The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Mike Epps On 'Old Head' Status, "Last Friday" Movie, Touring New Material + More

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

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get your favorite shows, come hungry for season four. Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody is DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. We got a special guest in the building. A legend god damn it. The brother Mike Epps. I appreciate that. I'm serious, Mike.

I don't want them introducing you no more if they ain't putting legend on your motherfucking name. Well, we got the legend. Mike Epps. How old you got to get to be a legend? Social security age. Yeah, you got to be in the, yeah, I'm getting there. I don't think it's about age.

I think it's about what you've done in the game. What you've done, yeah. Yeah, thanks, man. I appreciate the compliment. You don't feel like legendary status? Like you don't feel it? Like I paved the way, like I'm here? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, you know, I try to use those words, you know, the right way, legend and all of that stuff. But I do feel like I, you know, I put a lot of young comics on. You know, they don't give me no props for it though. They act like they don't know me after they get on, but. And Mike, he always supported us early on. He actually did our first skit with the Breakfast Club.

Remember that skit? I did it. The first skit. The first skit. The first skit was with you and you did that for us. That's big, man. And he used to put money in my pocket because you used to do the April Fools comedy jam in New York. Yeah, yeah. Remember that? Yeah, yeah. April Fools at the Garden. He used to always get me the hosted at the York. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's always getting me to host it at the Garden.

Yeah, man. So, yeah, man. And it feel good to be able to, you know what I mean, turn on the young comics and put them on, because I was once one at one time. I mean, I used to be standing on the stage, trying to get on, open up for Steve Harvey and D.L. Hughley. So, you know, it's- They used to hate on you open up for Steve Harvey and D.L. Hughley.

They used to hate on you? No, no, no, no, no, no. They never hated on me. But you could tell though, when you're an older comic or you're an older artist and somebody new come on, it take time for them to be like, okay, this dude is cool. Or I can work with him. You don't know how a person gonna turn out.

I shouldn't even have said hate, because sometimes I think that people don't realize how much of a fraternity comedy is, and they wanna see you earn your dues before they share stage with you. That's right, but nowadays it's different, man. Artists are getting they just do a little quicker than we did.

We had to really work for that shit. We had to go hit them stages and now they got the social media thing, which is good and bad because you're getting opportunities premature of you working for it. So it can be tricky. Do you respect that?

Or you feel like they should get dead? They're dudes first to hit them clubs Well, I Respect the fact that they it's still a hustle right? I mean to be able to be on the internet I still ain't figured that shit out I still ain't figured out how to really get the money off the internet like these young like they don't snapchat and all this shit I really haven't figured it out, but I respect that, because that's the new hustle.

But like I said, when it's time for you to get an opportunity and show and prove, you ain't really been in the gym. It's kind of like you, you know, you got muscles, but they didn't come from the gym. But on the flip side, they don't know how to get money on stage, they don't know how to get money in the TV world, they don't know how to get money in the film world.

That's right, and that's what I'm saying, there's levels to this shit. And you gotta keep on, you know, and I always say, I tell people, man, you know, you might have a lot, you might know a lot, and it's somebody looking at you, like you don't know shit and have a lot either. You know what I mean?

For everybody that got a billion dollars, Bill Gates and them, they pay that shit in taxes. They're looking at some black dude like, man, if you don't get your flexing ass out of here, you were right flexing on these poor people, you're poor to me. Now, do you like going out on tour with so many comedians? Do you enjoy it?

If you do, why? Well you know what, Envy, I'm hosting this tour. So these are all young comics that's coming up. Duval ain't young? Duval ain't young. Hell no. I want to do Duval. He didn't start with me though.

No he didn't. He didn't start with me though. No, he didn't. He's young to me. Okay. Because he came up after me, but for the most part, all of them are young comics that's trying to get to the next level, which is film and television and whatever that is. But yeah, it's cool, man. I'm secure with myself and I'm secure with my comedy act.

I'll go on tour with anybody. You give game during the tour? All day. All day. I tell him all. I had Bubba Dubb yesterday just telling him, man, it's good how you transitioning. It's good that you able to transition.

Some comics can't do it. Just make sure that you keep focusing on the next level while you on one level. While you're doing stand up, make sure you position yourself so that when you get an acting opportunity, you can act. Because that's what happens a lot of times. A lot of them blow up, then they get a movie opportunity and can't act.

So while you're doing stand up and you're coming up, go to some acting classes, man. Watch movies. Start positioning yourself for it. I think me and Jess were talking about this before, and I was telling her, like, the way that, like, even with Martin, he brings her on his, like, you know, different stages.

I think that two-way street that you're talking about is really important because they're teaching you while you're teaching them. Especially because, like, I feel like sometimes comedians who come up the way you come up, when they shut out the Jess Hilariouses, the Desi Banks or whatever, you get so behind the times that

it just doesn't come off well a lot of times. And I think for you guys and what you do, you're trying to figure out social media. If it doesn't come off well, then fans kind of start to look at you a little differently. You gotta battle so many different things because... There you go. Yeah, it's what's here right now.

So the fact that you're getting that is important. Because I look like an old nigga on Instagram. Like, you with me on my... You can't get around that because you're old. Who are you talking to? Watch your mouth, young girl. What's wrong with you? It's nothing wrong with that, though.

You're older. The way you said it, though. Yeah, you are. Whoa, whoa, whoa. My bad. First of all, you brought up the... I'm just kidding. How old was it?

You brought up the... You brought up the... You brought up the... You brought up the... You brought up the... You brought up the... What's wrong with that though? You're older. The way you said it though. Yeah, you are. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You are old, nigga. Shit. First of all, you said Duval wasn't. I'm just kidding. I am though. No, but listen, when you said Duval wasn't young,

I looked it up. I thought he was way younger. He's 47. You thought Duval was younger? I thought Duval was like, not too, I thought he was like maybe 40. He gives young energy. But I'm saying, I just think that it's dope

to see people embracing it because they be hating, like a lot of the old heads be hating and it's crazy because what a jest. You throwing that old head around, that word around a lot. What's wrong with that? Why are people upset about being called older? That's a gift to age and to have what you have. We not, it's just how you say it.

It's just how you say it. Well, I don't mean it, I don't mean it no way. What I'm saying to you is that, No, I know what you mean. Yeah, I think it's fire to see you doing it. Because a lot of people don't and you're loud about embracing it. Yeah, a lot of older guys, a lot of older guys they don't mean it no way. What I'm saying to you is that I think it's fire to see you doing it because a lot of people don't and you're loud about embracing it. A lot of other guys, they don't know how to,

you know, they really don't know how to embrace that, man. But like I said, man, that's what we supposed to do. We gotta keep on handing it down, handing it down to each other because I'm gonna be in a position one day, I'm gonna need one of the young dudes to put me in. That's what Red Fox and Eddie Murphy put Red Fox in. He looked out for Red Fox.

Gave him money, got him a taxi. Hell yeah, now let's get messy. What you wanna ask me? Oh, how you not got something over here, Kevin Hart? No, I do got something over here, you know what I mean? What y'all gonna say? What do you mean? I'm glad you said that. I got some things.

He goes straight to it. Look, you know exactly what they had. Kevin Hart signed on to be the entertainment is all for the Pacers and Fever. You are from Indiana. Yeah. Like, I mean, you're super famous from Indiana. Right.

And then built a whole community in Indiana. How did that make you feel that they didn't call you for that? Well, you know what? I thought about it. I was I was the ambassador for the men's All-star in Indiana mm-hmm this past all-star Kev should have called me if he was in Indianapolis cuz I I definitely called him when I was in Philly But he didn't answer the phone. I wanted to call him and say,

hey man, I'm downtown at the Eagles game. Because I was, we had a show in Philly, and I was calling him to tell him, man, I'm downtown Philly, boy, they're going crazy at the parade. But you know, everybody got their different things about how they feel, man. You know.

Who goes to Indiana? I'm still trying to figure out who the fuck want to go there and do something in Indiana other than myself. I'm the only fan they got outside of, outside of, outside of India, outside of what they fans are in that city. You know, so, you know, hey man, it's politics. outside of what they fans are in that city. So, hey man, it's politics. And then a lot of times, people that are not in a business,

like people are not in comedy, people are not in the rap game, they're run entities, they don't know. They think me and Kevin sitting in the backyard drinking iced tea together. You know what I'm saying? So you really can't get upset about it. But it's enough for everybody, man.

You know what I mean? Kev, he put on enough young comics and people. So I didn't get slighted about that, man. It's cool. So y'all talking, though. The fact that you caught him when you was in Philly. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Me and Kevin talk, man. It's cool. So y'all talking, though. The fact that you called him when you was in Philly, y'all. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Me and Kevin talk, man.

And again, man, everything I do now, I put an age on it, you know what I mean? So I think about it, and I'm like, nope, you're too old. Nope, you're too old. Nope, you're too old. Too old to talk shit. Too old to be broke.

I'm too old for all of that. You know what I mean? You just get to a point in your age where you just, hey man, I'm just trying to get what I can get out of it. No, I know he gonna reach out for you to do something when he put that together. Oh yeah, well that's what I'm saying. I was just on the phone with him telling him that

that's what we gotta do. The white boys do it. You already took a look up all them white boys be together doing movies and television together. Why? We can't do it. That's right. But we do like the black people do like, we love fussing with each other too. That shit is fun.

Who you blame for that? Shit. I guess it's systematically, You know what I mean? We cannot get away from slavery. It's just keep on. It's just a thin line of that shit still in the community, man. And if you match it up to back in slavery,

it's still the same. They used to take one brother, one brother, and put some clothes on him, and have him sitting on the porch with a lemonade, looking at the rest of the dudes out there in the field. They still doing that shit. And we still forgetting it. It's like, hey, if you standing up there

with some clothes on and you got a lemonade in your hand, and you see them brothers out there in the field, they ain't got nothing. You got to sneak out the house at night, man, and go get them something, man. That's right. And if you the man, if you the man, you can't be afraid to be standing next to another black man

because you scared he gonna get some shit. That's some hating shit too. If you the man and the people, the powers that be, is paying you and making you who you are, and you don't want to stand next to it, that mean you don't want the powers to be to see them. You're trying to be, you know, that's what I don't like. You know, Ice Cube, I got into business through Ice Cube. I didn't like. You know, Ice Cube, I got in the business through Ice Cube. I didn't get in the business through, you know, and white people like who they like.

And I'm not, you know, I'm not really like that dude that they like, ah, cause you can't rub on my head and pat me on the ass and all that, I don't play none of that shit. So, and I think they figured that out. Okay, this is a nigga we can't do that with. Not gonna do it with him. So, you know, hey.

But you've had a great career. I mean, the Upshaw's is killing. What are they on there with, fifth season? Fifth season. Fifth season? Come on now. Fifth season, yep. People swear by that show. They love that show. I appreciate it. And that came from my idea.

That came from an idea that's about my hometown and loosely based on my life, you know? So, I can't complain. I'm grateful. I'm happy. I ain't gonna be for nobody, you know? So I can't complain. I'm grateful, I'm happy. I ain't gonna be for nobody, you know? And shit, man. I'm just trying to continue to live on and do what I do. How many kids you got, Micah?

Seven. Man, you gotta think about that. The ones you play. What is the matter? Not the ones, don't do that to them. He said, oh man. You think you got some kids out there? You don't know? I hope not. You hope not? I hope not. No, you ain't that kind of guy. I'm glad you know that.

You ain't that kind of guy. You're not either. Don't let him talk out here. I'm not now. She has a nap time play. What you talking about? But back in the day, shh. I couldn't keep my pants up.

The way all the smokers do it, they're like, I'm not gonna smoke. I'm not gonna smoke. I'm not gonna smoke. I'm not gonna smoke. I'm not gonna smoke. I'm not gonna smoke. I'm not gonna smoke. I'm not gonna smoke.

I'm not gonna smoke. I'm not gonna smoke. I'm not the smoke went, just focus over here. I'm trying to keep you in good graces. Yes. Yes. So don't lean into what he's doing right now. Don't lean over there. You can talk about your old days. They're my old days. Yeah, they're old days. They're old days. Slanging it like a pistol. Slanging it, man. But you know what, though? Hey, man, if you can survive anything and be there to talk about it, it's cash money. That's right.

I agree. I don't care what it is. If you survived it and you standing there to talking about it, it's cash money. That's why we listen to Magic Johnson so heavy now. That's right. That's right. That man lived a life to Magic Johnson so happy now. That's right. That's right. That man lived a life.

What? Magic Johnson? Yeah. Yeah. What? And you'll forget sometimes. You'll forget that he got HIV. Yeah.

You see what I'm saying? Some of the women probably do too. They probably like, hey, Magic. They not forgetting that. Y'all are crazy. You're is crazy. Now, you got a young child too. Yeah.

So how is being an old head, because we all old heads, raising that young child? Man, I love it. They're giving me life. I got a son four years old and I got a daughter five, and they give me life. I mean, like, and I ain't no old type dude. I can get up and run right now, fast as I want to,

and do whatever I want to do. Why you looking at me when you said that? You looking at me when you said that. What, which part? I can get up and run right now fast as I want to and do whatever I want to do You look at me when you said that what what's part that you not know old dude no old-type dude I meant there by like iconic legend aging you like you have that you have it you know I mean like you got that I didn't mean it like you only you 54 Right you got a five-year-old what would you say a four-year-old think about that Steve Harvey 68, you only, you 54, right? You got a five year old, how old you say? A four year old. But think about that, Steve Harvey's 68. Eddie Murphy is 60. They look good.

That's what I'm saying. And they all good. How much life we got to live? Arsenio's 69, I think. That's right. You keep looking over here too. I didn't mean it that way. No, no, no, no.

That's why she single, she single. She's all good. First of all, her big. How old her wig look, Mike? She ain't got no wig on. Thank you, I appreciate it It's grown from the scalp, you hate her Yeah, he just happy cause his face surgery is new

So he's still giving one color on the face You don't give no surgery His face surgery is young so that's what he Leading into What the fuck did I just walk into Talk about how old-wagging his old face That's what I'm talking about Yeah, all three of y'all I was like, what the fuck did I just walk into? Talk about how old-wagging his old face is. I was like, what am I walking into? Yeah, all three of y'all, man.

I was like, I love that interview. That was my best interview of y'all I've ever did. It was only 20 seconds. With Birdman, I love that interview. It was so hilarious. All three of y'all. Don't say my name no more. Yeah, man, I loved it, man.

But right now I'm on this tour right now. Shout out to BMN Entertainment. You done with the mask because I did have some other questions. You better ask. You better ask. You might want to hear it. He got about a couple minutes left. He got to go.

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His wife, yeah, when you sat down on auto smoke podcast with Matt Barnes. What did I say? You said that you wanted to get to a point where you were treating women 100% right or something like that. And I think people took it the wrong way because you've been with your wife for a while.

I saw y'all at the NAACP Image Awards, looked amazing. But does that even come back up in conversation in your relationship or how does she handle you being able to joke like you just did about things now that that has happened? No, my wife's a grown ass woman. She's the truth. My wife is the truth. my wife's a grown ass woman. She's the truth. My wife is the truth.

And she's a grown woman. She don't pay attention to none of that petty shit. She not petty. She ain't no little girl. So she can decipher when I'm saying something that I might not have meant the right way or whatever. She know when I'm talking shit and when I'm, you know, she know when I'm talking shit and when I'm, you know, she know me. So, I didn't say nothing to really offend nobody,

you know, but it is the truth. It take men a long time to get they shit together. That's right. Oh, I know. That's right. And every woman that's with a man has gotta be a little bit more patient than we are with them. Cause it takes a while, it takes a while for a man to,

you know, get his shit together. I mean, we fighting up against so much temptation. It's like, damn. It's like, woo, you got to be a certain kind of guy to really survive and navigate through the world. Charlamagne was just talking about Whoopi Goldberg the other day. Is that who you want? Is that who you want? I just said she looked good last night at the office.

She did look good, you know, because when she on the view, she look a little fluffy, but she look- Her skin was right. Skin was right. You know, body look right last night. I ain't with her. I'm giving OG a compliment. That's it.

That's it. Ain't got nothing to do with nothing. Yeah. Well, let me find out. Ain't got nothing to do with nothing. Yeah. Well, let me find out. But this tour that I'm on, this is what I came to promote this tour. This tour. We the ones who. We the ones who. I came to promote this, man, because we got some young, bad comedians in.

If you in a city and you ain't seen this tour, I mean a lot of y'all probably seen Wild'n Out, you know, them little, it's all right, Wild'n Out. You know, don't try to Wild'n Out. I'm just saying they do a tour. But y'all do a tour tour. Nick Cannon and them, they doing a tour. But we do a, this tour right here is, this is the best young comics coming up in the game right now.

How did it become like a staple tour? Because I remember it started a few years ago. Yeah. But like every year since y'all been doing it. So how did it become like a staple tour? Well, shout out to my man, Blake, man, promoter out of Chicago. This young brother has been promoting for a long time. He does a great job. He started out before I started, before I came along, he had D-Ray. He was doing like D-Ray, so many other shows in Chicago

for New Year's Eve. And they were selling out sometimes two and three shows, man, 10, 20,000 people. So when he put this tour together, you know, I came along and like I said, man, we, come on, 20,000 people. So when he put this tour together, you know, I came along and like I said, man, we, come on man, you got Country Wayne, you got Lil Duval, you got Corey Hokem, you got Tony Roberts, you got Bubba Dubb, man.

It's Carlos Miller. Come on, Carlos Miller. Mojo. Man, these, tell me any young comics is better than these young dudes. These young dudes is brilliant. There's some OGs in there now. Cory is an OG.

Cory is an OG. But see, I don't think nobody's funnier than a lot of the OGs. Like Cory is one of the funniest niggas on stage in the world to me. Wrong. Cory don't give a fuck. Yeah, he gonna say what he wanna say,

how he wanna say it, he don't care. And that's the great thing. It's a nucleus of young dudes and we throw in a couple old guys in there, but it's still a young, happy, hopping tour. You know what I'm saying? So this tour is good, man. We was in Brooklyn last night.

They messed around and put us the day after the fight. So we didn't get the crowd. Last year we did 10,000 people in Barclays. And this year we only did about 4,000, but you know the fight kind of messed us up. But this tour. And it was weird, it was on a Sunday, I didn't even know y'all was in town.

We thought y'all were coming up here to promote the show for next weekend. God damn. Because I didn't even know I was gonna go, but then I seen on Instagram that it was wasn't. If you wasn't gonna go, I ain't never seen your ass in a comedy show. I always go to comedy shows.

Yeah, you pop out. It's my day all the time, comedy show. I was gonna ask, how do you, well what's the worst show that you see and how do you talk to a comedian about getting booed? Reason I ask, Charlamagne talks all the time, ain't nothing funny in a comedian being booed, right? Then over the weekend, I happen to turn on

and I see our good friend Don-El getting booed. So how do you talk to a comedian after that? What do you tell him? Big brother advice. You know, every show is different, man. You know? But getting booed as a comic, that's a tough one. That's a tough one, because it's a reevaluation

of who you are and what you do. And don't be no older, like Don-El, he's too goddamn old to get booed. Really? What's the thing? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on he's too goddamn old to get booed He was judging One of them white boy gross Jeff Ross and all of them and boy they wasn't feeling Okay, I ain't texting about it he open that he mad that you mentioned that right now. He was hoping that stayed with the white people. He wanted to get over it.

Okay, well, you know what? Every day is a different day, man. You know what I mean? Some days you're gonna have, your jokes is gonna work. I could do a joke one night and it kills in Detroit and then I go to Brooklyn the next night and it ain't popping. But it's just different energy. Different cities, different energy.

But if you do get booed, gotta go reevaluate your set. You gotta go think about some shit that you said and did. Can't get booed again, because that shit will get you kicked out the business. What's the toughest city? I know you gotta go, but what's the toughest city to perform? The toughest city to perform, it used to be New York.

But I would say Chicago. Chicago. Because everybody's funny. Just the average human being out there in Chicago, they funny as hell. And they sitting there looking at you like, what you gonna say, Joe? You know, that's one of them towns is like,

they come to criticize your ass. You said, Congrats to your daughter, got accepted to New York University for drama? Yeah, NYU. Wow. NYU. NYU. NYU. NYU. It is NYU. NYU. NYU. How did that make you feel as a father? Oh man, this is the thing.

I didn't graduate from high school. I was a special ed student. And for my daughter to graduate and go to NYU, it's a compliment. Wow. I had to give her mother props as well. Her mother did a great job with her. But my daughter is running around NYU,

and that's the same place I ran around doing comedy at, in the village. I used to sit in that Washington Park, and with no money and watch people and people watch. And now my daughter's running around that same area in college. So, man, I'm grateful. And I just thank God that I was able to raise a child

to be able to go get an education. You know, so. That's amazing, that's what it's about. It is. You say you was in special ed? Hell yeah. I was in there for a semester, cause I failed a class, so I wasn't like,

I mean, I failed a standardized test, so they had me in one math class that was special ed. There was just one? With a special ed, but I wasn't in special ed, special ed. No, you was in there, nigga. Yeah, I was in there. I don't know where you was.

You just said it. I was in drop, it's crazy. Hey, man, if you was in there for 30 minutes, man, your ass was in there. I was in there. I wasn't in special ed, special ed. And I didn't mean to laugh at special ed people, but like, don't do that.

You was outside with the folks. Just say it. I didn't eat lunch early. Just say that, dude. And I didn't ride the little bus. I didn't. It's Just say that. I didn't eat lunch early. Just say that, baby. And I ain't riding no bus. I already know I didn't. It's OK. I know I didn't. But special education is not about the short bus.

See, a lot of people get it twisted. There are kids that are slow learners. They don't know how to learn as fast as other kids. That's how I was. I could read a whole book and tell you, they couldn't tell you what it was. But you got to get them kids a break, was. But you gotta give them kids a break too. Cause you look at Eli Mus.

Yeah. This a dude you could damn, you could tell he wasn't doing shit in the classroom. You know what I mean? But look who he is, look where he's at. And not to big him up or to knock him down, but you gotta give people a chance. You don't know what a kid gonna turn out to be.

That's right, that's right. And that's how I am. I mean, man, it's so hard to, I run into people who treated me like shit and I still treat them nice because I know they don't know. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna give you a break because I know you didn't know I was gonna be somebody and I'm gonna still treat you nice

because you didn't know. But that also taught me you treat people who you might not really have it at the time, you gotta treat them good too, because you don't know what the hell gonna happen. I don't respect people like that though. I judge people based off how they treat people that can't do nothing for them.

That's right. So you gotta treat the custodian the same way you treat the CEO. I don't respect that. If I see you talking shit to the custodian, but you treat the CEO nice, that's the same way for me. Yeah, get your ass out of here, man.

This is We Are the Ones Tour, man. I'm your host, Mike F. And we're going to be coming to every local city. We're going to be in it. Let me help you. Let me help you. Let me help you. Detroit on the 7th. Come on, Detroit.

Little Ohio on the 8th. Come on. Fairfax on the 9th. Come on. March 14th, New Orleans, Louisiana. Let's go. 15th, Alabama. 21st, Tennessee. That's right. 15th, Alabama. 21st, Tennessee.

That's right. Hit him with it. 22nd, South Carolina, Greenville. 23rd, 757 Hampton. Come on. The 28th, Columbia, South Carolina. Come on, Eddie. And the 29th, North Carolina, and the 30th, Charlotte, North Carolina. Y'all only got a website?

Man, go get, yeah, we got a website, but that shit he just did is really gonna work. We got an envy shout out on that, man. You know what I'm saying? How long Breakfast Club been going, man? It'll be 15 years this year. 15, 16 years. Do you know the first time I met him,

he was working with Wendy Williams. Yeah. How was that? Was he sitting on her lap or what? He was sitting in the corner quiet. Really? Yes. You was on the show, but you wasn't saying shit. He was on Time Out.

And then I looked up again and I seen you with, I'm like, this dude, that was the dude? This motherfucker got a show. And he end up with a show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. BLS, remember that? Yeah. And she wasn't even, man, it was crazy.

So, hey man, I'm proud of y'all, man. Thank you, my brother. And I seen DJ Envy before he got in the game. I used to just see you just out and about doing shit in New York. I said, man, you guys really came up. You know, when they asked you, we had Jaqueese up here. Yeah, Jaqueese.

He said, Yo, you know what, Zick? Yo, what's wrong with Mike, man? Mike can't front. Mike ain't one of them people can't front. Mike will front for one second, then he catches up. Mike was like, I'm about to leave. That's my man.

That's my little baby right there. Jacque said, and I told my own believers, he said, you told him he was the next Marvin Gaye. Well, I told him. I said, Jacque. I told him he could be. Why you lie to that man like that? Was it a lie?

Yes, he a good, he good. Can he sing to you? Yeah, I think he can sing. He can sing, he can sing. He can sing, absolutely, he can sing. But you said he, you look at him like Marvin Gaye. Like he's like our generation's Marvin Gaye. I think people were like.

I told him Mike was high, man. Mike wanted to make you feel good that day. Hey man, let me tell you something, man. The man can, it's probably some little girl out there that think this nigga's Marvin Gaye. And you gotta, sometimes you have to, hey man, I'm about empowering the youth. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I'll tell them that they can be the president knowing damn well they can't. You ain't gonna tell none of these little young comedians they can be Richard Priam? Yeah tell none of these little young comedians they could be Richard Pryor? Yeah, I done told all of them. Who you told that to? Who you told that to? Told that to.

My dad's gotta go, guys. My dad's got TV. My ex, we appreciate you for joining us, brother. You done told them all. Man, thank y'all for being nice to me, because I know y'all fucked people up up here. Cut it out, man. You know they fucked with you.

My ex Club Sheaashe coming this year? Club Shashe? Uh-huh. No, I ain't going to do no Club Shashe. Because I'm still trying to figure out why I'm like, I told, and I told, I was like, Shannon Sharpe. I know y'all had to sit down. Shannon Sharpe, y'all got to bring some white men on here

and grill them. You can't just grill black people. That shit ain't right. I know we make money off click baiting and shit, but click bait them white folks. Get some of your NFL players that you know was fucked up, get them on the show. Because, Cat Williams, that shit he did, it was good,

but it was bad. It was good, because we enjoyed it, but damn. Man, he hurt them dudes feelings, saying all that crazy shit. So we gotta balance it out, man. Shannon heard them dudes feelin' sayin' all that crazy shit. So we gotta balance it out, man. Shannon Sharp, if you're listenin', we wanna see you interview some of them football players. Some of them white football players that was in the NFL

that was fucked up. Just to balance it, and I don't know race shit, but you can't just interview black men and let them pour out all they they pain on television on these on these Podcasts man, that's some bullshit. Mm-hmm, you know cuz we more than just problems We we everything man. We we got talent You know, we got families we we were entrepreneurs We all of that so we have to keep shedding the light on the positive part of that.

We already, they already, we already got enough negative light. So we wanna podcast, we wanna start bringing people on the letter, even though people don't wanna hear that shit. But man, let's talk about some positive shit on these. You know. Like Naptown Productions.

Naptown Productions. We got Good American Family, that come out on Hulu this Sunday. Like Naptown Productions. Naptown Productions. We got Good American Family. That come out on Hulu this Sunday. Good American Family. Yep, I produced a show, Good American Family, with Ellen Pompeo, another Naptown Productions. Love Ellen. Shout out to my team, TC, my man Niles.

Big shout out to my wife, because that's where it starts. Before you leave the house, you got to be all the way right. So big shout out to my wife, you know, because that's where it starts. You know, before you leave the house, you got to be all the way right. So big shout out. Everybody should give my wife a prize, because she's the one that's getting me to these TV shows. And you know what I mean? But I was able to produce that show, man,

and it's all white cast. Based out of Indianapolis. If you haven't ever seen the movie The Dwarf, that's what it's about. About this young girl who played to be an adult, but she was really a kid. And they adopted her, and she was trying to kill him. But anyway.

Has Cube approached you by last Friday yet? He called me the other day. Said we just finished the deal. So we doing the last Friday, man. And big shout out to Cube, man. That's another brother that has put so many brothers on, man. Yes, sir. This dude, man, this dude put so, and don't really

get the props for it, you know? Put me, Chris Tucker, Bernie, I mean, name him. This dude gave dudes opportunities. And that's what I'm doing. On the Upshaw's, man, I just had Scarface on the show acting. I had Petey Pablo on the show. I had so many comics on the show. And you know, that's what we do.

We turnin' on black men, puttin' black men in a position where they can feed their family and build legacies. Have you seen the script for last Friday? I haven't seen the script, but I'm pretty sure it's good. And we're gonna bring in the new comics. We're gonna put the DC Youngflies and all of them in with the OGs. It's gonna be a good ass dope. Is Chris Tucker gonna be a part of it too? You, Chris?

They gonna combine all the world? Hopefully we can get Chris Tucker in it. You know, we need to get Chris Tucker on that because people still love Chris Tucker. He's still smoky. He laid it down. He positioned me to do it. So Chris, if you listen to it, we need you, baby boy.

Come on back. You know when y'all start shooting? We don't know when we start shooting, but. The deal done. The deal's done. And the Upshaws. Keep watching the Upshaws, man. Shout out to Wanda Sykes.

Shout out to Kim Fields, the whole cast. I love them people, man. Unfortunately, this is our last Show, man. Shout out to Wanda Sykes. Shout out to Kim Fields, the whole cast. I love them people, man. Unfortunately, this is our last season, but. I thought it was seven. No, we did five seasons, you know, but. Oh, I thought it was going to be seven. I know why I thought I already going to see it as seven. Is that a personal choice?

When I tell you my grandma and mama, they swear by the Up Show. They love the show. They love the Up Show. Oh my God, yes. Why? Why last season? The show was changing.

The kids are getting older. You know what I mean? It's Hatties Run. And sometimes those shows do that, man. Me and Tiffany Hatties have a show now that we about to do together. That's like the Upshaw's. It's going to be about a bar, like Cheers, a Black Cheers.

It's going to be off the hook. Oh, dope. Yeah. OK. So, man, we're gonna keep the bar rolling. We're gonna keep some entertainment in your face. You know? That's right.

And support everything Mike Epps doing, man. That's right. Yeah, we the ones tour. We the ones tour. That's right. I'm gonna come to, like, three of the tour dates so you know I didn't mean to call you up. Yeah, come on.

Yeah, come on. Nah, girl, you ain't gonna take that serious. It's Mike Epps. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that ass up. Early in the morning. The Breakfast Club.

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