Donnell - The DILF Master

Episode Date: January 28, 2022

The Donnell Rawlings Show Podcast is HERE! In this episode, Donnell sits down with Angela Yee, and Yamaneika Saunders. They discuss black women, relationships, careers, and growth. Like, Subscribe & Follow Donnell on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnXf59H6e99fQpWYM5uvEQw?sub_confirmation=1 Website: http://www.donnellrawlings.com Follow Angela Yee  @Angela Yee  http://www.TeamYee.Tv Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/AngelaYee Follow Yamaneika  @Yamaneika  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChnT0XLJ8dFaMgKlbFNd2XA  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yo, what's up everybody? This is your boy, Don Air Rollins. If you're tuned in right now, if you haven't already subscribed, because I've had issues with people watching the show, but you're not hitting the subscribe button. I'm selling myself, not selling my soul. Hit the subscription button, hit the notification button.

I'm gonna be at Caroline's on Broadway. That's January 27th through the 29th. I'll be at the Improv in Ontario, California the 4th through the 6th. And February 24th through the 27th, I'll be at the Baltimore Factory Comedy Outlet. Make sure you tune into Everything Donnelly & Rollins, the website, and everything. Now, let's have a show. Fuck out bitch ass nigga you'll never take my place you dicker Thank you. I'm not the whole narrative. I've heard a lot of people talk about my podcast.

Are you talking during the goddamn podcast? What's up, Melissa? Everybody says hi. Okay, first off. We're coming to the grill tonight, okay? All right, hey. Is it a live band or no? Yes.

Oh, okay, we'll be there. I need to meet up somebody. Okay. Who you got over there? Get some fine men that like BBWs. You know what I'm saying? I'm available. Oh, I'm sorry.

All right, we're doing the podcast. All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is your boy Donnie Robinson, a.k.a. the Dill Master, the most respected man in comedy. Turn the oil on. The most respected man in comedy, and I'm addressing the situation. I've heard through some of the comments that Donnell has a lack of diversity in his show. Donnell don't really be fucking with the black chicks like that.

Yeah, that's facts. And let me tell you something else. Hey, excuse me. I'm starting over one more time, all right? No, you ain't got to start over. Let's do this from, you the realest nigga in comedy. This is the realest shit right here. And what are you saying?

You know, I'm on there now, but you just put me on there because you got tired of hearing I'm going to address that later. I'm going to address that later. Are you going to introduce us? I'm going to introduce you. This is how I do my show. When I come do you a show, I don't do this to you. And when I do your lives, I don't do this to you. All right? What we're going to learn

today is that y'all are going to learn to be obedient. Okay? Whoa! I know you did not just tell black women to be obedient. All right. What we're going to learn today is that y'all are going to learn to be obedient. Okay. Whoa. I know you did not just tell black women to be obedient. All right. I mean, listen. Listen. This is what I want to say. Oh my God. I'm addressing situation. Some people try to say that I have

lack of diversity with my podcast. Some people say, what's my issue with positive black bitches? Women. Women. Women. Women? And I don't have an issue. I love my sister as much as I love everybody else. So let you know that my level of...

It extends to the rainbow of people. Yeah, I mean, nigga, why you put your mask back on? Because the niggas sound like a nigga with COVID. You know what I'm saying? Like, all that shit. He did have COVID bad times. First off, I'm a two-time survivor, okay?

Twice? Yes, how many of you times? That's because you be messing with these white bitches all the time. They have COVID, straight up. White women get COVID and they know

they gonna survive it. So what are you saying? I'm just saying they out here in these streets. Okay. You know? They like, oh, what? It's killing old So what are you saying? I'm just saying they out here in these streets. Okay. They're like, oh, what? It's killing old, fat, black people. I'm good.

Meanwhile, I'm over here like I got to hide because COVID see me and start licking his lips. No, no, you don't have to. I'm about to get this. But you do have an affinity toward white women. I don't think affinity. I'm just saying that I embrace the love from everyone. Okay.

It just so happened in my past that for some reason the numbers have been equal. But I respect Amy. I respect Becky. I respect Letitia. Letitia. About three Kims. Why we got to be only Letitia?

We name Amy too. Yeah, I know a black Amy. Black Kims. If you know a black Amy, they went to an all-white school. I went to an all-white school. My namemm. I went to an all-white school. My name is Yamanika. Okay, Yamanika. Good point.

Yeah. Okay, back to my intro. That's going to take about five, ten minutes. I just want to let everybody know. I have positive women in my life. And on my show, Yamanika, you want to say anything now? What do you want to say? I just want to say it's a blessing to be here.

You know what I'm saying? God bless everybody that's participating in this. Your life must be at a real pinnacle you know i'm saying if you tune into this every week or however often you decide to do this damn and on my left i have a good friend of mine for over 20 years angela yee you know her from you know her from the breakfast club you know for all the positive black women stuff she's an entrepreneur she's an entrepreneur. And you are positive. Yeah, you are positive. Beautiful speech. You represent essence. Okay, this is my show. Can we be clear and have an understanding?

Why can't you give me a compliment? I was giving you a compliment. Yamanika just wanted to say that. That was nice. Thank you. Yeah, anytime. And then they wonder why. But, you two, two of my favorite people in the whole world. Thank you.

For different reasons. Not the smart remarks. Not the disrespect. I give you so much love. I smile at you so many times. You know, I actually spend my time trying to be a better woman for you. You do that. Yes, I do.

You do that. I listen to Kevin Samuels. He said I'm a low value, low rent bitch. I wasn't going to get to that. I'm on a low. You do that. Yes, I do. You do that. I listen to Kevin Samuels. He said I'm a low value, low rent bitch. I wasn't going to get to that. I'm on a low, I'm obese. I got cats.

I'm over 25. I love cats. I love cats too. I like pussy like the next person too, but that's not what we're talking about. I just want to say, before you continue, I want to give Yamanika some praise

because I have seen you doing your work. Yes, I'm working out. I was like, I can't even do that. She being there, I don't know. I've seen you doing your work. Yes, I'm working out. I was like, I can't even do that. She being there, I don't know. I've seen you do your work on every level. More so on the business side of it. But now,

lately, you've made a true commitment to living a different life, healthier, whatever, and taking care of yourself. And I watch you in the boxing gym and I say to myself, I'm watching you and I see you get your skin. You should beat your ass. No, I'm saying to myself, she's going to need all this because as much shit she talk, she going to have to be able to whip somebody's ass.

Do you do yoga? I don't do yoga. We should do that together. I think you'll like it. I would love that. You know why I stopped doing it was because- Y'all going to yoga? Y'all know who go to yoga, right?

Who go to yoga? White bitches. We know you know. Yeah, but they didn't start that. They co-opted that, but that's not they start. You know what I'm saying? but they didn't start that. They co-opted that, but that's not they start. You know what I'm saying? White women didn't start yoga? No, but I will take yoga from a white woman.

You know, because they're very studious. Right. You know, they know all the stuff, but that's not where it originated with white women. This is what I was trying to make. She said she recognized your hard work. I recognize your hard work. You've been a student and a participant as a, not participant, a student, because we always learn it.

For what? 20, how many years? In comedy? Yeah. 23 years. 23 years. Yeah, I started as a teenager. And I'll just say this.

The first time, not knowing anything about you, because I wasn't on the New York circuit for a while. I moved to California. I think the first time I ever saw you, it's you, I don't get impressed by too many comedians, whether they're female or male, period. He doesn't. Because I think a lot of people, like, just not the real deal. Not too often did I see a comic on stage that blows me away.

Wow. And I'm telling you, when I say that, I mean, like, the type of person where you think about getting into management. Right? Wow. I was like, I'm telling you, first time I saw you, and I said, and this was the most positive way I could say it. I said, this bitch funny as shit. And just because normally when you see a female comic, that's always, no, I'm just telling you my truth.

Okay. It's always like, men ain't this, men ain't that. Their point of view is always from a relationship, right? And the thing that I appreciate about your stand-up, it wasn't that it was observational. It was like whenever I could see a female comic, the joke she told, male or female could have done it, I'd say they had a special place.

And I said to myself, man, you know, this is a question we always say. You ask, like, why don't I know more about her? And this is a crazy thing because time is everything. Why isn't she so-and-so? Not to judge anything or where you was. And you asked that question. And we had a conversation a while back.

And you were very frustrated. And you get frustrated a lot. I do. And even though you talk shit about me, when you're frustrated, you call me. I do. And you said, Donnell, why is it that I've been doing this for so long, I've done so much, and then you got these motherfuckers, and I know who you're talking about, the social media people,

the people probably that may have taken advantage of what social media can do to their career, and you said, why am I not at the same place? To which I said, what? I forgot. Ah, shit. I told you. What a moment.

Because he says a lot to me. I think I know you said number one, timing. Right. And one of the things that resonated with me is, you know, I started very young. So I had to grow into who I am now. And I think I get better. And I am learning. And I continue to grow into who I am now, and I think I get better, and I am learning, and I continue to learn, and I talk from a place now

of where I am and how I feel and how I feel that that can connect with people who are also feeling that way versus what I think people want to hear from me. So you're saying that we all, a lot of times, we have issues in life and you think you're alone, and that's the reason why you don't try to get help that's why you don't talk to other people do you think that there are a lot of people that share share the thoughts of you or you're just alone in your

thoughts yeah no i i think a lot of like it's funny you talk about relationships because i didn't i wasn't invested in relationships right so that's why i didn't talk about them a lot although when i did the nasty show for Netflix it was all about like sex you did a nasty show you did a degenerates I did you've done like this why I know you but this is why I know that You're about to pop because it's what it's you you've been lumped up with a group of people you've done these shows Where's like so-and-so presents the women of the women and I know it's gonna be it's only a matter of time before is just Standalone and do your shit yeah um it yeah because I've been I've been blessed to be around a lot of really great comics and I've been blessed with the opportunities that I've had

they have come from comics you know it may not necessarily be industry so much or the people may not know me so much but people who work with me who are you know from donnell to to chay to amy like really great people have been like yo i want to rock with you because they appreciate my work and that's the thing that you know i'm always appreciative of you know the work speaks for itself though because when i seen yamanika when we had you on the breakfast club the first time i thought you were so amazing. And then I was like following her. And then we did that Master Your Comedy.

And I really, really, really wanted Yamanika on it. But timing wise, it didn't work. But I was like, man, because we didn't know each other that well. So I went through a lot to like go through other channels to try to make it happen. I appreciate you so much because when I went on The Breakfast Club the first time, it's such a, you know, polarizing show. It ain't all that polarizing. No, it is. I appreciate you so much because when I went on The Breakfast Club the first time, I mean, such a, you know, polarizing show.

It ain't all that polarizing. it is. It really is. It's like, she polarizes but the other niggas don't polarize. But you know what it is? There's so many people

that they watch it and like, they feel good about it. That's their vibe. It's the biggest platform. And to come in and to have that and you knew everything.

It just made me feel so good. Like, you knew everything about what I was doing. Like, you really took the time to know who I was and know me, and that just made me feel, like, you know, really, really great. What do you think is, like, for us, when we're trying to get to a certain level, we ask ourselves why we aren't here, whatever, and a lot of times the toughest thing that we have to deal with

is constructive criticism. With your career, right, and I know you've probably had some criticism. What has probably been the biggest criticism people have had about you? Well, I mean, it's something that I agree with. Don't know how to shut the fuck up. Yeah, it is. I have a tough, it's something that I also have to deal with. You have a tough time shutting the fuck up?

It's something I have to deal with whenever I'm in a relationship with somebody. There's a difference between who I am offstage and onstage. What? It's not. Yo, you better stop your acting right now. There's a difference? When I call you, you're not onstage. The first thing you say is, what, nigga?

That's who I am. Yeah, but that's no that you say is a difference it is a difference when i call you you've gotten the smiles yesterday i do not you do get the smiles you do get the quiet i have to work for the smile i have to work for the smile and the only reason i got the smile because he was telling me all this problem yeah don't know i'm in the gym i'm gonna be i don't want to Yeah. I don't know if I'm going to get down. I want to be consistent. And then what did I say?

What did I say? You was like, it's going to be fine. That ain't what the fuck put a smile on your face. She don't remember the shit you said. You don't remember?

No, no, no, because you know what it is? I remember everything he says, but then he says so many different things. He do say mad shit. And he wants me to get to one thing,

and I'm like, but the thing you also said. The smile thing. You said you want to talk about it today, so why would you act like a girl? Yeah, smile. You said you made me smile. You told me to calm down. What did we say we're going to work on? This part. Calming down.

This part. Black women, listen to me. Listen to what I'm trying to tell y'all. This. Black women? This. Specific. Specific to this part right here. Yeah. Stop it. You always got to stay ready. This is our gun in the holster. You got to stay ready just in case Cause you know I don't even wanna do this shit

No no no It's nothing like Giving a nigga your You know Because you never know When a nigga gonna switch Right So you go in

Like all happy And then you gotta get Dejected by this And then you gotta go No I just wanna go in Because you know what It is not as pleasant To go from this to this

then to start off here and then get this. Why you can't start with this? Why you can't start with that? Because a lot of niggas have you here and stay here. I don't know if I could even make that face. You don't. You don't have that in you. She has it in you. This is the thing that made you I built that in me. I moved

to New York City. I started standing when I was 16. Then I came to New York. I was in LA. Then I came to New York. Where'd you start when you were 16? Where'd you start? I started in in me. I moved to New York City. I started standing when I was 16. Then I came to New York. I was in L.A. Then I came to New York. Where'd you start at 16? Where'd you start? I started in Los Angeles. I moved to L.A. from Maryland.

I went to the L.A. County High School for the Arts. I studied theater. So you relocated from D.C. From Maryland to L.A. At 16 to pursue? Yes. So I went to, you know, it was a high school and conservatory. Your family didn't like you?

No, no. My mother was there. Oh, I thought you were just going to go. It was a high school and conservatory. I went to, you know, it was a high school and conservatory. Your family didn't like you? No, no, my mother was there. It was a high school and conservatory. I went to go study theater. They knew I needed to be in the arts because I spent a lot of time talking to myself. Or aka shit-talking business. I was in theater.

So a lot of people don't know that I'm training in the theater, classically training in the theater. That's where I wanted to be. My mother found her way into stand-up and thought stand-up would also be good for me. I didn't want to do stand-up. Your mother did stand-up? Yeah, my mother did stand-up. Really her way into stand-up and thought stand-up would also be good for me. I didn't want to do stand-up. Your mother did stand-up? Yeah, my mother did stand-up. She did stand-up. She took classes with Sandy Shore, may she rest in peace. And that was my first

instructor. That's amazing. Yeah, I had Sandy Shore and I had Norman Cohen. Was your mother good? She was good, but she got out of it. You know, she thought, my mother's a minister now. She's very religious. So, you know, she was like, God put me in it to open the door for me to see it. Oh, she religious now? Well, she's, you know.

Was it one of those forced to be religious? Because, you know, sometimes they like, oh, my God, I didn't smash so many people. No, no, no. My mother ain't. I use that as an example. No, no, no. Not Michelle. Don't do that to Michelle. I didn't say that about that. What I say, I use that as an example. No, no, no. Not Michelle. Don't do that to Michelle.

I didn't say that about that. What I say, I use that example. Sometimes women are forced. My mother be like, you have to fit my honor. You let this nigga say I was out here in these streets. My mother was not in the streets. My mother may have been on the sidewalk. Okay.

But she didn't get in the streets. Okay, that's my point. She may have went in front of the house. That's what I'm saying. And looked around. But she wasn't out in the streets. What I'm saying is, I want to be able to talk to you calm. I am very calm.

I got the Calm app. I downloaded it last night because of our conversation. I said I need to get calm. This is what I want to do first. I want to explain how you, for the most part, you resist me when I call you. You always start off nasty. Let me just say this. I'm working.

Don't say nasty. I start off real. Stank. Stank. I'm working. Don't say nasty. I start off real. Stank. Stank. No, let's say real. Stank. Okay. Started stank.

And you was like, whatever. You said, see, this was wrong with you, motherfucker. And everything. And every problem, every problem you had,

I tried to solve it. You solved it. I tried to solve it. And to the point, you said, I know I'm going to change. I said, would it be easier for me

to get to your hotel room close to the studio? He just said that. And that's when you smiled. That was because it was, you know what it is? That's nice. And this is the thing. I got millions. Yo, stop that shit.

You put a lot of money down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to lie. And I should have asked what the hotel was first. You should have. Because it might have been in Ramada Inn, knowing him. He might have sent me the jersey somewhere. But let me tell you this. You should have. Because it might have been in Ramada Inn, knowing him. He might have sent me the jersey somewhere and I'd have,

but let me tell you this. I said. Let me just give you an example of what, this is what black men want. They want black women to calm down and we always

rah, rah, rah. Let me tell you something. You can leave the show. I can take over. This is now the Yamanika Slash Donnell Rollin' E! Show. I'm just telling you,

when a black man, when a black man comes correct. Why can't it be a man? Why can't it be a man? Okay, with a man, but I'm specifically talking to you. I mean, you nigga, you light skin, you white, you, when a black man comes correct. Why can't it be a man? Why can't it be a man? Okay, with a man. But I'm specifically talking to you. I mean, you nigga, you light-skinned, you white, you not.

You black. So at the end of the day, when a black man comes with solutions to a black woman, what niggas don't understand is black women's tired. We tired of being strong. We tired of coming in thinking, brainstorming. As soon as you took that weight off of me and you brainstormed, I let you be the nigga throughout the whole conversation after that. And guess what?

I am not the average nigga that don't understand the needs of a black woman. And I know how to get a black woman to shut the fuck up. You got millions. All right? Don't start doing that. No, it's true. Let me tell you a true story. When I was on my way here and I was driving, you know I'm cheap,

so I was trying to find a parking spot on the street. And so I found one and I was on the phone with someone and I was like, okay know I'm cheap, so I was trying to find a parking spot on the street. And so I found one, and I was on the phone with someone, and I was like, okay, I just found a spot. I just paid a meter. They were like, Donnell would pay for your parking. Yeah. And I said, he would. I would.

And not to floss. Matter of fact, I took an Uber here, so, you know, here. Send me the invoice. Not to floss. I know how, this is how I feel. I know how women need to be treated. I know how I want to treat my friends. So when I said that, it wasn't trying to floss.

It wasn't like you talking about millions or anything. I got a little money, nothing crazy or whatever. But it was like, okay, I really believe that, like, everybody knows the problem. What's the solution? You have a lot of problems, and you deal in different ways. But I'm saying, especially with our relationship, I want to help you. You know what I'm saying? I want to help you. And, Angela, you know, especially with our relationship, I want to help you. You know what I'm saying? I want to help you.

And Angela, you know the same thing with me. I want to help. Now, what I want to get rid of, when you start saying, like, y'all niggas, these niggas, and so and so. Ah, that's a lot of my pedigree, though. But you got to get... You got to start with these niggas.

She generalizes. This is what I'm trying to say. This is a scenario you always hear. This is a scenario you always hear. This is a scenario you always hear. Yeah, you need to treat the queens right, blah, blah, blah. And I understand that. But the problem is a lot of these queens want to be treated like a queen before they treat their man like a king.

I'm not saying this is the case with you. But there has to be some type of balance saying, okay, to give and to get. And you can call me old school, whatever, but- The queen got to treat the king before. Because see, let me tell you something. So what came first? The dick or the egg. So now at the end of the day, okay, that's pretty much it. My egg or this nigga dick. Because he's saying he got to be a king before I become a queen. I didn't. Now, let me just say, let's just talk about chess for a second, right? The queen is always protecting the king, right?

No matter where, because this nigga can only make one move. This bitch can make a bunch of different moves. In order for her to protect this nigga, he got to put something in front of her to have protection for her. So you're protecting me before I protect you only because I'm protecting you before you protect me because you've already protected me. You understand?

Thank you, Dominica. That makes sense. What I'm saying is, I don't play chess. Right. I play checkers. You play checkers. I play checkers. I play checkers. I would jump. I just do... The biggest move I've ever made on any board game is like a triple jump. But aren't you pursuing

a woman and you're trying to woo her before? No. Now? Right now? I mean, in general. I'm pursuing, yeah, I am. Yeah, that's what you do. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. So you're really treating her like a queen first in order to get her attention. I am.

But with that said, there has to be a time that a woman understands all these things I want, I have to give something to it too. I got to make this relationship manifest into what I think my fairy tale is. You can't just assume that this guy is always gonna do this shit. When are you gonna contribute to his happiness and if he's happy, it's gonna contribute to your happiness. But why would you be with somebody that doesn't

do things that make you happy? First off, I can tell you how that could happen. I'm not making this all personal to me. I'll tell you how that could happen. I'm not making this all personal to me. I'll tell you how that can happen. Because when we first meet people, we send our representatives. We send our best version of ourselves. And then you don't really get to know it.

You don't know a person right off the bat. What you get is the shit. What women say, this time, I'm going to shut my mouth. I'm going to be so-and-so. What do men say? Men say, I may try not to be the womanizer that I am. I may try to, I think in every relationship, fair relationship, you grow to better the next relationship.

Now, that's a lack of responsibility because you know what happens? A lot of dudes think that way, right? They're like, well, I didn't treat the last five women, so I met this woman. Now I'm going to try to do something different with her. I think for men to understand, like, for you to be a great man for this woman that you really want to pursue,

or you're now giving this dedicated focus to, you need to go back and make recompense with these other women that you have trashed. And see, yes, yes. I got to go back and talk to them? Because here's very clear. Wait, wait, what you trying to say? No, no, no, no. Let me be very clear, right? Just for the women as well. This is no disrespect to the men, because I say, wait, what you trying to say? No, no, no, no. Let me be very clear, right? Just for the women as well.

This is no disrespect to the men because I say, you know what? Let me have a good day with men today. We don't have to trash men. Today. Y'all hear that? We don't acknowledge how many... The narrative is always that women go rah, rah and ham.

We don't acknowledge the women that get into situations with dudes that may either not be on their level mentally, intellectually, financially, or emotionally, right? Because I've been with a few guys who are not, they're not where they need to be,

but I see a vision for them. And in that process, I find a way to go, you know what, let me lift him up as king. Let me lift him up, let me do all that. Oh my God, you have bad experiences.

Men don't appreciate that. Men don't always appreciate it. You know what I'm saying? They take that for granted sometimes. Yamanika, Angela, this is therapy. This is how I'm going to better myself. No, no, no, this is a conversation. No, no, no, therapy.

I see somebody with degrees on the wall. That's the problem with Kevin Samuels. This nigga keep thinking he doing therapy and all he got is certificates from Chinese restaurants behind his back. So this is a conversation of people. No, when we do peer-to-peer counseling,

it's wonderful. Who is we? We're peers. So we're doing peer-to-peer counseling. We're having a conversation with one another. I feel like I'm gonna jump.

Let's not talk about counseling. I'm just saying, the thing for me is I feel like I've trained a lot of guys. Like a lot of guys that I've been with.

You mean guys that you dated? Yeah. You trained them to be in a better relationship? Yeah, to be better. How'd you do that? Like a lot of times guys don't know what to do. Like you'll be like, listen, I can't believe you've never done this before. I can't believe you don't know how to be in a relationship.

I can't believe you don't know how to be thoughtful. I can't believe you don't know how to do certain things. And I'm always like, okay. And then I feel like I have to like break it down. And they could be't know how to be thoughtful. I can't believe you don't know how to do certain things. And I'm always like, okay. And then I feel like I have to break it down. And they could be grown. They could be successful. But for some reason, a lot of guys don't know how to treat a woman. And I'm very nice in giving to not just my man, but to my friends, too.

So I already know. I never look at myself like I'm not going to be a kind person. But sometimes you feel like you're giving way more. And the person doesn't know how to reciprocate those things. And then you're like, okay, I can't expect him to read my mind, and now I have to tell you what to do. But does that make him a bad person if you don't know? It doesn't make him a bad person, but it also makes you feel like,

what have you been doing all these years? You could have been living a life. You could have been tricking on chicks. Why do you say that so easy? You could have just been tricking on chicks. You could have been a lot of relationships. Why do you say that so easy? You could have just been tricking on chicks. Have you tricked on chicks? Okay, yeah. Not in a bad way.

I didn't say it was a bad thing. No, but you know what's so weird? But people like, my definition of taking care of a woman, some people consider that tricking on them. But you're very generous to your friends, too. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? My definition of taking care of a woman, some people consider that tricking on them. You know, making sure that... But you're very generous to your friends, too. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? But like, you're a mother, like, oh, he be tricking on bitches.

Why? Because I like to treat women nice, that I'm with, that I want to make sure that they're okay. Until you get drunk. And then what I do when I get drunk. Ooh. Bitches start flying. Yeah, you start going to sleep, snowing everywhere. That was because

The dog is missing That's not it That's not it I did lose my dog I was drinking You lost your phone I lose my phone You lost your dog

You lost your dog I didn't lose my dog My dog made a mistake And went out the wrong door As teeny as she is You know you can't He wake up in the morning Like where is my dog

Has anyone seen my dog He sends a group text message Has anyone seen Maggie Yeah we were in Austin, Texas. If you don't know Maggie, Maggie's my little chihuahua. She's almost about to be two years old. Weigh every bit of four pounds. And I take her on a road with me. I took her

on a road with me. And I think, I mean, for all you Peter dog lovers out there, I think a human violated my dog. Because I went there, I was looking for my dog. She was naked. What? That's not how it happened, Angela. What happened was. She's got to see a therapist now.

She has to see a therapist. Is she shaking more? It's hard to tell with Maggie. Maggie already shaking. Well, this is an emotional dog that has supposed to be emotional support for me. But I feel like I'm emotional support for her. You have to. Yeah, but.

You came in with a trauma bond. It was an incident where she was missing for a while, and I found out Sina. What's for a while? About five hours. Don't name names. These are allegations. Sina. Dave Chappelle's tour manager, right-hand man.

Sina had my dog. I went to go get my dog, and my dog wears clothes. Her shirt was hanging off the side of her shoulder. And he didn't have a shirt on. No way. Okay? And every since't have a shirt on. No way. And every since then, she been acting funny every since then. I'm telling you the truth. A human violated my dog.

But you also, you leave Maggie out here for the streets because when I came, remember when I had to come up there to your room, she opened the door. Maggie opened the door. A chihuahua. Everybody was in their sleep. He brings her places and she be eating ribs,

fried chicken, cornered hops. That's how they get her. That's how they feed her. Yeah, they feed her anything and you can't give that little dog all of that. You can't do that.

No, no, no, no, no. She has type 4 diabetes. I am going to work to be a better dog father. I'm focused on being a good father. You better let white people hear this because white people, they may not rescue

no black kids right away, but they'll definitely come get a dog. They'll come get a dog. They'll come get Maggie from you. They rescue different from us. Black people rescue is like you go to somebody's house, you see the dogs losing some weight, and you be like, let me take that dog out and feed him. That's a rescue. White people travel.

I've heard stories of them going to different countries because they saw a story about this mutt-ass dog. You don't even know what kind of dog. The dog is a combination of Chihuahua, Dumb Woman Pinscher, Greyhound, everything. And they would save his life. Black people don't save dogs like that. Yeah, get a passport and everything for the dog. Black people don't take care of their dogs the same way. Yeah, we don't take care of the same way.

But I've had to go through sort of deprogramming when it comes to it. I have two cats. They live better than me. You know what I'm saying? They have a little apartment inside my apartment that looks like my apartment. Wow. Do they have a doorman? Well, I have a doorman, so they got a doorman.

Now, let me ask you this. Do you think that cats get a bad rap? Because I feel like people act like it's a problem. We grew up with cats, and I kind of was saying the other day, I really want to get a cat. You grew up with cats? Yeah, get a cat. Yeah, when I was young. When y'all was eating them because you have Asia.

Is that wrong? Come on, Konyo. No, I'm just saying. Cats. You better be careful because you went to a different tax bracket. Well, damn. We are in Chinatown right now. So go outside and say that.

I dare you. All right. All right. Stop Asian hate. And we right over by Chinatown, too. Yeah, that's what I'm telling you. Right outside. Okay, go ahead. What did you say about the cats right over by Chinatown, too. Yeah, that's what I'm going to tell our location. Okay, go ahead.

What did you say about the cats? But anyway, yes. The real reason we had cats growing up was because, you know, I lived in Brooklyn in the hood. Predators. Are they to eat mice? Yes. So we wouldn't have mice and roaches. That's really why.

So you don't have those things when you have cats. So that's really why we had cats growing up. But I do like cats. They're a lot easier to take care of. Yes, you don't have to walk out. That dog walking and having to talk to the other dog owner while these dogs chill is the worst. Oh, so you treat your cats. I get it now.

You treat your cats the way you treat your men. Little to no attention. And you still get the love back. That's what it sounds like. And then they like to curl up next to you. And then when they purr, they're so cute. I pay them a lot of attention. Yeah still get the love back. That's what it sounds like. And then they like to curl up next to you and then when they purr, they're so cute. I pay them a lot of attention.

Yeah. They got a house. She bought them a house. The cats don't pay attention to me. So if anything, the cats are like most of the men in my life.

You know what I'm saying? I take care of them, I feed them, I house them and then I gotta, hey, can we, you know, hug? Can we cuddle?

Yeah, Monika, you think you like the wrong guys though? I probably... You picked the wrong one. I'm going to say something honest. Keep going for the big dicks. Keep going for the big dicks.

No, no, no, it's not even about big dicks. You keep going for the big dicks. Did you keep going for the monsters? No, no, no. The monsters share. No, no, no. First of all, I'm a big girl, so if you think I can deal with a little penis, you're wrong. Now, because I ain't got time for somebody to be getting on phone books, trying to get up him.

I got a lot of butt. You got to get through the passageway. It's like Sojourner Truth. You got to make it to the other side of freedom. Now, in terms of the things I've talked about with my therapist, he has said that I like a man. Why are you doing your hand like this? Can she finish? I want to hear.

You got your hands at 13 inches. I want to hear this. You're explaining. My therapist said if I'm going to talk to a man. Yes got your hands at 13 inches. I went. You're explaining. You're going to hear. You're explaining. My therapist said, if I'm going to talk to a man. Yes. All right, go ahead. He's offended.

My therapist, I'll do it this way. Is this closer to home for you? Captain Hook, don't even do it. Is this closer to home for you? Captain Hook, don't do it. My therapist. So I talked to my therapist. What he said to me, and maybe you can relate to this i like a man that is not going to challenge

where i am and but be accessible right so it's like if he's got a build that's good because i can help him build and we can build but he's not going to tear down what i'm already i've already built real quick because like a fixer-upper yeah like a fixer-upper that's not going to challenge like okay because if i'm challenge, because if I'm really with a man on my level. You want the worst house on the best block. You know, like.

Are you going to, I understand that, but I understand building a man up, but are you going to talk shit to him every step of the way of building him?

Because some women have an issue where, okay, I'm building him up, and then they throw it in his face, or nigga, if it wasn't for me.

I don't do that. Yeah, no one does that. Women love building. Men don't like to build women. Men like to get, I'm not, most men, I won't say generalization, most men like to get a woman that's already where she is so that he can just come on and join her ride. Most women, once they get to where they are, the men that are on their level oftentimes are not available

for whatever reason. If you want to say, cause Kevin Samuels was right. And it's because I'm fat and I'm old and I'm black and I got two cats. Fine. But at the end of the day, I'm at a certain level. If I look for men that are my level, they're already taken or there's some situation. So I'll look at the clearance rack and I'll go, okay, I can, okay. All he need is a little bit of this, a little bit of that and then women just start piecing, women piece men together all the time we always piecing the nigga together. That's why I don't know, we don't have our own show on HGTV

called Flip This Nigga. We constantly flipping the nigga, constantly like, well you listen, I only got $10,000 on the budget of him I know you're going to go $20,000 over budget but can you flip this nigga? And they're going to do, we're going to say, we did the do some shoddy work and then it falls apart. We did the best we could. He still had mold in him.

I've said this before. The minute a woman makes a man feel like she don't need him for anything is the minute he don't want to fuck with him. You know, I had this in my last situation where it was like, oh, you don't act like you need me. Here, here's the thing I said to him, and this is what I think is powerful. He didn't have much common sense, so he couldn't grab this, but maybe you can. It is better for a woman to want you than to need you. Because if I need you, it's not me really seeing you.

That's in your mind. That's how we feel. Hold on a second. It doesn't matter. I'm telling you from a woman. It does matter. I'm telling you. You cannot dismiss. That's in your mind. Hold on a second. That's not how we feel. Hold on a second. It doesn't matter. I'm telling you from a woman. It does matter. I'm telling you. You cannot dismiss.

You cannot dismiss my feelings. Listen. You can't do it. In respect to your feelings. Could you put your fingers down? As a woman. Finger down. Who has a vagina.

Save it up. He is going to relate to this too because he also has a vagina. Why did you make your vagina this big? Well, you know, listen. Listen, it's Noah's Ark. I take two of anything at this point in time. I'm in my 40s. So now, as a woman, I'm telling you, a man wants to be needed by a woman because he feels like that's, yo, she need me.

And he feels like he's her lifeline. But I'm telling you, when I need a nigga, that's out of desperation. When I want a nigga, that means I'm putting in the work to be here the fear for men is when a woman needs you everybody's listening these are her thoughts

hold on okay that's fine with the disclaimer but a lot of people shaking their heads right now a lot of people not and a lot of people not a lot of bum niggas not

hold on hold on wait let me finish my point I need clarity here I need clarity here you said bum niggas? I need clarity here. You said bum niggas.

A lot of clarity here. You said bum niggas. I did say it. Now, if you say whack bitches, then it's like, oh, I'm fucked up. No, sure. I'm sure whack bitches listen to you all the time. But what I'm telling you is this. Oh, my God.

I'm telling you this. And it's a lot of spectacular bitches. I'm here. He's here. What I'm telling you is what men don't understand subconsciously, what they fear when a woman says they want them versus they need. Because if I want you, that means you have to continue to work for me to want you.

When I need you, no matter what shit you giving me, I need you, nigga. I can't go nowhere. I can't go anywhere. I can't go nowhere. And so, yeah, and that's the truth. So I was going to say this. I think ideally. You said men are controlling.

No, no, no. I was going to say ideally in I think ideally... You said men are controlling women. No, no, no. I was going to say, ideally in a relationship, two people are whole. No one needs the other person, but they both want to be there. Because I think that's the best because it's a power... They both want to be needed too.

You want to feel like... But I feel like... I understand what you're saying, but there's a point... There's a difference between needing because I've seen men who have told the women, I don't want you to work anymore.

I want to move you out to the middle of nowhere away from all your friends and family. And now you're relying on him because you're not making your own money. So he's going and doing whatever he wants because you need him. But it's way different when you guys are both bringing everything to the table, you know, and, and I'm not saying if a woman is at home working because they have children, they, she's, you know, holding down a house that's still working. Right. And he does need her for that also. So I just think that need is a really strong word.

I never want to feel like if you leave me, what am I going to do? But then you empower yourself and you're independent, so you don't have to deal with that. Yeah, and I'm happy about that. That's why for me in a relationship, I always make sure this is what I want my man for. To be able to, when something happens, he's the first person I call. Where I'm like, what do you think about this? This happened today.

I had a tough day. You know, things like that are important. One thing I will say, though, that's tough for me is that guys will always be like, I can't get you anything that you can't get yourself. I never know what to get you. You're the hardest person because everything you want, you just go and get it anyway. And that's when being thoughtful comes in and creative. For the most part, You're dating and whatever.

It's pretty much on and off, whatever. And you're in a relationship. Being in entertainment, and I know that you can be very intimidating because a guy will be like, what can I do? But what makes your relationship work? Is that we don't really talk about like work shit like that. You know, I work all the time. So when I'm not working and when I'm in my relationship, unless it's like something that I want to bounce off of him or an idea that I have or he, you know, he's really helpful and supportive.

And even like no matter what, he'll be like, you were right. You this, you that. Like he always in my corner just being super supportive of me. Anything I need, anything I say, he's always on my side. If somebody does something fucked up, he'd be more mad than I am about it. I'd be having to calm him down. I'm like, wait, hold on, calm down. What's the sexiest

trait a man can have? Consideration. So a nigga can be fine just being considerate? I've been trying to be fine my whole life. Intelligence, I would say. Just like men go through cycles, women go through cycles. I've been trying to be fine my whole life. No, no, no. I think, you know, listen. Intelligence, I would say. Just like men go through cycles, women go through cycles. So I think this whole idea that women want somebody

and we're just looking at the aesthetics of the man and not really looking at the essence of him is incorrect, especially the older you get. If you look at the track record of the dudes that I've dealt with, when I've fallen in love with them, they have become finer to me. I didn't start off with them being fine in my book, like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's not me. I'm one of them niggas. But then when you fall out of love, they ugly as hell. No, I'm one of them niggas. I remember like, you go, oh, yo, yo. What was I thinking?

I'm one of them mental fine dudes. No, you both. Don't start posturing and trying to get compliments out of us. There is something very sexy about you. The problem with you is

the problem is with you is you don't know how to stop texting people going, shut up, nigga bitch. That's the shit that you like. I didn't say no nigga bitch. You just texted me

nigga bitch yesterday. I didn't call you. I said, the way I say it. You did say it. The way I say it. You might have. Shut up, nigga bitch.

No, but that's our inside joke. We be playing with you. It is inside joke. We don't cut that out. We ain't gonna cut that out. But go back to the fine part. Don't cut it out. Go back to the fine part.

No, don't cut that out. I'm feeling that shit. Now, I was telling him the other day, one of my friends was like, yo, Donnell looks good with that salt and pepper beard. Yeah, he do look good. But let me tell you something. That's the setup. That's the setup.

Whenever, I'm gonna tell you if it feels like it, whenever a woman call your beer salt and pepper, they got their eyes on you. Oh, yeah. Because you say, she says, so I said, who trying to go? She wouldn't tell me this, but salt and pepper

is a whole different level. Yeah. And it's salt and pepper until you get to an argument. And once you get in an argument with your old ass, gray ass beer. Oh, gray ass, standing for the sun ass nigga.

When are you going to die that? Angela, a lot of people got to know you from Shade 45 when you was working with... Oh, can we just switch gears? Yes, switch gears. I like this whole... I like this whole...

Okay, okay. No, I'm saying like... Yeah. Because it's interesting, like people know you on a certain level for the most part and no disrespect,

people know you from the Breakfast Club. That's the platform and with all of us, we can be doing all we want to do our whole career, but it's one platform that people get to see everything. People know you for the most part from the Breakfast Club. But before that, you was at Shave 45. And before that, you were in the business.

But a lot of people don't know that, and correct me if I'm wrong, where you are right now in your life, you never saw the path that your life was going. You never saw you being in media, entertainment. This is something you always thought of. It just happened by chance. It just happened by chance. I mean, really, when I was in school, I thought I was going to be a teacher for a little while. And I did this whole, you know, education courses.

And I actually did, like, some teaching, fifth and sixth graders. And then after that, I was like, okay, I'm going to be a writer. So that was my goal when I graduated. I was like, I'm just going to get a nine to five, and then I'm going to write in my spare time. And then after that, I ended up getting a job working for Wu-Tang because I had interned there when I was in college, and that kind of started my whole path.

And just real quick, you guys know Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with. Continue. He loves Wu-Tang. And so that's really how it started. And so after that, it was just a lot of opportunities came my way. And then radio was something when I was working for Eminem's clothing. Well, I was working for the GZA. I was managing him.

And actually, I know you know this, but the first ever episode of the Chappelle show, GZA was the musical guest because I booked him. Yeah, on there. And I remember when you was in the fashion world, me and my man Mark Deerball, because we had no money. We had no money. And she would get us clothes and shit. We was like fat farming shit.

I was like, yo, nigga, we nice. I used to lace them. I actually used to give Eminem clothes before when he first got started because I worked at these clothing lines. My job, I did marketing and product placement. I knew a lot of people from dressing people, giving them clothes and things like that.

Then when I was actually at the premiere for the Chappelle show, I was sitting there and Eminem's manager was sitting. Paul Rosenberg? Yeah, Paul Rosenberg. That's actually how I started working for Eminem. We were at the premiere, and he was like, yo, I wanted to talk to you about hiring you. We're starting a clothing line. And it was at the Chappelle Show premiere.

And so then the next day they called me. I started working there. And then when they started the radio station, Shade 45 is serious, I started working there on the morning show. Okay. How does that happen? How does that happen? How does that happen? Like What

What I Hearing you on the radio I see the quality that You know We fall in love with you But what was it That made them go from

Alright clothing To now We want her to be A personality on radio Well I have a Marketing background I was really trying To work in marketing

And so they had Just started the morning show With Sypha Sounds And And so they had just started the morning show with Sypha Sounds. And so they were looking for, like, they wanted a woman to be his co-host. And so Paul was like, when I asked him about the position that was open in marketing, he said, why don't you audition for the morning show? Oh, wow. He had a lot of, that's such a huge compliment.

Well, he said audition. He was definitely like, they're not going to, I can't guarantee that you'll get hired. I think you talked to me about that, too. You was like, they want me to. And not to cut you off, but you know I have ADD. It's just so weird to see that transition for somebody that didn't aspire to be in it. Because most people in this business, entertainment, I remember I used to stand in front of a mirror and I always wanted to be a star and so you know it's so crazy to hear going from being in the clothing part to like

yeah that's how it really is but you know one thing I will say that I learned from all that is no matter what position you're in or what you're doing you don't know where you'll end up and so I do feel like a lot of people that I worked for when I was younger I was a really hard working person like first in the office, last to leave, always above and beyond. And so those things do leave an impression on people. So you never know where somebody else that you work with early in life is going to end up. It could be 10 years later and somebody's in a position and they remember when you were somewhere. I'm raising my hand on my own show.

And I'm explaining the importance of that because I and I look at the MTV VH1, right? And I notice, I'm an older guy. I've been doing it for like 27 years. And I'm like, you gotta,

like these interns and these people that you meet, you can't treat people like shit. Yeah. Because those youngins are gonna be,

I'll give you an example. Paul Richie, who was the head of VICOM or MTV VH1 or whatever when he had this position he probably was like in his early 30s if that, like young guy up there and I'm like, I'm looking at his

age and looking at how long it was, Chappelle's show I'm like, this dude had to be a teenager that's a fan of the show now he's in a second position where he can look out for you. And for younger people, I will say you got to work hard. Because I do feel like when I was a young intern, I was doing everything they asked

me to do. Going to get dry cleaning, you know, for somebody like working. But the definition of working hard is different now. Yeah, it is different. The definition of working hard. It'd be like, I was hired for that. That wasn't the job description. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's hard is different now. Yeah, it is different. The definition of working hard- It'd be like, I was hired for that. That wasn't in the job description. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's a political thing now. But not only that, I think some of the issues that, especially in our field, like the older comics, not versus, but with the younger comics, a lot of older comics have a sense that they resent the opportunities that younger comics are having when it comes to building your own platform and making yourself popular. You know what I'm saying? You hear like the old school cast,

and I never had that mindset. It's like, yeah, when I was coming up, you had so-and-so. Yeah, that's when you was coming up, but it's a different way to communicate with people. It's a different way to get yourself out there. And like, it's... You gotta adapt.

There's a difference, because I want to address that because i feel like i'm gonna i'm in the middle of that a little bit like i can understand both sides i understand the frustration of like the ogs and comedy and also the new kids what what the ogs have is all this time that they've been able to build and work on their craft and really control an audience it's something that i wish the newer kids were able to do too because sometimes, you know, people blow up, you know. Too fast.

Too fast. Or it's like, you know, I'll do shows with some people. I'm not going to mention any names, but they're like really big names. And then somebody will say, hey, can you come in and close the show out? And I'm like, well, why am I closing the show out for this person? Because they don't know how to do stand-up. So stand-up became an afterthought for them because it's like they...

Is it a big show? Because I had this argument with somebody too. Is it... I'm just saying, I had another... I won't say any names, but they was making the same argument. Yeah, they want me, and then this internet dude, so-and-so,

so they want me to so-and-so, right? Yeah. I say, I get what you're saying, but at the same time, if that person, say it's that internet guy that can get 5,000 people in a spot, you win because

they give you their platform for people to see what the real shit is. Oh yeah, absolutely. But that's also a delicate balance. I had to open up a show, I had to close a show behind somebody that really should have been the headliner because they were very, very popular. And... and yeah but niggas know heat is heat sure but they don't here's what happens that person who they already love and they're holding to this high regard is now trying

to is now doing stand-up they just assume because this person is in the realm of comedy that they can do stand-up. Stand-up's a whole different thing. So now they've watched their hero fail at doing what they came to see them do, which is stand-up. Now, you have to understand, if they don't know me, I'm coming on behind. I have to work. It's hard to build it back up. Right, because I got to clear up all this stuff because they're going to, in their minds, they're like, well, the person we came to see that's on the bill is not.

And they're also not. I'm closing and I am headlining to a certain extent. But the headliner has already gone on. So they have no idea there's a show after that's still going after this person. And then you got to work really hard. The benefit to that is you do have people going, my God, how come I haven't heard you? Like, where are you? How can I get you?

The downside of that that I had with this particular situation is this person wants to be as far away from me as possible now because people will come up and be like, well, damn, you was funnier than, you know, who I came to see. So it's a delicate balance when you're still trying to build yourself.

But my point is about the work part of it, too, because stand-up comedy still is work. Right? And I do feel like sometimes if you go into a situation where you're on a big show before you're really ready for that because you haven't worked at making sure that your jokes are learning the way that they're supposed to, that you know how to adapt, that you can bring it back, and you have some staples in your set that you know are going to work. And if you are just trying to go out there because you have a big audience, you're not really ready. So you want to make sure. And my whole point is, you do got to work.

But some people are forced into that, like, big audience. And I'll give you an example, Charlie Murphy. Right? When we were doing Chappelle's show, and it's so weird that out of all the great comics

Charlie Murphy was around, that nobody kind of encouraged him to do stand-up. So when we were doing Chappelle's show, we weren't really making a lot of money doing the show, but we was getting the platform, we was getting the eyeballs on us, but we weren't making no money.

And I was like, man, fuck that. We too popular. We got to do a tour. So I came up, Mike Berkowitz was a young agent at the time. I came up with the idea. I was like, let's do the I'm Rich Bitch tour. Charlie was popping. Bill Burr was on the show

and Bill Burr was popping but Bill Burr still was at this time and not to discredit where he is or his come up but the reality of it

at the time he probably was like a thousand dollars a weekend headliner right at that time but everybody knew he was going to blow

but I was like let's put this tour together the draws was me and Charlie right Charlie Charlie Murphy Donnie Rollins I'm the second or third lead on the show and then But I was like, let's put this tour together. The draws was me and Charlie, right? Charlie Murphy, Donnie Rollins. I'm the second or third lead on the show. And then the addition to Bill Burr, because it was my tour,

the only reason, the biggest reason, because I wanted to have a banging show. I could have had a show where it was like me and Charlie and throw anybody. It could have been anybody from the pop copy sketch, but I was like, no, Charlie's going to do his thing, I'm going to do my thing, but let's just give them some shit they're going to talk about. I brought Bill Burr on the tour.

You know what I'm saying? And we had a banging-ass tour. Charlie was emceeing. And then Charlie, after a while, he felt that he was the biggest draw to the show, which was true. Nobody's getting away from that. But it was, I know it had to be tough for him because he had to learn everything he

had to learn. In the thick of it. And sell it out. In the thick of it. No, sell it out. Like, you got like, you know, like, like for the most part, you know, a year in a game you could be considered still to be an open miker. But in a year in the game, he was torn, like selling out.

And it was tough. And I love him, R.I.P. Charlie. I respect how he stood true to himself because people was like, he ain't no Eddie Murphy. And can you imagine being one of the dopest, being compared to it? And he's not no Eddie Murphy. Well, his brother is so-and-so. And it was people used to try to tell Charlie everything. Well, you need to speed it up, maybe.

And he always was like, fuck that. I'm doing it my way. I'm doing it my way. I'll be the storyteller. I'm not going to be this person. I'm not going to be the dick and pussy joint. And he took it serious. People were very critical of him at the beginning.

But as he had more time on it, he got better. You know, I can't imagine having, like, he probably was only doing, before he passed away, tops. I went to go see him at Caroline's, too. Yeah. I think on that tour. At the beginning? Yeah. At the beginning?

I did. And it has to be tough to be related to somebody famous like Tony Rock and Chris Rock or like being Richard Pryor's son. They already come in. They come in, but... Yeah, they want to see an extension of that person. Yeah. And it's hard.

And they want to compare. And the thing I wish we had a little bit more in stand-up is like grace. Like I did a show last night. I did two shows. i don't host anymore but i hosted with cypher we did uh for mint comedy and they just have really great amazing shows and they shot the mustafa yeah mustafa doing his thing so the set so you know the show you know whenever anytime you're taping and people feel like they're on camera they kind of clam up a little bit because they don't know who's gonna see you whatever so the first show we was able to get

him sex show i was kind of like i was like i'm done with this crowd like they don't know who's going to see you or whatever. So the first show we was able to get him. The second show I was kind of like, I was like, I'm done with this crowd. I don't want to fuck with them. I was so tired because I'm tired of like being your ringleader. So it got to a point where I had a couple drinks

and I'm working out now and I'm eating clean so I don't have the resolve to have more than one drink and not get drunk. So I got, you know. You got to get your tolerance back.

Yeah, it was a moment where I talked about I had a crush on this guy who had Down syndrome but that was my story. You know, and it was a moment where I talked about I had a crush on this guy who had down syndrome but that was my story you know and it's a true thing you know and I remember at one point I go oh I want the grace to go there with them but I'm not getting the grace I need not every moment with a comic is this pop pop pop pop pop, pop, pop. Sometimes the best parts of seeing a comic is when they are first developing an idea. I always think my first time telling you this,

that it hasn't gotten tired for me, it hasn't worn out in my brain, is me telling you in this very moment, this first time, because we're building this whole thing. But you got to have a lot of patience with that. And I think sometimes with comedy now and where it's going, people want to quit. about you're talking about the art you're talking about the

artistry of it yeah the artist and i i tell you it's so interesting because the definition me being old school the definition of stand-up comedy is very out there now and i'll tell you i was um in baltimore i was doing a show and it was this young lady. And she was like, hey, I like you. I'm a fan, blah, blah, blah, blah. And she said, I'm a comedian, right? I said, are you? I was like, yeah. I said, can you send me some of your stuff?

She said, oh, I got this YouTube clip, right? I thought she was going to show stand-up. It was these skits and shit. She was like this. I said, that's not comedy. She said, yes, it is. I was like, now I'm old school. I'm like, that's not comedy.

She said, yes, it is. Because I grew up, it was stand-up. You didn't have comedian. She said, I'm a comedian. It was stand-up. Those things don't translate from improv to stand-up. So when she pulled out the definition of comedian, one who captivates an audience

through... She did what? She pulled out the definition. Because I was telling... I've been a comedian for a while. Let me see what this is. To her point. Yeah, okay.

To her point. God bless her. I hope she's doing well. She's not doing comedy anymore, right? But the point... You didn't kill the hope for comedy with her. No, she said it's a person that

entertains an audience through humor. That might be all over the place, but she was right to what her definition of it was. To my definition of it, a stand-up comic is a person that stands flat-footed with a microphone, engages an audience through jokes that way.

Oh, she's right. Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches intended to make an audience laugh. Is that Oxford or is that Urban Dictionary? It's Google. Yeah, but the point I'm making is it's not specific to stand-up. And that's the difference. I used to be upset. So stand-up comedy is different than comedy. But when I was coming up, it was the difference. I used to be, not upset, but I... So stand-up comedy is different than comedy. But when I was coming up,

it was no difference. If you said you was a comedian, it meant you were a stand-up comedian. But now because of social media and everything, it's spread out there. It becomes mutable

for generations. One of the things that I know in studying theater... Why your voice changed when you said... She said theater. Yo, you just did it.

That's what you said in studying theater at that time Have you put a broad up in there? When I studied abroad Well it's all about do you spell it with E-R or R-E So one of the things and I'm not up my ass because I tried to do musical theater

and I realized I wasn't that obnoxious Shout out to everybody who does musical theater I'm not that far up my ass. There's a form in studying of chlamydia dell'arte. Chlamydia dell'arte? Chlamydia dell'arte.

Chlamydia dell'arte? Stop. Don't do that. I'm trying to make a point. It's a form of mask, right? So when we would have that class, and I didn't go too deep in it. I took a few classes on it. I've been deep in it.

When you take the mask from smiling to hilarious to sad to pensive, every mask that you put up, the requirement for you to get the the energy behind that mask is in no words but in body movement and placement and and possessing that character so one of the things that I appreciate that I was able to take from theater into doing stand-up when people go like oh you're so I I go yeah but I also had the training to know that it's never going to be, Yamanika's so hilarious that she can just go rock any stage. When I get on stage, I possess what comedy is and what I want to emote through that.

Very aggressive. Not aggressive, but it depends. My style changes because you've seen me. I'll tell you this. Go. Okay, I'll tell you this. Go. Okay, I'll tell you this. When I watch you perform, I'm telling you, the best I see how you can make motherfuckers like. This is what I'm telling you.

But I'm telling you the best thing. You like scaring them into laughter? No, no, no, no, no. She's like in your face. She really has been detoxing. But I'm going to tell you, the best. Oh, we're going to have a long night. Cheers.

Baby, anything. Oh, go ahead, John, now. The best thing, I like to see. Can this gorgeous young lady come in here? I know, she's very nice. Or do you need me to get up? Because, you know, once our big girl saw the Justin shit. No, she's going to help us.

She's been great. Thank you, baby. Thank you so much. The best thing, when I see you like, and I can tell you how, like, you take complete control of an audience. Like, you make them, you make them do. The best shit I see when I see you perform is like, because you come off, blah, blah, blah. When you smile. Yeah. yeah like you say the mask will you smile I'm like oh I'm like this I'm saying so it feels like a whole different person cuz she goes up there

like she's got a shield like it don't matter what you say bing bing bing and then you expose yourself then you smile I'm like oh she don't want to see that too much and then you go right back in whatever nigga yeah because there's a moment where

what people don't understand I get I'm rough she a loud bitch fat loud fat bitch what people don't understand about me is when I

where I the way I grew up I was very shelter for a very long time and it was always you present you present to the world that you have it to get like you don't nothing can rock you and that you you you know you have

is that why people have mental is that why people have mental issues no no no no no because i know you around a to talk about it all the time that's what i'm saying when you say you project that you don't have any issues is that not so much issues but like in my family we get together and we while out right when we home we all but you know my my family church we all of that we did all that but we did that as an intimate family you know we laugh and do it but when we when we present ourselves one of the things about my grandparents especially when they got in the church is, and they became pastors, is we're here as servants to other people, right? So one of the things I was always appreciative, because my grandmother kept saying I had the gift of ministry. And I remember when I was a kid, I kept saying,

I don't want that because I don't not, I never want to disrespect God by taking on something that's so, that has so much grace and humility in it and give my perception of whatever God is trying to say. So I never wanted that responsibility. And then I realized over time, my ministry was speaking to people through comedy. And we always presented like, we're here to serve you. If you're hurting, we're here to serve you. We pray over people. We, when you're crying, when you're here, I'm that friend you're going to call. I'm going to phone with you for hours. I'm going to be talking you through it. We go through all of that. What happens is when you're that when you're here i'm that friend you're gonna call me on the phone with you for hours i'm gonna be talking you through it we go through all of that what happens is when you're that kind of person especially when you come to new york city and you're you know 20 going on 21 years old people manipulate that and and especially when you're in comedy and you're a

young woman and a virgin and all these things i started getting virgins moved to new york yeah i was a virgin when i moved here i was a virgin till i was 27 years old jesus was everywhere with me but that's not the point don't let me so over time i started to move to new york i started to get i started to have guys deal with me in a way where it seemed like then i oh I can't keep being this naive. I can't keep going in this path. I can't keep trying to do what I'm doing on stage and let some dude, and I'm just saying dude because it's more men in comedy than women. When I come off stage, go, yeah, whatever that,

you know, da, da, da, da. I said, how do I stop myself from losing who I am so that I can go on stage and give people my service, right? And that was putting on a mask. When I first moved to New York at 21. Yeah, wear your mask because make sure you wear your mask. When I moved to New York at 21, and we talked about this when I was in the Breakfast Club

because I talked about how I got booed on Showtime with Apollo. That was me being very innocent, very naive, going, hi, guys, that's who I used to be. That's what happened to me. A lot of people take hits on Apollo. Yeah, but when people see, when they see that innocence there and that weakness,

and you don't know how to control it. Now, I am very vulnerable and very accessible. You are not vulnerable. Stop it. Don't tell me to stop it. Stop it. You stop it.

I'm very vulnerable and accessible. You stop it, too. You not. But what I will tell you is this. Here, you're not going to rock me because I got this here. But when I see that you respect the vulnerability that I can give, then we just move it over here. So that's when people see me on stage and I'm giving a hard point

and then I laugh. It's because like, oh, I saw somebody and I'm like, oh, we connected on that. You got it. You got that I'm not really hitting you like this I'm just telling you how I protect myself everything I talk about on stage is

how I've been hurt and I protected myself from that what I notice that hurts me and I protected myself and then oh you saw it so there you go

we got it and then we put it back up that's very relatable for people too it is it's all about it's all about I don't

I come off rough because I've had to protect myself so many times. But people know, like, if you sit down with Yamanika, it's not, we not having rough times like that. Now, Yamanika is a separate person. No, no, no. I will say, you might not know if she likes you or not. You might not know. That's the Scorpio thing, boy.

I read, I read the room. No, no, no. Yamanika. People always think that. I don't talk to a lot of people. I want the truth, man. You got the truth, baby. Every time.

Come on. Every time. Am I going to call you a dumb nigga, bum nigga? Yeah. But I love you. In the first sentence of me calling you, I called her one time. I called her off guard. I think I said, I love you.

And she had a fuck you nigga already lined up. What'd you say back? I said, I love you. You know what? Donnell tells me he loves me too. You know what I say? What I love you, and she had a fuck you nigga already lined up. What'd you say back? I said I love you. You know what Donnell tells me he loves me too? You know what I say? What? Thank you. Yeah.

You ain't ready to go there with him yet. No, she done. And that go get me my next shit. No, I say that to Donnell because I'm going to be honest with you. Donnell, I can't. If he decides tomorrow to slap me down a flight of stairs, I have to go. You know what? I just have to let him have it.

Because the way he came into my life and the things that he has done for me and the way he has thought about me and been so – I cannot thank him enough. He's like my big brother. I love him so much because sometimes people see you can do stuff and then they run away from it. He said, no, bitch, I can meet your energy and we can meet energy. And I never have to tailor myself down to be around him. I don't have to tailor my comedy down.

He go right behind me doing the shit that I do, and he ready to rock. Some people like, yo, don't say da-da-da-da, don't do da-da-da-da. He let me go all the way to 1,000, and then he gonna go to 1,010. You know what I'm saying? When you was going through your thing,

I told you, you know what this is? I said, because we hung out, especially when I hung out with her, and we hang out, and I could say, you said, I said, bitch, you need more of me in your life. You did say that. I did say that. But I will say this, what else Donnell said after that night. What? You remember you guys were at my house, Donnell was trying to take a quick nap.

And she kept talking? That's what he said. Yeah, she said. He said, this will shut up, though. She told me that. I keep telling you this all the time. I was. She said, yeah, and this nigga.

She said, and he fell asleep, and we was having a good time in your house. I was like this, boy. She was going. It was just. But that's one of the reasons why I say you need more media. Because just, I believe that you just be around positive, good people. And that's good because I do think, like, first of all, I love to see that. I love seeing you when we were in Charlotte.

Yeah. And Donnell was taking a special. And Angela's just awesome. And he felt so. Angela's so amazing. He felt so comfortable having you there. Yeah. You know, and I think things like that help because that was a really big night for you.

Oh, you want to tell me the drama before that really big night with her? I was, I told her, I said, I'm going to do my special. I said,

I want you to be there. She said, I got you. Then she started saying, then she started saying, I need you to talk to my people. She did.

She gave me people. She said, no. She said, it wasn't like that. It wasn't like that. Tell me the truth. I don't know. She said, I don't

know. I have a busy schedule. I did have a busy schedule. And nigga, I move shit around to come there, P.S. But the other thing with my people is like this. I say yes. I say yes to something. And then they schedule it. And then they schedule it. But more importantly, they go, why do you keep just saying

yes to your friends? I said, because, nigga, that's my friends. They're like, well, we have to get involved. So they got involved. But I want you to talk about the night. No, no, no. Stop pointing at me. I'm going to tell you my side of that. You said my people.

And he was like, yeah, Donnell, I don't know if this is serious. I haven't heard from anybody. He was a liar. I didn't say that. Donnell go, it'd be a day and a half before you're supposed to be somewhere. He's like, bitch, I got you. What does that mean? Coming from me?

What does that mean? People don't operate like that. You know my schedule. My calendar is full. You got to tell me two weeks in advance you got me. Wait, I told you once I get the dates, you're on it. You did tell me that. And then it disappeared like dark wind duck. And I didn't see him no more. And then he was like the dates, you're on it. I told you. You did tell me that. And then it disappeared like dark when dark.

Yeah, but I didn't see him no more. And then he was like, bitch, you ready to go? And I'm like, nigga, we ain't talk since Eon. Yes, we did. I mean, we talk, nigga. We talk as niggas. We didn't talk about. No, I'm going to say Donnell does it the first.

Who am I supposed to talk to? When I came. No, no, no. He will do it the last minute. He'll wait till the last minute. And he don't know where you staying. He don't know where he staying. He don't know where he staying.

No, no, no, no. We talked as niggas. We kept, no. We talked as niggas. We kept talking, but we talked as niggas. We never then talked again as business. Okay, because obviously you didn't know that I don't do nigga business. I do real business. And with the point I was trying to, obviously you didn't think I was one of these average niggas. I'm not.

What I was trying to say, the best situation, when I say I got you, no matter if your management disagreed on a price or accommodations, whatever you needed to be happy, I was going to do that away from what they... I would say maybe she didn't want to handle it, though, because sometimes if you're busy and you'd rather let somebody else take care of it. Let me tell you something. Once I get involved

with my friends, I let people take over. Because people also feel disadvantaged when you have so much access to them and you just start calling about everything. You was taping something fucking major.

You think I got time to keep calling you and worrying you about some shit when this nigga can just talk to your nigga and these niggas can get it together?

And that's what happened. And I told you, even if I had to sleep on the floor at somebody's hotel room, I was going to be fucking there. Did I?

Did I say that? Okay, if you say, can we talk? If you say, you don't have the slippers on my floor or whatever, and I say, I got you, that means I got you. This is why it's also, as much as I love him, working with white comics is like this. And I hate to do white, black comic. Uh-oh. White comic.

I'm already booked in 2025 for some shit that a white comic want me to do. This is, all this last minute nigga preparation, barbecue, get the paper plates, shit is hot. Yo, don't do that. Don't.

Ooh, you so unfair. I would call Donnell spontaneous. I would call him spontaneous. Y'all be making me yell. Yeah, you know what? Donnell's very spontaneous. Let Ye put your LinkedIn together

because nigga, you'll buy your website anything but that. Angela Ye did, okay, I understand what y'all said. I had to put my head on. You said it, when we did Austin, it was the most

organized, well-run, it was your birthday week. Yes. It was organized, it was well-run. All of your chicks. It was? Yeah, it was. It was very organized. And he had a part in it? Yeah, it actually would have happened if it wasn't for Donnell, to be truthful. No, I made it short.

I made it my business. Even when we was talking about the rooms or whatever and I said this, they was like well, it's um, because this was COVID started popping and I was like well, I just know this. Angelina's coming with her crew and I told everybody I

need them to be good on every level. It's like, well, so and so, we have these rules. I was like, okay, I understand your rules. But they're not going to apply to her. That's my sister. That's my sister. I make sure they. Then everyone got COVID.

Yeah, we got. It was like. They're like, yeah. I mean, ride or die. Y'all said y'all was ride or die bitches. Are we riding or dying? What are we doing? But mean, ride or die. Y'all said y'all was ride or die, bitches. Are we riding or dying? What are we doing? But no, it was amazing.

And I made it my business, not only for me to treat them. We took a rapid test out of the back of somebody's car. I'm not even going to say nothing. Like, I was like, nigga, you got rapid tests in a Cadillac? And that's the nigga shit I'm talking about.

It wasn't no room. I don't do that, dog. Nigga, I did. Before we went into the restaurant, it was a nigga inga, I did. Before we went into the restaurant, it was nigga in a Cadillac before we went to the after party.

He told me, hey, come get the COVID. I said, nigga, do I know you? You selling jewelry? You giving out COVID for your special? We went to the after party.

You had to get tested there? I had to get, oh, this nigga didn't trust me. I was getting tested. Why did you get tested there? And that's the other reason why I got COVID. First off, first off, first off.

Yo, I got, thank God I had the boosters and the vacs, honey. Because when I tell you COVID was trying to take a carve out of my lungs, honey. You know what COVID did? It shut you down for two days. Niggas, no. She went talking for two days. They was like, something up. Yo, when her mouth stopped, they was like something up yo when her mouth stopped

they was like oh yeah the whole world went dark I'm gonna we're gonna wrap this up soon but I make this argument I always treat you you do

and your friends the best I can now I'm gonna say this I know I have no problem if I tell Donnell I need something it might be last minute he was like

you can sleep in the RV. You remember that? When I came to yellow, I don't know where you're going to stay. We're going to figure it out. But he definitely had me. We had to share beds and everything. He was in the bed with Austin. Me and Jasmine had to share a bed.

But we had a good time. And everything was spontaneous. Like, oh, we having a house party tonight. But that's a different situation. I know with the special. Yeah, but that was a big deal. But this is what I do. And you're booked and busy.

Yeah, and I got to because I don't have millions of dollars. I got to say yes to everything. I know. I got millions. Yo, stop that. I have to say yes. Yo, stop that. Stephanie, y'all don't believe that shit she's talking about.

He does. No, what I'm saying is like with my friends, especially my close friends, I go above and beyond to try to make it as comfortable as possible. I love you. I love you. I didn't know what this podcast was going to be about. I don't know to make it as comfortable as possible. I love you. I love you. I didn't know what this podcast was going to be about. I don't know. Darnell, I love you.

Let's make history. Can you say you love him for the first time today? No, she going to make a joke about it. She can't say it. No, no, no. She make me feel bad. I'll be like, I love you. She'll be like, out.

Darnell, this is the past. Yee. Yes. Do you love Darnell? I do. Why you looking at her? It don't matter. She was like this.

Can you look him in the eye and say, I love you, Darnell. I love Angela. I love you. This is making history here. Don't do it. This feels forced. It's not forced. She wants to say it.

It's okay. But she's looking for the... I don't need her to say it. I know she feels it. I love you the, this is in front of the world. I don't need her to say it. I know she feels it. I love you, Donnell. I love you too. Yeah! And that's why I say it.

And I say this to people like, why this, why that? This is my sister. And if, and this is, I know people are like, yeah, but you have different relationships with different people. But if, I will have to say this,

because she doesn't dislike a lot of people. When she don't like somebody, I don't fuck with them. He really doesn't. Does that answer your question? Even if I try to be cool, I'm like, yeah. You're like, it don't feel right. Yeah, I can't do it.

Yeah, yeah. But I'm not a bad person. I'm glad that this is. We know that. I let y'all know. Danielle is about diversity. This was a conversation. I don't want to just be a statistic for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a diversity episode. Do you already to just be a statistic for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you already have the next black woman lined up on your schedule? All these white women you keep taking pictures with and target. Preach. Facts. Okay, alright. Do you got any coupons?

Do you got any coupons? Do you have any coupons? Do you have any coupons? Pull my coupon here looking like, hey, don't nobody bring me no bad news. Do you have any coupons? Pull one coupon out. Listen, I've been doing my work. All right. I can't wait.

I was going to come down to her gym and knock her ass out. You know, my stuff was really... You are killing it. All right. As at the beginning of this, you can't tell people when to shut up and be quiet.

You look good. You look really good. This is the Donnelly Rawlings show. Y'all know my phrase, a joke can be too soon, but it'll never be too soon for a funny observation. Until next time, thank y'all. This is why I don't fuck with the goddamn Breakfast Club.

Alright? Because they full of shit. It's the trifecta trio. Hate, hater, and hatist. Some people say, Donnell, are you ever going to stop trolling them? You know what they think it's going to be? Never wear the 13th, 20, 40,000. Never.

And do I think Charlamagne eat booty and play with booties? Yes. Do I think that DJ Envy is a snitch? Yes. These two are the same nigga and one nigga. Charlamagne want to be light-skinned, and Envy wanna be dark-skinned. But the thing that come together on is butt cheeks.

Like Eddie Griffith said, come together like butt cheeks. And I call them the booty club. If you wanna know more why I can't stand the breakfast club, subscribe to my YouTube channel, The Donnelly Rawlings Show, where you'll get the inside information on everything in my life and why I don't fuck with them. Did I use all my beeps? Think I used all my beeps.

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