Issa Rae Raps While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

[Music] hey what's going on everybody for first we feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today were joined by ISA ray she's the emmy-nominated creator and star of HBO's hit series insecure now in its third season catch it on sundays 10:30 p.m. eastern glowing up an easy Easter ray welcome to the show Matt thank you for having me you said in a recent AMA that you can never have enough hot sauce so I take it you're comfortable around spicy wings I love spicy food but I also had to come for a you know water and next to me so I'm gonna just you know eat you ready to get it going I'm ready to get it going [Music] [Music] all right so this first one is the howler monkey and you'll start at the handle started to handle all right I'm so hungry so thank you okay I start off with a little slice and cello so we couldn't get you in here without talking about insecure season 3 the streets are buzzing I see billboards all over the place but we have what we get into it I think we need to address the elephant the room and that's lawrence hive the cut described lawrence hive is the male answer to the bee hive for the uninitiated what is lawrence hive and what effect has it had on your life hmm lawrence i've has had no effect on my life I mean it's minute it's been great because so many guys are invested in the show and the fact that they've rallied around J Ellis as he's playing this earnest character is incredible but they're out of hand they're out of pocket they're really really intense which is what you dream of when you create a show of all the l8 restaurants that you guys are featured on the show which is your favorite to visit in real life Wow there's more this season like we got our place call pans the season which I like eat breakfast at all the time whenever I can the line I love Roy Choi's restaurants and we got the pot they're calm high Islamic commissary we filmed at the table o marcado of course first episode pilot Ethiopian food that restaurant is what's like my first introduction one of my first introductions in a late to Ethiopian food this one's really good I first like barbecue okay but you can still taste no I think it's just scorched earth like it's good okay that's not gonna boss at all you have a competitive edge so while at Stanford you created a webseries dorm Diaries which you said was birthed from procrastination and being on YouTube constantly do you remember the web shows or Internet videos that you're watching back then people lip-synching people at the zoo oh there are a lotta there was a applies video that I used to love he did like this reality show called busty baby and it is the most iconic video to this day that I've ever seen I don't even know if it's done on the internet but a lot of just colleagues people creating stuff and then you're big about writing what you know when it's clear from watching awkward black girl and from watching insecure that you've had some boring as helll 9 to 5 s in your life when I think back about the strange jobs you had before show business are there any that stand out um yeah working in a slave ship at a museum yeah that was hard you know not as hard as slavery but it was depressing to be there every single day and that was yeah I'm glad I'm out I'm glad I made it up so this next one is the Pirates Lantern who names these the pirate Lantern like cuz fire mm-hmm okay I get it okay I don't like it it's bitter it has some mustard action to it I'm sorry pirates laner you'll need to apologize okay so if anyone ever gave hot ones a 1 million dollar budget I have no idea of what we do with the money how we'd spend it so I'm curious when HBO gave you your first big bag to make insecure season 1 what was the most awesome thing about having money and then what was like the biggest waste I used to do this for $5 in my dorm room thing oh man oh definitely going in the Staples Center and shooting a fake hockey game expensive super expensive and wills dumped up by HBO's we were gonna try to fake it cuz really the kind of flirts are good the stateful son of they're real games happening and we were gonna like pass it up on the budget and then shout out to Amy grab it one of the executives is like look if Silicon Valley can shoot in in the Staples Center so can insecure so let's make a band don't fake this let's do it for real I was like we gotta like that and the most waste of money thing that still infuriates me is when we have to shoot like car scenes she did a lot of this season it takes like hours to set up because you have to have like a process trailer and we used to just like I used to be like home and get in the car I'm gonna drive you get you driving the next car you just hold the camera like this and we got the shot you know or put a camera on the dashboard and it's so expensive and time-consuming that they won't just let you put a camera on the car let's say there's someone watching this in Omaha Nebraska they're 1,500 miles away from Hollywood and they have in their hands what they think is the best screenplay since the Godfather how would you suggest they get someone important to read it someone just yesterday stopped me I was walking a time squared with the walking through Times Square because I wanted to see our billboard I've never seen a billboard that large and I figure out there it's awesome and this guy stopped me he was like whoa I may never have a chance to see you again every time mommy I'm walking here and he was like I wrote this screenplay and I just want to know like what do I need to do and I was like make a trailer make that [ __ ] show people why they want to see it and then people will come to you and I think that's my biggest thing if your thing is the next Godfather if you have a teaser trailer for or you shoot a scene that's phenomenal that piques people's interest we're just an age where everybody's just like ready to support was dope this one is interesting - so you're a child of the internet a master at the craft of relationship writing and a self-proclaimed professional stalker what I want to do is take an opportunity to talk to you about the bizarre world of dating in the age of technology do you think that apps like tinder and the league are a net positive or a net negative for the dating scene you're trying to hook up we can be instead like what perfect if you're trying to get to know someone then like so many people have these days because we have so many options it's so easy to get turned off by one thing like you could write the wrong thing on your profile and be ridiculed for it it's just another way to meet people and make the world a flatter place we have a friend that responds to every tinder match by saying we did it with two trophy emojis is that genius or the worthless psychopath every match every match he hits them with we did it in two trophy emojis and it's that's insincere I don't like it I don't thinking about and then the writing and insecure is really on the zeitgeist but there are a few places where millennial slang travels faster than in the world of dating so what I want to do is hit you with some new school dating terms and if you know them maybe you can define them for the audience out there and if you don't know them maybe you can guess what they mean okay they're all real they're all real bread crumbing what bread bread crumbing mm-hmm is that like when you are these [Music] is that when you like all right eat it is like extra [ __ ] crumbs so what it is leading someone on with the trail of flirtatious messages but then shutting them out was close you're very close very close bunchy benching oh when you're like taking a break from your hose right you have a rotation you have a rostered and you gotta put one to the side you gotta put a couple on the bench yes Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing he's cuffing season cuffing season is that time usually during winter months maybe starting in fall late fall where you gotta find a boo to stay warm there it is and then the slow fade oh is that when you're basically good thing you kind of like give a message here and there you slowly back away mm-hmm and then one more kitten fishing that sounds I don't wanna be set up but I think about kitten nothing about [ __ ] mm-hmm it is lesser form of catfishing like using old pictures or having a witty friend text for you I love that you like Cyrano de Bergerac messages and through the text that is a very good name okay let's come into first of all these wings are bound where they actually from a thank you I was about to take credit for them like I made them but we get them from place called my belly's playlist my belly's playlist is on point mm-hmm alrighty so we have a recurring segment on our show called explain that Graham where you do a deep dive and I guess Instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context so I'll bust out the laptop I'll show you the picture and then you tell me the bigger story is that sound good my Instagram of your Instagram but we actually pulled some Gettys laptop IDs all right Lisa first things first haha all-star game with Diddy that was a blast I wasn't I didn't go with him I wish I did but it was my first time meeting him and I was just sitting courtside I got tickets and he was diagonal and he came over and asked for a picture with me and Minnie invited me to lunch he was like let's go to lunch and I was like okay this is Hollywood it was like no I want to have you over my house for night and then he really text me and followed through and I was in the writers room and I was like guys I gotta go to did his house for lunch didn't tell the mat and I thought it was gonna be a quick thing but he tried to have like a full-course meal and you're thinking it was incredible but I was like get back to work he was like ok that's ok we'll rush it bring all the courses out at once and I felt bad I haven't been back all right do you have a Tiffany story do I have a Tiffany story I have a lot of Tiffany's stories but I'm not gonna say him cuz that's what we do right two stories stay between us I do who never mind I'm not gonna tell that story once you can't leave us there I will say one of my first times getting to hang out with Tiffany she met is one of my favorite stories she met one of our cast members who shall remain nameless I had a little party in my hotel room at essence Fest her moon girls trip had just come out we'd just all come from seeing the premiere there and she was like what a party yet and I was like girls in my hotel come through and then we can go other places and she meets one of our cast members comes into the door does a beeline and it's like hey I'm Tiffany has a champagne glass in her hand and it's like ham tipping in demonstrates her skills what he's like okay and so then throughout the night she was drinking more and she sat next to him and got in his face and was just like you look like a [ __ ] that likes to get slapped I'm a slap it he was like well actually I don't I don't like to get slapped and she was like yes you do I'm gonna slap you right now you'll come and just continued to berate him but then when he told this story later he was like oh yeah Tiffany was tryna holla and omitted that part right which tells me that I think he actually likes to get slapped I'll let you guess - the cast member was so this is where you said it starts to get gets layered I mean I can see which is more on my nose just did a little pop okay black garlic okay Carolina Reaper is that that hot super hot pepper yeah I've eaten two of those actually you've eaten the actual peppers yeah like the full pod popped it two times why did you do this for the views respect so insecure has joined the likes of shows like entourage in the OSI with this incredible track record for breaking music I'm curious what goes into sound tracking a season of insecure do you guys fight over tracks who's the taste maker what's the BTS on that um lots of love you know it started with salons being our music consultant that was great but I've always known like firm jump I was like our show could be trashed but the music is gonna be fired cuz music informs so much of like how much I see things and even huh right we had so many songs that we loved in common like even for choosing broken [ __ ] we had to initially it was set to Missy's sock-it-to-me I love that song and I insisted that track was fire but we couldn't get the rights to it in time and so Solange sent a whole bunch of alternative options and bossy was on there and it was like the perfect fit and then since then we'll find independent artists female artists must what no you look great you look great glowing up ain't easy as they say no it's not so this next one is the bun stirs black label out of Australia Australia doesn't play I already know I'm worried [Music] it's like lemony okay with lemony and spicy mm-hmm just want to focus on the ISA raid do-it-yourself blueprint because we've touched on a little bit today you went from making web shows in your dorm room to then making this hit emmy-nominated show for HBO what was your first mom I made it moment mom mom I made it more of dad I made it cuz dad was the one that was hard to impress was being on NPR because I was like oh you I know you [ __ ] with NPR dad so stop telling me to go to grad school cuz you heard me on this you know but even when I felt like after NPR I got an opportunity to work with Sean Dave and sent it to the group chat like the family group chat and he was still like okay great when you want to grad school about what's the most ridiculous gossip headline you've ever read about yourself then I turned right down at a party that it was dope I was like Greg give me some clout but is ridiculous cuz I'm a huge fan all right ISA you ready to move on I don't know I really don't I'm going back and eating these because of my mom and my family weekend [Music] okay it tastes hot no this is one of those things that's gonna kick him it is I answer my place with minimal trip okay still going in okay alright ISA heard that you're always a TV obsessive more so than film and with as much ground as insecure has broken it embraces humor and awkwardness which is part of a larger comedy genre so what I want to do is show you some icons of that genre and then just get your snap reaction to them alright so I'll just show you but you're still going in because it's literally delicious alrighty so first things first I really didn't hear your question cuz my mouth was learning Curb Your Enthusiasm favoritest ever love learing Arrested Development I've watched the seasons four times now and that laugh and find something need every single time I wish I could tell the story that brilliantly the office the greatest sitcom ever and one of the best love stories on television and one more for you Parks and Recreation ome pota career goals I also love Donna and Parks and Rec she gave us treat yourself which is my mantra treat yourself yes should be treat ourselves to another wing I was a good transition [Music] alright Hellfire this I can see cuz aspects of hot looks like someone's spit on this would [Music] this interviews over tough one but still this is too much that picture if they have like a psychotic clown on the front this is smiling and it's fiery fool I feel foolish for heating it so know that you really began honing your craft while at Stanford so I'm curious what's one stanford stereotype that's totally off and then one that holds true like is there anything to that stanford duck syndrome thing oh that is there's yes there's a lot to that I love that actually about the description of Stanford students just in terms of for people who aren't familiar people like act like oh yeah I'm taking 22 unisom you know it's no big deal and they look like they're floating but beneath they're just paddling to stay afloat and that's definitely a true thing people would always try to front like this [ __ ] is hard just say it's hard you're struggling because we are live but it's a great community I always thought people were gonna be stuck up I didn't want to go there I didn't apply but going there for like the admin weekend was like oh [ __ ] with the school and then while you were there you made a couple dorm room music videos do you have a favorite bar from work in the V or non epoch a favorite bar 95 yes because I felt like we inspired cardd I don't care ok it was 90 pops with a friend 90 pops with a man you can't even do you the 90 pop on a handstand that was all free stuff I was so proud of myself all right Easter ray this is the last tab we call it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last wing you don't have to if you don't want to if you're doing it I'm doing it there we go it's going down so this is running this [ __ ] here we go my throat burns what a ride it's been [Music] this is yours that you made [Music] looks like you'd like to just top it off it really sees the place [Music] well that's how we close it out ISA and from the howler monkey to the last dab the glow-up is just a little bit too real but there's just one more hurdle standing between you in the finish line your character and insecure is famous for revealing her truest Rost emotions when she's doing these mere freestyles so now that you can see your own reflection and the sauces that you've conquered today can you hit the people with a few bars about your fight your battle with the wings of death um you know I don't do this alright I'm a terrible freestyle sitting here with my [ __ ] wings I'm doing this [ __ ] like hot things I'm so fly get a chicken wing in my mouth imma die but I got the heat just like these wings if you mad at me I'm gonna bring you with the things that means my guns I am the one hot son get the gun that was amazing it was brilliant I'm inspired and look at you all the way through the wings of death ten wings up ten wings down and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you Issa Rae wow wow this camera at this camera let the people know what you have going on in your life um I'm suffering right now but I'm just so excited cuz season three of insecure premieres Sunday 10:30 every Sunday watch it with your friends put some on someone new on to it thank you for feeding me I was very hungry I think that's the only reason I survived I want to see if this works please you would no water no milk I did wow you know that's actually a kind of a legendary thing is it and people when they go no my daughter no milk they make such a big deal of it look I'm going no water no milk but like you just casually did it I don't know that I was allowed to thank you that's great questions million to 1 million three that's pretty good form Phil then you get that cool shirt you didn't hear how ones merch it's available now I thought you only wore Where's Waldo shirts I used to wear Where's Waldo shirts one [Music]

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Length: 23min 48sec (1428 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 16 2018