Joe and Jada - The Real Report - Gianni Paolo on Power Book II: Ghost, 50 Cent's influence, acting with Michael Rainey, and Hollywood's dark side

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

Gianni Paolo joins The Real Report with Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda for a wide-ranging conversation covering his rise as Brayden Weston in Power Book II: Ghost, working closely with 50 Cent, and building chemistry with Michael Rainey Jr.. He reflects on the longevity of the Power universe, early pay and grind stories, stepping into a lead role, and how he approaches acting, improv, and choosing scripts, while also discussing Hollywood experiences with names like Sophie Turner, comparisons to legends like Heath Ledger, and debates around iconic roles and performances. The episode also dives into entertainment industry realities, dealing with fame, 50 Cent’s influence and controversies, balancing personal life, and future ambitions, alongside moments on movie culture, AI in film, franchise opportunities, and classic film debates ranging from Tropic Thunder to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.Go to https://baskandlatherco.com and use code REALREPORT for 20% offSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. He can't do that. We went to an acting class, not to cut you off. We went to an acting class. Shut out the Wendy. Shut up. You shut up.

You said up. You hear me, J.I. This guy is trash, man. Shout out to Wendy. I'm the storm. Shout out of the wind. This guy's trashed. Yo, I did that.

He carried a big bag. I looked at it. He carried a big bag and got shot. He didn't get stabbed. Right. Shut the . Okay. Brooms.

Role. What you get movies with? Oh! Ribble! Yo, bro. Look, Robbriken. You know, man.

I would get a little. I would get a one. That's out. My f***. It's the real report with Gianni. Payola. Because he's getting that money. And Tony A, we don't got to do that all the time.

I mean, I was just saying, don't forget your name. No, we don't even got to do that. We had 100,000 subscribers. Oh, we love y'all. We love y'all. We love y'all so much for supporting so fast. We are blessed. Thank Uncle Murder.

Thanks Gianni for being here today. We got power in the fucking building. Come on, man. We got Gianni in the building. What's up, guy? What's going on? My brother, what's happening, man? I'm proud of you guys.

No. Dad asked, I'm proud of you guys. I know we talked like, I think it was maybe a year ago. And I was like, because you were doing kind of something on your own. I was like, you guys need to do a fucking buy. It's going to blow up. And look, four weeks, 100 cases. You did say that we was in Vegas.

Shout to Dreyas. We miss Dreyas. But now we go to Club Live now, Fountain Blue. Definitely. So we'll see you there. We'll see you there. Yeah, I'll be there. With 50, it's always a movie.

You're 50 cent. 100%. Now, with power, power is a show that, you know, you got a lot of shows, right? Yeah. Like we would say back in the days, you got the wire. Right. You had Oz. You had the Sopranos, right?

Classic. Classic. You know, classic shows. But when you look at a show like Power that's lasted, what you say, eight years, nine years? No, it's longer than that. They did six of power, four ghosts. If you add on a couple, the two that have gone on of force, and they, And Cainan, I say around 12, 13 years.

Kind of nuts. Wow. Yeah. So you coming from Vermont. How did you, you know, shout to Vermont? I grew up in Rhode Island. Oh, Rhode Island. They gave him the wrong thing under they said Vermont.

Who the fuck gave my man the wrong information again? That is setting this nigga up. They just setting, yeah, yo, I like it, though. Some of them, so. Go on. Why the fuck is, how you don't know what my man from? Vermont. Vermont.

Vermont is that, it's the whitest place on her. Vermont. You know, I never told me this from Vermont. Now, I'm from Rhode Island. So let's ask, edit. Where do you find this information at? Do you Google it? I've never heard Vermont ever.

He looked at my picture. He's like, this looks like a guy from Vermont. No, that's what I'm like, Vermont. So coming from Rhode Island, directly, right? You're professional, but we're unprofessional here. You know, the real point. So coming from Rhode Island, shout to Rhode Island.

You know what I'm saying? Shout to Vermont, too, I guess. You know what I'm from there. And getting to acting in New York City and being around 50. How did you make this happen, bro? I moved to L.A. on my 19th birthday, and I was like, I'm fucking doing this. This is what I wanted to do my whole life. I knew I was meant to do it.

Everything had pushed me towards being an actor, being an entertainer, just everything. Like, stuff would weirdly happen in my life where it would just keep pushing me towards. So I made the move, go to L.A. I'm catering for a little bit. You know, I'm doing this. I'm doing that, trying to make ends meet. booked a couple voiceover gigs

which helped me get out of the restaurant I was grinding in acting classes improv doing live stage theater comedy all of it and then I booked

a couple different guest stars and some shows and then I almost did an audition for power because I just booked that movie Ma with Octavia Spencer

so I was going to go shoot that in Mississippi I'm a huge universal Blumhouse movie I get an audition that came in for power that was a local hire which means I need to

fly myself and put myself up there in New York. So I'm going to lose three, four bands on this whatever. At this point, I'm so broke as fuck. Like, I'm like, I don't have this money to do this. And it was only a co-star, which means it's one, one or two scenes, like less than like five to eight lines. So I'm like, it's not worth it. Call my mom. Yeah, I just got an audition for the show power. But I booked that movie, Ma, so I'm going to go shoot that. She's like, can you please, like, please audition? Like, my, me and your father love that show. Like, just please audition for it. Oh, wow. Look at that. I know. So I know. So I was like, ah, at the this point, I'm not tapped into anything because I'm so broken in L.A. I'm hustling.

So you didn't even know about power like that. Bro, I wasn't watching anything on TV because I just, I at this point, I'm like, I need to make it happen for myself. I'm not watching any other motherfucker. Yeah, got you. I would watch like good movies that came out to like, you know, look at my craft and all that stuff. But I was so locked in seven days a week that I was like, I don't even care about anything. So audition for it. Sent in the audition. It was the fastest response I've ever got. And I think I booked it in like 12 hours. Like usually week, two weeks, sometimes. a month in 12 hours. They're like, you booked it. You're going to New York next week. I was like, fuck. I'm like, yeah, now I'm going to lose this money, but I was like, whatever. So it was one

scene, go there, shoot the scene, do it with Michael. Now, me and Rainey don't say a word to each other. This is your first time meeting them, correct? Yes, my first time meeting them. And there's like a skeleton crew. So this was season five of power where there was no, there was like really nobody there. Like, it was Christmas. Everyone had already like kind of broken and went away. So it was just Tarik and Braden all day long. And at this. point, Braden wasn't supposed to be what he was. He was just like, supposed to be a dickhead roommate of Tarekes that they were supposed to butt heads in that scene. But the director was super cool, so she was like, you can improv, have fun, do whatever after I had done a couple takes. So all my

comedy and improv training, all that stuff came in. And I just did whatever I wanted. And then the whole crew was laughing. I was like, oh, it seems like everyone liked it. Dipped out. Went and filmed that movie in Mississippi. And then there was kind of like a little bit of a low period where I was like, still audition, whatever. And then all of a sudden, the episode of power comes out. And everything that I'd improv made it into the show. And everything that was written got cut. So I was like, oh, they really liked what I did.

But I was like, cool, great. It was great. It was dope, whatever. How did you feel, seeing that shit for the first time? Like, oh, shit. Hold on, Mark. He has to tell the people what improv is. Because a lot of people don't know what improv is.

Yeah. So improv is like, you have your lines. You have your scripted lines. And then improv is like you improvise. So, which I think always makes the best fucking scenes because it's real shit. Like me and Mike improvise all the time now because we know each other so well. We know the character so well. So it's more real of a moment if you're not stuck to, you know, the guidelines of what the words that you have to say.

Because sometimes you just want to say, fuck. Like what the fuck? Like what the fuck are you thinking? But the line might be, Tariq, we shouldn't do that. So there's a lot of stuff as an actor like subtext. Like maybe you should feel that way, but still have to say the. lines. I always say like the lines are the road is the roadmap of the scene, you know. But some shows and some directors are more forgiving than others and let you improv. So that's kind of what you do. So I,

I just, I had a lot of comedy improv like on stage at at Groundings and UCB kind of like where Will Ferrell came up and all those guys really learned how to, you know, become comedic actors. I did a lot of work there and training there. So when it came time, I was like, fuck, this is easy compared to like being on stage in front of, you know, 100 people. Crushed it, did that movie, and then Power came out. And then my team calls me and they're like, oh, they wrote you a whole storyline for season six. So I was like, oh, shit, they like what I did. I'm excited.

Again, still in credit card debt, still kind of like juggling shit. Like, you don't make shit on those episodes. Like, I lost money in that first one. And then the second one you make probably like they upped it a little bit, maybe like $1,500 in episodes. So you wasn't feeling good when you saw the first episode? Oh, I was feeling amazing, but I just don't really remember those times because, like, I was so wrapped up in, like, the movie.

And I was like, this universe is so crazy because Power is the thing that broke me out. But at this time, like, this was supposed to be a giant movie. It was tracking, like, Get Out. It was Octavia Spencer. And I'm like, I'm going to be a fucking movie star. And I was like, I wasn't even think about Power. Power came out. And I was like, cool.

But I think I was just so focused on the movie that power slipped up. So when they brought me back for season six, did a couple more episodes. and then 50 was directing episode three. Now, that was fucking so dope because he comes up to me at breakfast. And, like, at this point, I'd only done one or two scenes. So I'm like, I don't really know, like,

kind of the crew or anything. I go to get fitted. And Frank, he does all the clothes. He was like, yeah, we thought you were going to be terrible, but you were so funny. And I was like, why did you think I was going to be terrible, first off? And second off, and I was like, thank you. Like, I appreciate that.

Like, I only had two scenes, but thank you. I go to breakfast and 50 comes up me. And he just was like, you can kind of do whatever you want. Like, I see your shit like you're funny. Like, just have fun. And like, that was wild. So then I start improv and more of those first couple episodes. And even the camera guys were like,

they don't let anybody improv on the show. They're, you really. I was like, so that was just like, it was just kind of, because I knew the work that I'd put in and the shit that I was doing. And I was like, I, uh, it was just all like approval to be like, the work that I did fucking paid off, you know? So 50 comes up to me. me and Michael, that episode he's directing and he whispers in our ears, he's like, you guys take

over and he walks away. Now, me, broke actor at that time, I'm like, I'm doing all episodes this season. I'm doing all 10. Great. That's best case in error for me. I do every episode. Now, I do episode four, and then I never get called to come back. And then there's an announcement on deadline. Powers ending with season six. They're doing 15 episodes because they did that extra five to close out the show. I was like, damn, fucking 50 cent lied to me. He said I took it. over and I don't take over. I'm about to be back trying to figure this shit out. Oh, I know.

But then, so the movie was about to come out in May. So at this time, I'm in like 15, 20 grand worth of credit card debt. And I'm like, the way that Blumhouse, which they did, I think they did get out, they do a lot of like $5 million budget movies. They pay the cast scale. And then you get back end. So like if the movie does, you know, 20 mil in the box office, which it was more theaters, back at that time, you're getting, you're getting, you know, 50K every 20 mil it gets.

So you could walk out. They were quarter million dollars, you know. My team had fucked up my contract. So I didn't make any money unless the movie hit $50 million. U.S., not global, U.S. The movie hit 47.8 million dollars, U.S., yeah. So it's like a week before the movie's about to come out. Now, I'm sweating.

I'm like, we're going up against Godzilla, a rocket man, the Elvis, movie. I'm like, we're going to get fucking crushed. We did well. We finished third that weekend. But like a couple days before that movie came out, I got a call from Courtney and she's like, yeah, you're going to be the lead of the spinoff with Michael. All from a one episode co-star that I just

improv and had fun with. And it turned into what all this was, being on stage of five, meeting you guys, meeting all my favorite rappers. Like I would be heartbroken. Like I even have a story. where like I would audition for shows like, you know, 13 reasons why or Riverdale or big, big, big, like iconic teen romance. You love like shows. And I'd be heartbroken when I didn't get it.

And then I'd see these kids get 20, 30 million followers. I'm like, fuck. But when I booked power and then everything unfolded, I literally was like, oh. Like I said oh to God. I was like, it all makes sense. This, no one else could is like, I don't know, it just all made sense to me. Everything fit. Like I showed,

there's a picture on my Instagram and I showed 50. It's me with a G-unit T-shirt on it, like 10 years old. I'm like, it's just like everything was meant to happen the way that it happened and look where we are.

You know what I mean? Definitely, man. I'm like my boy. It's crazy. My boy is dope. You got to understand. Ledgett Lenny. Edon, look up training day.

What's the acting training day again? Ethan Hawk. That whole movie from what I, see how many people tried out for training day Because there was supposed to be a whole bunch of actors for training day, but Denzel wanted him to all improv. So Ethan Hawke was like the fifth guy to do it. Like he was the only guy to improv because that's like me and you being in the movie.

Well, you been, you did. Of course. Well, you was a co-star. You had like five lines. He did swat too, stupid. Let me tell you something right now. Let me tell you that something. How, this whole podcast thing kind of almost even started.

We got to shout out to my man right here, right? We got to shout out to my guy because he caught me and this guy right here arguing about who was in a fucking better movie, which it was me. I was in a better movie. I was in the movie with Bruce Willis. You understand what I'm saying? That was on Netflix. That was in the movie theater. What are you call it when you only have five lines?

It don't matter. It doesn't have more than that. But nobody cared about the thing. He was in bum-ass swat. He was in bum-ass swat too. I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't know.

I didn't. I haven't even seen it. I know you did. Where's your movie? You can't go check that movie. I can't find that movie no way. Yeah, Biggie Boom, you did them dirty. That video went so viral.

I feel like I always catch those moments. Like, I don't know what it is. Like, I always catch those moments. I think that has like 20, 30 million views. Yeah, that was crazy right then. That was a good moment. Yeah, but at that point they were like, you guys got to do a show together. Yeah, definitely.

For me, it was lit for me. No, I think the illest moment with Gianni is was like, yo, every time you see G unit, you said something in London. That went viral too. Shout to London. That was an epic drunk night in London. I was drunk that night. I was like, you say G-Unit?

Fucking just, yeah, appears. And I look at my camera and I was like, just get this. Like, we're nobody even going to play anything. Just record this. And I was like, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, yeah-o drunkenly comes out of tape. See, yeah. He's like, gee, you know, I do.

Wow, nights in London. So how do you keep the balance? Because you know a lot of people, you know, a lot of, they say a lot of people that you see, you know, homeless in the street up or old actors that came to LA and trying to follow the dream. You know, everybody wants to come to Hollywood. Yeah. But how do you keep your balance? You got drugs out there, beautiful women, wild parties. And I'm around it every night, but I don't know, I just like, I just don't need that.

I, I don't know what I've come to my conclusion is why there's a lot of Disney stars or actors that become drug addicts is that there's a lot of downtime as an actor. Like there just is, like maybe with you like you guys, you go to show, to show you're on the move, you're traveling, you go to your next show, you got to, you know, you're in the hotel. We don't have that. We get to set and then you sit in your trailer for a couple hours. You go to your scene, you're kind of sitting around all day long.

And then you might rap early and you're shooting in fucking Vancouver for eight months. Like a lot of shows are shooting there. Who do you know out there? So now you're going to do like four or five hours before you go to bed, kind of, if you don't have a girlfriend, you're just kind of sitting there alone or with your castmates, even if you're cool with them and half of them got their own shit going on. So you're just sitting around. Now, when you go to like an event or you go somewhere,

you have all these people yelling at you. There's all the serotonin, even being on set, like people catering to you. And then all of a sudden, you know, you go back home and you're dead quiet. And you're like, bored. So you're like, yeah, man, I'm fucking, you know, do little drugs, do all this. That's how I feel like all these kids kind of get involved with all this stuff because you're just so much downtime. Then you go film something for six months. Then you're off for three months.

You're like, okay, got to book the next. next job now. You could have potentially six to eight months of just not working and just being in LA. So if you don't have a strong fucking mindset, a lot of these kids out there don't, they'll just fold. They're doing, I see every actor, these kids every night doing blow, doing this, doing that and they just can't control themselves. I thought it was to play the part. Like if you tell me, you, I got to play Batman tomorrow. You know what I mean? I might want to, somebody might say, you, I got to do a drug or some shit to be getting the character. I don't know. That's what I was thinking. Now, just really think about it. Like to get in the character.

He did that before playing Batman. That's why I'm using it. No, he played the Joker. He played the Joker. He played the Joker. And that was one of the best. And I was one of the best, he was one of the best jokers ever. That's actually my favorite performance ever.

My favorite performance ever of any actor. It's number one for me. Yeah, that was the best Joker ever. It's the best performance I think of all time. Like, you just can't beat that. But yeah, like, I don't know. I guess maybe if in your mind, if you're that crazy, like you have to do drugs to get into character.

Like, there's so much downtime. How the fuck are you going to do drugs all day long? If you tell me I got to play Batman, nigga, I don't know how to, like, pop a pill and I think I'm Batman. That's how my motherfucker. Yo, this nigga is crazy. No, I'm just thinking that's what, the actors do that. Yeah.

Actors do that. Look, you. Perk man. No, I'm just saying, listen, no, I'm not a perk man. But how many, listen, how many actors have you heard say they played a part and it took them a while to weed off of being that hell? No, I'm not gonna lie. I even heard, shout out to my, that's how I got Mike Epps.

I even heard him say he was coked up when he was doing, I think, one of the movies that he was doing. He said he was coaked up in one of them shit, doing a whole bunch of them. I don't know. That always blows my mind because what people don't understand, was it hangover? I think it was one of them where he said he's, I think it was, was it Friday, one of the Fridays? Oh, I did see that, yeah. I think it was one of them. He said he was actually coked up on it.

Well, think about it. You got to do 30, 40, 50 takes. Then you break for lunch. Then you got to do hair makeup. you're going to do blow all day long. You're like, for 12 hours, you'd be dead. You'd overdose. So it's like, you get what I mean.

So it's like it's all day long as an actor. There's like the whole, your whole day is like this. You get to set. Oh, hair and makeup, hair and makeup. But then all of a sudden they sit you in your trailer for two fucking hours. You're like, oh, shit. All right. Then you sit for two hours.

Then they go, okay, we need you on set ASAP. So I don't know. I just think it would be hard to realistically do drugs and be an actor. And it's unprofessional, right? Right, right. But maybe if you have like, because I had that crazy scene where I, I slam the drug dealer's face into the, into the cocaine because he sold my girl the, um, uh, the fentanyl. And that day, I like, I took a little bit of an adderall. So I was like that, oh shit,

took an Adderall and then I was drinking Celsius all day long, but like, that's as far as I'll go. Like, I think like doing real Coke, like you just would have to do it all day long. Mm. Yeah. Well, my man said for Batman, he'll pop a pill. You, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what. The fuck out of it. If you guys could have one dream role, what would it be? Dream role for me? Old movie, new movie? Anything.

If you could pick your role tomorrow, you start filming it, what would it be? I would want to be like in, I would say, they're supposed to be making a Scarface too, but I want to be in Scarface. I don't think that could work, though, man. I don't think so. He was in Swat, too. He's the king of the movies that make no shit, right? I was out of inside.

Swat too, Scarfax. You're gonna scoffice too. You see. But he was a co-star with Bruce Williams. He didn't even, did you even say anything to Bruce Willis? You didn't even say what up to Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis is my man, nigger. Put it like that.

Benny Boone, you fucked up because we can't I find Swat too. Benny Boom, you got him looking crazy. Fiff, good looking for that movie. I can't even find it on 2B, nothing, man. Nothing. That's a good thing. A movie, oh man, the ideal role. I don't know.

So you saying- I like to be some Gar-father of Harlem type. Father of Harlem type back in the days. Like, yeah, something like that type, man. Word. Yeah. But it's like when you look at like power and like you be on set, like, you know, because I know, you know, when Mietra's on set, smell like weed and all like crazy shit,

if you used to say like, yo, yeah, yo, murder, if you ever go on set, be on time, be professional. Yeah. How much does that really, that really counts like on set? Because you said it's 12 hour day. Dude, it's so weird. I mean, like power is an anomaly. Like you go on a power set. Obviously, it's like, you know, 50 cent produced.

And there's a little leeway. I heard that Wu-Tang was a little bit like that, too. Right. People smoke in and drink. You go to a, like, a real proper, like, Amazon or Apple TV set. Right. That does not fly. Now, maybe you got a crazy actor every now and then, but, like, I don't know.

Like, I just feel like that that shit only really happens because it's power and there's a little bit more. You know, like, obviously there's a lot of rappers that come on set. So, like, Meach was kind of doing his thing on. on BMF, but like, I know there's just so many like, yo, listen, that shit was getting, that had to get to y'all hey. Y'all niggas was like, y'all was the only actors that actually 50 booked y'all at like rap artists.

Y'all had walkthroughs. Meach made a lot of money. Michael Rainey made a model money. Gianni made a lot of money. Um, um, the ghost made a lot of money. Tommy. Like, the way 50 had is set up is like, y'all had rappers.

Like, y'all was rappers. That's the first time you ever seen actors do walkthroughs like rap. And the only other equivalent of that is like, I guess, an actor going to like Comic-Con. But it's like, who the fuck wants to sit at a booth all day long and sign papers? I'd rather be at the club of bottles. Of course. 50 really like, and he did that. He made that happen.

He posts us on his Instagram. He made us stars for that reason to have us make money like that. Like that wasn't for him. Like, sure, he's promoting the show. But like he does a lot of shit for us to help us out and, you know, have us do shit like that. where I don't see any other actor ever doing what we do. There's like seven or eight of us that can really like go to a club in Tallahassee or Houston and sell out a club like kind of nuts.

Definitely. I talk about that all the time. I'm like, if you, when I go to set and I like, I shot a movie last year with Sophie Turner from Game of Thrones, she's like, that's the biggest show ever probably, right? And I was explaining to her, I was like telling her like what a club hosting is. And she's like, so people just pay to come and. party with you in the club and I was like, yeah, she's like, this is the coolest thing I've ever heard.

I'm like, you're on fucking Game of Thrones. How you don't know. Yeah, like, but they just don't know because it's just such a different world. Definitely. It's a different world. Definitely. It's crazy, man. And you, you had the like crowd hype because like your scenes like you being in court and

everybody thought you was going to snitch. Yeah. And you didn't snitch you. The writers love me, man. I always tell people like, do fucking good work because then the writers want to write good shit for you. But if you show up to set and you're a fucking asshole and you don't take your shit seriously, you don't have your lines memorized.

The writers don't want to make you succeed. So every time I would come to set, I'd be improv and I'd be going to talk to the writer who, because every writer for that episode is on set. So I'm like, what should we do? Can we add a joke here? Should we switch this out? Even like that, YS.L. Rico joke that I made that went viral. And I said that in one of the scenes that we're at the money thing, whatever.

I don't even remember what the fuck it was now. I know so. I changed that out. It was like, Gambit. be no crime family. I'm like, if you help the writer and you talk to him and the producers see that, because I really was trying to make every episode. I'm going to come to times.

I'm going to bring you into right now time. Right, right. This is what's going on now. Like, I cared about the show so much. I was like, some people just show up and they get their fucking paycheck and they go home. I'm like, I want to make every episode as good as possible. I would go up to the producers offices and I'd be like, what's the next episode look like?

Like, I want to go through the wall when I went through the wall. That wasn't scripted. Like shit like that to elevate. the show because I cared so much. So then the writers cared about me and they gave me cool shit and they made me look lit and that's kind of like a push and pull as an actor or a writer like you want to make them look good, they make you look good, you know?

Right. Did you go to acting classes or no? Before, yeah. When I first moved to LA, I was doing a little bit in Rhode Island before I moved and then I was doing, I did live improv classes at Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade, which called UCB. And that's kind of like Donald Glover started there and Will Ferrell, Melissa McCarthy, like all the great start at Groundlings in UCB.

That's like where the comedic acting comes from and where like, you know, a writer's brain of jokes and stuff. But then I took like more serious acting classes for the first like a couple of years I was in LA and I popped in and out with an acting coach. But like, I don't know, sometimes I'm like, I know everything I need to know about acting at this point. Like I'm going to learn more just by working now.

Like a teacher's not going to teach me anything that I haven't already done. What gives you your drive? Because I've done seen you in London. Yeah. Then we can be in Miami. Then you're Italy, in Paris or something. Michael Rainey's in Jamaica.

You in Jamaica. What gives you your drive? What made say this guy from Rhode Island to all the people that want to be actors out there from Rhode Island gives them this drive to go to L.A., 19 years old, no money, catering. You went from serving food to, you know, asked the Martin trucks and all that shit. I really just, I love it. Like, I legitimately love it.

Like, I love pulling up on you guys. guys. You're going to tell me when I'm 10 years old, look, you're going to be friends with all your favorite rappers. You're going to be on 50 cents TV show. He's going to bring you out on stage in front of 70,000 people at Tottenham Stadium in London. I'm going everything. I'm living in the moment. I'm having fun. I think that's just like I enjoy it so much. This is where I think other people do it for not themselves. They're doing it to prove something to someone or this. I generally just do it because I have so much fun. And that's why I'm an actor because of the fun that I have doing it. The second it stops becoming fun, I'm not going to do it anymore. But I just have fun.

Like, that's why I do the podcast with Mike. Like, I leave the studio after doing two episodes. Like, God, that was so fucking fun. Like, we really just had like Michael Ely in here. Like, I grew up watching him, like, Fat Joe in here. Like, we just have crazy people that I grew up idolizing that I just sat down and chopped it up for an hour and had him on my podcast. Like, I just love what I do. Like, that's really it. That's crazy. Yeah. To live your dream just to think.

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What's next? What's you working on next? So that movie just came out that I did trust. I did that last year. We got crushed in the box office, but it's killing it on streaming now. Okay. Shout to trust. We can see that at.

I'm Paramount on Paramount Network. Okay. It's on Paramount Network. It's on Paramount to Palmyon Network. But dude, it's so hard. Like, to do those types of movies, there's like genre horror movies or their superhero Marvel movies. Like there's kind of no in between.

It's kind of hard to be in theaters and make a movie do like a movie do like a, you know, used to do five years ago. But we're crushing on streaming now. And yeah, dude, I'm just, I'm getting ready for the next thing. I'm just auditioning and figuring out what the right plays. Because you could go and do something and get stuck on a show for eight, 10 years and not be happy. You know what I mean? Like the money doesn't mean anything to me.

I'm like, I'll tell my team all the time, like, not that, not that, not that. And then when the right thing comes in, that, you know, it's hard too. Because once you do a show like power, you don't want to go backwards. So what if you do power and then all of a sudden you're doing like a no shade to any of like the procedural shows? But you do like a like a fire show or you play a firefighter or this or that like Da Vinci right now. But it's like you go from such a lit show when you're 50 and then all of a sudden you're just like I don't know. I don't want to take a step back. So I'm being very like strategic.

Yeah, because I remember we was talking earlier and you said you could either take a role where you're making $20 million or you could take a role that makes you a big star. Yeah. So this is a story from, you know, Chris told me that there are these two, two guys. And I won't mention the names because I don't know if they want the story out there, but one was a show that Dick Wolf show, so it's going to go seasons. You know, if Dick Wolf's getting involved, it's Law and Order, it's Chicago Fire. It's all those shows, you know, you're going to go for 10 seasons. Now, the other show was Ballers. Now, I don't, obviously, Denzel Washington's son wound up booked it.

But another actor booked ballers and then another role at the same time. And they were essentially like, do you want to be rich or do you want to be famous?

And he was like, I kind of want to be rich. So he took the role that now it's on 14, 15th season, whatever, and he's rich. He wanted what he wanted, his family,

he'll be good forever. And now, you know, Denzel Washington's son, he doing tenant, doing Christopher Nolan movies. I don't know what his paychecks look like.

But like, I essentially would say that they're both pretty rich at this point. But like he made a decision to go, maybe if I did ballers, I wouldn't have gotten to that next step. It would have just ended in three, four seasons. It might not be doing tenant and all that. Right. So it's kind of a, that's the game with acting is like everything is like a strategic fucking move. And it's like if they think you're hot, if they think you're doing well, then this casting director or this producer will bring you in for this movie. So it's a very strategic game that people don't really, you know, kind of know about.

But they're both rich. I love for my friends. Well, you hear about the stories, because wasn't Will Smith, Will Smith, he was supposed to be in The Matrix, and he did that stupid cowboy movie, I think, back in days. Am I wrong with right here?

He did that flop, that dumb movie. Remember that movie Will Smith did? Wild Wild West. So Will Smith was supposed to be in the Matrix. Yeah. But here's the thing, when you get a script, you don't know if it's gonna be good or not. You don't.

You could read a script and go, this is fucking incredible, and then the director could ruin it. Or even afterwards, The director could have directed it great, and the producers are like, we don't think it's going to do good. And they chop the movie up. So, Will Smith, that could have been better than the Matrix in his mind.

Probably, that's what he thought. But that's what I'm saying. That's how these guys picked. He probably thought that. Right. So it's all about the decisions. Right. It's all about like when you get to that level and you have 10 scripts, you've seen entourage, right?

You have 10 scripts. You've got to pick the best script that's going to blow you up the most in your lane that you want to do. It's a very strategic game. It's not just like, oh, I booked this, let me go do it. They'll lock you down for seven years. You can't do nothing else. So how do guys like DiCaprio and guys like that pick the best scripts?

They just get lucky? Well, not at this point. So DeCaprio was a child actor. So he got Gilbert Grape really young and he's obviously a great actor. But once, like, he's kind of grandfathered into where he's done so many hit movies. Now it's a thing where the biggest directors, the best writers are coming to Leonardo DiCaprio, as opposed to like there's third. or 40 A-list actors, but they're all fighting to do a Christopher Nolan movie.

They're all fighting to do a Paul Thomas Anderson movie as opposed to like these, the best scripts are going to Leonardo DiCaprio, no matter what. That's why he has 20 years of hits because he's getting the best scripts that he's seeing all these scripts first before any actor in town. So he's kind of grandfather then. Yeah, he turns everything. Yeah. He turns everything down and he picks what director he wants to work with and who he trusts.

It's why he works with Scorsese a lot. He knows it's going to be a bangor. Scorsese's not doing bullshit. you know so once now my if you look at me like my path is to go okay cool do a great movie with the great director boom book that do a big series you know get a lot of notoriety then i might get a better script and then you then you get to the top and then you can pick whatever you want but it's it's getting there to be able to pick shit is kind of like the the life of an actor to get there right yeah what y'all did was so big man like me watching tv i remember it was three shows on

that we always watch, Murk. Snowfall. Jacks. Garfather Hallam. And Power. Yeah. I think, like, to me, that was like a classic year of TV, bro. Like, for real.

Like, I was just bouncing back with all them shows. I mean, what would 50 say if you didn't watch power though? Would he be like, what the fuck, man? No, I mean, you've got it. I mean, it's good TV. Yeah, yeah. You know, people think, yo, we're on yes man, 50 to death. When it's good, it's good.

I agree. It's just good shit. Yeah, the actors. I agree. If it's good, it's dope is dope. It's dope. I mean, the original power is a, it's a fucking masterpiece. Like, those six seasons are a masterpiece, you know.

It's hard when you start doing spin-offs and you have different writers rooms and different actors in different places and kind of tie it all together. Like, sometimes it gets a little difficult, but, like, those six seasons of power are a fucking masterpiece. And I didn't watch an episode of power until after I had already shot those four episodes of season six because I didn't want to, I didn't want to know more than what Braden should have known. Like there's actually a scene where me and Tommy meet in season six of power, but that wound up getting cut. Yeah, and why did they cut that?

I think probably just for time. But he came into the dorm room where he found out that Tarek stole his drugs and was selling it. And he came to the dorm room and he sees me and he goes, get the fuck out of here, Bieber. And I run out. So we had already met. But it cut to the point where he was already in the room. And I think it just goes right into him being like,

Like, you fucking, you stealing my drugs. So, I forget the, what the, oh, uh, so we had already met. What was the point of why the fuck I was saying that? Damn it. It's great TV. It's, it's, it's six, it's six, six seasons of a masterpiece, right? I think about lives for the next movie and shit. You see, that's what actors do.

Yeah, yeah. But it's six seasons of a masterpiece and then, uh, they just need to like kind of go off and figure out what, what's the best way and kind of like, you know, Joseph did his show that. But it's hard to really like make it work all together after like there's different. So when did the bond with you and Michael Rainey start? Because it was like, you know, it was so funny because y'all used to go on Instagram and you know, y'all's the who had the best outfit, y'all used to go against Meach. Meach used to hate y'all.

You know, y'all used to hate on him, whatever. Y'all used to go back and forth. But it's like you never seen two actors like mesh like that and actually be brothers outside the studio in the club. Yeah. It started actually just the first episode that I came back for season six of power where I was just like I said. Improvalued.

I was living in L.A. So they flew me to New York and I'm just in New York City. I know a couple people, but you rap and you're just like, oh, fuck, like I'm not doing shit. So we were on set and like most actors you meet are very proper. They're very like, you know, reserved. They could be a little crazy, but like Michael's not like an actor actor. Michael's a kid that grew up in Staten Island that just so happens to be on a TV show.

Like he doesn't let that fame or anything kind of get to him. He's very like a normal kid because he grew up in his family home with all of his friends around him and his day job was just go to power. Now obviously he got bigger and bigger as like ghost happened and all that.

But when I had first met him, he just brought up a girl. He brought up a car and I'm in my head. I was like, started talking about that girl looks fine and shit. And I like look over at him. And then we just started talking. And that was day one back of season six of power.

Pick me up that night. Me and him went out to the club. It was over from there. We were going out every night. I was flying back and forth to do the episodes. And then me and Mike would go out. And then he'd hit me, be like, you coming back for next out? And I was like, I don't know.

I'm not reading the episodes. Like, am I coming back? So I would, I was like, maybe I'll just go to New York and kick it with Mike, even if I'm not in the episodes. And then that's when we got the call for ghosts. And we were just fucking outside every night. I mean, Garrett will tell you, like, he's sitting over there. He ain't never seen a set like me and Michael.

But here's the thing. We would like, we'd be sitting courtside of the Knicks game. And we'd be like, okay, we got the club set up tonight. Got a bunch of girls pulling up. Got to be at work at 6 a.m. We got to be off book because we got to be professional. So we'll be sitting at the Knicks games, like running lines with each other being like, all right, well, you got the shit, whatever.

All right, well, cane this and that. And we're running lines sitting at the next. And we're running lines sitting in the Knicks game and we're not going to the club until we got the scene without looking at the paper. Look at that. We got the scene down. Like, all right, now we can go out of our shit

and then whatever. And then you, you know, you pull up to set next morning. You're 100% and you're ready to go. We fucking party like crazy, but like we had our shit all the way down. And I think that's what like, I think that's just like the producers and everyone like loved about us. Like we had, we were on our shit, you know? Yeah, it's the talk of New York.

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Do people be surprised when they meet you in real life that you really act like Braden? Like, oh, this motherfucker really is a little crazy, like it a little awful. I mean, I don't know. Like, I guess I'm pretty like myself on social media. So people see me like, got you. This, even people in high school, like, I know a lot of people will be like,

oh, he only dresses like this or wears chains or does this because he thinks he's cool with 50 cent or he's a unit. And I'll post people saying shit like that. And people from high school or knew me when I was 12 or 13 years old be like, this is the same motherfucker I met when he was in Rhineland. He's, you know, I was, I've been collecting. Justin Jordan since I was 11 years old. I was wearing the G unit T with the Guit speakers at school and being crazy.

Like that was always me. So that's why like, like I said, even like a lot of Braden's writing paralleled my life a little bit of like, you know, you know, growing up around like tough areas, but also at the same time, like your parents, you know, you got to be presentable. And like a lot of shit mirrored my life. That's why like when Braden happened, I was like, this is literally like fate. This is fate. Like you can't write a better show for me to do, you know?

Meet all my heroes. I mean, you and it's just like, it's just wild. So yeah, I'm grateful for it. Well, you did a great job. It was fucking great TV. And we want to see fucking more from you because it was like, you remember your brother, your brother? Because you was the black sheep of the family.

Yep. Did you get your sister kidnapped? Brother, drugs in the crib. But here's the thing. I always say like it stems from Tarek a little bit, you know. It was always four. It's all fucking, you know. And I'm not.

It's a Michael's fault. It's Tarek's fall. Okay. They write, but I always make this joke because I'm like, everyone's always mad and angry at power and this, not. And it's like, imagine it, there would be no show if Braden and Tariq, oh, wow, we just sold a million dollars with a dope. Nothing bad happened. Let's go to Miami. There would be no TV show.

Of course, when you're driving there, you got to get a flat tire and then a cop's going to pull you over and then someone hits you, but really the cop is dirty. That's what makes the show. So, like, people get so mad at it. And like, if you wanted it to go the way you wanted it to go, there would be no TV show. There'd be no beef with Monet. Ghost would still be selling drugs. Like, there'd be no issues.

Yeah, because there was a point where we wanted to know who was more dangerous, Braden or Tyreek. Yeah. Because we didn't know what to expect from this guy. Yeah, I think more towards season four when I was getting on the drugs, which I liked. I liked when Braden was on the drugs because it was, and the show should have continued.

but like it was a vehicle to get Brayden to be crazy. Because if you saw Brayden season six, he was a lacrosse player. Of course. He was, he was this like nice little kid who maybe took a couple pills. You're going to say in a year and a half

he's murdering people. It doesn't make sense. So the writers were like- The girl start turning you out. Let's turn him out, get him out and go crazy. That's kind of, it was kind of like a vehicle

which the writers did to like make Brayden go crazy and really turn him into what he turned into. Now, season five, he would have been fucking nuts, which I would have loved. to see, but they had different plans, you know. Definitely it was must-see TV. Any show that makes me want to run home to go see it,

it makes me feel like the wild or the sopranos or any of them shows that we talk about. That's why we always want to know what you're doing next. You know, what's going on next? What's the plans? I definitely, like, the next thing, I want to do another show. I want to do another show.

I like movies, but, like, you go do a movie for two months and then you don't really create, like, a family, you know? you just shoot a movie for two months. I haven't seen not one crew member from that movie Trust that I did the year ago. So I'm like, I'm family with like the power crew. So I want to go do another TV show, do it for a couple of years.

And then then I start picking my movies. That's really the... See, people don't know that we all fan, like the whole part. It was one time people thought you and Joseph didn't like each other. Yeah. Why people thought that? Or did you not like each other? That was real.

Oh, for me. You really didn't like each other. That was real. That beef was real. I thought it was for the, I thought you had like show beef. No, that, the shit that happened that was on stage, which everyone saw and we squashed it and, you know, it is what it is now. But like, yeah, that was real.

And it was just like a miscommunication that snowballed into something and then obviously like it got squashed. But yeah, that was real. That wasn't for the everything. Everyone, half people thought it was real. Half people thought it was fake. But like that wasn't for like the cameras or anything. But I stood on business.

He stood on business and that was it. And we squashed it. My God, it's still on business. You know, my boy. But now we're all family. Yeah, that's family. But family even have. Of course.

You know what I'm saying? Man, this fucking guy right here, you know, I can't fucking spend this guy. You see him personal on YouTube. Yeah. I'm curious. Wait, I'm curious about the, um, the dynamic of the podcast. Like, who's, who's coming in late? Who's doing what?

Listen, I'm running the show. Fuck out of there. You see who run the show. You can tell you. You can see who run the show. I just dropped the bomb and I was going to take the mic away. Trust me. Trust me.

You see who brought this song, man. When I went to YouTube, you seen how hard I was working. Vlad, your show, breakfast club, Shannon Sharp, kill Tony. I will say your numbers are fucking nuts. Like, nobody gets those YouTube numbers. Yeah, they was laughing at me on a jet when I was talking about YouTube. Vlad, man, get out of here. Now he's doing Vlad and the whole world is doing Vlad.

Everybody followed the Yale blueprint. Shannon Sharp, Vlad, breakfast. Club, TMZ, it's the Yale Blueprint. It's cool, but I stay humble, no I'm saying. You hear this guy. He wanted to say it's the Yale blueprint, but they say he's humble. I got to give you your flowers.

You were doing all of it before anyone was doing it. You were going viral. You were doing it like, it really is. And I appreciate all the people out there that support me, support this guy, support Uncle Murder when he was laughing at me. I love you guys. And I love that y'all like and subscribe. As a matter of fact, what we're going to start doing,

We're going to start doing giveaways on the show. That's something me and murder thought about. Definitely, man. We're going to pick out the subscribers. We appreciate y'all. We got some nice gifts for y'all coming. And no other show is doing that. Yeah.

This is what we do because we got 50 cent. We got you. We got the whole power staff. You know, we're going to get all the actors. Oh. What's next for you guys? You guys going to tour? Are you guys dropping new music?

What's the advice with you guys? Right now, we just, we part in tours. I mean, he got some music with empire. I'm about the. drop some new music. Said out the Empire, I just did a new deal with them. Hell yeah. So I'm definitely about to drop some new music.

I got a project on the way so I'm about to fuck the streets up right quick. You never know what's going to happen. Like we're 50, you know, we had live, Fountain Blue in Vegas now. Wait, he's beefing with people on Instagram. Are you waking up like fucking picking your eyes being like, oh, now I got to beat this guy? Like, what's going through your life with you. This is what I tell 50.

I say, fifth, you got so much money. All our way is blah, blah, blah, blah, 100 mil. Blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, he wakes up, blah, blah, blah, 100 mil with the Planet Hollywood thing. Blah, blah, blah. He gives a half a mil away in Shreveport to, you know, domestic violence and stuff.

So we're on the phone and he's laughing. I'm like, I told him if I had his money. He don't take his serious. So to him, if he ain't taking the serious, we can't. How far we're going to take it serious? Like, he's just having fun with this shit. But I told, listen, this is what I know him better than anybody, right? Yeah.

And I feel like this. And I hope he don't get mad that I say. Seriously. Don't say it. Hold on. No, no. I'm gonna say it. Fifth is already crazy.

But I feel like when his grandfather passed away, I feel like he got even more crazy. Like when he was at the funeral, I know like all he had was his grandmother and his grandfather. So I know when he put his grandfather in the ground, I said, I see, yo, everybody better watch out. Even me and murder. Yeah. You better watch out. You know, he'd fire you on Christmas. Yeah.

This guy is crazy. Yeah. So make sure. make sure, you know, when you want to set. But if you do, do, you know, and talk about your experience with 50, because if you're coming to set and you're doing what you got to do, he's going to respect you because that's what we see him do. You know what I'm saying? I guess me and 50 just like, I guess when I just started like kicking it with him and coming to shows and like he called me one time, when he called me last year. Like, because sometimes you don't know, you're like, I think he likes me.

I think he loves me. Like he's always bringing out. You know what I mean? Like you never really know. Trying to figure it out. Yeah. It's a 50 or Canaan today. Yeah, you're 30 years in.

You're like, I still don't all be like. Yeah, yeah, trying to figure it out. He called me when we were talking about the Fightland stuff. And he, it was like one of the best phone calls I've ever had because he called me. He's like, I really fuck with you. Like, you know what you're doing. You know how to move. You know how to post on social media.

You know how to be you, but also make people attracted to the show and draw people in. and you and Mike are going to hosting together and going outside. He's like a lot of the other actors on power, they don't do that. So you cast someone, because you're just casting someone, you don't know if they're going to be comfortable

going in New Orleans or I'm flying a Poland and pulling up on you guys. There's probably a amount of actors on one hand that you can count that would fly to Poland, dola, to pull up on five. Now I had a pollen fine shit out there that I was going to visit. To pull up on five,

like what other? 25-year-old white actor from Vermont is pulling up and doing that. You know what I mean? Fuck you. Fuck you, Eddie. So I think that's why me and- Yeah. I said, fuck Eddard.

I love him. I think that's why me and five, like, have such a good relationship is because he knows that I get it. And I know, like, that's the shit you got to do. You know what I mean? I'll pull up to Vegas. I'll be outside with Chris Lofton. Like, I'll go to the shit that you need to go to to create hype for the show

and do what needs to be done. So he called me and he expressed all that to me. And that's when the first time I was like, okay, yeah. Because sometimes you don't know, like, you know, it's just you hit him. You know, you know, the energy's different when he's- Nah, nah, he's not, he, he fucked with you. How do y'all deal with that? Because I don't been in clubs and people be like, Tarreek Braden, I'm gonna fucking

wanna shoot you. Like people, when people take the character a little too far, like wanna fight in the club or bro. Because people really be stuck on the character. Five years before. that, I was sleeping on a pop fucking air mattress with no bread, no motion, hustling every day, wearing the same clothes, going to acting class. My socks were so dirty. I come home and I take my shoes off and my shit would be all dirty on the floor, my apartment in LA. My shitty apartment,

call me Braden as much as you want. I'll take every, I'll take every fucking picture you want me to take. I'll be at the fucking club. Like, I'm not too cool for anyone because I know where I came from. Like, so if someone's going to pay money to watch power, they're paying their fucking 1099 on stars to watch the show. They're following me on Instagram. They're commenting on my shit. Like, that's someone that's a fan of you and supporting you. Like, I never understood in no shade to like fucking meet you in them. But like, I never understood like the, man, don't touch me in the club. It's like, without this person, who the fuck would you even be? So I feel that because I'm like, I was hungry and wanted to be an actor. And I've, I've done everything that I've

ever wanted to do because of these people that love the show. So it's like, I'm not going to be too cool for them. I don't think I'm better than anyone else because I'm an actor or people know who I am. I just get to laugh every day. And like my Monday night is doing the fucking real report with Uncle Murder and Tony Ayo. Definitely. Like what's who else is? You know what I mean?

I just like love doing it. I'm like, it's going to continue because that's the attitude that I have. And a lot of people don't continue because they're dickheads on set or then directors and producers. They know that and they don't want to work with people like that. It's all relationships. Yeah, definitely. And I know, but you know, when everything happened so fast for y'all.

Yeah. Like when I've seen it, like, when I've seen it. Like, Michael Rainier was kind of different because he kind of was a kid on the show. Was he seven years old? Yeah, he was, I think he was around 10. 10? Yeah. So what?

So eight years? What was it? Yeah, he's 24 now. So he did probably, yeah, 13 years on the show, 12 years in the show. 13 years. So I remember. So I was, when it aired, because we took a break for the pandemic, when it aired, I was staying. I was staying at this, the director of Ma's spot,

I was staying at his spot in East Village and I would walk to Equinox, the gym to work out on my days off. I would, when I, before the show aired, like I had done a couple episodes in the original power. But like you do two, three episodes, people don't really notice you. When Ghost aired after that second episode, when I was like in it more, bro, I couldn't walk down the street.

It happened in two weeks. It happened in two weeks. The week before, I was on the, I would call my mom or I call like family or my friends like walking to the gym and I have my headphones in. I just walk to the gym down whatever street it was. Two weeks later, Braden, Bradie, Bradie, every five seconds, I couldn't walk to the gym anymore. Even my mom would be like, are people like, people be like, can I stop asking for picks?

And it like, it happened so fast. And I just did that giant movie with Octavia Spencer. I don't know. I've never gotten recognized from that. Like the second power happened, like it all changed after that. How do you stay humble now? People see you in the street. You got beautiful women.

You know, I've seen you in London. You know, you like beautiful black women. You're like Caucasian. You like the Spanish. You like all kinds of women. So how do you keep yourself leveled? Then the jury, then the cars and, you know. But like, what does that even mean?

Like, what do you mean like stay? Like how you keep yourself humble? But I don't know that. I don't think there's like a non humble to like, I feel like I'm just, I just don't see the change. Like I don't see or faking it or it just doesn't, it doesn't come. compute to me of like why you all of a sudden are getting recognized that you just turn into a dick head.

A whole different person. Yeah. It never, it doesn't make sense to me. So that's why I'm like, oh, I don't know, I'm just like being myself. Like most of these actors are not being themselves. All right. Let me give you an example. That's like y'all went to the club.

Right. You're drinking. Shout to the Branson boys. You're drinking the Branson. Love it. You know how that shit have you. I like him and DeRoy. Yeah.

You know, the Shim and the Branson. You know the Wild Nights, Branson nights. Yeah. nights. Now, you got to be on set six in the morning. Yeah. I don't know if me and Murdo you think you could do that. I mean, off the Branson, on a wild night, six in the mornings. How do you do that? Off to Branson and drinking and then you got to be on set six in the morning. You got fucked up last night. You had a chick in your bed. You had a wild night. You want you want to know what gets me to do is that 10.8 million people are going to see what I'm

about to do the next day. 10.8 million people are going to watch what I'm about to do. So it's really on me. Do I want to look like I've been looked like shit and be drinking all night and have a bloated face and do this and do that? Or do I want 10.8 million people to be like, damn, he was fucking funny. And he was sharp and he knew what he was doing. So it's, I don't know, it's kind of like up to you.

There are a lot of actors that show up to set and fuck off. And they don't work again because they're just like, well, it showed in the scene. Like people watch the show, but other people that are doing. other shows watch power. So if they're going to be like, I don't think he's a good actor, you just fucked yourself that 10.8 million people saw

because you wanted to hook up with a girl one night that you could hook up with on Saturday. You know? Wow. Discipline. Yeah, it's discipline because you gotta think about,

tell them how you remember your lines. That's one question. Yeah. And how many fucking takes you gotta do, doing, doing the show. A lot of people memorize lines different. Like Michael Rainey will just legitimately look at the page. He's got a very photographic memory.

So he'll look at it and he'll go, yeah, I got it. And then I'll have like a whole paragraph. I'm like, what the fuck? That's how I do. Yeah, that's crazy. I wish I had that. He can't do that.

Yeah. We went to an acting class, not to cut you up. We went to an acting class. Shut out the Wendy. Shut up. Yo, yo, you hear me, Johnny. This guy is trash. Shout out of Wendy.

Shout out of Wendy. I'm the star. Shout out of Wendy. He's trash acting. Yo, I did that shit. He carried a big bag. I looked at it. He carried a big bag and got shot.

I was nice. I was nice. He carried a big bag. Yo, I was nice. I was nice. You didn't even say nothing. Shout out to Bruce Willis. I looked at that shit.

This guy could not do it. He could not. It took a long job. Some people have different, like me, I would face time my little brother at night. Like even if it's like 2 a.m. I'm like, wake up. Like, motherfucker, we got to do this. And I have to hear it.

I have to hear it every time like in my bed before I go to bed. Because I can't do it the day off. You got to sleep with that in your brain. So I have to hear it. Now, Michael, very photographic. I just run it back and forth. I just run it back and forth and I'll, okay, what, I won't move on to the next line until I have the fully one memorized.

But when you, let me tell you, when you do a movie, right, like murder did. Hold on you, here. And you get out of you. You get out of you. Get the fuck out of it. And you get the fuck out here. Get the fuck out here. Get the fuck out of it.

Because for me, I had lines. You got to let me too. You got to let me too. You and swat too. You and swat too. That's it don't know. In his movie, look. In this movie, he had a bank bag, right, and got shot.

I don't give him a fuck. He was looking like a cop. I don't care. No, I was, I was protecting the money. I was protecting the money. I played a gangster. A SWAT too that nobody saw. Benny Boob got to fix that.

You got to fix that. Exactly. Nobody saw him. It's not my mouthful. Nobody saw. I was good at that. That's like Shottis 2 that nobody saw. Remember they had a shot to his two.

Nobody ever fucking saw Shatters 2. And that's like this Scarface, too. You just asked him what movie he wanted to be in, right? I said I was the Scarface too. Now I want to be scar. See, that's bad. Yo, you killed me with that one. But listen, but this is what you're not understanding, right?

What I'm saying to him is my part that y'all didn't see. It's cool, right? That he claimed, right? And the extended cut. And the extended cut. And he's not going to get me mad anymore, right? Right, the child isn't, right? We didn't see his movie either though.

They saw my- I haven't seen it on TV or Netflix. It was on Netflix in the movie theater, brother. Listen. We was number three on Netflix. Listen, look, I haven't seen it on Netflix or 2B. And I'm, you know, and you know I always go to Tooby a lot, too. I think you might have made two.

Nah, I haven't seen it on Toobie. Now, he had a bank bag and got shot. It was all gone. I had a hostage. There are no small parts, only small actors. There you go. Listen, no, that's a small part. No, he had, your problem can even count.

I had a line. Look, I had lines, right? I had lines. I had to practice because I got shot in the head, right? No one to mark myself. I got shot in the head, right? I had an actual hostage that was Benny Boom's wife. You definitely got to explain to all this because nobody seen it.

Go ahead, though. She was Benny Boone's wife. She was a hostage. It's going to come out now because I'm looking. So look, I had, and Benny Booms, like, yo, that's my wife. You got to be careful with Blinks. He don't, his gun was in the host. He didn't do no action.

Nothing happened. Like, nothing happened. I'm falling through glass. I was gripping them. I was gripping on my hand, man. Look, yo, Gianni. Did you find it harder now? Or did you enjoy it?

Pause for both of those, but listen. You got to say, when you were on your back and that scene, pause and what I'm saying is, he did nothing. He took a bag and got a shot. I had squid packs on the top of my head. So they were blasting you.

How long was you going to say? How long was you going to say? How long was you a set? He said too many pauses. I did stunts. Too many pauses on the story. But I did stunts. So when they blacked you were in the face.

I see you in the face when you're on your back. See what I'm saying. When I did my movie with Bruce Willis, I had to get a date, like, I was in Cincinnati. You didn't do anything. You got into bank back. I actually went to Cincinnati, eh? You know that?

And I was on set for like a week. I was on set for a week. It was like a real, no, no, no, no, you wasn't. Now I'm lying. Yeah, I had to go to Cincinnati. Fifth had me lit out there and all that. Yo, bro, I was on set.

You know why I was on set. Because he know he can't act. I'm just being honest with you. That's what I played, you know, I play. You know, is Benny Boom 4. He don't even know how to deal with blanks and guns. I'm shooting blanks.

That's what I had. At the movie. You didn't do anything. You got shot in two seconds. You didn't even have lines. We didn't go to talk about this. Give me some paper towel. And before he did it, and before he did Money and Vowl, shout to Money and Vowals.

Don't let my money and balance. It was official. It was official. They could come for me. I don't care. It was in one K. I don't care. They didn't have the technology back then.

Shout to y'all. Money and balance was popping back then. We had it lit. So that to my guys, we had money and balance was lit. You was okay in that. I was popping in that. I was popping in that. I was popping in that.

I love money and valance. It was a great show. I had to sat my little brother in that movie. The lens we have. I sat my little brother. I see that? I got fans. There nobody saw SWAT 2.

You remember SWAT 2? You remember SWAT 2? Nah, he don't remember SWAT too. I didn't know they made a second one. I'm not going to lie. But the first one was really good. The first SWAT, right? Swat was good.

So that's not really his fault. The one that he wasn't in was good. Yeah. Let me explain something to you. If 50 put me, all you see is put Yale on the show. Put Yale on the show. I don't never see nobody say put on the murder on the show. Now, they definitely say put murder on the show.

Put Yale on the show. Did you talk to him about being in power? I don't even worry about it because I got other things coming. Yeah. You know, I got big things coming. Murder don't even know what's going on. You know, he's discredit my acting. So you know, still my brother.

He don't want to tell me down. I ain't mess with you. You know, I'm just staying humble, man. So what's next? What do you want to do? What's the goal? I see you in the gym. I see you working out.

I see you staying healthy. It's movie star time. You know? No, I, I want to do like someone's career who I fucking love is Bradley Cooper's. Like he did hangover. He did like one of the most iconic comedy movies of all time. And then he just started doing like, you know, Silver Linings Playbook. He just started picking the right movies.

I mean, limitless. And he just not like, he's someone's career that I, like really fucking love. So like that's like my blueprint. Like he started on a show for a while too. I think it went four or five seasons and then he kind of bounced around and then he found his footing. Like that's like my goal was like Bradley Cooper.

And if I that's it. Like that's that's the bar for me. Like I can't I'm not going anything lower than that. How do you feel about like would you, would you be happy to do like franchise movies? Oh, of course. I don't know why like I mean I guess like people kind of can get stuck in something. But like, even like you look at Robert Pattinson, you know who that is?

He, he, he was the kid from Twilight. He played the vampire in Twilight. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I mean, yeah, he, like, played a corny vampire. And I like those movies, but, like, he played a corny vampire for five movies. And people are like, he's going to get tight. The guy is, he's Batman now. Definitely.

He's the new Batman. The guy, he's doing cool ass A-24 Safty Brothers movies. He's doing whatever the fuck he wants to do. So, like, please bring me the franchise movie. because the franchise movie is going to get you the movies that you actually want to do. Because once you're associated with the Marvel, you know, with the superhero movie, then your name carries enough to greenlight that script that you fucking love. You know what I mean?

That that five to $10 million script that you're like, this is a story I want to fucking tell. So go do the superhero movies, make the big money, get super famous, get the Instagram following. So then when you want to do this 824 project, you have enough clout in your name to just get investors to go, yes. You know what I mean? That's why I don't ever turn down.

I'm not going to say no to a franchise. You know? What do you feel is the biggest franchise movie to you? That I would do or just in general. In general. Or you would do. Both. I mean, like everyone said, but like dream role would be Joker.

Now I don't want to like go as far. He's ledger is like, that's my favorite performance ever. Yeah, definitely. So even me being like fuck, like I would have to compete with that is still like, that's daunting for me. but it would probably be Joker or like even maybe Batman. Like the Batman franchise, I think is the biggest. Batman and Spider-Man.

Like those are the two biggest. Now, like, you could go to like Fast and Furious, but like internationally, those just don't do the numbers that Batman and Spider-Man will always do because of the comic books, you know? Right. I think Harry Potter was a big franchise. Yeah, that was a top three.

Yeah, yeah, that shit was a big. There's a lot of franchise movies. Like he just named Fast and Furious, Harry Potter. But a lot of that acting kind of, of like sucks. Not, and I don't mean the actor suck. I mean it sucks going to set. And like Fast and Furious is probably a lot of fun because there's a lot of driving shit

like that. But a lot of the Spider-Man shit and the, it's a lot of CGI now. So you're like, it's like dead quiet and you're- Got you. It's a lot of fake shit. So you're not really having to pour any or do any effort into that stuff. That's what might be challenging for me. But like some of the best actors say like, I get paid to wait.

I get paid to do. You know, I act for free because I love it. But I get paid to do the dumb shit. That's where these big checks are making me be like, all right, I'm not going to acknowledge the fact that I'm doing a fake spider out of my mind. You know what I mean? Gotcha. Because you feel like the AI movie?

AI's making movies better, no? No. Yeah. I don't think. I don't think. Not for AI's making movies. Yeah. No. Why not?

I don't think they are. Are you a fan of AI with it? Like, you feel like it's fucking up the acting game a little bit? I don't, I don't think AI will ever replace an actor because someone at home wants to see an actor. Do people go to the movies because fucking Zendaya is in it? Yeah, no, I'm not saying the actor. I'm saying just the AI technology.

Like he said, the actor's just doing this. Like DiCaprio, when he fought the beer. What movie was the, when DeCaprio fought the bid? Yeah, he went on the ass with that. When he fought the beer, that was AI. Okay, I get what you're saying. Yeah, I'm not saying the AI. I thought he was talking about like the AI verticals.

Overball, but the actors and everything. Yeah, of course. Oh, it's killing it. Yeah. I mean, like, certain. AI, like that technology is like, you need it. And it actually helps movies because you can make them for cheaper. So people can get their projects greenlit, like without having a $60 million budget. You're like, oh, we could AI this in. Maybe this budget goes down to like 20 million

and more stuff can get made. Now it gets rocky with like what kind of they're trying to replace actors and take away jobs from people. But I just don't think it'll ever do it because people want to go see 50 in a movie. People want to go see Zendaya or Robert Patton. Oh yeah. I get. Definitely. We want to see them. I'm not talking about the actors. I'm talking about like, what's the new movie that just came out? Hell Mary. Yeah, I saw it.

It was, it was. Huh? Project Hell Mary. Now, I'll watch. I watched that. Did you love it? I loved it. It was one of the best movies I've seen in the theaters in a long time.

You didn't see it. I'm not going to give you too much on it. Yeah, for real. But it's one of the best movies I've seen in my life. And the graphics was crazy. And the writing was crazy because when you watch alien movies, right? the alien is always somebody evil or something crazy or going to kill you or something

when you watch an alien is usually scary. Yep. So the only alien movie that really was like, where the alien was friendly was ET. Yep. So we see ET years ago. So when I seen this, I was like, hell Mary. It was so good.

It was crazy. And he was fucking unbelievable. A friendly alien? Yeah. You used parts of that thing where you felt it like, oh shit. Yeah, it was amazing. I didn't know what I was getting into when I, because I didn't see the trailer.

I was like, I know. Project Hell Mary. I make sure you all. See the, and what's the guy, who's the guy, Russ, Ryan Gosling. He was unbelievable and it was so good. I think he could win an Oscar. Who's the female actor who was in there? It was, it was great, man.

I just watched that. Went to the movies, go see that Project Hell Mary. That's what I'm talking about. And that's what I'm saying, AI, like just how everything is. Yeah, I get what you mean. All right, so that, so, because I didn't see that check it out. We don't want to. It had a lot of AI involved in that movie.

Yeah, of course. Yeah, there's a robot in the movie that he talks to pretty much the whole second and third act. So, like, he, yeah, it's a lot of AI. Okay. And you know, I'm, I'm into like all the SpaceX stuff like, you know, because think about it like the way future like technology is going now, like they're trying to make SpaceX is trying to get, you know, a station on Mars.

You know what I mean? Just thinking about that like in the next 10 years when, you know, people are like living on Mars. That's like, I just want to be around to see something like that. That's crazy, man. Yeah. When you really, really think about it, you know what I'm saying? I like Earth too much, I think.

I think, I like, I like the bitches on earth too much to go to Mars. You know, imagine, imagine. I like Drey's. You know, all I'm saying is imagine you taking one of your girls, taking one of your girls to Mars. That's the ultimate trip back there. It don't get no better than that. Lexington is going to get so crazy.

You're like, I'm taking a batty to Mars this weekend. What do you do? That's actually fucking hilarious. You gotta think about it where technology's going, man. I'm like, that's why I kind of liked it because I was like, and just the whole fact, you You know, people, you know, alien concept. And it's just, the last friendly alien movie, like I said, we've seen was E.T. Yeah.

Come on. E.T. Everybody love E.T. Where's your favorite place to go when you do travel? Because you travel a lot, yeah. I mean, I love to go. We've been everywhere, man. That's why I'm, like, curious. Like, you've fucking seen every place.

Oh, I always tell people, start off with Paris, Amsterdam. Yeah. And I would say Dubai. Yeah. And for three different reasons. Yeah. Yeah, can't smoke in Dubai so you'd be tight, but they got the best shit. Yeah, I'd be mad at that, man.

And then you do like 10 years over that joint in the sand. You know what I mean? So we got Dubai, but I love Dubai man-made beaches, the buildings, the vibe. What about you? Where do you like going? You guys tour? I like Dubai too because of like the, what he said, like the man-made infrastructure, you know how they got that set up.

I like Australia a lot. I like, Australia is dope, man. I like Australia. I like London. I like Paris too. Yeah, London's always, we have to listen. London is always a good time. London got the best Jamaican food.

Oh, my God. In Paris. You could go. Did you go to that Somali spot with us? No, I didn't go. I got to go next time. I didn't go. That's a mauley spot.

It's crazy. I got good African food or eight things. Just some London. London feel like New York without the guns, just knives and different accents. Yeah. Fucking stab you quick in London. That's the only thing.

But I love travel, man. You know that. I think that's the best thing about us. It's meeting the people. Like, when you say you meet all these people, Like, to me, like, being an actor, like, what would you rather be, honestly, an actor or a rapper, Mark? Me, I would really have to say, I can't knock my path, so I would say rapper, but I want to get into acting. I want to eventually get into acting, but I love the music, man.

Fuck all that. I'd rather be an actor. I love the music. I think, here's the thing. I think they both have their pros and cons, obviously. You guys live, like, a faster, more fun and lit kind of life. Like, think about it. You were only seeing like me and Michael and people who are on power,

99.9% of actors, that does not happen. They're going to their show, whatever Amazon Prime or Netflix or show that they're on, they're with a bunch of married cast members that are very proper. And honestly, dickhead sometimes. And they grew up doing theater. And it's this big thing. And then all of a sudden, everyone goes home to their own thing. And you're on set somewhere and you got to go back to your hotel room.

Like, you don't have, it's not lit with 50 a murder. You're not going to the clubs like if you were to just be an actor. The only reason it looks cool to you is because you see power, which is sick. And no other actors live like we do. But that's the only reason why you're like, I would rather be an actor. Green like, yeah. Right. Now go do a movie in fucking Australia or wherever and you're there for six months.

And I'm telling you, he's going to be like, I want to go back to being a rapper. I promise you. It's like, it's not as lit out of the power universe. No, I like being on sex, I like big budgets. I like big budgets. I know, because I was in when I was in Cincinnati, I was like, damn, luckily I had to connect to get some bud out there, right?

It's boring, though. It was boring. Like some set, and I'm just in my hotel room, waiting for them to call me back the next day to do the same old shit again. It was like, damn. We was in Detroit. They was beefing about coming to the store.

Now, you had been in the boom, it was different. I'm talking about this professional shit that me and him talking about is different. The professional shit that me and him talking about is different. Shout to Bruce Willis. I'm talking about like real. Yeah, Bruce Willis. The professional set.

I know what you're talking about. But he got shot in two seconds. The Biddy Boom hood shit, he talked about. He just said they was at the grocery store. Of course you probably think it's cool. Now, we're on the corner. It was a big set. We got a big one of the corner.

Benny Booms killing me without this shit coming up. But I haven't seen his movie either. For real. What's the name of your movie? Reprisal. Reprisal. Somebody let me know. Uncle Murda featured him in Bruce Willis.

We, I haven't seen it on TV. Netflix. Y'all can Google it. My sit was on Netflix. Google it in the movie theater. Swat 2. You probably can't even Google Swat 2. I actually went to the movie theater.

I actually went to the movie with the family and watched that shit. I was pumped up. Like, I'm in the movie with Bruce Willis. You got that. Mr. Die Hard, Nick of Paws? You got that. I was in that shit, Benny Boone. And you were Biddydy Booze.

That shit was supposed to be in SWAT 1, motherfucker. You was with Bruce Willis. Come on. Legend. Let's watch. I will say it is like being an actor as opposed to That is like I'll get to go somewhere and I'll get to live there for like, like if I go shoot a movie in Ireland or Italy, you get to live there for two months and like you're not staying in a hotel. They're getting you're getting you're getting your car or whatever and you're living there like you're from there.

You guys are in and out in a day. So I think that's kind of like the thing for me is I'm a movie guy and murder knows this. He knows I love his movies. I'm a movie guy from like back in the days. Like, I'll say people, I'd be like, what movie Richard Pryor was in? I always asked Mike and nobody to know that. I'd be like Superman 3. Right.

To me, that was this breakout movie because Superman back in the days, come on. Because to me, TV back then, like, it's more classical than Connor now. Like, I'm not saying any classic movies or TV now, but The Godfather, Scarface, the list goes on. That's good one of the things. Look, he laughed at me because I love Uncle Buck. That's one of my favorites. We had this conversation at my podcast

The crew has it, hit podcast me and my Graney Jr. We had this conversation and you were saying that there weren't as many hits but like you, there are,

there are hits now but like I get what you mean they're classics to maybe you because you grew up with them but like you think about like a Wolf of Wall Street

or like I don't know many movies that are as good as Wolf of Wall Street. And that's like and that's a classic to some of the young boys now and he's right.

That's like my class. They shit. Like you can't tell them nothing about that. Okay. Okay. But some movies can never be done like you laughed at me about Scarface too. Hold on.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold up. Because my nigger whizzing, a few people from the hood did say, like, yo, Merk. How you don't know about Uncle Buck? Yeah.

But there's some people told me like, no, Uncle Buck wasn't like, it wasn't, but they said it wasn't a home alone. But it wasn't a home alone. You can compare that to Home Alone. You can't compare Uncle Buck to Home Alone. Just McCarley Corkin was in it. That's it. And Uncle Buck came first. I'm a movie guy.

He loved Uncle Buck. He's a movie guy. I don't say anything about my family, but Uncle Buck is where I draw. Yo, look, look, Uncle Buck, he's so serious. I'm watching movies before I was born, meaning like my favorite Sean Penn movie is Bad Boy. Yeah. Did he say he was watching movies before he was born? No, I'm watching movies that was out before I was born.

That's what I'm- No, before he was born, you mean? No, before I was born. How you was watching movies before you was born? No, I'm telling you, you're not listening what I'm saying. I watch- Am I bugging y'all? He's not listening. Go ahead to listen.

Etiquette. I said I'm watching movies that was out. before I was born. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay. No, it didn't. Did you know what I mean? We can rewind the tape.

Rewan the tape. I said I watched movies. I've never been higher and not smoked in my life, but I'm good. That's him. You know the murder again. You know this guy got no etiquette.

I showed him what a salad fork was. He's my brother. But look, look, this is what I'm told. I like you. I like you. You know, look. So what I'm saying,

What's saying to him is like, my favorite show on Penn movie, you probably, you ain't probably watch it's bad boy. I've not seen it. Yeah. You gotta watch that one when he's in jail. It's old school. He run over this gang members little brother. You know what I mean?

These two dudes is whaling in the house doing extra stuff and he get the cans. Because one scene could make it for me. You know, I'm a TV guy. Michael Knight back in the days, the 18. Just to me, that was classic TV. I said out to the 18. Karate, Karate on Sundays. Bruce Lee.

You know, look at Wu-Tang. Like, you know, all that, the Five Deadly Venoms, Wu-Tang. All that come from, like, our era. Karate movies are sad news. That's a fact. TV. Like, my favorite movie, the Mac.

Richard Pryor was in that. Yeah. But that's one of my favorite actors. Richard Pryor, John Kennedy. Yeah, I don't know. I just think that there's unbelievable movies at both times. I don't think a time is better. Like, people could be biased.

It's not better than Scarface. You think about, like, even the comedies. I'm trying to stand up for your time. Farnley, you look at Hangover. Hangover is the best comedy movie ever made. Hangover at Tropic Thunder. You'll never beat those. No comedy movies.

What comedy movie back then is beating that? Name one movie that's funnier than Tropic Thunder or Hangover. I mean, Hangover, it was good. I don't even know what the fuck Tropical Thunder is. You never seen Tropic Thunder? No. It's one of the greatest comedies of all. Hey, Mr. Movie, man.

Have you seen Tropic Thunder? No, I'm because I'm actually good. Because, hold on, you know, because what was the movie with Dave Chappelle? Take me to Samson. What was that? How high or Blue Streak? No, Dave Chappelle. Half baked, half bait.

Half bait. Half bake is better than that shit. Take me to Samson when they had the weed deal. That's a classic for me. Dave Chappelle. I don't think how to- coming to America. There's so many classics that are better

than the 80s than now. You're bugging. There's not going to be another Scarface. There's not going to be another boys in the hood. Not a men of society. What? He still called Mayor Tate. Fucking old dog.

Your old dog. That's what I'm telling you. He said Mayor Tate. He called a Mayer Tate. You said Mayor Tate. Who the fucking Mayor Tate? Who the fucking Mayor Tate? Who the fucking Mayor Tate?

Tate. No, Calumetet. No, Calumetate. He said, Man, Tate. From power. Yeah, Loren Tate. Cauterment Tate. I know Lorenz Tate, motherfucker. But you say, Calumet Tate. Because we're talking about the show that he's on. I love me. I just said, I was my man.

He said, you had too much Don Julio, brother. Counts him Tate. He called him, because we, you know, we always, you know, Shitey Teltin. You know what I know his name is Loren's Tate. Yeah, it's great. But Count Tant Tate, he's at this. Yeah.

He's at dinner calling him, your old dog. You're old dog. I do still call him old dog. It's 30. I'm not going to lie. When did men's society come out? Look it up, man, how many years ago? That was like 90, what?

Ninety four? I still call my man, old dog, man, old dog. How many years? 30 years ago. He's still calling him old dog. That's a fact. That's what I'm saying. To me, all older movies are just more classical.

Scarface, I watched a thousand times and like, good fellas. The list goes on and on. Now, I'm not saying Wolf of the Wall Street ain't good. But there's a lot of- Now, what for Washington is a classic? That's a classic. That's a classic. There's new classics.

I'm just saying there's more classics it seem like. I think in 30 years you'll call these movies now classics and people will be like, oh, like, people will be calling, you know, someone from Twilight. They'll be calling Robert Pattinson Edward in 30 years. Like it's all relative to the time, I think. Bro, bro, bro. Let me explain something to you. No, I agree with you.

Let me explain something to you. First Blood, Rambo. Come on, bro. They ain't making shit like that. Did you see Rambo? You never watched First Blood? First Blood. You just said Project Hail Mary

was one of the best movies you ever seen. It came out 10 days ago. It was dope. No, that was dope. Came out 10 days ago. But now. Thank you. No, that was dope.

It's one of the best movies you've ever seen. Interstellar? They've never made something like interstellar back then. The only reason why I liked it because what? They took something from the 80. It was the first friendly, the second second, friendly,

alien movie with. But it's way better than E.T. Is it not? No, you're bugging. I'm not going to say that. It's way better than you. Graphically wise, but E.T. Is a classic?

I'm not going to say that. It's good, but it's not anywhere near project. Listen. I'm going to say Project Hell Mary to graphics. Like when he was shooting 1K and Money and Violence, to that. You know what I mean? So E.

I need all my money and balance. I see this nigga. He'd be trying to sit on that shit talking about that shit was in 1K. So what are you saying? We made history, y'all. So what's up? history. So what's you saying?

He tried to act like I said wasn't proper. I didn't say that. I said it was in 1K. It was in 1K. It was in 1K, nigga. It did cool. Then the dudes had to fall out the business was fucked up. Both shows fucked up.

You know what I mean? Shout out to them, though. But if that's the biggest movie role for him, though, what I'm saying is... Mr. Swat, too. Hold on. Hold on. No, no, we're going to get off there.

But graphically, yes. Project Hail Mary is, come on. It's the graphics. AI, all the shit is new. Of course, it looks better. But... E.T. is kind of like almost the format. It was different, but still, it was a friendly alien with your man.

It was a friendly alien on E.T. So every other alien movie, the alien is killing everybody. Come on, bro. I know my movies. But you can't tell me when- I'll give you that. You do know your movies, yeah. When I watch First Blood and Stallone is all jacked up.

Yeah. And he's cut the fuck up and he's beating motherfuckers in a precinct. And you know he's got the voice and he's getting shot with rocket launches. To me, it was just classic shit. That's another franchise one. Rainbow 1, 2, and 3. Rest in peace to Chuck Norris, too. Fact, rest of peace to Chuck Norris, man.

That's what I said. Legend. Then we go to Bruce Lee. Don't, don't. Let's not talk about karate movies. We go to Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. One of the best fight scenes ever on TV. Do you ever see that movie?

Yeah. What's the name of that movie again? Because I watch all Bruce Lee shit into the drag and all the other shit. The way of it. the dragons because I always get it mixed up. Now, what's the movie when Bruce Lee fought? Karim al-Duja-Bah. You don't even, y'all don't even know this stuff.

I don't know that. See, I don't even know that. They don't even know movies. Game of death. I remember. Classic. Rest and peace of Bruce Lee. I remember that.

But Chuck Norris passed away, and you know what I've been doing? I've been on 2B all day watching because they got like five Chuck Mayer was one of what was crazy though? He was on TV trying to find SWAT too. It's not on there. It's not on there. It's not on there. It's not on there.

It's cool. I haven't. I haven't even seen it yet. What's crazy about my generation is that, like, I only knew who Chuck Norris was growing up because of Dodgeball. Because he had that one scene in Dodgeball. Wow, look at that. That's crazy.

Sometimes I think a shit like that where I'm like, like, at the time, like, Steve McQueen was like the biggest. No, there was a movie called Dodgeball one and two, I think, right? I don't think I've seen it. No, it's the first. Dodgeball with Vince Vaughn. I think I have seen Dodgeball. One of the greatest comedies of all time. But what I'm saying is Chuck Norris, like, he got a fight scene.

with Bruce Lee and they fight in this crazy. And you know, Chuck Norris was like karate hero. Bruce Lee was karate hero, rest and beats, the both of the legends. But that fight scene, people don't understand how serious that was for movies. Like they fight and they fight and you know, Chuck Norris had the taco meat on the chest. He had the hair and Bruce Lee is, he get him, what the a? He grabbed the hair off his chest and then he bloat. And like that fight scene, well, you gotta watch that movie.

And then the other movie when he fought Kareem Abdul Dujabar, Oh, man, that was like classic TV. Those was classic moments for TV back then it was. I watched all Chuck Norris movies, bro. Like I'm on 2B now, shout to Netflix too. But, you know, they talk about Netflix prices went up. But I let me, I'm on 2B. Netflix prices did go up?

That's what they said. Yeah. What shows are you guys watching now that you like, you have anything new that's come out in the past couple months? What I'm watching, I watched. You see Mobland? Mobbland is five. I think murder had me watch.

Yeah, Marble and it's fine. I'm waiting for the second season to come out now, man. They'd come out there, right? I would love to be on that show. The second season, they come out there, right? No, second season they come out. That's fire. What's the movie?

What's the thing with Itreselba? Oh, hijack. I like the first season. I didn't watch the second season. Second one, second season. Besides that, I just go to be. I go old school because they got Rambo one, two, three up there. They got all the old movies.

He's just not watching anything new. He's just watching Chuck Norris movies from the company. I love it, man. I love it. the way. So they got always movies up there. So I just started watching all Chuck Norris movies and shit like that. You know, because it's classic TV for me. Not saying they're classics now. Yeah. But you know, classic TV for me. What's your schedule? Like, what you doing? What's you doing our podcast this week? So we're cool and probably, you know, hit

Knicks, do all that. Do the New York shit because I'm only here from it. I live in LA. But, yeah, dude, I mean, you pulled up on us. Like, I always like, I remember shit like that. Like, we It was December. Everyone was everywhere. And I was like, Yale, we need a guest, pulled up on us, nothing. And now, you know, it's time to return the favor. Of course. And you guys are fucking killing it.

Like, this isn't a favor for me to you. This is a favor for me. I'm coming on to plug my podcast. We appreciate you coming here, man. We appreciate you coming. What's next? Let the people know what you got coming. The crew has it podcast.

This is my camera? I've been looking at this camera the whole time. The crew has it podcast. Yeah. You know, subscribe. Me, Mike O' Rainy Jr. every week. We bring a hitters.

These are the two best podcasts in the game, baby. Yeah, let's go. I got some new shows. Movies are coming out. We're getting ready. I'm excited. That's right. Yeah.

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