Michael Rapaport on Eminem, Nas, Jay Z, 2Pac, LeBron, Lonzo (Full Interview)

all right here we go Michael Rapaport what up welcome to Vlad TV glad to be here first time first time couple years in the making but it really happened let's go let's go new book yes this book has balls yes number one on the Amazon bestseller list for sports essays good Congrats glad glad I'm excited about it it is you know it's a passion project this book has ball sports rants from the MVP of talking trash you know it's sports [ __ ] talking at its finest it's it's good I'm happy about it I'm proud of it you know was it wasn't easy to get done but got it done well in the book you gave 23 reasons why Michael Jordan is better than LeBron James twenty three reasons why LeBron James will never be like Mike okay you know there's so many reasons you know like with sports you know we could talk about stats and I guess LeBron and Michael just played in the same amount of games and their numbers are comparable but the thing with with sports and the thing with with with uh you know being a fan and the book is from a fans point of view like I don't stat check I barely fact check the book it's a gut it's a gut reaction like you you like this guy you don't like this guy some of it is subjective some of it it's cuz it's your team some of it's where you're from you know obviously LeBron is one of the best he may or may not be better than Kobe Bryant who the [ __ ] knows he definitely ain't better than Michael Jordan and as less to do with his play and more to do with his you know antics whether it's you know creating the big three and leaving Cleveland to go to Miami or never being in the dunk contest or being one of the best players ever with the wackest sneakers ever um or you know unfollowing the Cleveland Cavaliers when when when he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers on some gwyneth paltrow uncoupling [ __ ] so for me it has less to do with how great he is as a player cuz obviously he's great and more to do with his antics but you know at the end of the chapter xxiii the 23rd reason why LeBron James will never be like Mike is because as a star as a spokesperson for the NBA he's done a lot better at handling that he's spoken out on so many different things he's spoken out on so many different issues so yeah it takes 22 reasons of me breaking his balls to say why he won't be like Mike but the most important reason and the thing that sort of gotten overlooked in all the [ __ ] talking I do with LeBron is that in my opinion he's been a bit a better uh he's been dealing with the celebrity better cuz Mike in his tenure while he was playing he's done better since he's retired he never spoke out on anything yeah um and LeBron has been very outspoken on social political issues and and and his public disses of Trump have I've I've been jealous of so at the end of the day that's the ultimate reason why he'll never be like Mike and I think he should he should have never used number 23 you know he should have just created his own his own thing his own lane and done his own thing any and I think for the most part he's done that well yeah I mean because even after he retired Michael Jordan I remember he gave like a bunch of money to like some sort of black cause but he gave the same amount to a police cause right you know I'm talking about yep so it's like Mike I don't think really identifies that struggle I don't think I think he's doing better now like he's been more outspoken now but I think it took a long time for him to get there and I think I mean but you know he also is one of the first people to not show up to the White House he didn't go to the White House a 92 I believe oh really yeah um when him by himself with the whole team with the with the team he didn't show up because of Bush he had a problem with Bush okay so listen it's easy for me to say and for people to say what people should do with Neal not Neal and how they should be you know the it's easy for me to say that and that's why the book is titled what its title is tongue-in-cheek it's called sports rants from the MVP of talking trash it's not literal it's opinion based it's my opinion based in his shit-talking base so I obviously have tremendous amount of spec for both of them but I think as far as you know LeBrons [ __ ] you know on the court you know and his sort of you know monopolizing players to sort of create these super teams that is going to always be associated with his leg see that that thing that big three thing that he created and I don't care about the Boston Celtics with Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen I don't care about Charles Barkley and Hakeem and them getting together when they were way past their prime they did it in their prime and and at the end of the day the NBA will be in shambles long after he leaves because of it I mean look what right now this 2017 the only teams that are competitive or the teams that have you know ganged up but the wizard the the Warriors their big three was organically drafted so I don't consider that a big three and Kevin Durant Kevin Durant went over there and and and created a big for to deal with LeBron James [ __ ] that he already set the tone for so I [ __ ] with doors I'm glad they beat their asses I'm glad they beat him in five games that's called the gentlemen sweep and hopefully this year if Cleveland makes it back if they'll beat them in four straight and that'll be the end of that Cleveland [ __ ] I mean you think Cleveland's gonna make it back this year I don't see who's gonna beat them I think Washington is formidable Boston is formidable with without Gordon Hayward they're not gonna be able to beat him Toronto is a non-factor it's injuries but historically and I'm saying in the last three three or four years on LeBron team when he's playing at a high level he could take the Utah Jazz to the finals right now like if LeBron James well maybe not a Western Conference team but if you put LeBron James on the Orlando Magic or the New Jersey Nets chances are the Dayton get to the finals or at least the Eastern Conference Finals right now he's that [ __ ] good so the thing with the [ __ ] talk on the run you could talk [ __ ] and still respect him buddy you could talk [ __ ] and so like people people why you ain't I'm like yo I'm talking [ __ ] this is sports this is not reality like this is sports sports is one of the one of the only places you could do it's a safe haven to talk [ __ ] and and you can't love and and and and and and hate in any other safe place besides sports like as a New York fan I know intuitively that New England Patriots fans they don't like me and vice versa and and Boston Red Sox fans and Yankee fan we know we don't like each other and that's why we respect you but you don't hate or talk [ __ ] about any real lames you know what I'm saying like Reggie Miller we hated that [ __ ] because he was dope Reggie Miller's in the Hall of Fame because he ate hate smoothies for breakfast they hate that he got from New York and the New York Knick fans pushed him to greatness so you know like it's like a badge of honor it's sports with like you hate and why you ain't you man it's all as you mad bro [ __ ] started by my man Richard Sherman like hey you mad you mean yeah I'm [ __ ] mad you beat my [ __ ] team I'm [ __ ] mad I'm not like really mad like my dog you know is injured you didn't kick my do you beat my team that's that's the beauty of sports I look at hip-hop the same way so you know same type of [ __ ] over the years like it's art it's just it's not tangible real things yeah you know hip hip hop in sports and art and it's it's not what's your favorite movie like some of the [ __ ] we think Star Wars is the best thing ever I don't [ __ ] why I haven't watched one of those movies since they came out in the 70s but that's just me I can understand why a whole bunch of people would be like what the [ __ ] you you know you're you know so that but it's subjective same with sports same with music same with film it's it's subjective [ __ ] right so for example I'm a big nas fan right you are to us yes but I've always said nas is one of the worst beat Pickers of all time right I don't think he's the worst go ahead of his caliber I think worst beat picker of all time greatest MC worst beat picker and I don't want any beef with you because I [ __ ] love the [ __ ] out of you greatest MC worst beat picker I'm sorry to say this cuz I know it'll get out there cuz it's Vlad TV mm sorry I agree I'm sorry I agree you heard the new song I didn't hear it would be honest I didn't hear yet I didn't hear yet but but but but for me Eminem whose such an aficionado forget his skill over he knows hip-hop he's an encyclopedia he's a he's a [ __ ] Wikipedia he knows it he respects it all that I [ __ ] with him in him but there's a handful of straight-up hip-hop boom bat beeps that are Eminem songs now when he gets on other people's [ __ ] yeah it's different he kills it renegade kills it um the [ __ ] song with Busta Rhymes calm down the Eminem song with Busta Rhymes with that beat those two guys should be in the Smithsonian that's a perfect song by two perfect artists that is a hip I don't know why that song sort of slip through the cracks that's one of the best songs in the last 10 years that song is both of them at the highest level pushing each other and the flows and the rhymes just they doing that so but with Eminem like the beats yeah I don't nice better way better I mean and Eminem's got dr. Dre in his corner I don't get it I don't get it Eminem is sick now he's made ridiculous songs but just I'm like a traditionalist with hip-hop I want my [ __ ] funky I want my [ __ ] soulful I don't want to have to do some internal explanation for it to be dope right I don't need it I like it's either like funk there's no explanation Funk James Brown anything that's funky you could listen to it when it first came out in the 60s you can listen to and it was revitalized in hip-hop and in 200 years from now when the world is rediscovered and you put on James Brown that [ __ ] will always be there's no explanation for it's just [ __ ] it's funky yeah it's funky I don't know why we've gotten away from that in hip-hop funky is funky yeah now you got explain it my you got explain it to internally I'm let's go this shit's not funky I go like this I take tit take the DVD I throw it out the [ __ ] window here here's the [ __ ] now it's funky this [ __ ] is broken up all the chic now it's funky right out of the [ __ ] car delete delete the download deleting don't come back again I mean what do you think when Lonzo Lonzo balls that people don't really listen to nas anymore I think the one I mean I said what I said about the Lanza bolting Ron's old ball you funny-looking [ __ ] you you said that nas ain't hip-hop my man you grew up in Chino Hills what the [ __ ] do you know about hip-hop that's that big ball of brand a [ __ ] putting out $495 sneakers for the culture and then talk about knives ain't hip-hop see you're the type of [ __ ] who's gonna be famous for the next 20 years and we're never gonna see you with a chick get the type of [ __ ] who thinks that Malibu's Most Wanted and white chicks are gangster films nah saying hip-hop this is coming from the business mind of a [ __ ] who makes his own sneakers but then doesn't wear them when everybody's watching I get it you're young dumb and full of [ __ ] and when you show up to your first playoff game listening to that mumble rap [ __ ] rocking a purse I don't want everybody to freak out nas ain't hip-hop that's like saying Dominique Wilkins Bernard King and Shawn Kemp and MBA stupid it's ignorant you know hip-hop is funny because it's one of the only music forms the only war money Chalmers of music where historically not not all the time but most of the time it's it's respected but we're disrespect is sort of like cool like where some of these artists like him saying nas isn't relevant to you cornball you're from Chino Hills [ __ ] you know about Nuys you not just everybody from Chino Hills they're saying obviously you don't know about that look at how you dress you look crazy your sneakers are wack you got no style you got to put some moisture in your hair you don't look dope you struggling in the enemy of course you don't know about nas I could see it in the way you play ball another rapper said I've never heard a biggie song I don't even care if you're a rapper or not a rapper how could you be breathing and never heard of it you never heard a biggie song are you a caveman everybody heard a biggie song hae and and to say that with pride and like sort of be like I think that's over you know these dudes I never heard of wu-tang song forget forget being that's like an NBA dude saying like I heard a Steve Nash like I never saw him play or like a rock and roll in an old band like in an indie rock band be like nah I've heard of The Rolling Stones but I can't name you a son or a quarterback being like Dan Marino who's that only in hip-hop it's so hip hot for someone to like be like you never heard of wu-tang and biggie and you know what it shows in your work cuz your [ __ ] is trashed and as far as Alonzo ball never Naz and now we're 20 games into the season it looks like you never heard a nozzle it looks like you of course you think Naz is irrelevant maybe did you see the t-shirt he put out he's bugging with those t-shirts all that big baller branch it is I saw it it's the one I saw it put his face on it yeah yeah he I could tell you knew I could tell Naz is irrelevant to you this dude is putting out songs you know how you know you know how much work it is to make a song like you got to write the rhymes I don't care if you're garbage or not you write the rhymes you hear the beat you rehearse it you learn it this dude's putting on music like his music is don't Lanza boy your music is Gabba JH and if it's just for you and your friends if it's just for you and your friends don't put it on Instagram do it for just you and your friends you you're not dope you're not you're not even I bet you're not even the best rapper in your family you're not the best rapper in the NBA I mean his music is trash I would if I was Lanza ball I would just try to just do as as be as low-key as possible there's been so much scrutiny and so much attention put on him and and and I never to believe my prediction is that he won't stay in LA past three seasons this can't sustain itself the criticism of the coach the criticism of Magic Johnson from a father and and and the precedent that I think it's starting because who's to say in in football and basketball going forward they're gonna be like well the balls got a reality show they're making money I'm gonna start talking [ __ ] to my cousin talk [ __ ] my mom talks [ __ ] my mother and father both talk [ __ ] and it's like you know this is the NBA it doesn't need any hype I think the Lavar balls start to think like the NBA nee Danby doesn't need Lavar ball or Alonzo ball cuz there's gonna be a Alonzo ball coming in three four years of me another dude like you're not even the best player on your team you're not even the best rookie on your team and you're not even top five Rookie of this year yeah but they are pushing it as you know Lonzo ball and the Lakers that that's by his doing and when it's not Lanza ball the Lakers when it's not Lanza ball uh and the Lakers and it's Kyle Kuzma and Lakers a Brandon Ingram of the Lakers are so so on it's it's the expectation they're too high to sustain for Michael Jordan LeBron James Kobe Bryant no one could sustain these expectations you've been in a lot of films yeah you were in higher learning yes and Tupac was supposed to be in the yes and Leonardo DiCaprio was supposed to be the yes playing you yes how did Leonardo DiCaprio lose the role well he didn't lose a role like it was originally Tupac was originally Leonardo DiCaprio was originally Gwyneth Paltrow in the jennifer connelly plot spot okay I was gonna be the cole hauser spot and Tupac had to pull out of the film because of they wouldn't finance the film cuz he had gotten arrested okay um so when Tupac dropped out then Leonardo dropped out and then going into dropped I mean this this didn't happen like in a day it happened like over a few periods and nobody was locked in I think Tupac was locked in people were sort of circling around the film is 2 or 3 months out so it wasn't like two parks out I'm bailing it just you know DiCaprio's path was going to be his path we all knew he was gonna be mega us you already knew it you just knew he had done Ike I forgot what he had done at the time it was definitely before all y'all but great for something done Gilbert Grape and he did um the movie with De Niro and you just know there's been a hit like Brad Pitt when I did true orange when I did 200 minutes with Brad Pitt you knew he had done a couple of things but he wasn't that guy yet you knew that Leonardo you knew he was special you knew he was all encompassing he had the look he had the talent you knew he was gonna be special um so when Tupac pulled out who you knew was special too but he's it was the trouble had already started you know then then then when his pouch will pulled out and Jennifer Connelly came in and then I switched over to Leonardo's role which was my idea I wanted it turned out turned out good but you know like it was like he wasn't there and I always fall I was I wasn't totally right for for the part that cole hauser played the older skinhead and i don't have to put on weight like I want and I was like I want this part I knew I wanted that part and so I talked to John about it he had me come in and and and it was just me John Singleton nice Kuban he was like alright go ahead and this is before are we there yet ice cube personalized it was like stole to chip tooth and [ __ ] like I was such a big fan is and to come in there and have to like do this Remy character and like he was like well improv [ __ ] say this to him say that to him like do your thing like he wanted to see if I was ready to do it and I like [ __ ] was like [ __ ] you Ice Cube [ __ ] you no you [ __ ] this and [ __ ] then and you know saying crazy [ __ ] and we were just flowing and he said you you got the part and I was like [ __ ] yet and then you know we made the movie okay cuz cuz you were there when Tupac and Snoop first met yup where was this I was there when Tupac and Snoop Dogg met it was the wrap party for poetic justice which I had a blink part and you have to watch it quick even if you knew it was coming like it's shot in silhouette and and I was already friends with singleton and singleton said to me you know there's nothing really funny I said I want something in it he's like there was such a thing around Tupac and and and with Janet Jackson and John after Boyz in the hood I just wanted to be a part of the film and we admit we had a mutual respect I'd only done Zebrahead and I think true romance he's like there's this one little thing it's a camera I was like Betty sits you and Tupac dope i-i-i was so impressed with Tupac as a rapper and then when I saw him in juice as an actor and and the crazy thing about Tupac is because me and Jada Pinkett were friends we had the same agent o before she had gotten apart before I got apart she kept telling my friend Tupac my fans a Tupac kind of [ __ ] name is that she was like Tupac he's gonna be a rapper he's gonna be acting I'm like an actor and a rapper cuz at the time you didn't it was get the [ __ ] out of here she was like I'm telling you he's crazy telling my friend he got to stay out of trouble if he could just this is we weren't this is 89 90 91 and and I remember seeing that video she showed me the VHS tape that inevitably was in that Tupac documentary um the really good one that got nominated for the Oscar which I can't remember the name for of her and him in a karaoke booth singing parents just don't understand okay yeah I know John but it's it was and she shoulda she's like he's my friend this [ __ ] guy like you know and then you know I heard him on digital on the ground and then like saw Jude but when I saw him in juice I was like this [ __ ] talented yeah as an actor like I just thought that performance was like to me was like De Niro and Mean Street so I was like this [ __ ] guy is dope like I'd already heard him rhyme and I was like he's a good rhyme Ruiz dope but when I saw him in juice I was like I [ __ ] this guy special so I wanted to be imported justice they gave me that little part I went to the after the wrap party for product justice everybody was there Janet Jackson Joe Torre um Regina King who was who I was a huge fan of John was there and it was this little spot off a LaBrea like down near Crenshaw and Snoop was there he had just come out with deep cover and you know ya cheatin [ __ ] on and he had his hat on and I was like yo I'm a big fan what's up he recognized me was like what's up you know he's all shy and I was like yo you know we you know it was like you know about my [ __ ] in New York and I was like he'll hit he's I'd never been in New York and I was like you know we [ __ ] with you man I was like yeah we [ __ ] with you all right he was like thanks you know he's real kind of low-key and you know we pound whatever and then five minutes seems like a little party not even like a big premiere was like a little sort of like a bar with a little dance floor like it wasn't a big premiere party or a big wrap party and a couple of minutes later I mean this is 27 years ago but couple minutes later Tupac was there I had already met and I literally saw with my own eyes they were like they greeting each other and then they were like rhyming on the mic freestyling and Tupac was like I remember I don't remember what the lot the rhyme said but I remember him saying you know all your homies staring at me like you want something met me and then Snoop and it wasn't like beef but they were like bad like they were kind of feeling about Tupac was there's a little crew Snoop was with his crew and I was right there but I remember being like this is something not to forget and then they adapt each other up after this like little battle like you know they're just rhyming on the mic but you could feel like a little sort of like you know putting their [ __ ] down and then it turns out that was the same night that Snoop Dogg smoked his first blunt which should be a national holiday and a Tupac wolfram like they obviously became friends but I watched it with my own eyes and there's a picture that night with me Tupac John Singleton and Ice Cube and I remember they were taking a picture and then I like kind of like squeeze my way into it cuz I just knew it was a special special thing to be able to be a part of that that that night it was just there was so much energy around Tupac and excitement around tuvok and this edge around him you could feel it and and and it's just something yeah I'm on the right I never forgot it I and I remember when the picture got taken and this is before digital but like you see I'm on I'm on the right of them like I'm on the dirt to the right of me I was just they were taking the picture and I kind of slid into the picture that's why I'm upfront it cuz I wanted to be in the picture you know it was cool it was cool when I remember it and you know and I saw Tupac a couple more times before he passed and you know I mean as a fan you look back at that time there was he was so special and he was so prolific and he was so outspoken and so ahead of his time and so representative of all the positive things about hip hop and unfortunately he died of the most negative thing about hip hop yeah it was it was crazy you know like it was like because he was so everything that the goodness of hip-hop and the political nosov hip-hop and the swag of hip hop in the and and and everything dope about hip hop but then inevitably that negativity would [ __ ] him up you've been doing film since 92 sang to Z you know over 60 films yeah so as someone who's worked in Hollywood so long what do you think about the current climate right now with the sexual assault and harassment obviously that the sexual assaults listen it's [ __ ] up I never heard of anything about sexual assault you know you know who's the scumbag and who's not a scumbag and I had heard of you know Weinstein being with certain women but I didn't hear of anything inappropriate I'm not one of these people I knew all about I didn't know [ __ ] I didn't know there was any rape or anything breaking any rules or laws of anything like that um you know it's interesting that it's happening in Hollywood because I don't care if you're in a coffee shop or you're you work in the subway or you you you you know you work in a [ __ ] bodega this is the way men and women deal with each other and and and and there's no room for putting your hands on somebody there's no room for you know it's just unacceptable the fact that it's happening in Hollywood and it's being brought to the forefront through Hollywood is is interesting well you work with louis c.k before yes on the Louis show yeah he just came forward today and admitted yeah everything well he admitted to pulling his dick out yep it's like five different women louis c.k I worked with on the show great time with him one of my you know most proud things like I think it's one of the best things I've ever done you know these accusations came out okay and then he admitted to it so now what are you gonna do well what would he what are we gonna do it's like what are we gonna do like what are you gonna do like he did these things he's been shamed he's admitted to it I'm sure he's gonna have to really re-evaluate his entire life now what now what do we do look he lost his Netflix he'll be alright he'll be okay well financially he'll be okay he'll he'll be our listen what louis c.k specifically did is [ __ ] wild it's inappropriate and all that [ __ ] but it's like you want these people to like like you want people to get to [ __ ] get their heads chopped off fit you you know you you there's more fuss about this than there is about Eric garner yeah specifically Eric garner cuz that that situation really had an effect on me there's more uproar about louis c.k and I don't compare tragedies because Eric Garner's death and louis c.k doing his [ __ ] they're not compared they're not comparable this dead this is totally [ __ ] unacceptable inappropriate but there's more hoopla and consistent hoopla over the hollywood stuff forget the raping that's that's a whole other thing yeah and i'm not saying forget it don't [ __ ] edit me and put it like i'm saying forget it like it's bad yeah cuz i don't want to get tied into anything I'm not downplaying raping but like the louis c.k pulling out his dick asking women yo can i pull my [ __ ] out sometimes they say no and he says okay and he does do it sometimes they say no and he just does it [ __ ] bonkers bonkers it's bugged out it's sexual harassment sexual ration is what it is it's not assault we've been talking about this [ __ ] sexual harassment [ __ ] Morpher rings fervidly then we're talking about Eric garner getting killed yeah so you know and again you can't compare tragedies you can't compare one shooting where 27 people died to another shooting where only 13 people died there they're horrible things but the fact that it's Hollywood and it's name-brand people complaining about other name-brand people makes it makes it uh why you would even bring it up have you ever worked with a Tyrese afore never work with him never worked with him like I'll go on the record and say it's a little hard for me even though I live okay to look at a rich guy crying about how he needs five million in his in his manager is that really true cuz you're here I'm hearing conflicting reports is that he posted he posted on Instagram I saw it I captured it myself that well he mean there's the video him crying yes go broke I get all that this is all I got don't take my baby okay I've been away from my baby for too much I just want my baby no one's listening cuz no one's in the courtroom I'm not doing anything illegal I'm not doing anything illegal but I don't want nobody oh my god am i doing something illegal by doing this video or is this am i protected by the First Amendment oh the amendment don't take my baby I'm at $13,000 a month what more do you want from me nobody showing up for me I got all these millionaire friends I got billionaire friends I've been there for you why nobody's there for me and then he said that will and Jade are giving him five million and Jada you know your friend Jada yes then will agenda came back I said we're not giving him five million then ain't giving him five million I mean listen when I could say this I don't know Tyrese I've met him I know this though when when you're going through divorce and custody I went through the same thing obviously my thing was in public it can be it can shake the ground that you live upon and obviously he's struggling and I think ultimately this thing's gonna pass for him and I mean I just don't have anything on it like I just I feel bad for him I feel bad for the situation I went through a divorce I went to custody [ __ ] I went to [ __ ] lawyers and judges and their [ __ ] [ __ ] and that [ __ ] those [ __ ] divorced judges and those divorce judges those are divorce attorneys Dayne [ __ ] especially the Los Angeles divorce attorneys they really ain't [ __ ] you're a white kid why Jewish kid yes but you've grown up in hip-hop yeah you're actually married to a black woman yes that was my biggest mistake what first marrying a white woman oh you messed up yeah I [ __ ] up but you should go the black you know you talked about the term white nationalist yes you know you're dealing with with Trump in America yes and you're dealing with kind of like the the rise of racist white people again yes you know they're probably already there but you know they're making themselves more vocal these days what's your take on it now you know my take on it it's very saddening to me you know this make America great [ __ ] is a dog whistle we're not making America great again we're not going back in time we're not going to World War two you're not putting me in a [ __ ] oven we're not going to the 1880s you're not taking slaves we're not going back when there's no again that's a dog whistle mmm make America great again when did it stop being great yeah good point there's flaws obviously but we're not going backwards where are we going again he put me in a [ __ ] oven ain't there no slavery's happen women aren't giving up their rights to vote black people aren't giving up their rights to vote so what's the again and and and that again and and and and Trump's [ __ ] you know double entendre is talk about like a guy with subliminals he's the best subliminal [ __ ] rapper ever because he talks that subliminal [ __ ] like we talked about like jay-z with subliminals and subliminal disses Donald Trump kicked subliminals better than anybody because he's really not sane and it's like it's like it's dog whistle [ __ ] so you know the [ __ ] empowerment I mean just you know the [ __ ] that I got on I I get on Twitter's is is crazy to me and then in my DMS and and openly in my comments like you [ __ ] Jew I hope you die you [ __ ] Jew you [ __ ] you know black loving [ __ ] wigger I grew up in New York City in the 70s 80s I never had anyone say that to my face ever now I'm not inviting that I don't want that's not like I'm sitting there going like I'm like um I'm not a [ __ ] bad I never ever ever had anyone say that to my face ever and the fact that people and and and I've tracked them down uh-uh-uh-uh-uh and me am i me and have the shame game but you put him on blast we put him on blast I'm like you and then I when you find out who they are and they're like proud father of two in there like I'm putting their comments like you [ __ ] you know I wish you die you [ __ ] Jew you [ __ ] you know and loving this and all this [ __ ] you know high school kids I'm like word I'm calling your high school you little bitch-ass [ __ ] and I'm putting you on the shame game like this is crazy to me this is it's insane to me that that way you know and the whole thing with black culture and hating black people it's I thought we went forward like we went backwards Trump revitalized it's like it's like a reissue like the the racist reissue like if you were reassuring a [ __ ] you know like like an old record like he's reassured ish this sort of empowerment for it but it's all like yo the white nationalists and all them come to Brooklyn march down [ __ ] pick an avenue go to Brownsville march down pick an avenue and see what's good well honey what's good go to pick an Avenue Brownsville just go right to Brownsville don't go to gentrified area don't go to Williamsburg let's start off right on mother Gaston Boulevard right in Brownsville and see what's really poppin you'll see how it is so there's the black people you hate there's the Spanish people you ain't go right to Brownsville Brooklyn and see what's good right no no no outright rallies over there go to Harlem get it 125th Street go to 145th on the hill go to go right outside a rock or go to a rock game next summer when they're playing Rucker they're doing their thing walk right on the court talk all your [ __ ] there go ahead you said you didn't like jay-z's 444 yes I didn't like it what did you think about the Jewish line because I recently interviewed Russell Simmons where he defended jay-z's comets too many times we point to finger rather than have a dialogue you know I was never a fan of the ADL when Abe Foxman worked there I like Jonathan Greenblatt but at but Abe Fox would be quick to point out things that easy to discuss in private publicly I blame Abe Foxman and his fight with Louis Farrakhan for dividing Blacks and Jews in a way that was unnecessary what do you mean they have had a long you know you raise money when you find good boogeymen hmm okay right and so this bickering back and forth and Abe always pointing to imagine you did a Million Man March and then you did million family March did all these great thing black people love you if you someone attacks you then you disconnect all of the person's followers from your community and Abe Foxman was viewed by african-americans at one moment as every time he opened his mouth he didn't find an african-american he did not call an anti-semite there were no leaders no Andrew Young saw Reverend Jackson's a Reverend Sharpton's a Louis Farrakhan he didn't find one he even found Will Smith and Kanye West and others to be anti-semitic publicly okay so what did they of fans do when they hear these claims and what do the members of the Jewish community do who follow because he was a bit of a pit bull which I get but I don't believe that that's best way to create unity I mean listen as far as the 444 album jay-z's my favorite emcee he's the Michael Jordan of record and he's the best the four four four album to me was everything that uh the 444 album to me was was just a big disappointment lyrically it's great there's always great [ __ ] he's he I don't think he's ever made a bad verse obviously he's made some of the best and the best and then you could be like this one isn't as good as the best of the best but he's always yeah he's oh he's sworn is always sharp the big problem for me with that record and and and the the big problem for me with that record was the beats the beats like it's a jay-z record like you know there were some good lines in it and you know like the the line that got the most sort of hype was that you you know you're not black yo J okay these are open but with jay-z I need smackers I need bangers condition like like that would to me no disrespect to Jill Scott flow a treat to me those beats were like Jill Scott flow to reach and I [ __ ] with both of them but when it comes to jay-z like I get you could slow it down sometimes look at the whole record and and and it's even the song with the Marley kid like it wasn't like a smacker and like you know like it was a it's not like they're bad records but it's like I listened to it once I was like damn nothing like they're like jay-z records are like anthems even the bad ones there's bangers on there for the whole record to be sort of so low-key so like floette reso Eric Benet I need more from jay-z like I need smackers I need some smackers because the thing about that jay-z record you're never gonna play that during a basketball game you're never gonna work out to it you're never gonna play any of that in a club none of those songs are and it's jay-z okay I mean I will give you that Magna Carta Holy Grail had better beats than 444 had better bangers yeah like [ __ ] with me you know I got it that was like wow like that beat there's there's there's there's I [ __ ] with that record yeah there's good there's a lot of good song you're looking for I remember I was out in the clubs during the time when he came out it was being played in the clubs there's joints on that song and even the joint would that RZA me and the RZA connected that was a slow song but like it was like smack like that beat was the smacker like you know the [ __ ] Otis song like there's no one notice like I need this is jay-z Otis Otis wasn't on that out it wasn't on there that was on the the Kanye records okay watch it's wrong okay okay okay but saying there was no smackers there's not one smacker on that record do you feel that was anti-semitic or not I person don't feel it was inter I don't feel like it was anti-semitic listen I don't think I'm not one of these people that draws the line like you're anti-semitic you you like III think that race and race conversations and race you know understanding you know you can say something to me if you're a black guy that that that makes me uncomfortable and then I could question or say something that you're you know you're a Spanish guy that makes you uncomfortable like until we're able to sort of walk into the discomfort yeah you know and share your thoughts and your feelings and on stuff things aren't gonna get better it's like when you're repressing them and holding them and not discussing like having conversations about race are uncomfortable change is uncomfortable if you're in this studio shooting glad TV and you go [ __ ] I gotta move Studios that's a pain in the ass okay it's uncomfortable now it's not a social change but change is uncomfortable buying a new car is uncomfortable going from Nike to adidas is a change you know [ __ ] you know changing doctors from one like changes uncomfortable social changes and political changes are they're uncomfortable you know and you know that like the whole thing with Kaepernick and the kneeling and you know like people want to sentimentalize Muhammad Ali and sentimentalize Jackie Robinson and Kareem abdul-jabbar and all these things from the past these guys were [ __ ] villains back then mama no II wasn't beloved once he started saying the nam Nation of Islam you know and all that [ __ ] he was [ __ ] like what the [ __ ] is this guy 1960 whatever the [ __ ] it was you think everybody was a gay my helmet ally change is uncomfortable you know but because it's happening now and we're documenting every [ __ ] bit of it and then we're we're social media and we're all [ __ ] have opinions like me you everybody's got a [ __ ] opinion we want to try to like this thing can happen no it's [ __ ] happening well you know what I think it is is that even though that's it's not obvious on on the the surface level is that I don't think there's any such thing as a good stereotype you see what I'm saying because like the stereotype of all Jews are rich oh the backyard behind it is they're rich so they stole from everyone else put stereotypes listen I'm a stereotype like Jews we have our stereotypes we you know I could say Jewish stereotypes we [ __ ] love bagels cream cheese and lox that's a true thing for me so if somebody said I'm not offended by that stereotype because that's real someone's saying Jews are historically very phlegm based men I'm a very phlegm basement so if you somebody says all those [ __ ] Jews they always have a lot of phlegm I'm like yeah I'm not offended by that somebody might be for anybody like stereotypes uh uh there there's a reason these things are stairs that's not say they're good true or false but this is just the way we are like I I don't we're not all the same and it's okay to not be all the same black people are not white people Chinese people are not black people and so on and so forth it's only and and and the way that New York Jews talk and the way that southern blacks speak and the way that Asians Asian Americans speak that's great that's great that you [ __ ] eat with chopsticks and I eat with a [ __ ] fork like we're not the same black people don't eat the same [ __ ] sometimes at home as [ __ ] Jews acidic Jews and kosher Jews don't eat the same way I eat like the differences are fantastic trying to sort of you know act like we're all the same thing as [ __ ] women's rights is the same thing women deserve all the rights but to try to act like men and women are the same there's no women in the NBA the reason why is because that's just not the way God made us and I haven't shot a baby out of my [ __ ] dick because that's not the way God made us we're not the [ __ ] same particularly a second well we're not the same you know women and men are not the same we should get the same rights but we're not the same you know and it's like you know if we want men in white men's and the Equal Rights and men and women on so [ __ ] should we not open the door for women and and if there's an emergency issue we no longer say women and children first should it just be children first and then everybody [ __ ] free-for-all where does it end you have to embrace the differences in and and and their order okay people are scared of it now you and I first met right when the tribe called quest's documentary came out yes right I remember I hit you up said great job on documentary yes we've been kind of talking ever since when I kind of to the whole the making of the document I remember there was a little bit of drama with q-tip yes there's a little bit of drama with everything with everything but I guess the big drama piece was when he got sent an email accidentally yes saying that you guys well whoever said it was trying to [ __ ] him out of a producer credit or something like that yes can you talk about that the Tribe Called Quest movie as great as it turned out and I'm so glad that we we collectively all got it done me the filmmakers the producers and tribe obviously with the passing of five dog wasn't easy documentaries aren't easy q-tip I have nothing but respect for we were sort of you know putting our feet down in the ground I was friends with him before the movie friends with him now we went through our [ __ ] one of the / one point in the beginning of the movie let me just put it this way in the beginning of the movie tribe didn't ask to be producers they weren't planning on being producers it was really a wing and a prayer like I reached out to the group and said on a Tuesday can we make a doc they agreed Saturday I started filming mmm that's how it started just me okay and Naz Oh No look at all the documentation of it nozzles involved with the film to begin with okay so you're missing that book because you could ask a bunch of questions about Maz but as far as the q-tip thing it's like as we got closer to being finished they wanted a Peru sir credit and for me I was like yo you guys didn't produce the movie obviously it's a movie about you that's very clear we had already agreed on profit share that's very clear but the laid work that it took to get that movie done in my opinion particularly q-tip and I say this with all due respect and we've had this out we've talked about it you you weren't being Perdue Singh you were sort of being anti beat tribes and life travels of you were being an anti producer he was breaking my [ __ ] balls and I love q-tip and I respect the [ __ ] out of q-tip and we've made peace over the film and that time but the making of the movie was a pain in the ass so when it came out I did not want them to be producers one of the producers wound up sending this email which I don't remember what it said but it was basically like [ __ ] them they're not producers and we're gonna tell them the producers and they're not it was so tenuous between all of us that it just was a [ __ ] send all email that got [ __ ] up and I would never say who the producer was it doesn't matter he's a he's a good dude he's a black dude and it wasn't some [ __ ] evil white Jewish producer trying to [ __ ] over the you know the poor black hip-hop guys we were all going at it the group was going at it the group was going at it so it was it wasn't just a Michael Rapaport versa Tribe Called Quest it was tribe in their own stuff which is very well documentary and and I say that with all due respect because I don't want to bring up all things cuz I love those guys and fight his memory and his legacy is all positive and the Tribe Called Quest memory but in regards to making the week I'll say this we should have made a making of the movie documentary it would have been better than the goddamn doctor because it was nuts we were all nuts but we were all nuts because we believed in what we were doing the dysfunction of the group the filmmakers all of us and and and we made something special and thank God we made something special and through thick and [ __ ] thin hell and [ __ ] high water we got it done and thank God we did get it done because of five passing so we have this thing yeah what did you think of the new tribe album they thought it was good yeah I thought it was good it was through through all the the through everything that the group went through for them to be able to put together that album under the duress that they went through with the passing of Fife and to get it done it was a good way to end the Tribe Called Quest legacy I thought it's a really good album I still listen to it it was it had a lot of emotion in it and all those guys are very emotional dudes q-tip is a good dude he's a sensitive dude he cares about it he's [ __ ] pain in the ass oh and don't he's a [ __ ] penis painting ass artist the way dr. Dre has emitted pain in the ass the way Jimmy Iovine is emitted pain in the way I'm sure Vincent van Gogh was a [ __ ] penis the same way Marlon Brando was a pain in the ass and you could say he's on those levels or not he's an artist and he's a [ __ ] you know he's a [ __ ] controlling artist there's nothing wrong with that but he's a pain in the ass because a lot of times people said well he's just an artist I'm an artist too I'm a pain in the ass but q-tip I [ __ ] with you he knows that [ __ ] with him but he he he can be difficult well right I mean you're so much of a native tongue fan he named your son Maceo Treme co from De La Soul yep yeah absolutely I mean I love hip-hop is is is me hip-hop is a part of who I am it influences the way I speak it influences the way I see the world it influences the roles I've taken it influences the the book that I wrote the movies that I've directed it influences you know the way I [ __ ] Drive my car like hip-hop is I was fortunate enough to be exposed with at such a young age and and and and and everything that it's given me is I I don't take it for granted I in the beginning of my book which I know you didn't [ __ ] read didn't [ __ ] read my book wouldn't do anything I know you didn't you [ __ ] read my book in the beginning my book it I I think my mom my dad my wife and hip hop because it means that much to me especially artistically art like I wouldn't be [ __ ] without hip-hop I wouldn't be [ __ ] without in New York I wouldn't be [ __ ] without hanging out in Harlem and in Brooklyn I wouldn't be [ __ ] I wouldn't debts like it's so much of who I am would be your top five artists all-time emcees emcees mm-hmm my top five emcees I'm not gonna say there are alive that are alive yeah because I think that like Biggie and Tupac they're their bodies of work was so short because of their their untimely deaths so I'm not I'm gonna begin to pocket so top five living why don't we why don't we do this why don't we exclude biggie Tupac jay-z and Nas okay I've never answered the question so let's look at a sea and Nasser they're gonna make the list so let's get more creative okay so big in Tupac because they passed jay-z and Nas because to me they're automatic they're Jordan in [ __ ] LeBron or Jordan and Kobe or Jordan whoever the [ __ ] you want okay so my top five MCS are mmm Big Daddy Kane Big Daddy Kane okay Rakim krs-one mos def Ghostface nobody under 40 yes yeah who was under 40 that I would like Kendrick he's good J Cole good you would put J Cole up there not in my top five there's I put five other people before I put and I [ __ ] with J Cole I'd put J Cole my top five right now you of all we're not throwing all top five of the list you're creating right now I would put J Cole or Big Daddy Kane no yeah I put J Cole every Big Daddy Kane J called me more songs of Big Daddy Kane because of the music business that and hip-hop that ginge Big Daddy Kane right now you come out and you give Big Daddy Kane to Jay Cole beat can you out there take the best Jay Colby and I [ __ ] with Jay Cole I'm a fan of his okay Big Daddy Kane will [ __ ] all over Jay Colby what about right now at however only 47 48 I'm gonna being a [ __ ] dope MC doesn't age these [ __ ] like King gonna be [ __ ] on you when he's 80 he's like [ __ ] you know Albert King with a [ __ ] guitar like you know as long as he's live he could still spit okay look can't you see Kendrick killing a bunch of Big Daddy Kane beats I don't hear him killing nope I respect Ken Kendrick Lamar but he's not as good as Big Daddy came a rock in or chaos one people always put Rakim in the list and I could see why but if you look at the time span yes that rock Kim I really on that that that top cusp cusp is better than the guys you just mentioned best best [ __ ] Shawn prices mixtapes are better than the best rapper these guys at your Tolman and I [ __ ] with both of them again I keep having to press the preferences Sean price mixtapes his rhymes are better than these guys best songs Ghostface killers best [ __ ] like the like Ghostface like Raekwon when he put that he put out this this thing where he was rhyming over like old R&B beats those face was doing it Raekwon was doing was doing it was doing it also yes look dos tres is rapid over the I'm song would like the lyrics and everything guys can't [ __ ] with Raekwon Ghostface Method Man is stupid Method Man is a [ __ ] beast did you see him on sway rhyming off his phone [ __ ] on everybody who do you think [ __ ] on all these goop dudes look I gotta say that's a man's underrated I've always had stupid he's another one great emcee not the best beat selections but when Method Man is in the pocket he's top five dead or alive right because I've always wondered who killed it on on big E's the what you know we both killed it they both killed I don't I don't abide by this who killed it more we're like Eminem killed it on you know like that jay-z song like oh it's to me it's like if we're playing in and not gonna pick up game and like yeah we're on the same team like if you're on the same song I don't abide by that like yo he killed it more than he did I never thought I never thought of that who killed it like obviously you know Busta Rhymes on the scenario song his was crazy but if you listen to fight for q-tip [ __ ] off and even the other dudes on that scenario they all smashed if you listen to live at the barbeque nas killed it but you can easily say that you know I can delis is the best or larger I mean they all killed it so to me it's like war on the same song like yo get 40 points I'll get 20 yo my soul yeah I mean as nas kind of killed it on live at the barbecue I I can't I can't say those other guys kept up with us like that but they all get but I'm saying like I'm saying that for me I never abided by that thing with hip-hop what's like that he killed you on his own song like again it's like it fits my song and I have DJ Vlad on there and and you you you kill it it's like if if we're playing on the same team you scored 35 i scored 18 do we win we won we're good yeah no I remember JC got asked that about about the Eminem renegade verse he said he said it's my song I want the person to do as good as they well exactly stupid yeah I mean if you look at all your films what do you think was your was your greatest moment in film after that my greatest moment in film it's hard for me to say I think I've done a lot of good [ __ ] and a lot of good movies I've been in a handful of really good movies two or three great movies and you know some ones that aren't that good it's hard for me to say what's best you know I think that you know it's not up to me I mean I think there's moments you know like I think that there's a lot of good [ __ ] in higher learning there's a lot of good [ __ ] in zebra there's a lot of good [ __ ] to romance a lot of good [ __ ] in the Woody Allen movies there's a lot of good [ __ ] in whatever [ __ ] dish when I did the episodes a friend I think some of my best [ __ ] was on the louis louis louis c.k show that was some of the best [ __ ] but its opportunity you know I mean it's like it's the rolls you get it I know this I know this I could say this about myself I might have been in some wack movies but I've never been wack in a wack movie I can tell you that [ __ ] much so I've been in some movies that aren't [ __ ] but I've never been like damn you suck I've never not given giving them all even when I know what I'm doing wack [ __ ] and I've known I've done doing wack [ __ ] while I'm doing it but you've worked with some of the all-time greats yeah Hollywood I mean what really in Hollywood as an actor really makes you great what makes you what makes you great in Hollywood is opportunity looks are a big thing for men and for women um timing luck and just circumstance man it's like it's it's like you know you know you sometimes like you see these ballplayers like yo he no one ever talks about him you know like he's kind of forgotten you know it's like Johnny Depp to me I respect Johnny Depp Johnny Depp would be a TV character actor if he wasn't so immaculately uniquely like pretty boy like I say that know Bruno but like Johnny Depp's looks like you knew like yo he's a star you know that doesn't mean he's the best actor DiCaprio is somebody who like has the whole thing pretty boy handsome talented Denzel yo when Denzel first started rocking like he was a sex symbol Denzel was like you know 60 now he's still considered a sex symbol but like in his parent like Denzel was a sex symbol but he had the goods so like a movie star a true movie star for a man it's like you know you gotta have that battle everything and everything working and good choices and and and good luck you know and and women the same thing it's like Jennifer Lawrence in my opinion will go down in history as the greatest movie star ever for a female she's beautiful she could do comedy and she could do drama and she's likable she'll surpass Julia Roberts is the biggest movie star ever she has she reminds me of dekap which is the whole thing we you didn't mention skill level when you start naming although yeah I did oh you did Denzel Denzel his skill level surpasses his but the thing about Denzel the reason why Denzel at me is the ultimate movie stars because he has this skill he has the swag he has the looks and he has the skill the skill is the thing that keeps him going like he's so good that pretty boy should only work for so long start getting older you can only do so many tricks that [ __ ] don't run out of tricks cuz his skills so high Denzel yeah I mean look at Marlon Brando at the end of his career he was still killing it yeah he's skills and when he first came out as gorgeous you know mister either you know brooding you know you know chisel all [ __ ] but you know but the skills you know the skills are the thing that I've sustained you so like to really make it's the skills you know yeah I mean if you talk about straight skills I mean look what happens with all the UK actors that come over here and just kill it over and over again to the point where you don't even know their UK actors anymore yeah well I think uniting I think actors in the UK actors it's kind of like some of them are really good and some of its like stun casting it's like you rarely see American actors get cast as Brits irish scots big stars it'll have Martin Downey jr. plays Sherlock Holmes big star British accent and that's the only one I know big star yeah but we'll cast these [ __ ] guys from London as New Yorkers I'm like you know [ __ ] ridiculous dope actors in New York they're all right well your man John Singleton and snowfall the lead actor is British yeah south central bucket only this [ __ ] guy hey [ __ ] guys here in LA they're like you know playing like New Yorkers like I'm like we know they don't they don't cast us when there's UK shows they don't call like the [ __ ] New York guys to [ __ ] come over there and do their [ __ ] yeah there's dope actors in New York theater actors New York like this whole like UK went to you know [ __ ] all that [ __ ] man like we got we got it we're we're good over here you want New Yorkers get some New Yorkers and get them from [ __ ] Cal we're like you're gonna there's no actor and [ __ ] all the [ __ ] sag you got to get a guy from Ireland no disrespect to the Irish we're good we got it I mean get out British guy as a star I'm saying I'm not saying they're not good I'm just saying why well because I've seen I'm saying if we've given them enough opportunity so call me up and let me have the opportunity to play a brick and then I won't have a [ __ ] call up John Turturro the great underrated John Turturro and give him opportunity to play a Brit call Sean Penn up call Benicio del Toro up call [ __ ] my man would Harris up call my man [ __ ] you know all my rep said what Harris is one of the best actors there is he's dead they let a Driss do the thing on the wire but they would never have wood Harris play you know of a bad guy in in London did you have any like extensive actor training you know before you started doing films or you just jumped into him no I didn't have any extensive training no I just started doing it you just jumped in and got the lead role in the theater zebra and zebra had no say in the film that was released in theaters yes good timing good luck good fortune the right part for the right guy at the right time that was my part it was meant to be I was that's who I was at that time and it was the right part for the right person at the right time I'll tell you a good story Adrian Brody was cast in that part oh okay pretty much cast they like sign a contract we were young and and they were like they had a guy they were thinking of I flew to New York my agent was like they're not gonna fly you it's $274 plane ticket but if you get the part you know they'll give you your money back so I went in the room I knew this was my movie and I remember meeting Adrien Brody and we were like 2120 at the time and my approach to auditioning at the time this is ninety one eight ninety one ninety whatever the [ __ ] was ninety one my approach auditioning a time was like it's a fight like I was like it was I approached it like Mike Tyson the way he came in the ring at the time like I was like you know not that I'm physically fighting with like I'm like yo this is my [ __ ] part I'm getting this [ __ ] part I don't go [ __ ] who's in there and I remember sitting down that this what kid and I went to Martin Luther King high school which was across the street from I'm performing our performing arts high school and when I was in mourning with King high school and me and Adrian were the same age they started taking out the kids from performing arts high school earlier because Martin Luther King high school kids were robbing the [ __ ] out of performing arts high school kids that's a fact and I remember sitting down like you know where he from his arm from Queens ah from hand what school you go to and I was like I went he asked me what school do you guys I graduated from King and I I knew when he said when he asked me what school I went to and he said I went to LaGuardia and I told him I went to King I knew that the part was mine I knew that was my part cuz I was like yo you ain't getting this [ __ ] Z branch it start working on the piano cuz that's just gonna pay off for you then but this is [ __ ] is mine he's Academy award-winning actor but that that like I knew that was my [ __ ] okay and since then have you taken acting classes or acting coaches nothing no no he was winging it ever since there's no winging and I know what I'm doing I knew what I was doing then I didn't know you know I was instinctive actor I was an extinct about instinctive actor at the time I still go off instinct but I've done it so much you know you you have a gyro everybody has their own approach there is no you know it's not like you know basketball where you work on your layups you work on your jump shot you work on your free throws you work on your handle it's it's a different really yeah it's a different thing everybody has their own thing you know acting is funny and actors don't like to talk about their acting sort of like I feel like a lot of them think it's like magicians telling their tricks but you know acting is it is it is a specially film acting is a everybody has their own sort of way I didn't want to say method because it's like method acting everybody has their own way they get there some people just snap into it and they do their thing other people have to be totally in their zone some people are good one take you know [ __ ] Sam Jackson's like a machine you could do 20 tanks boom boom boom boom every takes gonna be good you know other actors different it's just different Christopher Walken he needs to sort of ramp up De Niro when I work to them twice he sort of needed to ramp up um Walton Goggins one of the best actors I've ever worked with um you know very very intense I mean just everybody has their own [ __ ] you know and I don't know why actors don't like to really talk about their their [ __ ] I like to talk about because I'm always like what do you do what do you yeah and people just say oh they're kind of embarrassed of it wrecks I remember I think Cory was doing a like a little hood film and he did a scene it was like me and ice-t and I remember how quickly I realized how bad an actor I was look with the cameras turned on I didn't know what the [ __ ] I was doing right and then I was watching ice-t like oh [ __ ] like okay this guy clearly clearly knows what he's doing it's also a lot of it is is comfort yeah you know we're not going back to the book that you didn't read that I'm here to promote um you know when I look at Ashley --tz-- when you look at pro basketball players or pro football players like you know they're doing like this crazy [ __ ] these one-handed catches or you know LeBron when they're like just three to one they're so comfortable when you look at a great actor they're comfortable the majority of them like Denzel is comfortable John Turturro is comfortable Benicio del Toro with all the eccentric [ __ ] that he does he's comfortable when I'm acting I'm comfortable when I'm playing basketball I'm not as comfortable you means like but when you get like a high level professional athlete that's their comfort zone yeah like they're literally breathing you know what I'm saying and and and and that's when you're like at the best your [ __ ] with acting you look you put a camera in there action like they're just thinking about what they're doing this is nothing camera nothing you know yeah so but they're private Ray's process is different and again like I said I don't know why everybody so goddamn secretive about their [ __ ] right I mean it's worth the most desirable jobs in the world if you think about it who doesn't want to be an actor at the end the day people that don't know how to act don't want to be actors cuz if you ain't ready like you know you see bad actors like you like you know but whatever because for example you know you talk about working with Brad Pitt comfortable well I felt that up until was it 12 bunkies I didn't quite get it I felt the heels just a pretty boy he was great in Salman Louie's though you knew he was great and tell me Louise that's funny cool like if you watch that perform it's like it was like yo he was great he was great he was excellent dummy Luiz and that's the thing that broke him was like that [ __ ] that's a [ __ ] star now you didn't know he's gonna be continued to be good and improve you know it's like it's like good athlete you know like this you have to improve he's improved he that's what I say he started getting better when I stopped yeah monkeys I tuned in he's now said ah okay now this is he's really act yeah and then when Fight Club came out then it was like okay yeah this to me was a bonafide yeah Hollywood stop yeah and he showed he wanted to be just more than just a pretty boy yeah but yeah when you're 24 years old you look like Brad Pitt and you sit his ripped and you're and Thummim Louie's like yo be 24 years old you [ __ ] be ripped in Salman Louie's cuz that killing that like I've act a friend tell this [ __ ] yo you're only gonna be good-looking in 24 once one time [ __ ] so take advantage of this [ __ ] now cuz in a few years there's gonna be another pretty [ __ ] who's 24 he's cute and and and you're gonna be 30 and the name is [ __ ] appealing you know and and the you know so enjoy it while you have it when you're that young and and you know so Brad Pitt did it he's dope yeah absolutely Michael Ralph up for it definitely a pleasure thank you know this book has balls balls you better go buy the [ __ ] book I'm on the audiobook I'm actually well I'm an audiobook guy and you're actually reading the audio I narrate the audio bribed to [ __ ] talking extravaganza

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Published: Mon Dec 18 2017