Drink Champs - Episode 350 w/ Luenell

Episode Date: February 10, 2023

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the Champs chop it up with the legendary Luenell!Luenell shares stories of her career, her passion for comedy, working with Rihanna and Savage X Fenty and much much more! Lots of great stories that you don’t want to miss!!Make some noise!!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆 *Subscribe to Patreon NOW for exclusive content, discount codes, M&G’s + more:  🏆* https://www.patreon.com/drinkchamps *Listen and subscribe at https://www.drinkchamps.com  Follow Drink Champs: https://www.instagram.com/drinkchamps https://www.twitter.com/drinkchamps https://www.facebook.com/drinkchamps https://www.youtube.com/drinkchamps  DJ EFN https://www.crazyhood.com https://www.instagram.com/whoscrazy https://www.twitter.com/djefn https://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductions  N.O.R.E. https://www.instagram.com/therealnoreaga https://www.twitter.com/noreaga *Check out our Culture Cards NFT project by joining The Culture Cards Discord: 👇* https://discord.gg/theculturecardsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Pew, pew, pew. And when I tell you I'm a fan of this person, numerous counts of movies, comedy, legend, comedy, queen, comedy, icon, and a sex symbol too. Let's not forget that. That part. And she will be out here. She got deals with Rihanna, y'all.

She outside. She's doing it. We are so happy to have this queen In our presence Absolutely And we're going This is how you set off A new year In 2023

And in case y'all don't know We're talking about the one The only The impeccable Luna Now what's going on What's been going on In your life right now?

I mean, where do I start? Okay. Start from the beginning. First of all, it's my honor to be here. Oh, thank you. With you guys, I had been watching for a while. And I think I reached out to Nori. Okay.

In the DMs. Oh, okay. And the great Nori Yagan. Okay, okay, yeah. The great Nori Yagan. Yeah, that's right. And anyway, you manifest things, and they can happen. Right.

If you work toward that and make your manifestation a reality. That's right. And I was like, you do dedicate this show to legend. That's right. And I have not used that term myself, but that has been said about me. Because you're an icon. But regardless of whether it had or not, I just wanted to come here and sit in this seat. That's right.

That so many people have sat in and motherfucking smoked and turned out. That's right. Yay! And off top, let's give a half hour off top. Off rip, off rip. Come on. Mr. Lee is never ready. He is never ready. In fairness, I did. We had-bring. Come on. Mr. Lee is never ready. He's never ready. He is never ready.

In fairness, I do. Haddon and Sal's going to pick up with Mr. Lee. Haddon and Sal's going to pick up with Mr. Lee left off. We want to off-top him. He wasn't even in the room. We want to give you half-lives off-top. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. So one of my favorite movies is, I call it Donnie Burger. That's my boy. That's my boy. Oh, God. How did you get that call? What was it? You're going through an agent?

Is it Adam Sandler calling you direct? How does this work? Let me remember. I do believe that I had to audition for that through my agency, who have been contacted by Sandler's people, you know, I guess, to have me read for this part. Now, I don't know what it is about me that they keep calling me for these prostitute roles and, you know, sexual stuff. Because as I, you know, did clearly audition to get the role, you know, as you know from seeing the film,

you know, my titties was out 100% of the movie, which I didn't really know about that when I signed up. You know, I feel like I'm in this place in Hollywood where they'll say, like, you know, we need somebody to jump off this building into a vat of Jell-O. Who we going to call? We going to call Viola Davis? No, she ain't going to do it. We going to call, uh,

no, I know we can get to do it. We'll call an L. She'll do any fucking thing. Jesus. But those wasn't your real breasts, right? No, actually, they were not because, as you also know from watching the film, I had to hang upside down on a stripper pole and eat eggs and drink orange juice. Had they been my real breasts, they would have been in my mouth.

Okay, so they made they had this bra thing that they made a cast of my breasts. Then they made this bra thing like that and then they made, it was like this rubbery stuff, and then they dyed it to my skin tone. And, you know, everybody loved it.

Right, right. Now, Sierra was playing your daughter. Yes. Right? Was that the first time meeting Sierra? Yes. Okay. How was she?

Okay, goddammit, we outside. That's my favorite noise. I don't know about you. Beep, beep, beep! Do that shit. So, how was it your first time meeting her? Well, you know, I wouldn't say at that time that Sierra was what you call a warm and fuzzy type chick. But, you know, sometimes you have more to... Wait, wait, wait. Talk about what?

As I said, I wouldn't say she was all warm and fuzzy when we first met. She was certainly pleasant. You know, I'm sure I was more excited to meet her than she would have been to meet me, you know. So you have to warm up to people, and I think that we did that, being honest. Yeah, because we sat here, Patti LaBelle sat here. I saw. And we asked her, has anybody like ever shaded her or

ever, and she was like, oh man, honey this is one girl, and she wouldn't name it, but. A girl named Arisa Franklin maybe? No, no, no, no, no. She talked about that. Well yeah, that's documented on film. They ain't got to talk about it.

You can see it. But how about you? Have you ever met one of these young up-and-coming comedians, and they thought they were too cool for school, and you didn't, you know what I mean? Yes. Mm-hmm. You can remember a certain time that this has happened?

Where was you at, and how did it go down? Well, I'm backstage at a comedy club. And just like cocky makes my skin feel like fingernails on a chalkboard. When somebody cocky. Right. chalkboard when somebody cocky. Like, don't be cocky. You know what I mean? And I just met a particularly cocky person, and they were successful in their genre, so to speak.

So they weren't a hack or anything. But I didn't know shit. And so I just felt like, you know, there's a whole lack of respect, not just in the comedy world, but just a lack of respect, period. And I think there is a chain of command and a way to conduct yourself.

When I used to be around Paul Mooney and when I used to be around, you know, people like that and Dick Gregory and stuff, you know, I sort of like didn't come at them like I know every motherfucking thing already. You know, I was like eager to learn, eager to listen, wonder what they got to say. And when people don't do that, I just felt a certain type of way. But we made amends to it and everything is fine and they stay in their motherfucking lane, and I'll stay in mine. Okay, so comedy, I recently learned that, you know, because in hip-hop, you know, to come out in hip-hop and you don't have a hit record off top, you have to go through like a chitlin' circuit. You got to go through, you know what I mean?

You got to go through these, a phase where you're basically working for free. Right. go through these, a phase where you're basically working for free. Is this, and I recently learned that rappers, we didn't have it, we didn't have it easy, but comedians, they said that comedians

might be even worse when it comes to that, when you're on the come up, being a comedian. It's like, you'll get like $500 a night. Open mics and stuff. Open mics where they

won't even want to pay you. Is that something you related to? $500? That's a lot. Where the fuck is that at? Let me tell the homies. I don't know.

Open mic is making no money like that. No. See, things have changed so much. Okay. They literally can start making money immediately now. Now, is it going to sustain them? Are they going to be able to have a 30-year career where people are thirsty to be with you?

That is yet to be seen. But they certainly are able to make money quicker now by social media. We, there was no social media, and there was no money for long, like years. That media, right. We, there was no social media and there was no money for long, like years. That's why I always say

I don't feel like you should do comedy unless you feel like you're going to die if you don't do it. Because this is not no motherfucking, that was the word.

That was hard. That was hard. That was hard. Because there's so much, you know, or there used to be so much struggle and it wasn't nobody flying no goddamn where we was packing up four comics to a car driving to like chicago and shit like this and sometimes staying four in a room you know what i mean and um it was but there's beauty in the struggle though because if you look back noria what you went beauty in the struggle though. Right. Because if you look back

in what you went through in the hip hop, I remember hip hop starting. Yes. I remember MTV starting. Right. I remember all that shit and Video Soul

and all this shit. I remember it starting. But before that, you just had to be popular in your borough, in your street, in your hood. And then the word would spread.

Word of mouth. This nigga's nice over here. Go see them. But this chick's really funny like that. So Tiffany Haddish says on her show once that she said that comedians was getting arrested before rappers. Like for being raunchy and being on stage. Yeah, early on. Early on.

I didn't know that. Is that something you ever went through? Have you ever gone on stage and said some shit they tried to arrest you or or censor you well i think this record public record i've been arrested many times for many things many times for many things but not for anything i've done on stage but of course if you look back and you know beginning comics lenny bruce and uh you know things they used, you know, beginning comics, Lenny Bruce, and, you know, things they used to, you know, Dick Gregory used to say maybe sometimes. There certainly were comedic arrests. Well, because comedy was around before rap.

Right, for sure. Clearly. And I read somewhere you robbed a bank? When do we start drinking? Yeah, we've been drinking. Oh, okay. We drinking already. We drinking.

Well, I don't know. I don't even know what, oh, this is, the bartender is trying to sabotage me. I don't know what this is. She was drinking champagne. What you drinking right now? It's some lemon and some shit,

some shit. Oh, lemon drop? Casamigos. I don't know. Okay. I just came in to drink, champs. I came and started drinking. I don't know.

Let's get some champagne, though. Yes, sir. I would love to have some. Yes, come on. You had your own bottle. Can we open up our own bottle? My own bottle? Yes.

Okay, cool. And I got a monster cup. We got to give her a classy cup. I like a monster. Okay. Okay. We're going to forget you with a monster cup? No, no.

You're too classy. You're too classy with that. Not for my champagne. For her champagne. Yeah. We're going to have to have our own bottle of champagne. She don't got a cup. No, you're too classy. You're too classy with that. Not for my champagne. For her champagne. Yeah, we're going to have to have our own bottle of champagne. She don't got a shit. You know, but your interviews, here's the thing about this show for me. Uh-huh, thank you.

I like a place that looks comfortable. Oh, yeah. And where you can talk reckless if you need to, if that's the way you really talk, you know, not putting on air. And to express yourself in a place that's got liquor and something to smoke. Yes. And you sit around the table, because see, tables like this are usually reserved for the guys. Right. It's always the guy thing.

Right. But, you know, to be a female, to be able to come to this table, and I saw you had Patty, I'm like, they're progressing, because it used to be just guys. No, we've always wanted women. No, but I saw them. We've always wanted women. Okay, but let me tell you about the drunkenness episode, Melissa for a money love. Yo!

I'm already embarrassed for her. I just seen Melissa Ward, just by the way, at the Joe Biden show. Hilarious. My other favorite drunken episode, this motherfucking tried not to get drunk. What? He tried not to be COVID.

He tried everything. Shout out to Pharrell. Pharrell. Shout out to Pharrell. Shout out to Pharrell. At the end of the show, he had that mask on. He was like,

the purple haze done took off. Purple haze. Yeah, purple haze purple hay done took off. Purple hay. Purple hay. Yeah, purple hay. Purple hay. Right, right, right. Those were really, really fun.

So, Haz, while you're doing Quick Time with Slime, I want you to periodically name a movie that she was in. He on Google. Well, I'll rip, let's say Borat. Oh. I'll rip. You pronounced his name right yeah you did so how how do you get a call for something like that because that was what is what is borat considered uh uh a comedy that's a spoof a parody almost did you even know what it was when you read the script or they called you for it? No. Nope. Nope.

Nope. Nope. Once again, I had an audition. Now, this is 15 years ago. Okay. I didn't even have a car. I had to get my girlfriend to give me a ride to the studio. And I had seen Sacha Baron Cohen before, but only as Ali G.

Ali G. So I hadn't seen him in his regular Sasha Baron Cohen everyday guy look. Okay. Right? And I might have known something if we stood up because he's very tall, but he was sitting down when I went to the audition. When I went to audition,

it was Sasha and the director, Larry Charles. I didn't know who neither one of them was. Was he a Borat character? Larry Charles is the director. Okay. Sasha Baron Cohen is Borat. Oh, yeah, was he in character? That's what I'm asking.

No. She said he was normal. He was himself normal. But she had never seen him like that. Keep up, Nori. Yeah, because I'm wondering, was that like a method acting? Like when he started to act, is that method acting? No, no, no, no. Yeah, because I'm wondering, was that like a method acting? Like when he started to act,

is that method acting? No, no, no, no. Well, she's telling us. I'm telling you. Okay, my bad. What are you smoking? Let me hit that. You want your own?

You want your own? Yes, I do. Go ahead. Go ahead. Well, this got diamonds in it. Maybe she don't want this. Diamonds? Yeah, it's the highest form of weed.

Okay, wait a minute. I know it's proving flaky, but don't want this. Diamond? Yeah, it's the highest form of weed. Okay, wait a minute. I know it's proving flaky, but don't want to... I'll be like, not again. He rolling it right there. He rolling it right there. I'm very weird about pre-rolls anyway, but I... He rolling it while you're right there. Okay, okay.

It's organic. Okay. All right, okay. So you go to the audition. So I go to the audition. I go to the audition. And before I got to the audition, you have an idea of what they want you to do.

And the audition breakdown was that you need to be able to play. Oh, thank you, baby. You're gonna get me a white girl, too. You niggas is on to something. Anyway. But, um... This is on the show. Anyway. I've been waiting for someone to say this.

I'm beginning to get it. I think I get it. I wasn't ready. So they said that this was somebody that they wanted to be able to, like, fabricate a story about being a hooker at a fancy dinner party. That's what they want. Well, I know how to, you know, tell stories and stuff like this, so I said

okay. They said, and wear some attire, dress like a hooker. I'm like, well, I'll just go in what I got on. So I went to the studio. I went into this room. Now, this is the real honest to God truth. This is gospel what I'm about to tell you.

So I went to the room, and there was Larry Charles and there was Sasha. And I sort of sat next to Sasha, which this ended up being the iconic dinner party scene in the movie. This was the audition for that. And, you know, he was like, okay, just, you know, make up some wild story.

Like, you're a hooker, and you're at a fancy dinner party, and you want to shock the guests, and just tell a story. I was like, okay, and, you know, I just ran off to the mouth. You know, I was with this guy, and he was licking my ass, and all that. And all this shit, right?

They did that. They laughed like they did that. And then so, I don't know, some more conversation came, but I know at one point, I took Sasha's hand and I took his finger and I sucked it. Like that. You want to see me do it again? We're going to put that in slow-mo. And next thing you know, I got the part.

I mean, go figure. But if you knew what a germaphobe the Sasha was, you would know that that was really shocking to him. And now looking back with COVID and shit, I'm like, why did I stick this fucking finger in my mouth? So as you're filming it, right, a lot of people say when they're making music or they're making albums or making a great movie, they know they're making a great movie.

This is like a parody, but it's pushing the comedy because he's doing things that's a little crazy with the guy, and they on thongs. And people don't know, right? There's people on set that don't know. So did you know that this was going to be revered as an international classic at the time? A blockbuster. A blockbuster. That's what I meant to say. A goddamn blockbuster. A blockbuster.

And an Academy Award nominated film. Thanks, Daddy. Wait a minute. Is this a blunt? Yes. I don't smoke. You want a joint? Give Wait a minute. Is this a blunt? Yes. I don't smoke. You want a joint? Give him a joint. Give him a joint. I don't endorse tobacco.

Sorry. Yeah, give him a joint. I mean, I can keep it in case of an emergency. Thanks. Yeah. This got diamonds in it? No, no, no, no diamonds. That one got gems.

No diamonds. Oh, you think I can't handle my diamonds? Clearly I can. Clearly I can. So, so, um, no, diamond. That one got gems. No diamonds. Oh, you think I can't handle my diamonds? Clearly I can. Clearly I can. So, so, um, let me say. Okay, so, okay, so, so what, what it was was there wasn't like a script per se. Mm. And I only knew about the, the stuff that I filmed.

Mm-hmm. Right. stuff that I filmed. When I saw the movie at the premiere for the first time, then I saw all the other crazy shit that had to do with the movie. But what the movie is really about is what people, racist asses,

say when they think nobody's looking, even when there's a camera in their fucking face. Because everybody wants to be on TV. And so all these people signed releases. If you didn't sign a release, they just didn't use you in the film. But they knew it was some kind of documentary.

And then they got all pissed off when the movie came out. We're going to sue Borat. Hey, bitch, Borat's a fictitious character. You can't sue a fictitious character. You can't sue a fictitious character. And I guarantee you ain't got the money to go up against this motherfucking movie production company. Sit down and shut the fuck up.

Your racist ass is busted, and that's what it is. Now your friends know. Oh, that's right, they're racist too. So you have an impression that some of these people did not know that this was a joke? Most of the people didn't know. Nobody knew.

They didn't know. Now you fucking me up. Nobody knew. I knew the second film when he came out with the second film. Well, yeah, but we're not talking about that. I'm not in that. Let's not talk about that. But that's when I heard people complain about it. Well, yeah, because the cat was already out of the bed.

The second one's even worse because people kind of knew. You should have knew. The first one, nobody knew. Nobody knew. Oh, that is genius. Oh, no. And then look how genius he is. You know, there's a scene in the movie where he takes a dump in front of Trump Tower.

Before. Before. Before everything. Yeah, that was pretty profane. Now, what am I supposed to do with this? Rub my motherfucking legs together and start a fire? I don't have no... You want me to light it?

I'll light it for you. Okay. But if you would have rubbed your legs to start a fire, that would have been interesting, too. Give me this, goddamn. And I don't like these condoms. These are the ones I used to smoke crack with. Okay.

Okay. All right, hold on. Hold on. But we got to go back to the bank. Bank rob. Oh, that. So many crimes. I've committed so many crimes.

Which crime are we talking about? The bank. I think that was remarkable. You said you didn't use a gun? Because you worked at the bank. You didn't use a gun. I didn't need a gun. I had titties. What?

That's how I committed my crime, with my titties. So what did you do? Have somebody look at your titties? Did you get the cashier? No, I was in the fall. I took the money and put it in my titties. And continued to work the rest of the day and walked out the door with 50 racks in my bra and this is before they had cameras they might have had cameras but they didn't have none on me and you never got caught for this sure i got caught i went to i went to jail oh shit

but wait no okay listen don't pity me. Okay. Because I had a good run. Okay. Because I took $50,000, and this is all, you know, documented, and I've done my time, and I've done, you know, restitution and all that shit. Right. So I can talk about what the fuck I want to, especially if it's to do with me. Mm-hmm. So the reason I took the money in the first place, and I've spoken about this before. But the reason I took the money in the first place is because I had been working in banks for years. I knew what a good bank was and what a failing bank was.

And I knew this bank was on its way out. Also, the teller, I was a teller, but I knew everything in the bank, new accounts and bookkeeping and all this shit, still do. But because I was a teller, the tellers are the greeters of the customers. The tellers are what make a motherfucker want to even bank there. You'd be a back teller and run people money out. Or you can be a nice teller and they'll want to come there and do everything. So, having said that, when you work two weeks and you get a paycheck that is so incredibly small,

yet, right over there, there's millions and millions of dollars. Right. it's millions and millions of dollars. Now, you don't go in the vault by yourself, but the bitch turned her head. And I just was mad, and I took the money, especially knowing that they was going to go out there. So, of course, you know, later, audience, this, that, and the other, and they jammed me up, and I copped her and said, yeah, I did it.

I did it. So I went to jail that day, but I was able to get out of my OR because I didn't have no prior that they could find. And I went home, and they said, okay, when you come back for this court date, we're going to sentence you.

But I didn't come back for that court date. You got on the run? Yeah, I went back to Oakland. Oakland! Hold on. You got on the run? Yeah, I went back to Oakland. Oakland! You went on the run in Oakland? That's where I was from. Oh, I thought you was from Arkansas. I was born there.

Oh, you were born in Arkansas. But I'm from Oakland. Oh, you're from Oakland. And I live in the Crenshaw district. Yeah, E-40. Go ahead. And I live in the Crenshaw district. Okay. I'm freaking right.

So, when, what happened, okay, if you take under a certain amount of money, it's a felony. Uh-huh. If you take over

a certain amount of money, no, if you take under a certain amount of money, it's a misdemeanor. If you take over a certain amount of money, it's a felony.

I had taken the felony amount, right? Right. Had I not taken that much money, it was over 10 years before they even caught me. So statute of limitations, I'd have got away with that.

But because I took the felony amount of money, there's no expiration on when, you know. All you motherfuckers know what I'm talking about. There's no expiration, yeah. There is no expiration date. Yes. There is no statute of limitations? You know, there's no expiration date on a felony.

You can get arrested at 87 years old for a felony you did, you know, when you're 22. Wow. So when I went back to Hogan, I was scared because my name was in the paper

all the time because I was doing comedy still and I was really popular and I'm like, these motherfuckers don't get me. But what happened was I had a fucking baby. She's cool though.

I had a baby and when you, I applied for WIC and all this stuff. And when I applied for WIC, the social security numbers crossed. Yeah, you went into the system then. You thought on yourself.

I'm just trying to get the milk and shit. You said, come find me. I was trying to get the milk. So they came to my door, and they, you know, knocked on the door. I heard them. I jumped out the window, the whole shit. And my girlfriend was there. She had the baby.

It was gangster. I ran the baby. It was gangster. I ran around the building in my pajamas. But they got me on the other side. And I went and did four months and 18 days on a year thing. For $50,000, this nigga's right here doing it right now for $50,000. And that $50,000 is probably going now. What is that, $10,000 a month? That's like $12.45 a month.

I wouldn't do it again, but it was kind of worth it. I mean, because I got away with it for so long. And you didn't have to give back that money, did you? I mean, I had to pay restitution, but gee, how do you pay restitution to a bank that don't exist no more? Oh, what's the name of this bank? I'm just curious. It was, I think it was Security Pacific. Oh, they were Security or Pacific.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad-free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I can talk about it. Right. Holy shit. You got to write a script about that and make a movie. Yo, that is... Well, they're doing a documentary on me, actually, because my life, I got a whole bunch... That's just a day in the life of Luenell shit. Every time I walk out the door, it's some shit. My niece used to say,

Auntie, you can't just go to the store and come back. It's always got to be some shit. And I have, you know, happy, happy moments and tragic, tragic ones. Right. But it is definitely a story, it is a story of perseverance and redemption and dedication

and dogged motherfucking, you know, I know what I want. And I've been doing what I want and I still know what I want. And I'm going to die trying to get what I want. And that's it. it now let's talk about your experience of coming to America too Nori you know I feel like you're just reading these

questions off of something because what I said was I said these motherfuckers this is not I'm a comedian they're in hip-hop they don't we the same, I said, no, they don't know nothing about me. They don't know nothing about me. You said no because we got Quick Time with Slime next. We need to get you in the mood. Okay, because I'm like, you know, you can take that paper. Just ask me something important, like what's my bra size? What's my waist size?

Ask me something that means something, you know. No, well, coming to America means something. Okay, coming to America. What I will say is this. A lot of people talk shit about coming to America. They thought it should have been funnier. You know, it had a lot of community. That was my shit.

I had an argument with Charlamagne about it. Charlamagne kept saying it sucked, and I had to actually call the radio station, or I went to the radio station, and I defended it. See, that's a turn on, Nori. You are a motherfucker that will pull up. Come on, you know what I the radio station and I defended it. So just in case you didn't know. See, that's a turn on, Norrie. You are a motherfucker that will pull up. Come on, you know what I mean? Norrie will pull up.

And to me, that was full black excellence. To me, that was Harlem Nights. Again, you know what I mean? To me. This is how I felt as a girl from Arkansas via Oakland, via the Crenshaw District, who's about to be in the sequel of one of the most iconic black films for the culture, right?

First of all, it was my second Eddie Murphy movie, Back to Back, so you already couldn't tell me shit. I had already done Dolomite. I'm like, fuck you, bitches. Dolomite was great, by the way. Thank you. I'm like, fuck you, bitches. I'm going to do Eddie Murphy movie, Back to Back.

And so, you know, you can always pick apart whatever. I think that the storyline was clever. I think that we're blessed to have so many of them still be alive, looking good, and able to come back. I love that they paid homage to Matt Sinclair, who was the mother, and they put a clip in there i think that the uh ruth carter who did the wardrobe is the only black woman to win the oscar for wardrobe and been styling eddie and filming personally for years and years she was a goat to be styled by her was amazing to come onto the lot every day that was owned by a black man tyler perry when he used to be a military base, like a Confederate-type military base. He bought the whole shit.

And he bought the whole shit. The whole shit. And to come to work there and see Tyler Perry Studios. And sometimes at Rick Ross' house. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. And then to come onto the lot and to go past these sound stages that say Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Whoopi Goldberg,

Oprah Winfrey, you know, all these, Cecily Tyson. Yeah. Every day, to see that every day was empowering. As you think about how many movies Halle Berry done made for Hollywood,

there's not a sound stage with her motherfucking name on it. So shout out to Tyler Perry for giving the flowers like what y'all do. And then to see all these people dressed in African garb every day. Beautiful shit. From the hair to the makeup to the outfits to everything. And it's just, it was amazing. And then, yeah, I'm palling around with Rick Wallace and shit.

And Arsenio and Eddie and I'm sorry he had lean on and she give a fuck what nobody thought about that motherfucker that was all up. I'm one of the people, first off,

I'm so connected to coming to America because the first one, I always told you, I ride my bike to the set, couldn't get on set, couldn't get a picture with Eddie,

couldn't get a picture with nobody but still wasn't mad, still was sitting there watching magic happen, obviously. Oh, you watched some film? That's about the first year. Yeah, yeah.

And they filmed it on the block. That McDowell's was McDonald's. Oh, yes. All they did was just switch the thing. It was on Queens Boulevard, for those that don't know, right next to Macy's and A&S, where I steal from. You know what I mean? And I used to go up there, ride my bike,

and I would go to the set almost every day. And if you look at the movie, they actually show my hood. They show left rack in it. Remember when they're throwing the shit out the thing? If you look to the right, that's left rack. He's throwing the shit out. He's like, good morning, motherfuckers. That's the building.

It's left rack right there. And it's like, good morning. My neighbor was like, fuck you. He's like, yes, fuck you too. So I was one of the people that was adamant about this remake. I was, you know, a little mad that it happened

20 years later, but I was still, you know, happy that it didn't happen. I think that it got sold short because it had to get released during COVID. You know, we would have had one of the most massive,

delicious premieres in Hollywood. Zebras and giraffes. And we got gypped out of all that. And had to do the... Yeah, we got fucked! Was it released on Hulu? No, we had to do virtual premiere. They sent us all a box

and we all unboxed at the same time like, fuck that. We wanted to be up and down the street with the dancers. And all that, but we got fucked out of that. Damn. Amazon. It was Amazon? Amazon, yeah.

I forget. I believe it was Amazon. It was exclusive, though. It was exclusive just for Amazon. I loved it. I enjoyed it. Thanks. I went to the premiere when they had it out here.

Where was it? New York? Wherever they had. No. No. I did it. Thanks. I went to the premiere when they had it out here. What was it, New York? Wherever they had. No. No. I did not. Aubrey Beale was virtual. They gave me the link.

Oh, you mean for your, yeah. They gave me the link. Oh, you mean for the second one? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because it was virtual. With the shit on it. Like, this is for you. Like, if you bootleg this motherfucker.

Right, right, right, right, right. Had the watermark on it. Yeah, the watermark on the water mark like fair they just did with fear yep let's get some more champagne you need some more champagne and then we're gonna start quick time with slime okay okay you send it okay all right now this is a game quick time with slime we're gonna give you two choices you could be politically correct and answer both and you have to drink or you can pick one and we take it from there. Say both or neither.

Yes, please. If you don't pick one, we drinking. And we drink with you. We don't leave you by yourself. Wait a minute. Let me get these motherfucking rules down. You get two choices. If you don't pick one, if you don't pick one, we drinking.

So if you say both or neither, we drinking. Well, it's not like we drinking anyway. Yeah, but you might pick one. You might pick one. You might pick one. And what kind of shots do you want? There's people that pick one every time. Thank you, baby.

It's not the champagne. We're going to do shots. You can have some of my Mojuana if you would like. No, you don't want no. It's a rock. It's refreshing. Delion? You want the Delion that you was drinking earlier?

No, this. First of all, let me tell you something else which I think is funny. This is what's so funny. Everybody comes on this motherfucker and says, I'm not getting drunk. They're not doing it to me. I'm already knowing that

I'm not going to win that battle. And I think the funniest thing to me is to watch the slow progression of the person. I'm telling you, Pharrell, Pharrell came in this motherfucker with that mask on. Oh, I'm a grandmother and I don't want to be around nobody.

Then later he started talking like this, right? Then the mask came off. And then he's like this. And he's like, the purple rain. Purple rain. It breaks the door. And I'll tell you something funnier than that. What?

Pharrell made, this was right smack dead in the middle of COVID. Pharrell made all of us take a test. And then the motherfucker walked in here and sat down. He didn't even take a test. We're like, motherfucker, you can be the spreader. Right, right, you can be the spreader. And everybody had to take the blood test. We didn't have to swat him.

We didn't have to swat him. What? It was blood test, yes. Okay, all right. What didn't have to swab. What? It was blood test. Yes. Okay. What is this? Wait, wait, wait. I'm good.

Okay. Thank you. Are you ready? Okay. Red Fox or Richard Pryor? To do what? Like what? That's your criteria in your mind.

No, see, I don't play fair. You can explain it. Okay, Richard Pryor. Okay. That wasor. Okay. That was ill. Okay. Tupac or DMX? Pac.

Okay. Eddie Murphy or Martin Lawrence? Eddie. She picking away. I was surprised. You motherfuckers getting drunk. I'm not getting drunk. Yes, yes.

Okay. Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle? Chappelle. Monique or Wanda Sykes? Taking a shot? Taking a shot. For woman empowerment. Okay.

So I'm going to take you. For woman empowerment. Mm-hmm. Oof. And we can't be like Steve, what's his name? Steve, Steve A. Smith out here putting the sisters against each other. Child, I don't play that game. Okay, I'm going to ask you about, how about that?

That's the next question. Rihanna or Beyonce? For me, Rihanna. Okay. Puff Daddy or Dr. Dre? Dre. Go ahead. You do that next one. Tiffany Haddish or Leslie Jones? Pour me

another drink. Oh, shit. Is this how it starts? This is how it happens. It's going down in the DMs. I like that. I like that. I like that. Woo.

That mama Juana's aged. Oopsie. Bernie Mac or Robert Harris? Robin. Okay. Lauren Hill or Missy Elliott? Missy. Okay.

I'm burping. Am I supposed to be burping? It's okay. You can do whatever you want. Believe me, you would rather me burp. Okay. Adam Sandler or Sacha Baron Cohen? Where'd you go?

Oh, um... Adam. Okay. Because the check was big? No, I did more movies with Adam than I did with Sasha. Okay. No shade, Sasha. I fucks with you.

Pharrell or Ye? Pharrell okay Snoop Dogg or 50 Cent? Snoop Coming to America 2 or Harlem Nights? Harlem Nights

more iconic stars than Harlem Nights? Harlem Nights. More iconic stars than Harlem Nights. Okay. Kevin Hart or Chris Tucker? Chris Tucker. What? You gonna take a shot?

You taking a shot? Cool. It's Harlem. It's Harlem. I felt like there was something Coming out I'm so glad I had that taco Oh man

MC Light or Cream Latifah? Oh man Wait a minute Shot, shot, shot, shot, shot, man. Wait a minute. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Wait a minute. You're going through that part of the show right now. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Is MC Lyte a Queen Latifah? Just take a shot for it. Don't worry. Oh, no. Don't worry. You want to pick? No. You know, I got a story about this. Tell us. Tell us a story. Okay, tell us a story. Cheers, cheers, cheers.

Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.

Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.

Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. What's the story? We need to hear it.

I was in a club in Englewood called Savoy. Englewood, California. Mm-hmm. Not Englewood, New Jersey. No. Okay. Englewood is at Englewood. Mm-hmm.

Not Englewood. Mm-hmm. Mac 10. Right. Mm-hmm. So,. Right. Mm-hmm. So this guy was talking shit to me, and I was feeling myself, and he was like, let me buy you a drink.

I said, nigga, you can't afford to buy what I drink. And he said, what are you drinking? I said, Crown Royal. And the motherfucker said to the bartender, give her 10 shots of Crown Royal. I said, that ain. And the motherfucker said to the bartender, give her ten shots of Crown Royal. I said, that ain't shit, motherfucker. So I took the first... Do you want some?

Now, just when I was starting to like your white ass, I was trying to sabotage you. That's what I say about these bitches. They'll turn on you. Okay, so the guy gets ten fucking shots. We're at the bar, right? Uh-huh. So I drink the first shot, and I'm like, bam.

Nothing. Boom. I pick up the second one, bam. Pick up the third one, boom. Little hot in here. Fourth one. Fourth one. How many more is it left?

Five. Can I have some water, maybe? Six. See how that fell out? That's what just happened to me. I took number six, and then everything went dark. I think I drank it too fast Like you're trying to do to me Oh, but no

I'm wise to the Mm-mm Send that little bitch over to sabotage me She quick too Okay, ask me something else Okay go ahead Where we at What did you pick

MC Lyra Queen Latifah What And We thought that story Had something to do with MC Lyra Queen Latifah You didn't give us No story about

Queen Latifah I was about to drink You said it was Queen Latifah I was about to drink So it wasn't about Queen Latifah Okay

Keep up Alright Alright so MC Lyra Queen Latifah. Okay. No. Okay. Keep up. All right. All right, so MC Lyte or Queen Latifah? Wait a minute. Okay. Yeah, you didn't pick. I was trying to actually distract him. All right.

You got us. Okay, the Queen Lyte. Okay. You went with Queen Lyte. Yes. Okay. All right. Man, I love motherfucking MC Lyte.

All right. George Carlin or Robin Williams? Oh, wow. George Carlin or Robin Williams? Oh, wow. George Carlin. Okay. So. Cat Williams or D.L. Hewley? Cat Williams.

Okay. I love you, D.L., but Cat. Cat. Everybody know Cat for me. Steve Harvey or Cedric the Entertainer? Oh, my God. Taking a shot? You just got a little one, right?

Where's your shot? Because I don't really fuck with neither one of them. Did she say neither? No, I mean they don't fuck with me. Hold on. Let's take the shot, and I got a question about that. Because if you pick neither, you got to drink two. Yeah, yeah.

Either or. Who made the rules to this motherfucker? Yeah, but hold on. And by the way, audience, this is what they don't take. Drink Champs got a lot of drinks here

and they have some really good weed. They got a motherfucking thing to eat. Now, I think that's sabotage. How you going to get somebody drunk and high? You know they'll damn near eat the carpet off the fucking floor

You could have some motherfucking hot Cheetos Or something in this bitch Nori That's what they don't tell you But I'm here to tell you Because I'm a truth teller Luckily I had somebody You gotta step our food game up I had food before

Go ahead No, no, No, no. Let's discuss these snacks. Why the fuck did y'all don't have a box, a little? You could get the variety pack that Kanye's mom used to put on top of refrigerators. So you couldn't reach it? I love to get a little something for everybody. Sometimes we got food here.

Sometimes. Yeah, sometimes. Let me tell you something about the next time I come to this motherfucker. Make that one of the days. We got you. We got you. No problem. Can I eat on my own?

I'm not hungry. Go ahead. You guys forgot something with Jim Carrey. All right. Lenny Bruce or Mike Epps? Lenny Bruce. Friday or next Friday? Friday. And then it's the last question

With this With this With this segment of the show Okay With this segment of the show So you ain't gotta take shots no more If you don't want to But

Everyone thinks it's a trick question Me and EFN don't Things are kinda simple Some people answer this complicated It's totally up to you To each his own. Loyalty or respect? Respect.

Quickly. Quickly. Right. If you have respect, you're going to get the loyalty. Okay. You know what? You didn't have to drink, but I'm going to drink to that because that was a great answer. Okay, great, because I'm just going to...

Salud. I'm going to leave this until I feel it. Until I feel like it again. Okay. So, so many people, you know, always say how hard it is to maintain in this game. And then a lot of people say how hard it is for a black women to be in this game. Do you feel like it's harder being a black woman or is it something that could... Because right now I just read a statement

that they said the most intelligent people in the U.S. is black women. Yeah, Trevor Noah told you that a couple weeks ago. Oh, no, I read it on Instagram. And you should have known it anyway. Everybody should know that. I mean, being a woman in any sport,

career choice, or anything like that is bullshit. But that can't be the excuse, though. It could be the reason, but don't let it be the excuse. I've been in this game for 30 years, and I've never... I think that once I... See, for comedians, to me, the...

You have to be... For comedians, to me, the continuity is what gets you the notoriety and stuff. You have to be good all the time. Right. Not most of the time. Not some of the time. Not on average. You have to slay all the time. And that's what's going to get people to talking about you

and you know you have to be able to be relatable to all types of audiences you know i could i believe and what i've been told i could kill an audience in not just mississippi as well as i could kill kill an audience at the Jewish, you know, Liberation Foundation Gala. You know? Because the things that you talk about should be universal to everybody

because everybody wants to come and laugh. You know, if the world could be like inside a comedy club or a cruise ship because everybody puts all the racism aside when it comes to a comedy club, you could have an Aryan Nation Brotherhood white man sitting next to a Muslim in a comedy club. Wow.

Right? Wow, that's deep. And so that's why I just feel like the comedy should relate to everybody. But isn't that changing, though? Isn't, like, cancel culture, sort of say, changing that dynamic for comedy? I don't know.

That was exactly my question. I don't. That was exactly my question. That's crazy you said that. I don't. I don't. You don't care about cancel culture? I don't. Like does it exist to you? Well sure. If you do something ratchet enough or fucked up enough you can be canceled.

Yes like that mommy. But yes like that. But I think that if your heart is in the right place you've been doing the work and the people see the struggle and you're for the people and the people are for you that just stating your mind I've always had a rep you know if I came out if I was like one of the Olsen twins or something and I started talking all radical that would shock people but I've been this way all my

life. So nobody's surprised that the shit to come out of my mouth or the things that I do or the places I turn up or the shit causes I get behind because I've been the same way continuously. My friends would tell you, you know, like some people, we were talking the other day, how some people have

an alter ego. Like Yonce has Sasha Fierce and, you know, Mariah's got her lambs and all this. But I'm the same way. Like, this is me. There's no, I'm going on drink channels, I'm going to be like this. There's no, I'm going to the BET Awards, I'm going to be like this. I'm like the same way all the time.

And I think that I connect with people, you know, just regular people. If this isn't in your heart, just like rap. I think that rappers are so fucking intelligent because your mind is thinking about what you're going to say before you say it. Like, if you're battling somebody and you're listening to them, you're already thinking about the response in your head

before they've even finished talking to you. That's the mind, I believe, of a rapper, right? Yeah. Comedians pretty much the same. Yeah, like, if you're saying some shitty shit to me, I already know what I'm going to say back to you. But what about the idea that people now, they go back into people's old sketches and bits. Good question. And it doesn't age well for whatever reason.

Oh, I don't know, because I don't, you know, I don't give a fuck about any of that. Right, right. I don't know. I don't deal with that. I just, you know, do what I do and love what I'm doing, and that's it. And if I cared, that would make me stop being who the fuck it is I am. That's why I don't even watch my shit. I haven't watched That's My Boy, but maybe twice.

I'm like, I can't. I tried to watch Borat about a month ago. I got five minutes in. I'm like, I can't do it. This shit is too uncomfortable. Because you second-guess yourself. Yes, if I watched the shit I do, I wouldn't do it no more. I would cringe.

So I just have to go forward and just do the shit. So does your writing process or your comedic skits, does it change because of cancel culture? Do you think about... What she's saying, yeah.

I don't do skits. I don't have the opportunity. I would like to do skits because it's like doing little plays. But I don't, you know, I don't have the opportunity right now. Some people ask Right. I don't have the opportunity. Right. I would like to do skits because it's like doing little plays. But I don't, you know, I don't have the opportunity right now. Some people ask me, I don't have time. So right now Netflix come to you and say, we want you to do a special. To do sketch comedy.

You don't give a fuck. No, I mean, I would do sketch comedy. I'll do any of that shit. Enterprises, right? Right. But I'm just saying that, and I don't write either. That's another thing. Okay. I write down bullet that, and I don't write either. That's another thing. Okay.

I write down bullet points, and then I just riff. It's just like if you're a rapper. So you're a battle rapper. No, I'm on the battle. And comedy. No, but I already know what made it funny to me. Right. So that's why I don't have to, like, memorize the script,

because it's what really happened. I can recall it, you know, in my mind. Okay, so let's suppose you're at a family picnic. Your gay cousin makes a funny joke about, you know, eating a glizzy, right? And you take this material, you say, man, like, that was the gay cousin, and he kind of killed that, and he knows he's being funny. But do you take that material and then do you use it knowing that

you know everyone in your family is going to get the joke everyone but there's somebody the fuck are you talking about Nori

I don't even understand what the fuck you what's the question oh my god I'm confused my head's like glizzy he don't know I'm like what

like cause you might offend somebody in that community by having a joke about someone that you and your cousin always joke about. Is it something like that? My family is funnier than me. Wow. My family, we are what we like to call shitty funny.

We're like, if you can't stand the heat, get out the kitchen. Like, we say fucked up shit all the time. All the time. We say fucked up shit to each other, about each other, and all that shit. And you can either spend your time getting pissed off or, you know, laugh about this shit

and say something fucked up back. You know, that's where I get this shit from. I mean, my family is funny with very sharp tongue. Well, okay, I have seven brothers and sisters. I would say that three of them are not as vocally abrasive as the rest of us. But the rest of us are downright, like, insulting or fooling shit like that. So Thanksgiving is different. Oh, no.

It's not the Thanksgiving for my family. It's the family reunion. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's the old Arkansas family reunion. I said the family barbecue. My bad. Yes, the fish fry barbecue, lots of liquor. Because in Arkansas, everybody, okay, where I'm at from Tollette, Arkansas, Tell me barbecue, my bad. Yes, the fish fry barbecue, lots of liquor.

Because in Arkansas, everybody, okay, where I'm at from Talat, Arkansas, is a dry county. So you have to go out of the county. Don't tell me that. I'm about to go to Arkansas. It's dry? That's where I'm going this weekend. What does dry mean? No alcohol. I feel like that doesn't mean dry.

Well, they don't serve no alcohol on Sunday. I'm going to Brellington. I ain't going. Hold on. You can, yeah. Bentonville, I'm going. I'm going to Brellington. I ain't going. Hold on. You can get out of there. Bentonville I'm going. I'm going to Bentonville. No, Big Up Augustine.

I'll just play it. I don't know why you're going to Augustine. No, it's a film. My boy's doing a film over there. It had to be a very good reason. Not my vacation destination. But so saying all that to say that everybody's got a truck or a van. In that truck or van is what?

A cooler with what? Your beer and your liquor and your mix. Every car is a rolling motherfucking bar. Because, and then there's the bootleg guy who's got all the pints and shit. Ain't that where Bill Clinton was getting it in? Oh, that's where he was from too? Arkansas? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He was from Little Rock. He know what it is. He was the governor of Arkansas, I think. Hey, Bill. Hey, let me find out you and Bill got history with each other.

Ha! Monica Lewinsky all on my gown. Now, how did you feel like that? Stephen A recently said, he was trying to say that Rihanna's dope, but the way he said it, he said, you know, she's no Beyonce.

And it felt like to people that Rihanna's not trying to be Beyonce. I think everyone knows that. What did you think when you read that headline that Stephen A. did that? And everyone's saying, they're always trying to put the sisters against each other. What did you think? Oh, my God. At first, I don't even pay attention to Stephen A. Smith, number one.

But the glimpse of the things I have heard him say, I think that they took it out of context. You know, he's a cocky motherfucker. Cocky motherfuckers sometimes say shit that sounds cocky because they're motherfuckers. That's what makes a cocky motherfucker. That's what it is. So, you know,

they're liable to say any goddamn thing then have to retract. You know, I really have to backpedal because I stand pretty much ten toes down on everything I say. But sometimes you have to be like, you know, I didn't really mean it like that. So I don't think he really meant no harm to Yonce. But that beehive, they give a fuck.

They give a fuck. Like, what'd you say, motherfucker? Oh, yeah, they try to get him fired and everything. Fuck that, motherfucker. I know. Ooh, I love beehives. Ooh, have you got a... Yo, but this was the Rihanna-Fenty gang, too,

that when he got double-dosed, it wasn't like he got it just from the beehive. Rihanna don't have nothing to prove to no motherfucker, okay? Shout-out to A$AP Rocky for tapping that ass. Yes! No, motherfucker. Okay? Shout out to A$AP Rocky for tapping that ass. Shout out to A$AP. Put one up in there. You got a shot? Oh, yes, I did.

You said you ain't going to take a shot. We got to take a shot for that. We got to take a shot for that. We got to take a shot for that. All right, okay, okay. A$AP. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun?

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We got to get into the Rihanna deal. That's exactly where I was going. Now, where was you at when someone approached you and said, Rihanna wants you to be a model? How did that manifest itself? Because we see you're a manif manifester you're a manifester you know the phrase it all goes down in the dm right right you didn't dm us no i did no i thought i'm here don't tell me rihanna dm'd you no she did but i'm gonna tell you how it happened okay

my friend damien shout out to damien shout out. My friend Damien is a tour bus driver. He was my tour bus driver when we was on tour with Cat. He remained my friend after the tour. Cat Williams, just in case people don't know who you're talking about. As if. Who don't know about Cat Williams? Let's make some noise while I smoke it like that. It's still talking.

Okay, when I was on tour with Cat Williams, Damien was our tour bus driver. After the tour was over, he remained a tour bus driver. Uh-huh. Just in case. They said you were brothers, this is how they get you. Be on the lookout. Just in case. They said you were brothers. This is how they get there.

Be on the lookout. She from Oakland. Watch out now. She watching her. This is, they sneak up on you. You never know what it is. Okay, so Damien continued to drive tour buses for Reba McIntyre and other people like this.

So one night, like 11 o'clock at night, he calls me FaceTime. And I'm like, what's up? And he said, hey, me and my client was just watching you on the bus. I said, well, who's your client? And Rihanna popped on the screen.

I was like, and I almost broke my nail trying to screenshot that shit. I was like, and I almost broke my nail trying to screenshot that shit. I was like, oh! I got a blurry-ass picture. Put your fingers in it. So I told her, no, she's a comedy fan, and she was a fan of mine, go figure. And I said, thank you so much. I said, yeah, and, you know, of mine, go figure. And I said, thank you so much. I said, yeah, and, you know, of course, I love you.

And I said, my daughter's a very big fan of your lingerie. I said, I wish that you made it in bigger girl sizes. And she said, I do. I said, you do? I said, well, hell, I want to be a model. I want to be a lingerie model. And she said, let's make it happen. I mean, like, key, key, key, key, got off the phone. I thought that was it, a model. I want to be a lingerie model. And she said, let's make it happen. I'm like, key, key, key, key. Got off the phone. I thought that was it.

A dream. Then she hit me in the what? The DM. Okay. Pew, pew, pew. And she said, what's your email? And I sent her my email and honey, contracts started coming,

catalogs and stuff and you pick out what you want to wear that month and then you get it, they send it to you and you take pictures of it and they'll mind you. Uh-huh, daddy. He's been doing a lot of things in your pictures.

Have you? Have you subscribed to my OnlyFans as well? Oh, he's your OnlyFans? We'll get to that. He's not my only motherfucker, man. It is mine. It is mine. Okay, well, okay. Don't break his spirit right now.

Okay, well, you will break my soul. You know what I'm saying? So, um, now when the shit came, and I realized what I signed up for, I'm like, oh my God, I got to really take these pictures in this shit. You know, because, I mean, there wasn't no, you know, no shade rainbow, but this wasn't for rainbow, this was for motherfucking Rihanna. I done literally wrote, what they say, wrote a check that my mouth was about to have to cash, right? You legit going to be

a model right now. Right. Yeah, I had already been a model because I had already done Penthouse. Oh. April edition, it was April Fool's edition. I had to have a six-page spread

in Penthouse magazine, but I didn't bust it open, so don't think you're going to see that. If you meet my pussy, you got to meet her face to face. Should we make some noise for Pam? Make some noise for Pam. We can't

finish the story, so you got to take the pictures. So now you got to take the pictures. And we found a classy, artful way for me to take them. And the response was very, very good. Like, oh, this is like, shit, I'm going to do a fucking photo spread, too, for my own self. And I'm going to get some of this lingerie.

A lot of people got it. And so I did it for a couple of years, you know, got some great photos and stuff. No, the pictures look great. They look great. I know. No, the pictures are great. They look great. I know I recognize you on my own. The picture's really, it's really small, but I knew it was you. And I imagine it was a great check for you, correct? Yeah, it was a very nice check.

God damn, make some noise for Yanni. Yeah, shout out to Yanni. A wonderful word. Yanni. And then I got a chance to be in the Savage Fenty lingerie fashion show on Amazon Prime and stuff. And it was me and Paris Hilton and Willow Smith and a bunch of other people. And that was an experience because that was during COVID, too. But we shot it and great choreographer Paris Global. And it was just a wonderful um

wonderful time too and then you know I did that for a couple of years yeah god damn it so you're not with them no more no we didn't break up or anything but my contract expired and it's just as well because I really those photo shoots take time plus, I don't like wearing thongs. It makes my vagina hurt. You put one on and tell me how your balls feel. I was not... We're not ready. I wasn't ready for that either. I was not... Alright, cool. My fault. Okay, there's one part of this part.

Oh, wait. One part of what part? Of the movie. That's my boy. This is my funniest part. Back to that, yes. When the soldier guy came in, he goes, he goes, and then the other guy next to him,

he goes, I've only seen two vaginas in his whole life. And then you said, well, now, now it's your third. Yeah. And then you said, well, now, now it's your third. Yeah. And then he said, that might be four and five. How did that read when you read that script? How did that read?

Like, did you read that and be like, oh, okay. What I took away from it was, you know, that maybe I had exceptionally big vagina like I do. This is a very visual show.

This is the first time we've been talking about it. You know what? I thought that I could come out here and be my motherfucking self. And y'all is getting all shy and shit. You done had Nas. You done had all these hardcore motherfuckers on here. And a black woman come on here talking about her vagina.

Everybody wanted to night up. Your name is Norrie motherfucking Higgins. Act like it, goddamn. We've never done this before. So fuck. But let's make some noise for our vagina, goddamn. We the Nas. Let's bring in the vagina cam. The vagina cam.

And the power of the pussy would shut a whole room down. Don't you come over here no goddamn moment. That's very true. I saw you was in the movie The Rock. Yes. What was the role?

I remember that movie. It was Sean Connery, right? And Nicolas Cage on Alcatraz. I just came from Alcatraz. I just was in the Bay Area. You didn't do the tour? I didn't do the tour, though. What were you doing on Alcatraz? No, I was driving byraz. I just was in the Bay Area. Did you do the tour? I didn't do the tour, though.

Well, what were you doing on Alcatraz? No, I was driving by it. I mean, I was in Oakland. Oh, you saw it off the Bay Bridge. Yeah, yeah, off the Bay Bridge. Oh.

I stayed in San Francisco, but I had a show in Oakland. I want to do the tour. I don't know. I felt a little weird about that. Like, why do I want to see an ex-jail where I was on with that?

I mean, but that's like a historical thing. Well, I understand you might be traumatized. Yeah, but yeah, what was your role in the Well, I understand you might be traumatized. Yeah, but yeah, what was your role in the rock? I understand you might be traumatized. No, I was just, you know, just that one little speaking role. I was almost an extra, but I was an extra with a speaking role.

But what they didn't know, and I had to... Listen, I got to save it for the book. But give us something. Oh, look, show us. Show us what? No, I got to save it for the book. But give us something. Oh, look. Show us. Show us what? Oh, ask. Pull it up. Where you going to look at it at?

Oh, my God. By the way, you got to upgrade to an iPad. No, we don't have TVs. We don't have anything. You can't be passing Dominican and Colombian people's phones around. Oh. Oh. Why are you looking at porn?

I don't know why they just screenshot me. He said, oh. You got to play? Oh, play. Oh, yeah, you ain't tell me that. I see why y'all is over there. And he is over here. Oh, shit.

Yeah. That was it. Oh. But a lot of people remember that. Your amigo's calling you. No. What is it? Your IMDM?

IMDB. You know, I'm a resource room kid. I'm a resource room. Yeah, because all the movies you've been in is fucking crazy. I know. I'm like the pop-up queen. I keep popping up every fucking where.

But I want to pop up. I'm trying to be the next black woman in late night TV. That's my goal. I don't want to do daytime. I don't want to do daytime. I don't want to pop up. I'm trying to be the next black woman in late night TV. That's my goal. I don't want to do daytime. I stay. Yeah. Oh, we ran out of air.

Wait, wait, wait. I'm taking a shot to that. Thank you. I'm taking a shot to that. Take a shot. To seeing you on late night. Yes, thank you. But hopefully, the drinking at late night, not Oprah.

So it's the drunk. Well, I do want to have. You don't need a drink, man. don't put that on her no no no no I'm gonna tell you why I'm gonna tell you why I want to have liquor on my show okay because Johnny Carson and him used to drink yes they did and some of the funny drink on Johnny on the show it's absolutely on the show him and Ed McMahon in the coffee cup they had booze and they served it. And there's shows that serve booze backstage now that you may or may not know of. And they're really funny. And there was also a Quaid News, too.

Shit, and they try to talk shit about us. We just do it in front of cameras. Talk about the Cosby Show. Yeah. That was my next question. Then I just put it. She said the Cosby Show. Hold up. I just put that on the group chat. Because I'm put it, she said, the Cosby show. Hold up.

I just put that on the group chat. Because I'm clairvoyant. Did you ever meet Bill Cosby? Yeah. Did he have Jell-O pudding? What do you mean, did he have Jell-O pudding? I don't know. He was working.

How was it meeting Bill Cosby? I get mixed stories about him. When I met him, he was at a book signing in Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California. And, you know, this was before any of the shit came out. And so, I was standing in line to buy

the book because, of course, you have to buy the book first to get the autograph. And so, I was standing in line to buy the book, and somebody shoved me, and I looked, and it was Bill Cosby, and he looked back and, like, laughed because he, like, you And somebody shoved me And I looked and it was Bill Cosby And he looked back and laughed Because he shoved me And I don't know if he knew who I was

Or he just wanted to shove me So he shoved me but it felt like But you were already a working comedian at the time? I've been a working comedian for 30 years So he okay And one of his assistants Was a comedian and knew me and stuff so i don't know if you knew me or didn't know me but what it felt like was just like if you had a

father that you could play with you know like that you like that oh that sounded crazy it felt it felt it sounds crazy now no but i didn't have that with a I didn't have a father like that. Okay. So it felt like, you know, it was like my husband, Bill Cosby, like this is amazing. Like he showed me, you know, and looked back and laughed. So we had a moment. And then he signed my book. And then one time I saw him in the airport, and he and I sat next to each other and flew from LA to Las Vegas. And I got the pictures, but what I did,

and I had taken one picture, just like adoring him and laying on his shoulder, but of course, in light of what happened, I reposted it. And I said, Bill, I'm sleepy, I wanna... Foul. Did you see the documentary? Mm-hmm. I just think that Bill Cosby used to be fine as fuck. He used to run track

or tempo. He was an athlete. He was buffed. He was fine as fuck. He could have got any of them bitches pussy that he wanted. And did. And did. So the fact that knowing that and still preferring to drug women

is like you want to just one heartbeat away from necrophilia. Like you're sick. Like you don't want to make love to somebody who's making love to you back. You just want a body. Right. Got some twisted shit.

Okay, right now, Bill Cosby's going on tour. Your agent call you and say, Bill wants you to open up. Can't do it, Bill. Can't do it. Can't trust you around my cocktail. Shane, can't trust you around my cocktail, so I don't think I'm going to go. No, everything is, you know, I am...

Luckily, I'm at the point in my career where I do have the opportunity to turn down shit that I don't want to do. You know, when you're really trying to get that bag and you're coming up and you're hungry, you don't even have the opportunity to turn down what you don't want to do. You got to get that money you're trying to live, you know. But I wouldn't do it now, and I do have the opportunity to say, I mean, I'm not touring with nobody right now, myself. So, I don't have to rely on nobody

to eat, you know? What do you prefer, stand-up or doing movies? Stand-up. Why? Because of the media reaction? Yeah. It's like a drug. Yeah. For sure. And ask me whether

which one I like better, movies or television. Okay. No, you ask it, motherfuckers. Which one do you like, movies or television? No, which one do I like more? Jesus, Christmas. Which one do you like, movies or television? No, which one do I like more? Jesus, Christmas.

Which one do you like more, movies or the children? No, you want a drinking show, motherfucker? I'm here to challenge your intelligence. Let's go. Because I had edibles. That's what they don't know. I prefer television because movies, you're expected to show up and then they're going to shoot. Television, you have rehearsals.

And I need rehearsal. I'm the type of person who rehearses. I need to be in the space. Know that I'm saying this when I'm walking over here and make it all make sense in my head. I can't just read it off the paper and go act it. I can't do it like that. So, you want me to give you some more questions to ask? Please.

Yes, come on. Can you write them and send them to both of us? We'll give you our text. We'll put you in our text group. I'm just trying to get you to take another shot. So, I got another shot. Oh, my God, Noreen. And let me ask you, before we take this other shot,

can you line it up? Before we take it? Have you ever worked with Harvey Weinstein? It's not like, the way you said it, though, I feel like you know it. If I had worked with Harvey Weinstein, my motherfucking jet would be at the airport right now. What? And he'd have paid me, I'd have gave him what he wanted.

Nasty motherfucker. You would have covered for him. Damn fucking, damn a rich person. She's like, Harvey's all right. Yeah, all right with me. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Absolutely.

There's no lettuce in this shit. No, but I'm just saying that there's fucking somebody rich and there's fucking somebody rich and powerful. And in the business at that time, I guess Harvey was really rich and powerful. But see, if you just look at the motherfuckers, you know the people who get hoes. He old, white, nasty, fat.

Don't no bitch want you. You just got money. Any bitch that sleeps with you is a total whore because you're old and impotent and nasty and disgusting. Harvey Weinstein looked like a fucking ejaculation. Is that too much? It's just right. It's just right. I'm going to take a shot.

You hit another one. I'm going to take a shot. I'm going to take a shot. It's ejaculation. I took a shot already It's ejaculation I need another one Holy moly But have you ever been

Through those stories In Hollywood With these people Think like that Or have you ever Heard of these No Listen

You said you live In Crenshaw But that means You don't adapt To the Hollywood lifestyle I really don't Because I was popular Before I ever came to L.A. Because I was on TV in the Bay Area before I ever came to L.A.

So that part never affected me. Like, you can ask my friends. I love it. Some parts of it, I don't like it. But, you know, it hasn't affected me because I was popular before I ever left Oakland. They said even they felt up Terry Crews. They said that. Well, listen, I am a bitch who is down to fuck.

I wish that somebody had approached me that could help my career. I'd have been done fucking. Nobody never fucking, they don't want me because they know I flip side, I got a big mouth. You know, you piss me off, I'm going to talk about it

on the stage. I'm high risk pussy. They don't want, they don't want it. I'm ready to fuck you. They don't want it. I mean, I give it to them.

They don't want it. I'm trying to have, I mean, I give it to them. They don't want it. I'm trying to have. I need hoes. I need hoes. In different areas. No areas. Let's go. I need hoes.

Hey. Oh, oh. Oh, my God. Let's make some noise. Let's take it all the way. Shout out to Nate Dogg. Rest in peace, Nate Dogg. Rest in peace.

Let's take it all the way back. Where do you get the bug for comedy? Who's inspiring you? What's inspiring you to be a comedian? Is it your family member, like you said? They were definitely a training ground for sure. But to take it serious, what inspires you? Well, I think a lot of it might have to do with being the eighth of the eight children. and not really being paid attention to in the home that I was raised in

because I was raised away from them. And then I actually, it was theater that I started in before any of this shit. Theater? Yes. Like Shakespeare? Let's find out. You and Tupac both did theater. And it ended up in Oakland.

Yeah. Yeah, Oakland is where I did the theater at. Tupac did his theater In Baltimore In Baltimore But I'm just saying They have that Oakland and Connery

Yeah for sure And you know That teaches you About not having stage fright In this And moving around Being able to be directed Working with other people

Absolutely Being on time Which I wasn't It was me today My fault I wasn't on time My fault I wasn't on Cuban was me today. My fault. I wasn't on time. My fault. I wasn't on Cuban time,

but you was on Puerto Rican time. But the traffic out here. Puerto Rican time. Puerto Rican. But I'm going to give you a pass because the traffic out here is bananas. Yeah, it's crazy. They're trying to compete with L.A.

And they are. And New York, too. Yeah. It's really congested, but, you know, the price you pay for being in Miami, too. Yeah. It's really congested, but, you know, the price you pay for being in Miami. Miami. Yeah.

Hey, do you know Pitbull? Yeah, that's our buddy. Can you call him, please? He's been on the show. I didn't see that one. You did a great show. You got to watch it. You'll enjoy it.

All the rappers who ever came here, Pitbull might be the only one who walked in by himself and walked out by himself. I mean, he's from the city. We all know him. We know him for years. No, no, no. He came sober, but started drinking immediately. We told him to calm down. He kept drinking, finished his drinks, left with

drinks to go by himself. I'm going to text him and see if he... Was he driving? No, no, no. He had a driver. He could do what he want. Oh, because I love Pitbull. Right. And I'm going to tell you one thing he said that I'll never forget.

They gave Pitbull the key to the city. Uh-huh. And he said, how ironic. I used to sell keys in this city that you give me the key to the city to. Ha ha!

I remember back when he used to wear little French braids in his hair. But he's a total boss. Right. And I like him with little tight pants.

Right. Now, that's something you said earlier is what I was saying to my... Okay, you texted? Yeah, yeah.

You should have sent... Take my picture and text me. I sent it to him on a great tour. Oh, he'll recognize me now. Uh-huh, send that to... Okay, good. Thank you. So, one of the things I was telling my friend the other day,

I was like, everyone who kind of, like, grew up in the late 80s, early 80s, they actually smoked crack before, right? Well, she jokingly said that. Did you mean that? Nigga, I could cook a rock right now. Worst thing ever. Worst thing ever. Hashtag worst thing ever. Hashtagst thing ever. Worst thing ever. Hashtag worst thing ever. Hashtag worst thing ever.

Look at Nori Googling me. I'm hurt. I'm hurt, Nori, because I know you. I knew you guys didn't know nothing about me. You know more about me than you do.

The crack war, I definitely didn't know. I knew about the robbery. Nori don't. But, so... Nori, well, you were interested in know. I knew about the robbery. You were interested in me. Are you crazy? We are here.

We are. Tell us what you're excited about. What are you talking about? Let us know. We are honored to have you here. But, Nori, he be like this, he be like this. Oh, no, no, no, because I'm trying. He does that with everybody. You got to watch Dream Chef more.

He does it all the time. Yeah, because I'm trying to be on point. I'm trying to be on point. I'm trying to be on point. He could be Obama here. He does that with everybody. You got to watch Drink, Chess, More. He does it all the time. Yeah, because I'm trying to be on point. I'm trying to be on point. I'm trying to be on point. He could be Obama here. He'd be like, Obama. Oh, you were president, right? I see here in Google, you was president of the United States.

So, but back then, see, a lot of people used to think, a lot of people now, when they think about people that smoked crack back then, they think like, oh, they were crackheads or whatever. But back then, it was a different era. Like, some of the most drug dealer's people I knew had the most money I knew was smoking crack

because at first, it was looked at like cocaine's cousin. Right? It was looked at as cocaine's cousin. It was like, this was kind of fly.

Or no, that wasn't when you was doing it. No, I'm looking at the church. He did too. The church said, hey't when you was doing it. No, I'm looking at the church saying amen. So what was it like in your experience?

Well, first of all, let me just say what nobody says. Crack was amazing. That shit. I've heard that about cocaine by itself. When you say crack, you don't get hooked because it's fucked up. That shit was amazing.

It was amazing. So Nancy Reagan was wrong. I said the reason she said just say no, I said that bitch ain't never hit a pipe in her life. She wouldn't just be able to say just no. She might say no. Thank you, Nancy. I actually listened to you, Nancy. No.

So it was amazing? Yeah, it really was. This is the 80s? What time frame are you talking? This is before. See, because I remember. I think it's the first for Drink Chats, by the way. Okay, okay. Oh, okay the way. Okay, okay. Oh, okay, cool.

Yes, yes. I remember when it first started when people was like using ether and all this shit and everybody was cooking their own

before you could buy it already cooked. Before it was already rocked. Already rocked. Uh-huh. Which was amazing, too. I was like, you know, I ain't even got to cook it. Just bam.

But it is, you know, it's absolutely the devil. It's the thing I regret, one of the biggest regrets of my life. I wasted a lot of money and a lot of time. But at this time in Oakland, California, you couldn't even have a friend if you didn't have no dough. Like, nobody would come over your motherfucking house unless you had a rock. I was doing comedy.

I was getting paid in cash. I lived in a little area where everybody knew me. They knew I was coming home with some money. They started letting me have $20. I said, all right, bitch, bring me one, too. You know, and then it started. Lonely, you know, didn't have no body. Because I get off work

at fucking 1, 2 o'clock in the morning. Nobody comes home from work and goes straight to sleep. You know, I want to, you know, stay up, maybe watch TV, do whatever. Can't talk to nobody on the phone. Nobody want to talk to you. Nobody saying they're working want to talk to you

at 2.30 in the morning. But the dope man will. He'll come over. So, oh, wow. I'll be right there. Yeah, yeah. So, my bad. Did you ever smoke crack, Corey? No, no, but I took... No, no, my bad. Did you ever smoke crack, Nori?

No, no, I never. You never put it in a joint? No, no, no. Come on, Nori. No, no, no, but I took Molly, and I feel the same way about Molly. Are you comparing Molly to crack? Yes. Never, never, never.

See, we had acid and shit back in my day. Paper acid? We had paper acid, but mine was, I liked, we had orange sunshine as well. But mine, I liked purple micro dot. Ooh, baby. Damn, that was some fun shit. And what would it do, acid? Well, this was mescaline.

Mescaline. Mescaline. I took a mescaline before. Mine was yellow. This champagne make me burp. It just was a fun, I don't like drugs that ain't fun Like cocaine after a while That shit ain't fun

But crack is Huh? But crack is fun Versus just regular cocaine Crack was fun Until it wasn't This is Let's call it early crack.

Early crack was fine. It's early crack. It's different. Early crack is different. It was more organic. It was organic. Yeah, it was fine because you can make

the pattern into a little rock and look, this is amazing, like a magic trick. Three weeks later, when you ain't came out that hour. No kids should be watching this, but kids don't try this at home. No, don't try this at home, kids. You said three weeks later No kids should be watching this But kids don't try this at home

No don't try this at home kids You said three weeks later You don't come out the house Three weeks later When you realize You ain't been out the house I still got on the same clothes I had on that picture

Three weeks ago No that wasn't me I'm taking my clothes I was like a high class Drug user You know what I mean I didn't miss no shows. I was late picking up the kid a couple times.

I'll be right there, Ms. Johnson. So you don't, honestly, on a serious tip, you don't think you developed a serious habit? Yes, it was serious. Are you fucking kidding It all gets serious Everybody's drug habit On crack cocaine It gets serious

It's a serious drug You make it sound very fun And I know I just had crack with it I know Crack happy hour I know I know

Yo I ain't gonna lie Some niggas here Was looking when you said Crack is a drug Niggas start thinking like, what? Yeah, like everybody's like, I want to make sure before crack makes a comeback. Niggas like, oh, I'm going to try it one day, man. They're like, oh, man.

Next time we ain't win, what? Just, you know, it's not for everybody. It's not for nobody. No, I can speak of it in a comedic way now because I have overcome. Right, right, absolutely. But it was some very dark days and some very stupid shit was done and a lot of money was motherfucking

fucked off and scandalous shit. I did all that shit. I'm not above saying I did all that shit. And I regret things. But the redemption is when you turn your life around and when you end up winning. You know what I'm saying?

It ain't about winning yet. Like, I guess, I just got back from Oakland and I just literally was driving through the streets and that's the last time I've seen people straight up smoking crack with stems. Right up. Well, go to Kensington Park

and don't do Oakland like that. Oh, oh, oh. They got plenty of motherfucking places. In Philly? Yes. Oh, yeah. I've drove through there, too. They got plenty.

Stay the fuck out of there. What are you doing, Norris? Why was you doing it? And what was you doing at Oakland, God damn it? What was you doing at Oakland? We were at Mr. Fav's birthday party. What was your? Oh, you were at the Fav?

Yeah, we were at Mr. Fav's birthday party. Yeah. Yes, yes. The simba was there. That's the family. We had a great time. Oh, yeah. the family. Yeah, we were Mr. Fabricant party. Yes, yes, yes. Simba was there. We had a great time. Oh, yeah. I got some of his gear. And you know what's crazy about Oakland? Let's be clear. They all told us,

take everything out the car. You can't leave nothing in the car. It's a smash and grab capital. Smash and grab capital. But you'd be surprised. Who's doing the smash and grab it? Well and grab capital. But you'd be surprised. What? Who's doing the smash and grabbing? Well, that too. But you'd be surprised

that stuff to people just leave in the car. I mean, sometimes you have to leave shit in the car. Right. But you don't get got till you get caught slipping.

I didn't want to go to dinner because of that. I was going to dinner for my last day. You can go to dinner and just bring your man bag in the restaurant with you. Yeah, you're right, probably. Nah you. Yeah, you right, probably.

Nah, but... You right, probably. We ain't want to take that chance. We said, fuck it. We skipping dinner, staying in the hotel, going straight to the... To the restaurant in the hotel.

But you know where we ate at? We ate at Mo... What is it? Moto Soto? I don't know what that is. It was fantastic. And then we ate at, what is it? Moto Soto? I don't know what that is. Little Italy. It was fantastic. And then we ate at Linda's.

Motherfuckers, I was trying to get you to eat Italian. Look, Brenda's, you heard of Brenda's? It's a soul food. I know her best name, Brenda. Right, yeah. She cook her ass off, too. It might have been her spot. Right, maybe it's Brenda's.

And it was nothing but homeless people outside. It was like, whoa. And then it said in front of the spot, it said, beware of pickpockets and loose women. I had never seen that type of sign before in my life. It said, pickpockets, that means straight up thieves, right? And then loose women means straight up hookers. I was like, oh, shit. I was going to say, I was going to sed And then loose women mean straight up hookers. I was like, oh, shit. I was going to say, I was going to

choose the loose women. This is a different type of city. It makes no sense. Okay, got that. Okay, well, let me take this over for a minute. I want to ask some questions that the people in the audience would like to know. Okay, let's go. Okay, Norrie, you've been married a long time.

Yes. How many years? We've been together 16 years. I believe married 11. Did she? You better get that right or no pussy for you. Is she from? What borough are you from?

You from Brooklyn? I'm from Queens. Oh, you're from Queens? Yeah, yeah. Where your wife from? She's from Jersey. When we met in Miami. Okay, okay, okay. And then you. What's your wife from? She from Jersey. Mm-hmm. When we met in Miami. Okay, okay, okay.

And then you. Mm-hmm. What's your relationship status? That's right. Put it on him. You got a fiance. He done proposed and didn't tell none of us. Oh.

He done proposed and didn't tell none of us. He done proposed and didn't tell none of us. So you got two kids with your baby mama. Right. You got two kids with your baby mama, and now you have done the honorable thing and you got married.

Good man. That's good. You're in front of some good motherfuckers. I know. You're in front of some good motherfuckers. Yes, yes.

Now, you're a DJ. Uh-huh. And so, who have you DJed for before and how did you two link up? That's a long story, but... Well, make it short.

I like it. He came down here to promote Capone Noriega. Yeah. I had a hip-hop store. I was a mixtape DJ. I was a DJ

doing all the things out here, so they brought him to me to promote. Right. And we connected. And then we did a lot How many years ago

was that? 97. She's trying to let us know how old we are. No! We old! We old! I'm taking a shot for that. That was a beautiful story. We old and grown. Thank you for that. And look, by the way, look, this is all my shots I took besides one. She took it

by mistake. Yeah, I saw all your stuff. I want you to know, every time I take a shot, I put it there so I can know how many shots I took. I saw you all that. Cheers, cheers. Cheers, cheers. No, but that's dope. Okay, but wait a minute. No, no, I'm not too. We're producing your late night. She's practicing for her late night show.

I'm not too. Can we produce it? Can we produce it? No, we're producing it. We're producing it. We see it. We see it. Yo, we got the backing.

We got the backing. We got the backing for it. We got the backing for it. Yeah, we're producing it. No way. We're producing it. No, no, we can try. We're going to try.

We're going to try. We're going to try. We try We gonna try We gonna try Oh no no no Listen all you gotta do Is have me spin off The motherfucking Uh Drink champ spin off

Motherfucking The female You know what I'm saying The flip We gonna come over To the perfect game And everything But my shit is not girly

Let's not say it Because somebody gonna Bite our shit Yeah I don't want it to be Like a girly thing We say it on here Yeah I just wanna ask the question You know cause, because bitches watch Drink Champs, too.

That's right. And they want to know things, too. That's right. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're going to be the first guest to get Rihanna to come out. You're going to be the first guest. Don't put that one on me. You know what I'm saying?

Let's speak it to an assistant. Let's speak it to an assistant. You're going to be the first one to get Rihanna to come out. Well, she does like me. Yes, that's right. Let's go. Three. After the Super Bowl, you're going to be the first one to get Rihanna to come out. Well, she does like me. Yes, that's right. Let's go. I did a Super Bowl. You're going to be the first one.

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And if it's raining, we're going to have an umbrella. Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh. I have an umbrella. Ella, Ella, eh, eh, eh, eh. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh my God. But I'm not finished with my questions. Go ahead.

Sorry, go ahead. So you're from where? San Juan. By way of L.A. By way of L.A. By way of L.A., Miami, Cuban family, Cuban parents.

You mean nationally? Okay, okay. Yeah, all that. I'm Cuban, I'm Cuban. Right, I love that. Love Cubans. Hey Okay, okay. I'm Cuban. I'm Cuban. I love that. Love Cubans. Hey, Cubans. All right.

Yeah. That's a black Cuban. I know you can feel this. No, Cubans are black. No, no, no. Yeah. No, Cubans are black. That's one of the hot things.

This nigga could dance his ass off. I'm sure. Yeah, he's my Cuban brother right there. We was at, where was that? Right next door. Right next door. It was a brick house. You saw that?

That motherfucker started dousing salsa. He started going like this? Said, don't play me cheap, I'm daddy. He looked like Ben Stiller in a long cane party. He killed that. Yes, yes. No, but you know, that's what I love about being in Miami, is the Cubans, because you'll see black people,

you think just a regular black person, say, what's up, player? And you're like, hey, mami. Oh, my God. Oh, that was so much fun. Oh, come on on We almost done The next bottle of champagne Come on

I ain't scared Let's fill her up I ain't scared Now on a regular night What do you drink? Okay I got a present for you guys Okay god damn it

Let's go let's go Remember Okay So some people know I have a website HayleyNail.com And I have merchandise And I just bought y'all one of these. Shit, we're buying stones.

I'm into it. Swarovski crystal. I'm into it. Thank you, thank you. You can take it out of the plastic and put a photograph better. Oh, shit. And these can be found on my website, and I want you to wear them somewhere. I'm wearing them the next episode.

Don't play. Our next episode, we wearing them. Don't play with me. That's why I'm wearing them to the next episode. Don't play. Our next episode, we wearing them. Don't play with me. That's why I'm not taking mine out the bag. Look at that bitch's fly, ain't it?

I'm not taking mine out the bag. I'm wearing mine. Yeah, yeah. I'm putting it on camera right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so look.

That's bomb, right? God damn it. Can you take these mines out? Wow. Yeah, I'm wearing them. You like it? Next episode.

Let's make some noise for that guy So let me ask And so no I'm not finished Okay go ahead Go ahead So then at what age

Did you start DJing And how did you Are you two part questions? I love I love the gangster name That you have When you You know your group

Yes Kapon So when did you start DJing? I started officially DJing when I was 18. At house parties and shit? Because I couldn't afford turntables. So before that, I had two tape decks, and I was a pause tape. The tape deck?

Yeah, I was a pause tape DJ. Cassette? Yeah, yeah. And you would be able to loop it from there? I had hand-me-down tape decks, and I could pitch it, and I could record off the radio. That was hard work. It was a lot of work. On that cassette. And Nori, what about you when you started

rapping? I was rapping in jail. Legit. I mean, it's the truth. I tried to rap. I had the worst rap name ever in hip-hop history. What was your charge, first of all? To the murder. But let's move on. Okay, and you want to rap. I had the worst rap name ever in hip-hop history. What was your charge, first of all? To the murder. But let's move on.

Okay, and... Okay. Oh, we can talk about my bank robbery. But you don't want to talk about that L. Okay, that's all right. But I had... My rap name was MC Yahoo with the ball to beam. That was my original...

It was horrible. And none of my friends, none of my friends had the... Wait, wait. Did we ever say how did you get that name? I just made it up. How did you make that name up?

Because I wanted like a grandmaster or such and such. So, all of that, you came up with that? Yahoo with the ball because I didn't want to... Wait, so you was like, hold up.

MC? Yahoo? I wanted to stretch. I wanted to stretch you was like Hold up MC Yahoo I wanted to stretch I wanted to stretch Like Grandmaster And you know how they Like Grandmaster's a boy I didn't want to use

That shit I wanted to use Yahoo And I always had a bald head So what the bald to be But the minute When he was The way he was moving

You could tell I was in the 80s You could tell You could tell I was in the 80s Cause I used to drink Um What was it Drink the milk Yeah Yoohoo Yoohoo right Yoohoo So I used to drink Yeah Drink the milk Yeah

Yoohoo Yoohoo Yoohoo So I wanted to call it It's a Yahoo So you went from Yoohoo To Yahoo Yeah

It's a Yahoo You went from Chocolate milk To a crock of Hey it was the It was the era That's how we was Creative in New York

It was the era That's right baby At that time And it was like It wanted to have a long name Having a short name was not good. You know, this is back with the cardboard box

on the ground type shit. Yeah, yeah. Why you not that old? Yeah. Yeah. I still real search you as a genie. That's why. Hip hop is 50 years old.

I know. Yeah. Hip hop is 50 years old. Happy birthday, hip hop. Happy birthday, hip hop. You know, this is the first time we say happy birthday to hip-hop on this show of 50 years. Well, there it is with me. With you.

With you. We got to thank hip-hop for giving us all these opportunities. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So many opportunities. They thought hip-hop would go away. Well, the white folks used to wish that rock and roll would go away. And everybody wished that hip-hop would go away. Well, the white folks used to wish that rock and roll would go away. And everybody wished that hip-hop would

go away. But, I mean, hip-hop is spread like motherfucking Corona. It's international. And it's everywhere. And there's some of the greatest, I mean, you know, what would the world be without a Busta Rhyme? You know, what would the world be

without a tribe called Quest, EPMD, and that's my shit. NWA, Ice Cube, Public Enemy. Oh my God. NWA. What? E40. Hey, and now Mount Westmore.

Mount Westmore. We got them coming up. Yep, we got them coming up. Not all them. I think we got like three of them at school. It's usually never Snoop. Yeah. It's usually 40 short and cute. 40 short and cute.

Hopefully we get. I was just with Short a couple of weeks ago, two weeks ago, we did a thang thang. But, okay, so. Hold on. We don't know what that is. Hold on. Hold on.

A thang thang can mean a lot of thang thangs. I know. That's mad generic to us. The thang thang we did was because he's from Oakland, I'm from Oakland. We both came through the Sobe Television Network era, which was a black-owned and operated television station in Oakland, California, before BET or anything like that. So that's why I said it was popular before I came to L.A.

I was already taking pictures. I was already signing autographs. I was already doing that shit before I ever came to L.A. in short as taking pictures. I was already signing autographs. I was already doing that shit before I came to L.A. and short as well. And so we played a part of that. So they're doing a documentary on that. So we were at Short's studio

and I did my part and then he did his part. You ever hit a corner? That thing. Like they say? You ever hit a corner like they say? Pop my collar?

You hit the corner. You spin a corner. Like Ghost Ride the Whip? Yeah hit the corner, like you spin a corner. Like Ghost ride the whip? Yeah, yeah, something like that. Yeah. Is that the same? No, I don't know. I thought spin a corner

was some pimp shit. Hit the corner is just riding around. You know, when East Coast people try to use West Coast slang, they don't always translate just like when we saying yo, son, and we from L.A.

Yeah, you're a hard guy. Right, so don't try to talk. We hard guys. You know what's crazy? What? When I'm thinking about the West Coast and East Coast, right? When I go to Oakland, I feel just like New York. Exactly.

It's like there's bums there, there's the real dudes. It's like Harlem. Oakland's like, there's bums there, there's the real dudes. It's like Harlem. Oakland's like a Harlem. Yeah, and it's like, it's almost the same thing. You got to, it's the same way you got to be on point in Oakland, you got to be on point in the city. And where I moved from in Oakland to where I moved to in L.A. is the same, basically. Because you said you live in the Crenshaw district, right? Break that down for people who don't know, because everyone thinks of Crenshaw,

and they think of Boys in the Hood, they think of Minnesota Society. Well, actually, they think of Nipsey now. Yeah, absolutely. And I'm like three blocks away. But I'm older, I'm older, so the younger generation think of Nipsey. The older generation think of these old movies

when they heard Crenshaw. Boys in the Hood. And they drove past Crenshaw, they seen it was graffiti. This is the only sign on whatever that highway is that had graffiti on it when you passed through Crenshaw. Crenshaw's got a bad rap. No, it's not. I mean, it used to be lit.

Like, you know, it used to be fun lit, and then it used to be violent lit as well. But when I moved there, that was pretty over. You know, not over. It's never over. So you're saying this part is gentrified? No, it wasn't. It's beginning to be gentrified now. They got Whole Foods? No, but they did close the Ralphs, and I take

offense to that. Closed the Ralphs? I love Ralphs. I like Albertsons. Just saying. We don't got none of these here. Yeah, what side of the other shit you guys got? We got Publix. We got Publix.

Publix. And Winn-Dixie. Winn-Dixie. That's country. That's country. It do sound, now that you say it. Winn-Dixie. But Oakland, I'm glad that you have been coming to experience.

I'm glad you like Fab. Right. Fab is a big man. He's got his shop. He's got his shop. Right. I saw Fab. No, we were talking about Crenshaw.

Hold on. Oh, yeah, because I get mixed up a little bit. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. So Crenshaw. Edit that shit. Crenshaw is, you're saying there's nice neighborhoods in Crenshaw. Sure.

Really? And is Crenshaw a city? It's an area, a district. Okay. Like we would say a borough. Yeah, you could say Crenshaw a city? It's an area, a district. Okay. Like we would say a borough. Yeah, you could say Crenshaw's a borough. Okay. The Crenshaw district encompasses, you know, different areas within that as well. Like, you know, Leimert Park is in maybe the Crenshaw district.

And the little, where's the Angeles Vista? That's sort of in the Crenshaw District and the little, where's the Angeles Vista? That's sort of in the Crenshaw District. It's a little, you know, it's an area. And L.A. is so big, and it got so many different areas. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.

But I'm okay, because I'm not one to live above my means. Number one, I'm very comfortable, very safe where I'm at. My neighborhood digs me. I dig them. I've been there for many years. My kid grew up there.

And, you know, I also have multiple other sort of like little residences and offices. And I wouldn't be able to have that if I was trying to pay a mortgage in a place where I really don't even spend any time. In the hills. I'm on the road so much that it's only like a very little time I spend at home. So I don't feel the, everybody's like, buy a house, buy a house, buy a house. She tells you to buy a house, buy house, buy house. She tells you to buy house, buy house. Well, when you're single, you know, it's easier to just say,

hey, come fix your motherfucking water heater, player, than it is to buy a new water heater, you know? My roof is like, get the fuck over here and fix it. If you are a single woman, you feel me? If you don't have a man that can do it and you got to get contracts, you don't know shit about it,

they're going to take advantage of you. You know, so I just ran and made to be somebody else is a fucking problem. In the meantime, I can rent four, five places for what I be paying for mortgage for rent.

Now, I'm not saying this is the thing to do. I'm don't, don't be like Lou Nell. Yeah, you know, because people be like, you shouldn't be telling people you should be telling

them to own shit and you should. But own the land, not the building because you don't be like Lou Nell. Yeah, you know, because people be like, you shouldn't be telling people you should be telling them to own shit. And you should. But own the land, not the building because you don't own shit if you don't own the land. Word.

Let's make some noise for that. Now, one of the craziest things I've seen going to L.A. was people brought me to Baldwin Hills, right? Yeah, wait a minute. And let me say something about that one more thing. If you buy a house and you don't buy it outright,

like if you're not fucking Gucci Man or something like that, now you are bragging that you got a house, but really the motherfucking bank own it. Right. And so I don't feel until I can buy a house. Outright. Outright. I just don't want to be,

I don't have a morbid fear of losing, I've been evicted before and stuff, and I have a morbid fear of being put the fuck out. And I don't want to be in a house that really the bank owned, and if some shit happened, I could be put the fuck out, depending on the circumstance.

That's just me. I don't, That's just my thing. So about Baldwin Hills, though, it is a black Beverly Hills. I kid you not. That's like, I forget. Yeah, they brung me to it first, right?

And I remember me thinking, like, it was so nice, I almost thought they were lying. Because I was from New York, and I never was used to black people having houses, let alone land, let alone property. And I remember people bringing me to that about

25 years ago, or maybe 22 years ago. And I remember me going to that recently and saying, not only is that neighborhood sustained, it's even gotten better. It's beautiful. And they had a TV show. Didn't they have a TV show called Baldwin Hills?

Yeah, I could. About the black elite kids up in Baldwin Hills. And I loved that show. And they used real locations to be wholesome, all this type of stuff, which is also in that new movie, Eddie's new movie. But you people. But, um, you people. Yeah, I saw it. I just saw it the other day.

Great racially charged show. I loved it. Um, I got, you know, I got some things to say about that. But, um, the area is where, like, I can see an attorney used to have a house. I think, um, I think some Tina Turner used to have a house. I think some Temptations used to live up there. Maybe Johnny Cochran.

I don't know. It was some very amazing black folk that used to live up there. A lot of doctors and lawyers and stuff like that. That's why they did that Baldwin Hill show. Yeah, but, I mean, it's dope to see that because a lot of people, you know, one time I went to Turks and Caicos and I remember going there and me walking through a whole

black rich neighborhood and I was like, this is Wakanda. Oh, honey. I was just like, holy shit, like, this is real life Wakanda. All of us think we got to go to Dubai to see that or go to the Uvrania or Wakanda. I'm glad to hear that. I haven't been I haven't been there yet. Oh.

But I have been to Africa. And the thing that blows my mind, or Jamaica, is to go to the hotel and the hotel manager is black. And the concierge is black. And then the housekeepers are black

but it's not just the housekeepers and the cooks. The executives are black. The person in charge of tourism is black. And to see that, that makes you go, oh. You know, you sort of feel like, oh, this is what it's supposed to, you really get that feeling, like this is what it's supposed to feel like.

Oh, you got to go to church. Yeah. Church is, even like, and God bless, but like, I don't know, a lot of the Black Islands, it's probably, maybe I'm wrong with this, so I don't want to say this, because we always get slack for being wrong, but to me, it felt like the richest Black Islands

in the Caribbean. To me, I could be wrong, but it's not a fact. Well, this is how I felt to you. You precluded that by saying, it's how I fucking felt to you. Right, right. But I kid you not, I was there one day, and I walked on a block.

And then I walked on the next block. And I walked on the next block, and every single family looked just like me. And I was just like, I had never seen that before. There's a lot of beautiful black opulent living outside of this punk bitch ass United States of America. Yes. You know,

there really is. And if we didn't have such fears of the unknown or of leaving our grandma and grandpa, we ain't gonna leave. You know, if we could uproot everybody we love and take them there, maybe that, you know, it's hard to leave

and go somewhere where you don't know. I believe. You know, and you got your relatives here and, you know, it's hard to leave and go somewhere where you don't know. Right. I believe. You know, and you got your relatives here and, you know, they don't, you know, grandma don't even want

to leave her two-bedroom motherfucking house, let alone go to a different place. So how you going to do that? Flying back and forth. It's very hard to leave. When motherfuckers say,

hey, niggas, go back to Africa, we be like, please. Can we? Right. How can we do it? please. Can we? How can we do it? You know, how can we do that? We got Michael Blacksman coming up, and he built a whole school in Ghana. I know that. That's crazy. Yeah, and that's

why I forgive him for doing all them stupid ratchet reality shows that he did. He was trying to get a bag so that he could build a school. I forgive you, Michael. Yeah, but he took all that old reality bullshit and went and built that school. And that's what I, you know, I don't have no foundations and nothing like that. I would like to be able to do that.

So when I get my late night shows, I would give me them. Well, Chappelle is supposed to be producing my Netflix special. Goddamn, that's wild. Hell yeah. That's wild. Hell yeah. That's wild. I think I'll be able to make some more moves, you know, after that. Hell yeah.

Because I don't need to hit licks no more. I need a lump sum of money. Right. I need a lump. Which count? I need a lump. Oh, I be talking to them.

I should be talking to you, huh? Yeah. That's you right there. That's Yadman Rastaman. Why you didn't tell me that y'all full of shit? Yeah, of course. You let me know. Fuck both y'all. You let me right there. That's Yadman Rastaman. Why you didn't tell me that y'all full of shit? Yeah, cool. You let me know.

Fuck both y'all. That's for Yadman Rastaman. But there's a camera over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but you're talking to Sonny. Sonny wants to talk to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He got on the wrong sweater

I'm sorry for neglecting the people at this angle. I did not know he could get his sweater. This is not my best angle. You've been looking at my... Edit that out. Good. That's my favorite my... Edit that out.

My favorite phrase. Edit that out. Okay, well, I'm back. So, yeah, I'm glad that you like L.A. I'm glad you like Oakland. I love New York. Now, I'm not made for it. I'm not built for New York. Why you say that?

Because it's a lot of walking. I'm way too bougie. You motherfuckers in New York got the tightest asses of anybody in the United States. You bitches be like... I've never heard that. You bitches... I said my act. You bitches be like, oh, it's just two blocks

down. Half a mile later, like, what the fuck, you know? I'm going to tell you a secret. It depends on where you're at in New York. There's certain people in certain boroughs that don't even have elevators. And to them walking, it just doesn't seem like nothing. My motherfucking nephew, he's going to die when he sees this,

used to live, I think, in Manhattan, right? I says, I'm going to come visit you, nephew. He's like, okay, aunt auntie that's how he talked and so I get to a spot I get out of the cab not an uber that's how long ago this was got the cab yellow cab he gets yellow cab he's from fucking what's that grand central what's the grand central yeah yeah yeah and so I and so we get out the cab. We get my suitcase and everything. We go inside the door of his apartment. I said, where's the elevator? He said, oh, we don't have an elevator.

I said, what? And I said, what fucking floor do you live on? 32. It felt like 32. It was the fifth motherfucking floor. I lived on the fifth floor, too. But wait, the steps didn't go. Yo, they didn't go one, two, three, four.

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Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! I know those buildings. Oh, I know those buildings. Oh, I can't stand them. Fuck that. I'm like, they ought to let you pay $200 a month for this place. It was the tiniest apartment I've ever been. You can sit on the toilet and fry an egg on the stove at the same time.

That's how small this motherfucker was. The shower was in like a closet. And the motherfucker was tilted. You sit in the office chair. He got your ride. Yo, I said, how do you do your laundry? How do you carry that shit up? What do you do? What about groceries?

Like, you come up and down the steps with this? You live here voluntarily? Uh-uh? That shit, that's why I know y'all are the baddest. New York is the baddest Listen, I know a dude

right now that has an apartment like it's $2,800 and they about to raise it to him for $3,000 and he has to use the community shower.

No, that's wild. $3,000? When I say community, no, no, no. What I'm saying is it's just like the four or five people that's on the floor. No, that's wild. $3,000. When I say community, no, no, no. What I'm saying is it's just like the four or five people that's on the floor.

No, that's terrible. That's insane. You got to wake up and actually like jam. $3,000. You got to go at 10 o'clock. That is jail shit.

That's jail shit. I'm going to shower. $3,000 goddamn dollar. And he's paying $3,000. I'll stand the fucking Y. But he's smack dead in the middle of everything. That's $3,000. Goddamn dollar. And he's playing $3,000. To shout out Stan the fucking Y. Hell no. But he's smack dead in the middle of everything.

That's not even worth it. I mean, to him it is. He's crazy for that. He has no complaints. He has no complaints? He has no complaints. Man, we have the internet right now for that shit.

You don't got to be in the smack dab of anything. He's living his dream, which is not far from the Empire State Building, not far from, you know, He need to go up to the top and then jump the fuck off.

And when he catches that herpes from that dirty ass shower. It's 4-4-4. 4-4-4. I'm going to go take a piss. That is crazy. Yeah, yeah. We're going to take it to five. Relax.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That was bullshit. So I know you guys have a little tricky apartment like that out here. No, I want to take another shot with you. I was going to ask. Okay, well, let's do it. Now, you know who I do like? My other nephew lives in Queens, but I like Jersey.

Jersey, yeah. I like Jersey. I frequently Airbnb this house in Jersey. Okay. And I really like it at this. You're an Airbnb type of person you know for my team okay like if i'm gonna come and be in town five days why pay for five hotel rooms i can get one airbnb and my assistant valet concierge over there is also a chef that's right like

bona fide certified he got double he got he like a jama. Oh, yeah. He got like nine jobs. Okay. So, you know, we just, what you call it, Instacart the food to the house. And he'll cook for everybody. Oh, okay. And it's more of a family type thing. Okay. And I like that. Right. And do you cook too?

I cook like a motherfucker. Okay. But the only thing is I only cook two things, three things. I cook soul food. Right. I don't cook like Italian food. You know what I mean? I'm a soul food beast. I can make whole Thanksgiving, Christmas dinners

by myself. No spicy bigatoni. Huh? No, I don't know how to do all that. Alright. I can only make soul food, spaghetti. That's Italian, by the way. I know. Oh, well.

It depends on how you make it, whether it's Italian or not. There's no garlic on it. Italiano. It depends on how you make it. But. You know, I make spaghetti and a good, really great breakfast and shit like that. The only shit the motherfucking niggas need. So tell us what's in the Christmas dinner that you make.

Okay, my Christmas dinner. Okay. First of all, I don't know, Daddy, you've been in my... What? He's been watching me. Wait, what happened? I know what happened. This went over my head. I do a turkey in a, it's a family recipe.

I do a turkey in a paper bag type thing. It's not fried? It's not fried. Okay. It's like black magic. I do a turkey. I usually do a prime rib. And I also always just have one small

ham from the honey-baked place. My daughter likes it. I don't want to hear from nobody about my motherfucking honey-baked ham. We get the little one. We don't even have ham left over to make the next day. The American West with Dan Flores is the latest

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Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. two days after year. Those are Jewish people. Leave me the fuck alone. Don't fuck with me by the two days after year. Okay. So there's the meats. Two days after year, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Right. Don't fuck with you

about your hair. Don't. Continue. But it's not even me. I get it from my daughter. Right, okay. So there's the turkey, the prime rib,

the ham. I usually have gumbo. And I have... You got sausage in your gumbo? yes I do pork sausage yes I do

you're just out here being wild okay take the pork sausage out what are y'all talking about man give somebody an option without the pork yeah yeah yeah I even give them

an option without the seafood so I do do that okay I'm sorry I interrupted my fault okay and then dressing and gravy, mashed potatoes.

My greens, I call my super greens because my recipe is collards, curly mustards, kale, turnips, bok choy, cabbage. I put all all the greens together and you got pork in there too is this the the collard green greens you got turkey necks pork or turkey neck

in your greens yes noise I have a ham I have a ham hock in my greens I can cook a punk bitch other product greens but it's not greens without pork ham hock in my green. I can cook a punk bitch other product greens, but not greens without ham hock.

I've done the smoked turkey neck too. But now I'm cooking for you, not for me. And it's my holiday and it's what I want. I don't, you know, I've done all that. But, you know, when I was growing up, we didn't get all this custom bullshit. It's like, this is what it is. Eat it or go to bed hungry.

And I don't eat a sprig of, bitch, shut the fuck up, you're going to eat this go to bed hungry. You know? These kids got all kinds of requirements and shit, like your mama's a short order cook. Bitch, I made mashed potatoes, meatloaf,

and cabbage. Eat it or don't. Give a fuck. What? And I don't do cereal in my house. I would never fed no cereal. Never fed my daughter no cereal.

Hot breakfast. I'm from Arkansas. We do eggs and shit like that. Okay, so let's put this to Christmas. So then I have my macaroni and cheese, but my macaroni and cheese...

How many cheeses? Hold on. My macaroni and cheese has been bombed until my chef assistant made macaroni and cheese for me i counted this last and it was sort of like you know patty labelle got a macaroni and cheese it got like seven cheeses in it this motherfucker was like that i'm talking about you take the spoon and go. Yeah. I'm getting hungry, just so you know.

Like that, macaroni and cheese, some sweet potatoes as well. And I think that's it with maybe a sweet potato pie or a red velvet cake, which I did not catch. Make some noise. I don't bake. Okay, let's break down the spaghetti. Jesus Christ. My spaghetti. Okay, yeah.

First, I do start with a name brand spaghetti over here. But over here in this pot, I'm going to take some olive oil with some, I saw this in The Godfather, very thinly sliced garlic. But see, I keep garlic marinating in grapeseed oil in my house. In grapeseed oil. Grapeseed oil. When they did it in jail? Yeah. When they cut it in jail?

Yeah. Yeah, that's good, fellas. And he had to raise a blade and he cooked. What you said you did, this is crazy. You said you didn't do Italian. This is exactly Italian. Okay, but I said I cook spaghetti, though. Okay, okay.

Okay, let's continue. So I take the garlic and the grape seed oil and some onions, and I do that. And then I will mix that. No, and I add some mushrooms and sometimes some black olives. And I'll mix that together, and then I'll mix the sauce in with that. The sauce red. Uh-huh. And let that simmer.

That's Italiano. And then I just do my, you know, my pasta. And I like angel hair a lot. I like the way it feels in my mouth. Okay. Now, Tavis, make some noise for angel hair pasta. All right. In my mouth.

Now, the last one you said is breakfast. I'm interested in how you're going to break down this breakfast. I hate to tell you right now, there's more pork involved, Norris. I can tell. I can tell. I can tell. So you don't fuck with turkey bacon? Huh?

I'm just asking. You fuck with turkey bacon? If I could find it, okay, I've only ever had one turkey bacon that I could eat, and it was an Oscar Mayer microwave. Oscar Mayer. Because turkey bacon is more like beef jerky to me. It's chewy. I like my shit crisp, even when I eat pork bacon.

I don't like it raw and flimsy. I like my shit like a potato chip. How about chicken sausage? You ever tried that? Chicken sausage I eat, but I don't like that shit too sweet. I don't like that, you know, apple chicken. I don't like nothing too sweet.

I don't like when they wrap it around things. What are you talking about? Drink Champs is different right now. I'll be like, ah, chicken. This is a different Drink Champs right now. Yeah, I'll be like, listen. You thought it wouldn't be different with me? Like, I'm not Nas.

I wish I was. You are lyrical. What are me? Like, I'm not Nas. You are lyrical. What are you talking about? No, no. You are lyrical. Make me freestyle. Let's go, let's go. Yes, yes.

So you don't fuck with chicken sauces, neither? No, but I fuck with chicken. Okay. So, all right. So if I come over to your house, right? No, because you're vegan or whatever. No, I don't eat pork or beef. Okay.

But I eat chicken. Okay, so I would maybe bake you some salmon. Ooh. Or maybe sear it. You know, because... Oh, pan sear it. This is love language. Pan sear it. Sear it.

Pan sear it. What the fuck did you think I said? Because he got lost at that point. He over there on my only fan. Yo, what's that shit people be doing on YouTube where they talk like... He over there on my only fan. He over there on my only fan. He ain't even paying attention. Because you ever had somebody come to the house that don't eat pork or beef? Yeah.

Okay. And so I would do fish and grits. And maybe some potatoes and onions as well. Some wheat toast from the, because I buy this bread from the, it's called the Black Bread Company. And it's a black bread company. And it's called the Black Bread Company.

And they're probably going to hear the shout out. Shout out to the Black Bread Company. Yeah, I ain't never heard of them. Yeah, and so I have them send me my bread. And so I'll probably make you some toast. Now that's some Amazon shit in the air. No big deal.

She's like, subscription. Really no big deal. She kept it 100, would you? It's nothing. But, you know, just maybe like that. And then maybe your eggs, however you like them, with cheese and green onion with a little sauce on top, avocado on the side.

You know, or maybe just make you a little omelet, egg white omelet, or whatever like that. Oh, yeah, once you eat my food and eat some other things, you ain't going nowhere. You will break my soul. You will break my soul. You will break my soul. Let me ask you.

Telling everybody. Everybody. Why are we on food? Why are we on food? This brother right here is our director. He's everything. If he was to come to your house, he's vegan, and he's Jamaican vegan, too. So he's going to ask, no butter.

No cheese. No cheese. No cheese. No cheese. If he said it like that, he didn't get any motherfucking change. He's like, Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. So he came over to Crib, and they're like, it's Thanksgiving. He's like, we'll be back in a minute. It's Thanksgiving. And we like, yo, we just did drink Chaz Week Great.

You know, the vector is coming over, and he want to eat. How do you cook for a vegan? If this is my man, right? And he, are you Jamaican at all or anything? Okay. So that he knows what parrotfish is. Yeah. You know what parrotfish is.

So I would probably make it my business to have, because this is a holiday. Parrot. This is a man I love. Right. So I'd probably make it.

But he don't eat fish. He's vegan. You don't eat fish either? Yeah. I give you a bowl of cereal with some almond milk. God damn. What did you say?

I give you a bowl of cereal with some almond milk. Nigga, I don't know what this is. What did she say? Let it burst. She said, no cereal.

Did she say, well, nigga, you're going to get some cereal. Have you never cooked for a vegan? I've never cooked for a vegan, but I'm sure I could

if I put my mind to it. Let's think about it, right? If you make the greens without... Without any poultry-type broth and just use, like, maybe a spring water,

right? Sweet potato pie is vegan. And then cocaine is, too. Oh, you can have cocaine, man. And throw some cocaine in that sweet potato pie. You're done. You're done.

That is a vegan Christmas. That is a vegan... Look at her. She's thinking outside the box. Vegans, you are liberated vegans. That is a vegan Christmas. That is a vegan... Look here. She's thinking outside the box. Vegans, you are liberated, vegans. That was a vegan Christmas. Vegans all over the place. Cocaine, man, let's go.

We were taking a bath, collard greens, and all that stuff. That's a love love. We're about to have a new vegan revolution. By the way, vegans, we're just laying around.

Nah, vegans are about to be walking around. We don't want vegans out here boycotting us. So my man, he thinks cocaine is a vegan diet. This shit is a dead end. That's a good point though, man.

No, it is. If I was in love, I would do whatever the fuck it was I could do. If we couldn't get home to his mama, I would do whatever it was I could do to make something for him to feel at home during the holiday,

even if I had to cater it. Right. Mm. And then I fucked the shit out that motherfucker. Merry Christmas, man. Champagne is low. I know, what's going on? I ain't never seen no empty cups

On drink test Y'all ain't doing me right Yo I ain't gonna lie This is everything I thought it would be And more I just want you to know you're a legend You are somebody that's gotta be saluted You are somebody that

You know what I love about you Everything about you is I love about you? Everything about you is comedy. Everything about you is you. I don't, whenever I'm asking you a question, I don't expect what I expect. I know you're going to say something else. And that's so beautiful. It's so beautiful to see a person to live in their own self.

You know what I mean? So many people, especially nowadays, especially in 2023, people want to be what they expect the people to want them to be. And they don't want to be who they should be. It's just so much easier to be yourself. To be yourself.

It's just so much easier to be myself. I just, if you easier to be myself. I just, if you try to be somebody else, you know, you got to lie, and now you get caught up in one lie, you got to tell another lie. Then it starts being hard keeping the lies straight. Yeah, so I just

like, you know, I don't try to do nobody no harm. I try to stay out the mess. You know, everybody gossip at the house, but I try to do nobody no harm. I try to stay out the mess. You know, everybody gossip at the house, but I try to stay out of the mess. And I try to bring happiness and joy to people in such a hurtful world. You know, we are in post-traumatic stress every day. You know, when the news of the day is murders and killings. You know, day after tomorrow, I'm going to be involved in the Trayvon Martin activities, you know, with his mother, Serena Fulton. When I told her, when I met her, I think she had came to one of my comedy shows.

I was so honored to have her come see me. And I said, if you ever need me for anything, I'm there. And she finally called me, and I'm here. So I'm here to do this show, but I'm also here to, you know, get with Trayvon and, you know, host the celebration out in the park. There's gonna be food and all that stuff. And for her to give back, because none of us, you know,

shout out to my very dear friend Ricky Smiley, just lost his son. Wow. And to outlive your children is a pain that I can't imagine. Like, there's no more comedy for me if that would have happened to me. You know, I don't know how people go on, but if you keep waking up and keep breathing,

you have to go on. So Sabrina asked me to come. I'm here to do that. You know, I love doing what I do because I meet great people and I get good seats at restaurants and I fly first class. And all that fun shit that goes with it, you know.

But mostly I just get to talk to people. If I never get a motherfucking award, I've got awards from the people, you know? If I never get an Oscar, I never get a... I'll be hurt if I never get a Soul Train award. I want the black one, you know? Damn, I want a Soul Train award, too. I want a Soul Train award.

That was hard. Yeah, I want the train. I got a BET award. We got a BET award. That's awesome. Yeah, I want the train. I got a BET Award. We got a BET Award. That's awesome. We don't physically. We have not physically gotten it yet. BET, y'all.

Why? BET, can you send us our goddamn BET? We didn't win the actual award. Like, y'all being black and black and black and black. How long has it been? It's been a while. A year? We almost going on a year, I think.

Almost a year, huh? It's in October. We've been checking in. It's not a while. A year? We almost going on a year, I think. Almost a year, huh? It's in October. We may check it in. It's not in yet. But BET, man, we want our award. We appreciate it, but we want the physical award. Yeah, we want the physical award. Well, I want one, and I want it within a year, BET.

But no, I just, you know, just doing this and just the opportunity to, you know, one of the biggest things that happened to me when I moved to L.A. was that I started seeing people that I adored from TV in person. Like I met Jack Hay in person. I'm like, wow, this is really, I met Marley Gibbs in person,

you know what I'm saying? Andy, Andy, Stamberg and Adam Sandler in person. Did they reciprocate the love? Well, yeah, they did, which is always, you know, a mind blower to me because I don't just walk up expecting people to know who the fuck I am. That's pretty arrogant. And so a lot of them do, and I'm like, you know, I'm trying to work.

I think I'm going to embrace that legend thing and try to work more toward that. You need to. You need to. You are a legend. I'm not going to lie to you. And you have a Drink Champs award now as well. Yeah. Oh, I'm so excited about that.

Let's make some noise. Those are gold roses. But when I'm fans of people, I still have me and my team, Google. And when I was doing it, that's why you kept seeing me look at my phone. I just kept seeing they just kept sending me more and more and more and more. And I was just like, you know, of course, I know what you do from what I saw. But I was I was so much more that I didn't know. And it was so much more that I wanted to praise you for.

So that so I wanted you to know that. And what's crazy about it is you deserve these flowers. You are one of the goats out here. You have a great spirit, great mind, and great, you know... Great body.

Great body. Great comedic. And another official of my OnlyFans, by the way. And by the way, we all anticipated this. We needed this in 2023. We needed a comedian.

We needed this. And it was everything that I expected plus 10, 15, 100. Oh. No, I swear to God, we love your spirit. The spirit is really great. I did have y'all kind of bent over a couple times. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. I'm going to take a shot to that. You got a shot?

I'm going to take a shot. We watching you. Oh, my God. I got two shots. That sneaky ass white girl. You got two shots. She wants you to be double-fisted. But this, all the other shots we took

was to everything else. But this shot here is to you. Okay, pardon me. And everything you do, and everything you continue to do, and we want you to know it. Don't go unrecognized. You are a queen.

And we love you. We love you, and we're going to respect that. You want a double shot? No. I'm going to do it like this. You better not now. Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! You ain't can't cool right now. Yes. Wow. Holy moly. Those are like four hours. Okay, so ask about...

Oh, no, we're not done. They said Young Jock being viral. They said Young Jock is your twin. Did you see that? Of course. Okay, okay. That's what you call viral. Yes.

You sound just like Sonny. Yo, let me find out you and Sonny is family right now. No, I had nothing to do with that. But apparently, Jock had dyed his hair blonde, and somebody, you know, the Internet is undefeated. Undefeated. They are the funniest writers ever. If any of you out there on the Internet that be writing some virally funny shit,

think about doing a career in comedy writing. That could be your career, because you motherfuckers. They'd be writing some virally funny shit. Think about doing a career in comedy writing. That could be your career, because you motherfuckers. And somebody, somebody said, Jock out here looking like Lunell, right? Who wore it best? Yeah, who wore it best? Literally, so then I wrote, I saw it on, I don't know,

somewhere on site or something like that Hollywood Unlocked maybe oh yeah maybe that maybe Hollywood Unlocked pick up my point Jason Lee go ahead yeah Jason

my episode comes out next week official oh okay alright see what I'm saying I'm on point you on you on

let's go so um uh I wrote him and I said what's up no he was he came on live. I was on my phone.

It said Young Jock is live. And I clicked on it. And I was like one of the first people on it. And so I said, good morning, twin. That little statement right there. It went everywhere. And, you know, everybody was circling it and screenshotted it. And me and Jack, I was in Atlanta, and then I was like,

Jack, you need to come to my show. I hit him in a DM. And he saw it late, but he was like, yo, I wish I'd have seen this earlier. I'd have came. So we cool, you know? Because it's like Flavor Flav and Boosie. Oh, yeah, and they did the movie. Flav was the movie. Yeah.

Flav was the father. Yeah. Yeah, well, I'm just suspecting motherfuckers that like the color of their hair too much. You're suspect of them? Mm-mm. Wait, where did we go just now? She says she thinks it's sus. You think Jock is suspect?

I'm asking. This is you. I don't want no problem with Jock. You don't want no problem with nobody. No, but I'll be like, wait a minute. That's all. Wait a minute. She said, wait a minute.

Wait, when men color their hair, it's a little crazy? I mean, it's, you know, what are you doing? He colored his hair gray. Yeah, that's what I did. Okay, but you're a silver fox now. Thank you. God damn it. God damn it, make some noise.

I ain't color shit. I let it be natural. Okay, but would you dye it pink? No, fuck no. Would you dye it leopard? Hell no. Would you turn it blonde? Hell no.

Jocked it. Oh, shit. If I wouldn't dye it black, I wouldn't do nothing. But you know what? That's a lot of fun. That guy's a lot of fun. Yes, he is. Jock's a lot of fun.

And plus, by the way, that motherfucking band, hey, I can't name two young Jock songs, but that motherfucking one that's a forever fucking banger. It's going down.

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It's going down. It's going down. It's going down. It's going down. It's going down. It's going down. It's going down. He's a lot of fun. Let's take a shot for that. Yeah, I'm taking a shot for that. You know what? You're evil. You got a shot right there. You got a shot right there.

Look, look. She brought you a shot. Conveniently. Okay. Boy. Hey, you know what? Your evil plan is not working. You think you're going to get me drunk.

You're not. But we're doing air clicks now. Air clicks. Air clicks. Air clicks. They're going to be like, in the comments, they'll be like, here's a trivia question. How many shots did Luenell have during this?

Okay. We can count mine. She took one cup. Wait, you're putting every shot away? Who counted my shots? You've been watching me that close, baby? He's been watching you. Seven, eight, nine.

So I feel it's like 10 or 11. We on. You're a snitch, but thank you. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no.

Across the country, cops called this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated,

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th. Ad-free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the MeatEater Podcast Network, hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores, and brought to you by Velvet Buck.

This podcast looks at a West available nowhere else. Each episode, I'll be diving into some of the lesser-known histories of the West. I'll then be joined in conversation by guests such as Western historian Dr. Randall Williams and best-selling author and meat-eater founder Stephen Ranella. I'll correct my kids now and then where they'll say, when cave people were here. And I'll say, it seems like the Ice Age people that were here didn't have a real affinity for caves. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6th, where we'll delve into stories of the West and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to The American West with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glod. And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives.

This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote-unquote drug thing is. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. Got B-Real from Cypress Hill.

NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Karamush. What we're doing now isn't working and we need to change things. Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real.

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No, let me just ask you, right? Every time, we already asked you about the stage and with comedy, right? And we already asked you about, you know, editing. So right now, with this upcoming Dave Chappelle, supposedly Netflix documentary. What are we doing? You know, when David and I, first of all, he had me come out to Yellow Springs. Oh, yeah, we've been there. We went out there. To the cornfield. By the way, shout out to y'all for coming to Snoop's compound.

Oh, yeah. To do the show. You're like, we don't travel for nobody. Yeah, that's true. But you did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How about you did? Yes.

I'm not supposed to board our car. Only a couple of people we went to. If you want me, Chris Brown. Damn, Lonell, why you got doors like that?

She definitely boarded our car. No, because I know that's some baller shit Yeah That's by any means Necessary shit Go get it

You gonna pass up Yep A Snoop interview That he granted for you Well, that's our second Snoop interview By the way He came

He was in Florida He was in Florida early on Okay, see Because this is what I'm gonna ask y'all Y'all do just Different places I thought that you had

Just one stable spot Miami's our main Spot where we record you out there. Like, y'all do just different places. I thought that you had just one stable spot. Miami's our main spot where we record, but we've traveled. Yeah, but this is not. Is this the main spot? For the past two years. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, now what was the question? Dave Chappelle. How did you and Dave Chappelle come up with this idea? So, we knew each other. We had been in each other's company, and I'd seen him do comedy when we was in Canada

at Montreal Comedy Festival he had seen me I guess he got in Canada as a criminal uh yeah because you knew Drake back then or something I wish I knew Drake do you know Drake

hey see the pit bull answer you back he didn't yeah what he hasn't yet he hasn't yet but how did you get how did you get in Canada as a criminal?

He might not be in the country. What? What happened? He didn't answer back. Oh, you're not as close as you thought. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. Okay, I get it.

I'm going to go look. He said, tell her I said hi No I ain't got some shit Right Tell me anything But um So you got into Canada With Dave

No no no Okay I made it Yo Pitt you making me Look foul son Um Uh He had me Out of the blue

Like things happen Out of the blue To me Out of the blue. Like, things happened out of the blue for me. Out of the blue, I got, you know, summons to come out to Yellow Springs. I was like, oh, my God. Gladly. And it was, you know, private and everything like that. I'm on the jet. And my daughter and I went with me, and I always say she didn't come to support me. She didn't even come to fuck with Chappelle.

She came to be on the fucking jet. I was hearing the selfies. Oh my God, I'm the private. I'm not going to lie. We got to make some noise for your daughter. She is living in the moment. That's what she's supposed to do. She did what she was supposed to do.

So me and my daughter went out there and I performed for him. And he told my daughter that he was going to get me a Netflix special. Now, let me tell you something about black mamas and things that you tell our kids. Serious. Don't lie to my baby. I don't give a fuck who you are. Don't play like that.

Don't tell her something that you're going to do for me and not do it. You can tell me something that you're going to do for me and then not do it. But don't tell her. So I knew that he wouldn't do that.

And so I believed him. I said, he's going to give me a Netflix special. And then we did a show in San Francisco. You know how he always has musical guests? Mm-hmm. This particular show, you had E-40, Raphael Sadiq,

Lil Jon, Guapole. Yes, we saw that on the ground. And somebody else from the Bay, too. Tyler, Carly? No, not from the Bay. Simba. Simba, I think was it. No, no, no. No, Carly? No, not from the Bay. Simba. Simba, I think. No, no, no.

But anyway, it was a bunch of us. And he announced on the stage that night to everybody that he was going to get me a Netflix special. Now, that's twice, right? And then so I just did a show with him and Chris Rock in front of 20,000 people and he said it again. You know, so, and then I talked to him the other day because he asked me,

you know, where am I most, what are my top two choices to where I want to tape the special? Oh, this is so fun. And of course, one would be,

I would want to do it in Oakland because that would bring, you know, a whole, a full circle moment for me to do it in Oakland. Wow. Because that would bring, you know, a full circle moment for me to do it in Oakland. Let's hit the drum roll for number two. Let's hit the drum. I think we all, come on.

What would number two be? What would number two be? Vegas. Oh. Ooh. Lunell Life from Las Vegas. That'd be big. That's a lot of drunk motherfuckers there.

Yeah, because I already got, I already have my residency there. You know, I'm there, when I leave Florida, I go to Vegas. I'm there every Sunday night. You have a residency in Vegas? Yes, I do. Woo! You are getting it! There was a whole thing on ABC, it's streaming on Hulu now called Soul of a Nation, Blacks in Las Vegas.

It has a history of Las Vegas. And then it has people like Usher and me and George Wallace and Neo talking about Las Vegas. I'm there every Sunday at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club. At Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club every Sunday night at 9.30. And hopefully, I think that after Valentine's Day, maybe in March, we might start doing Sunday, Monday. And you may say, Sunday, Monday? Because I always

thought that would be a hard sell. But let me just tell you, Sunday, Monday in Las Vegas is like Friday and Saturday. Vegas is asleep. Anyplace else. And plus, the tickets are cheaper and the rooms are cheaper on those days. Right. So people always come in on those days.

And our conventions start. Maybe people have to come in Sunday evening or Sunday and start the convention on Monday. But Sunday night, they ain't got nothing to do. So they come see me. It's been a lot of fun. Wow. And obviously, you ain't living in Vegas. You flying in.

Yeah. I'm the only black female with a comedy residency in Las Vegas. Make some noise for that. Well, hopefully not the last, hopefully not the last. The closest I came to a residency was when I had my Latino record. And a dude rented me out for every Wednesday. He rented you out? I mean, it's not... That's weird.

Yeah, yeah. He did not rent you out, man. Well, he booked me for every Wednesday for May and July. What is it? Three months. It was three months. So you had a residency.

So that was like a residency.. So you had a residency. That was like a residency every Wednesday. No matter where I'm at in the world. At first you'd be thinking like, well, I'm too obligated to something. But it was spring break. So spring break, I'd never seen the same crowd. So it was like, alright, you think you'd get bored or some shit like that. But see, Vegas is

all tourists, so it's the same thing. So you're having fun doing this. I'm having a wonderful time doing Vegas is all tourists, so it's the same thing. So you having fun doing this? I'm having a wonderful time doing it. I also feel like it's like I said, I'm the only sister in Vegas with a comedy residency and I had one once before at the SLS

Hotel and Casino. It was Eddie Griffin was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Monique was Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and I did the Sundays. Wow. So now I'm going to get chemicals. Yeah. All right.

That's our SLS. But I urge people to check it out on Hulu, you know, Soul of a Nation, Blacks in Las Vegas. Also, you can check out the Fat Tuesday documentary, P-H-A-T, not F-A-T, that Guy Torrey put together. Oh, come on. Fat Tuesday, you saw it? You saw that, of course. Isn't that amazing?

Amazing. Got my name on the wall now at the Comedy Store. Amazing. Let's make some noise for that. And you know what's crazy? I'm sorry to cut you off. You know what's crazy?

I never knew how legendary that was until I seen the documentary. I never knew how legendary that was until I seen the documentary. I never knew how underground that was. I never knew that. Some of you guys were going there. Your names wasn't on there. You guys were just rocking out. That's what I kind of understood.

In the comedy store? Yeah, in the comedy store. That's what I understood. Hip-hop is one thing, right? But hip-hop is performing live on stage. But you can get over without having a good stage performance in hip-hop and having a great record and people not knowing that you're not good on stage.

Right. You know what I mean? If your record is too big, you can't do that in comedy. In comedy, you got to be able to bust up a motherfucker. Well, you got to pay those legitimate dues. Yes. In common.

No, yeah, you used to have to. Right. Now you really don't have to. You're saying social media is changing that. Yeah, you don't even have to really pay dues. There's TikTok comedians now. Yeah. But I'm just saying it doesn't translate from what you see on the phone to what you see on the stage.

Career-wise. You know, you can take the same person off TikTok and book them at the improv and people will come to see them, but they may not... It might not resonate. I think one of the funniest things was we had Mike Epps on here one time

and one of our friends that was, I forget his name right now, and he came on here. It was two comedians, Mike Epps and this other dude and then the Instagram. What was his name?ians, Mike Epps and this other dude and then the Instagram, what was his name? Yeah, please, put it up. What was his name?

That was hilarious. And Mike just fried his ass. Oh, I think I remember that. He said, he said, he said. And homies funny too. He said, we do, we do, we do. He came up on social media and Mike Epps gave it to him.

I'm thinking everyone is a comedian. I'm not knowing that there's TikTok comedians, there's Instagram comedians. I didn't know that at this time, so I invited them all. Obviously, I invited Mike Epps and I just said, I'll bring him in the episode later.

As soon as he brought him on, Mike Epps looked at him and said, man, God looked like he wanted to make you a midget, but said, I'm going to make you a little bit taller. said, I'm going to make you a little bit taller. Oh my God, I did not.

Oh my God. See, that's why I don't do those roasts and shit. That insult comedy. Like, I can dish it out, but I can't take it. If you say something fucked up to me, now, bitch, I'm talking about your mama, your mama pussy, and all that shit. Now you mad. Now you want to shoot me. So, bitch, I'm talking about your mama, your mama pussy, and all that shit.

Now you mad. Now you want to shoot me. So I don't do those. So no insult comedy. No, I don't really do insult comedy. That's why people are like, I don't want to sit in the front.

I'm like, I don't have to rely on you in the front for my comedy. I had shit, you know, when I got here. But if you come to the front, you're wearing like a lime green

three-piece suit. Look at you standing there on purpose. I know. I mean, it's your obligation to the audience to say something. To say something about these motherfuckers. You look like Bishop Don Juan a little bit. Don't talk about my friend. Now, wait a

goddamn minute. That's my brother. He gave me the, let me tell you something. Bishop Don Juan gave me the Famous Player Award and I was nowhere near a player. Right? So... At the Players Ball? At the Players Ball. So at that night, I'm walking around and then I'm just... Because I've been around

these guys for two days. So some white girl come up to me. I said, bitch, you gotta choose. And she chose me. I knew nothing what to do after that. I was like, oh! I didn't know up to me. I said, bitch, you got to choose. And she chose me. I knew nothing what to do after that. And then what? I was like, oh! I didn't know what to do. This man say, let me knock your socket pocket.

And I said, let me take. And she was, I didn't know what to do. I didn't know. After they chose him, I said, I'm playing around with this. Oh, Noriega, you really ain't a thug at all. No, no, no. Well, he's not a pimp. He's not a pimp.

They locked him up. Definitely not a pimp. That part, like, that part is some real cold, you got to be a cold motherfucker. Pimping is pimping. Yeah, pimping is different. I mean, but, you know,

there's another pimp that we associate with that was doing it before the Archbishop Don Magic won, and that's Phil Moslem. Oh, yeah. You know, Phil Moslem. Oh, yeah. You know, Phil Moslem

is from San Francisco. Yes. And, you know, he had a legend. Phil Wall Street, right? He had a legend, yeah. I went to Ice-T, I went to all those books. They had a story out.

They said Phil Moslem was somewhere with like nine, eight or nine bitches and all his bitches got pulled that night by some other players. They said he came back the next day with 18. Ow!

Ow! Ow! It didn't work no more. It didn't work no more. We done wasted all the We done wasted all the That's a new shit. The horn don't work no more. We done wasted all the mail. We done wasted all the mail. We done wasted all the mail. That's the new shit.

We done wasted all the mail. Ah. Yeah, yeah. Now that's a... Well, now that's a player's shit. Magazine Street, Fillmore Street. Oh, Magazine is in Vallejo. Vallejo. Yeah.

That's where, that's Ephesal territory Yeah Yeah Hey Nori Hey Nori Okay do y'all Do y'all know Rakim

Eric B. and Rakim No just Rakim There's a lot of Rakims In this world The MC Of Eric B. and Rakim Oh okay okay okay Yes we know

We need him on here Call him and tell him I love him okay, okay. Yes, we know. We need him on here. Call him and tell him I love him. You'll guest host if we get him on here? Would you guest host? Call him, Nori. Now you gotta text him. I take Pitbull, you take Rock Kim. I don't know no one who can call Rock Kim like that. Rock Kim is like Jesus. He is Jesus. He's like Jesus.

You gotta send him a something, a scribe. They don't ever always look. You gotta get a pigeon. You gotta white pigeon to fly. Yo, let me, okay, let's talk hip always look. You got to get a pigeon. You got a white pigeon to fly. Yo, let me, okay, let's talk hip-hop real quick. We're going to talk about it. Let's go. Okay, the motherfucking, what was it? The Soul Train? No, what was it? The awards? Motherfucking, when we saw

Shine for the first time back again. Shine, did you see him? B&T Awards? Recently. You mean recently? Yes, yes. He came out of the Bad yeah he was there oh my god how happy was we to see shine and now shine's a politician i know i know i know but he's like baby obama too come on i know he's nice he sounded great that was dope that was dope you know he did the whole thing i was like with it you know what's the dopest shit about Sean? He got like three different accents.

He got straight American accents. Then he had the Biggie accent. Now he's a Believer. It's fucking. Well, no. The Biggie accent is the Believer accent. It was. It's the Caribbean.

It's the Caribbean accent. We are bigging him up, bro. Nah, come on. The Caribbean accent is the Caribbean accent. I'm not going to let you change it. You can maneuver it a little bit. Listen, listen. Listen, I'm not going to let you change this up.

We are bigging him up. He had a New York accent. He had a Biggie accent. He had a Belizean accent. Wait, you said now in New York, Biggie and a Belizean? Yes. I love it. I love every one of them, Sean.

Wherever you at. Sean! You shine. You shine. You shine. You shine. We love you, Sean. I'm going to come to Belize for no reason.

We got to go. No, we got to go Drink Chance Belize and we over there. Drink Chance Belize. Now, that's where I want to go. Let's do it. Let me co-host. I'll do whatever you want. Yeah.

Let's take a shot for that. Yeah, let's take a shot for that. Okay, yeah. And because then I have another question. Okay. I got a question for you, but go ahead. She's like the dentist. You know when they come and give you that little bit of mouthwash to wash your mouth?

And it's going to numb it. Oh, my gosh. She like to do it. Salud like the dentist. You know when they come and give you that little bit of mouthwash to wash your mouth? And it's going to numb it. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. She's like the dentist. Salud. Salud. Zala chica. You're going to say, zala chica.

Okay, now let me ask you this. All right, let's do it. This is what I have a theory about. Go ahead. So, okay. I believe that you can manifest, like, whatever you rap about, you can manifest that, right? Just rap, not just rap. Just, well, yes.

We're talking about rap. Specific. Like, if you make an album called Ready to Die. Oh, you want to die. Right? And if you start, and if your rapping is like, you know, gassing shit like this and bitches, but then you have other people who are like, you know, gassing shit like this and bitches, but then you have other people

who are doing, you know, I just think if you rap about something else, maybe you can manifest something else. You're not wrong. Like, if you don't

start out, because I was watching this new show called LL rapped about women and he got a lot of money and women at that time. He never rapped about dying, that's for sure. He rapped about having a great life. He never rapped about gangsta he got A lot of money And women at that time He never rapped about dying

That's for sure He did He rapped about He never rapped about Gangsta shit That's for sure LL Cool J I just think that

Yeah Yeah Yes You know And Big Daddy Kane And Sleek Rick

And they don't talk about Busting the cap of nobody And mind you They were gangster In their time Yes Right but they didn't They didn't rap about that shit

And Daddy Kane was Finger popping a lot of things. I know that's right. And he manifested more of the finger popping. Yes. Big Daddy, we're friends in the DM too. Big Daddy being in your DMs, you got to stop. We see each other at the award shows and we talk, ah, you look great last night, shit like that.

That's my friend. He was out here the other day. We had dinner. Really? I want to go to dinner with Big Daddy. He is a legend of legends. Honey,

I was around when Big Daddy did the motherfucking penthouse or whatever the fuck When he was cocking Madonna? See? That's how Miami niggas talk.

Yeah, Madonna. That's when I get out of it Madonna don't fuck have the culture this shit and I respect her I'm staying outside after she get it

would you hit it no go on no wait a minute no your wife watched it before you were married would you hit it he started stuttering before you were married

would you hit it you would that's always a giveaway justify your love he started stuttering he started stuttering and shit Jesus come on like a virgin your antics are not working on me Justify your love. He started stuttering. He started stuttering and shit. Jesus.

Come on. Like a virgin. Your antics are not working on me. Hey, man. You should tell us. You would cock Madonna, man. You should tell us for good, not evil. This is the shot.

This is not the drink. Who wouldn't cock? Would you cock Madonna? Lunel, would you have cocked Madonna? Yeah. Would you have given Madonna the business? Would you have took her down? Would you have taken her down?

Well, not to end up with nothing. Solid. But with something. If she broke me the fuck off. So that's a yes. I said if. If I knew that sleeping with Madonna was going to end up with me living a better lifestyle than I lived before,

I probably fucked the shit out of him. Let's go. But not to end up with nothing. So, no, you wouldn't conquer it, You're saying,

no, I wouldn't do it. I'm not no plaything. Come on, man. Who didn't want to call Madonna back in the day? I'm not no plaything. In the 80s? Come on, bro.

I was a Sade guy. Come on, don't lie. We was all Sade guys. Don't lie, dog. Sade is... How about Cyndi Lauper? You wouldn't have cocked Cyndi Lauper?

Are you? I like Cyndi Lauper. I would have cocked Cyndi Lauper. I was in the girl from The Last Dragon. She's still fine, by the way. I was in the girl

from The Last Dragon. Listen, Madonna, but she had the... The Last Dragon! What's her name? Wasn't that Vanity? Vanity her name? Wasn't that Vanity? Vanity, yeah. Wasn't that Vanity?

I wasn't into Cyndi Lauper and Madonna. Oh, come on. I'm in it all right now for an interview. No, but Vanity was one of the hottest. You wasn't into

Cyndi Lauper and Banana? Why? Yeah, because Banana wasn't a part of the interview. Oh, Banana? That's what you just said. Cyndi Lauper and Banana. Yeah, nigga, I mean, I get it.

It was cool when Pac was around. When Pac was around? Yeah, but, like, I mean, you can't. My childhood was different. Like, I wanted the last dragon, girl. Ah-ha! He wanted motherfucking. You know, let me see.

Lost Boys. Remember the movie Lost Boys? Yes. Remember the homegirl in the Lost Boys? No, the movie. The vampire movie. Right. The homegirl in the... Oh my God. Elliot Gould's son was in it. Who's that?

Oh no, Kiefer Sutherland. Oh yeah, he was in it. He was in it. No, Kiefer Sutherland was in it. No, his son. Wasn't it him? No, his son. Donald Sutherland's son,ald suckle and son keifer okay baby all right we getting off i love this i ain't nothing wrong with that who is cindy lover as a girlfriend cindy you know you know who i think is still very very beautiful i'm sorry

people say hey lanelle if you can swap places with somebody, who would you swap places with? Like Beyonce or you know who I would swap places with? I love her laugh. I love her beautiful mother. Okay, girl crush because of the laugh, because of her personality. I just like her.

I like that. Ashanti. Oh, when you're rocking me. Oh, baby, when you're rocking me. Ashanti Oh Will you rock with me Oh baby Will you rock with me Ashanti beautiful Will you take it to the top Ashanti beautiful

I'm always thinking of you baby Oh I'm thinking of you baby Will you rock with me Oh baby I just think she's fun Yeah And I think she's beautiful No she's beautiful

And I think she minds her business She lives life She has a lot of fun. Her mother is beautiful. Her mom's been her momager for years. And killing it. And they've been killing it. I think she's a beautiful, wonderful girl.

I girl crush on Ashanti. If I had to be between Beyonce and Ashanti, I would be Ashanti for a day. Okay. So let me ask you. And this is the last question, I promise you. We'll take a shot to this and we'll take some pictures

and promo. Let's take 20 shots. What do you think about Irv Gotti and what he said on Drink Champ? Oh, I don't go there. Oh, I don't go there. Jeez, what are we doing?

Ask me something else, something else, or I don't go there. We're using this as an intro to every time somebody know what to ask. Keep going. I don't go there. I don't go there. We won't go there.

Ask me something else, because I don't go there. We won't go there. I don't go there. We won't go there. I don't go there. We won't go there. We won't go there. I don't go there. We won't go there. Ask me something else. Right, right. Yeah, we'll go and make some noise while I do.

Any time a person don't want to ask a question, as a quick time of slime, we are now playing this. Oh, my God. Another game. Yes. Yes. It's our new game. It's our new game. It's our new game. It's our new game.

We just got to drink for that. We got to drink for that new game. Because you ain't want to go there. We won't go there! We won't go there! Ask for somebody else. Ask for somebody. Let's go drink shots!

I think it's time. Give one last chance. We won't go there. We won't go We won't go We won't go Ask me something That is fire Okay ask me something Let's take that last shot

Let's take that last shot And I'm going to be honest This was so fun And we're going to be honest Finally You guys are on to something Very very Let's say that last shot. And I'm going to be honest. This was so fun. And we're going to be honest. Finally. No, you guys are on to something very, very. I like to see something build. I'm going to take a shot, though.

I like how you be kind and defer from your shot. He found me out. But another thing. Look how many shots I took. I got at least three to four. I don't believe you need more people Look First of all

This is not really a shot This is a mouthwash That's right Yeah exactly That's what I'm talking about Thank God Yeah yeah We don't want you taking big shots

And then just going crazy No We don't want that But let Me running around My Miami In Miami

In me You're going to go crazy I'm Miami. That's how you say it? That's how you say it? Let's go. I'm in. I'm in.

What is the last thing you want to say to your fans? Okay, what I want to say to my fans and what I want to say to you guys is we are so, out of everything

that's so bad, we're so blessed to be able to produce Come on, man. You don't try to get great. Come on, man. Let's let be able to produce... Let her have a little shot. We was trying to let you out. To be able... You done tried to get great. Come on, man. Let's let her speak, man.

She was going in. She was deep. But we had to take a shot at the end of whatever you about to say because you about to say some great shit. I'm sorry.

Are you trying? I'm sorry. I just felt the greatness coming out of you and it's like, you know what? I need... I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

Can you start over? And I promise you Pitbull will call right after you leave and I'm going to call you'm so sorry. Can you start over? And I promise you Pitbull will call right after you leave, and I'm going to call you when it happens. Yes. Listen, he can get me on the hotline, hotline. We're going to get a drop from Pitbull or

something. Watch. No, I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you with Pitbull. We're going to get a drop. Watch. I promise you that. Pitbull, baby. Is this the last thing you want to say to your fans, Pitbull? No, no, no. She was saying something. You were saying something very introspective. I was saying that through all the bad shit that's going on in the world, it's a blessing that through COVID and shit,

people have been able to create their own content, find their own lane, find their own fans, and really... And OnlyFans, too. And OnlyFans. And OnlyFans, too. I'm sorry. And, you know, I really, really think that this is really, like,

one of the hot things, you know. This is drink champs. I was like, yo! I hit you in the knee. I'm like, I want to come. And I said, well, I'm not a rap aficionado. I hope that they can find things to talk to me about. And I know that we went long and all that kind of stuff or whatever. No, no.

Not long enough, to be honest. This is a highlight for me. It's a highlight for us. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and Drink Champs. You know what I mean? That's the highlight for us. You are a legend. Let us give you your flowers again

before we wrap it up. You are a legend. We can't believe how, how, how, we knew how, we knew how much fun you was going to be, but you've exceeded

our expectations beyond and there more. And you deserve your flowers. We really appreciate that strong flowers. We really appreciate that strongness. We really appreciate the womanhood, everything that you do.

And you always you. That inspires me. You know what I'm saying? Because sometimes I even will dumb my shit down. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'll dumb my shit down

because I'm around this person or this person. But I'm just trying to be respectful. But comedy and your version of comedy always reminds me, it's like, you know what? Fuck it, just be you. Because they're going to accept you or say fuck you anyway.

So your model will be exactly who you are. Yeah, you don't work for NBC. You work for yourself. Yes. And people can fucking follow you or not follow you. And for every motherfucker that says fuck you, there's 10 people behind them that's like, yes, this is just what I needed. You got

a following, you know. This shit is hot. It's heating up. And listen, Lunel, you are hip-hop. Yes, you are hip-hop. You are hip-hop. You are hip-hop. And you are a legend. And we are honored to have you here, so thank you for coming. And we're honored to take this last shot. This is it. And wear your motherfucking shirts.

Don't lie. Listen, I got my shirt right here. Yes, yes. I'm going to rhinestone this shit shot. This is it. And wear your motherfucking shirts. Don't lie. Oh, we're wearing our shirts. Listen, I got my shirt right here. Yes, yes. I'm going to rhinestone this shit out. I'm going to get pimped out. Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. I don't know.

Don't worry. We love you. We love you. We love you. We love you. Woo. Let's take a picture. Do we take a picture?

And then we do some drops. Yeah, okay. I need to freshen up. Okay. Yeah, take it. Take it. Take it. Put my lipstick back on. I got to takehen up. Okay. Yeah, freshen up. I got it. Put my lipstick back on.

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