Kid N Play Part 1

a jamaican father that's right and a white mother irish yeah irish it was real interesting i mean i wouldn't trade it for anything because i feel like um over time you know i got the best of both worlds but um for my parents at the time particularly my mother my white mother it was tough on her um you know having uh not only just you know her parents were like real old school you know racist irish you know what i'm saying and you know much less her dating a black guy when she came home and told them that she was pregnant by the black dude you know they threw out the house like they disowned her wow they disowned her and never spoke to her again they never spoke to her again no and she knew she died when i was nine she died in a car accident when i was when i was nine and from the time i was born to the time she passed away they never spoke to her again that's how that's how deep it was and so she was like all right whatever man boom you know we out and and then she tried to make it work with my father and you know my father who just passed away last year great dude but he was one of them jamaican players so you know he's just like they had the nerve to come to the funeral home yeah came to the funeral home and you know what i'm saying but i was like i said i was only nine i was i was just too crazy to yeah you know what i'm saying i didn't i was just going through my own you know private torture but what was crazy about them was um like i said they kind of disowned her and whatnot and um she went on like i said she was a social worker so when she passed away um her uh her pension uh came up for uh you know the review or whatever and naturally it was supposed to go to me man they went to court and fought that so that they could get the grandparents yeah came out though came out though woodward came at four and they got it too wow explain that even though they didn't adopt you or anything else they didn't adopt me they didn't it's not me they didn't let me say hi to me who you talking about they ain't even saying you know what i mean that's weak that was crazy too and then i had to go live with i not had to go but my you know my father you know i went to live with my father um who i was just kind of seeing on the weekends he was like a weekend dad and you know when you go from you know irish white to you know hard jamaican that was a that was a culture shock and you know what i'm saying how many um what ended up happening like when i when i went to live with with um my father you know like my whole life kind of changed and it my life became way blacker you know um it was me and him um and eventually you know we ended up in in queens in a in a very you know great middle class black neighborhood um you know the only relatives that i interacted with with people on my dad's side were all you know black people black folks jamaicans you know what i mean um so my life kind of went went went black and and that was cool because particularly at that time you know if you're talking about you know 70s and stuff like that you know white folks were were weird even in new york even as cosmopolitan as a place as new york is um white folks is a lot of times where we were living it's at some point we were living in staten island and other areas we lived in the white folks was like if you was any part black we're not [ __ ] with you yeah you know what i mean like we're you're you're you know what i'm saying bait you know you're a [ __ ] you know you drop drop one drop and we you know we can put you in that category in their minds when we lived in staten island we used to get chased from school like junior high like almost every day like it was it was a major thing as opposed to you know when i was hanging out in in even when we was at staten island when i was when i was hanging out in like park hill and those places like where the wu tang is from and anytime i was around uh you know uh mainly around people of color they were they were all way more accepting they were like if you got any part black then you're black that was dope reload quite relocated or he located to uh what you call to the hearst and i was already there and uh to make a long story show we were in two different rap crews he used to be in a crew called the turnout brothers right i just turned up yeah i used to be in a crew called the super lovers and i got kicked out of five schools so there's a price to pay for that he just went by that real quick i got kicked out of five schools high school elementary school high school of art and design flushing high school jamaica high school hillcrest high school and i ended up getting my ged at satellite academy dude you don't want to know what this dude is doing he was the original young thug play you were the wild guy back then go ahead you that that's that's what they say they say you would looked up the fat cat pappy mason like those were my heroes man i was a knucklehead you know what i'm saying we didn't have the kind of heroes a lot of cats have today you know there was no rap stars and from my upbringing you know my father being out there right and black exploitation films and all that i thought that's all it was for us you know so then when we seeing these ghetto celebrities flies like what i'm saying the benzes and the bmw's and all that good stuff i thought that's all it was for me because when cats was in the school you know the firemen and the president of the bank coming talking about how to be successful i didn't know nothing about what the heck they were talking about talking about roaches in the house you know i'm not seeing the mark four continental mark fours and all of that so i was stupid man to god be the glory i worked there at the same time i know i got fired now martin worked at the gas station across the street yeah it was a gas station of course you fill up our tanks yeah martin used there's so many six degrees of separation in our career and our journey it like ain't even funny yeah i mean if you go back you go back and watch some uh early salt and pepper videos you'll see us dancing shaking that thing yeah we used to open that led to another as we grew up and parents started kicking their kids out of the house saying you had to get a job we were the only two left standing right and we had had a group called fresh force it was just he and i we used to do cover joints like uh run dmc had my adidas we had she's a skeezer okay you know just trying to get on you know what i'm saying i'm trying to rock me amadeus we had rock me and we all let's go for what we know [Music] is [Music] was looking for the next thing to do after the launch of salt and pepper and uh we was at a party one time and all these labels kept coming at him like yo who's next we won't know who you got next and lo and behold that was fred moneo herbie and i speak and he pointed to us and uh kid and play was born we're all from the same neighborhood and ken played didn't have a dj kirby was like use whiz so that came got me the rest is history the phone my girl was telling me she was all alone so i asked her if she was down to go to union square check out the show she said okay she'd never seen red spin in order to go she'd have to [Music] the girls came out ready to attack mine was dope but his was whack plate looked at me and said yo i ain't with that i'm out of here he wanted to lose her we got in the car he began to abuse her broke on her face said it was a crime he said your head's so bald i could read your mind friday or saturday night you know you know wonder what playboy's doing kind of our adventures going to the club meeting a couple of girls slipped me tent and said chill finally inside man the music was dope till the truth rushed to god for his role the next thing i knew a war broke out with killing his people started to dance and the riff and cease i chilled up on the wall to catch my breath until this girl who jumped up and said this jam is death i thought she was a rebel i was feeling fame the hot body of a devil the [Music] it was our first record that we really like you could tell like you know we started to make some noise [Music] let me pick the girl that's giving sex to me it's time to collect my feet by my [Music] take a step why don't you just get on the floor the rhyme ambassador is so hyped you wanna crash your door in cause play is at it again behave i'm about to begin and do it my way do this my way do this my way i i can you know that that's really my favorite that's that's my favorite um it was off first you know and i i don't know if you know what they say about you first you never really forget that first one you know just take like a volcano [Music] please i had to do to make that video man that was a cold rainy night harlem 143 246th street in harlem okay oh yeah and uh director simeon sofa had to pay off some [Music] um herbie had gogo on his mind and i had the idea to flip uh this old r b record um by a group called ripple and so we just kind of you know we just kind of combined it so um you know we put that you know with that old ioa with that with that gogo swing on it and it just worked and you know we're talking about 88.89 that's when that's when gogo was bubbling where people thought maybe he had a chance to kind of to you know really break out uh which you never did but um yeah to this day that's our that's our closer man it's your biggest record that's it's our it's our big it's it's our most popular record you know i don't know i think maybe ain't gonna hurt nobody maybe might have sold a little bit more yeah but but um you know people want to hear that hola hola and you know kick your feet together good night before we continue let's make one thing very clear this ain't the place to be if you came [Music] feels good you know it could not ever be wrong you and me could and we should just rock it all night long she said [Music] baby [Music] young girls are like crying when they see these guys it was surreal and unreal at the same time we had never seen anything like that and you know it's exciting who doesn't like being liked by girls you know what i'm saying we're always kind of looking at each other like can you like can you believe this like really this is a pg show right how much fun do i have for the road i wanted was a single get the [ __ ] out for the women that's all i've done it was just a 12 inches that's all that's me and eric big just get i'll say we good i was good already but that was going to be like yo you know what i'm saying i never in my wildest dreams it'd be a full album music videos movies cartoon series marvel comic strip and one time there was what was it uh mattel was talking about her toys at one time for us you know what i'm saying y'all had the saturday morning cartoon joint right yeah my first rap first rap has ever happened um of reggie hudson who wrote and directed the original house party was a video director back in the days and he used to chase me in particular he should chase me down in clubs because he wanted to shoot um a music video on us but we had we had a guy at that time so we were cool and then one time he stepped to me and was like yo excuse me i got a movie script for y'all and he's like what so back then it was in our crew like me play and herbie love bug producer it was it was kind of like my job to read stuff you know so they they um we got the script and i remember reading it and i remember coming back and telling playing herbie i said you know what it's like seventy percent there like the structure was really strong the characters were fleshed out it just sounds party which is the original script and it was written for you guys because i heard it was jazzy jeff in french reggie and then wanted us to do it because they were familiar with our videos and stuff they felt it was a good fit new line cinema will smith and jazzy jeff because they felt it was a better bang for their to edge their bets right but at the time they were suing will and jeff mike nightmare on my street right and jeff and i was like what are you crazy wants to do a movie and you're suing us so they weren't with it but reggie and warrington always wanted us to do we were already originally the conceptually they were always thinking about yeah i mean i read the joint i felt like it was 70 there but but and i thought we could bring it the rest of the way like we could hip-hop legitimize it okay and and so you know i i urge the you know urgers the guys that that do it right so but this is what happened to his credit reggie hudlin let us do basically what we wanted to he was he was saying stuff like look here's the structure here's the format now if there's a better way to say it to get to where we got to get to it if there's a more hip-hop and a legitimate way to say it do it that way so he allowed us to do that and in particular full force all that stuff that full force did they made up all that stuff all i smell i smell all that kick your [ __ ] ass all that they made up yeah yeah yeah they made up all of that stuff and that's one of the great things that we liked about reggie because he let us do our thing now if it came to something really really crucial that he thought was crucial to the scene or something like that maybe you know he would he would hold a forward on that but for the most part you know he kind of let us do our thing and let you know let the hip-hop come out and and truth be told i didn't want to do the movie because at the time we was making crazy money with the music right and i felt like and you would think i thought we was making great money i'm looking at the history of hip-hop in movies because we had wild style and we can't forget tougher than leather right can't pull off of a movie who the heck do we think we are you know i'm trying to be the business-minded one but we had this rule among us called majority rules and herbie and kid outvoted me and uh it's the best how i play many of and plays uh dj and uh by live but i'm not the real dj so a lot of people be going um yeah man we that ain't gonna win so i'm not him um but um you know basically thank god i ain't got to do a lot of scratching or anything because i don't do that i'm just acting so and a lot of people question that well we have this big dance number you know um we are the best dancers you know we have to you know let ken and play have their little spotlight today wait wait it is their movie okay but we all know the dancers they're kids and play whatever we don't tell them that we told you this but you know that little kickstand we gave we're much better dancers but you know we had to let them get their little play because you know well house party is about a house party um uh my son wants to rap he wants to be a rapper you know the guy with his tall hair you know and light-skinned guy i married a white woman we had a beige baby and that's my son you know and he wants to go to a party and i tell no you can't go to the party he says but i want to go and he goes to the party when i talk to this guy again [Music] and that's me the capital p on my high tip one false move and you'll get your ass with it just tell me how the rhymes in the cut down you won't start feeling the pain to your touch ground boy you're going way out i'm ready to serve you if you can stay out past your pops curfew i wouldn't do that just yet because your ass is mine i can't explain it i don't sit around play you know i don't kid around so come with it boy don't even hide your best cause kids spell backwards describes your best look around watch the people clap hands in unity as the momentum swings from you to me you issue the challenge yeah you threw it up step to the stage too late i blew it up [Music] [Music] [Applause] i bet they've just been spray painted he can't even walk past a magnet get on that richie cunningham sweater it's cold out there y'all saw superman in the cab damn i said why are you ain't flying like the frosty ain't working robbie oh guys how you doing fellas you ain't never seen me before is you big man like that put the spotlight on that man so big he's nobody walking the rollers just damn i see you got away from can't wait to eat [Applause] uh that month house party came out you know i remember seeing the advertisements for that all right here just filmed his role in mobile blues as a jazz club mc you know i'm saying uh he had other things other projects that were going to be lined up that he hadn't quite filmed yet he was starring a movie uh with a william defoe he was going to uh probably appear there were talks about him appearing on cbs tv where it was gonna be him and um he was gonna play a role of a cop or something [ __ ] like that you know i'm saying like he was really gonna uh take off bounce because he gained a little weight the last couple years of his life you might have sometimes noticed that he would uh sort of gasp a little bit when he was doing his uh stand-up routines like you know and while he never was officially diagnosed with it he probably had sleep apnea uh people would say that he would uh have breathing problems to interfere with his sleep sometimes he would and this increased as he gained a little weight he was sometimes with no uh nod off during the day as a matter of fact sometimes he'd be in conversations with people and he would nod off and you know robin knew something was a little bit off but it's not something like people would look at and be like oh wow this is serious you know people didn't know the uh dangers of sleep apnea back then was that he had uh uh a baby on the way his wife was three months pregnant he recently told martin lawrence that he was really happy at this time in his life later that night he performed at the south side theater in chicago to a sold-out crowd it was an 80-minute set and by all accounts it was um a smashing success even uh robin who could be so critical at times felt it was very funny and after this performance he he and some close friends went to a prime rib dinner had a prime rib dinner and after they went to a blues club but naturally of course after all of this robin was quite tired and uh he went back to his hotel room and he was so tired he fell asleep on the floor and it was a friend of his who uh adjusted robert from the floor and moved him to the bed this friend will be the last person to see robin harris live in the morning of march 18 1990 after not answering calls his mother was the one that found robin harris unresponsive he wasn't breathing sea plows performed on him the paramedics arrived and rushed him to the hospital but was too late robin harris had died at the age of 36. determined that it wasn't drugs that had been early speculator alcoholic killed robin harris but cardiac arrhythmia heart disease probably as a consequence of his breathing uh issues uh while sleeping that aggravated and caused that problem what he was doing yeah everybody does now you know what i'm saying so when you're looking at on certain specials comedy specials and you see the comedian going into the crowd and going for 30 minutes you look like this you look like that or somebody come get this person my dad was doing that back then you know what i'm saying but at first it wasn't really to accept it i guess in hollywood um so i think he was definitely a you know a pioneer especially in urban comedy um and i think that he was definitely ahead of his time you know damn i met a girl a couple of weeks ago man you know she gonna tell me hey she gonna tell me if you want to get acquainted with me and my son you'll have to take us to disneyland ain't that a big i went to pick up the next day here she got four more kids i said who cares for them she said them babe a kid i said when the [ __ ] is better she said baby went downtown i said why don't you check out kids with her i hate my wife i ain't going to need a meal all right y'all can tell if y'all want to me i hate her i want my wedding ring on the wrong finger cause i'm at the wrong goddamn woman i know luck of women boy every woman i meet all these old badass kids [Applause] you can't even get in there you go for a girl how three o'clock in the morning little boy's still up ready drinking coffee and taking no doubt start look at your ass look hey look at your head come on can't hang on you be young hey bro damn right i can't handle y'all to be in bed little [ __ ]

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Length: 25min 36sec (1536 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 30 2020