Drink Champs - Episode 351 w/ Michael Blackson

Episode Date: February 17, 2023

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the Champs chop it up with comedy legend Michael Blackson!Michael Blackson shares his journey in life and comedy. Michael shares stories about building schools, cracking jokes, Next Friday (the movie) 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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Who is it, 31 or is it 37? 37. 37 movies under his belt. It is? But it all equals to about 37 minutes total of airtime. Hold on, let me keep picking you up. Keep picking you up. The man is building a school in Ghana right now.

They're telling me Ghana's going to be the new Dubai. They said Ghana's going to be the new Dubai with Miami combined together and great repertoire. He's building a school. The school is being built right now. The man also got his dance moves stolen. Outright, straight out. I thought all Africans get along.

I found out they do not. The man went from Africa and went to Philadelphia and dominated. And I need to understand how he start this comedy career from the motherland to the comedy land. And in case you don't know what we're talking about, we're talking about the one,

the only, Michael motherfucking Blackman! Yeah! Now, I've been following what's going on. How, let's be serious first before we get some champagne. I remember hearing you say that in Africa, the kids would have jobs at seven years old.

Yes, man. Like, what do you mean by jobs? Like washing the dishes? No, like going out and selling things in the marketplace. Africans, we are hustlers, man. We start at a young age going with our mother in a marketplace, selling whatever,

whether you pick the fruit from your backyard and you're going to sell fruits, whatever. Kids start working at a very early age. Right. You know,

especially those who cannot afford to go to school. They have no choice but to go to work with their parents. And is their parents sending them to work

or the kid is like, I want to work at seven? The parents take them as helpers. Uh-huh. Wow. You know, because a lot of times they can't afford sending them to work, or the kid is like, I want to work at 7? The parents take them as helpers. Uh-huh. Wow. You know, because a lot of times they can't afford to go to school, so you have to do something at a young age. Kids start selling at a very young age, man. That's why Africans were very good with numbers.

Right. You know. The best bootleggers in the world, too. That, too, so you're seeing the kids work at an early age. What makes you say, all right, let me go back and let me build the education so these kids have an option not to work? Is that one of the things? Yeah, that's what happened, man. I went back home for the first time after being in America, and that was back in 2001.

I've been in America for about 15 years. All right. And I said, you know, I worked, just did a cameo in my first movie next Friday. Shout out to Ice Cube. Wow, wow. That's your first time going back to Africa? That's my first time going back home after being in America.

Right, right. You know, and I went back home, went back to where I was from, you know, and I'm walking around during daytime, and I'm like, why are these kids out here not in school? Right. Because in America, a parent's going to jail if your kid is, if your kid's not in school. It's against the law. I'm like, why are these parents not in jail?

What is it called? True infancy. True infancy, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and then I noticed, you know, I was asking, like, hey, why didn't I have schools? They said, well, you know, a lot of times they have government school, which is also known as public school. Right.

You know, and it's not totally free. Certain things are free, but they can't reinforce simple things as uniform or books. Yeah. Stuff like that, you know. But then the government schools fills up really fast. So then only options left is private schools. And you can't afford a private school over there. And that's what have these kids out here with nothing to do.

They just have no choice but to learn how to start selling things in a marketplace. And that really, you know, touched my heart. I'm like, God, I got to do something about this. You know, and then, mind you, at the time, I barely had enough money. I just did next Friday. I didn't make much money. But this is when you got the vision. That's when I got the vision.

I got a vision 20 years ago. And I'm like, okay, let me go back into America and really get my work on. And I came and I was busting my ass for the next 20 years. Saved up some money. Fast forward to 2019, I went back. I'm like, okay, I think I'm ready to start. Let me find a land. Let me find the right place.

And my mother had a land in a village where, you know, where she was born. She said, hey, let's use this land. She owned it? She owned the land. The land had belonged to my grandmother. Oh, wow. When she passed, she gave it to my mom. This is the shit they don't talk about Africans.

Oh, yeah, we own the land. You know what I'm saying? Africa, we own the land. And land and giving it to the next generation. That's some fly shit, see? Everyone thinks it's cattle and shit. No, no, no. Yeah.

You ain't got 40 acres of mule over there. Yeah, they think when your parents die, they give you a sheep. And that's it. Most of the time, they leave you a land, you know. And my mother had nothing big Probably Two acres Maybe something like that

An acre and a half The land was big enough To build a school Have a playground Build a house Build a church Because that's how I grew up My mother was an evangelist

She grew up Installing God into me From day one And I said okay That way you don't have no dispute with land. Because one of the biggest problem in the continent of Africa is land dispute. A lot of time you'll buy land from somebody

and that nigga don't sell the land to like three other people. Oh. So it's a big fight about land. So I'm like, let's go to the land that we know is safe. This land belongs to the family. You know, let's stick with that. And it was a lot easier. And then, you know then started the process.

And I know you mentioned the school's been built, but nah, the school's built. The kids are in school already. They're in school? They're in school, man. Oh, shit, make some noise for that. That's right. And that's equivalent to a private school out there, right?

It's a private school that's going to be totally free for the kids. Right. You know, it's going to be, it's kind of like kindergarten to ninth grade. Because the last president, what he did to help him win, he made 10th, 11th, 12th grade completely free. In Ghana. Okay, cool. You know, so 10th, 11th, 12th grade became free. And I said, okay, no, I'm not going to touch a free one.

Since it's free, let me just start from kindergarten to ninth. That's where the most expenses are when it comes to school. All right, so how about you being the owner? How about a kid is in the classroom being a clown? Right. Do you suspend him? This is how you made a living. This is what brought you to school.

I became a clown when I got to America, motherfucker. African kids, for some reason, we just admire school. We look up to school. School means the whole world to us because it's a privilege because everybody don't get a chance

to go to school, obviously. So when we go to school, it's all about our education, our books. We listen and we learn. African kids take School very seriously But there's going to be The one kid that's trying

To be like Michael Blacksman Is going to want to be there You know what I mean He's going to want to Stand up and Throw spitballs and shit You know what I'm saying Throw the paper planes

You know what I mean Hey It's possible man I'm hoping I can open the doors To bring out more comedians Right You know Because there's a lot of money

Into telling jokes So I'm not going to Stop the kids from being who they are. The majority of the kids coming there to become lawyers and doctors and accountants, you know, that's what most African kids want to be, a doctor and accountant. But coming from

there, how did, you know, like you said, most kids want to be doctors, lawyers, accountants, and things like that. How did you develop your comedy? Like, what made you say I like to make people laugh? Well, you know, and things like that. How did you develop your comedy? Like, what made you say, I like to make people laugh? Well, you know, when I came to America, the kids in America clowned me so much.

And, you know, I mean, dog. I had no idea I was dark-skinned until I came to America. And the African booty scratch? I didn't know we scratched our booty. Like, I had, you know, back when I was a kid in Africa, things have changed now. America has kind of like, you know, influenced a lot of the children now. But prior to then. I used to go to school with the African kids that wore the Jamaican belts.

They was trying to blend in. You know what I'm talking about? What was the Jamaican belt? You know, the Marcus Garvey belt. You know, the colors. And belt. You know, the colors. And they try to say rude boy. It's not the same rude boy as an African guy. You know, with me, when I came to America during the era of light-skinnedness,

the barge. I'll be sure? I'll be sure. Oh, color me bad? Color me bad. Oh, God. Name all the lights in committee. Oh, shit.

Life didn't get better For me to the dust You was in the Drake era Before the Drake era Yes Holy shit Okay I understand When I got here It was like

We was not in style Let me get you some champagne Give me some champagne Let's go I've been trying to be dark skinned For 25 years I'm the only I'm the only negro

That wanna go darker Anybody wanna get lighter Or some shit I wanna go darker Yeah let's get him some champagne Make some noise Hey I'm the only Negro that want to go darker. Anybody want to get lighter or some shit? I want to go darker, man. Yeah, let's give him some champagne. Make some noise for him. Man, man.

Oh, man. But, you know, when I came, you know, like I said, I had no idea I was dark-skinned. I remember coming to America. I was like 13, 14 years old. And that's a movie, part two. Not coming to America, the movie. No, no. I like how you double-eyed Tron shit. I like how you double-eyed Tron shit that. That's how smart you are. You heard? You heard? And that's a movie part two not coming to America the movie That's how smart you are

Fun I was asking this how I found out I'm hanging out some, you know, low kids my age and they like oh you black I said, of course we are black. There's a no nigga you black I'm like, how black is black? I said, of course. We are black. They said, no, nigga, you black as shit. I'm like, how black is that? They said, you under the bed black, nigga. Yeah, that's that. Have you looked under the bed lately? That's darker shit. They told me I look like I have no bright ideas.

They told me the difference between me and midnight is 11.59. They said when God said, let there be light, I was out of town. They told me I could never tell a white lie. They told me I look like I smoke cigarette backwards. They told me every time I take a shit, I think my dick fell off.

They told me Stevie Wonder sees me every day. That's dark as shit. They told me Stevie Wonder sees me every day. That's dark as shit. They told me I have to wear white gloves before I eat chocolate. So I don't bite

my fucking fingers. No, no, no. Checkmate for him. I'm going to do a vodka and a club soda with lemon. Jamie. I'm in.

Ace. He is not ace approved. They told me if black lives matter, mine matter the most. That's black ace approved. They told me if black lives matter, minds matter the most. That's black as hell. Tell them to do rock and club with a limit. Holy shit.

That's when I realized I was black as hell. So now, I was reading or listening somewhere. Now, you lived in Newark first. That was my first. For Philly, yes. So how did that happen? Well, my mother, you lived in Newark first. That was my first. For Philly, yes. So how did that happen? Well, my mother, she had some friends

that lived in Newark, some Christian friends. In fact, they were the ones that invited her over. So she came with me and my two younger sisters and lived in Newark. The weak-wit section it's called.

Oh, wow. And we lived in, and the lady, when we got to America, she let us stay in their basement. We stayed in their basement for like some time. And then from there,

we moved on to North Newark and lived in a shelter home. Wow. Yeah, lived in a shelter home for a couple of years. Wow. You know,

I had to actually, I remember living in a shelter home and had to go to school. And I remember some of the kids that lived in the area where the shelter home was, went to the school. So we had to like, kind of like come through the back door so they don't catch us coming

out of the shelter home. Because kids are mean, they'll clown you. Right. You know, so I had to like come through the back door and like go through the side just to make sure these kids don't see me coming out of a shelter home. Right. So we lived in Newark and then my mother had some friends, some other African friends that lived in Philadelphia.

They said, hey, look, cost of living is a lot cheaper in Philly, so come to Philly. We came to Philly, and the cost of living was better. I remember we had our first three-bedroom row home in southwest Philly, $300 a month. I had my own room for the first time. Yeah, this is summer of, like, 1990. I was a little boy.

I had my own room and philly believe it or not philly was a lot easier than jersey jersey was tough you couldn't get a job at mcdonald's i got the philly right away i was able to find me a job at a domino's pizza i started off just answering the phones taking orders then i started delivering pieces on a bike then i started making tip tip money. And then by that time, I realized, by the time I got to Philly, I got dogs out here. What's going on?

No, no, no. This is the way it happens, man. Where the fuck am I at, my nigga? This is the way it happens, yeah. We're at a zoo, motherfucker. It did sound like dogs. It was the radio, I think. When I got to Philly,

at that time, I'd been in America for three years almost, and I kind of realized what it took to fit in. I went through most of my verbal roast abuse in Newark, New Jersey. So by the time I got to Philly, I realized, okay, to fit in, you got to wear decent clothes.

If you go to school, you got to wear name brand clothes. Because my first day of school in Newark, New Jersey, my mother took me shopping in a store called Woolworth and McCorry's. That's from back in the day. I know, Woolworth and McCorry's.

All right. And then she bought my sneakers. She bought my sneakers at Pathmark. Oh, I remember Pathmark. Right, so she bought chicken and bought my sneakers right next to each other.

I was wearing chicken flavor sneakers for about two years. Wait, wait, wait. Come on. You went too fast. Wait, wait, wait. What happened? My mother bought my sneakers in Pathmark. They sold sneakers in Pathmark back then.

Yes. Next to the chicken. All right. For two years, I wore chicken flavor sneakers. All right. Have you ever wore dinner before, my nigga? Close, but not quite like that. I did.

So by the time I got to, you know, in kids, and back when I was a kid in Africa, you got girls when you wore new clothes. It didn't matter what the brand was. I'm talking about back in the day. But when you come to America, not only it has to be new, it has to be a name brand. And I didn't know that. So I went to school with my brand new chicken flavor sneakers, my shirt from Woolworth

and my pants from Woolworth. I'm happy I got new clothes. I'm about to get all the bitches. Right. I get there, I'm like, where the bitches at?

It's like, what you wearing? I said, nigga, what you mean? It's brand new. They said, no, it's not Adidas. It's not Nike.

I said, nigga, it's brand new. Nobody ever wore this before they lit my ass up me and my chicken flavor sneakers so by the time I got to Philly

three years later I already knew what it took to fit in you gotta look fly and don't talk much that's one thing I noticed about America the less you speak

the more suspicious and curious people are about you cause those who talk a lot are the ones who are like, you read this motherfucker. When you don't speak much, they can't read you.

Right. So by the time I got to Philly, I said, okay, I got to keep quiet, just dress nice, chill. And back then, if you're dark-skinned

with an accent, you was automatically a Jamaican drug dealer. I said that. Yeah, I just said that. Yeah. So when I got to Philly, I'm dressing nice, I'm dark, I said that. Yeah, I just said that. Yeah. So when I got to Philly, I'm dressing nice,

I'm dark, I'm quiet. They thought I was a Jamaican drug dealer. They had no idea I was delivering pizzas at Domino's selling anchovies, pepperoni, sausage, and ground beef. Give some noise for anchovies. I love anchovies.

They had no idea I was dealing pizzas. I'm like, you know what? They thought I was a drug dealer. I said, let me, let it think that. As long as they think I'm a drug dealer and I'm Jamaican, nobody's going to fuck with me. Because back then, there wasn't that many Africans in America. So if you had to ask, you were Jamaican.

Y'all in the Haitians was acting Jamaican. What Jamaican was first. The Haitians weren't doing that. The Haitians was number one in line. Who with the Jamaican belt? So kids thought, you know, nobody wasn't really messing with me much, like, as far as trying to pick on me.

So when I started realizing that, okay, now they're kind of admiring me, now it's my turn to, like, start roasting niggas. What you got on? That's when the comedy started. That's when the comedy. This is like 12th grade. Like, my first...

So they used to bag on you. Now you bagging on them. Now I'm bagging on them now. They bagged on me in Newark. By the time I got to Philly, I was prepared. Yeah, you was sharp. I was sharp.

I was ready. So that's when I started bagging. And then that's when, when I got out of school and I was still at Domino's Pizza, one of my coworkers who delivered with me, he was an acting teacher

at the Philadelphia Community College. And he just thought I was funny. He said, Mikey funny, you should go to open mic night. I'm like, what is that? He kind of led me in the right direction, and then I started going to open mic, and then here we are, man, 20-something years later.

Where was the first open mic at? Philly, at this place called Comedy Works. It's right down downtown Philly, 2nd and Chestnut. They used to do open mic on Wednesday nights. It was about like 1993, 94. 30 years ago is when I started

going to open mic. And then Philly, so we had an open mic at the Comedy Works and they had one at the Funny Bone in Philly, on South Street in Philly.

You've been to South Street, right? Of course. Yeah, yeah. It's Kibble's, right? It's Kibble's, right there. A couple of blocks down from it's Kibble's. So I used to go there

for open mic on Monday. So we had open mic on Monday. World wide. World wide. I see, man. I don't know if you know but continue, continue. You never been to Ghana do I have you?

No, Ghana don't. I'm scared to death. I'm scared to death. I got to go with you. I see where they did the Meek a little bit. That was in Ghana? Boy, that was in Ghana.

That was in Ghana? Nah, Meek was good, man. It was just the love just got overwhelmed. It wasn't much like we know. This is more like just trying to show love. Nah, that's was good, man. It was just, the love just got overwhelmed. Yeah. It wasn't much like, you know, they're just more like just trying to show love,

you know? No, that's real. But he should still, you know, you got to have bodyguards when you're around. People are too excited to see him, you know?

I need an apartment. Akon promised me an apartment in Akon City. I don't know if that's being built. Just don't buy a land from Akon, okay? Don't buy a land?

It belongs to six other niggas Okay And where's Akon Is it Senegal Senegal yeah Akon is my dog So how far is Senegal From Ghana

It's off the west coast It's no more than like A 45 minute on hour flight It's on the west side West side Africa West side Wait I was going to say Okay so where's

The west side Africa I'm ready to bang Well the west side West side of Africa Is the best side So when I go to Africa I'm going to bang. Well, the West Side of Africa is the best side. So when I go to Africa, I'm going to be from the West Side. Yeah, you're going to the West Side, man. Do I got to do Ancestry and me? I mean, if I'm looking at you, man, I'm trying to think where you...

Yeah, you definitely... Ah, no, you got that... My eyebrows? You got that Ethiopian a little bit. I'm half Puerto Rican. That means I'm on the Puerto Rican side. So I'm half Puerto Rican, half black. You're still a nigga, motherfucker.

I know, I know. My half side of Africa,ican side So I'm half Puerto Rican Half black So You still a nigga Motherfucker I know I know My half side of Africa Where you think I'm from I would give you I'll give you East Africa East Africa Yeah I'll give you like

I thought I was from the West Coast You threw me back to the East Nah you East man I'm East East side yeah Now what's East This nigga is West East side

West side This nigga is homeless Outside Motherfucker East side West side This nigga is homeless Outside Holy shit Hold on Alright Oh man So where the fuck

Was you at man Africa Okay Domino's That's right That's what When you was Delivering for Domino's

And I started Going to open mic Kingpin Wagwan Go ahead Continue I started going to open mic In like I said

Late 90s, early, late 93, early 94. And then that's what happened. My first, got my first break, like maybe a year later on Comic View. And then fast forward to like 1999 is when I had my first break

on a movie next Friday. And how'd you get that? You had the audition for Ice Cube? I did have the audition, but what happened was it was almost right place, right time. I used to, after I left Domino's,

you know, later in like 96, I had a job. You're supposed to start applying for jobs at Domino's. I know, man. I don't make Domino's popular, man. Like, Domino's is not bad, man.

I still eat the pizza to this day. Go ahead. You fuck a Domino's pizza? Here and there. Here and there. I ain't gonna complain, bro. I ain't gonna complain. I used to hate,

you know what they hit, the part about hating delivering Domino's? Because back then, they had the rules. 30 minutes, all your pizza's free. complain, bro. I ain't gonna complain. I used to hate, you know the part about hating delivering Domino's? Because back then they had the rules. 30 minutes or your pizza's free. Oh, yeah.

So I'll go deliver the pizza. I'll be there like 25 minutes. These niggas open the door to 31 minutes. I'm like, nigga, I've been here. Give me my money, motherfucker.

You know, niggas love to get over. Niggas like, if you're out there, don't open the door for another six minutes. Let me the fuck in, my nigga. You know what's crazy?

That's why I think Uber, Uber, not Uber, what's this shit, Amazon and all that, they take pictures now. Yeah, when they did. But I see one dude take a picture and then take the shit back. Like, motherfucker, you don't see the ring right there? We got you on ring. He left it, took a picture, and then grabbed it and took it back. This is a fucked up word. But, okay, Domino's.

Yeah, yeah. And that's where it all started. And then I remember comedy started to get pretty decent, and then I decided to, I went to New York one time to do something. At that time, I'm a manager at Domino's. I'm like 20 years old Oh you made it I made it

From all the way Answering phones Like Calvin from McDonald's Yeah The Calvin name Niggas started off Making burgers And he

I became manager But then I started Comedy started happening And I started to take comedy A little bit more serious In my job And I remember one time I went to New York

To do The Uptown Comedy thing Uptown Comedy Club Yeah it was on UPN or something 125th Street Whatever it was It was

I went to go do Appearance on that And then my assistant manager Didn't show up to work So now And then That happened to be The same day

That the owners Of the Domino Decided to show up So nobody At that moment That particular one Was a franchise It wasn't corporate

So when this franchise belonged to like a certain amount of people, they could just make any decisions they want. Because I wasn't there to run the store, I was a manager,

I got the fuck fired. After being there since like 11th grade, 11, 12, I was there for about five years. I got fired. I thought you were about to say 13th.

No, I was like, you went to 13th grade, my nigga? I get fired and now everything goes wrong. You know, I'm like, nah, I have to take comedy serious. At that moment, I was probably making $100 a show, and I got fired. Wow.

$100 a show in comedy? In comedy. Wow. And then I went and did Comic View. I remember I was doing Comic View in, like, 94. That's when I actually came to L.A. for the first time. That's when it was in D.C., Comic View? Nah, it was in L. actually came to LA for the first time. That's when it was in DC, Comic View?

No, it was in LA. It was a competition back then. Okay. So D.L. Hughley used to host it. And it was a competition with three comedians and you win,

you make it to the next level. And then back then, mind you, they paid you $150 to do it. You have to fly yourself down. Out there. Put yourself in a hotel.

In a hotel. I went up there for like negative $600. Wow. Your whole goal was to be on television. Once you're on TV, then you're worth

a little bit more money. And I remember, actually, I remember it was around that time where Snoop was going through his murder trial. It was 1994.

Because I remember one time being in an elevator and that's the first time I saw Snoop on the elevator. Right. You know, and I remember all of that. All that came back to me because we cool now and I'm like, damn, I remember when I met you the elevator, and that's the first time I saw Snoop on the elevator. Right. You know, and I remember all of that. All that came back to me because we cool now,

and I'm like, damn, I remember when I met you the first time, you was really mean. Now he just happy, motherfucker. Yeah. But Snoop was like, when he was younger, Snoop was a mean-looking motherfucker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know?

And on Death Row Records, and you on Death Row. You might be a different nigga, too. So I went and did Comedy View, lost the first round. Wow. So all I'm going to get is $150. Because if you win, the more you go,

the more money you make. So I eliminated the first round. I come back home, had to wait like fucking three fucking weeks for my $150 paycheck. Wow. But when I got on TV, I went from $100 to now $500 a show.

So things is kind of picking up. And then fast forward to 1999, I went up there with some of how I got the part in Next Friday. So when I left in 96, I got a job with airlines. Now, you know, most comedians had an airline job because you get to fly for free, even though you're not supposed to technically use the job for personal gains. I'm trying to figure out what airlines you work for.

I want to say Southwest. Fuck no, motherfucker. They didn't have spirit back then either. So don't mention spirit. All right, all right. It was a pretty decent, it was a decent airline.

Continental. No, but you close because the name don't exist anymore but they did merge with somebody else. Okay, and then? No, it did merge With somebody else Pan Am No it did merge

With somebody else Just like Continental Became United This airline is now With another airline Who you think it is Delta Nope

TWA Nope Come on boy head nigga I said Pan Am But you said no Pan Am nigga Pan Am is Pan Am is 85

Motherfucker US Airways That's it Okay They're now with American Okay oh wow So I workedS. Airways, that's it. They're not with Americans. Okay, oh, wow. So I worked at U.S. Airways back then,

and I was using the shit out of them niggas. Why? I mean, I was just using them for the flight benefit. Why? And they didn't let it on court on fire my ass, too. You're not supposed to do that. You cannot use personal gains for any free flights. So what I did back then, you know, we all took airline jobs. A lot of comedians had it. You know, and did back then, you know, we all took airline jobs. A lot of comedians had it.

You know, and what happens is, you know, let's say I want to come to Miami and do a show. I'm not that popular. They're not going to fly me down. I'd be like,

you know what, just give me the $300, whatever. I'd fly myself down. And that's what I did a lot of the time. So during my days off, I would fly to LA once a month.

And I remember I flew to LA this one particular time. In 99, I went to do this one particular time. In 99, I went to do this place called The Comedy Store. So back then, you know, the two main comedy clubs

were The Improv and The Comedy Store. And they had two nigga nights. Fatuzy. Fatuzy. Fatuzy was the main nigga night at The Comedy Store. And then,

More Better Mondays was the main nigga night at The Improv. So it was Monday and Tuesday. For those that don't know, nigga night means black night. Yeah, black night. night okay that's when all the popular black comedians would show up and do stuff you know to america i'm sorry yes they might say they might go somewhere looking for nigger night maybe they shouldn't do that so this particular night was the same night

ice cube came to check out mike epps wow Wow. For the first time. And I happened to perform that night. So, you know, I did my thing. And then I heard from the lady that booked the show, like, hey, they want you to audition for this movie. To audition for something. They didn't say the movie. They just said this project called Next Friday. I had no idea what it had to do with the Friday movie. You know, and then they sent me the script and I'm reading it.

And I said, okay. And then we set up a date for me to come back and audition for it when i came back to philly everything that could go wrong almost went wrong for me making my audition let me tell you the first thing that went wrong so um while i'm in philly we're going to new york to do a show with me kevin hart kevin just started kevin been doing kind of about three years this time me ke and Kevin Hart, another comedian, local guy named Buck Wilde

from Philly, and then a guy named Ture. So we all decided to go do a show in New York. Now, Buck Wilde, Philly Buck Wilde was this nigga, whatever he do,

don't take no money from this nigga. All his money is counterfeit. Every jewelry this nigga wear. This nigga, one time, this nigga sold me a fake Rolex watch and had me on a payment plan. I didn't realize this shit till my arms started to turn green. I'm like, nigga, your payments are over, motherfucker.

So this time, we about to go to New York, and we all got our cars. Nobody want to put miles on their cars Buck suggested his car And don't get it wrong His car was more like newer one We feel like, you know, we need a car We will make it to New York and back

With no problem Right? So, you know, we said, alright We're going to take Buck's car We all met in this one location We all decided to get in Buck's car This nigga volunteered The African nigga to drive his car

we're on the turnpike around like the Newark area almost in New York I look back there's a state trooper behind us

I'm like why this nigga following us so you know I'm African first time everything copped around me

I'm nervous you're not smoking weed no not smoking weed I'm nervous I'm like hitting the brakes a little bit

I'm all confused you know I'm like and Trey and Kev like Mike what the fuck, hitting the brakes a little bit. I'm all confused. You know, I'm, like, in terrain, careful. Like, man, what the fuck you doing? Just drive normal. I said, nigga, it's the police behind us. I don't know what to do, you know. Boom, boom, they pull us over, you know.

So what happened, the reason why they pull us over, because back in Philly, you know, during this era, whenever you get a lot of tickets on your car, you just report the place stolen. You get a new plate, right? But what Buck had on his car was a plate that somebody had reported stolen,

and then he just put it on there just to have a registration plate. So now when the cop read the plate, it says stolen property. So they don't know whether it's a car stolen. They just know this motherfucking shit is stolen.

And I'm the nigga driving. Pull us over. Me, Kevin Hart, Ture Gordon, and Buck Wilde. State trooper. Guns out. Get out the car. Put your hands up.

Walk backwards. I don't know what the fuck to do. It's like, Mike, you're going to get shot, nigga. Get out the car. I'm assuming these are white state troopers. Yes, white niggas. They had no idea who we was. Pull us over.

Get out the car. Lay flat. You know, I'm on the ground. I ground like, Buck, what's going on? All of a sudden, Buck's like, my name is Aziz White. I'm a nigga, where you become Aziz White? Cop's like, whose car is it? I says, Buck the fuck, why? The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show

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Listen to Dope Labs on iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Nigga, I'm caught. He said, Mike, I'm Aziz. Nigga, fuck Aziz. White. How you Muslim with a last name white, nigga? It's this nigga card. Buck, he said, Mike. All of a sudden, this nigga has counterfeit money in his pocket.

He threw this shit out. Right? The state troopers are like, hey, you threw your money and give it back to the niggas. Goddamn, brother. Big Alon Stewart should end up in a cell that night. I went to cell. You, Kevin Hart, Torey, and Buck. Me, Kevin Hart, Torey, and Buck. This is a long story short We end up in a cell That night I went to cell You, Kevin Hart, Torey Me, Kevin Hart, Torey and Buck This is a great story

So here this nigga He's afraid He's about to get searched This nigga is chewing the money Trying to get rid of the fake money My blue and green Trying to offer us money to chew Nigga I'm not hungry

Motherfucker I'm not chewing None of your fake money You know Later on I guess They figure out it was stolen plate, whatever. About 6 a.m., we missed the show, of course. We get to go. The drop was up at the train station.

We all had to find our way home, you know. So the day I had to go for my audition was the day I had to go to court. Wow. For next Friday. Oh, man. So me and Kevin was the only one that decided we're going to go to court. Wow. For next Friday. Oh, man. So, me and Kevin was the only one that decided

we going to go to court. The rest of the niggas, they wasn't trying to go. They skipped time. They ended up having warrants later. They had to deal with that shit later on.

But me and Kevin got up that morning. I said, okay, I got to catch this flight at 1.50 p.m. out of Philly. We got to court

at 9 o'clock in Newark, New Jersey. Got up, left Philly like 6 a.m., make it to court. Kevin drove really fast, got me in time

to catch my flight, landed in L.A. about 4 p.m. and made a 5 p.m. audition. Wow. All that shit went down. And nailed it. And nailed it.

And got there. Give my thing up. Now, have you ever felt, I believe I asked this to Ghost, not Ghost, Tommy, typecast, because like, you know what I mean, I think that's like,

you know, always having the African role. Like, for instance, no one's never going to ask me to play a doctor or a lawyer. I's not going to get that role. That meant me. Hundred percent. You know, I've been...

I wasn't talking about you, my nigga. No, no, no, no no But I've heard that You know Say hey Mike You know If you want to Make it you know As an actor

Whatever you know You have to like Change up You can't always be African But my thing is Stand up comedy Is my thing Right

I never You know Acting all that Is just an extra plus Comedy is my thing I'm not about to Fool my audience And change who I am

Right Because I've been doing comedy 30 years And I make a hell of a living from it Wow If I would've changed I don't know what the fuck Would've happened

Comedy is my first priority And I'm not changing it for nothing Let's give them a flower Yeah You know what We want to Our show is called Giving Legends

They flowers We want to give you Flowers to your face You know what I'm saying To your face My brother Right Yeah Wow Yes We want to give you flowers to your face. You know what I'm saying? To your face, my brother. All right.

Yeah. Wow. Yes. Snoop said it's like a Grammy. But let me say something before we move on. Because we're dropping this next week, so we don't know who won the Super Bowl. But I'm going to tell you all something. Philadelphia fans might be the most annoying fans in the world.

Oh, if you following a Philly nigga when y'all won, Meek, you, Kevin, Gilly, wow. I can't stand you, nigga. You can't give a Philly nigga nothing. They rub it all in your face. Nobody know? Nobody? I'm the only one that know?

No one follows these niggas on Instagram? Oh, they take it too far. Oh, yeah. Yo, I'm like, what's wrong? Meek Mill dropped a diss record. Yo, I'm like, what is going on? I ain't going to lie. I had to go. Come on, Cowboys fans, if they want some shit, it would be the same way, yeah. Yo, I'm like, what is going on? I ain't going to lie. I had to go.

Come on. Cowboys fans, if they won some shit, it would be the same with you. Yes, yes. Nah. I mean, really. I've been coming to Philly for years, man. I'm going to tell you something. Philly, y'all deserve it, man.

My cup's off to y'all. My cup's off. So I can tell why they chilling and celebrating. But man, Kevin Hart, you, Gilly Wallo. Oh my God, me. Oh my God. I just kept looking. It just kept going on.

I was like, that's when I admit it. I got a little bit of hater in me. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Because I was like, nah, I had to put my phone down. But congratulations to Faye. You got the green on too. That's right.

You got the green on too. Let's give them some more champagne. I had to put my phone down, but congratulations to Faye. You got the green on, too. That's right. You got the green on, too. Yeah! Oh! Yeah, let's give them some more champagne. Let's give them some more champagne. And then we, uh, let's give them some more champagne. And then we're ready for a quick time of slime, right? OK, cool. And I'm going to do, um, yeah.

Baby, don't forget me. What's up? What did you say? I told her, don't forget me on the ace. Sonny, you know you're not ace. Oh, man. I don't know if you know, this is my very, ooh, I'm sorry, this is my friend,

and, you know, he's been trying to get on the ace list for years, and Jay-Z does not approve of him. Why, what's wrong? Listen, man. He's just not ace material. I thought I was good. He just got to stick with the Duce. You understand?

Who's Duce? That's Duce. That's awesome. Jay said that's as far as he could go. Okay. It makes you feel like a nigga. It's okay. Hey, I bought this for you By the way

What is that? That is Baba Kool Oh from Haiti Sa Pase Yes I knew you'd be excited About that Okay

I knew you'd be excited You know what Haitians are everywhere But Haiti Motherfucker I went to Haiti Where the Haitians at? You said you went to Haiti.

He said, we're not here, motherfucker. I appreciate that, man. Is this like a rum? Is this rum? What is it? Oh, yeah, it's a rum, but it's like cognac. I appreciate that. It's something like that.

We got to try it. We got to try it. We got the shots lined up. All right, so this is a quick game. It's called Quick Time with Slime. Okay, all right, cool. Someone else pull it up, not on my phone. Quick Time with Slime.

So we're going to give you two choices, one or the other. If you pick both or you say neither, then we drink. But we drink with you. Okay. You don't leave me alone. If you are politically correct and you like, or if you, you know, it's simple. One or the other. And we'll be drinking shots, though.

Not this. No, shots of, what you want? You want barbecue? I do that. You going to do that? Or you want, I'm doing Ciroc.

Yeah, yeah. I'm doing Ciroc. You got the little cups? Yeah. I want to know how much I took. This is mine? That is yours. We're going to drink,

but I want to have one shot. Oh, you want to have one shot of this? Okay, but the little cups, though, right? Does that mess it up? Because you're going to take it to want to have A one shot with you Oh you want to have A one shot with you Okay but the blue cups though Does that mess it up Because you're going to Take it to home No no no Because if I open it

And I came in He can't take it with him Okay He's taking it I'll do whatever you're doing Yes Syrah okay Yeah give me

The sweetest one Alright No I'm doing the regular Not the sweet But we got orange And we got watermelon Watermelon Alright cool You know watermelon That's like nigga apples You know that right No, I'm doing the regular, not the sweet. But we got orange and we got watermelon. Watermelon. All right, cool.

You know, watermelon, that's like nigga apples. You know that, right? Watermelon is nigga apples. Yes, he want watermelon. I'm a regular. Okay, so we ready? You got it in your phone? I got it.

We got it. Go first, honey. Red Fox or Richard Pryor? Richard Pryor Ooh You want to describe why? Or What?

You know what? By the time I came to America I definitely missed the Red Fox era Right I haven't missed the Richard Pryor era But, you know Eddie Murphy was the first one I started to see Okay And then Then I heard that Richard Pryor era, but Eddie Murphy was the first one I started to see. And then I heard that Richard Pryor was the greatest.

So I started watching Richard Pryor's stuff and fell in love with his act. So I'm going with Richard Pryor. Red Fox was the one that said, Paul Riggins. He called us Paul Riggins. Paul Riggins. He called us Paul Riggins. Yeah. I mean, I loved Sam from the Sun.

We watched that back home in Africa when I was a kid. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We watched Sam from the Sun, watched that back home In Africa when I was a kid Oh yeah yeah yeah We watched Sun for the Sun We watched different strokes We watched the Jefferson's Good Times You know I just seen Eddie Murphy said That the Good Times

Duplicate picture I saw that Sold for 16 million And he has a real one He said I got the original one That's rich rich Look look look That's how important

Black culture is Just listen to what we just said The duplicate of good times Hit you The duplicate Key word Duplicate 16 million

The copy sold for 16 million And Eddie has the original one I have the bootleg of the duplicate I'm selling it for $8 million. All right, you ready? Tupac or DMX? I mean, Tupac. Tupac? Okay.

You got to meet Tupac? Never got to meet Tupac. Damn, I'm trying to think. Have I met Tupac? No. I never met Tupac. I didn't meet DM to think. Have I met Tupac? No. I never met Tupac. I didn't meet DMX. We actually came to my show. We hung out backstage. We did talk. But it was more like the later version of DMX. I didn't meet DMX in his prime.

I met him later on in his career. Eddie Murphy or Marlon Lawrence? Eddie. You know they daughters and kids are dating No I didn't know that Yeah

Yeah And I think they that serious That they already Debating on who gonna pay for the marriage Oh wow Is this new? Yeah I mean it's like fairly new I mean the marriage part

Yeah Wow that's a funny ass baby But go ahead Yeah It's gonna be a funny baby right baby. Go ahead. Yeah. It's going to be a funny baby, right? Funny wedding, too. That's crazy. Because they already, the grandfathers, apparently,

they're already debating. Martin is like, I'm going to get Eddie to pay for it. And then Eddie is like, all right. Who got the most money? Well, Eddie got to have the most money, of course. I mean, he got a painting worth $30 million right there. Eddie still got the old hundreds. The original ones.

The original $100 bill. Eddie still got that. That was somewhere in the crib. Okay. Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle? God, that's tough. Take a shot. For the world of comedy.

Okay. For the world of comedy. Salud. Salud. That's smooth. Smooth like a motherfucker. That's pretty good. Smooth like a motherfucker. Okay. For the world of comedy. Salo. Salo. That's smooth. Smooth like a motherfucker. That's pretty good. Smooth like a motherfucker.

Okay. Jonah Hill or Jack Black? I mean, Jack Black got some classics that I like. And I actually want to redo this movie my own way. Tenacious D? Don't say that. No, no, no. Was it one where he thought the girl was slim and then she was really big?

Oh, fuck. Shallow Howe. Shallow Howe. Shallow Howe is one of my favorite movies. That's fire. You want to do it in the African version? Just, I mean, you know, African men, we like big women anyway. Yeah.

So I'm going to, I definitely want to do that bit, you know, African men, we like big women anyway. Yeah. So I definitely want to do that bit, you know. But Jack Black got a lot more classics than Jonah Hill. I mean, I did like Jonah Hill and Eddie in this new movie. You people. You people. But I got to go with Jack Black. Going with Jack Black. Okay.

You ever seen School of Rock with Jack Black? Probably not the whole thing. I mean, I know Shallowf from beginning to the end. Right. Okay. Puff Daddy or Dr. Dre? Puff Daddy or Dr. Dre. You know, I grew up in the East Coast.

You know. Been to more Puff Daddy parties. Yeah, you know. Never really met Dre. Puff, I guess guess more party music. Let's take a shot for that, man. Come on, let's just go. Let's go solid.

Solid. Mmm. Let me drink this to rock. Black man's got that rock. You got that? Bernie Mac or Robert Harris? Bernie Mac or Robert Harris? Bernie Mac. Bernie Mac had one of my favorite lines ever

in a movie called Soul Man. I don't know if you remember that. And he gets him out of the hood and he moves him to a retirement home. And Mike Epps is his son, and Mike Epps comes to him and says, Look, man, you don't want to say bye to the kids? And he goes, Fuck the kids! For some reason.

There was three lines. I had just became, like, a teenage father, and I just really like Understood those lines Well I like Kind of Bernie Mac kind of Remind me of What I'm becoming Because Bernie Mac Was a guy

That refused to change For anybody He made him later Accept him for who he is And I think that's Where my career is going right now They're like you know Fuck it

We're going to accept Michael Blackson for who he is And we're going to give him his flower We're going to give him his Everything that he's due I think everything I'm my career is going right now. They're like, you know what, fuck it. We're going to accept Michael Blackson for who he is. And we're going to give him his flower. We're going to give him everything that he's due. I think everything I'm due right now, I'm finally coming because they know this. I'm not going to change for nobody. Right. And that's what Bernie was.

Bernie did not change for nobody. Right. And eventually they found a show that surround him that made him become himself. Yes. So, yeah. Don't change for nobody. Be yourself, motherfuckers. Let's make some noise for that.

Yeah. Beanie, Sigou or Cassidy? Take a shot for Philly Oh my god Shot for Philly They're both my niggas too Yeah yeah Salud Salud

Last time you was here It was with Cassidy right? You know I fuck with both of them But you know Beanie Was more like the He's more of the pioneer, I think. You know, he's one of the Philly original rappers. Did you say ponder air?

No, pioneer. Oh, pioneer. Yes. I went to Philadelphia Public School, motherfucker. Okay. Give me a break. I thought the Kingpin Jamaican came out. Ponder air.

Ponder air. Okay, we got it. Okay, all right. You can do the next one. Okay. Meek Mill or Lil Uzi Vert? I got to go with Meek, man. I got to go with Meek.

You know, I like the grunt. I like how Meek came from nothing, from beginning. He became from nothing, became something, had that terrible battle with Drake, and bounced back and went back on top of the world. That impresses me. Before the terrible battle with Drake, had the terrible battle with the judge.

The law. Yes. That was the terrible-est. Yes. That's the word. Anybody that could go down, come back up, that shit impresses me. All the way back up, too.

You know, Vert hasn't went through nothing yet. He's become a leader in trying to change the law with those. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Shout out to me. You ready? Yeah. Pharrell or Kanye West? Excuse me.

Pharrell or Ye? What's wrong with Kanye West? Because he's now. He went back to Ye? Like Muhammad Ali. I'm going to call him Muhammad Ali. I ain't calling him

Cassius Clay. I mean, Kanye. Kanye? I got to go with Kanye. I'm going to take a shot for me thinking you was going to play it safe. You don't got to take this shot.

What's safe? I don't know. We'll get to that later. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You ain't got to take this shot. You ain't got to take this shot. I'm going to take this shot for me doubting you.

I'm sorry. I'm not safe, motherfucker. I deserve that. I deserve that. Okay. Coming to America, one, obviously, or Harlem Nights?

Oh, Come to America, one. Greatest movie of all time. That's what I said the other day. Still relevant forever. Yes, that's what I said the other day. I swear to God, you know where they filmed what I said the other day. Still relevant forever. Yes, that's what I said the other day. I swear to God, you know,

where they filmed it at, the part one, I rode my bike up there because I'm from, yeah, I'm from down the block. If you actually see where they throw the shit

and he say, What shit? What do you mean? What scene? When they throw the garbage out and then he go, Oh yeah, yeah,

when they threw the garbage. Welcome my neighbors and he say, shut up, shut up. Oh yeah, fuck you too. That's my,

not my building but that's my building is where I'm from right now. For real? Yeah, for real. Coming to me. That's where I always felt like. Oh, yeah. Definitely greatest movie. Okay.

I skipped one. Go to the one before that. All right, do those two I skipped. Snoop Dogg or 50 Cent? Damn, that's tough. Take a shot. Yeah, they're both my niggas. You be at Tycoon On weekend with both of them

Tell me if I wanna see Like what those battles They was doing During the pandemic Man I would've loved To see Snoop and 50 So many hits It never happened man

Hold on let's take a shot 50 never Did one I know Snoop did one With somebody Nah but I'ma be honest Niggas don't want No smoke for 50

On that Versus stage bro On that versus stage Salute Salute T.I. came close Like when I went Through his discography

He came close But he came nowhere near I swear Kid you not Like 50 Has a decade Full of Real

Real Real Real That one album That first one Forget about it Yeah Every song

He don't even have to go To another album No He might get out of you Forget what you're trying The other one I got the other one But Snoop to me

Is probably the biggest Rap of all time Yeah And the most famous to me The most famous 100% agree There's nobody on earth That don't know who Snoop Dogg is

And if you don't know Who Snoop Dogg is You've been fucked up. Here's an easy one for you. Rocky IV or Creed II? I'm going old school, man. Rocky IV.

That's more of the Russian guy, right? Yeah, yeah. Is that the one with the Russian? If he dies, he dies. If he dies, yeah, you can't.

Gotta go with that. What's his name again, that Russian guy? Drago, Drago. He's still around and kicking, too. Yeah. All right.

Okay. Kevin Hart or Chris Tucker? Take a shot for Darskin Comedian. Yes, okay. You cannot break your Darskin Comedian mold. Go on. Eve or Missy Elliott? You know, I rep Philly.

I mean, Missy was more mainstream than probably more popular. But, you know, my girl Eve was smooth. She had swag. She did acting. She had her own TV show, and she was a sexy lady at the same time. I got to go with Eve. Yes, and she married a

billionaire. Yes, she did. Throw that in there. Make some noise for you, Eve, wherever you at. Respect you. Yes, come to Drink Chance. Okay. Now, this one is a hard one for me. I'm not sure.

Juice or New Jack City? God damn, you ain't shit, man. Two dark-skinned villains. Two dark-skinned villains. Damn, I love both of them movies. I mean, New Jack City is a classic of our time, but Juice is just Tupac, man. Tupac was himself in that movie.

Yes. I mean, this nigga acting, oh, he's real. Let's not even fight it. No, I'm not fighting. This nigga trying to get me all fucked up. Yeah, sure. Y'all just now taking your shots? Y'all should have been taking your shots. Got three. This is Dr. Sebi's grandson calling me.

You know I must be in trouble. Hold on. Dr. Sebi? Yeah. His grandson? Yeah. Is he Isaiah? I don't know. I don't know. Okay, yeah, he's a good guy. Hold on Dr. Sebi? Yeah His grandson? Yeah Is he Isaiah?

I don't know Okay yeah he's a good guy Okay George Carlin Did he find a cure for Ebola yet or nah? I wasn't ready I'd be rich telling him he could find me a cure I'd save my whole village motherfucker Got it

George Carlin or Robin Williams? I mean, George is, George is great, you know, but I know, I don't know much about him

as much as I know about Robin, so I got to go with what I know. Yeah, Miss Doubtfire. What are you talking about? That's not George Carlin,

that's Robin Williams. Oh, I thought you said Robin, I thought you meant Robin Harris. Oh, I got to go with Robin Williams,

all the way. Miss Doubtfire Oh yeah yeah Of course Yeah That's the Single handedly One of the greatest

Clothes ever handed down All the time He's probably The only place But that's also You know You think about it now They say like

Committers who are dresses Where this You know He had a whole outfit on But we didn't think About that back then I didn't think about it Nah we didn't think

Cause the thing about You know You know back in like If you look at Jamaican comedy Back in the day All you mean African For God to be funny but we didn't think about that back then. I didn't think about it. Nah, we didn't think, because the thing about, you know, back in like, if you look at Jamaican comedy, back in the day, all the African, for a guy to be funny, he put a dress on just because it looked funny on him. We never thought about all this extra stuff

that America later on came up with. Yeah, the Portia was a big part of that comedy. But Robin Williams, definitely the GOAT. One of the GOATs of all time. We skipped the one you said? Yep. Yeah, but Black Thor. Oh, no, no.

That was after that. The Black Thor. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. Black Thor or Mos Def? Conscious shit. I know.

I like Mos Def. I got to go with Mos Def. You know Black Thor from Philly. Yeah, I know. I know. I got it. Just throwing that out there, y that out there You ain't shit motherfucker Yo he was shit

Okay you going with Black Thor Okay No problem Keep it going Okay This is a good one Cat Williams Or D.L. Heavey

I gotta go with Lovable man I gotta go with Cat Williams or D.L. Heavey? I got to go with lovable, man. I got to go with Cat Williams. Yeah? Cat, yeah. You know, last time I was here, I mentioned Cat. You know, me and Cat started... Oh, that's right. Yeah, motherfucker.

But the thing about, we didn't even, you didn't even look at it as a big deal because you didn't even thought about what I said. It was more like me bigging him up. You know what I mean? Giving him his flowers. What exactly happened so we could do a flashback? What happened? Let me see

What exactly happened Alright so we was talking about I think we're comparing comedians And I think I mentioned like I think to be a great comedian You have to be lovable And I said Cat must

Cat has to be one of the most Lovable comedians Regardless how much crack Y'all think he smoke Or whatever All of a sudden When that came out This is how I call

Cat a crack head So that's out They said I caught crack Cat or crackhead Right So that's Right You only got the crackhead part Fuck the good thing I said Right You know so

Did y'all see each other I didn't mean it that way Yeah yeah We saw each other Okay So what happens When comedians see each other It's not like rappers right

You're not gripping up This shit right No no But the thing about The comedians We more like to Like I can fight in person, but I'll beat the shit

out of you online. Right, right. Wait, what? I mean, I'll go, I'll get back on the computer and whoop your ass, nigga. I see you in person,

I'm running. Behind that computer, nigga, I'm the shit. You know, so, and comedians, that's how we are.

We roast online. So when we see each other in person, we really don't want to see each other in person. Right. Because we'd rather just go back online. You know, so, and comedians, that's how we are. We roast online. So when we see each other in person, we really don't want to see each other in person. Right. Because we'd rather just go back online. Right, right, right. But the thing about it,

we saw each other in the middle of a TV show. Okay. On Wild N' Out. Oh. On Wild N' Out, where we on opposite teams. Oh. You know, and me, I didn't look at it as nothing, but I knew at that moment when I, prior to me seeing him,

I knew that he had an issue. He had a problem already. You and then um so on this show when we roasted each other all his roles was personal it was like on my career you know i ain't shit i ain't never do this i'm keeping my shit jokes and funny because i don't want people to know what happened i want them to know we were beefing you know my joke was all about him being short and perm hair. And his all like, you never did nothing. You never did a special. You never did this. All his was all degrading my career.

I let him live with that because he felt bad I called him a crackhead. But you never talked it out? No, no, we did. You know, because I think somebody had died because we lost so many celebrities in the last few years. And comedians.

I forgot who died. I can't remember. And then I made, you know, I was like, you know what, I made a tweet about, you know, when everybody dies so quick, I would hate to like, you know, something happened to one of us

and we beefing over something that's so simple. And then when I posted it, he reposted it. So then I knew that we squashed our little comedy beef. And comedians, you're like rappers, man. We beefing over something That's so simple And then when I posted it He reposted it Wow Said I knew that We squashed our little Comedy beef You're like rappers man

But then I heard He did a I heard he did a Diss track on me But it didn't come out yet That's what I heard I'm like nigga It's over and it's not

Good Stay tuned You know I'ma just get the kids From my school To whoop his ass If we start any more Okay

Alright Steve Harvey Or Cedric the Entertainer You know what I think Of course Steve is We probably

You know He started out You know Apollo Theater A lot of legendary stuff Even till now He's like You know

And Cedric Those guys found a way to keep themselves relevant all these years. It's tough. Make me a shot, motherfuckers. You got it?

Salud. It should be sure point. Goddamn. I'm going to turn light skin in a minute, motherfucking shit. Fill up in champagne,

too, just in case. I got it. I'm good. Yeah, yeah, come on, come on. That's how you do it. You trace it, you know what I'm saying? I'm tracing, look, I'm Come on. Come on. That's how you do it. You trace it. You know what I'm saying? I'm tracing. Look.

I'm tracing this with this. What is that? Ciroc and salsa water and then straight shot. Shit. Yeah, I got to go home to my wife after this. I got to stay a little sober. Okay. All right.

I got a new one? Okay, cool. See, this is how many shots I took. Yeah, but I have... Take control. All right, I got a new one? Okay, cool. See, this is how many shots I took. Yeah, boy, I have... Okay, take control. Wait, what's going on here? I can't get no... No. Oh, no!

He's not approving of Asia's Fate. What? He cannot bring the Andre. That is $4 a glass. Listen, man. That might be still apple cider. It didn't even convert to champagne.

Yeah. Give him that. He is not approved. Thanks a lot. I appreciate you. You ready? What's up? Jim Carrey or Will Ferrell? Jim Carrey. God damn. Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. Oh, man.

So many classics. I mean, Warfare, don't get it wrong. I mean, Wedding Crasher was probably one of my favorite movies, but Jim Carrey, so much classics. And he came from a black background with the whole little color. You can't go wrong with Jim Carrey, man. Okay. Lenny Bruce or Mike Epps? Lenny Bruce. Lenny Bruce. Mike Epps? Lenny Bruce.

Lenny Bruce. I got to go with Mike Epps. Mike Epps, you know, he's my dog. You know, we started around the same time, wasn't it? Our first movie was together.

We toured together. Mike Epps is my brother, man. I got to go with my brother. God damn it. Like that. Is that why you kind of sided with Mike Epps when he was beefing

with Kevin Hart Um did I side Oh you know what I'm trying to think exactly how I did I was more I think I was ass You know you be drunk He looking like

Word I think me and Mike Epps Had worked more together You know he's put money to like, I think me and Mike S had worked more together. You know, he's put money in my pocket. His tours did. So, you know, I guess you got to go with whoever's like, you know what I mean? Who you working with more, period, you know?

Kev went on that whole other level. Me and Kev never worked together since we did as comedians. You know, when we was comedians, when I was headlining, I would have him come and open up for me at times. You know, when I was headlining, I would have him come and open up for me at times.

You know, I put money in his pocket and he started. But, you know, since he went to that next level, you know, we really haven't

got a chance to work together. I've worked with Mike Epps from a couple of more movies and touring together. So I got to go, you know. I respect that.

I got to go with who you're breaking bread with. Okay. So Friday or next Friday I mean you know Just like saying

Coming to America I want to come to America too Mother sucker You know Yes yes You can't top one On anything Right

You know Coming to America too Is fucking Gangster Come on Come on You like it I loved it

Okay I appreciate that. We had Lanell here. She thought I was playing around. Because you got people like Charlamagne Tha God, who is my brother, and he was going on and saying how he didn't like it, and the thing is, I didn't think part one meant that much to him.

Maybe, you know, coming from amongst South Carolina, he probably couldn't relate to the East Coast garbage and banana pills and people really going to, you know, you know, fucking McDonald's. And McDonald's was kind of like a hangout back then. Like, McDonald's was like

being fly. If you had a quarter pounder, you had a Big Mac, that was like, that was like You were the man That was like That was like That was like your

Your gear I mean Part one is a classic Of all time But part two You know but two was Very funny Yes

You know and the thing The difference is We didn't allow two To go in theaters Where you just Totally sitting in the theater And paying complete attention To it

Because COVID Part two came out on COVID And it came out While you're home watching it. You go take a piss. You come back. You miss something. You know, you take a shit. You fuck your lady.

You bust a nut. You go to sleep. You know, it's all fucked up. Really? We have fucked up. I was very upset about this shit being sold on Amazon Prime. We didn't have a red carpet moment where we all got the chance to shine. And then everybody sit in the theater and pay complete attention to this movie.

Right. So, you know, if you and pay complete attention to this movie so you know if you can't pay attention to a movie you're not gonna you're gonna have little things but it was a great movie not better than one

right not supposed to be it's not supposed to be just like next Friday wasn't supposed to be better than Friday right you know so

like Bad Boys 4 is just gonna be Bad Boys 4 yeah it's gonna be Bad Boys 4 but you know what would make it great is somebody select the shit out of Will Bad Boys 4. Yeah, it's going to be Bad Boys 4. But you know what would make it great?

If somebody slapped the shit out of Will Smith in 4. That would make it really good. Chris Rock would come on in and slap the shit out of him. I'm telling you. If that's how the movie starts, Chris Rock just walks up and just slaps the shit out of him. That would be it. He got nothing to do with the movie and he walks off. Holy shit. Holy shit.

Holy shit. shit Holy shit We predicted it here You heard it first Yes You heard it first Okay last question Loyalty or respect? Another last question

For the interview Last question for this game Loyalty or respect I mean loyalty Is so important You know You gotta be loyal Okay I go, loyalty is so important. You know, you got to be loyal. Okay.

I go with loyalty. Okay, cool. What you go with? I go with both all the time. This is the time I do drink. Oh, you ain't. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Because I believe loyalty and respect goes together.

Salud, salute. Oh, shit. Come on, hey, you ain't drinking. Nigga, that was the... I answered it, motherfucker. No, I'm saying we finished the game. Woof. This nigga. We finished the game.

That's the reason why. We take a shot for that. So now, one of the craziest things. Whoa, okay. One of the craziest things is... I'm going to get robbed later on tonight. No, no, no. That's how niggas set you up

to get you drunk and then send a bitch to your room to take all your shit. What is my man's name, the basketball player? Oh. Giannis.

Giannis. Giannis. One of the biggest basketball players. They call him the Greek freak. But we know he's from Ghana, maybe.

No, Nigeria. Nigeria. Nigeria, yeah, yeah. maybe. No, Nigeria. Nigeria. Nigeria, yeah, yeah. Okay. His family's from Nigeria. I think he might have been, I'm not sure he was born in Greece or not. Okay.

So we got, can we show him his clip? Do we got his clip? Is his clip ready? Show him his clip, his own clip. His clip was first. Is this when you made up that dance or you been had this dance? Oh, no, I made it done before Yanni's was.

I made it before Yanni was playing in the league. Yeah. I made this dance up and... It look like the man, though. I introduced this dance to America in 2011, 2012. Do it again, do it again. And you in Ghana or Africa for sure? This is in Ghana.

This is at my house in Ghana. Okay. This is my home. This is when I just actually was in my last trip there. I just landed. And whenever I come home, they always have, like, the cultural ladies come out and greet me the right way. Okay. Now we're going to show you the other clip.

Do you know how to say his last name? Where was you at when you seen it? Is that it? Well, this was sent to me. Yeah, that was sent to me because, you know. And the thing about it, I've had Landry, who was playing for Cleveland at that time, did the dance also. Landry did the dance. What about the Fortnite one?

You didn't see them in the Fortnite one, Sonny? That's literally it. Well, he know that. He know this. No, the Fortnite one got the dude looking like this. Oh, yeah, the Fortnite. No, the Fortnite is him. Yanni's doing the dance.

Okay. You know, I came up with that dance I mean I introduced I introduced the dance To America On a show I did On YouTube

Called Black Friday So Black Friday Was a show That was given to me By Walter Latham Who was the creator Of Kings of Comedy

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I produces like $5 million each. So these producers go create your own network content. So Walter Latham got one. Shaq's company got one. And then I think Puffy might have got one. And I'm not sure the other ones. As far as Black people, like four or five Blackam got one. Shaq's company got one. And then I think Puffy might have got one, and I'm not sure who the other one is. As far as black people, like, four or five black people got it. So Walter held his money.

He said, okay, who's hot online? You know, that's when I was really hot on Twitter at that time. That's when Instagram was not even that popping yet. I was hot on Twitter roasting niggas every day. He said, okay, let me get Mike a show. He said, Mike, what do you want to do? I said, you know, people like current events. I said, let me just, and I'm good at clowning people.

Let me do a show where I make fun of everything that happened that week. Like, if a celebrity fucked up that week, let me roast that nigga, and they all get a dance. That's not when you had the Donald Trump wig, right? No, that was more later. Donald Trump was, that's nigga news. was more later Donald Trump was as nigger news Nigger news, my bad This is 2011-12

Okay, cool, cool So look up the show called Black Friday I did like three seasons of that Okay It was my first time actually making money online Walter actually paid me $50,000 a year And I'm like, I could make money just being on shit online Wow

So it was a good feeling You know But yeah So pretty much I make fun of whoever Fucked up that week I'm like let's say If Drake got caught

Fucking some bitch On Black Friday this week Punk bitch Drake Fuck the bitch Drake You got the he bitch dance And I called it The he bitch dance

And I did my dance That's how it got popular That's how I started The he bitch dance, and I called it a he bitch dance, and I did my dance. That's how it got popular. That's how I started, you know. The he bitch dance? He bitch. Like a he, H-E, and then bitch together. He bitch, okay. Yeah, for doing some he bitch shit.

Anybody that fucked up was a he bitch to me. He bitch. So if you look up Black Friday, that's what I did. And everybody got to dance at the end of the roast. After I roast this person, they got to dance. Right. That's when I introduced the dance to America.

You know, so every, athletes have done it during touchdown, you know, and then I continue to show on all the way till now.

Right. You know, and I think when I, when he first did the dance, I think his brother, you know, hey, look,

my brother did the dance and that's when I got that video. The one on the same team with him? Or the other one? Probably the other one. you know, hey, look, my brother did a dance and that's when I got that video. The one on the same team with him? Or the other one? Probably the other one. I'm not sure

which one it is. Maybe the youngest. You know, and then I ran into him and said, hey, you know, the brother that I hear, we're big fans.

If he ever in Milwaukee and want to come to a game, let us know. Then I ran into them at All-Star Week in Cleveland, I want to say. That was just last year.

Last year I ran into them and introduced them to his mother. I met their mom. She was a fan. Everybody fucks with me. And I remember when Giannis came on the field to play, he looked at me and did the dance in my face. I'm like, okay, show him respect for the dance. Fast forward to like fucking a month ago.

November. Show him respect for the dance We're gonna fast forward to like Fucking a month ago November November Fast forward to November Somebody sent me That's what I'm saying Pull that up Sonny you sent it to me Yeah put up That's the video that

Yeah yeah man Go to Fortnite 1 Fortnite 1 Yeah go to Fortnite 1 And it's like you in the background Oh I didn't know I was in the background It's what it felt like to me. It almost looks exactly like that.

Oh, my bad, my bad. Sorry. Sorry about that. Hold on. No, no, no. I'm not in the video. I'm not on a Fortnite video. No, it's not me.

No. Video game. It's just a video game. That's all. It's not me. Let me see. Let me see. That's the way it shows on there.

Like the characters. Yeah. Similar to that. My thing is is here's the thing with dances i don't think you could copyright a dance right but it's a matter of loyalty and showing respect to the person you got to dance for that's all so i have a friend um named cousin skita who dances he's a guy that jumped out the car he always always wears the same shorts outfit. Yeah, I know who he does. And he does all the time. Oh, the guy from Africa. Yeah, Africa.

He's from Ghana also. He wears no socks. No, he wears socks and shoes and shorts. Same outfit every time. Yeah, same outfit. Same outfit. In fact, Cardi B

was the first one that posted him back, I mean, three, four years ago. So I think DaBaby, who's, shout out to DaBaby, really good guy. You know, I think DaBaby was who's, shout out to DaBaby, really good guy. You know, I think DaBaby was doing something that had to do with Fortnite, and it was going to use this

particular dance. And DaBaby is like, okay, that dance belongs to Cousin Skeeter. What? And Fortnite cut Cousin Skeeter a check. It's just that simple. That's all this nigga had to do was say, hey, you know, I like this dance, but it's not my dance. You know, I got this dance from Michael Black not my dance. You know, I got this dance

from Michael Black saying, let's cut Michael check. Right. You didn't even have to write me the check. Write this shit to the mom prophet.

Let's get kids in school. Let's get kids in school, right. That's the right thing to do. But nothing. Next thing I know, my shit is on Fortnite and I'm like,

that shit is not cool. So then I was like, you know what? Nobody pulled it up. I swear to God. You gotta see the footage. Yes. You gotta see the dance. Just go to... The dude next to see the footage. Yes. You got to see the dance.

Just go to... The dude next to him looked just like you. I thought that that was the whole thing. Who sent it to me? Was it you, Sonny? Yes, I sent it to you,

but... I'll go to my IG and get the shit for you in a second. Yeah, it's on, you know... It's on IG. Post it. But the one that you posted, I thought that was the Fortnite.

I hit it. Okay, well, it's right next to each other. Hit it. Okay, yeah, that's it. All right, cool. That's him again. That's him doing it. All right, all right, all right.

But, like, almost, like, animated kind of. Yeah, okay. Which is very... All right, so now you reach out to him because you have brothers. Yeah, I reach... You know, I DM them. I don't have his personal number, but I do have his brother's number cause the brother gave me his number

the day he introduced me to his mom and everything so I text him I said you know I kept it real nice hey man I think somebody

you know just hit me up I saw my dance on there I appreciate the dance but motherfucker what's going on he just ignored it read it and ignored it

you know DM him nothing you know you know sometimes when you start like you know it's like it you know dm him nothing you know you know sometimes when you start like um you know it's like when you're dating a girl and you break up with her and you're like hey how you doing baby just calling to see how you doing she don't reply okay bitch where the

fuck you at all right you know what motherfucker you don't pick up my car i'm gonna kill you it started escalate to that with me i'm like you know to me i'm like okay hey what's going on everything good and you know i got my, I'm like, okay, hey, what's going on? Everything good? You know, y'all got my dance? Nothing. Motherfucker, somebody's doing my dance. And they just kept going. And then, you know, I'm like, I'm so disappointed in him because we're from the same continent. You know what? I don't mean want, just acknowledge where you got it

from because at the end of the day, the white niggas at Fortnite don't know who belongs to what. They have no clue. Did they steal Soulja Boy shit too? I have no idea. But I'm like A lot of times They don't know So it is your job

If they call you Because they know you You be like Hey man This belongs to this guy Cut this nigga a check It ain't gonna It's not gonna hurt you

No way possible It's just loyalty And showing respect To where you got it from And that's the only That's the problem I have with Giannis You know like

You could've just been like Hey you know This is Michael Blackson's dance. You know, let's give him something for his nonprofit. I don't even need the money, nigga. I'm rich. Give it to the same amount of nonprofits. Let's take a shot for that.

But you not even need the money. Just the principles. Just the principles. That's the nigga. Just the principles. So I can pay my principal at my fucking school, my nigga. That's Andre, right? That ain't Ace, right?

All right, the bubbles is different. The bubbles is definitely different. Yeah, so I was... The bubbles on the top. You were disappointed. There's stuff going up top. I was disappointed, man. Yeah, because that's a

real big corporation, Fortnite. I've never personally played Fortnite. Have you? No. No. I don't play it.

I don't. My kids, even my kids went on there. They're like, oh, your dad, somebody's doing your dance. You know? Everybody was saying, I didn't know people were sending this to me.

And then they would go on his page and like, yo, you know, why y'all stealing Michael Blackson's name? My fans are hardcore. I don't know who's a hardcore fan. My fans are the beehive. My fans go in. The beehive. The different beehive. The Blackson beehive.

And they coming at you. Nigga hive. Yeah, yeah. And they coming at him. And he didn't respond? He didn't respond. He just ignored it. That's even worse. You know what I mean? If you saw him tomorrow, would you start

a conversation? Probably smack the shit out of him. I'm just playing, man. That nigga is 70 feet tall. I'll go online and beat the shit out of him. So I see him, I'm going to go the other way and go back online. I just saw this punk bitch nigga. I'm going to fuck him up right now.

I fight online, man. Fuck, I look like fighting this nigga in person. Meet me online, motherfucker. But like you said, it's just respect. Yeah, it's respect. A lot of people, they used to call me, because I used should never clear my records like if i had if i had like the authority and a young artist wouldn't declare um or do my

record i'd be like no i just didn't want to i was like a old hater that's how they categorized but it's because of things just like that it's because if sometimes if you don't say no and an old hater. That's how they categorized me. But it's because of things just like that. It's because if sometimes if you don't say no and your image is just open, someone just come and just take your shit.

Do you regret not having some shit like that? Like I said, look, you said you can't patent it then. You can't patent. I don't think you could. But like I say,

if you know, when you know where you got it from, it's just showing respect and principle. You know, that's what it is. It actually shows who he is, because that's why he feels so strong about it.

Because if it was him in reverse, he would have went to the person, acknowledged it. Yes, that's it. And he don't need the money. Even with the money, hey, Micah, you know, this is your dance. Somebody would do that.

This is your dance. Fortnite ain't trying to cut you no check, but I let him know nothing He just like jacked the dance Fuck this black bitch It is exact by the way He knew what he was doing The nigga ain't not a dancer

But he like my dance Cause he's done my dance In front of me At the stadium A lot of people have done my dance. So yeah, man, I was more disappointed, especially from your African brother. You know the struggles.

Just let me tell you, the hardest thing... Taking that Greek shit too far. Yeah, too fucking far. This ain't my fucking... This ain't my fat Greek wedding, motherfucker, okay? This is real life, my nigga. This is my fucking dance. Ain't over yet.

Nigga, you can still cut the check. Hey. my fucking dance. Ain't over yet. Nigga, you can still cut the check. Hey. Make it right. What's the name of the school, by the way? The Michael Blackson Academy. That's right.

The foundation is Michael Blackson Foundation. Motherfucker, go ahead, send some money. Foundation's open, man. It's open. Just give it to the,

take care of the school, man. Giannis, do the right thing. I'm a big fan of yours. Big fan of yours. Trust Louis Orla. When he won that championship, I was so happy. He deserved it.

I'm like another African. You know what is... The thing about America... I didn't know what that was. You are not... I don't care where you're from. Whether you're from England or Africa or Asia, you're not a star.

I forgot to say Haiti, please. Where? Haiti. Where Africa or Asia, you're not a star. Where? Haiti. Wherever you're from, you're not a star until you feel like America and know who you are. So it's very hard to come in this country and make it. You know what I mean? He came here from another place and he made it. I made it. Nigga, show some respect. It's hard enough as it is for us coming from other places and

making it here. Cut the check, my nigga. And every other... Yeah. It was a lot of brothers at the World Cup this year. I did not realize how many brothers placed. Definitely.

And it's so funny you mentioned, you know, just how everything is coming back around. You know, I think in this world, every race will have their chance to become great. When I came to America in the late 80s, it was, anybody get fucked by Africans? We was African booty scratches.

We was booty scratches. Now, y'all got almost the number one genre in the music. Exactly, man. Afro motherfucking beats. That Afro booty scratch was all right. And not only that, the real football, we just, y'all don't downgrade our shit, call our shit soccer, motherfucker. But we are the original football.

You play the shit with your foot, okay? American football, you throw the fucking shit with your arm. It's called soccer. No, nigga, okay? Y'all only kick the ball when y'all kicking on fucking field goal, my nigga. We kick the ball all the time. Hey, man, you can't say that. Okay, all right.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too. You're right, motherfucker. Shout out to Philly. But, you know, while we're on the music thing, and Afrobeat is taking over the world. In fact, I started up my own management company called Michael Blackstone Management. And I got one of my first Ghana artists here.

Yo, Gambit, come and say hi to my guy. Yo, you look like a Ghana artist. You look like a Ghana artist. All right, manit, come and say hi to my guy. Yo, you look like a Ghana artist. You look like a Ghana artist. Yo, man. That's it, man. Hey, take a shot. You're going to suck it.

He don't drink, man. He don't drink? Nah, he stay focused, man. He stay focused. He in America, man. An artist that doesn't drink. That's great. You know, the thing about it, like, you know, I went and I was trying to, like, you know, find, because Ghana, Nigeria went and I was trying to, like, you know, find,

because Ghana, Nigeria has all the artists. I mean, I could name 10 niggas in Nigeria that are stars. Davido's from Nigeria. Davido, Wizkid, Burner Boy, you know, you got Techno, you got Kiss Daniel, on and on. Nigeria's like the New York. New York, yeah, it's like the New York of music. You know, Ghana, on the other hand, and Ghana's becoming like,

like we said, the Dubai of Africa. And I can only count like four people from Ghana. You know, you think about like Shata Wale. You probably never heard of Shata Wale, have you? Yeah, I heard of him.

You heard of him? Yeah, I'm right. You have Shata Wale? You gotta count yourself because you put out music before too. I did put out music. We'll get to that later, motherfucker.

You know, we know. We have Shata Wale. We have Stoneboy. We have Sako D. Sako D's a rapper. And then we have Black Sheriff, who's a rapper. You know, we know. We have Shatta Waller, we have Stoneboy, we have Sako D. Sako D's a rapper, and then we have Black Sheriff, who's a rapper. You know, we only have four people in the whole country. I'm like, let me make that fifth star. That's Gamble.

You gonna say something to them, Gamble? I'm not gonna lie, man. It's a pleasure being here, and I come bearing gifts, you know. All right. All right. I got some for the whole team, yeah. All right. Cool.

Trying to put my map under. This right here is from Gamble to the world, man. Okay. Okay. It's a Jamaican flag, man. A Jamaican flag. Come on, man. You're gonna see this flag a lot, nigga.

Come on, man. Let me sign this. I want to sign this. Sign it, man. Let me put my sign in. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah! That's it, man.

That's it. That's it, man. Look at my- Wagwan. Wagwan. Wagwan. Yeah. We outside, man. That's it, man. That's it. That's it, man. Look at my... Wagwan. Wagwan. Wagwan. Yeah. We outside, man. That's it.

You got to... You putting out your single. Tell me what your single. Tell me about the single. Yeah, so I'm coming out with a single probably next month called Cut Soap featuring Goya Mena. Cut Soap? Yeah, Cut Soap.

Like cut the soap? Cut Soap, yeah. And actually the dance for the challenge of the song is his time. Okay. Yeah, it's a Hebrew dance. Okay.

So he did a single with Goya. Goya's the guy that sang the popular song. You want to bamba, you want to chill with the big boys. Right, right. So he did a single with him. So congratulations. Keep doing your thing, man. Yeah, bro.

Yo. Cut soap. Is that joy? Let me see that flag, man. Let me see that big flag. Give him that flag. Come on, man. Look at that thing, man. Let me see that big flag. Give him that flag. Come on, man. Let me throw it over here, man.

Yeah! That's it. So we spoke about Akon earlier, but Akon said that Africa itself would be the most powerful nation in the world. Continent. Africa is a continent. Continent. What public school did you go to? You went to Miami Public School?

What public school did you go to? No, no, I'm from New York. Oh, New York. I am. Deadass I'm from New York. Oh, New York. Deadass. All the African Americans, Queens, New York. If all the African Americans moved back to Africa, and he said that Africa would be the most powerful. Oh, definitely.

You think so? Oh, they'll just be left with hockey players and punters. Right, right. I mean, you know, especially around the time, during like the 2020 era when George Floyd got killed. Yeah. And we felt like, black people felt like America don't have no love for black people. You know, we all talked about it.

What if we all just got the fuck out of here and went back to Africa? America, where would America be? Right. You know what would make America great? Different people. All of us. For sure. The cultures.

The different cultures would make America great. You know, so there's no way where there should be any kind of racism because we different cultures is what make America great. So there's no way where there should be any kind of racism because we, foreigners is what make this country what it is. You know what I'm saying?

We all are foreigners. I've seen an African brother in France and I said to him, what's up my brother? And he said, you not my brother. Oh no.

You know why? Because you called that nigga an African British guy. No, I've seen this before where I've seen an African brother and just gave him like you know

the brother found like you're not my brother then he's like oh shit you my brother man

no no no because you know you know what's the funny shit I said to my friend the other day I said as

Americans sometimes we don't understand that other cultures look at us all as Americans like they don't sometimes that other cultures look at us all as Americans. Like, sometimes they don't look at the black American,

the white American, the Chinese American. They just, we open our mouths, and we're in, you know, Düsseldorf, Germany, and they're like, It's fucking American. American motherfucker. And that's what makes America. That's the racism in America.

If Americans actually knew that if you go anywhere else and you open your mouth, and they knew you from America. Same thing, even when I go back home. When I go to Ghana and I talk regular like this, they look at me as a fucking American. Wow. You know? And

that's what makes America great, man. All of us, different color, different races, different looks. And we know, and we come here and we make this country what it is today. Right. We got a real good question. I got a real good question for you. We know Haitians are Africans.

Oh, definitely. But where do Haitians really come from? Are we from Ghana? No, you're from Africa. Are we from Nigeria? Where did the Haitians come from? How are you asking him your history? Well, you know what?

We know we're free to everybody. We know we're free to slaves. That part we know. You understand? But where are we from in Africa? A lot of the slaves, as far as I know, I don't know too much. I came to America and they didn't teach me.

I came to America and I didn't learn too much on the history. Even when I was a, you know, and that's one thing I'm going to try to do in my school is teach these kids African history. A lot of them, I don't tell them, they don't even want us to learn our own history. So teach them their history So they know where they came from

You know But I know as far as I know You know A lot of the slave Came from the west From the coast And that's the west Like you know

You talking about like You could be anywhere from like Ghana That's where y'all from right I'm an east coast nigga East coast yeah We won't investigate you motherfucker But you know

You from the west Like you know, you're from the West. You know, you're talking about like Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, that whole coast. You know, if you took one boat, you go past, you kind of see them all. And that's where most of the slaves came from, you know? So, you know what? I'll give you from Ghana. Four Andres, please. You come to my village, man.

You from Ghana, my nigga, okay? No, listen. Get him right there. He's from Ghana. You're to my village, man. You from Ghana, my nigga, okay? Yo, listen, get right there. He's from Ghana. Y'all slide, baby. My friend Hollywood Hino, he been trying to get me to eat African food. Yeah. And every time

I get close to eat African food, I see a clip of you. I see a clip of you going I see a clip of you going. And I'll be like, I can't do it. First of all, people always talk about why I'm eating with my hands. How do you spell spoon? S-P-O-O-N.

Five fingers, my nigga. This is my spoon right here. I like to eat with my hands, too. Your food tastes so much better. No, it's not that. It's the faces you make. You be like this. Oh, you don't fucking lie.

And then be looking like, oh, yeah. He's not helping. It's the best. African food is the best, man. Yes, I'm from Africa in my heart. Right. You be fucking it up. Now, if I go to the African place and I pull out a fork, I stop a lot. You know what I use for a fork?

Pizza, motherfucker. I'm just playing. I don't fuck with no fork. But, you know, Africa is like, for some reason, we just feel like the food tastes better with your natural hands. Right. You know, it's just a cultural thing. Some motherfuckers don't wash their hands and shit. And it make the food even taste better, my nigga.

I mean, sometimes we were eating a big bowl and everybody dig their hands in and take turns. Do you see this? It's this one Instagram commercial of the guy, he's sitting there, he got the food, and then his friend leans over and his friend grabs some food. And he's so mad at him that he licks his own shit over that shit. Oh, yeah, man.

We take our food very personal, man. You got to get permission to eat my fucking food. You can't just dig in here. I'm going to bite your fucking fingers, my nigga. He licked his finger. No, you're not tasting my food, motherfucker. So even though y'all serving family style, it's not family style. Thanks for the food.

I promise you, every time I see a clip, because I mean, it's close. And I like the bread. What is that? It's not bread. It's foo-foo. No, it's not bread. It's foo-foo.

Is that dough? Please don't answer this. You do have never ate African food in your life. You are American Haitians. No, we eat dumplings. We make dumplings. It's't answer this. You do have never ate... You are American Haitians. No, we eat dumplings. We make dumplings. It's almost like that. Like, dumpling has no real taste. Fufu itself has no real taste. It's a different soup

you eat it with. Fufu. Damn, it sounds good. So everybody makes different fufu, you know? Okay. And then... You got garlic in the fufu? Fufu has no real taste. It's really made from, like, cassava. And cassava has no real taste. But it's a from like cassava and cassava has no real taste. But it's a different soup you eat it with.

The soup is where the flavor is. This is when y'all boil it up? Well, boil up is just the fufu but the soup is where you dig it in. You know, the different soup. That's how they do it.

That's how you got scared of people like that. God, I wish you had something here right now. I'm hungry right now in this competition. And then... Where's the okra stew?

I don't know if you're ready for fufu today. No, not today. I ain't ready for fufu today. No, not today. I ain't ready for fufu. I got to build myself up for some fufu. You're going to start with some Ghana jollof rice. Jollof. So jollof is like our fried rice.

It's been a big competition in all of Africa on who has the best jollof. Ghana is beefy with Nigeria, you know, and then Senegal is involved, Liberia, Sierra Leone. They're all having This big rice beef On who make the best jelaf Jelaf is just our version

Of fried rice Okay You know So it's like But yes So you know We don't have a jelaf competition How about the acts

How about the acts So if you had to Compare The rices Yes To any other island Niggas said the rices Go ahead

You know That's all That's all islands, right? Right. You know, Dominican feel like they got the best rice and peas. Puerto Rican feel like they got the best rice and peas.

Colombian, Haitians. Jamaicans got the rice and peas. Jamaicans got rice and peas. If you had to compare Africa rice and peas in its totality, you'd think it would destroy it. Don't be biased. I'm not going to be biased.

And then give a part two. Who's in second place? Okay. Just in case you are. I did host a jell-o competition one time, and I tasted all the jell-o's, at least five different jell-o's. Okay. And to be honest with you, Akon is going to be very happy

because Senegal had the best jell-o rice to me. Yeah. Ghana, don't be mad at me. And to be honest with you, Akon gonna be very happy because Senegal had the best jalobs rice to me. Yeah, Ghana, don't be mad at me. Please, I still love you. Yes. I hope your niggas let me back in.

Please. But Senegal was just so... After Africa. Huh? Anywhere else. Jamaica. After Senegal. Who would be a part two

because you've been here? I'm gonna give it to my home. I'm gonna give it to Ghana. You know, don't get it wrong. You know, sometimes it's all about who makes the jelaf. Like I've had some Nigerian jelaf who was made by like a grandmother. So it had the original flavor and taste and it was really, really good. You know, just like, so it all depends on who makes it.

Who makes that jollof? You know, but right now I think as much as I hate, I got to give the synagogue has the best jollof. And you heard it from me. I'm just a bitch ass nigga. Rice and beans, man. So you, you, him and Akon has a black off. Who do y'all think went?

Oh, come on, man. Akon. You know what? If, if complexion was a time. Akon has a black off, who do y'all think win? Oh, come on, man. Akon. You know what? If complexion was a time... Akon. Akon is before. 24 hours. He is 10.50 p.m. I'm 10.50.

I'm 11.30 p.m. Akon is motherfucking midnight. And let's be clear Let's just be clear Were Akon's hairpiece These are 1201 You gotta add one to that Why he didn't go to Africa

To get his hairpiece He went to Pakistan Who go to Pakistan To get a hairpiece Yo Google where he went He went somewhere Nobody knows Like yeah Like the girls don't even Go there for surgery I'm like Akon Yo, Google where he went. He went somewhere nobody knows. Like, yeah.

Oh, man. The girls don't even go there for surgery. I'm trying to be good. I'm like, Akon, why are you doing it? What is that? Yes. Just get a body, my nigga. Yeah, yeah.

There's nothing wrong with body. Look at you. You bald. That's right. I can grow my hair out. You bald. Bald niggas are in. But he got three different haircuts.

He got a haircut right here. Yeah, he got a hair cut. In the middle. In the middle. In the middle, he got. But he got three different haircuts. He got a haircut right here. Yeah, he got a hair cut. In the middle. In the middle. In the middle, he got. Then he got a beard. He went to Turkey. Hold on.

This nigga, he just rolling blunts. What is this nigga? He's been rolling. It's like 20 weed. 20 weeds? Who's going to smoke all of this? I am. It's reverse of this It's reverse slavery It's reverse slavery

It's reverse slavery Yo But um Akon went to Turkey Niggas don't even go to Turkey For turkey And he went for hair plants Yeah Akon look a hot man He's like an old young nigga With that fucking haircut for turkey. And he went for hair plants.

Yeah, Akon look a hot man. He's like an old young nigga with that fucking haircut. Yeah, because his hair looks like a 16-year-old's hair. And what's crazy is his waves is spinning. It just look crazy. Oh, you gotta be 16.

It's like, yo, come on, skip a wave or something. Stevie Wonder hooked that nigga up. Stevie Wonder hooked him up. Oh, my God. Yeah, I seen it. I was like, this, come on, skip a wave or something. Stevie Wonder hooked that nigga up. Stevie Wonder hooked him up. Oh, my God. Yeah, I saw it and I was like, this shit is over here. It's hard. It's like a weave on top of a weave, my nigga.

Nigga, your lace front is in the back, my nigga. I'm not going to be allowed into Southern God fucking with your niggas, man. Hey, you gave him the into the city I can't live in Akon City because of you motherfuckers he gave electricity for real that's a beautiful thing I'm not sure if it's complete

yeah he's working on it right have you talked to him he was supposed to be here we couldn't get up and then he went to New York and then that's when he did the interview

where he said that Africa could be you know know, one of the most powerful. I mean, it's on its way. I mean, especially Ghana. Everybody went to Ghana this year. What happened in Ghana? What was happening? What they're having is... You have Freaknik out there or something?

Why don't everyone go? Well, they're doing like an affronation of the year of their return. You know, Ghana is one of the countries where the slaves were taken out of we know that's where the slaves came from most of them

most it's like I was on the coast so we had some from Ghana I got Ghana yeah so people are going back you know and Ghana is becoming

the place to be and thank God it's home for me in fact you heard you know that Road Trip is going to be filming they're, you heard You know, that Road Trip Is going to be filming

They're going to Ghana this year The movie Road Trip Is it what? Road Trip with Girl Strip My bad, Girl Strip Girl Strip I was about to say Y'all sitting there

Tom Arnold and them No, no It's Girl Strip You know, with Tiffany Haddish And J.D. Pickett And they all Not Tom No, not Road Trip, my nigga

Yeah, yeah, Road Trip Road Trip Road Trip Fucking Fuck road trip my nigga yeah yeah road trip road trip road trip fucking fuck you my nigga you don't fuck me all up and expect me

to fuck you you said road trip I meant girl strip motherfucker I'm sorry I'm supposed to tell you to connect with the black

go ahead Ghana is where all the big dick niggas are I'm from a family of big dick niggas. That's why I feel like I'm from Ghana.

You are. You put me in the East Africa. I don't like... See, in Ghana, we don't get pussy. We got stomach, my nigga. When last time you got some stomach,

motherfucker? God damn it. Go ahead. Yeah, we give out blood infections, motherfucker. So all the women, girl strip is going there

to get a blood infection, my nigga. So, yeah. Shout out to Ghana. Tiffany Haddish. The whole cat. They said everybody's coming back. Everybody's coming. And I heard the trip will be to Ghana.

You got to take the shot. You can't bring it back. Why? What did I do to take the shot? No, because you went like that. Once you go like that, you committed, nigga. You tagged. You in.

You in. You in. Well, we're not Guyanese. We're, um, he has the name. No Well, we're not Guyanese. He has the name. No, because we're from Ghana. We're not Guyanese. We are... Guyanese.

Guyanese. Guyanese, yeah. Or some say Guyanese. It all depends how you pronounce it. We're Guyanese. Ooh. Y'all don't even need coats. Like a Canadian, y'all ain't get it? Ah, fuck Y'all don't even need coats. Like a Canadian,

y'all ain't get it? Ah, fuck y'all. You know, the funny thing about it, when I built the school, all of a sudden, I became like this hero in my whole continent.

Right. And it was like, you know, Mikey, she went for president. I'm like, and then I saw all the presidents and all his homies

that all had ball heads. I'm like, I'm good, my nigga. Oh, the president all got ball. I'm like, y' good, my nigga. What? Oh, the president all got bald. I'm like, y'all stressed too hard. I'm not going to be president. I'm just going to build school.

Remember when Borat came? Uh-huh. The first year, he had nothing. Then the next year, he was smoking Newports. He had gray hair. His S-curl was burnt out. You ever had an S-curl? We all did, man.

But you know what? When I had the S-curl, I only kept it in there just very short time. So just to bring my hair out. I didn't go all the way curly and turn into like no. What year was that? Was it 89, 90, 91? Washington? I mean, New Jersey?

Well, my last year in Jersey, I did get it. But I got it just to like, you got it just to have a little baby hair. All the niggas got... Was it inspired by The Last Dragon? No, what was The Last Dragon? Yeah, them two brothers that dance, right? Yes, yes, yes. Yes, but we all had it.

You had ass care? I had ass care. See, you... No, I got a perm. My sisters would put a perm in my hair. That's why your shit fucked up now. Now look... You can tell I can grow my shit.

You can tell you gave up a long time ago. I had to ask her. They turned me out. They messed me up. But my mother said, nigga, you Puerto Rican. Your shit girls anyway. I didn't know. I had to ask her.

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And what happened to your waves? They just fell off. They just went away. I'm holding it to mine. So you worked on Shaq's live comedy.

Yeah, Shaq All-Star Comedy Jam. And you worked on Puff Daddy's I did Puff But Puff Daddy was way before That was like Puffy was like Oh my god What year is that

Oh Fucking Five But I watched both of them And one thing I noticed About both of them You both asked for your payment Up front

With both of them Yes I did You didn't trust Shaq Or Puff I don't trust none of them niggas When I did Shaq When I trust Shaq I don't trust none of them niggas When I did Shaq When I did Shaq That nigga was on a different team

Every year I said nigga I don't know where you gonna be next year I need my money now Motherfucker He used to get traded a lot Yeah He used to go to

He used to go to the game With his suitcase Cause he don't know Where the fuck he gonna go Nigga went from Fucking LA To Miami To Cleveland He used to go to the game with his suitcase because he don't know where the fuck he was going to be. Nigga, I went from fucking LA to Miami to Cleveland. Nigga, where you going to be? Phoenix.

I'm like, where you going to be next year? Punk Beach. I need my money now. Take your jacket one year. Oh, yeah, that was All-Star. That was All-Star. Yeah, that was All-Star. He took my jacket.

You know, I was, like I said, since I've been roasted as a kid with my clothing, man, everything I wear now is different, original. You know, I took a, they lit my ass up when I had no money. So now, most of my money is spent on wardrobe, man. Wow. I'm making up for everything I never had. I remember me being jealous of you, Mike Epps. I forget who else.

I want to say the vegan theater out here. And I came to see y'all. You had liquor. You had weed. You had everything that rappers have that just didn't have no violence. And I can remember being like, I wish somebody was just fighting right now.

Like, they had everything that looked like a rap concert to the T. Weed, liquor, females, whatever. But they had peace. And I can remember just me sitting back and I remember me being used to that. Like I'm used to, if 30,000

people were in the building, every 30 minutes there's a mush, there's a push, there's a mush there's a push yeah not with comedy man a drink thrown like i was i remember being so used to that i think mike epps invited me and i wanted to see mike epps and then i think you were going on before him so i went and i watched your show i said what's up to you when i watched your show and came and then you came out and I remember like, oh, so nobody's going to

say nothing wrong to him? Like nobody. And then I remember Mike Epps doing the same thing and then him coming off stage and I'm like, nobody's going to do like nothing? And that's how traumatized I am in hip hop

is that I'm used to rocking the show and if an incident don't happen, I don't even feel like I rocked the show. Yeah, he's very good. And what's crazy about y'all is y'all get to see the laughter, and that's y'all stabbing. That's y'all

version of, okay, you know, this guy got jumped in the front row. And I remember that day. That was the day I was like, I was really jealous of comedians. I was like, there's nothing different from us. Our grind is the same. You know, you can have a hype man,

but you got to go out there by yourself. And I remember just saying, damn, man, these guys got a really dope life. Like when you make it to the level that you at. Yeah, now comedy is like, you know, God, it's a gift from god first of all and people we we're in a era where is people just want to laugh you know want to come out and laugh and it's so crazy how this is something as just telling jokes and i went the other night to

go watch chris rock and dave chappelle these guys are in the arena with like 20,000 people. I'm like, I never thought this comedy thing could get us to this level. And it'd be night two, right? You got your shot ready? Why? Why do you need my shot, my nigga? Because of comedy. Comedy, man.

Because of comedy, goddammit. Nothing like comedy, man. Nothing like comedy, man. Nothing like comedy. And I want you to finish your story, right? No, no, no. And, you know, it was just amazing. Yeah, continue continue amazing to see

a room filled like i you know i did i did miami this weekend and sold out like five shows and what's your biggest show huh biggest show the biggest the biggest thing i you know i did a one tour i did one tour called a no cap tour that's know, we had like me and DC Young Fly, you know, D-Ray Davis, Carlos Miller. We had those guys. We had guys that were like hot online. This was just last year. We selling out like 15, 20,000 seat venues. It felt so good that, damn, these people come out to see us.

We not no college graduates. We not doctors and lawyers. We just telling jokes. From $100 a show. From $100 a show. From $100 a show. You know, and I'm like, damn, this is amazing. You know, and you look at that,

you look at the Kings of Comedy. Those guys, same thing with the Bernie Mac. Them guys was doing arenas. Right. You know, and it's a great feeling to see how much, it's just,

the era we're in is so bad and we lose so many lives. You know, people want to come out and laugh and have, people want to have a good time, man. All that violent shit, just play the fuck out. Did you see how much

Beyonce tickets is? Yeah, Beyonce tickets very expensive. I'm like, God damn, are you twerking for us after the show,

motherfucker? I don't know, I don't know, but I just know, I'm on Twitter and I see people online complaining. And I see all of Jay-Z's boys saying,

we work for Jay-Z, not Beyonce. But you know, at the end of the day, they can complain all they want. They're going to buy them tickets. They love Beyonce. They're going to pay the tickets. They're going to buy the tickets. It's just that simple.

If you want to see her, you're going to spend their money. And hey, she's been putting in work for a very long time. That's right. I mean, my tickets are not that cheap, but I've been putting in work For a very long time That's right You know I mean my tickets Are not that cheap But I'm like I've been putting in work For a while Right You know

And um You gotta pay for quality That's right Period That's right Pay for quality right Hell yeah Pay for quality

I'm gonna go with Tomorrow to say Let's take a shot for that How did she get here Yeah come on We got people Save me I don't care how much

you got to try to get me drunk. I'm going to still be myself. No, it's okay. It's okay. You trying to make me start snitching on niggas. Fuck you. No,

it was one famous moment, right, where I always questioned like the comedic stance, right? You know, I always, you know,

a lot of comedians is my friends, people I speak to. And it's always something like, you know, when 9 of comedians, it's my friends, people I speak to. And it's always something like, you know, when 9-11 happens or something like that. It's y'all job to actually find something funny out of that, right? It is.

But when it comes to personal, it's like, you know, one thing that I always, like, question was the time with Kevin Hart, right? We believe Kevin Hart was really in love. He really loves this woman. And we all know that whatever happened, but you had made jokes at that very time. I did.

Do you regret that? No, I don't. I'm a comedian, man. I don't regret a motherfucking thing. God damn it. No, it was, you know, I didn't make fun of him cheating because, you know, nobody's perfect.

I mean, we've all fucked up. I'm sure you have. You know what I'm saying? Don't throw me in this motherfucker. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. He said, come out, Dory. We going. We all

made mistakes. You made mistakes. Mistakes. I'm going home tonight, nigga. You know what? I didn't make fun of him cheating. I made fun of how he cheated. I made fun of how I felt like he snitched on himself.

Because at that time when he talked about it, nobody didn't know yet. I'm like, nigga, nobody know. Don't say nothing. And he kind of like, you know, went on camera and talked about it, nobody didn't know yet. I'm like, nigga, nobody know, don't say nothing. And he kind of like, you know, went on camera and talked about what happened prior.

You know what I mean? I'm not snitching on my, I feel like, so what I said was, Kev, you snitching on yourself, my nigga, nobody knows,

shut up. You know what I mean? Because I'm not snitching myself. Man, I'm the type of nigga, my girl could catch me in the bed with my dick in another bitch mouth, I'm like,

that is not my dick. Another nigga got broken hair and put his dick in his bitch's mouth. And used my face. You know, but he was in advance, I felt like he was in advance snitching on himself. So I, that's what I mean. And I go hard

in the paint. You know, I don't take no break with nobody. You know what I'm saying? So you fuck up, nigga. You ain't gonna get it too. No, no, no, no. No, because, you know, at times. Because. You know, I don't take no break with nobody. You know what I'm saying? So you fuck up, nigga. You ain't gonna get it too. No, no, no, no, no. No, because, you know, at times... Because, you know, sometimes we don't think.

I mean, don't get it wrong. I'm sure... The only problem Kevin had a problem with was I just did it too many times. You know, but I don't care. Because everybody...

Too soon. I think that's... That's another thing with y'all comedians is y'all say too soon. Like, is it too soon? You think that it was too soon? To what?

Yeah, you know, they have this too soon thing, you know what I mean? Well, certain things. Like, death is way too soon. Right. You know, I mean, it would just, if you watch the video of him telling on himself, it would just funny to me. You know what I mean? I'm a comedian. I don't, you know.

I can't wait till you fuck up so I can light your ass up, niggas. As an outsider looking in and as a person that's in love that don't want to lose, I kind of felt him. And then I looked at you and I was like, damn, he's funny though. So I had to laugh. And then he'd be like, damn, he was wrong. Don't get it wrong. That nigga

is my homie. You know what I mean? But I'm a comedian first. That's probably what he felt. Yeah, yeah. He felt like, you know. Hey, that's my boy. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine.

Yeah, but when it, we know, it was during the era, you know, I do that whole thing, like I said, I do Black Friday where every time

a nigga fuck up every week, he got lit up. And, you know, I can't discriminate against my homies and my non-homies. Right. I didn't know LeBron James,

but I, you know, he fuck up, I lit him up. You know, I lit everybody up, you know what I mean? And I had to just, he was next on the list, my nigga. Right. And that's what I do. What's LeBron James you lit up? I don't remember. The one with the hairline or the one without?

Yeah, the one with the hairline. The hairline's in his back pocket. In fact, the nigga, he can't even join the army. They like salute. He like this. My nigga. You're bad. You're bad. You're very bad. pocket in fact the nigga he can't even join the army they like salute he like this and lebron is my nigga so i because you know when i lit them up i lit up the whole um it was the um olympic team of the u.s because i remember that particular year they beat the shit out of nigeria like 90 to like 30,

something crazy. And I'm like, they embarrassed my niggas to the whole world. I got mad and I lit all them up. From fucking LeBron to Kobe,

as in Kobe, you know, to like fucking Camelo. They all got it because they embarrassed my continent. Right, right. Yeah, so I'm a bitch ass nigga. I fight a lot with my niggas. Right. fucking Camelo they all got it because they embarrassed my continent right yeah so I'm

I'm a bitch ass nigga I fight online my niggas online I'm the shit the thing about it you know after I did that whole thing I saw Kevin in person

I ran the other way I'm like nigga I gotta get back online right did you ever think you did a joke that went too far besides Kevin Hart

of course it's nigga I mean you got one I'm trying to you know I gotta go and look at what I've done

you know we all in the new in the era of like you know we have to be like sensitive about you can't make no certain jokes

or certain things and I go I was watching some shit that I did some skit that I did on my Black Friday show I did one thing on like the first gay president and my god I was I really and that shit was over 10 years that I did on my Black Friday show. I did one thing on, like, the first gay president.

And, my God, I was, I really, and that shit was over 10 years ago. I'm like, my God, if the media get a hold of this shit. Now, you know what's the crazy shit? You left it, right? You know what's the crazy shit? You left it. I'm watching. It's still, you can't, once it hit the line, you can't get it.

But I made some jokes. I'm watching Will Ferrell and Zach Monocle you know what I'm talking about the last name you just said I don't know Zach Monocle from Hangover

yeah Zach Gila Monocle which one is that he don't even know how to pronounce his name Zach Gila Monocle right

they got a show called I mean they got a movie called The Campaign okay as soon as I as soon as I start watching it They got a show called, I mean, they got a movie called The Campaign. Okay. Soon as I start watching it, soon as I start watching it, they throw out the F-bomb like this.

It's like, you fucking fuck. I was like, and it kept going. It was like, you fucking, I was like, and then I was like, and then they just kept going. And I'm like, okay. They didn't even, they know that this is aware of, it's going to offend somebody. They didn't go in and re-think that. Did you ever

transfer your comedy or edit your comedy because of the LGBTQ? What do you mean? You mean from what you've done in the past? No, I'm talking about moving forward. Recently? No, because you know, my jokes, my thing with jokes, if I'm talking about, no, moving forward. Recently? No, because, you know, my jokes, my thing with jokes, if I'm going to make an LGBTQ joke,

I want to make sure that they are laughing at it. Comedy, at the end of the day, people have to have a good time. So if they're not laughing at it, I don't feel like my mission is accomplished. I want everybody to laugh. So my gay jokes are fun jokes.'s nothing like Really assaulted And you know Degraded It's with love

My shit is with love I have gay people Come to my show And I still have gay jokes I don't just You know And they laugh at it I'm like okay

My mission is accomplished Because I laugh at my jokes So my shit is not I'm not assaulted nobody I'm not degraded nobody So if Caitlyn Jenner Comes to your show She'll laugh

She'll have a good time What's a Caitlyn Jenner joke? Oh show. Sure, Lash. You have a good time. What's a Caitlyn Jenner joke? Oh, God. Damn it. I used to have one, too. We scared, too, by the way. Nigga, I ain't never scared. Damn it.

I forgot my kid. I haven't done it in so long. I stick with what's relevant. She hasn't been relevant. Like that. Like that. Yeah, so you give me somebody relevant, and I got a joke on that nigga. That's how I roll.

I'm all about what's relevant and what's going on right now. Did you see Doja Cat? Did you see the Grammys? You know, pieces of here and there. I know I watched it on the 50th anniversary. It was good to see everybody. Right. All those guys, you know.

Melly Mel, LL. Rock Kim. Who else you heard of Rock Kim? Oh, my fucking Queen Latifah. It's so dope. It's just so dope. I can't believe it's been 50 years. Yeah.

So 50 years, I'm like amazing. And you're 50 years old right now? I'm not, man. First of all, I'm African. We don't know our age. Okay? We have, like, Africans have like a soccer age and a regular age, nigga. I don't know my age.

I do. Let me tell you, my mother had me at home in the backyard. Nobody wrote shit down when I was born, okay? That's a good point. The first person you seen

was a doctor. When I was born, I saw a goat. Oh my God. I said, nah, he said, eh, man.

I asked my mother the other day, I said, mom, how old am I? She said, you're between 19 and 100, motherfucker. Pick our age and get the fuck out of my face. So it all depends on who I meet.

If I meet a 30-year-old girl, bitch, I'm 35. I meet a 40-year-old woman, bitch, I'm 45. I meet a 20-year-old, I'm 29, motherfucker. Where do I want to be today? I haven't figured it out yet. What were we talking to be today? I haven't figured it out yet Don't go alone What were we talking about Before that? I cut him off

With the age Jesus I was into that So bad Jesus We was Well We all fucked up

Let's take another shot That's it Let's do it For us not remembering But we see your lovely Fiance over there Who is your manager As well? or no?

Yeah, you know what? You try to keep the money in the family. Right. You know, I'm like, why am I going to pay somebody else when I can keep the money in here? Right. You know, she does a few things for the company. And she runs the nonprofit as well.

You know, I just got to keep the money in the family. It's easier that way. You know, so yeah. Wu-Tang said, your C's marry his C's. Marry his C's. That's how you keep the money in the family. It's easier that way, you know. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wu-Tang said, yes, he's married, his sees. Married, his sees. That's how you keep Wu-Tang money all up in the family. That's what it is, yeah. You know what I mean?

Pretty much. Is that what you're talking about? Yes, sir. Okay, okay. And notice, I said fiance. Uh-huh. Because I'm going to marry Niga. How long have you been married?

I've been married... 15 years. No, I've been together 16 years. We've been together 16 years. That's what's up. Over 10. 11 going on. That's what's up, man.

Congratulations, man. You've been a great husband. Yes, I'm a great husband. I'll tell you what. I used to go on the road with LL. Because I was always had hit

records, but I never made the top 40 and stayed there, right? So it would be Ja Rule, Fat Joe, LL, Ashanti, on these different tours. And I would be on like 14 to 22 dates. I wouldn't be on the whole 40 dates.

Top 40 had a top, they had 40 dates. And I would go to LL's room and I'd be like, yo, man. Because he had his prayer room, then he had his room for his kids, then he had his room for his wife and his wife's friends.

And you know, at first, this is LL. Every girl in the fucking concert wants to smash LL. So I'm looking like, L, what are you doing? Why do you have your kids? And, you know, I'm 18, 19, maybe 22 at the time.

Such a young dude. I'm looking like, why would you be here? Right. And years later, we went on the same tour. And I get older now. So I go to Al, and I'm like, yo, why do you still have this same routine? He said, Nori, I have never been under trouble when I got my lady right next to me. Wow.

And I was like, I thought about that. I was just like, oh, shit. I was like, just think about it. We're the same person whether our lady is there or around. But it's a certain thing that you just say you don't want to put her through. Like you might not go to the fucking hood club. Because you know that you got to walk her to the bathroom when it's time to go to the bathroom. So you're conscious of that.

Definitely. And I was just sitting back and I was just like, yo. And I don't think I've been in trouble since. Let's make some noise for that. I mean, especially with the era we are in, man, you got to be careful. Entertainment is the most dangerous game there is. Someone will try to just get you just because who you are. The Waffle House, too.

You have to have a witness, man. If a bitch was trying to give me some pussy, she got to fuck me and my girl, motherfucker. It's a team too. The Waffle House. You have to have a witness, man. If a bitch was trying to give me some pussy, she got to fuck me and my girl, motherfucker. It's a team effort. That's right. Team work.

Let's drink to that, my nigga. Let's drink and clap to that, goddammit. Goddamn. You want somebody's... You want somebody's dick, you got to get some pussy too, motherfucker.

That's right, man. Goddamn. Hold on, I got a question for you. Talk to me. So how do you feel about marriage? Just throw it out there. Just talking about marriage. You know, I've been married before and divorced, but I did it at a very young age.

You know, I was like 23. No man is ready to get married in 23 years. You don't even know what you want. You're still a child young age. You know, I was like 23. No man is ready to get married in 23 years. You don't even know what you want. You're still a child to me. Yes.

You know what I mean? And it didn't last. It lasted a couple of years, you know, and that was that. But, you know, at the end of the day, I think, you know,

to be great, you need that powerful person next to you. Right. Regardless, man. You need that great... But that doesn't mean you have to be married. great, you need that powerful person next to you. Right. Regardless, man. You need that great. That doesn't mean you have to be married. No, you're right.

It doesn't mean. You need a great person next to you. Who the fuck is you, man? Let him be married. Who the fuck is you? I didn't say that. How you going to talk him into it and talk him out of it at the same time? I'm not telling him not to be a shit.

That's hatred shit right there. He said, but you can be great too. No, no, you don't. Why did you bring it up then, motherfucker? That's true. You don't have to be. You don't. you're going to be great too. But I don't know. Why don't you bring it up then? That is true. You don't have to be, because here's the thing with marriage.

You know, you get married, you know, when you are just in a relationship and you break up, you can easily get back together.

But when you marry and then things don't work out, you divorce, what a chance are you getting back together again? You know,

it's like, you know, but whatever way you choose, whatever way you choose, you know, you need a great woman. Every great man needs a great woman by your side. Because if you're just a loose candy with no body, you know, you need somebody. You need a right hand person.

That's that woman. I mean, I'm not saying you don't have to. Marriage is not for everybody. You don't have to do it. But you need, you need that vice. You need your have to do it, but you need, you need advice. You need your vice president. A president is shit without a vice president.

That's right. You know, right? First lady. First lady. You need that first lady. Our first lady is Dominican, in case you didn't understand. He was saying that.

That's right. Yeah, so everybody need a first lady. Whether you're going to marry her or not, you need that first lady, your right-hand person that is smart and intelligent, can give you advice, can help you out, you know, and that's that. And I have that in my lady. God damn it.

I think we should make some noise for that. Yeah! I agree. So what's up with the stand-up? What's up with you one-on-one with the crowd? And where are you going to have the stand-up? In Ghana?

With my special? Yeah. It's just funny. I just had a meeting today about finally doing it. You know, it's going to come out soon. I can't, you know,

I have a lot of things about to happen. You know, like I say, it's time. It's a great time to finally be black and be especially African. African. It's our it's time it's a great time to finally be black and be especially african african it's our time to shine yeah it's our time to shine you know i got a lot

of things coming out that i'm not allowed to talk about because you know you saw the indian day you can't start talking about it popping a lot of out here yeah i got some and besides that you know i'm touring and you come and see me live but i, but I have a TV show coming out. I can't talk about it yet until it's all ready. When I come back, I'll talk about it. That's my fans. My fans want to see me every week. So now that we get a chance to see me every week on TV, I can't talk much about it until it's about to come out.

We just know. The stand-up special, too, I'm working on that. We're going to shoot it very soon. Okay. I've never done one, so it's so much to talk about. Right. The whole world will finally get to see Michael Blackson do his thing. So it's all coming out, man.

Besides that. And to add on to that, how much support are you getting? Because, you know, we talked about the hip-hop. We talked about all the artists coming from here and there in Ghana and Senegal and Africa, period. Are these people incorporated in the plan? Oh, yeah, man. I mean, definitely, man. It's like, you know, it just...

Because y'all are up. We definitely, man. It's just a beautiful time to be an African. That's right. So I've never been... I mean, I've been proud of my whole life. I defended myself every day when kids made fun of this and made fun of me. And then now, we're in an era where everybody's looking for identity. Everybody want to know where they're from.

Now, you know, black are like want to be African now. When I came, they didn't want to be. It's all about, you know, elder barge and baby hair and grown nigga with baby hair, you know. And now it's like, now we're looking for where we're from. Because they know now that this is not really their land. They might wonder where they come from, you know what I'm saying. So it's a great time to be African. The whole continent has my back, you know.

And the thing about it, when I built the school, I wasn't thinking about that. I was just trying to help the kids in my village but the thing about my continent it is so hard when people say they're going to do something for them to do it I talked about it I thought about it and I did it and now they're like Mike we're so proud of you

so I got the whole continent behind my back you know but I can do this alone you know I want my whole goal i think education is the key to everything right you know we talk about this and that i'm like oh starts with education let's teach these kids how to they could become great you know and that's why i started a non-profit the michael blyson foundation you know and the thing about the school that i built the school is my personal bill Like I don't want

Nothing I'm going to take a Fraction of my income And make sure my teachers My principal Cause when I built the school Did you get any support From the government

Out there No No support No support But it's okay It is okay This is something That I wouldn't do on my own

I'm not going to You know Because I just talked I could build a school I didn't know how to Get the teachers For these niggas

You know what I mean So I'm like These kids are gonna be In that classroom Doing their own thing Playing hide and seek And throwing dice I gotta get teachers in here

You know But this is like You know this is Like I said This is my personal Thing that I want to do For these kids So to do more

Y'all gotta help You know Anybody can help It's the Michael Blackson Foundation Go on the website If you Cause Whatever I make from that I'm gonna build more schools And what I built Anybody can help. It's the Michael Blackstone Foundation. Go on the website.

Whatever I make from that, I'm going to build more schools. What I built is my personal thing. I don't need no help with that. Let's do more. There's so many villagers out there, and these kids are all walking around with no education. Yeah, it's funny. At michaelblackstonefoundation.org. There's a website.

That's right. That makes no sense. Yeah. You know what's funny? I had an idea. What you should do once or twice a website. That's right. This makes no sense. Yeah. That's right. You know what's funny? I had an idea. What you should do, like, once or twice a month, you should have, like, T.I. come,

but him dressed like a substitute teacher. And then have Dave Chappelle come dressed like a substitute teacher. And, like, you know, so on and so on. That's a great idea.

And then they teach in a class, and the kids is like, oh, who cares? They're from America. And then afterwards, they take the class, and the kids is like, oh, who cares? They're from America. And then afterwards, they take the shit off. And they're like, oh, my God, that was fucking T.I. That was fucking Dave Chappelle this whole time. That's a great idea because I'm actually taking trips to Ghana every two months

where I'm inviting Americans. So if you want to know much about it, just email this email, BlacksonForAfrica at Gmail. Did you go with Dave Chappelle when he went? No, but he was there the same time. He came to my house. We hung out. We partied together.

He loved my country. So shout out to Dave. Dave had a great time in Ghana. Chance the Rapper, they all came to my house. You know, Jesse Collins, the producer, he produced all these. They all came to my crib. Sorry to cut you off, but Chance the Rapper received some criticism

because they said that this was an anti-LGBT concert. Did you hear that? I didn't hear that. Where you get that from? What happened? From tabloids, Twitter. That what? It's an anti...

It was? That's what they said. But you know, don't get it wrong. Some part of Africa For some reason You know I'm not sure It's like illegal

It's a shit That's what That's what Make America great To be gay Wow You can google that up Make it up

In Africa or Ghana? Well no There's parts of Africa Okay There's parts of the world too It means Somewhere in the Middle East Too is illegal

If you got If you got caught With a dick in your mouth, you're going to jail, my nigga. You know what I mean? Put the dick down. Put your hands up. Put your balls away. Get the dick out your mouth right now.

Take the balls out of your face, my nigga. That's what make America great. You can be whatever you want to be. And, you know, I'm not... Google up the country. There are some countries where it's illegal. America great you could be whatever you want to be and you know I'm not Google up the country. There are some crunchy ways illegal, but you know me. I love everybody man I don't whatever you all come as you are. I don't know nothing much about the whole chance of rapid thing I'm not sure where that came from but it was a great concert. I was there You know it was all night long

You know I even got on stage Right after Dave Dave got on stage and I got on stage. And it was right when I just built the scoots. I get on stage and I'm like this big hero. And the niggas like, Mike, run for president. And I saw all the other presidents. They all had ball head. I'm like, I'm good.

Listen, man, you're going to be the only one with Jay-Z braids. We got your back. Huh? We got your back. I'm going to move to Ghana for six months just to vote for you. What'd you say? It's so funny. Yeah.

You Googled it, right? It's illegal. It's illegal. Wow. Wow, yeah. Mike, that brings me to my next question because you just mentioned the president. I got something. Meek Mills shooting a video.

Yeah. At the Jubilee. It's called the Jubilee. Yeah, you a video. Yeah. At the Jubilee. It's called the Jubilee. Yeah, you got it. The Jubilee, for people who don't know, is you guys' White House. The Jubilee is the White House. Yeah.

And he apologized for that. What is that about? You know, Africa is all about respect. Is that a Muslim country as well? No, no, no, it's not. The great thing about Africa, we respect whatever religion. It had nothing to do with religion. It had nothing to do with the bad.

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It had nothing to do with nothing. It's just how, you know, you go to the White House and take a shit in the bathroom. You can do whatever you want to do in the White House. But Africa, you know, our White House are a little bit more different. You know, a lot of things are not allowed to happen. And I don't know how it happened. What did he do? I mean, I don't know.

I think he shot a music video. Inside or outside? Well, I'm almost certain. I think he shot a music video. Inside or outside? Well, I'm almost certain. They let him shoot a video in the white house? No, no, no. I think what happened was... Oh, it's not that. Don't make some noise for that.

No, no. I mean, I'm sorry. I don't know. I'm legendary. I wasn't there. I think, I mean, and I could find out what happened. I think what happened was, you know, he went in there, took some pictures, shot some... He said, hold up, wait a minute.

Made a couple of videos, and then later on, later on put the music in it. That's probably what he did. I don't know how it happened, but, you know, Ghana is a very strict country.

Okay. You know, certain things you're not allowed to, like, capture in the White House or the Jubilee, you know what I mean? And I think that's,

that's what I was all about. I don't really know all the exact details. I wasn't there, you know, but I know for a fact.'s what I was all about. I don't really know all the exact details. I wasn't there, you know, but I know for a fact. He's throwing the White House like the white boys on January 6th.

Nah, he probably just went to his homies and then shot a couple of videos in there and then later on turned his shit into a music video, motherfucker.

You know how y'all do in America. Y'all shoot shit later. This shit right here could be a fucking movie. I have no idea. Next thing, then you got to get

a paycheck. Michael Black's in the movie called the Nori movie, motherfucker. That's what happened with the fucking video. You know, he was in there doing some shit. Next thing you know, it's the whole music video. And that's crazy because...

But he didn't mean any harm. I don't think Meek meant any harm. He just felt like he's in Africa. This is home for him. You know, he's free to do whatever. And trust me, Africa is a definition Of freedom

We are very Ghana Let me tell you something You go out Go to the club You go home At night time In America

You might not make it To fuck home After you go to the club They got a waffle house No we got a waffle house We have a foo foo house But yeah Ghana is peaceful.

Nothing happens to you. You're going out, and you're making home at night. There's no violent. Nobody gets killed at the club. There's no shootout. There's no nothing. Nothing happens. If you drop your phone, a broke nigga's going to take your phone.

If you have, you know. You dead, man. Nigga, I still meet Bill's phone, okay? I'm the nigga that took his phone. The shit was hanging out. I'm like, you know, me, I could tell his followers to follow me, my nigga. Nah, but I'm saying, besides that, nothing happened. It's peaceful.

It's definition of freedom. Just like Haiti and everywhere else, or even Dominican Republic. If the cops pull you over, what them niggas want? Some fucking money. Five dollars here and there. Do it. At the end of you over, what them niggas want? Some fucking money. Five dollars here and there. Do it. At the end of the day, nobody gonna shoot you.

Okay, you gotta watch out because Andrew Tate said that and he's now in for human trafficking. He said that he pays off all the cops in Romania. They didn't like that. And now he's in jail for human trafficking.

They put him in jail for human trafficking? They said. Oh, I mean, I didn't know that. You know who Andrew Tate is? Andrew Tate sounds familiar. I don't know who is he. That's supposed to be the Instagram guy, right?

He's the Instagram guy. He's the TikTok guy. TikTok, TikTok. Yeah. Is he from Romania? I'd be thinking from Romania. Here, with the third world countries, people are underpaid.

And you got to understand that. Hey, at the end of the day If a cop pull you over For speeding You rather get a nigga Ten dollars Or you rather go to court Exactly motherfucker

Take this ten dollars Keep it moving My nigga Yeah Pay off Take care of your problem Salud That's what made

My continent great The cop pull you over Get them niggas ten dollars Ten dollars Help me hold it It works Okay and then great. The cop pull you over, get them niggas $10. $10. Help me hold it. It works. Okay.

All right. I've never been to Africa, bro. Say. No country in Africa. I've actually connected. But you know what? Liberty City, that shit's like Africa,

my nigga. You been there. You been there. You been there. Come on. You been there. He been there. Opalaka is Africa, my nigga. Oh, you been there You been there Come on He been there He been there Opalaka is Africa My nigga

Oh you been there Carol Carol Mark Carol Mark Lil Haiti is Africa My nigga He been there So if you was

To recommend You know We heard Zimbabwe You know that You was to recommend A person to go on vacation Yeah I gotta go with where I know Where I've been Where I'm You know which is Ghana You usually recommend a person to go on vacation.

I got to go with where I know, where I've been, where I'm, you know, which is Ghana. You know, I'm all about peace and love, and Ghana will give you that peace of mind, you know. Keep your phone attached to you. Keep your phone. Is there a W there? There's a Mary out there. Okay. There's even more private hotels that I, you know, they're not, you know, like most people stay at the Kipiski.

And then one of my good friend buddy owns a hotel called the Number One Hotel. That's a nice hotel. One, Number One. Or you could like, you could just get an Airbnb. There's a lot of nice homes out there to rent. You will have Ghana is peaceful. You could turn up all night, party, eat good

food, eat with your hands. And then it's a great place. There's a lot of tourist stuff to do, like the slave castle. Go find out how your people got here. I don't want to go to the slave castle. I know. It's very tough. When I think of tourists,

I don't want to go to the slave. But, you know, just go and experience. Go know what your people went through. That way you appreciate everything that you have. I ain't going to lie. I feel like I went through that because I seen you and your lady go through that. What's that? Dave Chappelle.

Yeah, he went through that. And then there was a guy that was speaking, but he had no accent. He was like, this is where our brothers came through. And I was just like, oh, it was just like. Yeah, it's tough, but go and experience that anyway,

just for the hell of it. You know? So yeah, go to Ghana is Peaceful. Don't get, you know, they might talk shit about Nigeria here and there, but Nigeria also turned up. But that's the most scammers in the world come from there, right?

Why? I call them smart people, okay? They're hustling. Don't you insult my goddamn Africans. You the dumbass that gave them your money, motherfucker. If a nigga email you and tell you he's a prince and you want to put $100,000 in your account, nigga, I'd say no. Okay, you the dumbass that want the $100,000 in your pocket, nigga, I said no. Okay, you the dumbass that wants the $100,000 in your pocket.

Well, how did they come up with this scheme? Because is Nigeria a real wealthy country? I mean, I think all of Africa. All of Africa is wealthy. We have so much things,

you know, to offer. Like, Nigeria has oil and Ghana has gold. You know what I mean? We have a lot. You know, but at the same time, you know, yeah, shit,

America's a scam. Right. Yes, it is. You know, you know, America's a scam. Right. Yes, it is. You know? It's just a more acceptable scam. Fuck that, nigga. Scammer's a scammer. You know, but don't go up there and if a nigga email you, just block the nigga. Don't send the five bands. Don't send the five bands.

He's going to tell you his grandfather have $20 billion he want to put in your account, you be like, nigga. Then tell him to put it in your account from the beginning. But hold on, let me ask you something. The closest thing that I've seen to Wakanda in real life has been Turks and Caicos.

Okay, Turks is nice. Where I've actually walked, this is when I used to smoke cigarettes, and I've actually walked down this is when I used to smoke cigarettes, and I've actually walked down a block of beautiful homes. And the people that, this is, you know, I'm old school. So the people that was going to get their paper, I kept looking, black people.

I'm looking, black people. And I was just looking, million or $20 million houses. And it was like vibranium to me. Like I was just sitting there like it's like vibranium to me. Yeah. Like, I was just sitting there like it's like... And they were blacks. All blacks.

Yes. So the closest thing I've ever seen to Wakanda was Turks and Caicos. Is there neighborhoods in Africa? Nigga, the whole Africa is Wakanda, my nigga.

That's why, come home, my nigga. Come home. Ghana is Wakanda, but I forgot right no no I mean it's like the thing about

Africa you know it's like mostly rich and poor you know and there's a lot of rich people

it says like West Palm super rich super poor yeah and I think that's the only thing we have to do

with Africa is find a way to like create a middle class because that's what make America great have to do with Africa is find a way to like create a middle class because that's what make America great the middle class is what keep

this country going you know what I'm saying so once we figure our way not to be selfish and not keep all the money

to ourselves while the rich keep it to themselves find a way to like share it get that middle class the middle class is what keep

a country going and we'll be better than America. That's time to come. It's going to happen eventually, hopefully. When I become president one day, I'm going to try to create a middle class. Y'all going to vote for me?

I'm going to go get an apartment in Ghana. I just want y'all to get something like a W-type. No, no, no. And I'm going to buy the place there. And I'm going to go out there. You know what? It's a house on my block. Come and get it home over there.

Okay, cool. I don't like houses. I'm a condo. You're a condo guy. You know, I feel you. I got a condo. I be thinking Jason's going to come out. Condos, I can always be like, oh, nigga, I see you.

Like, you know, houses is creepy for me that condo come with a fucking HOA fee my nigga I like it it's security right you feel safe yes I do

yes yes yes holy shit come on let's take a shot no no no you went back that's your regular drink this my regular drink nigga

we can take regular drink shots and I'm good yeah let's take shots we not done but I just want to give you a flower in the head let's go We can take regular drink shots. No, yeah, just take shots. We're not done, but I just want to give you a flower. There's a story that I heard. Let's go. About DMX getting kidnapped over there. Is that true?

No, no, no. Where? Where did he get kidnapped? That's with Joaquimio. Somewhere. Somewhere. Totally different. They all get kidnapped over there.

They try to kidnap. Yeah. They try to kidnap DMX? Yeah. Was it at nighttime? Because, you know, dark-skinned niggas. It might be Nigeria.

You try to kidnap us up at nighttime, we're going to be practicing, motherfucker. Yo, um, how about Paris? You fuck in Paris? You know, I was there

one time, you know, when I went to Paris, when I had the airline job and I got to fly for free. Oh. That's the only time I went to Paris. All of your cousins is there. got to fly for free. That's the only time I went to Paris. All of your cousins is there.

Yeah, I heard that. But you know what? See, Africa, we have a lot of English-speaking countries. Those countries were all colonized by the British. Ghana was colonized by the British. Nigeria, Gambia. And then you got the French countries that were colonized by the French.

Haiti, then you got Ivory Coast. You got Senegal. the French countries that were colonized by the French, by France. Haiti, then you got like Ivory Coast, you got Senegal, you have Togo. Yeah, Ivory Coast, Togo, and those are all French-speaking countries. Then you think about a country

that was like, so now when the slaves were allowed to go back home when they were freed and were somewhere allowed to go back home, when they were freed and were somewhere allowed to go back to Africa, most of them went to Liberia. Liberia is where most of the slaves went to.

And Liberia. Liberty City. Liberia, Liberty City. Liberty City. And the capital of Liberia is Monrovia because the president at that time

was Monrovia. That's why they named the capital after him. Yeah, Monrovia was the president of the time was Monrovia. That's why they named the capital after him. Yeah, Monrovia was the president of the United States where the slaves were allowed to go back. The president of the United States. Oh, wow. If I'm not mistaken.

Am I right? Google that. Monrovia. Well, Monrovia was the capital. Am I over? I'm drunk. Double check that. Yeah, yeah.

Look up Monroe. Maybe something Monroe. Monroe. Monroe. We got Monroe County. Look up Monroe. Maybe something Monroe. Monroe. Monroe. We got Monroe County. We got Monroe County. In Monroe. Where the president was, Monroe was the president.

And that's why they named the capital of Liberia Monrovia. Because when the slaves were allowed to go back, they all went back to Liberia. So Liberia is one of those countries that has a lot of the slaves went back. And Liberia is a place where you see like a light-skinned Liberian and you see a dark-skinned Liberian and the dark-skinned ones were the natives they're the natives and then light-skinned ones were the light-skinned ones were called conker people they were called conker people because they had no tribe they were from America and they were ex-slaves and they didn't't have no language, and they didn't have no tribe.

They called them conker people. You know, and the reason I know so much about Liberia, Liberia is where I spent most of my African life, so I know a lot about Liberia. Is that where the blood diamonds are from? No, that's Sierra Leone. Blood diamonds in Sierra Leone. That's right next door to Liberia.

Not too far. It's got to be right next door. But every country in Africa has something. Liberia has rubber. You know, a lot of rubbers came from Liberia, like Firestone. A lot of rubber was from Liberia. Ghana used to be called the Gold Coast. Ghana has gold.

You know, Sierra Leone has diamonds. Nigeria has oil. You know, we have so much resources in our continent. God damn it. But yeah, yeah, man. Everybody know, come home, man. You got to come home. Let's talk about your music though But you know what

I have a couple of songs My first song I did Was an Afrobeat music Called Mutombo Mutombo is pretty much What I call my dick Oh man Yeah I apologize

You know, Dikembe Mutombo was tall and dark and black all the shots. No, no, no. No, no, no. My dick was Mutombo. Tall, big, and black, and he black all the shots.

So the song's called Mutombo. I actually did it with a Nigerian artist in Nigeria right before COVID. I actually shot this, you know, we wrote this song and we shot the music video in Nigeria back in like 2020.

And then when I came back to LA, I'm like, oh shit, this shit was hot. I'm like, I feel like a rapper. So I did a song with, it's got Kap G. You know the Kap G? You know Kap G? Yeah, from my letter. I did Kap G and 5 Mike. You heard of Cap G? You know Cap G? Yeah, from Atlanta. I did.

I'm Carol G. Cap G and Five Mike. You heard of Five Mike? Yeah, of course. From New York? Yeah, from New York. So we did a song together called I Want You Remix.

In fact, let's play my verse. Come on, let's go. Here's the reason why. We'll play my verse in the cab. And the reason why I want to play my verse because what I've noticed in America is like they're locking up are going to jail rappers are going to jail and they are using their lyrics against them did you know that yeah look look this is my this is my favorite

applicant artist uh sa... Asaki. He's a dude. He got videos. He make videos like Busta Rhymes. Let me see. Can I hear something? Yeah. I think I pulled the wrong nigga.

Hold on. He's signed with Ghazi. You remember? I forgot his name. Yeah. And it was dope. It's him right here. He had all the colors in the videos. Yeah,? I forgot his name. Yeah. And it was dope. This is him right here. He had all the colors in the videos.

Yeah, it's him right here. His videos are so bright and different than all the rest. Asaki. Where's he from? What? Africa, nigga. What country, motherfucker?

You see this shit, man? This nigga, Africa is not a country. It's a whole country. You know what's the crazy shit? Let me just tell you what the crazy shit is. I'm being funny real quick. Trying to be funny at least, right?

You ever, like, sit down at a bar, and, like, you're speaking to somebody from Switzerland or Germany or something, and you be like, they say to you, yeah, because, you know, when I went to the States, and you be looking at them like, all right, cool, what states do you go to? And they be like, because when I went to Utah, man, you guys are out of control.

And you be like, wait a minute. You went to Utah and you're basing the whole America? Let me tell you, they told me the NBA All-Star is in Utah this year. I was like, I'm going to sit this one out, my nigga. No, I threw this in Arizona. No, that's the football. Super Bowl is in Arizona. I will be there.

I will be at the game. And I will be flying with my wings, my nigga. Y'all can keep Utah for All-Star weekend this year. I'm going to sit this one out. I'm sitting out for the Mermids, okay? Actually, I'm going to be honest with you. You going? I had a great time in Utah.

I've been to Utah because I'm very good friends with Rudy Gobert. He was with the Utah Jazz at that time. I went there a few times. Hugged out with him, went to the game. I had a great time in Utah. First time I went to Utah, we was going to something called the Impact Convention. And it was in Vegas. It was in Vegas or Reno, Nevada.

So you couldn't get there without connecting. So it was crazy. I stood there, I connected. So you was on Delta, nigga. It was definitely on my come up. So it was crazy. I stood there, I connected. So you was on Delta, nigga. No, it was definitely on my come up, so it was definitely something not right. And then I was so mad because Foxy Brown, Mase, Cameron,

and everyone, they just jumped off the plane and they just jumped on the next plane. And I was there for six hours in Utah talking to motherfuckers with Cowboy. Just at the airport? Yeah, just at the airport because I didn't know about connectors. I just was like, all right, cool.

This is the easiest way to get there. And I fell in love with Utah that day. Carl Malone was still on the team. Oh, damn. That's insane. Yeah, I was like, Carl Malone, damn motherfucker! I started talking white and everything. And this was with black folks, too.

Yeah, yeah. So what's next for Michael Blacks, man? You did it all. We know, we spoke about the stand-up, which we all waiting for.

Yeah, it's on its way. I actually had a Zoom meeting. We'll talk about the TV show. Right, we'll talk about that later. Like I said, you know, I can't talk much about it. They get mad at me.

But the stand-up is on its way. The TV show is on its way. I'm touring the countries. You know, just follow me on IG at Michael Blackson for those who went to a public school

I spell it for you it's M-I-C-H-A-E-L B-L-A-C-K-S-O-N you know I think like I said we're in an era of being African everything about Africa

is shining right now from our music even like I said soccer is coming back about to happen you know so F Soccer is coming back so you happen You know So our soccer is coming back So you know

I actually started Like my little soccer league In the villages Because You know We call it soccer We call it football But you know what

We call it soccer We call it soccer We call it soccer Football Football We fucking with you We fucking with you Football So yeah So I'm you know I'm a Football Football Football So yeah So

I'm gonna start A management team Where I'm gonna Try to discover The hottest Football soccer players In my continent You know

And also like Afrobeat Is man the hottest thing Right now You know what I mean So I'm gonna find I'm putting a team together To put the best

Due Afrobeat artists together. So I have a lot of shit going on, man. God damn it, man. Let's make some noise for that, man. I got a question. You ever met Tims? Yes. You know what?

I actually met her. I met her briefly at the BT Awards when she won an award. In Atlanta? No, it was the BT Awards, not the Hip Hop Awards. It was in LA. It was the main award, not the Hip Hop Awards. Yeah, it was last year.

At the last BT Awards, she won an award. He tried to identify with you. He's like, we only get invited to the Hip Hop Awards. That nigga was talking about Timberlands, motherfucker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The shoes, motherfucker. But nah,

but shout out to just Afrobeat, period. Big time. You are absolutely correct, but let me just be clear. Bringing it back to how we just started this interview. You saying how

you had to come to America and fit in, and you had to come to America and fit in and, you know, even to say African wasn't good. Even when you was working for Domino's, they thought you was a Jamaican kingpin. They ain't saying an African kingpin, right? For now, for it

to go full circle. For now, it's to be like, yo, the number one... What's that shit? Me and my wife's thing. I don't want no other body. I can sing that to my wife. Exactly. We could just like, I love that fucking record.

If I tell you, say I love you. My body, my body, my body. Baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah body Oh baby Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah It is our time to shine Thank you so much For it to go from African booty scratcher To that

To No, no, this is real shit because He know, I don't know if you know He know Hollywood, he know the trainer I don't know him Alright, cool, this is real shit because he know, I don't know if you know, he know Hollywood, he know the trainer. I don't know him. All right, cool. All right, cool. My bad. But he claims you. But it's okay. I'll claim it too, but I just don't know who he is.

But for it, let me see him, you know, because at the time, again, it was being Jamaican. Jamaican was the Caribbean thing at the time. It was. And then, you know, slowly but surely, even Haitians gravitated towards it. But Africa was kind of like the lowest of the low. And we don't know if we, that was because we was brainwashed. Because the school system made us feel like,

don't love the motherland. If you love the motherland, then you'll love yourself. So don't love the motherland. So we don't know if it was from the school system or whatever. So true. But from, it to go from there, from the African booty scratches, like, I kept listening to your interviews and kept going

through it, and I was like, you repeated that so much. And I was like, damn, I remember me calling my African friends African booty scratches. You was the boy to the bad guys? Yeah, I know, but it was I was a beast nigga. You fucked my life up, but I followed...

No, no, no, no, no. I followed what I saw. He said, I was part of the system. I followed what I saw. I like that. And I was hearing interviews with you, and I'm like, you know what? That's crazy.

And for it to go full-fledged, because also I'm black and Puerto Rican, right? So when I remember bringing Puerto Rican or Latino music to my black friends and they'd be like the sky and now they all love Bad Bunny B.I.P. B.I.P.

hey take a selfie and and vice versa you know I remember doing the same thing with hip hop and bringing them while they listening listening to, you know, Tito Prentice and Menudo. I like listen to M.O.P. Listen to Gangsta.

It's after that. Listen to Gangsta. Listen to M.O.P. And I remember them. And now they can't listen. So this is my question for you is you being the product of that,

of people like making fun of this culture that we're actually from. Yes. And to see it go 360, how does it feel? What was the first, that's a two part question.

How does it feel, one, and then two, what was the first Afrobeat record that you heard that was like, oh, we here now,

motherfucker. Mother sucker, excuse me. Mother Sucker, yeah. God, it is the best feeling in the world, man. And the thing about it, I knew one day the world would notice our talent and it would be our time. Like, everybody got the time to shine. I think the first one, you know, and I'm not going to take all the credit,

but I know for a fact You know When I Noticed a song by DeVito It was If The song If If I tell you Say I love you

My buddy My buddy My baby So When I heard that song DeVito DeVito I started playing it

DeVito Hold on First off Before we move forward First off Let's all be quiet and give a rest in peace, silence, moment of silence for his son that passed away, correct?

Give him a moment of silence. Everyone bow their head and show that man their love. Rest in peace, DeVito. DeVito. Son. DeVito DeVito son DeVito son but go ahead yeah so when I heard that song

I played it in my car I go on IG live and you know and I mean I'm probably one of the persons that made Afrobeat popular to

my black audience and where's he from he's from Nigeria Nigeria he's Nigerian so once I heard that. Is he the Nigerian prince son that they was talking about on the scam? I have no idea.

He might be Nigerian. DeVito is from a rich family. His dad is. I heard it. I heard his dad. His dad is very rich. I'm not sure what a nigga do. But.

He might be the scammer nigga from there. But no. But shout out to DeVito. Shout out to DeVito. You know, very good friend of mine. He's been to my home. We've talked. We've hung out.

And they all appreciate what I've done for the culture. Because I think I'm probably one of those guys that be Afrobeat, pop look. When I started listening to them, I started playing them

in my car and I played them on the radio. I played them on IG. Whenever I'm on live, I played it for the past. You know I'm down for Africa. I'm going to be honest with you. Oh, definitely.

You know what? I always loved and believed in my country, my continent, and I figure it's a matter of time. I never faked. I never tried to change for nobody. You know, I always repped my whole continent. And finally, we are getting our just due. You know what I mean?

Flowers. Our flowers. That's right, man. And I'm just glad and so much talent in my whole continent. And, you know, and now that I think

I've came to America and I've made it in this country, in this country, that's the hardest thing to do, man. Come to America and make it. Right. It's almost,

especially coming from another country. So my whole continent is looking up to me because of that. That's why I decided to start this management company and show them

some other talent, you know, that we have, especially in my continent and across the world as well. You know what I mean? But yeah, I think DeVito was probably

the first artist that sold it. But, you know, after we go way back to like, guys like Peace Squares, you know, I mean, when back to like, guys like Peace Squares. You know, I was more like, go back to the, you know, the African guys that started it. But at the end of the day, man, it's finally the world has recognized that being black is great.

And it's so crazy because it's not that it's been recognized. James Brown, Michael Jackson, all of these people are African. Yes. But what's so crazy is it made it in the U.S., which is where you make it at. But it's so crazy that it made it here for so long, but now it's all, it took all this time to get back to the motherland. But you was, no, I'm dead serious. I'm dead serious.

I'm talking about, we're talking about music as far as this, but the music, you're saying the music going back to the motherland. Where the people that are actually from there are getting the credit. Meaning, as far as time has passed. Okay. People, you know, we're in America but we were not really from here. You get where I'm coming from? Yeah.

You especially. I was born here. No bad. But you get what I'm saying. He was born here. That nigga's never been to Haiti in his life. That nigga's mother said if you go to Haiti, they might eat you. Come on. He went to Haiti. I got to go to Haiti in his life. That nigga mother said if you go to Haiti, they might eat you.

Come on, he went to Haiti. I got a mother. I got a little Haiti, motherfucker. No, let's go to little Haiti. You know what's so crazy? I got a mother that everything you said today, my mother started working at seven years old, never went to school a day in her life. Born 1930.

Wow. Your mother was born in 1930? 1930. She's still alive. Still alive. Lives with me. Your mom was born 1930. She's still alive. Still alive. Looks at me. Give it up for that. Real stuff. But guess what? I know my mom. If she's born in 1930...

Your mom is 92 years old. How old is she? 33? What is she? She's going to be 93 this year. Her AARP car is titanium. Listen, she knew... His mother knew Burger King when he was just a prince. She took a driver's test on a dinosaur. I like it.

I like it. When God said, let there be light, turn the switch on. But what he said, everything is true. And it's like, I like where, you know, where now, you know,

like a person like Davido, Tims, you didn't hear that coming from Africa where the music's so popular. So, but we've been doing it. Even you. You got some African in you.

You ain't been out the country. I've been. I'm out of here. You've been to Jamaica and called it quits. I think back in the day, I think if a lot of those African artists or whoever, whatever background they were connected with, a lot of them were so ashamed because we didn't, Africans weren't getting love. I could name two guys right now

that if they would have claimed their continent or their country, they would have their country behind them. You know, a lot of people you didn't even know were Africans. Like, you probably didn't know

Wale was Nigerian, did you? Yeah, I didn't know. You knew that. Did you know that? He just says it to his face. Okay. But like, I mean, I think if he would have,

but he might be Nigerian. Like, I think if he were that. But he might be Nigerian. Like, I think if the whole world really knew Wale was Nigerian, he would have the whole. And who is another guy? Camille Lanier is also Nigerian. Did you know he was Nigerian? Yes. Camille Lanier is a Nigerian.

This is the point I'm making. Meaning, I don't care who you are. If you're from somewhere from the motherland. Yeah, that's true. And so you've always been attached. That's American. That's American. Yeah.

But now it's trickled all the way down that people who are really from the motherland, they're just as big and they're getting there just due now. But we've been doing it. We've been doing it. But that's why I tell you, when it's your time, it's your time. When God says your time, there's no stopping it. And right there is our time. It's the best time to be African.

Oh, it's God's time right now. Yeah. It's our time. It's our time to shine, motherfucker. Nigga, I'm going to be president one day. Fuck you, my nigga. You're going to be president one day. That's right. Let me see it. Let's our time. We ain't cutting the bell. It's our time to shine, motherfucker. Nigga, I'm going to be president one day. Fuck you, my nigga.

You're going to be president one day. That's right. Let me see it. Let me see it. Hey, man. Is that the we? He wrapped up this whole time?

Yes. Yes. It's called, it's the supreme, for the supreme leader. Would you be a dictator if you take over? No.

I think, you know what? I think to be a leader you have to really care about the people. You know, like I go home and I look around and I'm like, I see somebody walking down the street. I always say to myself, God, where's this guy going to? What is he doing in the daytime? You have to really care

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You know what I mean? One, two, three. We're about to end our life. We're about to end our life. Yeah, that's fine. And I think that's important. Once you start caring. And believe it or not, that's fine. And I think that's important. Once you start caring, and believe it or not,

as much as we talk shit about America, you know, America became successful because Americans are givers. You know, they care. They do somehow, you know, they do somehow care. I don't care. Except for Karens.

Except for the Karens. Yeah, they don't care. You know, but, you know, I think to be a great leader, you got to give, you got to be selfless. You got to care about the people out on the streets and the people every day. Like, you know, you sit down and you watch everybody like,

where's this guy going? Where's he doing? Who's this? And that's how I feel sometimes. I feel like when I go home, I'll be like, I just look at everybody on the streets. I'm like, where's this guy going to? What is he, you know, What is he doing for a living?

I'm always worrying about people. And I think that's what a true leader is, man. You care about the common people and everybody else. Don't ever think you're bigger than life. You should always go back and live a common life. I could go back and live a common life. I could go and beat the foo-foo with a stick and eat with my hands and hang in a village and do all of that.

You have to feel the people. And that's what a true leader is. So when you say, like, go back to Africa, go to Ghana, right? I got a friend that's to the right of me. And I heard him on the phone. Heard him on the phone one day talking to his friend. And he's like, yeah. And he said, I didn't speak to you for a couple of days. He said, yeah, I didn't speak to you

for a couple of days. He said, yeah, I was hiding out. I didn't want to get kidnapped as I was going to my house in Haiti. Like,

that doesn't sound like a place I wanted to go. Haiti's a little tough. It is. So you know what? I did go to Haiti twice and I did like,

And you had a good time. No, I did like benefit shows during the hurricane. I had like two of them. Oh, yeah. I'm like, what the fuck I did, like, benefit shows during the hurricane. I had, like, two of them. Oh, yeah. I'm like, what the fuck I did to the Lord that he gave you two niggas two hurricanes, God damn it.

No, you were at the worst place at the worst time. I had a friend, a Haitian friend, that I lost during the second hurricane. You know, God forbid. Let him rest in peace. But, you know, but, like, sometimes, you know, it's so tough. But this is his friend that's trying to go back.

He stacked his money up. He did the American dream and he went back to Haiti. But what he has to do is, before he goes to his house, he has to hide out to make sure the rebels... Actually, he has to go two and a half, three hours

out of the way when it just takes him this like two seconds from the airport. Just to make sure. the capital, Port-au-Prince. Well,

you know, nigga, three hours just to go to avoid You know what it's called? I mean, street smart, motherfucker.

It is called street smart. You know, he's street smart. He know what to do to survive. It's just, you know, it's just, it's like,, motherfucker. He's street smart. He know what to do to survive. You know, it's just, you have to know what survive. You know what it's like.

You know, like, when you go to certain cities in America to perform, you know, whether you're going to Detroit or you're going to LA, what you got to do, you supposed to check in, right? You supposed to check in

with the real niggas. All that shit started from Africa, man. All that shit started from... Check it in. Check it in, baby. We have to check in. How the fuck you gonna make this a check in? We wanna hear the African check in.

Let me tell you what asked me to check in. What's the African check in? African check in. Okay, I built a school in the... I built a school in the village. Okay. All right? To make sure my school, everything is cool,

and everything is safe, the kids are in good. Nobody bothers nobody. You check in with the chiefs. That's how it is in Haiti. That's how you got to check in with the chiefs. You check in with the chiefs. Nigga, me and the Chiefs are best friends. I'll check in with the Chiefs.

You know, you might call it extortion. I'll call it shit checking in. Yeah. Do the Chiefs got a gram? Do the Chiefs got a Instagram? Damn. I want to follow the Chiefs. All right.

The Chiefs might got a gram. Go follow that guy. I went, you know, the day before the opening ceremony, you know, I'm like, okay, I got to check in with the chief. I drove straight to the chief's palace, you know, with all the queen mothers around, you know. Hold on. Who mothers? Queen mothers. Queen mothers.

Queen mothers, yeah. These are the people that runs the village, that particular village. You know what I mean? And it's just a matter of showing respect. Right. You know, I went up there with like five envelopes, you know, throw them below something. Break a little bread.

Break bread is just, you know. How many people in the village? Let them finish. I just want to know so we can get a number. You mean how many people I broke bread with? No, not at all. The village cop, the capacity, I mean the population. I broke bread with? No, not at all. The village, the population? I mean, the population?

I went to the village and I broke bread to the population. Well, the village is, that is the village where I built my school. You know, I also actually started, like, my own little soccer tournament in that village. Like, this is my village. This is where my mother was born. This is where, like, I'm going to feel like I'm going to be the one to take over this particular village one day. Fire. You know? And it, nigga... Hold on. I don't want...

I don't want him to get away from what he was saying, but... Nigga, if I want four wives, I want to be your chief, nigga. I need this nigga to verify me that I'm good. But, you know, I don't want four wives. My lady's not going for that shit. But, uh, but nah, it just matters to show respect and everything and make sure that this thing started back in Africa, man. for that shit. You know what I mean? But now, it just matters to show respect and everything

and make sure that this thing started back in Africa, man. All that shit that happened in America with the hood and checking in with niggas, it started in the fucking village. If you want to land... We ain't got no goddamn bloods in the crib.

Who call them chiefs, motherfucker? That's the OG. Hey, he watched the T-Soleil. Am I right or wrong? The chiefs. So it's a matter of just showing respect. You know what I mean? Hey, I'm going to come here

and I want to make some things happen. I want to make sure we good. I want to make sure you make sure my village, my school is protected. Make sure, you know, everything is good. And that's what it's all about. It's just a matter of showing respect to the people that run The city

He ain't have a plate In his big lip Nah nah This nigga The chief of my village Actually a young nigga What is that bro Probably like early 40s

Late 30s Young You know He just became the chief And we clicked right away We kept cool You know what I'm saying He knew who he was

They got TVs right Yeah they got TVs man This motherfucker. I like your African stereotypes right away. You go, you got to ask. Nigga, you want to land? You better check on the chiefs. They're the ones that run and own everything. So in the village, would you say there's 10,000?

Nah, it's a little bit more than that. My village, it's a little bit more. It's a little bit more than that. I'm not, I mean, I'll probably give it maybe, I want to send me 30,000, 40,000. That's a little bit more. It's a little bit more than that. I'm not, I mean, I'll probably give it, maybe, I want to send me $30,000, $40,000. That's a big, And how do you pick

the people that's, to get in your school? Well, that was, you know, so my goal was to pick the less fortunate kids. Because,

mind you, this is a school that's going to be free. Even though, you know, my people, everybody go out like they're poor.

They go, oh, you know. So I had a higher, a higher consultant to interview the parents, to interview the, you know, and we found out, okay, where did your kid go to school last? If you name a certain school, I'm like, that's a Catholic school. Nigga, you have money. Stop playing.

Man, that's in New York. You know what I mean? Let's get the less fortunate kids. That's in New York, right. Let's get the less, you know, mean? Let's get the less fortunate kids. That's in New York. Let's get the less, you know, my goal was to get the less fortunate kids that would come to the school for free. You know what I mean? So,

the school is called Michael Blackson Academy. It's up and running. You know, I get a report every day. It just started in January, so I just actually made my first payment for the month. You know, where I'm, I mean, I provide uniforms for these kids, teachers, lunch, books,

everything for them. All they got, the only thing they got to pay for, free food, nigga. What's it? Free food? Well, food is low. No, that's not going to be lunch for kids.

I don't want too much messy food. We, you know, we're keeping it light with some jell-o fries and, you know, light shit. You know what I'm saying? But I told my kids the only thing they have to pay for is pay attention to the teachers. Pay attention. I'm taking a shot for that.

Pay attention. If there's anything in this world. We do little shots. Can I ask you, how the fuck I keep getting shots? Nobody bringing this shit here. This shit just appears. Yeah, yeah. Are you into voodoo,

motherfucker? How you see? Nah, let me just tell you something, bro. Nah, yeah, voodoo comes from Africa. No. Voodoo comes from Africa.

That's exactly where it comes from, the origin and all that. But you know what? It's not real. I don't believe in it. I donoo comes from Africa. That's exactly where it comes from, the origin and all that. But you know what? It's not real. I don't believe in it. I don't believe in it. Here's my opinion with voodoo, okay?

As long as, like, you know, I was raised godly. I fear God. I know God personally. I can't touch you. Here's my thing. As long as you believe in your God, that shit shouldn't touch you. That's it. But at the same time, don't go do people wrong.

People only put voodoo on you if you do something wrong. When you're in the wrong. You know what I mean? When you do something wrong. You do some wrong shit on people like me. Let me tell you something.

I've had the same phone number since 1999. Wow. I'm not running from nobody. I don't owe nobody no money. That's right. You know what I mean? And if you call me,

I don't know you, nigga. I'll push end, motherfucker. You know, text me. Who is this? I have no reason to hide. I've never done nobody wrong. Thank God. You know what I mean?

It's just me, period. So long as you don't do nobody wrong, nothing should bother you. You believe in God and you don't do wrong to nobody. You live free. Nothing should go wrong. You're living free.

Freedom. Freedom. Nigga, if anybody did something to me, it's just a fucking hater. That's right. And that's it. Because Mike is,

I don't do nothing wrong to nobody. And we're good people. When good people be good people. I might roast you online. That's it, my nigga. That's it. I'll whoop your ass over there. You can make a mistake with words.

You can't make a mistake with actions. Is that Beijing in the curls? Hold on. That's juices and berries, my nigga. Natural juices and berries. I ain't gonna lie. Okay, this is

coming to America. Fuck you, my nigga. A nigga with no hair. Look at that nigga's head. His head look like a busted condom. Look at that nigga's head. We've been waiting for this.

When a condom busts and your dick fall out, we're done. We're done. I'm head. We've been waiting for this. When a condom busts and your dick fall out. We're done. We're done. I'm done. We've been waiting for this. This nigga look like Justin Timber River,

motherfucker. Totally. This nigga look like I'm dead. The Rock if he was the stone, motherfucker. Yo.

This is how you know the shit. I love it. Hey look at this nigga With them thick ass glasses Oh yeah When is Jesus coming Tell me right now On the spot

Keep going Nigga back there Look like Bob Marley With a concussion Motherfucker Guilty Guilty I like all y'all niggas up online. Let me tell you something.

That's something I was studying because I've studied all your material. But there's something that was really, really special about you on Wild N' Out. Yeah. And it was the improv. And to me, comedians is great

when they can sit down and write their material. But if you can't be like that, and it was, I think you called DC Young Fly a thug and a nerd at the same time.

I fell the fuck out. I said, nigga, like a thug and a nerd. You're going to rob me or email me. So how is that? Because one of my favorite shows

is called Kirby Enthusiasm. Right. And what they say about Kirby Enthusiasm is you give you a basic of it and you have to improv everything. To me, that's... That's a natural talent. Yeah, that's a natural talent.

You know what? That's why most great comedians is a gift from God. Right. You know, you could try to practice to be a comedian, you know, but when you got a gift from God naturally... That's it.

There's no turning back. There's nothing... You know, it's a natural gift. And I think that's what I have. I think God gave me this gift. Right. And it just comes naturally. I agree.

Michael, you know who was like that? Marlon Wayans, remember? On the spot. He could just go outside. Oh, right. Marlon Wayans came to us early. And every time we interviewed him, our AC broke. Like, it was just something like just fucked up.

Y'all shit work today, motherfucker. Y'all shit work today. Yes, because we know we got the African motherfucker here. But let me just say something, bro. I really appreciate you. I really deserve, I think you deserve your flowers. What you're doing is unprecedented. I don't know no other

African comedian that could come hang with the Africans, hang with the. I don't know no other African comedian that could come, hang with the Africans, hang with the, quote-unquote, Americans, quote-unquote, the white people, quote-unquote, and be, and everyone, it's like you're the Bob Marley of comedy. I appreciate that. You know what I'm saying? Everybody loves you.

And what I mean by that is, for some reason, if you play Bob Marley in any crowd, no one will ever be offended. And you're like that kind of guy. Like, even you push race. Yeah. But you push it to the extent where you don't offend somebody,

but you're pointing out the fact that's funny about that rest. Definitely. You know what I mean? And I wanted to big that up. Wanted to big you up, period. Give you your flowers like we did. And tell you face-to-face,

man to man, how much we appreciate you. Thank you so much. In this period. You know what I'm saying? In this period. Because you are a staple. You are an icon.

And it was something that I wanted to tell Dave Chappelle weeks after he had the attack happen on him. Yeah. I was actually dead when it happened. Wait a minute. Let's get to that. Hold on. Let me say my little part and then let's get to that.

So what I told Dave at the time, Dave was like, you know, I don't feel like, because I remember mass shootings had happened right after that. And Dave was like, you know, I don't want to, because remember mass shootings had happened right after that. And Dave was like, you know, I don't want to, you know, because we're celebrating on Dream Champs. He was like, so I don't want to like kind of celebrate that while this is happening. And I was like, Dave, you're right.

But I was like, if we base it upon that, we'll never drop the episode. Because this is a mass shooting every fucking day in America. So I'm saying to what I say to Dave, I'm going to say it to you, is during the pandemic and during life, we need to laugh. I don't give a fuck how serious this person is. So I can't do this.

I can't look at the joke in 9-11. But, and I'm not saying 9-11 is a joke. Let me just be clear. But we salute people like y'all who can make us laugh through that. You understand what I'm saying? Like, we all live, the most blessed person here,

you can look at the most richest person here. That's you, right? I hope so. Yes. I hope so. But if it's not, if it's you, right? I hope so. Yeah. I hope so. But if it's not, if it's not, we all need to laugh. Yeah.

Like, the most serious person in the world is probably the most boringest person in the world. Like, I need to laugh. I sincerely believe that's why, like, me and my wife are still together to this day. It's like when I'm just alone with me and her, and she'll do something funny, like jump out of bed, and I'm just like, oh, you almost bust your ass now.

See what I mean? And just laugh at her, and she'll laugh at me. And I feel like comedy is the savior for the world. It is. So not only you, but especially you, I want to big up. Because during that pandemic, you know, you guys coming online and just roasting each other and just getting on. It meant a lot. And moving forward, I don't want comedians to dumb their thing down.

Yeah. You ain't got to lie. I would never dumb down for nobody. Yeah. And like I said, you know, America has to come and set me for who I am. And I think they finally are. So everything that you hope for Mike to happen for Mike is finally about to happen. Because they realize that Mike is not going to change for no fucking body.

Goddamn. Let's take a break. Yeah. But. But. Well, hold on. And I'm Let's take a look. Thank you. Yeah. But. But. Hold on. I'm going to end it with this. Okay.

So how many shots I took, too, by the way? Look. I think I took more than you, my nigga. She gave you a new cup. No, no, no. I had the same two cups, my nigga. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's how I got to determine how much I got to go home.

So whatever you had is what I had. Yeah, how much? Yeah, yeah, you probably would be. Yeah, she took your cup from you. Okay, yeah. Mike, bring it. Yeah, this means I got about 10 minutes. Britney Spears gave me the same fucking cup, nigga.

Wait, Britney Spears played her? Whoever she is. Okay, okay. The lady that kept coming back here. But let me ask you before. We have little peace. We always ask people this. Have you ever made prints on Michael Jackson?

Have I what? Ooh, I met, I didn't meet. I saw Michael Jackson on two occasions. Okay. First occasion was at the BT Awards. Everybody got to see him perform. I was there at the show. In LA.

Second time I met Michael Jackson. So I'm pretty cool with Teddy Riley. You know, Teddy Riley did a lot of songs with Michael Jackson. And I had a buddy named Lint Brand who was even more cooler with Teddy. And at that moment, Teddy was in a studio with Michael Jackson. This was, I don't remember what year this was. Definitely before he died. It wasn't after he died.

Yeah. Again. Hopefully you ain't meet with Mike after he died. That means I'm dead, motherfucker. But it was in the studio. Teddy was doing, producing something with Michael Jackson. And I remember sitting in the waiting area, right? And then Michael Jackson was in the studio.

So now, for some reason, Michael Jackson did not like to be seen. Right. He had a mask on back then. Well, no, he had a mask on. He was just like, let's say this is a waiting area, okay? This is the studio. This is the bathroom. When Michael Jackson went to the bathroom from the studio,

there was two niggas that had a big board that followed him. So people in the waiting area wouldn't look at him. Oh, I need to go to the studio. There was two niggas that had a big board that followed him. So people in the waiting area wouldn't look at him. Oh, I need to see him. Oh, I need to see him. Yeah, and I peeped him. Right. So that was the second time

I met him. You peeped at Michael or you peeped at some important motherfucker? No, no, no. I mean, I was able to like peep my own. That's the nigga right there.

Because his curls was coming out? Yeah, the baby hair and everything. So that's the closest I ever got to meet Michael Jackson. Now, some nigga wore pads. Some walked back with a board

with two guys holding a board so you don't look at him. I'm like, okay, I sell him. Sorry about that. My bad. And then how about Prince?

Never met Prince? Prince, just, I just, the thing about it, I've went to almost every BET Awards and I've saw Prince perform

at one of the awards. That's it. That's it. That's it, man. Was his ass out? No, his ass wasn't out. Okay. He had, they were both covered.

No ass cheeks out, no. Good. Mm. You see? Listen, hold on. Yeah. Y'all gonna act like

his ringtone wasn't way out of line? No, no, no. His ringtone was out of line. It's my playlist. My playlist is the Applebee's, man. By the way, why do you still got a ringtone?

It's not a ringtone. It wasn't a ring. I accidentally. You are. That's his regular ringtone. That's his regular ringtone. I love my African music, man. You got a ringtone. It's not a ringtone, nigga. That nigga went to iTunes and said,

you have to keep the ringtones open. I'm the only nigga that's going to have a real ringtone in 2023. Apple said, you're that important. No problem. No, I'm like, man, for real, man. And what is the nationality of your lady? Rada, she's Cambodian. Oh, I smoked that weed.

Why you say that? I smoked Cambodian weed. That I smoked that weed. Why you say that? I smoked Cambodian weed. That's my favorite weed. I swear to God, I didn't know that was a real place. I swear to God. Like, until you just said that, just now it fucked me up. Because niggas come see me, yo, this that Cambodian. I was like, that sound good.

I never really kind of knew. I'm so sorry. This is crazy Is that near Philippines? It's gotta be right? Yeah I think it is right Cambodia? Is it next to

Southeast Asia Oh Southeast Asia That's not What country is next to you? Venezuela Vietnam Okay Wow that's dope

Alright I was I was close in my vision That's dope But not in real life What country you guys Had a war with? What country was that? Cambodia I'm saying who fought you When you had Becoming a war with? What country was that? Cambodia.

I'm saying, who fought you when you had to become an asylum? I had to Google it. It's Cambodian. It's Cambodian. For real, it's like a civil war. That was David Wanda. That's one thing that happened a lot in the continent. It's been a lot of civil wars.

Niggas always fighting each other. They don't want to civil wars. Like, niggas always fighting each other. They don't want to go fight. Real bitch niggas don't fight other countries. They fight each other. But that's one thing I can say about Ghana. Ghana has never had a civil war. Almost every other country in Africa has had a civil war where a certain tribe fight

another tribe, or the west side fight the east side. You know, but Ghana has never had a civil war. Hotel Rwanda, what is it? I don't know much about that i know nigeria back in the day the ebo people fought ebo fought the yorubas or whatever so ebo was the east and it fought the yoruba in liberia there was a civil war that destroyed half of the country no liberia is like where the slaves went back to when they were

allowed to be free. There was a big civil war. Libya, yeah, yeah. And then you got like,

Joseph Kony was from like, was that you, was that Libya or Uganda? Yo, Kony, yo,

Kony, I still don't got my Kony shirts. Yo, I paid for the, you know what I mean? So I did a movie, I did my own independent movie And I'm gonna redo this movie

It was called Kony Kony Montana Can I be there I want it I'm gonna put you I'm gonna put you It was called

Kony Montana Kony Montana So I played Uganda Right So a lot of A lot of these countries They were always like

Civil wars In their own country Nigga you a real thug Go fight another motherfucker Don't fight the niggas. I'm fighting... You know who was trying to be like Coney a little bit? Who? El Chapo. For real? Because remember, Coney was

doing interviews, and then El Chapo because of Sean Penn and the chick, El Chapo, did an interview like Coney and got caught. Take some shot for me being scientific. That was scientific right shot for me being scientific. That was scientific right there. That was scientific, even though it made no sense at all.

I just needed a reason to take a shot. Yeah, word. How does civil war work? Yeah, you know what? We can't weigh too deep. No, I just want to know. It's just like two different... It works like it works in Jamaica. Is it a disagreement?

Hold on, is it a disagreement? Yeah. In Jamaica, the like it work in Jamaica. Is it a disagreement? Hold on. Is it a disagreement? Yeah. In Jamaica, the Bloods and Crips... Is it whatever? It's Dominicans, Democrats and Republicans in Jamaica. You know that? The Bloods and Crips are Democrats and Republicans in Jamaica. That's a fact.

Wow. And they beef each other. And the government support. Go ahead, Blood. Go ahead, blood. Go ahead, crib. Well, the question was, is Civil War military when he's talking about, like, it's not Ghana, but it's over there.

Is it Civil War military? Well, like, Civil War is pretty much... Or is it really villages, like a discipline? Yeah, it's... Sometimes it's tribes versus tribe, or, you know, a certain part for a certain part. I think with Nigeria, you know, it was like the East versus the West, and the East wanted to be their own country, and the West was not allowed to have that shit happen.

And that was called the Biafra War, you know, and that was like, and then like, Beria, you know, it was more like the Conca, I want to say the natives against the Conca. The Conca were like the ones like came back. And then the natives, right. So it's always different things,

but it's always, it's in the country. Not necessarily. It could be, sometimes it is a civilian, it could be the civilian versus the country. Not necessarily. It could be... I want to hear... Sometimes it is a civilian. It could be the civilian

resisting military. It's so many different... Russia, Ukraine. Back in the day... If you understand, like, military means it's serious. Back in the day...

And I'm trying to... Back in the day in Africa, in most countries, like, let's say, before they came up with these... Now they have a four years or six years president where you get to term. Prior to term, these niggas being off as long as they want.

20 years. 20 years, and then all of a sudden the military, like this nigga's eating up all the money. He's getting fat because Africa, when you're fat, it's good. In Africa, when you're fat, it's good. In Africa, when you're fat, it means you're getting rich. In America, when you're fat, it means you're obese, you're on welfare, you're ugly. In Africa, it's totally different. So in Africa, when you're getting fat, I didn't think you're getting rich and getting all that money.

And then if I'm going to, whoever knock these niggas off, whoever knock them off could take over. But things have changed now. Now almost every country has like a four-year term. I know Liberia has a six-year term. So now nobody stays there longer than four or five years unless you vote the nigga in. I was telling him about back in the day in know, a lot of time when a nigga become president, he's a president almost as long as he want to be. And then people start noticing this nigga is getting fat. In Africa, fat is good. It means you are rich, you're eating

all the food. You know what I mean? Because when I came to America, I thought every fat person was rich. I used to be I used to be in love with Oprah till she lost weight after this bitch losing her money. That killed that. You know,

but like in Africa fat is rich and when them niggas notice that you are getting fat and eating up all the money you got all the money you are getting successful

and we are poor and my fucker a military nigga gonna get mad and eating up all the money. You got all the money. You are getting successful and we are poor. A motherfucker, a military nigga is going to get mad and bust you in the head and then he takes over. Or you take over and you put somebody else in there.

Right. It's in the country. That's a civil war. Right. You know, America had some civil wars, right? The back end.

You act like we're really American. We're just fronting. Yeah, we're just out here bullshitting. We're just here killing off the land. We just fronting. Yeah, we just out here bullshit. We just here killing off the land. We don't really want to know American history. Christopher Columbus, fuck him. We don't want to know about him.

Puerto Rico anyway. Yeah, we Puerto Rican. We Puerto Rican, man. You know what I mean? So what's your favorite part? Or if you had to choose, would it be making movies or performing on stage? It's definitely performing on stage, man.

This is the gift that God gave me to go on stage and make fun of things and everything that's happening and make fun of people. You know, that's just a natural gift.

You know, the movies and television, those are all like an extra bonus that comes with it. That's why when people text me me like Mike you know if you stay this African nigga

you're going to be typecast I'm like fuck that stand up is my thing I'm not going to be fake I'm not you know I'm going to stick with this is me you know what I mean

and they're going to have to accept me for who I am just like they eventually accepted Bernie Mac and give the nigga a show to give him a show that goes with what he is you know what I mean?

He wasn't scared of no motherfuckers. He wasn't scared of no motherfuckers. And you're going to have a mother sucker. You're going to have a mother sucker for motherfuckers. It's coming. His is coming, and I feel it's coming soon. I'm so sorry, man. I got to give you one more, man.

One more flower? Yes. I appreciate you, man. Listen, man. Oh, damn. Why is mine like this and his like this? They're looking out for you. They're looking out for you. Because you built a school in Africa. Yes, I did build a school. Listen, man. Oh, damn. Why is mine like this and his like this? They looking out for you. They looking out for you.

Because you built a school in Africa. Yes, I did build a school. A whole school, nigga. How many black boys? Who all got a school? Who all have a school? Think of, let's do, what other black thing has a school? Puffy got a school.

Puffy has a school. And who else? Puffy got a school. That's it. LeBron James has a school. LeBron James. Only real rich niggas. Let's make some noise. Only make some noise.

Rich guys. Let's make some noise. I ain't get enough money to get a school. LeBron has a school. P. Diddy and Oprah. Come on, man. For you to add me to that list is amazing. No, it's true.

It's true. I'm going to open a two-on-two basketball court somewhere. No, he's trash. The whole community'm going to open a two-on-two basketball court somewhere. The whole community. Somewhere in Sherwood. Yeah, yeah. It's going to be next to the left frack in between Greensboro. It's going to be a half court. Don't make me laugh.

You know what? It is a good feeling of doing this and giving back to my people. Because, you know, I'm hoping that every other entertainer you know regardless of where you're from whether you're from the hood in fucking Liberty City or you're from North Philly you're from the Bronx you're from Southeast D.C.

you're from fucking Oakland Compton wherever state you're from and you make it in life don't forget where you came from. That's right. God damn it. Go back and give back. Go back and give back.

Reach back. Go back and give back. And I promise, this is the last shot. We snuck this in. This is the last shot. I promise. I hope you and your lovely fiance have a wonderful day. I'm telling you right there.

The thing about it, when I drink a lot like this, I start, she going to make me, y'all going to make me eat her ass. You're making me eat shit, motherfucker. Yes, sir. That was my last question. Do you eat ass? But obviously, we don't have that question. No, I stop eating ass.

Why? Come on, building schools, my nigga. Don't be the president. I'm going to leave it at that. Don't need to elaborate. The moral of the story is once you start building schools, you stop eating ass. Leave it alone. Come on, let's take the picture.

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