The Breakfast Club - Ali Siddiq Talks Comedy Journey, Incarceration, Dick Gregory, Dave Chappelle + More

Episode Date: May 16, 2024

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offline on the I heart radio app, Apples, or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. We have comedian Ali Sadiq. Welcome, brother. Man, thank you for having me, brother. How you feeling?

I'm good, man. Man, where you from, Ali? Houston. Houston. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, all day. All day. Man, I like the way you distribute your comedy, man.

Like you dropping specials, like Lil Wayne used to drop mixtapes in the early 2000s. And they all funny. Yeah, but thank y'all. Going the independent route, keeping it independent. You know, I'm from Houston. We the capital of the independent, you know? Ain't nobody coming out that way to look for us.

We just gotta do it. That's right, out the trunk, rap a lot. Out the trunk. That's right. Yeah, everybody always say rap a lot. I the trunk. That's right. Everybody always say Rap-A-Lot. I think that's our only label, too.

You know? We had some other labels, but, you know, Rap-A-Lot, they didn't stick around. You know, we got, well,

we had Suave House. Suave House, that's right. You know, and then after that, you'd have the independent, you know, Swisher House for sure,

but Rap-A-Lot is the staple. They should've did a comedy thing. We tried Laugh-A-Lot, but it didn't stick. It didn't stick at all. Jay Prince reputation precedes him, but he's a funny guy? He is.

I've roasted Jay Prince a lot. No you didn't. How was that? That was dangerous. I think that we have a healthy respect for each other. You know, the last time I was hosting something, it's not like I'm roasting him at a roast. This is me hosting something. I'm like, yo, man, so you got all these bodyguards?

It was him and Floyd next to each other. Like, somebody's bodyguard got to take off because can't nobody see. Like, who going to jump on you next to jay print you see i'm like and he's small he's smaller yes okay you look at a lot of dudes around though yeah i know and i know most of them so when did you know when to quit did he do like did he point the finger i don't never quit he just i've known him for so long it he just, so that's why you talking to me today? I'm like, yeah.

I don't never say nothing disrespectful. I don't need Chief and Steve to come talk to me in the corner. Hey, let me holler about you about the ball said, man. I know you from Houston, because I don't know none of them people, but I'm about to write them names down. Chief and Steve. Them the guys. You see him, then it's the

dudes that you see around him, but them not the ones. It's the second layer. You got to go to the second tier to see the actual dudes who going to do something. Them the front men. Them the big dudes like, oh, them the ones that did it. He's like, nah. It was Chief and Steve. Are you supposed to be saying

this? Yeah. This is old news now. Everybody know who Chief and Steve. Are you supposed to be saying this? Yeah. This is old news now. Everybody know who Chief and Steve is. Okay, okay. How'd you get into comedy? Man, just being black, really. You know, I've been funny since I was a kid. You know, I know people try to think I was funny

because I was in prison, but no, I was jovially sarcastic in prison. I was the kid on the back of the bus. And then when I was in prison, but nah, I was jovially sarcastic in prison. I was the kid on the back of the bus. And then when I was in prison, I was the same way. Oh, so y'all about to fight? Okay, who going to lose this fight twice? What you mean? I said, because, okay, let me explain.

One of y'all going to win this fight, and then the CO is going to come in and beat up both of y'all. So who want to lose this fight twice? That was my logic. You know, I was just a sarcastic, jovial, sarcastic person. And when I got out, it was the goal. It was definitely the goal. And that became funny how I even got to start doing the goal. Because you start comedy, you actually don't know what to do.

You've seen it, but where do you go? Now you got to go to an open mic. I knew I needed clothes. That's what I definitely knew I needed was clothes because, you know, comics are always dressed. And I'm coming out of prison. I had a seat. My sister sent me a Sears, a little Sears outfit.

You know, it was a little shirt from Sears. It was Knights of the Round Tables. I knew that was from Sears and some khakis. Knights of the Round Tables. Man, it's a fake polo. Fake polo.

My daddy bought them when polos were really in style. He came in, man, I found these polos on discount. I said, man,

that is not a polo, man. That is a dude with a flag and it's only, you know, the Knights of the Round Tables only have three legs on that horse. count. I said, man, that is not a polo, man. That is a dude with a flag. You know the Knights of the Round Table only have three legs on that horse? Man, that horse only had three legs, man. You know they got a store in Times Square.

I passed it the other day and I was like, who's shopping in there? But there were people in there. And it was probably packed. It was. You never wore Knights of the Round Table. Is that the U.S. Polo Association? No, the U.S. Polo Association is different. That nice and round table. You never wore a nice and round table. I don't know what y'all talking about. Is that the U.S. Polo Association? No. The U.S. Polo Association is different.

That's a, that you can find them a lot of places, but that nice and round table, you get them at Palace Royal. Oh. Okay. It's a, you don't want them.

Okay. It's a polo man. He got the polo stick, his leg, his horse has four legs. The nice and round table, the man has a flag. And it's halfway down, and the horse is missing a leg.

Three legs. Same shirt, not made out of the same fine cotton as Polo. I bet you you can kill it now. I bet you if you wear it now, you know how to put it together. Yeah, you can put anything together now. But back then, the kids knew. It's like coming in with Adidas with four stripes. Damn.

He's like, say, bro, I don't think. Man, no, these really Adidas. Nah. Yeah, and not quite K-Swiss. It's like, do you remember Jams? Jams? Man, how old are you? 45.

Man, I'm 50. You remember Jams? We had no Jams. Y'all had the colorful shorts? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I had some J 50. You remember jams? We had no jams. Y'all had the colorful shorts? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kid and play ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had some jams.

I had jams. I had jams. They had like the net inside of them. Yeah, but then you had the ones who didn't have the net. Yeah. Those were... I don't know if you called them jams. I know what you're talking about.

That was the brand name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, you can look them up. That was the brand name. They was jams. Kid and play ball. No, that's when you had money. Yes.

You talking about the basketball shorts? They were kind of like basketball shorts, but not really. You're wearing one like a little fanny pack. Yeah. With a fanny pack? Yeah, it's the 80s. Like swim trunks almost. More so like swim trunks.

More like swim, but if you had that net in them, they knew that them was not the one. Them was not the one. You know, it's clothes. It's a lot of knockoff clothes now. Like, I can tell. Like, if you have the Louis Vuitton bag and your straps never change color,

that's not the real bag. That's not it. You know, it's like I saw a lady, it's a grocery store. First of all, I don't even have to name the grocery store. Just know it's a grocery store. And she works in the grocery store. First of all, I don't even have to name the grocery store. Just know it's a grocery store and she works in the grocery store but she had the $4,800 Louis Vuitton bag

and she's walking into work and I was like, nah, ain't no way in the world this lady working in this grocery store and she bought this bag. I just bought that bag

for my mom. I know definitely a lady who's a cashier cannot afford that bag but in her mind, in her mind, it's like my brother. Man, my brother got some earrings in his ears that only seen three people in the world with them. It was saying Oprah, R. Kelly when he was out, and Diana Ross.

And he got them in his ear. And I'm like, so, man, I told her, I said, yo, you need to take them fake earrings off. I mean, what fake earrings? See, this is the problem with you. You owe me $40, but you think that I think that you got $10,000. You a crazy person. I don't even know why people do that.

Like, what's the point of fronting? Hey, what's the saying? Fake it till you make it? I don't believe that. I used to believe that when I was young. I don't believe that. I didn't believe it then because of the Knights of the Round Table. Yeah. It started with the shirt. People knew that shirt was fake. I was in, I don't believe that. I didn't believe it then. Because of the Knights of the Round Table. Yeah.

It started with the shirt. People knew that shirt was fake. I was in there looking crazy. My daddy's had me pressed. I'm like, my daddy bought this. That's your only excuse. My daddy bought this. That was your first ride out of prison?

That was your first ride out of prison? Yeah, that was my first ride out of prison. Okay. A Knights of the Round Table. How long were you in prison? Six years. Six. What'd you do?

You don't mind us asking. I used to be a street pharmaceutical rep, which is very frowned upon. Very frowned upon. Like, when you sell drugs, they want you to have a jacket, go to like a CVS or Rite Aid or somewhere, and people come in with prescriptions. I was, you know, shortcutting it. What kind of drug was it? What drug?

Unfortunately crack. Oh, okay. You said, oh, okay, like that was the worst ever. If it was marijuana, you was just ahead of your time. Marijuana, you know, I got partners who went to jail for marijuana, and they knew it was wrong. They're like, man, this don't even make no sense. It's a leaf.

Now, what I did was definitely wrong, you know, like with this. And I'm still sad about what i did because you look at the epidemic now you you realize that you you contributed to this in some form of fashion from what you were doing in the in the early late 80s early 90s and then the spinoff of these drug-induced children that came from the product of those people who you infected with that chemical you complaining about the crack babies. Yeah, so this they spin off and these kids take

everything. Generations, we had certain things. You had the heroin, then you had weed, then you had cocaine, then you had crack. But these kids, hey man, put it on the table. I'm doing all of it at once.

Crush it up. Just put it in a bowl. Percocet, ecstasy, heroin. Hey, that's at noon. And I still got weed and drink. And I'm going to snort a little something. I don't know what I'm doing all day. Like, hey, what is it called?

Rolling? Rolling. I don't want to do it. I don't want my kids doing it. I don't want people doing it. The fact that you my kids doing it. I don't want people doing it. The fact that you only got six years back then is because they were giving people football numbers. Who got six years? Oh, I thought you said you did six years.

No, I did six years. Oh, you did six. No, I did six on a 15. Wow. Yeah, and I had a 15 and a 10 that ran concurrent. Who did six years? Who did six years? I said six years for crap.

I said they didn't even get football numbers. They didn't get big six. I said, you only for crack? I said, they didn't even get football numbers. They didn't get big. I said, you only got six? I said, Jesus. Man, no. You knew somebody. No, I didn't know nobody. I knew Rio Harris, my attorney.

When I first went in, it was a Fed case. And Fed, they slick, too. They come in there, oh, we just going to give you 300 months. And in your mind, they say it like that to you. Yeah, 300 months. And in your mind, you're like, okay, 300 months, that ain't nothing. But I know math. And I'm like, nah, nah, you know 300 months?

God damn. It's 12. Nah, we carry. Nah, you crazy. It's 30 years, right? 20 years or something like that? Yeah. Because they say it in months so it sounds like you can do it.

300 months, all this. 300 months, all this. It sounds like days. But then when you go to calculating, so then you got to drop down the state, right? In the state, the lady came in, and she was wowing. The prosecutor, she said, well, I'm recommending 99 years. This is when. 99 years.

This is the thing, Envy. How much crack you got? I only, not only, but it was five keys, right? So the thing is this. Jesus.

The thing is this. I'm, they not supposed to let me in court because I'm going to say something. My attorney, he wasn't talking

fast enough. He's like 99 years and I said a very derogatory word to that lady and I asked her who she thinks she caught. I'm like, man, I am 19.

Who you think you caught, ma'am? Escobar? Like, so we come back to court again. Got reset off. She's talking about, I think 60 years would be appropriate. Man, once again, ma'am. Like, do you want me to have a life after this? So Rio, my attorney, Rio Harris, big shout out to Rio Harris.

He went in there and did what he did. And he came back. He said, man, I almost got you 10. I said, I almost got me 10. What happened? He said, your case started at 15. So you had to take 15, the lowest number. But I got that other 10 because I was on judicature probation.

And so they ran it concurrent and the crazy when they gave me the the 10 and the 15 my girlfriend at the time she gonna she gonna faint in court cuz she thinking it's 25 years she go I say are you respect her respect me respect man listen that lady had $85,000 in ones and fives in a trash bag in her house ask me how much she sent me while she in there faint not a dollar

not a dollar but now my extra chick Kendra my extra chick, Kendra. Your extra chick? My extra chick? Your extra chick? Side is a derogatory term. I agree with you.

Side is bad. It's derogatory. It's bad. It's the extra person in your life. The bonus. The bonus. The bonus. That's right.

The bonus. Yeah, you got to ask something like that. You can't just be like, side, nah. My extra junk, Kendra, she ain't got nothing but 12 grand. She bringing money up to the thing. Look how respectful that is. You know what I'm saying? Now, 84 over here, ow.

And, man, it wasn't. And she going to faint. Kendra in the court in the back, too. She's like, I got you. And then when I talked to her on the phone phone she asked me did i want that i want her to go by and get that money for pam you know what i'm saying because she's gonna rob her you know rob her to bring me my bread you know what i'm saying but you know yeah yeah you got to have a real first of all i don't even do drugs no i don't even say adult no i don't know why i'm going

into that life life when the judge is telling you you gonna get 300 months at any point you say who can I tell on now no no no no no we that's that's that's cold you man it's some dudes threw me in a trunk when I got robbed. You need a hug, brother. All the stuff you going through. His man life is amazing. I put this on the specials. You got a story to tell.

I got a story to tell, too. So after you get out the trunk, throw you in the trunk. Man, you got to see the specials. You got to follow the, I'm on three now. I got thrown in the trunk in two. I made it out of the trunk. I'm out of the trunk. You like cars. I seen the car in the trunk in two I made it out of the trunk I'm out of the trunk you like cars I seen the car

you came through Houston so you know get out the trunk and I seen them dudes I ain't tell on them dudes you know you don't tell on people

when you in the streets yeah but now now I tell on everybody right now. I tell on everybody. Bring people that ain't got nothing to do with it. Man, I think Emmie was over there a little bit.

I don't. Yeah, yeah. Right. Man, because let me tell you, because when I was young, I could take the mattress in jail. Oh, no. I've been to jail as a real adult. I was like 46 or something like that, traffic stop.

Driving with no license, spending a license. Crazy. Yeah. Now, my license always is spent. I don't trust my license. That's the last time I've been. I don't trust my license. No, I don't trust my license at all.

Like, if I come, if you in jail, if I got to come bond you out, I'm going to have to send somebody because my license is shaky. Just never know. I probably got stopped somewhere I didn't remember. And then all of a sudden, you know, I came to get you out. Now they talking about, can you step on this side? I ain't for real. I came to get somebody.

It's not an exchange. It's not a hostage exchange. Yo, you for him. No, man, I came to get him. We're both supposed both be leaving together. You know what I'm saying? He can't drive my car. You know what I'm saying?

Man, and that's why I don't trust my license. But it's shaky sometimes. Damn, man. But that mat, you can't take that mattress. No.

I slept, man, it was funny. I went to jail in a white area and I thought, okay, and at the time I was a spokesman

for a bail bonds company. Wow, stop playing me. I'm not. The slogan was, if you go to jail, we'll get you out. So there's no way in the world I'm going to stand there. But you got to make a phone call. You got to make a phone call. You got to get a bond first, right?

So I said, okay, let me see the judge so I can get a bond. The so i said okay let me see the judge i get a bond the man said the judge is gone for the day i said but it's 9 20 a.m he's done all the judging like he's done for the day man so i had to stay overnight to get a bond for them to even come get me what time did the judge come in oh this is my thing this is my thing bazaar in bazaar county yeah i just wanted to let it be known bazaar county okay the man done at 8 30 what what time he come so you come on oh and he's early because the next day i had to get my they wake you up at 4 30 you in there at five he he ruled everybody's sitting in the room he going at 8 30 so i had to wait till the next day to get bonded out.

I'm thinking nobody's going to know me because it's all white people. White and Hispanic. I'm walking with a little mattress and I was on this show on Comedy Central.

This is not happening. This white guy beat on that window. Ali Sadiq. Oh, come on, man. I look. I said, what's up, man? He's like, man, you was on This Is Not Happq. I'm, oh, come on, man. I look. I said, what's up, man? He's like, man, you was on This Is Not Happening?

I said, yeah, and This Is Not Happening, man. Go on, on. All night, man. And prison is loud. I couldn't take it. I didn't think it was that loud when I was there, but I'm 19. I'm probably loud, too. You loud, too, yeah.

Man, this dude rapping, and I'm, no, this ain't what we doing. It's sleep time. That's when everybody can hear him. It's bedtime. This boy rapping, another dude beat on him. He need his diabetic medicine. I say, hey, man, you can't be doing crime if you sick, bro. I was healthy when I was doing crime.

It's crazy. So when you get out of jail, you get out of prison, you get your fake polo, do you remember your first show? Yes. Just Joking Comedy Cafe, Thursday night, Apollo night, I have on a suit because I got a job at the mall. So I'm working at most of the men's apparel store. Got a suit on.

This is when you learn observation. So there's a lot of college kids in there because it's Apollo night. And everybody up there doing everything so I go up and all I said was hey and them folks booed the suit jacket off I'm not even I didn't even tell it it was bad so it was man I'm talking about them booze they it was it was in stereo too so I came and about them booze. It was in stereo, too. So I came and sat down, and my partner, Drake, I'm talking about, man, what happened? I said, bro, you saw what happened.

You was in the audience. I think you was booing with them. Like, you participated. And at the time, Nikki, she asked me, said, my kid's mom. She's like, we be talking like we know all these people. I was going to explain it. I said, what's your jacket at?

I said, it's on the stage. They booted off me. It was crazy. So you had to go back up there and get your jacket? Yes. So I waited for two weeks. Waited for two weeks. Came back, T-shirt and jeans.

And I didn't write down what I was doing. Because everybody was singing. Man, and I never won at this Apollo night. Because people hit you with the gospel songs. Even though I was good. Gospel songs. Can't beat Jesus. Man, I heard.

I seen the dude. He was start rapping and was getting about to get booed and changed this song thing, went back up every week for about a month and a half. So the people, as soon as I would get there, after that, people were like, yo, man, you going up tonight? Oh, he's funny. So I end up becoming the host of that same place that I got booed in, Just Joking Comedy Cafe. And I was the host for like a year. And that's how I started.

Do you remember the joke that got him that made you say, you know what, I can do this? Yeah, I remember the Jones that got him. It was a dude, a dude tried to boo me that was on a football team. And I told him that he was a nose tackle. It wouldn't hike the ball because he liked the way the quarterback had his hands on his balls. No, he was the center, you mean. Yeah, he was the center.

I was like, yo, he's hiking. I don't feel like it. I remember that's when I was doing jokes, you know, and not stories. Okay. You know, so now it's a different thing. I don't think I've written a joke in maybe 10 years. So how did you turn into the storyteller comedian?

Because that's hard for people to do. Like, it's hard. I imagine not for you, but it's hard. D.L. D.L., I'm on the road with D.L., and he told me, he said, yo, man, the funniest you're going to ever be in life is based on how honest you want to be.

And this was after some people, when I was writing jokes, I don't even blame the people anymore because I think that when you have writers, that writers under the pressure of turning in something to another comic and so they could see your show and then turn in I mean I don't have

nothing this week but if you try to get that check so you turn in somebody else's material to do the person who you turned it into has no idea that you just saw this somewhere. Yeah. And so now, Oh,

you a thief. So now I just, I switched from doing jokes to doing everything personally about me. And if you, you would have to, and people still try to steal it, but it's hard because now, you know,

there's a lot of comics that all of a sudden they went to jail, but I went to prison. It's a different thing. Jail and a lot of people went to jail, but prison is two different things. But that County in the prison, two totally different things. So I would go up and people would be trying to doing jail stuff in front of me.

I'm like, but you know, that's not what I'm doing. I'm, I'm walking through my life from 10 years old to now. So it just happens to be the first comedy series of specials. All these specials are tied together. So if you see three now, which came out Mother's Day,

you can't go see four without seeing one and two. And one is the is the masterpiece but three is the best one to me really thus far that i that i see and two has a different a different cachet to it because i was showing a different skill set in the actual art of it. Because it's two faces to comedy, you know. It's having a tragedy. So in two, my sister passed.

Sorry to hear that, my brother. Well, it's late now. I didn't know. Somebody been dead over 20 years. I was already here. You know what I mean? You don't mind me dead over 20 years. I haven't seen you, man. You don't mind me dead over 20 years. I haven't seen you in a long time.

Grief is not linear. I don't know how you're feeling this morning, Abadi. I mean, it was 20 years ago. You're trying to say, I haven't seen you in a while. What? It's 20 years. Man, this guy is crazy. I don't ain't see you. a while. It's 20 years. I was 18 with you, man. I'm 50 years old now.

Sorry. Sorry. Man, well, I'm mad mad. We've dealt with it. This guy is crazy. You know how many people die since he's back? I know. We didn't rack them up.

We didn't rack them up. I got about seven more you can say sorry. Hey, man, I can run them off. Oh, man. After my sister, it was my son. Then it was my grandmother. We've had some hard ones, man. Sorry to hear about all of them, brother.

That's why I did loss because that's one of the number one things in the black community that, man, death runs through our family a little harder than just a loss. It's like now you got to figure out how to bury them and all this. Man, I don't want not another GoFundMe. Don't send me not another GoFundMe. Let's try to figure out what is the situation that we need to prepare for when it's inevitable it's death is gonna happen we won't even talk about it which is hey man i think about death every single

day every single day so i live a better life than most people because i know i don't have the time to be engaged in things that really I can't rectify you know I'm not gonna hold a grudge behind something when I can get an apology or I can apologize I don't you know I like you know I my whole intent to come up here because I was mad at you what I do man you were saying my name wrong and you did it twice too you know Ali what I'm saying? Ali. I'm like, this man know how to say my name. What did he say wrong? Ali. You know, you talking about my special with somebody. Yeah, I think his name is Ali.

And they sent it to me and it was on the break. I'm like, he knows how to say Ali. He knows. He knows. Because I kept hearing other people say Ali. I don't know why you was listening to other people. You better than that, Charlamagne. And I asked him. It say A-L-I.

I said, somebody call up there and ask him who his favorite boxer is. It's probably Muhammad Ali. He's going to say, Ali, just take the Muhammad out. Because when the first special came out, everybody I knew was talking about that special, especially in the comedy world. It was like, yo, you got to watch this dude, Ali Sadiq. Ain't nobody say that to him.

Nobody say you got to watch this this dude Ali Sadiq ain't nobody say that to him nobody nobody say you gotta watch this dude Ali Sadiq he know a lot of real common connoisseurs ain't nobody say Ali Sadiq I'm saying nobody said that

you know it's like Ali Wong he said it all up Ali but then he got to me I'm saying and look I don't even know

Charlamagne I'm like Charlamagne don't like me when I get up when I finally Charlamagne. I'm like, Charlamagne don't like me. When I get up, when I finally get to the break, I'm leading with, hey, man, why you saying my name? Then I forget, then I left it alone. Right, it's like, whatever. Whatever, at least he mentioned me.

That's all I had. But that first special took off, though. Yeah. Did you understand that it would do that, or it was just a risk? I'm going to throw this on YouTube and see what happens, man. I thought it was really good.

And when I do a special, it takes a while for it to, you know, I had recorded probably three or four specials before that one. And it was like, no, it's not special. So domino effect.

The first one, I knew that it was, I knew it. It's, it's like the first album I put out, Talking Loud Saying Something. That's my reasonable doubt. So I knew once I put this one out, I knew it.

I had that feeling about it. I was too excited about it. And it didn't have any flaws to it. And that's one thing when I look at something, I don't want it to have anything that somebody can grab onto, like, but what about this? So when, when that happened and then somebody said,

well, what's the rest of the story? I said, what? Like what happened after that? I said, you want to know? So they,

oh, so you had never even planned to make it all of it, to keep on going with a series. When somebody asked me about what happened after that, and I said, okay, well, I stopped at 16, so let's do from 16 to 19. And then we did two, and then I said, yo, let's finish up how I even got incarcerated. People know I was there, but let's see how I got there. And then we did three, and we recorded three and four in D.C. at the same time.

So we did two shows on that Friday and two shows on that Saturday. So four comes out Father's Day. So we strategically put one on Mother's Day, one on Father's Day, and four is two hours long, you know, versus the 130 that I've been doing. And it's getting to the pinnacle of how, what I went through while I was inside, and how did I get Jovial to come out and want to pursue comedy

so after this series we're gonna start another series called in the shadows which is the the walk with me doing stand-up getting it being in a public in a public space trying to be private because I'm on parole and on parole most people realize, parole people, we try to stay out of the way because we know anything can get us back incarcerated. So now you're trying to fight for your innocence from a disposition of being incarcerated. And incarceration is, especially mass incarceration, is crippling a lot of, it cripples a family.

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my mom was locked up right with me you know and because I'm there and she's concerned about me every day

it's like when somebody go to jail my mom Nikki would always say why you always go get Trey out of jail when he locked up I said man

because something could happen just by being in there who is T get Trey out of jail when he locked up? I said, man, because something can happen just by being in there. Who is Trey? Trey is the oldest boy. Again, I mean, we just, we need to know. I'm glad you said Trey so we don't say his name, call him Trey. You know, it's Trey.

The oldest boy. The oldest boy. You know, he's the only one that's been in trouble thus far. You know, hopefully nobody else ever gets in trouble. Because my oldest daughter, Jaden, she's a chef. She's the spinoff version of me. I'm talking about, man, it's nothing like having somebody respect your daughter in the streets like they respect you. And they always, hey, man, I saw your daughter, man.

She a G, man. I'm like, appreciate you. You know, I raised a good one. But, you know, that raising daughters, you also have this fear, this constant fear, because you've been incarcerated and you know how people that's not really good navigate and you know i've sat down and i've talked to people who have attacked women and you know and did all these these foul things in the world so when you out in the street everything i see is a red flag and you're like man so you know hey listen this this is a red flag. I'm like, man. Yeah. It's like, man.

So, you know, hey, listen. This is a sign. It triggers them. You know, but you can't tell a woman, I should be able to do. Yeah, but, but, but, you know, I should be able to do too, but it's a place I don't go. And you don't want to raise your kids out of fear, but it's kind of hard not to.

Kind of hard not to. Because everything that you've experienced, you know, even with my sons, man, I'm very fearful of him having children out of wedlock with people that don't serve him well.

I'm not that father who would tell my daughters this. No, I'm more on my son. Hey, man, keep your penis in your pants, bro, before you end up in a situation that you can't get out of. And then some of these young men out here nowadays, man, they need some real talking to. I don't want to hear about another young lady losing her life

because her brother didn't understand, no. Insecure. Objection and all that. Or she want to leave. You know, it's like, man, I have girls, and I'm really concerned about the state of mind of these young men. Because I'm like, yo, man, what is your deal? But I understand.

I know where it comes from. I don't understand their situation, but I understand they don't communicate enough. That's right. They on this machine all day, on this phone, and you don't, man, I got turned down. You know, you need to take that walk. You know what I'm saying?

And just at a table with a hundred and a half friends, you decide you finna go holler at somebody, and they looking at, look, look, look, look, look, look, look. You gonna look at the little shoes on. You gonna pick the wrong one every time. Hey, so, what's up with you? Hey, boy, you see me? I'm pregnant. You can't go to the next one. You know Hey, boy, you see me? I'm pregnant.

You can't go to the next one. You know, you got to take that long walk of rejection back and forth. Man, girls. Also, we didn't have a sense of entitlement. Because think about even the note we used to write. It was, would you go out with me? Yes, no, even a maybe. So you were prepared for whatever.

Man, do you understand? Having to ask to slow dance, having to ask to dance. Yep. Because now that you be dancing, somebody's walking behind you.

Yes. And man, I had to go over there, would you like to dance? Mm-hmm. And no. Cool. Okay.

Okay, that's cool. Envy go at, would you like to dance? Oh, she like light skin. That's what? Oh, she like light skin. That's what it is. She like light skin.

I see what this is. I'll never answer again. We got to stay away from her. She got a type already. In the third grade, you already got a type? You got a type. All right. Okay, cool.

All right. Because he light skin. All right. All right. So, because he likes kids. I'm like, all right, all right. And that's when I think that was a little era where people would try to be lighter. And I remember the bow-legged era. You remember the bow-legged era when dudes tried to stand like they was bow-legged?

No. They didn't really do nothing, man. I remember looking for the bow-legged girls. The bow-legged era? No, dude, man, it's the South. Girls love a bow-legged dude. How you stand like a bow-legged dude? girls Do the South girls love I'm not a man, but I'm on the other side of it though I did It was something about some of them athletes, the way they just stand in the air. A lot of them would be slightly bow-legged,

your legs are like, you know, low-light parentheses. Yeah, don't be pigeon-toed, though. That's the way it's different. What I mean, though, Jess. Boy, pigeon-toed and sleuth foot, we ain't getting no love. Like, your shoes ain't look right. Or if your knees knocked. Oh, man.

I ain't never knocked. Man, look, the only knock-kneed basketball player I even respect is Kenneth Smith. I just didn't, and I didn't look, the only knock-kneed basketball player I even respected, Kenneth Smith. I just didn't. And I didn't even know he was knock-kneed. Man, there's just something about them knock-kneed. I'm talking about, I done seen some girls so knock-kneed,

look like they legs and an X. Like, man, what is wrong with you, man? How you even get knock-kneed? That's a deficiency. They should get a check. I want to ask you a question you said about your son, when you telling your son it's about, you know, I guess,

women to stay away from. How do you have that conversation with a son when you might be talking about his mama? And? Obviously. Man, I didn't say that. Hey, man, listen. Listen. Listen to me, son.

You see how your mama acting? You don't want one of us to do that. Damn. You see this right how your mama acting? You don't want one who do that. You see this right there? This is what you don't want. All this fat mother. You see all this fat mother? You know what I'm talking about? All this fat mother.

But my younger son, he has a little crisis going on with himself. That's Hassan. Hassan is 13, and you have to, hey, bro, you need to respect your mother, respect your sisters. He's entitled, and this is my fault. Man, these kids, it's slightly my fault and slightly the lady who live in that house. This is the thing.

The lady who live in that house. This is the thing. You lady who live in that house. This is the thing. You had to give him chores. He doesn't have any, he's not responsible for anything. So I think when you don't have chores, you're not going, you're going to have a lack of respect

for a lot of things. That's right. You know, when you have chores, man, that's a, but I had things that I had to do. And so I'm structured in that way now that man, I had, hey, before I do anything, I got to do this. Yeah.

And that goes when you become a grown man. You know, hey, man, let me take care of this first, and then I get to that. If you don't have that, you got to get that young. You got to get that young. Your special part four comes out on Father's Day. Like you said, how much of that involves your dad, or does it even involve?

Man, my dad, I put him all through the rest of them, and he has a small piece in four because while I was incarcerated, my pops had at 50, almost 60 years old, got locked up for an assault. And he, my daddy thought he was on some big boss mob type thing. Cause his two brothers was locked up. I was locked up. Then he gets locked up. So he sends $500 on everybody's books while he,

while he locked up and going to write a letter. Yeah, just sent you some bread. You know what I'm saying? Okay. We not in the family. You didn't send me nothing until you got locked up. I don't even understand this. I've been locked up like four years.

Now he going, yeah, sent you some bread since we down here. Man, I wrote back, hey, man, try to go home in the next couple years. Dang. Dang. He had less time than me. He beat me home anyway. But he sent money to his brothers. Oh, yeah, appreciate you.

Yeah, they thirsted. My Uncle Mac, he was a G, but my Uncle Alfred, he's a sucker. He's a sucker? Sucker. Why? Man, my grandmother, right, dementia. I had dementia. I's a sucker? Sucker. Why? Man, my grandmother write dementia. I have dementia. I'm putting money in our books.

The money coming up missing. He writing checks. Had my grandmother sign them. And she had dementia. She got dementia. Man, you're stealing, boss. That's right. Yeah, that's wild.

And then putting her in a bad position where her bill's not getting paid. And I don't know who my grandmother was um when she was younger but you know dementia they be staying stuff yeah in a life so I'm I'm taking care of her um one day cuz my cousin we rotating and I'm over I give her a coke and um a coke is low I come back to grab my coke to fill it up. She grabbed my wrist and said, put my glass down. I said, what?

She said, put my glass down before I drown you. I said, when was you drowning full-grown men in your life? She must have been a mobster, but she owned a cafe, so I don't know when she was doing it. But at some point, she was drowning full grown.

That ain't no regular threat. No. Yes, she did that before. You don't just mix that one up. You put that coke down. I put it down. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just bought the can and poured it.

Right. I'm not messing with the lady. You sound like DL sometimes. When? When just in regular conversations. When? That man called you Ali. Now he said you sound like somebody else.

Me and DL have a totally different voice. We have a totally different cadence. But you can just hear it every now and then when y'all talking. You said it three times you don't sound like him. He said you. I don't think he like you. But that's your guy though.

You just know that. You just looked in the files. You just know I heard you. That's all he did. I heard you. But DL your guy though. Yeah, you just know that. You just know, D, you just looked in the files. No, I heard you. That's all he did. No. I heard you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You sound like Bill Burr too. Which one of those guys you think has had the most impact on your career? My career? Out of who? Just anybody. DL definitely. Okay. DL, Dick Gregory, Bill Bellamy.

I can put them in order. The Dez White. Did you know Dick? Huh? Did you know Dick? Yes. Okay, okay. Very well.

Wait, wait, wait. I don't have. I didn't just ask that. No, yo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Why wouldn't you say Did you know Dick Gregory

Cause they gonna play with that part Did you know Dick Say yeah very well You already know how that was You know what's crazy I heard it once you said it I'm so adult I ain't even listen to it

I'm 50 I don't say Paul, I don't say nothing. That's a nice neck, that's a nice shirt. I don't have to say paws behind I'm grown. I'm such a kid, so you say, you know Dick? You like, yeah, I know Dick. I'm like, okay, what is this going down? Yes, life's very well.

And then, but you making sense though. Charlemagne, there you go again with that nonsense. You got dick on the wall. You know what I'm saying? You gonna say it again. You gonna say it again. You got dick on the wall. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Dick on the wall.

Dick on the wall. Right next to B-Bomb. Like, come on. We had Dick Gregory up here. He was up here for like an hour and 45 minutes. That's all? That's all. That's all?

He gave you an hour and 45? That's the interview. Whoa. That's just how long the interview was. No, no. Man, I've done. Let me see. Let me see. After a show, Dick Gregory.

Right. Now I've got a complex. You've got to say the whole name. You've got to say the whole name. So we talked two shows. I think it was six hours each night after the show. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and so I have very close ties with him, and I don't care what nobody say.

It was too many people around that night when that man told me in my face, you're going to take my place if you can maintain your attitude. I said, Ali, because you a firecracker. He said, man, and I understand because you a Libra. And he was a Libra. So I'm very good with balance.

I like balance, and then I don't shuck and jive. I'm not going to say nothing to you about you that I won't say in your face. I'm not even going to say it on the side unless I'm ready to say it in you that I about you that won't say in your face I'm not even gonna say it on the silence. I'm ready to say it in your face. I don't do the Somebody said just you know, who's the somebody I'm not I'm you know No, I'm gonna say who somebody is if they said it if they I'm just I don't play them type of game I'm just a straightforward person in in in this business This business. It's a lot of phony baloney's man I don't play them type of game. I'm just a straightforward person. And in this business, this business,

it's a lot of phony balonies, man, that you can just tell me no, bro. I got tough skin. I don't need the fake and shake. And so when you try to handle me like that, I get a little touchy. And I'm not one to, I don't miss words. If I say I'm going to do it, that touchy and I'm not one of them I don't miss words

if I say I'm gonna do it that's done I'm not finna I don't play a lot I wish I could with people but I just don't play a lot with

with the goofies I just I can't do it and it's a lot of it's a lot of people say say things and then act like

they didn't say it or because you have more popularity, you can throw something out there and people gravitate towards it. But man, I always think about Benny Blanco. The way you handle people, that person is going to eventually come back. That's right.

You know what I'm saying? And I tell people, man, Benny Bonko from the Bronx, man, that man just wanted to talk to him. So I don't even handle young comics like that. It's certain things I'm going to tell you, I don't want you in the green room when I get there.

Right. It's not your green room. Right. You know, it's a certain code to how I came up. I don't go in the green room in my home club. If you're the headliner, until you invite me into that green room,

I'm outside. That's disrespect. It's just a cold. If I'm the feature or the host, I'm not going in the green room. Man, what if I'm on the show? Well, watch this. Dick Gregory, between each show, he used to sleep. Just like Damon Wayans. They Gregory, between each show, he used to sleep. Just like Damon Wayans. They sleep in between each show.

So you're going to keep walking in and out of the green room while they're in their sleep? Disrespectful. Disrespectful. It doesn't make sense. Yeah. But so many people think that they entitled to a space because you was there at that club doing the open mic.

The open mic is not the show. But it's levels to all of it. And in stand-up, I think the barriers have gotten broken due to a combination of things.

You used to talk about the internet comics. They taking our slots. No. Just not taking your slot. The people who was doing sketches, they wasn't taking your slot. The comedy club was like this. We have a building. Yeah.

That's right. We need people. People. We need people. Jess, can you come on Wednesdays and Thursdays? We'll have Faison Love on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, but we're going to

make this money on Wednesday and Thursday. We had a magic show on Tuesday before you came. I had comedy defensive driving on Sundays. I'm trying to keep the doors open. So we can have a place to do comedy. People was looking at them as skipping the line. No, it's no skipping the line in this business.

You can jump forward, but then what make you have to come back? Skill set. That's right. When you first started, you know how to do stand-up. You on the screen. Yeah. Now, these people that you were getting on the screen, now these people right here.

Yep. There's no edit. There's no like. Hey, I'm going to. Okay, y'all saw what I just did. I'm going to cut that, and I'm going to cut that and I'm gonna come back and say something different no then

what happened was the internet guys started getting success and then they started big dogging the stand ups experienced stand ups saying oh I'm making my money but then pandemic happened.

Now everybody got to humble they self again because my editor and my people not in here. I don't have nobody to do these sketches with. Now comics were reigning supreme doing that. We just cutting the camera on. Boom. What's up, baby? I'm here.

So that's how it now it's immersion now you haven't heard a beef about internet versus traditional because now everybody is back you had to go to club and work they had to come from behind the screen

then people like me started using the screen to just promote that I'm going to be somewhere instead of shutting because I'm old school. I've been doing stand-up 26 years. I'm in the trenches.

It's different for me. And now I have both. You know, now I have both. I wasn't trying to find out, trying to get on the wave of the algorithms and all that. Now, pay somebody to do that. But the slapsticks and the shock comics,

now we back to, at least with me, it's back to long form. People told me what they told me, they don't really listen to that much. They not going to watch the whole thing. So I start putting out longer than just an hour. They were like, nah. This is what I want to hear. Now you engaged in the story. If you watch

Law and Order, you watch John Wick, why you wouldn't watch a series of something that's funny? Because my only skill set is to tell stories the same way that I grew up hearing them. You know, my uncle, that's how they started. Hey, man, let me tell you about this big-legged lady I just met. You like, what big-legged lady?

My grandmother, she'll come in and tell my aunts. You know, I tell stories just like people in your family. So it's not a magic trick to it. I read books and I listen to the ancestors, how they did things, and I try to put that together. And that's relatable. And a lot of people don't have that, though. Like, you know what I'm saying?

It's not as easy for people like, you know, like a lot of the, like, internet comics it's easy for people like you know like a lot of the like internet comics they don't know how to keep people's attention like you can do that you're a great storyteller and like you said you tell it like your family member like you know just like people you know people you grew up here and telling stories people don't know how to do that yeah I get that's back and back to people not sitting down with... When the last time you sat down and you listened to a story from somebody in your family?

Like an aunt or an uncle? All the time. I love it. All the time. So if you was telling a story, you would probably do it the same way that you always seen it done. If people have these disconnected families and they don't know,

hey man, when was the last time you saw your aunt? What? I don't know. I don't want to mess with my cousin. But I'm like, nah. I can't wait for my cousin to call me and say, man, let me tell you what your aunt did yesterday. Your aunt almost fell off a boat. And I'm going to listen to the

whole story. I'm going to listen to the whole entire story. And then I'm calling. Then I'm calling. listen to the whole story. I'm going to listen to the whole entire story. And then I'm calling. Then I'm calling. Oh, so you're out here falling off a boat. Oh, I can't wait to call. Who told you that? No, because I grew up

with the whole... I never did nothing private in my family. If I did it, my mother called. Everybody. And then everybody know. Yeah.

I mean, people that you didn't think, and you minding your own business. Your uncle, so you just around here peeing in the bed, huh? Crazy. Hey, man, we out in the back. That's what you want to talk about? No, I'm just saying, your mama tell me you wet every day. You got to change your shoes. every day. You tired of changing your shoes? Every day.

Exactly. I'm saying you just pissed through a mattress is what she thought. And these are still things that people are going through, so it's relatable. It's going to always be relatable. Family. Do you understand? My uncle right now, he don't care about no success.

Hey, remember when you used to be in the bed, what? So you want to say this in front of my kids? In front of my kids. Damn. In front of my children. You want to bring that up? No, I'm just saying. Boy, I always wet.

I can't stand this man. Ali just dropped Domino Effect 3 on May 12th. Oh, man. And Domino Effect 4 will be out June 16th. June 16th. That's right. Now, I think I'm going to blow up. No, I didn't finally got up here.

And he said your name right. Ali. He just said your name right. Do you want to do Netflix or something like that? Does it even matter? Man, no. Don't say no. Well, I'm going to say, why can't you say no?

You can shut the blessing down if it comes. They come with $20 million and say, hey, man. But if they own it, then it's none of the, they can't get, if they own it, they can't get it. You can make up a story. Oh, God. You can go there and say anything. Take the $20 million check and walk away.

Man, see, now I'm on Netflix. I got $20 million. And now I done put out some nonsense. Now people, yeah, that boy ain't cold as he is. Yeah, right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, he's cold. But I'm on Netflix.

I'm going to do it on the internet. He's doing what you're doing. Yeah, oh, yeah. Netflix got to change him a little bit. doing what you're doing. Yeah, oh, yeah. Netflix called a changeable little bitch. He wouldn't even tell. Right, right. He wouldn't even tell. Why is his name Ali?

Not Ali. Now, I'd have said Ali up there. I'd be like, man, how y'all doing? I'm Ali Sleet, man. Netflix done bought me. Keep doing what you're doing. You're doing so well. No, you're definitely doing well, my brother.

Man, and I appreciate that. Man, I just can. You know something? I just feel like an Emmy is going to come my way since I made it to this break. I used to always say, you know something? Enough people don't know me. I got to get up there to see DJ Envy. It wasn't really about you, Charlamagne. It was him.

Because once he hit it with that, this is DJ. That's the part that you wait on. It ain't even really the show if you don't hear that yeah the show just came on hey i'm charlamagne the god this is just hilarious they need the proper intro we need to pop in the thing about the intro when we first started we hated it i was like why we got to keep saying our names like i don't want to keep saying mine but our program director at the time was like, you keep saying your name, it'll get stuck in your head. Him and Dennis Clark,

the consultant, yeah. Him and Dennis Clark said that, keep saying your name, but introducing yourself. Even when he beef with people, they'd be like mocking him, like, D-J-M-V.

It's the whole rhythm of it, so you gotta say it like that. You can't just say, D-J-M-V. No, you gotta say, this is D-J-M-V. You gotta say that. Sorry.

But let me tell you, the thing that makes me laugh uncontrollably comes from the Breakfast Club. And I'm talking about me and the lady that live in that house. Man, let me tell you something. I don't care how mad. If that lady called me and say, yeah, this sweet John Jones. Y'all do that. What's the boy who couldn't say y'all name right?

Oh, Webby. Webby? Oh, my God. Webby. Man, let me tell you something. It was true. That wasn't me. That was true.

We know. We know. Well, y'all got names. We got him on the wall. He was on the wall. All of them are gay. All of them are gay. My girl BJ.

He was serious. My girl BJ. He was sweating. Do you understand? I'm talking about, man, if my day is going bad, I'm going to bop. Come on, Webby. Go get it to me, man. I wish we had that on video. I wish we had that on video, man. But somebody made a cartoon.

When I first looked at it, oh, man. Black. Black. Black. Chalama. Chalama. Chalama. Chalama Gay.

Boy, y'all got some names. And they're going to keep on making him sad. He still ain't getting it. Man. Boy, it was like Al Sharpton versus the Teleprompter. Damn. You ever seen that? No.

Oh, Al Sharpton. And the only reason I don't really say nothing about it much is because I did a, Jess Jess have you ever done a thing and they had to tell a prop on absolutely just over the weekend and it was it was going too fast yeah and you had to like all right let's slow down envy if I tell you I'm just up there and I'm dyslexic that's the whole other thing I'm trying to tell the people I don't I don't do cold reads let me see it first let me take the picture of it in my brain I can do it man I'm in there with a cold with a cold read on the teleprompter and he going and i'm talking they got on speed dial i'm just

i'm like i'm just up and the man i'm doing it and the man looked like this he's like all right i know damn well ain't none of that whatever he's saying man what are you looking at because i'm like hey man you just started saying stuff i'm like i'm the king. You just started saying stuff. I'm like, I'm the king of changing my stuff, too. I change everything. Because sometimes it be going too fast. I'm like, I can't get that fast.

Man, Envy, do you understand? The man had to look at the teleprompter. He no damn way like, hey, bro. Man, what are you looking at? Are you looking past me outside or something I'm like nah bro I'm looking dead at you but you

man it's too fast yeah Billy Sorrells go in after me for the same position I said Billy um man that teleprompter

move his face he said man I wasn't looking at that teleprompter I was saying what I thought they wanted just like us, yo. We'll make up some shit.

Gotta make it up on the fly. How did they find you, Ali? Man, um, Ali, man, and definitely, because you know you a mess. And this man still,

now he calling you Ali. Like O-L-L-I-E. Ali. Now he having me. Now he having me. How did, how did, how did find you, Ali?

It's that divisive line, man. He can't do nothing that divisive line. That's my man. Take that out while you're here. He didn't call you Ali. How did he find you? How did he find you? It's that Invisalign, man. He can't do nothing but Invisalign. That's my man. Take that out while you're here. He didn't call you Ali. He didn't call you Ali. Ali. Or-le. Or-le.

Or-le. Or-le. Or-le. I didn't find you, Or-le. I didn't find you. Hey, man. Ali Sadiq spelled my name with an I. S-I-D-D-I-Q. You know what I'm saying?

A-L-I first. That's right. S-I-D-D-I-Q. Man, this A-L-I first. That's right. S-I-D-D-I-Q. Man, this is a visit line. Kill him over here. I know. Yeah. But yeah, that's.com or you can go on YouTube. Ali Sadiq Comedy.

You know, man, just, you know, stay LinkedIn with me. On my Instagram, everything is the same. Ali Sadiq. I'm following it right now. I think I already follow you, though. You already follow me? Because I know you definitely follow my man. What's the guy you be with all the time? Andrew Schultz.

Andrew Schultz. Andrew, yeah. I just saw Andrew Schultz at the roast. I was at the roast. Oh, the Tom Brady roast. It's funny when you become a comics comic and you don't know. And then you walk in the room and all these comics come over to you. Hey, man.

Hey, brother. Hey, brother. Man, why are you bowing man i'm a big i'm a big fan and like hey man what what what's the bowing about those respect and like kevin was talking because i'm walking the road kevin talking to somebody he turned around hey brother i didn't know you was gonna be here man what is wrong with y'all? Y'all see me all the time. And then I'm walking to the party. I'm going to the farm, to the farm club. And I've been wanting to go, because you know,

Matty Johnson, one of my favorite players of all time. I just wanted to see what him and Buss was doing, they work at in this farm club. I'm in there. And as I'm walking in, this is the biggest compliment I think I ever got. I'm talking about non, this non, out of nowhere. I'm walking into this party.

Chappelle is coming this way. bunch of people with him and he just stopped hey hold on Ali you coming to Cincinnati man this weekend at the Taft Theater I'm gonna try to come by there if I'm in town and I'm

okay how you know my schedule and he said man take my number and um call me okay and I'm trying to play it cool I'm like yeah yeah whatever and walk right in there to Sam J Sam

gave me his number told me I'm at the town the man know my schedule he all in the files. He all in the files like Charlemagne. Ali Sadiq, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us, brother. Thank y'all for having me, man.

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