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Cast of Chocolate City Interview · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm real people, real celebrity, real talk joined the Breakfast Morning.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela, Yie Scholamine the guy. We
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  Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. We got two special guests from
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  Speaker 1: the movie Chocolate City. What Art and Darren Hinson New
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  Speaker 1: York Breakfast Club. Glad to have us, y'all spells room
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  Speaker 1: with Chocolate City is not a point of hell. No,
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  Speaker 1: ain't no point we thought. Noo yo yo Chocolate City, y'all. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you got this character, Michael, right, who's like just like
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  Speaker 1: everybody hustling, hustling for their mom whatever. That na, that's
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  Speaker 1: my character, my character, right, So he's like, I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: the barton and job. The barton and job tend to
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  Speaker 1: be like a ship club job. So you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: how it happens. And you know when when you have
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  Speaker 1: the right physique for something and about in the movie, right,
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  Speaker 1: he's the main character. His brother is d Ray Davis,
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  Speaker 1: and Vivica A. Fax plays his mom. Y yeah, yea yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Dray is definitely very funny in this movie. So you
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  Speaker 1: know he needs to make some money. You know how
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  Speaker 1: it happens. I don't get some extra money because we
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  Speaker 1: hear the stereothers having about the women. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Usually it's a women. It really is a large subculture
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  Speaker 1: of exotic dances male dances. We always hear about the women,
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  Speaker 1: but it really is a huge subculture for for male dances.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like the Black Magic Mike cut. It is
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  Speaker 1: kind of in the more like Magic Mountain though, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. But it's like it's like trying
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  Speaker 1: to compare Chocolate City and Magic Mike is like trying
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  Speaker 1: to compare Stomp the Yard to bring it on. It's
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  Speaker 1: really two different movies. When you think the male strips,
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  Speaker 1: don't you usually tink a big girls Like that's what
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  Speaker 1: I used, Like they could pick up big girls and
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  Speaker 1: do mostly fat girls. I tell you what, tell you
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  Speaker 1: what it's it's actually women about to get married, right
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  Speaker 1: if you go to chip. I went to Vegas and
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  Speaker 1: saw Tyson strip and he's like, yo, come up on stage.
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  Speaker 1: We're pulling girls out of the audiences, all girls into yards.
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  Speaker 1: That was for research exactly, but not everybody's up in
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  Speaker 1: the spot. Man. Like when we were doing the movie
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  Speaker 1: we went and went to the club. It really was
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  Speaker 1: for research, but you have everybody and then the interesting
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  Speaker 1: part is when you're in there, the women really control
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  Speaker 1: the space, right, But they go they have fun and
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  Speaker 1: they go home. They're not trying there to pull women,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like how guys try to pull, Like why
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  Speaker 1: are you working in here? Mom would take care kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing. Why are you working here? You fun? Now,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you about over here. My first time
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  Speaker 1: going to a male review show. Right, I was with
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of my girls. I was hosting what they say,
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  Speaker 1: male review. They make it this It sounds cratty, no script.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you our girl, Melissa four was with
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  Speaker 1: me and she'll talk about this no because the men
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  Speaker 1: were strippingd this. So anyway, all my friend they actually
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  Speaker 1: did put her on a chair in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the stage. I have pictures. I'm gonna dig those pictures up.
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  Speaker 1: And at first when my friends came, they said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want nobody touching me. You know. They were
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  Speaker 1: like it was all of our first time going, right,
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  Speaker 1: they were like, I don't want nobody touching me. Tell
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  Speaker 1: them don't do this, don't do that club. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you what ended up happening. Okay, one of my friends, Um,
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  Speaker 1: it was a whole bunch of us. So we're on
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  Speaker 1: stage on the side of the stage because I'm hosting,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's at the table of the drinking champagne. Next
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  Speaker 1: thing you know, my friends get drunk, two of them
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  Speaker 1: going to middle of the stage. They lay on the
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  Speaker 1: floor night. Listen, one of the strippers banders dick on
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  Speaker 1: my friend's forehead. That's what happens. So she really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: They like that. You see that at the city, Like
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  Speaker 1: the back of heads being grabbed and introduced to crotches.
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  Speaker 1: They like, y'all like that, right? Women? Right? They like
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  Speaker 1: they like beds and couches. Right. They got props and
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  Speaker 1: stuffing most male strip clothes whatever. They go nuts. Man.
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  Speaker 1: And it was interesting because in the movie, you guys say,
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  Speaker 1: we're selling a fantasy. This is all the things that
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  Speaker 1: your man can't do at home. That's what it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be like when you stippers. And so for guys,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt for you to watch something like this
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  Speaker 1: because you can learn a lot because they do all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of style. A woman's forehead. No, but listen the
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  Speaker 1: way these guys at them in the air and turn
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  Speaker 1: them around them. What kind of checks. But let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you guys a question. You know in the strip club,
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  Speaker 1: you know there's females in the strip club. Now what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? There's males in the strip club and
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  Speaker 1: you gotta slap a male. Yeah no, that's a different
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  Speaker 1: But I go to strip club and I'm DJ. I
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  Speaker 1: see girls the strip club smacking ass, but wabbing. If
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  Speaker 1: a guy goes in one of their reviews, it wants
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  Speaker 1: to smack it. I don't know, that's night. That's a
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  Speaker 1: different night. Charity, Get this, gir They're not allowed in
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  Speaker 1: the club, was right? Not a lot in the club,
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  Speaker 1: And I wouldn't like if I was, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: just wouldn't be working at night. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: That would be the night off. But it's deeper than Jess,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Seeing Man because obviously physically, like we're in
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  Speaker 1: the movie. Um, there's a lot of women that came
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  Speaker 1: to see this movie. It was a mostly female audience.
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  Speaker 1: So it was fun for us to watch because it
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  Speaker 1: is like a lot of people have this stigma about
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  Speaker 1: going to male review shows and what are these guys like?
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  Speaker 1: But it actually is really fun, entertaining, but it gives
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  Speaker 1: you more of a behind the scenes kind of like
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  Speaker 1: Players Ball was. But you know what's interesting is it's
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  Speaker 1: not always peaches and cream like you know, brothers get
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  Speaker 1: it in there, like if if you got a cat
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  Speaker 1: like in the movie where where his character comes in
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  Speaker 1: on ladies on amateur night and kind of wins the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: There's a problem with that because if I go after
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  Speaker 1: him that there's less money now, hey money now, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know they get it in if if somebody is
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  Speaker 1: um if if if if his cat, Like we got
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  Speaker 1: a cat in the movie named Jamaica, he has some problems.
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  Speaker 1: He's been shot. Yeah no, no, no no. Jamaica was
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  Speaker 1: one of the other dances there. Um but but but
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  Speaker 1: Tyson's character actually kind of plays his character. Jamaica was
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  Speaker 1: shot ten times. Yeah, you know what I'm saying because
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  Speaker 1: another cat was jealous he was making that much money.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes it can be problems in the club hearing
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  Speaker 1: that if a guy has a bigger penist in yours, right,
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  Speaker 1: girls are going to naturally want to go to him.
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  Speaker 1: You can't see somebody's kids in that full frontal nude, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you put a sock down there to give you
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  Speaker 1: the illusion that yours is just as big. Well sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean from from what we hear, they have like
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  Speaker 1: fantasy enhancements. They do that. The women like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can't speak for everybody, but but yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's said to be done. It's it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: fantasy enhancement. Now, milstraper ones told me that what they
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  Speaker 1: do is they put the sock on, they tie it.
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  Speaker 1: Really they tie the sock. They tie the string around
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  Speaker 1: it really tight to cut off the flow exactly of blood.
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  Speaker 1: So that makes it enlarge. Imagine Mike Movie was born
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  Speaker 1: was penist off because of that, because he was doing
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  Speaker 1: you cut the circulation off. I mean anything you cut
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  Speaker 1: circulation off, you know, you might rent yourself penis list.
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  Speaker 1: Penis list, you can. I mean if you if you
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  Speaker 1: if you cut your circulation off, you cut your circulation off.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they stay hard the whole time, because it's
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  Speaker 1: like the blood stays there. That happened to me during
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  Speaker 1: the film. That happened to me, Like I I no, no no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: Like I didn't really I didn't really know. It's called
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  Speaker 1: being tied off. I mean, it's called being tied off.
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  Speaker 1: Like I didn't really know anything so they told me
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  Speaker 1: this is what you do, because you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: my first time doing something like that, and it can
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  Speaker 1: enlarge it in a certain way, but it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not fun, it's not comfortable, and that's what happened to
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  Speaker 1: me during the film. Yeah, exactly, but a real one.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's a scene in the film where it happens.
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  Speaker 1: It's one like maybe three second shot where you see
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  Speaker 1: it in the film playing Friday, you know, come and
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  Speaker 1: check it out Friday. Now, how how did you how
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  Speaker 1: did how do you get out of character? Oh? Y'all
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  Speaker 1: still dancing? Shirt over there? Get bread? Well, the thing
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  Speaker 1: about it and all my characters across like my whole career,
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  Speaker 1: I'm usually have my shirt off in some scene. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I play mostly athletes, so a lot of my stuff
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  Speaker 1: is like locker room scenes are like in my bedroom
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  Speaker 1: thinking my stuff. So I think it's still like for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's still in the lane of all my acting stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's not out of character for me. It's just another
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  Speaker 1: sport you know, would be out of character for you
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  Speaker 1: to play. Somebody come in New York City. It's about
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  Speaker 1: energy here from La shout out to La Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: went up and for me, Um, I grew out my hair,
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  Speaker 1: twisted it up, I locked it up, grew a big
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  Speaker 1: thick beard. Because my character's name is Magnus. And when
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  Speaker 1: I spoke with the director, I told him, I said,
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  Speaker 1: I want to create a character for this. So my
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  Speaker 1: character was kind of earthy, afrocentric, walked with a you know,
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  Speaker 1: an Egyptian cane had you know, Elecki's on. So it
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  Speaker 1: was it was different from me. Now what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: What's what's your regiment? Man? You drink a lot of water?
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  Speaker 1: You go see a Derman til definitely, yeah, most of
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  Speaker 1: the time. But but I also bench at night. Like
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  Speaker 1: if you go on my freezer, it's I think I
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  Speaker 1: work out so I can eat what I want. But um,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you got you over for you Yes, you
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  Speaker 1: don't look it, That's what I'm saying. Yes, Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I work out. I take care of myself. I
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  Speaker 1: drink a lot of water. The secret for me, and
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  Speaker 1: I tell everybody this all the time. Black seed or
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  Speaker 1: black seed oil. It um, it cleanses the blood, cleanses
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  Speaker 1: the skin, heals the properties of the skin from the
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  Speaker 1: cellular level. Black seed oil food. I take it orally right,
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  Speaker 1: I drink it and I put it on my skin. Black.
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  Speaker 1: It's a secret black seed oil, Egyptian black seed oil.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta go to Health Health Harlem or health food stores.
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  Speaker 1: De Herbs has it um but but really black seed
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  Speaker 1: oil is it's magical. They say that black seed oil
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  Speaker 1: cures everything except death and it and it really does. See.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta actor and pharmacists right here. I want to
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  Speaker 1: give history on Darren No Food. Some kids that may
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  Speaker 1: not know Darren made a lot of money. She was
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  Speaker 1: a choreographer for Britney Spis and Spas street Boys in
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  Speaker 1: Sink ninety degrees, every white poppy boy band artist. You yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I created the dance steps for Instincts by by Bias.
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  Speaker 1: What I want to MTV music for Britney Spirits. Christina Aguilera,
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez worked with Michael Jackson print I'm blessed. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was a young guy from the Bronx who just
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  Speaker 1: had big dreams. Man, And you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not that innocent. You know you made a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money we sold yeah man, I'm yeah. I was.
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  Speaker 1: It was pre that and it was like I was
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  Speaker 1: up when I got Soul Food. I thought, Man, I
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  Speaker 1: spent so many years as a choreographer. I had such
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  Speaker 1: a huge audience. I said, I can't leave all this
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  Speaker 1: money on the table. And I was sitting down one
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  Speaker 1: day watching Billy Blanks and I just thought, nobody's ever
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  Speaker 1: done this with dance, And I started writing the treatment.
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  Speaker 1: It took me by the year to put it together
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  Speaker 1: and kind of shop it, and then I did a deal.
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  Speaker 1: And after that, man, you know, like life changed, Why
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  Speaker 1: hasn't it transcended into this era though, because like I
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  Speaker 1: see Lori and gifts and she's still choreographer, yeah, choo choreographer. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: for me, it was it was about a transition. It
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  Speaker 1: was about becoming an entrepreneur, business man. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: owned quite a few businesses now, and it was just
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  Speaker 1: about utilizing the money that I had made to work
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  Speaker 1: for me and other places you know don't work hard,
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  Speaker 1: work smart kind of so the other builders, the other
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  Speaker 1: businesses I have now are kind of like an infrastructure,
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  Speaker 1: not only for myself but for my kids going on
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  Speaker 1: as a young black kid from the from the Bronx right, yes,
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  Speaker 1: into that field. It's just it's it's about dreaming, man,
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  Speaker 1: It's about utilizing you know, scripture says have faith without
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  Speaker 1: works is dead, and I believe that you have to
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  Speaker 1: be creatively dreaming and then put action behind it and
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  Speaker 1: allow yourself to gain access to a mentor. Right, get
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  Speaker 1: a mentor somebody who already has what you want so
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  Speaker 1: you can have a viewpoint and a perspective of where
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  Speaker 1: you want to go. And that's what we talk about
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  Speaker 1: like during Chocolate City. So that same process is you know,
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  Speaker 1: somebody saying, well, that was easy for you to do
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  Speaker 1: the movie because you're a dancer. No, that was a
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  Speaker 1: character I played. It was a new script, it was
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  Speaker 1: a new character. It's a new nuance. Nothing is easy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's application and it's creative thought
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  Speaker 1: and action followed behind it and belief system in myself. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we can, fellas go see this movie. Yeah you can't.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a movie. Yeah, I mean, it's still a movie.
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  Speaker 1: Take your girl. It's very I would tell you this,
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  Speaker 1: you would definitely laugh if you go see it. It's
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  Speaker 1: really a funny movie. Man in the building yesterday where
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  Speaker 1: they or not? Yeah, there was there were some guys there.
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  Speaker 1: And genuine is actually in the movie as well. I
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  Speaker 1: genuine looks pretty good too. The movie comes out May
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  Speaker 1: twenty second AMC theaters and on demand, so if you
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  Speaker 1: don't feel like getting off your couch, you can watch
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  Speaker 1: it on demand the same day. Yeah, I mean, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you don't want everybody to see you in the theater.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you want to get it on you watch it
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  Speaker 1: at home. See take that back home? Right, I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you if you do a couple of movies that we
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  Speaker 1: did in the movie, yeah, something, you might have to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for a baby or something like that because
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  Speaker 1: it Yeah, it's the Breakfast Club. We got the counsel,
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  Speaker 1: chocolate sitting