The Joe Rogan Experience - #990 - Jamie Foxx

Episode Date: July 27, 2017

Jamie Foxx is an Academy Award winning actor, singer, and comedian. He can currently be seen hosting "Beat Shazam" on Fox and in the movie "Baby Driver" in theaters now. ...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Did something. Gotta find something though, right? Gotta find a struggle. It's very important to have a struggle. Gotta have something you gotta accomplish. Are we live already? Oh shit, we're live. We're competitive, baby.
Starting point is 00:00:10 There's a little bit of that. What's going on, man? What are you looking for? Man, you. How do I turn the headphones? Oh. Over there. Which one is it, Jamie?
Starting point is 00:00:19 Check. Right here? Check, check. Check, check, check, check, check, check. Oh, he's in my ears. We're live. what's up? Live, hey, you, man It's crazy how we looked at each other when we walked in I know, it is crazy
Starting point is 00:00:30 Like we wanted to embrace Well, we did You embraced me, you're bad I wanted to lean into you We've been at it, huh? It's been a long time Damn, man, what's up now? Where do we go now?
Starting point is 00:00:42 I don't know Just try to stay alive. Keep moving. No, you're doing it. You're doing it, man. I remember, who's ass are you going to whoop one day? Who's ass are you going to whoop one day at stand-up? You called out somebody. You called out a motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:00:57 Oh, you mean MCM? Is that what you're talking about? I just got to get into that. We get into crates. We got to get into the crates, baby. That was crazy when we was doing stand-up. It was like gunslingers. What happened with that?
Starting point is 00:01:12 Nothing. You called him out, though. Well, that was a bad situation. He was stealing everybody's jokes. Am I bringing up the wrong shit? No, no, it's okay. Okay, because I thought I was getting the eye. I tried to be nice.
Starting point is 00:01:23 I thought I was getting the eye. No, no, no. You're not bringing the wrong thing. You can talk about anything. You're Jamie Foxx, dude. You can talk about whatever the. I try to be nice. I thought I was getting the eye. No, no, no. You're not bringing the wrong thing. You can talk about anything. You're Jamie Foxx, dude. You can talk about whatever the fuck you want to talk about. Because the terrain, we were just talking off mic about how we would have been in jail. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:38 Had there been social media back when we was coming up. We'd have life. We'd have double life. I'd be looking at you and myself. Yeah, you had to kill Carlos. Well, we were talking about everybody that came up in the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, everyone before social media,
Starting point is 00:01:53 the wild lives that they led. You can't do that anymore. You can't do it. And what this conversation came for, for all y'all just tuning in, we was talking about Chris Brown. I'll see Chris Brown. He'll come by my house,
Starting point is 00:02:04 and he'll just sit there and go, like, what the fuck? And I said, listen, you're just tune in. We was talking about Chris Brown. I'll see Chris Brown. He'll come by my house. And he'll just sit there and go, what the fuck? And I said, listen, you're just too talented, for one. Cats like him and Justin Bieber, who've been blessed with extra. They look good. They can fight. They're athletic. And they sing.
Starting point is 00:02:23 They can dance. They can dance. The first time I met Chris Brown, this is crazy. I'm throwing a party in Miami and it's me and Colin Farrell, Eddie Murphy, you know, Eddie Murphy was still in it. This is years back, like 2005 maybe, I think. Yeah, 2005. And so I'm hosting the party.
Starting point is 00:02:43 We're in Miami. The crowd's going crazy. But in the down, like not in the VIP, it's some kids dancing. I'm like, who the fuck is that? And they're dancing and all this shit. And so my DJ, DJ Ari, he goes, yo, man, that's a new kid, Chris Brown. Yo, he about to be the next one.
Starting point is 00:02:58 I said, yeah, but he think he can dance because, you know, I know how to dance. I'll go fuck him up. You know what I'm saying? This young mama gonna know who I am. I'll come down and fuck him up. And it was like, Fox, okay. So I go down. Now, you know, it's sort of my time
Starting point is 00:03:10 and so everybody's following me. I'm about to go battle whoever this kid is. So I say, yeah, bro. You think you can dance, huh? And I did like some kind of bullshit pop-locking move. Listen to me. We're all jammed together. Right? He doesn't do a move. You know what he does? He does a Listen to me. We're all jammed together, right?
Starting point is 00:03:26 He doesn't do a move. You know what he does? He does a backflip. But the way he did the backflip, and he's 6'2". He's standing in the middle of the crowd. He jumped over the crowd, did the backflip up here, and came straight down and said, What's up? I said, Motherfucker, I'm going to leave you the fuck alone. I don't know what the fuck that is.
Starting point is 00:03:43 That's some Avengers shit. And I just remember going, I said, that dude, when he get on, and then, you know, he gets on, but then social media catches on. And then it's just hard. It's hard. It's hard to live when you're social media. And I tell them all the time, social media sort of makes you color inside the lines. Yeah. Or try to.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Or try to. Yeah to yeah or like this it makes you tuck your artistry in sometimes a little bit does that make sense tuck your crazy in tuck it crazy and you tuck your artistry and like i didn't know what a meme was you know i'm you know i'm you know shit i'm gonna fucking i was just catching on the mind space and shit shifted so my my daughter sends me a picture of Rihanna, right, going to the Met Ball. And by the time I got the picture, whatever happened, the picture was Rihanna in this yellow dress. And I hit my daughter. I said, I love the dress. It's amazing.
Starting point is 00:04:41 I don't understand the pizza that's in it but maybe that's she's giving a nod to Italy where maybe she got the dress from and she's like, no dad, that's a meme. I said, what? That's a meme. I said, what do you mean? She said, no, there's actually not a pizza in the dress. Somebody
Starting point is 00:04:59 crafted or fixed it there. They made it look like it's pizza because it's trailing behind her. And so me, I'm thinking, well, what the fuck is a meme? She says, no, that's what they do. I said, so this girl worked her whole fucking night
Starting point is 00:05:15 to get this dress to go to the Met Ball, which is, you're supposed to be out the box and somebody puts a pizza on it and that's all you see is a pizza i said how do you compete with that how how can you be michael jordan and kids run up to you and say you're the crybaby face you cry man they're gonna cry man it doesn't matter means like the best thing on the internet it's one of the best things about the internet is people being able to make funny
Starting point is 00:05:42 it's the best thing but watch this this, though. Once it sticks, that's what I'm saying. Once it sticks, it sticks. Michael Jordan, to somebody under the age of 18, he the crybaby face, man. Hey, man, I'm gonna crybaby face. Hey, man, and you know how fans do it.
Starting point is 00:06:00 Hey, man, cry right quick, dog. Yeah. Let me get you crying. It's so true. Yeah, man. It's tough. Well, we were talking about John Jones and how John Jones is fighting this weekend. John Jones is a wild motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:06:16 And that's why he's the greatest light heavyweight of all time. Because he's so, it's part of what he is. You have to have it. We were talking about being with Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson, back in the day you couldn't that's why when people say like why does mike tyson first of all he's a fighter he's not a tennis player but mike was a wild boy and to hang out with him you could understand like he was the biggest person on the planet and he had the demons. You know what I'm saying? But he was fun too
Starting point is 00:06:47 because you see him in a club and he sees some girls and he'd be like, hi, how you doing? You like BMWs? The girls be like, what, do you like BMWs? You like cars?
Starting point is 00:06:56 You like BMWs? And crazy, he'd take the girls out and go get a BMW. I mean, he was that crazy. You know what I'm saying? Come on, come on, let's look at the BMW.
Starting point is 00:07:04 And we'd open up the BMW dealership but he was wild. But I say I'm saying come on come on let's look at the BMW and we'd open up the BMW dealership but he was wild but I say just like how we were saying off here you can't have that type of
Starting point is 00:07:12 talent in that area and not have something crazy John Jones can't you can't you can't drink milk and almost kill somebody
Starting point is 00:07:22 you know what I'm saying you can't yo let me get that homogenized. I'm about to get, no, you can't. Yeah. There's gotta be something about you that's out of control.
Starting point is 00:07:29 Impulsive, wild, dangerous. And that's what makes him so great. Everybody. You even talked about, you look at the people on your wall, you look at Hendricks,
Starting point is 00:07:36 you look at Elvis, they have to have something because that's God fucking with us. Yeah. God's going to give you something incredible, but he's also going to give you something to anchor that. Because I believe this is what I believe in. And you tell me if you believe this, I believe in the yin and the yang of everything.
Starting point is 00:07:51 Meaning like when there's absolute light, there has to be absolute darkness to balance it out. And that's what everything that we do. It's sort of like, we're not going to get away with anything. Like anything that happens to you in life, you have to pay for it. Like it's like the grocery store.
Starting point is 00:08:09 Okay, I got the career. Boop, got to pay for that. Okay, I got the money. Boop, okay, I got to pay for that. Then here come the family. Boop, yeah, I need that money. Yeah, you fuck with me. I'm going to release a story about you.
Starting point is 00:08:21 So it's all of these different things that you got to pay for. And that's why you see these guys like that. Because, you know, like I said, talking to Justin Bieber, you know, with everything I said, some of this shit is supposed to happen to you. It has to.
Starting point is 00:08:32 You can't, otherwise, think of the success that kid's had at 20 years old. It's impossible. I was just reading some shit about him canceling his tour. Yeah. Because he just said too much work. I mean, he's just going crazy, I guess.
Starting point is 00:08:43 But he's made $93 million this year. Yeah. Like, Jesus Christ, he's fucking 20. Yeah, and for us, we like, shit. Because, you know, I ain't 20. I'm like, motherfucker, I'm going to take that $90 million. I'm going to go do a million. But we can't be in his mind and we can't see how it is.
Starting point is 00:08:59 He grew up that way. He grew up that way. Never had a normal life. And you don't expect. Like, I always tell kids who want to be in this business to please wait. You grew up that way. You grew up that way. Never had a normal life. And you don't expect. Like, I always tell kids who want to be in this business to please wait. Like, even with my kids. Just wait.
Starting point is 00:09:13 Wait till you can understand. Like, I was able to be grown and have some grown shit happen to me and just regular life shit happen. So that when this happened, I still have a point of reference to get back to. Because, you know, like like I know you've interviewed everybody This business affects you in such a way Where you'll see one person one day? I won't say the comedian's name, but I remember a comedian back in the day did like half of an HBO whatever and Then the next week I saw me had 12 bodyguards and they were pushing me back I was like what the fuck man yo man yo no not right
Starting point is 00:09:46 now you just got crazy got crazy they get crazy they get crazy because and I see I remember I won't say the names but there's been a couple of guys I never get this one dude hit and I went up to try to say something to him and for some reason he had a white suit on we were in a club like why the fuck does he have this white suit on and these big shades? And I went to talk to him. And he said, not right now, man. I'm rich. He said that?
Starting point is 00:10:12 That's what he told me. In front of everybody. Not right now. They got rich. Goddamn. Just let me be rich and famous right now. I don't want to hear your pitch. Because I was going to pitch him something.
Starting point is 00:10:22 I said, man, you think you can get away? And I was like, wow. That's hilarious. And as he said it, I had to sort of like him something. I said, man, you think you can get away? And I was like, wow. That's hilarious. And as he said it, I had to sort of like, okay. But that's what happens. But you got to be careful. That tide goes in and it goes out. And people come up and they remember.
Starting point is 00:10:36 They remember. They remember when you fucked with them. And we've seen them. We've seen them. But being a comedian, we get a chance to sit in a different seat because we sort of, our jobs are observational. We still all have our own demons, but it's just different. You also get humbled a lot as a comedian.
Starting point is 00:10:57 You got to get those jokes. You're performing in front of a live audience. It's all live. It's got to work and it doesn't work. Shit. You got to go back to the drawing board. You got to assess. Actors don't get a lot of that. That's one of the reasons why they're kind of shaky.
Starting point is 00:11:10 More shaky. Yeah, right? They don't get a lot of that testing it live in front of people, that humility that comes with that. You don't. And it's tough. I was talking to another actor. And it's tough. Because, see, I'm a comic who became an actor.
Starting point is 00:11:22 So I'm cheating. You know what I'm saying? I can go do this. And I'm going comic who became an actor. So I'm cheating. You know what I'm saying? I can go do this and I can go. I'm going to be in St. Louis tomorrow, you know, doing some jokes. So I can, you know, I got to get my thing off. But just actors, it's tough. Well, you figured out a way to balance three careers. You can sing, too.
Starting point is 00:11:38 I mean, you could do anything. You're a weird guy in that way. You got a lot of weird talent yourself. You're talking about Justin Bieber and Chris Brown. You've got some weird ability to shift too. It's not only, but I've been fortunate in the fact that now things have opened up.
Starting point is 00:11:54 Like, you know, back in the day, like you could only do one thing. I'll never forget Keenan Ivory Wayans told me, he said, yo, what's with the singing shit? Yo, you Wanda, motherfucker. I can't see you trying to sing or I would try to sing it for a girl I'd be like can you see
Starting point is 00:12:10 that love is real and the girl be like oh Jamie stop you too funny in the face your face is too funny I see Wanda singing to me you funny that's porn ball stop so I was like fuck maybe I'll never sing you know so I was doing of course the stand I'll never sing. You know, so I was doing, of course, the stand up, you know, doing the one and shit.
Starting point is 00:12:28 And then it wasn't until literally I was throwing these parties in my crib and I would always throw parties for like musical guys. You know, so I threw a party for Puff. Puff comes and big parties like 2000. Puff is there and it's all about him. And I'll never forget, he got mad at me a little bit because I would follow him, and I would actually follow him with a camera because at that time, Puff was the biggest guy in the world. You know, you couldn't even get in his parties.
Starting point is 00:12:55 So the way I would get in his parties, I'd show up with a camera. Like, yo, Puff, you need to document this shit. And he'd turn around, what's up, playboy? I'd say, yeah, let me get that, man. Ain't nobody getting this. And it wasn't back in the day with the you know with the camera phone i had the big fucking cannon that you put on your shoulder and the light and the shit i said let me change the
Starting point is 00:13:11 battery let me get all this shit right so at one point i told him we were actually in philly and he was throwing a party and he said yo playboy this party's a million and a half dollars i said like for what i mean what are you saying he said it costs a million and a half dollars i said like for what i mean what are you saying he said it costs a million and a half dollars to throw this party i said puff oh my god i love it the party's amazing yes the mayor is here and everything i said but that's too much money i said you come to my place in la i'll throw you a party for 400 bucks that will rival this party and he got a little mad because you know he was like yo no I'm known for this shit. Don't front. I said, no, no, no,
Starting point is 00:13:46 I respect you. I said, but L.A., I just know how to get around. So he gets to L.A. and he calls me early in the morning. Yo, playboy, make that shit happen. It was a Saturday. I said, cool.
Starting point is 00:13:56 I go in on my phones and by 12 o'clock at my small house in Tarzana and God bless my neighbors that live there. I'm no longer there. I know they wanted me to get out of there
Starting point is 00:14:03 because I was too much. But the party's fevered pitch. And I invited the right people, you know, the right girls who were beautiful, but not too tight, not too, you know, just everything was great. The guys were no haters. You know, because L.A., you know, man, fucking, fucking good. No, one of that. It was the right guys. And he shows up.
Starting point is 00:14:21 And when he shows up, he goes, that's the girl on that TV show. Oh, that's the girl in the movie. I said, yeah, we're friends. He's like, we all hang out here. So it's like, you know, it's all good. And that's the girl. I said, yeah, yeah. I said, but look at the party.
Starting point is 00:14:33 I said, look over there on the table. I got Kentucky Fried Chicken, but I put it in a nice plate. I got Coca-Cola, but it's just in a pitcher. I said, we're at 280 bucks right now and counting. I won't go over 400. And he had the most incredible most incredible time right but at that party was all musical people and I did it For a reason at that party Missy Elliot, of course she had her room. Everybody's going crazy with Missy Elliot I'm going to my garage and there's two guys a little guy like this and a tall guy the little guy goes yo beep Yo, it's like this all the time be i said yeah who are you he said uh we the neptunes uh my name is pharrell i said yeah man i heard you
Starting point is 00:15:10 that's how long ago this was wow so he's like can i just go and have a great time uh there was another guy standing on the wall green jacket like a green little jumpsuit nobody was talking to him guess who was who jay-z nobody knew I said what's up man what's going on great party you know so so Jay-z you know no one knows but and now the way I got into the music however is that all these different parties was going on and I would have like different musical people leave me music in my little studio that I built i went and got this great studio built in the back of my house and so one day in comes this kid backpack on jaws busted who is it who it's kanye oh his jaws busted from like a car accident right kanye walks in and i said who's that they said oh
Starting point is 00:16:04 that's a new motherfucking Kanye, man. He about to beat the shit. I said, what'd he do? Well, he produces, but he also raps. I said, well, anybody come to my house, they got to perform. So I said, yo, man, they say you rap. He rapped the most incredible free. I don't know if it was free.
Starting point is 00:16:15 It was incredible. I said, I don't know why you aren't famous. He did it with a broken jaw? He had a little jaw. It was a little swollen. I don't think it was broken, but it was a little swollen. Because it wasn't too long after that accident
Starting point is 00:16:26 that he had, right? And then he goes, I got a song that you will be good on. I got this song, I know you could kill it. I was like, me? Song?
Starting point is 00:16:39 Goofy Face? Wanda? From the Living Colors? He's like, yeah. I said, oh shit, cool. So we go in, yeah. I said, oh, shit, cool. So we go in the back. I just got the studio in the back. So he sings.
Starting point is 00:16:49 He says, the song's going to go, she say she want some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross. So I said, I got it. She say she want some Marvin Gaye. He's like, what are you doing? I said, well, I got to put the R&B on it. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:17:04 I'm a real singer. I've been singing. He said, don't do that. I don't. Just sing a song because it's hip hop. And I said, OK, cool. So I begrudgingly sung the song. I'm thinking, song's whack.
Starting point is 00:17:20 He's not going to make it. So I went off. I did a bad movie. I come back about six weeks eight weeks later that song is number one my boy goes like you remember that song you said wasn't shit it's number one in the country and then that's how i got into the music so long story longer it's like yeah you can do all of the things and there's a lot of actors and actresses that can you just need those opportunities just like in life when, when your opportunity comes, if you prepare for it, now you can jump into it and grab it.
Starting point is 00:17:51 And what I was told was by my guy, Breon, who does all of my music. He found slow jams. He found Goldick. He found Blame It On The Alcohol. He says, you got to stop singing funny shit and sing a real record. And once you sing a real record and not say it's you singing it now you gotta better go so now after all of those years
Starting point is 00:18:11 the people that grew up with me doing stand up or watching they're older and now the young folks is like you the Kanye man just like how you know the guys now going up to Michael Jordan. So as I get older, you hope that you're blessed with opportunities.
Starting point is 00:18:33 And, you know, it's an old saying, but to sort of reinvent or reintroduce yourself to people who may not know who you are. Well, it's also guys like you have other interests. You have more than one interest. You don't just want to be funny. Yeah. There's a lot going on in there. It's also guys like you have other interests. You have more than one interest. You don't just want to be funny. Yeah. There's a lot going on in there. It's a lot. But like we all are, like comedians, we got a lot of shit that we want to get out.
Starting point is 00:18:53 And like I said, being a comedian, we used to have. It's getting crazier. It's getting tough on us as far as everything we say. They want to come kill us. Right. I mean, I did one, I did Jimmy Fallon. One seating that Jimmy Fallon and every organization wanted to get me.
Starting point is 00:19:15 What did you say? I was doing a joke. I was singing, we were singing these funny songs about who let the dogs out. And so we took who let the dogs out and put it in like a um like a like a vaudeville or a show tune who left the dogs out whatever it was right but beginning of that i sort of ad-lib like i was watching these dogs and they were coming towards me and i was wondering you know who let them out and there was a pit bull there and you know you have to be careful because pit bulls can be cantankerous, you know?
Starting point is 00:19:46 And then I go into the song. The pit bull community was like Jamie Foxx. Pit bull shamed us. You pit bull shamed us? I'm pit bull shaming. And then there was another thing where Jimmy Fallon was doing some type of, he was saying what was going to be on the next show. And I was doing a bad version of signing, which I actually know how to sign,
Starting point is 00:20:12 but I was doing a bad version. You know sign language? I know sign language. We'll talk more about it later. You know, all those types of different things. But as I was doing it, as a joke, I didn't know that the person that he was talking about happened to be deaf.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Oh, no. Oh, my God my god and so then you know so it's just all these things and I try to tell people I say hey listen we never mean anything bad we poke fun but we're not we don't mean anything bad but you can't just you know you can't you can't kill us I and because I got to keep doing what I do you know so it's it's getting tougher. Well, it's just what we're talking about, about social media, about people commenting on things that you can't read the comments. There's just too many people. Yeah. And people are always looking for something to be recreationally outraged at.
Starting point is 00:20:56 Yeah, and the comments will get that ass, too. The comment will hit you right where you are sometimes. Damn, this motherfucker's right. Well, it's good, too, though, a little bit. I mean, they're right when they're actually right. Like, someone can say something ridiculous about you and if you know it's ridiculous, it doesn't mean anything.
Starting point is 00:21:09 But if it's got a hint of truth, you're like, ooh. But when somebody says something about your teeth, you kind of look in the mirror. I don't understand, man. I got fucked up. I got fucked.
Starting point is 00:21:19 I got somebody hit me with the donkey. Yo, it's a fucking donkey. I was like, huh. I started talking like, you know, I'm fucking crazy. So, so you know but i tell people all the time don't read the comments that's the book don't read the comments because it will make you start to change the way you do things if i read all of the comments i never tell another joke yeah if i read all the comments i never try another you know i got a movie that we just uh shot for a little or nothing called
Starting point is 00:21:44 all-star weekend and the jokes are like all the way out there you know and it's i got everybody I got a movie that we just shot for Little or Nothing called All-Star Weekend, and the jokes are all the way out there. And I got everybody in it. And we all play different characters. Like I play a white racist cop. How do you do that? I'll show it to you. I'll grab this thing and show it to you.
Starting point is 00:22:02 But Robert Downey Jr. plays a Mexican. Gerard Butler plays a Russian who loves gymnastics. Benicio Del Toro plays this crazy tattoo artist. And we're all doing our thing. So it's like if you read the comments, that'll make you tuck that in. But this is some brilliant. And it's a cool little thing, too. It's called All-Star Weekend for a reason.
Starting point is 00:22:23 It's about two guys. One guy loves Steph Curry. The other guy loves LeBron Jamesames and all they're trying to do is get to the all-star game and it's sort of like this whole journey of running into all these people so it's dope but it is some things where it's like oh you know you can see there's gonna be some some shit going on well robert johnny jr just from tropic thunder think about that you can never do that anymore you can't have blackface anymore yeah you know what i'll say this people have to understand where it comes from there are real people out there that really mean you harm like outside of us i mean there's some real people who really don't fucking like you whatever you are whether you're black you're white you're straight you're gay
Starting point is 00:22:59 whatever it is there's some people who really don't like with the entertainment and it's easy we're easy targets we're easy it's easy. We're easy targets. We're easy. It's easy for you to jump on Robert Downey Jr. or Jamie Fass or Joe because it's easy. You know, when it's real things, which, you know, whether it's politics or whether it's whatever, a lot of times we sort of, we're not ready for that fight. But it's easy to sort of pick the comedian. I call Robert. I said, listen, I need you to play a Mexican. He says dude uh here's the deal sure fuck it sure why not fuck it sure
Starting point is 00:23:30 of course you're a mexican whatever but then he texts back and said i'm nervous to play the mexican i said well shit you played the black dude and you killed that shit we're just all you know we got to be able to do character what kind of blowback did he get from playing the black dude and you kill that shit. We're just all you know, we got to be able to do care What kind of blowback did he get from playing the black dude? None because we fuck before the wire to though. It was like what year was Tropic Thunder I feel like that was like 10 years ago. It was a while But but but here's the thing we fuck with Robert Downey Jr Like that's our guy right like I did his birthday party and my first joke was how dare
Starting point is 00:24:05 you take all of these roles from black people you know anyway everybody's laughing so it's sort of like the entertainers man we should we you got to give us room you know i'm saying like to to play in it i'll show you when i well you got to take that room you got to take it you can't worry about i saw chapelle somewhere it was like you know they were asking him about his jokes and he's like yo man look you know people have said worse shit. And I think he said something about Donald Trump saying grab him by the pussy or some shit, whatever. But it was true. It was like the one thing that you look at what happened with politics this year. People sort of stripped away a lot of things, you know, regardless of what you believed in.
Starting point is 00:24:53 You know, regardless of what you believed in, whatever person you voted for, it was a lot of things that were sort of addressed about like maybe we were playing things a little too close. Like some of those politicians were afraid to say what Donald Trump was saying. And they ended up being left in the dust because people were a little like, well, he's got a point in the sense of we're playing things a little too close. So when you look at that as a comedian, it's like, wow, you know, that was good for me. And that was good for me in a certain way of, first of all, it's great jokes. Two, it's like, it does say, are we becoming too fragile when it comes to our race? Like black folk? Like I say, yeah, some people are racist and some people are perceptionists. You know what that means? No.
Starting point is 00:25:30 The perception is, okay, the perception in America was the white man, Donald Trump, can be president. The woman can't do it. Perception. Doesn't mean that if you vote for Donald Trump that you're racist. I don't think everybody's racist because that was a big thing. Sometimes it's perception.
Starting point is 00:25:44 I'll make it clear. I do a joke in front of all black people. And I said, black people are very interesting people because we deal with racism and perceptionism. I said, because we're very nervous flyers, right? We don't like to get on planes. First thing we do when we get on the plane, we see who's flying this motherfucker. We look in the cockpit. If we look and see a black guy, we stop and go hey how long you been flying bro
Starting point is 00:26:09 uh you got your hours with you and it was the perception and don't let a woman sit next to him oh shit we good it could be a bright sunny day it's like how's the weather oh we're good and then as you're sitting in that seat anytime you hit a bump my brother we straight same situation you go in the cockpit you see that white guy with that salt and pepper hair and those aviators and it's forearm hair like this and it's storming outside shit fly this shit through a hurricane so it's the perception that we have to talk about sometimes does that make sense oh it definitely makes sense yeah you know there's definitely that you know like the the donald trump thing's funny you know who had it said it best alonzo boden you know alonzo no i was a funny comedian yeah he said
Starting point is 00:26:56 he goes not all donald trump supporters are racist but all racists are Donald Trump supporters. He definitely awakened that side. Yeah, in a creepy way. But I will say this. Like I said, the perception gets us all, too. Because my daughter, it was interesting. My oldest daughter, when the election happened
Starting point is 00:27:23 and when the results came in, Dad, I'm so mad. I can't take it. I said, well, we're going to go March. when the election happened and when, you know, the results came in, Dad, I'm so mad, I can't take it. I said, well, we're going to go March. I said, well, did y'all vote? Not all of us, but, you know. I said, well, you know, you got to get out there because their perception was she had it in the bag. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:36 You know what I'm saying? So you got to get out there and be, you know, whatever that is. Yeah, whatever that is indeed. These are weird times for everybody, you know, because I think social media is allowing people to express themselves. Yeah. Everybody's expressed themselves and people are forming groups. You know, they're just like, you know, they're progressive or they're liberal or they're conservative.
Starting point is 00:27:57 And this. Everybody has a voice. Everybody has a voice. There's so much voices. I'll say this. Maybe you can appreciate this because we've we've lived we're living in two wars we lived when it wasn't here and we live yeah it's it's discretion social media allows you not to have discretion you're able to go in and type whatever you want
Starting point is 00:28:17 to say and that usually that's what we pay attention to discretion is this we're sitting at the dinner table and yo i said something that you didn't like but the discretion was I'll address that later Right. So now that you don't have any discretion anybody's voice can be heard not everybody How do you say it not everybody has a point how do you say it? Not everybody has a point that we should hook all of our wagons to. What I notice is that we will hook our wagons to the most extreme point. And that may be only 2,500 people. Like when my homies will hit me and say,
Starting point is 00:28:56 man, you hear what they say, man, about so-and-so. I said, how many views did it get? 80,000 views. I says,
Starting point is 00:29:00 there's 8 million people in Philly alone. Why are you just listening to those 80 000 people so you sort of have to put balance in the way you sort of sift through it does that make sense it does make sense yeah well the way i try to put it out to people if you run into a room and there's 100 people in that room what are the odds that one person is a fucking idiot 100 right yeah one person almost almost every room of a random group of 100 people. Yeah. And I'm being very, very polite. One person. That means-
Starting point is 00:29:27 Probably a few. Probably a few. But let's go with one. One out of 100. So that means there's 3 million fucking idiots in this country. Right. Just straight idiots. Right.
Starting point is 00:29:38 Non-fixable idiots. Yeah. Yeah. So if you're going to read comments, you're opening yourself up to that if you're gonna get your opinion swayed by people who just want to just want to see if they can affect you just want to see if they can fuck with you they could touch you just see if they could change you get you to change the way you're dressing and that's what i don't like that's the part i don't like so i tell all of my artists and all my friends don't change don't read it because what happens is
Starting point is 00:30:03 everybody starts coloring inside the lines and and now nobody's dangerous anymore. Right. Because you remember back in the day, Madonna, dangerous. Boom. Right. Madonna come out naked, you know, just dancing to the Grammys. Like, it's all good. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:30:14 So what I hope, well, what I always say, just don't tuck your art in. Don't tuck your art in for the comments, because we'll end up not having anything, not having anything to celebrate that is good. Like having something to celebrate. Somebody did a song that was dope or a movie that was dope or got outside the box as opposed to what we love celebrating,
Starting point is 00:30:35 which is the crazy shit. You know what I mean? Yeah, well, especially for comics. Yeah. Because it's one person. If you do a crazy movie, there's a lot of people involved. Yeah. If you're on stage and you say something fucked up, it's just it's one per, if you do a crazy movie, there's a lot of people involved. Yeah. If you're on stage and you say something fucked up,
Starting point is 00:30:47 it's just you. Yeah. Well, I got, I'm going back out. So it's, it's about to happen. I'm going to be passing out a whole bunch of gift baskets.
Starting point is 00:30:54 Cause I'm going back out. And I, you know, like how much time did you take off? I'm never actually taken off. Cause I still do gigs. Like I got a gig tomorrow, St.
Starting point is 00:31:02 Louis, you know, private gig, whatever. But, but it's just, you know, like I got a gig tomorrow St. Louis you know private gig whatever but but it's just you know like I know like as a comedian you gotta live like I just can't jump out there and just start talking or writing jokes like I've lived through some crazy shit so I got to go out there and talk about that you know had I not I'd be like oh because the one thing I hate is the one thing that's tough for a comedian is to become successful.
Starting point is 00:31:27 Because we talk from a shit is fucked up point of view. And I got to have a little anger and I got to have a little poke fun. And if I become that, if I become what I poke fun at, then I can't get it off. That's why at my house, people come to my house. My daughter used to ask me this. Dad, why is this room not, there's nothing in it? I said, I don't want to complete the house because it gives me a sense of like, I'm still trying to get on. Like I don't ever want, I don't put like all the pictures.
Starting point is 00:31:57 Nothing is like perfect in my crib. There's a curtain right now that's torn open in my bedroom. What's going on with Jay Fox, man? What's going on? You're not getting them checks, man. What's going on? You're not getting them checks, man. What's going on? And I just gotta leave it like that. I keep my house a little sort of fucked up. The dysfunctional mansion.
Starting point is 00:32:12 I talk about that. The dysfunctional mansion where there's always somebody, like the other night, there's Odell Beckham in my house battle dancing Chris Brown. You know what I'm saying? Like, who does that? You know what I'm saying? Just crazy shit happening at my house all the time so I could, I have something to link my,
Starting point is 00:32:28 you know, hitch my comedic wagon to. So you create chaos on purpose in a little bit of a way. I just leave it. Slight disarray? I don't remove myself from it. I don't remove, I don't get behind the gates. Behind the gates is the worst shit. Behind the gates.
Starting point is 00:32:43 Behind the gates. When you get behind the gates, when you reach a certain point and you're behind the gates, you can't really see. I'm out. I got to be out with the people. I got to have people. Like I had a BET party, right? 3,000 people in my house. Count it. Jesus. People at the gate, you know, trying
Starting point is 00:33:00 to get in. And as I look through the party, there's Floyd Mayweather. All time. Y'all, you know, what's up, J-Fox? What, there's Floyd Mayweather. All the time. Y'all, you know, what's up, J-Fox? What's up, baby? How you doing? All the time.
Starting point is 00:33:08 You got the greatest party. I love you, baby. You know, got the fight coming, J-Fox. So there's Floyd, there's Fat Joe, there's Little Kim is on stage performing. And then I look around and I see some of the homies,
Starting point is 00:33:20 like the real guys. What's up, Fox? Hey, this nice party right here, cuz. Love it. I'm like, oh, shit. So it's all of these mixtures of people that I can still touch the homies like the real guys that what's up fox hey this nice party right here cuz love it i'm like oh shit so it's all of these mixtures of people that i can still touch hang out with people from my from my uh community uh her name is anka she's like the uh unofficial mayor in our in our cities old little white lady from germany and she's on the dance floor dancing with Snoop. Oh, I love Snoopy.
Starting point is 00:33:46 He's great. The Snoopy is so good in the weed. I don't know. It's crazy. So I sort of keep it that way so I can stay loose. So when I go out, I got, I got shit that I could talk about from the hood to the White House. So you're still, you still manage to stay a regular person.
Starting point is 00:34:03 Got to. But how, that's a hard thing. you still manage to stay a regular person got to but how that's a hard thing for someone who's achieved as much success as you have that is not an easy balancing act to stay normal because you must get overwhelmed by requests and people just wanting your time and wanted to hitch hitch themselves to you and but you gotta look i think what helps me is the failures. Like doing a couple of movies that don't. What was that? Right.
Starting point is 00:34:31 Damn, Fox. You know what I'm saying? Going through TSA. They don't speak to you. Your movie is out. And they're like, come on through. They don't even make eye contact. Come on through.
Starting point is 00:34:41 All right, good. Come on through. Damn, the movie sucks. Or you just get the TSA. Damn, Fox doing baby what was that shit this last shit dog i had to watch that shit on five stick my nigga you know what i'm saying like all that so it's like you appreciate those right uh which keeps you regular keeps you humble and uh and you just gotta sort of look at other people and see how people in our business when they do do get behind the gates, you know, you've seen comics that get that thousand mile stare. And don't want to, I don't be funny no more.
Starting point is 00:35:13 Yeah. Why don't you be funny no more? That's how you came up. I want to be sexy now. You know what I'm saying? They all fall into the sexy, you know, nah, I want to stay funny. Keep the teeth goofy. Keep my head looking goofy, hairline, whatever it is. Because that's what i draw upon when i go out because people can sense it don't you think
Starting point is 00:35:30 oh yeah yeah i think stand-up is kind of in some ways it's a like a mind meld or a mass hypnosis like you're connecting with the audience and if there's anything false about what you're thinking or what you're saying some of them at least can feel it yeah sometimes all of them but some of them can feel it and it'll fuck with the energy of the room but if you're in the groove you're really being yourself that's why when you see dave on stage one of the things about chapelle is that he's always himself yeah he can just be himself and so you relax as an audience member and slide right into his mind. And he takes you on a journey. Right.
Starting point is 00:36:06 Because he's himself. He's not disconnected by fame and celebrity. And that way, he was genius how he passed up all that money and just went to Africa and just settled in and then came back and didn't do any scheduled gigs for years. and didn't do any scheduled gigs for years, he would show up with a speaker and set up a speaker in a park in like Seattle and just gather a crowd around and start doing standup. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. It's like, how do you find that?
Starting point is 00:36:35 He figured it out. Wow, he did it. Well, I agree with that because, like I said, success can sometimes be our coffin, especially when you're a comic, even all the way down to the way I handle social media is interesting. And me just sort of brand new on it and what people view. And this is sort of off subject, but I was just talking about how people view you. I went to the gas station and I put on these shades. And then I took a picture of them.
Starting point is 00:37:12 I thought it was cool. I needed some, just pick up some, you know, $14 shade, whatever. And I put it on, I took a picture with them. And my Instagram blew up. Like, oh, shit, what's this? I read the comments. I was like, man, where you get the shades at? Man, those are Ferragamos, Gucci's.
Starting point is 00:37:27 You know what I'm saying? Like, what are those dogs? Hey, let me get that. I was like, wow. It's just gas station shades. But everybody thought they was, you know, something else. And I was like, man, I don't want that. I don't want them to think that.
Starting point is 00:37:42 I don't want them to think that I spent $2,000 on some shades. Because we always lose our fucking shades anyway. Right. So I actually hit my boy Dave-O and Dave Schottenstein. I said, listen, I want to do an eyeglass. They're like, well, what are you going to do? You want to go to the good? I said, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:37:59 I want to do an eyeglass that costs less than $30. I said, but what we're going to do is we're going to go through each frame and make sure each frame is tight. Like they're dope, like amazing. Cause I told them the story about being at the gas station and they were like, wow, I think that's a good idea. So we ended up doing this whole line. I went through all 200 frames and we did this It's called a Privé Riveau, right? And everybody thought that it was something else. 30 bucks, $30 shades. And now even J-Lo, Bella Thorne, all these other people are wearing the shades because what we noticed when we did do that, people embraced it a little more
Starting point is 00:38:41 because we did a commercial that was that we almost made a mistake where we get clothes on and we tell people how much the clothes cost and people got turned off because the jeans were like 400 the jacket was 2000 they were like what the fuck and we're like no what we were trying to say was, although these clothes cost this, our glasses only cost 30 bucks. So that story in itself, I take that and run with that and say like, I'm not the guy buying the high end, you know,
Starting point is 00:39:14 right stuff. I want to keep it sort of cool and regular. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Does that make sense? It does. Yeah. I know a really rich dude who drives a pickup truck.
Starting point is 00:39:24 He's rich as fuck. And he just likes to drive really rich dude who drives a pickup truck. He's rich as fuck. And he just likes to drive around in a shitty old Toyota pickup truck. He likes it. And why he do that? Because he wants to feel normal. He wants to feel grimy. You want to feel normal. He doesn't wash his hands sometimes, got dirt under his fingernails, pretends he's a farmer.
Starting point is 00:39:37 And can buy the whole fucking world. It's people are weird like that, man. But we have to balance both. Because, you know, being urban being urban i gotta step out there and shine sometime too like my boy has you know you know we we get out there and we show a little bit of the success you know i'm saying just to let people know we're still doing our thing i love the expression being urban i'm a nigga how did happen? How did it become urban? What year was that? I'm actually joking.
Starting point is 00:40:06 Like, I'm black. I tell people all the time, I'm an N-I-C-C-A-H, nigga, all the time. If I lose being that, then I ain't. I got to have that. You know what I'm saying? Does that make sense? Oh, totally. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:18 I got to have that. Yeah. No, I get it. You got to have everything. Why not? It's fun, too, right? Yeah, it's fun, too. But I got to have everything. Why not? It's fun too, right? Yeah, it's fun too. But I got to have that part.
Starting point is 00:40:26 I got to always have that sort of like I can't leave where I came from. Because that's what they try to snatch from me. That's why we did the television show. Chris Spencer and Buddy Lewis wrote this incredible script called White Famous. And White Famous was about a comedian who's trying to become mainstream without losing his black audience, which is all of us, we go through that.
Starting point is 00:40:51 Because the minute you start doing the sort of soft movies and what's up, man? You don't cuss no more, motherfucker? Where you at? You can't keep cussing. I think the problem with shining is when it defines you yeah the problem when when you just everything is flat like floyd mayweather in a way it's part
Starting point is 00:41:11 of his persona it's part of why people root against him like floyd is a genius in my opinion not just a genius boxing he's the greatest defensive boxer in my opinion of all time but also a genius in that he figured out a way where he has this style that's not appealing to a lot of people but what is appealing is people want to see him get his ass kicked and it never fucking happens listen and you know floyd's the homie floyd comes by the house man and i don't want to put everything out there that he does he's super super competitive that's what's amazing but he also understands that yeah jay fox i understand what's going on you know all time they they want me to follow jay fox but
Starting point is 00:41:51 that's what keep me competitive that's what you know all time easy work light work so he's so he will sit at my crib and speak for like hours about the business of it trying to turn these boxers minds minds on, like, yo, get your money. You know what I'm saying? Don't, you know, get your money, get your business, get all that. And then he talks about
Starting point is 00:42:10 just what you said. He says, I know the reason that I fight Oscar De La Hoya on Cinco de Mayo is because they want to see the... He carved out a niche of being the charismatic villain. Does that make sense?
Starting point is 00:42:26 Yeah. And he wasn't in the beginning. He wasn't. In the beginning, he was pretty boy Floyd Mayweather. Yeah. And then he became money Mayweather. Yeah. But had he stayed pretty boy, what?
Starting point is 00:42:35 Who the fuck knows? Who knows, right? I mean, he might have been like Sugar Shane Mosley or something. Wow. But not really because Shane had lost to a few guys. Yeah. What Floyd did better than anybody is not get hit. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:47 He's been hit like six times. Right, right, right. Like, really hard, like six times ever. Him and Zab Judah. Yeah. Zab Judah, his defining fight was the Morales fight when he fought Morales, God bless. It was amazing. And he also said that that hit that Sugar Shane hit him.
Starting point is 00:43:03 He'll tell you, he said that hit when Sugar Shane touched touched him he said that really as she said shook me he said well jay fox i gotta kill me jay fox i gotta kill me he said that's why i dug in you see the end you see the end of the round and the end around he did turn it but he's he got rocked in that fight that was one of the few moments where he really got caught clean by a world-class fighter yeah he got caught clean twice so it'll be interesting, this next fight coming up. Well, Conor's not that level of boxer. You know, someone, I forget who it was that said it. I think it might have been...
Starting point is 00:43:32 It was Dave LaHoya. Yeah, but someone was saying that he's got to, oh, it was Pat Miletic, saying that he has to almost cheat within the rules. I think he's got to, like, fight in the clinch. He's got to, like, dirty box him. He's got to figure out the clinch. He's got to dirty box him. He's got to figure out a way to tie him up and manipulate him and move his body around. He's got to figure
Starting point is 00:43:51 out a way to be good defensively, too. And he's got to hurt him. Those are all high risk, low yield possibilities. The way I described it, if you, how would you expect the greatest figure skater in the world to do playing hockey against Wayne Gretzky? Hi-yi! It's not the same thing.
Starting point is 00:44:14 It's not the same! It's not the same thing. But it's fucking exciting. I tell you that, I cannot wait. Greatest freak show ever. Is it crazy? It's the greatest freak show ever.
Starting point is 00:44:22 I'm waiting for that fight more than Canelo Alvarez versus Gennady Golovkin, even though that fight is the legitimate fight. It's the legitimate fight, but I can't, because there's going to be some crazy shit. Some crazy shit. There's going to be some crazy shit. Well, also there's the mindfuck factor. Conor's the only guy that Floyd's
Starting point is 00:44:38 ever fought that can look at him and go, if this was a real fight, you'd be fucking dead. And he knows it. He knows it. Everybody else Floyd's been able to fuck up. He fucks up all of them. Yeah, yeah. You ever see that video with him and Robert Guerrero?
Starting point is 00:44:51 Right before they fought, they had this thing where they were doing photo shoots. And they had to do a stare-off. And who's this? Robert the Ghost Guerrero is a fighter that Floyd fought maybe four or five fighters ago. Right. And he just worked him for 12 rounds. Right, right. Just beat the shit out of him.
Starting point is 00:45:06 Right. But he's standing right in front of him. He's like, you ain't going to do shit. He's like, you're easy work. You're easy work. He goes, I'm just going to stand. He goes, no one has to get involved. You're not going to do shit.
Starting point is 00:45:16 He goes, we'll get right close to each other. You're not going to do shit. You're easy work. And you could see the dude was just like, oh no. Like he knew. Yeah. He knew that Floyd was right. Right, right, right. Well, when Conor looks at him and goes, if this was
Starting point is 00:45:28 a real fight, I'd fucking kill you. He goes, I'll do your boxing thing. It's a real fight. I'll kill you. Yeah. Like he's, oh yeah, he's right. He's right. Floyd could say, oh, we'll do some MMA. He said it a couple times. Next fight, we'll do MMA. He's not doing that. But you know, Floyd,
Starting point is 00:45:44 look, Floyd, one thing Floyd is, he's smart. Yeah. So, look, he's got him on his playing field. So, it's almost like you start to, like, I know, but people start to go like, is Floyd nervous? I say, I don't know. But I tell you this, he's definitely allowing this guy to play through yeah and that fight is becoming bigger oh yeah bigger oh yeah bigger and bigger so it's like it's gonna be it's gonna be great and the one thing Floyd would always tell me though he said
Starting point is 00:46:14 Jay Fox he said the one thing they're not ready for is the lights I said what you mean he said the lights when the lights are that bright and you look out and you see all, you see Denzel, you see all these, that's a different, that's a different thing. Because I don't know if it was Hatton. I think he was talking about Hatton. He said, the lights, man. He said, that's the one thing I've been fighting, J-File. I've been fighting under the lights since I was like this. So it's going to be interesting.
Starting point is 00:46:38 Yeah, it is going to be interesting. It's going to be crazy. But Conor fights under the lights, too. He's just never boxed anybody like that. That's going to be a totally alien thing when he gets into that ring he's got shoes on and he fills those big ass gloves on his hands and then he looks on the other side and he sees floyd just moving around and getting ready he's got there's gonna be a shadow of a doubt there's gonna be something in there it's gonna be everything jay it's gonna be fucking everything because you think about it they
Starting point is 00:47:03 both i mean they got us they got us i'm going to be fucking everything. Because you think about it, they both, I mean, they got us. They got us. I'm going to that motherfucker. I'm going early. Oh, those press conferences were amazing. Yeah. I'm already booked. I was booked in D.C. that night in advance.
Starting point is 00:47:15 I had already sold out two shows that night. I couldn't cancel. You can't come? No, I can't come. I'm not going to be there. I'm not going to work it either. They wanted me to do something for it. I couldn't. Come on. I can't even. I'm not going to be there. I'm not going to work it either. They wanted me to do something for it. I couldn't.
Starting point is 00:47:25 Come on. I can't even do it. That's going to be the one. I got to figure out a way to not see it until I not know what happened. There's no way you're going to know. Then watch it. You're going to know. I'm going to have to figure out a way.
Starting point is 00:47:36 I hope the audience will be nice and not tell me. There's probably going to be people watching it on their phone while the show's going on. No, no, no. I guarantee you like if someone gets knocked out they're not i'm gonna hear from the audience what's that what joke was that yeah what happened great man yeah great man it's gonna be interesting listen it's amazing yeah yeah how do you go from here i don't know that's where we started where do we go from here we just keep moving we We keep moving, man.
Starting point is 00:48:06 You're obviously enjoying yourself. You're a happy guy. I'm having a good time. For a super successful guy, you seem completely balanced and happy. There are things that you just cannot get away from that you hide right behind. But for the most part, I did some smart stuff, moved my whole family lives with me. So I don't have to worry about it. know, my father, my mom lived with me. Oh, that's great. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:29 And I was adopted seven months. So, you know, me and my mom, me and my biological mom, you know, are crafting our relationship now in the latter stages of her life. So, you know, that's, you know, but I didn't want, but I didn't want no bullshit outside of that you know where someone is is is sitting somewhere watching me from a distance like you know that you know so mom comes in day and they've been divorced for almost 30 years was crazy Wow so they live in the same saying under the same roof is hilarious that's a whole nother show Wow and he still dates you know say he's still getting it in. Be over there. And then she'll float over to his
Starting point is 00:49:07 side of the house and be like, see the girl. Hey, how are you? Hi, George. Who is this? Wow. She's getting something out of the room. I just want to get something out the refrigerator. Some spoiled stuff. That's kind of intense. And then you hear that on my door.
Starting point is 00:49:23 My pops. Could you tell her not to come on my side of the house? I'm like, now parents, you know, so, but it's certain things that I, but you got to figure out your happiness. And the only way you figure out your happiness, you got to try to see or foresee what's going to be the problem. So I get my family close to me. So whatever problem we got to work out, we work that shit out right here. Get my mom and my sisters and my daughters close to me so they see daddy going to work like this,
Starting point is 00:49:56 steal some work shit. It's like, no, we just not on the red carpet. It's not just red carpet every day. You know, I got to get up. I got to go, you know, I got to talk shit. I got to kiss a little ass here. I got to do a whole lot of shit in order to keep this thing going. So you try to, you know, in life, you try to see what,
Starting point is 00:50:11 try to foresee what's going to happen. It's still going to be something. It's always going to be something, just outlandish. But you try to get in front of it. That's an interesting way to handle it, though, to bring everybody close to you, bring your whole family in your house. Yeah, and not everybody can do that. You know, because, you know, it's like, you know, me growing up as an only child, I like having people around.
Starting point is 00:50:30 I can't be by myself. That's why I always would throw parties. I would kidnap people. Like, people would come to my house. I'd be like, why you got to leave, man? Chris Brown? Chris Brown, just stay, man. I got a room.
Starting point is 00:50:39 Floyd, man, stay, man. Where you at? Because I just wanted people. But now having my family around, you got to do it. But like I said, not everybody can do it because it's interesting. Like my father, who has a great story, my stepfather has a great story. You know, he was on drugs or had a situation about with crack, ended up going to jail. I wrote him one letter.
Starting point is 00:51:00 I said, you get out. You know, I'll save your life. Because I didn't like writing letters to people in jail. I didn't like going and visiting people in jail. He gets out. This was around just before 9-11. And my stepfather was incredible in my life because he taught me how to play tennis. So back in the 70s and in the 80s, he was like playing tennis.
Starting point is 00:51:20 I was like, wow, I've never seen a black dude play tennis. He said, you got to learn, son. So people like Yannick Noah, Elie Nastassi beyond borg vitus geralditis those were like heroes of mine so he taught me how to play play tennis so when he gets out he gets out of jail i make sure everything is cool i take him to the u.s open and so there he is me and my pops watching venus you know play he's crying i'm like yeah dad this you know know, this is how we got to live. This is what we need to do. So we watched his Venus play.
Starting point is 00:51:48 And then a couple days after that, it was 9-11. But, you know, he stayed with me. He's been with me since then. You know, early on, I would just go by, check the drawers, make sure there's no paraphernalia, no wrong shit, smoke your weed, cool. Don't do no more than that. And we've been cool since then, you know. And it saved a lot of money in rehab you know what i'm saying so i'm just right there hands-on but uh well sometimes people just being surrounded by loved ones is
Starting point is 00:52:14 enough to keep them from doing anything stupid yeah it can't it can't and it was but it was bumpy at first won't go into it because he wrote a little book and talked about it it was bumpy at first because when he first got out i did some shit for him, got him this, got him a car, whatever. He relapsed his car gone. He's back in. You know, so it was a couple little things that we had to work out. But now, you know, to see him now, like, you know, you know, like, you know, we go to these different events or whatever like that. His whole wall, he old school.
Starting point is 00:52:43 He don't do this. You know, he got the actual photos don't do the, you know, he got the, you know. Actual photos. He go develop the film. I got my little film developer. So he put the film
Starting point is 00:52:51 in the develop the film. See, and he put the film and he got a whole wall and everybody that he's met, you know, all of his heroes. And so,
Starting point is 00:52:57 like I said, you know, I try to, try to look, try to be ahead of the curve when it comes to fucked up shit. What about like when you're creative time, when you have so many people living with you? Did you get, do you ever feel like boxed in?
Starting point is 00:53:12 No, that's, you know, like I know the best way to create is to have people around. Because I could try that joke out on them and they don't know I'm doing that joke. You know what I'm saying? I could try this idea, see how they respond. Because your family going to give you the real, going to give them, man, that's terrible. That ain't funny.
Starting point is 00:53:28 I don't want to see how you made it. That's terrible. You know what I'm saying? So you always got to, to me, having people around that tell you the truth. You know,
Starting point is 00:53:36 like everybody in my family, you know, they tell me the truth about it. I said, hmm, that's sleepless. I should have just
Starting point is 00:53:42 stayed asleep. They was like, oh shit, really? It was fucked up? Yeah. So it's like, you know, having that allows me to create, and then I have my own little space where I go, okay, let me get this.
Starting point is 00:53:52 Now let me, they responded to that, and now let me put this together over here in a little space. So you have like a little sanctuary. Yeah, I got a little studio that I set up where I go in there and do all that shit, you know. But it helps. Well, listen, man, I know you got to get the fuck out of here. You only here for an hour, right?
Starting point is 00:54:08 Yeah, man. But it's been great. Dude, listen, you are, you're an amazing person. And I'm very, I'm very honored to have you on here because you're one of the very few people that I know that has this well-rounded life, but also is very balanced. Like you've had amazing success in all these different things, but you're as normal and approachable as anybody I know. Gotta be. You know why I gotta be?
Starting point is 00:54:32 Why? You. Because you are a speaker of truth. We ain't seen each other in a while. But the one thing about your opinion is always going to be truthful so you know as us coming from a different time there's certain people that we want to have the real truth come from you rock chapelle all these guys so we came up so when we're doing our art or when we're doing whatever we do, yeah, it's always going to be those people that, you know, rock with you.
Starting point is 00:55:07 But you want to get the people who have a really artistic. Real opinion. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah, I know. And if you hear them say, yo, I kind of fuck with that. OK, I got that. If J.R. says that's cool, then I know. And that's why. Why you say that? Because that motherfucker tell you he'll tell you that that shit's whack. You know what I'm saying? And then they whoop your ass you know i'm saying so you got to be you know you got to be on point with this because i know when i run into those guys like you you want to have that favor does that make sense i know exactly what you're saying yeah because you got hold yourself to a very high standard you got people in your mind right now that when you're doing your thing, that you know
Starting point is 00:55:46 if everybody's yelling like, oh, we love you. But if that person say maybe this or maybe that, you go, okay. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? People are going to be 100% real. Yeah. Yeah. So there you go.
Starting point is 00:55:58 You're a bad motherfucker, Jamie Foxx. Thank you, brother. And you are too. All right, baby. All right. Thanks, sir. And they told me to say Preva Revo. Yeah. How do we get, how do you get those sunglasses? Amazon are too. All right, baby. All right. Thanks, sir. And they told me to say Prevay Revo. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:05 How do you get those sunglasses? Amazon.com, Prevay Revo. You lose your clothes, you never lose your glasses, man. And it's all of them are $29.95. And there you go. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. Peace. There you are.

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