Donnell - The Opener

Episode Date: November 5, 2021

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How do you accuse someone of being transphobic when they just shared a story on how they connected with somebody? Whatever their sex is, whatever they do with their life, they connect with somebody on being a human. The human side. Like, how could they be transphobic and not connect with the human side of that? That was it. That was the human side. I'm having a human experience. I don't want you to understand me.

Dave Chappelle doesn't punch up. Dave Chappelle doesn't punch down. Dave Chappelle punch up. Dave Chappelle doesn't punch down. Dave Chappelle punch lines. The Donnell Rawlings show live in your face. Fuck y'all bitch ass niggas. You'll never take my place, niggas. Thank you. I'm out. I might check one, two, one, two, y'all.

I might check one, two. My name is Donnell. I'm here to say that the podcast lived another day. And one thing I want to say, by the way, because when we get back on the mic, you know we go slay, hey, say, yas, to the bros and the gays, yay, say, I got bars for days, my eyes might be a glaze, you go from here to here, guess what, that's a maze, you think I'm crazed, no, I'm lased, I'm lased on the laser, there'szing on the lighter. The lighter that make you go hotter than fire. Brooklyn, put your lighters up. Philadelphia, put your lighters up. Arkansas, put your lighters up. Milwaukee. Put your lights is up. Kalamazoo. Put your wife is up. Y'all see the swag didn't change, but it's still the same. I know people like, is it a way, can you start or reintroduce a podcast and just straight fuck go at the fucking haters? Like just right off the top.

Go for it. Go for it. Shut the fuck up. You just gave up on the podcast, huh? So you're just going to leave us out? You're just going to leave us out like that, Donnell? No more podcast, really? Apparently not.

Apparently not, but it was going to be at my time, and I'm not saying it in a cocky way, but for the most part, the Donnell Rawlings show, at its prime, it was doing like right in the middle of the pandemic when you don't have a lot of things to do. There's no shows. So you have time every day to say, oh, we got a podcast tomorrow, podcast tomorrow.

And while you're doing that, you say, man, once this shit start opening up, I might not have as much time for the podcast. And you're trying not to lose interest in the podcast. I never did. I never lost interest in the podcast. It was just, I wasn't selling candles

no more son yo son let me tell you was I the biggest buyer of your candles you bought some candles everybody bought some candles it was like Oprah Winfrey buying candles you get a candle everybody get a candle

I had different sense and I'm going to revisit that and go back to it. I actually had a chandelier that was doing research to come up with the right blends for the candles. And it was successful. The lotion was successful. You know what I'm saying? The merchandise was successful. And then shit started

opening up. I was like, man, I'm about to go back to getting on stage every night, which is going to lead to something. If I get on stage every night, it is going to lead to something if i get on stage every night is going to lead to something and if i get on stage every night it's only going to make me sharper that's why i don't understand people like well i'll only work out when i'm getting ready for a special no motherfucker i'm always ready son Always ready on any stage, whether it's 50 people, whether it's 500 people, whether it's 10,000 people, whether it's 18,000 people, whether it's 25,000 people, always stand ready. But not ready to do a podcast weekly until now.

Not weekly, but I had to get with anything. Your energies start to shift for different reasons. Same thing happened in motherfucking relationship with bitches. You know? Your energy starts to shift. You start going somewhere else. Not that you don't love this, but you start going somewhere else. And things are going somewhere else. But then I was like,

something has to spark me to want to just do it and just do it by myself for the most part. So what sparked you? The closer. Ooh, let's get into it. Wait a minute. See, that's so fucking wrong, son.

How you say ooh? What was that? I just tried to understand what was ooh. Do we got to pick sides right now? I'm tired of being cool. No, that was like a happy ooh. No, that was not a happy ooh. Should I do it again?

No, I don't want you to repeat it. Your ooh was like, ooh. Like, well, well, well. Finally. And the reason I want to talk about it, and I know everybody's talked about it. Everybody's talked about it. It's been a topic of discussion in the comedy world. Everybody's talking about it. It's been a topic of discussion in the comedy world. It's, it's,

um, everybody's talking about it. And the thing that's interesting for me was that I was with Dave at the beginning of the whole piece about Dan. You know, I was on the road with him when he first discovered him. When he first was talking to her, when he felt love for her.

And I knew the nigga had love for her because the nigga pronoun game was on fire. Yo, real niggas, the last thing you're going to do is change their pronoun game up. You can't change black people's pronoun games up. It's them. It's us.'s sun i've been playing it safe for the longest time because i was like i'm non-binary nothing everybody is sun

but the fact that here's the thing this is why it's easy for me to dissect yeah what was so wrong about the outrage yeah because i was there i was there when he was touched by the relationship was how touched he was on how funny or tried to be funny she was in touch on what her truth was her truth was so much that he got his pronouns right he called her she the first sign of someone possibly not being people, are you listening? Yeah. If you're looking for signs

that person's not transphobic, then you have to look to the pronouns. And here it's pronouns on point. Right? Secondly, how do you accuse someone of being transphobic when they just shared a story on how they connected with somebody?

Whatever their sex is, whatever they do with their life, they connect with somebody on being a human. The human side. Like, how could they be transphobic and not connect with the human side of Daphne? That was it. That was the human side. Like, how could they be transphobic and not connect with the human side of that? That was it. That was the human side. I'm having a human experience. I don't want you to understand me.

Dave Chappelle doesn't punch up. Dave Chappelle doesn't punch down. Dave Chappelle doesn't punch down. Dave Chappelle punched lines. And I'm saying this as a female with a dick. You know, like it gets to a point where it's not outrageous. Like enough is enough. And then you ask someone, what are you calling for?

What is the nature? Why do you want to talk to me? Do you want to talk to people or do you just want to argue with people? What level do you operate on? Some people operate on outrage level. The only time they can be effective is when they're outraged. So they need those situations, right? But what level can you effectively communicate?

And the biggest thing that's coming out of this whole thing with the closer is that finally something is starting to create a dialogue to a better understanding. How so? Understanding that your rights aren't no no understand that your rights aren't bigger than anybody else's rights understand that you've been suppressed i've been suppressed understand that we go through the same thing because people want well which one is what which means more the part of being black or part of being gay it's probably tougher being black that would be my guess but then to be a black anchor, it's probably super tough. You know?

But we as a society are coming to the point where certain things that felt and looked weird back in the day, it don't look that weird no more. And that's just the acceptance. And this is the real issue. Like I say, the acceptance of nigga, you got an Adam's apple.

You know? Acceptance of it. Understanding an Adam's apple you know accepted of it understanding okay what you see Donnell is not what that person feels so at some point and that's where people have draw the gray line how much of it will I accept to be understanding of it to understand it

and I think that I really think that we are at a different place on the way we look at that community. 100, I worked on a project, a BET project, and it was LBGTQ third,

if I'm forgetting something, drop it in the comment box. But when I walked on the set, it was all LBGs. Niggas, I mean, LBG niggas everywhere. Nigga, they had girl, ABG boy. They had all the letters, son.

Every letter that was represented on that set. Every letter. And then they had some motherfuckers. There was going to be a new letter. It was waiting like a W or something. They didn't even use yet. They got letters waiting for you. And it felt good.

It felt good for me to be around that because I remember a time when you didn't see, only people you saw on a production set was white people, all white people. You might be like, oh, they got a black guy right there, they got a black guy right there. But it wasn't a lot. And that was even women. It was white male dominated situation.

You know? And shit, shit switches up. I listened to the whole Daphne story, man. And I get frustrated is because when you close to somebody, when you know what their level of integrity is, you know what their heart is, whatever, when someone talks shit about them and then paid them out to be the person that you know is not that person, you get defensive. You know?

It doesn't make sense. And going back, I know I'm probably all over the place but one of the things that closer has created is the opportunity for people to talk what is your misunderstanding of me why don't you understand me why don't you understand me because you don't know anything about me when i did the shit about little nas my brother called me he said i feel some type of way right about the nas little nothing what i meant by what i was thinking right you want to run that back for all the people who don't know the scenario i don't know your brother my brother i have a k brother i had to admit that I got triggered. And what triggered me was, first off, I've said it so many times before, my son is a huge fan of Lil Nas.

This is the part people miss out, right? They just, like, my son is a huge Lil Nas fan. Okay. Like, Old Town Road, son, that's how I connected with this little nigga. You connected with your son over Old Town Road? 1,000%. That was so that

birthdays, when I would bring him on stage and he wanted to tell a joke that he forgets so he'd go to his song, that was his shit. You know,

then when Nas started switching up, I just didn't know how to explain it to him. Everybody, everybody was saying, everybody was like, well, just explain it like art. I just didn't know how to explain it to him. Everybody was saying, everybody was like, well, just explain it like art. I'm like, all right, I get it.

I get art. But he was on a horse. Now he's sliding down a pole to the devil. And I'm triggered as any nigga would be. I'm like, what the fuck is you doing, son? All right, enough is enough. I got instantly triggered. I was like, yeah, how am I supposed to explain this to my son? Man, them motherfucking barbs.

First off, I didn't know that this nigga was the original barb. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's a barb. I didn't know he was a barb, nigga. Oh, yeah, yeah, the whole Nicki Minaj. I thought he was just Yaz. I didn't know he was a barb. Barb is a whole different level, son.

What do you mean? The barb community? Yeah, explain. They are vicious. Okay. They're nasty. They use a lot of syllables in their words. They are very powerful.

They won't stop. They attack your timeline, and they put clown faces and emojis and shit. They came for me one time. They're Nicki Minaj's. They work for Nicki Minaj, the Barbs. Yeah. And they came at me for like three the Nicki Minaj's. They work for Nicki Minaj, the Barbz. Yeah. And they came at me for like three days straight. What'd you do?

I said that little white chick, the one that blew up off of Dr. Phil, I forget her name. The little girl that was- Yeah, the Catch Me Outside girl. Catch Me Outside bitch, right? Woman, right? And I said something to the effect that or the reason why Nicki Minaj I'm about to be attacked again son I learned my lesson

sir they about to get me a god damn kid y'all make sure y'all go to donnaarolins.com and make sure you go to see me in the show cause this shit might not last like I thought it was going to last. Buy some candles. Yeah, buy some candles.

No, I got some other shit, but listen. They tried to cancel me, son. They was like, yeah. They was calling me a clown and putting bullseye on my timeline and shit because I said, the reason why Nicki Minaj retired,

I said the reason why Nicki Minaj retired I said Cardi B made her go into early retirement and then I said a car yo I think it was a car a car like did you know that huh you nailed it I know it and they hit him hard and they came. Like, did you know that? Huh? You nailed it. I know it. And they hit him hard. And they came after me. I was like, I don't want to fight with y'all. I fuck with y'all, man. We can all be the same.

Not on the same team, team, but we can just understand each other. But I found out that, like, the words, words, like, really mean a lot to people. And words need to be calculated. I didn't know there's a new thing out called period oh period you mean with the d and the t yeah you know that oh yeah how do you pronounce it period period yeah right you gotta if i did not know how dismissive that was i was leaving my hotel the other day and there was a lot of these women outside right and they was out there they was like, you got to check out. You got to check out soon.

Check out is at 12. I came outside. I said, so you can't do all these other rooms you want to bother me right now? Period. Nigga. Yo, I did not know. So I did like this. I said, period.

Right? And then one of them said, period, poo. Period, poo. Go to Urban Dictionary and see what it means. Yo, it's like, period. Angela, you told me if you say period and then end it with poo, it's the most disrespectful thing that you could say. Let me see if Angela, if she'll answer me.

Hold on. If this phone works. This phone's bad. Great. But yeah, I guess I'm saying all that to say, everybody, I've been all over the page. But. How is my grill? Hey, ye.

Right. I just started my podcast again right you my first guest by accident i know you don't want to be on it right but i was trying to explain the importance of period poo what does that actually mean It's just like an extra exclamation. It's not just period, but it's like period poo. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute, Seneca. Wait a minute. Period poo, right? Yeah, you got to like kind of spit the poo out. Poo, like boo, like a boo poo?

No, it's like a poo. Poo. Okay, how would I do my hands, though? It's a certain way. it's a gesture i do right what what what wait wait like poo do i stick it do my head shake at the end yeah you gotta shake your head two times oh poo. Like that? Period to the left. Period to the right.

Yep, I just nailed it. Period, poo. Yeah, I did it. I did it, son. Yo, Negril was amazing. Yeah, I just want to tell you. I didn't expect to have nobody. I'm just up here talking.

Can you hear me? I'm just here talking. I don't hear myself in the microphone. But I was just thinking about good shit that's happening. Your people at Negril was fantastic. We went in there. We had a ball. I murdered the Barclays Center.

It was like bullet, bullet, bullet. It was great, man. I'm glad you had a good week. A good couple of weeks. Yeah, I had a good couple. Oh, man, there's more to come. There's more to come. I'm not going to lie. I don't like when you have fun and I'm glad you had a good week. A good couple of weeks. Yeah, I had a good couple. Oh, man, there's more to come. There's more to come. I'm not going to lie. I don't like when you have fun and I'm not there.

Yo, you don't understand. I felt like it wasn't right. I stopped having some fun thinking about you. Guess what? The oil wasn't back on, son. They didn't put the oil on, but they gave me some oxtail. We had a great time. All right, guys.

And guess what another thing son y'all know how y'all which is women be trying to go places don't tell me right right so ricky unbeknownst to me unbeknownst to me ricky is going to i found out she going to Cancun the same time I'm going to be in Cancun and she didn't want me going to girls trip then I'm about to invade her whole fucking

birthday weekend for Fuzzy wait are you serious nah don't fuck with me I got excited are you really why you do that shit man Wait, are you serious? No, don't fuck with me. I got excited. Are you really? Why you do that shit, man?

Yo, Yee, that's one person. A lot of people, you're one person. You can't do that to me. You can't do that to me. You can't get me excited like that. I'm tired of that in my life, getting excited to get let down. You can't, don't do that to me no more. All right?

But I'm definitely going to see you in New York for the untitled documentary at the Garden, right? And I know we're supposed to have some plans to do something else. I don't know what it is, but I'm excited. All right, nigga, I don't threat you with a good time. Let's go, nigga. Listen I'm on vacation that whole week too Don't play with me Nigga I Don't threaten you with a good time Let's go nigga

Let's go Potters of Vance Oh here's my new theme song Bitch don't kill my vibe Bitch don't kill my vibe I am a sinner That's probably gonna send Listen to what?

Is it? How much seconds? Period po probably gonna send a listen to what is it how much seconds period poo period poo I'm back like crack cocaine put in a pot of water and soda and thrown on flames I'm so excited man I'm always happy to talk to you girl I was

I was just talking to these niggas, but I'm still mad at them niggas getting mad about Dave in the closer. Let me get that shit off my chest and then I'll go back to that shit, but I'm still mad at them niggas too. Because they mad at me and I had nothing to do with shit. Days.

Dems. What? I did the right pronouns What the fuck else do you want me to do Alright I'm sorry y'all Is that the right pronoun Let me get off No I'm sorry y'all

Y'all know what I'm trying to say Man one love I'ma see you soon ye Alright Alright love ya Have a good day See that's a real bitch right there Always answering my call I love her. Have a good day. See, that's a real bitch right there. Always answer my call.

I love her. But period, poo. The moral of the story is go hard or go home. That's just, that's just, that's just, I think my rule of life, go hard or go home. Do you feel like comedy has gotten too soft now? Not too soft now not too soft i mean a lot of people don't want to speak their voice they don't want to be who they really want to be they're afraid because they're worried if who's going to not like something or if i'll uh

will they approve of this will this cost me this amount of money it's a lot of those things that stop people from being who they really are. But I think the real ones are going to stay true to who they are. You know, Bill Burr, they didn't have a waiver. Chris Rock, those guys. Motherfucking, what's that England motherfucker? Jimmy Carr. Jimmy Carr.

It's a lot of names that just said, this is who I'm going to be. You know? And it's not like, this is the thing. People are going to think, oh, you got the whack comments. It's going to be like, oh, so now I'm going to say whatever I want to say. But you still have to be saying something. You know, you can't just, freedom of speech, you can't just want to exercise that with stupid thoughts.

That's when it gets convoluted and fucked up. Yeah, but that was some asshole shit you just said. You gotta, the toughest thing in this business is doing what the next man won't do. But if you can, you will win. It's always a scenario where everybody chose this,

but this guy chose something different. And I'll give you a perfect example. It just happened to me recently. I'm doing a Martin Lawrence lit as fuck tour. And I'll give you a perfect example. It just happened to me recently. I'm doing a Martin Lawrence lit as fuck tour. And I got dates. It's probably like an 18 city tour.

I think I got five or six dates. I have Houston coming up. I have Dallas coming up. I think that's going to be the end of the run. Right? So we did a show in Philadelphia the other day.

Shout out to everybody. Hit the stage. And the other day, shout out to everybody that hit the stage. And I got off stage in Philly and the next stop was Brooklyn. And I wasn't wanted, show. And I said, hold the fruck, my Brooklyn started coming out. The fruck, hold up, what the fruck, what up nigga? Fruck Brooklyn nigga. I looked at oneuck? What up, nigga? Fruck Brooklyn, nigga.

I looked at one of the promoters. I was like, Brooklyn. What the fruck? What up? He was like, what did you say? I was like, why am I not on the show in Brooklyn? Right? He was like, yeah.

But I was like, no, son. Son. Son. Son. Come on, son. Son. I'm saying to myself, who is more Brooklyn than me on that journey and the point I was making was

when I first moved from D.C. I lived in Brooklyn that's most of my career yeah I was only there for nine months when I came up here most of my career

was Brooklyn I've seen it go through the transition of that area where the station was like train tracks right and it was like

some shitty houses little communities. I see it get gentrified. And I see, I saw them selling. The white people just started knocking shots away. Right? And then they built the whole stadium. And I used to, right in front of the place,

there was an open mic comedy spot I used to go to where Yassine Bey used to go. Fucking Talib used to go. Jessica Care Moore used to go, right down the street. I'm like, y'all in Brooklyn, I'm not on the show? And then I said, fuck that.

I looked at the writing space, I said, I'm coming. That's what I said, sir. I said, I'm coming, I'm coming. They was like, well, what, what, you know, that, that, you can't just say you're coming, that means money, right?

I said, I'm coming. I said, they was like, but you know the budget. And it makes sense. Tour's at the end of it. Niggas ain't trying to add no more money to it. You know what I'm saying? I get that part. And I was like, I'm coming.

I was like, I don't want no motherfucking money. I want to fucking perform at the Barclay in Brooklyn. Keep your motherfucking money money just give me some time and they brought me on and the connection i had because it was just like it felt like such a just like a reward to know that i've been brooklyn all day to know that i can make a reference to a joke and be like, that nigga really was on Ocean of Gates all day, every day with the frack, nigga. Brownsville never ran, never do or die best with the frack, nigga. And I made that connection. That whole crowd was like, like, that's what's going off.

Right. And I did that. This is what people understand. I said, doing what the next man won't do. I know so many motherfuckers like, I would never go do a concert as a guest spot. Right? But I knew it wasn't about the money. It was about the opportunity.

And if you take advantage of the opportunity, dummy, you'll get the money. Truth. Hey, what am I doing? What am I doing? I fucking drive up to new york crush the stage for brooklyn and the same people just told me there was no money gave me some money was it less yes it was less Yes, it was less.

Of course, it was a gesture. Okay. And it don't even matter. I didn't even think about, I'm telling you, that the moment I got hanging out with my friends, New York audience is my home for comedy, my career, to be able to be in front of those people and perform, I don't give a fuck about the money.

Yeah. You know, and I did what I had to do. And just go from that to we're doing a documentary touring in 10 different cities, untitled documentary. And one of the screenings is going to be at Madison Square Garden. Wow. I'm going to be there. Can you, will you do the next thing that's going to help you get on?

Well, you do it. You be ready. And just that, not just worrying about the money or any of that, it's probably going to give me an opportunity to make more money. Truth. And I'll let you guys know, money definitely isn't everything. Money can make your situation a little bit more comfortable, but that's about it.

So you actually mentioned earlier a situation where like your slogan being i'm rich bitch got you in trouble you care to elaborate very awkward time to ask me a story i want to do a segment called dumb ass question this is a good time for some type of music or something and now this is another time for we're going to take away we're going to take a minute away from the laughter and everything for a dumbass question and what was your dumbass question again well donnell you mentioned a time earlier in which uh your slogan i'm rich bitch got you in trouble care to elaborate i didn't say it got me in trouble but it was an embarrassing situation. We're all familiar with the iconic phrase that ends every Chappelle show.

I'm rich bitch. We all know that any country or continent you go to, there's going to be someone there that will utter the word I'm rich bitch. But in the event of this situation, I was traveling in the Middle East. I was spending time dining at some of the best restaurants Abu Dhabi and Dubai have to offer. I was with a whole bunch of billionaire players. These guys are the likes that own the capitals. These guys are like news motherfuckers, anchors, Brett, whatever the motherfucker is with the hair like that. What?

This is a group. I'm over here. It's a group of billionaire, anchors, Brett, whatever the motherfucker is with the hair like that. What? This is a group. I'm over here. It's a group of billionaire news anchors? No, no. No, billionaires and news anchors. Okay. This party was hosted by Yusuf Adebay. I hope I'm pronouncing the nigga's name right.

He's a U.S. ambassador to Dubai. Okay. And every year, he has a group of motherfuckers to go over there and just hang out. Okay. And every year, he has a group of motherfuckers to go over there and just hang out. Okay. And that's what, that's what we would do. And all these motherfuckers I'm around,

these niggas got yachts, prints, the robes, shit and everything. So we gonna go see Pharrell. This is when Happy was hot as shit. So we outside

and a couple of, I didn't think I had fans over there. A couple of fans came up to me and they was like oh shit

they was like do it bro they was like say it one time I'm around all these billionaires I had to look around son

I'm around all these billionaires I did like this I did it like this this is the lowest I've ever said that I said I'm rich bitch

they said what I said I said I'm rich bitch look I'm looking at this nigga right in his eyes don't make me scream

I'm like this I said I'm rich bitch I said I'm rich bitch they was looking like uh uh I was like I'm rich, bitch. They was looking like, uh-uh. I was like, I'm rich, bitch. And all them billionaires was looking at me like,

shout out to the broke nigga at the rich party. Who the fuck let this nigga in here, son? How the fuck? Damn, what was that? Shout out to the broke nigga at the rich party. How the fuck he get it? Some shit is on Compton. The Compton album. Man, goddamn, I wish I knew that phrase. damn what was that shout out to the broke nigga at the rich party how the fuck he get it some shit it's on Compton

the Compton album man god damn I wish I knew that phrase but I guess I'm saying this I'm excited I'm excited to be back

and I don't think I ever left the podcast business it's just that it's the time wasn't right and then I think the time is right I think with the different things that are happening

in my life, the growth that I'm starting to see, some levels of success, I think I'm going to have more things to talk about. And I just don't want to talk about these things with superstars and celebrities and them motherfuckers. I want to talk

to you motherfuckers. You motherfuckers! Remember earlier you said, Don is podcast gonna be about I say it's gonna be I got a lot of nothing to talk about yeah it's so much good things that are happening right now yeah and the craziest things why these things happen just what people don't understand about I call it planting seeds last year yeah it was the most troubling time for in any business some business businesses flourished some of them just was gone and it was a time where you had to figure something out and even when you weren't doing anything that was going to be

lucrative to your bank account at that moment creatively you had to keep thinking outside the box what's next when this shit is ready and the whole summer you know i would talk to you and i was begging you son come to yellow springs right i was and people you laughed at me son this is what you fucked up this is how you fucked up right you was like yeah i'm gonna rip the best place yo i'm like this yes you was son you was son you was like i need a five star i'll treat you to the five star yo i was like you might get a star one star but it's stars a half a star there you put two or three stars together you might have a four star by two a half whatever i was like get out here and the reason why i said

that is because at the time and we all go through this you was going through some things in your life you know i'm saying i'm like and that's what yellow springs meant to me you know it meant to me like yo i'm telling you son everything you're fucked up about i'm like nigga get out here all of my closest friends son people that i really care about that when i was having this goodness and this greatness i was like nigga i want you to share with this you nigga you know i'm saying like i was like come out here and i know you like didn't understand it because it's new to everybody everybody's afraid to travel because of covid and every step away every each time i told you i felt bad because i kept telling you different technologies we had i was like yo first i remember i said yo we got the 20 minute blicky over here right we got

one of them right then the 20 minute one got played out yeah and then we had the 10 minute jammy son yeah we went blood to boom bop bop every new technology came out he had that shit before the nba was doing a bubble this nigga was already doing it it came to the point where you were asking me for favors and then showing up at my place with COVID tests. Yeah, I was like, bam, bam, bam, let's go. But there was like, that was, it was just energy, bro.

And people that came out there, it was like, you had fun. It was a very troubling time in the world. There was a lot of things going on. Black Lives Matter was going on, it was at its height. There was a lot of things going on and Black Lives Matter was going on. It was at its height. There was a lot of things going on and people was just trying to figure it out.

And the one person I know because I was there when the idea was birthed was Dave Chappelle. When it first went down, this is what we got to do. This is what we have to do to maintain some type of normalcy.

I want to hang out with my friends but i gotta get them niggas here to say boom they go a jet bomb you get a jet bomb let's go and we created something that was dope we created something that anybody that any experience will remember it for the rest of their fucking life trips down the goddamn river son can you imagine niggas don't be on the river like that nigga we going down that bitch listen the pop smoke everything so one day Chris Rock going down

the river one day Ali Wong going down the river Talib Khali going down the river goddamn Kid Rock going down the river niggas like what that nigga doing with that nigga yo Kid Rock is going down the river niggas like what that nigga doing with that nigga yo kid rock is going down the river told me straight up boy this feel like i went through 12 hours of anger management

wow and he felt good and that's what the river did and all of that and going through all of that everything he's trying to do this is the person remember guys this is a transphobic guy. This is that guy. This is that guy. Positions his town to fucking win. Position his family to fucking win.

Position his friends to fucking win. His community. A leader that didn't choose to be a leader, but is leading. And you want to stop that. A man that could do so much for so many motherfuckers,

you want to cancel that voice. Shame on you Donnie Rawlings show We back bitch It's a wrap nigga We'll be right back. Thank you.