Aries Spears on Corey Holcomb, Jordan Peele, and New Rappers (Full Interview)

here we go every Spears welcome back back back took about a year and a half or so yeah and before we get started I look good right you look great cuz last time I did this you know I got I read under the the comments section I got called all kind of raccoon-face biggie eight [ __ ] and and gorillas all right so to the haters out there not today baby I got my Muhammad Ali ah hmm no cool [ __ ] and Apes today lookin good today there you go sir good today there you go that's how we do it we want our guests to look good on the ship always always always so last time we kind of shook things up a bit uh-huh you know ruffled a few feathers I think so maybe yeah you know a couple million people watched it that's good yep first thing I want to ask is last time we talked about key and Peele look I work with them on mad mmm good guys mm-hmm good heart good guys give you the shirt off day back is it said ironic is it a coincidence that they both most of a friends are white and got white wives they like white women I mean I mean I don't know I'm just saying I'm trying to be careful here because I don't want this to come off the wrong way even though probably already has if you hang around them their new movie they got a new movie coming out and it's genius what they're doing Keanu they playing that up they plan up two black dudes who are black but are so white internally that they're uncomfortable in that black surrounding and it's a brilliant move because they really like that that's what I'm saying if if they walked into a role in news real [ __ ] ago some nice male right but since then one of the guys I feel has stepped it up major Jordan Jordan Peele I believe uh Jordan yeah yeah Jordan Peele did get out yes kind of hard to hate on it uh no it isn't I mean with the success of it uh Jamil you know yeah man and and and maybe in hindsight when I look back on it you know I've always just been very honest and open and opinionated about Who I am I kind of got that Charles Barkley thing in me and sometimes when you're young and you do that there's backlash people you know they don't like it but then I guess sometimes when you become older and less of a threat and because you become an older man you use it you lose that militate mmm bravado you have about yourself and I'm not saying that I have that but certainly sometimes I think people see youth as a threat I'm not a spring chicken but I ain't an old man but I'm on the side of getting older I'm still allowed to say in hindsight I certainly didn't mean any harm I just was speaking honestly and shooting from the hip but in hindsight when I look back on it I probably shouldn't have said some of what I've said because I think sometimes it gets interpreted the wrong way and you know there's repercussions to things that you say listen do clearly as a talented writer knows what he's doing it's a hundred million dollar movie and success and I'm sure he's gonna crank out many more but if I had it to do different and differently maybe I would have chose my words better I mean I ran into him at an airport right you know we were at a bar together so yeah we started chopping it up yeah you know you weren't the only one that that spoke out against let me know when we interviewed Russell Simmons Hollywood didn't pick that [ __ ] didn't pick none of them they pick keen and Peele and again I want to make this click I said it's ten town and I promise you I'll keep making the headline I like Kenny P I think they're very funny I love the trailer for the movie I wonder if your own white kids would go see it because you know bye black necessary excited to see it although the trail looks good at anybody go see it I'm gonna go see their movie just a trailer looks exciting but you know it's like most black people no matter how middle-class they might be their roots is so deep in the hood that culturally they still have cultural connection and they don't switch or announce and be black they're you know that they don't do that but that's okay and that's there is a group of black people like that but not many I don't care where you came from you got cousins and family and all that and you got called you got culture that travels with you that so they are just very funny Americans who happen to be black and it's really we need them too but I don't want to be them to the exclusion of everything else commie central is a very white white network it's so white you put black [ __ ] on and that's really good it might even travel you know just to keep it 100 some of the [ __ ] that they were doing before was kind of whack let me ask you this what was his response did you had to do it I asked him I mean uh I think I brought the Russell Simmons thing he goes yeah I don't know why dude hates on me like you know I like him you know I'm particularly tall I don't know if I mentioned you really I would've loved him I'm not I'm not sure if when I met him was before or after we did our inner right you know I'm saying well you know it's funny you know this game is a small community yeah everybody knows things you know things get discussed things get heard and I think that when you have a certain level of stature in the game especially what you say people pay closer attention to whether they like you or not whether they agree with you or not if your name carries any kind of weight or validity to it people tend to perk up and pay a little bit more attention and I know I went in to audition for the Tracy Morgan Tracy Morgan's doing a new show on TBS I remember I was reading a breakdown and it said produced written and it's going to be directed by Jordan Peele ah here we go and I go into the room and Jordan was just as professional and cordial as as he could be when it could have been something else yeah Aires what's up yo we slap hands it was good and then he was the only black dude in the room and there was a whole bunch of other dudes in there white guys in there and am i and in my mind I was thinking damn I don't know that he knows maybe he knows maybe he doesn't I have to assume he might know if he doesn't know there also might be these dudes in his hair like I said and he could have played it where it was like you know I'm auditioning and he's looking at me and you know as actors we know we see the look yeah [ __ ] uh-huh and he could have made me dance a dance a little bit but he didn't now needless to say I didn't get the part Cedric did so you could make of that what you want Cedric is the bigger name the in terms of credits the more established dude and he's a good choice you know Cedric Cedric's one of the kings of comedy man so I don't you know I'll just say the guy that was more deserving got it I don't know that my last interview and based on what I said may or may not have played a part in that could have but I don't know if it played a part you probably would have gotten the audition but see again that's the tricky thing about this business you don't know what one's intentions are he could have been like [ __ ] that [ __ ] I ain't even gonna give a chance or he could have been like yeah putting a [ __ ] in let me see him sweat yeah I got a chance to hire you let me dance for me a little bit and again I'm not saying that was him because I never got that sense that that was his makeup and again I don't even know that he did he knew about it I have to assume he did but I don't know um well listen as a as a business owner I could tell you that I don't have time to have people come in and and you know go through a whole routine and waste my time knowing that I'm not gonna [ __ ] with them right you know I'm saying like our our time is very valuable and so you know I've had people that have talked [ __ ] about me they were trying to apply for jobs you know and you know got through like a first round before I found out about it and then I'm like oh this muhfucka hell no but again let me say this this is the climate of sensitivity that I think we live in is that people can't separate opinion from hatred and a lot of what I say people view as hatred I'm bitter on this on that listen if we be an honest if you put in your blood sweat and tears in something for as long as I have 30 years and you know maybe you don't get what you feel you deserve and this is not me trying to be vain I'm being honest you feel like when you put in a certain amount of time and I know in life nothing is owed to you but goddamn it it's owed to you and sometimes when you get passed over for this reason that reason be a political be a racial beard [ __ ] whatever it is to sit there and act like that doesn't bother you you're lying to yourself and like you I know I'm sure you know but I know a lot of professional athletes and we all hear them say the same thing man I don't read what they say in the papers I don't pay attention to the press [ __ ] the critics they lie and they read they care we're in a business of egos and you know if you if you if you believe in yourself and you think you're great or you're trying to be great the only thing that validates that is people letting you know that what you're doing is working so am I in this to beat my chest like King Kong and go I'm the greatest no I'm in this to be as funny as I can be but the validity is somebody saying amen I like what you're doing I respect your work I you you you you you own in your craft so to some degree we all want to get our egos massaged so when people tell you they don't pay attention and they don't care they're lying so I'm saying all that to say I'm really opinionated I have an opinion what the day we get to where we can't have an opinion is a problem now whether you know again I'm not and when people go all you hate you hate based on what I'm not saying that someone shouldn't be in their spot if you're good at what you do you deserve to be in the spot but there's levels to this you know I'm in the business of funny whether you think carrot top is a hack or not the bottom line is his job is to be funny right and if he accomplishes that goal he belongs in the league just like you know mean the dude who makes her the least salary to playing in the NBA or the NFL he's a professional he's good enough to make the league that there's levels to this mm-hmm there's the Tom Brady level and there's the dude who's at the bottom of the barrel so just because I have an opinion about you I've never said anybody doesn't deserve to be here I just have an opinion based on how I feel about the body of work well Aristotle had a very interesting quote Jack no Aristotle I know the original Aristide he said criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing doing nothing and being nothing do you agree with that on a percent if you decide to put yourself out there and put your work out there you are asking to be criticized hated ridiculed threatened whatever else comes with it this is just the reality of it I get it I get Fiorina Klee yes yeah but do you get testicle E no one wants to be hated no one wants to not be liked but but but it doesn't but number one not everyone will hate you and not everyone will love you exactly no I'm saying I have people like if I just judge if I were to judge my career based on online comments I would think I'm a failure I've read where people say Dave Chappelle stinks Patrice O'Neal ain't funny yeah at once once upon a time ago there were people out there that said Ali wasn't the greatest people today who still maintain that position Michael Jordan ate the [ __ ] Michael Jackson wasn't [ __ ] so you know that shows you right there we obviously all can't be loved and no matter how great you are there are gonna people to go I don't see it but you know we know the balance we know what we know what it is for every one of those there's a million eginning right because number one the numbers don't lie when it comes to what I do and when I go out to an event or whatever the amount of love that I get might have people that want to take pictures with me or just tell me how much they love certain interviews it's like okay like this is the real [ __ ] like the online [ __ ] is sort of its own world you know I mean you know it's always funny because I think the people when they call them what keyboard warriors yeah when you're in seclusion and you nobody's watching them if I got a chance to touch you right [ __ ] is so bold but when people it takes balls and a little bit of stupidity to actually meet someone that you go I know who that is and then insult them yeah and I mean and and it's like that's like III know the difference like when people come up to me out the shows go man if I'm performing in Chicago dude I drove all the way from the Gulf to see you no you didn't just happen to be here you came to see your family or your friends and I just happen to be here when you were here and you said [ __ ] that's my man let me go see them I'm a fan but I know the difference between legitimacy and [ __ ] yeah I'm saying not seeing you not a fan but you didn't drive all the way from New York City to Chicago to come see me right cuz I'll play in New York City eventually come on come on man but you can tell cuz I'm telling you man sometimes when you see people you you you can feel it when you when you've gotten it long enough in terms of the love you get how real it is and whether it's just oh you just want to be involved in the moment you want to go oh I saw you in person let me slap hands with you let me converse with you but they're like even there are celebrities who I've met that you know I see certain dudes and I go oh that's so-and-so but that's as far as i'ma go yeah you know rondell Sheridan I see rondell Sheridan I go rondell Sheridan but my passion for rondell sheraton ain't gonna be what it is when I met Brad Pitt and I'm a fan of seven and I saw Brad and I had to let him know hey man you that my father right Fight Club so you you can tell when people come up to you and they shake your hand and talk to you you go okay they a fan but they just want to be in the moment versus there's some other [ __ ] a fan right it's a look it's a vibe it's a feel so you know so I interviewed a Lavelle Crawford yeah earlier this year yeah I think I saw some of that uh-huh and he said something interesting explain spoof in fact think about it okay you know me as a comedian okay America semi semi know me as a stand-up comedian it's a lot of I got a lot of fans but as the comedian like okay look giant louis c.k i was just good or like the Jim Gaffigan who else out there even Dave Attell I'm just giving out random names these comedians like Maria Bamford they dare Derek they could come through the ranks and be be known as stand up and be respected as stand up where like me I've been doing it 27 out of years and now I'm newer to the mainstream honor you know I didn't last comic standing people know him for that but they don't have to know me but like look looking like the comics that make it one at a time Kevin Hart Kevin Hart they think he's the only comedian in the world right now for real cuz I mean he's not even if he helps out they do Kevin Hart oh he's the great as I know he's not he's good I love keV I think that was once upon a time ago you know before the explosion a def jam def Comedy Jam Def Comedy Jam yeah but I mean 60s was kind of like Redd Foxx 70s was Pryor Eddie was a tease Chris was 90s but that's what def Comedy Jam came and boom once upon a time ago I don't know that that's it's true now you don't think Kevin Hart is essentially getting all the roles right now well they go this you know this is a business and he's the cash cow he's what the money is I think if other guys were given the opportunity to show that they could potentially or do what Kevin does that's where there may be the problem other guys aren't given the opportunity but certainly kevin has proven his weight in terms of what he brings to the table you know and I and I think kid this is one of those where people that I've been accused of hating on Kevin right and I've said in every chance I've gotten Kevin is a heavyweight in the stand up game Kevin is a monster he's got talent out the ass and he's funny and he has screen presence and it works that's why it's like it's funny again when you read the comment section I read so many things on Twitter and YouTube where people go they [ __ ] on Kevin oh it just plays the fact that he's a small dude ladies short and love like Kevin sucks and but Kevin sucks for everyone in the [ __ ] look at the box-office receipts right so dim opinions ain't as valid as the ones who love them Kevin's a monster I've never I've never hated on Kevin in terms of his talent or his position the only thing I ever questioned was the writing and I mean cuz again I I you know I like him what we do to some degree to sports you know it's like every comics intention is to have a joke out the park we hit the ball out of the park we all want to do an hour set where everything is out the park but the reality is it's hard to maintain that kind of quality for a whole hour hour 20 minutes so there are some jokes it's likely you know like mold and clay you got this big block of clay and your job as the artist / sculptor is to get this thing to where there's the masterpiece and sometimes with jokes you could be you could be there you could be on the cusp of a genius bit but something's missing so what's missing it's like it's like a like a gumbo recipe missing and if it's that in comedy that facial look that physical move that one saying it's that one ingredient that can take you a bit from here to out the park now as good as the bit may or may not be if someone goes say this do this give this look now your bit goes from here to genius that's you you did that you did that you want somebody giving you the steroid take this pill take this shot there's still a great athlete your numbers are still solid but when you had that new contract year that we're gonna max pay this [ __ ] cuz of the stats was that you does that make me a hater for saying that am I wrong for saying that well be a lot of great comedians have had writers oh yeah Richard Pryor Paul Mele work closely right but but I think Paul was more responsible for Richard for the Richard Pryor show his sketch comedy show not a stand-up I don't know that his dad oh I don't know how intricate he was in the stand-up of it did Eddie do I was also I think in delirious he did I think in raw I'm thinking the credits that had Robert Townsend and Keenan Ivory Wayans well they did they I think produced Keenen Ivory Wayans produced like the intro right or so see again I don't know introduced they were the writing of the material I mean oh listen you could almost look at it like hip hop right like oh you know Drake isn't considered the best cuz he got him right you know Kanye ain't consider the best cuz you got a bunch of writers and you know I mean now let me ask you do Kanye and Drake have writers yes okay hundred percent represent did jay-z have writers no does nas have writers no does Jadakiss have writers no does Eminem have writers know that ezel I just named for the most legit bad ass [ __ ] spitters in the game right no disrespect to Kanye cuz we all call Kanye a musical genius but it's Kanye better than any of the four dudes at his name biggie jay-z NAS Jadakiss pardon me mm5 is Drake lyrically as dope as dem it's a toss up of a question right I mean it depends on what you're looking like you know what you're looking at because and it depends on what you after right because I could say that song wise I like some of their songs better yeah like I like Drake songs better than Jadakiss his songs as a whole you know pairs on what your vibe is right if you're in the club and you tryna yeah but if you have you from a rap perspective if you if you want to make this face you know we said oh wish and I get that with with Kanye sometimes right you know I'm saying what kinda is like oh he said some [ __ ] but you know for example I had CyHi the prynce here not too long ago and he's written on like 30 Kanye songs and we talked about that he goes well look when you get to the Grammys and you see a Dale walk on stage and she has 30 people behind her and they've all helped her work on this album she's got album of the year you think you're gonna beat her with just you and your engineer you think you're gonna beat Sam Smith's team then you're gonna be Christina Aguilera and Beyonce's team when they got thirty people on this project in you think as a rapper you think you could compete with 30 Minds thinking and there's just you an engineer so I think once you get to a certain level you you have to bring in a team to kind of compete with other genres of music because other genres of music are collaborating but you know hip-hop is such a young Jean room using that we still like taboo to use you know a writer or a co-writer singing is a different ballgame then wrapping it still is still so it still if somebody if somebody's writing your songs okay you have to deliver as a singer if somebody so you could have the most oh the best top award winning writers write your songs if you can't sing a lick it don't fly off the page you know let me tell you I used to my first office was in a studio but we're not talking about tricks those are tricks we're talking about pure pure tones you name it talent yeah like Britney Spears probably can't sing very well without the auto-tune and all the right the mixing wizardry right you know what I'm saying she's somewhat flat yeah Whitney Houston didn't need that assistance no Christina Aguilera didn't need it you know I mean but some people definitely need it and like I said I've heard some horrific stuff being laid down in the booth and about a week later after tweaking it whatever my rap no well so seems singing it yeah after about a week I'm like hey this sounds pretty good I can't believe this is what I heard being laid down like you know rapping it's a little bit different but not really like like jay-z could write for me and I'll still be wack would I get to that you know when I get to move you know you don't have jay-z jay-z is that jay-z is not just incredible because of what he's writing it's a it's a personality it's a lifestyle it's a combination from he's from he's from New York right he's got that swag he's got that that energy it's it's right but you know you know the he wrote still D re for Dre is that right hundred percent Oh kind of percent and in fact and I think nas wrote Miami for Will Smith that was I heard something about that but I think someone said that that wasn't exactly true yeah yeah okay no-nos road getting jiggy with it all right okay yeah major hit when it yeah yeah but for example like I remember Snoop talked about being in the studio and they're trying to do still D re and you know Dre doesn't really write drunk has always had ghost writers never denied it and everyone was trying to write for still D re and jay-z came in with those you know with those lines I guess you had like the the the reference track and everyone was like ah [ __ ] like you know god damn it alright we quit right JJ would there's levels to this [ __ ] man hole this hole is one of the greatest MCS ever yeah ever you know this is rap has become such a young man's game it's always been but now it's a kids game to the point where and what is jay-z like almost 50 and he still isn't as an icon in the game you know I'm 42 and I [ __ ] all the time on Twitter about the fact that rap is terrible now I mean you got obviously Jay Cole Kendrick but you almost it's like looking for the prize in a cereal box when he was a kid you got to dig deep to find the good ones now where before it was always out there you know these little pumps 6/9 good yeah good you can go dig what the [ __ ] are we doing I just saw that clip with what's my man black thought yeah where he Rob's for 10 minutes he killed it and I'm just like these young kids man like y'all you know what's funny about that black clip because I know that as soon as you mentioned that the comments gonna go crazy on it because I mean me and Lord Jamar had a had a debate at one point right and put black thought in my my top 10 strictly as an MC I would not put it on my top list I felt he's a great person in the role of the roots but him as an MCP I wouldn't put him in the same breath as a jay-z biggie nas Tupac J Cole listen I know I wouldn't because that's that those are different see you got there's so many different nuances to these damn KS what oh you guys hot [ __ ] there's so many nuances to this [ __ ] and different layers and levels that you just don't understand like like Black Thought is not supposed to be talked about with a jay-z and those type of MCS necessarily but will you talk about just real lyrical pure hip-hop [ __ ] like yo he's gotta be one of the top [ __ ] in that it's not about sales again you see them saying I'm not about talking about their records that he had I'm talking about this [ __ ] got bars and bars and bars and his [ __ ] is just always yo it's just always super strong right and and everyone was upset and black rock got involved in the conversation of oh he actually yeah he actually jumped in and me and him kinda started texting and stuff like that and you know I told my solicitor man I love what you do with the roots you know I just you know like I said I like J Cole as a rapper better than Black Thought and everyone's in an uproar and stuff like that and I think I kind of put a battery in his back a little bit or he was like okay [ __ ] I'm gonna show y'all all y'all who saying I'm not the top dude yes whose post and he killed it and what he did on their flex freestyle and flex had one take which you know a lot of times you just place that [ __ ] together truck had free styles that we've had to splice together on TV but he said he did a one-take and he also said he did her off the off the dome I'm like wow listen man when he said I leave stories like bloodstains and fingerprints hmm now I know again this is all supposed to be entertainment we are in the entertainment business but [ __ ] a good fart joke entertain you see the [ __ ] slip on a banana peel is entertaining right but let's reach the levels rap has always been about wordplay metaphors complexity that one line I leave I leave stories like like bloodstains and finger prints cut to good use your mom's your Mylene cost more than your rent your mom still lives in a tent that's what we're doing because here's what I'm saying unless we strictly go and make this about all right it's just something for you to dance to something for strippers to make their money too let's not lose sight of the fact that this rap artform right it's about lyricism and that has gotten so [ __ ] lost to be fair there has always been lack party lyrics and hip-hop no doubt but that's never been the dominant like now he's a dominant and I've always brought this up and you could argue it all you want but it takes to buy Rob base as some of the worst lyrics ever but you I like the while to be [ __ ] the Big Mac but that talk did that come out when did that come out late 80s late 80s rap was just born the hip - hop the BB Deborah it was all preschool to some degree no was it cuz rockin was already out during that time hold up now Karis one was already up down time but again let's be fair if we're talking about as a whole Big Daddy Kane without if we're talking about as a whole you just named three dudes I bet you can't name five more you know they're Canadian five more what I'm saying to you is everybody knows the original tiger in the wild is the orange and black stripes but there's albino Tigers in the wild they do exist at that time from what rap was too hip to hop the bibbity don't stop the fat boys rock him Kos one Big Daddy Kane they was out by no Tigers who clear a heavy rock bougie rappers out during that LL Cool J was out during that time there there was a lot of you Queen Latifah was out during that time you know I'm saying a lot of people a lot of people that they were spitting some [ __ ] okay but what I'm saying is at that time when rap was just born it's trying to find its legs it's trying to identify itself it didn't know what it was yet you know I'm saying that's to be expected now if we talk about the golden era of rap the 90s okay yeah we had das EFX we had a criss cross but you had whoop there yeah what you had but that wasn't that wasn't by that time what where it found its way up there it is was one of the biggest songs of that care so was you can't touch this exactly but again if we talk about straight dude there was you respected youuuu you say you can touch this from the terms of the business aspect of rap the money it made hammers impact on the game from that standpoint hats off but now we talking about puris we're talking about lyrics we talk about the guys that go hard in the paint that's what I'm saying look like I just I heard this song one time about a little Aussie vert and I remember the chorus was something like all my friends are dead right oh my I don't know the name song it's goat or life okay but but basically 90% of the song was that chorus I don't really care if you cry and then when he did spit he made me spit like four or five bars most of which was not even understandable so what I'm saying is and again we going back to the whole hate thing this rap [ __ ] ISM is a franchise this is a this is a franchise this is a historic legends come from this [ __ ] Big Pun Fat Joe Jadakiss Ice Cube snoop DMX nas biggie you know Latifah salt and pepper LL Scarface Willie D which cameras me right here you young [ __ ] is [ __ ] up the franchise the [ __ ] y'all putting out good you can good you get good you get good you get this six nine two with the multicolored teeth and the hair some of you [ __ ] look like Tim Burton Batman villains you're [ __ ] with a franchise get it together ain't nobody hatin on the fact that y'all make money you can buy all the Benzes all of May box to some of y'all dudes y'all made it famous to wear purses now you buy all the heels and the pearl songs you want Mazel Tov but lyrically you [ __ ] with a franchise you [ __ ] with the history of this [ __ ] what y'all do today will affect tomorrow leave the legacy intact we don't hate on y'all cause you young we hate all y'all cuz you lazy Mylene costs more than your rent your mama still lives in a tent couch again could you could you but you got black thoughts saying I tell stories like bloodstains or fingerprints I'll say to every young rapper any young any would-be rapper trying to get into the game listen to Biggie's [ __ ] bleed dat track he tells a story and what I love about it is it builds like a Martin Scorsese film like a scene in a Martin Scorsese film the music the way it climaxes the way he tells the story that should almost be your automatic lesson into rap 101 well famous Dex you heard him no famous says Chicago dude you know multicolored hair a bunch of tattoos on guys who's in that little pump kind of genre he did an interview on our Mont reality he said if y'all want to hear real music go listen to jay-z go listen to Kendrick oohs and ahs if you want to be entertained and be hyped go listen to me too little pump you could still be entertaining behind I don't I don't I don't get witty will you think that just because you throwing some words that make you think and have a little bit of complexity to it you can't be entertained some dudes is checker players while we are here playing chess if it's too much go sit at the kids table I just you know like I said I'm 42 my rap card is about to be over if it ain't already I got I probably got two good years left to ice my knees and it's time to put the jersey in the rafters but from from what it is I was born at 75 I've been here to do to birth the rap to where it is now listen I like little pump I like Takashi 69 I like someone famous decks and stuff like I I appreciate it for what it is like I don't think that I'm going to be thinking too hard when I listen to Gucci Gang or like or some of these songs these are entertaining songs it's kind of designed for a younger audience anyways you know they're not designed for people of our age they're designed for teen you know a little pump is like 17 NAS was 19 when he wrote mattock stepping game up stop being lazy stop making [ __ ] excuses you know 19 when he wrote Illmatic a classic hit me about that age [ __ ] [ __ ] is lazy man like that dr. Seuss [ __ ] off this is the part where people think I'm an [ __ ] right cuz I do and say things like this you did an impression of LL Cool J at one point yeah and he felt some type of way about it dude I did a low-budget movie with ll call out of sync and I've been knowing ll for a minute and you know a god in the rap game he's an icon mm-hmm but you know everybody sense of humor like Shaq loves when I do him Shaq see me and he loved it ll is you know he you know take self-serious me you know I remember I did an interview at a radio station at a hip-hop radio station in Orlando and I guess LL was doing something there and a dude came and interviewed him and asked ll did you know about the impression and I wish you had the clip but ll was like you I know Aires man he's like my son man he's like my you know like my boy you know I see the impression I'm gonna get him I'm gonna get him on wax from at em up imma tear his ass up but you can hear where he was starting out like complimentary but towards the end you could tell he was getting a little heated I mean LLS always had a big ego like I said we in the business he goes yeah yeah he's always had he's always had the big ego and you know I mean I interviewed Wyclef recently so LL Cool J does the Ripper strikes back when you first heard it what did you think because you get mentioned in it so tell Wyclef don't even turn his [ __ ] mic on yeah yeah man let me tell you LL Cool J is the reason I learned how to battle rap like anybody who's watching this y'all know how dangerous I was in high school felsberg high school Nelly now I study ll his motion his movement his confidence you know so once again I'm a fan of the culture I love both records so at the end of the day I felt like you know cannabis heroin on that one you know what I mean but lol comes back and then ll threw a shot at me I was excited it's the culture I didn't I didn't look at it like cuz I used to watch this guy battling when I was little I heard the tapes so for me I looked at it like for the culture if you looking at look at it back now it's exciting for the college so you came back with what's clef and the one thing that threw everyone off is at the end of the record you had supermodel Naomi Campbell dissing ll said yo the snail we can't build this single why chillin with Wyclef I just want to tell you ll your record is wack why don't you just give up hmm one of the most classic yeah I was in hip hop because I remember at the time people weren't really looking at LL all that seriously anymore as a rapper he was he had ventured off yeah he was doing more acting and for the record finish point cannabis is one of the illest spitters to never the credit he deserved right because you could be a great spitter but to be a great songwriters yes like a lot of the battle rappers murder Moog loaded locks different skill yeah it's a different skill you know it's interesting is I actually interviewed this dude oxymoron who's a Russian battle rapper yeah who's actually the most viewed battle rapper in the world is that right yeah he's got over like a hundred million views you know I'm saying he battled a disaster recently and he speaks Russian English in German so he got out of diti battle murder MOOC he battled disaster whose disaster he's the he's not white he's like kind of Middle Eastern he's a top dude okay so disasters Middle East yeah American American American Middle Eastern yes and the other one knocks him what is Murad and what is he he's Russian Russian yeah but he had neither one of them battle murder mukha loaded lux I don't know disastrous medal my point is you ain't the best to you beat the best and loaded Lux of murder MOOC to Harlem [ __ ] yeah they're the best disaster Eisen come on SAS was the one who ballad Cassidy in who won Cassidy wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute the world dude with the hat backwards Oh pull it up if this is who I think you're talking about the [ __ ] out of here this is to do what I think you talking about Cassidy murdered that [ __ ] that's what this guy right here that's him [ __ ] a dead [ __ ] garbage shame on you Vlad shame on you I saw that battle that nigga's gahbage I was there here's what was crazy about that here was the brilliance of Cassidy mm-hmm hi he it was almost like Eminem in eight-mile how he how he addressed to elephant in the room yeah I do live in a trailer park you do did [ __ ] my girl what else you gonna tell these people they don't already know about me my mom right and he disarms my girl yeah my man Cassidy breaks down this [ __ ] flow style yeah he did the way you ride with all this energy in your facial and it was over after that yeah it was so when you talk about I see the Mirai Russian yeah this dude Middle East in I don't want to make it racial but I'm gonna make it racial uh [ __ ] we all rap we got the copyright on rap particularly New York like jay-z said New York home and the spinach that's what we do that's why when you go this dude and the Russian dude that's cute but until you [ __ ] with murder Mook out of Harlem loaded Luck's out of Harlem some other couple D miles up in Detroit some of them Philly cats man miss me with them them [ __ ] overseas that's like trying to bring overseas cats and and you think they've been in the NBA [ __ ] this is what we do that's what we do got might catch up a little bit but that whip [ __ ] so what we do when I when I interviewed oxy the fact that you're coming in and battling for free every time yep I think that's really dope like thank you you know if if everyone else did that and then maybe kind of shared some back-end or or whatever but I think the problem is is that you have a career creating original music whereas most about our rappers when they try to create original music it doesn't write over too well yes that's that's true there are exceptions but that is true I think it's almost like two different parts of the brain you know when you were songwriting is a completely different process I could pretty much battle anyone if you give me two weeks and a name I can you know write balls against anyone it's not that difficult to write a hook that you know stays in you in in someone's brain you know in everyone's brain for a long time and to actually create something long-lasting on a beat I think is waiting difficult at least for me it is you know listen it's like what stand up there are some comics who can only stick to the script they got what they wrote that's they playbook yeah that's it they see a blitz coming mean a heckler yeah it's over there deer in headlights right I just interviewed the Lucas brothers we did this show and it was Elizabeth New Jersey there's a little bit nigiri it was a densely Puerto Rican my first one of my first my first girlfriend was butter week and I love but isn't that a big fan of at least that crowd wasn't a big fan of this low talking so there was like put a grandmother he was probably like 60 something she didn't give a [ __ ] he didn't give a [ __ ] she would just interrupt that oh come on we just started now yeah yeah she was sure that I mean you got a bigger laugh she was getting big laughs she was crushing us yeah she was great Porter and Puerto Rican women all had that Rosie Perez of them right so if you can't if you can't handle the cross over your ankles are broken that's why again like I said there's levels to this you look at Michael Jordan mmm greatest player ever why he no weaknesses every rebound shooting defense basketball IQ finishing above the rim Duncan style all of it shooting what comedy it's the same thing then doing your material is one thing how's your crowd work can you do characters can you do impressions can you do political humor can you do blue humor can you be clean if you can do all of that your bad boy bad boy if I can't do that big shout out to both DL Hughley and Joe Torre because when I first started comedy that crowd work [ __ ] with hecklers was a weak point I was even scared of it I was like God please don't take me off my script Joe Torre and DL Hughley two of the Masters yeah a cut [ __ ] up so you have to study dudes like that to go okay roll my sleeves up right I got a shop in my game yeah I understand your deal I'm a good dude yeah man good politically savvy oh yeah real time you little more one of my favorite shows and again I envy that because am i a political comic can I do political comedy yeah I had some things he does it though he does it he does it yeah what I asked you know cuz you know you've never heard of the two doxy right oxymoron and I said so you've actually gotten more views than all the established us battle rappers that's right yeah how's that even possible because I mean Russia has a lot of people yes yeah but the U but so does the US and more people speak English well yeah and then yeah I mean the US has a lot of people and more people in the world speak English than this right Russian so you have a bigger audience yeah I know for example I mean you got the Canada you got the UK exactly know people in Germany speak English like it goes on and on let me break it down for you so I think there's a few reasons for that the main reason I think is what I just mentioned you know I'm an industry artist who is battling so imagine I mean you have the examples in the West you know Cassidy bottled cannabis bottles you know a few small artists like madchild from Canada and you know if you artist did a job button right a few people did but no one that's really sort of first second echelon right so imagine you would have a battle where Drake will be battling Kendrick how many views would that get that would definitely get more views than I mean know definitely but probably move used in their most recent videos because we don't have to yeah for what what we know who's great who's not but we don't we don't have to put ourselves through those kinds of tests you know mean we got the blueprint on this [ __ ] we don't have to do that I would love to see it I would love to see Jada take on mmm beanie sigel vs. fabulous jay-z versus what we saw would ether a little bit with nas but right like in the forum of battle rap you know that jay-z battled LL Cool J no I didn't know that huh yeah I just interviewed Biggs we talked about it there was a battle between jay-z and LL Cool J yeah that was early on I wasn't there for that neither I think I believed it was a front of the palladium okay in New York on 14th Street but yeah that was a legend every moment I wasn't I wasn't there for that but I you know I heard about it yeah I guess I'm trying to figure out is by that time Cool J was a superstar yeah 100% so so why is he battling an up-and-coming dude I think J called him out so from what I know of J called him out once he came they both came out of the club and J Cole I mean J was J wanted to battle anybody then he was you know really trying to trying to make a name right what makes us YJ you'd want to do it mm-hmm ll yeah cuz I think I believe J called him out and started rapping so it was already like two ladies already already drew him in LOLOL l as a goat yeah no question but I think in terms of wordplay Jays a little bit slicker you know yeah change this a little bit slicker yeah Jay Pharoah yeah you said a lot of people think that beef with Jay Pharoah but I gotta love a lot of love for jmv Jay Ferrel because he does a lot of impressions that I wish I could do yeah and hands down he's one of the coldest in the game yes his impressions are dope absolutely his Will Smith his Chris Rock jay-z as jay-z the only and again this is where people go on hate and I was just going look as an impressionist we're perfectionist you know you the key to a great impression is not hearing your own voice if there's some dudes who do impressions where you listen and you go I can still hear you when you lose you and become them it's a different ballgame and the only thing that's ever bothered me is when Jay does when Jay does Jay he goes my baby girl Hova with my baby girl hover ruler whale and Hovis never said wild or Goyle ho would say world and girl how we say world and girl normally just in the whole tone Yoshi boy a young hope you know I rule the world yes my baby girl it's just girl where did the oil just bothered me but other than that Pharaohs beast man Pharaohs a [ __ ] beast well I just had God for on the show yeah his impressions were amazing I got a Jason Statham I actually did it for Jason Statham I was on a radio show Opie and Jim show and I Jason Statham was on the show and they called me in and I did Jason Statham you know Jason Statham okay ready the transporter did [ __ ] yeah he's like I forgot to tell you this is what I [ __ ] do I just smoked that [ __ ] Godfrey does some impressions ooh yeah yeah his impressions were amazing I mean if you look at it seems like impressions is a whole different part of comedy again levels yeah you know I'm saying no like you know you look at like a Chris Rock or a Dave Chappelle they don't do impressions no they don't but what you know I the thing I loved about Dave and the Chappelle show cuz when Dave first when the idea of the Chappelle show first came about I was just like how's he gonna do that he don't do impressions and characters but then I got reminded that the Dave Chappelle show before the Dave Chappelle show was the Richard Pryor show and Richard didn't do impressions of characters but to Richard's genius he knew where the funny was he knew what a satire was right he knew how to milk it which is what Dave did and did it on a phenomenal level right because when he did Rick James he wasn't doing a Rick James impression per se but right the Rick James character he did yeah it's still funny today is what 15 years later or whatever like I'm Rick James [ __ ] [ __ ] your couch like it's still [ __ ] the winter comedy was you knew where it was I mean if you look at comedians who do impressions who do you think are the all-time best Eddie Murphy King and it's not there's not really a lot of dudes that do it Eddie Murphy Jay Pharoah affion Crockett yeah Avion Crockett a fan Crockett myself somewhere in there and Reggie Reggie Reggie Reggie I'm not familiar with Reggie Reggie was on the bad boys of comedy okay he does the best Denzel I had ever seen Dean Edwards does Denzel - okay we all do Denzel but Reggie reg was a dude to make me made me tuck my nuts my neck chain away he's showing up with this big [ __ ] silver platinum cable piece down to the dick with the big medallion and I had the herringbone and I had to tuck my [ __ ] go okay I gotta go back to work so what are your best impressions who are your best named Gary man I mean you know listen I drink and smoke a lot so sometimes my voice don't always cooperate with me but when my voice is right and I'm totally where I need to be in Pocket Shack jay-z Denzel week we hear Denzel well I just saw that movie is Ricky 'el number 73 pamphlet 87 book 44x a crazy title but like jay-z says certain things all right we talking about the law alright we're talking about justice all right everybody's got a right to a fair shake everybody's got a right to a free trial huh all right that's we're talking about huh so you know but like like I always tell people the impressions is like music it's like a note hitting a note range and what makes it Shaq so easy is this Basie yo the Mets is gravia to me it stays a day yeah yeah you know me yeah so when it's like that the same thing with Pacino you hold this boy's future in your hands committee so good future it's a valuable future embrace it protect it who so just the nuance in the you know but like I said depending on where my voice my vocal range is at that moment sometimes I'm really in pocket sometimes I'm having an off day yeah yeah you know impressions is definitely a tricky one yeah it definitely is definitely a tricky one and you know when you nail it you just absolutely you know saw it so it's always two parts it's the cadence in the voice some dudes have the cadence down but they don't have the voice or vice-versa they got the voice but they don't have the cadence like Barack Obama I know his cadence but it's hard for me to get the voice Barack Obama what we do here in America is important to my daughter Sasha below yes that cait's does like that what he taught us now the cadence I got but the voice I don't really had a voice like I wish I could Alex Borstein yeah the voice of the mother of a family guy and the family guy you said gotta stay away from this one one of the most racist I gotta stay away take a turn I cannot I gotta stay away from this one I can't touch it yeah I'm trying to clean up my act okay fair enough fair enough you had a after our interview you had a situation I mean just a Corey Holcomb show yeah which from my from my point of view I thought was some sucker [ __ ] on the other dudes part mm-hmm you know it seemed like y'all was there cracking jokes Ryan and you know doing you know doing what y'all usually do then he ended up taking a swing at you yeah from your point of view what well I made a mistake my mistake was number one Corey was was always my dude I remember at one point time when I was on MADtv we used to do a sketch sketch a skit called real [ __ ] talk and it was just you know real Street dudes sitting around have an honest open conversation and two of the dudes who I recruited to be on the show to do that sketch from the very early beginnings was a earthquake and Corey who I had a great deal of respect for us still got a great deal of respect for earthquake and it's a comic I still got a lot of respect for Cory because this is different now so I don't want to act like I somehow made Cory or anything like that cuz I certainly didn't but I definitely reached out and said hey dawg I love what you do come get on this joint and let's do this so I made the mistake of being too comfortable I didn't know Zoe Williams I assumed he was a comic and when Cory said hey this is only on the shows my man that's all I needed to hear you know your man who's my man is vouching for you we're friends and family now and you know any black person noses you know they used to call it back in the day playing dozens you know whatever you want to call it Italians call the breaking balls or whatever you know we get around each other you know we talk shape like we do at the barbershop or on the street corner in the locker room and I just thought that's what we was doing you know I mean I I and you listen man I clearly I have an aggressive personality which is you know what again why people sometimes say I'm an [ __ ] or though they don't know me but they assume what they they think I am just because I have a very personality you know I mean I'm from New York I will my had a certain way you know flip-flops on now but you're a big dude I'm a big dude you don't say I grabbed my Tim's so I that's just who I am so we're engaging and I'm talking just as naturally as I would talk like I said if we was at the barbershop and we was you know at the crib chillin [ __ ] good what [ __ ] [ __ ] out here [ __ ] shut the [ __ ] up I'm doing this and you know I'm a professional [ __ ] I'm a professional [ __ ] talker so apparently I push buttons that he wasn't designed to have pushed and you know she got where God but again I that's my fault because I put myself in a situation where I just automatically assumed everything was everything where normally look man when I'm not on stage when I'm not doing what I do I'm real quiet man I'm only uh when I'm in a certain arena or when I'm around friends and family and I feel comfortable but I've had people tell me dude you don't even seem like a comment because when I'm not on stage man I'm real quiet I'm to myself I don't make a lot of noise so yeah man I just uh into something without being more mindful and cautious of look you really don't know this dude so you might want to watch your steps and look ma'am Cory wanted to say that I was drunk that night let's not been drunk I know we're drunk is I wasn't drunk I had some Tanqueray in juice I was I was feeling you know I was filling them I was feeling in a mood but I certainly wasn't oh not by any means but I talked to my boy who used to play a linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys we get on the playstation he say man just brother to brother just fighting rules 101 when a [ __ ] tell you shut the [ __ ] up I'm talking bag up so and it was funny now when you look at it but yeah man I mean you know [ __ ] it be would it be you know and a lot of people a lot of people sat there and said uh and I had and I got off Twitter for a while I got off Twitter I got off Instagram cuz I knew the jokes was coming and it wasn't so much about the jokes that was gonna bother me it was the fact that me knowing how I am I would have responded to him and then it would have been a plethora of jiss [ __ ] talking [ __ ] to me and I'm [ __ ] you and I would have been Tony Montana Scarface balcony scene ending you fool made you [ __ ] with your best I would have been going at it so I was like you know what man let me chill out let me let the storm die down and then once it subsides I'll get back on because a lot of people would say to me I read some of the comments even when I got that going some of which were very funny I remember when I got back on one dude said God to him you're just now waking up from that beating so I can take a joke with the best of them just be funny but a lot of people went man you's a [ __ ] cuz you didn't do this so you didn't do that back and it's like look man here's the reality while I might not be Kevin Hart hell I might not even be Mike Epps in terms of stature I still am somebody so the decisions I make come repercussions so I thought about it I thought hard about it but again maybe because at the time you know with the tango ray my first instinct when it happened was just you know cover up yeah then once it was over and we got separated and Corey's like chill chill and people telling him and chill chill I just in my mind I went okay if I retaliate this is gonna come with a price tag mmm-hmm you know right maybe he calls the police I get arrested already got this cloud that hangs over my head in Hollywood as far as being this particular kind of guy now because of Who I am TMZ jumps on it and it just fuels a fire I'm not trying to start or I'm at least trying to put out right from what people perceive me as so and you have more to lose and I have more to lose that's the other thing like jay-z said if I shoot cheese if I shoot you if you shoot me you famous but if I shoot you was some [ __ ] to do I'm brainless I'm brainless yeah so but then I also thought you know what I could make a phone call and have 50 goons here and this [ __ ] will get dealt with that way and even on me but then that comes with repercussions and consequences so it's one of those things where it's like you know your manhood and your pride and your ego get involved and you want to prove I ain't no punk ain't a [ __ ] but you also got a thing all the people that's calling me a punk in a [ __ ] they not gonna have to endure what I might have to endure if I make this move yeah you want to be keyboard warrior you want to call me a punk [ __ ] all you want to but at the end of the day to satisfy an ego to satisfy what [ __ ] is saying oh you got to think about all that now I say this going forward if I ever find myself in a situation like that again and if I even smell some potential [ __ ] imma be on my P's and Q right but again I'm 42 not 24 so you got to think about all that [ __ ] before you make a move let me tell you a very real real situation so there is two barrier rappers there is a rapper named Kafani and a rapper named filthy rich right some pictures came out about Kafani that looked a little gay right and this dude filthy rich start talking [ __ ] about him started making diss tracks about him and you know he was hearing all the comments it was getting to him what does he decide to do well that night I was in the studio doing a second diss record with the filthy-rich diss record was in the studio and then we plan to go shoot a video real quick for the first diss record I put out so basically was going to his turf to go shoot the video so it was about like me and ten other people we went we went to the went to his little block on Foothill in a cemetery and so we went to one I was over on like a corner ended up driving off from the rest of my entourage ended up going to to the little side block and then the cameraman start you know saying we start doing a video next thing I know a dude with a hoodie woke up and then I think my one of my peoples trying to shake his hand and then he was like pretty much like like which I doing here so when I one of the dudes I was like are we shooting the video and then so do do introduce yourself my boy introduce itself to do and I'm like yeah I'm funny or whatever so when I say I'm funny the dudes start walking aggressive towards me so when I see him walking towards me I'm like you got a gun a son and he was like man do it look like I got a gun and so I was like I'm like he got a gun so I'm pay attention but he's still walking towards me so I'm like trying to walk away cuz I kind of CT I felt he had a gun and so like next thing I know like he brought he pulls some I seen him put reaching for something so I tried to run and the next thing I know I was on the ground I got shot I got shot in the neck I got shot a couple of time in the chest in the leg and in a so basically the fragments the fragments for when I got hit in the shoulder is what I end up hitting my spine and severing my spine so that's why you know I'm paralyzed right now but you know I got faith I'm working every day in in therapy trying to get back so you know sin ain't stopping then I can guarantee you that if he could go back in time and not do that and just swallow his pride and just yeah hey whatever pride get you in trouble man he's in a wheelchair he's he's in a wheelchair for the rest of his life over over some some social media beef let me tell you something I know the movie didn't get rave reviews certainly wasn't up to par with the NWA movie but I watched the Tupac movie on the plane the line that stood out to me the most was when I think the actor is Clifton C Powell yeah and I know Clifton Clifton's been in everything but he tells pot don't let what you do for five minutes get you 50 [ __ ] years hmm so it's like again does that mean that in the future if you try to slap my mom or hurt my kids or violate my woman or violate me i'ma just go I ain't gonna do nothing of course I'm gonna do something but at the same time there's something to be said for calculation mm-hmm you know just cuz it ain't done immediately doesn't mean it won't be done now there are certain things that cause for immediate action and again if I'm in a situation where I'm forced to do immediate action I will do that but you know almost like you know tip my hat to the Mafia [ __ ] let me smile take a step back don't let him see him don't let him see it coming right well you had mentioned at one point they were suing did that ever happen or does that still happening or no comment I guess that's my answer you know comedy and Hollywood are kind of interrelated but you know when you get to when you get to the movies it's a slightly different animal like how long have you been doing movies now I don't want to stop in doing movies like I have a plethora of respectable great movies like my catalog is you know all that I mean I've done some movies okay the biggest and the most well-known respected successful movie I've ever done was Jerry Maguire which was 20-some years ago right I you know I just did a small part and it's Halle Berry Daniel Craig movie called Kings right which will probably be out sometime next year in the spring okay and then you know I've done a law a lot of independent movies most of which haven't really seen the light of day or had a run on cable not necessarily a theatrical release you know the password John Leguizamo lets it out of sync with LL I did la la wood with Martin Short and then some others that you know so so you've been floating around Hollywood for a while yeah what do you think is you know from your point of view what's been happening in Hollywood right now with the sexual assaults and the rapes and the the twenty-year-old allegations and who else like that what is your take on it uh you know the casting couch has always been around yeah nothing new but the fact that this much light is finally being shed on it it's about time you know people abused power right I mean even Terry Crews came forward with a man that yeah I just don't understand how grab a stick a man can grab Terry Cruz's dick and live Terry Crews looks like the thing from the Fantastic Four to me explained it he said if I had done something it would be the big black guy see what we eluded you know beating up the little gay guy the little white gay guy yeah we alluded to it well and how would that be viewed in Hollywood yeah [Music] it's a dance weird you know everything you do with a woman now I think should come with a permission slip well I just interviewed Nick Cannon he's got an app coming out called consent do you have a new app yeah you want to talk about it yeah absolutely I have to consent it's an amazing concept from what we were talking about earlier and it's funny like when you hear the consent app you think like it's to protect men and you think oh you've got people that man you but you want to sell this to the NBA ten everybody make all kind of money that's not why I created it now let's consent it's see in CNT that's how you actually spell it like in any stance for consensual and contractual and tested so it's actually the three the CC and the T is to make sure it's actually to protect women and that idea because women are getting put in these very uncompromising situations so imagine if you had a app with you know whether it's a some eye sensor recognition or something to where you say this is me and I am having consensual sex with this other person and I understand their history I understand that our our level of intoxication and therefore we can operate so it's it's protecting yourself the same way you put on a condom I'm gonna push this button on my phone you push the button on your phone and it's consensual and we're gonna and it's so many things like the couldn't you your consent history how many people have you consented with and at what point did you do this and I it's like a carfax for like just your sexual life so we've broken it down and we I have all my lawyers on it to where they built the paperwork so this stuff will stand up in court to protect women as well as to protect men to protect anybody that's engage in insect basically both people think Nick Cannon seriously with that [ __ ] he's got on his head [ __ ] is that it's a turban is it a turban services much love the oh yeah he's got an app coming out where before y'all have sex y'all could Cena make sense a little thing saying that I am here willfully it's crazy and and you know I you know cuz we had interviewed Russell Simmons right before his allegations right and and his name got taken off def Comedy Jam HBO has ended their relationship with him his clothes were taken I'll say this I'll say this and and you know make no mistake about it it's a horrible heinous thing for any anybody to have their personal space violated or their humanity taken from them and women have been dealing with it for so long that it's about time it's it's it's overdue that being said I also think there's something to be said for due process and let's not get so lost in the sauce that we are convicting those and making them guilty until proven innocent you know I recently saw Chandler handle a Chelsea Handler on one of my on one of my favorite shows Real Time with Bill Maher and she just said we automatically need to believe all women when an accusation is made automatically we need to believe them let's be careful because you know there are two sides to this or better yet like the saying goes a great saying three sides to every story yours mine and the truth mm-hmm and there are often times maybe not many but there have been times when guys have been falsely accused and once that stigma has been put on you that stench doesn't go away you know Nellie was accused recently and now charges drop no allegations proof nothing fat no foundation for these allegations but now that stigma is on him right I've read stories where guys get out of serving 25-year prison sentences for being falsely accused do they get them 25 years back do they get what I think they should get a million dollars for every year what happens to those who make the false accusations they should serve as much time as the person who they just accused you know it's a very slippery slope when we say automatic because you're convicted somebody without due process TJ Miller was just accused right from Silicon Valley from Silicon Valley from transformers from Deadpool yeah now look if he did it well the [ __ ] you should be buried under to jail but Comedy Central already pulled given him show pull the show now I don't know if the man asked kids but if this dude has kids and he has a life and he's got to pay his mortgage he's got to feed his kids pay for their education now a job income has been taken from him without due process what if she's lying what if it's not true now you don't have now that income is gone that opportunity is gone so I want to make it abundantly clear and and again I hate to sound like a broken record there like I'm trying to save myself or make it about me cuz of line but there's such a misconception about Who I am and I'm an [ __ ] and I'm this I'm an honest [ __ ] to a fault and maybe part of what I need to learn how to do is shut the [ __ ] up or pick my my spots better in terms of when and what to say but you know III my mother for years growing up as a kid father used to physically beat my mom it would traumatize we talked about that we traumatize be so and as a young boy your natural instinct I don't give a [ __ ] how old you are you be a little lad checked your mother yeah so anything violating a woman I'm against you know I have a charity that I you know for domestic abuse so any duda violates a woman should be buried under the jail but due process let's not just automatic animatic you sentence someone unfairly right because the the action happens right after the allegations most times the allegation happened against was a TJ Miller yeah and then suddenly his show got dropped right allegations are made against Russell Simmons bull and some of these dudes have admitted it right like louis c.k said yes right i've been pulling my dick out with women my and I admit it I'm sorry he's don't get it I just I just don't listen man how do you get off on being on and seeing someone uncomfortable like like I could never I want to know you want me I want to know you desire to want to reciprocate right to see someone uncomfortable and get an erection is preposterous to me yeah and it in listen if you want to if you got whatever your freaky [ __ ] is you wanna pull your dick out you want to a woman there are women you can pay yeah double let you do this a percent that's why I'm saying I think who is underrated I love who is it's the most consensual exchange rather you've never heard a prostitute come forward and say so and so after they paid me they did this then the third I was uncomfortable with it oh no I got paid and I'm cool with it oh yeah I'm sure I'm sure hookers have got a lot more a lot more work that's oh well you had a kind of a weird situation you had your ex-wife filed a restraining order against your ex-girlfriend yeah I can't touch that one either but I will say this again people tend to convict you based on one side of a story and I'll say there's that restraining order that was filed against me for something that goes against you okay well the flow but the ex-wife we got married twice the first time we were married it was not true I didn't do anything that I was accused of but public perception was you see look what he did because because we heard it from one side he's that guy I ain't do any of that [ __ ] and to this day it affects me I lost him gig I supposed to do at the comedy club in Utah first week of January because the owner of the club is Mormon and some people wrote in you can have that guy come perform no one he's had a restraining order and he's this type of dude look it's [ __ ] Utah ain't no [ __ ] they anyway Sam isn't out you know Utah's white people's Africa ibi but the point is toss away people's Africa I lost an opportunity I lost an ability to put food on my kid's table right for some [ __ ] that wasn't even true so I'm just saying man we understand it in terms of the big picture women get the short end of the stick the majority of the times but let's just be careful about saying things like automatic yeah that word is dangerous automatic you talked about child support laws Yeah right you said the way women in courts rape men financially is ridiculous yeah it's mafia [ __ ] until man until men start banding together and say enough is enough yeah right the laws will man come and we all know it it ain't a secret we know it but at what point will men go enough is enough so you have kids yeah you pay child support yes so so you said something interesting here you said a kid should get what's necessary now was entitled based upon how much you make yeah because it's based upon what you make as opposed to what's necessary well it's not necessary listen I've done the research and apparently from what I've seen on TV a child can survive off the price of a cup of coffee for 50 cents a month you could support it you send someone but what I'm saying is there's no way you could you could you could tell me that a child needs I think at one point I read P Diddy was paying one of his baby mothers 90,000 a month well okay justified Act this is something I don't agree with you would because ultimately that is your child and if that child was living with you that child would have a certain lifestyle so the fact that the child is not living with you why should that child not have somewhat of a similar lifestyle if you can afford ninety thousand dollars a month you can afford to have that child live with you fight that fight and make that child live with you well but and he can still have the lifestyle but we all know that money ain't about the child it's about her it's about her thing about the child you kid and I'm and I'm not trying to be let me be careful here cuz I'm not trying to [ __ ] on kids that go through a DD I know that's serious but it's almost like all kids have a DD when a child is upset put some shiny in a face what's this that's how quickly kids don't care about what the adults care about you know I mean right now it's not that expensive to raise a child I'm a hundred percent with you on that but the reality is that is your child just because you and the mother are not together anymore does not mean that that child has to suffer but what's suffering no one's talking about no mine's no one's literally talking about fifty cents a month right no one would be suffering that would be suffering but look if you live in a mansion right you live in a mansion you're you're a multi-millionaire and you and the mother are no longer together the mother is broke the mother lives in a shitty studio apartment technically you could pay enough money for the child to eat and have you know JCPenney clothes and stuff like that but don't you want to give that child a slightly better experience yes because because you have the financial means to do the texture I bet you a kid would rather live in a condo surrounded by a gazillion toys than a mansion surrounded by for not just satisfied happy it's you know education poor health care of course the [ __ ] we're not talking about none of that let's talk about what it really is it's the mother going I want to be paid because that's the lifestyle I'm used to now granted once the child becomes a certain age and like anybody else once you figure out oh my dad is so-and-so that comes with so-and-so mm-hmm now you two want to take advantage of it you know you want to be toes spoiled bratty little kids on MTV sweet 16 yeah but before you figure all that out what you care about is getting the proper amount of love and attention right now I'm saying and that don't cost yet the money thing that becomes different on its own once you realize how wonderful it is to have money but prior to kids realizing that they don't care about money yeah okay about materials to that extent but there's also safety you know if you put your child in a certain neighborhood there's going to be a higher chance of that of that child getting again we're not talking about the low end of the totem pole I'm not talking about all the child should have the bare minimum but to go the bare maximum has got to be a it's got to be a halfway point well there is there is and you know in general I mean I don't know like I mean I've never gone through this myself but you've never gone through john-boy know why are we having this [ __ ] conversation you're talking to me like you [ __ ] know you have yet to have your ass bleed how dare you this whole time I'm thinking you talking to me based off experience this [ __ ] telling me all his will dissing Adson beliefs enough you got me on that one dude let me tell you something based off on what I have to give my children's mother mm-hmm it really is heinous it's heinous because it's unnecessary that much it's just unnecessary and the point that I love is that the women who receive it find ways to validate all that [ __ ] why do you need 30 grand a month because this before that you was happy with the 1500 you got every month I'm just saying man people take advantage people take advantage it's hard to go from lobster to fish sticks you know you know it's actually interesting is um you know in in America if you get married mark and if you don't have a prenup yeah the wife gets potentially 50% of the income that was made during the course of the marriage yes in England it's based on the person's entire net worth even before they even met right so like you know they're talking about like for example you know like how one of the princes of England just married that one that one you know what he's engaged that one makes chick yeah you know I'm saying and there talk about the situation right because when Princess Diana divorced Prince Charles they're saying she walked away with like 57 million and essentially like put him into financial ruin but did you know in Afghanistan she don't get [ __ ] and she better shut the [ __ ] up it's a Muslim country slightly different set of laws over there hey man listen move - you know that's a joke y'all yeah Napoleon from the outlaws he lives in Saudi Arabia now you know she might be on to something [Laughter] dude until you experience anal blood leakage you don't understand we're kind of an interesting time in hip hop right now because when you and I grew up you essentially had drug dealer rap right that was a prominent form of of hip hop whereas in 2017 is predominantly drug user rap mmm the lien and all that so this this conversation was going on for a little while and twenty-one savage he chimed in on it he said why does tell me these og rappers judge the new generation they say we make drug user music like making drug selling music is better what's the difference what about the fact that rap is the number one genre music right now and none of y'all acknowledge that artists been snorting color first of all let's address that okay it's been the number one genre of music for a while now at one point Tom country music was that then once we surpass country music rap has been net so what is there to acknowledge we we were it was that 90s era that pushed it into the number one form so why don't we have to acknowledge something that we're the cause of okay fair enough I'll give you that he said our dismiss snorting cocaine and smoking crack since the seventies and eighties JA forget that instead of judging how about what artists they've wrapped to did it that admitted to it and make no of the high on coke what what what artist DMX okay but you know what I think X is the latter years nope no no but I don't think he was doing it when he came on the scene let me tell you something I interviewed his ex-wife he was you know what but it came by with more of his drug use in this industry before cuz we were together ten years before I did it before he got into the industry and um he wasn't perfect the biggest problems I had with him that was him robbing and stuff and and I think he talks about that instead of been you know he was a lot of he shows how I used to be doing his thing and you know she she's his ex she has no stake listen listen his best day they found him like like I've interviewed the the CEOs of Rough Riders did they used to have to threaten drug dealers when they first signed DMX and threatened them not to sell drugs to him alright alright DMX has been a drug addict before he got signed some some [ __ ] do better with coke than others but bottom line is kids don't do drugs because when you look at these kids today that are rapping with the lien and the pills think they sound like garbage verses my generation who yeah okay X some guys may have dabbled but for the most part I don't think a good majority of them dude was doing that and the music was quality so don't do drugs kids it's dangerous you put out [ __ ] music I don't know though drugs the music I've always begun hand in hand look what a rappers really do Hennessey and weed those are enhancers you smoke some weed just like taking the blue pill in the matrix I I think fantasy as long as you don't get shit-faced drunk it your inhibitions go away it brings a little bit of that aggression out right now lean puts you makes you lean yeah I've interviewed I've interviewed future before and he was leaning the [ __ ] out what I did and was he coherent kind of coherent to the point where you go if you put him in a boof right now something fire is coming out yeah yeah I mean he was in the studio with us here actually in the future future you know him amigos they kind of do the same bubble Dibby Dibby Dibby Dibby yeah yeah not impressed with yeah dude I'm 42 I come from that era where lyrics it was about what you said fire this [ __ ] today is just it's garbage man all my opinion garbage see you like future dollars Oh like none of that [ __ ] none of it none of it little savage little yachty Kodak black pump six nine garbage garbage all of it you do like Kendrick ten six dope you like Jay Cole this dope yeah but again when you hear him spit there's substance chance the rapper I'm not really a chance fan not because I think he's not worthy I just never attached myself yeah actually and I'm actually the exact same I never and I've listed a chance I try to get like I've never listened to chance I've listened to his albums and I'm like uh I don't think it's speaking to me right but you know listen he got Best New Artist Grammy last year I mean you know obviously people [ __ ] with him right you know more power to him I saw a little woozy vote on woody bro I think it is a clip of him saying y'all want you to spit over this DJ Premier beat and lose he goes yo man I ain't spitting over no the old man beats you know you got played in other words you got to play the beat they would allow me to go I don't know how did I huh yeah how did I had it huh yeah how do you did you premiere be I'm saying one of my favorite songs I wish I could download off iTunes but it's not available so when I want to hear it I got to go to youtube classic work ARS one rock him and nas dad track DJ premier classic and then when the beat oh my god the other clip little yachty on Ebro trying to freestyle and at one point he's saying some stuff and like how New Yorkers do like when you know catches rapping and you might hear DJ Whoo Kid or forum flex in the back go yeah that was throwing yachty off to the point where he went stop stop you guys can do that stuff that's where we all would rap now we at weird weird [ __ ] is moist man we rap rappers got more feminine its moist I guess shoes and purses can't deny its moist but there's always there's always gonna be both sides of it you know like logic I think is dope his new album I thought was brilliant check it out I don't know logic yeah it's a mixed kid kind of looks white but he's not yeah he had that 1-800 suicide song that I knew a few years old yeah my new my new rappers nah he just is relegated to Cole and Kendrick like I said I got two more years left on my hip-hop card and I ain't gonna know who none of these [ __ ] is imma just strictly be jazz and blues music that's it that's it nothing else that's it I mean uh Nicki Minaj is she pointed out like the charts recently and she said it it's a great time to be a white rapper right now when has it never been a great time to be a white anything they're just stamp in the world since forever I thought at one point if things did not go as expected that you might have a situation like rock and roll where which we invented so what I'm saying but we originally started out as a black art form and now it's like when you have a black rock and roll act just like oh I remember when even in the 80s when the group Living Color came out and that's called two personality yeah that's my track that's not my phone right now right that's what I'm saying but that was like oh look it's a black rock group it was like it was like a unicorn well you know a black woman wrote hound dog Elvis Presley a lot of people don't know that well I mean it didn't ever steal a whole bunch of whole bunch of black but it never gave the credit that's why when I said that one line in his song some about camera it was some about residuals you know and that's why I come from that era and that's what I love when guys can say something you get a beat make your head go but then also oh okay that's you know a lot of that is missing in hip-hop now yeah I mean honestly I'm not a big fan of a lot of white rappers these days just yeah you know I know a lot of people a lot of people were [ __ ] on Eminem's new album we heard a lot of people say it's more you heard it good I haven't heard it yeah but any and he took a lot of heat for that thing he did about Donald Trump that freestyle and you know I listen was it lyrical not eight-mile lyrical it was emotional yeah yes and sometimes when white dudes y'all get emotional that's why y'all flip tables over and destroy hotel rooms and and riot after your team wins the trophy you know Eminem showed his white side is black is he as much black swag as he got he's still a white boy and he showed it he got emotional I respect him he's always been emotional though he has but I'm just saying in the vein of rap yeah he's always had his rap swag yeah but that moment his raps where I got put aside and he was an emotional white guy I heard the album I listened to it a few times it just kind of sounds like what Eminem has been doing all along right there no there's no growth newer experimentation like you know I mean like you know you could say what you want about jay-z's 444 but you could you know he went a different direction with it yeah you know I mean he he had no ID produced the whole thing which is he's never done before he ever do sir he started talking about finances you know investing and stuff like that like jay-z I feel kind of pushes the envelope every time I mean yeah well he has to I mean how long can you talk about drugs drugs guns and girls but you know I just it would be interesting to see because he's elevated himself to such an entrepreneur yeah he wants to talk about stocks bonds finances I just don't know how that translates to the streets since rap has always been about the streets but now rap is about high heels satchels and purses that dudes are rocking so who knows that might be the new era stop don't do that stop

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Published: Thu Jan 25 2018