Million Dollaz Worth Of Game - Million Dollaz Daily: KEVIN HART GRINDING IT OUT

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

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Hey, million dollars worth of game listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad free on Amazon Music. Right. Coming from, you know, not coming from New York, L.A., certain places. Coming from Philly. How hard was that grind to get to where you is today? I'm talking about the ground level thing when you was just...

I don't think there's a better environment to grind from. Yes. I don't think there's a better... when you when you compare Philadelphia to other places it's tough because the support that the city gives to you only comes after you have proven yourself yes it is not it is not automatic it is not because you from the city because you get on the stage because you think you got talent we're supposed to back in support it's earned and with comedy you know in the city that shit was tough like that's like You're performing in front of the people whose idea of laughing in the beginning is laughing at your demise. Our idea of laughing isn't laughing at you being funny.

It's in hopes of you going up, not being funny because that's what we find the funny. I was in the environment where the niggas was showing up, right? The amateur nights where you just got 15 niggas and they're sitting out there and they come for the boo. They come for the ignorance. Um, so you, you build, you build a, you build a nice, a nice world of, fuck it. It's going to be what it's going to be.

And if this one I'm going to do, then I'm going to do it. And then the confidence grew as you start making them laugh. If I'm making y'all laugh, then I'm going to be all right. Because you're all vicious. If I'm making y'all laugh, right. I'm going to be okay. If I'm starting to turn the tables and this, this room is starting to turn over. These people are starting to turn over.

My confidence is starting to get better. And when you start to get people. people show up. I remember amateur nights where people used to show up and oh we hope Low Kev the bastard is coming to perform

oh we hope that guy's coming back I started to get a little a little bravado about me and then the comics I can shout out to the Philly comics

man I can go down from Turee Gordon Buckwild Big J. Ocerson at the time you know Tommy Too Smooth I can go

Keith Robinson I can go Of course My guys Spankhorn Naimlin But back then Denny Lave I gotta go

I gotta go I gotta go D Lee I gotta go Like there was this There was this There was this room Of funny And this room was deemed

Philly funny Like you know The people that were I gotta go B flat The The comedians men, women that were in this room that were part of this environment

they were the shit And let me ask you the question When you was back in that environment At that time Was it looking like You was going to be the one that go? No And here's why

Because you don't You don't know what that means you're not associating stardom with the craft in the beginning the stardom is being amongst the peers that are doing it the stardom is being able to get on stage time the stardom is the city going right that's my idea of stardom

that's my idea of making it at that moment so every tier that presented itself became the next idea of what was stardom right you don't see this level until the level presents itself and you're like

oh shit and you look back and you go goddamn I came I was all way back there and I'm now right

so the idea of movies the idea of touring arenas that was not that was not the idea that was not

what I was doing for I was doing it because I was like this is what I want to do man and Eddie Murphy the coolest motherfucker live

damn man if I could only I just want to get on the stage I want to feel that I want to get that love how do I get that love um

that that was the goal so philly philly put me in a position to not to not care about the doubt right right like you you once i started to make a little teeny bit of money doing comedy in philly well then i felt like i can i can make it all over the world yeah i can go and do it then the transition was to

new york but it started in philadelphia right philadelphia to this day is a place where People do fucking, there's like a little hesitation of, God damn, man, I don't feel like dealing with these people. Right. Oh, fuck. Right. Go to Philly. God damn.

And I hope these crowds, because I know they be rough. Yeah. There's always a little inklet of in coming to Philly. So you can't rock my world of confidence because of my upbringing, my environment, and what I was true to, especially in a place of comedy. And those comedians, I can say those comedians in the beginning. that I developed around, you know, they got a lot to do with it, right? Those attitudes, those personas, that environment is necessary as needed.

You become a product of it. So you're feeding off of that thing that you're around.