The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - Bruce Bruce in the Trap! w/ DC Young Fly, Karlous Miller and Chico Bean

Episode Date: March 12, 2021

A legend in the comedy game - Bruce Bruce posts up in the trap with Karlous Miller, Chico Bean and DC Young Fly to drop some game and tell some hilarious stories! Bruce Bruce lays down some information on how to get that money and breaks down how he wound up getting so much love in the hip hop game!Bruce Bruce remembers all the legends and has worked with them all - on this episode he tells the story of opening up for Bernie MacBruce Bruce is an OG in the comedy game and even explains his process of writing jokes and knowing when to get off the stage!#85southshow​ #letbrucebrucehitit​ #comedy​Hit Our Website for more info: https://www.85southshow.com/​Get our custom merchandise: https://85apparelco.com/​Subscribe To our Channel: bitly.com/85tubeFOLLOW THE CREWKARLOUS MILLER - https://www.facebook.com/karlousm/​DCYOUNGFLY - https://www.facebook.com/DcYoungFly1/​CHICO BEAN - https://www.facebook.com/OldSchoolFool/​Director - JOE T. NEWMAN - www.ayoungplayer.comProducer CHAD OUBRE - https://twitter.com/chadoubre​Producer - LANCE CRAYTON - http://instagram.com/cat_corleone_It's Jon - https://www.instagram.com/holaj_o_n/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hell yeah! Hey, tune in every Friday. Listen and subscribe today. 5 sales show. What's the most of the next? Oh, Chuck, Memphis. All right. You don't like Birmingham?

How about you? I did eight shows in Birmingham. It was little down there. He's an improv? Yeah. I like to use the improv, but Chapplesman. Ain't nothing like you. Baltimore, D.C.

Yeah. But who only is with my, like. You like Termitinine? I ain't never been in Tom of the team. That's San Francisco market that very, man. Listen, man. You know, niggas come out and they have eight. I ain't never been to time of tease.

I want to go. Them four got me confident in doing right. You know, the old-ass kind of the club, though. They just don't run that moment. See, that's a part of the game that you probably have more insight. He got that real. You know the game from that perspective, but us as just, young, niggas coming in the game, it's just that energy that job get it.

Because, I mean, I got the question about the show. I heard you just throw a nigger. Oh, yeah. We can't get in a lot. Oh, yeah. You remember that improv Cocoa Beach? With Miami? Yeah, and Coconut Grove.

Coconut Grove. Yeah, with the front porch on that motherfucker. It was the actual dope. But, you know, I did Houston come to club one time. I made a hollabow. How many shows you did? How many shows you did? How many shows?

I did 15. 15. Yeah, they'll drop it off. They'll drop it off. They'll get it. They get it. They go. Forget me.

Let's go. Let's go. Speaking of, let's go. Welcome back to the 85 South show. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Br. See, we got a real true OG in here with us today.

Talk your talk. I'm talking about he really laid the blueprint out for a whole lot of this comedy shit. Your OG, OG. My OG's OG. Uh-huh. I'm talking about it and put it down from the real deaf comedy jam to the real comic view. Real Comic View. I'm talking about the real shit.

Come on, man. Had one of the most historic comedy clubs ever. Talk your shit. Atlanta native. Plenty is hell every time you see him. Your auntie want to give him some pussy. The skinny girls used to let him hit it. None other than Mr. Bruce Bruce.

Let's go. What's happening, baby? Y'all get to our ass up, nigger. No, you're going to let that. Let's get your ass on a freeze, man. Oh shit What? You gotta get up,

you gotta get up Shit all shit y'all in now Hell now Shit See, that's exactly Why we want to use that platform It's to show love To the people that we love

Why they can hear us giving it Yes, sir I like that man And for the shit that you did The stories I heard Before I actually ran into you And then when I ran it to you You was

You was exactly what they said You were And he was like, young nigg they ain't gonna fuck with you. That's the first shit he said to me. He said, I've been hearing your name, you funny. Niggas ain't fin to fuck with you. But when he had his room,

and them niggas who didn't fuck with me, didn't show up, and he said, Los, I got a few dollars for you. I'm coming all away from Marietta to the south side. One of the only niggins I've ever seen. He did the whole show by himself in the crowd, don't say a motherfucking thing.

5-5-9. That's the one I heard. Before we even get the 5-5-9, I got a whole bunch of questions I don't want to know like. Because it's a lot of questions that people don't answer the O.G. I always heard this name coming up in Atlanta in the comedy game, but I only may have seen a picture of two once or twice on Facebook, Disco Duck. Disco Duck, man, he was funny. He talked in a duck voice like a duck.

Yeah, he'll come up together and talk to him like in the duck voice. And they fall for it. But they said this nigga used to destroy it. He used to real. He used to real. Johnsville, Georgia, right now, by Griffin. I got to find them, bro, because it's so many disco duck stories. You know how the game is.

Man, man. So, like, being as though you started, like, you were one of the pioneers of the game that we are able to benefit from now. Right. Like, who are some of the guys that, you know, you came up with that you knew? Once you got into the position that you was a headliner and the man, who were some of the guys that you got your hands on that became superstars? Okay, let me cut something up about the headliner thing. Come on. You know, when I started, they made me headline.

You know what I'm saying? They would never, ever let me feature for him. Like, no, no, he need headline. He need a headline. Because I would bring me to know-hers to him. I was doing fun and stuff. I used to do stupid stuff. Like, I called a partner to say,

and pick up at the corner, walk and don't walk. You know what I'm saying? They're like, what are he talking about? They didn't get the joke. Walk and don't walk. That's any car. But headliner, I have always hitliners since I started. Even the guys that was paid to get to headlines.

When I get to the show, they put me up last. And I won't even get the money, but they was getting money. I was loving the game so much. I didn't even care. Right. Let me get it. You know, I've been doing this professionally 32 years. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. So what, so what, so what draw you to the game? Like, you know, because, you might say, comedian, don't really pitch. What drove me to the game, my ex-wife? You know what I'm saying? That's real? Yeah, man. She told him I couldn't make it.

I'm like, what? I said, I said, I see you on TV. So if you ever see me say, so if you ever see me say, Hey, I'm talking to you. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. But no, I went through a bad man.

So I'm a lot older. People don't realize how old I am, but my oldest son is 40. Damn! My baby boy is 37, my daughter at 35. Dang. You know what I'm saying? They've been fucking forever. Oh, I'm laughing.

Damn, like you're 10 and 5. Oh, shit. You know, I'm laying down, sir. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? But all that's over now. Right, right, right. My wife might get, yeah.

But yeah, man, but it just, you've got to love it, man. It's, love, I've seen the time, man. I never, ever thought about walking away, ever. I just kept doing it, man. When I first started coming, I used to open up. They give me $50 a week, come up, introduce the host. Hey, y'all, coming to the stage, the host, Rex Garvin, cold funk. I'm Bruce, Bruce, look here.

Y'all check it out, we're going to have a good time. They paid me $50 a week to do the hours loving it. I was there on time. I wasn't late or nothing. Then I started featuring and then people start calling me. These would be clubs called Club Vegas. Do some, I get you $100 a show. I'm doing three shows night.

I'm like, for real. So I'm thinking, you're going to give me $100 a show and I'm like $300 and one night? Yeah, I can do that, you know. And I was working for free to lay potato chip. You know, I was selling a bag, eating three bags. You know what I'm saying? And I thought about it, man.

I'm working 15 hours a day, but this dude giving me $100 a show for about 15 minutes per show. It didn't balance. Comedy is where I went, man. And I love it. You got to love it. And the key thing is, man, when you do comedy, when you entertainment, get your business together

with your taxes, everything, because they're waiting and they're looking. You know what I'm saying? Keep all that straight and don't trust nobody. They need to show you what they're doing on your text. Show me what you're doing with this paperwork, so it won't be a problem at the end of the year. You know what I'm saying? But they're coming at you, man. Right.

You know what I'm saying? You're making money. These clubs want to add the show. Let me tell you a little secret. Tell me shit. Now, you guys doing clubs. I know you are because I hear you out there. And if you're scheduled to do five shows, you sell out five shows, okay?

Now, they say they want to add some shows. That's fine. Do the added shows. But with the five shows, the club have already made their money. You understand what I'm saying? So the added show should be for you. Exactly. You should get 100% of the door there.

Because they have made their money with the five shows. You follow what I'm saying? So get the money. You know what I'm saying? Yes. They're going to do it. Yes. And if they say we can't do it, they say, I can't do it either.

But 10 minutes later, they're going to chain them out. They're going to change their money. Because if you're selling the club out, they make it money. Exactly. Before you even get that. Hell, that's bonus because, like you said, they all made their money. Exactly. It should be.

And that's what it should be. And that's why it's young, too, man. Get that money, man. How long are you going to take you to learn those aspects of the game? How long are you doing? Oh, I got. pimp off off for about the first five years. You know, I was going to Chicago for 14 hours week. I thought I was getting it until I talked to one of my boys, Joe Torrey, you know, Joe

Tourses. And I said, man, what did you pay in Chicago? He said, man, I got $20, what? Wait a minute. And I was doing Wednesday through Sunday back in the day. You know what I'm saying? $1,400. I thought I was getting it. Man, I wouldn't do a number getting pimp. Right. So when I went back, I had to get some Caucasian people to represent me. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? It's important. I hate to tell you, man.

It's hard to deal with us, you know what I'm saying? On the business side. Yeah, on the business side. Y'all know you don't want to deal with your agent, man. You don't want to deal with me. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? You got to handle this business.

I need a friend. I don't need no friend. I need to get this money. And if you sell tickets, get that money, man. You know what I'm saying? I don't get well. Right. I'm not doing well.

I would not complain. Don't. So what about the common view situation? How that came about? Because I used to lay in bed and just sit there and watch your ass all day. Now, see, one thing we got to understand about the way God works. When it's for you, it's just for you. And when it's your time, it's your time.

I suppose the host of the year after some more hosted. Right. And they always introduced a new host, but they gave it to Don Curry. I was pissed off, but it wasn't for me. But then the year that I did host, I got the most money to anybody. I had the best year to anybody. They paid me a half a million dollars. When they was paying everybody else, $50,000.

I got a half a million plus $50,000 extra to buy clothes and shoot. Oh, I'm saying, I'm saying. You're the bad. You understand. So what I'm saying, what's for you is for you? Nasty. So I think he's nasty. I'm talking about, I'm like, they're going to pay me this more money to the host.

Are you serious? Yes. I do it. And I came, you know, I had the suits made. I was a lot of preachers, you know, how's everything? Yeah. You know, they've seen the suits. I had to get a lot on my way to the old niggins smoking.

When the old, when you did the joke about the old player, the cigarette killing his head. I had a problem like, but he won't go to him like that. That ain't what it is. Cigarette about the killer. Daddy, you need to stop smoking. That ain't with the ill. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, but, yeah, man, it was the best year for him. And then I came back and it was a BET comic view, and that's what I was doing. Then I came back and did the Colliente the next year. And did it a year after that, I did it. coming to the stage when I was hosting that it's almost like Sunday's best now it was the exact same platform and I did that and did well but amen I did death jam twice did Apollo five times I mean it's been good yeah tell me about the five five nine the five nine let me tell you something you had every hustler every

pimp in the city to come to the club right right up right around the cone from here too it started the midnight you get to the club and 11 o'clock nobody's down 1145 is packed you can't get in there Show was over at 2 o'clock, we lead and go straight to the blue flame, watch the girl's box. Oh, look, you say, if you get there at 11 o'clock, ain't nobody. Nobody in the park, like, level 45, you can't get it now. You can't get it now. I'm talking about on a Tuesday night.

You got 600 people in the club on a Tuesday night. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And every hustling, pimping in that, and they say, and this was a year straight. Yeah, it's like 10 years. 10 years straight. 10 years straight. Throw money at you.

That was, oh, my God. And I was, you know, everybody wanted I do everybody, so they get six bottles of over at six dollars they were here everybody want to how many they get they want to get and we just I mean this is at peak Atlanta this is at peak and on Tuesday night the bar did is $60,000 on a Tuesday night that's crazy

man and this in the 90s in the 90s came out 90 96 97 98 99 we didn't have everybody about that Snoop Dog 8 ball MJG everybody been now let me ask you this yourself removed there's a lot of careers got made at firefighter oh yeah yourself removed who had

some of the best sets that you saw personally. I don't see people come and had great sense and I've seen them bomb. Right. I was going to get to the bomb. I didn't see a lot of niggas. I've heard a lot of niggas. Quick comedy. I don't know. That was right before my team. Yeah, man. I heard. I ain't come no fat. I see Rick and Smiler coming in

destroyed with Lederer. And I see him come back. This before we got on TV. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he died of great death. You know what I'm saying? That's my boy. I love him. He died of great death. Oh, I'm talking about. He was like this. I mean, he was like this. He was like this. I've seen J.B. Smooth come through that and rip it.

They said they weren't around to hear them J.B. I'm talking about, when you in the Highland Club, it's like every thing come, man, you don't want to see J.B. Smooth in this motherfucker. J.B. Smooth. J.B. Smooth. And then, you know, a lot of comedians, like, from New York and everything, they come up. Oh, ain't no problem. Man, I did Peppermint's in Jersey.

This ain't a man. I said, brother, this is not peppermint in Jersey. Right. This 5, 5, 9. You didn't have nothing to do. Right. I've seen them blunt. Bomb, bomb, but then it's a comedian named Jay.

I don't know if you know Jay. He's from Jersey. Oh, Jay and Jerry. Thank you. Thank you. No, no, no. Now, hell long. He says, Uncle, count the money.

He'll say, he don't say a hundred. Yeah, 100. Yeah, 100. Yeah, 100, 200, 300, 300. Now, what I give you? What I give you? 200. That was Jay, he ripped it.

Yeah. When they listen to me, they would smash it. But if they don't listen, they got. They're arrogant, they bomb every time. You know what I'm saying? Chris Tucker been through that, man. Mike Elst. You know, of course, Mike Elst,

my boy, I started me in the business back in the day. You know, Mike used to open up for me. That's what I'm saying. That's what I was about to get. Since you brought that up, you know, tell me about your crew. You had a crew.

You were a couple of your young crew. Oh, man, I had a small, you remember small frown? Small frown. I did a small frown open up for me. And Mike Elps, man. Mike Elks came to me and he said, look, man, I watched the ever coming in here. You're the badest dude, man.

He went on a row with it. I don't want to make Mike audition for Friday. Work? Yeah, he was here, he had moved to New York. He's like, man, he wanted me to audition. I thought, what, you ain't know? I said, he's looking for somebody like you. You know what I'm saying? He called me about a weekly. I got the part. I said, you kid. But Mike, a bad dude. He's a good dude. And that's my little brother, man. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. But small fry, black boy. She used to fuck shit up. Who that? Small, oh, my God. Yeah, she was

right for her. She went Christian. She started doing all. Clean comedy. You know, clean comedy. But the Christians, I don't know why they do that. They drank and smoking. Everything. You say, you know, yo, man. What's happening?

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That's a whole different lane of common. But you got to understand, the church is probably the easiest to make it out than anybody. I don't know if you ever did Christian people, but I have. It's so easy. I mean, it's like, you can go out and say, ooh, I'm so tired. Ah, he's a genius. You know what I'm saying? But, you know.

5.59 is the heaths. Oh, 5.5.5. That's the real thing. You're going to make the demons laugh. So what was your, I know you said you loved it, but what was your motivation? Like, what was the reason? When I went on stage and I saw people and I could. make people laugh. I've always made people laugh in school, class clown, all that.

But when people just start loving you, man, if I had social media back in 88, 89, oh my God, it'd be crazy. But you just got to love it. You can't stop. You know, I asked Disney and Washington on time. I said, what made you just keep on? He said, I never stopped. He said, so if you stop you, you'll never know you can make it. So just keep going, man. You got to love it. because I'm telling you, the platform that you guys got right now, it's actually better than the blue collar come. You know, Larry Cable Guide, and runway, it's actually better. I watch it, it's actually better.

So use it and ride that way as long as you can. Let me ask you this. What's been your experience with the quote-unquote mainstream rooms or the mainstream side? Hey, I'm going to tell you something about that. Don't change up your style because you're doing a main street, you got a white audience one thing you got to understand funny is funny i don't care who it is black white Latino Asian if it's funny on that i can make a baby laugh i don't care what

you're talking about white man with no ears but you never notice people oh my god how do he went glass he got no ear how do he wet glasses he got contacts like a motherfucker right you know what I'm saying that's a head book right there how do you they're glad you don't switch up I've seen guys shift gears because it's white audience right And then go out talking different, hey, guys, how are you like, cool, the fucking, you know what I'm saying? And I noticed a lot of white people, when they come to a show with the comedian is black, they want to see the show if it was a black crowd. Yeah, long as you're not disrespect. Right.

You know what I'm saying? Right. Look at all these crackers. No, you can't. That's the first thing I'm going to say. Yeah. You know, do the Brown used to a show. Crackers, crackers, crackers, it's just clear as my side of the system.

You know what I'm saying? But, you know, just go out and just do your thing. Be yourself because that's what they want to hear and that's who you are. That's why they came to see you. See, you're a legend and you know we talk about this amongst each other all the time but you know the motivation, like you said, to keep doing it. Have you ever had that show where you were like, man, this ain't it? Yes, but they didn't know it.

Oh. See, you know, I'm my worst-est critic. You're probably your worst-est critic. You know when you're a hit, you know, people love you but you're like, yeah, I know I could have been at that, you know what I'm saying? So it make you go back to the drawing board a little bit, you know. And that's okay. But once you get where you're so comfortable,

you're going on stage, you're going on stage, get unhausted. You should always have fear. Right, right, right. You should always be a little scared. I say that all the time. All the time. I get nervous every time before I go to say. And the day I stopped getting nervous

and the day I retire, I didn't do it all. The day you're not nervous no more, you do. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That's too confident. You always got to have it. And don't do comedy because you, it's so many women out there. And it's so, man, I mean, how many women I did.

Then you go out there and do your best dick and pussy joke. That ain't what it's about. It's about being fronant because the ugliest dude in the world have got money, got a woman. You ever notice that? Say, one more tell you. You got to be a mic, didn't mind. Yeah, we got family dollar tape.

What happened? Family dollar tape. Even the mic nerve is the mic. Like, I want to hit this shit. It's a high hip. It's cat folks. Mm-hmm. Cat nerving, man.

His tape ain't shit. Shit, wet-ha finger, man. of your fingers. He got on long pants and then his body don't know how to react. Ain't ever seen roots. He got on here and got his shorts on his

legs confused. He's making his body warm up like to make a finger sweating. His legs got a breeze. There we go. He changed you. You got red hands. Hey man, welcome

back to another edition of the 85 sound show. You did. Come on, man. I don't know where you being or what you're doing in life. But we got none other than Bruce, Bruce. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. Putting us up on game. I got a real question, right? Yeah. Man, we all comedians and there. They own different lane and genre. That's right. What's the process of when you're coming up with a joke?

You know, a lot of community, like, I remember that shit. That's great. I do. Now, a lot of people can write a joke. Right. I don't. Right. I freestyle it and go on stage and do it.

But the key thing is, make sure you record it. You know, if you're going to do some little stuff and just try. That's how I write. I go on stage and just do it. Like, one time I went on stage and slipped up and almost fair. You know, big joke like, me falling. I did 30 minutes just on me falling. You know, almost falling.

So always, some people can write, like D.C. Curry, one of the best writers I would say. He can write jokes out on paper and go up and do it. But I'm totally the opposite. I go on stage and just free. It's two things going to happen. Is he going to work or it's not? So, and if it don't work, work on it and make it for me. You know what I'm saying?

Sometimes it's better if the shit don't work. Sometimes it is. Because you can come out of that. It's all in about how you come out the joke. Like, to me, I like to see the comedy that happens between the jokes. You know what I'm saying? Well, Dion Cole is the best at it. You know, he got the paper he had on stage.

When the joke don't worry, he said, look, that ain't working on right there. So he knows exactly what he's doing. Right. He doesn't master. Yeah, he doesn't master. I used to come on stage, like, when I first started, come on stay with the pen and the pan. And I was like, fuck, no, this is a crutch. I'm going to get used to that.

I'm not even training. mind. So now, even when I try new things, I see the new joke come off for improv. So I, even though I record my set, I go back home, listen to it, write it down. But when I write it and think it, it's like, I continue, you know what I'm saying? Add to it. It becomes a huge joke. Yeah. Yeah. That's how you do it. Now, I got to ask you, get loose with it. Get loose with it. All the skinny holes let Bruce Bruce here. Come on. Now, you know, with us being, you know, we all are comedians, but we're, you know, we all are comedians. We all love the music, too. We all intertwined. Like, what was that process? Like, did you know the Yang Twins?

Or was that just like you? I did know them. I knew, I knew them very well. Like, Outcast, like, the group Outcast is like one of the best groups out that come out to ATL. And anything Outcats ever did, I was always in it. You know, they did the movie. You all right, plan? I'm so tired of your goddamn.

Middle school. I couldn't have it, boy, I'm on your ass. We had a half cut in the entire school year, ugly, bud. Your parents don't love you. Yeah, he got that central book. You can't go on the field trip. Let me see your pack, let's see his car, fly. It's etiquette.

Okay, that's it in your pocket. It keeps cussing in the mouth. I'm supposed to dress for success. Eclad. What's wrong with it? What's wrong with it? Go ahead. They keep on them out when you sit on it.

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You are a fucking wild guy, man. See, that man at home, man. We're good? You need to leave. You need to leave. Oh. All right, we're back. Okay.

What if you have to act? Yeah, but, you know, that, like, you know, the music getting shouted out of the rap song, that's a lot of niggas that would love to have that happened. Oh, yeah. That was more than the shout-out. That was like direction. Man, the nigger shouted y'all out and didn't even shout me out.

Who? Who did that? I'll tell you about it. Okay. But what you say, Alcann? Yeah, Alcalf. Yeah, everything. Everything, like, when they were, I remember, I was in there with Pada LaBelle.

And then they did, Who's Your Caddy? And I was the book. And then I was in the video, so fresh and so clean. Yes, so clean. So, clean, so clean, so clean, please. The iconic. That's crazy. Yeah, man.

But then, in my. And then. And Ying Yang, well, a little, too short did it, first to shake that market. He's like, oh, the skinny girl, let Bruce, Bruce hit it. Then Yin Yang came back with little John said, get crunk with it, get loose with it. Like Short said, let

Bruce Bruce hit it. So, you know, it's just love. A.T. I love, man. That's how it's done. Then the ladies come up through, like, look, I know you don't know me, but. All the time. I got some pussy for you. Well, it's always, it's always, it's always the big girl. I mean, I mean, 400 you can't get up and now. No, no.

He'd be like, what's up? Nothing. We can look at this workout tape. You know what I'm saying? You know, but they be on me, what's up? Trying to look sexy. I'm like, no. Right.

I ain't no offense, but ain't nothing I can do with you, baby. Somebody needs to be an athlete. So it matters to be you. You feel what I'm saying? Most definitely. But I felt that the bigger girls are more confident. Most of them. Like you get to find her.

Most of them, I'm not talking about all. I want about to get offended, but they'd be so insecure. You know what I'm saying? I was in, I had to open up for Fantasia one time. I think it was Greenwood, North Carolina. I never heard of this. Greensboro, pal. It was Greenwood.

I never heard of it. I get there, this girl, 500 pounds, easy. You know what I'm saying? Easy. She'd come up. She said, brook, bro, you know, my old man got mad because I came to see you. I said, you came and like, yeah, but I'm going to tell you what I did. This is what she told me.

She's out fishing some collard cream, macaroni, chicania, poachar, and fried chicken. Cornbread, then I suck that dick. You see, I'm here, don't you? I said, well, I'm right there, girl. And she bought a shirt for him, her, all her kids, and everything. But she was just confident. She didn't let her size determine who she was. She was confident.

Been with him for 25 years. I got the way of pussy, so, right? Yeah. And then you like to wait as well? Yes. You just said, I want to ask you about, like, I don't want to make nobody offended. How do you feel about the change

that has happened from when you started and the shit that was offensive them versus what's offensive today? You can't say nothing. Oh, yeah, but I say it anyway. Fuck you mean. I just say it, you know. You know, I don't go the gay route anymore

because they're sensitive, you know what I'm saying? But I do a set about old preachers. They use old words like punks and bulldogers. You know what I'm saying? Punks and bulldogs. Because of Old Baptist preachers are doing, I'm talking every punk and Loddegas, you know what I?

And I do stuff like that and then, you know, because I'm like, who thought of the word bulldogger? Right. What is a bulldogger? You know what I'm saying? Because old guys say that, you know, his wife, living for a bulldogger.

You know, what is a bulldog? You know, so I do jokes like that. Yeah, they've got to go to get the bulldog. But you know, them bulldogers, you know, them old players, you know, you know, he's going, you know, his wife. with a bulldog, and he's the pump. I'm like, what? What is the bulldog?

I'd be trying to figure it out. But that's the old school saying, you know. But I mean, like, I got grandkids and stuff, you know, and they love you guys. I mean, they love it. My grandkids are super smart. My daughter don't have it no other way. And I encourage

everybody to learn everything you can about everything for as technology is concerned. You know what I'm saying? Because it changes all the time. But just learn, man. You got kids, right? Yeah, I got two on them. Eight more on me.

You got kids. I got a daughter, 12 years old, yes, sir. Yeah, that's what it's about. And that's the way I try to, I kind of stay in tune with what the changes are because she is, she growing up with it. So I let her guide me when it comes to the social media and a lot of stuff because, you know, it's just she embraced it. You know what I'm saying? So I learned like. And just handling your business, even with the baby mom, if you're not with them, handle your business.

Take care of your job. You know what I'm saying? You got to do it. You know, and most guys she always. Oh, that was something to do so bad. You're over there with a bitch. There you go. You know what I'm saying?

You should be if you're not. And then what I'm going to be. My name is a little second. And I approve that message. But look, I appreciate the foundation that all the OG, even my brothers, you feel what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. I jumped off with the social media, but then I went back to go figure it out because this is

what I need to do in order to be a stand-up community. Well, see, the thing is with old-school communities like myself, A lot of them are really bitter about social media comedians. So what they're winning. So what you should do is jump on the bigwagon, get on social media, and start doing your stuff. Because you're like, I've been doing this for 25, 30 years. So, okay. Nobody gives a fuck.

Nobody gives a fuck. Nobody knows your old. Go back and do your homework. Get on social media. Do your thing. You know, and I respect them. What keeps you embracing the new school? Like, what keeps you embracing the new school?

Like, you know, being as though you are a legend And you could just as easily be one of those guys It's like, man, fuck the evening But my thing is always helping people I always like Mike helps And, you know, when Cat Williams was coming up And Kevin Hart's, we talk to Chris Tucker We always just encourage and stay prayed up

You got to pray, I don't care what you do I don't care how you do it You need to pray. I pray before every show You know what I'm saying? Because you never know what happened Just like you was telling me earlier You seen a dude get stabbed in the show You know, I don't want none of that You know, so I'll stay for

straight up, man. You know what I'm saying? And just stay focused. You know, don't, don't focus on what nobody's doing. Why he gets that, and why he gets, don't matter. What's for them is for them. What's for you is for you. And it's God.

Man, I heard a lot of stories about you hitting the road, them $100 show. Oh, yeah. $25 show. Oh, yeah, man. You used to get them, man. But if it don't make dollars, it don't make sense. You know, before I started the comedy,

and before I started really hitting the road hard, I was in Atlanta, and I was doing different clubs here, clubs here. I was making $2,500 a week and $11. Exactly. I'm like, what? I can take care of my mama and my mama. You know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? So, it was just, you know, I ain't doing $400.

I will. I do $400. At end of the week, $2,500. If you don't make dollars, it don't make sense. But one thing you have to do is comedians and actors and what we are. We have to stick together. I did shows before. It was me. Earthquakes, Sherr Underwood, and other people in the promoter tells us that

he got everybody money, but he's not going to pay Earthquick. And I'm like, hold it, player, you're not going to have no show to him. Because Earthquake is fin to fly in. Did you tell him you're not going to pay him? He said, no. I said, well, you're not going to have no show. He had already paid us. So, you know, you're going to have to pay Earthquick if you want your show to go on tonight.

Right. You know what I'm saying? So we always have to stick together with each other. Don't let nobody get you, man. And that theater is full. They got that money. Right. Don't let nobody fool you.

Now, let me ask you this. Of all the time you've been doing comments, What's your favorite joke of yours and your favorite joke that you've heard from somebody here? People like when I do the guy whistle when he talked and it was a preacher, you know, and he's, he talked like that. He said, see, Lord has a thing that he's trying to do this. Really big. Motherfucker, do you have a flute in your phone?

You know what I'm saying? And another one I do, it's stutter, a stuttering joke that's, Not stutter like gig, but the guy hold his words when he talked. You know what I mean? So that happened to me when I worked for Fridola. I was servicing a drugstore, and I walked in. I said, how you doing? He said, purr, purr, purr, purr, good.

I say, hey, if you play in stock, because I laugh in your face, you know what I'm saying. He said, purr to good? Purr, he stuttered, but he held his words. Right. And that's like two of the main jokes people love to hear me do. Right. You know, and I do a lot of stuff on relationships, and it's real quick stuff. Like, I open up with a bang.

Like, James Brown always said, open up with a bang. And I open up with something like, hey, you know, every city I go in, you see crazy stuff. And it's a dude that back with false teeth with braces. So, people are going to think, like, false teeth and braids? I'll say, you don't want his teeth to shit. Motherfucking, he false. You know what I'm saying?

So you open up, always open up with them, get them. When you grab them, you got them. Right. You got them. You got them. You know what I'm saying? And then I end my jokes now, I don't, I don't do any joke in them. I used to, I just walk off stage.

Do you ever hear me do that? Because I don't have any joke. I tell real life stories and make them funny. So I'm not like the average comedian. I do peace. Thank you God best to walk off stay. I don't do that. And then look at me and I just walk the fuck off.

Right. And that's the joke. That's the joke. Yeah. Leave. Yeah, I can't leave. Get the fuck on. Sit on, man.

You tell the folk bye, man. You ain't got shit else to prove. Right. That's one of the thing. that I know that you have always that I learned from you when I first when we first started Because I was around

He was around He didn't get me to the sad He was like don't If you got him laughing And you got to get out of it Just get the fuck on Yeah You got to know when to leave

Sometimes don't do all your time You gotta make them want you That's right Right right There's a lot of shit You got to know when to leave You got to know when the milk or joking When it stopped

You got them going leave Just like most convenience Back in the day They used to say Hey, man, I got a show I want you to do with me. Now, if I ask you, if I come in you and say, I got a show I want you to do, quite naturally, I'm going to make sure you're taking care of. First thing they say, how much you're paying?

I said, holy player, you ain't been seen walking by a TV, much less on TV. You know what I'm saying? So if I ask you about a show, I got you covered. I'm going to make sure you're straight. I make sure all my people are taking care of. I talk for them, guys that host for me and feature for me. I make sure they're money straight before you get that. That's what I do.

I'm old school, so. What's the longest time you ever done those days, though? I did an hour and 45 minutes one time. That's too long. That's too long. I did by 210. Man, just, you need to want to get the fuck on, man.

Just doing four, give them 45 minutes, let them go. You know what I'm saying? Let them go. They scream and laugh and walk off. Please, thank you. That's what I did. Like I said, I picked that up from Carlos. And knowing he got it from you,

he definitely don't, you know, keep the game away. But he was like, man, you got to know when to go. If you got him, and they, ah, sometimes it's just like, That's it. I can't, you know. You just want to go. Another piece of game he picked up. He gave me it backstage.

He said, don't never talk over your lad. Like, they're laughing. Take your time. When they laugh, just take your time. Let them laugh. Even if it's not the time of a joke. Then do your joke. Keep on.

Keep on. Don't never step on your life. Just let them laugh. See, that's the thing you learn, like, in the comedy game. It's like, and you get that applause break. You know, a lot of, like, new comedians don't know what that even is. Right. Like, if you're ripping them on the motherfucker TV set, and you got a time, you ain't got

the fire, but if they give you that applause break that, motherfucker on the corner like this, keep going. We'll cut it. Just keep going. Sometimes I get a second ovation in the middle of your set. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, looking for them drink moments.

I'm like, yeah, that's the time for the drink right there. They're laughing. Yeah. Hey, man, we brought up 5-5-9, but, like, I've been hitting that up. backstage where you just had all it was a spot it was just all the old players in there that was it but not like the ones who was like these

was the old players that had new Cadillacs and own property and shit but they would be up in there and really really just be on some you know like the club pack they ain't rushing the show they waiting on him to get there and the show don't start that he'd get there and like if he'd be the only one

they don't give a fuck it's like everybody else like he must be one of Bruce's friends when they're coming back but it was certain There are the niggas who can come in there and make the motherfuck to turn the TV down. Yeah. Talon did that. You know, Talon out of New York. Yeah, I know. He came in and ripped it one time. He just ripped it.

That's the thing about that sports bar comedy. You can make them niggins stop playing pool. Yeah. Or watch the TV for a minute. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's what it is. Yeah. We recently lost a legend, man. Tell me your favorite Tyler Craig story. Tyler Craig. I remember when I first met him, man,

Tyler was extremely funny. Tyler was a hairstylist. People don't know that. But he did hair. And he got into comedy full time, man. And his, his, his, his, his, um, storytelling was excellent. And, and, um, he was, he was, um, very creative, you know what I'm saying? And, going the dog to the dog house.

Oh, my God, man. Tyler was, um, he was, he a laugh at his joke. And people thought, this guy be drunk. And I'm like, he really is, like, you know. He is, not like you think he is, but not like you think. But he's really drinking, but he's having fun doing it, you know what I'm saying? And the more of the story is, that was his whole, that was the joke. And I miss him.

I really do, man, he was good. And, you know, a lot of comedians out like Bernie Mac and being gone about 13 years now, Bernie Mac. Give us one of your Bernie Mac stories. Oh, I worked with him twice in my life, twice. Let me tell you, man, this was in 1990, and Bernie Mac was red hot. That's what he was doing. It ain't scared of you, motherfucker.

Right after that. And he came to Macon, Georgia, and sold out 5,000 seats. And the feature couldn't make it. The dude said, hey, man, Bernie Mac, can he open up a Bernie Mac? I said, I'd be there in 20 minutes. I know it was an hour ride.

You know what I'm saying? But when he said Bernie Mac, you know what I'm saying? I went down, and I was on stage, and I saw Bernie Mac with his arms folded looking at me. And when I come on stage, he said, motherfucker, where are you from? I said, man, the motherfucker, you're funny! You know what I'm saying? And he showed me a lot of love, and I worked with him one more time in Columbia, South Carolina.

And he was hosting the show. And, but Bernie was a bad motherfucker. They could say what they want, but he stole that Kings of Comedy. You know what I'm saying? Everybody was good. The deal was good. That's my boy, Cedric Stee-Hard, but Bernie. when he did the milk and cookie

when he did the guy that What a goddamn He said I couldn't get in that He said I couldn't get it now because Him down the same Man one of that Just a joke I know you on doing your set

Because I saw you when you was Hosting one night He was talking about Nigger them goddamn rib sandwiches When the goddamn rib sandwich Went from 50 cents to 70 Oh my God Man that's true story

I know I say it's so goddamn I know it ain't in your set But I heard you when you were just riffing and talking shit on the day back in the day these sell rib sandwiches over in Vine City Meat hanging off the bread You know back in the day

Meat hanging off the bread My uncle pulled up How about the ribs sandwich Yeah You got to sit in the 5 cent That was back in the day Michael said you don't lost your Motherbuck in my

They got them all there And he's pouring for 50 cents My dad said let's drive right now We drive way to east what They're closed Now you ain't got $6 a real By the time you get back to

By the City They closed. Oh, man, let me tell you something. Y'all, y'all think, I'm like, back in the day, man, this is in 1960, 1965. My mama or two sisters and brother were living in an apartment. I was the only boy born. The rent was $49 a month.

Good question. Right? They went up $20. My uncle called to me. He said these goddamn crackers are lost their back. He called to me. Who he called to me for the family or the home? come up with $20,000, he said it was $49,000 and he's cracking a long of people.

Right. Somebody got to get a second job. And they were dead serious. I was standing at the table. That's a lot of money. Right. Ain't those job fans were out like that. That boy, a lot of money.

Oh, shit. One of a long back boy. Oh, my God. You don't walk in on your parents' fuck. Yeah. No, my dad was dead, so that was a... Oh, I don't have a minute. My dad.

Never suffer. Cote the dog. Did you get used to it then? I mean, let me tell you. My daddy can. I don't know if it was about your daddy. And somebody, I think it was like your son. You said your son came up to you.

Like, Daddy, what I'm supposed to do? Without taking the dude that my dick hit the water. He was like, God. He was like, yeah, man, nigga. to fucking like the baby. After the show, wake yourself. Got that water splake. Oh, shit.

Man, you said something else, too, that stood out to me. You said you do the whole show by yourself. Now, I only heard, like, up to people that did that. You, God damn. Can I get a snack? Because y'all keep fucking up. Bruce Mike. You got a bag.

That's in the NFL all way off. He's here for me. All I keep thinking about it. Bruce is all. I'm good. You're good? You mean a comedy show about myself? Yeah, I mean, because I heard it.

It was playing a nice way at the 55-9. What did nobody want to go up? Yeah, you did it. And I heard of Earthquake doing it at Uptown where he would do the whole show, like come in by itself, do the whole show. But what they were doing in Uptown, though, they was milking the bar and food. That's why Earthquake did so much time and made more money on the food and drinks. Okay.

You know what I'm saying? So, you know, at Uptown, they had a host to come up, didn't feature it in the headliner. And the earthquake would be hosting, and then he braiding a feature up. Then he'd come back up and do about 10 minutes. Then the headliner come and come to him to an hour. The earthquake comes up to do an hour behind him. But they was your 5-9-5-9. Okay.

Yeah. But you was your 5-9, people didn't want to go. Oh, they give it to you, boy. They will give it to you. What's the worst night you ever seen somebody catch it? You ain't got to say who it was, but what's the worst thing? You were a hundred and caught it. But I remember I got threatened one night.

You know, you couldn't walk to the bathroom with me. You know, you walked to the bathroom. I'm going to tell your ass. You all pay the bad for him. A dude said, I'll kill your buddy. You know what I'm saying? And, you know, I'm from the west side. I'm from the bluff.

I'm raising the bluff. Two, three joker, whistling in the ears. As a show, he was like, hey, man, ain't nothing of love, man. Ain't number of love. At the west side, we stuck together. We didn't play that. I called everybody first cousin. They're like, hey, man, you don't threaten the first cousin, man.

It's all these jokes. But the dude, see, I kill you up at. No, you won't play. Not in you. No. Brother got a truck full of guns. You know what I'm saying. Right on the West End in the West End. Right, though, Astros Street.

No one, that's five, five, five, nine. Yeah, Aspre and, uh... Shit, two streets two streets off. You ain't know that? They just recently turned down, the building. Yeah, and I think they built a family. And the family's out there for a minute. A family dollar now, I think that's what it is.

Yeah, to the five, five, nine and for a family dollar. Yeah. To a circle. Yeah. When your car is making a strange noise, no matter what it is, you can't just pretend it's not happening. that's an interesting sound

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the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the ad council have resources available for you at love your mind today.org adventure should never come with a pause button remember the movie pass era where you go to watch all the movies he wanted for just $9, it made zero cents and I could not stop thinking about it. I'm Bridget Todd, host of the tech podcast, there are no girls on the internet.

On this new season, I'm talking to the innovators who are left out of the tech headlines. Like the visionary behind a movie pass, Black founder Stacey Spikes, who was pushed out of movie pass, the company that he founded. His story is wild and it's currently the subject of a juicy new HBO documentary. We dive into how culture connects us. When you go to France, or you go to England, or you go to Hong Kong, those kids are wearing Jordans, they're wearing Kobe's shirt, they're watching Black Panther. And the challenges of being a Black founder. Close your eyes and tell me what a tech founder looks like.

They're not going to describe someone who looks like me and they're not going to describe someone who looks like you. I created There Are No Girls on the Internet because the future belongs to all of us. So listen to There Are No Girls on the Internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you can. your podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeney, and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all,

childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles, and more, and found the shrimp to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential informant, but he wasn't shot on a street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house, unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast.

It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect podcast, network, tune in on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. But I'm born to raise Atlanta, Georgia, graded baby.

You're hearing me? A real Atlanta. See, I ask him all the time about that. This is my Atlanta because of the Atlanta question I come to hell. This is the most Atlanta nigga you will ever meet, man.

Lay it down to him how it was before he got here. Give him some of the history on this city. Before Freak Nick, before the shit was illegal. Right. Freak nigg was on the chain, man. Oh, brother was shipping cars.

from different cities to do Freakening from Michigan, New York, California. They were shipping cars to do Freaknick. I see in 559 do a million $1,0.7 in one week on Freaknick Weekend.

A million point seven? One point seven. Weekend. Damn. I must have taken. Oh, man. It was $100 to get in. It was $300 to get in. It was $300.00 to drop the line. Whoa. In the 90s?

They was pan-in-old. This is peak drug bill of Atlanta. They were peaked. Oh, they were getting money. When crack was, you can get a nick the heart this man. I mean, that was that was the 80s. They were still doing like that in the 90s and a little bit. $100 to park your car. A hundred to park. That's my

money. Everybody would get money. Yeah. I'll put my car for $100 nigga. This Chico Bean's back. And money in Atlanta ain't new. This shit been. They've been doing it, man. They've been getting money. So being a staple like that in this city, like, you didn't see so many transitions happen. Like, where was your

favorite time in Atlanta. Every time I'm here, man. I mean, growing up in the Bluff, you know, the Bluff used to be really nice, but I was here, you know, I was a kid. I was, I fought with everybody. When you got to that before it got bad, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I fought with it.

I was bad when I was there, you know. I mean, when I said, I fucked with everybody, I mean, when I said, I fought with everybody. Like, the niggas be on the corner singing, I run between the slap all four of the motherfuck. You know, but I was like, I'm about tear at your own, because I want them to run at me.

You know, you know, you know, you're a kid. They'd be on the corner, Oh, God. I used to have a pocket full of rocks. What it sound like me? They'd be like, what the fuck? By the time they look up, I'm gone.

They run there. So I used to keep a pocket full of rocks. You know what I'm saying? In the whole point, hit a tree. I climb a tree and throw them at the motherfucker. Because they, they catch me when they beat the hell out of me. I didn't care about the beat down. But I get in the tree, pop the head with a rock.

So you're climbing up tree? Oh, like a damn squirrel. He's climbing up like a squirrel. So give us a real line of stories, so because I'm 28, by me 29. I've been knowing the bluff being the bluff. That's probably the hoodest part on the west side. It's always been in the hood.

It's always been in the hood. You've seen the crazy shit you're seeing in the bluff. Crazy thing I've seen. I was raised on James P. Broad. It was chestnut then. It was chestnut back then. But it was James P. Broad. I've seen the police pull a car over and then pull another car over.

The dude, they put in the police car, got back in his car, and drove off. Because he was snitching. He set him up to buy the drugs, and then the police let him go out. He got the real people they wanted. They do stuff like that. Should have hit that in with the rocks out of the tree. I don't see him, I don't see him brothers walk out with the police and that. Like, he fanned on the fly.

He pointed at drools. Who's selling dope. I've been in the barbershop on Kennedy Street, James P. Brawley do walk in and say, hey man, y'all want to buy a typewriter with a TV? We're like, what? Tight writer with the TV. He doesn't

stole a desktop computer. Look, what you're on for him? Give me $25. Brand new. Hey, man. I've seen a dude I see the dude with a little bit of video camera. Crack hair and said, man, I got one. Just like that, but they big old.

He got a two on it. Two on it. He don't throw the camera off the channel two lose trucks. I see the white guy panicking. I don't lost this camera. I say, wait a minute. You get it back. Mike calls you about $40 at all.

He said, I pay a hundred. I say, he got it right there. Dude said, I sent it to you for all. He just stole it off the channel to lose truck. This is a kind of stuff you see in the bluff. For real. Brother, walk out the bushes on. You'd be at the bus stop.

I didn't want to just come through. the book was happening. Fuck you been, man. This is what you see, man. So, you know, the bluff is like the hood hood. But now they... They're trying to get it right. Oh, they're trying. They're doing it on the edges.

Oh, yeah. I see the white guy running out back here. I said, do you know yet? It's a great neighborhood. No? Okay. Go on. Go back. Two more blocks. Two more blocks. You'll see how great it is. Oh, yeah. How many shows have you had that was just full of redneck? Oh, I went to it.

Oh, check this out, man. When I first started years, years ago, I wanted to do some work. I had the agency to book, me. It used to be called The Comedy Zone. The Office was in Greensburg. That's where I started. I started at Greensburg. That's where I started my career.

And I walked on stage and, man, I haven't been doing a comment about maybe eight, nine months. What year you started? Oh, my God, 88, 89. and I walk on stage and I'm telling my jokes and I'm doing all my face expression you know how you do your face expressions and he's sitting out like a motherfucker

I'm like, the fuck wrong with you y'all blind? The motherfucker said yes I'm like, god, dare you don't send me to a all blind show I'm doing my face expressions and everything I said fuck wrong with you, y'all blind do, say yes matter of fact we are I said god damn

At the blue room one night the blue room and blind yeah we had two show on Friday night. First show, all blind one for you. They got the whole bus outside. The second show, they had two buss. I said, what the fuck y'all call? But the most redneck show I did was...

Two shows for all black people. What scared of me one time, I went to an area. It's called Edisto Island. It's in the Carolinas. And I walked out and every guy had a big beer. You know, white guy? I said, oh, shit. It was easy talk.

Yeah. All them. One guy said, go here. didn't do your droves, brother, shit, we catch them. And they were good, but I thought they were like redneck, but they loved it. They loved it. That's why I say funny. It's funny. Yeah, have a good time. Do your thing. Don't switch up, man. I think I went to Buffalo, New York one time.

My first time ever, I looked through the wonder. I said, man, I probably seen my 10 brothers. I said, boy, y'all, y'all, y'all, you know what I'm like? I'm like, man, ain't give me the white people, fuck with me. But I went out there, I said, man, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger. Don't follow. Like, ha! Like I said, I started at the Comedy Zone, and I used to emcee on the weekends every Friday and Saturday. And it was all white people?

Now, when you started the Commerce Zone, was it in the Brick Building or was it in the plaza there? It's in the brick building. Yeah, two years ago it was in a plaza. And next two, it was a big pool room. And it's on the pool table. Yeah. It's still like that. Yeah.

It's still like that. So how I work is, you go, you come to the Comedy Zone, and then after the Comedy Zone, they give you a free ticket to get in Arizona Peace. The Earth on a Peace day over there. talking about Cotton I Joe. Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from? Cotton and I joke.

The motherfuckers over there doing a white people electric slide, nigga. Oh, yeah. It's real, bro. So you learn that way. For real. You learn like a motherfucker. That's crazy.

What advice would you give to the up-and-coming comedian? Key thing. Do your own material. Ooh. Stay creative and work your social media. Because now managers, agents, they don't even want you now unless your social media is built up. But if my social media is built up, what do I need with you?

You feel me? Chris Tucker was the smartest one. Chris Tucker got an entertainment lawyer. He didn't have a manager or agent. His lawyer acted as manager and agent. That's the only person he paid. And I took Chris Tucker in 1995 and 96. And that's when he had did dead presidents,

and he had did money talk. He ripped it. He got money. got money. One craved. Yeah. Yeah. Decatur.

He's from Decatur. You know, Columbia. Columbia Drive. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. In Atlanta? It's over there. Yeah.

Used to be over there. Eastside. Yeah. That's right. A lot of hoods. That would make them so big. Westside there. Atlanta.

But the west side is Atlanta. The east side is not. You got a little bit a part of Atlanta is the east side. But then you got Dakota. Lothon. You got. What's the other shit? The S one.

Like that. They're talking, George. Coventton. All the niggins. Then it gets deep and congen. But let me tell you. See, back in the day when everybody was living on the west side and they made money, they started moving to the cable.

Tell them when everybody, why was they on the west side? See, Westside was just, it was just all black. But, see, back in, when I was in Washington High, you know Washington. I graduated from Washington. I graduated from Washington. Back in, back in 77. You know, I'm keeping it to real stuff. Washington High had the baddest band in the city.

Talking shit. 5,000 in the band. There used to be so many band members. When we played a team, the band used to sit on the home side, and we had to sit on the guest side because it filled up the whole stadium. Back in the day, the baddest band in the world. And then everybody, we played Southwest Cal in 1978,

and it wasn't a brother in that school. Southwest Cal was living. Really white. You know what I'm saying? But then everybody started moving to Decatur. When they moved to Canada, now South West is all black. All black. Now they got the biggest band.

Probably one of the best band. But in 7-8, it was all white. Damn. So, you know. So, you know. That's what we felt like, especially like, lot thrown in, all them. We got, bang, they got big-haired house,

and they got the bad bitch. Oh, yeah. You know, west side. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, you got the hood. Oh, yeah. The Westside girls.

and you, right? Not wrong, too, boy. Fucking each other. Get out my face. I can't wrong with you. Like, West's night with the wind. I don't get me wrong, they got some little cubes around the way, but, you know, we're trying to get to the East now.

But the West Side girl's a hippie beat the child's supposed system. Oh, yes, sir. That's what you need. Let me just run out tomorrow. I went out of 30-2. I got all over. Like, they're being crazy. Bitch, that's what you're doing.

That's what you're doing. Got detergent in there. Receip $15. Paper towels. two-paced, you got everything. That's crazy. She'll tell you, when you get out of car, keep the car riding. Oh, Scamette and West Side shit.

You know how scared that'll be. You go over the first day with the business. You say, plump this story real quick. Keep the car running. She ran out with a handful of shit. No, you're how scared that end up when they're going to run to your car and she didn't tell you? Oh, shit, I know what this is. You're bullshit.

West Side, girls, they help you do a job out and everything. And she'll do the shooting. in the trap the west side girls west side girl you're more gancha than a nigga oh yeah yes sir

oh man you gotta be careful over there man girl tell you to pick her up over here keep on oh I know I mean that's every hood though

but you that's good to know it in Atlanta the west side is the way you go at the west end ah not much meet you at this train station

yeah but if you go on the east side and you get the chick bring it to the west side don't stay over there right Don't stay over there. Don't stay over there.

Bring over here to let her nose, like, yeah, bitch. It's like east side niggas can smell one of the nigger who ain't from the east side over there. You park your car, then you look at there. There's a hundred motherfuckers, like, ants or something. God damn, whoa! You think it's coming from. But that how I always used to be, though, until, see, now it's starting to get, like, like, part of, like, motherfucker really just been kicking it.

Like, I ain't never had no east side friend. You feel? You never had, I never had no east side fun. I never did either. That's why I'm always west side. don't go. Yeah, I mean, you told me that. Now, like, I got Eastside Palmer.

You know what I'm saying? Shout to my butt, true. Like, we'd be kicking it. Like, but it's like some Eastside nings still ain't got Westside for him. Yeah, y'all just stay on the east side. Doors up, D.C. called me like, hey, you're straight. I'm like, yeah, I'm good. I mean, hey, you're on the Eastside were no joke.

I mean, you had, I mean, you had Eastlake. You had Eastlake, you had the McAfee boys. I mean, they weren't no joke, man. You know what I'm busy too. But then you had the Hollywood Road brothers, the bankers. You know what I mean? You know what I'm talking about? You know?

You know what I'm having to tip of me guy, man. Bankhead, court. Big a home. He got home. You need it. You know what I'm here. Perel at home. Across the front of the dorm, nigger.

Oh, man. That whole little area? Oh, yeah. Bion City. They used to run me out of Perry at home. I used to talk so much shit. Come on, man. You used to be a little area that had a bunch of plongs.

We used to call it plon valet. We go over there and pick plon. So a pear home, what y'all are doing over here, nigg. You know, we were back here, you know. Go ahead on. I started talking to y'all. Got on my bike and tried to run, ride out there. Dude, ran and caught me. I'm on the bike. Ah, ha. Did you go? Where you going, big boy? I got damn. Did you run and catch me? Did you run and catch me, man? You got it. Took my plums in there. Give me a goddamn applause, big. Give me a goddamn applause. You took my plogs? Fuck all y'all. Y'all. Y'all still talking. I said, I didn't ride the bike,

Why I pushed the bitch out of it. This motherfucker caught me running and I'm on a bicycle. Piero on. On no joke, man. Man, this shit is so cold. I know, man. Just being here and being able to talk that shit, you gotta come back.

This is just part of one. Man, I'm gonna come back, man. I'm proud of you guys, though. I mean, I'm proud of you guys. And I don't want you all to lose focus. Fuck what people say. What will people say about you? Keep moving. Stay focused.

When you're in this business, you gotta have a ton of vision. You gotta have a ton of vision. You look straight. Fuck all that on the side. Look straight because you go on to the top. That's what it's all about. Appreciate it over the cheek. It took us a minute to get you in with me.

Now you know where we're at, man. How you got to do a comment, pimp? Hey, man, drop me with your social media. I am, man, you know, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, at my Bruce Bruce. Tell me your likes and your dislike. If you don't like me, tell me. I can fix it.

You know what I'm saying? But if you like me, tell me you love it. I love you, too. Amen. There you have it. Another episode of the 85 shot show. The legend series. Thank you, man.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate you, man. Thank you. Love, baby. Let's get it. Shoot it up. Hey, yeah. Put this one in the barbershop wall.

Damn, man. That's a nigga here. Three, two, one. One more. Three, two, one. Yes, indeed One more one more on Oh, you got one

I got to find me Another guy down I brought you Some of his t-shirts I need I need to smile Three My black

That is Tell Come on a t-shirt Can't smile Man Chill Come on time Chill

Come on again Chill Don't stop Chill That's up man How you live Okay Come on

What size is this? I know it came out back quick. Who they're good a mom better? What size is this? Now they didn't know what's that? Okay, there's me. All right. Oh, that purple.

You say, ain't nobody got that purple. That's the sir. Mr. Green. Pleasure to meet you, man. Yes, sir. You got another nigga to do construction. What's going on, man? Chico, man.

Pleasure to meet up in love, man. Yeah, this is mine. Okay. Okay, I'm gonna put these right here. Wow, that shit is nice. Brought up? You're a bad, motherfucker, man. What should I do?

Okay, bet. I'm telling you. Wow. Man, I caught him cold. Who was around when you started? Who you started? Oh, my God. You took around these rings.

Well, John With a spoon. Oh. Rinaldo Ray. Oh, Rade. Oh, Rode. I know that shit, by the way. God, oh, right. That was my man.

Both on rest in peace. Yes, he. I had some haters, too, now. I know. You know, it used to be to come in that theater here in Atlanta. You know, it was big. He was out of California, out of L.A. And there was a host from Chicago named Chris Charles.

With he laid his eyes on me, he hated me. Right. Hated me from the charm. Every week I come in and sign and go on the amateur night, he would never put me up. Never. That happened, like, six months. I could have easily quit and walk the way. I went to him like a player.

I said, hey, man, you're going to put me up or what? Or do I mean, go to the boss and let him know what you do? He put me out of the feature and the host one night Then he brought me up last Got this fat, my fucking cut in my pig Got high bars in his pocket ear, man You know, he's called him the chocolate hippie, you know what I'm saying? So I said, you know, I'm from right right here, you know,

When I come, you look like a chocolate sister, you know what I'm saying? Nobody never said that back to him He ain't gonna try to compliment me and I show me and you're funny. I said, look man, you don't like me and don't like you. We're gonna keep it like that. But I'm gonna keep it real with you. When I come aside and this put me up later. That's like that.

But now, where's he at now? Who knows? You feel? Somewhere bed and chocolate. But you know, we were talking about, we're talking about people like Jamarios, it's Jamario, you know, y'all be in Jamirio. Before we even go on, bro, tell him how, tell these motherfuckers how cold Jamirio, Jamerio was at his prank.

He was a bad dude, man. People didn't realize what he was, but Jamirio was bad, and he never, never was scared. He always wanted to go up last, put me up last. And he'll do a song, he'll sing a song. They put the blue lights on him and everything. He was just that funny, man. And Rex Garvin, he was on, call himself cold funk, come out with an afro jumpsuit, platform,

8-tracking one pocket, little baby, and the other pocket. You know what I'm saying? Real, real, real player. The nigga had the mean-ass clean-bill with all that shit all that shit all that shit all. Holy fuck, you know what I'm saying? A lot of the communities out. Oh, we got to just your mic, O.G. You need to adjust my mind?

Oh, gee, we can't have a shot. Oh, hell no. Yeah, none. We're jumping straight in. We like the hip. I know, right? I don't want to leave. What wrong with you, man?

You're all right, you're straight. That niggins. She never don't want that float, food. You fish-eyed food. You can't play those damn ball. Everybody out there can't play ball. Who the fuck you're trying to press? Bucke.

Bucer sorry, niggas. Now, they're looking over you. Like, look at this fish-ass-a-foo. Not a fish-ass-a-food. It's a fish-ass-food. Watch your sucker. Watch it sucker. When you're talking to the fish-addy-food?

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