Transcript for #990 - Jamie Foxx

Who's asking you to go with one day and stand up? You called out somebody. You called out of motherfucker. Oh, you mean I see it? I just got to get it today. We get in the crates. We got to get it to the crates, man. I was crazy when we was doing a stand-up. Like it was like, it was like gunslingers. What happened with it? Nothing. You called the murderer, though.

Because the terrain, we were just talking about off of Mike about how, how would, we would have been in jail. Yeah. had there been social media? Back when he's coming up, we'd have life. We'd have double life. I'd be looking at you myself then. You had to kill Carlos when I say it.

You can't do it. And what this comes as you came for, for all of y'all, just, you know, tuning in, we were talking about, you know, Chris Brown, I'll see Chris Brown, he'll come out my house and he'll, he'll just sit there and go like, what the fuck, you know, And I said, listen, you're just too talented for one. Cast like him and Justin Bieber who've been who've been blessed with extra. They look good. They can fight. They, they're athletic and they sing. They can dance. They can dance. It's the first time I met Chris Brown. This is crazy. I'm throwing a party in Miami. And it's me in Colorado, Eddie Murphy, you know, Eddie Murphy was still in it. This year's back, you know, like two, two thousand five, maybe. I think, yeah, two thousand five. And so I'm hosting a party when Miami, the crowd's going crazy, but in the down, like, not in the VIP, it's some kids dancing. I'm like, what the fuck are that? I think dancing on all this shit. And so my DJ, DJ Ari goes, yo man, that's a new kid Chris Brown. Yo, he about to be the next one. I said yeah, but he think he can dance because you know, I'm not that. I go fuck him up, you know what I'm saying? This young guy, I'm gonna know who I am. I come down and fuck him up and there's like fucks, okay. So I go down there and now, you know, it's sort of my time and so everybody's following me, I'm about to go battle whoever this kid is. So I say, yeah, bro, you take your dance, huh? And I did like some kind of bullshit, like a move. Listen to me. We're all, we're all jam together, right? He doesn't do a move. You know what he does? He does a back flip. But the way he did the back flip, and he six two, he standing in the middle of the crowd, he jumped over the crowd, did the back flip up here and came straight down and said, what's up? I said, motherfucker, I'm gonna leave you to fuck off. I don't know what fuck that. That's some Avengers shit. And I just remember when he gets on, but then social media catches on. And then it's just hard. It's hard to live. When you social media and I tell them all the time, you have to social media sort of make you color them inside the lines. Or try to. Or try to. Or like this. It makes you tuck your artistry in sometimes. Does that make sense? Tuck your crazy in. Tuck your crazy in, you tuck your artistry in, like, I didn't know what a meme was, you know, you know, shit, I'm a fucking, I was just catching it on the mind space and shit, shit, shit, shit. So my daughter sends me a picture of Rihanna, right? Going to the Met Ball. And by the time I got to picture, whatever happened, the picture was Rihanna, and in this yellow dress and I hit my daughter, I say, I love the dress. It's amazing. I don't understand the pizza that's in it, but maybe that's, you know, she's giving a nod to Italy and where maybe she got the dress for her, I don't know. She's like, no dad, that's a meme. I said, what? That's a meme. I said, what do you mean? She said, no, there's actually not a pizza in the dress. Somebody crafted or fixed it there.

And so me, I'm thinking, well, what the fuck is a meme? This is not that. So this girl worked a whole fucking night. to get this dress, to go to the Met Ball, which is your supposed to be, you know, out the box, and somebody puts a pizza on it, and that's all you see is a pizza. I say, how do you compete with that? How, how could you be Michael Jordan? And kids run up to you and say, you're the crybaby things.

You cried, man. They're going to cry, man.

It's the best thing. But watch this though. It wants his sticks. That's what I'm saying. What's his stick? I want those sticks. Yeah. Michael Gordon to somebody under the age of 18. He's a crybaby face, man. Hey, man. They're going to cry baby. Hey, man. And then you know how, uh, uh, you know how fans do it. And man, cry right quick, go. Yeah.

You have to have it. We've talked about going and being with Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson back in the day, you couldn't, that's why when people say like, why does Mike Tyson first of all, he's a fighter, he's not a tennis player, but Mike was a wild boy and to hang out with him, you could understand like he was the biggest person on the planet and he had the demons, you know what I'm saying? And but he's fun too, because you see him in a club and you see, he sees some girls and you're fine, you're doing You're like BMWs. You're like BMWs. You're like BMWs. You're like BMWs and crazy. He'd take the girls out and go get a BMW. I mean, he was that crazy. You know what I'm just saying? Come on, come on, let's look at the vehicle and open up the BMW to the ship. But he was wild. But I say just like how we say in our fear, you can't have that type of talent in that area and not have John John Jones camp. You can't drink milk and almost kill somebody. You can't, you're going to get that homogenized about to get no, you can't.

Everybody, you even talked about, you look at the people on your wall, you look at Hendrix, you look at Elvis, they have to have something because that's got fucking loose. Yeah, guys going to give you something incredible. But he's also going to give you something to anchor that because I believe this what I believe in and you tell me if you believe is I believe in the yen and the Yang of everything meaning like when there's absolute light that has to be absolute darkness to balance it out and that's what everything that we do. It's sort of like we're not going to get away with Anything like anything that happens to you in life. You have to pay for it. Like I was it's like the grocery store. Okay. I got the career. Boop got to pay for that. Okay. I got the money. Boop. Okay. I got to pay for that. Then here come the family. Boop. Yeah, I need that money. Yeah, you you you fucking I'm going I'm I'm a really really story about you. So it's all of these different things that you got to pay for. And that's why you see these guys like that, because, you know, like I said, talking to Justin Bieber, you know, everything I said, some of this shit is supposed to happen to you.

And yeah, for us, we like shit. Because, you know, I ain't 20. I'm gonna take that 90 million. I'm gonna go do a million. But we can't be in his mind and we can't see how it is. He grew up that way.

Never had a normal life. You don't expect. Like, I always tell kids who want to be in this business to please wait. Like, even when my kids are just waiting. Wait till you, like, wait till you can understand. Like, I was able to be grown and have some grown shit happen to me and just regular life should happen. So that when this happened, I still have a point of reference to get back to because you know like I know you've interviewed everybody. This business affects you in such a way where you'll see one person one day. I won't say the comedians name but I remember comedian back in a day did like half of an HBO whatever and then the next week I saw him he had 12 bodyguards. and they were pushing me back. I was like, what the fuck, man? Yo man, yo, no, no, right now. He just got crazy. He got crazy. He got crazy. He got crazy. He got crazy. And obviously, I won't say the names. We're doing a couple of guys. I never get this one do hit. And I went up to try to say something to him. And for some reason, he had a white suit on. We went to club. Why the fuck is he having a white suit on? And he's a big shade. And I went to talk to him. And he said, no, right now, man, I'm rich. He said that. That's what he's doing. He's funny everybody. Not right now. He got rich. Just let me be rich and famous right now. I don't want to hear your pitch. Because I don't want to pitch him so much. I mean, you think you can get away. That was awesome. And as he said, I had to sort of like, okay, I had to get up.

We've seen them. But being a comedian, we get, we get a chance to sit in a different seat. because we sort of our jobs or our observational. You know what I'm saying? We still have our own demons, but it's just different.

You don't, and it's, and it's tough. I was talking to a actor, another actor. And it's tough. I see, I'm a comic who became an actor. So I'm cheating. Yeah, I can go do this and I'm gonna be in St. Louis tomorrow, you know, some jokes so I can, you know, I gotta and get my thing up, but just actors.

It's not only had, but I've been fortunate in the fact that now things have opened up, like back in the day, like you could only do one thing. One thing, I would never get keen on everyone else telling me, say, yo, what's with the singin' shit? Yeah, you wanted them. I can't see. You tried to sing. I was trying to sing for a girl. I'd be like, can you see the love is real? And girl, Ben, oh, Jamie, stop. You two finally in the face. No face is too funny. I see one is singing to me. It's finally best poem ball. Stop. So I was like, fuck, maybe I'll never sing. You know, so I was doing Of course, it stand up, you know, doing the winters yet. And then it wasn't until literally, um, I was throwing these parties in my crib and I would always throw parties for like musical guys, you know, so I threw a party for puff. puff comes and big parties like 2000 puff is there and it's all about him and I never get he got mad at me a little bit because I would follow him and I would actually follow him with a with a camera because at that time puff is the biggest guy in the world you know you couldn't even get in this party so the way I would get in this party that I showed with a camera like your puff you need a document document to share I said, yeah, let me get that man, nobody getting this. And it wasn't back in a day with the camera phone. I had the big fucking cannon that you put on your shoulder and the light. And I said, let me change the battery. Let me get all this shit, right? So at one point, I told him we were actually in Philly. And he was throwing a party and he said, your playboy, this party's a million and a half dollars. I said, like, for what? I mean, what are you saying? He said it costs a million and a half dollars a throw. This part has a puff. Oh my God, I love it. The party's amazing. Yes, the mayor is here and everything. I said, but that's too much money. As you come to my place in LA, I thought you're party for 400 bucks. That will rival this party. And he got a little man because, you know, he was like, yo, no, I'm known for this shit. Don't front. I said, no, no, I respect you. I said, but LA, I just know how to get around. So he gets to LA. And he calls me early in the morning. Your playboy makes that shit happen. It's a sadder. I said, cool, I'm going on my phones. And by 12 o'clock in my small house in Tarzan and God bless my neighbors that live there, I'm no longer there. I know they want me to get out of there because that was too much. But the party's fevered pitch. And I invited the right people, you know, the right girls with beautiful but not too tight, not too, you know, just everything was great. The guys wouldn't know haters that, you know, LA, you know, they ain't fucking fucking good. No, one of them that it was the right guys and he shows up. And when he shows up, he goes, that's the girl on that TV. Oh, that's the girl on the movie. I said, yeah, you're a friend. He's like, we're all hang out here. So it's like, you know, it's all good. And that's the girl kid. I said, yeah, yeah. I said, but look at the party. I said, look over there on the table. I got Kentucky Fried Chicken, but I put it in a nice plate. I got Coca-Cola, but it's just in a picture. I said, we're at 280 bucks right now. And counting, I won't go over 400. And he had the most incredible time, right? But at that party was all musical people. And I did it for a reason. At that party, Missy Eleanor, of course, she had her room. Everybody's going crazy, Missy Eleanor. I'm going to my garage. And there's two guys, a little guy like this in the tall guy, the little guy goes, yo beep. He was like this all the time, me? I said, yeah, who are you? He said, uh, we didn't have tunes. Uh, my name is Farrell. I said, yeah, I'm gonna hurt you. That's how long ago this was. Wow. So he's like, can I just go ahead and have a great time? Uh, there was another guy standing on a wall, green jacket, like a green little jump suit. Nobody's talking to him. Guess who was? Who? Jay-Z. Nobody knows. I said, what's up, man? Yeah, what's your honor?

So Jay-Z, you know, no one knows. But, and now, the way I got into the music, however, is that all these different parties is going on. And I would have like different musical people leaving me music in my little studio that I built. I went and got this great studio built in the back of my house. And so one day, end comes this kid, backpack on. Jaws busted? Who is it? Who?

Kanye walks in. And I said, who's that? It's all that said, new my fucking Kanye man. He got to be the shit. I said, what do you do? Well, he produces, but he also wraps. I said, well, anybody coming to my house, they got to perform. So I said, yo, man, they say, you know, you wrap is it. He wrapped the most incredible, I don't know if it's free. It was incredible. I said, I don't know why you aren't famous. He did it with a broken jaw. He had a little, little, little, little swollen. I don't think it was broken, but a little swollen because it wasn't too long after that accident that he had, right? And then he goes, ah, ah, ah, I got a song that you, you would be good on, ah, ah, ah, I got this song. I know you could kill. I was like, me? Song, goofy face! No wonder! From a little girl. He's like, yeah, I saw a shit cool. So we go in the back. When Mr. I's got studio in the back. So he sings. He says, the song's going to go, she says she wants a Marvin Gaye. Some Luther Vendor. So I said, I got it. She says she wants a Marvin Gaye. He's like, what do you know? I said, well, I got to put the R&B on it. You know what I'm saying? I'm a real singer. You know, I've been singing. He says, I don't do that. I don't just sing the song because it's hip-hop and I said, okay, cool. So I'll be gradually sung the song. I'm thinking songs whack. He's not gonna make it. So I went off. I did a bad movie. I come back about six weeks, eight weeks later. That song is number one. My boy goes like, you remember that song? You said when shit is number one in the country. And then that's how I got into the music. So long story, longer. It's like, yeah, you can do all of the things. And there's a lot of actors and actresses that can. You just need those opportunities. Just like in life, when your when your opportunity comes, if you prepare for it. Now you could jump into it and grab it. And what I was told was by my guy, Brian, who does all of my music. He found slow jams. He found gold. He found blame it on the alcohol. He says, you got to stop singing funny shit and sing a real record. And once you sing a real record and not say it's you singing it, now you got to better go. So now after all of those years, The people that grew up with me, what doing stand up or watch their older. And that a young folks is like, you can't hear me. Just like how, you know, the guys now going to, so as I get older. You hope that your blessed with opportunities, and you know, it's the old saying, but there's sort of reinvent or reintroduce yourself to people who may not know who you are.

You know, but like we all are like comedians, we got a lot of shit that we want to get out. And like I said, being a comedian, we had, we used to have. It's getting, it's getting crazy here. It's getting tough on us. As far as, you know, everything we say, you know, they want to come kill us. Right. I mean, I did, I did one, I did Jimmy Fallon, one seeding that Jimmy Fallon and every organization wanted to get me. What did you say? I was doing a joke of singing these funny songs about who let the dogs out. And so we took who let the dogs out and put it in like a vibe bill or a showton. Who let the dogs out, whatever it was, right? But beginning of that, I sort of add, I was watching these dogs and they were coming towards me and I was wondering, who let them out? And there was a pit bull there and you know, you have to be careful because pit bulls can be contankers, you know? And then I go on to the song, the Pitbull community. It was like Jamie Foxx, people shameless. And then it was another thing where Jamie Fallen was doing some type of He was saying what was going to be in the next show. And I was doing a bad version of signing, which I actually know how to sign. But I was doing a bad version of sign language. I know sign language. We're talking more about it later. You know, all those types of different things. But as I was doing it as joke, I didn't know that the person that he was talking about happened to be deaf. Oh, no, oh my god. And so then, you know, so it's just all of these things that, and I try to tell people I said, hey, listen, we never mean anything bad. We poke fun, but we don't mean anything. Babbage, you can't just, you know, you can't kill us. And because I got to keep doing what I do, you know, so it's getting tougher.

Yeah, and the comments get that ass through the comment, comment to hit you right where you go all the time. Yeah, this month. That's right.

But once I say something about your teeth, You kind of look in the mirror. I don't understand. I got it. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. I got fucked up. Yeah. If I read all the comments, I never try another, you know, I got a movie that we just shot for a little, nothing called Austro weekend and the jokes are like all the way out there, you know, and it's, I got everybody in it, you know, and we're all taking, we're all played different characters. Like I play a white racist, white racist cop. And how do you do that? Oh, I'll show it to you. I'll grab everything, show it to you. But it's a, they, uh, Robert Dungeon plays a Mexican, uh, Gerard Butler plays a Russian who loves gymnastics, uh, beneath the electoral plays, this crazy tattoo artists, and we're all, you know, we're all doing our thing. So it's like, if you read the comments, that'll make you tuck that in. But this is some brilliant, And it's a cool little thing too. It's called All Star Week and for a reason. It's about two guys. One guy loves Steph Curry. The other guy loves the brown James. And all they're trying to do is get to the All Star Game. And it's sort of like this whole journey of running into all these people. So it's dope. But it is some things where it's like, ooh, you know, you can see it. There's gonna be some shit going on.

I'll say this. People have to understand where it comes from. There are real people out there that really mean you harm. Like, outside of us. I mean, there's some real people who really don't fucking like you. Whatever you are, whether you're black, you're white, you're weird, you're straight, you're gay, whatever it is. There's some people who really don't like, with entertainment. And it's easy, we're easy, we're easy. It's easy for you to jump on and ride with down the junior or Jamie five, so Joe, because It's easy, you know, when it's real things, which, you know, whether it's politics or whether it's whatever, a lot of times we sort of, we're not ready for that fight, but it's easy to sort of pick the comedian. I call Robert, I said, listen, I need you to play a Mexican. He says, dude, here's the deal. Sure. Why not? Fuck it. Sure. Of course. Yeah, Mexican, whatever. But then he text back and said, I'm nervous to play the Mexican. I said, well, shit, you play the black dude. And you killed that shit. We just all, you know, we got to be able to do care.

It was a wow. But here's the thing. We fuck with Robby Down in June. Like, that's why I got it. Right. Like, I did his birthday party. And my first joke was, how dare you take all of these rules from black people? You know, anyway everybody's laughing, have you? It's sort of like the entertainers, man. You got to give us room, you know what I'm saying like to play in it. I'll show you when I got to take that room. You got to take it. You can't worry about, I saw it's Chappelle somewhere. It was like, you know, they were asking about his jokes and he's like, you know, man, look, you know, people have said worship. And I think he said something about Donald Trump saying, grab by the pussy or something, whatever. But it was true. It was like the one thing, that you look at what happened with politics this year, people sort of stripped away a lot of things. You know what I'm saying? Regardless of what you believed in, whatever person you voted for. There was a lot of things that were sort of addressed about like maybe we were playing things a little too close. Like some of those politicians were afraid to say what Donald Trump was saying and they ended up being left in the dust because people were a little like, well, he's got a point in the sense of we're playing things a little too close. So when you look at that as a comedian, it's like, wow, you know, that was good for me. And that was good for me in a certain way. First of all, it's great jokes. Two is like, it does say, are we becoming too fragile when it comes to our race, like black folk? Like I say, yeah, some people are racist and some people are perceptiveness. know what that means? No. The perception is, okay, the perception in America was the white man Donald Trump can be president. The one man can't do it. Perception doesn't mean that if you vote for Donald Trump that you're racist, I don't think everybody's because that was a big thing. Sometimes this perception, I'll make it clear. Okay. I do a joke and front of all black people. And I said, black people are very interesting people because we deal with racism and perceptionism. I said because we're very nervous, flyers, right? We don't like to get home planes. First thing we do when we get on the plane, we see who's flying this motherfucker. We look in the cockpit. If we look and see a black guy, we will stop and go, hey, how long you been flying? You got your eyes with you? And it was the perception. And don't let a woman sit next to them. Oh shit, we good. It could be a bright sunny day. It's a house of weather. Oh, we good. And then as you sit in that seat anytime you hit a bump. My brother, we straight. Same situation you go in in the cockpit. You see that white guy with this salt and pepper hair. and those aviators, and it's form hair like this, and it's storming outside. She'd fly to shit through a hurricane. So it's the perception that we have to talk about sometime.

That, that, that, he definitely awakened that side. But I really, but I will, but I will say this, like I said, the perception gets us all too. You know, because like my, my daughter, it was interesting, my oldest, you know, my oldest daughter, like when, when the election happened, and when, you know, the results came in. Dad, I'm so mad. I can't take it. I said, well, would you, we're gonna go march. That's what we did y'all vote. Not all of us, but, you know, I said, well, you know, you gotta get out there because their perception was she had it in the back. Right. You know what I'm saying? So you gotta get out there and be, you know, whatever that is.

Maybe you're going to appreciate this. because we live it in two words. We live when it wasn't here and we live when it was in it. It's discretion. Social media allows you not to have discretion. You're able to go in and type whatever you want to say. And that usually that's what we pay attention to. Discretion is this. We're sitting at the dinner table and y'all. I said something that you didn't like, but the discretion was I'll address that later. Right? So now that you don't have any discretion, anybody's voice can be heard, not everybody.

How do you say it? Not everybody has a point. that we should hook all of our wagons to. Right. What I notice is that we will hook our wagons to the most extreme point. And that may be only 2500 people. Like when my homies will hit me, say man, you would say amen to my sons. I say how many views it to get. 80,000 views. I say it's 8 million people in Philly alone. why you just listen to those 80,000 people. So you sort of have to put balance in the way you sort of sift through it. Does that make sense?

Get you changed the way you're dressing and that's why I don't like. That's why I don't like. So I tell all of my artists and all my friends don't change. Don't read it because what happens is everybody starts coloring and inside the lines and then nobody's dangerous anymore. Right because you remember back in the day Madonna dangerous boom right Donna come out naked, you know just dance into the Grammys like it's all good. Yeah, so What I hope will want I always say just don't tuck your art in don't tuck your art in for the for the comments because we'll end up not having anything not having anything to celebrate that is That is good. Like having something to celebrate, somebody did a song that was dope or a movie that was dope, but got outside the box as opposed to what we love celebrating, which is the crazy shit.

Yeah. Well, I got, I'm going back out. So it's about to happen. I'm gonna be passing out a whole bunch of gift baskets. because I'm going back out and I, you know, like, how much time did you take off? I've never actually taken off because I still do gigs like I got a gig tomorrow, St. Louis, you know, a private gig, whatever, but it's just, you know, like I know, like as a comedian, you got a live, like I just can't jump out there and just start talking or writing jokes. Like I've lived through some crazy shit. So I got to go out there and talk about that. You know, had I not have been hooked, because the one thing I hate is, The one thing that's tough for a comedian is to become successful because we talk from a shit is fucked up point of view and I got to have a little anger and I got to have a little poke fun. And if I become that, what if I become what I poke fun at, then I can't get it off. That's why at my house, people coming to my house, my daughter's asking me, is that why is this room not, there's nothing in it? I said, I don't want to complete the house because it gives me a sense of like, I'm still trying to get on. Like I don't have one. I don't put like all the pitches. Nothing is like perfect in my career. There's a curtain right now that is torn open in my bedroom.

I'm getting them checked, man. It was good. And I just got to leave it like that. I keep my house a little so that we call the fuck up. The dysfunctional mansion. I'll talk about that. The dysfunctional mansion where there's always somebody like the other night, there's Oldel Beckham in my house, a battle dance in Chris Brown. You know what I'm saying? Who does that? You know what I'm saying? I just crazy shit happening at my house all the time. So I have something to link my, you know, hitch my comedic wagon to.

I don't, I don't, I don't remove myself from it. I don't remove, I don't get behind the gates. Behind the gates is a worship. Behind the gates. Behind the gates. When you get behind the gates, when you reach a certain point and you're behind the gates, you can't really see what I'm out. I got to be out with the people. I got to have people, like I had a BET party, right? 3,000 people in my house. counted. Jesus, people at the gate, you know, trying to get in is, and as I look through the party, there's Floyd, made with all time, y'all, you know, what's up, Jay Fox? What's up, baby? Hey, John, all time you got the grace party. I love you, baby. You know, got the fight coming, Jay. You know, so this floor, this fat Joe, this little Kim is on stage performing. And then I look around and I see some of the homies, like the real guys that were suffocates. I had this nice party right here because love it. So it's all of these mixes of people that I can still touch hang out with people from my community. Her name is Anka. She's like the unofficial mayor in our cities. It's all a little white lady from Germany. And she's on the dance for dance with Snoop. Snoopy, he's glad the Snoopy is so good in the weird I don't know it. It's crazy. So I sort of keep it that way so I could stay loose so when I go out I got I got shit that I could talk about from the hood to the way.

But you gotta look, I think what helps me is the failures. Like, doing a couple of movies that don't go through TSA, they don't speak to you. Your movie is out. And then I come out there. Then when you make eye contact, come out there. All right, good. Come out there. Damn, the movie's up. Or you just get to see it say, damn, five's what you're doing, baby. What was that shit? This last shit dog. I had to watch that shit on five stick money. So it's like, you appreciate those. Right. Which keeps you regular, keeps you humble. And you just got to sort of look at other people and see how people in our business when they do get behind the gates, you know, you think comics that get that thousand mile stare and don't want to, I don't be funny no more. Yeah, I want you to be funny no more. That's how you came up. I want to be sexy now. You know what I'm saying? They all fall into the sexy, you know, I want to say funny and keep the teeth goofy, keep my head looking goofy, hair like whatever it is. Because that's what I draw upon when I go out. Because people can sense it.

Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. It's like, how do you find that? He figured it out. He did it. Well, I agree with that because like I said, if you Success can sometimes be our our coffin, especially when you like I said when you're when you're coming even all the way down to the way I handle like like a like social media is interesting like and you know and me just sort of brand new on it and what people view like I was a and this is sort of off off of subject, but I was just talking about how people view you I went to the gas station and I put on the shade And then I took a picture, and that's cool. I needed some, just pick up some, you know, $14, shit, whatever. Now put it on, I took a picture with him. And my Instagram blew up, like, I don't know, shit, what's this? I read the comments. Like, man, where you get to shades and then there's a Ferragamos, Goochies, you know what I'm saying? Like, what auto's down? Hey, let me get out of fire. I was like, wow, he's just gas stationed shades. But everybody thought they was, you know, something else. And I was like, now I want that. I don't want them to think that. I don't want them to think that I've spent $2,000 a day because that's we always lose our fucking shades anyway. Right. So I actually hit my boy, Dave O. And Dave Shottenstein, I said listen, I want to do I glass. They're like, well, what are you going to do? I want to do an eyeglass that costs less than $30. I said, but what we're going to do is we're going to go through each frame and make sure each frame is tight like the dope, like amazing, because I told them the story about being into gas station. And they were like, wow, I think that's a good idea. So we ended up doing this whole line. I went through all 200 frames and we did this line. It's called a pre-vay revolt, right? And everybody thought that it was something else, 30 bucks, 30 dollar shakes. And now even J. Lowe, Belithore, and all these other people are wearing the shades because what we noticed when we did do that, people embraced it a little more because we did a commercial that was that we almost made them steak where we get clothes on and we tell people how much the clothes cost. people got turned off because the jeans were like $400. Jack, it was $200. They were like, what the fuck? And I don't know what we were trying to say was, although these clothes cost us, our glass is only cost 30 bucks. So that story and itself, I take that in room with that and say, like, I'm not the guy buying the high end, you know, right stuff. I want to keep it It's sort of cool, regular. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

You know, but we had to balance both because I because you know, you know, being you know being urban. I got to step out there and shine sometime too. I'm a boy has, you know, you know, we get out there and we show a little bit of the success, you know, saying just to let people know we're still doing our thing.

I'm actually joking. Like, I'm black. I'll tell you all the time. I'm an NICCH Nica. If I lose being that, if I lose being that, then I ain't. I got to have that. You know what I'm saying? Oh, y'all the. Yeah, I got it.

Yeah, I got to one night. It's fun too, right? Yeah, it's fun too. But I got it. I got to have that part. I got to have always have that sort of like a can't leave where I came from. Right. That's what they tried to snatch from me. That's why we did we did the television show Chris Spencer and Buddy Lewis wrote this wrote this incredible script called White Famous. And white famous was about a comedian who's, you know, trying to become mainstream without losing his, you know, his black audience, which is all of us, we go through that, you know, because the minutes you started doing the, you know, the sort of soft movies and president. Well, sir, you know, custom on my phone. Where do you at? You can't keep custom, you know?

And, you know, Floyd's the homie. Floyd comes by the house, man. And I don't want to put everything out there that he does. He's super, super competitive. That's what's amazing. But he also understands that. J. Fox, I understand what's going on. You know, all the time, they want me to fall J. Fox, but that's what keeping competitive. That's what, you know, all the time, easy work, like we're, so he's, so he was sit at my crib and speak for like hours about the business of trying to turn these boxers minds on like yo, get your money, you know, saying don't, you know, get your money, get your business, you know, and then he talks about just what you said. He says, I know the reason that I fight Oscar De La Jolla on single is because they want to see the, he, he, he carved out a niche of being the, the, the charismatic villain. Is that makes sense?

Like really hard, like six times. Him and Zab Judah. Zab Judah. His defining fight was the Morales fight when he fought Morales. God bless was amazing. And he also said that that hit the sugar shane hit him when he'll tell you he said that hit, when the sugar shane touched him, he said that really, as she said, shook me, he said, what? Jeff Ox said, I killed me, Jeff Ox. I got to kill me. He says, that's why I dug in. You see the end of the round and the end of the round, he did turn it, but he's got rocked in that fight.

Yeah, I caught clean twice. So it'll be interesting his next fight coming in.

But it's fucking exciting.

Look, Floyd, what thing Floyd is? smart yeah so he looked he's got him on his his his his playing field so it's almost like you start to like I know but people start to go like his Floyd nervous I said, I don't know, but I'll tell you this. He's definitely allowing this guy to play through. And that fight is becoming bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger. So it's like it's going to be, it's going to be great. And the one thing Florida always tell me, he said, J Fox, he said, the one thing they're not ready for is the lights. That's what you mean. He said the lights. When the lights are that bright, and you look out and you see all, you see Denzel, you see all these. That's a different thing, because we took, I don't know if it was Hatten. I think it was on my hat and he said, the lights man. He said, that's the one thing I've been fighting J5. I haven't been fighting on the lights since I was. Like this. Yeah. So it's gonna be interesting.

It's gonna be something in there. It's gonna be everything. It's gonna be fucking everything. Cause you think about it, they both, I mean, they got it. They got it, so I'm going to know if I'm going early.

I'm having a good time.

There are things that you just cannot get away from that you, you know, you're high right behind. But in the most part, I did some smart stuff. Move my whole family lives with me. So I had to worry about, you know, my father, my mom lived with me. Oh, that's great. Yeah, and I was adopted seven months. So, you know, my mom and my biological mom, you know, are crafting our relationship now in the latter stages of her life. So, you know, that's, you know, but I didn't know bullshit outside of that, you know, where someone is sitting somewhere watching me from a distance like You know that you know, so mom comes in that and they've been divorced for almost 30 years. It was crazy Wow, and he's still dates You know what I'm saying? He's still getting it in, you know, be over there. And then she'll float over to his side of the house to be like, hmm, and see the girl, hey, how are you? How are you? How's yours? This is who is this? Wow. You know, she's getting some matter. I just want to get something out to refrigerate it. Some spoiled stuff. That's kind of intense. And then you hear that on my door. My, my, my, my, my, my, my. Could you tell her not to come on my side of the house? She. I'm like now parents. You know, so, but it's certain things that I, You got to figure out your happiness. And the only way you figure out your happiness, you got to try to see, or foresee what's going to be the problem. So I get my family close to me. So whatever problem we got to work out, we work that shit out right here. get my mom and my sisters, my daughters, close to me. So they see daddy going to work like this steal some worksheet. It's like, no, we just not on the red carpet every day. You know, I got to get up. I got to go, you know, I got to talk shit. I got to kiss a little ass here. I got to do a whole lot of shit in order to keep this thing going. So you try to, you know, in life, you try to see what try to foresee what's going to happen. It's still going to be something. It's always going to be something just outlandish. But you try to get it getting front of it.

Yeah, and not everybody can do that, you know, because you know, it's like, you know, me growing up as a only child. I like having people around. I can't be by myself. That's why I always with throw parties. I would kidnap people. Like, they're coming to my house. But why you gotta leave, man? Chris Brown, Chris Brown, just stay man. I got room. Floor, man, stay. because I just want to people. But now having my family, you got to do it. Like I said, not everybody can do it because it's interesting, like my father who has a great story. My stepfather has a great story. You know, he was on drugs or had a situation about what drug, about what crack ended up going to jail. I wrote him one letter. I said, you get out. You know, I say, you be like, because I didn't like writing letters to people in jail. I didn't like going visiting people in jail. He gets out, this is around just before 9.11. And then my stepfather was incredible in my life because he taught me how to play tennis. So back in the 70s, in the 80s, he was like playing tennis. I was like, wow, I never seen a black dude play tennis. He's, you got to learn, so I'm just saying, so good. So people like Yannick Noah, Elina Stasi, beyond board, Vita Sguera, light of those were like heroes in my, so he taught me how to play tennis. So when he gets out, he gets out of jail, I make sure everything is cool. I take him to the US Open. And so there he is, me and my pot's watching Venus on the plane. He's crying. I'm like, yeah, this is how we got to live. This is what we need to do. So we watch this Venus play. And then a couple of days after that, it was 9.11. But, you know, he stayed with me. He's been with me since then. You know, early on, I would just go buy a check to drawers, make sure there's no paraphernal, you know, wrong shit. Smokey, we go right. Don't do no more than that. And we've been cool since then. You know, and it saved a lot of money. It re-hat. You know what I'm saying? So I'm just right there hands on.

Yeah, it can't. And it was bumpy at first. Won't go into it because he wrote a little book and talked about it. It was bumpy at first because when he first got out, I did some shift for him, got him this, got him, got him car, whatever. He relapsed this car gone. He's back in. You know, so it was a couple of little things that we had to work out. But now, you know, to see him now, like, you know, like a, you know, we go to these different events or whatever, like that. He's his whole wall, he old school. You know, he don't do this, you know, he got the, you know, actual photos. You go, you go, you go, develop the film. I got my little film the best. So he put the film and the develop the film. See, and they put the film and he got a whole wall that everybody in these met, you know, all of his heroes. And so, like I said, you know, I try to try to look Try to be ahead of the curve when it comes to fucked up shit.

No, you know, like, I know, the best way to create is to have people around. Because I could try to joke out on them and they don't know I'm doing that joke. You know what I'm saying? I could try this idea to see how they respond because your family gonna get you to real, gonna get my ass terrible. That ain't funny, how you made it. That's terrible. Yeah, I'm saying so you always got it to me having people around that tell you the truth, you know, like everybody my family. You know, they tell me, it's true for thy zeal. That's sleep, because I should have just stayed, sleep. That's like, oh, shit. Really, it's fucked up. Yeah. So it's like, you know, having that allows me to create, and then I have my own little space where I go, okay, let me get this. Now let me, they responded to that. Now let me put this together over here in a little space. So you have like a little sanctuary. I got a little, I got a studio that I set up while going there and do all that shit, you know, but it helps.

because you are a speaker of truth. And we ain't seen each other in the wild. But the one thing about your opinion is always going to be truthful. So, you know, as us coming from a different time, there's certain people that we want to have the real truth come from. You rock, Chappelle, all these guys, so we came up. When we're doing our art and when we're doing whatever we do, yes, always going to beat those people that, you know, rock with you. But you want to get to people who have a really artistic real opinion. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah, I know. And if you hear them say, y'all kind of fuck with that. Okay, I got that. If JR says that's cool, then I know. And I said, why are you saying that? Cause that motherfucker tell you. He'll tell you to that shit's whack. You know what I'm saying? And then he'll help you ask. You know what I'm saying? So you gotta be, you know, you gotta be on point with this. Because I know when I run into those guys like you, you wanna have that favor.

Cause you gotta hold yourself to the right side. You got people in your mind right now, then when you're doing your thing, that you know if everybody's yelling like, oh, we love it. But if that person say, maybe this or maybe that, you go, okay.

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