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Chico Bean Roasts DJ Envy, Talks New Tour, Love Life + More! · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that as up in the morning. Breakfast club Morning.
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Speaker 1: Everybody is tj Envy, Angela Yee, showing me the God.
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Speaker 1: We're all the breakfast club. We got a special guest
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Speaker 1: with my guy, my friend. M oh wow, all of that.
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Speaker 1: Wow wow. Yeah, you know, this is my first time
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Speaker 1: I'm up here, man, so you know we're gonna go here.
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Speaker 1: I got some bones to pick with everybody before leave. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're trying to be funny. Yeah, you're trying to be funny.
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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go ahead and talk about I've seen
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Speaker 1: DJ Envy in Houston smoking a hooker like a Instagram model.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it before I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: I thought he must have thought he was invisible or something.
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Speaker 1: He was smoking it and blowing the smoke out his
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Speaker 1: nose and his moke at the same time he rubbing
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Speaker 1: his levers. I'm like, man, he must be smoking Ecstacy flavor, Like,
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Speaker 1: what type of hooka is that? Then he gonna point
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Speaker 1: to who gave me, like Nick Cannon on drum Line.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm straight. You keep that. You remember
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Speaker 1: the five, It's like the two five. This is what
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Speaker 1: it's like. The smoke ecstasy flavor. He was like man, man,
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Speaker 1: he was hitting now. I was like slim on drugs
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Speaker 1: now Angela the morning, beautiful. Let me you're the only
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Speaker 1: person I know that got a new job and keep
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Speaker 1: coming to the old one, Like like, when is the
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Speaker 1: new job starts? You keep coming back? I miss you.
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Speaker 1: I would love to start my new job, but it
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Speaker 1: starting in January. I know before you walked in, I
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Speaker 1: know you were listen Angela leave that's her new name,
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Speaker 1: and Leonard listen. Man. Let me ask you a question, sir,
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Speaker 1: You up here every day on the biggest radio show
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Speaker 1: in the world. Yes, yes, how come you never talk
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Speaker 1: about the other show that I worked for you on,
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Speaker 1: Like why don't you ever mention me on the Breakfast Club?
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Speaker 1: Because you put me on some of the most I
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Speaker 1: mean extravagant missions in the world. You had me in
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Speaker 1: Queensbridge with five white men and camera equipment. Security, ain't
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Speaker 1: had no pistol and the only other black man had
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Speaker 1: on scrubs. You ain't saying nothing about me. You could
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Speaker 1: at least said, she go being made it out alive.
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Speaker 1: You ain't say nothing. You can send me to Brown
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Speaker 1: That isn't even the worst one, he sent me to
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Speaker 1: Tennessee and had me asking the real Megamerica great again
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Speaker 1: white people to give me that Confederate flame. Then he
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Speaker 1: had two nations of Islam brothers with me like it's
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Speaker 1: a chapter in that part of Tennessee. It wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: been nobody that could have made it that helped me
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Speaker 1: get up out of there. Man, y'all turble, I should
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Speaker 1: take all this whole show. I should take and ain't
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Speaker 1: no welcome chicko being that what what cam? I'm on
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Speaker 1: this camera right here? What's up? America? You are now
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Speaker 1: tuning the power one oh five. This is the Brunch
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Speaker 1: brig Gade. That's right, the show formally known as The
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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. I am your host, Chico being with my
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Speaker 1: co host Letting the Skin, Angel the League and dj
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Speaker 1: Ecstacy Flavor. That's why we got a special special show
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Speaker 1: coming up in nine forty five, We got The Life's
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Speaker 1: Getting Love let a segment with DJ Mvy will be
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Speaker 1: reading three love letters. You must guess which one was
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Speaker 1: written by him gets a personalized personalized by DJ himself.
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Speaker 1: This is the Brush Brigade. Wig up sament because Envy
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Speaker 1: does write love letters. Because she posted them sometimes for real. Yeah, Puss,
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Speaker 1: he look how beautiful brilliant I am. I've been talking
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Speaker 1: about it. I don't believe sometimes that Envy really wrote them.
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Speaker 1: I feel like she helps him write all my love letters.
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Speaker 1: Even she would help him write a letter to her.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, because I can't see Envy like doing,
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Speaker 1: you know, like writing things six babies and she think
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Speaker 1: she thinks you dumb, you don't. Yeah, if you'd seen
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Speaker 1: him smoking, as you have known, he was capable of
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Speaker 1: writing love I'm talking. I ain't never see nobody smoker
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Speaker 1: who get rubbed their nipples. At the same time it was,
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Speaker 1: he was blowing the smoke through his teeth. I was like, Yo,
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Speaker 1: this dude, this legendary. But that'd be a good segment
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Speaker 1: if this is the first time Nbia has actually acknowledged you. See. No,
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Speaker 1: he did acknowledge me and Houston, and he was at
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Speaker 1: the We was at the Turkey Leg. And I think
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Speaker 1: the reason why you acknowledge me is because the owner
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Speaker 1: of the Turkey Leg Hut is so aggressively hospitable. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he go a bottle of the the nineteen forty two and
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Speaker 1: three kids to claim on your taxes. Don't say so.
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Speaker 1: I felt like if he didn't say something to him,
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Speaker 1: shout out to let it, he would have, you know,
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Speaker 1: said something to him about not saying something. Now you
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Speaker 1: see that they have, but they should have a dress
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Speaker 1: code because I've been there on times where it's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, you you looking like you in the strip
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Speaker 1: club and it's it's a little much, you know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it, but you know, you got your kids.
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Speaker 1: You don't want them to know what that is. So
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Speaker 1: I feel them. But it's a business that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the line will be wrapped around the corner. So you
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Speaker 1: think you got a line going down the street with
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Speaker 1: people with thongs and titties out and all that. You
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Speaker 1: don't want you bring people in their families and everything.
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Speaker 1: My kids went, so yeah, absolutely, yeah they ain't go
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Speaker 1: that there. You were smoking at hookah, I tell you
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Speaker 1: that day to judge you that day. Yeah yeah, well
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Speaker 1: hut yeah, yeah they got a hookah. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if anybody else can get them, but they had one
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Speaker 1: for envy the ecstasy flavors, so they got drinks and everything.
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Speaker 1: Yeah it's dope. It's dope, man, But you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: happy to be up here with y'all all the way
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Speaker 1: A movie Dirty Third Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I shot
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Speaker 1: that in Houston as well, so you know, it's a
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Speaker 1: remake of the movie that they did back in the day,
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Speaker 1: and um, you know, I was excited to do it
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Speaker 1: because I love Houston as a as a city. Man.
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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful city and they always show love down
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Speaker 1: that So I was excited about being in the movie.
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Speaker 1: It's coming out in a couple of weeks, I think, Okay,
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Speaker 1: not next week, you know what I mean. I think
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Speaker 1: it's coming out there. What's the most fun about everything
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Speaker 1: that you're doing right now? Man? The most fun? Well,
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Speaker 1: I would say the most fun is just being able to,
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Speaker 1: you know, be happy with everything that's going on. You know,
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Speaker 1: I hadn't been through a lot. You know, I lost
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Speaker 1: my mom last year in the COVID, you know, so
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Speaker 1: you know, when you go through that type of trauma,
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Speaker 1: you really have to you know, kind of replace the
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Speaker 1: hole that's filled when you lose your matriarch like that.
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Speaker 1: And I realize that I find a lot of solace
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Speaker 1: and just knowing that what I do bring other people
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Speaker 1: so much joy, you know, in the response that I
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Speaker 1: get so it's just like being in New York. I
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Speaker 1: loved this city because when I came up here, I
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Speaker 1: didn't I didn't have anything. I was just nobody that
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Speaker 1: was trying to make something of myself. So every time
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Speaker 1: I come up here, I love a feeling that I get.
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Speaker 1: Even though I've made a name for myself, I still
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Speaker 1: get that same nostalgic feeling that I had when I
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Speaker 1: wasn't anybody and I was trying to make it work.
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Speaker 1: That's why I love New York so much. So it's
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Speaker 1: just the feeling overall that I think is the best
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Speaker 1: part you wanted in ran Comedians though, that literally takes
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Speaker 1: your life and brings it to the stage or brings
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Speaker 1: it to whatever you do. Because I remember when your
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Speaker 1: mom passed and you was telling a story that sounded
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Speaker 1: like it could have been a stand up but it
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Speaker 1: was real life. That it's true story. I mean, because
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Speaker 1: that's the way I was raised. Man, I have a
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Speaker 1: unique upbringing. To say the least. I say my mother
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Speaker 1: raised me in a reverse because a lot of the
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Speaker 1: coddling and everything that you see a woman give the child,
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Speaker 1: especially somebody like me. My father got murdered when I
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Speaker 1: was two years old, so it was just me and
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Speaker 1: my mom, and she was not protective in any way.
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Speaker 1: You know, she was to get out there, you got
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Speaker 1: to learn how to be a man. And then once
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Speaker 1: I became aim a man and she saw that I
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Speaker 1: was functional and everything that she trained me to do,
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Speaker 1: that's when she opened up to me and started letting
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Speaker 1: me know all of the things that she kept to
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Speaker 1: herself when I was young. So by the time she
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Speaker 1: passed away, we was locked in and I had no
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Speaker 1: inhibition about talking about our relationship. Like I always say,
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Speaker 1: like when she first passed away, I watched her passed away.
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Speaker 1: I watched her die, held her hand, rubbed her back,
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Speaker 1: and she passed away. Then I had to go home
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Speaker 1: and tell my little brother that she was gone. And
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Speaker 1: then next morning, I mean we cried all night, and
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Speaker 1: then next morning we was looking at each other, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, we got to get the information to take
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Speaker 1: to the funeral home. Which one of us going to
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Speaker 1: search the room because I know that deal though in there,
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Speaker 1: and I don't I don't want to find it. I
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Speaker 1: know it's in there. I know, my Mama, it's in there.
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Speaker 1: I God, that's why I like it's in there. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to find it. I don't want to be
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Speaker 1: I'm serious, but listen, I don't want to be answer it.
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Speaker 1: Don't you have the toys that you use in your room?
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Speaker 1: Every woman has them. My MoMA ain't no difference was
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Speaker 1: the rules. I wasn't looking my brother, you got to them.
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Speaker 1: I refused to go in there. But you know this
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Speaker 1: is uh, you know, it's just like I said, it's
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Speaker 1: just a process. I miss her every day, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. You know it's I'm gonna walk a
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Speaker 1: reflection of what she made me because she did it
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Speaker 1: on her own. You know, it's hard for a woman
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Speaker 1: to raise a man. And she always used to tell me,
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Speaker 1: I can't teach you how to be no man. Some
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Speaker 1: things you're gonna learn on your own. But I'm damn
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Speaker 1: sure gonna teach you how not to be a bitch.
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Speaker 1: And that's what she did. Don't you swung in the
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Speaker 1: funeral director? Oh listen, man, what the hell? Listen man?
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Speaker 1: Black Businesses Salute to Gilly. You know I've seen him
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Speaker 1: go through what he went through yesterday at the airport,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He the first rapper to
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Speaker 1: ever check his own bag for the police. Put that
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Speaker 1: out there, Gilly, you're the first rapper to ever check
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Speaker 1: your own band. Soldier Boy ain't did that yet. Many
8:40
Speaker 1: times Gilly been stopped that he knew how to search.
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Speaker 1: He knew how to search his own band. That right,
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Speaker 1: there's a skill set, you know what I mean? Wallow
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Speaker 1: Probbly told him, like, bro, I've been in jail for
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Speaker 1: twenty years. If they ever say to search your band,
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Speaker 1: go left, right, then up down like a cheek. Cool.
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Speaker 1: But m I used the Black Funeral Service, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean? Because my mother passed away from COVID.
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Speaker 1: So you know what, when she was in a hospital,
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Speaker 1: they had her something called prone which was on one
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Speaker 1: side of her body to try to open up her
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Speaker 1: lungs so I couldn't see the other side of her face.
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Speaker 1: So everybody that I called didn't have any experience with
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Speaker 1: dealing with COVID deaths. This one guy that I called,
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Speaker 1: he had experience. He told me every answer to every
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Speaker 1: question that I had before I can ask him. So
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Speaker 1: I chose to use him. But he was in New
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Speaker 1: Jersey and then my mother passed away in DC. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to raise in DC, of course, So when he
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Speaker 1: had to come get her body. They were giving them
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Speaker 1: problems in the transfer. So he called me one night.
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Speaker 1: She was probably had been did a week now. She
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Speaker 1: called me like, yo, man, they're giving me problems getting
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Speaker 1: mom's body. Do you mind if I just sign your
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Speaker 1: name and fact this paperwork over so I can get
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Speaker 1: your mom's body. I said, no problem to mind you.
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Speaker 1: I hadn't met him already, I hadn't pay them for
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Speaker 1: all the services. You know. Next day they called me like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: mister Bean, we were gonna release your mom's body, but
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Speaker 1: the funeral director signed your name is Chico'beans. The nigga
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Speaker 1: put cheek O'bean on the paper to get hunger shut up.
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Speaker 1: It might have been now any wouldn't know what to
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Speaker 1: put because he don't know who I am. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's a true story. So it's like the process that
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Speaker 1: I went through. You know, it taught me a lot
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Speaker 1: about just myself because I dealt with so much death,
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Speaker 1: you know what. Death was one of the first things
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Speaker 1: I had to learn how to deal with it. My
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Speaker 1: father being murdered, so you know, and then my uncle
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Speaker 1: got killed, who was like my father. I've lost multiple
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Speaker 1: people to violence growing up, you know, and death was
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Speaker 1: a part of my life, so I felt like I
10:23
Speaker 1: was prepared to deal with it whenever it came. But
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Speaker 1: your mother's different, like and you know, ripped a hole
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Speaker 1: in me that I've been trying to feel every since.
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Speaker 1: But the process of going through planning the funeral and
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Speaker 1: doing all of that shit changed me as a person.
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Speaker 1: So I tell people all the time now that the
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Speaker 1: book of my life with my mother and it has
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Speaker 1: the end on it, I can't add no more chapters.
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Speaker 1: So if you still have the luxury of having your
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Speaker 1: mother on this plane, appreciate the fact that you can
10:46
Speaker 1: add chapters, because one day, if the circle of life
10:48
Speaker 1: go to way it's supposed to go, then you're gonna
10:50
Speaker 1: have to put the end on yours too. So you
10:52
Speaker 1: know that's just how I go drop. No, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: he didn't almost Now this is an exclusive. I don't
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Speaker 1: think I even talked about that before. No, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I don't mind like this. I'm not gonna put him
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Speaker 1: out there because you know, he actually did a good service.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't him either. The dude that was transferring
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Speaker 1: my mother's body. Me and my manager go to you know,
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Speaker 1: view my mama's body to see before she goes out
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Speaker 1: to New Jersey and the dude who's taking her body
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Speaker 1: out of the back of the van sees me and like,
11:24
Speaker 1: oh shit, going to Chico Bean something. Emby would never do.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, he recognized me and
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Speaker 1: acknowledged me and was like, oh shit. So he freaked
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Speaker 1: out and see me walking and then he pulled her
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Speaker 1: out and then drop her body on the ground. So
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Speaker 1: then he goes to try to pick her up again
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Speaker 1: and it drops her again. And then I say, man,
11:43
Speaker 1: I walk up to him. He's sweating. I'm talking. I
11:45
Speaker 1: ain't never seen nothing like this. I mean, he poured sweat,
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Speaker 1: just dripping sweating. I'm like, bro, you're okay, you're straight.
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Speaker 1: He was like, I'm just I'm just so nervous. I'm like, look, man,
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Speaker 1: it's somebody that's really special to me in this bag. Man,
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Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta get yourself together. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: I calmed them down. We picked her up, put her
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Speaker 1: back on the thing. My manager walk over and gave
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Speaker 1: him some type of pep talk like nigga if anything,
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Speaker 1: then fell off her and this goddamn bag. I'm a kid.
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Speaker 1: But the way the reason I was so calm in
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Speaker 1: that manner is because it it took so long for
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Speaker 1: her to get to that point. Now, mind you, if
12:17
Speaker 1: this would have happened to day that she died or
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Speaker 1: the day after she died, I probably would have did
12:21
Speaker 1: something completely different in that pocket line. But the fact
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Speaker 1: that I had enough time to you know, get myself
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Speaker 1: together and figure out how I felt about her being gone,
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Speaker 1: and by that time I knew that that was just
12:31
Speaker 1: the remains. It wasn't anything that I needed to be.
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Speaker 1: You know, he ain't punched my mom and dropped her somebody,
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Speaker 1: so I was able to keep myself calm. And it's
12:38
Speaker 1: just you can use that as an example of, you know,
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Speaker 1: just learning grace and patience, because that was the level
12:43
Speaker 1: of patience that I would have never thought that I
12:45
Speaker 1: had before I had it. So you know that that's
12:47
Speaker 1: the true story though that happened. It was nice that
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Speaker 1: your mom had a chance to see you be successful.
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Speaker 1: That's the best part of it, man, Like, she had
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Speaker 1: a chance and an opportunity to actually see me make
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Speaker 1: it and be a part of my process because, like
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Speaker 1: I said, she raised me by herself. My mother was
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Speaker 1: getting up at three o'clock in the morning to go
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Speaker 1: to work every day my whole life. So for her
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Speaker 1: to be able to see her son make it. I
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Speaker 1: know that she had. I mean, she loved me to death.
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Speaker 1: And that's the biggest part that I've been having to
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Speaker 1: feel now, was just knowing that that matriarch is not here.
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Speaker 1: That's the first time I've ever felt loneliness in my
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Speaker 1: life is when I lost her. You know, I don't
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Speaker 1: get man. Listen, I don't give a fuck about with
13:21
Speaker 1: nobody think about me because of the way you know,
13:22
Speaker 1: this is nigga, this is what this is. You know
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Speaker 1: what I mean that. Come on, Angela, why are you
13:28
Speaker 1: looking like that you is gonna? Why would you braid that?
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Speaker 1: Why you take your head off? Oh no, I mean both.
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Speaker 1: I think it's great that you are confident enough to
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Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, because during the pandemic, I feel like
13:40
Speaker 1: that's when we've been That's when we kicked it off.
13:42
Speaker 1: And the reason why I did this is just to
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Speaker 1: show people. Man, fun what people think about you, if
13:46
Speaker 1: it make you happy to do it. I'm proud of
13:47
Speaker 1: my side braids. I don't give a fun with nobody
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Speaker 1: to say. And the reason why I would braided is
13:51
Speaker 1: just because I could. I think the for real, I
13:55
Speaker 1: think the reason why i'm, you know, in a position
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Speaker 1: that I'm in as far as I'll just say, the
14:00
Speaker 1: people that really are supporters of everything that I do
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Speaker 1: is because they see that as genuine, Like I don't
14:06
Speaker 1: care what anybody has to say about me. You entitled
14:08
Speaker 1: to your opinion, but I'm entitled not to give a
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Speaker 1: fuck about it, just like you entitled to have it.
14:12
Speaker 1: So you know, this is just a part of who
14:14
Speaker 1: I am at this point, and let it grow out.
14:17
Speaker 1: I'm talking about I can, and it's three hairstyles I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna get before I cut it. I'm gonna get a
14:21
Speaker 1: Jerry Curl. I'm gonna get the Frankie Lineman. What's Love got?
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Speaker 1: I mean the Whitle Foods fall in Love and the
14:28
Speaker 1: big Red from the file Hot Beasts after that, and
14:30
Speaker 1: then I'm cutting it off with the Frankie line. You
14:31
Speaker 1: probably gonna have to get like a little weave and
14:33
Speaker 1: I no, no, I'm just gonna do the swoop over.
14:35
Speaker 1: I got another, get a little bang down all the way.
14:39
Speaker 1: You know, I appreciate you'all for helping me with head styles.
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Speaker 1: That's nice. I told him. I told you yesterday. I
14:45
Speaker 1: got the PRP but and I grew it out when
14:47
Speaker 1: you when when I was going the high line headline
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Speaker 1: during the pandemic game on that looking like the nigga
14:52
Speaker 1: from Lean On Me contry the popular belief I am
14:56
Speaker 1: the head nigga, and Chalda was like, damn snip, you
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Speaker 1: could remake that movie all the way. Oh man, when
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Speaker 1: we're getting cheeko being stand up special, you even want
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Speaker 1: to do that right now? Nigga? You need to get
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Speaker 1: me a stand up special for all I'm specialist. You'd
15:09
Speaker 1: be making me shoot for you? Does he does he
15:11
Speaker 1: pay you well for that? Does he what? Pay you
15:14
Speaker 1: well for that? Say that one more time? Pay you
15:17
Speaker 1: well for that? Huh? Yeah that I'm not even on that. Yeah,
15:24
Speaker 1: I don't think he pays me. I don't think he
15:25
Speaker 1: pays himself well for that. But that's probably a reason
15:30
Speaker 1: why he don't talk about it up here. You know, man,
15:32
Speaker 1: But we've been we've been at body com for a while.
15:34
Speaker 1: That's bad, yeah, I know. Yeah, but you know we're
15:37
Speaker 1: working on it, you know what I'm saying, like we uh,
15:39
Speaker 1: you know, of course we got the eighty five South,
15:41
Speaker 1: then we're doing something special with that. But you know
15:43
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that you know I've been
15:46
Speaker 1: doing is just you know, just I don't rush anything.
15:48
Speaker 1: I'm on my own clock now, nobody else's, so when
15:51
Speaker 1: it's time is signed. But I'm working on it. You know,
15:53
Speaker 1: I got a couple of shows coming up. I'm excited
15:54
Speaker 1: about the Wilber Theater in Boston. You know, I'm doing
15:57
Speaker 1: a run with the MGM. All the casinos, so I'm
16:00
Speaker 1: excited about that Foxwoods Casino and all that, and so
16:04
Speaker 1: you know, I'm prepared whenever it come, you know what
16:06
Speaker 1: I mean, whenever it comes. It's not gonna rush it
16:08
Speaker 1: because everybody else says you need this, you need that.
16:10
Speaker 1: Because you think about the game. Now, now it's Netflix,
16:13
Speaker 1: but ten years ago it was HBO. So we don't
16:16
Speaker 1: know where the game gonna go. You just make sure
16:17
Speaker 1: you stay in it long enough to be able to
16:19
Speaker 1: move whichever way. It feel like it's YouTube now too,
16:22
Speaker 1: when you see like Andrew and Andrew shows doing it,
16:24
Speaker 1: all of them. Yeah, it's all different types of platforms,
16:26
Speaker 1: you know, so the game is different. I tell people
16:28
Speaker 1: all the time. I remember when Ryan Davis was up here,
16:31
Speaker 1: he said, I always used to call him stupid for
16:32
Speaker 1: living in LA and that was true because you don't
16:35
Speaker 1: have to do it the same way that you did
16:36
Speaker 1: it back in the gap, like in the nineties, you
16:38
Speaker 1: had to be in LA or New York to get recognized. Now,
16:42
Speaker 1: all you have to do is just have a presence.
16:44
Speaker 1: And I started in North Carolina, you know, I started
16:46
Speaker 1: at the Greensboro Comedy Zone. And I told myself when
16:48
Speaker 1: I first started doing comedy, I'm gonna make a presence
16:51
Speaker 1: felt where I live, and even if I go to LA,
16:54
Speaker 1: I'll always have something to go back to because I
16:56
Speaker 1: didn't built the following. So that's just the way you
16:58
Speaker 1: got to do it. To all the young people out
16:59
Speaker 1: here thinking about doing this as a living, making a
17:02
Speaker 1: living off entertainment, just make a following, build your following
17:05
Speaker 1: wherever you had, and there come to you. Now you
17:07
Speaker 1: ain't got to go to where a But everything is
17:08
Speaker 1: so sensitive. Do you ever watch what you say now?
17:10
Speaker 1: Because the world is sensitive. It wasn't where where it
17:13
Speaker 1: was five years ago or ten years ago. Everything is
17:15
Speaker 1: so sensitive. Yeah, you gotta be mindful of that because
17:17
Speaker 1: it's so easy to be offended. Now. We were just
17:19
Speaker 1: talking yesterday, like I was watching The Living Color and
17:23
Speaker 1: that couldn't be on TV now. But you know, people
17:27
Speaker 1: were offended back then, but it just took longer for
17:29
Speaker 1: you to know that they were offended, and you had
17:31
Speaker 1: to put an effort in to be offended. You had
17:33
Speaker 1: to get up and make a picket sign and go
17:35
Speaker 1: to Tower Records or wherever they were shooting the show
17:38
Speaker 1: at and stand outside. It took effort. Now it doesn't
17:41
Speaker 1: take any effort to be offended. I think that's the
17:43
Speaker 1: reason why it's such a problem, because all you gotta
17:45
Speaker 1: do is take out your phone and say something, and
17:47
Speaker 1: you can get millions of people to agree with you
17:49
Speaker 1: just from you saying something from the comfort of your couch.
17:51
Speaker 1: So you gotta be careful of that. But at the
17:53
Speaker 1: same time, as long as you're telling your truth, I
17:56
Speaker 1: don't care who get mad at my truth. That's that's
17:58
Speaker 1: on you, you know what I mean? Apologize for something
18:01
Speaker 1: like for offending anybody. He hasn't had too yet yet.
18:04
Speaker 1: God damn, n, what the why are you gonna put
18:07
Speaker 1: that on me? I ain't apolier. You need to apologize
18:10
Speaker 1: for a lot of this shit you said. You said,
18:12
Speaker 1: Kanye West gonna kill itself it's going to commit suicide.
18:21
Speaker 1: I said that he's moving like a man who feels
18:24
Speaker 1: like he's not gonna be here much longer, which means
18:26
Speaker 1: that you've been around people who haven't been here much longer.
18:30
Speaker 1: They killed themselves, and you can recognize that behavior. I
18:33
Speaker 1: recognize the manic episode, and manic episodes don't anywhere unless
18:36
Speaker 1: somebody in the I don't care that you put that
18:38
Speaker 1: jargon on there, you know what you said. But you know,
18:41
Speaker 1: some comedians feel like it's a joke. If I start
18:43
Speaker 1: apologizing for things, that's a slippery slope, and then people
18:46
Speaker 1: will come at me, and I'm I don't want to
18:48
Speaker 1: be apologizing for jokes that don't have ill intentions. Yeah,
18:52
Speaker 1: I mean you as long as like you said that
18:55
Speaker 1: it's not malicious, you know what I mean. One of
18:57
Speaker 1: the one of the things that helps me is I
18:59
Speaker 1: before I started doing comedy, for a time, I was
19:01
Speaker 1: a QP, a qualified professional, And what that is is
19:03
Speaker 1: I work with people with substance abuse issues. You know,
19:06
Speaker 1: people on the autism spectrum, all different types of stuff,
19:09
Speaker 1: and one of the first rules of working with people
19:11
Speaker 1: that have disabilities is that they tell you they want
19:14
Speaker 1: to be treated normally, they don't want you to look
19:16
Speaker 1: at them like they're lesson in and don't want you
19:17
Speaker 1: to look at them like something that's wrong with them.
19:19
Speaker 1: And then that I've seen just being around people like that,
19:22
Speaker 1: if they can laugh at themselves and they can, you know,
19:25
Speaker 1: be okay with something that they have no control over,
19:28
Speaker 1: why can't you be okay with something you do have
19:30
Speaker 1: control over. You have control over what you allowed to
19:33
Speaker 1: offend you words or words, as long as the actions
19:36
Speaker 1: behind the words aren't something that is going to cause
19:38
Speaker 1: you detriment. You should be able to take somebody saying
19:41
Speaker 1: anything that they say as long as it doesn't affect
19:44
Speaker 1: you directly. Now, mind you, we do live in a
19:46
Speaker 1: time where you have to be sensitive about what you say.
19:48
Speaker 1: With me personally, I don't get on stage to hurt
19:51
Speaker 1: people's feelings. I get on stage to tell my truth
19:53
Speaker 1: and make people laugh. So if you get offended by that,
19:56
Speaker 1: then it is what it is. I was giving some
19:57
Speaker 1: great advice. If you do a joke that don't offense
20:00
Speaker 1: I'm body and it's a horrible joke. So you know
20:02
Speaker 1: you gotta take that in there. And you never know
20:04
Speaker 1: what people triggers are personally, yeah, and you can't tell
20:07
Speaker 1: nobody what they can get offended by it. That's that's true.
20:09
Speaker 1: You know, if you choose, you have the right to
20:11
Speaker 1: be offended by whatever you want to be offended by.
20:13
Speaker 1: But I just think that now that we live in
20:14
Speaker 1: a time where it's so easy to be offended, I
20:16
Speaker 1: think if you took away social media, it'd be a
20:19
Speaker 1: lot easier for you to say whatever it is you
20:21
Speaker 1: want to say, because people don't have the energy to
20:24
Speaker 1: really get up and go out and show that they
20:26
Speaker 1: really mean that they feel the way that they feel.
20:29
Speaker 1: So I just I just try to you know, I
20:31
Speaker 1: told a line. I know, it's certain things that you
20:32
Speaker 1: can't say. I mean, the nineties was different, you know,
20:35
Speaker 1: you just say nineties. The nineties was a different game.
20:38
Speaker 1: Like I said, I was watching and Living Color. I
20:40
Speaker 1: was watching some sixty minute interviews from the nineties and
20:42
Speaker 1: it was like, ain't no way you can get away
20:44
Speaker 1: with this now. So, I mean, you know, the most
20:46
Speaker 1: ruthless interviewer was Barbara Goddamn. Yeah, oh yeah, it was vicious.
20:53
Speaker 1: Go watch the sitcom I'm Not the sitcom to talk
20:55
Speaker 1: shows Jenny Jones and Ricky Lake and the original Oprah
20:58
Speaker 1: and all that. Like, but I'm lad I was raised
21:01
Speaker 1: in that era because for me, I think that a
21:04
Speaker 1: lot of things that you know, people complain about the
21:06
Speaker 1: way the world is now, a lot of like, man,
21:08
Speaker 1: it wasn't like this when I was growing up. I'm
21:10
Speaker 1: kind of you know, on both sides of defense. There's
21:13
Speaker 1: certain things that I'm glad in use now that wasn't
21:16
Speaker 1: in use when I was little, And I'm also upset
21:19
Speaker 1: to the certain things that can't be said and done,
21:21
Speaker 1: like watching the old Jenny Jones and Jerry Springer, Like
21:25
Speaker 1: I love that era just because you see the freedom,
21:28
Speaker 1: you know what people just had the freedom to even
21:30
Speaker 1: get on TV and say. But you know, I also
21:33
Speaker 1: appreciate that, you know, you have mental health talk now,
21:36
Speaker 1: like like depression. There wasn't no depression when I was little.
21:40
Speaker 1: You know how depressed I would have been if I
21:42
Speaker 1: could have used depression to get out of school. Like
21:46
Speaker 1: that's a great thing because you think about it. Like
21:49
Speaker 1: like I said, talking about my mom, it's so much
21:52
Speaker 1: that I realized as a man that I didn't understand
21:54
Speaker 1: as a young man. Like for example, you know, I
21:57
Speaker 1: love my mother to death, but I never had to
22:00
Speaker 1: be in a relationship with her. I don't know who
22:02
Speaker 1: she was in a relationship, just like I don't know
22:04
Speaker 1: who she was as a person having to raise two
22:07
Speaker 1: boys by herself. So who was before your parents or
22:10
Speaker 1: who she was? And I didn't find that out until
22:12
Speaker 1: she passed away who she was before she was my mother?
22:15
Speaker 1: So when you think about that, it was so much
22:16
Speaker 1: that she was concealing and hiding from us that if
22:20
Speaker 1: we had an outlet for as a family that we
22:22
Speaker 1: could have went and talked about mental health, it could
22:24
Speaker 1: have helped our situation tremendously because now you have children
22:29
Speaker 1: who you know, being affected by this social media in
22:32
Speaker 1: ways that we never had to deal with. I went
22:34
Speaker 1: back to my alma mater, went to sell them state
22:36
Speaker 1: and talked to the kids in my program. I graduated
22:40
Speaker 1: from the communications program, and all of them was like, man,
22:42
Speaker 1: I just feel like I ain't moving fast enough. I
22:44
Speaker 1: ain't moving fast enough. I'm like, how old are you? Eighteen?
22:47
Speaker 1: And I understand it because they up against the phone.
22:50
Speaker 1: I'd only had to, you know, see what was around me,
22:52
Speaker 1: who went to school with me, the success stories at
22:54
Speaker 1: the school, and you went to an HBC. You know,
22:56
Speaker 1: it was two three niggas with money where you went
22:58
Speaker 1: to Hamptons, so it might be different. There's a lot
23:02
Speaker 1: of a lot of money at Hampton. But you know,
23:04
Speaker 1: usually you're only competing with what you see. But now
23:07
Speaker 1: they got to compete with everybody. They competing with their phone,
23:10
Speaker 1: everybody's highlight reel, everybody highlight real is in front of you.
23:14
Speaker 1: So now you feel like you are inadequate because you
23:16
Speaker 1: got to compete with that. So we didn't have to
23:18
Speaker 1: deal with that. So that creates a level of mental
23:21
Speaker 1: you know, you make you unstable in ways that we
23:23
Speaker 1: never had to deal with. So I appreciate that, you know,
23:26
Speaker 1: those conversations are going on, but I do wish the
23:28
Speaker 1: world was a lot less sensitive. You know what the
23:30
Speaker 1: thing about Cheeko man, you know you hit Cheeko talking clearly,
23:32
Speaker 1: could tell he's intelligent, You don't. I don't know if
23:34
Speaker 1: you talk about your educational background enough? Why why should
23:37
Speaker 1: I just because I mean, I don't think that's something
23:40
Speaker 1: that you know, you know, you should hang your hat
23:42
Speaker 1: on because I know a lot of people that went
23:44
Speaker 1: to school that's dummies, and I love a lot of
23:46
Speaker 1: people who never went to school that are brilliant. So
23:48
Speaker 1: I just think that that's something that you should utilize
23:51
Speaker 1: on your own. If somebody asked me that I go
23:53
Speaker 1: to college or that I get an education, of course,
23:54
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna hang my hat on that because
23:57
Speaker 1: I feel like i'm short myself because there's somebody who
23:59
Speaker 1: didn't have that level of education that you can learn
24:01
Speaker 1: from that. I'm open. I don't I'd say all the
24:03
Speaker 1: time one of my monstresses. I don't know nothing. So therefore,
24:06
Speaker 1: I'm always open to learning. I'm always open to having
24:09
Speaker 1: a conversation with somebody who can teach me something, no
24:11
Speaker 1: matter what I read out of a book. I think
24:13
Speaker 1: that's a problem with people. Now. You see all these
24:15
Speaker 1: people regurgitating information that they just read without doing any
24:18
Speaker 1: of these experience or the life experience. So you know,
24:22
Speaker 1: school don't teach you that, life teaches you life experience communication. Okay, yeah, yeah,
24:28
Speaker 1: thank you, and you've been my f That's what it is. Man.
24:32
Speaker 1: You still tuned this to the Brunch Brigade. I am
24:34
Speaker 1: your host, Chico Bean, just in case she was wondering,
24:36
Speaker 1: that's right. Coming up, we had the next segment, when
24:39
Speaker 1: does Angela leave? That's right, We're gonna have all of
24:43
Speaker 1: the callers come in. The third team caller who gets
24:45
Speaker 1: just the date that she actually leaves will get a
24:47
Speaker 1: ticket to come see her work wherever she's going. That's right,
24:49
Speaker 1: This is the bunch Brigade. Wake up. But who instilled
24:54
Speaker 1: that in you? Early? Though? Just just to educate yourself,
24:58
Speaker 1: whether it was academically or true books are through the
25:00
Speaker 1: life experience, like who who put that in you? Everybody?
25:04
Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, my father was murdered, so
25:07
Speaker 1: I never had that relationship. But you know, I've learned
25:10
Speaker 1: to look at the bright side of death and bad
25:13
Speaker 1: the things that most people look at detriments in life.
25:15
Speaker 1: Like for example, I never knew my father, but I
25:18
Speaker 1: also never had to live up to a standard for me.
25:20
Speaker 1: I never had to live up to what he wanted
25:23
Speaker 1: me to be. And I also never had to see
25:25
Speaker 1: him do anything that disappointed me or see him do
25:27
Speaker 1: anything that made me feel like damn man. Why I
25:30
Speaker 1: got to use this as an example, so I was
25:32
Speaker 1: able to take influence from everybody because I didn't have
25:35
Speaker 1: to worry about my daddy coming up and saying we
25:37
Speaker 1: don't like him. I saw you put a post up
25:39
Speaker 1: the other day to say, the woman teaches you how
25:43
Speaker 1: to I can't remember exactly. Basically, Sny need men to
25:48
Speaker 1: re man. A man teaches you what to believe. So
25:51
Speaker 1: because I didn't have the man that created me, there,
25:54
Speaker 1: as unfortunate as it was, I still was able to
25:57
Speaker 1: take influence from places that I'm sure I probably wouldn't
25:59
Speaker 1: have been able to or wouldn't have known because I
26:01
Speaker 1: would have been up under my daddy. So my uncles,
26:04
Speaker 1: you know, I mean all of my uncles, all of
26:06
Speaker 1: the people. I come up in a household I lived with,
26:08
Speaker 1: all my family. I was surrounded by everything. I had
26:10
Speaker 1: two uncles that was dope dealers. I had, you know,
26:13
Speaker 1: two cousins that was like uncles and aunts that was
26:15
Speaker 1: on drugs, My mother and my aunt Mary, you know
26:18
Speaker 1: what I mean. My uncle Ricky, who was the youngest,
26:20
Speaker 1: who I gravitated towards, and that's why I got my
26:22
Speaker 1: musical influence from. But I come up from in a
26:25
Speaker 1: household where there was no gray area. I never got
26:28
Speaker 1: anything hidden from me. And I've always had responsibility in
26:31
Speaker 1: my life. There's never been a time where I didn't
26:33
Speaker 1: have responsibility. So you learn that like I've learned to
26:36
Speaker 1: be okay with walking a role less travel because I've
26:40
Speaker 1: always had to When my friends was playing football and
26:44
Speaker 1: you know, outside riding bikes, I had to walk to
26:46
Speaker 1: the safe way to get the groceries with a cart
26:48
Speaker 1: at nineteen years old. I got my first job when
26:50
Speaker 1: I was nine, working at Bluebirds Bobershop, brushing people off
26:53
Speaker 1: for dollars. So you learn in those experience through life
26:56
Speaker 1: when you walking down the street mad that you gotta
26:58
Speaker 1: take care of responsibility. Doing those times, you pick up
27:01
Speaker 1: how to be okay with things that you don't realize
27:04
Speaker 1: in that time. But when you become a man that
27:05
Speaker 1: trained me. A lot of my friends you know that
27:07
Speaker 1: I grew up with, are still in the same place,
27:10
Speaker 1: not because they have to be, just because they hadn't
27:12
Speaker 1: learned how to be okay with moving outside of the box.
27:15
Speaker 1: You know, for you growing up in DC, did you
27:17
Speaker 1: pay attention to politics? No? No, no, not at all.
27:20
Speaker 1: Marion Berry is the greatest statesman of all time, like
27:23
Speaker 1: to us because of what he did for the community.
27:26
Speaker 1: Like Marionberry for DC is what I wish that all
27:30
Speaker 1: you know, inner cities had somebody like that that worked
27:33
Speaker 1: in our favor, like he created the Summer Job program
27:36
Speaker 1: where everybody in the city from twelve to eighteen were
27:39
Speaker 1: able to get a summer job, and that saved so
27:42
Speaker 1: many lives in the city because you know, DC was
27:45
Speaker 1: a very violent city growing up, and you know, of
27:47
Speaker 1: course you still had people who feel victim to it,
27:50
Speaker 1: but us being able to go get those jobs kept
27:52
Speaker 1: a lot of us out of jail. And you know
27:54
Speaker 1: one thing I say about DC, which makes in my opinion,
27:58
Speaker 1: the hardest city to grow up in that comes to
28:00
Speaker 1: politics is if you from you from where Angelie, you
28:03
Speaker 1: from Brooklyn, queens and monks South Carolina, all of y'all
28:08
Speaker 1: send people to where I'm from to get things changed
28:12
Speaker 1: in your communities. But these people that you send ride
28:15
Speaker 1: past us, living in their conditions that you want changed
28:17
Speaker 1: every day and don't do nothing. So you got to
28:19
Speaker 1: understand that we come from the city where the capital
28:22
Speaker 1: is right here, then two blocks down you got searchin Quarters,
28:25
Speaker 1: one of the worst hoods in the world, and they
28:28
Speaker 1: ride past this place, they come get food in these communities,
28:30
Speaker 1: and they walk right past us and see us every day.
28:33
Speaker 1: So we don't have no reason to pay attention to
28:35
Speaker 1: politics because they don't pay attention to us, and we
28:37
Speaker 1: get to see them not pay attention to us. So
28:40
Speaker 1: DC is a different city, man, you know, and I
28:42
Speaker 1: hate that. You know, it's been gentrified the way that
28:45
Speaker 1: it has. You know, Now I go home and it
28:46
Speaker 1: breaks my heart to places that I grew up and
28:48
Speaker 1: frequent it best buys and whole foods and all that
28:52
Speaker 1: now And there's nothing wrong with that, with improving the community.
28:55
Speaker 1: But it is something wrong with improving the community. And
28:57
Speaker 1: when you know the people who were living there aren't
28:59
Speaker 1: gonna be able to build to fit from the improvement,
29:01
Speaker 1: that ship is horrible, man. So you know, salute to
29:03
Speaker 1: the whole DC man, the whole city man. And everywhere
29:06
Speaker 1: I go, I went on my back because I know that,
29:08
Speaker 1: you know, the city that I grew up and is
29:10
Speaker 1: being demolished, as being wiped away, and the people that
29:13
Speaker 1: come from it to being scattered all around the world.
29:15
Speaker 1: So you know, I mean, we don't really pay attention
29:18
Speaker 1: to politics. To answer you a question, though I never
29:20
Speaker 1: really cared long as Marion Barry was the mayor. That's
29:22
Speaker 1: all we cared about. Well made you plant your flag
29:24
Speaker 1: in North Carolina the way that you did. I went
29:26
Speaker 1: to college, you know what I mean DC TAG DC Leake,
29:29
Speaker 1: which was a program that Bill Clinton put in the
29:32
Speaker 1: place right before he left office that let DC students
29:35
Speaker 1: pay in state tuition wherever they went, which really meant
29:38
Speaker 1: that DC paid the difference. So whatever the difference is
29:41
Speaker 1: between in state and out of state tuition, they paid.
29:44
Speaker 1: So once they did that, influx of us were able
29:46
Speaker 1: to go to school, because without that, I wouldn't have
29:48
Speaker 1: been able to go to college. I didn't even know
29:49
Speaker 1: nothing about college. It wasn't until my uncle Reggie got
29:52
Speaker 1: murdered in two thousand and two that I even started
29:54
Speaker 1: to pay attention to school because I wanted to be
29:56
Speaker 1: in the streets, you know what I mean. I've always
29:58
Speaker 1: been blessed to be good at whatever I did, and
30:01
Speaker 1: you know I you know, it's documented. I was always
30:03
Speaker 1: a hustler, like my whole life. I've been getting my
30:05
Speaker 1: own money since I was nine, and I was good
30:07
Speaker 1: at it. So that's all I wanted to do. But
30:09
Speaker 1: once I saw him get murdered, it changed my whole
30:12
Speaker 1: perspective because I knew he was ten times tougher than
30:15
Speaker 1: I ever could be. So if that was his faith,
30:17
Speaker 1: I thought he was above it. You know, you think
30:18
Speaker 1: certain people are invincible and they can't have certain things
30:20
Speaker 1: happened to him, So I thought he was above having,
30:24
Speaker 1: you know, that be his fate. He had been to
30:25
Speaker 1: jail already and survived that, so I knew he was
30:27
Speaker 1: a warrior gladiator in that regard. But once I saw
30:30
Speaker 1: him get killed, and once I watched him pass away,
30:33
Speaker 1: it was like, you know what, man, this is, If
30:35
Speaker 1: this is his faith, then I know I'm going to
30:37
Speaker 1: jail or should have graved y'all a whole lot quicker
30:40
Speaker 1: than if I go to school. So I went on
30:42
Speaker 1: a college tour. I pay for me and my man
30:44
Speaker 1: to go on to college. Tool We went to all
30:46
Speaker 1: the HBCUs from DC to Florida. Morgan, I mean Howard BCU,
30:53
Speaker 1: but Jane stayed all of them, all of them and
30:56
Speaker 1: all the way down to Florida, A and M. And
30:59
Speaker 1: I went to the ones in North Carolina, and mind
31:01
Speaker 1: you you know, going to an HBCU. Whenever they had
31:03
Speaker 1: fall break the school he did. So whichever once is
31:07
Speaker 1: on fall break, I'm like, all this did. Hampton was
31:09
Speaker 1: on fall break and t was on fall break. Then
31:12
Speaker 1: I went to Winston Salem State and saw twenty girls
31:14
Speaker 1: before I saw one dude. I was like, Nigga, this
31:16
Speaker 1: ain't that bad. I'm coming down here. And then we
31:20
Speaker 1: went to more House and I liked more House, but
31:22
Speaker 1: then I found out it was an all dude school.
31:24
Speaker 1: But not knowing that Spellman was right, they didn't tell
31:27
Speaker 1: us that. They were just like this is all boys school.
31:29
Speaker 1: They came out dressed like Braxton Harten a brig. I
31:31
Speaker 1: was like, nah, straight, I'm going with the twenty girls that.
31:34
Speaker 1: But you know, I went to Winston Salem State for
31:37
Speaker 1: that to go to school. And I thought I was
31:39
Speaker 1: a man before I went to North Carolina, but I
31:40
Speaker 1: became a man in North Carolina, like I learned how
31:43
Speaker 1: to be a man because that was the first time
31:44
Speaker 1: I didn't have, you know, anybody in close proximity that
31:48
Speaker 1: I can lean on when things got rough in times
31:50
Speaker 1: got hard, I thought I knew how to move as
31:51
Speaker 1: a man. But I always had the luxury of going
31:53
Speaker 1: back to Wanderhouse. And that's something that a lot of
31:55
Speaker 1: men don't realize. You think you hustling, and you think
31:58
Speaker 1: you're moving around, but you really just still depending on
32:00
Speaker 1: your mama. You're just doing it a little bit less
32:02
Speaker 1: than your partner might be doing it on the environment
32:04
Speaker 1: might allow you to, but the reality is, if you
32:07
Speaker 1: can go home to mama house, you know you got
32:09
Speaker 1: somewhere to go. But when you separate and it's five
32:11
Speaker 1: hours away and you can't just go and get a
32:13
Speaker 1: meal and go and get your clothes, walls, what you're
32:15
Speaker 1: gonna do and then things as simple as that is
32:18
Speaker 1: what I realized became made me a man. So once
32:20
Speaker 1: I decided to become a comedian, I stayed because I
32:23
Speaker 1: knew going home wouldn't have been the best decision for me.
32:25
Speaker 1: There's not having that now make you feel like less grounded, No,
32:28
Speaker 1: not at often, because I've you know, I've been trained.
32:31
Speaker 1: I know how to do it now. You know I'm domestic.
32:33
Speaker 1: You know that's one of the reasons why I don't
32:35
Speaker 1: need no girlfriend or need no woman to do nothing
32:37
Speaker 1: for me, because the women in my life taught me
32:40
Speaker 1: how to be self sufficient in those ways, not to
32:42
Speaker 1: depend on anybody. Now. Of course, the thing that I
32:45
Speaker 1: missed the most is being able to get those phone calls,
32:47
Speaker 1: and it's to check ins and all of that. But
32:49
Speaker 1: as far as the things that I need to do
32:50
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm good that I'm already got that training. No, no, no,
32:58
Speaker 1: we're not doing that. Our niggage is not about to
33:01
Speaker 1: hit me with the Alderman interview. Y'all not about to
33:03
Speaker 1: give me twenty minutes and then no, no, no. This
33:07
Speaker 1: was the brunch Brigade. This is that was the breakfast Club.
33:09
Speaker 1: This b No, it doesn't matter. Listen, coming up on
33:13
Speaker 1: a brunch Brigade. That's right. We got another segment where
33:16
Speaker 1: Lynda Skin will be giving his morning make up ritual.
33:19
Speaker 1: That's right. I want to make up all the things
33:22
Speaker 1: that he used, all the soaps, all the creams, all
33:24
Speaker 1: the living sticks and chest sticks, and the winter will
33:28
Speaker 1: received the personal package from lend the Skin. This is
33:31
Speaker 1: the Bunch Brigade. Wake up. I use Jones Rod by
33:34
Speaker 1: the way, okay, and see that you go all the
33:36
Speaker 1: way Info man, Chico band everywhere. You know what I mean. Angela,
33:42
Speaker 1: I'm surprised, man, you ain't coming with it. I appreciate you.
33:45
Speaker 1: It's about to go ahead, go ahead and ask me one.
33:47
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and let you. When you were
33:49
Speaker 1: talking about how yourself sufficient, we've had a conversation up
33:52
Speaker 1: here before. I did think it is a couple of
33:53
Speaker 1: things I wanted to go ahead. Noa, this is the
33:56
Speaker 1: bunch brigade, baby, y'all working over time every time I
33:59
Speaker 1: come up here. Go ahead. She's about to ask you
34:06
Speaker 1: if you I was not going to ask that. I
34:10
Speaker 1: don't know where you got to go to the doctor?
34:13
Speaker 1: Hold up, Just let her ask the question. I'm going
34:14
Speaker 1: to ask you. How do you feel about when it
34:17
Speaker 1: comes to dating for a woman? Do you think women
34:19
Speaker 1: should be independent in a relationship? Do I think women
34:22
Speaker 1: should be independent while they're in a relationship, While they're
34:25
Speaker 1: in a relationship human being like I can I'm self sufficient,
34:30
Speaker 1: I can handle all these things. Because a lot of
34:31
Speaker 1: people talk about how women are so independent now that
34:34
Speaker 1: it's hard for them to be in relationships because guys
34:37
Speaker 1: kind of want you to be a little dependent on them.
34:39
Speaker 1: I mean, I think independence is masked as being an adult.
34:42
Speaker 1: You're an adult, so it's certain things that you should
34:44
Speaker 1: do on your own, you shouldn't, you know. I think
34:47
Speaker 1: a lot of women are looking for men to do
34:49
Speaker 1: the things for them that their father was supposed to,
34:52
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And the unfortunate part is
34:54
Speaker 1: you can't be looking for somebody to be your daddy.
34:56
Speaker 1: And not be obedient like a childhood. So the independent
35:00
Speaker 1: that men are looking for dependence rather than men are
35:02
Speaker 1: looking for in women. They're looking for them to be
35:06
Speaker 1: in a sense of you know, like you've seen the
35:08
Speaker 1: memes that people put out. You know that daddy hand
35:10
Speaker 1: me the salt, and then the boyfriend and the father
35:12
Speaker 1: reach you know what I'm saying. I think it's that
35:14
Speaker 1: men want that level of being able to provide a
35:16
Speaker 1: woman with that. But at the same time, if you're
35:19
Speaker 1: not going to look at this man as somebody who
35:21
Speaker 1: can provide you with the level of protection, assurance, you know,
35:25
Speaker 1: safety that your father would, then it's a waste of time.
35:27
Speaker 1: So your independence should come anyway as a woman, I think.
35:30
Speaker 1: So what do you think about the bills in a relationship?
35:33
Speaker 1: The bills? Yeah, like is it happening or do you
35:36
Speaker 1: feel like you should be paying for Like what's your breakdown?
35:39
Speaker 1: I feel like you should do whatever it is you
35:41
Speaker 1: capable of doing. Communication is key, It's the most important
35:44
Speaker 1: part of any relationship. So if you're comfortable with paying
35:48
Speaker 1: half the bills, then do that. But if it's a
35:50
Speaker 1: man that's you know, something that you want to do,
35:52
Speaker 1: make sure you in a position to be able to
35:54
Speaker 1: see you mean, well, if I would never be in
35:56
Speaker 1: a relationship, so I don't have to worry about that.
35:58
Speaker 1: I don't never want to be married or be in
36:00
Speaker 1: a relationship. You don't never want to be in a relationship. No,
36:03
Speaker 1: my girlfriend, No, why would I do that? That is no.
36:07
Speaker 1: Look at my man over in the corner. You wish
36:09
Speaker 1: somebody would have said that on the mic before Want
36:12
Speaker 1: five wats good for you? Good for you? As long
36:15
Speaker 1: as you can afford him, you should be able to
36:16
Speaker 1: have No. No, no, no no, no, no, no no. I
36:19
Speaker 1: don't you know, like I said, I you know, I
36:21
Speaker 1: get most of my you know, interaction and relationship, you know,
36:26
Speaker 1: dependence from the environment that I come on, come from.
36:29
Speaker 1: Rather and I watched my mother go through my whole life,
36:33
Speaker 1: never finding a man to keep it real with her
36:35
Speaker 1: and tell her exactly what it was that was going on.
36:37
Speaker 1: So I'm being I'm out here just trying to be
36:39
Speaker 1: the nigga that my mother never had. I don't have
36:41
Speaker 1: no lies to tell you. I don't have no lies
36:45
Speaker 1: to tell you. I feel like if somebody would have
36:46
Speaker 1: gave one to the opportunity, she would have been a
36:48
Speaker 1: hell of a soldier for somebody who was worth it,
36:50
Speaker 1: and it would have made our life easier. So for me,
36:53
Speaker 1: I don't have no lives to tell you, you're not
36:55
Speaker 1: going to be the only woman that I ever. That's
36:57
Speaker 1: if it's logical to me to even allow a woman
37:01
Speaker 1: to think that. If I love you and care about you,
37:02
Speaker 1: there's no way I would allow you to think that
37:04
Speaker 1: as a man, that you are going to be the
37:06
Speaker 1: only woman that I want to do. But that's cool.
37:09
Speaker 1: But it's the thing is, I'm gonna be honest with
37:12
Speaker 1: you about that from the jump. My goal, My whole
37:15
Speaker 1: mantres no victims, only volunteered. You'll never be a victim
37:19
Speaker 1: of no bullshit, only a volunteer to my truth. So
37:21
Speaker 1: you have a choice as to whether or not you
37:23
Speaker 1: want to deal with me or not. But you have
37:24
Speaker 1: to understand that you won't be the only woman that
37:27
Speaker 1: I deal with now. In fairness, you have, but you
37:30
Speaker 1: have a lot of men who say that and then like,
37:33
Speaker 1: I do what I want you to do, what I
37:34
Speaker 1: tell you. I'm also not that way, and when it
37:36
Speaker 1: comes to women, I don't care what you do when
37:38
Speaker 1: I'm not around as long as no, well no, it's not.
37:41
Speaker 1: It's not I ain't having no bunch of kids, you
37:44
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But salute the nick that Nigga
37:46
Speaker 1: can take care. He about to have a whole nother cast.
37:48
Speaker 1: I know that Nigga. I don't know what he's doing
37:51
Speaker 1: trying to have a whole nother cast. So we can
37:53
Speaker 1: file us. But like I said, I'm not the type
37:57
Speaker 1: of person that's gonna tell you. I can do what
37:59
Speaker 1: I want you to do what I tell you as
38:00
Speaker 1: long as whatever you do don't bring me no problems.
38:03
Speaker 1: I don't care what you do. My uncle taught me
38:05
Speaker 1: a long time ago. If you don't wake up in
38:06
Speaker 1: the morning to wash your pussy, it don't belong to you.
38:08
Speaker 1: It's yours. You're gonna do what you want to do
38:10
Speaker 1: with it, as long as they ain't mad. When it's
38:12
Speaker 1: my turn re straight, do you take women on vacations?
38:15
Speaker 1: And no, I don't do none of that. I don't
38:16
Speaker 1: do none of that. Yeah, depending on who it is,
38:19
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And how safe I feel
38:21
Speaker 1: with my belongings there when I'm sleep, Yeah, it's been
38:26
Speaker 1: in the night. But the thing about me, like I said,
38:28
Speaker 1: it's about it's about honesty. Women always say they want
38:32
Speaker 1: a man to keep it one hundred with them until
38:33
Speaker 1: they run into one. Most of them have never had
38:35
Speaker 1: a man keep it twenty with them, So you have
38:37
Speaker 1: no idea what that other eighty percent in tails that
38:39
Speaker 1: you think that you're looking for. The lives hurt so
38:41
Speaker 1: bad that you just think you want the opposite. But
38:43
Speaker 1: the majority of the women that I have conversations with
38:46
Speaker 1: don't want a man to be honest with them. You
38:47
Speaker 1: want a man to fit into the character that you
38:50
Speaker 1: have in your mind, and you want him to play
38:52
Speaker 1: that out in front of the world. I don't operate
38:55
Speaker 1: like that. This is what it is, This is what
38:56
Speaker 1: it Ain't you down with it cool, You're not cool.
38:59
Speaker 1: I like the way I explained it is like we
39:01
Speaker 1: all are professors of ourselves, and I'm the I'm the
39:04
Speaker 1: dean of Chico Mean University. When you've you've been to college,
39:08
Speaker 1: you've been around when the first thing you've been around
39:12
Speaker 1: lend the skin. Uh. The first thing that they teach
39:15
Speaker 1: you when you or the first thing that you do
39:17
Speaker 1: when you come into a college, you know, classroom is
39:20
Speaker 1: they give you the syllabus and the first week of
39:23
Speaker 1: classes you're going over the syllabus so you can make
39:25
Speaker 1: a decision as the weather, not just a class you
39:26
Speaker 1: want to take a drop. That's how I operate with women.
39:30
Speaker 1: When you meet me, I'm handing you my syllabus. This
39:32
Speaker 1: is what it is with me. You have a choice
39:34
Speaker 1: as to whether or not you want to take this
39:35
Speaker 1: course or drop it. Would you say I love you?
39:37
Speaker 1: Have you said I love? I love all the women
39:39
Speaker 1: I deal with Kevin Samuel, I gotta know it ain't no.
39:44
Speaker 1: Don't put me and see that you go. Now you
39:45
Speaker 1: want to say, motherfucker's that's gonna die. You keep saying that.
39:48
Speaker 1: You say, Kanye West, you gonna put me into Kevin Samuel.
39:52
Speaker 1: So the women can say, I'm not salute to Kevin
39:55
Speaker 1: Samuel though I don't, you know, God rest his soul.
39:57
Speaker 1: But I'm not one of those people who's telling any
39:59
Speaker 1: woman what they need to do. I'm just telling you
40:02
Speaker 1: what I'm going to do. What you decide to do
40:04
Speaker 1: based upon that is your choice. I don't have no
40:06
Speaker 1: say so in that. I just am going to tell
40:09
Speaker 1: you what I'm gonna do, and I'm not gonna do
40:10
Speaker 1: after that. It's on you. That's my man. Chico being Yeah,
40:13
Speaker 1: you nigga trying to go and get out. You're trying
40:16
Speaker 1: to get out of here. Hey, Angela, whenever you leave,
40:21
Speaker 1: let me know so I can come do your new job.
40:23
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely please. We gotta get you on lip service.
40:26
Speaker 1: We would love that. Oh yeah, I gotta come do
40:28
Speaker 1: that to very serious. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, salute salute
40:32
Speaker 1: to my girl. Man. We worked on the radio together,
40:35
Speaker 1: my girl Laurie. Yeah, that's my partner. But you notice
40:37
Speaker 1: ever since then, we'd have been locked in. But yeah,
40:39
Speaker 1: I would love to come do it because you know,
40:41
Speaker 1: you get to ask the nasty questions and hey, for real, like,
40:44
Speaker 1: I gotta asked you before I go. Though, this is
40:46
Speaker 1: gonna be the last question. Matter of fact, it's coming
40:49
Speaker 1: up in the next segment on the French Brigade. Make
40:50
Speaker 1: sure you stay tuned then wake up America. Yes, her