Club Shay Shay - Kountry Wayne Part 2

Episode Date: January 17, 2024

Kountry Wayne's episode takes unexpected turns, including heartfelt and honest moments about Kountry Wayne's mom's death and the dubious days of drug dealing with his dad. To top it all off, Kountry Wayne also calls out fellow comedians Jess Hilarious and Faizon Love; channeling the spirit of the one and only Katt Williams. It's a laughter-filled journey through the unique life and perspective of Kountry Wayne. #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is Michael Rapaport, and I have been professionally podcasting for 10 years. The podcast game has changed so much, and if you're looking for the most disruptive podcast in the world, then subscribe to the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast today. We're talking sports, politics, pop culture, entertainment, and anything that catches my attention. Listen to the I Am Rapaport Stereo Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Born in Millon, Georgia. It's funny that you're from a small town in Georgia.

I had 3,500 people. Millon, Georgia is actually smaller. We had two traffic lines. You guys have one. Had one at the time. I was reading in the census that you guys have lost people since 2020. Y'all you guys have one. Yeah had one at the time. I was reading in the census that you guys have lost people Since 2020 y'all y'all died by two other people. They what a down boy That time ain't no money ain't no jobs. No, there's no jobs in on Miller man So what was Miller growing up? What was Millen, Georgia like man? It was a small town. That's I had all them kids want no cable

We been we had nothing to do but hunch and millen is that place that ain't got nothing to do and people say everybody know everybody everybody talking about everybody and you're not getting out of there right ain't no ambitions you got a dream everybody gonna kill it so it was just man it was one of those places small town man and nothing was there you said small town nobody ever gets out but why would your mind not allow you to say that i'm not gonna get out why didn't you feel trapped i used to go to atlanta for the summer okay i had family in atlanta and my mom we stayed in atlanta for like three years when i was in elementary school okay so i used to see see one thing the city in the country

Both have their pros to it. Mm-hmm, you know I'm saying pros and cons The city moved too fast the country moves too slow But I was a combination of it together because me going both places because people caught a country slow It ain't a country slow. We just ain't got the information right a country boy grab on the song You ain't getting back from right now now i don't country boys now it's like when i grab on to this coming game i'm gonna get it because we just we we more appreciate it more like oh but me me going back and forth i was able to be like oh they swagging up here in the city somebody bring i used to bring my game back to the country so i think me being able to see that i always had the ambition because I seen people take off. And I seen how the Olympics changed Atlanta.

Yeah. I was standing there at the time like, man, so my brain would never let me just get stuck in the country. Did anybody, because a lot of times, like you said, when you are from a small town and you have big dreams, when no one else is from that town have ever gotten out and did something to what to the scale of what you're thinking it's easy for people to try to kill your dream man you ain't man stop they try to kill me in the dream man i like to die down there man listen man i had so much hate in that time my whole life i fought every year i fought like three or four times in school because when you

acting like the person who always got a dream and that confidence and they trying to kill it every day right and then when you do start making it it's a lot of hate man it's a lot of hate it's a lot of hate in them times that's why if you dodge if you make it out of country town that's why the hate now people give me it ain't nothing it's harder it's harder to make it from a country town because it's so big so everybody knows everybody country town because it's so everybody knows everybody. Everybody knows everybody. And it's so small, so you're going to get hate from people that you know. I hate the people that hate me that I don't know. It's cool.

Yeah. Because I don't know them. Exactly. But I see you every day, and I know you hating on me. You hating, boy. That hate. And Atlanta, they were sticking together. That's how artists was breaking.

Right. And that country, they witch it to a certain degree. But if you start acting like it's getting too big. Yeah, as long as we're on the too big yeah as long as we're on the same level as long as we're on the same level you poor i'm poor we cool we cool but if i start to get a little bit if i get 50 more than what you got oh yeah you think you better hate in that country listen here now the hate in the country is the strongest hate man i'm small times yeah come on man in school what type of kid was cut with Wayne yeah you know I had I was best dressed had the girls and cool you know saying but I was always I know how to make people laugh right you know

I pretty smart you know I knew how to get my way with my mouth you know in my mind right I was always that guy you know a lot of parents ain't like me like my my brother mama she ain't like me right my best friend mama they didn't like me being around their kids i'm gonna wake you up right man listen dog we got to figure out something like i was waking kids up so you know i was people just caught me grown you know i was just real man i seen the real but i was i had fun in school you know what i'm saying i mean did you go to school to learn or to get the women i already had the women so i went to school to politic i loved it was like a part of the me the school was like social media right you know what i'm

saying so it was like it was like a playground social i had fun you know you play sports and i like to laugh right you know it was like going it was like a big playground mm-hmm you know what I mean did you talk a lot in school were you a class clown would you can meet I was funny but I never was a clown right I just I asked a question to disrupt the class and I was always the guy who who disrupt the class but man I was on after y'all talked a lot did you I talked a lot I ain't never stopped you live in Savannah for a while I went to Savannah for like a month or two. How was that?

It was cool, man. My daddy had, he was talking to this teacher named Miss Parker, a nice white lady, man. But I had to get from up there because, man, they had so many fleas in the house. They had a dog, and my daddy act like he can't feel the fleas at first. Everybody act like they ain't feeling them. But one day, my daddy messing around, he walked around with no socks on. The fleas tore him up. So I had to get out of there. Them fleas at first everybody I like they ain't feeling them But one day my daddy mess around and walk around no socks on fleas tore him up So I had to get out of there no fleas ran me out of some now the reds are better But if people think roaches something but you get some fleas don't think getting your socks gonna pop them

Yeah, I thought my ankle was swole. It had knots on When did you? Learn to embrace your accent because you know we we rule south georgia yeah atlanta you know atlanta's the south yeah but we'll rule south georgia well when i went to savannah that's when they really started calling me country okay because they were like man you're from atlanta because atlanta and savannah was beefing so i was like man from no atlanta man because they were beefing and now bro we know you're from the eight no man i swear to god i ain't from atlanta right so but they was like man you don't man cuz they were beefing a knob bro. I know you from the 8th No, man, I swear to God I ain't from Atlanta. Right so but it was like man you don't sign you from the 8th But it's different so I was like hold up man. This asset is different, right? So I was embracing

I was like man even I came through the industry. I'm like everybody telling me man. You need to take a dollar a coaching change I'm like for what I'm gonna sound different than everybody when that country wayne speak you gonna know or this country wayne right there So I just knew it was different, you know know i just knew because a lot of people from atlanta but the way we talk so southern in that country you hear it in us i sound like an uncle like elijah that's how my uncle elijah sound you know uh so i just mean i was like i'm just gonna be me because it'd been the easiest thing i could do. When your mom passed, I think you were 11 years old. Was she sick for a period of time? Oh, man, she got sick in one week.

So it was a shock, man. I think that's what kind of made me not care about nothing because when mama died, it was like, and it was a shock. I'm like, man, the worst don't happen to me. So I always believe the worst can happen that's why I tell people to know who God is but the run of God you gotta know who the devil is right so you got to know the worst could happen so right she wasn't sick she got sick she got sick the day before my birthday the day of my birthday December 9th and she died December 14 so she didn't she got sick she said here was certain went to the

hospital they small town say it was a nerve in her neck she said ain't no died December 14th. So she just, she got sick. She said her head was hurting, went to the hospital. They small town, said there was a nerve in her neck. She said, there ain't no nerve. And we didn't have no car. She had nobody to take her to Augusta. The whole time when she said her head was hurting, she was bleeding the whole time. If she would've went to the hospital,

they would've saved her. But not having those resources in the country, man, they made a big mistake. And the guy who came to pick her up, when she finally called the police, I mean, 9-1-1, she finally called 9-1-1 to come pick her up. She was in the hallway of the house, and the ambulance came, and she was sitting like this. She said, my head hurt so bad, and he shook her.

And when he shook her, she went like that right there. And I was like, man, just that small time, lack of, they made a lot of little mistakes. But man, you know, when that happened, ever since then, my family, everybody tell me, even in a relationship, like, man, you just don't care about what it is. When that happens to you, man, that's it. That ain't nothing can make me, how you gonna make me mad? You know what I'm saying? I got all this money and everything

I can't get in my mama. Yeah, everybody want to bless their mama. So it's like Nothing really mattered after that. I was like man life I that's when I learned to find that laugh like damn why I can make people laugh when I won't but I'm there when I'm Making people laugh. I'm really entertaining myself, too. You know saying so that's what it was No, that was different up the sudden passing of your mom Do you think that's had an impact on how you deal with women? Yeah Definitely because you know a piece of you you would try to end it because you don't want nothing to end

But at the same time it affected me in a positive way. That's why I bless those women the way I bless them because my mama was same time it affected me in a positive way that's why i blessed those women the way i bless them because my mama was she was brokenhearted but she was broke too right and no no none of the father of the kids really stepped in like that my dad had helped when they on good terms right so that's when i broke that curse i'm like even if me and my baby mama ain't talking man i'm gonna at least i'm gonna send that paper i'm gonna make sure they straight and i ain't gonna just send it for the child you ain't gonna have to worry about, your car, even if you don't deserve it. Because God give me things I don't deserve.

Like people be asking for, God, give me what I deserve. Are you sure about that? Because you know what you did behind closed doors. So I ask for undeserving favor. So I treat people how I want God to treat me. And I've seen the different impact of how my kids raised because they appreciate me more because they watch how they mama They watch how you treat their mom, especially on boys You know it did have an impact on the way my children raised cuz now that my they don't have to worry about that

It ain't really too much stress by this world. We think it is but a person who be that's why I'm a celebrity We talking about money problems. They must forgot when you ain't got no money but i don't want to hear that right because when you ain't got no money and you got problems when you if you broken hard and broke at least when you're broken hard you got some money let me go shopping get it out of the way yeah well if you broken harder than broken i seen my mama this lady was stressed and when i see a woman stressed i get anxiety because let me at least try to relieve that part you know how people I let me smoke that weed let me try to give a little money you won't believe most time you give them a little money they think they be straight hmm some reason my head ain't

hurting on me right man is that money man my mama broke man when your mom passed was your dad was your dad incarcerated or was he around at the time? Nah, he was in town, you know, but he wasn't around when she passed. You know what I'm saying? He was around when she got sick when he was there. And he left. You know, she was laid in the bed for some days. You know what I'm saying?

So she got sick before my birthday. It was like December the 6th. And she stayed in the bed for a minute minute and she went to the hospital like December 10 and uh and she they pronounced it dead on December 14 well yeah so he really what really went around like that but he understand man like man ain't nobody could do at that point right you know I know I know everything will be okay man yeah when you lose your mama at that point cuz she was still my mama she felt warm to me I laid on her I get in trouble like she at that age she's oh she's a

rock see her up and it's like that get took away like man life is crazy you know like oh you seem to lose a sense of purpose but it seemed like you stayed focused because you're like yeah i lost my rock but i still see this on the horizon out there that i gotta get to yeah i try to become everything she wanted me to be okay because my mama was looking for a certain kind of man i used to her favorite movie was pretty woman i was like why she like that movie so much because she's seen a woman who was nothing to the world and this man who had everything seen something in this woman and that's what I realize now why that was why that was um her favorite movie and I think that's why I was attracted to a lot of women who who was in need because I'm like man I'm gonna bless y'all because the way you remember the end of the movie yes he told her I'm gonna put you in the apartment and um I'm not I'm gonna I won't be around

and but she she wanted him see I forgot that part she wanted him because I started putting women up and blessing them you good they're like I want you too that's not see that I ain't watched the whole movie but I realized man I became everything. My mama was in a flow. She seen in me. She seen me fight one time. Why you let him get on top of you? She seen me beg to play with this dude. She was looking through the mirror. She said why you begging him to play? She would not let me have any softness, any flaw. She was turning me into the man that she wanted because she know this world ain't perfect. Like she didn't want my daddy. She knew my daddy was in the streets hustling.

Well, God, at least drop this money off. Right. You hustling? I mean, if you hustling, why you ain't got and breaking no bread? You got planning. Well, you was out, yeah, but you went out last night. Man, damn that.

Pay this bill. When you come over here and lay up. Right. You can't lay up. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Come on, man. Right.

So, you sold drugs, if I'm not mistaken, your dad and your uncle. Yeah. So was that the family business? That was the family business. That's all we knew. That's all we knew how to sell drugs. I couldn't think of nothing else that I could do to make money. You know, I started learning about the club business and making money off the bar and stuff while I was selling drugs.

Right. But I had to I was selling drugs. Right. But I had to get me some paper. Right. You know, but I did have the idea that I'm going to use this money to do something, but I had to get the knowledge of it first. So were you guys the top dog in that small town? Yeah. And that wasn't even nothing to brag about because it was so easy. Right.

Because I was born the top dog. My mama was popular. My uncle was a popular drug dealer. My daddy was a big dope boy. Right. So from both sides of my family was a popular drug dealer my dad was a big dope boy right so from my both sides of my family was a popular best dress entertainers had fun so when i got out when i got out before i even started selling drugs everybody thought i was already selling them right because that's what that's what the family business and that's what we were known for in that time right so what's your craziest drug dealing story my crazy shoot man well one

time we like got killed by some Jamaicans because of my brother what happened this one we had quit selling drugs so I had quit so I'm working at Georgia Power but the whole time I'm looking for a plug I said this time when I come back and man I don't find some Jamaicans so I went and told my brother he was still hustling I said bro I got some Jamaicans man we're gonna buy some work from man we get out of that some Jamaicans man listen the whole time I seen that they was about to rob us my brother he was still hustling I said bro I got some Jamaican's man we're gonna buy some work from man we get out of that since you're making man listen the whole time I seen that they were about to rob us my brother wanted quick as me he see it's all like me we need to leave I said man can we go to the

bathroom I could they were like yeah go to the bathroom you know I'm saying so that's our brother let's go in the leaves oh bro you find the blow up me this hit me we better be like don't ramble, man. Yeah, we got enough. Them boys were talking, but they was trying to find the money. I left the money in the car. And they were like, so where the money? I said, my brother said, we got the money. I said, no, my uncle bring the money when we get drugs.

You know what I'm saying? But we ain't seen no drugs the whole time. Man, my brother was still trying to stay there. But let me tell you, weed must be for some people. Because my brother, they gave my brother some weed. He hit it he was like he looked around he's like oh yeah man i think we need to leave my own with my brother they said no we don't give y'all all the information y'all ain't leaving man i was like hey hey so them people the whole time they about to kill us but they let us go man and that was a crazy that's when i was selling that when i was selling

drugs i wasn't selling drugs but another time me and my daddy had bought some work and he used to test it out because he snort powder so he snorted powder you know i was like this dope ain't got no smell he's like yeah man i think they got us man he snorted him so he don't snort a few grams he's like damn man i said dog man we don't got got he said man i'm gonna call him in the morning man he called him the plug won't answer the phone he said in the morning i'm gonna call him going up there man they don't got it with some fake dope so i thought it's about three o'clock that morning he called me i answered the phone i said daddy what's up he's like hey son he said ain't nothing wrong with that dope he said he just sneak up on you late. He say, everything. He say, if I don't call you back in the morning, I'm in the hospital. So we thought we had a bad batch, but it ended up being, it was a real deal.

But we had a dope story for days. How you in the game and ain't got no stick? Because I ain't move like that. When I was a dope boy, I ain't move like a dope but that don't mean they not moving like that because the country wasn't that violent you know everybody had guns but I ain't have one because if you come to me get it you can have it but the way I was moving the way I was moving out there man right uh it was just a little different right you know what I'm saying so you had the trap house, I had a trap house when I first started.

Right. This time, I was selling weight. Right, okay. So I knew how to turn a brick into two and a half bricks. Right. So I was selling re-rock. You couldn't cook my dough. Right.

You know what I'm saying? So I was cutting it, so I was able to sell so much weight. The only thing I had to do was drop it off to people. Right. And they distributed it. You know what I'm saying? So I ain't had no black three or four people. Right.

So the people I had, I knew. You a kitchen man, too? Huh? You was in the kitchen people. So the people I had, I knew. You a kitchen man too? You was in the kitchen too? Yeah, I was in the kitchen. My daddy cooked better than me. I didn't know how to re-rock better than him. So I knew how to re-rock. My daddy cooked, you know what I'm saying?

He'll drop, you know what I'm saying, 28 grams, bring it back to 70. He was better than me at that. But the people I knew, and I would not deal with nobody else. I remember I had a dude who was selling dope too fast because I had to stop selling re-rock because somebody somebody came from Miami with some good dope and I noticed my dope had stopped selling because I had some bad dope I was like man why my dope ain't selling find out it was a dude from Miami had some crystal good coke so I had to start stop re-rocking my dope and sell raw so one week in three days i don't went through a brick and a half i'm like

hey man so i went to my partner i said boy i took him another quarter break i said boy you selling this pretty fast he said oh no i ain't selling this by myself he said boys from claxon too i said what i said them boys i said i said oh no tell them i ain't got none i ain't trying to be that type of drug dude right you know what i mean i ain't trying to take care of all the counties oh so i had to back up because I wasn't trying to be too big because I still wanted to get out. Because the feds coming now.

You get too big, the feds coming. You get too big in the wrong world. I was not trying to get, I was just trying to keep enough money to fund my dream

and pay my bills but at the same, I wasn't trying to get too big. Did the feds come in? Yeah, they came. They came where, they came and got my daddy because what had happened was he dealt with a dude the way he

was going to because he was on the run for like a year so we had to start getting dope kind of local so it's a dude he was getting dope from uh in a town close by and the dude in us do end up snitching on but during the process we on the phone make it move so they don't got him for one case but now they finding out about and i was country wane at the time yeah so the day i quit i quit man i quit and uh i got rid of all my dope the feds came to my house the next day and i always try to figure out how they knew to come but they already knew and um and my daddy they got him they had to turn himself in and when he was in there the da told him he said i he said don't think i don't know about your son but and um

he told he told the da my son is a comedian he ain't got nothing to do with this you know i'm saying my daddy kept my daddy kept it g he went and did his time because by that time i was country way into the world right you know i'm saying so you know that was that was country way into the world right, you know I'm saying so You know, that was that was a crazy journey, man. I mean basically he took that he took that here for you Not really But he do I told him stop going on there I've been stopped going I say ain't sending my money no more Okay I ain't something fish about to do yeah he kept going so he they want to knew about the whole situation had he done what you told him to that it was moving man that was like the Sun in the streets man right he was moving reckless man so the job so let me ask you a question you said you worked

at a southern southern company some of the. That's electric company, right? Yeah I was I was at the environmental part of okay. Mm-hmm. So so what was your what were you tasked to do? Oh, they call me double double zero cuz they say ain't no net So I suppose do little stuff like I was a laborer right, you know, and um, You know that job was good, right? Just, that child support just sent me back to the streets. You close to register, Georgia, too, right? With the chicken plant. Ain't there a chicken plant?

Oh, you talking about in class? Yeah, yeah. And Crowder's. I mean, you talking about Crowder's. I forgot where Crowder's at, man. Yeah. Steel Mold. Steel Mold.

That's exactly what Steel Mold. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but I used to work for the class uh the chicken portrait too called chicken i went out there tried to work one time i was got out the car and smelt that chicken i said i gone i turned right back around i couldn't take it i smelt that chicken i said i can't do it right i can't do it but yeah man i tried man i tried to work i tried a lot of things but you know hey man i'm just glad that's why I'm glad I'm here sometime when I lose money the casino

I black man after me selling drugs, you're not supposed to lose What's your game in the casino? What you like to play blackjack roulette crap Jack Blackjack. Mm-hmm. You good. I must not be It beat me way more than I beat it When you got your tax refund You got a nice look you you got a nice little grip? Yeah, I used to get back about $5, $6. And a small child like that? Oh, boy.

Aw, man. Man, you must don't know. You're King Willie, then. Yeah, you get back, boy. Boy, my baby mama used to get back $7, $8. And when I was hustling, I'm like, I need some of that. Yeah, because they claim it. You finna give me that if you won't ask me

for money all year. And they used to give me that. Well, I ain't gonna lie. Gina used to give me that money. She say that to this day. I'm the only one who used to give you my tax money.

Nobody didn't believe you. Hey. Gina used to give me that tax money, boy. Because I used to make, I used to tell everybody to give me their tax money because you finna,

so that way I could buy more dope. Because you feel like asking me for money all year. Right. Invest in the power. Right. You know what I mean? But yo, that tax money. Yo. That tax money. I feel like that's why I tell people when you get that tax money, man, you're supposed to you and your family members, man, should go get a chicken spot, man. Go get something.

Go start a business. Because that's what I should do. Invest in my parties. Every dollar I used to get, I always invested before I spent i spent i don't really spend money because you had a nightclub right yeah i had a nightclub but i was throwing parties before the night right i i want to never start it it's like hollywood i want to never try to come if i ain't already have a fan base right so i always move like that only reason i opened a nightclub because i already were throwing parties right i already had the clientele right so. So every business I start, man, you got to have leverage for something before.

Right. So, yeah. So I had the night club. So you had a little juke joint. You had a little hold. I had two. I had the spot and then I was throwing parties

at the spot and I got my own club the spot. So I had two. I was getting 50% of the money in this one and I opened my own. Right.

And them clubs were jumping. Yeah, those small towns ain't got no they ain't going nowhere but your club yeah no club was doing I was profiting like between both of them I was profiting like 21,000 profit I was making like 40 40 fifths but I was profiting like 21,000 20 20,000 dollars and up a month profit I'm talking about after I buy the liquor you know what I'm saying yeah everything pay everybody no clothes No clothes jump because you know the rent and everything. Why not? Yeah, I was only open on Saturdays. That's it I had you go online to Google

It's probably on YouTube my old Facebook I blame you if you at the spot you're hot if you ain't you're not you boy country wine man meet me at the spot And the whole time I'm the comedian going viral online.. So I still ain't trying to go to Hollywood. I'm using all these people. Hopefully, some more on drive. Right. But my club stayed packed because I was country way in the streets. Now, country way ain't online.

Right. So I'm in the club business. Man, I wasn't paying attention to the company. You still on the club back down? No, I got rid of them. Why? Because when I started touring with comedy, them guns. My brother called me one night. He said, I said, how everything work? I had to do the show in Auburn, Georgia. I was asleep. It was about

four o'clock in the morning. He said, everything good? I said, you got the money? He said, yeah, we made a bunch of money tonight. He said, just one other thing. Somebody got shot. I said, what? The helicopter out here right now. So the violence was, you know how them clubs get. When I was there, never had a problem. But when I used to leave, it used to get crazy. Wow. But yeah, and you know,

still get the alcohol, the fight. Listen, it's that pork. Let me tell you something. Alcohol bad, but it's a lady named Pam. Shout out to Miss Pam.

She started bringing sauce meat in the cup. Now what? The stuff in the cup, gunk? Yeah. I was watching her. that made them fight more than the liquor i say girl if you don't get this guy during pork out of here so that food and that and that alcohol yeah man and music that ain't a good combination no so you tried you tried to rap

before comedy that was your your whole thing you wanted to be a grown-up you want to be a rapper yeah i ain't want to be no then had the babies and you kind of put that on hold but the comedy thing how did the comedy thing come about because i started that rapping once i got my dope money now i'm in atlanta and this what happened with the comedy game uh i'm um dc on fly emmanuel hudson and philip hudson was doing a um a video called slide in the dm yeah and d DC was kind of new. He had like 200-something thousand followers. Right. And it was this girl, you know what I'm saying? I kind of had a crush on her name was Casey.

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Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. I ain't had told her yet. Right. Well, I was sitting here with dope boy. Nobody don't know who I am. DC walk up, she was like, you know, that's the comedian.

She said, that's DC on fly, they about to be stars. I'm like, hold up. Comedians got the juice now? I'm like, hold up, this dope stuff over. I could be funny. That's the gift God gave me. I'm out here trying to do everything else. So, man, I went back home and started doing them videos and I went viral in 30 days.

And after that, I started posting three videos a day. Within four months, five months, I had like a million followers and it ain't stopped since. What is it about, it seemed to be so appealing to young black men, the rap game. What is it so appealing? First of all, the rap game like the dope game. You know what I'm saying? But it's just, to be honest, people want that. They want that money.

Well, I wanted the money to come with it and I could flow. But most of the young generation, man, they want what come with that. Because the doctor got money, but they don't see the doctor's sauce. People want the sauce. And the rappers. They want the girls, the name, the notoriety. The notoriety. Because one thing about Satan, he do a good job of advertising.

So I tell people who even in the church or whatever, I'm likeall got advertised up good they're talking all day gonna get it man you gotta get a different suit man I'm suits flapping at the hill man you got to change it up right because the devil is doing a good job yeah we all know advertisement work absolutely so I just think the devil he people I tell people this man all the time man the devil is working harder than people who say they believe in god like i believe in god but i work hard to show them that you could get these women too right yeah you could get this drill you could get this money i do that because i'm competing with the nigga i gotta even i gotta i use my sons as a test i had to compete with them my sons would listen when i first got back around them they would listen to a lot of that rap music

crazy but when they got back around me and they seen a daddy hold up the women ain't going nowhere she was Danny got a rose rose daddy got that money and he he know right it I'm fighting the energy so you got to fight because until then rappers gonna win right you know I'm saying I ain't saying rapping negative I ain't saying the people who rap negative but the vibe that come with it it's a it's just a lot of negative vibe because you ain't sure if you show them rap or something else they would have tried something different but it's like man ain't nothing else man you get everything you want people shout you out and they still let you in the church you're like so it's like so what was your flow so if i were to compare wayne so who's your flow like I had a little mixture of a shout-out low you

know I'm saying shout out to Charlotte man I used to book him when I was throwing parties and stuff and I kind of sound like Tia you know saying when I talk fast I sound southern but I was just rapping you know just rapping about what I was doing right so who's your favorite artist today today yeah well back in the day was t.i t.i you know i'm saying t.i was my guy because he was mainly talking about women and money i don't like people talk about guns because i ain't never had one on on register today when they put the gun song come on the club i leave but uh nowadays i mean i like little baby i like little baby because when the baby say when when when i, it's Lil Baby. I'm like, I put up a video, I'm like this boy about to go.

Right. On Raw Wave, I like it, I like his flow. Kevin Gates when he, you know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. I pretty much like, I pretty much, I pretty much like everybody flow. I like Moneybagg, I like Moneybagg flow. I pretty much like, it's, oh Kod. I like money bad flow Uh, I pretty much like it's the oh codec black. I feel like codec black ride that day Y'all thought made me quit rapping Why man, he was riding that beat too good when I heard y'all throw a rap I'm gonna be by the way. Hey chicken one up. I like hell. No, I can't do that

I'm gonna get get $12 a show. If this the new version, I'm done. But you play a lot of old songs. Yeah. I'm old school. I love that old school music. I'm an R&B type. I like Anita Baker.

I like Jailer Burt. I'm 36, but I got an old soul, man. I grew up in that country, so I like that R&B music. Okay, well, give me your mind rush more. Give me your four favorite old school artists. Oh, my God. You finna do this on these brown leather soles? Yeah, yeah. With the cameras on.

With the cameras on. You don't give a fuck. God almighty. Four. Hold up. Four. Can I say one of them? Yeah.

Now, this person, I ain't talking about what he did. Kelly. Yeah, we're going to say Kelly. R- Kelly. It is what it is. R- Kelly. You got to say R- Kelly. We don't condone what he did, but the man's musical talent cannot be denied.

R- Kelly. And after that, I got to put Anita Baker in there. Okay. Man. Yeah. Who else do I, like, Anita Baker. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. R&B.

Oh, man, you got to put him in there, because that's what I'm talking about. Who else do I like? Anita Baker. R&B. Oh man, you got to put him in there because that album came. Usher, he just... Confession. What he did with that, people ain't did that with ten albums. Yeah. And then after that, man, you got to put Beyoncé. You know what I'm saying? She been part of the gang too long. Right.

But yeah. Atlanta. Why do you think Atlanta's dominating the music scene? Because you know back in the mid-90s with that group with Babyface and L.A. Reid that kind of like the beginning. You know you had TLC and you had

you know those Escape and it's just like then J. then JD came along and it's just how how why is Atlanta dominating music scene I think they set it up all those guys that you're talking about and outcast and but when T item brought that trap music they took Atlanta to another level it haven't reached yet yeah I told T I said having an artist reach where you reach yet with how hot you was he was like no I said tilt bro you had commercials you had T.I. had women singing songs that wasn't even hit on his albums but I think Atlanta is where it's at because it's it's the only one city of its kind in the state of Georgia versus other places like in California you might have the Bay Area you might got LA right Atlanta

is supported by all those small towns it got it's like me I'm so supported by Facebook people don't even know why I'm popping so big right but I got that Facebook audience so strong that the audience that nobody pays attention to so Atlanta just so big to Georgia right then to the rest of the world it's one of the popular cities so atlanta is a is a ecosystem without nobody really supporting it right and with the young comedians you got drewski you got uh uh uh 85 south you got desi yeah it's a lot of crazy because we reminded them i we reminded we sounded like the rappers so it's like rappers already had you your ear you know what i'm saying so then we come sounding southern me desi dc young fly we were just a branch of what was already moving right so the alana so it came crazy again so you said dc dc uh and i had dc on

made you want to do comedy because you saw a they like a the women they like fly boy that movement was going right i'm like man hold up what when i seen these young fly i said man these boys doing comedy oh man i'm finna i'm finna get in this and i'm finna tear this up right okay i didn't see myself could be the best rap in the new generation right after I seen y'all throw a rap and Kevin Gates sang it in rapping at the same time I'm a hill no I can't miss a little boys when I got in the coming again all right man I mean well I'd be one of the greats yeah no saying the new general you know say I'm going off and Ted is up but you have seen you've done a lot of skips with Kevin Hart Mike else Ricky smiley Luda Charlemagne toa God, Boosie, T.I., B. Simone, Jess. Hilarious.

Yeah. Should I break her name? You can break her whatever you want to bring. I mean, you know. Yeah. You want to talk about that? No. Man, listen, bro. I just want to know. Look, I ain't messy. Anything you want to talk to me about, I mean, this sofa isn't. Ever since Cat Williams touched this sofa,

the energy in this sofa it make me want to talk about it. I mean, I did. I don't know if you heard, but she was on Cam Newton's show. And she said, you know, y'all was in a relationship. And, you know, she had to wake you up one morning because it had gotten out that y'all were together. I mean, you want to laugh?

I mean, she told her side on his show. And you want to tell your side? Man, Jess, like I always told her, she never tells the 100% truth, and I let her do that. Okay. But I tell her the other day, I say, Jess, man, and I got kind of pity. I said, you got to get more going on in your career so they can start bringing up my name in your interview. Wow. Because when I come, Netflix special, his book, you know what I'm saying, this going on, that going on.

We don't got to down each other That's been man. I've been five years ago, right? If that's the main question in your interview, well, we gotta put some work in right? You know I'm saying come on country way come when I go good morning miracle here This is a day don't talk about so much for we got it exactly you feel I'm like man We don't have I was comfortable not talking about exactly and I'm like you can't we don't have to. And I was comfortable not talking about it. Yeah, exactly. And I'm like, you can't. It's not working in your favor. Right.

People can pretend it, but they watching. They see Country Wayne is taking care of black people. Movement. Don't let the people fool you. Right. They ain't on your side. I'm like, it ain't working. So I was just like, man, a lot of that that she talk about, I let it slide.

But, man, that stuff ain't play out like that, man. You know what I'm saying? I separated from my wife. Right. When it like that man you know what i'm saying i separated from my wife right when it got just you know what i'm saying and and that was it i started talking to her right and i got divorced my divorce was 45 days right you know what i mean right and uh me and her started talking and then all the stuff she's talking about on deck of my baby mama hit me up she's like can you please ask jesse stop talking about that because now the kids are handed at school because she keep bringing it up and that's the only reason made me hit up right i'm like jess man i ain't never said nothing negative about you and everybody

know that right let that ride right you know what i'm saying but she want to be the winner i'm like jess let's be real because charlamagne asked one time he said how you lose jessie larry i said how she lose country wayne i'm the catcher right you talking about? Like, let's be real. My baby mama was, yeah, they fine as on the what? Jay's fine too. But I've been had them. She ain't had no country Wayne. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, man, let's just, let's stop that, man.

First of all, it's two black people talking. If you're going to speak, just speak the truth. Because this sofa right here. Nah, nah, nah, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. No, but I'm like, I'm like, man.

But she didn't say, you know, she woke you up. No, that ain't. Come on, man. That didn't happen like that? That didn't happen like that. That not happen like that, man. That divorce went so fast. I filed in December.

We was, me and my baby mom was divorced by February. But at that point in time, when you had separated from your wife, you had started talking to Jess. Yeah, I had started talking to Jess. Okay. Now, all this stuff came out of the shade room. A lot of that was after that.

Right. You know what I'm saying? Right. And she just, she say, we woke up, and then she was like, can I tell him all the time

his stuff corny? I'm like, why you got to call my stuff corny? Because I got a different audience that follow me too. Right. You know what I mean?

I got the streets in the church. Ain't too many artists got the streets in the church. know i mean man what i'll be seeing what you be talking about you be making on social media month that ain't nothing corny about that corner but see that's that mentality of people from a certain it's like this this world think this world corner this world think this world corner i think mart Martin was a good show and Big Bang Theory, right? Just cuz you think friends corny when they get a million episode You ain't gonna never grow artistically because you think only what you come from is good, right?

And that's the problem with everybody, you know say I'm like, but you gonna call this corner Just cuz I ain't cursing come from to get this in-stream ad money Well, y'all keep going on tour yeah got to keep catching the wild wayne sit home in the bed spending time with your kid you know what i'm saying making this you know what i mean so what's what's your favorite viral video that you created man shoot i guess the first one we had to fake like you like your girlfriend's cooking because that's that that started it off and that day but that first one, when you have to fake like you like your girlfriend's cooking. Because that started it off, and that day.

But that was true though, huh? You had to fake a couple of times, huh? Yeah, I don't have to fake a lot of times. I ain't gonna lie, boy. My baby mama cooked me some pork chops one time, just when I was eating that pork. And it was so good. But let me tell you something. My blood pressure shot through my hair. and it was so good, but let me tell you something. My blood pressure was shot through my hair. Man, I remember I was laying on the sofa, and she had cooked me one, but it was so good,

and I knew it was the pork chop. But get what I said. What? She said, you want some more? Yeah, just give me one more. But let me tell you, like the kip, then I had this white girl named Holly one time. What'd she cook? I should move it from back I got it too close put that in between us where somebody's this sofa right here boy? Hey, no but Holland, I had started going vegan and she used to hear me saying, you know,

she was a white girl. So she's like, I'm finna do something different than the black girls. I hear him. He said he wants food. Man, she cooked me some brownies. I waited for them to dry all day. She said they were just wet because they ain't had dry yet. Let me tell you something.

That goo they got there, gum, like the kilt my guy got there in the throat and stuff. It was like glue. they had dry yeah let me tell you so that goo a goddamn gum like to kill my god and throw it something it was like glue hmm and I was tasting that she's a hot I said boys it like to kill me man but you know everybody gonna be able to cook that book vegan food I know but I taste oh yeah everybody gonna be able to cook it I tell people all the way you gonna be on cooking vegan if you was able to cook the real food. So, I think all the real cooks are just the real cooks. Because the people who are good at vegan, it was the people who were cooking good food anyway.

So, the one you did where you found out your 13-year-old son had a girlfriend and her mama was fine. Yeah. I did, man. I come up with skits all day. So, what I was doing, once I seen that money in those skits, I was coming up i come up with skits all day so what i was doing once i seen that money in those skits i was coming up with these scenarios i got in my head and i'll just put them out you know i'm saying i come up with ideas you do this you do this you do this bam we don't edit we record it cut off the action cut off the cut bam we there we done i

don't edit nothing i use my cell phone. Really? Mm-hmm. Yeah. So you got very little overhead when you shooting this? The money go to the people instead of the equipment. That's how I'm... because it cost me $250,000 a month to shoot these skits now. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Now... But you shoot like 30 or 40. Yeah. I drop 300 skits a month. That's got like 900 something skits a day. I mean, nine skits or 40. Yeah. I drop 300 skits a month. That's got like 900-something skits a day. I mean, nine skits a day. Right. Sometimes 10.

Most times 10. 10 to 12. Because Phil got two. Brad got three. Mike got three to eight. Then I got two. So mainly nine to 10 skits. Yep.

Let me ask you. Your strategy. Because you say you big on facebook and a lot of people and i had to get out this way of thinking like when you looked at facebook you think okay class reunion family reunion that's why that's why jess called me corny because she think that audience corny but that's who got the money see they aiming at the wrong audience right because the aunties is one giving the mamaas giving you money. That audience

is the hardest audience to get. Because if Beyonce got a cake and Ashley got a cake, they're going to taste it and whoever cake is better, they're going to buy. They don't care if it's Beyonce cake. But there's a big enough audience.

Taylor Swift's audience isn't necessarily Beyonce's audience. Mm-mm. But you don't think they're making no grip? It's a lot of people in this world, man. Thank you. And when black people, to blow up with the black community and really get that money, because, you know, that's why, to be honest, I'm just being transparent. That's why I'm able to make so much more than a lot of career black creators because i got everybody now

everybody might not like me in this clique but everybody know country wayne at every click right and you go to the streets and like oh i rock wayne drill you go to the other teams oh i love country wayne rick smothered tyler pratt fans love country wayne right but what i realize as black people you can't afford to cut off an audience because there's not enough right so when you black and that's all you got you better be transparent right that's why i stopped cursing in my company okay i'm already raw so let me stop cursing so at least because it's hard to sell out you can get another demographic yeah and that's what happened i end up getting the church they like okay right wayne raunch, you know what I'm saying?

But at the same time, at least he don't curse. Right. And the hood, like, Wayne ain't cursing. We on it. But he talking about the right subject. Right. So I had to, until you get that, all audiences, you know, until you Taylor Swift them, man, if you're dealing with black people, man, you better right you're big on facebook and and youtube yeah because that's

youtube is is you know they're trying to prioritize things a lot yeah so so where where do you where do you release most of your content on both so what i do every morning i was monetizing on instagram but they stopped it right because nobody wasn't doing it. I was making like 90 grand a month, a little side money on Instagram. But what I do, I release a video. Mark Zuckerberg, you need to start that back up. What I do, I release on Facebook and the same video go to YouTube and everything. Right. So I got eight different pages.

But, oh, hold up. Three of them get new content. The new content that they three of the new three of the page so when i drop it on facebook i got i got a person uploading it to youtube too so it just crossed the board so that one video just going across the board right it it just monetized on both platforms right so what so what are your thoughts on tiktok i ain't seen the money yet i don't come until i see the money right i call somebody the other day is money over there yet when i see them longer

the longer videos because what they're doing this is what they're doing they want people to do longer videos because they can put the in-stream ad right but people doing reels and stuff that ain't doing nothing but helping the platform right because the platform is growing and they're gonna slide an ad in right after your video right but the in-stream ad you know yeah but see they slide it after your video you don't get any of that you don't really get any of that that's why they'll pay you for reals because they paying you to keep people on their on their pay on their pays but to get that money you're gonna have to get in-stream ads right but the reason why people don't deal with in-stream ads because it's technical you can't do this you can't say this so that's why when that when two people do to do get together on my page I say cross the line and I never

show it they might start kissing and I faint away you get the picture I ain't got to show nobody leg up right you know what's going on yeah so you got to get this you gotta get a bit creative you got to be creative with the creation you can't be creative just with the content you got to get creative on how you get the money right and that's what people don't feel like doing but like man people be like i ain't finna do that man change where i am but okay when you're going to white people show i don't hear you do that right you're gonna do whatever they tell you to do right so it's like man i just i found a way to do it and it changed my life because it's residual income because as you know

in this content game right it it's companies out there to follow your if anybody posts my stuff or whatever i get the money right because so what i did i was like i got 4 000 videos out now so i don't look at myself as stacking money anymore i'm stacking content right so that way my money because now i got pages with my old videos right there that's making i got pages making mic page on Facebook just some side money making 40 a month just me posting old drip video right you know I'm saying just throwing away so the content game is it's the new way right because it's something we can control it's something we can do and I'll share the game with everybody because I'm like man I hate to see people pages who ain't monetized right I'm like how you I be going through people's Facebook page I'm like what are you two you got all these followers

well if you knew what this money is that's it this is what I said sit down money yeah how many videos do you post today on um nine nine on the low end but 10 to 12. Every day? Every day. 30 days a month? Yeah. 365? 365, boy. You a busy man. You ain't got time to tour. No, I pay people to do that. Yeah.

But I'm saying, but you got, so you shoot, so how, to shoot 30 days worth of content, how many days do you actually have? Wake up with football every morning and listen to my new podcast, NFL Daily with Greg Rosenthal? Five days a week of get all the latest news, previews, recaps and analysis delivered straight to your podcast feed. By the time you get your coffee, no dumb hot takes here. Just smart hot takes. We'll talk every single game every single week, but I can't do it alone. So I'm bringing in the big guns from NFL media. That's Patrick Claiborne, Steve Weiss, Nick Shook, Jordan Roderick from The Athletic,

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I got Chase Walker. He turned in three videos a day. I got Phillip Hudson. He turned in two videos a day. So nine of he turned in two videos a day so nine of them videos I'm not even there okay like they're shooting videos right now right and they and I get them a fee right for turning in the country okay so I built that system so I wouldn't have to be there right because if the page is dependent on me so as I go do a movie a TV show it ends right so when I had got called for this TV show

that's coming out in February, you know what I'm saying? Like, I got to go on tour in March. So I go on tour in March. I'm not going to be able to work like that. So I need my page to keep running while I'm gone. Right. So that's why you stack it up all up now.

So when you're on tour, you're still going to be able to leave. And they're going to keep moving. Right. And you'll be able to keep... I got that got that 9 30 slot the 9 30 video be mine and that will keep the page really that'd be the main storyline so long as i keep that 9 30 slot you know post it everything good so you basically created a tv show using skits yeah that's what that's what that's what you've done that's what i've done so how did you how did you come up with that idea how did who taught you or did you like man?

Let me see. What can I do? to like make this paper because I know aside here that if Something were to go if I move in a different direction. I can still do this and still make this bread TV I was watching TV. So I'm like, oh they ain't watching shows like that anymore They still want to show that They just want it quick. So I just, it's like cooking crack. You know what I mean? You ain't got to wait.

You got to wait on BMF. You ain't got to wait on me. So to BMF, come, because we ain't got you. So I feel that gap of all that waiting on the show. Because I hate waiting. When I was watching Power, I'm like, it's good, but I got to wait. Me, I'm every day. We ain't got you. So when your show come out, watching Power, I'm like, it's good, but I got to wait. Me, I'm every day. Right.

Hey, Wayne got you. So when your show come out, until then, I'm your side. I told you, the algorithm is a woman. Right. So I'm the dude why he messed up. Well, y'all ain't talking. I'm here. You here.

I'm always here, baby. I'm going to stay up. So when y'all going through stuff, I'm going to be here. And that's the void I filled online. And I learned storylines was the key because they can follow. Because if you just post a funny skit, they're going to forget about it in three days. But if something else comes, something else comes, it reminded me of the stories back in the day. I say, if I could do this on social media, boy, I'm going to change the game.

Right. Do you feel you could turn some of your skit storylines into a TV show? They better have some money because I'm going to make so much money this year. I'm making moving star money already. It ain't been nothing big,

so they got to show me where the money at because from what I'm hearing in these deals, it got to make sense for me. Right. Because this is getting just as much attention.

You know what I mean? With the FNC. I'm able to sell out tours. I did a special that went number one with no promotion. I went number one on Netflix

with no promotion just for my people. Mm-hmm. It seemed like, I don't know if it's going towards its way, but I'm gonna sit back in my trap

until the deal makes sense. I don't have offers and stuff like that, but it just got to make sense because who, what? That social media is getting crazy now. It seems like you adopted Tyler Perry's strategy.

Yeah. Tyler Perry has an audience that he caters to and it works for him. Seemingly, you have an audience that you cater to that works for you. That was the only strategy to adopt because big as a lot of people are,

why Tyler Perry got more money than Rapples? Why Tyler Perry got more money than everybody? Because he really took his own money and he understood the importance of his people. Right. Tyler Perry content is probably mostly known to black people. Yes, for sure. It's people who tour around the world,

got all, everybody come to their show. Why do we got more money? Because he's seen the value of feeding his people and what people talk about man his content ain't good why it's good black people them our scenarios we ain't been through man we ain't been out of space for real right now why we can't I don't know what's out there right what I know I know big mom so Tyler Perry I did take that off him because I'm like man they can say what they want to about Tyler Tyler got more money than Will Smith

and Will Smith done been in the biggest movies in the world just think about that for a moment Tyler Perry with the the content they say

the way it's twisted and what Will Smith done got the best makeup the best Independence Day men in black and this man

got more money than them to me it's common sense. Right. If you feed our people and then take them, you got to slow walk them to new content. Right. I'm on a show with Lisa Kudrow, Time Bandits. It's a whole different kind of show. Right.

And my fans going to watch it, but I've took them to let them see me grow to be. Right. This is a big production that I'm on coming out. But, out but man yeah you got it i feed my people man who taught you how to monetize the internet correctly correctly i heard about it and then i called ryan davis and i was like man y'all making money on that for real he said yo i got a twenty thousand dollar check coming this month so i said how you do it and ryan was like, video got three minutes, log in. I said, is that simple? So I went on there and did.

I recorded me and my kids in the bed, and it made $70. And I said, I'm going to be wealthy. They are rich. If I can make money off this cell phone and spend time with my kid, that's why I put my baby mama in the videos to pay off some of that child support ah that didn't even know how they didn't tell him i said you ain't getting paid for this i'm letting you know because y'all already got paid but nah i seen it man i was so excited and i was telling everybody i went to man i went to carlos miller dc them like how we gotta get on this internet but nobody weren't really paying attention, but man, I went up and this year,

man, this year, you know, it went crazy, 23, in 2020. Yeah, I was gonna say, Barbra Stewart said, you doing six, 800, five months. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you do 600 on a slow month, that's a bad month. With skits? Yeah. Jordan, we got your camera. You got a skit coming.

That's a, man. You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of haters out there saying I wasn't doing it, but I really ain't giving a damn. I really ain't want my number out there anyway because child support, but I felt like. Why they counting your pockets, though? I think a lot of people was mad because they feel like I got it too easy.

You know what I'm saying? Coming up in the way to coming to the game, I came up here. Right. They feel like I got stand-up. I was able to do stand-up because I ain't go through the regular route So I had to go through that with that and then when it came to social media They want to play he making it right like why would I lie and I'm trying to have a child's boy, right? No saying but Everybody who really do this they know what they know that money possible if I showed him my numbers You know'd go crazy.

Stealing jokes. That seemed to be a big issue with comedians now. Oh, yeah. They steal jokes. You ever stole somebody's joke? Nah. I ain't never stolen somebody's joke

because I don't really... I talk about me a lot. Right. So it's hard for me to... Steal somebody's... Because I talk about Wayne. Right. You know what I'm saying?

No, you're good, bro. Okay. Yeah, you're good. Do y'all party hard the comedians nah I don't really hang with I don't really hang with nobody I hung with Kevin Hart went to his party right now Kevin Kevin Hart part of a fun like it was a perfect party for me but nah I don't really hang I don't really hang with comedian after everybody be in their own world and then when we have shows that's when we get around each other we just laugh everybody go out there and do they you know but now i tour by myself so no so you were talking about it earlier and i want to get

back to this there were some og comedians that were saying things about you you picked up hey bro what's up yeah yeah i called i called faze on love i was like hey man why what is it with faze on why he in it with everybody i think faze on trying to i think he don't figure it out the internet he's trying to get his name out there he's trying to get his name but dealing with wayne he don't know you're dealing with the wrong one because people knew me right like he was talking about my special trash but he don't know he think i just started this man them jokes so i've been i know them jokes was hitting because I don't took it around the world and toured it.

Right. When you do a special, he should know this. There ain't no loud track in my special. They really laughing their heart. Right. You know what I mean? Right. They laughing so consistent, it was... They tried to... Because you know, you can't laugh.

They can't laugh when you talk at the same time. Right. So you got to try to... and my company is all beat. So he ain't know. The problem was, all my shows, those jokes is I already tested. But he thinks, he trying to get in the loop, but he ain't got enough information. He don't know what's going on in the loop. So he trying to get hot, but he ain't got his information right, so he sounds stupid. But why does he care?

He ain't paying for a concert ticket. He don't have to listen to you. He ain't got his information right, so he sounds stupid. But why does he care? He ain't paying for a concert ticket. He don't have to listen to you. He ain't up, man. If I had his career up, I'd cry. If I've been doing comedy like a woman, it don't want you. Right. If you've been doing that that long, bro, it don't like you, dog. If your biggest thing is an elf suit, and you bragging about being in these people elf suit

well i mean you what i mean you what he did play wormed i mean he did play big perm listen to that big perm you're a grown man and you still grabbing uh graduating i mean um bragging about a big worm big you know what i mean whatever bro i've been in the game a few years. Yeah. I done ran it up and I got my audience. Right. And I'm good. And you, and I feel bad for him

because I'm like, man, bro, you ain't got to do that because I'll show you the game. Right. I'll show you the game. You know what I'm saying?

Every comedian I get around, listen, man, you phase on love, get on here and do this and that. Start doing skits and this. I'm going to show you the game, but you don't got to.

He's trying to badge by you. But I don't get mad because at the end of the day when you up like this and you get so much love the hate gotta come with it okay the hate gotta come with it but now you just okay i'm learning you you look at you looking like a fool yeah because you don't got the info you don't got no information and now you sound stupid man like bro you just ain't you just ain't good you just anytime you've been doing this as long well you you ain't good right cedric entertainer wrote the forward for your book yeah how do you get said to do that how long you know i know i'm sad for him i know i'm sad you know i've been a fan of said for years and then we had a situation doing a tv show together whatever but uh man I hit him up he came to one of my shows he came to one of my shows and seen me how I rock my show right and a lot of comedians once they come to my show they'll see what's up right you know uh he came and I had

a book come out and and you know he showed me love all the comedians showed me love Kevin Hart hit me up now comedians competitive like Kevin Hart made me say, I can't call you a comedian until I see you do stand-up. My special dropped. He called me and said, bro, you're a true comedian. You know what I mean? But Faison Love just, that hate in his heart. Man, I'm like, bro, you, bro, I called this man. And he was like, no, man, man, you good.

Then a month after that, you still talking. So that's when I left it alone. Like, oh, you trying to get some clout? Right. Bro, you just ain't good You you just ain't if you've been doing this long if I try something long and they rewarded me yet Yeah, I'm gonna check myself now. That's a hobby You know, they know they know I can pay that

Come to close, but I'm saying you don't see them. I'm in theaters He's like you call yourself professional golf. You're not on the tour. That's a hobby man And I don't got the tour already. Right. You know what I'm saying? He don't understand who he was dealing with. He called out the wrong target. Right.

Because you dealing with, I'm a winner. Right. So you ain't at the wrong target, bro. You just ain't like that, bro. You ain't been in no big roles. Right. You think, I don't know who calling you a legend. You know what I mean?

Because you ain't one of the ones. If Faison fell off the earth, we're going to put him on shame room for a minute. Now they come in and say, oh, he was so good in Ice Cream Truck. We're going to forget about him. Give me your Mount Rushmore comedians. Mount Rushmore?

Oh, my God. Dead or alive. Give me your Mount Rushmore. That Mount Rushmore got to go long though no you ain't got before head you know come on wayne i know you've been in school a little while but you only got four years got it got to put eddie murphy up there okay talking stand-up or just movies comedy your comedy about rush more comedian hey i'm gonna put my rush more eddie Hey, I'm going to put. My Rushmore community. Mine's Eddie Murphy. Okay. I got to put. Oh, man.

I got to get more. You say it's four or five? Four. God dog. It's Andy Murphy. I tell you, I'll do you this. Give me your top five then. All right, Eddie Murphy.

Okay. Oh, I'm going to mess you up. Eddie Murphy. Man. You done said Eddie three times. He can't be but one. I got to put him here. To me, he didn't miss in the movie man chris tucker okay cat williams okay king's a comedy you can't put our farm in there that's a group man we can count in the country way damn i'm not gonna mess you up there no but all those guys man everybody man like i'm gonna come in i see the greatness in all of them

you know i mean and i just think when it came to a lot of them i tell everybody about this before i even did my special i watched pimpin pimpin i did my special two with it two two different ways right and people don't understand Cat Williams cadence transcended to the new generation see it's a new sound and coming in now right because back in the day like in hip-hop I was chilling with the and she would vibe but now it's like you know they don't chilling you know they don't vibing you know they don't slide you know that we drinking it's a different vibe right so Cat Williams cadence was already there that's why I pimpingping. So I took some of that.

Because before I did my special, me and Trevor Noah, we had the same manager. He called me. He said, his manager, Derek, was like, Wayne, make sure you slow down on your special. Because I say, I did it that way. But I looked at it, I did it the other way because it's them beats. So I just think it's different times for different folks, but some people's timing was already there. Like Eddie Murphy already had talk like that in movies. What you talking about, man? You know what I'm saying?

So it's just some people, and I just think it's different times for different folks, but I think every comedian, I think every comedian funny. Even Faison Love, he's still funny to me.

You know what I'm saying? Now, if I went to a comedy show, you want my type to go to. Right. But you still funnier than me. I can see why people think you funny, because I got a cousin that act like that. You see it in everybody. Right. But, you know, there's different strokes for different folks when it comes to comedy, bro.

Comedy, the most, they tell you it's the hardest art, but it gets judged the most. Because people think just because something ain't funny, they don't. I don't like it. A Taylor Swift song come on, people like, I don't like that. Well, I'm going to tell you something. There's a lot of people who do. They don't like it. They love it.

That's why I tell Faze on love. There's a lot of people that don't like him. Because he's probably selling the least out of everybody. I know them come to club prices, buddy. And you still live them. If I wasn't coming to clubs that long, it ain't, you know what I mean to club prices, buddy. And you still in them. If I wasn't coming to clubs that long, it ain't, you know what I mean? Come on, bro.

You don't feel like doing no five shows a week and talking. You just got to hush. After so long, you been in there that long, man. Like, come on, man. You talking about the wrong one. I'm hooked. Your first Netflix special,

what did you learn from it? What I learned from that Netflix special? What I learned from, boy, the internet powerful. from it what i learned from that netflix special what i learned from uh boy the internet powerful that's what i learned i learned man netflix take you to now i've learned but internet powerful but netflix open you up to the world because i ain't all the deals and conversations and the stuff that I got it was because of the special right? I learned Netflix is just it's a different world. It's more. It's more broad than

Just my audience mm-hmm, you know and I learned man You know, it's a big world out here, right? You know, what can we expect with the new tour the king of heart the king of heart to a man older truth? You know I'm saying? The King of Heart tour, because now I got that part out of me. A lot of that, my special was the introduction. You know Wayne. Now you finna get to know Wayne.

Wayne. You know Wayne. You know about his life. But through this special, you finna get to know how I think. You finna really open my mind and see how I got to where I'm at. And I don't play. You know what I'm saying saying you finna really get to know where he believe in Jesus right but hey man I'm slapping the other cheek you ain't turning you slapping him I'm slapping because he say turn up when he when Jesus said turn the other cheek

I read that different I mean somebody slap you the other cheek is on that person yeah that's what they about to about wayne but i ain't come on right that's why i don't bother nobody i don't play like that right i ain't man i was so personal the reason why i don't joke and john because i'm too i'm gonna get too personal i'm like bro i'm flyer than you you know what i'm saying i look better than you i get you know i get the paper and then if it don't if that don't work, I'm like, you can't get women like Wayne.

I'm going to get personal with that man. So I'm just like, this is what they're going to find out about me how I got here. I don't protect my family just because I'm nice

and believe in Jesus. They're going to see the lion. So that's what the King of Hearts told me about why I got the hearts of the people and I ain't just got the flesh. Because a lot of people

got moments. I've been hot the whole time I've been in this game right I ain't feel like I ain't did this yet every year I make more money than I made a year before and I'm always bigger and ain't too many comedians could go on tour by themselves and sell out a theater without 30 people on the flyer right you know what I'm saying I did that I just my this is my third tour live nation country way on the flyer. You know what I mean? That's what they finna find out about, that I don't play them games. You know what I'm saying? I'm here to work, bless the people, bless my family, and I don't really play like that, man.

You don't curse in your stand-up. Do you curse at home? My kids got all my curse words. They got them stuck in them. But you know, no, I I'm really curse I'm really curse at home cuz I practice it so much in my right comedy That it just I naturally now just don't curse that much but you know said didn't really curse He started to curse and look thirst to it. So I might when I get older I'm probably when I get it old I'm probably gonna cuss the hell out on this day I'm gonna start cursing

So they gonna make me curse in a minute i'm gonna start i say when i get older man i'm gonna start i'm probably gonna start letting it loose do you uh do you ever worried by getting canceled nah man because i ain't scared to lose it all you know what i'm saying i lost my mama so i ain't scared to lose his money or this fame that's why i think I always rise. Because whatever you fear is going to happen. So I'm like, how are you going to counsel me if my father is God? Wow.

I'm like, how? If God is my daddy, how can you control my destiny? Right. If you counsel me for something, that means I wasn't supposed to go over there anyway. So I'm not, I don't fear that. Because then I'll be trying to dodge everything. Right. No, I don't fear to go over there anyway. So I'm not, I don't feel that because then I'll be trying to dodge everything. Right. No, I don't feel none of that

because this ain't what feed me. This is what God using to feed me. Right. So if you take this away, I'd be having, I'd be building fireplace grills. They'd be the number one fire. I don't did a lot of things.

Right. And God don't show me, he show up in everything. So, man, I ain't really... No, I don't move like that. Auditions. Have you gone on any auditions for movies? Yeah.

That's how I got that project for Apple TV. Okay. I auditioned. It was a big project, but I don't audition that much anymore. I just like, man, either we gonna do it or not, you know what I can bring,

and I'm gonna do what I do. I read where you turned down $5 million yeah six six million yeah it was five but they came back and tried to give me six well so what the hell were you thinking they were trying to give me six million a year for my facebook page oh no no we're not gonna do that no they were trying to give me six but I already knew I was gonna make more money because i would turn it up and they was like you get six million then you get 80 percent uh of everything you make after that but i did the math i'm like okay if i'm already making six right right they're gonna take 20 of everything i made right 20 is 1.2 off six right so that leave me with 4.8 correct but they say we guarantee you the 6 don't matter what.

So if we make 7, you know what I'm saying, you're going to have 1.4. Right. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to have 5.6. Right? Right.

And you're going to be like, well, we'll give you the 400 back to get to your 6 because at least we guarantee you that. Yeah, but you made a million extra

and I made zero extra. I'm a real good amount. Right. And when you able to count, well, I see them contracts coming a mile away. Before even getting to my lawyer, I've been on read the whole contract. And I'm like, no, that ain't making sense number wise. And they try to make, you want to be in business with these people.

I was like, I told my agent, I say, I am that company. What I've done on social media, ain't nobody figured out how to do what I do yet. It's coming five years from now, everybody going to be doing what what Country Wayne's doing, but I'm ahead of the curve. I know how to monetize with the minimum of things. I don't need nothing. I don't need... Right now, I can do a video on Country Wayne and Shannon Sharp

was talking about his past. I'm going to make me $5,000 in five minutes. You know what I mean? Make sure you cut me in at $2,500. I'm and that's you know I mean make sure you cut me into 2,500 and so it's like no when they came to me with that money I'm like nah man that ain't work Wow sports you're a Cowboys fan how the hell you get to be a Cowboys fan from Mill and Georgia Cowboys does America team I thought you

like the Falcons talk with terrible come on man what a fact I did today what the fact I did to their fans when they was when they won the first half oh well I'll get to our brain when they did that man they messed up they messed up the face of everybody who was gonna believe in them and everything that's like if Jesus would have walked on water and slipped and drowned he walked for a few a few feet but now you don't smoke don't drink no really no uh no party so did selling drugs that i mean did you ever drink no i ain't never smoked no smoke no because my family did that man and they were so talented right and sometimes watching your family you'll know what you need not to do.

Right. And sometimes some families can smoke and drink and function. Right. Mine was not like that. Right. So I knew to know who you are, you got to watch your family because we're no different than our family. Right. The answer to your test and your future is watching your family.

And it's something we don't need to see, but it help you with your future. And I'm like, oh, oh man I can't smoke a drink right the slogan help is on the way what does that mean to you that mean to me like no matter what you're going through and even if you feel like if you just sit still it's on the way in a right way because help is the right way help ain't wrong right so I just think people get too anxious and start to move and start trying to do it on their own. Just do the best you can, man. Whether it's just drink water, you know, do what you can. And help is always on the way.

If you just be still. But people who come before help is Satan. He come with a deal way before he'll come. Right. Because he try to make it happen fast. See, God, he don't want you to be embarrassed. Satan love to embarrass you because I tell people all the time he don't love to embarrass you he think he God so what Satan do he just so bad at blessing you he's trying to bless you

but he just ain't good at it so he get he's jealous of God because of who he is it's like Cain and Abel you know saying I tell everybody why you think Cain kid Abel because Cain ain't able when they gave God a gift he was able and willing like one of my sisters asked me she say bro I don't want your money I don't want your fame what I'm jealous of you most how your heart got some good because if I had their heart so that's what God man that's why I tell people help is always on the way if you just wait because Satan coming he's coming with a negotiation before God come because then you'll know if it's

Satan because when he send you out there you always fall right you wasn't ready like some of the artists they be like oh they ended up on drugs well you got them doing five shows a night right what you think how they gonna stay up what's our sleep right God will have it lined up if sleep and rest if you ain't got time to sleep rest and get something to eat that ain't God right because I'm gonna get me something to eat and I'm gonna rest if i can't get my eight hours or something to eat this ain't for me god wouldn't want me to move like this and i just feel like i just tell everybody man help is always on the way god gonna bring peace he gonna give you some money he gonna give you time for your family that peace and peace go together whether it's the p-i-e-c-e or p-a-e-c-e

right you're gonna have a you're gonna have you're gonna get the money but you're gonna have time for your family too because if you don't nurture your kids or what's coming they're gonna lose your money anyway right money ain't nurturing it's conversations hey son you can't do that you can't do that you got to do this you got to work hard if your coach gonna do this you got to stand ahead I play Monopoly with my kids I'm letting them invest with I had to play Monopoly to teach them how to invest in properties with me. So if I ain't have that time, we're just out here getting money. I'm just...

Man, you be trying to buy a boy walking park play. Man, my son, boy, listen here. Man, my sons get mad at me so much at Monopoly. It's ridiculous. They really want to fight me. So they use Monopoly to say what they really want to say all day anyway. But, yeah, we get serious about that Monopoly around my house now. Appreciate it.

Country Wayne. I appreciate you, bro. Hustle paid the price. Won a slice. Got the roll of dice. That's why all my life I've been grinding all my life. Look, all my life. Been grinding all my life. Sacrifice. Hustle paid the price. Won a slice. Got the roll of dice.

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