Will Smith | Ep 162 | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME Basketball

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of all the smokers this is just not that this is definitely not this is not that I mean I think after this episode we might just need to retire our podcast not only that and just hang it up hey yesterday's price is not today's price man we want to welcome to the show man I mean what what can we say I mean one of the the biggest stars in the world has been you know gracious enough to give him a little bit of his time and sit down with us man welcome to the show Will Smith well we appreciate you man appreciate having you absolutely very happy to be here thank you for allowing us into your space and having some of your time um yeah we're at Westbrook Studios yeah you know that's my I just wanted to you know bring you out bring it out today we appreciate it I'm only about 15 minutes from you so much he came from Atlanta but let's get to it um you know someone who's always lived their life in the public eye um had to sacrifice a lot obviously came with a lot but I want to start with fatherhood what are some stuff you can give fathers out there guys like us that have strenuous schedules um but still being there for the important stuff and learning on the Fly because there's no real book or Rhyme or Reason to this oh man fatherhood um you know that that's this has been um probably the the greatest period of my my fatherhood um I was uh and and okay father uh for for my first son um I got a little bit better with uh Jaden I got my sea legs with with Willow um and probably the last couple of years of my life I had uh sufficiently suffered enough to have real wisdom um and this last year with my kids has been the best parenting um if I had to if I had to say something um to guide someone about it is first and foremost everybody sucks at the beginning it's okay you know it gets better yeah right it's okay to not be good at it it's okay to make mistakes and the best thing you can do for your kids is learn and grow yourself right when when we're trying to force our kids to do stuff and under understand things that we didn't do that we didn't understand they see the [ __ ] right right through it and they lose they lose respect and it's like you know I found a place with my kids where I could say I don't know and let's figure let's figure it out together let's go find that out to together but we're we're doing this as a team it's not me telling you how to do some stuff that you can see I don't know how to do right yeah yeah we got a chance to watch uh best shape of my life yeah great peace but again your kind of nervousness when you had to tell the kids about how they are in the book yeah and obviously it was received and well and you guys laughed and you cried but what kind of relief was that once you kind of got through with that City you said it was a four-hour sit-down for you I was probably around that same um two year ago period um I decided I was going to examine my life and up until that point I never looked back because I knew if I looked back that it would slow me down so I was living in the future I was trying to win nothing was going to stop me today and I was just driving driving driving toward the goals and the accomplishments of everything that I wanted to do in the material world so probably about uh two years ago um I guess I noticed a little bit of a lack in my ability to connect and love on a deep level on a deep level right um I started noticing it with Willow Willow was the one that was like Daddy you know and I noticed that I wasn't as proficient at connecting and and and loving somebody I could provide I could provide I'll lay it out that's the easy part yeah but in those moments when my kids were reaching for me um I was failing at the depth that they were seeking um and I decided like what did that mean and I felt that I had to deeply and truly examine my life I had examined my motives I wanted to be the biggest movie star in the world why right and I and when I decided to write my book I decided to dig into to my life's experiences and uh one of the one of the major things that I uh that I addressed with myself uh was you know my father had been abusive in my house and I never talked about it and when I wrote the book I told myself I was going to give myself the freedom to write it and Purge and I went in and I did it and it was the first time my mother and I had ever talked about it wow I was 50 years old before I ever talked to my mother about the fact my father had beat her up I drew a lot of similarities to that part when I was reading your book and then watching that show was you know my dad Marine Street dude protector wanted looked up to him but at the same time he was abusing my mom and at a young age I felt similar to you that helpless feeling like I know I can't whip him yeah so you just kind of have to sit there and take a hell my mom passed to know something from cancer so I never got the chance to have that conversation but just recently like a month ago I had a conversation with my dad and at 67 years old you know for the first time I had enough courage to say like Dad I think you need some help and I wrote him a long text message and I was kind of afraid how he was going to respond and he responded Matthew thank you I didn't know you cared I'll do whatever it takes to get better and I was like holy [ __ ] like that's not my dad's style but you know obviously preparing for this and watching your stuff like there was a lot of similarities from that standpoint but what you were able to get that off your chest how did that feel you know it just it uh it just opened up a lane for me and my mom to like really have a relationship a real one yeah right um for me as a little boy you know I've watched my father beat up my mother and I didn't do anything and I processed that as being a coward you know and everything in my life was about not being a coward you know and you know my father also Air Force military and uh you know he trained a discipline into me that you know I can manifest anything right I can do anything you know and there was that realization like I can do it anything but you still didn't protect your mom the lesson might beat up your mom and you didn't do nothing you know and it's like um you know it's been a real process purging that and um forgiving myself for being a human you know and I hated it I hated it I'm human I want to be Superman yeah I mean I still battle that for a time like we're great now I lost my mom and I felt like I gained a father but there was times where I said look at him like [ __ ] I remember what you used to eat I mean but I still were still at the house loving and hanging out and enjoying but like you said it's a process to first and foremost forgive yourself yeah that's for sure you can't do it for somebody else if you don't do it for you right and it's it's it is accepting and allowing and being okay that you're not you're not perfect right and you're not meant to be you're meant to have your experiences and you learn and you grow along the way and we're we're all chasing our highest selves and it's just going to be you know most of the time we're not going to be that we just saw the screening yeah of emancipation man let me say this to you um I'm always intrigued about what character you're going to play and and I was going to come out but this was something that was unexpected by me yeah I I knew you could play any character but just seeing you playing Peter and learning his story I learned a lot from watching this film more than any film that I've ever watched wow because we grow up you know they already don't tell us the truth in our history but we grow up and see this picture yeah and never know this guy's name don't know his story don't know nothing so the fact that you took time to tell that story was something for me because all I could see was the picture yeah on the whole movie you know what I'm saying and this probably for me it's top three of your films thank you brother yeah I appreciate that yeah no I went I went I went hard um at this one um you know it was cl it was without question the hardest film of my entire career you know we were out there I was saying a lot yeah no it's it's Ali was really hard physically dialect travel but this one was without question almost twice as hard as as Ali you know um and things kept going wrong right so it was it was like the ghosts of the Confederacy was like y'all not getting this movie no sir this one this one will never come out this one will never come out right so we we started the movie was set in in Georgia so we're set we're ready to go we're going to start in Georgia and then they passed those restrictive uh voting laws and then me and Antoine was like oh we can't make this move right here oh man but it was like a couple of weeks before shooting and Antoine was like brother we can't and I was like you right so we said it to Apple and to their credit they didn't Flinch hmm there was like we can't make it there so we had to reset the entire film and move to Louisiana which turned out to be a benefit because the movie actually took place in Louisiana so we were able to do a lot of the actual locations wow chocolate bridge yes absolutely okay yeah it was you know the longest bridges in Louisiana yes absolutely we drove that a whole lot of days yeah me too yeah so um so we get there we're in Louisiana we set up we got uh you know 400 extras we're starting in the uh Confederate prison camp right so it's 400 extras first day get everybody geared up we go out on the set a little bit of a lightning strike and they and then the the uh the rep comes out says oh in Louisiana if lightning strikes uh near a set um within two miles mandatory 30 minute shutdown we're like yeah so we had to move 400 extras off the set we had to wait to 30 minutes start bringing them back lightning strikes again we have to take them back we got one shot the first day then there was heat index so if you had this is you know the Louis you got to read the fine print on these contacts right so if it's a hundred degrees with extras on the set for more than like 35 minutes there's a heat index so they counted as 125 degrees after a certain amount of time at 125 30 minutes everybody off the set so we were two weeks behind after one week I was like wait what are we doing how is that possible and two weeks later the hurricane hit tore up all the sets and then we had to move to Baton Rouge the ghost of the Confederation Antoine's trailer burned down like someone was found trailers can't burn down right but it was like literally every step of the way um then we had a covet outbreak and it was mandated that all 400 extras had to be tested before you could go on the set so it was taken you know five hours in the morning just to get everybody cleared before we could get a shot we were at lunch so you know and again to to to Apple's credit they never flinched it was like the world needs to see this movie and you know I will be shouting them out forever for those who say why another slave movie what do you say to that this is not another slave movie at all yeah it's a Redemption story yeah this is a this is a Freedom Movement yeah you know um this is a movie you've just you've never seen this part of the story right it's like we we don't know about the the strength and the endurance you know very rarely um as a black man when you watch a movie during this period can you feel good about it right Peter make you feel good about it Jack stood up during it was just us and the injections and um there was a there was a uh you know it is is such a beautiful human story right so I don't make movies about periods I make movies about people great people right and it's about this is a this is a man that touched my heart you know it was what he sacrificed like for us to be able to sit here you know it's like they refer to that image as the first viral image it was like cameras were just invented like that was one of the first pictures actually taken with a camera he took the lens off and was yeah and it was like um you know what all of those keloid scars on his back he suffered for us to be free absolutely you know and when that was on the cover of British newspapers and Britain was right on the edge of entering the war on the side of the South and his his image his suffering is credited with Britain you know seeing the horrors of slavery and not entering the wars to support the the South there's so many other people like Peter that stories never get told that probably was fighting that same fight I'm probably didn't make it as far as him absolutely you know what I'm saying I probably have that many people for this so many people that probably went through that same situation that we would never hear about there was a did you notice the soldier in the battle scene so there's a soldier the young Soldier he shot yes yes the one he was saying Mama yeah that was an Ode to George Floyd that we had him saying mama to honor George that's I didn't get that at that time but I definitely heard him saying no I'm just saying something like go see you go see her see you crawled over there [Music] so it was like you know Antoine Antoine was so surprised so serious about um emancipation yesterday but emancipation today still to this day right and you know I I feel like that just gave me chills you told me that yeah yeah I feel like everybody you know it's not a black story it's it's an American story and my hope for for everyone who sees the movie is to be able to feel it and cultivate empathy right it's it's easy to dismiss things when you don't have a visceral emotional attachment to it yeah you know and for me as as an artist at this point in in my career I don't want to do nothing that I can't say where I feel like it will be a contribution to the Human family you know and I I feel like this one it it is you did that it it is and I guess I'm I'm not allowed to say this but I'm saying it for Antoine it is an absolute Masterpiece right it is a masterpiece of of filmmaking he you know even the look of the film and it's it's not black and white the color of the blood the color yeah yeah and the flag like certain things like and Antoine says something Cole he said you know it's like that he says I'm I'm going to drain the color out of the Confederacy I was like you felt it yeah right yeah absolutely you know and it's it's like you know it was a it was a it was a horrible time in American history and when I make a film like this I'm making it because I think it can be helpful you know I feel like being transported into that experience it just answers a lot of questions you know it gives you a visceral emotional experience and just that one more click of understanding that can unlock that one more click of empathy that part as far as the overseer he even showed everything compassion when telling that story yes I'm wired this way because this is what I really felt sorry for I really that's why I was given the food yes but if I continue to feed her and she starts feeding everybody else they're gonna take over but and they're gonna come and pull a u on you so when I spoke with George Floyd that's what I said at the press conference I said everybody's afraid that we're going to turn around and do to y'all which I've been doing to us for the last five hours and that resonated to me absolutely but I mean that story because he actually felt that I don't think he was saying that story to be a jerk like he was he felt compassion yes the fact that I really wanted to help her he loved her are we so wired to be so wired to hate y'all if you have to yeah yeah and and Ben Foster uh I I credit I credit um Ben Foster with getting my head right going in into this film um so the first day we're on set things are going slow so I'm standing up you know I'm holding court with the extras and I'm talking I'm just trying to you know I'm I'm a producer also so I'm on the set and I'm trying to get things together and Ben Foster walks on set and doesn't speak to me and he walks over and he goes into his tent he didn't even go to his trailer he was he was staying in his tent his character's tent on the set and he goes in and sits down and for six months he didn't speak to me he didn't make eye contact with me outside of a scene right and it was like he just he just wasn't playing with this material it was like the material was important the story was important and he like he got me into into that mindset that raised your game oh yep I was like got it got it yeah not Ben but what one of the other actors um so we're doing a scene we're doing a scene and he comes over and you you know he's one of the overseers and he says uh he says uh you you know you're a cold one ain't you and ad-libs a spit in my chest and I was like [Laughter] and I was like no Will Smith here right no Will Smith here I was like absolutely and I was like I want to suffer that and I was like okay yup no Will Smith and I settled into that and you know I spent I spent uh six months you know getting called [ __ ] 200 times a day by some really good actors and you say that too you say that too well that's really good actors man you know um and it was it was like foreign it was horrific it was horrific you know um but I got a cut I got cut and I got to go over to my trailer you know and all of that and it was like but just the the ends of human brutality is excruciating dude like what we can do to each other like it's it is it is insane it's literally insane and like being being um being submerged in that um even being out there in you know in that swamp you know and I was like nope we're not doing no stunt doubles I'm gonna be in the swamp I want to feel what Peter felt yeah and you know it was it hard to turn that off though each night or after the film or is there a lapse of time where you're still in the mode or um yeah it's it's uh it's so I considered myself a good actor that knew how to go back and forth I've been to the edges right you know of that way um I think I over you know I went a little bit too far with this one I wasn't paying attention as as much and I think you know a little bit of it got stuck on me Willow is my Willow can tell you know Willows daddy you know she like she can tell when I'm you know slipping into that other place but um yeah I might I went a little bit too far but but it was I feel like um it got delivered on camera in a way that people can feel it and appreciate it absolutely you know emancipation will be you know on Pace to be a huge Contender for the Oscars nearly six months removed from your situation yeah what have you learned about yourself from that Oscar night that that was um that was a horrific night man that was that was a horrific night to you for me yeah yeah I made all the real ones who understood I'm going to stand up for my wife whether I'm right or wrong in any place so I understood that I don't care what you say nobody can't make me think that anything you did was wrong let me tell you one of the the uh the words because I was right there and I get home and my nephew uh nine years old his name's Dom and he is the sweetest kid in the world you know having my sister live with me and I'm saying we got these bean bags in the kitchen I'm sitting in the kitchen he's sitting between my legs and he's holding the Oscar and he goes why you hit that man Uncle will and I was like oh and it's like you know I'm gonna be crying somebody got tissue um all right um and it was oh I got one I got one and it was like see I knew y'all was gonna have me yeah right all good you you can't explain it to him he stayed up late right waiting for you waiting for Uncle will you know and it was like you know I can I can do all the justifications forever he won't understand he's he can't you know we'll talk about Philly Philly born and raised yes where I spend most of my day Philly we looking we're looking good on a lot of fronts in Philly yeah yeah you know don't talk about I'm a Cowboy fan okay let's not go too far yeah yeah okay yeah and you definitely don't want to have that conversation what was your upbringing like though oh man yeah it was um Philly during that time was um the the 70s would you know black folks in the middle class was moving on up you know so it was it was a really beautiful time it was it was like rich with uh kids there was you know 50 kids in the neighborhood in the neighborhood you know it was like just a really um beautiful family oriented not a can of world yeah not right exactly you know so you know when I say that the this was the the greatest time of my adult life is because there was a time in my childhood that's the was the individual greatest time I've ever had and it was my family driving cross country my father shut the summer down and we drove a camper across country to family reunion in La then up back through the southern route back to Philly and it was just a long extra oh yeah yeah it was a month you know two days from Texas yeah it was like is Texas ever gonna end right and the only thing the only thing worse than that is the south to North in California yeah yeah north south in California you'd be in California forever I remember I got a short story I remember we did that we drove from Texas rented an RV never been outside of Texas you me and my family my grandfather Yeah Yeah and we drove right Texas to San Diego but that's why I remember the trip so that drive you get bored yeah super bored yeah so we stopped and you know we was kids so as soon as we stopped I'm ready to run and do something so I punched my cousin and take off running he chases me haha you ain't gonna catch me bow ran dead into a tree so for the next day and a half I ain't got no skin on this side I got bass I'm riding I'm looking like two face off Batman when they say God no God don't like ugly I ran cleaning to that tree man is that how your nose got smacked down that's the first joke I don't know what took him that long we don't take him now it's been too real yeah [Music] maybe because we're here with you because it's the Slavery movie and the Oscars yeah yeah oh man we're back for season four of all the smoke and very excited to have alongside of us our Partner money line yeah money Line's family they've been out ride or die this year ain't no different definitely and stay locked in because moneyline is providing dope experiences prizes stuff we can't really talk about but just know man when you're messing with money line they're always providing amazing experiences they brought me and Jack out to Vegas to experience our first Nascar event moneyline is the only app you'll ever need cash advances credit building investing and expert advice download the moneyline app today or visit moneyline.com backslash all the smoke to learn more foreign yeah that's my dude when did you fall in love with the sport um it was really the only I wasn't I was never good but it was the the the only thing athletic I could do like my my words a lot your whole career you got to think oh yeah no no because on Fresh Prince you just had a shotgun I haven't been there Academy he was nice down to eight and a half foot rims dunking on people yeah shoot oh oh you didn't say if I could act like alcohol yeah you give me the right camera man I'll take both of y'all down being from Philly what did it mean to you to be able to now be a part owner of the 76ers yeah people don't know that I know yeah because every time the season starts I've been working like I can't get out to the game yeah it's like we got one like crossed I was shooting Bad Boys in Miami and the team was playing in Miami I was like okay okay I haven't been like I literally been to like four games you know so I'm I'm selling my city out real bad um but dude that first time remember the first time that I walked in to the arena and the hometown fans knew that I was you know our owner dude you wanted to go see that oh my God where's the right camera man I can get you about 10 points tonight there's nothing like walking into your hometown Arena and that's a tough crowd in there too yeah yeah tough crowd in there yeah Philly's Italian craft Philly Philly's is generally good to philadelphians it's just if you you come from outside you know it can it can get bad I got a chance to play with AI there they walked on He Walked on Water yeah absolutely it's like yeah AI in Philly you know he could park anywhere and he did yeah and he did Philly sports fans like if you they just need you to work hard you work hard they love blue collar yeah yeah when did music come into the picture for you 12 years old um I started writing Rhymes and that was uh just after the Rapper's Delight Rapper's Delight hit it was over for me like it was it was like God telling me that's what I needed to do you know and I heard that and it was it was um I just knew you know and you you know I don't know if it's the same thing with with Athletics but just you'd had that first time and you just know it's like I just love it I love it this is what I want to do it's like I found I found my power in words you know I found the the uh just the essence of who I am in in hip-hop how instrumental was uh Jazzy Jeff for you you said it you've never met someone who worked yeah harder than you he showed you he set the bar yeah Jeff is Jeff is a musical genius right Jeff the references that he can call on the things that he understands about music I knew how to rhyme but Jeff knew how to make records right Jeff had like uh 10 000 records in his basement he had he came from a musical family and uh Jeff had he had cancer when he was young so his mom he couldn't go outside yeah so he lived in that basement with those records I don't even know what cancer was back then yeah yeah it was it was like it was funny yeah it is it's interesting yeah it seemed I guess just being young I just had no idea you know what that was it was much more of an adult right understanding but yeah he was he was uh sick for a couple years and um and uh beat it and but his whole time was in that basement with records and that became the world he uh disappeared into so you're on tour now as a late team with Public Enemy and two Live Crew what was that bro please it's crazy I just did a adjustments but that's how hip-hop was back then just like you could put all the different Crews on One show so it was it was Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince Public Enemy and two Live Crew and I talk about in the book about us going through the South yeah right so in the South they had morality laws right so we they would meet with us uh ahead of time and you know the local sheriff would come in meet with other groups and they would say Hey you know we know what you did in making Georgia the other night just just don't think you're gonna do that in Mobile right and so here's the if you perform this in your show if you perform that in your show you will be pulled off stage right um and Chuck D Public Enemy had a a piece where they would hang a klansman on stage as a part of every show and Luke Skywalker would be naked everybody that was like I was like officers sir you don't need to say nothing to us but I Promise You Chuck and say to his classmate tonight and I promise you Lucas gonna have his balls out before the first course and sometimes they got arrested they know him yeah sell out the next show yeah hey that's yep that's what Chuck you know Chuck was uh Chuck was saying they they were really aggressive on the first part of the tour and Chuck said as we started the move under the tour and I never knew he said he started feeling like he was putting everybody in in jeopardy so he started picking the cities where they would do it but Luke would get her Luke was having to do every other show because he'd be in jail so he would he would do the Tuesday night show he would miss Wednesday because he was in jail and he'd be back on Thursday yeah I laughed I laughed out loud when you were it was obviously in your head but you're like officer I agree you don't have to tell me my mom and I are already yeah good here yeah but it was like on on that tour it's like those dudes were genius chuck would show up with activists he would have lawyers and activists with him to meet with the sheriffs Luke realized there were there were FCC laws when he was in Miami he realized there were FCC laws took it to the ocean and so he got a boat and put his radio station on the boat because there was like maritime law so now he's an international water so then he could you know and it was like being that was really like our first tour and just seeing the level of intellect that these dudes were using to you know get there get their music out in the world and we we just wanted to like party and meet girls right and it was like they were they were doing something else Next Level yeah uh Russell Simmons it took him a second to get to you yeah yeah but once he got to you how instrumental was he and and kind of just opening doors and expanding your guys's opportunities yeah Russell Russell was Russell was you know single-handedly directing the landscape culture you know and culture during that time um and Russell was our manager um and I remember just I didn't talk about this in the book but when I when when I knew I loved Russell so we signed for management so Russell uh and Leo Cohen had our management so a couple you know a couple of years went by things were going well and it was right before Fresh Prince and I had contracts that wouldn't allow me to do Fresh Prince so I go to I go to Russell and I was like you know because my Rush contract stated that I have a certain monitorium whatever it was so I said you know I went in and I was like I was like you know Russell you are you you holding me back and it's like you call yourself an artist manager and you don't know [ __ ] about artists and I have a dream and I have a vision for who I want to be and your mind is so small that you can't right blah blah blah I'm giving him all of that and Russell's sister and he looks at me and his eyes weld up with tears and I was like oh and he said it was like I wasn't expecting his eyes weld up with tears and he said you really think I'm holding you back and I was like I had I had like committed so I had to double down I was like absolutely any pause and he looked over at his lawyer he said let him go you're free today um and I was like oh and let me out of the contract literally with nothing no strings attached nothing you know he could have taxed me on Fresh Prince and movies and all that no clean let me go that day wow and I was like I love that dude yeah that's somebody who want to see you win yeah absolutely and it was like it was a deep offense to him that an artist felt like he was holding him back he's so committed to like his whole life is helping artists you know achieve their Visions six seasons of The Fresh Prince yes sir do you feel like during that time you kind of really honed into who you were as an actor yeah I think one of the best things that ever happened uh uh to me in terms of acting was James Avery that was a cold scene yeah James Avery he he was like nothing was good enough he was like nope you have too much talent for that nope more nope and it was like I'm doing movies and I'm trying to you know and it was like he made sure that I understood my responsibility to hone my craft as a gift to the world you know he was like no you're you're you've been you've been gifted too much to play with it right and he just kept pushing me kept pushing me he watched everything I did he commented he would give me notes on everything and you know yeah I talked about that in the book too that the uh the the father yeah the father scene was the first time and uh you know we had the moment we were doing the scene and you know I was I was blowing my lines I couldn't get it together and at the end of that father scene James Avery is hugging me and he whispers he whispers in my ear now that's [ __ ] acting right and I'm like hey I want to uh jump in front of you real quick you guys had every beautiful woman there was going to be something come through that show unless that happens listen every single one came through that show it's too much power for one minute oh man I mean when you when you you catch the reruns these days she was on there yeah and it's like it wasn't on it wasn't like on purpose but it was like it's the hot show and it's you know wanted a handful of black shows on and so everybody was unbelievable was coming through on on Fresh Prince it was it was um thank God I was married I would have ruined my life for sure quick I had to ruined my life for sure if I wasn't married I knew that I knew that young too I knew that young too that that's a lot of power to happen each episode [Laughter] my father my father was my father was Hardcore and I had done something uh he gave me the great the greatest quote and he was he was Furious I was had girls at work and stuff like that and he just screamed at me keep your dick out them people's money that's a bar that's the bar I was like for real yo I kind of touched my soul like [ __ ] that was that's Daddio Daddio kept it I'm just thinking right now I know a couple Brothers need to hear that yeah yeah I changed it for my kids it was the right idea I I tell my kids uh no fishing off the company Pierce did you know what she was doing for the culture doing the Fresh Prince when you were showing up with them fresh JS no I know you didn't no idea no you did it's like I was I was living the culture right right you weren't the culture right yo at that time I was I was literally calling Jordan and I was like Mike please please don't give it to nobody like just let me be the first person I gotta be the first person to wear dope he was like man I don't run that yeah he was like dude yeah the the fours were the Fresh Prince is they called The Forest the Fresh Prince that's the fives now yeah yeah so they did the I haven't seen it I received the new one yeah Fresh Prince fives wow it's four pair that's crazy yeah uh you had a sit down with Aunt Viv yes and I got a chance to watch that how how important was that for you man so bring the tissue out I know they're coming out I feel it now I'm gonna be mature I'm gonna be mature I feel it I feel it coming out I know right um no I said thank you that's that's bad okay I can't be on all of the smoke no no no no no no no no no that's what this is we get in touch with our families here I desperately want to be a good person like I desperately want to be valuable you know and I didn't I didn't understand how deeply I was offending her I just I I didn't even comprehend how um you know I had I hadn't had kids myself my son was born you know during during the Fresh Prince but the comprehension of when a when a woman is pregnant the level of sensitivity and difficulty and Janet Janet had a difficult pregnancy and all of that and I'm in my next room banging the music right on set and it was it was unconsciousness is a terrible enemy and I just didn't know I didn't know um I love Janet man and it was like I wanted her respect like she's a you know stage trained actress singer dancer super talented super Talent right and I wanted her respect I wanted her to think I was great and during that time she didn't and I had a negative reaction to that um so it was really important to me you know after I started doing my work I started you know trying to understand myself and understand how I'm interacting with people and once I saw clearly my offenses I just I needed to I desperately need it right to clear them up and Janet was you know wide open and you know it was it was rough right if you watched it yeah I watched it it was rough rugged and raw you know but it's like that's who I want to be man that's I don't want to be beefing with people but like you said nobody's perfect and I think too often we let [ __ ] slide that we're wrong about yeah and not say anything right so I think that's big uh Switching gears Bad Boys the franchise yes I know you got number you got number four coming up this guy thinks he's an actor for the new Bad Boys you've got to be here on this segment where's the idea uh bad boys come from Martin actually had the script for the first one and Martin brought me in okay right so um that's dope yeah they wanted him to do it with Eddie and you know uh Martin's sister was like you should do that with Will um and you know Martin Martin called me and uh you know we sat there we had one meeting and you know the script wasn't the script wasn't together it was originally for uh Dana Carvey and John Lovitz they were the original Bad Boys oh good choice yeah that would have been a very different movie yeah Dana Carvey and John lovetts and they fell out and then uh Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson brought it to Martin and then Martin said I won't do it without will so he brought me in and um hell of a Duo yeah and it it was you know the script the script wasn't all the way there but I think what happens because we were both on television shows right so we were used to making this stuff up on the fly anyway he had his group of writers I had my group of writers we had our boys and we came together and you we were literally making the scenes day to day as we were going on we had he had his Squad I had my squad we would come we would do it we was writing the stuff but you know right on the set and then try to do that and it was it was you know one of the greatest uh friendships I've ever had in the business oh my God I can only imagine oh my God I can only imagine uh I'm gonna tell a story I've never told it I love it love it so please Martin was newly married so he was like he's like well you know in Miami it was like I'm not I'm not doing nothing I'm not doing nothing so this is for the first first one okay the first one newly married he was like dude I just don't it's like I was like Marty mom come on you got it he was like no no no I was like dude it's like we got to go it's like for the culture they know like we the bad boys like they know it's like life yes like come on man right so Prince had a club called uh Glam slam Glam lamb slam sounds like Prince had a club in Miami right yeah so you can imagine what a prince Club was like so it's purple everywhere everything's suede you gotta have nice hair to get in yeah I get married and I was like Martin Come on Prince got this is he he can't turn down come on Martin come on he was like all right so we go and Martin is literally sitting there with his hand and he's sitting there and it's it's wild like I've never seen nothing like this club right so we're sitting there and there's a there's a balcony that looks over onto the dance floor so we're up in the balcony VIP we're sitting there Martin sitting and there's like like girls like you just can't you know you've been to Miami yourself right yeah so the girl walks up and stands in front of Martin and she's standing there and she's dancing in front of Martin and he's like oh come on and she lifts her skirt up and she has nothing on under and she's asking Martin if they could she wants to have sex in the club and I look at Martin he's like this why don't [ __ ] go nowhere with you he was right out the door right out of there like baby he would have hit me three months ago Martin and I have never been out again [Laughter] never been out again yeah and that was one of the greatest things I ever did in my life you got to understand when you're playing somebody that's great like that when you play these roles see what happens there's a part of you that has always changed man when you when you spend some time with a character like that it's a part of you that's always changed you'll never be the same so there's a little piece of Ali that's in me for the rest of my life [Laughter] you right great question thank you hey you know you know what there's only one person that was able to do Jamie Foxx that's it yeah Jamie Jamie had us roll before we even started we couldn't even stop laughing yeah our face hurt our stomach hurt oh man I'm sure that was fun yeah Jamie's the bear King Richard how important did you like that role was man to be brought to life like those kinds of stories where you think you know the story yeah I love those where you think you know you don't know and but you don't really know you know and you know he had been so vilified and villainized and I remember the first time talking with Venus and Serena and it was like so much love they loved that man and I was it was it didn't fit the image of what I have you know of the overbearing father that demands his kids and he didn't he didn't do that and Venus uh referred to it as the Jedi mind trick she says somehow he convinced us that we wanted to play tennis they had to beg him she was like he had done something where their punishment was they couldn't play tennis right and she said to the point that one time Serena uh Serena got in trouble and she couldn't play and she went in her room and balled a sock up and put rubber bands around it and was hitting it against the wall in in her bedroom and somehow he inspired them to play not demanded that they they play and it just changed everything about their uh their relationship and you know my mother had met him and she was telling me how hilarious he was before before I did the film and it was just not the image that I had of him you know so um I loved being able to set the record straight um about Richard Williams yeah he was a great job he was a really um unique teacher and advocate for those girls well quick hitters first thing to come to mind let us know if you had to pick if you had to pick I'll give you two two movies your two favorite roles you've been able to do thus far number one is definitely Pursuit of Happiness that's his favorite movie yeah Pursuit of Happiness it's like that's just one of them ones where everything just came together beautifully with your little man too yeah with my son dude in that bathroom with my actual son yeah wow never forget that moment Pursuit of Happiness I think is like the the best all-around movie I've ever made it's beautiful right um yeah and there's other ones I like for different for different reasons we'll just leave that one there yeah yeah we just do yeah I think that I think that's that's I'm I'm Pursuit of Happiness and King Richard was pretty good yeah watch that back-to-back nights yeah my joint both nice just yeah Willy's over here killing this [ __ ] for real being a hip-hop head what three artists are in your playlist right now three what three artists in my plate oh I gotta platinum album by the way I gotta play on the mountain by the way too oh word word yeah you so yeah because I remember you did you did that as Platinum is it is it is it old school platinum or is this new school Platinum where they give you for for I got a million steps like that streams yeah yeah that's what time I'm in I'm not I'm not a rapper though I just did it for Georgia I know I mean I get it I got it I mean because I I sold like a million CDs no no question hard copy if people had to go buy a hard copies yeah three million for money okay I'll give it to you I mean it is platinum this place that's like that's not Shack sound when I tell Shane oh yeah he did but not how I did it I got songs with big ears oh man am I playing all right so I just did a thing with Jaden and I just put together the the an old school playlist of people that I wanted him to learn to to listen to and rock him was first right so Rakim was the first one in there um yeah yeah it's like for him to just see where we've been to feel feel where we're going so I literally just made that playlist um I think Mel's verse Melly Mel on um on the message I put that in there for him uh you went way back on that one yeah yeah that's that's really original that's like that shaped me um and I put together some of the old school tapes for um Grand Master cast cold Crush Brothers uh that literally just made that that playlist but not looking at your son from the outside and I never met and I don't know him but he gonna dig Rock him yeah oh for sure because it's the the substance he loves that when I say first was it is it rapper hip-hop artist to win a Grammy I'm not sure the proper title but yeah either one first the first it's the first it's the first of both you know so however our our platinums are different [Applause] [Laughter] when you look back on that you know and and kind of see what the music is now but to think you were the first to to earn a Grammy what does that mean to you yo it's crazy I was uh just talking to Chuck D right so um the naris the Grammy organization decided not to televise the category that didn't go right and we boycott right so all of the rappers boycotted and so we had a boycott party I was just talking to Chuck D Chuck D had the line uh who gives a [ __ ] about a goddamn Grammy right and I was standing next to Chuck D when they announced the winners [Laughter] five dinner guests that are alive oh wow Nelson Mandela first and foremost um five dinner guests all right so I would definitely want to sit with Nelson Mandela um laotsu um um I guess his translator would have to come to it I would take a seat [Laughter] um Maya Angelou never really got to talk to her yeah well darling uh yeah um George Orwell um I'm trying to keep the room interesting um that's four right um let me see Mandela I Gotta See this has to be a good one hold on let me say let me see that last dinner Maya Angelou Dostoyevsky I'm about to look him look him up Crime and Punishment he wrote uh Crime and Punishment I just read uh Crime and Punishment and the the underground man and like he had something he had something really interesting and I would only want him to uh debate Mandela yeah some dinner conversations yeah yeah if you could see one guest on our show who would it be but um before you answer there's a catch you have to help us help yeah your answer on the show Absolutely for sure no I'm there I'm there have you had Denzel oh [ __ ] shut the front door absolutely not yeah okay yeah Denzel is a real one wow Denzel is a real one yeah yeah Denzel Denzel uh he grabbed me up these last six months I love that Denzel so when you leaned on he's real real Denzel is real real love to hear that man we appreciate your time and just really want to tell you man we love you and we appreciate you like how important you are to our culture how important you are to just the movement period yeah I ain't going I'm on it we appreciate it recharged and ready yes yes is this uh we got a little gift box for you here got some gear for you we're looking at where can I find that at Jack uh all the smoke dot store there you go all the smoke guys yeah fresh giveaway that was especially designed just for you nobody's going to have that these are all 101. fresh gear and we know you like gear like that so it's 101. okay okay but why are you opening the gear we can announce that you know I'm doing my we doing my dock here oh that's right absolutely yeah Westbrook we working together it's fairly it's our family now yeah yeah it's our family now and Ellen right here to my right has been trying to get me together five years now so I'm glad we finally did but again man we thank you for your time we wish you the best uh thank you and uh man this is we you might not see all the smoke no more basketball YouTube and the I Heart platform black effects we'll see y'all we might not see y'all yes give thanks to God the Lord is with us [Music] I will come back to you [Music] they beat me they whip me never break me

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Published: Thu Dec 01 2022