tell me, don't
Speaker 8: I just I just remember that part.
Speaker 3: He's like, Yo, that's my son. I raised him on
Speaker 3: the magazine Kids in that episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it's a it's a it's a polarizing episode
Speaker 1: for sure, to say the least. But then I don't
Speaker 1: know what means it means a polarizing You can love
Speaker 1: it plarizing, though it just means that it's so like
Speaker 1: you have to pay attention, you have to pay for
Speaker 1: more reasons than one.
Speaker 3: Of course he has. He has a point when when
Speaker 3: when he was on the top, he took so many people.
Speaker 5: And he actually comes from a genuine place of caring
Speaker 5: about the culture, regardless whether you agree how he talks
Speaker 5: about it or what he does. But you could tell
Speaker 5: like he genuinely cares.
Speaker 6: Like I said, I appreciated the honesty. The more innebriated
Speaker 6: he got, what he was saying was spot the funk on,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So look, everybody's gonna have
Speaker 6: a moment and you know, we we clown for that
Speaker 6: kind of shit, and me being a comedian, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: find some the funny in it. But at the end
Speaker 6: of the day, he's a man that was very successful.
Speaker 6: He's a black man that was very successful, and we
Speaker 6: we definitely part of what the movie is trying to say.
Speaker 1: Also, we tear each other down so fucking fast. We
Speaker 1: can't wait to tear motherfuckers down when the person is
Speaker 1: going down any any.
Speaker 5: Point, get at any point because they're like, oh, nobody
Speaker 5: knows them but me, and then you make it to
Speaker 5: a certain level.
Speaker 3: I don't like that.
Speaker 6: But here's the thing about it is the people that
Speaker 6: are tearing celebrities down. If they had to walk in
Speaker 6: their celebrities shoes one day and have thirty people scrutinizing
Speaker 6: them telling them, dang shit, you whack, you whack as
Speaker 6: fuck that last thing you put together to them, it's
Speaker 6: a thing to you as the artist. It's a song
Speaker 6: that you sat on the right with a producer and
Speaker 6: there's layers of instruments. It's a full composition, and in
Speaker 6: one click of a button, these niggas could be like, oh,
Speaker 6: that's just whack yeah, right, that's just trash right, we
Speaker 6: sold so when he was when Benzino was on here
Speaker 6: crying and doing all that, I felt that nigg is pain.
Speaker 3: I felt the years of I'm tired of this sh I'm.
Speaker 6: Tired of acting like the tough nigga. I'm tired of being,
Speaker 6: you know, on the defense. I'm tired of people talking
Speaker 6: shit about me, my daughter, my business, my magazine.
Speaker 3: This nigga really built a successful company.
Speaker 6: Sure, we all got our flaws, but it's like, at
Speaker 6: what point do we start looking at each other and
Speaker 6: being like, man, that motherfucker really did something great and.
Speaker 3: Just leave it at that.
Speaker 6: Keep our opinions to you know, we're gonna talk shit
Speaker 6: at the crib or biber shop or whatever, but to
Speaker 6: go onto public platforms and to keep tearing each other down,
Speaker 6: We're gonna always be like a toilet, like that shit
Speaker 6: is just gonna always flush, and the shit just gonna
Speaker 6: keep going down, and there's never gonna be a moment
Speaker 6: where because other people don't do this, White people don't
Speaker 6: do this to each other.
Speaker 3: Only us. We tear each other down, and we wonder
Speaker 3: why we don't have shit.
Speaker 5: And one thing I'll say about Zeno that I think
Speaker 5: is kind of doing after it came out, is that
Speaker 5: he could have been someone that said, oh, you know,
Speaker 5: like no fun drink chances for airing that, or or
Speaker 5: they edited the wrong way. He actually made Uh. He
Speaker 5: made an argument for why a man should be able
Speaker 5: to cry without any problem like that.
Speaker 3: That's what the human made.
Speaker 5: But I think it's note that he actually did because
Speaker 5: he's you know, it's an example for others, you know, like,
Speaker 5: so what I cried a real gangster christ type of ship.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: That's he buried his soul out here, you know, And
Speaker 6: I hope that whole you know, Yeah, I helped him
Speaker 6: and him stop beefing because.
Speaker 1: Just stop believe it. I believe it will because I
Speaker 1: think I think, I think vulnerability is actually being acception now,
Speaker 1: I think, like wrong right in between, when you keep
Speaker 1: it real to your truth, people are starting to accept
Speaker 1: that down and.
Speaker 3: I think that's cool. Let me ask you this, how
Speaker 3: did you come up with was that the lyric? Or
Speaker 3: was you just in the boot vibing? No? We know this, No,
Speaker 3: you know that's one of my favorite songs. But believe man,
Speaker 3: on the next play, I don't know where be back.
Speaker 3: Was that a difference? So to me, y'll pray for me,
Speaker 3: tell me that you'll worry for me. That's the original song,
Speaker 3: that little nigga, you know what I mean. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: that's that's gonna let you get away with that one.
Speaker 3: That's listen, listen, that's the original song, year one. Come on,
Speaker 3: I love you, let me see, let me get away
Speaker 3: with you, pempt call me in the morning about some
Speaker 3: random ship, right, Yo? Hey, what do you think about
Speaker 3: this this movie? I guess what they be knowing about
Speaker 3: it too. You be like, word, I don't like it?
Speaker 3: Don't you told me out there myself be calling you like,
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think this is right. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: know we be pow wow forself. That's right man, my brother, But.
Speaker 3: I just want to.
Speaker 1: Reiterate how happy, how proud I am what you brothers did.
Speaker 3: Came out there. You did your own money.
Speaker 1: But even in your own money, and even and even
Speaker 1: the biggest story, the biggest story is you're doing it
Speaker 1: on your own, even though that does.
Speaker 3: Relate to your own money.
Speaker 1: I understand that more, but you believe it in your
Speaker 1: own people and doing it on your own.
Speaker 3: And sometimes even your own people. Don't even mean your
Speaker 3: own people. It mean your own people. It mean people
Speaker 3: that's for you or with you.
Speaker 1: And I watched the movie Man and I soul was
Speaker 1: so proud because you taught the story. It was funny,
Speaker 1: but then you also taught a lesson m hm. And
Speaker 1: that to me is what hip hop was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: If a rapper biz markis one of them, that's the
Speaker 1: piece he talked about picking buggers the story each other,
Speaker 1: and at this point, who the fuck wants to crack
Speaker 1: about picking up.
Speaker 3: Daring?
Speaker 1: But I always witnessed that, and I always knew I
Speaker 1: wanted to do that in my own rhymes. So I
Speaker 1: always want to be funny in my own rhymes. I
Speaker 1: wanted to people. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it's like I said,
Speaker 1: stick a broom in your butt, tell you too. It
Speaker 1: was what the stick a broom in your but I
Speaker 1: never stuck a broom in no bitch butts, But fuck it,
Speaker 1: it sounded good.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: It's the truth of some DJ coute right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying that, and I'm saying that comedy and
Speaker 1: rat and even athletes and even actors kind of live
Speaker 1: the same fucking life. Like you can't have a day off.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of parallels. You can't have a day off.
Speaker 1: I know you can't have right there. I know you
Speaker 1: can't walk to McDonald's. You get a cappuccino. Excuse me, Starbucks.
Speaker 1: I like cappuccinos. Cappuccinos. They do rouble cappuccinos with oat milk.
Speaker 3: It's kind of fun ship. It's cut the fun, cutting
Speaker 3: the fire. I kind of like being the white people's section.
Speaker 3: But you can't go to there. They're gonna say to
Speaker 3: you something, nigga, take a picture.
Speaker 1: Of me, be funny, funny man. They're gonna like, if
Speaker 1: it's all people, they're gonna make you perform. Other all
Speaker 1: people make you perform. They'd be like you nigga, rat
Speaker 1: nigga through the whole, Like what, who the fuck you
Speaker 1: think our people fave. White people don't make us perform.
Speaker 1: But they like kind of like say, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna blowing up.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say ship, I gotta stop. But being
Speaker 1: famous might have been it might be the hardest thing ever.
Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is you have to
Speaker 3: always be fit, you always be on.
Speaker 1: I said, I hung with Dave the other day and
Speaker 1: he did something that was remarkable to me. It kind
Speaker 1: of like refused to be a celebrity.
Speaker 3: At that moment. People were coming up to him. He
Speaker 3: was like, hey, how you doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just kept in the indulgent in all conversations,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I had never seen that before.
Speaker 3: I was like, they all want to take a picture
Speaker 3: with them the whole No.
Speaker 6: I've been around him. We were we all had lunch,
Speaker 6: Me and most death a bunch of people and same thing.
Speaker 6: People is coming up to the table and they wanted
Speaker 6: to get photos and he has his moments where he's
Speaker 6: just like, no, thank you, I'm just hanging out with
Speaker 6: my friends. If you don't mind, I would not want
Speaker 6: to take a pace.
Speaker 3: Oh. He says. It's the most politeless way, very very classic.
Speaker 3: I didn't know. I didn't know how could do that,
Speaker 3: manage manage people's expectations of you, You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: You teach them how to treat you, how to absolutely
Speaker 3: to do that.
Speaker 1: But you're still right even if you're doing that, you're
Speaker 1: being polite because you still don't want to offend the person,
Speaker 1: as opposed to you being concerned about your own boundaries
Speaker 1: and your own peace. You know what I mean, You're
Speaker 1: still trying to placate the person as opposed to just
Speaker 1: holding yourself down, and you still feel like you got
Speaker 1: to be on even in the denial of the photo.
Speaker 3: Oh it was just me and his wife, Me and
Speaker 3: my wife at that moment, Like it was like he
Speaker 3: protected us.
Speaker 1: He knew what to say to the people that came
Speaker 1: around us, and I would not experienced and that I
Speaker 1: always I just fool all right, cool, like I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here with me pasta and ship. Let's go, let's take
Speaker 1: a picture. Like they knew you knew how to navigate
Speaker 1: this situation.
Speaker 3: Like hey, and I had never seen that. Dad never
Speaker 3: knew how to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say deny, yeah, celebrity, but just
Speaker 1: manage the situation.
Speaker 3: Manage the situation. And that was just so dope to me.
Speaker 12: And I had never s what about now you now
Speaker 12: that's what you're talking about. This just happened, so now
Speaker 12: you you tried to look, I hit it. I hit
Speaker 12: it with a different lot the other days.
Speaker 3: Lie, it was coming a lot. What did you tell him?
Speaker 3: Dude came up to me. It was like, oh man, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was like this, I'm on vacation. If they find
Speaker 3: out on my head, I can't get paid. Dude felt
Speaker 3: He was like, blow it up, just like dam. I
Speaker 3: was like, yo, man, I looked and it was it
Speaker 3: was ill because I looked around. I did it like
Speaker 3: a drug deal.
Speaker 1: Was like, yo, man, listen, man, you really got love
Speaker 1: for me because I don't take that picture. Don't take
Speaker 1: that picture. He was like, man, you that money And
Speaker 1: I felt so bad. You can continue to go out
Speaker 1: and go ahead. I went too far.
Speaker 3: How about you. I know you deny your celebrity. I'm good.
Speaker 1: That's why you stay. So tell us an awkward moment
Speaker 1: of your celebrity.
Speaker 3: I'm got an awkward moment. That's what a picture? I
Speaker 3: take a picture by Southwest. Somebody ain't step on your niggas.
Speaker 1: Listen this niggas, Frank, come on, talk about it, man,
Speaker 1: talk about what somebody stepped in your sneakers.
Speaker 3: One time you get back. I was like, hey, hey,
Speaker 3: I love you.
Speaker 1: Nobody annoy you, and you have no fan that annoys you.
Speaker 1: How would I know that my fans are ignoring me, annoyed, annoying,
Speaker 1: annoyed those people that are annoying, But yeah, you keep
Speaker 1: mad as if they're polite. My thing is, if you're polite,
Speaker 1: you come up. Can I please take a picture? Cool,
Speaker 1: I'm cool with any picture. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: Annoying and polite don't go together. Okay, So if they're polite,
Speaker 1: if they're annoying, no, if anybody disrespects me, no, that's
Speaker 1: when I ask no. No one never been annoying to you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they don't get a picture, they don't stay away
Speaker 1: from me. Give us a scenario.
Speaker 13: Yeah, drunk motherfucker? All right, cool, go that way and
Speaker 13: then call me later. Look you the listener guy here.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, Yo, man, this has been so fucking great.
Speaker 3: Don't being honest. I'm so happy that we established the
Speaker 3: Chinese established that man.
Speaker 7: Coming from North Carolina. He was the homie from Rocking
Speaker 7: from the gas Station, that.
Speaker 5: Bron Fens come out of the Flying.
Speaker 1: The Old gas Station movie. We're gonna continue. Absolutely, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do this. I don't know if I'm like being
Speaker 1: like every all my fucking money in there, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna find somebody to fund us.
Speaker 3: We're gonna. We're gonna Charlie, Charlie, We're talking.
Speaker 1: We getting we just we we established again will Smith
Speaker 1: and Martin at some point, at some point, at some point,
Speaker 1: at some point, at some point, not now. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk to them for you now again. Of course I've
Speaker 1: seen him a fat Joe the other day. Put me
Speaker 1: on FaceTime. You want to celebrate that.
Speaker 3: That's all we want to do about because because we
Speaker 3: don't drink, right, does he drink? He doesn't drink.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I can't speak for them in terms of whether he drinks.
Speaker 4: All right, cool, I don't drink. I've never drink with him.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but I mean you know he might take.
Speaker 3: A drink with you.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean a lot of people take you
Speaker 3: drinking me. That's what I'm saying. You know, you know
Speaker 3: a great guy, these three. That's what I said. We drink.
Speaker 3: You took a drinking me exactly, my friend, but you
Speaker 3: got drunk water.
Speaker 1: That'sen this the correct way. Proud of this movie. I'm
Speaker 1: staying by this movie. I respect this movie. I'm co
Speaker 1: sign this co sign your movement sign. Everything you're doing
Speaker 1: that ship is dope. I was so happy watching it.
Speaker 1: I was so happy watching you teaching a lesson. I
Speaker 1: was like, damn, because I knew where you were going.
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, and I know that anybody younger
Speaker 1: than me might not know, but they're going to understand
Speaker 1: and do that. If they understand and do that, it's
Speaker 1: still the same lesson rights, still the same lesson you understand.
Speaker 3: So I was like, ah, cool, I love it. So
Speaker 3: I want to give your flowers again. Congratulations man, Thank
Speaker 3: you man, you.
Speaker 1: We love you, man, and thank you for having you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You know this is truly an
Speaker 1: independent effort. Oh be independent too, Yeah, but that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 6: But y'all, y'all have such a platform that everybody knows
Speaker 6: who y'all are. Like, we know, we understand where we
Speaker 6: are right now, but as much as we're friends, you
Speaker 6: don't you still don't have to open your platform for me.
Speaker 3: To just come on and talk about my movie.
Speaker 6: So the fact that you saw this movie as import
Speaker 6: enough of a topic to be like, you know what,
Speaker 6: I want to give them the microphone. We don't take
Speaker 6: that lightly. So thank y'all for always, you know, showing up.
Speaker 6: Imagine y'all didn't get in the movie. We couldn't get
Speaker 6: your availability.
Speaker 1: I want to reiterate your flowers. No, even if we
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the movie, be about the movie.
Speaker 1: How important you are to this culture. Important y'all law
Speaker 1: to this culture, and y'all three conglomerates to get together.
Speaker 3: Of course, this was this was, this is meant to be,
Speaker 3: meant to be.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 3: Thank you, just take a yes.
Speaker 2: Indeed, shout out to your camera batteries too. For last,
Speaker 2: how y'all do this?
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