Donnell - Fanboy!

Episode Date: March 28, 2020

Blame it on infatuation with rising fame. In episode #017, Donnell shares his starstruck-worthy moments with Kevin Hart, Michael Jordan, Usher, Prince and Oprah friend, Gayle King; and also tells the story of when him and Charlie Murphy met Barack Obama. The Donnell Rawlings Show is raw, it’s uncut and it’s real. A joke could be too soon, but it's never too soon for a funny conversation. For all the essential personnel helping fight the RONA, the Donnell Rawlings Show is extending saving $10 when you order the Black Ash Candle. It fights Twerk Wind and probably outlast your quarantine! Use discount code NOTTODAYCORONA while the limited batch lasts. Special thanks to @mfdaviddeery, @jivantaroberts, @juliuslikeaboss, @hollywoodimprov NEW! Black Ash Candle on SALE NOW at the Donnell Rawlings Store: https://store.donnellrawlings.com/col... --------------------------------------- Check out Donnell's upcoming tour dates coming to a city near you: http://www.donnellrawlings.com/wherei... Like, Subscribe & Follow Donnell on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnXf... Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/donnellrawlin... Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/donnellrawlings Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/donnellrawlings Website: http://www.donnellrawlings.com Hashtag: #donnellrawlings, #thedonnellrawlingsshow, #2soonwithdonnellrawlings, #toosoon         Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Y'all already know what it is, my man. Get right in the streets, dropping that street knowledge that we were just talking about. And I said to him, I said, man, my father passed away two years ago, man. And I know that he would have loved you, your character and everything. What you say to me, bro? He probably think like I do. We probably cut from the same cloth, the same kind of material. Because ain't nothing fake about the material we cut from.

All that other shit that they got floating around here that's imitation like they do the gucci bags and all the georgio valente you see like they be copycats and they don't push the jillywine they push that imitation bullshit off on you and you realize you thinking you got the real McCoy. Fake niggas stand back. Uh-huh. And they faking a fraud. Stop faking a fraud. Either you real or you not. Stop with the bullshit because the streets know. And we all know.

And we just read in this night or so. Like the ones that don't know, y'all need to get with the ones that know it. Come on, pick this wheel up and let's roll with it. Let's roll again. I got a question. My next episode is about being starstruck. I tell myself a real dude, don't get too excited about too many people. When I saw Michael Jordan, I got starstruck.

In your life, if there was anybody you ever met, you got starstruck? All the famous black leaders that came before me. Man, look here. I tilt my head to Mohamed Ali, the greatest, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, last but not least, Jamar Wilkes, brothers who paved the way, you know, like on that basketball thing, because without them brothers, man, like, look at half of you brothers wouldn't even have a job, so y'all look up to them brothers and give them brothers that proper, and, you know, pick up, you know, some of

their shit and roll with it, you know, come up, you know, some of their shit and roll with it. You know, come out here and get with these youths out here, man. Show them the right way. I mean, Harold Melvin and Blue Nose said it best. Wake up, everybody. Teach the truth. Teach the babies. See, you got to start with the babies.

The stuff start at home. If they don't get what they're supposed to get at home, they'll come out here in these streets and you'll see what's going on out here. You see what's going on in these streets. It starts at home. Find somebody that you respect, you love, look up to them. And I guess that's answered my question. So you ever personally saw somebody that kind of fucked you up? Yes, I did.

Who that? The military. What? The military. The military fucked you up? The military fucked me up. They got me out here like I'm on the front line now. I don't know what the fuck. It's like I'm still in the war. What branch was you up? The military fucked me up. They got me out here like I'm on the front line now. I don't know what the fuck.

It's like I'm still in the war. What branch was you in? The United States Army. I was in the Air Force for four years. 05F20 radio teletype operator. I was getting ready to ask you what was your MOS. What was your MOS? 05F20 radio teletype operator.

Non-MOS. You see, they got all these spies across the street. That's what they out here for, spying and trying to see what's going on See what we doing over here Trying to block this stuff right here They gonna knock me down But see brothers like you come through And pick me right on up

That give me a little hope, man They say keep hope alive Yo, let me tell you something, man When I first met you, you gave me hope We gonna continue to give each other hope, bro Boy, look here, hope is all we need Hope, faith, and belief Look at God, won't he do it? Thank you. Man!

Man, I'm telling you. I don't really acknowledge it as much. Oh, my God. This is my lotion. Donna Rawlings No More Ash Body Butter. This is my shit. Did you ever try it? Oh, my God. This shit is the shit. Man, first try it? Oh, my God.

This shit is the shit. Man, first off, I want to take this opportunity. I've said it all the time on all the things. Dang, I want to do my whole body on mostly all the things I did. Shout out to RZA for being a man of his word and giving me that beat. That was the orchestra beat. You know, somebody said, oh, these are the, somebody, I asked a rapper. I asked the rapper, I asked him, could he, could he drop something on that beat, right?

And he was like, is this his beat? I was like, yeah. And he was like, oh, that shit sounds mad theatrical. Movie score. I was like, duh. Anybody can give you a beat where you can like mumble rap to or whatever but that motherfucking beat it just for some reason it makes me feel like a superhero when i hear that beat there is a beat it just makes me want to put a cape on just a rum and just just

just be out there for the world to see to expose myself not in a disrespectful way where some of y'all are wishing but just to be out with the people that's why i played that clip earlier because i sometimes forget what i mean to people you know I pride myself on being just a regular dude, and I understand that. But sometimes I forget the excitement that people have when they see me. Yeah. I forget that people, the history that people might have with me, I forget that sometimes that some people might have been in a bad situation,

wasn't feeling good about something, and they saw something I did. They saw me live on the street, and I took them to a place where they felt better about themselves. I forget about that. I forget and I know, and the reason why I can't connect this because I never considered myself a star. You know, people said, but I never said,

the man you say you're a star, that's when shit gonna be. I'm a star! That's when shit start getting crazy. But I forget that people get starstruck when they see me. Like, starstruck. Like, huh. This white boy's starstruck. This white boy, they call it a, this white boy's starstruck.

Fucking no way. Yo, what is it called? Fanboy? And I ain't got no problem with the fanboy as long as y'all don't touch me no charlamagne right but like i'm telling you white dudes have seen you that grew up on you like since a kid when they be like fucking no way get the fuck out of here they were cursed y'all fuck you you're not you fuck you you're not you fucking no way, you're not you. Fucking no way. My fucking ass, she lurks. Where is, he's right fucking there.

No way. Fuck, no way. Fuck. Are you kidding me? Dude, dude, dude, dude. Dude, I fucking grew up off of you. Dude, I grew up off of you. Since I was a fucking little kid, man, I'm like, damn,

nigga, how old are you and how old am I? It be niggas with that kid. Like, I grew up with you. This is my son. I make him watch your shit every day. I'm like, how goat am I? Because goat is a new word for old. How goat am I?

Yo, and that's how white dudes, white dudes like, fuck it. They let it go. They ass cheeks get tight and shit, man. They be like, yo, I got to do it. Fucking no way! But how does that make you feel? It makes me feel good, but it makes me feel like I did something, something. But then, that's how white people get starstruck.

You know what black people do? This is what they do. They be like, I'm going to keep it 100 with you. Yo, niggas be like, yo, my man, I'm going to keep it 100 with you. This is why you know a nigga starstruck. I'm going to keep it 100 with you. And right off top, I don't laugh at niggas. I don't laugh.

I don't laugh at people like that. It's take a lot for me. I just did nine up top, nigga. But for real, they like they're holding it back. I fucks with you. No, I fucks with you. And that's like a no way that I fucked with you. Then you're like, all right.

And then they look at you straight. No, I fucked with you, son. No, I fucked with you. Like, you know, that's how they do it. But white dudes, they go fucking crazy. What about the women? I'll tell you how black, which women, black or white? Black women.

Yo, can I keep it 100? Yeah. Want some real shit? I'm going to keep it 100 right now, right? Black chicks be on your dick. And they don't get excited unless they're black chicks that grew up with white girls. They be like, seriously?

Is that him? Like those black chicks. You know, usually my preference, right? But black chick, this is how they start struggling. You know, they be like. Oh, let me go. What is that? I'm going to tell you what this is.

They be like this. I don't know what it is, but they like this. Mm, you think you're cute? Yo! When the black chicks say, mm, you think you're cute? And this is another thing, too. When everything they say, you think you're cute? And this is another thing, too. When everything they say, you think you're cute with your little sneakers on? Yeah.

With your little hoodie on? With your little, I see, with your little watch. You think you're cute? That's the sign of it. But you have to understand that. And you take it and you appreciate it, you know? You appreciate it. Because sometimes, like at times I forget, but when? You appreciate it. Because sometimes, like, at times I forget.

But when I run into people, like, in Atlanta, when we were in Atlanta, and when those people connect to me like that, I'd be like, oh, shit. A lot of people always say celebrities don't want to. To be honest, I go out to feel that. I go out to feel that love. Because I know the excitement people get. And I get just, my excitement is because you're excited. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Sense of fulfillment. It's fulfillment. And it's just like, you're like, oh, shit, I'm responsible for making these motherfuckers feel good. Like, we went to that bar and, like, we went in there and I started freaking out because they was like, well, black people on the white edge, they was like, oh shit, oh shit. Yeah, they went crazy.

But the dopest thing about it was I had a little backstory because one of the ladies that was there, she was a producer on this show I did called Laugh Tracks for True TV. And she was like, you remember me? And she showed me some pictures of what we took and everything. But the energy

at that table, it was amazing. Somebody was celebrating their birthday, and this one chick, I know she like girls. I can just tell. You just tell. We was in Atlanta. Y'all, it's like, it's whatever. Y'all's fluid or whatever.

And she was a chick talking about, we doing shots, we doing shots. So I brought rounds for everybody, right? And she was like, I want Henny. I want Henny. And if you see this video, we might have it. Everybody doing shots. She take her Henny, do it. She don't even drink it.

She put it on the side. She trying to give it to me, too. Yeah, she was just flexing. She was just flexing for the gram. That bitch ain't drink none of that shit. And it was just for me, just being around them. And then I walked into the Laughing Skull. Laughing Skull, it's a small comedy club in Atlanta.

It was started by a guy named Marshall Childs. I've been knowing Marshall Childs for like 25, 30 years. He used to run the Funny Farm brand. It was comedy clubs in Atlantalanta they were dope they was like basically they were the white club they was out in the suburbs he was in the city somewhere then he moved to suburbs then something happened he lost the lease and he wasn't in that business of that anymore and this guy always thinks into the future and this is the fucking this is how it's dope his thought was he got this in the vortex lounge and on peach street the one crossing bulldog shout out to um charlamagne and god i

know you'd be up in here like y'all's serving face and such but there's a little black box like theater in the back and it holds like 90 to 100 people. And that's like way under what the average amount of people are in a comedy club. Normally comedy clubs today, they go from, old school is 150, but normally anywhere from 275 to 450. So it's hard to find a place that has

that little amount of seats but produce quality comedy comedy sellers one I'm comedy seller probably do like 90 80 right so he had an idea he wanted to do a comedy show in the back of this place when he first started everybody was laughing like small ass club but his idea was it was gonna be the biggest small club in the country that was his vision and at the beginning he was like donnell i was one of the first people to work and he was like donnell could you please tell comedians about it it's going to be a good spot can you please tell comedians about it we

want credible people talking about it to validate it right and as the years it's probably been going on for like nine or ten years but his vision is starting to come to light i worked there mark myrne worked there um i think bill burr's worked there some of the best comedians in the business have used this club as somewhat of like a place to practice and train 90 people 100 you preparing for special something you want to give you material to too many people but you want an environment that feels like a comedy club but a theater at the same time it's tiered it's nice in fact i told um i was telling dave chappelle about it for years and one time one night uh him and dave was in i wasn't there he was hanging out with t.i and he called me cena called me he was like yo what's the name of that spot and they went there and just he went there and it blew up and even in fact the

night that we was there yeah we were we went to hung we went to hang out i wanted to go say so was up to some of my friends and then uh kevin hart just happened to be in town shooting a movie and he was working out which a lot of comedians do we try we can't you can't get away from the stage if it's dead he was working out so i didn't even no intentions on seeing him or anything we go to the bar and the manager's like yo kevin's still back there you want to just go say what's up i'm like there ain't nobody tripping off of don't care where is he back there i mean i'm like i was like man I mean, I wanted to be like, I mean, look. So were you starstruck? What?

Starstruck? Over Kevin? Kevin? Drake? You talking about the four foot three nigga that started comedy, had a monkey bit, and moved up there, and you used to pay him $50 to do a show? Kevin?

And there's no dis to Kevin. And there's a reason why I'm saying I can't be starstruck off of Kevin because we from the same place. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's like it's different people. Like even when I have a picture with him, people are like, oh, you try to act like you knew Kevin.

I'm like, nigga, we from the same stomping grounds. That's what I loved. I loved when we were back there. I loved how the mutual respect. But that's how it was. But I will say this. I will say this. I wasn't starstruck, but I was excited loved when we were back there. I loved how the mutual respect that you guys had one another. But that's how it was. But I will say this. I will say this. I wasn't starstruck, but I was excited knowing that he was still there.

And, like, one thing that we've always had is the mutual respect for each other wherever we go to an event or something. And I'm going to tell you the level of respect Kevin Hart has for me. He had a pool party in Vegas one year, right? It was like a Kevin Hart weekend, right? And I performed, right? And he had a pool party. And this one year right it was like a kevin hart weekend right and i performed right and he had a pool party and this respect he has for me and i and and i know what type of person he is i went up to i walked up to him he was like look at this nigga the only nigga look like a dad in here i don't know that's easy for you to say nigga you the only nigga look like the

son in here son but that's the energy that's the vibe when we see each other there's no like okay you got to go through so and so or anything like that because even at night when i bust through the hallway because i wanted to see him i hadn't seen him in a while right and he's a like he's like he's my friend and he's a big deal and like just to contest to the relationship i have we we go through there and security wasn't like none of this they were just like d here you know and we went back there and it was so cool man having a conversation you know conversation with with someone that uh someone that uh having that conversation someone that you saw and this is what people don't understand and this is the argument people always try to make about Kevin Hart.

They try to compare him to what their idea of what they're funny needs to be. He's no so-and-so. So-and-so is funny. So-and-so is funny. And you know what? All of us could look at our self at one point, and people can say who they think is funny or whatever. But at the end of the day,

and this is the thing that separates Kevin Hart from a lot of people, is that his name is perfect for where his career is. Kevin Hart. He got heart. Kevin got heart. He used to work at fucking Foot Locker. Him and his ex-wife now.

Foot Locker. The same motherfucker. Can you imagine working fucking Foot Locker. Foot Locker. Him and his ex-wife. Now, Foot Locker. The same motherfucker. Can you imagine working for Foot Locker? And you're wearing a referee uniform. And you're that little. You like this, right? Like, where's my tape measure? Where's my tape measure?

And you see my tape measure. This is Kevin Hart. This is how. Kevin Hart is so short. That he is he is within the social distance sorry this is kevin right here he's only look this just kevin what how far away kevin Hart would be. Social distance.

Right there, nigga. I'm all coronet up. Kevin come up on me. I'm coronet the fuck up. Get back. But, you know, to see him come from a little dude, like starting in Philly, he used to have this one bit. We did Impression of a Monkey, whatever,

and he used to rip, whatever. But I seen him go from being a hometown favorite to accepting the challenge of leaving yeah accepting the challenge of i i know i'm at top of level this level but i gotta start over at the next level as much as people want to talk about kevin he's not that funny whatever that had to work at this i remember when he first moved to New York, one thing, it's easy for a black comic to get caught up in doing the black comedy circuit. You get satisfied. You make a little money. You know what I'm saying? The white clubs, you gotta

hang out more. Main Street, you gotta hang out more. You gotta schmooze up to people. You gotta get referred by people. It ain't kissing ass, but you gotta be in the scene. It's the toughest thing for black comics is making that transition from being respected everywhere you went because of one tv appearance to making money to like having to have to um tone it down so he came up his intent was to come up to new york to deep mainstream same what my intent was leaving dc but he knew he had

to play it a different way he would call me i had to get over rooms he called me he'll be like i'm like you working at the cellar what you need to poke knockers for but he was always in that mix he was always ahead of the curve in regard to like social media i remember when when uh twitter was first started popping and we had crossed paths. We did a movie together called Something Like a Business. And I remember him being excited. Nigga had like 80,000 followers. He was like this, yo, D, I'm telling you, this is new shit. Watch this. Watch this.

I'm going to tell them to follow you. Watch this. Watch this. We looked at him like, nigga, nobody do that following shit. I don't know how many followers he got now. Millions and millions. But I remember him coming up from doing he got now. Millions and millions. But I remember him coming up from doing those shows where they weren't sold out. They weren't sold out. Niggas was giving away tickets.

Nate Smith, him and his man, still with him to this day. Was pulling out those cards. Emails. Your email list. Getting connected with those fans. Talking to those fans talking to his fans kevin made every everything he is today he made with his fan base and he always showed them love i mean he don't do like i remember it was everywhere he went his man kwan used to videotape that i know he's like we're gonna do with all this footage we can make some money off of it but every step of

the way he put the work in he put the work in. He put the work in. He kept connecting the dots. And them motherfuckers be like, yeah, but he sold out. How? That nigga get in all the trouble everybody else get in. That is true. That nigga done figured out every time you think he perfect. Like, oh, that nigga had three bitches in Vegas. I love that nigga he one of us nigga kept it real told him why he talked about

it he's been his whole life situation with him and his wife i remember when it was going down when it was turmoil we were shooting and it was like he was going through, when it was turmoil, we were shooting. And he was going through it. I could tell he was going through it. I could tell he was going through it. But you could tell he was about to bubble. And at that time, I was a person that didn't have a family, didn't have a wife and kids or whatever.

And I won't say envious of it, but at the same time, I was like, man, nigga, that's the life. Nigga, you young. You married. Baby. Baby on the way. You about to blow. This is it.

And I said it. I was like, man, I can't tell a nigga what to do. I said, man, but, man, you should try everything to keep that shit going. And then he looked at me like, nigga, if you don't get the fuck out of my face with that shit. Yo. Yo. He looked at me like this. Like, he tried everything, nigga.

He looked like, I saw the nigga face. That nigga looked like, yeah, I hear you with all that OG. Oh, no. Oh, no. Right? And I was like, trust me. He looked like, nigga, please. It didn't work out.

Whatever. But he's maintained to keep shit civil in his life. And I know that's probably got to be tough in anybody's situation. You've been with somebody to a certain point, and right when it's about to pop, it's no longer there anymore. Because you're going to get both sides of that. You're going to hear people saying, look, as soon as the nigga gets some money,

oh, she was with him all that time, blah, blah, blah. And that's a respectable position. But you don't always finish with people you start with. You know, it just happens. You can't contribute to anything. So what have you learned from his situation? What? From Kevin's.

Just the trials and tribulations that he's had throughout the course of his career. You got to keep going. You got to keep going. You got to keep going. And you got to keep going, and you got to turn lemons into lemonade. In every situation, anything that's controversial or anything in Kevin's life, he dealt with it, man up. He owned up to it, and he dealt with it.

And the thing that he also did was he put it into comedy right it put it okay this is up but guess what my life is is making fun of someone's trying moments and some dark times that's what he did and he turned it into his favor and he like continues to work all comedians we bury ourself in our work she make a make a comedian mad first thing you want to do get on stage make them happy first thing you want to do get on stage any emotion that a comedian deals with they they um want to put that into comedy some kind of way but the point i was making about about kevin and ben you know the whole starstruck i respect like his accomplishments.

He's doing well for himself. But at the same time, to be able to continue to be grounded and still connect with people that you started with and everything, it's another thing that people don't give them credit for. And it's the toughest thing to do. Especially as a black performer.

You get to a certain amount of success and you still had niggas around you. Yeah. You still, you know, you got brothers around you. And you, if you see his crew, you like, God damn, yo, that's a lot. Usually when somebody start blowing up, it's like less black people, less black people, black people you see a white dude with a suit and a clipboard or some

shit but the motherfucking fucking team around him is so solid and it's so black and it's so qualified it's not just people like that are leashes hanging around people can't bring anything to the table yeah there's people that's qualified and it's so good to see that, you know, it's so good, especially in the black community, it's so good to see that you can still be successful and have relationships with people that you started with that are qualified. But to answer your question, I wasn't starstruck. So who have you been starstruck? Have you been starstruck by anybody? Lately?

Well. Ever. What about you? I already know before you got to tell. The first time you met me. No, nigga. Yo, the first time. Why she can say, yo, yo, the first time you met me, what was it?

Did you grab your chest or anything? First of all you know you never tell the proper story you weren't like oh no did you did you bump with that's him y'all no that wasn't it what was it do you want to know who i was starstruck by no or you weren't starstruck by me absolutely not no i remember meeting i remember interviewing you right and starstruck no that wasn't i didn't I remember recognizing you at the Laugh Lounge. Okay. And I reminded you that I've met you before.

No, that's not what you did because I remember that. Look, you were looking at me, you were batting your eyes like a motherfucker. You was like with your little friend and you was looking like, oh, I wish he wasn't here. No, I'm just exaggerating. I'm just exaggerating. I'm just exaggerating. So what was it? What was the, hold on. Somebody just called.

Didn't we order pizza? I don't want to be disrespectful. Hold on. Let me see. Let me see this pizza. Hold on. It's the pizza. I know.

I'm going to get back to. Is it pizza? I don't save no numbers. I think that was pizza. Is it 4? I don't save no numbers. I think that was pizza. Is it 424? No, 312. I don't think that was pizza. This is pizza.

What? That's pizza? We so bootlegging, ghetto. Yeah. Oh, nice. Oh, we don't know that. So the first time, first time, that was probably pizza. First time you were starstruck?

Jim Carrey. Really? So I was performing at Madison Square Garden with Shakira, and he comes back. You know what some black chick's talking about? Oh, that little white dude, he was funny. No, my God, Jim Carrey is still my, well, other than you, of course, is my favorite comedian. So he came back to wish us luck for our show. And just, I was shaking.

I was so excited. But knowing that my favorite comedian watched me perform. You don't got to keep saying a favorite comedian shit. We said that the first time, you know, on the white side, on the black. You better break that down. My favorite white comedian. I want to be the favorite black comedian okay you're my favorite black comedian thank you i'll take that yeah so and then he saw me again so then i was performing um kids choice awards like nickelodeon show and the hottest ticket oh my god you know how many fucking you know

how many goddamn divorcees you can get head from if you got nickelodeon tickets son what these streets to do for some tickets to see some kids get slimed up right now niggas are selling them tickets yeah so it's a nickelodeon award um choice award kids choice awards and he watched me again so i was it was a great feeling um to be in the presence of a genius i think he's a genius and yeah oh oh and then um boris kujo too i've met him and i just oh that light skin fucking fine fake fine motherfucker oh my god yeah yeah you yeah he fine too malik yoba was fine to y'all too y'all was loving on malik yoba too y'all better watch y'all crushing so they they can trick y'all. All them goddamn years, man, all them chicks was like, oh, Malik Yoba, he got them pussy-eating lips.

Nope. It was DSLs, nigga. All of these years. Not DSLs. I don't think they was just for the pussy. I think it was fluent. Is that what they call it now? Fluid.

Fluid. It's like just have a dick one day and forget about it the next day. And nobody got no fucking grudges. I will say, I don't get stars. But it was one time Michael Jordan. Who am I? Michael Jordan dissed me at a club in Miami. It was so fucked up.

It was so fucked up. Michael Jordan, right? And I've told this story before. So I was dating. I don't know. I had this one outfit. up it was so fucked up michael jordan right and i've told this story before so i was um dating i don't know i had this one outfit that i thought you know how you go through that trying to be intellectual and and woke at the same time like bow tie and the glasses and shit and i had made this outfit had a shirt tie vest whatever classes these little class hat i looked like like like brother knowledge right like I was to all my

centers like listen um right you know I got this outfit on and then I'm in a club in Miami and then I looked over to my right and it's a group of people a group of people look like like just a group of people coming I was like goddamn what the fuck and I by time the group got to me coming to me it was Michael Jordan right it was Michael Jordan, right? Damn. It was Michael Jordan, right? Like, I'm looking at this nigga right in his eyes.

He walking past, right? And everybody was like, nigga, so what? Jordan, nigga, he put his pants on the same way. Uh-uh. It was Michael Jordan, right? I mean, that's Michael Jordan. It was Michael Jordan. And I looked at him, and I don't never, like, talk about anything I've done

or do any catchphrases to get attention or anything like that but um I I I I looked at him I said I said I said I said I said I said yo I was on the Chappelle show man right I was like I was on the Chappelle show man I'm rich bitch like because usually that get people like oh shit you know I'm rich bitch nigga right but, because usually that get people like, oh, shit, you know, I'm rich, bitch, nigga, right? But I didn't realize that that's Michael Jordan. Can you imagine me in this corny-ass motherfucking goddamn Fort Greene Brooklyn outfit, look like Spike Lee would wear, right? I'm sitting here as a motherfucker, and I say, I'm rich, bitch, to Michael Jordan. I say, I'm rich, bitch, to Michael Jordan. He looked at me like, man, nigga, if you don't get the fuck out of my face, right?

He gave me two seconds. He went past. Right? I mean, I'm telling you, I wanted him to recognize me. I had the disguise on. I saw that nigga coming up. I started ripping that shit off, nigga. I unbuttoned my tie.

I was like, uh, uh, uh, uh. I was like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Right? And I said what I said. And he looked at me. My shoulder blade. You know this part out. Yo, that's the most non-masculine joint. That's probably how Charlamagne do his makeup in the morning.

He have his shirt over right here. And the girl I was with, she got mad. She said, damn, nigga. She said, damn, you almost trampled me over. You almost got naked for that nigga. She said, you took nigga. She said, damn, you almost trampled me over. You almost got naked for that nigga. I was, she said, you took half your clothes off. I said, bitch, you see how hot it is in here? Fuck is you talking about?

Ain't nobody tripping over no motherfucker Jordan. She was like, go over there, go ahead and finish around this dick. I said, ain't nobody tripping over Jordan. So she turned her back, nigga. I was like, phew. I followed the posse. Right?

He in VIP now. He over on the corner. I'm like, well, maybe he didn't hear what I said. I'm rich, bitch. Like, maybe it's too many people around, you know? So I went up to him. This time, I was like, the nigga ain't even looking to me no more and then you look at me was peripheral he like this is thirsty nigga down here right he looking like oh oh you got a big guy yo like oh thirsty

ass nigga I told him oh right so he was with his white dude I was like I tried to get the white dude right I was like um excuse me you might not know but uh i was on the show um um chappelle show for years it was kind of a popular show i'm rich i was just wondering um uh i was just wondering if i could get a pitch get to a mic you know like it's an in-between guy right this said you got to ask mike that i was like okay i'm about to go ask mike i ain't know and i ain't know i ain't have to talk to you he said you gotta go ask mike that i pulled up i said mike um i said um it'd be great i know you get this on i'm fan boy now i'm like i'm i'm basically like this fucking no way no fucking way it's jordan But I'm trying to be cool.

I'm like, you know, I'm a fan, man. You know, it'd be nice. He said, I don't do pictures. Man. I was so sad. You know what I felt like? I felt like Charlamagne not having an ass to grab. That's what I felt like, just no ass to grab.

And I did what any real motherfucker would do. I went in the corner, and I got on Twitter, and I started hating. Yo, I was like, I went back, yo, you should have told me, son. I was over here looking gangsta and shit, like I'm about to call some murdering niggas, right? I'm like this. I got my phone like this. I'm starting to hashtag. The hashtag was called hating on Jordan.

Right? I was like this. I'm looking at him like this. I'm looking at him like up and down, like, man, nobody should know that shit. So what, nigga? Right? And this was the hashtag. You can look it up. Hating on Jordan. nigga right and this was a hashtag you can look it up hating on joy i said some like man

i just saw jordan in the club with some old ass raglias yo yo i was like this right here man yo i was like this that's what you start hating you'd be like this i mean he i mean come on man i was like this the next one was like, that's what you start hating. You'd be like this. I mean, he, I mean, come on, man. I was like this. The next one was like, I said, yeah, yeah, he can play basketball, but nigga can't play no baseball. I was like, nigga, get a hit, hit something, nigga. So what? 63 points, hit something.

And nobody responded to that shit. And that was a time that like, I had no, like, how do you not? You see Michael Jordan? It's like, you see Michael Jackson. You know what I'm saying? You're like, I remember, oh yeah, another time I was starstruck. It was at New York. I was at the

Boston Comedy Club. Barry Katz. Very, very big time producer, manager. He had some of the biggest names in comedy so this was his club Boston comic was a really small club and on Prince had a sister-in-law somebody that was doing comedy and right and everybody was like yo Princeton they're watching the show nigga I was like, phew! Nigga, I was, phew! Nigga, I went up there like, where, where, where, where?

I'ma tell y'all, this nigga Prince was, yo, seeing this nigga, and the thing about it was, like, I looked back there, the nigga ain't have no lights or nothing back there, but you just felt like a light going off this nigga. I was like this, I looked, and I did not want to make eye contact because it could get fluid. Yo, Prince would make a nigga get a little fluid for a second, sir. But it was just so crazy.

And like watching him like Prince laughing, he wasn't like, ha ha! You know, he was like, he was like this. I think his eyebrows are the only thing that left. He was like. And I was like, oh, that's Prince right there, yo. I was starstruck then. Usher. Oh, yeah.

Usher. What happened the night you met Usher? I've been an Usher fan for years. For years. Usher is just the shit. He's a goat. You know, it's hard.

You calling somebody a goat that's younger than you, but it's just how people forget their mother started. He was popping like 15 and 16. Stay relevant. I was in Toronto doing some shows with Chappelle

and I was in Chappelle's green room and Usher was like And Usher was like, Usher was like, what's that thing called again? Social distance. Six feet, right? He was 12 feet away. Two social distances.

He was two social, he's two coronas away. Man, and I was, I swear, I was trying not to look at him. I was like trying not to look at him, but I was still staring at him. This motherfucker caught me staring at him like eight times in a row. I was like, well, I think somebody's looking back, right? Everything he did was ushery.

Like when he grabbed some water, it's just like, You're feeling your body, so you're fine to do. It's like you're at a tool. Said I drank that, been around. Nobody wants to be alone. If you touch but the word of the song, you got it bad. Hey! He just looked like rain. If you touch but the word of the song, you got it bad. Hey. He just looked like rain.

He just looks like rain is coming down. Like, he just like, oh. Like, he going to be like, oh. What did he smell like? Nigga, I don't know what a nigga smell like. 12 feet away. How the hell are you? And what did he smell like?

What I'm going to go. Yo, I don't, first off, I don't go around sniffing niggas. And I'm going to tell you, if I sniff a nigga, I know what I ain't. I ain't going to remember what he smelled like. If you sniff a nigga, you ain't be like, that was notes of lavender. Nah, nigga, I keep it to myself. Like it didn't fucking five years later to tell you. Yeah. When I first met Usher, he smelled like rosemary and lavender.

And sometime I don't know. I don't know what the nigga smelled like, but he was a cool motherfucker. You know, he was cool. But, you know, after he broke through that first and the same thing with when you first saw me after you broke through the first wait when after the first time you was like you got past it like it didn't you see other people and they go and you're like that's just my dad that's my dad that's her whole thing you know i've been calling my daughter for years right the minute it's a around yo it's like this they'd be like this they'd be like they'll be like this who is that and she'd be like that's my father dad i'm like that's my dad i'm like all right live your life little girl but little girl. But I don't know.

It's just a star struck. I don't care what anybody says. At some point, who would you be if you saw you would, you know, you just lose your shit. Michael Jackson. You got to be Janet Jackson. Everybody would lose their shit. They saw Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson dead probably still look the Everybody would lose They shit They saw Michael Jackson Right now Michael Jackson dead

Probably still look the same As when he was alive You wrong for that D You wrong for that That's wrong You wrong Y'all that Come on man

I ain't no disrespect But I'm talking about Come on man Y'all remember Act like y'all remember The no nose jump man That was a hard one to take, bro. Michelle. Michelle Obama for me. Really? Yeah, I love

Michelle. I think Michelle would freak out if she saw me. Okay. No, the reason why I say, the only reason I say it, I'm not being cocky. I remember when, but before Barack Obama was president of the United States, when he was just, what was he, a senator in Chicago? Right, this was when, right after he did that big speech that kind of catapulted him. Barack Obama was president of the United States when he was a senator in Chicago. This was right

after he did that big speech that kind of catapulted him to DNC. I didn't know too much about Barack Obama. To be honest, I didn't know. I was with Charlie Murphy. Charlie Murphy knew everything about him. And it's tough as...

I've never seen Charlie Murphy get soft or feel like, or anything, right? And we were at the airport. I'm going to tell you, Barack Obama wasn't out there like that so much to the point where he was in like a Lincoln Town car. Opened the door for himself, came out with like a raggedy ass briefcase and shit, right? No security, no binocular niggas or none of that just like a light-skinned nigga getting out the car like niggas on me like excuse me out of the way that type of shit right yeah like out of the way excuse me light-skinned guy out of the way biracial kid out of the way right but he got in

the car and me and me and the chape Chappelle show was at its height right now. We waved, nigga. Charlie Murphy! Everywhere. Charlie Murphy probably was more popular than Barack Obama at that time. Wow. Never seen Charlie Murphy freak out about anything. That nigga saw Barack Obama, he said,

Oh, hold the fuck up, Josh. I'll be right back. I'm like, where you? He went over there, this is a true story, and he was like, because Charlie got his teeth done. You saw all of those shits, right? I ain't never seen this nigga

whole mouth like that. And he was so overwhelmed being in Barack Obama's presence. I think that Barack had just did that book, Fill the Dreams or whatever, stories. One of those. What was the first book he did? Anybody know?

Niggas don't read. We're going to figure it out. But he was right fresh off that in the DNC. And Charlie went to say something to him, right? This is Barack Obama. And before Charlie could say things, this is what I say, I think Michelle would trip out if she see me. Because Barack Obama looked us both up and down.

And he said, I just want to let you know before you say anything that my wife loves the show. So that's why. Michelle Obama know Ashley Larry. That's dope. And another story was Michelle Obama know Ashy Larry

that's dope and another story was I heard and I put the connection I put it in my own my own mindset they asked Barack Obama what his two favorite television

shows was his answer was MASH and The Wire. I'm like, that nigga Barack Obama no day they price, nigga. And Chappelle tells me, he said, down there the funniest shit ever is when he go to different

places and people ask where I am. He said the first time he went to the white house said we're actually laughing that's so dumb that's so crazy though man it's just so weird you know like it's just so weird to know that i've affected, not infected, no corona, so many people, different walks of life, different professions and everything.

It's kind of fucking crazy. In fact, when Austin was born, Stephanie did some, she throws a joke. Reggie Love Reggie Love used to be Barack Obama's body man like his personal assistant black guy I think he went to Duke

he's a good friend of Barack Obama he's a word for Barack sometimes he did a good job sometimes he did a bad job it's the truth Reggie told me a story Barack told me he's a word for Barack. Sometimes he did a good job. Sometimes he did a bad job. It's the truth. Reggie told me a story. Barack told me, he said,

listen, Reggie, I love you. I love you. Think you're a great guy, but if you can't do the job, I'll find somebody that can do the job. And he got his shit straight.

Right. But as a gift, uh, to my son, Reggie love got Barack and Michelle. It's a picture, like a basic picture of you at the White House, but they signed it, and it was a letter welcoming my son into the world. Oh, that's beautiful. And my punk-ass baby mother, who don't think I got no juice, right,

she about to throw that shit in the trash. She said, oh, it's some letter here from the White House. Like, because, you know, she thought it was like, she thought every kid that's born, you know, like it's like a, like a company that's like, hey, this is the best. But it wasn't. It was straight from the White House. And I got it framed, my son being welcomed to the world by the first black president. I think that's some cool shit to put in. He's going to love that.

And I got it right by a picture of Biggie, too. Because those are the people I want Austin to remember more than anything. Biggie and Barack Obama. Who the fuck is this voting for me at 546 in the morning? Yeah, but it's been... That's starstruck for me yeah I wonder

if I'll ever be starstruck to see anybody else I'm trying to figure out who would ubbida ubbida me anyone living right now there'll be ubbida ubbida yeah what anyone living right now there'll be a bit of a bit of yeah what Oprah I mean do it like I mean I mean she over is he over over over like I mean what this

year over diggers is mad at Oprah down damn motherfuckers made of Oprah and Gail. You know how tough it is to beat them? Gail took a hit. Not a hit, but a lot of people were upset with Gail. I couldn't joke about it too much. I like Gail. I met Gail. That's so funny. I met Gail King, and when I met her, it was so funny

because, again, at a show, Dave Chappelle, this is where I get to meet all my folks. And I was like, oh, shit. When you see Gayle King, you respect her as Gayle King. But when you see Gayle King, you think you're about to be Oprah. You know what I'm saying? You're like this. If I make the right impression, I know.

They could be having some wine or something and my name could pop up. Right? I'm just like this. I just want my name to pop up around over, right? That's it. And I swear, I smashed this show. I smashed this show. And we were at this little restaurant right beside it getting little bites

before we do a party. I smashed this motherfucking show. And Gayle King sat beside me. She she said what's up down there i was like i was like what's up oprah friend no i didn't say that but and in no disrespect i was like what's up oprah friend because that's what a lot of people say you know it was just like she got her name now but before just like uh eddie murphy's brother charlie murphy you got charlie murphy you got to be a platform for it get your own shit i was like what's up oprah friend and we talking right and then she was like boy you were funny she's so sweet she's like boy you

were so funny i didn't know you were so funny and i was like thank you i really appreciate that right and then she was talking she was going through her phone or whatever. And my phone was right there. And, uh, she looked over at my phone. Right. I'm like,

I was like, get on, but you don't know what's up with my phone. She was like, what's in your phone? Right. I was like, Oh,

nothing. I got scared and shit. Right. Right. And she was like, you were funny. And then she said, uh, she said,

are you on, are you on Instagram? She had a uh she said are you on are you on instagram she had a reading glass she's on instagram i was like that's kind of a disrespectful question how am i going to be in the business and not be on instagram and she said boy are you crazy she said what's your instagram she's like this right she said what's your instagram right i said donna and she said and what i like, just my name! So she put my name. She said, it was so kind of funny. She said, oh, there

you are right there. I know she looked at how many followers I had did. I think I was 33, 32,000 deep right there. She was like, oh, there it is. And I had did this video, right? I did this. You remember when I started my organization? Save, whatever. The Save organization where I was going out to try to save women, you remember when I started my organization? Yes. Save, whatever.

The Save Organization, where I was going out to try to save women, you know? And the name of the organization that I called, it was called, it was SaveItBitch.com, right? And so Gail is on my page. I had just dropped a video for it. So you see me in a preacher outfit with tim's on right and up there right it's like it did she said what is this right here right and i knew it was the same organization right i said to her i said gail let me explain my platform this is a true story

i said gail let me explain my platform she said what is it this seemed like i said well i started a foundation for some women that may need help. I said, Gail, because I believe that women at a certain time in their life, they have temptation and salvation. Depending on who comes in their life, it would dictate where it goes more to the temptation side or salvation, meaning somebody that influences them, inspires them, motivates them, it could go either way.

Pimp preacher could go either side, basically. She was like, oh, I like that. I was like, yeah. And she was like, I really like that. I was like, yeah, what it is is to empower women. This is what I'm telling her. She was like, I like that. And then she said, what's the name of it?

She said, what's the name of that? I said, first off, Oprah's friend. First, I want to tell you that I use words to evoke a certain emotion. I'm trying to warn. I'm like, I use words that would be challenging to some people's ears but they evoke emotion and then you build dialogue off of that she said what's the name of where I said it's called saving bitch not gone right and she said oh no she looked at me I was like oh I ain't gonna meet over this ain't gonna never meet Oprah, bitch. I ain't going to never meet Oprah. There's ain't no way I'm going to meet Oprah after that. She said, oh, no.

I wanted to say, could you tell Oprah about I was funny? She was like, oh, I don't know if I like that. I was like, why? I wanted to say, why, bitch? That's what I wanted to say. Why, bitch? Come on now. I was like, I don't know.

She said, I don't know if I like that I was like she was like I just you can't find another name and I'm saying I thought about other names I thought about calling it save a queen I thought about calling save a goddess Nubian sister but I know Would nobody pay attention If I would have called it that And I really asked my mother this question Because my mother know First off The reason why I asked my mother this question Because my whole life my mother has always been part of

Like a organization To help young women That got pregnant young Or misguided Need some direction. She's always been saving these bitches. She don't use the language I use, but my mother been saving bitches. I was like, where do you get the notion of wanting to save bitches?

I'm like, my mother was saving bitches her whole life, really. So I called my mom and said i said mom this is the idea of the organization this is i'm really trying to make a point and i'm using words that um some people don't find too settling she was like well son i understand what you're trying to say and i do understand that it's a need for it. She said, but the word is kind of hard, tough. So my mother went and talked to one of her bitches. I mean, oops, one of her friends. They came up with the idea of giving the word bitch

a different definition, a different meaning. And when my mother and her friend came up with, she said, you know when you say the word bitch you say, bitch means being in total control of herself. Boom. So listen, bitches. Don't get caught up

in just words because people know the context of everything. People know the context of the N-word. People know the context of the B-word, the C-word, and everything. They had just a video the other day. And white people always make this argument. Is it okay for us to use it? Why can't we use it?

Why can't we use the N-word? Why can't we use it? And I've never told a white person not to use it. I've never told them. I was like, use every word. But the consequences of you using, and this joint went viral. And this is, I just want to say, for everybody that's watching the show right now, this is the reason why you should watch the words you use. Say that shit.

Matter of fact, say that shit one more time. should watch the words you use. And you gonna sit here and call him a fucking nigger while you send aside an African American woman? You are fucking stupid! You need to be locked the fuck up! I hope they lock your motherfucking ass up, because you a dumb ass bitch. You a dumb ass bitch. Who the fuck is a nigger? You done lost the motherfucking life! You done lost the motherfucking money! You done lost the motherfucking money! You understand me? You are stupid! You're so fucking stupid!

How does it do with fucking swine and fucking stupid coins? I'm a coin! Yeah, you're a fucking, you're a fucking coin, dude! You're a fucking coin, you're a fucking coin! man. You're a fucking cunt. You're a fucking cunt. You're a fucking cunt, man. The best you can do, you're going to sit beside me and call him a fucking cunt. You're out of the security guard hall. You're going to get the cunt off.

Don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. So, I mean, if nothing is an example of when and where to use some of your favorite words. Being in a fucking, being on an airplane with somebody and using the N-word, right? It's not a good idea. And that video was a testament of knowing when you should have shut the fuck up. Some people don't know when to shut the fuck up. They're never going to know when to shut the fuck up. Oh, pizza.

Pizza. Yes. Oh, I know when it's, look, you want to shut the fuck up. Anytime. I know when women shut the fuck up. You can just leave it right there. Women shut the fuck up when the food is around. But this, okay, I'm hungry too.

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