Joe and Jada - The Real Report - Tracy Morgan breaks down near-death crash, 30 Rock & SNL success, Brooklyn roots & being cousins with Nas

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda sit down with Brooklyn’s own Tracy Morgan for an unfiltered conversation about faith, forgiveness, and survival after his life-changing accident. Tracy reflects on losing his memory, forgiving the driver, growing up in Brooklyn during the 80s, and how comedy took him from Def Jam to SNL and major TV success. The guys also get into Knicks courtside moments and wild childhood stories, while remembering DMX, discussing Eddie Murphy’s legacy, Nas being Tracy’s cousin, and the pressures of fame, money, and Hollywood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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eat, everything again. So I got close to the guard than everybody in this room. You know what he told me? None of your business. That was a good one. He didn't get stabbed. Right.

Shut the fuck the book. Okay. Proven. Role! That's that point you get movies with. Oh! Bram! Oh,

right. That's my video. You know, I would get that. I would get to want you. That's out. Out of my place.

That's him just to go. I. Yo, we don't even fucking need these cute cars today. You know why? Because we got fucking Tracy Morgan in the road. Make some noise for Tracy Morgan. I'm going to home. My cute cars.

Let's go. We got Tracy Morgan in here. Yo, listen, I was late because when you're early, you're on time. When you're on time, you're late. Fuck Uncle Murder. This nigga definitely was fucking late. I told him he could start. Wasting me and Tracy time up this motherfucker.

This is what I said. You're wasting our time, man. I said, yo, you're from Brooklyn, right? Tracy Morgan from Brooklyn. Nobody wanted to hear that situation. You're going to show without me. You're calling me and Travis. You're late.

Me and Hollywood trying to fucking get here. You're a Hall of Famer. I can't have you waiting, bro. Me? Yes, you're a Hall of Famer, bro. Thank you. Thank you. Make some noise, man. Thank you.

Fuck you're a Hall of Famer, bro. Can't have a Hall of Fame. But I told us. But you were late. You're from Brooklyn. But you're from Brooklyn. Talk, but you late. Start the interview.

I told him, Tracy. Yo, start the interview because this nigga, you know, this is Walmart money. My nigga, this nigger's, this nigga might fucking. leave. I'm trying to see if it wasn't raining, what car were you with a drove today? Yeah, you're my man.

You got here right on time. I'm fine. I'm not late. You're not late. We haven't fun. That nigga late, Tracy, but it's all good. That nigga late. Nah, because honestly,

yo, every time I see a Walmart truck, I think about every car you got. Every time you pull up to the guard. What's your favorite car? But my baby is my lot of Ferrari. My baby's my law Ferrari. That's one is $5 million. It's all black, jet black.

And I only drive it like once in summer just to keep it charged up and all that because you don't want to lose a Ferrari engine. So that's your favorite car? Is that the blue one or is it ready? No, it's all black. It's all black. And I don't take it that much.

You got a blue. Oh, no, no, I just got that one two weeks ago. That is the SF 90. I have it in yellow and I have it in blue. SF90. That's the second fastest Ferrari ever made. That's all my money. Good money.

Well, no, well, I had money before Walmart. Yeah, he definitely had money before that. But we just know that Walmart check was a, you know, it was kind of hefty, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I went with shit on the one. I didn't actually get hit by the Walmart truck. No, no, no, that's great. And, you know, last year, People magazine called me for a quote.

And in that quote, I forgave the driver because it was an accident. Definitely, okay. It was just poor judgment. That's all because he didn't pull over and go to sleep like most truckers do. He kept going, so he was up for 28 hours. Before he hit us. Every 10, I believe it's every 10 hours. You got to go to sleep.

My brother has to see you. Yeah. You got to go to sleep for 10 hours. Because those are big machines, man. Big machines. Especially with a big company. And the truck was doing 75 miles per hour when it hit us. Wow.

So that's pretty fast. A big machine that big could only be stopped with gravity. But it was no gravity. So let me ask you a question. When you was in the hospital and you woke up and you was alive. Because like you said, you had money before this. Well, when I woke up. Well, when I woke up, I had traumatic brain injury, so my brain had to be booted.

I didn't really start remembering until about six months later. Wow. Damn. Yeah, I had to learn how to eat again, walk again, and all those things. Wow, bro. My female was in like, how make you change and make you appreciate life more. It makes you appreciate life more. And I had so much goodwill for me that was overwhelming at first.

And I was really scared. And so me and my lady was just driving on the highway the other day, the other night. And she's seeing really for the first time I made out a little bit. Yeah, definitely. Because I got hit at night. Right. So it hit us from the back. We didn't see it coming.

And when you get hit like that, the brain automatically goes into protection mode. So that's where the coma came from. Damn. For 10 days. God bless you. Yeah. Well, I love you to you. You know, I love you, Mer.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you know what it is. So I'm just glad to be here talking to you. Of course, of course. We're glad to have you here, man. And I enjoy your music, man. Of course. I think it's fly.

Listen, like I said, you were a Hall of Fame. Fuck Uncle Murder. I would like, he's pulling me in traffic. Nigin you're late. He's still thinking about being late. Look at him. Well, I'm going to think about being late. I'm just glad that you got here.

Yeah, man. You can be late and you didn't get, he wasn't in my position. No, when you stress, you drive recklessly. That's a difference between reckless and bravery. There's a big difference between reckless and bravery. See, reckless don't recognize the danger. Right. Now, because there's a...

Bravery recognizes danger, but they do it anyway. You hear safe and sound. That's all I care about. Now, I'm happy, bro. That's all I care about. Because, like I said, you... You got family too, bro. Definitely, definitely.

And there's something happening to you, man. How do you think they're going to take that? I know what it did to my family. Right. My daughter was only 11 months old and I got hit. So I fought to come out that coma because I want to see her growth. She's 11 years old now.

I love you, Maven. And I'm here with my lady Melissa. We all love you. My lady Melissa, she holds me down. She holds me down. Good girl. Definitely. Definitely.

Good girl. I, what I love about her most is that she read books. She reads. You know, because a lot of women out here now be plotting on guys like me and you. Oh, definitely. They're going with the lawyers. The lawyers, no, no, no.

The lawyers, they know. know that if you got something to lose, you're going to settle out because you don't want to get canceled. And it ain't really about being a player. It's really more about business. Yeah. You know that. I don't like, I got mine. I ain't laying the glove on nobody.

I got mine. Shout to her. Pretty thing. I want to love you. You know what I want to ask you, Trey. Is Hollywood still fun for you, man? Is this still you've been a man? No.

I'm a Brooklyn dude. I'm a Brooklyn dude. I lived out there on 3rd Street, cross street from the Palazio for like seven years. and I hated it. He talked about Hollywood. You used to chill with killer Ben and all of them, Nick.

What the fucking? But I went in a different lane. He made it. He made it. Come on. I went a different lane. I went to different lane. So, you know,

when you go back to the hood, man, you got to be careful. When I go back to the hood, my old projects, I don't go empty-handed. I give out food seven times a year. So I'm coming there with police protection and I'm giving out food.

Yeah, I think I did see you in a Ferrari online in Brooklyn. Gotta give our food, man. I'm giving our food. People need us, man. COVID did the number of all of us, man. So I didn't come an empty-handed. Bronx, all of that, man.

Next time, y'all going to help me. We're giving our food. People can't get us. We'll pull up. Yeah, let's give us some food, man. Make you feel good. Because I ask my team whenever we do it. I say, yeah, I feel good.

They say, yeah, I said, yeah. I said, Jesus Christ did that every day. Right. He did that every day. You give a man a fish. He eat for a day. If you teach him out of fish, he's going to eat forever. Yep, better believe.

So that's what is about. My father taught me out of fish. Definitely. Man, I was young. Tell me what part of Brooklyn you really are from. Best start, do a die. Take the girl, kill a guy. Shelter, stop.

You got what I'm saying? Brooklyn in my building. Brooklyn in the building, East New York. Majesty and all in them. Majesty, I've seen Killer Ben. I seen Tuck. I seen when I was little. Yo, what I'm a little Trey?

What up to a little Jim? I seen all that. Big Shots. Glaze, I see him out. You got to know when he, since he's been home or not? Nah, no, no, no. I be working, man. I got two.

TV shows, so I got to work. Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, I'm in a different lane right now. You got TV to do a. They get in love with the guys. No, I'm just saying. You're already. Who you think going to coach you when you were outside?

That's right. Get on them shows and you got to know, because I'm going to have you playing against character. I'm definitely going to see if you could cry on screen. You know, you're my mentor, man. I'm going to make you cry on screen on camera. I was cried on the way here being late. But you know what?

I thought I let the team down. You got your heart broke before? Of course. All right, then dig down and get that. That's how you cry on screen Get dig down and your heart breaks And your hurts Go to that

You got it in your back pocket Break down Yeah because motherfuckers think acting is easy No it's not I just can't cry on cue I know murder can't cry on cue You gotta take your time You can't cry on cue

How do you know what I can do? How do you know what I could do? Cry right now Hold up watch this Nick I'm gonna show you right now Why I'm gonna show you Nick let me two minutes You ain't gonna break

Two minutes We can't wait on set Two minutes Get the fuck out of here. You fire it right in and there. People think acting is easy. No, you know what you do is you take time. Like he said, two minutes.

Take time and just go back into your mind. And think about something. And then break down. You're going to break down. It's easy for people to say, but everybody go to acting school is not an actor. Yeah, well, you go to acting school. You ever seen that teacher in any film?

No. So how you know, teacher? You know what I want to know as a sign. I don't believe in that. If Mary J. Blasier took lessons, she wouldn't sound that good. Hold up. Are we still claiming Chris Rock? Because he's from Brooklyn.

We still claim him after getting smacked by Will? Chris Rock is my OG. All right. Just making sure. He's my OG. He's my OG. Why do you hear you know, Chris Rock? I'm not hate him.

You got smack. I asked if we still claiming him. No, no, no, no. That was something that him and Will worked out. I don't know. They worked it out? I don't know if they worked it out. But that's between them.

Well, his brother ain't. I love both of them. His brother. and his brother ain't with him. Tony. Till the day. Well, you know, what I'd like to say about that situation is behind us. Definitely.

It's behind us. That wasn't good. You know, murder got beef with everybody from the wrap-up. So when we around, Jermaine Dupree ran down on him, I got to hold him down. This nigga, I got to hold him down. And I'm a queen, see, you know what I'm saying? When people run down, I'm a nigga holding up murder. He got the gays with him now.

But when we on tour, he ain't, I'm holding him down. I can only imagine being on tour with y'all too. It's great. Oh, yeah, we always have a good time. You know the thing about, yeah, yo, you got this, you got a sense of humor. Thank you, man. And that's what makes sure of music, people love you. I would just play your join the car the other day.

Definitely, man. I had to the drop-top-down Ferrari, and I was rocking it. I always felt like, you know, where we're from, where we're all from? We live in our dreams. Like, ever since murder got down, he's seeing, like, we're in the best hotel. We're from the hood. Yeah, we're from the hood. We come from the jungle.

Yes. You heard the jungle drums. You heard the jungle drums. We're from the jungle. And to make it where we are now, I'm being in. Look, I'm being interviewed by y'all. Everybody don't get to do that. You better believe it.

Everybody can't do this, nigga. You don't interview everybody. You're shouldn't. You got to be exclusive. That's right, man. You got to be exclusive, man. To me, it's like, when you start a comedy, That's like when Def Jam comedy,

it was just when comedy was raw. Well, my man got murdered. My man got murdered. My man got murdered. My crack partner, we sold a lot of drugs. Uh-huh. Rest and peace of you, you know. Yeah, All right, he got murdered.

Four months later, I was on Def Jam. Damn. Four months later, I was on Def Jam. And that's where I met Martin. And Martin took me and put me on the show and my career from there. Look at that. Yeah, man, Martin Lawrence.

Shout out to OG. Yeah. I love you, Martin. We love you, Martin. We love you, man. I took my kids down to the bus. But when I came up, my wife that passed away said, Martin Lawrence just called.

I said, you're right. Morning, fucking called me. She said, he said, he's going to call back in 10 minutes. 10 minutes later, Martin called me back and said, I'm flying you out tonight. And that's what started. Look at that. Damn, man.

Martin Lawrence. And Def Jam comedy, that was like, come on, man. That was good. That was dope. And I looked back on my life, man. I look back on my life. I look back on our life, man. What we're going to say comedy saves your life.

Yeah, comedy was my... Well, you got to understand when I met my first wife. She's the one to encourage me because I suffer from imposter syndrome. That's where I think everybody better than me. I think everybody better than me. And I was talking to John Stewart the other day and he said, that's bullshit because you're a funny motherfucker.

That's all in your head. And I think it's not that as bad, is that that's what motivates me. That's what makes me get better That's what me You get better and you The imposter syndrome Yeah because I feel like I'm better

You want to be nicer than black thought I feel like I'm better than murder It's only a feeling It's not the truth Basketball It's only a feeling He's not the truth He's trying to inspire himself

He's trying to make yourself Like I said If Yale's late Murder start the show You from Brooklyn right You tough right You tough right Let's bro

There's no excuse to be in late man You keep kind of you're late, brother. When you hear the word Brooklyn, people get scared. You got to be tough to be from there, man. Thank you. I don't get scared. Brooklyn was crazy. Now, Queens was no joke.

Queens get the money. Shout to Queens. Queens, you know that. Queens, you start smiling. Because I always look that Queens, look. You see that nigga start smiling. You see that Queens. This is how I looked at Queens.

Queens did it. Back in the days, we hired. But Brooklyn get the money to them. We was just valid. Well, Brooklyn is more of a reputation. Yeah, we just bad. Stick up murder. Queens.

Queens was robbing niggers back in the day. Well, Queens was quiet. I mean, Brooklyn is. I mean, Brooklyn was more robin. Queens niggers get the money. That's what it was all the more about. It was Queens. Brooklyn get the money too.

Definitely, but y'all was more robbingers back. Yeah. I can see that. Well, Queens is more ruthless. Yeah, I know. Yeah, but Brooklyn. Hey, let me tell you something. Happy Mason.

It wasn't the cop. It wasn't the cops. But he was in Queens. You know the cops that got killed? In Queens putting in work. Okay. Okay. Okay, let's, look, let's say this, though.

And I don't want to glorify it, but the reason why undercover police is in New York City is because of Queens. Of course, we know that because of the drugs and TNT and all that. No, because of Edward Burns. What are you talking about? No, no. Wait a minute.

Don't know. I don't talk about that. Because Edward Burns. Edward Burns did not stop the game. That wasn't what else. You know what stopped the game? What? Limbiased.

First time doing crack got drafted by the Boston, something died. That's what stopped the game. I didn't know that shit. What, Limbiased? Yeah, that's what stopped the game. Wasn't Edward Burns. Edward Burns put a dent in it.

But Edward Burns, when Loombois, because he was high profile. He was a Scott. He was a pro basketball player. Try to crack one time. And we survived the most ruthless decade ever, the 80s. I was a teenager in the 80s. I was the 80s. I was the 80s.

We had to, see, people think COVID was bad. No, in the 80s, we had to do with crack and AIDS. My father died of AIDS. Oh, man. Okay? My dad went to Vietnam and came back and had AIDS. He was drafted. That's how I got my name, Tracy Morgan.

He was drafted at 17 years old. When he got drafted, he met a young Irish boy named Tracy. And two days after they got to Vietnam, that young Irish boy stepped on the mind and was blowing the pieces, and my father gave me his name. And I honor it. I carry it well. Wow.

Yeah, that's my dad. My dad was no joke. I played football with Larry Davis, in the Bronx. I knew Larry. I lived on 16, 5. I lived right on Cardi Beach Block. She wasn't even born yet

when I was there. Nelson Avenue in the Bronx. Larry lived right around the corner of Ogden. It's crazy. So I grew up around there selling tickets at the old Yankee Stadium. I sold silver in the ears, I scout tickets,

and I sold... Those Boston fans love that booge and sugar. Them Boston fans love that booble and sugar. And that's how I grew up hustling. I'm a hustler by nature. Yankees 85 at the Met at Shea Stadium in Queens. I scout that game. Me and my man Fassavis was catching buses.

I grew up and that was my thing. You wanted to know I got it. If I ain't got it, I'm going to get it, it's good. Get it? I took that. But I learned at Yankee Stadium and put that in my show business. If you listen to hustle, man, I say, that. You wonder if I got it, you got it again? That's where I got it from.

Crazy. Growing up, packing bags. I had a paper route, all of that. Same thing which Porter did. Paper route, packing bags, get money. My mom's wasn't giving me nothing. I know about food stamps and welfare. I know. My mom, my life was Claudine. My lady's younger than me, so all she's going to do is learn with me. A guy how age, she'll run circles around. Two of vans. Two far vans. But with me, you're going to learn. You're going to grow.

That's why she's with me. Right. You're going to grow. That's what it is. That's a problem with people, human beings. We act like we got time. We don't got time. I got time for that.

And this motherfucker got the nerve to be late. Don't. Like, we got time. You right on time. No, listen, man. I'm the one that made the call and get Tracy up here. Look, he can't wait to say that. He can't wait to say that.

I'm the one that's next to course. He couldn't wait to say that. He couldn't wait to say that. I'm the one that's next to courtside, Tracy. Well, on the side, though, while you was late, why you was late, tell you were my daughter. Yeah, but you wasn't, but you wasn't cause side. But look, well, while you wasn't here,

no, you wasn't coarside. Oh, not the last thing. Oh, you hated. Yeah, I hate it. Because Tracy, because I next to your Corside before. Me and my daughter. I'm caught. You wasn't co-side the other day.

Shout to the New York Knicks. My daughter wanted to put you. My daughter wanted to put you. Shout out to the New York Knicks. Well, you wasn't here, Tracy. Shout out to Garden of the dreams. Sitting in the pool. Oh, yeah.

Shitting in the pool. I was wild back in the days. I was younger. I had the fresh white-blue and blue and white. Tell people about that. They broke in my locker, stole my sneakers, my pumas. I went home. I was heated.

I went home. Had a nice meal. Came back the next day like I was revenging my brother's death. It's wearing right to the deep part and shit it right there. It was corn and collard greens all in the water. Coral color. They had to shut the pool down because of bacteria. Oh, shit, man.

I was wow. I was wow. My neighbors were- Not to Pumas, though. You were tough. Yes, what? That's when Pumas was $45. Got it from Tom Dick and Harry's on Broadway, on Graham.

Oh, no joke, man. I grew up. Kay Sun knew me. He lived in my building. Kay's son. Tracy missing my diggs to me. I was like, oh, shit. That's why I love him.

Like, when he's in VIP, like, say, you know, I don't know if you know about the VIP, the Knicks, because that's what we do. VIP. A lot, not to disrespect, but a lot of people don't do VIP. Like the last game we went to, Tracy was back there, Dana White, Cardi B, her new. I did see you at the game with Courtside, Tracy.

I didn't see you know, Yates, but I saw Tracy at the court side. All right, whatever. Gail King, people that flew the space was back there. You can never get back there. Okay. I saw you on Instagram. I was back there. You know, we eat the nice meals.

This is what Yeo do. So what I'm saying is, how did you turn into courtside tracing for the New York Well, when I got on Sadina, I live, when I got on Saddam, me and Horatio was saying the first game, we went there, I spilled beer all over the parquet. They had to stop the game. They had to stop the game and wipe it up. And then, you know, I started making the guys laugh there,

and they made me royalty there. And I've been going there for years, and, you know, me and Dolan is like this. Yeah. When I see Dolan, we don't shake hands out. We hug. You think Dolan never going to let Oakley back in? No.

I don't know if that relationship is not toxic. Yeah, because he's the man with the money. I don't know. I don't know. But it would blow the roof off though. If Oakley walked in, the fans, what about us? We don't love to see Oakley back in the garden, man. I don't think the boss man going to do it.

I don't know. I won't get involved in that. I won't get involved in that. I feel bad that their relationship worked the way with. Because you're going to say, Tracy. You're the man. Well, you turn it into the men. They're just saying Spike is bad luck, man.

They just said Spike bad luck, man. But Spike was there when they won. That people just make up stuff, bro. Yeah, yeah, Spike is always there. Spike is always there. Spike been there for a lot. Number one Nick's fan, man. Yeah, for the four.

I get at the Spike. He'd been there when they was ain't shit and he's still there. No, no, no, no. It was the time that he backed off. But Dolan told me him, Dolan told me him that if we, when we win the chip, me and Spike is going to be on the float.

And they want us, they want to fly me out to away games. But I'm too busy. I'm too busy. I'm too busy. I got to work. I got to work. I got to work.

Talk about the new TV. TV show that's coming. Well, I got one on Envy's. They just announced it like three days, two days ago. I've seen it on your Instagram. Okay, that's what I'm talking about. New TV show, new money. So it was a good thing.

Me and Sertrick's the entertainer has one on CBS. So I have never been done before. Two major networks, two TV shows at the same time. And I feel good. And then they stand up. But let me tell you something. Me, Merck, always know where the stakes lie. What do you mean by that?

The stakes. Where's the money? where's the money. Know what the stakes had. Stakes ain't in stand-up for me. I'm doing TV. The stakes lie. Know where the paper at.

No-what means something to you. The stakes. No way it lie. It don't lie stand-up for me. It don't lie. It lied in them two TV shows right now because that's who paying me. So no way your stakes lie.

Definitely. Listen to what I'm saying because a lot of people don't hear you. They just listen to respond. They want to make you wrong and then write. You want to make, I'm going to make you wrong,

and I'm going to be right. So I don't hear you. I'm just listening to respond. So everything you say, I'm going to say back, something back, something slicker back. I had writers like that.

I had to let them go. Because you don't hear me. How are you going to hear my voice? I pay you, you don't pay me. I pay you, you don't pay me. You better hear me. Do you hear me? How could you know where I'm at

if you ain't been where I'm from? You don't know where I'm from. coming from? You hear that, Merck? How could you know how I'm that? If you ain't been where I've been, know where I'm coming from? Definitely.

You know who made that? Who said that? Where I got that? Cyprus Hill. Oh, shout out to Cyprus. You told somebody something today that really struck me. You said you're overthinking it.

And it's true. You're overthinking it. We keep this as simple as possible. When you start letting people in your life, you're going complicated. Keep it simple. Stop overthinking it. Stay out of your own head.

It's not that. It's not that as bad. It's just unhealthy. You know, I was late. I was in the room, but I think we was just overthinking it. Yo, yeah, yo. The mind is a dangerous place to be without a flashlight and the gun, buddy. See, you're out of there, man.

Some things you got leaving guard's hands. That's what my lady told me leaving in guard's hands. It's gonna be what it's gonna be. If this is my day, it's my day. For sure. Just cause you lay down and go to sleep, don't mean you got to wake up. lay me down if I should wait

yeah because you had to learn how to talk eating everything again so I got close to the guard and everybody in this room you know what he told me what he told me none of your business

that's true you and God that was a good one that's the guy none of your business that's a good one that was a good one when God tell you something I thought I was getting a gym

but you go back and tell nobody because he heard a conversation you ain't here. Yeah. That's between you and you. Between you and your God. Ain't nobody's business. Not even your mom and your father.

Between you, he heard the conversation you ain't here. So don't be telling nobody what God told you. A lot of people, like my man said, can't hold water. They can't hold water. A lot of people. A lot of snitching. That's the thing now. It's the culture.

Snitching. Self snitching. Yeah, that's like the new coach. Snitching. I'm not doing that. Killer nigger and go rap about it. I killed this. I'm not going to jail over no money.

I ain't going to jail over no woman. I'm going to jail over my kids. See, that's the gym right there. See, that's a fucking gym right there. And when I come in, I'm coming in. Cross that line if you want to. Those are my babies, man. I'm laying my life down for them.

I told you I came out that coma. I had to fight. I wouldn't see my daughter. She was only 11 months old. And you know what? Last year, last June, People magazine called me for a quote. Right.

And in that quote, I forgave the driver. Live your life, man. It was an accident. So I asked my doctor. I said, doctor, I know the industry, trucking. And it's based on greed. If they don't get the goods there in time, they don't get paid. Was that greed?

He said, no, Tracy. It's just poor judgment. We're all guilty of it. Ain't nobody here perfect. There's only one perfect person in the world. That's a perfect asshole. Perfect asshole. You're the perfect asshole.

They're saying Puck. They say Diddy was the perfect asshole. Oh, God. This is a no ditty. This is no weird. No ditty. They said Puffy might be washing yours and clipping toenails soon. You see R. Kelly singing for the inmates' wives.

Like, yo, they just had that online. So they say you may tell you? Sing for my girl. I believe I can fly. I told you guys. You go up top. You dealing with the real gaits. I tell her youngers all the time.

You can have the guns with the switches, modified, shoot a million niggas. When you go up top, ain't no switch modifies. I've seen that interview when you talk about Swiss too. So a lot of niggas don't know. A body, a usual body could cost you like $50,000 to start. You know, so a lot of niggas get in trouble

and don't have the money. That's why I'm off the streets because I grew up. I grew up. I'm a grown man. Tracy, Merck, this is what it comes down to. When you get to a certain amount of money, you can't be having mad girls at the, the crib. No. You can't be having wild parties because the lawsuits are going to come.

No one. Can't be having. That's who I trust. Yeah, lawsuits are going to come. That's who I trust. Whitefee. You see my little bodico. There you go. There you go. I don't play no games. Mommy, you know, you're thinking. Come on, man. Come on, man. That's what I'm saying. I'm chilling. You can't have the wild parties when your money's up like that because not saying a woman. A woman can say anything. Some people don't grow. Anybody can see any. Some people don't grow up. You know people like that?

You know people like that. They being a 60, still acting like you, 17. You know how many years you just wasted? If you're 30 still acting like you 15, you just wasted 15 years. I'm not doing that. I'm trying to go forward. There ain't nothing back there.

You know what's in the past? A forest full of horrors. I look in the past, man, that's where I got hit by trunks. You know why I don't play the streets no more? Because that's where all my trauma happened. My friends were in jail for life. My friends got murdered. That's where all my trauma happened.

Street anxiety. Yeah, I'm not with that. Still having. I'm learning. Yep, street anxiety. But everybody wants to keep their edge. They think it's about the edge. No, that's just your personality.

From birth to 10 is all personality development. That's who you're going to be the rest of your life. Yep. The rest of your life. And these YN niggas out here, they can't even really shoot. Shout out of, a lady in Harlem by accident. Yeah, I saved that.

So shout in the head. It's like, these niggas can't even shoot. They got switches. And it's like, you look at the government, like, what the fuck is going on? Because now you can shoot more niggas with that switch on the back of that you. So now, nigga catching two, three bodies.

But where did they get the switch? Who created this switch? Yo, niggas getting on internet. It's just, it's got to be the government to somebody. You know what I'm saying? See? I'm just getting in the hood. So let me tell you why music is not the way

it used to be in the 70s and the 80s, because they replaced soul with technology. People don't go to clubs and dance no more. Back in the days, you go to Brett Parrott, Bentley's, you were there, you're going to swear her perm out. Y'all going to rock all night. It wasn't no, it wasn't none of that.

It was just letting the music take you where I want to take you. You let the music take you where I want to take you. Why, we don't got no more block parties. What happened to all of that? Ain't no more clubs in New York since 9-11. They shut all of that down. Tracy, the scammers are not renting buses. The drug dealers was doing that.

The scammers ain't doing that. Yeah, it's a little different now. The scammers are like the new drug dealers, we can say now, right? Them niggas ain't, you ain't seen that one skimmer say, yo, let's get 10 buses and go to fucking... You know where Diddy made his money? Familiarity, because a lot of his songs was based on old songs. So he had the older crowd and a young crowd.

If you're a comedian, you ain't got no white people. in your audience, you ain't getting no money since when we have money. Since when? Sadden in a lot of 30 Rock, no, my crowd is 90% white. And I'm still being me. Still talk about niggins shit and they love it. Look at that. They want to know how we survive the jungle.

How was it? I'm telling you, everybody's interested in the hood. I want to ask you about 30 Rock. Like, tell us what was incredible. I had some, we have the record for Emmy nominations. Damn. Wow. Tina Faye is my sister.

I would just swear that. You saw it at the game. She's great. You did tell me that. She's my sister. She's my sister. And now we got another TV show. The same writer is Robert Collag.

The same writers are writing my show. So I'm probably going to get Emmy behind this. Look at that. Look at that. That's dope. But we have to shoot it. My co-star is Randu Daniel Radcliffe. Harry Potter.

It's my co-star. You know what it is to be number one on the call sheet? Big. I got two TV shows on two major networks Never been done before So I'm in rare air And I will not take that for granted I will work very hard

I will set the tone on my set This is not a team Because teams lose We gotta be a family I hear that The Knicks got to be family Family Family eat together, we sleep together

We fight, we argue, we laugh That's family You can't pick and choose your family You can pick and choose your team But family is family And that's how we got to do it with the Knicks. You know, fortunately, this guy overhears like that. Y'all family.

Yeah, I'm forced to this guy's family, man. And the last life, guaranteed. The way your energy is, guaranteed in the last life, y'all is probably brothers. He probably smacked his shell of somebody in the basketball because they said something to you. No, that is my brother. Like, when we're on the road, it's me, him and light the ball. I don't believe in friends. To me, you are my brother.

To me, you are my brother, because I don't believe in friends. Friends turn the enemies over bullshit. That's right. You're my enemy over a girl. You're my enemy over money after all that we've been to. Fuck you, nigger. You wasn't my friend anyway. Because if you're around me, you're my family.

I don't believe in friends. I don't believe in that. They turn the enemies over nothing. You all through history, you see somebody stabbing somebody in the back. Look what Judas did. So I don't believe in friends. If you are not murder, small nigger, you crazy? Yeah, yo, he'd know what time it is.

Smart nigger right here. Period. That nigger asked me one time to do this show, I said, where, when? We here now. We here now. I met murder. What did I say on the phone? I said, I want me murder.

Definitely. Facts, facts. And he was all that I thought he was going to be. A cool, motherfucker. I told him, man. I said, yo, go with the. Brooklyn War stories murder. He said that.

You know, what are you saying? I'm East New York. East New York. Biggs of Vietnam. You've got to live over there across the street for the... It's like that. Vietnam? That's what I call it.

Vietnam? It's like the East of York. It's like the... Eastly York was worse in Brownsville. It's worse than Brownsville. It was worse than Brownsville. East New York. The murder cap.

What? East New York. I was scared of East New York. I'm not going to close Mother Gaston. They didn't know East New York was worse than Brownsville. East New York was worse than Brownsville. You know the right castle right here? On Pennsylvania?

I lived in that building in Fairfax. That's a host story. My arm was getting high. They had all the holes over there on Pennsylvania. Yeah, my aunt was getting high. I gave her four jumps to playhouse with my little girlfriend back of the day, 17 years old. Playhouse my little girlfriend. Here, four jumps.

I was in a crib. I was in a crib. Fair facts. My life is crazy, man. My life is crazy. I lived in Coney. No, I asked my mom and said, Mom, when I was born,

did we go straight to best style? Because how my father met in Tompkins? And she said, no, I took you straight to Coney Island. So me and Marbury, because I lived in Marlborough where White Clef is from. So you were in Coonnell. I was in North Carolina. I was in, okay.

Then we moved over here when I was nine. We moved back to Tompkins when I was nine because how my father said she wanted to be next to her moms. And both of my grandparents, sets live one floor apart. And my man, Al, lived on the third. One parent, a set of grandparents, lived on the 12th. My best friend, Al, got murdered.

Lived on 13. Then my mother and them lived on 14. So I was raised around a lot of love, family. You know what I'm saying? So, and my father was Richard Pryor funny. He did comedy in Vietnam. So I'm just mimicking my dad. Oh, shit.

Look at that. I'm just mimicking. My dad was a musician. Never seen him have a job. He was always the leader. of the band. And he was funny. So my friends knew

what I knew about girls. But when I was around under my father and his friends hearing him joking all that, that's where I get it from. My dad died in 87 of AIDS. I dropped out of high school to take care of them.

It's all in my documentary on Vice TV. Definitely. We got to check that out. Shelter Vice TV. Yeah. Got to check out that documentary. I meant when I first saw it,

I started crying because it was so accurate. It was my life. Like when I got on SNL and I thought I was being cultural. isolated because it's like the whitest thing on TV. And then one morning, about 3 o'clock of the morning,

I had to talk with Lauren Michaels. And Lauren Michael said, Tracy, I didn't pick you because you black. Pick you because you're funny. And when he said that to me, I let go and let God. Look at that. And that's when I'm in the Tina Faye. And Tina Faye is the one Judge Judy and all that.

She blew me up. And I just started going. And then I dirty, at first I had the Tracy Morgan show in L.A. That's when I live in L.A. with Marcy Cursey. Same ones that did the Cosby show. I had a show on Tracy Morgan show on NBC. Did not get canceled after the year, Tina Faye came and asked me,

you want to do 30 Rock with me? And I said, hell yeah. And I, yo, ever since then, the last OG, I produced, I write what I, when I, before I got hit by the truck, I was writing a show. And then after I came out to Coleman all that, when y'all was home watching the Emmys,

I was at the four seasons on Delhini with Jordan Peel, pitching him like, idea. And then that's when he came up with the last OG. I did 15 years and Tiffany Ashley was my baby mother. We had twins. It was dope. You was going to be on there eventually. You was going to be

on an adventure. My last season I had DMX on my show. And the next day, the day before he was supposed to appear, he died. Damn. And I had to replace him with wood. See life. Damn. Look at that.

DMX is my guy. I mean, I used to see him behind him. My guy. That's the piece to the dog. Yeah, he was massive. I think he might have been maybe the closest thing to Tupac because he was radical. Definitely.

The radical. Yeah, he can't. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he had me, dog, all like crazy shit. He was radical. It was radical. It shows. And when my comedy, I try to be radical.

I'm in front of all these white people I'm doing me I got to do me I don't know how to do nobody else I could do me yeah there's a lot of Martin Lawrence didn't put me on Martin's show

he didn't put me I did because if I wasn't funny Martin wouldn't have fucked with me got you right he only fucked the best

yeah so when I had the Tracy Morgan show that had two little kids the little kid was upstaging me on the show I didn't mind because it's benefiting us so the head of NBC

caught me in one day and he was thought he was being smart. He didn't know how smart I was. He said, so I heard a little kid is upstaging you on your show. I said, well, if he ain't,

I don't want them on my show. I only fuck with it. If a little kid can't upstage me, I don't want them on my fucking show. I only fuck with the best. Little kids and animals post upstage you because they're so cute. Crazy.

They're so cute. That's a fact, though. That's a fact. Yeah, because it's like the comedy world change. It's like a lot of motherfuckers ain't funny. Oh, Instagram. I'm not doing no comedy to my phone. I need a live audience.

Comedy is the only thing you can, I cheat. If Eddie Murphy was to come back, he would have to start at the clubs just to get his act together. And for him to get from the door to the stage would be held. He's too old for that. He's a grandfather.

He don't want to deal with a, so I messed with a legacy that's so really tight. He's Eddie. It's hard you know how hard it is to get people to the movie theater doing stand-up? He did that. He got the record.

Kevin you don't got the man. He got the record. What's your favorite Eddie Murphy movie? All of them. I'm not leaving nothing. Now, Eddie's a genius. I'm just saying they got to be a favorite because I'm going to come in and a never.

You know what? You know what you're right. Me? No, you weren't known the favorite one I love? The one I was in coming to America too. I was just about to say that. You know I love that record? That movie coming to America 2?

Because it showed female empowerment. I empower my woman, man. I support her. Shout out to Michelle in the building. Go for it. Melissa, Melissa. Fucking out. Go for it.

Go for it. Go for it. Sorry. I got your back. Sorry. Go for it. We need to empower that. You got a woman empower her.

Sam by her. Now, we can't even say there is one because Beverly Hills cop coming to America. Yeah, he has. He has a classic. The one I was in was coming to America too. Oh, yeah. Coming to America too. I mean, the best part I like, and I told Eddie this recently,

the best part of that movie is when, um, J.G. Father, what's his name? JJ's father. He was in it. He was McDowell. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When he was talking to Eddie, he was talking to Eddie, and he said, what do you think your mother would say if she was here? And that made me cry.

What do you think, because she died years ago. What do you think your mother? I always thought she was the smartest Eddie, what his last name was. And what do you think your mother would say? I go, wow, that's heavy. There's always your wisdom, man. Got to rely on knowledge, wisdom, bring forth understanding.

And understanding is the highest level of love in the Lord's kingdom. And the great thing about understanding, you don't understand it means the absence of confusion. You know what the absence of confusion is? You know what the absence of confusion? Peace of mind. We all know why we hear it. Confusing about why our spheres on the stage. We ain't confused about that.

Of course. got to do. We got to kick it. That's right. And sometimes we got to listen. There's a reason why God gave us two eyes, two ears, and two nose and one mouth. He gave you your mouth to shut the fuck up and listen. Fucking tell him all that time.

You always trying to overtalk people. You always trying to overtalk, nigg. I just be like, yo, hey, shut up and listen for a minute. Please, man. Start the interview. Tell them all the time. Know what I'm saying? You know what the whole thing?

I heard you mentioned Martin was your OG, right? Yeah. How you felt about Kat Williams coming at Martin? and all that shit like that. Cat Williams came in line. Yeah, come in that mom talking about. Oh, we don't care about that. We don't listen to that.

Okay. Okay. All right. Marne is a very set of legacy. He even with them. Martin loves Kat. Oh, I got you. Martin loves Karen.

I love you. That's what you got to do. Love your enemies, too. Show some mercy. You did say that earlier. Yeah. You definitely said that. You're just like you.

I'm just like you, yeah, yo. And the minute you know that and make you a better human being, it'll put mercy in your heart. Just because you got your enemy down Don't mean you got to kill them Help them up You're already defeated them

My father's always telling me You don't look down on nobody That's you're going to help them up That's right Say that in the Bible So the minute we know that Because better human beings, man Right

I try to live by side Listen man I don't face death I got close to the guard And all you I mean 10 days in the coma You think about count 10 days I was out

I was out So I'm just fortunate to be here. I don't believe in luck. If you want luck, go to Atlantic City, go to Vegas, nigga.

I'm fortunate. I'm blessed. That's what I tell us, nigga, over here, man. Every morning when I open my shades. Go to Vegas, you want luck, nigga?

Every morning when I open my shades, even on the cloudy day like the day, I say this sun might not be out, but it's up. The rest is up to me. Bless, I woke up this morning. Your decisions, man, and your choices.

Y'all made some great choices. Think about it. Yeah, yo. Where you at in life, man? You made some great fucking choices. You too, Mark? Facts.

Great choices. Think about it. That's a fact. Me, look, what are you at? We in here, everybody in this room being productive. Time is the most powerful thing in the universe. Right.

Time. When they want to punish you, would they give you? Time. When they want to reward you, what they give you. Time. You can live 30 years with cancer.

Time. You got time. I don't got time for that. Time. So I think when we expire and we go to his kingdom, he's going to ask us, what the fuck? Did you do with the time I gave you on earth?

Did you help or did you hurt? Right. Wow. Did you think about anybody else? Or did you think about yourself? Damn. Nah. You got to do something with your time.

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Mm-hmm. So... Why are you going to talk to him? Why you don't say hello? Thank you for letting me be here. When the big money's there, sometimes, I'll talk to him. No, good money. Nah, man, you don't talk to.

You can't buy your friendship with him. Huh? You can't buy your friendship. No money. You just say hi. Next time I see him, I'm going to say. Say hi. How you doing, Mr. Dolan?

So what I wanted to ask you is, when you got sick, unfortunate, you do a... He allowed me to come back. Now, if I was sitting there drinking beer, it would have been a different story. I got food poisoning. That could have happened to anybody in that arena And he understood And he put out a post when I was in the hospital I was in the hospital

Three days after that I stopped threw up 103 times that night It got worse when I got to the hospital Wow And I went to hack and sack I threw up 103 times And only blood was coming out God damn

And then I'm It was hot dogs Was it true You ate some bad hot dogs No no No no no no No way It had nothing to do with the garden

I was sick Three four days before that I didn't feel well. And he put out a post saying that they couldn't wait for me to come back. And that night, that next night when I got there, Josh Hart called me in the hospital because I did their podcast. I did their podcast. I'm in jail.

Shout out to Josh Hart. Yeah, shout to me. And Josh, yeah, great people, man. And I'm just like, y'all, great people. Thank you, man. They don't know that. The world don't know that. They're seeing us.

They feel in the energy. And I just appreciate you for the time, man. You feel energy. So you get rid of your fear of what the people want to hear. what they don't want to hear because you don't know. You put talent in front of them. What y'all doing now?

Y'all putting talent in front of them. That's all they want. Definitely. Talent. Put it in front of them. That's how you make this show successful the way you want it. You got to get the talent

and put it in front of them because they're going to see a part of them they don't see. They see the part of Tracy Morgan. They don't see. They see the funny dude. They don't see this. Definitely.

I just thank the Lord. that y'all allowed me to come on this show. Man, we appreciate you, man. Right on, man. It's fun. Hell, yeah. And I got to get to talk a little bit and my perspective on things in life

and all those things. I'm here with my lady. That's awesome to me. Definitely, man. That's awesome to me. Thank you, Melissa. It's all right with me. She's a good person.

Definitely, man. That's what it's about, man. Yeah. And that's what you want because we ain't getting younger. Mm-hmm. You get older. I don't have time for games like that.

I found my funny out there. Y'all get charge out there. Y'all's stuff is out there. When people hear it. Definitely. I've seen the video. Where you get the diamonds on that, right? That, that, hold on.

I fuck with that risk, but what the fuck is going on over? But damn, man. 47th Street. Jesus. Right down the block, 47th Street. Now I see you a ride there. It's hot journey. He got some clarity.

He just said my man, Robert. I didn't see your video. Rod Diggs. Free Rod Diggs, man. Free Rod Diggs, man. Free Rod Diggs. You know what's the craziest Rod Diggs story? We was out the country.

I think we was in Denmark when that happened. We was in Denmark. And a white boy came through. In front of our hotel, blasting the music. And I'm like, murder, that's you? And he's like, yeah, then I'm like, who's that? He's like, yo, that's Rod Diggs. Definitely.

You know what I'm saying? It was being, right. Was he nice? And we was way on the season. And we was way over the season. Rod Diggs was nice. He used to be talking that shit. man. Free ride digs. He was nice.

You know the Brooklyn niggas, they go, the Brooklyn and the Bronx niggas, they kind of, all the young niggas, they go to jail before they blow. When you really look at the format, all the high, a lot of high, niggas in jail. Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn. I mean, I've been to the aisle of twice, man. Brooklyn, that was like a right of passage

to go through. You know what I'm saying? Big age and all about the school. Yeah, the writer package. You was doing what you saw. I love the dudes in your age doing. You were doing just what you're doing. saw. We was kids.

You ain't lying about that. You were kids in the 80s. Then I ran away from home at 13 years old and slept on an A train for two nights by myself. A train. I was smart enough to know when I was that little to sit next to an older black woman and act like she my mommy and I knew when I arrived the front of the car. To stay safe. Yeah, because back in the day, because when you young like that, you don't recognize

danger. You really got to think smart to pay attention like to like I'm going to sit next to an old. recognized danger like that. So she looked like my mom's our own, a grandmother. Yeah. And I knew when about the front, then the last night I got out in East New York and slept in the alley next to a green,

then I went to my dad. And when I remember like it was yesterday when he opened the door, I didn't see anger. I saw hurt. Did this to my kids? I was getting two, three beatings a day, man. I couldn't take no more.

Because if you're the first person in my life, punking me, what you think the world going to do to me? And I got tired of being scared. It take balls to go for your dreams We got balls, man It takes balls to go for your dream Because you know what stop us One little thing, the word if

What if it don't work? What motherfucker do something else? If I'm telling me that every day You know what my plan B was? There was none I got to get mine I'm from best start, do or die

I got to get moms He don't like all his Brooklyn talk to take Trust me. I can't what to make it. Brooklyn is to a die. It's Brooklyn episode today. It's right. I'm glad you know.

And for the record, this motherfucker was born in Brooklyn, Tracy. You know what? He was born in Brooklyn. He was born in Brooklyn. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

Let that nigga know. Let's have that nigga. You know. Now, I just gonna slap him down for that shit. Fuck out of it. Shut the fuck. Now see your murder. Why are you going around?

Don't do that no more. Yo. Shut out the Daz. That's my nudge. That's my nudge. That's my cousin. I had to holly. That's a whole.

You can see that while you was late, you didn't know, but you was late. And, you know, we found out speaking about Nas, sign out to my nigga, Nas, speaking about Nas, we found out while you was late, let me even mind the people again, Nas and Tracy Morgan's cousin. You know that? Oh, shit. Yeah. Esco's my cousin, man.

You know what I'm saying? Look at that. I don't call him now. I call him Esco. Look at that. And we love each other, man. I love non-Naz. So I spoke to him about two hours ago.

I was on the phone with him. You buy a jet or boat, you're going to have two good, two happy days. The day you buy it and the day you sell it. All they do is drink money. You drink money. Yo, that's the same shit for the TV saying. Drink money. I could buy a jet.

Fuck that shit. Drink money. Fiddy produces. Yeah. 50 is into production. He produces TV shows. He makes TV shows. Well, if he don't put me in a movie, I'm fucking with you.

I ain't got time. Yo, but if you, as you fuck with me, if you fuck with me, you can't be yo in the movie because I'm a play you against character. I bet. I'm ready. I step out to comfort zone. Don't worry. Yeah, you have to.

You have to. That's a natural, that's your process. Look at L.L. 50 put me in the movie with Bruce Willis, right? To do TV? And I was playing like a... He was a bank teller. He was like a bank teller.

And I was trying to make fun about that. 50 put me in the movie with Bruce Willis, and he had me playing the Army truck guard. You know, protecting the money. I'm protecting the money. Yeah. Stepping out my comfort zone. He was basically...

He was basically in some bum-ass movie fucking swat. Two, right? Some bum-ass-a-sad two. And this motherfucker, just being himself, no regular street shit. That's not how you do it. You got to step out your comfort zone, Trace. You know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm here? You know what I'm here? Tracy, this is what I try to tell me. If you get shot in the movie or TV in two seconds, you're not really at it. It was about five minutes, Trace. You need a good five minutes. You need a good time.

I should do stand-up. I should do stand-up. I'm ready, man. You should try it. I'm going to try it. Try everything once. I just want murder in the crowd. If you don't like it, no, that's not going to happen.

It's not going to happen. Yeah. I don't want murder. I'm going to imagine murders in the crowd and I'm just going to be roasting, niggas. You don't know how to do it. You can't do that. This, nigger, let me tell you how to get booed. You ever got booed?

Never. No, they would turn against you. Yeah. So what you're going to do is get them on your side. I would teach you. I would go out with you. No, I don't do that. Did you ever get booed that had to bounce back in that?

Okay, look at that. I don't remember I got a million standing ovations in front of 10,000, 5,000 people. I only even remember the booze. Look at that. I don't even remember the bombs, man, because that's when I learned. I got to go back to, listen, the winning team don't celebrate. The winning team is in the locker, I'm cursing God out. The winners are celebrating.

The losers got to go back to the drum board and see, oh, we ain't played defense. We got to do it over. Nah, it's when I learn when I bomb. In the beginning, that didn't ever happen now. But in the beginning, yeah, I bombed. It didn't happen often, but I bombed. Got you. Because that's what I learned.

I'm going to write this. I'm going to write out right now. But it's here. I write now, but it's here. Comedy ain't like hip-hop where you could be J-C-E. I ain't never write. I didn't get the fucking you wrote. Stop for shit.

You wrote, big he wrote, y'all wrote. Y'all ain't that much of a genius. this motherfucker. The bricklets, see, the booklice. You write, you write. I write. I write my jokes. There's no way in the world.

I could do two hours and not remember. My shit's writing on the teleprompter. Real shit. Listen, comedy is basic. Premise set a punch line. So you got to remember it, and that's what I would teach him.

You're not going to get up there and just snap on everything. That ain't comedy. Premis, come on with a premise, just like you write hip-hip. Come on with your premise. What you're going to mind? I'm about.

Then you got your premise set up. How are you going to set them up? You're going to set them up? How are you going to set them up? You're going to lower them in. And then you lower the boom. That's the punchline. See, he's going to do.

I would definitely go to your comedy shows, though, yeah. I'll go. This is going to be my coach right here. I would go. What you want to talk about? You want to talk about sex? That's what I do. We want to talk about relationships.

That's what I do. Because you know why? Because we all do the same shit. Me and you just talked about that. I'm just like you. When I take a shit, I lean on my left to wipe my left. to wipe my eyes. Just like you.

Well, I look at the toilet. Before I flush, I look at the toilet paper. Just like you. Because you know, that's your measurement. You got a fold again. Sometimes you miss a little doodle right here. You smell it. You smell.

I can't fuck with you. You smell it. That's that. You look at it before you flush, you look at it. And the minute you know that it doesn't make you a better human being. No, you're right. You drop so many gems, man. Definitely definitely.

No, no. Whenever we kick it, whenever we around each other, let's be kick, we always go. People are going to be seeing Tracy and murder, Tracy and Yale talking. And in their minds

are going to be millions of people around it. And their mind they're going to, I wonder what they're talking about. I wonder what the fuck they're talking about. We go, yeah, we just talk about getting money. That's always talking about it. You can make anything up after that

because they don't know. They don't, why none of their business? we're kicking it. Would you ease dropping on us money? Why are you standing there? I tell you, man, I was wild when I was young, man. I was just like them carrying burners and all.

Like, come on, man. I was wow, I'm glad I grew out of that. Because I probably would have lost my life. Hell yeah, or be in jail for the rest of it. Yeah, we know that. We know that. I told you why I don't mess with the streets. That's all my, where all my trauma happened.

I'm done. Too much technology. Tupac got shot going in the quad. Going in to make music. Weird. Think about it. Tupac got shot in quad. Got to be careful, man.

I don't go to clubs no more. I ain't been to comedy club in four or five years. I got writers. Like my man said, I don't write bribes. I write checks. I got writers. And, you know, I surround myself with people who do this as a necessity. They need to do this.

You ain't got to write rhymes no more. Surround yourself with some cash that do this for necessity. He got to do this to pay his rent. So I'm going to get the best out of them. I surround myself being on Tracy Morgan, but people who need to do this as a necessity, I ain't got time for it. I don't.

I don't. I got to take care of my family and all. I got real life outside. Show business is this much of my life. The rest is my wife, my fucking kids, all that real life. I held on that because when you don't deal with reality anymore, when you locked in the character, he's not murder all day.

He's not yale all day. He don't got the energy for that. Imagine if Buster was Buster all day. Oh, man. He would be fucking. He's animated. He's animated. He's animated.

I'm serious. He might be busted. You know what I'm serious? Sometimes we all, where does Superman live? Where does Superman live? In the fortress or what? Solitude. Sometimes we all need a place to just go think.

I need some place to go think, man. I can't, I don't got the energy for that. What Superman Richard Pryor was in? I know you know. Huh? I forgot four? Superman. I think it was three.

I think it was three. I don't remember, but that was when Richard was when Richard was going down. You think you that? You think that out of his career with that one? Me and Eddie was just talking about this. So Eddie's, we had Eddie's crib. So these niggas don't watch the classics. I watch, I watch the classics.

We was watching Richard when he was filming stir crazy. He was going in on Gene Wilder. Corner what kind of fucking on this crazy shit. He was how's the kind. And Eddie said, see that Richard? 40 is a motherfucker. Then he set itself on fire. And we never saw that Richard again.

I never saw that Richard again Start doing things like the toy Shit like that The toy I like that toy Yeah but that wasn't Richard Richard Richard even out of his own You gotta see Blue Collar

That's a Christmas You gotta see Blue Collar You gotta see the Richard And the Richard So you didn't like Richard and Superman 3 I love Richard Richard is my king But toy is why I say toy

But those are the movies at the end This demise at the end You got to see the Richard before that. I watched the Richard before that. The Roar, the Roar Richard, no did he. Oh, yeah, Carl Wash. You know Carl Wash was the first OG?

You remember the dudes put the gun down, Abdul. Remember that guy? Abdullah? That was an OG. That's the definition of an OG when you stir the youth in the right direction. Yeah, Carl Washington.

He said, put the gun down, Abdul. Not because you know why Superman 3, you know, I was a big fan. Everybody was a big fan of every Superman as a kid. So when he dropped Superman 3, when he was in it, and Richard Pry... But he did that for the money. Because he was broke.

Did it for the money. Whenever you do anything for the money, you don't do this for the money. You love the hip-hop. You love this shit. Yeah, we do. You care. It'll kill you if you do it for the money.

Man, I don't do comedy for the money, man. It's work at the post office, man. I do this because... I love to do it. I ain't got to do this no more. I got a bought Walmart truck. I ain't got to do this no more. Walmart money, nigga. Walmart money. I do it because I love it.

Real shit. Because I do it because I love it. And if I ain't have comedy, I probably die. Wow. If you ain't if you ain't have hip-hop, you probably die. That's a real shit, though. I don't you got out here. Real shit. Think about it. Think about your life. Take stop. Think about your life.

I love doing this. I get off from watching him laugh. And him laughed and you laugh and all y'all, we had this whole room laughing. I guess it was turned up. When you was late, when you wasn't here, we was, we was in. You should have turned up. You should have started the show, right? You see how he's smiling?

You should have started the show. The audience is going to laugh. They're going to get a kick out of this. I would have started the show. I know you would have started without me. I know how you would have did. Tracy Morgan, I would have started the show. Glad you see that.

You see that, Tray, he would have started without me. You know, you know, for me, you know, I'm going to say it when we, When this is over, I'll tell you, I got to talk to y'all. I got to tell y'all something when this is over. I got to get ready, go home and watch the game. That's a fact. You can't believe it. You better believe it.

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