Drink Champs - Episode 517 w/ Mojo Brookzz

Episode Date: October 2, 2026

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode we chop it up with the legend himself, Mojo Brookzz! The Champs are back with another unforgettable conversation, and this time, Mojo Brookzz pulls up to the DC table! Known for his unique perspective, personality, and deep connection to hip-hop culture, Mojo Brookzz sits down with the Champs for a raw and unfiltered conversation about his journey, experiences, and the moments that helped shape his career. Mojo takes the Champs through his story, sharing personal experiences, industry memories, and plenty of behind-the-scenes gems from his time around the culture. From the people who influenced him to the lessons learned along the way, Mojo keeps it real while reflecting on the highs, lows, and everything in between. As always, no Drink Champs conversation is complete without some wild stories, laughs, unexpected revelations, and plenty of drinks! Mojo Brookzz opens up about the relationships, moments, and experiences that fans may have never heard before. Pull up a seat, pour one up, and get ready for another legendary conversation where the drinks keep flowing and the stories never stop. This is Mojo Brookzz like you’ve never heard him before — only on Drink Champs! Make some noise for Mojo Brookzz!!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆 Listen and subscribe at https://www.drinkchamps.comFollow:Drink Champshttps://www.drinkchamps.comhttps://www.instagram.com/drinkchampshttps://www.twitter.com/drinkchampshttps://www.facebook.com/drinkchampsDJ EFNhttps://www.crazyhood.comhttps://www.instagram.com/whoscrazyhttps://www.twitter.com/djefnhttps://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductionsN.O.R.E.https://www.instagram.com/therealnoreagahttps://www.twitter.com/noreagaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You should be this, your boy, N-A-O-N-A-A? Yeah, you know what's me? Cyphussef, very famous to New York. Was good. Just New York? Huh? And this is drink champ, military crazy. I know this man doesn't notice,

but the person that I'm about to introduce is hands down my favorite new comedian. I know he doesn't know this. I don't know that. I know he doesn't notice. I, this man can go on stage. He can go in any crowd. He will light it up.

He'll make you call your spouse. He'll make you call. He'll make you find out you gay and you ain't even know you was gay. You're just like, man, I went on a date. A man date I ain't even know. Like, he is one of the funniest people on the planet. I call one of the other funniest people on the planet because to come in and guest hosts with me

In case you'll know I'm talking about this man, I'm telling you from skits to whatever he is the undeniable, the renaissance man, he's the guy if you don't know he is, then you are under a rock. And the motherfucker-and-a-mo-ho-whoop. But this is how ghetto I am. I spelled your name with a Z. Okay, no, that's cool.

That's how I spell it. Okay, okay, Z-Z. Okay, all right, because when the white people spelled it, K-A-S, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They've been trying to give me to change it, just the ass for, like, the last two years. Okay, hold on. All the white people try to get you to put it,

put the S in it. They want me to change it to like how my name is really spelled with the ass. You should do it like that. Oh, so the Z is for this old pound. They feel like the Z is like ghetto. They feel like Z is ghetto. I like the Z. So you come down, two Z's.

Two Zs on that. So now if I'm going to get rid of them, it's going to be one of the time. Let me tell you something, Syf and, oh, Joe. One of the things about being an artist is having that art to react on stage. Right? It's one thing to have a hit record. You ever see the guy have a hit record or, and then they go on stage? You're like, man, he didn't even care.

Like, one thing about you, bro, from the beginning of when you walk on stage, to the end, you, it's like you detect your fucking audience. Like, you tear that shit apart. Like, my DJ, right? My DJ goes in the crowd and he tell tell me what we're going to perform before we perform. But he has that time. How do you do that when you go on? Man, it just happened right there. Like, you know, when I first walk out there.

But, you know, I don't think a lot of people really understand the way the mind of a comedian really works. And you've been on stage, so you definitely know. But, you know, a lot of times of what's coming out of our mouth is not what we're actually thinking. Right. So what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying, I could be saying something, but I can be really thinking about what I'm about to say, 10 minutes from now, all while, you know, observing the room and just paying attention to different tendencies. Like, I look at everything.

Like, if it's a guy and a lady sitting to each other, I'm watching. As I'm performing, I'm watching how they interact with each other. Are they together? Who do this look like a first date? So I'm observing a room like that. Even if it's two dudes, like, that's going to raise an eyebrow right away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are doing here?

What are those? I believe it was two dudes you had. the audience and you but they were like, they were like masculine dudes, but they were on a date and you caught it like the Miami guy. I think I was in I think that's when I was

I think I was in, no no, no, because I heard it happen twice, but one of the times the dudes was actually gay. Oh wow. And they were sitting in, they was kind of sitting in the back, but one of the dudes, he wasn't, he wasn't ready for the world to know. Okay,

you know what I'm saying? But I've seen it. Okay, this wasn't. This wasn't the bus driver guy, right? This was the bus driver guy, yeah, cool, cool, cool, cool. Flip one you tell the thing because I'm talking this.

Yeah. So I see something when I seen them, bro, I'm telling you. And that was, when I finally said something, it was the end of my set. And I had, I had been seeing it all night long. And I was like, you know what? Let me find out. And what I'm thinking.

Most times it'd be me trying to figure out if I didn't guess this shit right, the whole show. Right. So when I went over there to him, you know, the one dude was really loud about it. And the other dude, like I said, you know, he put his head down. Like, man, they called.

We called. But, no, man, just, you know, just being able to just, you know, I always tell people this is that if you just have a conversation with just any random person in the world, you're going to find out something interesting about them just based off the questions that you ask. So if I'm sitting in the room of four or five hundred people, it's something in here, you know what I'm saying, that we're going to be able to laugh at or, you know what I'm or it's going to be something interesting to learn just about just a regular person

that we sit next to. Right. Now, internet sketch comedy, right? It's like a lot of people say that because, you know, you have the edits. Like a lot of the comedians who got famous through Instagram, a lot of the comedian who got famous through the rawness just hitting the stage, they critique them sometimes,

not in like a bad way, but just say like, you know what? It's in a bad way. It isn't a bad way. Yeah, you ain't got to shoot coat that shit. Them old niggins be mad, man. Here's what my point I'm trying to make, right? How did you battle? Because you got the skits.

Like, you got funny skits. You got, you got, you got to sit this up-to-date. It stays there. But you balance it by killing on the stage. Now, I'm going to be honest. This is the reason why I said you were my favorite comedian as of now. It's because I don't see other people having that balance. Like, to me, if you ask me hands down right now,

When it comes to sketch comedy, I'm giving it to Drewski sketch internet, um, Instagram comedy. Like, it becomes just that, one alone, like, like, every fucking skit, yeah. Like the OG, the OG that's, oh, where are you there? Yeah, but I know him. I know that guy. The Joe Jackson's skit was funny. Every time he got to go in and get that. Yeah, yeah.

Janet got offended by that. That's how you know it was real. It was real. Yeah, they came out. I was like, book you. Yeah. She didn't say that, but she said something. You know actually failed, though.

But what I'm saying is, now, I'm going to bet my money. Like, if someone said, hey, like, even, I would put him against Dave Chappelle. Like, I know that's being disrespectful, but I'm not being disrespectful. No, what about. Drewski, like, as far as just the sketch comedy, just for three minutes. Like, I'm not saying the 28, 28, you know, Dave Chappelle whole show. I'm saying for that, for, for, for it to fit Instagram. Yeah.

Like, I feel like Ruski is up there with anybody. But now, yeah. Can I bring him to them to him to? Apollo? You know, here's the thing, man. I haven't seen Drewski, you know, on stage. And that, honestly,

may not be his thing. You know what I'm saying? That might not be his thing. And I think a lot of times, you know, they try to group the comedians as, okay, if you do stand-up, then you're a real comedian. But if you do skits, then you just, a skid comedian. I just think if your job, if the end goal is to make people laugh,

then you're a comedian. You may be a comedic actor. Right. You may be a stand-up comedian. You may do both. But I don't think that takes away from it. So I don't think Drewski has to do stand-up to kind of solidify himself in the comedy game. Because here's the thing.

If Dave Chappelle never went off and did stand-up, would we not be saying that the Chappelle show was one of the greatest shows of all time? I have to agree and disagree because I believe his stand-up is what guy. him the roles in the movies, which trickled down to the Chappelle's show. Yes. Yeah. So I believe, like, a little bit what you're going to say. I'm going to be honest with you.

I've seen the Chappelle show. I don't really recall any stand-up specials from him back way then. I more so remember seeing him in the movies. Oh, okay. He was what you said. Yeah, I hear what you said. I remember that. I remember like, it's not a Chappelle stand up from back there.

It was no. It wasn't classic. What you saying? It wasn't. Yeah. It wasn't classic. He was. He was doing stand-ups, yes.

It wasn't anything from there. You're correct, yes, yes, yes. It wasn't anything from back there that we can pull from that and be like. His stand-up stand-ups came out after the Chappelle show. I would have to agree with you. Once he came back from when he left and he started dropping the stand-ups, then it was like, damn, no, this really, you know what I'm saying? Because he already had his hook from the show.

Right, right. I trusted him. I just will ask, how old are you? 36. Yeah, he was doing stand-up way before. No, I know that he was, but what I'm saying is, tell me a classic stand-up special from back then. It's like

these reasonable doubt is his no, his first one, killing me softly is a classic Yeah, that's right. I'm going to

Hill, I'm on Brooklyn, right? Was it that in the Brooklyn? No, I forgot where he did that one. It was Brooklyn or Jersey either. Yeah, but that one is a classic but you have to be a real

hip-time. The Chappelle show is what took him over the top. Yeah, that's all I was saying. He's always been doing stand-up. And the thing that you're saying about these, internet comics, not all of them

necessarily want to be stand-up. Stand-up is a very specific thing. This guy is skilled enough to do it all. But the problem that he said, old niggins that got a problem with is these internet comedians that then go on stage,

but they don't have the stage presence or the jokes. So they're like, well, why are you going on stage then? Drusky said, I remember Cameron Hart yelled at Drewski. He was like, get on stage. And he was like, I don't really, I don't do stand-down. That's cool that we have technology now that we can skip certain levels.

If we had the, like, you know, like... It's not skis. I don't think it's a different... I just think it's a different... Okay, so I'll put it like this in the way you're saying it, right? What took them 20 years back then to do, it can take someone like me to. Right. Even less.

With social media, you can cut it in a half. Yeah. But one thing about... One thing about me and I... And I could just really speak on my experience. If we look at a lot of the other dudes that kind of blew up from social media and jumped into the stand-up world, like the DCN flies and the country wanes and the Desi Banks, you got to think when they blew up, they wasn't doing stand-up.

Right. You know what I'm saying? It turned into you got to do stand-up now. So they had to go and they had to go and try to learn this skill as they were already gaining all of this notaritory. And that's hard in itself because you're not getting an opportunity to go into rooms where people don't know you and you can try to work it out. They was going into rooms where everybody's going to be funny. I tell people all the time, my rise to where I was, where I met, it was a slow rise. So while my sketches probably was taking a little longer to hit, I was doing stand-up, but I was able to go in rooms.

People didn't know me. So I was able to kind of work that muscle. So when I finally popped, I was ready. Right. So I'm walking in the rooms and people like, damn, he polished. How he polished like this? Because I had already been, you know, I had already been putting in the work. Right.

Now, you come up from Chicago, correct? Yeah. Now, how does a person, because when you think of Chicago, you don't think of comedians all for it, but Bernie Mac? Who we got? Oh, we got that one got. Okay, so on Bernie Mac? Yeah. D-ray.

D-ray, Corny, yeah. David Williams. Yeah. Dale Givens. Damon Williams Robin Harris Robert Harris from Chicago Yeah

Oh I didn't know that Yeah Chicago I'm from Peoria Illinois Okay Which is y'all He has to block Yeah that's a lot

He's from Yonkers So how does a person That's coming up from Chicago How do they get into this game How do they Because again Like you said you used the tools On Instagram

Well I said it And you co-signed it Is that The end or be all right now for a new comedian. What is that? Like, you know, is it social media? I mean, here's the thing.

I think social media is very important. And if you want to be an entertainment industry, social media is very important. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just, there's no way around it. And I think a lot of times people just think that you just got to be funny. And it's really a business, too, at the same time.

And you've got to market yourself. And, you know, you got to attract the people that's going to like what you putting out. Right. So, you know, we go back to back in the day when comedians was in New York and they're going from the cellar to this spot to this spot to this spot. They're doing five shows, five six shows a night just to be able to get up and, you know what I'm saying, to get on stage and hopefully be seen by some agent or some executive or something like that. Where now you can, your social media is your resume. You know what I'm saying? And people can go and look at it and say, okay, well, he then convinced three million people to follow him based on what he doing.

he must be doing something right. Let's take a deeper dive. Whereas they go see a guy, yeah, this dude funny. We go to his page. He got 1,500 followers, and it's like, yeah, okay, he's funny, but who cares?

You know what I'm saying? So I think the social media is definitely, it's just a big part of it. It ain't nowhere around it. And what I'd be trying to get the old heads to understand is that instead of sitting around, okay, instead of sitting around, you know,

complaining about how this shit going, how I ain't doing that social media and shit listen a nigga like me didn't complain when I had to learn how to do it y'all way I didn't complain I didn't say I ain't going to go do no damn open mic like I ain't say that

they told me this is what it took to get to where I need to go this is what I'm going to do so if we're telling y'all this is what it take you know what I'm saying order for you to get where you're trying to go I just really don't even understand why you wouldn't do it's like social media

media is going to put you in a place where you ain't got to work as hard as nearly as hard as you head to back then. You could be right at your crib. Right. Find out what your niche is and put that out. Because I'm telling you, that's the only way. People talking about they're not selling tickets, but I see so many comedians complaining about, oh, ain't nobody buying tickets. That's because people are paying for what they want to see.

Like, if you go on my page and you see my clips, you're like, damn, I want to experience. says live. Show me what I'm getting. Because like you said, it's been a lot of dudes blow up from social media. Right. And they get to the show

and it's like, oh, no, this ain't it. Yeah. This ain't what I was seeing online. You know what I'm saying? So I would encourage all the old heads.

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who wants the real discovery, the real stories, this is your podcast. This is the R&B Money podcast. Listen to R&B Money from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. So, like, I'm bouncing around, but I wanted to correlate this because a friend of mine is, right, as I'm researching you, a friend of mine's had an album release party, Buster Rhymes, right? And he actually did the exact opposite of you, right?

So you, on one hand, you let everyone film. Like, you kind of, like, encourage people to film at the show? At the show? No, no. Oh, really? But that's what it seems like. No, no, no. So really, bro, at my shows, we at the point.

now where we like locking phones up. Locking, locking up. Okay, okay. The yonder bag. Okay, okay. That's what they call the yonder bag. I gotta take that. That's the whole. That's the, that's how like that's how much.

The yonder bag's up. Word up. The yonder bag's okay. No, man, definitely, you know, you want this stuff locked up because, you know, we do have like a, we do have a routine and you don't want people to, you know, to record that and put that out on social media. Right. Because now it's like, now people that came to the show

and they didn't already hurt the shit. They know your jokes, yeah. Because that was my point because a lot of your things when you were on stage, I can see it being promoted from a third party, right? So that's like, that's like a good thing, right? But then I'm watching Buster Rhyms, and he's making everyone, like, kind of like lock their phones up and he's telling people not to do it.

So I'm like, damn, is it a good thing? Because it's a good thing because your music doesn't get bootleg, right? Yeah. But sometimes, like, that one little snippet of something, somebody having that and they're going out and people being so thirsty of it. That's the viral moments. Like, viral doesn't have permission. Like, to go viral, you don't need permission. I feel like when they come to the music, it's like, y'all should let them have their phones out.

Only because it's like, just hear me out. No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, right? Chris Brown and Usher now I'm out right now. Yeah, yeah. Some niggas is fucking, yeah. They're doing the same songs that we all know. Hits. Hits.

They're doing hits. Like, we all know these songs when we go, we know us are going to do nice and slow. You know, we know Chris Brown going to do running. Like, we know all these songs. Like, we know them. So to me, it's like, like, show the atmosphere, show the vibe, show, you know, show how much of a good time is. I just don't, you know, I guess when you do get certain parts of your show,

like, I think Rod Wave hit. the thing one time when he was falling off of the, you know, off of the... Who the big guy, Rowery? Yeah, right. You know, he'd be falling off the shit? Hell yeah. Oh, no, I didn't know that. Yeah, look it up.

Right. Okay. He was on the balcony or something. He was on the balcony or something shit and just fell back. Oh, shit. Yeah. Love the crowd. They don't make a lot of the cats.

He's like, man. They ain't the kids. No. But, girl, I have these big niggies in the front of Rallway show. Just imagine being down to, like, No, you ain't for the far. But, no, he had a part. So, you know, I guess it is stuff like that

where you may want that to be like an element of surprise for the people who bought the tickets. So, you know, I can see it, I can see it, you know, both ways. But I feel like for the comedian, it's just a little different. Like, we can hear the same song a hundred times. You know what I'm saying? But you hear the same joke a hundred times. Yeah, it's not the same.

The comedy is based on the surprise. Yes. You said, yeah, something relatable, something you know, boom, punch. It's the surprise. You don't want to read it. ruin that. You know what's fucked up? And I noticed that

because I started to become friends with comedians. I'm spoiled when it comes to comedy. Like, if I go to Dave Chappelle show on Friday, and I know he's going to do the same show on Sunday, I probably only will go on Sunday because I see how he perfected it from Friday

to Sunday. But I'm like, spoil you. I'm like, all right, cool. I'm going to go to the next show when he uses another more material. And it's like, damn, that's so much pressure I'm going on your office. I ain't even know. Listen to me. I didn't have people, like, down here, I broke the record for the most old out show.

God, shit. God damn. Take a shot. Get that, got that monster, too. We got that monster and that espresso shot. Let's go. Let's go. But, God, damn.

God damn. So when you doing, so when you got, you know, you got nine different shows, every show, you know, every show going to, you know, every show going to be different. But I've had people this weekend that was at the show Thursday. Yes. And then we performed a last night. And they was like, man, I was here Thursday, bro. But it's a whole different show, then it was Thursday.

But it does put pressure on us, like, when they asked, hey, I'm coming to see you in Tampa later this year. Is it going to be the same thing we hope tonight, or is it going to be something different? It's just like. People ask you that. Yeah, sometimes they talk a little greasy when they talk to comics. Like, you're going to do the same jokes.

Bro, if you. That's the biggest thing that I'm learning about, you know, being in this space and, you know, and continuing to grow. I didn't realize that. What? I didn't realize how much more pressure. People will stop coming to see you.

If you use it, yes. You got two times. Especially with black people. That's it. You better come with some new shit. That's the second time they come and see you. And even if it's not all the way new, at least let 60% that would be.

Come with some shit they ain't heard. And the uniqueness about what I'm doing is my crowd work is going to be different every show. Because the crowd is different every show. The crowd is different. So my shows are different every time I get on stage. The material, though, you know what I'm saying? That could be, you know, right now, like the tour that I did last year,

the tour that I'm doing this year are two different. Right. It's way different material. Right. So, you know, but it's about you got to get in the clubs. You know what I'm saying? To kind of work on this stuff because now I'm at a point where I'm trying out new shit in front of people who didn't pay that money to want to laugh.

So I got to bring it. Right. Like, I got to make sure the new shit hidden. So it's a lot of pressure. Stop doing us like that. Right. No, it's hard with comedy because I tell people all the time, because I was a DJ first, right? You could sit in your room for two, three hours a day,

practice your DJ and you're going to get better. You can't practice comedy in your room. You have to do it on stage. Well, you can't practice funny? You need the audience. It's a give and take with the audience. Yeah, really. You can practice the words, but it's how they're going to react.

Yeah. Comedy's got to be on stage. It's the time and everything with it. But you got a built-in device and your show is different every time. You know, listen, I studied this shit out of your shows. That's what's crazy about your shows. At least to everything

I've been seeing and saw is your crowd and you have an understanding. That shit is, like listen, listen to me, that's not normal. Yeah. That's not normal. Like you have, for lack of a better term,

because I really have lack of a better term, you have a cult following. I mean, everything that I say, they know, like, even when it goes to the phone calls, when I'm about to call, before I even can say it, they in the crowd call them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it's, I mean, it's wicked, man, and I think I was talking to, me and Kevin Hart was talking, he had came to my show in New York, and he was like, man, he was like, if your, if your fans can't almost feel like they know you,

you're going to be all right. Oh, then that's a great advice. And after he came to the show and he was like, oh, yeah, they feel like they know you. Yeah, I feel like I know you. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I'm a fan.

The first time I made him, he was at, I don't know if y'all's seen his wild-and-out episode. Oh, y'all's fucking up. He was fucked up. Yeah. That's all they were talking about that. He was fucked up. Yes, I was.

When he came in and he saw me, he looked, he was like, I know you. Just walked off and he said shit in. And then he went on. I went on the episode. but I'm backstage. He told us one of the other

on TV. Let's make some time. I ain't going to lie. Now, Nick is another one. Yeah. Nick is another one where I appreciate his sketch comedy so much.

And I appreciate him catering to his sketches online. Like, he'd be funny. But then if I see him live on stage, I love Nick. Yeah. But I'm not going to Nick show on the stage. No, no, that's my man.

That's my man. But, you know, I'm going to be honest. He might not come to my Spanish show. You know what I'm saying? It's okay. It's okay. We have a, you know, we have an agreement. Was he going to be Spanish women now? Motherfucking, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did he come in? All right. I forgot. I forgot he had pregnant. People in the finger.

But that's what was crazy. It's like, for me, with you, it's like, and I know I can't probably say this with a lot of people. But I don't, I feel like you have a crowd, but I feel like you don't have a crowd, meaning what I say, what I say about that is, like, you can actually cater to each audience. Like I told you earlier, my DJ used to tell me, you know, listen, tonight we're going to do some Spanish records. Then he'll come back. He'll be like, listen, we're all black tonight.

Yeah. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, listen. We're on T-O-N-Y. We're all on like some rough guy shit. And then he'll come back and say, hey, man, we know we're going to do a little bit more our R&B. It's a lot more girls than a crowd tonight.

But for you, this is me asking you? Okay. Because this is for me seeing. Like, do you, like, if they say which is the time, Kansas, right? Yeah. And then they say Atlanta. Yeah.

Is that the same show? No. You got to, okay, okay, yeah. Here's the thing, you know, for me, my thing is as far as the material, I'm writing material that is, you know,

that anybody can understand. It don't matter what color you is. Universal. Yeah, it's just very universal. Like, I'm talking about shit that we all have been through, and if you ain't been through it, you know somebody, you know, who's been

through it. Now, what I will say is that when you go to certain cities, you might got to say it a little different. So when I go to Atlanta, you know what I'm saying? I might, I might got to put a little... Shardy? When I go to Wichita, Kansas,

I may not have to be that aggressive with it. I may can say it in a way where, you know, they get it. Like, it's just all in the delivery. But, yeah, you change it, but I don't... It's certain jokes that I will do. If I'm like, okay, I got a, I got a, I got a joke about Mexicans, right?

If I see it's a lot of, and it ain't even really necessarily about Mexicans, but it's a Mexican twist in the joke. But if I see that we got Mexicans there tonight, then, you know, I look at the room, I'll be like, okay, well, I'm going to throw this in there tonight. So it's just really clear. So you cater to them. I cater to it. Okay, yeah, okay.

Yeah, okay. But that all goes back to me, wanting to make sure that every show is different because now I've reached a status where people are, you know, flying from. different cities that you know they're coming to see me so bless bro yeah so it's it god bless wait but you ever do like a older black show or like even might be like a church show i did a church show and you got to be like how do i how do i not curse you got a church show yeah because you can't curse yeah and you can't even say penis like that's like why would you say that in I don't know.

Why is that's called? Why is penis the one like You can't down? I don't know. You can't say penis in the church. I'm saying because that's clean, right? That's not a bad word technically. But you can't say you can't say coochie.

Like, I wouldn't prefer that. You know. Penis, I don't. But you could do it. You can turn the cursing off. Yeah, I could turn it off. If it's like, if I go in there and you cannot curse it. You cannot curse it.

It's rough for me. It's hard. It's hard, bro. It is hard, bro. I'm in the Middle East. I'm, no curses. Yeah, yeah. I just had to do the TV track.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oversee. Yeah, it's certain stuff. Like, they was talking about me coming over there to do a show and they was like, yeah, it's certain shit you can't. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They say it's certain shit you cannot. Oh, and if you say it'll take you to the dance. It's not that much, bro. There's people there that's there for that. To monitor your, your dialect. Yeah, yeah. It ain't much, bro.

There's a lot of people like that. I did a lot of shows out there. This monster shit got me going crazy. It ain't much. Now, you can't say. That you can't say? Yeah. Like, it's changing a lot, right?

I went out there with Chappelle. I went out there with Moama. Right. Who's Arab? They don't talk about the religion. Okay. Don't talk about the royals. Don't disrespect the religion.

Other than not, they let us fly. No, I heard. They say, they don't want you to talk about no gay shit. They don't want you to talk about that gay shit out there. No, that's what I'm saying. But I'm just saying, like, you can't say, dick and pussy out there neither? I did.

You did? Yeah. Man, I'm sure. Let him tell you. No, no. You know, you're not saying you're not believing at all. Next thing I know what my fucking ladlead leaves in a devil. You know what I'm saying?

You're like future DJ now. You're 56 days. This motherfucker do my. Oh, my God. So, um, one time, right, I was doing a reggae thones show, right? Mm-hmm. And, uh... The Spanish music.

Yeah. Hold on. Wait, just check it. Hold on. You just check it. Hold on. Yeah. You're just checking.

He's from Chicago, man, cool. I'm from Chicago. But you're not from Humboldt Park? And I'm from Humboldt Park. You're from there? I'm from Humboldt Park. Oh, he's fishing. Oh, he's fishing.

He's after a couple of people. He's down to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know that. Puerto Rican style. I was the best friends with a bunch of last kids. Yeah, yeah, got damn, got that. I want to apologize. I'm sorry, bro.

So check it, right? So the Pomoto told me that certain artists did not want to come on after me. Like, I had to close the show, right? Like, he was really weird. I don't want to say it right now. Don't know more. But we're going to say it. I said it.

I said it. You said it. Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, it wasn't said to me, right? So what I'm trying to say to you is I have read a story or heard a story where you was caught in the airport. Mm-hmm. And Mike Epps was the closer. Yeah.

But you wanted to make the show, you did an Instagram post. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You posted it. Yeah, I wasn't going to make it. My flight had got canceled. And did this one we was on the weed and ones to her. So it was me, 85 South. Yeah.

And I think it was me 85 South. Mike Epps. I think T.K. Kirkland was on there. And Mike Epps, it was the headline. And this was my third year doing it. And the first year, I was the opener. You know what I'm saying? And in the second year, they moved me up, maybe about a slot or two.

And then this past year was kind of like, you know, I was walking out getting standing ovations at the show. It didn't matter where they hit me at. Like, I was just, like, these people was going crazy when I was walking out. But that particular show was Memphis. Memphis easily, like, one of my biggest markets. And I could just feel like how excited they was. Like, they was DMV.

It is waiting for you. We came to wait for you. So now we at the airport, and the weather was bad that day. So the first flight got canceled. So then we tried to go get on the American Airlines. So we switch over to America. They got a flight, everything looking good. We getting ready to board.

And then they had to fly to that. No steward is. So we're sitting there, and it's over. Like, and I ain't going to lie to you, bro. It wasn't even, it wasn't even like about nothing else other than that I just really wanted to do the show. So, I waited to the last minute. The show had probably started about this about 8, 8.30. I make the video like, yo, Memphis, I'm not going to make it.

I'm going to make it up to y'all. And, I mean, it was people pissed. Like, I mean, they sent me messages. Like, hey, you ain't going to make it. You should have brought your ass out of the day before. Are they thinking you pranking them at the time? No, no, no, you can see it. No, you can see in my face.

Okay. Like the shit was real. So maybe about 15, 20 minutes, like me and the promoter, man. Shout out to my boy Blake with being in entertainment. But me and the promoter, we get on the phone. And he was like, hey, listen, just we're going to hold a show as long as we can. Just let me know if you're able to get out. So out of nowhere the flight attendants come, we get on the plane, bro.

You start clapping for a flight attendant, right? They started clapping. The bitch should have been there, man. I'm going to miss his money, man. This shit crazy. man. But no, bro, we get on the plane, and I was sitting next to this, to this white lady on the plane, bro, and she was a stud. And I normally don't, you know,

I like to get on a plane, put my headphones on go to sleep, but I talk to this lady all the way there, and she just kept on telling me, oh, you're going to make it, she's going to make it. I'm like, no. I'm like, I'm looking at the town right now. You know, we're just now taking off, like, I'm not going to make it. She's like, no, you're going to make it. So as soon as we land, the promoter call me, it's like 1030. The show, normally, normally ends at about 1030. Wow.

So they can call me. He said, yo, where you at? I said, we just landed. I said, Mike is getting ready to, you know,

they say, he said, Mike, well, Mike, getting ready to go up. He said, man, it would be player

if Mike go ahead and let you close. Now, this is that, you know. This is big in a comedian world, right? Yeah.

I just want, I want the fans to understand. Yeah. That's the reason why I said that story earlier. Yeah. Okay, okay. So,

you know, when the headliner goes on stage, that's it. that's it. Ain't no special gas. Everybody leaving. Like, that's it.

And most headliners don't want anyone else to go up on stage after them. You know what I'm saying? Like, it just is what it is. I've seen it. So, and I mean, I'm guilty of it.

Like, I've done shows and the motherfucker pop in. Like, hey, man, can I go up? I mean, not after me. Shit, I don't do it. Right, right. You missed it. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, yeah. So, man, so he was like, man, every player Mike let you close. So they hit me back about 10 minutes and was like, yo, hurry up and get here. Mike going to let you close. You know, we're going to stretch and show how much as we can. Had you met Mike prior to that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This was like, this was the third tour we was doing together. So, you know, about this time, me and Mike was cool. And, you know, Mike had already kind of like kind of had, you know, started recognizing me as this is a new young dude that's coming up, you know. And so they called me back. They said, man, Mike going to let you close. So now Mike on stage and Mike doing anything he can. to keep the people that he's stretching the show like

yo y'all mojo coming like he's 10 minutes away that's crazy so we get there and uh man i get out the cop bro i get to the stage and uh somebody just pushed me like just go so i walk up on the stage man i walk out and mike was trying to introduce me but by this time i'm already out on the stage

bro the arena i just ain't never seen nothing like that shit man i mean it went crazy I ended up doing my set, but even like when I walked off, I still had chills from how, like, I've never seen like it was people leaving. When I got on stage, I saw people walking back to come to their seats. Wow. That's fire. It was like, at that moment, it was just like, hey, you different. And, you know, being on that tour for three years, right, I talked to a lot of dudes that, you know, I don't want to.

close. I don't want to close. Like, I don't want to go after all these comedians. I don't want to do this. So that was kind of in the back of my head, like, you know, this was a hard thing to do or this was a thing like that was frowned upon that just the other comedians didn't want to do. And when I did it, and like, do you know, the crowd was in it, I said, damn, I'm like, well, this ain't that bad. You know what I'm saying? Like, why don't want to, you know what don't know what I don't know what I want to do it? But when you think about it, and you got six, seven dudes go up before you, man, everybody that talked about everything.

You know what I'm saying? So going out there after all of that And then some of these dudes, the energy that they bring in D.C. Going out to D.C. on fly, bro, and all that dancing and shit he do when you come out, man. And, bro, it's different.

And then I went after Mike Epps. You know what I'm saying? The headliner, who they can't see, Michael Legend. So I just never forget. Like, I think that was, like, one of the moments where I was like, this shit for real.

Yeah. It's like these people are not playing about me. And it had to be a great co-sign because, like, If you, like, put, like, a couple of the goats and you say, like, where, where, where, linear you came from? Yeah. Like, I can see your style up. Like, it fits with Mike.

Yeah, man, yeah, definitely. But you got to think, Mike from Indianapolis. I'm from Chicago. We're right next dope. You know what I'm saying? Me and Mike was just talking, you know, I want to say a couple days ago, he called me. And, you know, we just kind of talked about how we able to kind of, you know, understand each other, you know, just based off our backgrounds and, you know, where we both, you know, where we both come from. So, but yeah, Mike definitely

And I know all your light skin people go to the same karate class. I know all of your Joe buttons, Drake. I'll be sure. Yeah, I'll be sure. All the lights can do is go to the same karate class. You know, what are you're going to problem with us? You know what we ever do, you y'all? It's just the society, man.

You know, what do we ever do to y'all? And I'm in the middle. I'm brown. I'm proud. I'm in a bit of a brown. You're a darn kid a nigga, man. Yeah, yeah. I'm a big quarter of Dotskin a guy.

I'm like, come on. ACON, I've been accepted. God damn it, finally. Yeah, you're dark candy. It's Miami. Miami. I used to be brown-skinned. Now, come here.

Come here. Come here, Sunday, Dee. Let's, now, he's purple. Come here. Come here, purple. Come here, color, purple. Yeah, yeah. He's not.

That's black, black right there. That's A-Conn country. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know who father in Chicago, right? Oh, the Haitians. Oh, the Haitians. You know that right? They got a little Haitian statue.

This is about the size of an Air Force One. You ever see that shit? We got to save the nose. Yeah. That's a nigga trying to claim you. I'm licensed like y'all said. So, where was the moment where you feel like, man, I'm here? Man, I'm here.

Man, I'm going to tell you, it was, it was, that was one of, like, and that was just this year. Like, that was a moment. But it was another time, bro, where the same promoters they had booked me, and it was a show. It was Jess Hilarious was on there. B. Simone,

Ricky Smiley. It was a bunch of them. And I was just the new dude. But we was in Chicago. We was playing the Eric Crown Theater and the promoter came in me. He said, look, he was like, I'm going to need you to close the show.

He said, because I don't know that anybody else on the, on the lineup really, like, got the energy that it's going to take the closed show. And that's not no knock against any of the names that I just touch. It's your town. It's your town, too. So I say, yeah, I closed, man. I said, I'll do it.

And I remember a couple of the comedians that went up before me, bomb. Right. And we was in this big theater, bro. And you could just see, it was just the energy was just sucked out the room. Like, it was just, and they said my name brought me up, said, Ricky Smiley said my name wrong. I come out there and it's just, I mean, they just sitting there like, and what this nigga from to do?

Like, that's just the vibe, bro. And again, bro, I'm watching people get up from their seats trying to beat the traffic. And I get into my set. And after the first laugh, I can see people that's walking out. Like, look back. Yeah. So then I say something else.

Now they turn it around. So now they're standing there. So now I keep going. So now they're like, man, come on, we're going to go on back to our seat. So now they just sat down and it was like in that moment, bro, I got a standing ovation and I got to my town like, y'all, this is my son. And I walked off and you could just hear,

you could just hear the roar of the theater. And it was just like, it was like, this is different. Like this thing, you know what I'm saying? This is different. And it just let me know, like, I could, I can get on any stage. It didn't matter how many people. It didn't matter the circle of the.

You are comedian. You know. That's the worst shit to walk into. Motherfuckers have been bombing. They've messed up your name. And you don't walk down, don't nobody really know you for real. Damn. No, the energy in a room, you could feel it.

You could touch it. I'm starting to realize comedy might be more dangerous to hip hop. Yo, you got the, like, not guns and violence-wise, but I'm talking about, like. Well, you got the beat, bro. You got the music. Okay. And you got the familiarity. So people, no.

So, they're going to hear the beat. Yeah, they already familiar. You already moving. No, I didn't realize. You're going to stage. Rapping with you. Just in case you forget a part. This nigga right here.

He's picking up that ball. It's not what. It's just you. It's just you on the stage. Lonely as shit. Yeah, bro, it's a, I'm telling it, it's a different, it's just a different beast. It's just a different animal.

You up there by yourself. It's just you. It's you and it's all these people. Staring at you. And they're staring at you. Staring at you. I'm going to tell you something. What was it?

The Amper Theater out here? What is it called? Yeah, that shit. Well, I went to a comedy show and I went backstage, right? And I went to all the comedians, dressing rooms. Everybody's shit was neat.

There was no argument. I was so mad. I was like hip-hoppy. They were so organized. I was so mad. I was like, ain't nobody going to argue? I wanted Mike Epson go at Tommy Davidson. I was just trying to start shit.

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You know what I'm saying? To be backstage arguing with a nigga about what, like, you know, we'll put that shit on the stage and then go watch you bomb. You know what I'm saying? That'd be our satisfaction. Like, look at this nigga not being funny. Like, you know what I'm not about to be back there.

You know, arguing. Like, I'm going to tell you something. I did that. We don't want to tour three years in a row. And not one comedian that when nobody got into it. Wow. Wow. About nothing.

Hip hop we need to learn. Yeah. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. Like, why y'all, I don't know why y'all act like that. Yeah. Yeah. It's based on aggression and bravado.

It's like. I'll tell you this, my experience in reggae don was somewhat different. What I mean by that is artists here won't even go and do a show with artists here. See, in hip-hop, you can hate this artist

and say, man, as long as you keep him on that side, I keep him on that side, his tour bus to be over here, my tour bus to be over here, I'm good, and they'll do the whole fucking tour together. So that's a little bit of a difference, you know what I mean? I mean, the comedians, I mean, we'll do the same thing. You're going to and you were going to and be like, I don't really give a fuck about him.

You know what I'm saying? As long as he stay over there. All right. You know what I'm saying? I know people that in bed, I know comedians have been into it, and they'll be on the same show, and the one comedian

wait for that person to leave the building before they even come in. Yeah, so it's, I mean, we've got a little goofy shit like that, and I don't really be understanding, you know, what that be about, white niggas don't like each other. If a nigga don't like me,

they did. I don't think it's personal. That's what I say. I don't think it's comedy to blame. I think it's, or even hip-hop to blame, I think it's actually the actual individuals and it just trick us down. But let us give you your flowers, man.

Our show is about giving people their flowers, man. What they smell them, they thought it's when they can drink them and they drink. Luke said it's better than the motherfucking Grammy because it comes from his own fucking people, God damn. You know what I'm saying? We wanted to get you your flowers, man. You know what I'm saying? Come on, God, God, God, damn.

Yeah. Yeah. Come on, y'all. Joe Brooks. I got my own flower. God damn. Y'all see that? With my camera.

Y'all see that? They get my own flowers, man. See that? I appreciate this, man. So, I'm saying that... Can let me take one of these bills with me, too. Okay. I'm saying that we say in hip-hop now is, well, I didn't make it up, but I made it famous in hip-hop,

and it's called, you know, giving the flowers, right? So this is an old saying that I just reiterated and I brought back into the culture. I made it a part of the culture, and now everybody wants to give people with flowers. Yeah. I took something from you, and I didn't even know. Okay. I took it from you because even though it's an old saying, you re-gurgitated. Yeah, I'm trying to sound.

Come on. Trying to sound. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know this nigga, no-all-is-war. Yeah. What the fuck is he doing? Early. It's the worst.

It's the worst. Regurgitated, you know, yeah. Somebody looked at this up and made sure that's a real word. You said, yeah, yeah. You said, I know you lying. That shit. I know you lying or I know you fucking lying. Either or, either or, like, that shit is in almost every conversation now.

Do you realize how influence you are that is? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure, man. You know, even when I'm on stage, I say it, like, when I'm walking through the airport and I just hit somebody yell, I know you fucking line, like, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, it's just one of the things, like you said, it's been around forever, but, you know, I took it and put an emphasis on it. You know what I'm saying?

It's the way they deliver it, you know it's yours. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, no, for sure. No, that's definitely one of them things where, uh, you know, you took some, you took some shit that, that people were saying, and you just, you know, you kind of made it a thing, you know what, saying, but, you know, I'm, I'm naming my, uh, my comedy special that. Right. Did you, um, because me, I, I, I've made a song called What, What, Right? And I made this, I grew on to this extent that when people say to me, what, I'm like, shut the fuck,

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. I don't mean a disrespect to them, but it's like, I've been what the fuck out. Like, so I'm like, people are asking, am I tired of people saying, I know you fucking mine, man, so they say, I know you fucking lie. I know you fucking, I know. I'm going to, okay, I get that. You know what I'm bad.

I imagine with you. People say it to me in the weirdest places, people ask me for shots in the weirdest places. But with you, a person is in between y'all and don't know the line, it's, it must come off real weird. I know you lie. It's the first thing someone's saying to you. I know you. I'm telling you, I feel it the most at the airport.

We was flying here, and I got on the plane, and I'm trying to put my bags up in the bin, and it's a dude sitting right there, and he leaned down and looked, he was like, nah, I know you fucking like. You put your own bags up, man. Leave me to fuck alone, man. And the other passengers is probably looking like,

why did he call him a liar? What's going on? Yeah, that sounded aggressive to some white passages. Like, what do you expect? Like, wait a minute, what is he lying about? Like, they expect you not to put your own bags up. It's crazy, like, I'm a man just like you. Just like you.

I told somebody the other day, I got up, I wanted something out the fridge. I got up, got it out to fridge. And they was like, man, I could have got it for you. I said, you know, sometimes I still like to do shit. Oh, yeah. I still like to feel capable. Like, I don't like all that. Don't do everything for me.

You know what I heard you was walking around? I was from a design district yesterday. Who told you that? Come on, man. We got you, we got you. We got you. Yeah, we got you. They said you walking around.

I was okay, okay, yeah, yeah. I was down, man. Yeah, I was down, man. That's some expensive shit, man. They do. They do. They do. You're done, bro.

Your private life is done. It's old. You outside a lot. It's crazy. Yeah, you got to be a slender. It's a beautiful. It's a blessing, but it's very, it's very much.

And you don't realize. you don't really realize until you sitting there and the nigger be like, yeah, I heard you was at the design district yesterday. Like, yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, damn, I had a hoodie on. Yeah, yeah. What more I got to do?

Yeah, yeah, we was dead. Oh, they hit you on Instagram later. I see me, you know, like, well, you was watching me. You were stalking me? I wanted to say what's up, but you looked like you was busy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, no. Those are heartbreaking.

What is your favorite part of the business? Is it right in the material or performing in it, You know what? Now, because I've moved into this space where I have to keep creating new material, that's become fun for me. Just creating it. It's just creating. It's writing it.

And then going on stage and delivering it and seeing and like seeing this shit come together and it's like, you know how it is when you come together, you craft a good joke and you go out and you do it and that shit hit in your head, you'd be like, oh, I did that. I put that I knew it with it. It hit the last

two times because the One word was messed up. And it, I'm telling you, it's that, it's that, it's that. Well, sometimes it's a pause. Sometimes it'd be a pause, like, and it'll ruin the joke. It'll ruin the joke. And you, you added a pause later, two years later, you add a pause. The whole shit pop up.

And you're like, I had it the whole time. I just had to wait. It's weird. The timing of it, I'm telling you, bro. Stand-up is different, man. Yeah. We had, all right, so we had. Wait, would you ever do stand-up?

Yep. You would do it? Yep. No bullshit. Yep. All right, come to my show tonight and do it. Not tonight, brother. What are you waiting for?

I'm scared of death. I'm scared of death. There's no other way not to get scared. You know what it is? I love crowd participation and interaction. Like, if I was a do comedy, my comedy, I would be biting your style, pause. You know what I mean?

Because I like to, I like to bother people. Like, one of my favorite comedians who I actually, I say this story a lot, And I say this to every comedian that I've ever met. It's like I feel like a comedian should never stop being a comedian. I feel like when I wake up in the morning, if I'm making Cheerios, I'm making fucking that shit hip hop style. You know what I'm saying?

And I seen what's his name, Marlon Waynes one day. And I don't know why, but I thought I was funny that day. And I was like, because he literally, he was like the homeboy that had the turtleneck, short sleeve on. I swear to God, Marlon literally had on a turtleneck. what's that said, a trench coat. Shorts and spandex. Okay, okay.

He had all the four different outlets. So, like, he went skiing, he went to the gym, he had a business meeting, and he hung up to construction, all at once. And I thought I was funny at the moment, right? So I looked at him and I said that. And we was in front of a whole crowd for the Prime 112. when I tell you the minute I said that, I regretted it instantly because he became, he just looked at me and he analyzed me.

Oh, yeah, and told your ass to block. No, no, no, and I just grabbed him. I was, I'm sorry. You started coming. I didn't even want to swing because I knew I have no wins. I look and I say, wait a minute. I just jumped in the lion cage. Lock the door.

What a stake on him. It's crazy because I don't. Even as like some of the dudes work for me, like my security, like he, I've been around him for 15 years. And I can tell you maybe one or two times he pottyed and cracked on me. And as soon as he said, I look up, he was like, I'm just playing. Like, now, fuck that. We do a joke. We do a joke.

But, no, I mean, a comedian points some shit out about yourself. You didn't even know. Yep. I can't even know. Like, if you see a comedian get to doing this shit, just looking at everything you got going. Leave. So you know what Marlon did? So then Marlon comes to the show.

Then we see my friend Sunny, right? And then Marlon jumps out the car. He ranks, because he wants to get his lick back. You got to remember. He owed you. He owed me. So he gave it to my whole crew. Like, I didn't even know this.

My friend Sonny had on cream, tan, and blonde. He got out of the car, called him, you the real off white. I said, holy shit. I said, yo, for the beginning. Like you said, the comedian was born out. You don't even know. You didn't even know. Listen, he was off white.

He said all this shit with the same company. He told him the same company. No, bro. That, that right there, bro, if you dealing with a comedian who ain't say nothing to you first. Right. And then you attacked them?

And you could attack them? Oh, yeah. See, and I'm one of them ones. Like, I ain't just going to come out and shoot at you. Like, I'll come and kick it. And I might have seen some shit. Like, I don't have seen some shit tonight.

Yeah, yeah. Who we are. Yeah. I'm going to say, when I get in the car, I'm going to tell them to everything, you know what I'm doing. I'm doing everything.

But now if a nigga got to shoot that meeting, it's going to go down in a minute. I'm going to go right now. I already got them ready. But that's just, that's just how, that's just how it is, man.

That's just how we are. Because you know why? I'm going to be honest. Comedians and Navy sales are the same people. Like, the Navy still is going to go in, analyze. You look, this is the entrance. This is how the fuck we get out.

This is, we're going to go in. We're going to get the target. It's pretty much what a comedian does. And we do it so fast. It should happen so quick. That's what you did the right thing. Hug that nigga and say, I'm sorry. Listen to me, I ain't going to lie to you.

I saw mathematics. Like, his brain started to move. Like, I looked at him. And I was just like, I looked. And then I looked around and I was like, I know I can't. can't be joked on. Like, I can be joke, like, in a trustworth. You can't do that.

In a trustworking crowd. You can give it, but you can't take it. No, no, no, but I didn't know what I was doing. I just, I was blubber mouth. You know what I mean? Like, I just said, I said what I saw instead of thinking about some shit. He's the worst kind right there, yeah. He says some shit about you.

You say something back. Now he wants to fight. That's crazy. No, that's why I said, sorry, because I threw the guard. Not only I saw mathematics like in the air, but I saw his actual shit going like this. He looked, because I got him, he really had a trench coat on, like, in Miami. If you said that to him,

and he just started looking at you, you fucked him up. Because if you say some shit that ain't funny, you're like, hi, yeah, whatever, you're trying to be funny. But if you say some shit that is funny, and the motherfucker gets to looking at you, apologize. You have five seconds.

I didn't know the time limit, but I was like 2.5. Because I look, and like I said, his shit went like that. I said, wait a minute. You know, what's that shit? The pinky in the brain. Like, holy shit. I was like, no, no, no, I'm sorry.

But even, you even, he respects you. So he got two, three extra seconds. Right. Because he was like, oh, this is Norrie. I respect them. But he just did shoot at me. Right. So I got, and then you grabbed them and you get.

You don't know. I was sorry. It is. It is. It's something. Uh-huh. It ain't over. Right, right.

It's a little bit. Oh, no, no. Facts. I'm telling you right now. he gonna get your head back with that time. You know what was the great part about it? It's never no cameras around. Because I did it with no cameras around.

I did it in front of people that we didn't know, but there was no cameras around. So there's no other people laugh. You know what? I was so paying attention to brain functions. It hit. It hit, but I don't know if everyone. There's people around us, you know, like when you walk in there,

this is one of the prime 112 nights where there's a whole bunch of people. Like, I didn't know most of the people that's in there. And it was kind of like amused, two black famous dudes sitting there talking to each other. They probably thought he was about to fight or something. And it was like, hey, it was just really like, you know what I mean? And that's the same, though, too. You know, as comedians, when, you know, when the dudes in hip hop and shit like that

and, you know, y'all try to crack a joke and shit like that, like, you know, we already be looking at y'all some of this shit. Yeah, I came close. T.I. came close to do what? To, like, almost being an official, official comedian. T.I. I almost came close to being an official comedian. You would agree?

No, Tia was doing big-ass show. Tia was on the we don't want to tour with us. Okay. Listen to me. Tia did what a lot of niggas wouldn't do. He actually got up there and he did. And then, you know, honestly, he got better, like over time. Like, when we first seen him, I don't know what was happening.

Yeah, that was ego and then he got better, yeah. But, no, he did eventually end up getting better. I like what he did now, though. I like that he went back to the music. Okay, yeah, they had. I like that he went back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, no bullshit.

And that ain't no, I love, I love TIP. Yeah. No bullshit, little shit. But I'm glad he went back, you know, because, you know, you got to think growing up, I was a Tia fan. And Tia, I was just so, you know, a new girl, I got a thousand guns. You know what I'm saying? Like, Tia was one of them. So now you're doing jokes and shit.

Right. I'm confused. Yeah. You still got the guns or not? What the fuck going on? But everybody got a little bit of funny in them. Everybody do it. I believe everybody, you know, that's, that's.

Another fucked up thing about being a comedian is on the low, how everybody thinks they're entertainer. Everybody thinks they're a comedian, too. Everybody do. Don't know what you get into theirself, I'm not funny. I've never heard nobody say I'm not funny. I have people be like, no, I have people be like. I have, I have heard people. Because some niggas just ain't funny.

I don't go fuck how hard you try. You just ain't funny. I don't go fuck. I don't care. You're just not funny. But I do think that everybody. What's the guy who said the Puerto Rican joke? Tony

Tony Hitchcliffe He's one of them He's not funny to me He's not funny to you Okay That's one thing I don't do If you're a comedian I won't say

That you're not funny Only because I'm saying he's not funny to me There you go Because it's subjective You know what I'm saying You know so I am I don't need to tell people

What my opinion is I just You know He ain't funny to you Do you say who is funny though I will say who is funny I will say I will say who, you know, who fuck around make me laughing.

And as I, Tom, who's funny to me? Right now, who's funny to me? Yeah, right now. On stand-up? We'll start with stand-up. We'll start with stand-up. Stand-up comedians that's funny to me right now. I would have to go, shit, who funny?

Dave Chappelle's funny Kevin Hart's funny Mike Epps is funny And those are like You know, the legends The newer guys is funny Ryan Davis It's funny to me

DC on Fly is funny to me Desi Banks is funny to me Country Wayne is funny to me Country Rain don't curse And he don't curse Carlos Miller no Carlos Miller is funny as shit And nobody did even point out that

He got the Spanish name. He's the blackest nigga in the world. God damn it, Carlos, he'll be getting away with this forever. Forever. Yeah, Carlos is funny. Chico Bean is funny. Who else is out there, man, that I really like? There's some good female comics out there.

What's my man, he a Muslim? Ali Sadie. Ali Sadie. Nate Jackson is funny. I like Matt Rife. It's some good comedians out there, man. There's a lot of dudes. And then on the internet side, I agree with you.

I think Druski took that shit to another level, man. I like Drewski's content. It's weird. I can't think of this dude name, but it's this dude. I don't know why this is funny to me, but I'm going to shout him out because he a younger dude. But he does these videos where he's like in a grocery store and he goes up to these random men. And he'd be like, man, I used to cut your grass, man. And the dude, like, you remember me?

And the guy like, yeah, I remember you. He's like, where you live at? He's like, yeah, man, the dude, the dude, the dude, the dude, all the way set the street. Yeah, man, I live on Blue Street. And he's like, yeah, I used to come and cut your grass, man. And then he'd be like, man, I ain't been right since that one time. And they always be like, well, one time. Yeah, that time we fuck.

Fuck? Oh, you don't know me. No, no. You just said you knew him. So, but that I can't think of his name right now. But this shit, bro, that shit be having me crying. Trying. Watching pop up on everybody's phones now.

All of our phones are listening. Just in case it don't, I'm going to send it to y'all. I'm going to be tripping off that shit. But, no, I always say, man, there's a lot of dudes, man, that's out there. I think making a lot of creative content. Desi's still making good creative content. Who else is out there, man? And also, I try not to watch a lot of people, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, yeah, because you don't want to be influenced in a wrong way. You don't want to be influenced in the wrong way. Or, you know, I think a lot of times comedians won't admit this, but you may hear or see some shit, you know what I'm saying? And that shit stored at the back of your brain and now you didn't fuck around and said some shit thinking that you didn't came up with it. But your brain has heard this

and it's stored in there. And it might have just went where you was going. But that's stealing. You know what I'm saying? But, you know, I do believe that people in comedy still unintentionally. And there's some people that do steal, like, who will watch you, verbatim and go and do your shit.

Now, that's totally different, but, um, no, I think, it's a lot of, it's a lot of talented, you know, people out here.

And I, who opens for you? Who opens for you? Who opens for me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know Cory Bill? Yep.

Okay, Cory Bill opens for me. Funny? Yeah, she's fun. Chicago. Um, she did laugh mob laugh tracks. Oh,

that's a girl? That's a girl. That's a girl, yeah. My TV show Laf Mob Lafaxh. That was on True TV. We shot it in Chicago. Oh, wow. So, like, if you go, if you go back and watch it, go watch Ali Sadiex.

You'll see me sitting right behind him. I'm right behind him. Like, you'll see me in a thing right behind him. Please, people, we got to stop this image of Chicago. People just think Chicago's just O'Block. No, man. Chicago's 20, man. You know, my Puerto Rican family's from Chicago as well.

Yes, yes, yeah. Yeah, so I don't like that. Whenever I say I'm going to Chicago, people are like, Word? You know, in Chicago? I think I'm going to motherfucking pull a fucking, I'm going to go slide on somebody. You go to go to Puerto Rican Fest in Chicago? Of course. I used to go there every year. I used to go there every year. Yeah, I used to go to

every year. Yeah, it used to be some of the baddest motherfucking women. We used to go to Puerto Rican Fest just to walk back and forth, just to look at the girls. Oh, my God. It's the Puerto Rade. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes. All his name is Moho. Moho.

Moho. Oh, my ho. Moho. Back to my roots. They go hold them on. Man, bro. I grew up with the Puerto Ricans, man. I'm not bullshit.

We used to be doing the... What's the dance they used to have us doing back in the day? They looked straight at the Dominican. Swavemente. Now, that's the song where they used to always play Swavemente. No, Mahente. That was the... They used to have their own...

Like, y'all remember Black Planet? Yeah. Mahente was the one for the Hispanic. It was like Black Planet for... I had a page on both. Oh, you're talking about Black Panetta, I thought you meant the group. Okay, I'm old as hell. Yeah, I'm old as hell.

Yeah, I'm old as hell. Like, my space. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, man, I used to, bro. Love you some Puerto Ricans, yeah. Love me to Puerto Ricans, bro. Chicago don't get enough credit. Right. Chicago, like mad comedy clubs, mad comedies from there, and the city's beautiful.

I did the, um, I went on the little boat tour where they talked about the architecture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bro, that man, he fell in love with the city. Oh, yeah, Chicago. Yeah, Chicago's different, bro. But you know. But it's so segregated, though. It is.

If you're in New York and you go to Chicago, you don't see black, white, Latinos all together a lot. They'd be like, like, yeah, the Spanish is where they had, blacks where they had. White people are. I don't know. I say this story all the time. You know, I'm because of having black, I have Puerto Rican. I had two cousins that was across the street from each other, never knew each other. But they're not cousins.

They're not cousins. It's one of my cousins on my black side or my black side. And then one of my cousins. So they're not technically cousins. But like I, like, because you know I used to go to Chicago, but then I came in an R-E. The music you love. I heart radio. Your favorite radio stations.

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Oh, no, they're from separate gangs. Okay. Oh, okay. I had to learn that. You got black family in Chicago? I got a black family. And I got, what gang they with? Apparently not with the Latin Kings.

Okay. Okay. Okay. So, I didn't. But, yeah. Yeah. But, yeah. So, yeah.

So, yeah. All right. So we're moving on. Okay. Okay. God comes to you. Okay. It says, my son, I got two choices for you.

Okay. You can play Richard Pryor in the movie. Mm-hmm. You approve of the script. You approve of the director. You approve of the writers. You approve of everything. Or you could take over the franchise of Friday.

Mm. That's a good question. Uh, man. I've, here's a thing. That's really good question. I would rather take over the franchise of Friday. Only because, one, you know, Mike Epps was originally supposed to do the Richard Pryor. A movie.

And I, I can't really see nobody else doing that, like how I know Mike would have did it. And I think they, they just try to hurry up and do it before. might get too old. I think they really should let him do that. I think taking over the Friday franchise, though, I don't think we had, we haven't had any classic movies. For a while.

You're talking about classic hood movies or classic movies, period. Overall. Classic movies, I mean, classic, we didn't have no classic movie, period. But we definitely ain't had no classic hood movie. I'll say state property, too, because I'm in it. And think of how long ago. Yeah, but how long ago is that, bro?

There's a long time. Because there's big black movies, black Panda, obviously, and Senors, Ryan doing this thing with the black movies. But we're in a little ghetto hood movies. You always have that. Not even on Tubi. Tubebuckaboo. You're not too.

I would want to take, I would take that. The Friday. The Friday. And bring it to Chicago? And bring it to Chicago. And see. Friday and Chicago sound crazy. And see.

And see. And we could put together another class. But there's so much more you could do with that franchise. Mm-hmm. You got all different stories. You can put so many of your people in there. You know, Richard Pryor, you got to stick to the history. I'm going to where Chris Tucker is coming back to it.

Like, to say the truth, I know Chris Tucker, every time he sees me, I always call him smoky. I can't help. Do he like it? No, I don't think he's like. He's like, hey, no. How many years? No, I don't think he liked it. But he always, he ended.

I had a joke for him one time because he, you know, in New York, you can't. We're Nike with Adidas. Yeah. So he was at some convention, and he had on that. You remember? One of y'all remember. He had on Adidas with motherfucking Jordans on Adidas hat. And I was like, Chris, you cannot do this.

And he said, at least you call me Chris. I think Chris Tucker probably, I haven't met. He's the golf guy. He's one. I've never met him. Right. I never met Chris. Okay.

I pretty much didn't, then met everybody. I ain't met Chris and I ain't met Eddie Murphy. And them two dudes, I want to just, you know, bump it to them. When you were speaking about earlier, because it's like Eddie has two different careers, right? Yes. So if you base Eddie's career based upon his movies, he has way more success. He has two specials. Yes.

Raw and delirical. Like, if you really think about it, like, God bless me, because what I'm about to say is fucking. Yeah, easy. It's terrible. Okay. And we just want to make sure who's saying it. Yes. And y'all can shut me down.

Okay. You can shut me down. In today's climate, was those two specials enough to get him there? If we were to put him right now in the era of your error, your error. Not us. We're cleared. We're the old dudes, right? All right, cool.

And we put him in. In this era, right? I'm talking about young Eddie, too. Yeah. If delirious came out today. Yes. Would it be enough to- The action?

Make him who he is right now. Because we obviously say that those two specials is what made him. No, it's more than that, though. I'm saying, I'm saying. The two biggest things, yeah. I mean, those specials are regarded as, yeah. They're regarded as classics in the, in the comedy space. But I, if it came out today, exactly how it is or how it was.

But today's material. but but like that today you know what I'm trying to say? No, is it that material coming out today? Yeah, that material but like like, you know, this version of it, yeah, yeah, might or not. Is the movies? Like his, his, his leather would be crone hearts. Okay.

You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Like, that makes sense, you know what I'm saying? You know what? You know what, man? I'm going to say this. I think Eddie is a goat and I don't really think it matter. what era

Even some of his Even if you look at some of his movies He got movies that I could watch The Nettie Professor any day Yeah me too Any day Like coming to America And Dave Chappelle is in the Nurti Professor too

He is Yeah Yeah so That was hurting Dajepin I would say yeah I would say yeah I think more so that question is coming from We probably would have liked to see him do

More You know A couple more stand-up specials or something like that But I Just so you know Mojo I name drop a lot lot. I'm just saying, I'm going to name drop you after today. Yes.

I appreciate that. I hang with Dave a lot, and he hangs with Eddie a lot, and he says Eddie, to this day, privately, when they're chilling, is the funniest guy on the planet. I love that. Still, to this day. Wow. I love that. That's what I love about. Voices, characters. I believe it. I mean, you just don't lose that.

No, I understand. He's ill with it. Yeah. I love that about comedians, period. Like, like you said, you said, you, like, I swear to God, that y'all like FBI and Navy Seals. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, no, that's serious. Like, a comedian will walk in and find something funny out of anything. Out of anything.

Like, I ain't going to lie to you. To tell you the truth, I've always appreciated comedians. I feel like, you know, comedians saved the world. But really, really what made me appreciate the chemistry of comedy was 9-11. Like, I would just go on after 9-11, like, when we were like trapped in the house, I'm saying, especially New Yorkers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We thought the end of it was the world.

Like, you know, my accountant was on. seven world trade center so i had to sign my papers on nine i filmed grimy video on nine 10 so if i would have went if i wouldn't have went i would have been in the nine 11 building at nine a m you had to go to the building and tell you paper yeah i had to sign papers uh my account's office my accountants wasn't in the two world trades in the building she was in the one that's in the middle we we laughed about it to this day i was like this is the best time i came early that instead of coming late, you know what I'm saying? But then we started being trapped, and then COVID,

like that with COVID, it made me sit back and was like, damn, like I can really just change my whole move about watching a good comedy special, but watching a good comedy movie. No, that laughter is real medicine. You know what I'm saying? I get so many people reach out to me, like, man, I've been depressed. This happened or this person died and I lost my job.

And, you know, I just sat and watched it. had and watched you and, you know, you just made me laugh again. You just gave me a reason to keep going. And, you know, I never really understood how impactful comedy was. Like, I never knew how important it was for people to laugh until I was in a position where it was like, well, I just want to laugh. I just want to lay here and get a good laugh out because we all going through something, man.

Life is, is this shit is a roller coaster, man. It's going to be a lot of twists and turns, a lot of stuff going to hit you out of nowhere. But at the end of the day, can you still find something to laugh about it? And if you can, then you know, you know, you know, it's, tomorrow is promising. Like, if I can laugh today, I'll be good tomorrow. You know what I'm saying? So you always got to find something. That was so, I remember during COVID, I didn't know what Kevin Hart was doing.

But I happened to be in L.A. And he had this spot where he was going to perform for, like, intimate folks. At his house, right? No, no, no, he had did this like by Soho House. That was the second one. of the box. Okay. So this is the, um,

and he sat there and we all took COVID test. This is smack dead at the middle of the COVID. We had to do the blood shit. Like, like, this was the instant. Like, this is the one you pay for. Herald made us do that too. I'll get to that later. But, um, and I, and then I didn't realize how much

observative, um, comedians was. Like, so after he, he did a special, I don't know if you remember, this is the special where he gave out pieces. That was the one at the house. No, no, no, this wasn't at the house. The one that I saw off. Maybe the same set, maybe he was the same set. Maybe it was the first time about the Arruvilla.

Yeah, because I said to him, because I said to him, so he faked handing out pieces. And I said, y'all, I'm a New Yorker. You cannot tell me, cannot promise me pizza. And then, like, I'm like, I'm on a diet and everything. I might have denied the pizza. Yeah, but don't fake me out. Yeah, but don't fake me. We don't tell me you're going to give you pizzas.

And then I don't want to say that he did it for me. But that's how observative comedians are. Like I said, I swear to God, you guys could be a motherfucker of FBI agent. But we have a game on our show. It's called Drunk Time of Slime, right? Okay. Because we're going to get a, because you can still sip. That's the Darryo.

You can just sip on that. But we're going to get you a designated drinker because Sonny D. D, you want to come into a designated drinker? Come on. He got purple hair. We call him the purple tape. Okay. Come on.

Well, he's designated for him? Yeah, for all of us at this point. Okay. Yeah. Because I'm drinking monster cocaine. This is the monster with the espresso. And you've been out here doing shows for four days straight? I've been out here since Thursday.

Damn. Man, what a life, bro. And let me just tell you, you're killing them because I'll tell you like this. They say New York is the hardest. That crowd when it comes to the comedy, I know for a fact, Miami is the hardest crowd. You know that for a fact? Wait, who's the New York's the hardest? I'm talking about when it comes to hip-hop.

You know, you know, the total days. The time of the South, if you came from the South, you came from the South, from the Midwest, you came from anywhere else that wasn't from New York. You wasn't getting loved. Miami, everybody's rich out here. To get motherfuckers to come out four days? Yeah. Nine shows.

He got it, bro. Everybody. Like, people don't even come outside when it rains because their lamagini's get flooded. Maybe I might be OD in a little bit, but not to some people. Some people would be like, man, you know, I'm not going outside. My Porsche is going to get fucked up. I don't know. I mean, they've been coming out, man, and the crowd.

Miami's a tough crowd. And I mean, and they, I mean, these shows were sold out like months in advance. And then, like, the shows that I added, like, I added one today at 4 p.m. And that was sold out in two minutes. Crazy. Got that makes a noise for that. You crash the website down there, man. So it's just, yeah.

Where are you at the improv? At the improv. Yeah. So it's, yeah. Yeah. It's a real nice, intimate room, but then it's also big at the same time.

It feels like a comedy club, but it's big. Comedy club, the room is so important. Like, the height of the ceiling. The ceiling. The leg of the room,

it's like, it's such a, we gotta do math when we go in there. It's real. It's real. That sounds very premed Donna. It's very. I'm not a shit.

What about? I'm telling you, it's real. The acoustics, all that shit in that out of. No, really bad. bro.

You don't get it. I know you're going to play the game. I just want to say I just came from Dave's house. We do the shit in the cornfield. You heard about. I want to come out there for that. You got to come. He'll fuck with you, bro.

For sure. And, bro, you're outside. First of all, the shit looked like a gazebo. I say that. Right? I see it. So the laugh, you tell you a joke and you don't hear the laughs come back because they just go into the.

So you got to watch. You got to see. Yeah, you got to see that. The outside shows is crazy. I personally hate performing outside. I figured it out. but it's tough. I hate it.

They asked me to do the, they, do you know, they brought back the Comic View. And they get on the rooftop. So originally they brought it to me to come and host it.

And I just, one of the things was I just didn't, I just didn't like the outside thing. What comic view was originally outside? I don't remember. No, no. It's a new version. It's a new version.

It's a new twist. Yeah, they tried to make it sexy. And my thing with it was, I wanted it. To be like, if I was going to host it, I wanted to be like how it was back in the day. I didn't want no real fancy set design. I didn't want none of that.

I wanted to put us in the room. You know, we have it look nice. Like, you remember back in the day, you used to have a little bar on the stage or whatever case. We could do something like that. And I think it's worked out great for them, though. They got comedian CPS to host and he's killing it. But that was like one of my concerns about it.

I just did not. I just, I don't know. I just couldn't feel right. Yeah, it just didn't feel right. They said they used to... But it's crazy because now I want to go back home in Chicago and do Wrigley Field. Yeah. Which is outside.

Which is outside. You will. Yeah. Yeah. They said they used to Roy Wood Jr. The Cubs or the socks? Cubs. Okay.

They said Roy Wood Jr. said when they used to do comic review, they used to put baby oil on the jewelry. So it's shine on TV. You heard that? I never heard of them say that. I never heard that. They said, you know, hold on, we got an oil of jewelry. That's crazy. That was hard. He threw the alley-U, but I had to take it.

Am I still on camera? Now that's Sonny's here? Yeah. I'm still on the show. Okay. Let me just make sure. How are you the soberest, drunkest-looking person in the world? Like, don't this nigga look drunk. Yeah, he looked like he fucked up. Yo, for years, I thought he was drinking with me. I found out 25 years a nigga than never had a drink with me.

Like, we don't have been. I've done once. Once, okay. Okay. Okay, all right, cool. Okay, cool. Yeah, I am. Okay. Take a shot.

All right. You got the, you got the, instead of our notes. I got nothing. Yeah, you used to do. Okay, yeah, I got it. Of course, yeah. You got an Android? Yeah.

All right, you ready? I'm ready. Let's do it. So, all right, did you explain the rules, though? Nobody's spreading the rules. So we're going to ask you to a choice, right? If you pick one, then we don't drink. But if you pick both and be political, then he drinks because he's a designated drink for everybody.

If I pick both, he got a drink. Yeah, he got to drink. Yeah, nobody, nobody to drink. Yeah. If you pick one. Choice? Yeah. Nobody drink.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you pick both, then the goal is not to make me good. Okay, I was going to say, what kind of move you in? It's okay.

You can fuck him. All right, cool. Okay, all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And get a shot. No, no, I want you, we want you to have shot glasses. Okay, all right, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. All right, don't be cheating.

He can sit his drink. You can. He got a show tonight. He got a responsibility. I can go to work. Okay. Dave Chappelle or Jamie Fox. Dave Chappelle or Jamie Fox.

Hey, start, you start a black. No, it's not. This is the Dominicans in the cocaine section over there. That's who makes it. Give me Jamie Fox. Ooh, with Davey Chappelle, I didn't see that one coming. Oh, y'all got the same type of waves. Okay. But the thing is, bro, Jamie Fox is so multi-talented, bro.

It's crazy. The music, the acting, the comedy, bro. Like, yeah, give me Jamie Fox. I ain't going to lie. I still think he's Ray at times. Bro. Like, the way he played Ray, I'd be like. Man, I think he's still Houdini when he's.

He did. Ali with him. Okay, okay. A home boy with the, you make him train you. Yeah. Okay. Kevin Hart or Kat Williams?

Blah, Blach, Black. Next in five. Let's go. All right. Kevin Hart or Kat Williams. Yeah. Man, I'm going to be honest with you. I'm a fan of both.

But I think I got to give the The edge to CAF. I got to give it to Kevin Hart. I got to give it to him. And let me just say something. I'm doing the best I can't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. That's all I could do.

But let me say something to the comedian world, to the hip-hop world, to the athlete world, to the community, the people that we give. Kevin Hart and Kat Williams showed something that we all should show love to. They had beef. They had disagreements. Yes. They got together.

They worked it out. And they found a way to put each other in power. Mm-hmm. You didn't show a lot of class. That shit messed me up seeing him at the roast. At the roast. Yeah. I ain't going to lie.

I was watching it live. I felt like I was there. I was not there. I was not there. But I felt like, when it came out, I'm sure my neighbors was mad. Because I was like, oh, shit. Because I really, I didn't hear no rumors. I'm fake inside the industry.

Like, I get the hair shit. Like, I knew every guest that Jay Zee was. bringing out the Yankee Stadium, I wasn't there. But I knew that, because, you know, I had that inside information about Cat Williams, bro. And when Cat Williams came out, I'm, oh, but then I watched the movie. And then when he came out, then he's like, did you just Will Smith me? And it was like, this is how you get that joke off with two of the biggest comedians going

at each other. Now you made that joke funny. Yeah, yeah. Now the smack is actually funny. The smack is not, you know, you don't look at it like that no more. more. I want to commend them. This is what I want to say. That was dope. Y'all showed people how to get through

problems and make money at the same time and make each other look good at the same time. That shit was like that, that, that shit was up there with Jay Z and I squashing their beef to me. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, that shit helped the city. When Jay Z and I squashed it and it helped the whole hip hop. And to me, that was a moment for me in comedy because we don't want y'all to be dark.

No, bro, we don't. You know what I'm saying? Like, we need y'all. We better together anyway. Yes, yes. We better together anyway. So I think that I thought it was dope that they squashed that. You know, because we never really know what the real beef is.

We never, you know. I don't even want to know at this way. We don't even need to know. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But as long as they found a way to get past that and then, you know, to have cat in the movie and, you know, for a cat to pull up to the roast. And I thought it was, I thought it was dope. And I feel like it should be that way, though.

Like, the fuck is we, what the fuck are we into it about? For no reason, bro. Let that shit go. Okay. Dion Cole or Hannibal Amir. Who? See, that's what I'm saying. Who's what I'm saying?

Hannibal Burris? Hannibal Burris. Oh, Dionne Cole. Who the hell is Hannibal Amir though? Yo, you, man. He got Dominican Google. His shit is fucking. Man, he just put two.

Yeah, he just put two. He didn't put two different niggas together. Yo, man, help him out. Hey, yo, Drey, you speak English, man. Help him out. What? This just doesn't turn into bilingual. What's the fuck?

But Diochol and Hannibal Burr's both from Chicago, so that's actually true. That's why it makes sense. Let's do that one. All right. Deiard Co. Sen. Okay. Hannibal Burrs.

I ain't a lot. I know this going to sound a little crazy. And the fact is, out there, I'm chilling up right now. But I like Hannibal Burrs when he drink. It's that bad. He drinks? Yeah. He don't drink no more?

No, he doesn't drink. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, I've seen Hannibal a few times. I actually seen him and Dionne Coe on the same show one night. So that's why I'm going to go Dionne Coe. All right, okay. Hannibal is almost like Larry David, like, you know, like comedy.

It's like it's dry. Yeah. Yeah, it's not for me. Okay, I fuck with it, though. Yeah, I think he's, I think, but there's mad different genres of comedy. Yeah, I know. Just like hip-up-up. Yeah.

It's like white comedy. I like it. Yeah. I fuck a white comedy. I'm a Burke-Christner guy. You know what I mean? Yeah. Burke is cool.

Yeah. That's my God. Okay. This is a good one. Eddie Murphy or Martin Lawrence? Blah. He's about taking shot. Like, he already?

No, no, no, no. I'm getting it on no matter what. Eddie Murphy, I feel like they single-handedly got the greatest comedy movie of all. What, life? Yeah. God, damn. I thought I was the only person that door. No.

God damn. Hold on, let's be we can look at that alone. I can watch, like, 300 times the never got old to get older to me. Take the shot, man. Yeah, yeah, take the shot. Okay, yeah. And they, and they kids married each other,

they family. That's funny as hell. You ever seen them talk about it? Like, they talk about, he's like, you know, Martin paying for the Reddit. Like, yo, like, yo, you're a rich ass motherfucker-buck. That's what you're worried about it. Yeah.

Yeah. Now, yo, but that movie right there. Bro. So much funny. Do you ever see the bloopers at the end? Yeah. Like, like, I, to be honest with you, I just wanted to be on the set for the bluepys, bro.

Yeah, for real. Like, bro, just to be on the set, period, to watch them. Yo, Bernie in there. Bernie in there, bro, every bro. Bro. Okay, let me get a twist question real quick. Okay. You got to star in one movie, right?

Yeah. Remake, again, you and control. You in control, excuse me. It's a remake? It's a remake. Life? Or Harlem nights. I think he's going to say Harlem Night.

You know what I'm going to say. And you get to pick the comedians in Harlem Nights. You get to pick. I just saw Hallamites. I'm going to say. Listen, listen. I honestly have set up and tried to find ways where that we can redo life.

Like, find a way to modernize it. But I feel like modernized jail, modernized prison. ain't the same as it was when they was in there. Like, that shit was different down in the city. Nah, but you know why it's dope? You know why it's dope? Because niggas in jail got Instagram.

That's some funny shit if you dig about it. That's some funny shit. I'm still going to pick Harlem nights. Listen, let me tell you. Because I feel like I don't want it to be too modernized. Let me tell you something. Hold on. Let me say you.

Let me say one thing. My boy floss. My boy flores. He's home, so I can say this now. God bless. Hopefully, hopefully this. He doesn't get affected. He phasedime me one day.

He had more sarahed than me in the federal pen. He had, you know what I'm talking about? Yo, I'm talking about. These motherfuck, I'm too much. They had the regular sarac, not the hooch. And he was in jail? He was in jail. He was FaceTiming me, by the way.

You're going to just skip over that part? No, they're going to go. And he had the sarat. He had sarat. He had sarat. He had a rock. ain't that one that diddy shit? Yeah!

Yeah. He said that it was a rocking baby all of that motherfucker. That shit. Great. Okay. What's the next one? Hall of Night to you all go to jail. I'm a lot.

All right. So, let's do our famous shows. Live in Color. Versed Saturday Night Live. Which is already, I know he's going to say. Live in Color. Yeah, yeah, Living Color. Living Color.

For sure, living color. You know what's good about that? In living color? It's because it's crazy because you got people on there, like, what's my man fighting off the bill? Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey. You got J-Lo.

But then I was going to forget about J-Lo on that world. Yeah, yeah, J-Lo is on that. God damn. She was Jenny from the Bronx. Yes, yeah. David Allen Greer. David. But we know David out of Greer came from there.

A lot of people. A lot of people, when you think of Saturday Night Live, a lot of people, that's their crossover moment. Yeah. Like, when they get to Saturday Night Live, that's their, I made it type of shit, you know what I mean? Like, even when Eddie would turn back there, when that would turn back to, like, I was like, I didn't even know they had beef. I didn't know, like, I didn't even know comedians had beef. I thought your niggas just live a great straight life. Like, yeah.

I thought y'all don't be, man. Like, yeah. Bro, niggas be beefing, but the thing about comedians is that we just, you know, rapers, y'all gonna go make a song about a niggas. Like, we ain't about to do all that. I ain't about to go write a joke about this nigga, man. Fuck that nigger, man. You niggas get into the studio, no, no, run it again. We ain't put to do that shit.

We ain't doing all that. Comedian beef just be like a nigger, no, like, hey, he don't fuck with you. Like, that would be to be like, that. I can fuck with me. And you can feel it, though, like, because we see each other, but I don't, they don't be like, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all get creative with y'all. Who Donald Rollers have beef with?

Corey Hooker. Oh, yeah. That shit was so funny, bro. That's a habit. Now, I ain't a lot. It'd be funny, though. It do be funny, though. What, when the comedians be being, yeah, yeah.

Yes, it's funny. Because y'all don't know how to not be funny. That's what's funny. That's what's funny. Like, y'all can have an argument that's funny. Like, who the fuck has an argument? That's funny. The Donna O'Rollins and Corey Hocombeef was funny

Because Cory Hockel had Donner O'Rollins was going in And he was drunk He was drunk, bro, he was going in, bro And that's why I was funny Like that's why I was But no, that shit be real, bro, dudes really don't They really don't, you know, like each other And in comedy, a nigga might not like you

Just because you ain't funny to them, like That motherfucking not funny Like Mike Epps is my man He was in my video and everything And then Mike EPSC, the AI You don't know this? Mike EF's seen an AI video of Kevin Hart on our show

Kevin Hart was on our show But this is like Mike You know Mike Mike got caught like the old niggas Like you know what I mean like I don't mean that Mike But what I'm saying is He couldn't look at the video

And tell that this was Because I went to my editor Because he's like Yo you let Kevin Hart diss me on your show And I went to Ross I'm like yo Ross I'm like I know this didn't happen But this man just called me

And Ross hit me like This never happened bro And I was convinced And I knew I was there Like that's like a little bit of the AI video I've never seen this shit I think it got took it down after that So I

And then Mike shows up in the movie too And I'm like Mike you kind of owe me Apology bro Like it's like It's either you You was like old nigger status Or you might

He might have saw something And thought it was that I would never let that Let me take something bro Mike is a real OG Like the other day The other day Mike don't play all them

In their games And shit like that So even the other day It was a video a viral video going around of a dude that looked like T.K. Kirkland. And it was a dude that sounded like Mike Epps. And the guy that looked like T.K. Kirkland was whooping the guy that sound like Mike E. Wop his ass in the video.

And they put in the caption, T.K. Kirkland, Mike Eves, get into a fight at a restaurant. Mike really thought... It was him? Don't know, I'm trying to figure out. Mike really Mike was like This is not me Why are y'all saying this

So and Mike had When I made a video Was like hey you motherfuckers Whoever put this video out I saw that I didn't know he was talking about I said OG We know that ain't true Mike was so man

He called me No what's gonna happen They're gonna get that Mugher TK. C.K. Keeke killed I said I said why you gotta die

It ain't y'all Mike don't play that internet shit Mike still thinking that's Mike still thinking that Yeah yeah yeah no Mike do not play that internet shit so I can see that

And then you know You know They in that era You know what I'm saying It just seemed like It's just you know They had that It's Kevin Hart

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I almost just sat down. I know he called you like, yeah, this is a bullshit, man. You let that little motherfucker come on there and say that shit about me, man. This is how I knew he was bugging the fuck out. He was like, I was in your first video. I was like, Mike, I was already platinum five times. I had to budget to pay you. That's definitely not my first video.

But I did not stop him, bro. I let him think it was my first video. I was like, yes, yes, you were in my first video. You got a, bro. Mike or OG, bro. He just... I enjoyed it. I enjoy it.

I enjoy it. I enjoy it. I get cursed out by my guy. That's correct. Yeah. Say that. Say that for L'O'Nive, yeah.

Yes, Andrew Taylor. I did not record it like how most people would do. I recorded it in here. Like, I will forever, like, I love that. It's two people... See, that's how you know

Mike from the Midwest, like Mike seen some shit. Yeah. Mike ain't about to sit around a whole on of that. Mike, Mike called you soon as he said, man, get that nigga on the phone, man. I'm telling you,

No, deal with it right away. Yeah, Mike, Mike, one of the ones, though, bro. Mike a good dude, man. Let's go to the next one, Sike. Okay. Stay in the show realm. Seinfeld versus Kirby Enthusiasm. Oh.

You watch both of these white shows? Okay, good. I've seen Seinfeld. I've seen Seinfeld. There's the other one I ain't ever seen. You never seen. You never seen Kirby Enthusiness? No.

Larry David. Yeah. Uh-uh. Oh, Larry David is the creator of Sinfell. And Kirby Enthusians. Side show, yeah. Okay. Yeah, just Seinfeld.

You never seen the show. You never seen the show. with J.B. Smooth and all white band? He got a new one on HBO. I'm sorry to say this because I love Larry David. It's so bad. Terrible show.

No, but it's for the... Terrible show. They did that because it was the 250 years. He thinks because he say he loved these people before he tell them they work ain't shit, it's okay. If I ever were to turn this on and be like, Mojo New Movie, love him. It ain't shit.

I'm going to come burn this motherfucking hour, man. I would do that, but... I was so... disappointed because I know he tried to recreate history he brought Obama Obama is not funny funny Obama is mistakenly funny

you can't try to make Obama money Obama is funny when he ain't even trying When he's giving a black person a five And the difference between he giving a white person That's funny That's not he has no control over that He's not trying to be funny

That part is funny because we as fucking hip-hop people we observe The motion. It wasn't the five. It's just the different motion. He looks at you. He says, oh, he ain't got on a turtleneck. He hip hop.

All right. Boom, boom. He got on his hip-up. He hip-hop. That's what it is. But you can't make. So I feel like in the series with Larry David, they try to write some shit for Obama.

And it's just like, you can't write for Obama. He's just a dude, bro. Yeah, yeah. He's still a politician at the end of the day. Yeah. So that's the only thing I didn't like about Lavender Day. But let's go to the next one, Syph. Okay.

So you don't even know Kirby's enthusiastic. Watch Kirby is funny. Okay, ooh, this is good. This Chicago. Kanye West versus Common. Ooh. Kanye West versus Carmen.

Give me a yay, man. Oh, I thought your light skin is going to take over. Give me a guy. Comment, comment. I fuck with common. I fuck with common. The Tiffany had his relationship was questionable. But he'd been a sniper before that.

It was question. He was knocking down a lot of people. before that, though. He was, he was being an adventure. And that's not a knock at tip because I love Tiffany. I just didn't, there was a couple was kind of like, oh, okay. Yeah. How'd that happened?

Oh, you thought it was made up? No, I didn't think it was made up. I just, I just didn't, I would just wouldn't, I just wouldn't have thought the day would, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. That, that looks, that seems like, you know both of them? You know their personality? I've never met, I've, I've never met comment. And that's why I said, like, I'm just.

It's not a knock. It's not, it's just like, it was like, oh. Damn, they go together. Like, it was like that. Yeah. You know what I met Tiffany. Tiffany, though. Tiffany Coos and motherfucker.

Right. You know what I met him. I never met him. I mean, we had Tiffany on, I believe, the week that they broke up and we didn't know. And we asked Tiffany. It was like, hey. So, you know, and then she was like, it's just the difference is one of us is working and the other one is not.

And I say, oh, shit, let's change the subject. I didn't want to ask who was working and who was not. Obviously, she was very upfront about it. And I was just like, oh, shit, I'm friends with both. Let me get the fuck out of this conversation. Let's get out of here. Yeah, now, I just didn't, yeah, but I fuck with, I fuck with Kanye. I think I'm going to go see him next.

He's going to be in Chicago a couple weeks out there. I'm going to pull up. Okay. Hell yeah. I'm going to pull up too. We're going. Okay, let's do. Nas.

We get into your hip-hop shit. Nause versus Jada. You got the Nause waves now. Nause or Jada kiss. I'm going to go look my brother over there looking at you. My brother like, my brother like, you better say Nile. I got to go. I got to go Nause.

I got to go Nause. Yeah, I got to go Nause. I love that. Girls. Good. I'll just do the last one. All right. Let's do the Brat versus Sean.

Oh, B.P. Brad versus Shauna. I love Shaana. Shana from Chicago. Shana's the one that's, um, the Brad from Chicago, too. Yeah, so I'm going to take both. Yeah, take both. Take a shot.

She's the famous. She's the famous blues guy's daughter, right? She's buddy guys. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but she's, you know, but Shana, I mean, She's more than buddy guys. Yota Shana got some, Shana got some hair. Yeah, no, no.

Yeah, no. What's the song, her ludicrous got? Oh, yeah. Oh, get me some head. I was getting some head. I was getting some head. That was that, right? Yeah, yeah.

Stay out of this shit, real. Me? I'm a shit. I'm sorry. It didn't come across. I'm crazy. That's what it was. That's what it was.

You know, that's what it was. Right. Goo-hmm. Shana and. Huh? Yeah. watching what they say around you. It's getting some of it.

I know I ain't bugger. They're not saying. Go to the next one. Oh, I thought you're doing it today. He don't keep, bro. He just, he just, he don't care. All right, here we go. We back.

We've sent on some hip-pop shit. Biggie versus Bigel. Oh, nah. Biggie versus Biggie. Oh, give me Biggie. Yeah, that makes sense. Biggie's a, uh, biggie's a, uh, a no-brainer. Yeah.

Okay, so now comedy-wise, you asked this earlier, but you got to answer it for a quick time with slime. Stand-up versus skits? Stand-up versus skits. Stand-up. Stand-up. Yeah. Which is harder, though. Which is harder?

I would say, I would say stand-up is definitely harder than making a skit. You know what I'm saying? because you only get one chance. Like, you say the joke one time. Like, that bitch don't hit. You can't be like, all right, all right, let me do it again. Right, right.

Like, if that bitch don't hit it, it doesn't know that whole out. Like, it doesn't matter. So I would say stand-up is harder for sure. Okay. Wait, so you're saying if a skit don't work because you could go back and edit it or fix it. So you could do a skit, right,

and you can edit and do your thing, and you can sit there and watch it, and if you don't like it, the people don't never got to see it. Right. When you're doing stand-up, and you go do that joke. and if people don't like it, you just did a joke that they didn't like.

But as long as you got to take, your phone's locked up, then you could, no one ever gets to see it. Yeah, it's just, it's just, it's your good. You must say, we don't even really give a damn about them saying, it's how we feel when we go back to the green room, like, ah, I thought that one was going to go. I thought that one was going to go. Oh, they tell you.

You ever had, but you did a skit, and it didn't do so well on the social media, but you did a skit, and you're like, that's all right, I'm going out there. And it's just... Yeah. It'd be the ones... The skits be the ones that be like... You would do a skit and you would be like, oh, yeah, this is the one gonna go.

And they don't do shit. And then you would do one that's like... I'm gonna just see what happened. And that motherfucker... Yeah. It's go crazy. Yeah. Okay.

Let's do hood movies that we were talking about earlier. Let's do juice... Ooh. Versed Boys in the Hood. Oh. Yeah. Juice. The boys in the hood.

We East Coast. We West Coast. This niggas scam. I like juice, bro. But boys in the hood, yeah, going to take the shot. All right, take the shot, okay. Take the shot.

Take the shot. Take the shot. Yeah, they're bold. Them two movies I can watch anytime. Me too. Yo, you ain't take the shot of the monster? Let's give you a shot of the monster. Yeah, give them a shot of the monster.

With a little bit of espresso. They call it the legal cocaine. Really? You want to Java? You want to do you want to try this? I don't drink coffee, but I'm going to do it. Hey, man. No, I don't drink coffee, but Norie said I got to try it.

All right, ready? Mm-hmm. All right. Bernie Mac versus Patrice O'Neill. Ooh. Comedy world. Bernie Mac versus Patrice O'Neill is a dog. Bernie Mac is a dog.

I mean, I'm from Chicago. And I never tied up with my dog. So I was going to give me Bernie Mac Put your shot down Okay, all right, all right, cool Bernie Mac You know what's Patrice is one of them ones for sure

But give me, give me the Mac You never met Bernie? I never met him Damn I don't think I met I was mad when Bernie Man

Bernie Shit, I wasn't even doing comedy When Bernie passed I was thinking about it But I wasn't doing it yet man Bernie and Patrice had the comedy That offends you

But you still like You like it And Bernie was so fearless, man A lot of that shit Bernie was saying, man, he can't say that shit We can't say none of that shit today I wish there was more material on Bernie out It's hard to find him

The movie got a line in the movies I think it's soul man That was his last movie Where he goes You got golf clubs And you got a country club And you got the kids And Bernie turns and says

Fuck the kids I had never heard nobody say That was Bernie You know that was Bernie and Mike Epps Yeah That was Mike Epps talking to Bernie Bernie, yeah, Bernie. He said, damn, Uncle, fuck the kids.

Like, no one says fuck the kids. It was legendary, yeah. Fuck them kids. And Patrice, Patrice was so disrespectful. He would disrespect a person and have them laughing. Like, I don't know if you've ever seen, like, he was a ill comedian. Oh, yeah, no, he was, he was, he was, like I said.

Like I said, Patrice O'Neill was like that. So, this is it? Yep. Okay. Okay. You're going to get back to Quicktime and Slime, but let me just say this while we're here. The unique thing about you is you can point something out in the audience and you can chastise that person for whatever they're doing or whatever you peeped. But the audience plays with the game with you. It's almost like you prepped them before.

You see how like Mr. Lee give a speech? And we'll say, hey, guys don't do no social media. It's almost like you technically, kinetically say that to the audience. You know, the thing is, bro, before I even go on stage, bro, I'll pray. And in my prayer, I always ask God to allow me to be funny, you know, but not offensive. Right. So, you know what I'm saying? When I'm talking to these people, it's all in your delivery.

Like, it's coming off like, like, it's coming off like we just talking. You know what I'm saying? Don't take this shit the wrong way. Because it's like what you did with the girl, right? I'm going to tell you exactly what it is. And you said, how many your spouse's acts? How are you doing? And then you called her a bad wig wearing a bitch.

You called her a bad wig wearing a bitch. And she laughed. She didn't know that was offensive to. You said it. And you said, I'm sorry. I ain't have to say that. And then she thought about it. Like, she's like, damn, he didn't call me.

But she, initially, you offended her, but she laughed with it. And when you pointed out, like, you know, I had to go that fall. That's when, like, that shit is, like, agreement with your crowd. Like, you got to understand. Like, don't take it personally. Like, this shit just, you know, we just here to have a good time. And if you just happen to be, you know, the target of a bullet, they just got shot, Take that motherfucker on the chin.

We're going to hug and take pictures at the end of this shit. It ain't personal. But that all goes back to what I said at the beginning, what Kevin Hart told me. And that if your audience feels like they know you, then they understand that none of this is disrespect. He's not trying to disrespect me. He's not trying to offend me. We're just having a good time. Right.

You know what I'm saying? So I think that's the key to us. That's what's up. The police officer. Oh, yeah. He's like, you're just like your police officer. He's like, even your neck. Yeah.

Yeah, that's certain comics. We're kicking it. He'll make sure they never stop him for the rest of his life. All right. That's a certain type of comic, right? He creates that mood, that vibe. A lot of comics, when they say something offensive, it really sound offensive.

I say my special, I got a special that's called Likeable. Because I say some fucked-up shit sometimes, nobody gets mad at me. Nobody gets mad at. And at the end of the show, I always say people, thanks for letting me fuck with you. I don't say so many dudes. do crowdwork

and I'll be watching it like, damn. Yeah. You know who liked that to me? Like, I watch that crowd work, Ari Spears. I was just about thinking about Erie Spears because he'd be mean sometimes, though.

Bro, Erie Spears will say some shit and you'd be like, God, dang. I'm a comedian, I'll be ready to fight. Like, what the fuck? But, you know what I'm saying? Aries, but then, you know,

It's people that really, you know, he's from New York, man. Now, you know what's my favorite about Eric Spears? When he, like, crowd participation, whenever he deals with a Karen. Like, he knows a Karen. When he see one. Like, when he see one, like, he, that's my favorite because he tears them apart. Like, okay, you're going to call the manager?

Like, he just goes in. Okay, let's go to the next one, though. I just, the one time I saw Ari Spears clip, and he was talking to this girl that looked white, but she was half black. If we could find her somehow. Okay, we'll find the clip. I just want to meet her.

Okay. Yeah, we'll find the clip. We got cocaine engineers. We got Harlem Knights and Library. Yeah. Dude, let's do Chris Rock versus Chris Tucker. Chris Tucker. Oh.

That was fast. Wait, Chris Tucker over Chris Rock? Okay, it's your criteria. Whatever criteria you want. Here's my thing. Chris Rock has been funny in some movies to me. I just, I don't know. I don't know

His stand-up never really, you know You didn't like to stand-up after the will Smack? No, I'm like that? I ain't never really, I don't know. I don't know. It's just, shit, I think Tony Rock has might got him a little bit.

Nah, you bugging right now. And I love Tony Rock, that's my man. On the stand-up, but it's just what I like. I mean, Chris Rock will be talking some of that political shit sometimes. You know what I'm saying? I don't be wanting to hear that shit sometimes. And I'm going to tell you something.

State, when him and buddy Mac, loved it. You know what I'm saying? Like, I was just watching I'm going to get you suck another other day when a nigga in there trying to buy the real, man. He's like, let me get one real, you know what I'm saying? Like, Chris Rock, it's funny, don't get me wrong. But his stand-up, it's just, it's just not really my style. It's not for you.

Yeah. So when did he pick? Chris Tucker. And I'm picking Chris Tucker just based on his old stand-up in the movies. I like, I like this. Death Comedy Jam shit he used to do was funny. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's funny. Yeah, yeah, what's funny. That's literally the epitome of he walked on stage. He was not nobody, but he was not known. Did the Deaf Comedy Jam. Right. And out of that. Out of there. You know, when it aired famous.

Well, he was crazy in Rush Hour, crazy on Friday. Money talks like. Money talks is a little. Like, that don't get the recognition. Money Talk about it. Yeah, he won't. Now, you mentioned Deaf Comedy Jam. You do Dev Comedy Jam versus BT Comic View.

Deaf Comedy Jam versus Comic View. I would do, deaf comedy jam just remind me so much more like what my shows are like. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Motherfuckers. And stumping and jumping up out of their seats and shit.

I like that type of shit. So yeah, I'm gonna go Dev Comedy Jam. That was the only thing I didn't like about Comic View is when I watched it on TV, they were blurked the curses. And it's just like, I didn't, sometimes I wouldn't fully get the joke.

Even though you could understand the gestures, it's like if I miss one part of it, then it's just like, so that's why I'm, I would go a deaf comedy jam was the wrong show, man. Yeah, that's the wrong. Okay. Country Wayne versus Ryan Davis.

What I skipped? Harlem Knights? Well, they did it. Yeah, we did that one. Hey, listen, I'm just a guess here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Hey, relax.

Relax, Dykevin. All right, what's the question? Country Wayne versus Ryan Davis. Country Wayne versus Ryan Davis. Yeah. Stand up. is we do stand up. We're going to do stand-down.

Ryan Davis is in, Curb your enthusiasm as well. So, yeah, yeah. Ryan Davis in there? Yeah. I ain't know. He was in the episode. He was in the episode.

He was in the security guard at the airport. Stand-up-wise, I'm going to say this. I think both of them are really talented. Let me say this. Country Wayne is across the board. It's really talented. Right. Ryan Davis,

the way he can write in our articulate a joke and how you thinking. And for this generation, I ain't really seen that on nobody else. And he's great to skits as well. Yeah. He don't do skits, but, you know, his commentary about me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm really good. Yeah, that's what I meant.

So I love both of these dudes, and I don't want to pick one of the others, so take this. Take a shot. God damn. Mojo, this is the first coffee I've ever drank in my life. Okay. Just because it's just because thank you. And this is a thing in, like, these certain places. They're drinking coffee.

Yeah. Now, it's supposed to be, like, cocaine. So, you remember you should do cocaine. Oh, yeah, I got to fly. Yeah, good, yeah. You'll be okay. You'll be okay. You'll be okay.

You got, you got pretzels? All right. Good. Okay, I get it. I get it. I get it. It's okay. Yeah, the next one.

Drewski versus Funny Marco. Drewskiy versus Funny Marco. These both are another two dudes that I got a lot of respect for. But I'm going to say, I'm going to give it to Druski. I'm going to get that to Drusky. Yeah, he put a lot. I'm going to give it to Jusky as well. I'm going to give it to Jusky only because I think Funny Marco,

Funny Marco is funny. But I think Funny Marko kind of sets it up for him to be funny with other people. And I think Druski, on the other end, like, with his sketches and shit, like, he, you know, yeah, it might be other people in it, but it's him. You know what I'm saying? It's him. Yeah. I think that. I'm going to go with Druski.

Drewski, too. I'm going to go to Juke, but I would say this, funny Marco, when he does interviews and when he's trying to be, like, serious. I don't, I can't tell. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. I don't want to tell when you joke in and I don't want to tell you to me serious. Funny Marco is, no, he definitely, like, even the interview I did with him, like, he's going to say stuff to throw you off.

He's going to, like, Funny Marco is definitely one of the ones. And if we go back to when that, when Funny Marco, one of my favorite things Marco used to do was when he would go to Walmart as the blind dude. And he'll go stand next to somebody looking at the aisle and this motherfucker just started firing. And they didn't get running this shit. I thought that was shit. I thought that shit was so funny. So, yeah, but now I'm going to go, I'm going to get an A.S. Drewskiy on that one.

There's a dude in New York that do that with a stuffed dog. I've seen it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bro, he's a lot of. Just take off runner, bro. Yeah, I've seen it. I've seen it. All right, we got Marlon Wayans versus Mike Epps.

Marlon Wayans. Stand up. Stand up. Whichever, whichever, whichever, whatever you want. Do you do movies, right? Yeah. I'm going to go, I mean, I'm going to give it to Mike. Mike.

I got to get that to Mike. Really, it's a stand-up. And, you know, know, Marlon, there's some movies, though. They got scary movie, white chicks and shit like that. But the work that Mike did are all about the Benjamin's... You like... You like movies, bro.

45, 47. 45, 47. Bro, the way Mike did all about the Benjamin's, bro, and a lot of people don't even realize Mike wrote that movie. Do you know... Do you know, if you ever watch the behind-the-scenes shit, right? You know the black man where he said, I'm going to Dwight

because you don't even like, you don't laugh at my jokes and nothing. You know that man did not know that that was supposed to be that. That Mike was going to say that? So his, that's real reaction. You got to watch the blueprints or whatever. It's crazy because it was a dude at the show last night and his name was Dwight.

Dwight. In the whole audience. When I was like, what's your name? He's like, Dwight. We all look at each other. Dwight around with you. Like, it's just like, it's shit like that. It's stuff that Mike's. said in movies that we still say.

And, you know, that's kind of like what I look for. And I don't know as far as Marlon, like, what's a memorable you know what I'm saying? Like, what's like, like, I'm obviously scary movie is classic. You know what I'm saying? White Chicks is classic.

You know, I like the man. I like Marlon and Moe Money, though, too. With, uh... Okay, okay, okay. You remember when he was in the mail room, the dude was in the, his brother was in the man? I think he was that that was in it. Was it Damon Williams in that movie with him? Is it more money?

Am I saying that right? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, but I thought he was, Marlon was funny in that, too. Okay. And Marlon was Marlon up there, but I got to give it to Mike. I got to get the mic. This is the last one? Yeah, he's the last one.

Yeah, he's the last one. Loyalty or respect. Oh, man. You know what? I've seen a greater, of greater. I've seen a great amount of people that I felt like should have been loyal and they weren't. You know what I'm saying? No, we know.

And I'm at a point now where that's not even the expectation of mine's anymore. What, loyalty? Yes. I don't expect that amongst people. You know what I'm saying? Because I've seen so much fuck shit. You know what I'm saying? like people that I've taken care of,

people that I look for, you know, looked out for, put money in their pocket, give my opportunities to turn around and do some shit that just be like, what did I do to deserve that? Where I would rather you just respect me.

You know what I'm saying? When I'm in your face, when you see me, even when I'm not in the room, just carry that respect that you know the type of nigga that I am, that I'm not going to respond

to anything other than that. You know what I'm saying? Keep your love. loyalty because it, you know, that shit, you know, depending on how a motherfucker feel, that might sway either either here or there. And I'd rather not set myself up for that disappointment. You know what I'm saying? Whether that if you're not respecting me, I can already remove you from, from, from,

if you can't respect it, then get the fuck from around me. Right. And you can see it right away. Right away. That's real. So, yeah, I'm going to go with the respect. Okay, so in your stand-up, right? It was one guy, I think his name was Travis, right?

I remember Travis. A white guy, he had him on stage, and you said, well, he said to his white girlfriend. He was on a date. I want some of their pussy tonight. Yeah. Right. Two-part question. Okay.

Because this happens often. I often come up and you make sure they reference it that way. That way. Because there was one black guy, he came over saying, can I please have some pussy in the thing? Get off my side. And you were like, get the fuck out of my side. Just like, uh-uh, nigger. Like, you ain't going.

Can I please have a pussy? Yeah, yeah, you ain't going to talk. If you ask some pussy like that, you don't deserve none. Okay, yeah, all right. Can I please have some? That's crazy. I'm going to please. You've heard the chaos.

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And on the Questlove show, I've been sitting down with some really interesting people. And I've got two recent episodes you should check out. I caught up with my good friend Jojo to talk about her music, her career, and what she's been up to. Don't invite me to karaoke. I'm going to make it weird. Someone's going to try to sing, leave get out, or too little too late, or baby to you. Oh, no. And I'm going to be like, okay, cool.

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Make a reservation for the rest of a later later. Just chill. Listen to the music you want to listen to. Just enjoy it. It's going to be all right. Nothing is going to have you. and wake up Wednesday. I'm like, oh, and you're going to feel better.

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So two-part question. Has this worked out for most of the people when they ask for, I want to get some, can't get some pussy? I got 100% successful. 100% success, right. 100% success, right? Because I heard you say to one guy, you said to one guy, he said, oh, shit, you bought front row ticket.

Yes. You know exactly. You know exactly why you brought her here. Because you are the relationship whisperer. Yes. I'm the one to get it done. You know what I'm saying? I feel like a lot of times, you know, I feel like a lot of times, you know, do.

So if Boris can't hit the chick, he comes to your... Bring it to the show. Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, if you can't, she's not giving you none. She's not giving you none. She's not giving you to the show. Don't act like everybody just to gay you something. It's one of them.

Somebody did not gave you something, but fuck. Every man in this room, they went out with a chick and ain't in, and she ain't come up on them, motherfucker. Every man has been in that position. So if they're in that position, they come to your show. I set it up. I line it up. Boom.

Do you make eye contact? How do you know that he needs your help? I can see it. You can see it. I can see it in the eyes. I can see because when you're on a date with a girl and you really don't know. See, that's the worst thing. To go out on a date with a woman and not know if you're going to get that pussy at the end of the night.

That changed the whole date when you don't know. Compared to when you do know you get it. Right, man. You'd be cool. The white guy knew the white guy was getting it that night. Yeah, you light, you're free. You being yourself. Right.

When you don't know if you're getting that pussy. or not you just sitting there, you need anything? You're thirsty? You want something to eat? Like, fuck all of that. Is we fuck or not? I'm here to help you. That's what I'm here for. Don't be afraid of me. I'm here to help you. And a lot of dudes, honestly, a lot of dudes don't know how to ask. Right. Yeah.

They don't know how to, they don't know how to ask for it. And they don't know how to put themselves in position to get it. So when you got a guy like me that's gotten so much of it, you know what I'm saying? I can help. you. You know what I'm saying? I can lead you to the promised land. Okay. So you said 100% success rate.

Okay. Did anyone like get married after that? I don't know if I don't know if nobody got married. Now I don't work on that. Okay. Yeah, your marriage. I don't do that. You just work on that one night stand.

I get you to, I get you what you want for that night. Yeah, yeah. What y'all do after that based off, you know, performance and vibe and all of that, that's up to you. But my thing is to get you in there. You know what I'm saying? because you're sitting there and you can't even really enjoy yourself

because she didn't order another drinking. You're like, well, hold on, is we fucking or not? Why you keep ordering another limit drop? Like, what are we doing? You got to lay-telling later, don't bring shit else back on me. So she confirmed what we're going to be doing tonight. And that's my job. I come in and I help my guys out.

Okay, so hold on, hold on. So three years from now, a couple comes up to you, see you outside, come up to you, you remember July 19th or such and such and you say no I don't remember but where they say I was in such and then they say we've been together ever since wouldn't you speculate that this is a good thing that they're about to say next or do you speculate man this is the worst thing I'm out of life you know what here's my thing speaking of vice versa the woman saying that to the man and the man's saying that the woman I feel like if they steal together and they tell them this then it's a good thing

It's a good thing. Now, if I see a dude by itself, and he's like, you don't remember me? And I'm looking at you, and I'm like, I'm like, what you mean? And then he showed me a picture, and I'm like, well, no, why would I remember? You had hair in this picture.

You don't got hair no more. What happened? Well, you had told me to tell the girl to give me something to pussy, and she gave me some pussy, and then I went through her phone. Okay, now you got me so thieloma. See, now I can see what's going on.

She was fucked up. But if that's the case, if we break it up like that, if it's just one of them and I'm like, hey, I was just trying to get you the draws that night. I ain't tell you to stay. Yeah, you succeeded. I did my part. 100% success for it. I'm going to be honest.

He really dissect these people. Like, that shit is a gift. I remember when we used to go out of town, I'm sorry to compare this to this. But we didn't have Instagram back then. So I remember we used to go out of town. You used to go to North Carolina and Duke and be like, yo, I'm the man in the city. You have to look at his whole body language To tell in 5.5 seconds

They'd be like Because you could piss a nick motherfucker off I'm not saying nigga Let me say a nigga Let me say you'll piss the motherfucker off Oh man you know I'm cool And this motherfucker really is the guy Who runs the town

So you gotta have like 5 point to 7 point seconds And look at him and say His gesture is right Okay all right I can see the gun in this bulge He might as he a good guy Bad guy You gotta assess it and you do that with the crowd

With the crowd Right in the relationship Yeah yeah And I was just like I know people who may not be able to handle what I'm about to say. So I'll stay away from them. Like, I won't even, why I didn't been talking to dudes and you could look at him and tell and the motherfucker be sitting there looking at you like, all right, yeah, all right,

come on if you want to, come on with you little jokes. I didn't, I didn't seen them. You know what I'm saying? But I still get one off on him like, all right, let me leave him alone. Let me leave him alone. He just got out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I'll find a way to joke and get my way out to situation because at the end of the day,

like I said, I ain't here to offend nobody, man. We're just trying to have a good time. That might got out. Yeah, Seth. You have to. I mean, you know what's so dope about you navigating through, and especially, like, me seeing what Dave Chappelle

had went through, like, with the transgender and all this. Like, you make fun of lesbians the same way you make fun. Like, and you call them lesbians. You call them. Like, I remember you had two girls. I had a trans male at one of my shows. You ever see that video? Oh, no.

I didn't see that. When I was on stage and it was a trans male. So, that mean, it was a woman that turned. into a man. Okay. And he raised his hand and say something to me and I was looking

and it's crazy because I thought I was going to get in trouble for this because he was looking and he was saying something and the first thing

I said is what is that? What the fuck is that? Come here. So then he comes to the stage and a little short that is great

short trans male. Not a doth. Not a little person. No, not a little person but his motherfucker was short. And I was like, well, step up here, little guys. You can't be a little person and a chance.

That's kind of crazy. But my thing is, my thing is, why, my thing is, but no, but why, my thing is, why, my thing is, why convert to a short man? No. The worst thing. Why would you want to be, listen, why would you want to be a short man out of all the shit you could be? I'm going to be a short dude.

Like, no. If you ask the woman what she won't. I want them tall, dude. First thing they say nowadays. Tall. So you're going to transfer to be a short? I feel like if you're going to do that, get your knees done. Then switch over.

So the dude comes to the stage, and then he's like, I'm a trans male. I'm like, I'm like, okay, just keeps confusing for me. What do you mean when you say that? I was a girl. Now I'm a nigger. I'm like, okay. I'm like, you're a nigger now. I'm like, okay.

And she was like, yeah, I've been doing it about seven years. And I was like, hold on, it's not a job. Right, right, right, right. You ain't going to say you've been doing this for seven years. Like, you got a pension coming, you know, after your 10. So then he's like, I'm like, okay, well,

you do, so what percentage, you know, what percentage are you? You know what I'm saying? Because, you know, they'd be having the surgeries and stuff. I'm like, what percentage are you? Oh, okay. Yeah. And he said he was 100% like me.

Oh, wow. I said, no, you ain't like me. It's real dick in these bands. I don't know what you're talking about. But it was just the fearless of saying, because I'm saying what everybody's thinking, bro. And I don't got no problem with the community. Like, love who you want to love, be who the fuck you want to be.

You want to be a short man? Be a short man. Right. You know what I'm saying? No, no, but that's what the beauty about you, your comedy and your delivery is even if it's somewhat slightly offensive. Like, I heard, since you having two lesbian girls, that's what you call them, right?

I don't want to. I call them, yeah. I'd be like, you know, so he said, come on, man. Y'all just be censoring. And they laugh. They laugh. Like a motherfucker. Yeah.

I told one of them studs. And then you... I told one of them stas I come down there and suck one of her tities, man. Okay. I wasn't ready for that. Yeah. But I'm just saying. I don't care.

I know. They like when you deal with them... Right. Like, like, when you deal with them direct, like real people instead of... They don't want you to be... You're trying to put them around. Like, there's an HR department. You'd be like, I don't know what I'm allowed to say.

When you deal with them, like, people would be like, you're a lesbian. They'd be like, I'd be like, I'd be saying, I said, like, I'm not playing around, but I'd be saying LGBTQV. And then I see, I'd be saying, you said some, I'd be like, WWWWF, definitely. I just say that all the lot of shit. But it ain't, bro, man, it ain't no disrespect or nothing like that, bro.

It's just funny, bro. I talk about straight people. I talk about gay people. I talk about black people. I talk about white people. Talk about me, I don't give a fuck with you are. He's talked about gay people he pointed to me

and he talked about gay people he pointed out of my hand my hand was just going like that but the only reason why I said that the only reason why my hand probably came that way because earlier you said

oh so you can't say penis and I've been worried about you ever since you said that I'm like wow that's word the purple man you've been depurpotate yeah so if there's

if there's one thing you want to do what What's that next move that you're planning? Well, I'm already kind of doing it. Like, I'm moving into the largest places. I'm moving into large theaters and arenas. You know.

So, I mean, like that's it, man. I just want to be the very best that they ever done it. Right. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, when y'all sit back and y'all look at all the comedians that y'all, y'all head on this show, the Kevin Hart's and the Mike Epps. And I just want my name to come up in those same conversations.

Yes. And being able to accomplish some of the things that they have. And, you know, what I'm doing right now, moving into the theaters and the arenas like this, you know, a lot of dudes in our space haven't been able to, you know, haven't been able to do this. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

And, you know, being able, like, you know, it's very humbling and, you know, even talking to Kevin Hart. Like, it's just, you know, he was pretty much like the last one. You know, to go into an arena and sell out an arena, just his name, you know what I'm saying? And, you know, just to be able to do that, I think I'm just heading in a trajectory that I want to. And that's ultimately, like, ending it's like, hey, this dude was, he was one of the best that ever picked up a microphone. Is every comedian's actor, like once you, excuse me, once you dominated the stage and you did every, like, the arenas and everything, is it that ultimate goal to become an actor?

I mean, I'm already an actor. You know, I did the show on Netflix. I was the male lead on the Tyler Perry show, Miss Governor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was on that. I'm in a couple movies. I'm in another movie. He just did that's coming out later this year. You know, I'm about to do my own sitcom.

I don't wrote a movie. So, you know, it's all of that. It's not even, you know, the stand-up is going to open the doors, open up more acting opportunities for me. But, yeah, that's ultimately the goal. Like, if I can do it, I'm going to do it. You know what I'm saying? If I find out I can rap, I'm going to make a song.

You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, whatever it is, yeah, and how I can, you know, how I can, you know, continue to express my talent with the world and they enjoy it like that's what I'm gonna do. I know you lying. Comedians have been successful transitioning

to entertain this. I haven't seen the entertainer been successful transitioning to a comedian. You won't. Only because this is the... Shaq Funny is motherfucker. This is the hardest art form it is to do.

Comedian. I'm being a comic. Yes. Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. That is the toughest art form you can do. And it's honestly one of those things where it's either you got it or you don't.

Right. And it ain't no, it's no middle. It's either you can do it or you can't. Right. And then if you can do it, how well can you do it? Can you do it good? Can you do it great? You know what I'm saying?

Are you just okay? And then that's where you start to fall in line of what your career going to look like. Are you going to be a lifelong host? Are you going to be a life long host? long feature, or are you a headliner? Or are you a superstar? I want to be a superstar. So Sony pitches come to you.

Sony pitches come to you and said, yo, this is a breakout movie for you, fully starring, fully everything. Who would be your co-star? Sony bring me a movie, and they say this to me, who would be my co-star? You know, it's a dude that I like named Jack Funny. Look him up on Instagram.

bro. Okay, Jack Funny. Jack Funny. He's from Detroit. Okay. This dude, man, I'm talking about, like, on a comedic acting style, I think 15, 20 years from now we're going to be talking about this dude. He really, like, he's really like, he really one of them, one of the ones. You know what I'm saying?

I'm going to see you one of the videos, but he got this video about dudes that's in a wheelchair, and they're trying to holler at, you know, they see a girl at the gas station. They got to holl at her. So the girl like, man, get out and come talk to me, but he don't want to tell her. So now he got to have his homeboy come and pick him up and get him out the car and put him in the way. Bro, this shit's, bro, the dude, bro, he definitely one of the ones. But, yeah, I would probably roll with my boy, Jack. And I, and Desi Banks, too.

I think me and Desi can probably put something together, too. Okay. Shit, man. Yo, man, I just want to thank you, man. I knew you had shows. That's why we didn't try to get you drunk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't do half the cup now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I ain't put you through a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We do. You got nose brothers? You can't say that in Miami. They're thinking that means cocaine. They is, don't think so.

And I'm going to tell you. And I'm going to tell you something. And if they hear some cocaine line around, the nose that we got, they're not going to let us participate. Yeah, yeah. They're not going to. let us be apart. They're going to tell us, y'all got to get y'all on shit. Y'all about to thine.

I shoot that shit on your book. Okay, last question. Netflix come to you. Nigger, it's time. Mm-hmm. It's time. Very first one. What city? For what? Netflix special?

Yep. Let me ask you this. When is the interview coming out? Shit, I'm not that smart. You're not that smart? Yeah, yeah. I don't know, but why? Damn, I should have asked that first because you look like, you're about to say some.

Because Netflix already came. Come on. Netflix already came. I already shot it. Wow. Yeah, and it's going to be out. I ain't going to say today. Okay, okay, cool.

I don't know we are Japanese, but it's coming. I shot it in Atlanta. In Atlanta, I ain't going to lie. That's your comp. That's, you know, I'm born and raised in New York. And if I would do like a show it would definitely be New York, but my number two and three would be Philadelphia and Connecticut.

Okay, okay. Hands down. And for me, as an outside of looking at it and the inside of looking out, I can tell Atlanta's yoke, motherfucking, the crowd. When y'all see it and y'all see the crowd shots, we got them, they get bitch rocking and stumping their feet. It's going to be crazy. It's going to be crazy.

You know what I give Atlanta? Let me tell you what I give Atlanta. And I'm sorry to say this is from the Bronx people. Hold on. Wrongs people who has always been the borough that wasn't afraid to party. Brooklyn kind of was always kind of like too school.

If a person was a killer from Brooklyn, he would be a yard mind or something. He would be so smooth. A person to kill up from Queens. A person would be a killer from the Bronx. And they will buggy, rookie. They'll be down. You're looking like this, nigga.

And that's what Atlanta has. has become like Atlanta, it'd be killers. And they will have a great fucking time in Atlanta, y'all. I got to give it to them. And it's crazy. I mean, wanting to get pulled over in Atlanta. Because I was just like, you're a black cop. What's that black cop?

Hey, man. Hey, man, my shit is legit. Let's go. But when I shout my special, the mayor of Atlanta came. Wow. The mayor of Atlanta came. And he, even him, like, what's his name, Andre, Burrell?

3,000. No, Andre, what's his last name? Smoke Bluntz. Andre, smoke for lunch. Andre, I forgot his last name, but his name. The mayor name is Drake. Yeah, Dre. Let's make some noise for that.

Alon. Alone. You got a man named Drake. That's great. What up, Dre? He can't show up with something. I'm Drake. What up, man?

Yes. But, man, congratulations on everything, man. Congrats, bro. I know we don't, like, fully know each other, but I pray for you because your style of comedy and what you're doing is I'm president since, I don't know to pronounce that one. Okay.

But you're being good, though. I was close. I was close. What was the word we said earlier? Regurgatory. Regurgitated. I'll study that one. Yeah, yeah, I studied that one.

Let me just tell you, man, like, it's unapodetic. Who you are on the internet is who you are in real life. And that is a trait in itself. That's something that just doesn't happen. Yeah. I am prone to meet people, the industry person who they are, the person who you meet, and then the person who is on stake. Who is on state.

Like, I get to meet three different personalities. So when I get to meet a personality like you, who is that same person. This is a treat for me. I appreciate it. You know what I'm saying? This is a treat for me. This is not things that come in the industry.

And you fucking so talented. What you're doing, man. Everything you're doing, I want to support it. I appreciate it. This is your house. If you want to come on here and promote pink toenails, I don't even mind. I don't even mind.

If you were... Well, I got to be pink toes. What's up? What's over here? Yeah, yeah. Y'all need to go get him checked out, you know, listen, if you want to promote Halloween candy, it's okay, man.

But no, but for real, because, you know what I mean? Like in this business, you know what I mean? Having relationships is everything. You know what I'm saying? Like a lot of the things that we've been through is having great relationships. And what I want to tell you is, man, you're worthy of it, man. You are hands down, this generation. You are that thing, man.

You know what I'm saying? And I want to support it. So, yeah, man, I'm glad I thought I was spelling it wrong with the Z. No, you got it right. Yeah, yeah, okay. You made this yourself? No, no, no, no. Oh, how about it?

I'm about to say, ain't no fucking way. We got help. I'm about to say. Ain't no way you was in the house. But man, and I did not realize his name is Puerto Rican. More, oh. We're going to look at it through him. He might be more arrogant.

He might be more Reagan. No, no, no, though. We were saving, y'all out. Puerto Rico, man. You're going to get to drop. That's it, man. And, yo, he's going to kill the shows tonight. But I'm pulling up on you.

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