Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson On Leaving The Streets For Acting, Michael K. Williams, 'Trap Queens' + More
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Every day up waiting click your ass up the breakfast club.
- 0:05Speaker 2: You don't feelsh for y'all, dumb morning everybody in Steve
- 0:09Speaker 2: he just hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast
- 0:11Speaker 2: club lawl of roses here as well.
- 0:13Speaker 3: And we got a special guest in the building.
- 0:15Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, we got Snoop in the building.
- 0:17Speaker 3: What up Snoop?
- 0:18Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, police Snoop here.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Of course, the new season of American Gangster Trap Queens
- 0:24Speaker 2: is out right now.
- 0:25Speaker 4: But how are you doing, snoop?
- 0:25Speaker 2: An seeing the long time?
- 0:27Speaker 4: In a minute?
- 0:28Speaker 3: Snoop ran in here. So if you see her.
- 0:29Speaker 5: Breathing hard, don't be on the internet talking about stoopidil
- 0:33Speaker 5: and drums.
- 0:33Speaker 4: And it's New York traffic.
- 0:37Speaker 6: Man, I had to get out of the traffic against
- 0:40Speaker 6: the whole hotel and man.
- 0:41Speaker 7: All right, so you got it, and just rain, I
- 0:43Speaker 7: ain't lying.
- 0:45Speaker 4: I don't want to hear your mouth.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Why are you feeling, snoop?
- 0:49Speaker 4: A feeling blessed black and holly faded?
- 0:51Speaker 3: There you go like.
- 0:58Speaker 1: GI used to be out with me in the clubs
- 1:02Speaker 1: all the time.
- 1:05Speaker 7: With me.
- 1:05Speaker 4: I ain't like That's that. That's done.
- 1:07Speaker 6: Cleared up now and got older man, I only get
- 1:10Speaker 6: three drinks and it's over.
- 1:12Speaker 4: It looked like I probably had a whole bottle and
- 1:15Speaker 4: only that you shot.
- 1:17Speaker 8: I know you're here to talk about American Gangster Track, queen,
- 1:20Speaker 8: but I have to ask you about the Wire because
- 1:22Speaker 8: it's been celebrating twenty three years of the Wire.
- 1:25Speaker 1: That's been that long, twenty three years. And you know,
- 1:27Speaker 1: earlier this year we had Trade Cheney and who else
- 1:30Speaker 1: was up there?
- 1:31Speaker 3: A bunch of the brothers was up there and was
- 1:34Speaker 3: up here. What did the Wire mean to you?
- 1:37Speaker 6: The Wire meant everything because that's where I came from.
- 1:40Speaker 6: That's where I started from. You know, I didn't know
- 1:43Speaker 6: that I knew how to act or I mean just
- 1:46Speaker 6: to be in this entertainment business period.
- 1:48Speaker 4: So you know, the Wire just mean everything from you know.
- 1:52Speaker 2: But for those those that don't know, how did you
- 1:54Speaker 2: get the role in the Wire, they break that down
- 1:56Speaker 2: on how they chose you, your character and all that.
- 1:58Speaker 7: Yeah, because I know you a couple of us stuffs
- 1:59Speaker 7: that audition, but they gave it to you.
- 2:01Speaker 6: No, Nah, that wasn't that wasn't the case. Michael Kay Williams, Uh, Mike,
- 2:07Speaker 6: they didn't never have a.
- 2:08Speaker 4: Part for me.
- 2:09Speaker 6: So that's why you see Felicia Snoop Pison on that.
- 2:12Speaker 6: They kept my name and everything, even my nickname the same,
- 2:16Speaker 6: you know.
- 2:16Speaker 4: What I'm saying.
- 2:16Speaker 6: So it's like, uh, you know, I met Michael K. Williams,
- 2:21Speaker 6: God Blessed the Dead.
- 2:22Speaker 4: I miss you. I love you, bro. I met him
- 2:25Speaker 4: in Club one member.
- 2:26Speaker 6: Club one, and he kept looking at me like I
- 2:29Speaker 6: was you know, I mean like I did something to him.
- 2:32Speaker 6: So I never watched the wire. While everybody was watching
- 2:35Speaker 6: the wire, I was outside.
- 2:37Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean hustling.
- 2:38Speaker 6: So, uh, I seen him. He kept looking at me,
- 2:42Speaker 6: you know, looks could be deceiving. He got scar on
- 2:45Speaker 6: his face, look crazy.
- 2:47Speaker 4: So I was like, man, what the what's going on?
- 2:49Speaker 7: Y'all?
- 2:50Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm ready to go late for your outside.
- 2:53Speaker 6: And my boy was like, man, man, that's that's oh
- 2:56Speaker 6: Mard the gay person from A.
- 3:03Speaker 4: I was like, oh, we're so.
- 3:05Speaker 6: Mike came over there to me and he was like, man,
- 3:09Speaker 6: you old boy your girl.
- 3:10Speaker 4: And I was like, man, listen, I don't play like that.
- 3:13Speaker 6: I love yeah, man, I say I love pussy.
- 3:17Speaker 4: You know what I'm.
- 3:17Speaker 6: Saying, Yeah, little gate, but yeah, I told him I
- 3:29Speaker 6: don't play that. He was like na, no, no, no,
- 3:32Speaker 6: like I love your swag. I love everything about you. Yeah, man,
- 3:36Speaker 6: give me your phone number. And I'm looking at him
- 3:38Speaker 6: like what phone number? Like, come on man, But you
- 3:41Speaker 6: know I gave it to him and the rest was history.
- 3:44Speaker 4: I went like a block away where they were shooting.
- 3:47Speaker 6: At like cause I was, uh living with my grandmother,
- 3:51Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying at the time, because me
- 3:53Speaker 6: and my female friend.
- 3:55Speaker 4: Was beefing, you know what I'm saying. So he was
- 3:58Speaker 4: a block away.
- 3:59Speaker 6: I was Olive and Marfin. Yeah, I was Olive and
- 4:04Speaker 6: maf and he was on Marfin and Landvel. So that's
- 4:06Speaker 6: a block away. I ran up.
- 4:08Speaker 4: There and the rest was history. They yeah, I mean start. Yeah,
- 4:12Speaker 4: they said they love how talk.
- 4:14Speaker 3: You know.
- 4:15Speaker 4: See my vocabulary wasn't like this at first. Everything was yet.
- 4:19Speaker 6: A mean.
- 4:21Speaker 7: Man.
- 4:22Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, I had to clean
- 4:24Speaker 4: everything up.
- 4:25Speaker 8: So you know, yeah, you was you was like in
- 4:27Speaker 8: the street from what I from what I heard back
- 4:29Speaker 8: in the day. Hell, yes, so he was really in
- 4:31Speaker 8: the street. So it kind of you kind of got
- 4:33Speaker 8: typecasted a little bit.
- 4:34Speaker 6: Yes, yes, most definitely, most definitely That's why I did
- 4:36Speaker 6: the Spike Lee joint because I didn't want to be typecast.
- 4:39Speaker 6: Spike Ho let me like, yo, you know what I mean,
- 4:42Speaker 6: come on him and Mike and my god bother like,
- 4:45Speaker 6: come on, man, I played a prostitute.
- 4:49Speaker 7: Damn.
- 4:52Speaker 8: How did the streets accept you at that point though?
- 4:54Speaker 8: Did they be like, all right, snoop, go do your thing. Man,
- 4:56Speaker 8: you don't need to be out here with us, no where?
- 4:58Speaker 8: And when did you realize.
- 4:59Speaker 3: You had to do that? When you quit?
- 5:01Speaker 4: I quit when I was on a wire.
- 5:04Speaker 6: I mean I quit when my trap phone kept ringing
- 5:07Speaker 6: and then ed Burns David Simon and you know, uh Nina.
- 5:12Speaker 4: Was like yo, like come on stop, you know what
- 5:14Speaker 4: I mean, Like we want you. You is amazing.
- 5:17Speaker 6: See people you don't see yourself, what your worth is
- 5:20Speaker 6: because it's you, you know what I mean. And then
- 5:22Speaker 6: once they seats like the house outside person see you
- 5:26Speaker 6: and they let you know. You probably think they hating
- 5:29Speaker 6: or that I mean whatever, but you know them people
- 5:32Speaker 6: said that I was a star.
- 5:33Speaker 4: Man.
- 5:33Speaker 6: I believe them, and I just I just stopped. I
- 5:36Speaker 6: promise you, I just stopped.
- 5:38Speaker 4: But you know what I mean.
- 5:38Speaker 6: The last time when I got that, I mean incarcerated,
- 5:41Speaker 6: I was around people trying to keep it real.
- 5:44Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I wasn't selling no drugs.
- 5:47Speaker 4: I was just there, you know what I mean.
- 5:48Speaker 3: So you know.
- 5:51Speaker 4: Something you yes, my life story, man, my life story.
- 5:55Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a series. Yeah, I mean we uh and
- 5:58Speaker 6: developed and development right now.
- 6:01Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Looking for the highest bidder
- 6:04Speaker 4: still on the table, you know what I mean. But
- 6:06Speaker 4: it's a series. It's about my life story.
- 6:08Speaker 9: Man.
- 6:08Speaker 6: It's trialser tripulations that I went through. It ain't nothing
- 6:12Speaker 6: like it ain't going to look like the wire, but
- 6:14Speaker 6: it is. Because I'm from Baltimore. You can't get that
- 6:17Speaker 6: about me. I mean, I love my city, you know
- 6:19Speaker 6: what I mean. So it's like it's a series, man. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
- 6:27Speaker 6: When I was when I was first born, you know
- 6:30Speaker 6: what I mean, I died three times addicted to crack
- 6:33Speaker 6: because my mother was you know what I mean, getting high.
- 6:36Speaker 4: You know, I'm adopted. Went to jail.
- 6:40Speaker 6: Yeah, well prison at the age of fourteen and a half,
- 6:43Speaker 6: you know, for a first degree murder. Nothing that I yeah,
- 6:46Speaker 6: I mean proud of or nothing. But it's my life.
- 6:48Speaker 6: I can't change it. So I have to make changes
- 6:51Speaker 6: when I get older.
- 6:53Speaker 4: Right now, you know what I mean. So I can
- 6:55Speaker 4: make the right decisions.
- 6:56Speaker 8: And you've lived through experiences that most people only see
- 6:59Speaker 8: on show like the Wire. How do you think your
- 7:01Speaker 8: early life shaped the way you approach, like your acting
- 7:03Speaker 8: and your storyteller.
- 7:05Speaker 6: Uh for the Gangs and Ship, it's like, man, it's
- 7:10Speaker 6: in me, you know what I mean. It's like you know,
- 7:12Speaker 6: but the other actor like uh like my female part, uh,
- 7:17Speaker 6: like my versatility.
- 7:20Speaker 4: Uh you know, I'm still working.
- 7:23Speaker 6: Man. I know how walking head was. Now okay, six inches.
- 7:31Speaker 4: Tammy, our kids told you how to do that?
- 7:36Speaker 3: Bring down the prostitution.
- 7:38Speaker 4: Yeah, I kidd, that's my god sister, Tammy.
- 7:42Speaker 3: That's I thought. I thought it was some girl named
- 7:45Speaker 3: Tammy you met, not kid.
- 7:54Speaker 2: So when they approached to to do the prostitute role, yeah,
- 7:57Speaker 2: look at you.
- 7:57Speaker 4: You all the way in there.
- 8:00Speaker 3: To break that down prostitute. Yo.
- 8:05Speaker 4: So Michael K. Williams God bless the Dead. I love you, bro.
- 8:08Speaker 4: Uh he hit me. It was like Spike was you
- 8:11Speaker 4: full roll?
- 8:12Speaker 6: And I was hyped like Spikes, So what's.
- 8:16Speaker 4: Up a legend?
- 8:17Speaker 7: I come?
- 8:19Speaker 8: Uh?
- 8:19Speaker 6: Uh so uh once I got the around Spike, Spike
- 8:24Speaker 6: let me know what it was.
- 8:25Speaker 4: And I was looking at Spike like you said. But
- 8:31Speaker 4: Spike helped me that man, And another thing Spike helped me.
- 8:34Speaker 6: Man, Spike took me to what was the Eldos and
- 8:38Speaker 6: that's what it's called the shoe store, and that helped
- 8:42Speaker 6: me try to walk in heels. Man, Spike, Spike, Man, yes,
- 8:47Speaker 6: this time with me, pick my head out, my dress.
- 8:50Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, No talk like this, And
- 8:52Speaker 6: I was like, ah, yes, it's fight.
- 8:58Speaker 4: I love Spike Man.
- 9:00Speaker 9: My first time in the sixth INSes like because that's
- 9:02Speaker 9: what Spike.
- 9:04Speaker 4: No, no, no, no no. I was with dream happening.
- 9:06Speaker 7: Did you smaller first? Did you do smaller hills first?
- 9:10Speaker 7: And then it's right.
- 9:11Speaker 4: Today, straight to the six?
- 9:13Speaker 7: So you jumped out of buttons and went straight to
- 9:16Speaker 7: the six.
- 9:17Speaker 4: And look the first time dream had uh Michael K. Williams.
- 9:24Speaker 4: I was trying to walk, almost broke my ankle.
- 9:26Speaker 6: Dream was like, na, nah, just lay her up on
- 9:29Speaker 6: the chair, Just go ahead and lay there like pretty.
- 9:31Speaker 4: I was like, oh, ship, did.
- 9:34Speaker 7: You have fun?
- 9:34Speaker 4: Yeah? I rolled off, Yes, yes, I had fun.
- 9:37Speaker 1: When people see things in you that you don't see
- 9:39Speaker 1: in yourself.
- 9:40Speaker 4: Yeah, that's always that's always a plus.
- 9:42Speaker 6: Like I never try to take people advice as criticism,
- 9:48Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, because it's like like, nah,
- 9:51Speaker 6: like you said, like you're looking in so you can
- 9:54Speaker 6: see something that I don't see.
- 9:55Speaker 4: You know.
- 9:56Speaker 1: That's all you talked about your life after prison?
- 9:58Speaker 3: What was what was the single heart?
- 9:59Speaker 8: Is more in that journey that were like what kept
- 10:01Speaker 8: you moving forward after changing your life after coming out
- 10:04Speaker 8: of the UH.
- 10:05Speaker 6: When I first came home before the wire UH, I
- 10:09Speaker 6: had what three jobs I had working for Ford making bumpers,
- 10:14Speaker 6: and then well when I had two jobs making Ford bumpers,
- 10:17Speaker 6: and then I went to the book factory and then
- 10:20Speaker 6: once them, people was like yo, yeah, may no, we
- 10:23Speaker 6: fine your ass because.
- 10:25Speaker 4: Your criminal background.
- 10:27Speaker 6: I'm like, Yo, what the fuck, I'm gonna throw a
- 10:28Speaker 6: book at somebody kill them about you know what I'm saying.
- 10:31Speaker 4: It's a book factor were stocking books, you know what
- 10:34Speaker 4: I'm saying. And right there, I was like, man, forget that.
- 10:37Speaker 4: So I took my last little check and I went
- 10:39Speaker 4: and got me some yams.
- 10:41Speaker 7: You know what that is?
- 10:42Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, grams.
- 10:44Speaker 3: Yeah that's great.
- 10:46Speaker 8: But you blessed though, man, because so many people end
- 10:48Speaker 8: up in that situation and they don't get a second
- 10:50Speaker 8: chance away.
- 10:52Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 10:52Speaker 6: But at the same time, man, like the last time,
- 10:55Speaker 6: when I just got incarcerated, like a lot of people
- 10:58Speaker 6: turned that back on me.
- 10:59Speaker 4: Man, That ship heard it.
- 11:00Speaker 6: Because it was like, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
- 11:03Speaker 6: everybody know that I came from the.
- 11:05Speaker 4: Streets, but they still thinking that I'm in the streets.
- 11:08Speaker 7: Nah.
- 11:08Speaker 6: I'm sitting here trying to keep it real, you know
- 11:11Speaker 6: what I'm saying, trying to keep it real, and people
- 11:13Speaker 6: ain't trying to keep it real with me, you know
- 11:15Speaker 6: what I mean. But they just hid for the glands
- 11:17Speaker 6: in the glitter, you know what I mean. But when
- 11:19Speaker 6: I got in trouble the last time, I was living
- 11:21Speaker 6: with Mike, Mike move and then like uh, I was
- 11:26Speaker 6: in the Bronx once seventy six and mccoon's and my
- 11:29Speaker 6: mad mother living room on the blow.
- 11:31Speaker 4: Up bed for a year and a half.
- 11:33Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, And it's how bad you
- 11:35Speaker 6: wanted I wanted it bad. I ain't want to sell
- 11:38Speaker 6: drugs because I wasn't selling selling drugs. That shit hurted me, man,
- 11:42Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. And people was trying to
- 11:43Speaker 6: sit there, Oh you did this, you man, did a
- 11:46Speaker 6: motherfucker thing.
- 11:47Speaker 4: But there the wire on the wire.
- 11:50Speaker 6: That's their their headlines, so you they could make you mean,
- 11:54Speaker 6: grab you into the headlines.
- 11:55Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I'm saying.
- 11:56Speaker 6: It was like I was like, oh, oh, that's how
- 11:58Speaker 6: y'all play. I mean, that's why I stopped doing interviews
- 12:01Speaker 6: because every time it's like yo, I say something, people
- 12:04Speaker 6: will go ahead and misconstrued what I gotta say, you
- 12:07Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, I'm saying, or make headlines what
- 12:09Speaker 6: they wanted.
- 12:10Speaker 4: No, man, ain't going for that. Man like real talk.
- 12:13Speaker 6: Like one time I took a reporter out, I ain't
- 12:15Speaker 6: gonna say those days like I thought she was cool.
- 12:18Speaker 4: I'm paying the tab it all that.
- 12:20Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying.
- 12:20Speaker 4: We sit there at moles.
- 12:22Speaker 6: Eating, chilling, eating crab legs, all types of shit. He
- 12:27Speaker 6: the hook up and this lady sit here and uh
- 12:31Speaker 6: just talk real greasy about me.
- 12:33Speaker 4: I was like, dang after that, yes.
- 12:37Speaker 6: Yes, interview or you know, we was chilling having a
- 12:41Speaker 6: conversation like I mean, like us and she's a reporter
- 12:46Speaker 6: and she went and.
- 12:47Speaker 4: Just rope ship that. I was like, man, all went.
- 12:50Speaker 6: To my victim family house all tight like and you
- 12:54Speaker 6: could have just told me that, like you could have
- 12:56Speaker 6: warned me, you know. But we was key keying a
- 12:58Speaker 6: co con't girl, get another drink?
- 13:01Speaker 4: You are you know what I'm saying. That type.
- 13:03Speaker 3: But we was cool.
- 13:04Speaker 4: You would have thought we were best friends.
- 13:06Speaker 6: And that's when I knew right there, I was like, man,
- 13:08Speaker 6: these people don't love nobody and the bits just doing
- 13:11Speaker 6: their jobs.
- 13:12Speaker 4: That's you know what I mean.
- 13:13Speaker 6: So you know it's it's no hall feelings. But I
- 13:15Speaker 6: had to learn. You live and you learn. And once
- 13:18Speaker 6: I was coming from the streets, so I didn't know
- 13:20Speaker 6: how the industryt play.
- 13:22Speaker 7: Now I know how was that?
- 13:24Speaker 3: Now?
- 13:24Speaker 4: Though, I don't take nothing to her, you know what
- 13:26Speaker 4: I'm saying.
- 13:27Speaker 6: You say something crazy about me, I around smoke a
- 13:30Speaker 6: blunt and laugh at you.
- 13:31Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, but you know nothing.
- 13:35Speaker 4: I don't take nothing to the heart.
- 13:36Speaker 3: No more misconception about Snoop.
- 13:38Speaker 4: You think, uh that Snoop was uh in the streets.
- 13:42Speaker 6: When I left the streets, I was on the wire,
- 13:45Speaker 6: you know, and that was that was true spill. It
- 13:47Speaker 6: was just you know, like my fan.
- 13:50Speaker 4: Can't turn my back on my family, you know what
- 13:53Speaker 4: I mean?
- 13:53Speaker 6: Like come on, and that's where I come from, These
- 13:55Speaker 6: four corners when Olive and marfittt That's where I come from,
- 13:59Speaker 6: you know.
- 13:59Speaker 4: So it's like like, how can y'all?
- 14:02Speaker 6: I mean, let me give me a chance to grow,
- 14:04Speaker 6: give me a chance to figure it out.
- 14:07Speaker 4: It was just coming so fast.
- 14:09Speaker 10: I was like, oh, ship, so do you feel like
- 14:11Speaker 10: you're rolling the waiire hurt or help?
- 14:13Speaker 3: No?
- 14:14Speaker 4: I think it helped, and I think I did.
- 14:17Speaker 6: I mean, I take full responsibility for everything that I
- 14:21Speaker 6: probably even got in trouble for because I like people.
- 14:24Speaker 4: When I first got all, people say yo, go ah
- 14:26Speaker 4: here to move.
- 14:27Speaker 7: To l A.
- 14:27Speaker 4: I'm like, man, I ain't Holly Wood.
- 14:29Speaker 6: I'm Holly trying to save my I mean, save my neighborhood,
- 14:34Speaker 6: save my city, and I could I mean help from
- 14:39Speaker 6: a from from a far.
- 14:41Speaker 9: What's that balance like now for you knowing that like, okay,
- 14:43Speaker 9: you're helping, but from afar you got things you need
- 14:45Speaker 9: to protect, but you still be connected to your people.
- 14:47Speaker 4: Yeah? Uh like right now?
- 14:50Speaker 6: I always do me and Miss Elvaner shout out to
- 14:53Speaker 6: miss Elvaner, love you baby, miss Elvana. She always helped
- 14:58Speaker 6: me with shoe hoops, not guns. That I do in
- 15:01Speaker 6: the city of Baltimore for my city back school drive.
- 15:04Speaker 6: I come out my pocket. Miss Alvana keeps saying I
- 15:06Speaker 6: need sparsers. But you know, I come out with my
- 15:09Speaker 6: pocket because people don't know I'm I'm in the hood.
- 15:12Speaker 4: I always see what we need. You know what I'm saying.
- 15:15Speaker 6: So it's like, yeah, man, I just come out my
- 15:17Speaker 6: pocket and do it myself. So and what else you're saying.
- 15:23Speaker 7: You know, he was talking about trying to balance the
- 15:25Speaker 7: balance and ground.
- 15:26Speaker 4: My balance is now that I held from a fall.
- 15:30Speaker 6: I mean I go home. Yeah, I mean I always
- 15:33Speaker 6: go home. I'm always home. But mean I just from
- 15:38Speaker 6: a fall, man, I just I gotta I gotta help
- 15:40Speaker 6: from a fall.
- 15:41Speaker 4: Because I know too many people in the city.
- 15:43Speaker 6: Man, I can shake somebody, and I'm caught up in
- 15:45Speaker 6: a fucking indictment like that.
- 15:48Speaker 4: Shit just be stupid.
- 15:49Speaker 3: It's just crazy.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Because your town, where you're from, is what gives you
- 15:53Speaker 1: your balance.
- 15:53Speaker 8: To me is when you move out and the places
- 15:55Speaker 8: like your Yes, you got your boots on the ground
- 15:58Speaker 8: still in your city, that's when.
- 15:59Speaker 6: You But at the same time, when you know your
- 16:02Speaker 6: city and you from there and you in the streets,
- 16:04Speaker 6: I ain't even talking about the county or the suburbs.
- 16:07Speaker 4: When you in the city, you know what it is,
- 16:10Speaker 4: so you ain't got to stay right there to help
- 16:12Speaker 4: you know.
- 16:12Speaker 2: I wanted to ask, you know, I know you and
- 16:14Speaker 2: Michael Okay was so close yout to help you out.
- 16:16Speaker 3: So how did his death affect you?
- 16:18Speaker 7: Man?
- 16:18Speaker 6: It hurted me so bad me. I got the phone
- 16:22Speaker 6: call from Jamie Hector. I first I didn't know what
- 16:25Speaker 6: he was talking about. I'm something kind of like a
- 16:27Speaker 6: psychic because I felt something.
- 16:29Speaker 4: But I thought it was about me, you know.
- 16:32Speaker 6: And man, we all have our our our damn is
- 16:40Speaker 6: our vices, you know what I mean. Some it's loud,
- 16:45Speaker 6: some it's quiet, you know. And Mike's was in between
- 16:50Speaker 6: because he was getting hisself together. He had stopped getting high.
- 16:54Speaker 4: And you know, I don't I don't know.
- 16:58Speaker 6: I had just talked to him a week before, you know.
- 17:02Speaker 6: And it hurted me, man, It hurted me. It hurted
- 17:07Speaker 6: me like because we had so many plans, and you
- 17:11Speaker 6: know that's how I got my start. If you would
- 17:14Speaker 6: have never said to me, y'all, would he never seen
- 17:17Speaker 6: heard no snoop, you know what I mean? I probably
- 17:19Speaker 6: would have been dead or in jail.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Did you ever ask him, did you ever say to him?
- 17:23Speaker 3: What? What?
- 17:24Speaker 8: What did God say to you in the club that
- 17:26Speaker 8: night when you were staring at me, like what did
- 17:27Speaker 8: you see me?
- 17:28Speaker 3: Did you ever ask him that?
- 17:29Speaker 6: He just said he's seeing an angel. He always called
- 17:33Speaker 6: me his angel. He always called me, uh, his big brother,
- 17:43Speaker 6: his big brother.
- 17:44Speaker 4: And you know.
- 17:48Speaker 6: That that that's gonna be a whole nother segment, man,
- 17:51Speaker 6: Because I around getting here crying type snoop of punk.
- 17:55Speaker 6: I don't kids my brother. And that's another thing to people,
- 18:00Speaker 6: us black people. If you gotta show your emotions, you
- 18:04Speaker 6: know what I mean.
- 18:05Speaker 4: And if you cry and.
- 18:07Speaker 6: Let out some of that frustration, I promise you, Or
- 18:11Speaker 6: just go ahead and pray to God and cry. You
- 18:13Speaker 6: got to tell your friends family nothing. Just let out
- 18:16Speaker 6: some of their emotion. I promise you.
- 18:19Speaker 4: Some of the killing and some of that hurt in
- 18:22Speaker 4: this world is going to stop.
- 18:24Speaker 9: What's your religious background? Like it seem like you talk
- 18:26Speaker 9: a lot about like faith and yes, because.
- 18:28Speaker 6: That's all I know is God, You know what I mean,
- 18:31Speaker 6: That's it, that's it, that's all man. Like I said,
- 18:34Speaker 6: I died three times, you I mean, been shot at
- 18:37Speaker 6: like eighty times like yet, I mean, like, yeah, man,
- 18:40Speaker 6: it's just that's all I do know. That's all I
- 18:43Speaker 6: know is God.
- 18:44Speaker 4: I believe in God.
- 18:45Speaker 6: I believe in angels, I believe in I believe hell,
- 18:48Speaker 6: hell on Earth. I believe that this is hell. Once
- 18:53Speaker 6: everybody closed their eyes, because everybody got a death wish,
- 18:56Speaker 6: and man, I mean a death date.
- 18:58Speaker 4: So I mean, once you close your eyes, that's having
- 19:01Speaker 4: on Earth. I heard the.
- 19:02Speaker 6: Guy that uh they odd and over there on Pennsylvania
- 19:06Speaker 6: Avenue in Baltimore from the drugs. The man said that
- 19:11Speaker 6: he was mad as ship that they bought him back. Yeah,
- 19:14Speaker 6: because he was so peaceful, you know what I'm saying.
- 19:17Speaker 6: So you know, I think it is uh damn, I
- 19:21Speaker 6: think it is.
- 19:21Speaker 4: How on Earth?
- 19:23Speaker 8: When you was on the wire, did you feel like
- 19:25Speaker 8: a sense of responsibility to represent Baltimore?
- 19:28Speaker 3: Accurate?
- 19:28Speaker 4: Oh definitely.
- 19:29Speaker 6: That's why I was telling them people like, nah, we
- 19:31Speaker 6: don't say that, you know what I'm saying, say that.
- 19:36Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
- 19:37Speaker 6: We say step or the block, you know what I'm saying.
- 19:40Speaker 6: Like Stu, I was like, stup, No, we say steps.
- 19:43Speaker 4: We know the step? Yeah, ship like that.
- 19:45Speaker 7: But you know, so they had you, so did you
- 19:48Speaker 7: have to do, Like did they tell you to do that? Like, yo,
- 19:51Speaker 7: go do some dialect training with him?
- 19:53Speaker 6: Like nah, They was like uh, they was like uh
- 19:57Speaker 6: like uh, they give me my scrip, my script, and
- 20:00Speaker 6: I read the script and I'll be like, uh, script advised.
- 20:05Speaker 6: We we don't say that, can we can? We can
- 20:07Speaker 6: I change that? And they be like yeah, change that
- 20:10Speaker 6: for everybody. So you know, it's just light little.
- 20:13Speaker 7: Things you feel about the Corner when it came out.
- 20:16Speaker 6: I never watched that was in cart rid. I never
- 20:19Speaker 6: even watched season one or two of The Wire. What
- 20:22Speaker 6: I told you, I was outside us. I don't even
- 20:30Speaker 6: watch myself on TV because I already know what I
- 20:32Speaker 6: did because I'm my own worst critic, you know what
- 20:35Speaker 6: I'm saying.
- 20:36Speaker 4: I was just like, damn, I could have did this better.
- 20:38Speaker 4: You know, things like that.
- 20:40Speaker 3: So how do you feel when they killed you off?
- 20:41Speaker 3: Because I think episode you know what I mean, coming
- 20:56Speaker 3: give you just find out that.
- 20:58Speaker 6: I got the script that I was as bad as
- 21:00Speaker 6: a fucking and I was like, who Tristan.
- 21:06Speaker 4: Lever going on alleys? But piss on yourself.
- 21:14Speaker 2: When you first got when you first got to Wire,
- 21:16Speaker 2: how much were you making when you first got it.
- 21:17Speaker 6: Man, the bitches shot, give me the horse shot, give
- 21:24Speaker 6: me two hundred dollars. I was like two hundred dollars, bitch,
- 21:27Speaker 6: my block making ten rand a day.
- 21:29Speaker 4: So what the funk? I don't need that.
- 21:31Speaker 7: There's about here two hundred episode.
- 21:34Speaker 6: They because I ain't had no said card and all that.
- 21:36Speaker 6: So yeah, man, they try to. I had to, uh,
- 21:39Speaker 6: I mean go through the steps, the channels, you know
- 21:42Speaker 6: what I mean.
- 21:43Speaker 7: She wasn't the union.
- 21:44Speaker 4: Yeah, so I had to.
- 21:45Speaker 6: I had to get to speaking roles, two or three
- 21:48Speaker 6: speaking roles, and then I could get in the union
- 21:50Speaker 6: and saw making that money.
- 21:52Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 21:52Speaker 6: So my first words, you want to hear my first word,
- 21:55Speaker 6: it's about time. It's about fucking time that I'm up
- 21:58Speaker 6: here on the breakfast club before Heaven?
- 22:02Speaker 7: Are you lying?
- 22:06Speaker 4: Williams with Charlemagne?
- 22:13Speaker 3: What it was?
- 22:14Speaker 6: I was at Whnney Williams man, that was.
- 22:21Speaker 4: Before you. You ain't, like I say, ify call with
- 22:28Speaker 4: his wife. Remember y'all had a join come over there
- 22:32Speaker 4: with every Yo. I gotta look up.
- 22:34Speaker 3: I don't believe that you've never been here.
- 22:36Speaker 4: You've never been up here.
- 22:38Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 22:42Speaker 4: That's crazy, Yeah, that's crazy.
- 22:44Speaker 3: Early on.
- 22:45Speaker 4: I don't know. I remember, I remember while been up
- 22:50Speaker 4: here but me.
- 22:51Speaker 3: He even had an interest album.
- 22:55Speaker 4: Before you. Man, it's Whinney Williams. Pull it up.
- 23:00Speaker 3: I'm looking right now. You gotta look that up in
- 23:03Speaker 3: the ar. I swear you've been up here before.
- 23:05Speaker 4: Little sugar plums over here.
- 23:07Speaker 7: Line.
- 23:07Speaker 3: Man, it's crazy.
- 23:13Speaker 8: What avice would you give the young people in Baltimore
- 23:16Speaker 8: or anywhere who feel trapped by the uh?
- 23:19Speaker 4: Just keep going.
- 23:21Speaker 6: It don't matter if your mother, father, sister, brother don't
- 23:25Speaker 6: believe in you. You know what I'm saying, We'll believe
- 23:28Speaker 6: in you. Don't believe in whatever, you know, just keep going.
- 23:31Speaker 6: Just have the faith, man, whatever, whatever you put your
- 23:34Speaker 6: mind to, just do it, you know, I mean, just
- 23:37Speaker 6: do it man like, because this world and this life
- 23:41Speaker 6: don't wait for nobody.
- 23:42Speaker 7: Man like.
- 23:43Speaker 4: They want to pass you. They're gonna pass you by.
- 23:46Speaker 4: It's either you doing good or you're doing bad. They
- 23:49Speaker 4: still going to talk, so you might as well go
- 23:51Speaker 4: ahead and do good.
- 23:52Speaker 6: And ship on them so they could keep talking, you
- 23:55Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, So you know, and keep golfers.
- 23:58Speaker 4: I'm very religious. I ain't lying. I prayed. That's what
- 24:01Speaker 4: took me so long. I had to pray.
- 24:03Speaker 7: Come up, you go to church?
- 24:05Speaker 6: Uh yeah, Pastor Jamal Brian when I'm in Atlanta, you know,
- 24:09Speaker 6: but I'm not like the churches, but I do most
- 24:13Speaker 6: definitely pray. I have to pray before I lay down,
- 24:15Speaker 6: before I leave the house.
- 24:16Speaker 8: You never know they're getting getting home at Underrated Blessed.
- 24:21Speaker 4: Yes, yes, especially these days. Man, it's just crazy O praise.
- 24:27Speaker 7: So you're here for the new season of American Gangs
- 24:29Speaker 7: to the Trap Queen.
- 24:30Speaker 4: Yeah, Mark against the Trap Queens.
- 24:32Speaker 10: And that's narrated by the Bread Yeah the Brad. Do
- 24:35Speaker 10: you do you see her on it?
- 24:37Speaker 7: Or does she?
- 24:37Speaker 3: No?
- 24:37Speaker 4: I ain't see the bread on that.
- 24:38Speaker 6: She she just did it when when they called her
- 24:43Speaker 6: so we all had our own separate sessions.
- 24:47Speaker 7: Okay, you like working on it? Uh yeah, it.
- 24:51Speaker 4: Was one episode.
- 24:52Speaker 6: I just the reason why I did it. And let mean,
- 24:54Speaker 6: let me clear this up on the Breakfast Club, you know, Uh,
- 24:58Speaker 6: I love all you track queens. I love y'all deal,
- 25:01Speaker 6: you know, but BT when they reached out to me
- 25:05Speaker 6: to do track queens, I said, nah, you know what
- 25:07Speaker 6: I mean, because y'all don't have the money that I want.
- 25:10Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, and BT.
- 25:12Speaker 6: Said, who love snirt, We got you what you're looking for.
- 25:16Speaker 6: So I was the highest ever ever paying track queen.
- 25:21Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. It's a boss sitting right here.
- 25:23Speaker 6: And I did that episode so I could let the
- 25:26Speaker 6: kids know what I've been through my trials and trip relations,
- 25:29Speaker 6: you know what I mean, because I ain't been around.
- 25:31Speaker 6: I mean I've been around. I'm around, but I'm not around,
- 25:34Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. But I just let the
- 25:36Speaker 6: kids know that. You mean, you see, without men third man,
- 25:39Speaker 6: somebody would have chopped that fucking head off, you know
- 25:42Speaker 6: what I mean, fucking with my life. They would have
- 25:44Speaker 6: been killed their self. But you know what I mean, Like,
- 25:47Speaker 6: I did that so I just let y'all know, like
- 25:49Speaker 6: it's still it's still hope, it's still faith, it's still
- 25:53Speaker 6: I mean, it's still life out here. You know what
- 25:55Speaker 6: I mean, It's still everything. Man, Just keep going, like
- 25:59Speaker 6: and just to let them know. I'm saying it over
- 26:02Speaker 6: and over again, just to let them know that trials
- 26:06Speaker 6: and trip relations that you go through don't make you
- 26:10Speaker 6: or break you.
- 26:11Speaker 9: It's so hard for you, like going and like just
- 26:14Speaker 9: recounting like different things you've been through in your story and.
- 26:17Speaker 6: Tell something that you already got somethings and some things
- 26:20Speaker 6: in the script. Y'all gonna be like, Yo, yes, yes,
- 26:24Speaker 6: I have a see I have a series. Well, yeah,
- 26:27Speaker 6: I have a series. So yeah, I mean my life
- 26:30Speaker 6: is too much to put in and cram up in
- 26:33Speaker 6: one movie, you know what I mean. So you know
- 26:35Speaker 6: you want to act the joke gentlemen, I'm giving out jokes,
- 26:42Speaker 6: so get at me.
- 26:42Speaker 10: Short and then all right, so is that what made
- 26:45Speaker 10: you want to do your life story yourself?
- 26:47Speaker 7: You on the track queens?
- 26:49Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I had told them, like yeah, man, like yo,
- 26:52Speaker 6: if I do the track queens, this is how this
- 26:54Speaker 6: is how I.
- 26:54Speaker 4: Want it, you know what I'm saying. And just let
- 26:56Speaker 4: people know. You know what I mean, where I've been, at,
- 26:59Speaker 4: what I've been up to, and here you.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Go, you know, like I want you to know. Just
- 27:04Speaker 1: don't like that you asked me before you asked her.
- 27:05Speaker 4: What Just know what I got she got from the
- 27:14Speaker 4: load before.
- 27:18Speaker 1: Ye say, it's tough to navigate the streets of Hollywood.
- 27:25Speaker 4: Hollywood. I had to learn it because I ain't know
- 27:29Speaker 4: nothing about it. You know what I'm saying. The streets
- 27:31Speaker 4: I know everything about it, you know what I'm saying.
- 27:33Speaker 6: But Hollywood, nah, and people like like for our veterans
- 27:38Speaker 6: out there, like you see a person coming into this industry,
- 27:43Speaker 6: please give them like some some type.
- 27:45Speaker 4: Of advice, you know what I mean.
- 27:47Speaker 6: Please let them know, like the dudes and don't because
- 27:51Speaker 6: I just came in here first and went crazy, you know, Mike,
- 27:55Speaker 6: he was doing.
- 28:00Speaker 3: Went crazy.
- 28:00Speaker 6: No pause, No Diddy, I meant.
- 28:07Speaker 4: That pause. Just give them advice, man, like, just I.
- 28:13Speaker 6: Mean words of aencouragement, man, just to let them know, like, yeah,
- 28:16Speaker 6: I mean the dudes and don't s in this motherfucker,
- 28:18Speaker 6: you know what I mean.
- 28:19Speaker 4: So you know that's it.
- 28:20Speaker 3: That's why you have Mike though.
- 28:22Speaker 6: Man, Mike was getting high. Man, It's like, no, my
- 28:28Speaker 6: brother was getting.
- 28:33Speaker 4: That's why.
- 28:33Speaker 6: That's why I said, when I get my servance, you
- 28:36Speaker 6: want to see it.
- 28:36Speaker 4: Man, My brother Mike, I love the death but you
- 28:39Speaker 4: would have never know it. My brother was high as
- 28:41Speaker 4: fat chance ass on the wild, but you never knew
- 28:44Speaker 4: it the best. That's why it was so real.
- 28:50Speaker 3: So get me.
- 28:52Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I can't wait at my brother story come back?
- 28:58Speaker 4: Did you keep laughing at.
- 29:02Speaker 3: My brother was getting.
- 29:06Speaker 4: My brother was highs fat. You don't give you good though, man, brother, brother,
- 29:11Speaker 4: what I had to go get him? Man, that's what.
- 29:16Speaker 1: But that's what.
- 29:16Speaker 4: That's why I said. That's why I make that little speech.
- 29:19Speaker 6: Like they just give people words of courage, get people
- 29:26Speaker 6: words of a courage.
- 29:27Speaker 1: Man, What are the stories you want to tell behind
- 29:30Speaker 1: the camera? Snoop?
- 29:32Speaker 7: I don't know. Man. Now you're making films and so
- 29:41Speaker 7: now what you want to say.
- 29:52Speaker 4: Showing the man and envy?
- 29:56Speaker 3: I can't. I cannot.
- 30:00Speaker 7: Who this morning?
- 30:03Speaker 1: My goodness?
- 30:05Speaker 3: Yeah, telling her Joe.
- 30:25Speaker 2: Snoop American game to the trap Queen. Now, if you
- 30:31Speaker 2: don't know what trap queis is they break down. Each
- 30:33Speaker 2: episode is a woman who was out there hustling and
- 30:36Speaker 2: getting to it.
- 30:36Speaker 3: In this episode is about Snoop.
- 30:38Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 30:38Speaker 4: First one episode one, season four, Hey.
- 30:42Speaker 7: First episode.
- 30:43Speaker 8: Yes, when you when you look my last question, when
- 30:45Speaker 8: you look back at your life does for Snoop?
- 30:47Speaker 1: Is there anything you would change? Like you have any regrets?
- 30:52Speaker 7: Uh?
- 30:53Speaker 6: When I in ninety five, when I went to prison,
- 30:58Speaker 6: uh for the charge, you know, because that broke her
- 31:03Speaker 6: family heart, broke my family heart, you know, especially my grandmother.
- 31:09Speaker 6: That's why I turned myself in because of mama.
- 31:13Speaker 3: You know.
- 31:14Speaker 4: Uh, Mama's like, man, they gonna kill you. Girl. The
- 31:17Speaker 4: fucking rubbed you. They gonna kill you.
- 31:19Speaker 6: You fourteen fucking robbed you.
- 31:23Speaker 4: So you know, I think, yeah that yeah, most.
- 31:29Speaker 1: Definitely is anything you've done and try to reconcile that
- 31:30Speaker 1: situation with the family.
- 31:32Speaker 4: Yes, I try to reach out.
- 31:34Speaker 7: Well.
- 31:34Speaker 4: I seen her mother when I was in prison.
- 31:37Speaker 7: You know.
- 31:37Speaker 4: Uh, she was talking smack and stuff like that.
- 31:40Speaker 6: And when I got up on it because you know,
- 31:42Speaker 6: people always talk smack when you ain't around. And then
- 31:46Speaker 6: once I got up born her, you know, I told her,
- 31:49Speaker 6: I said, man, wow. Uh when I got up born her,
- 31:54Speaker 6: I told her, I said, man.
- 31:57Speaker 4: I know you mad at me, and I know you hurt.
- 32:00Speaker 6: I know you won't never forgive me, but uh just pray,
- 32:05Speaker 6: you know, and I'm asking God to forgive me, you know.
- 32:08Speaker 6: So it ain't nothing me or you could do to
- 32:12Speaker 6: bring her back.
- 32:12Speaker 4: You know, I'm so sorry. You know, I just see
- 32:19Speaker 4: in prison, she can't visit you.
- 32:20Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, she was locked up. My mother was
- 32:23Speaker 6: locked up. Yeah, my mother got locked up and came
- 32:25Speaker 6: where I was at.
- 32:27Speaker 7: Did she accept the apology?
- 32:29Speaker 6: She gave me a hug, but she told me flat out,
- 32:31Speaker 6: I ain't gonna never forgive you. I ain't can't do
- 32:34Speaker 6: nothing but accept that, you know, like you know, like
- 32:37Speaker 6: I did something to hurt you. You know, I take
- 32:39Speaker 6: my responsibility. And that's a lot of things. I mean
- 32:42Speaker 6: a lot of times, a lot of people don't take
- 32:44Speaker 6: their responsibility, you know what I mean?
- 32:46Speaker 4: I take mine.
- 32:47Speaker 7: No, didn't you said he said that you regret, you know,
- 32:55Speaker 7: going to jail.
- 32:56Speaker 10: But I think that that probably definitely is the reason
- 32:59Speaker 10: why you still.
- 33:00Speaker 7: You know, that could have saved your life because like
- 33:02Speaker 7: you said, Mama told you they're gonna kill you. Thing.
- 33:04Speaker 10: You could have got killed out there if you just
- 33:06Speaker 10: kept running or whatever, because all that ship do catch up,
- 33:10Speaker 10: you know, with you. So I think the best thing
- 33:12Speaker 10: was you turning yourself.
- 33:13Speaker 3: In taking my life.
- 33:16Speaker 6: Yeah, I regret taking the life. Yeah, yeah, most definitely, Snoop.
- 33:21Speaker 4: We appreciate you for joining us. I swear you've been
- 33:24Speaker 4: up here before.
- 33:24Speaker 3: But been up here before.
- 33:26Speaker 6: Man, But listen, sertce uh service uh I start filming.
- 33:32Speaker 4: I'm coming back up. Yeah, I remember you.
- 33:36Speaker 3: You was on your body when you was up here.
- 33:39Speaker 4: That wasn't me, y'all got me. That's stop I was
- 33:43Speaker 4: another study.
- 33:44Speaker 5: Yeahkfast club, good morning, every day clicks up club.
- 34:00Speaker 3: You're feelish for your dumb