Don Dc Curry EXPOSES Katt Williams , GOES OFF On Steve Harvey's , REJECTING Shannon Sharpe Podcast

know what is I can hold my own yeah some people say Harvey has your Cadence some people will say that Harvey has your Cadence that's your Cadence yeah I've heard that if you become Miss America you'll make about a million dollars during your Reign four or five more million thereafter if you play it right so do I think it's a shame that you got to come out in a bathing suit and a pie high heels yeah I really do I think you ought to have to come out butt and necked church is the building you attend church is the activity that go on once you get inside the building that's what I'm talking about praying they they talk to God like he stay next door you know like he they buddy like he got a membership at the why they don't shut their eyes ain't no emotion in it they just be talking to God oh Father God steeve my man man steeve my man you trying to start some [ __ ] I ain't trying to start nothing brother you think I'm trying to Star something why do you think you were not on the Kings of Comedy they edited an interview I did and made it seem as though I was saying don't go steeve see Steve come see me how did you get in those Friday movies whether it's just audition or just a phone call you know a lot of people complaining I don't know who the representing now but dog I got paid right and uh uh when I did Friday after next uh cuz I had gotten so much for next Friday when I did Friday After Next I bumped head with the producers Comic View or Def Comedy Jam [Music] far as what far as what it did for comedy are you familiar with what just happened with Cory hulum and Don Rollin my m m i l d you catch up you a I came up in the hotest room Brooklyn and you ain't never saying I'm M you saying I ain't come through the streets or the gutters is straight Bull and if you want to ask somebody ask the mother that you know2 I RI you RI m i RI you you you ask any ever seen me bomb anybody and you ask anybody that don't know me I keep against it I don't I don't say you no you trying to say I'm a bum I ain't no bum that is mild we talking about comedies in DC I went and saw Kevin Hart and he did a hour I said yeah and he ain't offend nobody in the building I said I can't do 5 minutes without making somebody's ass itch now [ __ ] want to loom me to death salute Lo exactly my man Lo that's my man too both loans old loan new loan both Lo okay okay okay Ops must know it's up there and it's stuck there [ __ ] when it's up there man it's stuck there shut up yo yo yo yo yo welcome to another episode of It's up there podcast I am your active and attractive host for another episode of the fastest growing podcast in the world right now um I don't talk to everybody man when I seen this guy in my city uh come to the legendary Zanes I made it my mission to go out to see this man because I grew up off of him and I think that he's a legend in the game today we got Don DC Curry how are you my brother I'm doing good man but don't don't call me leg Legends got about six months to live you don't believe that you don't believe that I appreciate you coming man and I appreciate you for for giving me and gracing me uh gracing the platform with your with your presence man you did a lot in this game how do you feel about the state of Comedy right now well I couldn't think of a better time to be a comedian with all the with all this going on now I remember when you used to have to take a story of the news or whatever and turn it up a notch to make it funny but now what's going on now you got to turn it take it and turn it down a notch to make it believable CU everybody think you making it up if you just just tell what's really happening now but with regards in particular particularly the black comedy uh while it's funny on one hand it's sad on another hand because you spend your whole life fighting for equal rights and all that and then what happens it appears what it what does it appear it's going to happen in the end we going to implode you know we we exploding from within why you think that well I think part of it is is uh well part of it is just uh see people want to refer to it as uh competition is being a competitive game and all that but I don't wish nobody ill will so when they mentioned uh going on sh Shay is that his name yeah yeah sh sh they mention on going there with me I said you don't want me I'd be the boringest interview you ever had cuz I know something on on everybody but I ain't telling nothing right I don't know nothing right it's the equivalent to me when you put somebody's personal business out there snitching right same thing man same thing so is that how you felt about what cat done C my buddy he said some of [ __ ] was right and some of it was wrong he ain't reading no 3,000 books a year that's nine books a day you ain't running no 4340 hell if you could you should have ran that when that 15 year old boy whipping your ass I remember that too the C my man man but I'm proud of uh you know I'm proud of some brothers that he might disagree with you know now some of the stuff he said was true I just wouldn't be adding it on than is the TR disrespect though well I'mma tell you why I drew the line I'mma tell you I'mma tell you a couple things that were debatable but I tell you a couple I tell you a couple of things I had a problem with unless a brother's wife is in the game that's kind of off limits that's those are old gangster Roots man you don't mess with family wife and children yeah now in the case of Kevin Hart his ex-wife is in the game so I don't know maybe that's fair f but yeah you know he said something about some of the other guys wives I you know I got a little problem with that then then when he referred to Quakes illiteracy or accused him of being illiterate I got a pro I got I got a little problem with I mean the Quake situation seemed to be a lie so I mean we should everybody got a issue with lies you know what I'm saying because Quake went on Breakfast Club and said he was I think in the Navy or he was in the Air Force Air Force so I think it was yeah right it's impossible to be ill literate um going through the air force so I don't I don't know if that checked out as far as what Quake was saying you know I I really don't um but do you haror any resentment like do you do you feel like because 50 million views 50 something milon 50 over 50 million yeah that's that's a lot of money not not cash but just in this world that we Opera oh he F sell some tickets yeah so I'm saying they don't give you a hand shot like C say they don't look out for me why am I holding their secrets yeah but sometimes it's a matter of his soul man I was with cat we was hanging out one day and I reminded him back in the day it's true story I said cat you know you know you still owe me $500 we were in New York years ago and I did a Comedy Central special and he did something there but anyway we happen to end up the same Hotel same bar after the show and uh they show you how greeny was that time when they paid him he did a TV show and they he thought they were gonna get him cash but they wrote him a check yeah he a't have no money right so I gave $500 loaning $500 so I I asked him the other day I said hey man you know you still owe me that $500 and he couldn't he said is that right DC so I tried to refresh his mind and everything he said he said DC if you told anybody that I said no player I don't I don't roll like that yeah he said that's the difference between you and me DC he said if you told somebody that You' had 10 million hits tonight I said but I don't throw nobody under the bus like that he said that's why you a great comedian Ian but I'm more famous that's what he said to me man that's sad but that's how this there another part of that story that I I'll tell you when we off the right so with with I don't think I think you from where you come from y have a certain Cadence right with comedy I don't know if it's it's it's moving to the new era with these Comics um do you see anybody in the new era that kind of reminds you of what y'all were when you what coming [Music] up well I think uh the new cats and I ain't mad at them man I think they kind of struggling to find their way just like we were I think uh social media I don't think I know obviously it changed the game but uh you know some in some ways it's been good cuz it exposes them to different flavors but uh a lot of things ain't changed when I was coming up you know know there was some older comics in the game fewer of course than it is now but they wouldn't they wouldn't fing to try to help you man yeah they wouldn't I'm I'm going tell you four or five of them that help me but a lot of them was just haters man yeah a lot of them are haters uh John Witherspoon helped me uh George Wallace who's still alive he about 160 uh J Anthony Brown party Ronaldo Ray Richard Pry and uh it was six it was somebody else but for the most part they wasn't at forth coming with information so what I've tried to do cuz ain't nobody you ain't no threat to me right and I've tried to share all I could share with the young brothers who ask me you ask me I ain't trying to push nothing don't no man but if they ask me I i' tell them why why do you think you were not on the king's of Comedy first place I ain't no king of comedy I don't consider myself no king of comedy you don't but they told me no no but they told me at time that uh it was because I didn't have a television show DL hugle at D hugle show Bernie had Bernie show Steve and Cedric were on Steve Harish why I was on Grace Under [Laughter] Fire wh why do why do it feel like you you you try to downplay it though like I I I shouldn't have been on no Kings of Comedy I ain't no king of comedy you just told me Richard Pry helped you John Witherspoon helped you three conversation with Richard I don't want to overemphasize that like I pick up the phone call Richard I had three with Richard Pry were very impactful and very uh you know he he was very open with me and at that time he he was uh like on his going out his last leg but he was uh re he was real you know yeah but what I and even if whatever Richard Pride gave you in that moment that that was that but to be in the game from then to now how has that not solidified being a King King King strong word bro let me make this clear cuz I know how y'all take [ __ ] and twist it I ain't no [Music] Queen I ain't saying that when I say I ain't no King no man uh I'm just uh J and I'm not I'm not trying to be overly modest or nothing I a I ain't no slouch now you ain't nothing like nothing nowh I think I can hold my own yeah say Harvey has your Cadence some people will say that Harvey has your Cadence that's your Cadence yeah I've heard that yeah so that's what I don't understand like steeve my man man steeve my man you know I saw him and Mark Curry arguing look bro when you came up in the same general time frame you going to have some overlapping of things that are you got in common Mark Curry and Steve are going at it about a Halloween costume come on man our black folk for the most part made the Halloween costume so some of that stuff but you know when you write something and you got your signature on it and somebody snatch it from you now that has happened to me in some cases you even got a certain style bro what I'm saying is when you you deal with jokes at least from the outside me looking in is like the packaging of the joke is just as important as the joke and so your Cadence just how you just did now with the inflections and things of that nature right when you see someone like you coming up in that moment with Comic View and all that was going on that was you Harvey all y'all was kind of in that same pot that Cadence is only I don't know anyone else with that but really you too I don't know I'm talking about where I can close my eyes and and say that Rhythm that's that Rhythm that's that DC Rhythm like do you do you ever think that do you ever feel that do you ever you trying to start some [ __ ] I ain't trying to start nothing brother you think I'm trying to Star something these are these are my real thoughts like when I hear this even when going back just listening as I was driving down I'm like oh [ __ ] let me listen to Harvey I put Harvey in now what I would say is different was he he would do a little more acting with with it but if you close your eyes and this is only two or three bits that I saw but if I close my eyes I say that Cadence belongs to DC H you want me to say all right well Mo hey we can we can move we can move on we can move on but you know I just wanted to ask you that let me say something here in case Steve see this you know he's had several problems with me uh I'll tell you about a couple of them uh we doing a show in Memphis one time back in the day and he had just gotten his toue and we were in the dressing room room is a low ceiling and there a ceiling fan and I suggested he get out on the ceiling fan for his snatches too pale after that he didn't speak to me for about three years damn another time well I ain't going to tell that but we've had just two or three running another time I was in Houston he was at the Civic Center I think it was I was at a club they edited an interview I did and made it seem as though I was saying don't go Steve see Steve come see me that ain't what I said they they cut it down and made it look like that right but what I said was you can go to C St at the arena but it's going to be hard to see in that Arena I was talking about the intimacy of comedy clubs and I said I'll be at this club and for what it's worth Steve might sell out but the club I was at set 250 people I know I'm going to sell out I said something like that yeah yeah yeah he took it and got on the radio after that and uh you know tried to tried to insult me which he couldn't do I got some tapes Man Steve had a comedy club in him and uh I got some tapes of me performing at his coming clip so uh I just there's been some overlapping but you know and then for me bro in this game cuz I take it personal you know me and I I don't know if it's the dog is in me you seem like a player you seem like a super cool player type [ __ ] so I don't take you to be sensitive you know what I'm saying I man you had to really you had to been you you really had to you really had to you can't hardly and sub me right right but with the money though it's just like yo man with the money I don't know like I I I commend you for being so player about it but I can't see you know certain things for me will be a little more visible in my arguments right cuz I'll be saying let me tell you something man talk about money I like money like anybody else it does not control me brother and you know for example it's only so much [ __ ] you buy after that you can buy bigger [ __ ] more [ __ ] you know you can buy a house now if you get a house you can buy another house but I mean there only so much [ __ ] you can buy right but if you compare yourself to somebody who's super you want to call it successful or whatever if a man got a $50 million plane $50 million jet but I don't want one I just made $50 million relatively speaking God bless Beyonce and Jay-Z they bought a $200 million house but in my mind because of where I come from you know what I could buy with $200 million $200 million hous right I rather I'm not shooting I'm not shooting [ __ ] God bless them what they did right but I cannot imagine uh what a $200 million house is this some [ __ ] on the moon or something right where did you grow up at Southside Chicago got that play on you man finger high they wanted scared of nothing back then all my partners was gangsters I go back now I'll be scared to stop at stop [Laughter] sign yeah man um are you familiar with what just happened with Cory hul and and Donell Rollins no but uh I had uh cookie Hull on my show uh she basically was uh rebutting cats interview right cookie H used to work for him she said she used to write for him he said she didn't I kind of believe that she did but at any rate and I'm trying to be careful now not throw nobody under the B but Cory hul called me cuz he saw me basically interviewing her on my show this R right and uh he called me cuz he F to go in on her and a car gangster man but I got to give him props for calling me and uh before he did that before he did it basically you know yeah not getting my permission but I like like I brought her on man he man you say what you what you think she said what she think I didn't condemn it or condone it yeah but I felt she had a right to say it and it's a fact that she accompanied cat in whatever whatever capacity for quite some time and she wanted to speak her peace and she did and it it wasn't uh friendly but you know she's a woman you know you had my ex on ain't no tell what the hell she say right did how how did you get in uh those Friday movies was this just audition or just a phone call no audition they call me you know from stand up back then man the scouts and stuff of television and movies they would go out and then black comedy was so hot then they go to the black comedy club in different cities so it used to be a place here I used to go to Comedy act theater uh and uh they came in there now I had turned them down three or four times people from BET had come in there and they were asking me to come out and basically auditioned to be the host of Comic View on my dime I'm like man a gone with that [ __ ] I just stay right here and work in this club and make this $75 a week yeah I was get man 14 shows yeah no and uh so finally I think it was the third go round they bought me a ticket and and uh said they pay for hotel I said okay then now you now you talking but back then the the scouts would go out now you pretty much got to go to New York or La they don't they don't travel like they used to looking for talent but anyway it flew me out there Comic View and uh I think that's where cubes on and some at some point we got a call and they ask me to come in and quote unquote read for a part and uh I went in and and uh it was a WAP that's dope though was that good money back then you know a lot of people complaining I don't know who they had represent now but dog I got paid right and uh when I did Friday after next uh cuz I had gotten so much for next Friday when I did Friday After Next I bumped head with the producers cuz Cube at that point it gotten so big Cube it basically stepped out of negotiations and stuff so I bumped head with the producers and uh so later on that evening I called q and I said hey man you know you can cut this if you want the [ __ ] crazy and Q said you know what's up D and I said well we just we can't come to grips with the money Ice Cube said to me DC what you want and I told him he said call him back in 15 minutes and I call him back 15 minutes when I can come in and sign the paper I like damn I was too cheap yeah you need a little push back but just like that man so whitling who didn't do Friday After Next cuz she had bumped head with the producer but I told her call Cube you know Cube we all talk we was on set right I said call Cube and she wouldn't do it so that's when they went and basically got uh some more who is my friend I'm doing with her now they went and got some more to basically replace Kim Whitley wow that's dope the um Comic View or Def Comedy J uh far as what far as what it did for comedy uh who who it propelled um cache in the culture you know overall I think Death Jam was the ultimate uh at that time it it was the ultimate thing Death Jam Comic View had more uh longevity it was a calmer atmosphere it was kind of two different uh generous Death Jam you know uh Comic View you had time to make somebody think Death Jam go you got to go bro yeah you got to go but uh both of them did the thing uh so shout out to Rell Simmons shout out to Bob uh Johnson I think Johnson Bob Johnson yeah both of them provided Avenue Bob Su was with Death Jam but Bob Johnson on BET BET Comic View yeah yeah and it created a it created a platform for us that uh wasn't available I don't I don't think you can compare to anything now far as black Comics are concerned right yeah you think it can be recreated any of that can be done now you can centralize those audiences cuz basically that's what that was people would sit down at a certain time you know get looking forward to watching comedy on Comic View or I tell you why I don't think so because of social media I don't think so because of social media now I ain't I ain't mad nobody or nothing I ain't mad to Young Brother social media but but I think uh and it's obvious when some of them are missing the experience of going out on the road driving from place to place dealing with different people and trying to uh find where you fit in and you can't do that can't do that with video man and then it's not as real right cuz you can't get booed on video and you got to get your ass out there and get booed and then figure out what you did wrong but on video you can do 50 the takes and just pick the best one then a lot of people disappointed when they show up to see them now some of the brothers have gone on and gained experience and uh stepped it up country Wayne Sho keing yeah and figured it out but I've also seen I've seen some fall DC Young Fly I've seen some Fall by the wayside you know that that possibly would have done better if they had been on the road uh it used to go the chitling circuit yeah because working those jokes is a thing like you got to get that joke in different rooms and you know what I'm saying like you said like it's that's why you know I do some concerts now I think I got 40 50 on the books for this year but I do I got you know 40 some clubs on the books because the repetitions right the repetitions and you be surprised I always call comedy particularly black comedy but comedy in general is psychological warfare brother and you be surprised how changing a word or phrase or the timing make all the difference in the world when you're doing a club and you got several several shows that do day after day you know you can work it out you got done to work it out yeah yeah and then you see it it'll you also got to serve people that don't know you as much too right because especially with social media the Fanfare is so crazy yeah it's like you come out they cheering it's like he ain't even got nothing out he ain't even said nothing these dudes are getting that love and they I wonder the last Comics the last wave of comics that'll make that $75 a night or a week and all that they don't feel that no more that's with ain't nobody do yeah they don't even my first paid job I open for Paul Mooney was $70 14 show I was getting $5 a show and at the end of the end of the week they handed me a note they said I owed him $127 I had drunk up0 something do worth [ __ ] Michael Williams and his brother Gary Williams yeah was there any beef not beef but any competition with Comic View and de Comedy Jam back then where it's like no back then it was three things you had to do to establish your legitimacy as a black comic you had do Death Jam Comic View and Apollo Apollo after that they they take you seriously yeah yeah Showtime at the P right and if you could do that and survive you you doing pretty good Showtime at the Apollo they talk about death Jam audience Showtime at the Apollo when I first did it I got there I think call time about 11:00 in the morning and I got up uh to perform at I think of 10:00 at night same cry no water no ref freshman no nothing man I don't even know if the bathrooms was working but they've been sitting there 11 hours when I got him D God damn but you know it was it was all in the game right n them the Reps though them the Reps get them reps in man you learn about TV so forth but uh the Reps you know they don't uh and God bless them you know a lot of making a lot of money man but uh you know I stand hard on on what I believe I'm I'm uh including radio shows now I'm I'm 11,000 and something deep yeah you I'm telling you man I don't know why I don't know you don't got to like it I'm calling you a legend you ain't even got to like it and my voice m in the culture so whatever but here here's something I also want to ask you um when Cory hul speaking of those reps sometimes comedians even say season Comics are quote unquote mild so Corey Hokum says that DaNell Rollins is a mild comic yeah do you do you understand that term and what what do you what do you think that means cuz I'm sure my viewing audience don't know what that don't know kind of what a m I know what it mean cuz I know what M Wings is versus is hot wi you know what I'm saying don't mean he ain't funny cor Cy hul is wow yeah and uh you know I'm I'm I'm a c h fan but some of stuff C be saying I'll be like damn boy yeah what is wrong with you but it's funny however and I don't want to I don't want to reiterate what cat said or what Cory said there is a certain vein that if you get in that vein you're more likely to become universally acceptable and blah blah blah I I've never I've always spoke my mind I had a conversation I don't know 20 something years ago with Tom jna you know about being more accommodating so yeah it might could have been now you take a guy like Kevin Hart guy was telling me the other day uh we talking about comedy he said DZ I went and saw Kevin Hart and he did a hour I yeah and he a offend nobody in the building I said I can't do five minutes without making somebody's ass itch yeah but if you got that Talent God bless you if that's what you can do but you know I'm more of uh I'm I'm a little radical bro yeah I mean but the truth is the the truth is considered that you know what I mean when you get up there and just literally say your observations from a true standpoint some people going to say it's radical you got to live with that speak it and then I I can defend myself yeah and uh sometimes that's that's uh that's interpreted as being radical and then I don't give a damn for it is right so so Donell Rollins ran up on Cory at a at the Hollywood improb and interrupted his set I didn't see that yeah and just holling at him saying [ __ ] I'm a beast you talking about I'm a mild comic I'm a beast I'm a beast right now I didn't I know I did not know about that right tell him in his face man that [ __ ] mild you doing man and they kind of had this one two what I want to speak to though is is that crazy yeah yeah yeah so what I want to speak to is the conversation surrounding it because the the the conversation surrounding that event is That Yo DaNell really is doing that because what Corey said about Dave which is Dave Shel bombs a lot yeah I saw that right I saw Cory said that do do you do you agree with that I mean I feel Comics bomb like do you think Corey is wrong in his observation for being able to say that like he said yo when they when they on stage I go outside I don't I don't like what they doing but for Dave he's a good comic but he bombs a lot well I don't know if you can bomb if you got two or $300 million I I I think he's at a point where he just goes up and he talking he working stuff out in his mind he watching the crowd they react he just talking he ain't got to go up and slam the room he doesn't he doesn't have to the reason it gets hard it gets harder and harder for Comic to be successful black comic as he progresses economically is because Black Folk about poverty mostly was just a generation maybe two from poverty man yeah but when you got when you are perceived is having when you have or perceived as having hundreds of millions of dollars is very hard for a black crowd to sit down and listen to you talk about how hard it is pay bill right I had this conversation with a senio who my partner I told him all time right when you got when you got millions of dollars it's hard for you to connect with a man that spent his last $50 to sit in the bleaches in the news bleach section see you so it it becomes a thing with but comedy is the one place in the culture where it's like it's fair game like that money don't excuse you if you're not funny you're not funny well you might be funny to some people and you may be funny to the right or wrong people biggest lie ever told about comedy is funny is funny that's [ __ ] because it depends on who's who's talking and depend on who you talking to that's why I refuse to do I've got a lot of offers for for uh Seas across for shows across the water across the seas I don't know what the hell say over there I ain't lived over there I don't know nothing and I be talking about I'll be talking about how America is crazy so I don't want to go to a foreign country and and do that I can't go to an army base and talk about how crazy America is right so I just I just turn them down man but it depends on who you talking to and who's talking to say funny is funny if you believe that Richard Pride for example could have taken Bill Cosby's material and been as effective ain't no way in hell Bill Cosby could go up and do Richard Prim and be effective no is a is a there's an intricacy a intimacy uh and I I I think you developed that more my personal opinion in clubs you know concerts are hit they they bang bang man and and uh and the uh you got to get out of there the union you got to get out of there you do 20 minutes you get up there and do 30 if you want to right they hit that red light it's time to go yeah yeah do you have you ever shared the stage with was someone like you know the new style like the 85 South boys is doing you see how they kind of like it's it's a it's a three-way kind of thing on stage at the same time is that an awkward thing for for for like the old school for y'all guys that came up one man one mic just taking care of the business hey man to me it's a individual sport now God bless them they've been very successful right uh but no this that's not that's not what I'm about do do you think that you are a part of Hollywood because you've been in a few movies no on the contrary man on the contrary man I've uh you know they talk about bowing down all that the Hollywood I just never have uh even now I refuse some auditions cuz I mean you know it's all of a [ __ ] show man now I come in audition with something worthwhile but you want me come in and and basically showcase something well why you call me right cuz you know what I do you know what I'm about so don't call me ask me come in and do jamee brown right cuz that's what it feels like it definitely feels like I was talking to um another comic I had nav green when he was doing Coming to America he was kind of explaining the audition process and he's just like they sitting there stal face and just looking at you like you got [ __ ] on your face and then and I've experienced this you know cuz it's audition game you know you go in you may audition for 30 shows and get one commercial or something but you go in there man and it's it's kind of an insult you go in there and sit down and some uh and some 22 year old white girl decide whether you get the part or not that's a hard P God bless you if you're 17 trying to make it right yeah yeah but I a I ain't about that [ __ ] n n n do you feel like you made enough money out of this game enough to do what to feel like I ain't I ain't bitter I feel good about I put in 40 years this what I got from it or have you know I probably more than I could have made doing anything else but you know like I said man I'm uh I'm content I ain't satisfied I ain't got enough money yeah but I'm all right after you buy certain things ain't nothing mother he you can't buy nothing there right you know you could have a $200 million high but I got a high you know you can have a $5 million car but I got a car right so I mean relatively speaking if you got something I don't want we even right you got $50 million jet I don't want one I just made $50 million relatively that's good game right there that's a good game right there boy I don't want for nothing man let um do you think do you think that in this game in the comedy world that there's for Tue are you interested in doing movies on tub would you do something like that I got a deal on the uh I got a deal on the table with him now I did a television show aib Productions put up uh most of the money I put up to the rest it's called nappy valet you know I'm a farmer and it's about all my my partner uh working I bought a new Farm as it's about all my partners coming to work uh turn his land into a farm you know right uh so yeah I'm I'm I'm open to any I'm open yeah cuz there some young entrepreneurs you know running around some bags over in Tu world that reach for your cache in this culture you know what I mean put a number out and you'll be surprised that phone will ring hey we got that we got that number for you you know yeah and you know and I you know you do it and you go at your own pace I shot a special that I was offered U had a couple people offer a finance I financed it myself that's dope and I got to finish editing it now and then shot it in BM Alabama to start dome but uh I own it you know right is that expensive process to shoot a special it cost me 40 something th000 it's dope I imagine you could spend more if you want to do a certain way I imagine you could do it and spend less but the return on that how do you make your money back from that well in the case of me owning it I'm free to basically lease it out so I could get if Netflix good buy into it to bit whatever but I still own it right as opposed to if I let them put the money up and then there a WAP right and they could buy it and put it on the shelf so you'll be doing more so of a licensing agreement whatever just license your content for a couple years pay you and then you retain ownership after the agreement that's dope exactly and I I believe in the project I believe it's uh bonafied and and uh and I'm a gambler so I financed it my damn yeah I respect that how often do you write jokes I write every day but some of it ain't funny I'mma tell you what I do man I do satire man it's getting a lot it's a lot easier now cuz you got your phone man I do satire and I I I I kind of do current events and stuff but sometime I just be writing and don't be don't really be funny but then something will happen something will happen happen in in in the world in society that makes it relevant so I'll be like I wrote something about how unfair is for a brother to live uh on certain side of Atlanta and then something happen makes it relevant you know what I mean right but I write pretty much every day but most of it end up in trash do you think that you can start off funny and comedy and run out of funny yeah if you don't stay current and stay on what's happening cuz you know most Comics start off talk about the same thing farting on the elevator yeah woman period which ain't never been funny I'll be watching them bomb with that I'll be like that ain't going to work player it's some [ __ ] you just can't make it funny man you will sit through a bombing I sit through one yeah I sit through a bunch of them they funny to me yeah people the comics tend to laugh at bombing oh man but I'm going tell you something that's changed back in the day guys in my era we would go up some nights like what open mike night was big back then for black comic and we would go up some night and challenge each other I ain't going to say nothing I ever said before do or die if I bomb I just bomb yeah and then after the show we go to Waffle House and sit till the sun come up man and and be critiquing each other you know [ __ ] you should have said this you should have said that you should have said that so it wasn't that it wasn't that like it is now you know that's my material we used go there we used go there and literally man we would help each other right and uh bump up bump up jokes you like you know that's funny concept man but what you said wasn't [ __ ] and we would go back and forth it was all uh it was a camaraderie now that it doesn't it's not the same no but that's one thing I think 85 South got even though they shutter they got that camaraderie because they ain't worried about each other stealing the joke or running off with social media it's much more easier to claim ownership over something that's not yours right over an idea something if your followings bigger yeah um or or something like that you you you you retain ownership or whatever that is that you presented but I think that's unfortunate um but I got some stuff back then you know I used to travel with little uh them little bitty cassette record what you call them name mini recording I forgot what they call yeah I can listen I can let you I could let you listen to some [ __ ] you would be like that sounds very familiar you ain't got to tell me I'm tell I'm trying to get I'm trying to understand why you ain't saying it you know even some stuff is coincidence and some some stuff you you know you know what the deal is I don't believe in that man like I I mean but I think you a player you know a capital p so I respect how you handle it BR let me tell you how I describe myself I'm a gentleman and a gangster fact but I ain't I ain't trying to bring nobody else down God bless you yeah um back in the day do you think I was talking to a comic and I want to ask you about it saying that you was in the era or just around and know about comedy um Andrew Dice Clay yeah was his wave as big as um as as it's presented to to the culture cuz they he was Sting that Mas on Square Gard blah blah blah blah but his longevity with right he didn't you know so he he jumped out the gate and back then because comedy wasn't exposed like it is now so you had another factor that now it's so you had the shock Factor right shock jock yeah so you you I mean you could be shocking and not really be that funny right Andrew d K was shocking they they couldn't believe he was saying that [ __ ] he was selling that m in Square Garden Man three four shows a day right uh but it's longevity so I might uh you know I got a saying man uh you know cuz I don't be in no hurry to do nothing my saying is my saying pace yourself don't raise yourself right and uh he jumped out there and he was he was rolling for a while and after that you know and with social media now and then uh Death Jam and all that that's one thing it did that I feel was positive it removed all that shock [ __ ] yeah cuz back then they be you you hear what they said they shocked yeah but it wasn't necessarily funny but now the people that grew up on Death Jam and stuff man they 40 50 years old so you ain't going to score no points just shocking somebody right I think back then we they had and we we going to wrap it up after this back then um they had Eddie Murphy as well doing that standup thing he was was he competitors was that a comp competition thing like were they selling out at the same time who was running alongside Dice Clay when he was doing that cuz he was using rap hip hop [ __ ] and I'm just wondering who black was moving around at the same time then like on that scale it probably only Ed yeah in in that in that group it's probably only Edie man uh but if you talking about uh if you talking about the skill of Performing and the skill of comedy and substance Andrew di clay couldn't touch Ed right and I always tend to think white comedy can't really even though it from from a just by numbers it's going to sell and and do certain things but when we I think people enjoy black comedy more than white comedy cuz it's more funny yeah I believe that I don't know if it's wrong to say like but that's that's my opin it's funny man yeah that's my op and then it's all just like I was saying give an example of uh uh you know if you com if you made millions of dollarars it be becomes harder for you cuz to connect the whole thing is about connecting with your audience so how you going to be up there and you got $300 million or perceiv to be have 300 million that's why Eddie and them can't perform no more right cuz black comedy about hard times you know about them bills coming you ain't got no money and you cannot realistically or convincingly talk about that when you got $200 $300 million man right anybody trying to hear that you come over with phony so you going to have to go up there like the white boy and talk about you was talking to the Goldfish this morning and the Goldfish said right you know so I said that to say it's hard for the quote unquote oppressor to entertain the oppressed now the oppressed can entertain the oppressor yeah but it it but it's it's hard it's hard for it's hard for a person who's been uh uh on the easy route so to speak to make me laugh and uh yeah you just alienate yourself the problem I got with and you know uh I got some excellent work for me [Music] but uh immigration taking over the problem I got with it is is the history of America man even though you know they coming over here 5 6,000 deep a day I ain't with that when you got po folk over here already that you claim you can't feed but I got a problem raising hell about the Mexicans coming over here voluntarily when my people were brought over here against their will so it's hard for me even though I realize the economics of it it's hard for me to be standing up holling don't let the Mexicans in here don't let the Mexicans in here and my people I'm here as a result of you bringing my people over here against their will now I'm GNA get over here and get halfway up on my feet and then I'm going be talking about don't let them voluntarily coming over right come over here to work and you brought me over here to work you brought my people over here against the will to work so you know deep something to think about for real that's some that's some [ __ ] to think about that's why I respect comedians that that that an observation of it all yeah that's why I respect Mexicans [ __ ] crazy czy hey yo man it's up that podcast DC Cur man I appreciate you brother great appr down man I wanted to get with your today man but uh them clubs they be wearing my ass out man I already know it I already know it I appreciate you bro you're a legend on brother stop calling me that man call me Legend got about 6 months to live stop it I appreciate anything I said ain't acceptable it's cuz of that [ __ ] you was smoking you blame it on me it's on me thank you brother righto man you good man you're a pro man yes sir man thank you brother thanks for watching this clip from its up there podcast to see the rest of the interview click one of the boxes on the screen also join Discord and patreon to be in our community

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Length: 55min 18sec (3318 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 07 2024