#990 - Jamie Foxx

[0] Did something.

[1] Got to find something, though, right?

[2] You got to find a struggle.

[3] It's very important to have a struggle.

[4] You've got to have something you got to accomplish.

[5] Are you competitive?

[6] Are we live already?

[7] Oh, shit.

[8] We're competitive, baby.

[9] There's a little bit of that.

[10] What's going on, man?

[11] What are you looking for?

[12] Man, you.

[13] How do I turn the headphones?

[14] Over there.

[15] Which one is it, Jamie?

[16] Check.

[17] Right?

[18] Check, check, check, check, check.

[19] Oh, he's in my ears.

[20] We're live.

[21] What's up?

[22] Live, baby, you, man. It's crazy how we looked at each other when we walked in.

[23] I know.

[24] No, it is crazy.

[25] Like we wanted to embrace.

[26] What we did.

[27] You embraced, man, you've been.

[28] I wanted to lean into you.

[29] We've been at it, huh?

[30] It's been a long time.

[31] Damn, man, what's up now?

[32] Where do you go now?

[33] I don't know.

[34] Just try to stay alive.

[35] Keep moving.

[36] No, you're doing it.

[37] You're doing it, man. I remember, who's asked you, you're going to whip one day?

[38] Who's asked you're going to whip one day and stand up?

[39] You called out somebody.

[40] You called out a motherfucker.

[41] Oh, you mean you didn't see him?

[42] Is that we talking about?

[43] I just got to get you.

[44] We get into that.

[45] We get into crates.

[46] We got to get into the crates, baby.

[47] That was crazy when we was doing stand -up.

[48] Like, it was like gunslingers.

[49] What happened with that?

[50] Nothing.

[51] You called him out, though.

[52] Well, that was a bad situation.

[53] We had a, he was stealing everybody's jokes.

[54] Am I bringing up the wrong shit?

[55] No, no, it's okay.

[56] Okay, because I thought I was getting the eye.

[57] I tried to be nice.

[58] I thought I was getting the eye on.

[59] No, no, no. You're not to bring it a wrong thing.

[60] You can talk about anything.

[61] You're Jamie Fox, you can talk about whatever the fuck you want to talk about.

[62] Because the terrain, we was just talking about off of Mike about how would, we would have been in jail.

[63] Yeah.

[64] Had there been social media back when it was coming up, we'd have life.

[65] We'd have double life.

[66] I'd be looking at you and myself, Dan, you had to kill Carlos.

[67] Well, we were talking about everybody that, like, came up in the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, everyone before social media, the wild lives that they led.

[68] You can't do that anymore.

[69] You can't do it.

[70] And what this conversation came for, for all y 'all just, you know, tuning in.

[71] We were talking about, like, you know, Chris Brown.

[72] I'll see Chris Brown.

[73] He'll come out of my house.

[74] And he'll just sit there and go like, what the fuck, you know.

[75] And I said, listen, you're just too talented, for one.

[76] Cats like him and Justin Bieber, who've been blessed with extra.

[77] They look good.

[78] They can fight.

[79] They're athletic.

[80] And they sing.

[81] They can dance.

[82] They can dance.

[83] First time I met Chris Brown, this is crazy.

[84] I'm throwing a party in Miami, and it's me and Colin Farrow.

[85] Eddie Murphy, you know, Eddie Murphy, who was still in it.

[86] This is years back, like 2005, maybe, I think, yeah, 2005.

[87] And so I'm hosting a party.

[88] We're in Miami.

[89] The crowd's going crazy, but in the down, like, not in the VIP, it's some kids dancing.

[90] I'm like, who the fuck is that?

[91] And you're dancing, you know, and all this shit.

[92] And so my DJ, DJ Ari, goes, yo, man, that's a new kid, Chris Brown.

[93] you know he about to be the next one I said yeah but he think he can dance because you know I know how to dance I'll go fuck him up you know what I'm gonna know who I am I'll come down and fuck him up and it was like Fox okay so I go down now 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 think you can dance huh and I did like some kind of bullshit pop like a move listen to me we're all we're all jammed together right he doesn't do a move You know what he does?

[94] He does a backflip.

[95] But the way he did the backflip, and he's six two, he's standing in the middle of the crowd.

[96] He jumped over the crowd, did the backflip up here and came straight down and said, what's up?

[97] I said, motherfucker, I'm going to leave you the fuck long.

[98] I don't know what the fuck that.

[99] That's some Avengers shit.

[100] And I just remember going, I said, that dude, when he get on, and then, you know, he gets on, but then social media catches on.

[101] And then it's just hard.

[102] It's hard to live.

[103] when you're when you're social media and I tell them all the time you have to social media sort of makes you color inside the lines yeah or try to or try to yeah 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 and like I didn't know what a meme was you know I'm you know shit I'm gonna fucking I was just catching on the mind space and shit shifted so my daughter sends me a picture of Rihanna, right, going to the Met Ball.

[104] And by the time I got the picture, whatever happened, the picture was Rihanna and in this yellow dress.

[105] And I hit my daughter.

[106] I said, I love the dress.

[107] It's amazing.

[108] I don't understand the pizza that's in it, but, you know, maybe that's, you know, she's giving a nod to Italy and where maybe she got the dress from.

[109] She's like, no, dad, that's a meme.

[110] I said, what?

[111] That's a meme.

[112] I said, what do you mean?

[113] She said, no, there's actually not a pizza in the dress.

[114] Somebody crafted or fixed it.

[115] There.

[116] They made it look like it's pizza because it's trailing behind her.

[117] And so me, I'm thinking, well, what the fuck is it mean?

[118] It says, no, that's what they do.

[119] I said, so this girl worked her whole fucking night to get this dress to go to the Metball, which is you're supposed to be, you know, out the box, and somebody puts a pizza on it, and that's all you see.

[120] is a pizza.

[121] I said, how do you compete with that?

[122] How can you be Michael Jordan?

[123] And kids run up to you and say, you're the crybaby face.

[124] You're a cry man. They're going to cry man. But memes are like the best thing on the internet.

[125] It's one of the best things about the internet.

[126] It's people being able to make funny.

[127] It's the best thing, but watch this though.

[128] Once it sticks, that's what I'm saying.

[129] Once a stick, once it sticks, it sticks.

[130] Yeah, I mean, Michael Jordan to somebody under the age of 18, he'd a cry baby face.

[131] Hey, man, they're going to cry thing.

[132] Hey, man, you know how fans do it.

[133] Hey, man, cry right quick, go out.

[134] Yeah.

[135] Let me get you crying.

[136] It's so true.

[137] Yeah, man. It's so tough.

[138] Well, we were talking about John Jones.

[139] And how John Jones is fighting this weekend about John Jones is a wild motherfucker.

[140] And that's why he's the greatest light heavyweight of all time.

[141] Because he's so, it's part of it.

[142] You have to have it.

[143] We were talking about being with Mike Tyson.

[144] Mike Tyson back in the day You couldn't That's why when people were saying 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 he sees he sees some girls And he'd be like, fine How are you doing?

[145] You like BMWs My girls be like what?

[146] Do you like you like BMW?

[147] You like Ka 'ath?

[148] You like BMWs and crazy.

[149] He'd take the girls out and go get a BMW.

[150] I mean, he was that crazy.

[151] You know what I'm saying?

[152] Come on.

[153] Come on.

[154] Let's look at the BN.

[155] And we open up the BMW dealership.

[156] But he was wild.

[157] But I say, just like how we were saying off here, you can't have that type of talent in that area and not have.

[158] John Jones can't.

[159] You can't.

[160] You can't drink milk and almost kill somebody.

[161] You know what I'm saying?

[162] You can't.

[163] Yo, let me get that homogenize.

[164] I'm about to go.

[165] No, you can't.

[166] Yeah, there's got to be something about you that's out of control.

[167] Impulsive, wild, dangerous, and that's what makes them so great.

[168] Everybody.

[169] You even talk about it.

[170] You look at the people on your wall.

[171] You look at Hendricks.

[172] You look at Elvis.

[173] They have to have something.

[174] Because that's God fucking with us.

[175] Yeah.

[176] God's going to give you something incredible, but he's also going to give you something to anchor that.

[177] Because I believe, this is what I believe in.

[178] And you tell me if you believe this.

[179] I believe in the yen and the yang of everything.

[180] Meaning like when there's absolutely, light there 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 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 boom yeah i need that money yeah you you fuck when i'm going i'm going i'm going i'm going release a story about you so it's all of these different things that you've got to pay for.

[181] And that's why you see these guys like that because, you know, like I said, talking to Justin Bieber, you know, with everything, I said, some of this shit is supposed to happen to you.

[182] It has to.

[183] You can't, otherwise, the thing of the success that kid's had at 20 years old.

[184] It's impossible.

[185] I was just reading some shit about him canceling his tour because he just had too much work.

[186] I mean, he's just going crazy, I guess.

[187] But he's made $93 million this year.

[188] Yeah.

[189] Like, Jesus Christ, he's fucking 20.

[190] And yeah, and for us, we like, shit.

[191] You know, I ain't 20.

[192] I'm like, motherfucker.

[193] I'm going to take that 90 million.

[194] I'm going to go do a million.

[195] But we can't be in his mind and we can't see how it is.

[196] He grew up that way.

[197] He grew up that way.

[198] Never had a normal life.

[199] And you don't expect.

[200] Like, I always tell kids who want to be in this business to please wait.

[201] Like, even when my kids, just wait.

[202] Wait till you can understand.

[203] Like, I was able to be grown and have some grown shit happen to me and just regular life shit happen.

[204] So that when this happened, I still have a point.

[205] 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 comedian's name but I remember a comedian back in the day did like half of an HBO whatever and then the next week I saw me he had 12 bodyguards and they were pushing me back I was like what the fuck my man yo no no right now you just got crazy got crazy they get crazy because and I see I remember I'll I'll won't say the names.

[206] Well, there's been a couple of guys.

[207] I never get this one dude hit.

[208] And I went up to try to say something to him.

[209] And for some reason, he had a white suit on.

[210] We went in a club.

[211] Like, I'm going, why the fuck does he have this white suit on and these big shades?

[212] And I went to talk to him.

[213] And he said, not right now, man. I'm rich.

[214] That's what he told me. In front of everybody, not right now.

[215] They got I'm rich.

[216] God damn.

[217] Just let me be rich and famous right now.

[218] I don't want to hear your pitch.

[219] because I was going to pitch him something.

[220] I said, man, you think you could get away.

[221] And I was like, wow.

[222] That's hilarious.

[223] And as he said it, I had to sort of like, okay, I had to get up.

[224] But that's, you know, that's what happens.

[225] But you got to be careful.

[226] That tide goes in and it goes out and people come up and they remember, they remember, they remember when you fucked with them.

[227] And we've seen him.

[228] We've seen him.

[229] But being a comedian, we get a chance to sit in a different seat because we sort of, our jobs are observational.

[230] You know what I'm saying?

[231] We still all have our own demons, but it's just different.

[232] You also get humbled a lot as a comedian.

[233] You got to get those jokes.

[234] You're performing in front of a live audience.

[235] It's all live.

[236] It's got to work, and it doesn't work.

[237] Shit, you got to go back to the drawing board.

[238] You got to assess.

[239] Actors don't get a lot of that.

[240] That's one of the reasons why they're kind of shaky.

[241] More shaky.

[242] Yeah, right?

[243] They don't get a lot of, like, that testing it live in front of people, that humility that comes with that.

[244] You don't, and it's tough.

[245] I was talking to an actor, another actor.

[246] and it's tough because see I'm a comic who became an actor so I'm cheating you know what I can go do this and I can go I'm gonna be in St. Louis tomorrow you know doing some jokes so I can you know I can get my thing off but just actors it's tough when you've figured out a way to balance three careers you sing too I mean you could do anything you're a weird guy in that way you got a lot of weird talent yourself and you're talking about Justin Bieber and Chris Brown you've got some weird ability to shift too It's not only But I've been fortunate in the fact That now things have opened up Like, you know, back in the day Like you could only do One thing One thing I would never forget Keen and Iry Wands Told him he said Yo, what's with the singing shit?

[247] You know, you Wanda motherfucker I can't see you trying to sing And shit Or I would try to sing it for a girl I'd be like Can you see The love is real And girl back Oh Jamie stop You're too funny in the face Your face is too funny I see Wanda singing to me you funny that's porn ball stop so I was like fuck maybe I'll never sing you know so I was doing of course the stand up you know doing the wine of shit and then it wasn't until literally 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 comes and big party it's like 2000 Puff is there and it's all about him and I'll never get he got mad at me a little bit because I would follow him and I would actually follow him with a camera because at that time Puff was the biggest guy in the world you know you couldn't even get in this party so the way I were getting this party is I show it with a camera like your Puff you need a document this shit and he turned around what's up Playboy I said yeah let me get that man ain't nobody getting this and it wasn't back in the day with the camera phone I had the big fucking cannon that you put on your shoulder in the light and the shit 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, yo, playboy, this party's a million and a half dollars.

[248] I said, like, for what?

[249] I mean, what are you saying?

[250] He said, it costs a million and a half dollars to throw this party.

[251] I said, oh my God, I love it.

[252] The party's amazing.

[253] Yes, the mayor is there and everything.

[254] I said, but that's too much money.

[255] I said, you come to my place in L .A.?

[256] I'll throw your party for 400 bucks that will rival this party.

[257] And he got a little mad because, you know, he was like, yo, no, I'm known for this shit.

[258] Don't front.

[259] I said, no, no, no, I respect you.

[260] I said, but L .A., I just know how to get around.

[261] So he gets to L .A., and he calls me early in the morning.

[262] Yo, playboy, make that shit happen.

[263] It was a Saturday.

[264] I said, cool.

[265] I'll go in on my phones.

[266] And by 12 o 'clock in my small house in Tarzan, and God bless my neighbors that live there, I'm no longer there.

[267] I know they wanted me to get out of there because I was too much.

[268] But the party's fevered pitch, and I invited the right people, you know, the right girls who were beautiful, but not too tight, not too.

[269] You know, just everything was great.

[270] The guys weren't no haters there.

[271] You know, because LA, you know, man, fucking, fucking good.

[272] No, one of the that.

[273] It was the right guys, and he shows up.

[274] And when he shows up, he goes, that's the girl on that TV show.

[275] Oh, that's the girl in the movie.

[276] I said, yeah, we're friends.

[277] It's like, we all hang out here.

[278] So it's like, you know, it's all good.

[279] And that's the girl.

[280] I said, yeah, yeah.

[281] I said, but look at the party.

[282] I said, look over there on the table.

[283] I got Kentucky fried chicken, but I put it in a nice plate.

[284] I got Coca -Cola, but it's just in a picture.

[285] I said, we're at $280 right now and counting.

[286] won't go over 400 and he had the most incredible time right but at that party was all musical people and i i did it for a reason at that party missy elli of course she had her room everybody's going crazy with missy ellet i'm going to my garage and there's two guys a little guy like this and a tall guy the little guy goes yo beat you it's like this all the time beat i said yeah who are you he said uh we the neptons my name is ferrell i said yeah man i heard you that's how long girl this was wow so he's like can i say just go and have it have a great time There was another guy standing on the wall, green jacket, like a green little jumpsuit.

[287] Nobody was talking to him.

[288] Guess who it was?

[289] Who?

[290] Jay -Z.

[291] Nobody knew.

[292] I said, what's up, man?

[293] Yeah, what's going on?

[294] It's just a great party.

[295] So, Jay -Z, no one knows.

[296] And now, the way I got into the music, however, is that all these different parties was going on.

[297] And I would have, like, different musical people.

[298] leave me music in my little studio that I built.

[299] I went and got this great studio built in the back of my house.

[300] And so one day, in comes this kid, backpack on, jaws busted.

[301] Who is it?

[302] Who?

[303] It's Kanye.

[304] Oh, his jaws busted from like a car accident, right?

[305] Kanye walks in.

[306] And I said, who's that?

[307] They said, oh, that's a new motherfucker Kanye, man. He's about to beat the shit.

[308] I said, what do you do?

[309] Well, he produces, but he also raps.

[310] I said, well, anybody come to my house, they got to perform.

[311] So I said, yo, man, they say, you know, you rap, he rapped the most incredible, I don't know if it was free.

[312] I said, I don't know why you aren't famous.

[313] He did it with a broken jaw?

[314] He had a little, little jaw.

[315] He had a little swollen.

[316] I don't think it was broken, but it was a little swollen, because it wasn't too long after that accident that he had, right?

[317] And then he goes, uh, I, I got a song, Dad, Dad, You'll Be Gut On.

[318] I got that song, I know you could kill it.

[319] I was like, me?

[320] Song, Goofy Face.

[321] Wanda From a living in college Yeah I said oh shit cool So we go in the back One of my studio I just got the studio in the band So he sings He says the song's gonna go She says she wants Marvin Gay Some Luther Van Joe So I said I got it She says she wants Marvin Gay He's like what are you doing I said well I got to put You know 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 a song because it's hip hop And I said, okay, cool So I begrudently sung a song I'm thinking, the song's whack He's not going to 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 what shit?

[322] It's 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 can jump into it and grab it and what i was told was by my guy brian who does all in my music he found slow jams he found uh gold dig 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 the real record and not say say it's you singing it, now you got a better go.

[323] So now, after all of those years, the people that grew up with me while doing stand -up or watching, they're older, and that the young folks is like, you're the Kanye man, just like how, you know, the guys now going up to Michael Jones.

[324] So as I get older, you hope that you're blessed with opportunities.

[325] And, you know, it's an old saying, but to sort of reinvent or re -event.

[326] introduce yourself to people who may not know who you are well it's also guys like you have other interests you have more than one interest you don't just want to be funny yeah there's a lot going on in there it's a lot you know but like 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 have we we used to have it's getting it's getting crazier 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 one, I did Jimmy Fallon, one seeding that Jimmy Fallon in, every organization wanted to get me. What did you say?

[327] I was doing a joke of singing, we were singing these funny songs about who let the dogs out.

[328] And so we took who let the dogs out and put it in like a, like a vaudeville or a show tune.

[329] Who left the dogs out?

[330] Whatever it was, right?

[331] But beginning of that, I sort of ad -lib, like, I was why.

[332] watching these dogs and they were coming towards me and I was wondering, you know, who let them out?

[333] And there was a pit bull there and, you know, you have to be careful because pit bulls can be cantankerous, you know?

[334] And then I go into the song, the pit bull community was like Jamie Foxx, pit bull shamed us.

[335] Pit bull shamed us.

[336] You pit bull shamed?

[337] And then there was another thing where Jimmy Fallon was doing, was doing some type of, he was saying what was going to be on the next show.

[338] and I was doing a bad version of signing, which I actually know how to sign, but I was doing a bad version of them.

[339] You know sign language?

[340] I know sign language.

[341] We'll talk more about it later.

[342] You know, all those types of different things.

[343] But as I was doing it, as the joke, I didn't know that the person that he was talking about happened to be deaf.

[344] Oh, no. Oh, my God.

[345] And so then, you know, so it was just all of these things.

[346] And I try to tell people, I say, hey, listen, we never mean anything bad.

[347] We poke fun, but we don't mean anything bad.

[348] But you can't just, you know, you can't kill us.

[349] Because I got to keep doing what I do, you know.

[350] So it's getting tougher.

[351] Well, it's just what we're talking about, about social media, about people commenting on things that you can't read the comments.

[352] There's just too many people.

[353] Yeah.

[354] And people are always looking for something to be recreationally outraged at.

[355] Yeah, and the comments will get that ass, too.

[356] The comment will hit you right where you are sometimes.

[357] Damn, this motherfucker is right.

[358] Well, it's good, too, though, a little bit.

[359] I mean, they're right, when they're actually right.

[360] Like, someone can say something ridiculous about, you, and if you know it's ridiculous, it doesn't mean anything.

[361] But if it's got a hint of truth, you're like, ooh.

[362] But when somebody says something about your teeth, you kind of look in the mirror.

[363] I don't understand.

[364] I got a fucking.

[365] I got a fucked up.

[366] I got somebody hit me with the donkey.

[367] You know, it's fucking donkey.

[368] I was like, huh.

[369] I started talking like, you know, you're not fucking crazy.

[370] So, you know, but I tell people all the time, don't read the comments.

[371] That's the book.

[372] Don't read the comments.

[373] Because it will make you start to change the way you do think.

[374] If I read all of the comments, I never tell another joke.

[375] Yeah.

[376] If I read all the comments, I'll never try another, you know, I got a movie that we just shot for a little or nothing called All Star 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 play different characters.

[377] Like, I play a white racist, white racist cop.

[378] And how do you do that?

[379] I'll show it to you.

[380] I'll grab this thing and show it to you.

[381] But it's, they, Robert Dun & Jr. plays a Mexican.

[382] Jurorah Butler plays a Russian who loves gymnastics.

[383] Benicia D 'Otoe plays this crazy tattoo artist, and we're all, you know, we're all doing our things.

[384] So it's like if you read the comments, that'll make you tuck that in.

[385] But this is some brilliant.

[386] And it's a cool little thing, too.

[387] It's called All -Star Weekend for a reason.

[388] It's about two guys.

[389] One guy loves Steph Curry.

[390] The other guy loves LeBron James, and all they're trying to do is get to the All -Star game.

[391] And it's sort of like this whole journey of running out of all these people.

[392] So it's dope.

[393] But it is some things where it's like, ooh, you know, You can see.

[394] There's going to be some shit going on.

[395] Well, Robert Johnny Jr., just from Tropic Thunder, think about that.

[396] You can never do that anymore.

[397] You can't have blackface anymore.

[398] You know what?

[399] I'll say this.

[400] People have to understand where it comes from.

[401] There are real people out there that really mean you harm.

[402] Like outside of us.

[403] I mean, there's some real people who really don't fucking like you.

[404] Whatever you are, whether you're black, you're white, you're straight, you're gay, whatever it is.

[405] There's some people who really don't like it.

[406] We're entertainment.

[407] And it's easy, we're easy targets.

[408] We're easy, it's easy for you to jump on Robert Downer Jr. or Jamie Fis or Joe, because it's easy.

[409] You know, when it's real things, which, you know, whether it's politics or 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.

[410] I call Robert, I said, listen, I need you to play a Mexican.

[411] He says, dude, here's a deal.

[412] Sure, fuck it.

[413] Sure, why not?

[414] Fuck it.

[415] Sure.

[416] Of course.

[417] You know, Mexican, whatever.

[418] but then he texts back and said I'm nervous to play the Mexican I said well shit you played the black dude and you kill that shit we're just all you know we got to be able to do character what kind of blowback did he get from playing the black dude none because we fuck with him before the wire too though it was like what year was tropic thunder I feel like that was like 10 years ago it was wow but here's the thing we fuck with Robert Johnny Jr. like that's our guy Like I did his birthday party And my first joke was How dare you take all of these rolls from black people You know, anyway, everybody's laughing So it's sort of like the entertainers man You got to give us room You know what I'm saying?

[419] Like to play in it I'll show you when I go to take that room You got to take it You can't worry about I saw Chappelle somewhere It was like You know they were asking him about his jokes And he's like you know man Look you know people have said worse shit And I think he said something about Donald Trump Saying grab him by the pussy or some shit whatever.

[420] But it was true.

[421] 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.

[422] You know what I'm saying?

[423] Regardless of what you believed in whatever person you voted for, it was a lot of things that was sort of addressed about like maybe we were playing things a little too close.

[424] 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.

[425] a little like, well, he's got a point in the sense of we're playing things a little too close.

[426] 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.

[427] First of all, it's great jokes.

[428] Two, it's like, it does say, are we becoming too fragile when it comes to our race, like black folk?

[429] Like I say, yeah, some people are racist and some people are perceptionists.

[430] You know what that means?

[431] No. The perception is, okay, the perception in America was the white man, Donald Trump, can be president.

[432] The woman can't do it.

[433] Perception.

[434] Doesn't mean that if you vote for Donald Trump that you're racist.

[435] I don't think everybody's because that was a big thing.

[436] Sometimes it's perception.

[437] I'll make it clear.

[438] Okay.

[439] I do a joke in front of all black people.

[440] And I said, black people are very interesting people because we deal with racism and perceptionism.

[441] I said, because we're very nervous flyers, right?

[442] We don't like to get on planes.

[443] First thing we do when we get on the plane, we see who's flying this motherfucker.

[444] We look in the cockpit.

[445] If we look and see a black guy, we will stop and go hey, how long you've been flying, bro?

[446] You got your hours with you?

[447] And it's the perception.

[448] And don't let a woman sit next to him.

[449] Oh, shit, we good?

[450] It could be a bright, sunny day.

[451] It's like, how's the weather?

[452] Oh, we're good.

[453] And then as you're sitting in that seat, anytime you hit a bump, my brother, we're straight.

[454] same situation you go in in the cockpit you see that white guy with that salt and pepper hair and those aviators and its forearm hair like this and it's storming outside shit fly this shit through a hurricane so it's the perception that we have to talk about sometimes does that make sense oh it definitely makes sense yeah you know there's definitely that you know like the the donald trump thing's funny you know who said it best alonzo boden you know alonzo no i was it a funny comedian he said he goes not all Donald Trump supporters are racist but all racists are Donald Trump supporters that that that that could that he definitely awaken that side but I will but I will but I will say this like I said the perception gets us all too yeah you know because like my my daughter it was interesting my oldest you know my oldest daughter like when when when the election happened and when you know the results came in dad I'm so man I can't take it I said well we're gonna go March I said well did y 'all vote not all of us but you know I said well you gotta get out there because their perception was she had it in the bag right you know what I'm saying so you got to get out there and be you know whatever that is yeah whatever that is indeed this is weird times for everybody you know because I think social media is allowing people to express themselves yeah everybody's expressed themselves and people are forming groups you know they're just like you know they're progressive or they're they're liberal or they're conservative and this everybody has a voice is everybody has a voice there's so much voices i'll say this maybe you can appreciate this because we've we're living in two wars we lived when it wasn't here and we live yeah it's 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 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 what I notice is that we will hook our wagons to the most extreme point and that may be only 2 ,500 people Like when my homies would hit me and say, man, you hear what they say, man, about so on something.

[455] I said, how many views are to get?

[456] 80 ,000 views.

[457] I said, there's 8 million people in Philly alone.

[458] Why are you just listening to those 80 ,000 people?

[459] So you sort of have to put balance in the way you sort of sift through it.

[460] Does that make sense?

[461] It does make sense.

[462] Yeah.

[463] Well, the way I try to put it out to people, if you run into a room and there's 100 people in that room, what are the odds that one person is a fucking idiot?

[464] 100%, right?

[465] Yeah.

[466] One person.

[467] Almost every room of a random group of 100 people.

[468] And I'm being very, very polite, one person.

[469] That means...

[470] Probably a few.

[471] Probably a few.

[472] But let's go with one.

[473] One out of a hundred.

[474] So that means there's three million fucking idiots in this country.

[475] Right.

[476] Just straight idiots.

[477] Non -fixable idiots.

[478] So if you're going to read comments, you're opening yourself up to that.

[479] If you're going to get your opinion swayed by people who just want to...

[480] Just want to see if they can affect you.

[481] Just want to see if they can fuck with you.

[482] They can touch you.

[483] Just see if they can change you, get you to change the way you're dressing and that's what I don't like.

[484] That's the part I don't like.

[485] So I tell all of my artists and all my friends, don't change, don't read it.

[486] Because what happens is everybody starts coloring inside the lines and now nobody's dangerous anymore.

[487] Right.

[488] Because you remember back in the day, Madonna, dangerous.

[489] Right.

[490] Madonna come out naked, you know, just dance into the grammy.

[491] It's like it's all good, you know what I hope, well, what I always say, just don't tuck your art in.

[492] Don't tuck your art in for the comments because we'll end up not have.

[493] 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 you know what I mean yeah well especially for comics yeah that's because it's one per if you do a crazy movie is a lot of people involved yeah if you're on stage you say something fucked up it's just you 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 basket because I'm going back out and I you know like how much time did you take off I'm never actually taken off because I still do gigs like I got a gig tomorrow St. Louis you know private gig whatever but but it's just you know like I know like as a comedian you got to 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 I'd be like oh 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.

[494] And if I become that, if I become what I poke fun at, then I can't get it off.

[495] That's why at my house, people coming to my house, my daughter used to ask me this, Dad, why is this room not, there's nothing in it?

[496] 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.

[497] Like, I don't ever want, I don't put, like, all the pictures.

[498] Nothing is, like, perfect in my crib.

[499] There's a curtain right now that's torn open in my bedroom.

[500] They're like, what's going on with Jake Fox, man?

[501] What's going on?

[502] You're not getting them checks, man, what's going?

[503] And I just said, I just got to leave it like that.

[504] I keep my house a little sort of, we call the dysfunctional mansion.

[505] I'll talk about that.

[506] The dysfunctional mansion where there's always somebody, like the other night, there's Old Dale Beckham in my house, battle dancing, Chris Brown.

[507] You know what I'm saying?

[508] Like, who does that?

[509] You know what I'm saying?

[510] I just crazy shit happening at my house all the time so I could, I have something to link my, you know, hitch my comedic wagon to.

[511] So you create chaos on purpose in a little bit of a way?

[512] I just leave it.

[513] Slight disarray?

[514] I don't, I don't remove myself from it.

[515] I don't remove, I don't get behind the gates.

[516] Behind the gates is a worse shit.

[517] Behind the gates.

[518] Behind the gates.

[519] When you get behind the gates, when you reach a certain point and you're behind the gates you can't really see I'm out.

[520] I got to be out with the people I got to have people like I had a a BET party right 3 ,000 people in my house counted Jesus people at the gate you know trying to get in and as I look through the party there's Floyd Mayweather all time y 'all you know what's up Jay Fox what's up baby all you're doing all time you got the great party I love you baby you know got the fight coming Jay you know so there's Florida there's fat Joe there's little Kim is on stage performing And then I look around And I see some of the homies Like the real guys Like what's up Fox Hey this nice party right here Cause love it I'm like oh shit So it's all of these mixtures of people That I can still touch Hang out with people from my From my community Her name is Anka She's like the unofficial mayor In our cities Old little white lady from Germany And she's on the dance for a dance with Snoop Oh I love with Snoop He's great.

[521] The Snoopy is so good in the weed.

[522] I don't know it.

[523] It's crazy.

[524] So I sort of keep it that way so I can stay loose.

[525] So when I go out, I got shit that I could talk about from the hood to the White House.

[526] So you're still, you still manage to stay a regular person.

[527] Got to.

[528] But that's a hard thing.

[529] For someone has achieved as much success as you have, that is not an easy balancing act to stay normal.

[530] Because you must get overwhelmed by requests and people just want.

[531] wanting your time and wanted to hitch themselves to you.

[532] But you got to, look, I think what helps me is the failures, like doing a couple of movies that don't, what was that?

[533] Right.

[534] You know what I'm saying?

[535] Like, damn, Fox.

[536] You know what I'm saying?

[537] Going through TSA, they don't speak to you.

[538] Your movie is out.

[539] And they're like, come on through.

[540] They don't even make eye contact.

[541] Come on through.

[542] All right, good.

[543] Going through.

[544] Damn, the movie's sad.

[545] So, or you just get the TSA.

[546] They got, damn, Fawkes, what you doing, baby?

[547] What was that shit?

[548] This last shit, dog, I had to watch that shit on Fyastick, my nigga.

[549] You know what I'm saying?

[550] Like, oh, that's like, you appreciate those.

[551] Right.

[552] Which keeps you regular, keeps you humble.

[553] 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've seen comics that get that thousand miles stare.

[554] Yeah.

[555] I don't want to be funny no more.

[556] Yeah.

[557] Why don't you ever funny no more?

[558] That's how you came up.

[559] I want to be sexy now.

[560] You know what I'm saying?

[561] They all fall into the sexy.

[562] You know, nah, I want to say funny.

[563] Keep the teeth goofy.

[564] Keep my head looking goofy, hair, whatever it is.

[565] Because that's what I draw up on when I go out.

[566] Because people can sense it.

[567] Don't you think?

[568] Oh, yeah.

[569] Yeah, I think stand -up is kind of, in some ways it's like a mind -meld or a mass hypnosis.

[570] Like you're connecting with the audience.

[571] And if there's anything false about what you're thinking or what you're saying, some of them at least can feel it.

[572] Yeah.

[573] Sometimes all of them, but some of them can feel it, and it'll fuck with the energy of the room.

[574] But if you're in the groove, if you're really being yourself, that's why when you see Dave on stage, one of the things about Chappelle is that he's always himself.

[575] He can just be himself.

[576] And so you relax as an audience member and slide right into his mind.

[577] And he takes you on a journey because he's himself.

[578] He's not disconnected by fame and celebrity.

[579] And that way, he was genius how he passed up all that money.

[580] and just went to Africa and just settled in and then came back and didn't do any scheduled gigs for years.

[581] He would show up with a speaker and set up a speaker in a park in, like, Seattle, and just gather a crowd around and start doing stand -up.

[582] Yeah, but that's what I'm saying.

[583] It's like, how do you find that?

[584] He figured it out.

[585] I don't know how he did it.

[586] Well, I agree with that because, like I said, if you, success can sometimes be our, are coughing, especially when you're, like I said, when you're, when you're comic, even all the way down to the way I handle like, like, uh, like social media is interesting.

[587] Like, you know, and me just sort of brand new on it.

[588] And what people view.

[589] Like I was, uh, and this is sort of off, off subject, but I was, uh, just talking about how people view you.

[590] I, I went to the gas station and I put on these shades.

[591] And then I took a picture of them.

[592] I thought, it was cool.

[593] I was, I needed some, just pick up some, you know, $14 shade, whatever.

[594] 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 the shades at those old Farragamos Goochies you know what are those dogs hey let me get at your fire I was like wow it's just gas station shades but everybody thought they was you know something else and I was like man I don't want that I don't want them to think that I don't want them to think that I spent $2 ,000 because we always lose our fucking shades anyway So I actually hit my boy, Daveo, and Dave Schattenstein.

[595] I said, listen, I want to do an eyeglass.

[596] They're like, well, what are you going to do?

[597] You want to go to good?

[598] I said, no, no, no. I want to do an eyeglass that costs less than $30.

[599] 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.

[600] Like, they're dope, like amazing.

[601] Because I told them the story about being at the gas station.

[602] And they were like, wow, I think that's a good idea.

[603] So we ended up doing this whole line.

[604] I went through all 200 frames, and we did this line.

[605] It's called Prevei Revo, right?

[606] And everybody thought that it was something else.

[607] $30 .30 shades.

[608] And now even J -Lo, Bella Thorne, all these other people are wearing the shades because what we noticed, when we did do that, people embraced it a little more.

[609] Because we did a commercial that was that we almost made it.

[610] mistake where we get clothes on and we tell people how much the clothes cost and people got turned off because the jeans were like $400, the jacket was $2 ,000.

[611] They were like, what the fuck?

[612] And we like, no, what we were trying to say was although these clothes cost us, our glasses only cost $30.

[613] So that story in itself, I take that and run with that and say, like, I'm not the guy buying the high -end you know.

[614] stuff.

[615] I want to keep it sort of cool and regular.

[616] You know what I'm saying?

[617] Yeah.

[618] Does that make sense?

[619] It does.

[620] Yeah, I know a really rich dude who drives a pickup truck.

[621] He's rich as fuck.

[622] And he just likes to drive around in a shitty old Toyota pickup truck.

[623] He likes it.

[624] And why he do that?

[625] Because he wants to feel normal.

[626] He wants to feel grimy, man. He wants to feel grimy.

[627] You want to feel normal.

[628] He doesn't wash his hand sometimes.

[629] He's got dirt under his fingernails.

[630] Pretends he's a farmer.

[631] And can buy the whole fucking world.

[632] It's people who weird like that, man. But we have to balance.

[633] Both because I, because, you know, being, you know, being urban, I got to step out there and shine sometime too.

[634] Like, my boy has, you know, you know, we get out there and we show a little bit of the success, you know what I'm saying, just to let people know we're still doing our thing.

[635] I love the expression, being urban.

[636] I'm a n -Uroman.

[637] How did that happen?

[638] How did it become urban?

[639] What year was that?

[640] I'm actually joking.

[641] Like, I'm black.

[642] I'll tell people all the time.

[643] I'm an N -I -C -H nika all the time.

[644] If I lose being that, if I lose.

[645] I lose me in that, then I ain't, I got to have that.

[646] You know what I'm saying?

[647] Does that make sense?

[648] Oh, totally.

[649] Yeah.

[650] I got to have that.

[651] Yeah.

[652] No, I get it.

[653] You got to have everything.

[654] Yeah, it's fun too, right?

[655] Yeah, it's fun too.

[656] But I got to, I got to have that part.

[657] I got to have, always have that sort of like a can leave, can't leave where I came from.

[658] Right.

[659] Because that's what they try to snatch from it.

[660] That's why we did, we did the television show.

[661] Chris Spencer and Buddy Lewis wrote this incredible script called White Famous.

[662] And White Famous was about a comedian who.

[663] 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.

[664] Right.

[665] You know, because the minute you start doing the, you know, the sort of soft movies and brothers, be like, man, what's up, man, you don't cussing them all, motherfucker?

[666] Where are you at?

[667] You can't keep cussing, you know.

[668] I think the problem with shining is when it defines you.

[669] Yeah.

[670] The problem when you just, everything is flat, like Floyd Mayweather, in a way.

[671] It's part of his persona.

[672] It's part of why people, root against him like Floyd is a genius in my opinion not just a genius boxing he's the greatest defensive boxer in my opinion of all time but also a genius in that he figured out a way where he has this style that's not appealing to a lot of people but what is appealing is people want to see him get his ass kicked and it never fucking happens listen 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 Jay Fox I understand what's going on all time they want me to follow Jay Fox but that's what keep me competitive that's all time easy work light work so he would sit at my crib and speak for like hours about the business of it trying to turn these boxers minds on like yo get your money you know what I'm 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 Cinco de Mayo is because they want to see the...

[673] He carved out a niche of being the charismatic villain.

[674] Does that make sense?

[675] Yeah, and he wasn't in the beginning.

[676] He wasn't.

[677] In the beginning, he was pretty boy Floyd Mayweather.

[678] And then he became Money Mayweather.

[679] Yeah, but had he stayed pretty boy, what...

[680] Who the fuck knows?

[681] I mean, he might have been like Sugar Shane Mosley or something, you know?

[682] Wow.

[683] But not really because Shane had lost to a few guys.

[684] Guys, like, what Floyd did better than anybody is not get hit.

[685] Yeah, yeah.

[686] He's been hit like six times.

[687] Right, right, right.

[688] Like really hard, like six times ever.

[689] Him and Zab Judah.

[690] Yeah.

[691] Zab Judah, his defining fight was the Morales fight.

[692] When he fought Morales, God bless.

[693] It was amazing.

[694] And he also said that hit the Sugar Shane hit him when he'll tell you.

[695] He said, that hit.

[696] When Sugar Shane touched him, he said that really, as she said, shook me. He said, well, Jay Fox, I got to kill me, Jay Fox.

[697] I got to kill me. He said, that's why I dug in.

[698] You see the end of the round.

[699] And the end of the round, he did turn it, but he's, he got rocked in that fight.

[700] That was one of the few moments where he really got caught clean by a world -class fighter.

[701] Yeah, he got caught clean twice.

[702] So it'll be interesting in his next fight coming up.

[703] Well, Connor's not that level of boxer.

[704] You know, someone, I forget who it was, it said it.

[705] I think it might have been.

[706] His day of Loy.

[707] Yeah, but someone was saying that he's got to, oh, it was Pat Millettage, saying that he has to almost cheat within the rules.

[708] and I think he's got to, like, fight in the clinch.

[709] He's got to, like, dirty box him.

[710] He's got to figure out a way to tie him up and manipulate him and move his body around.

[711] He's got to figure out a way to be good defensively, too, and he's got to hurt him.

[712] Those are all, like, high risk, high risk, low -yield possibilities.

[713] Especially, the way I described it, if you, how would you expect the greatest figure skater in the world to do playing hockey against Wayne Gretzky?

[714] High -eye.

[715] It's not the same thing.

[716] It's not the same thing.

[717] It's not the same thing.

[718] But it's fucking exciting.

[719] I tell you that, I cannot wait.

[720] Greatest freak show ever.

[721] Is it crazy?

[722] It's the greatest freak show ever.

[723] I'm waiting for that fight more than Canello Alvarez versus Gennady Golovkin.

[724] Even though that fight is the legitimate fight.

[725] Legitimate fight.

[726] But I can't.

[727] Because it's going to be some crazy shit.

[728] Some crazy shit.

[729] It's going to be some crazy shit.

[730] Well, also there's the mind fuck factor.

[731] He's the, Connor's the only guy that Floyd's ever fought that can look at him and go, if this was a real fight you'd be fucking dead And he knows it He knows it Everybody else Floyd's been able to fuck up He fucks up all of them You know like You ever see that video with him And Robert Guerrero Right before they fought They had this This thing where they were doing photo shoots And they had to do a stare -off Who's this?

[732] Robert the Ghost Guerrero is a fighter That Floyd fought maybe four or five fighters ago And he just worked him For 12 rounds Just beat the shit out of him But he's standing right in front of him He's like you ain't gonna do shit he's like you're easy work you're easy work he goes he goes I'm just gonna stand he goes no one has to get involved you're not gonna do shit he goes we'll get right close to each other you're not gonna do shit you're easy work and you can see the dude was just like oh no like he knew he knew that Floyd was right right right well when Connor looks at him and goes if this was a real fight I'd fucking kill you he goes I'll do your boxing thing it's a real fight I'll kill you yeah he's right he's right Floyd could say Oh, we'll do some MMA.

[733] He said it a couple times.

[734] Next fight, we'll do MMA.

[735] He's not doing that.

[736] But you know, Floyd, look, one thing Floyd is, he's smart.

[737] Yeah.

[738] So, look, he's got him on his playing field.

[739] So it's almost like you start to, like, I know, but people start to go like, is Floyd nervous?

[740] I said, I don't know, but I'll tell you this.

[741] He's definitely allowing this guy to play through.

[742] Yeah.

[743] And that fight is becoming bigger.

[744] And bigger, and bigger and bigger.

[745] So it's like, it's going to be, it's going to be crazy.

[746] And the one thing Floyd would always tell me, though, he said, Jay Fox, he said, the one thing they're not ready for is the lights.

[747] I said, what you mean?

[748] He said, the lights.

[749] When the lights are that bright and you look out and you see all, you see Denzel, you see all these.

[750] That's a different thing.

[751] Because I don't know if it was Hatton.

[752] I think he was talking about Hatton and saying the lights, man. He said, that's the one thing I've been fighting, J -Far.

[753] I've been fighting under the lights since I was like this.

[754] Yeah.

[755] So it's going to be interesting.

[756] Yeah, it is going to be interesting.

[757] It's going to be crazy.

[758] But Connor fights under the lights, too.

[759] He just never boxed anybody like that.

[760] That's going to be a totally alien thing.

[761] When he gets into that ring and he's got shoes on and he fills those big ass gloves on his hands and then he looks on the other side and he sees Floyd just moving around and getting ready.

[762] There's going to be a shadow of a doubt.

[763] There's going to be something in there.

[764] It's going to be everything, Jay.

[765] It's going to be fucking everything.

[766] Because you think about it, they both.

[767] I mean, they got us.

[768] They got us.

[769] I'm going to that motherfucker.

[770] I'm going early.

[771] Oh, those press conferences were amazing.

[772] Yeah.

[773] I'm already booked.

[774] I was booked in D .C. that night in advance.

[775] I had already sold out two shows that night.

[776] I couldn't cancel.

[777] You can't come?

[778] No, I can't come.

[779] I'm not going to be there.

[780] I'm not going to work it either.

[781] They wanted me to do something for it.

[782] I couldn't even do it.

[783] That's going to be the one.

[784] I got to figure out a way to not see it until not know what happened.

[785] There's no way you can watch it.

[786] You're going to know.

[787] I'm going to have to figure out a way.

[788] I hope the audience would be nice and not.

[789] tell me there's probably going to be people watching it on their phone while the show's going on no no no like I guarantee you like if someone gets knocked out they're not I'm gonna hear oh from the audience what's that what joke was that I think yeah what happened it's great man yeah great man it's gonna be interesting well bro listen it's amazing yeah how do you go from here I don't know that's what we started where do we go from here we just keep moving we keep moving man you're obviously enjoying yourself you're a happy guy I'm having a good time.

[790] For a super successful guy, you seem completely balanced and happy.

[791] There are things that you just cannot get away from, that you hide right behind.

[792] But for the most part, I did some smart stuff, moved my whole family, lives with me. So I don't have to worry about it.

[793] My father and my mom lived with me. Oh, that's great.

[794] Yeah, yeah.

[795] And I was adopted seven months.

[796] So, you know, my mom, me and my biological mom, you know, are crafting our relationship.

[797] now in the latter stages of her life.

[798] So, you know, that's, you know, but I didn't want, but I didn't want no bullshit outside of that, you know, where someone is, is, is, 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's crazy.

[799] Wow.

[800] So they live in the same, same, same, under the same roof is hilarious.

[801] That's a whole other show.

[802] Wow.

[803] And, uh, he's still dates.

[804] You know what I'm saying?

[805] He's still getting it in, you know, be over there.

[806] And then she'll float over there.

[807] to his side of the house and be like, um, and see the girl, hey, how are you?

[808] How are you?

[809] How's yours?

[810] This is, who is this?

[811] Wow.

[812] You know, she's getting something out of, I just want to get something out the refrigerator.

[813] Some spoiled stuff.

[814] That's kind of intense.

[815] And then you hear that on my door.

[816] My mom, my pops said, could you tell her not to come on my side of the house?

[817] I'm like, now parents, you know, so, but it's certain things that I, but you got to figure out your happiness.

[818] And the only way you figure out your happiness, you got to try to see or foresee what's going to be the problem.

[819] So I get my family close to me, so whatever problem we got to work out, we work that shit out right here.

[820] Get my mom and my and my sisters and my daughters close to me so they see daddy going to work like there's still some work shit.

[821] It's like no, we're just not on the red car.

[822] It's not just red carpet every day.

[823] 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.

[824] 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 have it's still going to be something so it's always going to be something and just outlandish but uh you try to get get in front of it that's an interesting way to handle it though to bring everybody close to you bring your whole family in your house yeah and not everybody can do that you know because you know it's like you know me growing up as an only child I like having people around I can't be by myself that's why I always would throw parties I could I kidnap people like people come to my house.

[825] I'd be, why you got to leave, man?

[826] Chris Brown, Chris Brown, just stay, man, got a room.

[827] Floyd, man, stay, man, where you're?

[828] Because I just wanted people.

[829] But now having my family around, you got to do it.

[830] But like I said, not everybody can do it because it, you know, it's interesting.

[831] Like my father, who has a great story, my stepfather has a great story.

[832] You know, he was on drugs or had a situation about with drug, about with crack, ended up going to jail.

[833] I wrote him one letter.

[834] I said, you get out, you know, I'll save your life.

[835] 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 said you gotta learn son so people like Yannick Noah Elie Nastassi Beyond Borg Vitas Garolitis those were like heroes of mine so he taught me how to play tennis so when he gets out he gets out of jail I'll make sure everything is cool.

[836] I take him to the U .S. Open.

[837] And so there he is.

[838] Me and my pop's watching Venus play.

[839] He's crying.

[840] I'm like, yeah, Dad, this is how we got to live.

[841] This is what we need to do.

[842] So we watch his Venus play.

[843] And then a couple of days after that, it was 9 -11.

[844] But, you know, he stayed with me. He's been with me since then.

[845] You know, early on, I would just go by, check the drawers to make sure there's no paraphernalia, no wrong shit.

[846] Smoke your weed, cool.

[847] Don't do much.

[848] no more than that, and we've been cool since then, you know, and it saved a lot of money in rehab.

[849] You know what I'm saying?

[850] So I'm just right there, hands on.

[851] But, uh...

[852] Well, sometimes people are just being surrounded by loved ones is enough to keep them from doing anything stupid.

[853] Yeah, it can't.

[854] And it was bumpy at first.

[855] We won't go into it, because he wrote a little book and talked about it.

[856] It was bumpy at first because when he first got out, I did some shit for him, got him this, got him car, whatever.

[857] He relapsed, his car gone, he's back in.

[858] You know, so it was a couple little things that we to work out, but now, you know, to see him now, like, you know, like, you know, we go these different events or whatever like that, his whole wall, he old school, he don't, he don't do the, you know, he got the, actual photos.

[859] He go, he go develop the film, like I made a little film developed, so he put the film and they put the film and he got a whole wall that everybody that he's met, you know, all of his heroes.

[860] And so, like I said, you know, I try to try to look, uh, try to, try to look, uh, Try to be ahead of the curve when it comes to the fucked up shit.

[861] What about, like, where you're creative time, when you have so many people living with you?

[862] Do you ever feel, like, boxed in?

[863] No, that's, you know, like I know, the best way to create is to have people around.

[864] Because I could try that joke out on them and they don't know I'm doing that joke.

[865] You know what I'm saying?

[866] I could try this idea, see how they respond because your family going to give you the real, going to give them, that's terrible.

[867] That ain't funny.

[868] I don't see how you made it.

[869] That's terrible.

[870] You know what I'm saying?

[871] So you always got to, to me, having people around that tell you the truth.

[872] You know, like everybody, my family, you know, they tell me the truth about it.

[873] I said, oh, that's sleepless.

[874] I should have just stayed sleep.

[875] It was like, oh, shit.

[876] Really?

[877] It was fucked up.

[878] Yeah.

[879] So it's like, you know, having that allows me to create.

[880] And then I have my own little space where I go, okay, let me get this.

[881] Now let me, they responded to that.

[882] And now let me put this together over here in a little space.

[883] So you have like a little sanctuary.

[884] Yeah, I got a little studio that I set up while I go in there and do all that shit, you know.

[885] but it helps well listen man I know you gotta get the fuck out of here you you only here for an hour right yeah but it's been great dude listen you are you're an amazing person and I'm very I'm very honored to have you on here because you're one of the very few people that I know that has this well -rounded life but also is very balanced like you've had an amazing success and all these different things but you're as normal and approachable as anybody I know Got to be.

[886] You know why I got to be?

[887] Why?

[888] You?

[889] Because you are a speaker of truth.

[890] We ain't seen each other in a while.

[891] But the one thing about your opinion is always going to be truthful.

[892] So, you know, as us coming from a different time, there are certain people that we want to have the real truth come from.

[893] You, Rock, Chappelle, all these guys.

[894] So we came up.

[895] so when we're doing our art or when we're doing whatever we do yeah it's always going to be those people that you know rock with you but you want to get the people who have a really artistic real opinion does that make sense yeah yeah no i know and if you hear them say you know i kind of fuck with that now okay i got that if jr says that's cool then i know and they say why why you say that motherfucker tell you he'll tell you that shit's whack you know what i'm saying and then they'll whip your ass you know what i'm saying so you got to be you know you got to be on point with this Because I know when I run into those guys like you, you want to have that favor.

[896] Does that make sense?

[897] I know exactly what you're saying.

[898] You hold yourself to a very high standard.

[899] You got people in your mind right now that when you're doing your thing, that you know if everybody's yelling like, oh, we love you, but if that person say maybe this or maybe that, you go, okay.

[900] Yeah.

[901] You know what I'm saying?

[902] People are going to be 100 % real.

[903] Yeah.

[904] So there you go.

[905] You're a bad motherfucker, Jim.

[906] me, Fox.

[907] Thank you, brother, and you are, too.

[908] All right, baby.

[909] All right.

[910] Thanks, sir.

[911] And they told me to say Prevavorvo.

[912] Yeah.

[913] How do we get, how do you get those sunglasses?

[914] Amazon .com, Previbrevovot, you lose your clothes.

[915] You never lose your glasses, man. And it's all of them are 2995.

[916] And there you go.

[917] There you go, ladies and gentlemen.