Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Donnell Rawlings Defends His Character, Speaks On Getting Booed + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Everybody is d j en Vy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne to God.
- 0:08Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. Laura La Rosa is here
- 0:11Speaker 2: as well. Now, now you want to step to the mic.
- 0:15Speaker 2: We can pull up that chair. Do you want that chair?
- 0:18Speaker 1: Will pull up that chair? You want us to pull
- 0:20Speaker 1: up the couch?
- 0:21Speaker 2: Okay? These are for you to brought you some flowers.
- 0:24Speaker 1: I don't subject.
- 0:29Speaker 3: I was very concerned about you.
- 0:30Speaker 1: I was very concerned about you. And then we're talking concerns.
- 0:34Speaker 1: That's all concerns.
- 0:35Speaker 3: I was concerned.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Congratulation on your podcast, thank.
- 0:37Speaker 3: You the latest who learned the Rose of jopper On on
- 0:39Speaker 3: March thirty. First, come on to black Queen. Oh now
- 0:42Speaker 3: I'm a queen.
- 0:43Speaker 1: You've always been a queen.
- 0:44Speaker 4: Betch I mean queen, Queen, Queen, Queen, queen, queen, you
- 0:47Speaker 4: always been a queen. Good morning, it's a queen.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Missing you won't be booting here, It's okay.
- 0:51Speaker 1: I don't okay, I don't understand what that means. I
- 0:53Speaker 1: don't get booth.
- 0:54Speaker 4: And sometimes it might be a situation where there's a misunderstanding,
- 0:58Speaker 4: but don't you can't you don't know a person.
- 1:02Speaker 3: What happened?
- 1:02Speaker 1: What happened with.
- 1:05Speaker 2: So we were watching something online and it was a
- 1:08Speaker 2: roast and they were boring you. Every time you spoke,
- 1:11Speaker 2: they booed you.
- 1:13Speaker 1: What happened? All right? This is?
- 1:16Speaker 4: This is I don't really like to I really wanted
- 1:18Speaker 4: to start this interview in a positive note as much
- 1:21Speaker 4: as I can't stand y'all in the absence of somebody,
- 1:24Speaker 4: where's he He's at a strip club dropping like it's
- 1:26Speaker 4: hot somewhere. It was a very viral video that went
- 1:29Speaker 4: down and looked very very suspect. It was your video,
- 1:32Speaker 4: and then it was someone that was dropping like a
- 1:34Speaker 4: hot in a lore sweatsuit. One of the most ratchet
- 1:36Speaker 4: things you can do as a human. Okay, back to
- 1:41Speaker 4: I was a lot of people don't know what you're
- 1:44Speaker 4: talking about.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Oh, you were doing a roast, you were hosting a roast.
- 1:48Speaker 4: It was wasn't host I wasn't hosting.
- 1:52Speaker 1: First off, I was.
- 1:53Speaker 4: I was in Los Angeles, California, and I had the
- 1:55Speaker 4: opportunity to meet with somebody that regard and in the
- 2:00Speaker 4: highest manner that you know. I came in here and
- 2:03Speaker 4: I've sung the I Lose Control song for the longest time,
- 2:06Speaker 4: probably for the last couple of years, I've been used
- 2:08Speaker 4: as Teddy Swims correct Teddy Swim. So I had the opportunity.
- 2:11Speaker 4: Actually we were like connected through d M and that
- 2:14Speaker 4: sounds sketchy and ship. We were connected through social media
- 2:19Speaker 4: and I had the opportunity to meet him in person,
- 2:22Speaker 4: hung out with him, and that turned what are you doing?
- 2:26Speaker 3: I just, you know, like exclusives.
- 2:27Speaker 5: I just want people to see you after the booing
- 2:29Speaker 5: situation and I can confirm that you're good.
- 2:34Speaker 4: So I had a chance to hang out with Teddy
- 2:40Speaker 4: Swim and we we had some uh that night, we.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Had some adult beverages.
- 2:45Speaker 2: You drinking liquor.
- 2:46Speaker 1: We were drinking liqu a lot of it.
- 2:48Speaker 4: And what I learned that night was that you can't
- 2:49Speaker 4: go toe for toad doing shots with Teddy Swims orl
- 2:53Speaker 4: I don't know if you ever drink, do you.
- 2:54Speaker 3: Want because you know how we come.
- 2:56Speaker 4: On according to the streets, that I need to slow
- 2:58Speaker 4: down on my drinking. I think I didn't ask for
- 3:01Speaker 4: your opinion, mister perfect and uh. I went to comedy
- 3:06Speaker 4: Roles hosted by Jeff Ross and the Negro.
- 3:09Speaker 3: After the shots.
- 3:10Speaker 4: After the shots, and it was a platform where comics
- 3:14Speaker 4: go on stage and they do their three or four
- 3:16Speaker 4: men's worth of roasting, and then you, as a guest,
- 3:19Speaker 4: a guest host or u now host, a guest judge,
- 3:22Speaker 4: you critique those people on what you thought their comedy
- 3:25Speaker 4: meant or in that moment. And I didn't have a
- 3:27Speaker 4: lot of favorable things to say about them, to which
- 3:30Speaker 4: the negro on the show, UH encouraged the audience whenever
- 3:35Speaker 4: I spoke to Boomy. So to your point of a boot,
- 3:40Speaker 4: he told me to do it, you said, the negro said,
- 3:42Speaker 4: how long is he.
- 3:42Speaker 1: Going to do this? I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm sorry,
- 3:45Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm not doing it. And it was a situation.
- 3:47Speaker 1: It was, it was.
- 3:48Speaker 4: It was a misunderstanding. They bowed me. But it wasn't
- 3:52Speaker 4: like a boot boo it was it was. It wasn't
- 3:56Speaker 4: a boot like that. You got different boods. You got
- 3:59Speaker 4: the fuck out of here. Your ship is corny boot.
- 4:02Speaker 4: Then you got a boot that when people, uh, when
- 4:05Speaker 4: they encouraged someone to do that, and that's what happened
- 4:08Speaker 4: at night.
- 4:08Speaker 2: And they bowed you. They bowed you a lot. Every
- 4:10Speaker 2: time you spoke, you got on stage, they booed you.
- 4:14Speaker 2: How did it make you feel?
- 4:15Speaker 1: It means no, I'm too funny to be.
- 4:18Speaker 5: Getting bulled too, because you actually are like I told you,
- 4:21Speaker 5: like when I saw you at Radio City Music Hall,
- 4:23Speaker 5: was like I've seen you before, and I was like,
- 4:25Speaker 5: you're funny cutting.
- 4:25Speaker 1: People off again? Period? Jesus Christ insta cutting people off again?
- 4:35Speaker 1: Oh man?
- 4:36Speaker 2: What that means?
- 4:37Speaker 1: All right? Now? Christ?
- 4:39Speaker 4: Did we raise our Handkirters? We get a bail of
- 4:41Speaker 4: something that God damn order in the court. A lot
- 4:44Speaker 4: of people missing the day.
- 4:46Speaker 3: That's why you dressed like that. You came in here
- 4:47Speaker 3: and thinking this was no.
- 4:49Speaker 1: I just feel I feel like an adult today. Connected.
- 4:51Speaker 2: I asked you a real question, Donald Rawlins, And if
- 4:54Speaker 2: you haven't seen the video, yes, he was booed and uh,
- 4:57Speaker 2: the host of the show told him every time he
- 4:58Speaker 2: spoke to boom.
- 5:00Speaker 4: I thought it was hilarius because of course you're person,
- 5:02Speaker 4: of course, But but I actually like you.
- 5:05Speaker 1: But do you think I don't? I'm not concerned about
- 5:07Speaker 1: you liking me? All right? Okay? Fine?
- 5:10Speaker 2: Seriously, do you think people take you serious enough like
- 5:14Speaker 2: they do? Do you feel like they play with you
- 5:16Speaker 2: too much? Because I feel like they wouldn't play with
- 5:18Speaker 2: certain comics like that. But they feel like they play
- 5:20Speaker 2: with you all the.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Time like that.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they played too much my whole life, played
- 5:24Speaker 4: too much my whole life. People thought I played too
- 5:26Speaker 4: much when I was Korea. They didn't know how to
- 5:28Speaker 4: say this, nigga play too much of Korean, so they
- 5:30Speaker 4: would say too much a gameplay, And I was that's me.
- 5:32Speaker 4: I'm a gameplay motherfucker. I'm the right position. They just
- 5:35Speaker 4: to say that all the time, you have too much
- 5:36Speaker 4: a gameplay every day?
- 5:38Speaker 1: You why all the time? I'm not being funny. That's
- 5:41Speaker 1: how the Korean is told.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Why you heavy day?
- 5:43Speaker 1: But it's get upset with me?
- 5:44Speaker 4: Lawley's you every day? You all the time? Bullshit all
- 5:47Speaker 4: the time? Shigara, he took job. You don't speak Korean?
- 5:51Speaker 4: That shut up and be quiet?
- 5:52Speaker 1: But why did they play jo shuk it all?
- 5:56Speaker 2: But why did they play with you? Like they don't
- 5:58Speaker 2: play with They don't play with ball, They don't play
- 6:01Speaker 2: with any of the comedians that's on this wall. But
- 6:03Speaker 2: they play with you all the time. It's like they
- 6:05Speaker 2: almost try to take the fact that you are famous,
- 6:08Speaker 2: the fact that you are successful, the fact that you
- 6:10Speaker 2: are funny and try to downplay it all the time.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
- 6:13Speaker 1: You want to know the real answer to that? Please?
- 6:15Speaker 1: Because of you, motherfucker?
- 6:16Speaker 4: What do you mean?
- 6:17Speaker 1: You in this platform? That's why?
- 6:19Speaker 3: Why?
- 6:20Speaker 4: Because y'all played too much. Y'all started with booty tricks.
- 6:23Speaker 4: Y'all started with what black big answers?
- 6:27Speaker 3: Can I cut you off?
- 6:28Speaker 1: Can you come off?
- 6:29Speaker 2: Start with you?
- 6:31Speaker 1: It would not be you.
- 6:32Speaker 3: You didn't start with the booty tricks.
- 6:33Speaker 5: It started when you tried to come here and it
- 6:35Speaker 5: was something like with your dad or remember the moment
- 6:37Speaker 5: when Charlomagne's laughing at him.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Yes, that's when you wrote a book about his dad.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Ye.
- 6:41Speaker 4: First of all, you probably was in high school when
- 6:43Speaker 4: I first started doing this show. Okay, so your facts
- 6:45Speaker 4: are incorrect. That's not how it started. The first time
- 6:48Speaker 4: is the.
- 6:48Speaker 3: One that we I'm cutting you off again?
- 6:50Speaker 5: No you okay, I'm okay, yeah, all right, I'm just
- 6:55Speaker 5: checking on you.
- 6:56Speaker 3: Okay.
- 6:57Speaker 5: The one that I most know of is the moment
- 7:00Speaker 5: your dad in the book. And I felt bad for
- 7:01Speaker 5: you in that moment too.
- 7:04Speaker 4: I felt bad for myself at that moment. It was very,
- 7:07Speaker 4: very awkward. He had a good time with that. You
- 7:10Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. When he speaks about his dad
- 7:12Speaker 4: or whatever, I'm like, oh, that's so good. The fact
- 7:14Speaker 4: that his father was a po po and then the military,
- 7:17Speaker 4: our kind of paths were parallels. So I support him
- 7:19Speaker 4: and in relationship he has.
- 7:20Speaker 1: With his father.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Now, when I wanted to get really serious and talk
- 7:25Speaker 4: about some childhood childhood, tryal in my life. They thought
- 7:28Speaker 4: it was a joke. So back to your question, how
- 7:30Speaker 4: did this start? And just to answer your question, you
- 7:32Speaker 4: motherfucker the lack of respect that you guys have had,
- 7:34Speaker 4: but I've mustered through it.
- 7:36Speaker 1: I'm a better person.
- 7:37Speaker 2: So you think because you come up here and play
- 7:39Speaker 2: with us, you think people play with you.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I think that's the part of it.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Yeah, you seriously think that.
- 7:45Speaker 1: I answered the question once?
- 7:47Speaker 3: YEA be joking.
- 7:48Speaker 1: So you're going to just keep asking a questions? Do
- 7:49Speaker 1: you get to answer that you want?
- 7:50Speaker 3: That's what I do.
- 7:51Speaker 1: See what they be saying.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Now, So.
- 7:55Speaker 2: How do we change his narrative down now? Because I
- 7:58Speaker 2: don't like the fact. I mean, you know what it is.
- 8:00Speaker 2: You know, you know when you're dating somebody and you're
- 8:02Speaker 2: like I could argue with her, but nobody else can
- 8:04Speaker 2: I feel like that with us, Like we can make
- 8:06Speaker 2: fun of you, but the world should be able to
- 8:07Speaker 2: make fun of you. But like, I feel like they
- 8:09Speaker 2: take your comedy lightly, but we don't take your comedy
- 8:11Speaker 2: like nobody.
- 8:13Speaker 4: That's a couple of people to take my comedy lightly,
- 8:15Speaker 4: And I don't care about that. But nobody takes me lightly.
- 8:18Speaker 4: It's just that, And I will say whatever I go.
- 8:20Speaker 4: The first thing he says, why do you let the
- 8:21Speaker 4: breakfast club.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Fucking me like that?
- 8:23Speaker 4: I said, I don't let them fuck with you. Yeah,
- 8:26Speaker 4: like you know, the praise like they don't, they don't, they.
- 8:28Speaker 3: Don't interrupt that one.
- 8:35Speaker 4: Man, I said so many god damn prayers before I
- 8:37Speaker 4: came up here today.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Man, I wasn't. I didn't come here for that envy.
- 8:41Speaker 2: I'm trying to talk to you because I really want
- 8:43Speaker 2: to get your feelings and your expressions out there, because
- 8:45Speaker 2: I don't like how people play with you. You know,
- 8:47Speaker 2: the booing thing is funny, it's hilarious. I thought it
- 8:49Speaker 2: was funny.
- 8:49Speaker 1: It's nothing funny about you.
- 8:50Speaker 4: It's the most traumatic thing you could deal with as
- 8:52Speaker 4: a comedian, especially when when you when like when it's
- 8:55Speaker 4: because you weren't funny, and the situation I had wasn't
- 8:57Speaker 4: because I wasn't funny.
- 8:58Speaker 1: It was just it was a setup, that's what it was.
- 9:00Speaker 5: But that's a laquer I didn't I didn't like watching
- 9:02Speaker 5: it because I was like, Okay, maybe this is what
- 9:04Speaker 5: they do on that over there, but like I feel
- 9:06Speaker 5: like it was a lack of respect, and I don't
- 9:07Speaker 5: like that.
- 9:08Speaker 1: I mean it was I wouldn't say it was a misunderstand.
- 9:14Speaker 2: There's no tricks going on to that.
- 9:16Speaker 1: It's no, I don't know what going on.
- 9:29Speaker 2: There's nothing. We just having a real conversation.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Listen, things happen.
- 9:33Speaker 3: Mince is not here today.
- 9:35Speaker 4: I noticed that so much better. Things happen as a
- 9:38Speaker 4: committed of things happen. And then at the end of
- 9:40Speaker 4: the day is what you do with those things that
- 9:42Speaker 4: have happened. That incident I had with Jeff Ross and
- 9:45Speaker 4: that roast battle, you know, it's a lot of things
- 9:47Speaker 4: that could have happened that that I could have switched
- 9:51Speaker 4: the situation I was lit. I'm not gonna lie about that.
- 9:55Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it's what when
- 9:57Speaker 4: things happen. It's like they always say, can you turned
- 10:00Speaker 4: lemon into lemonade? So they tried to tag with mister
- 10:03Speaker 4: crash out. I am a crash out motherfucker. It's because
- 10:05Speaker 4: of people in relationships that I have with people like yourself,
- 10:08Speaker 4: like with her, she's absent today, he queen, Oh.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Charlomanne for the girls?
- 10:15Speaker 1: What was that when?
- 10:16Speaker 5: So the video you referenced when Charlomagne was dropping it
- 10:18Speaker 5: like it's hot and given all ballroom, in the ballroom,
- 10:21Speaker 5: we call her maka minace.
- 10:23Speaker 4: Monchael, minness, what's up monch minute? And it wasn't like
- 10:27Speaker 4: it was like I practiced that like he practiced that
- 10:29Speaker 4: at home and he finally had the platform to uh
- 10:32Speaker 4: to drop it for everybody.
- 10:33Speaker 2: I'm sure.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:34Speaker 2: But back to that would saying, so, so, how do
- 10:36Speaker 2: you change that narrative? Because I feel like you let
- 10:39Speaker 2: people trick you out of your position.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Right.
- 10:41Speaker 2: It started with the wh when the commedy called you
- 10:44Speaker 2: mild and you was upset about that and you crashed
- 10:46Speaker 2: out about that. Then with the bow and you crashed
- 10:48Speaker 2: out about that.
- 10:49Speaker 4: But because it's not true, son, there is nothing that's
- 10:53Speaker 4: not There is nothing that's mild about me.
- 10:56Speaker 2: After there's nobody not the door, the door closed, Get scared, yo.
- 11:03Speaker 4: The reason why because there's no facts to make that
- 11:07Speaker 4: make sense. After thirty years doing comedy, I've never ever
- 11:12Speaker 4: once heard anybody called me mil so it's like this.
- 11:16Speaker 4: It's like an assassination of somebody's character. When you put
- 11:19Speaker 4: something out there and it's not true, you can be
- 11:21Speaker 4: upset about it. I have to, and I'm thinking about
- 11:23Speaker 4: getting a therapist. I have to learn how to deal
- 11:26Speaker 4: with stuff like that and not take it so personal.
- 11:28Speaker 1: But there's a couple of words.
- 11:30Speaker 4: There's in words in comedy that when you said people
- 11:33Speaker 4: get offended about a corny and whack those two words.
- 11:37Speaker 4: It's almost like fight words in comedy. And it's not
- 11:39Speaker 4: a person. I'm not a person who had a career
- 11:41Speaker 4: where I go back or forth. One year he's funny,
- 11:44Speaker 4: one year he's not, or whatever. Okay, I've been tearing
- 11:47Speaker 4: up stages forever. And that's not just me saying it.
- 11:49Speaker 4: It's anybody to come on any comment that come on
- 11:51Speaker 4: this platform would agree that I'm a funny motherfucker. So
- 11:54Speaker 4: when you put that out there, I take offense to it,
- 11:57Speaker 4: but I shouldn't. I shouldn't take it that serious. And
- 11:59Speaker 4: usually people like that, the ones that talk the most
- 12:02Speaker 4: shit are the ones that are doing the least shit in
- 12:03Speaker 4: this business?
- 12:04Speaker 1: Right?
- 12:04Speaker 2: Well, you know Charlamage always says nobody cares about the
- 12:06Speaker 2: truth and the lives more entertaining. But when when you
- 12:10Speaker 2: allow it and you crash out about it and it
- 12:11Speaker 2: shows people you bother you, people gonna keep attacking that same.
- 12:14Speaker 4: Thing over and over and over again. I mean, and
- 12:17Speaker 4: you allow them to do it. I don't know why
- 12:18Speaker 4: I'm doing anything. You're a perfect example of that, because
- 12:20Speaker 4: you fucking with me.
- 12:21Speaker 1: Now I'm not I'm asking, like, I'm not joking.
- 12:23Speaker 4: I don't trust I do not trust your face. You
- 12:26Speaker 4: don't but I don't, But I'm asking. I don't trust you.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Why you could go eight episodes and answer the question
- 12:34Speaker 4: why motherfuckers it's a whole. It's counted you put down
- 12:37Speaker 4: and ross, breakfast up, everything starts off but a god
- 12:40Speaker 4: damn joke.
- 12:40Speaker 1: So I don't trust you and I have my guards up.
- 12:42Speaker 3: Are you really gonna do therapy?
- 12:44Speaker 1: Like?
- 12:44Speaker 3: Is that a real thing?
- 12:45Speaker 5: I think I possibly might need therapy because just in
- 12:48Speaker 5: life you have some like things you need to figure out,
- 12:50Speaker 5: or because the way like you're not like you don't
- 12:52Speaker 5: like the responses you're getting to your comedy relationship that
- 12:55Speaker 5: I have.
- 12:55Speaker 1: With certain people.
- 12:57Speaker 3: Okay, but I know you know you part of it.
- 12:58Speaker 3: To me, you came up and you know each other.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Yeah, you brought this baby like you're part of the joke.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Like it's not like we just crack on you. You
- 13:05Speaker 2: crack on us.
- 13:06Speaker 3: Well everything I know, a.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Boy, the end of this, this conversation is going to
- 13:09Speaker 2: be a real estate joke. I know that real estate joke.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Some one. You don't do real estate, you've been see.
- 13:14Speaker 1: I'm just that's not a joke.
- 13:15Speaker 3: That's you real estate.
- 13:19Speaker 4: Do you still follow certain people? It's not a real
- 13:23Speaker 4: estate joke. It's real. You don't do real estate. Okay,
- 13:27Speaker 4: I didn't know. It's not as promoted as it used
- 13:30Speaker 4: to be.
- 13:30Speaker 1: See, that's not a joke. But I know I'm gonna
- 13:32Speaker 1: get that from you.
- 13:33Speaker 2: But it doesn't It doesn't bother me.
- 13:34Speaker 4: It doesn't affect me because maybe with two different people
- 13:36Speaker 4: envy why you turn around because I just not. I
- 13:41Speaker 4: just don't feel comfortable this situation.
- 13:44Speaker 1: That's why.
- 13:46Speaker 2: Yeah, So what's next for you when it comes to
- 13:49Speaker 2: to comedy, Because it seems like.
- 13:51Speaker 1: You're forming this city winery in New York this weekend.
- 13:53Speaker 2: It seems like you're always trying to prove yourself.
- 13:55Speaker 4: I'm not trying to prove myself. That's next for me
- 13:58Speaker 4: in comedy. Another thing is next for me. I have
- 14:00Speaker 4: this thing that I do called donelle Land and it's
- 14:02Speaker 4: something similar to what you do in regard to providing
- 14:05Speaker 4: something for the community. I do this five Days and
- 14:08Speaker 4: Yellow Springs, Ohio, which consists of a lot of activities
- 14:11Speaker 4: for the family with the canoeing, kayaking, sound bath, nature
- 14:15Speaker 4: walk of Sunday Funday, celebrity kickball game, streets versus the creeks,
- 14:20Speaker 4: and then it comes to a climax on Monday, Memorial Day,
- 14:23Speaker 4: Monday with the river Run that We've had at least
- 14:26Speaker 4: four hundred people participating in that and that's happening again
- 14:30Speaker 4: this year and that's the weekend of Memorial Day.
- 14:33Speaker 1: That's what Donnelle's doing. I love that.
- 14:34Speaker 4: So with Dave Chapelle, your close friend, Yeah, what does
- 14:37Speaker 4: he tell you when you go through a lot of
- 14:38Speaker 4: the stuff that you go through, Because I mean, you
- 14:41Speaker 4: put out a special and I thought the special was Hilary.
- 14:42Speaker 4: You tell me don't engage, but you do so you
- 14:45Speaker 4: don't listen to your friend, that's filthy rich, that's been
- 14:47Speaker 4: doing it.
- 14:47Speaker 1: I don't listen to a lot of people.
- 14:48Speaker 4: And that's why a lot of situations I get in,
- 14:50Speaker 4: Because so many situations I've been in, it could have
- 14:52Speaker 4: been like, why did you respond that? I don't care
- 14:54Speaker 4: how anybody want, anybody want to say. It's the hardest
- 14:58Speaker 4: thing to do is not to respond to negativity. And
- 15:01Speaker 4: part of I know whenever I sit down and talk
- 15:03Speaker 4: to therapists, the first thing they're going to do is
- 15:05Speaker 4: tell me, Donielle, don't read the comments, to which I'm
- 15:08Speaker 4: going to read each and every one of those comments.
- 15:10Speaker 3: You also be in the comments too.
- 15:12Speaker 4: You in the comments too, But every other page I go, no,
- 15:17Speaker 4: every other yes, I didn't say that. I just I'm
- 15:23Speaker 4: not calling. I'm just telling you. Social media exact the
- 15:28Speaker 4: same wouldn't be like but like you for the tweets,
- 15:35Speaker 4: You're for the tweets.
- 15:37Speaker 2: But it's hard. But there's so many comedians. There's so
- 15:41Speaker 2: many comedians like you. Look at Gary Owen, shut up,
- 15:44Speaker 2: get in trouble. You look at Ryan Davis, You look
- 15:47Speaker 2: at all these comedians that want Netflix specials that Netflix
- 15:49Speaker 2: hasn't offered them anything. And you got a Netflix special,
- 15:52Speaker 2: you're working on another one. So you're blessed beyond belief.
- 15:56Speaker 2: You're you're doing comedy in front of hundreds of thousands
- 15:58Speaker 2: of people. So you to the opportunities that most don't.
- 16:01Speaker 2: But I feel like you're always trying to prove yourself.
- 16:04Speaker 2: But I understand why, because you're funny at shit, Like
- 16:08Speaker 2: you know, you know I come and support you, Right,
- 16:09Speaker 2: It's just I'm coming this weekend.
- 16:13Speaker 1: I didn't invite you.
- 16:14Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you give me tickets.
- 16:15Speaker 4: You're just gonna barge in, all right, I know I
- 16:18Speaker 4: could tell I hear you in the lobby.
- 16:20Speaker 1: No it's not.
- 16:21Speaker 4: I'm telling you a lot of things that I engage
- 16:25Speaker 4: and I shouldn't engage in. And that's part of me.
- 16:27Speaker 4: That's part of me trying to find some growth, and
- 16:29Speaker 4: that's part of me. I like, I really do think
- 16:31Speaker 4: that I probably could use or benefit from having a
- 16:34Speaker 4: therapist or talk to a therapists, and it's something I
- 16:36Speaker 4: had to deal with it until then, I'll continue to
- 16:37Speaker 4: be funny. But I'll tell you one thing that anytime
- 16:40Speaker 4: I have an incident, what it does to me for
- 16:42Speaker 4: my fight back is that it makes me more creative.
- 16:45Speaker 4: It makes me want to go on stage and just
- 16:47Speaker 4: destroy room, and it makes me want to produce something funny.
- 16:50Speaker 4: Even the incident that you're talking about with Jeff Ross
- 16:53Speaker 4: and I made a song about it. The only way
- 16:55Speaker 4: I could deal with it is to try to bring
- 16:57Speaker 4: some human and really pushes me to be more creative
- 17:00Speaker 4: and get in my production mode.
- 17:02Speaker 1: That's what I do. That's why I fight.
- 17:03Speaker 3: Why did you want to make a song?
- 17:07Speaker 4: Because I was tired of explaining what happened that day
- 17:10Speaker 4: and the song was lost control. I lost control that day.
- 17:13Speaker 4: I lost control when I had drinks with Teddy and
- 17:16Speaker 4: I was like, that's a funny way to dress instead
- 17:17Speaker 4: of me really express how I feel, like, fuck the motherfuckers.
- 17:20Speaker 4: I don't give a fuck by And I said, why
- 17:22Speaker 4: don't I try to make it funny and spin it
- 17:24Speaker 4: and I'll take control of the narrative when I do
- 17:25Speaker 4: stuff like that.
- 17:27Speaker 2: Next question, now, what about your drinking? It has your
- 17:29Speaker 2: drinking and an issue and a problem.
- 17:30Speaker 4: No, I've never been dropped problem. Why are you looking
- 17:34Speaker 4: at me in my face like that?
- 17:36Speaker 2: I mean it might have been an incident before what
- 17:38Speaker 2: you're drinking. And every time there's a situation. It seems
- 17:40Speaker 2: like alcohol is also involved.
- 17:42Speaker 1: And when is that usually? When do these instances happen?
- 17:44Speaker 1: Drinking hours? What does happened?
- 17:47Speaker 4: Drinking hours mean? That doesn't mean that. I mean, I'm
- 17:50Speaker 4: saying I could see if I was coming out of
- 17:51Speaker 4: church fucked up. You don't see that.
- 17:53Speaker 2: But if you're drunk, and every every time it happens
- 17:56Speaker 2: when you're drunk, that might be an issue.
- 17:57Speaker 4: I don't also drunk. I would just say inebriated or
- 17:59Speaker 4: slightly like feeling nice.
- 18:02Speaker 1: And I've had some incidents and what it happens and.
- 18:05Speaker 3: Be with incident?
- 18:05Speaker 2: Are you referring to I'm not because I'm not going
- 18:07Speaker 2: to put that man's stuff out there. He knows what
- 18:09Speaker 2: I'm talking about. I just want to make sure my
- 18:10Speaker 2: brother is okay. And my brother it's a couple of them.
- 18:12Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I don't remember that.
- 18:15Speaker 2: See, that's the one I was talking about talk about.
- 18:18Speaker 5: I googled Donel Rollins. The second article that came up
- 18:23Speaker 5: is from Y'allhoo Entertainment and done. Rollins says he had
- 18:26Speaker 5: a great time at ty parties. I swear to God
- 18:35Speaker 5: everything Look at this. Look look second article that came up.
- 18:39Speaker 5: What Donelle Rolins drinking?
- 18:43Speaker 2: Or is that the time he drove up the wrong
- 18:44Speaker 2: side the street?
- 18:45Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, okay, you drove up that
- 18:49Speaker 4: was part of that was part of a joke.
- 18:51Speaker 1: That was part of the joke. I don't know what
- 18:54Speaker 1: joke that was. That was part of the joke. That's
- 18:55Speaker 1: a picture y'all made viral.
- 18:57Speaker 4: There was a picture that picture of me on this y'all,
- 18:59Speaker 4: and I say, I don't know what did he put
- 19:00Speaker 4: in that vodka. It feel like I had a full
- 19:02Speaker 4: head of hair on that yacht. It felt like I
- 19:03Speaker 4: was a black fabio. That's what it was, all right.
- 19:06Speaker 3: Next question, who wrote the song? He wrote?
- 19:11Speaker 4: I did, ok yeah, I thought it was something funny
- 19:13Speaker 4: he was. But you know, I can't really play it
- 19:15Speaker 4: because copyright situation. But you know that's what I do.
- 19:18Speaker 4: You got to be able to turn limits and elimonade
- 19:19Speaker 4: and don't let people. Don't let stuff like keep you
- 19:21Speaker 4: down or fuck you up, and I move forward. The
- 19:24Speaker 4: only thing I'll just put it like that in any situation,
- 19:26Speaker 4: if you make me mad, it's gonna make me go
- 19:28Speaker 4: hard on stage, no matter what anybody want to say
- 19:31Speaker 4: about me.
- 19:31Speaker 1: The thoughts of me.
- 19:32Speaker 4: I'll just say I invite any of those people, any
- 19:34Speaker 4: of the naysayers, or any people have questions about how
- 19:37Speaker 4: as a stand up, I'll say, come to my show
- 19:39Speaker 4: and challenge you to go one on one, toe to
- 19:41Speaker 4: toe with anybody, anybody in the business.
- 19:43Speaker 1: I have no problem with that.
- 19:44Speaker 5: Not No.
- 19:44Speaker 2: Another challenge was, at one time your child's mother, how
- 19:48Speaker 2: has that worked out? Have y'all worked everything out?
- 19:49Speaker 1: Can you get.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Down down on knap? Can you just spit out his water? Please,
- 19:53Speaker 2: don't worry, he just get an ast, you just get
- 19:54Speaker 2: a knack. And I promise was that challenge? Did y'all
- 19:57Speaker 2: fix that? Of y'all on the same according Now, one
- 20:00Speaker 2: time you and your your child's mother was not seeing
- 20:03Speaker 2: out of eye on things.
- 20:04Speaker 4: I mean, when you're not with the person that at
- 20:05Speaker 4: one point you was in love with and you and
- 20:07Speaker 4: it didn't work out like you want. I mean, uh,
- 20:10Speaker 4: people want to have a health relationship. But it's kind
- 20:12Speaker 4: of tough because it's always emotions of all and all
- 20:15Speaker 4: it comes down to, like how you feel, how do
- 20:20Speaker 4: you say this? We're good, but it's gonna be some
- 20:22Speaker 4: trials and tribulations with that.
- 20:24Speaker 2: You have to look back at that and say I
- 20:26Speaker 2: was the problem highest me, the the.
- 20:28Speaker 1: What I look at it, I look at all the time.
- 20:30Speaker 1: I take accountability.
- 20:31Speaker 4: You know, it's easy for say, when you hear situations
- 20:34Speaker 4: about like Coprah and just like this.
- 20:36Speaker 1: It's easy. It's it's two sides of every story.
- 20:38Speaker 4: And I do believe that part of the reason that
- 20:43Speaker 4: we're not together in uh living situation is because I probably,
- 20:48Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure I contribute to it. But you know
- 20:50Speaker 4: that was in the past, and the most important thing
- 20:52Speaker 4: right now is to raise our son to be the
- 20:55Speaker 4: best human we possibly can do. At the end of
- 20:57Speaker 4: the day, I'll take account and be like, I'm not
- 20:58Speaker 4: a perfect motherfucker. I'm not any of that.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Would you change anything?
- 21:01Speaker 1: Would you?
- 21:02Speaker 4: Would you sit look back and say I should have
- 21:03Speaker 4: did this differently, or I should have did this with
- 21:05Speaker 4: the rest with her, Yes, no, I think she should
- 21:08Speaker 4: have stayed the funk off my phone.
- 21:11Speaker 3: What did she find when she went?
- 21:12Speaker 1: I worry about that. I'm just saying, leave my motherfucker phone.
- 21:15Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying.
- 21:16Speaker 4: Your phone is over there over here, you pay the
- 21:20Speaker 4: bill over there, I pay the bill over here. Hey man,
- 21:22Speaker 4: A relationship, I'm the perfect motherfucker. If you mind your business.
- 21:25Speaker 4: They stay at my phone. The deable is in the phone.
- 21:28Speaker 2: How think you? What did you find in the phone
- 21:31Speaker 2: and how the phone was it locked?
- 21:32Speaker 1: Uh uh, I don't know you you asked that question.
- 21:42Speaker 1: Say they got ways of doing ship. I don't know.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Motherfucker might have opened my eyeball or something. I don't
- 21:47Speaker 1: know what the fuck.
- 21:48Speaker 3: She's younger than she might have just watched him into
- 21:51Speaker 3: the past.
- 21:51Speaker 4: And remember, it's God's way of saying, down there, you're
- 21:54Speaker 4: not living correctly, and it's for parts of my life.
- 21:56Speaker 1: I wouldn't live correctly. But that's Donelle.
- 21:58Speaker 2: That's what you live correctly.
- 21:59Speaker 1: Now, that's a bunch of second. Yes, I don't know
- 22:06Speaker 1: what's going on.
- 22:08Speaker 2: I'm just trying to have a real You say you
- 22:09Speaker 2: don't have a real conversation, So I'm not joking you.
- 22:12Speaker 2: I'm just having a real conversation.
- 22:14Speaker 5: You be low key stressed? What about the like the
- 22:17Speaker 5: parental situation?
- 22:18Speaker 3: Sometimes?
- 22:19Speaker 1: No, I don't, I don't, I don't. I don't be
- 22:20Speaker 1: stressed about that.
- 22:22Speaker 4: I don't be stressed because what I try to eliminate,
- 22:26Speaker 4: I try to do. This is what I believe. When
- 22:30Speaker 4: you were in a coparative situation. A lot of guys
- 22:34Speaker 4: like this, well, I'm going to take care of my responsibility,
- 22:36Speaker 4: and they think that their responsibility.
- 22:39Speaker 1: Is just taking care of that kid. I don't agree
- 22:43Speaker 1: with that.
- 22:43Speaker 4: I think, really, if you want a healthy relationship for
- 22:46Speaker 4: your kid and the mother, I think it's important to
- 22:49Speaker 4: try to do everything to make her happy physically, mentally,
- 22:52Speaker 4: and financially too. So I do all those things to
- 22:55Speaker 4: try to have that relationship as healthy as possible. Because
- 22:58Speaker 4: if the mother of your child it's mentally unstable, whatever
- 23:03Speaker 4: that could affect your kids. So I do everything in
- 23:04Speaker 4: my power to make sure that she's good and she's happy. Okay,
- 23:07Speaker 4: I respect that.
- 23:10Speaker 2: You really not to talk about because I can't make
- 23:11Speaker 2: We're not making jokes. I want to take I want
- 23:13Speaker 2: to take this as serious as possible down now. I
- 23:15Speaker 2: don't want you to think that anytime you come up here,
- 23:16Speaker 2: we just coming to pay the ship on you a
- 23:18Speaker 2: joke or booo or not something like that. I like,
- 23:20Speaker 2: I really take you serious as a friend, and you
- 23:22Speaker 2: know I want you to be succeed and I want
- 23:24Speaker 2: you to win.
- 23:26Speaker 1: Why does this feel so fucking weird?
- 23:31Speaker 2: You know why?
- 23:31Speaker 1: It feels weird.
- 23:32Speaker 4: Congratulations though, Oh what on your podcasts and everything that
- 23:35Speaker 4: you do?
- 23:36Speaker 2: Congratulations of course. I be let me ask you a question.
- 23:38Speaker 2: What advice would you give Lauren and Jess? You know
- 23:40Speaker 2: you've done radio for a.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Long what advice I would give them? You've done radio
- 23:44Speaker 1: with me. I thought about this and I.
- 23:45Speaker 3: Just you called me that day, answer the phone. I
- 23:47Speaker 3: feel like it's ship that day.
- 23:48Speaker 4: I know, you know what. This is how I feel.
- 23:51Speaker 4: And I thought about this even when I came up
- 23:53Speaker 4: here Envy. I was like, we've had a lot of
- 23:55Speaker 4: opportunity to be funny and everything like that. I was like,
- 23:57Speaker 4: am I always gonna be funny? But this is what
- 23:59Speaker 4: I think. I think with Lauren and Jess, you have
- 24:02Speaker 4: to allow them to be lawn and Jess. Lawn is
- 24:06Speaker 4: not Jess, you know, I think so, And we're like,
- 24:09Speaker 4: I've been on the blogs and I've been listening out here.
- 24:11Speaker 4: People say, well, Jess is not a journalist whatever, But
- 24:15Speaker 4: you guys didn't hire her to be a journalist. And
- 24:17Speaker 4: the thing that people don't understand is like yet, and
- 24:19Speaker 4: I thought it was a very funny benchmark with her
- 24:21Speaker 4: with a social one of the funniest things that just
- 24:23Speaker 4: did was just with the mess. I love that that
- 24:26Speaker 4: showed her comedic thing and it was always a spin
- 24:29Speaker 4: on news and satire, you know what I'm saying. So
- 24:32Speaker 4: now there's not going to be a comparison. If you
- 24:34Speaker 4: look at a person that's trained to be a journalist whatever,
- 24:37Speaker 4: it's going to be an obvious distance, obvious difference between.
- 24:41Speaker 4: But you gotta let Jess be just and you to
- 24:44Speaker 4: be you. And this is the story that I look
- 24:46Speaker 4: at that that really bothers me on if people taking
- 24:50Speaker 4: size of it, you have two black women that came
- 24:55Speaker 4: no insult whatever from nothing, you know, from nothing that
- 25:00Speaker 4: they came from the mutt. You know what I'm saying.
- 25:02Speaker 4: They positioned themself. So we should be celebrating that and
- 25:05Speaker 4: be proud of it. We shouldn't be put them together
- 25:07Speaker 4: as far as and I remember when you was on TMZ,
- 25:10Speaker 4: when I first had an opportunity to actually talk to you.
- 25:13Speaker 4: I appreciate how you used to hold me down on
- 25:16Speaker 4: that show. When Harvard them used to try to go
- 25:18Speaker 4: sideways whatever, You always defended me. I remember just some
- 25:21Speaker 4: years ago, maybe seven eight years ago, when she probably
- 25:24Speaker 4: had fifteen or twenty thousand followers on Instagram and she's
- 25:26Speaker 4: sending my DM and asked me an honest question about comedy,
- 25:29Speaker 4: like what do I need to do? I said, I
- 25:31Speaker 4: can't tell you anything to do. I said, but what
- 25:33Speaker 4: you got to do is go on stage and everything
- 25:36Speaker 4: you need to know about comedy, it'll happen. And like people,
- 25:39Speaker 4: this is the thing just had to her all the
- 25:45Speaker 4: tools to make herself successful and be self made. And
- 25:48Speaker 4: most of these mouffles that talk shit, and I know
- 25:50Speaker 4: this kind of hard for people in social media, sayppen, Oh,
- 25:53Speaker 4: they came from social media, they came from YouTube. But
- 25:56Speaker 4: even to get to the point where she is, you
- 25:58Speaker 4: have to have some type of work ethics. You have
- 26:00Speaker 4: to have some type of discipline. It's not like you
- 26:02Speaker 4: post one video and that's gonna happen. And I've seen
- 26:05Speaker 4: her go the same way I saw Kevin Hart when
- 26:08Speaker 4: he first started doing Twitter with twenty thousand followers.
- 26:11Speaker 1: He stuck to it. She stuck to her thing.
- 26:14Speaker 4: So you can't hold it against it, hold against her
- 26:18Speaker 4: the way she got on. I think it's unfair to
- 26:20Speaker 4: try to put them together. And I think that they
- 26:22Speaker 4: can co exist in the same thing if both of
- 26:24Speaker 4: them do their lanes and do what they're supposed to do.
- 26:27Speaker 4: I'm proud of watching both of them. I consider both
- 26:29Speaker 4: of them my friends.
- 26:30Speaker 3: That's what you called me to say. Ain't that day I.
- 26:33Speaker 1: Called you to say something you didn't have to hear
- 26:34Speaker 1: from me. I didn't call the talk shit.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Because I didn't know.
- 26:37Speaker 3: I didn't.
- 26:38Speaker 5: I was like, I don't feel like no more jokes.
- 26:39Speaker 5: Me and comedians just ain't happy it ain't going well.
- 26:43Speaker 4: No, because I know this is people say. We all
- 26:45Speaker 4: are opportunists. We all try to position ourselves to win.
- 26:49Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, how you're gonna get mad
- 26:50Speaker 4: at a person. I remember when you first started doing
- 26:52Speaker 4: this and you wasn't talking about I'm gonna be an
- 26:55Speaker 4: on air personality. You was talking about, oh man, we're
- 26:58Speaker 4: gonna we're gonna make it even tighter. Because I used
- 27:01Speaker 4: to say to myself, the show is sometimes it's all
- 27:04Speaker 4: over the place, but I know what your experience are producing.
- 27:07Speaker 1: I was like, that's part of something that they need.
- 27:08Speaker 4: I didn't know that it was going to turn into
- 27:11Speaker 4: situation where you get it. You get as much time,
- 27:13Speaker 4: but you deserve and of everything that you got on
- 27:15Speaker 4: this show, not even without this show, you already had
- 27:18Speaker 4: the trajectory to be successful. And how can somebody be
- 27:21Speaker 4: mad like because a person like come in here, guess
- 27:23Speaker 4: what they like me. I'm doing a good job. I
- 27:24Speaker 4: want to continue that. It wasn't no shade. I can
- 27:27Speaker 4: understand just feelings on that side of it, and especially
- 27:31Speaker 4: when you say situation like okay, I suggested that this
- 27:35Speaker 4: person being there's no cattiness whatever. I see a strong
- 27:38Speaker 4: black woman that wants to do something, and if I
- 27:41Speaker 4: can help her in any way, I want to do that.
- 27:44Speaker 4: But I can understand coming back and feel like a
- 27:46Speaker 4: situation is supposed to be another way, it don't happen.
- 27:49Speaker 4: I could see the discomfort and the misunderstanding on both sides.
- 27:53Speaker 4: But again I think they can coexist. She gets to
- 27:56Speaker 4: be herself and Jess gets to be herself. That's it.
- 28:00Speaker 3: That's so positive.
- 28:02Speaker 4: I'm not a negative person like I really support Like
- 28:05Speaker 4: I called Jess when it happened, I called you, and
- 28:08Speaker 4: I called her.
- 28:08Speaker 1: She answered the phone and this is what I mean.
- 28:11Speaker 4: I know you not really, it's not too much of
- 28:14Speaker 4: a can to conversation. And I told her, I said,
- 28:17Speaker 4: I can understand how you feel and I could hear
- 28:19Speaker 4: in her voice she was upset.
- 28:21Speaker 1: She didn't want to hear no jokes whatever.
- 28:22Speaker 4: I said, Just most importantly thing, whatever you do, when
- 28:25Speaker 4: you respond, it's so hard to not let your emotions
- 28:30Speaker 4: take over the live. Her emotions were taken over. I said,
- 28:32Speaker 4: whatever you do, do it in a funny way. However
- 28:35Speaker 4: you respond, do it in the funny way. I said,
- 28:38Speaker 4: if people upset with you, whatever, remind them while you're here.
- 28:40Speaker 4: And you're here because you're a funny person, So continue
- 28:43Speaker 4: to do that. Don't you see people that come out
- 28:46Speaker 4: and they have they go on these media runs and
- 28:50Speaker 4: they talk about everybody. So many comedians now go on
- 28:53Speaker 4: these platforms. They don't even want to be funny no more.
- 28:55Speaker 2: Well you know why, right, What I told people the
- 28:57Speaker 2: other day is they get paid for the outland of
- 29:00Speaker 2: stuff that they say they get paid for. Before you
- 29:02Speaker 2: did an interview and you sit outland of the stuff, you
- 29:03Speaker 2: didn't get paid for it.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Right.
- 29:05Speaker 2: But now if I say something crazy and it's on YouTube,
- 29:07Speaker 2: and it's on TikTok, and it's on Instagram or ax
- 29:10Speaker 2: so whatever these platform it is, and I get a
- 29:12Speaker 2: million views, I get paid off of that. No, it
- 29:14Speaker 2: comes in addition, now I want to say more stuff.
- 29:16Speaker 1: That's why.
- 29:18Speaker 4: It's like it's meteors. You become a media hoore and
- 29:23Speaker 4: you become a clickbait hord. It's so easy. And people,
- 29:26Speaker 4: a lot of commedians now they don't care about being
- 29:30Speaker 4: funny anymore. They just want to be controversial. If you
- 29:32Speaker 4: look at most tags, at most clickblak, it's so and
- 29:35Speaker 4: so destroys, claps back and everything. Because you get excited
- 29:40Speaker 4: about those clicks, you can go up there. You can
- 29:42Speaker 4: try to be positive as you want, as funny as
- 29:44Speaker 4: you want sometime, but that's not going to move to doubt.
- 29:46Speaker 1: It's unfortunate.
- 29:47Speaker 4: When I first started, we go way back and way
- 29:50Speaker 4: way back in radio, where you had to be successful,
- 29:53Speaker 4: you had to be likable. Now, motherfuckers win by being
- 29:56Speaker 4: hated because it's all about the end of the day.
- 29:58Speaker 4: It's all about engagement. It's not about oh I like him,
- 30:01Speaker 4: I supported my father. It's just like what's going to click.
- 30:04Speaker 4: So if you get a click on something negative or positive,
- 30:06Speaker 4: it's still a clique and people are run with that.
- 30:08Speaker 4: I have a situation with a comic right now that
- 30:12Speaker 4: it goes back and forth. You know, what I'm saying anytime, huh,
- 30:16Speaker 4: you can say his name.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's unfortunately the reason I'm gonna tell.
- 30:20Speaker 4: You, why do you and Corey Hookm have such a
- 30:22Speaker 4: this is the thing problem, This is the thing with that.
- 30:25Speaker 4: And I've said this on platforms, and what it is
- 30:28Speaker 4: is like he has an audience that tune into him.
- 30:32Speaker 1: He does.
- 30:33Speaker 4: He has a podcast where pretty much nobody on the
- 30:37Speaker 4: show has an opinion that it's always going to be
- 30:40Speaker 4: signing with his thoughts. And we had an incident it's documented,
- 30:43Speaker 4: not an incident that he started, but the incident I
- 30:45Speaker 4: did where I got triggered at the comic club. I
- 30:48Speaker 4: yelled out at him, you know what I mean, Like
- 30:50Speaker 4: didn't like some of the things he was saying.
- 30:51Speaker 2: Said you started it or did he started it first?
- 30:54Speaker 4: Well, you could say I started that part of it,
- 30:56Speaker 4: but I think the conversation was started and I do.
- 31:00Speaker 4: It's crazy people like oh you and Dave Chappelle's dick
- 31:03Speaker 4: and all that type shit. He's one of my closest friends,
- 31:06Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. It's not he's one of
- 31:08Speaker 4: my mother fucking closest friends. Like in Yellow Spring, we
- 31:11Speaker 4: lived two miles away from Joe. It's my brother.
- 31:13Speaker 1: You know what I mean? We don't we did.
- 31:14Speaker 4: We weren't just coworkers like we've been. We was fucking
- 31:18Speaker 4: at Charlie mur Murph Murphy's funeral, you know what I'm saying.
- 31:21Speaker 4: We've been at weddings, We've been visiting people in the
- 31:23Speaker 4: hospital together. Like there's a there's a it's like sense
- 31:27Speaker 4: of loyalty there, right, and everybody wants to Everybody wants
- 31:30Speaker 4: to fucking paint this picture. Donelle is riding Dave's dick.
- 31:36Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. If it wasn't for Dave
- 31:39Speaker 4: and all that, and that get to my motherfucking nerve
- 31:43Speaker 4: because I know before that show, I had a resume.
- 31:46Speaker 4: After that show, I had a resume. It just so
- 31:48Speaker 4: happened that I was a breakout performer on what people
- 31:53Speaker 4: are calling one of the greatest shows in the history
- 31:56Speaker 4: of television.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Facts.
- 31:57Speaker 4: Motherfuckers want me to repeat history. I can't do that.
- 32:00Speaker 4: There's never gonna be another Chappelle show. Even after the
- 32:04Speaker 4: Chappelle Show, you know, people's like, oh, y'all gonna do
- 32:06Speaker 4: it would have been the most foolish thing for me
- 32:08Speaker 4: and Charlie to say we want to do a sketch show,
- 32:11Speaker 4: and someone says something about even after when Chappelle decided
- 32:16Speaker 4: that he wasn't being part of that show no more,
- 32:18Speaker 4: me and Charlie Murphy hosted the lost episodes. We didn't
- 32:21Speaker 4: host those episodes with the intent we're gonna take this
- 32:24Speaker 4: show over. They had an archive of sketches. They were
- 32:27Speaker 4: trying to figure out what the fuck they was gonna
- 32:29Speaker 4: do with these sketches. They hadn't communicated to nobody. I
- 32:33Speaker 4: didn't know where the motherfucker was, hadn't spoke to him.
- 32:36Speaker 4: And when I look back on certain things I did
- 32:38Speaker 4: in my career, it might not have been the when
- 32:41Speaker 4: I look about it in retrospect, it might not have
- 32:43Speaker 4: been the best decision. But in that moment, I'm like,
- 32:45Speaker 4: like this, this is a great show. Right now, nobody's
- 32:48Speaker 4: going to be like this, We're the new Chappelle. And
- 32:50Speaker 4: even when Me and Charlie came out and mister Hooker
- 32:53Speaker 4: said something about that, he said, oh, these motherfuckers hosted
- 32:58Speaker 4: the show. That's why I fuck DC Young Fly Fly
- 33:03Speaker 4: because DC Young Fly told them no. DC Young Fly
- 33:07Speaker 4: told them no to continuing the show as the new host,
- 33:11Speaker 4: and DC young Fly could fucking do that because the
- 33:15Speaker 4: core of Wilding Out was Chico Bean Carlos. So he
- 33:19Speaker 4: don't have to do wilding Out because he got eighty
- 33:21Speaker 4: five South.
- 33:23Speaker 1: He has that.
- 33:24Speaker 4: Even when me and Charlie did that, we came out
- 33:26Speaker 4: first thing Charlie says and it was a joke or
- 33:29Speaker 4: I don't feel comfortable doing this. I was like, speak
- 33:31Speaker 4: for yourself. I need all the camera time I can get.
- 33:34Speaker 4: That's the reality of it. I've had a conversation about
- 33:36Speaker 4: Dave and I apologize Todave Dave about it. I was like,
- 33:39Speaker 4: I didn't think about it like that. I said, but
- 33:41Speaker 4: one thing, Dave, had you called me right Yoded, I'm
- 33:46Speaker 4: not fucking with this network. I'm not fucking with them.
- 33:48Speaker 4: I would have never done it. So what do you do.
- 33:51Speaker 4: You got to make decision on what you're gonna do
- 33:54Speaker 4: that's going to continue to help your joint and try
- 33:57Speaker 4: to be as respectful about it as possible. After when
- 34:00Speaker 4: he left, we never wrote another sketch. We never Me
- 34:05Speaker 4: and Charlie had a pilot. It was called Charlie Versus
- 34:07Speaker 4: Donhille and it was a reality show that Comedy Central
- 34:10Speaker 4: pastor and they had nothing to do with Sketch. It
- 34:12Speaker 4: was me and him battling each other. Big Tigger was
- 34:14Speaker 4: a co host of that. Whatever we thought we had
- 34:16Speaker 4: an opportunity to do that. But what Comedy Central didn't
- 34:19Speaker 4: understand is that me and Charlie Murphy, if you want
- 34:21Speaker 4: to say, became stars of that show. They was waiting
- 34:24Speaker 4: for Dave to come back, so they didn't think that
- 34:26Speaker 4: me and him could pull off. That didn't happen. We
- 34:27Speaker 4: never revisited that. I never did a sketch show. I
- 34:31Speaker 4: never tried to do anything past that, and I showed
- 34:33Speaker 4: him the respect for that. But I tell you, I
- 34:35Speaker 4: tell you what pisses me off. And anybody can understand
- 34:41Speaker 4: when you put so much work into something and for
- 34:46Speaker 4: people to try to assassinate your character and say you're
- 34:50Speaker 4: something other than what the fuck you are, And for
- 34:53Speaker 4: all of these motherfuckers, this is what I feel. I
- 34:56Speaker 4: don't want to fight you on no fucking podcast. I
- 34:59Speaker 4: don't want to be more controversial. If you want to
- 35:01Speaker 4: do fight me on anything, let's go on the fucking stage.
- 35:05Speaker 4: Let's go to the stage. For all the motherfuckers that
- 35:09Speaker 4: want to say he's whacked, he's mild and so and
- 35:12Speaker 4: so and I put this out there, let's go on
- 35:15Speaker 4: a fucking stage and let the people decide that. And
- 35:18Speaker 4: I guarantee you it ain't gonna get the fucking results
- 35:22Speaker 4: you want. You could tell a motherfucker that motherfucker's whacked
- 35:26Speaker 4: at the thirty plus years performing, not just on a
- 35:30Speaker 4: chitling circuit five six continents, and oh you with Dave.
- 35:36Speaker 4: Guess what I am with Dave? When I do shows,
- 35:39Speaker 4: I ain't Dave's open. I don't open for nobody, big dogs,
- 35:45Speaker 4: Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, Dave. I ain't gonna never open for.
- 35:51Speaker 1: You, know.
- 35:51Speaker 4: So if you want to do it, stop talking your
- 35:54Speaker 4: shit and let's go on to stage, and I guarantee
- 35:56Speaker 4: you you gonna fucking feel it. And I'm not a
- 35:59Speaker 4: one trick pony. I'm not just for the Black Ondings.
- 36:02Speaker 4: I'm from everywhere. And as much as mother ones say,
- 36:05Speaker 4: oh he's on Dave Dick, this is the best feeling
- 36:07Speaker 4: I have when I tour, and I got video of it,
- 36:09Speaker 4: I can show you nobody expects me to be on
- 36:12Speaker 4: the show with Dave.
- 36:13Speaker 1: He don't never promote my name, he don't need me to.
- 36:16Speaker 1: He can sell out any venue in the world. Twenty
- 36:19Speaker 1: five thirty thousand people.
- 36:21Speaker 4: DJ Trauma will say, you've seen him on HBO's The Wire,
- 36:25Speaker 4: you see them on the Corner, you see them on
- 36:28Speaker 4: be A Meth. I might get some clop claps, but
- 36:30Speaker 4: you fell in love with him. It's as she learned
- 36:33Speaker 4: to Chappelle's show, and every fucking venue for five years,
- 36:37Speaker 4: a whole arena goes ape shit that only gonna last
- 36:41Speaker 4: me two minutes on stage. But guess what, as it
- 36:43Speaker 4: go ape shit where they know I'm there. When I
- 36:45Speaker 4: get off stage, guess what, they fucking stand up again.
- 36:48Speaker 4: Because I put the work in and people know me
- 36:50Speaker 4: for that. I'm not gonna apologize because I made some
- 36:54Speaker 4: characters that did some shit that people remember, and it's
- 36:57Speaker 4: only bitter motherfuckers that talk that shit. What have you done?
- 37:03Speaker 1: And I continue, I can continue to do it. I've
- 37:06Speaker 1: been on BMF.
- 37:07Speaker 4: I did this. I continue to work. Other fucker say, oh,
- 37:13Speaker 4: you ain't made it. I'm just addressing ship I've heard
- 37:16Speaker 4: on podcasts.
- 37:17Speaker 3: You know, oh, because I told you.
- 37:21Speaker 4: For the most part. And then here's the thing. This
- 37:23Speaker 4: is the thing about it. This is going to be
- 37:25Speaker 4: fuel for him to go and say stupid shit again.
- 37:32Speaker 1: But I just I'm not a but but I do.
- 37:34Speaker 4: I do have to ask you said if you started
- 37:36Speaker 4: it right? You said you started it. No, I didn't
- 37:38Speaker 4: say I started. You said you started. From your remark,
- 37:40Speaker 4: I'd say even that reaction is reactions. If he go
- 37:44Speaker 4: at you first, you can't be you know what, God damn,
- 37:49Speaker 4: it's hard for me. I'm trying to be accountable for
- 37:52Speaker 4: my actions. But I got to say what triggered me?
- 37:54Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
- 37:55Speaker 4: When I just keep hearing this, and it's closest friend
- 37:57Speaker 4: of mine, when I keep hearing this, it's just interesting me.
- 38:01Speaker 4: The notion that you would go to a comedy club
- 38:05Speaker 4: with one hundred and fifty people on a workout night
- 38:08Speaker 4: and be critical of someone that's doing the numbers, someone
- 38:13Speaker 4: that's fucking got all the accolades, that Grammys, any eemies
- 38:17Speaker 4: you want to go. That's like going to a practice
- 38:20Speaker 4: facility and watch a nigga practice and saying, oh, that
- 38:25Speaker 4: wasn't that good.
- 38:26Speaker 1: What happens at game time? Motherfucker?
- 38:29Speaker 4: For you to even put it on the universe that
- 38:31Speaker 4: somebody's booty or boo boo or whatever in the practice facility,
- 38:36Speaker 4: go to an arena, go to a theater, go to
- 38:40Speaker 4: not just at certain point, guess what, you ain't gonna
- 38:43Speaker 4: be the funniest motherfucker. I think now Dave has done
- 38:47Speaker 4: it so long, so much, people don't really even look
- 38:52Speaker 4: at him just to be hearty, hard hard. They look
- 38:55Speaker 4: at him for his perspective. They're looking for his point
- 38:58Speaker 4: of view, his thoughts is bigger, and that he's he's
- 39:01Speaker 4: turned into that Dick Gregory ship, you know what I'm saying,
- 39:03Speaker 4: where like I don't want to say activists, but it's
- 39:06Speaker 4: more than just a less you know what I'm saying.
- 39:09Speaker 4: So that's why I did took offense to that. And
- 39:11Speaker 4: I said, even when an accident happened, I said, you
- 39:15Speaker 4: know what, I probably broke the unwritten rule. You're not
- 39:19Speaker 4: supposed to yell out at a comedian on you on stage.
- 39:23Speaker 1: For that, I'm guilty.
- 39:23Speaker 2: So he was taking a shot at Dave, and you like,
- 39:25Speaker 2: Daves my brother. I'm arived from my.
- 39:26Speaker 1: Brother, yeah, well pretty much, but not even just my
- 39:30Speaker 1: brother it is.
- 39:30Speaker 2: But you know why can't well, I guess you and Courey,
- 39:33Speaker 2: I mean, trying to work this out many times, but
- 39:36Speaker 2: you know, I feel like.
- 39:37Speaker 1: And the thing about the NBA.
- 39:38Speaker 2: You're successful, he's successful, right, you have two different audience.
- 39:41Speaker 2: It's two different cause I don't understand why it continues.
- 39:44Speaker 4: On don't again. That goes to like when you have
- 39:48Speaker 4: a platform and you know what's gonna you know, even
- 39:51Speaker 4: with the roast bad things, a person couldn't wait to
- 39:54Speaker 4: take an opportunity to say this guy's booty and he
- 39:57Speaker 4: he doesn't support uh young comics. And I said something
- 40:02Speaker 4: because it was a quote from that thing was like,
- 40:04Speaker 4: and I think I was misunder steward or I might
- 40:07Speaker 4: have misspoke when somebody said something much special, I said,
- 40:10Speaker 4: I made that show. What I meant to say was
- 40:12Speaker 4: I helped make that show what it was and took.
- 40:16Speaker 1: Dad was like, motherfucker, you didn't. You haven't even made it.
- 40:21Speaker 4: And I begged differ that do I got the fucking
- 40:24Speaker 4: bank that Kevin Hartney's motherfuckers do, or the movies or anything.
- 40:27Speaker 4: But for somebody that no college education, not formally trained
- 40:32Speaker 4: on anything other than the military, to be able to
- 40:35Speaker 4: position myself where I could do fucking seven figures using
- 40:39Speaker 4: by God given talent in some areas people think that
- 40:42Speaker 4: you made it. I don't answer to anybody I worked
- 40:45Speaker 4: for myself and that's it.
- 40:46Speaker 2: Well downa, you didn't make it. I don't know if
- 40:47Speaker 2: you realize that you came from the military to what
- 40:50Speaker 2: you've done, what you've accomplished. I mean, people don't know
- 40:53Speaker 2: if you really do your history of me and Donell
- 40:55Speaker 2: did radio together. We did a more show together. Yeah,
- 40:58Speaker 2: Lost Time on ninety seven with Miss Jones. It was me,
- 41:01Speaker 2: Miss Jones, uh and Donna Rolins and we did a
- 41:03Speaker 2: morning show together. And you know, we've seen you go
- 41:06Speaker 2: from there to where you are, so you have made it.
- 41:07Speaker 2: And you know, we joke with you a lot up here,
- 41:09Speaker 2: and you know we clown you. You clown us, but
- 41:11Speaker 2: we are proud of you, and we, you know, think
- 41:12Speaker 2: you wanted the funniest. I don't support many people. I
- 41:15Speaker 2: don't come out to do shows for many people, but
- 41:18Speaker 2: I come out and I support you because I really
- 41:19Speaker 2: do think you funny.
- 41:21Speaker 4: But and then it not and I appreciate that, but
- 41:23Speaker 4: it's not that it's like like I have a history
- 41:29Speaker 4: of that. And like even when Mike Gifts was up here,
- 41:32Speaker 4: but Mike I said, Donelle too old to be getting
- 41:34Speaker 4: boot the translation for me it was like Donille's too
- 41:37Speaker 4: funny to get booed. We came from the same place
- 41:39Speaker 4: and it's and I'm not saying that it has never happened,
- 41:42Speaker 4: but after a while, you get a certain amount of
- 41:43Speaker 4: experience that you know how to handle different situations. And
- 41:46Speaker 4: for anybody here, like he got booted, the first question
- 41:49Speaker 4: people asked was like, wait a minute, that doesn't sound right.
- 41:51Speaker 1: What happened?
- 41:52Speaker 4: And yes, they bow me, but it was like it
- 41:54Speaker 4: wasn't a boot like I told a joking it was
- 41:57Speaker 4: whack cause like he was, they was instructed by the
- 41:59Speaker 4: host of the show.
- 42:00Speaker 5: But it was a lack of respecting And that's what
- 42:01Speaker 5: I meant by you was too old for it, because
- 42:02Speaker 5: I felt like again to your career and watching you
- 42:06Speaker 5: on those stages like of Radio, City Music or whatever,
- 42:09Speaker 5: I just felt like, I don't know, like like nbcaid earlier,
- 42:12Speaker 5: like they was playing with you a little bit, and
- 42:14Speaker 5: no one knows where you are would do that. And
- 42:16Speaker 5: for me, one of my questions for you would be
- 42:18Speaker 5: why even be in that space where something like that
- 42:20Speaker 5: would even be allowed.
- 42:21Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. I will tell you the alcohol.
- 42:24Speaker 3: The alcohol is what made you go there.
- 42:26Speaker 4: No, in that Rose Battle, don't what made me go
- 42:28Speaker 4: to that roast battle. As I was there, I was
- 42:31Speaker 4: hanging with Teddy Swims and I watched him on Adam Carolla.
- 42:34Speaker 4: He has a show called Doctor Phil where he tours
- 42:37Speaker 4: and he doesn't impression Doctor Field and he acts like
- 42:39Speaker 4: it's it's the actual Doctor Field show.
- 42:41Speaker 1: I want to support Telly on that.
- 42:43Speaker 4: And one of his buddies was on the panel to
- 42:45Speaker 4: be on a rose Battle and we was hanging out.
- 42:47Speaker 4: He was like, Yo, do you want to go up
- 42:48Speaker 4: to the Rose Battle. I went up there and I
- 42:51Speaker 4: took everybody know in a business that I don't go
- 42:53Speaker 4: to the road stuff because I could be sensible, I
- 42:55Speaker 4: could be upset. And it was one thing led to another.
- 42:57Speaker 4: It just was an awkward situation and got out of hand.
- 43:00Speaker 4: But at the same time I didn't feel good about it.
- 43:02Speaker 4: But one thing what I said to those comics, if
- 43:07Speaker 4: you look at it, it was true. And I even
- 43:09Speaker 4: told him at the end of it, I said, I
- 43:10Speaker 4: hope you are so mad at me that it makes
- 43:13Speaker 4: you want to step the game up just to say
- 43:15Speaker 4: fuck him. I know I can do it. It wasn't no.
- 43:17Speaker 1: If I've supported so.
- 43:19Speaker 4: Many young comics, I've gave opportunities anybody, and even even
- 43:22Speaker 4: to you. And like certain people I come around if
- 43:25Speaker 4: I feel that they like have funny energy. I don't
- 43:28Speaker 4: think everybody could be funny, but I'll say, you know what,
- 43:30Speaker 4: you should try it. I told her, I think you
- 43:32Speaker 4: have the personality do it.
- 43:33Speaker 1: She's not doing.
- 43:36Speaker 3: It's not ever happening.
- 43:38Speaker 4: Now it might not happen, but you know, I was
- 43:41Speaker 4: been one hundred percent supportive. Even I told her, I said,
- 43:43Speaker 4: you come into my show. She didn't show up because
- 43:46Speaker 4: she thought I might put on stage. But to that,
- 43:48Speaker 4: and then I noticed interview. When people come and see
- 43:50Speaker 4: me or they watched, they like, oh god, he's going
- 43:53Speaker 4: to cut up whatever. But it's something to be said
- 43:55Speaker 4: about letting somebody err it out and their gripes and
- 43:58Speaker 4: their grievances.
- 43:59Speaker 1: And to that, I say, fuck them.
- 44:00Speaker 2: All right. Well, you're gonna be at the City Winery
- 44:03Speaker 2: in New York. Watch twenty eighth, Indiana, April fourth and fifth, Tennessee,
- 44:09Speaker 2: Buffalo and Florida. So next hour you want to stay
- 44:13Speaker 2: a little bit. Charlemagne is not here. We have Ryan Davis.
- 44:16Speaker 1: Next hour.
- 44:16Speaker 2: Would you like to sitting there and do some of
- 44:18Speaker 2: these questions with us? Especially coming from a comedian.
- 44:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have a problem with that.
- 44:22Speaker 3: Show your socks.
- 44:25Speaker 1: It's a good yellow socks. A pop called a pop
- 44:27Speaker 1: called a pop. Yeah, I could do it.
- 44:29Speaker 5: Wait, you did that real fast? You hold on, slow down?
- 44:32Speaker 5: You know you're too old to be moving that fast too.
- 44:34Speaker 1: Why do you like to use that word?
- 44:36Speaker 4: Shoot, I'm sorry, goddamn interrupt they called me then interrupter.
- 44:39Speaker 4: All that's an interrupter. I will say more important And
- 44:42Speaker 4: I came up here what I want. I did want
- 44:44Speaker 4: to talk about, uh my performance at at the City Winery.
- 44:48Speaker 4: But again Memorial Day weekend. There's something this is going
- 44:52Speaker 4: into the fifth year. It's something that I started, Like
- 44:55Speaker 4: when we were doing the outdoor shows with Dave. He
- 44:57Speaker 4: would focus on the comedy and I was focus on
- 45:00Speaker 4: the camp atmosphere having the fun. Something that I created
- 45:03Speaker 4: five years ago. It's dope. Go to donnaill Rawlins dot
- 45:06Speaker 4: com and get more information about Donnelle land. I'm going
- 45:10Speaker 4: to try to make this the black Disneyland for people.
- 45:13Speaker 2: Okay, and hopefully I can come out there with my
- 45:15Speaker 2: kids one time. They will love it. All Right, Well,
- 45:18Speaker 2: there you have it. It's Donelle Rawlins it's the Breakfast Club.
- 45:21Speaker 1: Good morning, wake that ass up in the morning. The
- 45:24Speaker 1: Breakfast Club