Kountry Wayne & Keith Powers: Stay at Home Boyfriend, AI Jesus & 50/50 Relationships

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i'm sitting here going they are playing y'all for fools catch roland martin's daily commentary on the black information network and download roland martin unfiltered on the iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts i'm a stay-at-home boyfriend so you got the sui yeah i mean oh you got her reported no she rich she was rich you seen this new ai jesus did you just say in front of them big sisters that you get mad you get married because you're no no no competition with your partner bro that's like hell that's hell hell if we both are earning what we earn let's just be 50 50 ain't nothing like having a wife ain't nothing like having a woman at home you don't want to be out here free being able to do what you want to do welcome to the shop i'm one of your hosts sterling stilo brim and i'm travis taco and today we have two very special guests we have country wayne and keith powers what's happening y'all and it's a lot of shit we got going on in our lives right now it's a lot to talk about i feel like more than usual it's canceling like i'm not being funny is it gone i feel like i don't hear about niggas i don't be hearing about i'm not getting canceled no more that was a thing for like a good two years everybody was getting canceled i don't be hearing about i'm not getting canceled and then it was like we did it i definitely supposed to be canceled i've been i'm from the south so they think i i just don't know but you also control you control your platform which is very strong in that people would argue that there are some podcasters and people who's supposed to be canceled but if you own your platform they can't necessarily cancel you nah yeah if you created the like your your fan base you've constructed this group of people that follow you regardless i'm trying to see what's being canceled anyway because everybody's still working yeah the people that's working complaining so i probably don't even want to work over there it's like i'm trying to figure out who's canceling but i think the issue is is there's no way to really like discipline somebody you can publicly just shame them and that's you know that's interesting and i guess it what i mean by that what i mean by that is like not a like you can go still live your life it's not like somebody's like in shame hiding from the world because they said some fucked up shit or everybody just it's like yo there's plenty of mistakes that are made people said crazy things on the internet because at the time nobody thought the internet would live on forever you on you're 16 years old on twitter saying some crazy shit well who cares because you're a 16 year old and then when you turn 35 somebody like he said this 20 years ago it's like oh i think i think you can only get canceled if you're already in the system like you're already in the system so strong and you depend on it it's like they can punish you but if you ain't come up off the system you don't even feel the lick you could be canceled and not even knowing and not even know you canceled so i think if you're already in the system strong that's when you feel it but i think people who came up in this new era like i'd be like who can cancel him you got to be getting white money to get canceled number one yeah black people can't cancel us they ain't got no power to cancel you like like we can no we that's just speaking the truth i'm black you can get canceled about white you have to have the power to cancel you have to have the power to stop your money we need to be mad at niggas we just disappointed because we can't cancel you though no i don't care about because to be honest i don't care about losing it who like who care about losing it that much that i got hey but i don't care about losing it i don't care about losing it i don't care about losing it i don't care about losing it i don't care about losing it i don't care about losing it man they can't nobody but god counsel me man because if i lose it just take the check i'm paying taxes on it anyway i just tell baby mamas you can't get so much this month because he'd be canceling yourself he called her again i got canceled again i like we can't get that check man when you came from nothing it really don't matter that much yeah i'm like man that's true i mean that's true a little bit but part of me as a nigga that came from that i get fearful of the idea of going back to nothing because so many people depend on you for what you got going on too that you feel like damn not only am i canceling nigga but apparently my whole family canceled too if i get canceled yeah they're not getting checks no more because i got canceled but if you get paid checks and create like once people tap into that and them you're never gonna think about it because it's like you got so many it's like we you know we on the shop it's lebron on the court he got so many ways to score yeah it's like i could pass the ball i can i can go to the hole you know what i mean or i can facilitate a get in your mind there's so many ways you really can't really stop i think when people one-dimensional and i don't think nobody really one-dimensional they think they are but when you really tap into yourself you're like bro i'm finna go start this i got too i don't meet too many people in the industry now i'm finna go start this tire business but if you're saying shit to offend those people they're gonna still make sure you cancel it's like michael vick when he uh the dogs yeah when he came back he still ended up getting a hundred million dollar contract yeah that was before canceling was out though yeah they would have had that oh no why are you playing about them dogs what they still ain't forgave him no they ain't playing about them dogs people don't forgive they ain't forgot jail and all it is time it's like at that point you do your time and then what like what do you what else are you supposed to do i know i agree you've been disciplined what else do you do i mean he's tried to do everything but i still think there's a big group of people um predominantly white but a big group of people who look at him and still say he's canceled like i just reposted this thing yesterday you ever watched uh the new york city subway takes and i reposted one that it said uh i don't trust people essentially that say they like dogs more than people and i don't trust people that say they like dogs more than people i i feel that way for real i don't trust i think that's such a normally a white take but i think it's such a take of being like i like when we can watch things in the humanity really happen in two people and they don't get fucking moved you can watch racism and all these things happen in two people and you don't move but a moment a dog it's like michael vick's gotta go and i love dogs but you're like what the fuck are we you have a dog right now huh you have a dog right now i do you have a dog yeah i do you have a dog have y'all is this your first dog this is technically my first personal dog okay and how old is your dog two years okay i had my own personal dog for 11 years yeah i i won't say i understand what they're saying what i will say is there is a level of like i can't speak to this thing i can't communicate with this thing at the end of my dog's life i felt like i had not done enough bro and it was the most painful feeling of all time the reason i won't get another dog for a long time is because like nigga when i lost my dog bro to this day i don't think anything has sucked me up that emotion like i've never been that cooked yeah i get it though because the dog didn't do nothing to you so a human got a lot of chances most of these humans have not done stuff to people personally the dog didn't do anything to you personally the dog listening to him though but the dude said this he said that he thinks that most people like and and go for that take because it's a uh it's a power dynamic and an actual relationship of dominion over like you could be the worst nigga in the world your dog will treat you like you're the best your dog don't fucking know you your dog don't fucking know you your dog is not a person what kind of dog you know you i got a golden doodle a golden doodle hey you could be killing niggas in the street going home that's why my little boy here that nigga don't know you a murderer the dog the dog accepted everything about you so it's like the dog never talked back ever i mean it's the innocence he's the best it's an innocence that like you get it's such a lovable innocence that you just don't see in most humans unless they're a child you know what i'm saying valid i will say they got that same thing it's like a childlike love and then yeah when you become an adult think about the things you don't do as an adult because you're in fear of like being judged you're a fear of all these other options because you overthink growing up it's just about thinking it's like critical thinking to be able to understand the world more as a child you don't understand shit you're just doing everything you want to do who gives a fuck you're like dancing around like a goofball somebody laughs you're like i'm entertaining who gives a fuck but it's like yeah humans are we're complex while dogs i feel like just are like hey i'm just your bud yeah no that's just me i'm just your bud i'm just your bud - I don't think y'all can get inside of that animal here. I'm not like on both. I kind of get what you're saying, too, though. It's a dog. I'm not on the side of the dog. I'm just understanding. No, I understand. I'm just like, bro, you understand. I understand. I'm not that nigga. But the dog don't make you hold accountability. So say we talking, right, and your sister or somebody might be like, no, you need to work on that. You're going to be like, man, she really just jealous. Fuck people, man, people. But a dog will let you be whoever, and it will never make you take accountability. If you don't train your dog, your dog bites somebody. If your dog bites somebody, if you don't train your dog, your dog bites somebody. That's on you. And you still love dogs. Y'all still love each other the same way. I got teeth grabbing. Dogs do a murder in front of you like, hey, I need a dog. I think people who got dogs don't got enough kids. I got 10 kids, man. So it's like, hey, you don't need no dogs. They leaving stuff under the bed anyway. This is a great take. You got a favorite? Favorite? A favorite? It depends on what week it is. It used to be like, this favorite's not. It depends on where we at for real. Do you have a most accomplished job? A most accomplished? Like college or just somebody who's like set themselves up the best? All of them. Taylor had the best grades. You know what I'm saying? So Taylor going to college. My sons, they going to college. But they all accomplished in certain type of ways. It's like when you really pay attention to it, you have hopes for each one of them. But hold up. But this one, this. Hold up. But this one, that. Oh, that one, that. Oh, this one, this. And this one, it's like a, I ain't going to lie, man. I talk about it a lot, but I ain't going to talk about the good side of it. It's really dope. I just don't want to tell nobody to put the message out there, go have a bunch of kids. Yeah. But I ain't going to lie. Having a lot of kids is like, hey, it's the best feeling ever because you got a bunch of people who look like you. You got a little army. Yeah, you got a little army. And your kids, no matter what, they're riders. Like, you call your kid right now, hey, what's up? Da-da-da-da-da-da. Let's make this play like, when we started doing the content, my son was in the videos with me. It's like, we with each other. So he with the program. They be like, hey, man, let's make some money because it's our money. You know what I mean? So it's like, you got a bunch of businessmen. You got a bunch of business partners. You already see the play. So having kids is like, man, oh, everything people be searching for a lot, you really got your partner, your best friends, your business partners all in one. You're really just a CEO of a family. Oh, yo, it's, man, it's fun. Being a family owner, being a person that has a family, you're really the CEO anyway of controlling that. Yeah. Do you feel like you, like, do you ever feel like guilt or feel like, oh, are you able to have the same relationship with all 10 kids? Do you? Are you able to give yourself an equal amount to all the kids? I try my best. Like, I moved all the mothers up. What the key was, you had to take care of the mothers. I learned that. So when you have kids by a woman. How many BMs you got? Five and a half. Five and a half. I don't count the half. What makes the half? Wait, wait. What makes the half? When he said five and a half. If she posts pictures, I block them. I report the pictures. The half, the half. Oh, no, the half, yeah. You don't want to see that. My brain going to go down. Oh, man. Yeah. That's your first. That's your first. That's your first. Did that kid get the same love? Oh, yeah. That kid is your favorite. Because all my kids, you got to think about it. All the mothers of my kids, I moved them close by, got them a house. I pay them every month. So I took care of them. And once I took care of the mothers, that's when it became kumbaya. The half not as close to her house a little further. No, I got custody of that child. Oh. Oh, see. I went to court and got her. Yeah, you got to go for it. You got to go for it. But no, it's a full village. He said this nigga took his shares with him. He took his shares with him. Hey, it's all a game. Like, all my son's basketball games, I never miss the basketball game. I put the career down. I still go to dance competition. Malil was with me yesterday. You know, we did a YouTube video yesterday. Honest and Melissa came by. Me and Zari talked about her new hair business she's trying to do. It's like we all are a big family, but everybody getting paid, though. I realized, man, yeah, that paper is important. I don't care what people say, bro. Especially black people. Man, I don't know how they got us to believe that. You don't got to get no money, bro. Go get that paper. Don't go on that vacation. Your first generation, you can't go on that vacation. I don't care what your American Express card say. Man, go get that paper. Because that's the only thing business got, first of all. But business is going to bring that family together. If y'all doing business together. Because that's how families back in the day was linking. Because if we own a chicken joint, everybody can't work here. Like, when I had my nightclubs, everybody was working there. My sisters was behind. My baby moms was behind the bar. My other sister at the door. So it was like, I feel like business brings families together. That's what happened to me and my kids. So I put them in my videos and everything. You plan on having children? Yeah, for sure. For sure. I definitely, like Wayne, I want it like 10, you know, when you're young. Hold up, don't have them. No, no, I'm not. It's over with. Let me tell you right now. No, no, I'm good. I'm looking at you as a free man right now. You look so free to me. I'm free as hell, bro. You don't got no kids? Bro, none. Hey, brother. Hey, brother. Hey, brother. When I look at you. You look like it. You look like lotion. At least I'm moisturized. You know the last time I had time to put on lotion? Bro. It ain't gonna work. Man, I, yeah, I think like the max I probably want now is three. But you come from a big family or no? Yeah, huge. Yeah, crazy. I mean, well, like my immediate family, I got two brothers, two sisters. But just like, it's a lot of us. My great grandparents had 10 kids. Those are all my uncles and aunties, my grandma. And then they had, so it's just, it's just, it's a bunch of us. It's dope as hell. It's also like stressful, too. What's stressful about it? It's like, it's like ranking your family members. Because I'm planning a wedding right now. So it's like. That's where it get real. Who comes to the wedding and who don't? Oh, man. Oh, man. You got some cousins you just naturally closer to than the others. You feel what I'm saying? So it's like. But you got to invite. You got to send an invite out late. That's the trick right there. You got to. The cousins you don't want. That's some. That's some. You got to tell them they got lost the first time. You're going to send them a second time. But it's only a week before the wedding. But they won't have enough time to actually make it. My family. As a bad person, trust me. I don't know all my cousins. You don't know all your cousins? I don't know them all like. Well. They can't come to the wedding then. Like cousins, uncles. I mean, I know. I know that. That's like a good brand name. Y'all got to remember something. He is like in his family. I would assume you're probably the most famous person in your family. So everybody wants to go to your wedding. Are you? Yeah. You thought about it. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Okay. Everybody, the idea of your wedding is like, it's going to be this. It's going to be this. And everybody has that image. And they're going to attend because they want to go to it. But he got his wife, though. It's her size. It ain't no one's husband wedding. He don't got no wedding. He ain't got no wedding. No, you ain't got no wedding. Are you not helping plan the wedding? It don't matter. How much of it is Ryan like running it? Or are you. No, no, no. I mean. It's her wedding. I mean, Ryan has such a POV on it. Yeah. And I love that. Yeah. I'm told it's not our day. Yeah, yeah. I think that's really bogus. Like, it is your actual day as well. I do think as a husband, it's your job to make sure that that is the most important day for your wife. Yeah, nah, for sure. But it is also a day in which you should remember, cherish, and feel like this was the best day of my life as well. That's a movie, man. What? It's so much the warmer day. Nobody never made a movie about that. Hey, bro, put that in the notes. You got no nigga around here somewhere with you. You're like, it's my day too. You right, because you so right. But I'm like, no, that's messed up. Nobody don't. Think about how we feel on our big wedding day, because I was married. Yeah. Yeah, I got married. You say you'll never do it again, right? No, I'm married to the game now, man. I can't. That's like a dog. It can't talk back to you. Yeah, it's like, I might get a dog. My nigga hung you. He like, this is great. You know, Lisa Kudrow is one of the reasons that I chose not to get married. She told me one day, we did a TV show. We was in New Zealand. And she said, I said, I do miss being married and being in a relationship, because it has somebody to talk to. She said, no, in a relationship, you need somebody to talk with. She said, you got to listen to them, too. I said, ooh. That's the part I, ah. At least you heard that part. It's the first time I've been listening. I'm like, ah. I heard that shit. That's the part. I want to talk, but when they talk back, it's like, ah. You've been married for how many years? A year. I'm going on a year right now. You've been engaged for a few months. Almost about to be a year this month. I've been in a relationship for two years. I'll probably get engaged sooner than later. My idea of getting married is because of my parents, though. My parents have been married for almost 40 years. That's beautiful. You better redo that, because it came on. You better make sure you say because of love, because if she's going to watch this, brother, you might need to stop talking about that. Let me tell you something. I'm telling you right now, protect yourself. Did you just say in front of them big sisters that you get married? You get married because your parents? No, no, no. No, no, no. The idea of getting married. Yeah. Marriage is instilled in me because of my parents. Like, I want to have a family. My idea of success isn't like, yeah, it's obviously there's a financial part of it, but the idea of success is like, man, I want to have a family. I want to be able to look down and be like, oh, my kids are going to play with my homies' kids. And you're so in love with her. Yeah, of course. That you love her so much. She's my best friend. Yeah. That's another thing. We were talking about this on another episode. Love only lasts, not lasts so long, but romance only lasts so long. At the end of the day, you need companionship and somebody you really fuck with. Love ain't enough. Love is not enough. You need a friend. You need somebody who you're like, girl, I want to hang out with. I want somebody to know how to cook, man, because, like, I want somebody with flab on their pants when I come home. Oh, man. I want all the nice stuff, all the nice dresses. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Hey, man, it's like nobody ain't cooking no more, bro. We are losing recipes. I don't want to be that guy who says things like that, but we are losing recipes. My wife, she likes to order postman's. The best perfume is his kitchen. Some seasons, some little pimple. Not really, but I don't really care, though. Yeah, I don't care if y'all get money. My girl cooks. My girl cooks. You ain't getting home. You ain't coming home every day like, where the fuck is the meal at? I said, you don't care about food no more. He care about food. I think he just don't care about her cooking. Hey, you need to listen to him while I'm talking. I said, you don't care about food. Game up, nigga. You're getting married. Bro, I don't be tripping. I'm not tripping either. I'm with you. But that's hella funny, though. For real. If they can't cook, I mean, my wife can cook. Yeah. She got into a pocket of which we was trying to eat healthy. I had a chef for a while. Oh, shit. The chef was cooking for a whole year. I don't want to be that nigga. It was cooking for a whole year, and we was loving it. And then right after that, it was hard for her to get back on that bike. It was hard for her to get back on that bike. And I was like, I was actually trying to tell her, like, hey, baby, you got to get in there and just ride it. Just start moving them again. And she does it at times. What I don't love is my wife loves throwing it. She loves events, and she loves cooking for other motherfuckers. That breaks my heart. I'm like, you don't love me for real. This is crazy. Now we talking. We all in therapy right now, man. No man want to say it. I'm going to say it for all the men around the world. Hey, women, I'm telling you out there, man, I know the pictures on Instagram are going to get a man's attention, but that soul is going to keep the retention. That boy preaching on here. That cooking is the number one thing, and they never- I'll back you up. And we never going to let you know. We never going to let you know that, because we don't even know that. This brother don't forgot that he like to eat. He say, that's the least important thing. It don't even matter. I'm hungry. I love it. It's just the way I eat has changed, too. That's true. I swear. Because you're vegan now, too, so that's- Yeah, you vegan, too? No, I'm not vegan, though. Yeah. I mean, that's- That nigga said that shit like, hell no. And I'm like- Vegan? I don't even like- My whole idea on food is different now, too. Nigga even thinking about fasting more. I'm skinny as shit. Yeah, he right. That's what happens when I don't cook for you. Your ideas change. I swear. Because think about it, man. We door-dashing food in a bag. No, no. Facts. Yeah, like, I don't- Like, no disrespect, man. Like, if I'm in a relationship, man, I ain't even be picking up no food from no door. Oh, really? So you don't even do- You don't do door-dashing- No, because I don't start- You know, I don't even eat fried foods or nothing. I don't eat sweets or nothing no more. But it's just like, I got to that point because it was just like, man, I was like, food is the most important thing in your physical life. How did you get there? Was there a moment that happened? Was there like something- Yeah, I was about to ask that. Yeah, like, how did you become a vegan? Because I like- How long have you been vegan? I've been on since 2015. So it's been like- It's been a long time. It is a long time, yeah. 11 years. But what it was, I realized I ate- In that country, we ate so much. We ate squirrel, rabbit. I be seeing y'all online eating gator. Yeah, it's like- I've tried alligator meat. We went to the stream. So I was just like, man, after you see so many family members with high blood pressure- I seen my family. I had an unhealthy family in the South, for real. Where I'm from, like- People really get sick faster. Because in the city, like, even when you eat unhealthy in LA, it ain't unhealthy like we eat. Like, we ain't playing. You're off right. Yeah, y'all get a whole gallon of sweet tea with every fucking- Oh, everything, what? Like, and it becomes normal. You're like, oh, it's okay. Just take this for that. Yeah. But I was like, I was just naturally doing it. And then I felt the clarity. But I was like, I always was serious about food, period. Even when I was eating, pause, but when I was eating protein- Yeah, you good. I was like, I always like when somebody cook, though. So it's like, now that I'm vegan, it's like, man, at the end of the day, my chef is one of the most important people in my life. But I'm like, man, that cooking is important. Every relationship I done been in, that really been a problem for me. So you more old school, like traditional in the sense of, like, you want your spouse to cook? Not every day. Clean? Okay. Like, a snack? Why you don't clean? Not every day. Oh, you clean. I ain't talking to you. Straight up. No, I ain't saying she wasn't clean. I said, what if she doesn't clean? If she don't clean, I'm going to, well, my house. That makes sense. I can clean. I can clean, so I can have the house clean. She don't got to clean. Oh, so you be cleaning? Or you have the house clean? It don't, it shouldn't get that dirty. Okay. Like, you know, the white clothes basket, the dark clothes basket, and the cleaner clothes. It's like, you know, it's organization. But that food, it's like, we have to eat. That's the most important thing, man. And he not eating apparently. Nah, see, now I think he's going to think I don't eat. This shit crazy. I told my sisters, I said, man. I'm with you. I'm on your side. I'm the same as you. We getting killed. Because it's like, hey, man, and the stuff you feed me, you really trying to kill me, man. I'm on sodas then. You really love me in your heart. That's fair. I mean, I had to convince my girl last night not to cook. Oh. Oh, man. And only because the housekeeper came yesterday. So it was like, you going to cook right after she clean? Why? Because she cook? Because it's clean. Who, him? Hell yeah. Well, the way you said that, I don't know if she can cook. Oh, no, no, no. It means I'm not the cook, so she can't cook. Nah, yeah, it does sound like that. Nah, she can actually really cook. And I was fearful at first, I will say. That's what's up. What's she cooking? What's your favorite meal? Yeah, what's she cooking? She makes this tomato. I love just tomato pasta, like a fresh tomato pasta. He eats like a child, too. Yo, it must be so easy to marry a nigga like this. What's your top three meals? Chicken dino bites. Top three meals from her or in general? From her. Because I hope not. No, no, no. Brother. What's your situation over here? I hope we're not selling. We're not selling for the bare minimum, okay? If you just say it's a tomato pasta. It's fresh tomato pasta. It's an heirloom tomato pasta I love. She makes this garlic chicken I really love. It's like. I can just feel him grilling me right now. I'm just saying, man. Go ahead. Niggas not eating out here, huh? My bad. And tacos. Tacos, okay. I know you got there and where. Okay. Tacos will always go. I ain't gonna say nothing. Okay. What do you eat the most now? Yeah, what's like your number one ordered meal at home? Man, I ain't gonna lie, man. My chef, she go crazy. I got a chef out here that go crazy. I forgot what. You got a chef in both states. Cauliflower, cauliflower chicken, you know what I mean? The chickpea eggs, you know what I'm saying? Chickpea eggs? That sounds good, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, with the. With the cauliflower. You get the oat pancakes or you can get the spelt bread where it digests well. We got the gluten-free pasta with the bazelle. Man, it's like. I ain't gonna lie. I eat. You like gluten-free pasta, but I don't like gluten-free pasta. I was about to say, I have seven niggas for sure. I still haven't been able to get the gluten-free. The gluten-free is not. I don't like it. Gluten-free don't taste good. Huh? It don't taste good either. Gluten-free shit. Maybe it's like when you stop. Eventually it does. That's what I was. That's what I was saying, baby. It don't taste good at first, but after you eat it so long, everything started. Your taste buds started to go. It started to go back to being a baby. I like a lot of swash pasta and shit. It go back to being a baby. Like, you know how your taste buds. When you was a child, we used to drink Similac or whatever. It's just fuel. Yeah, so the taste buds started reversing it. That's not a good idea, though. I know a lot of people that be like, it's just fuel. And I understand. I respect it. You know, I like my food to taste good and shit. Yeah. I respect the idea of people. Yeah, if you out here making cauliflower steak and shit, that's on point. My girl makes her own salad dressing. There's things like that that I can't find in other people. Okay. You like that. I ain't gonna lie. Brother, you getting married, man. You should say that. He bounced back. So sis out there. She make a vegan. Vegan Caesar salad dressing I love, because I don't eat a bunch of shit, because I'm a baby. Okay. What's that recipe? That's how she got you. Got me. That sounds good. Once you start cooking, I was like. You know, because you start hanging out with somebody, you go on a few dates, you're doing everything outside, and then once you get comfortable, they start coming over, spending the night, whatever, and then you start to hang out at like five to seven, you're like, damn, what should we eat? Oh, she started cooking at your house, and she never left. No, her house is better than mine. She got bread. Even her crib. Her crib. She got bread. Is she cooked? Yeah. Where her friend at? She got sisters? He gonna come here and ruin it. God sent me here for no reason. All right. Give me that for a week and she ruined it. Hey, man. Hey, hold up, man. Where you finding that at? Like, what is this? Hey, man. No. She fight or something? Yo. She's aggressive? No, she's great. She gonna hit you? Maybe sometime. It's okay, bro. It's okay. All right, I like it. And I can't roll with it. Hey, man. She got paper. Is she cooking? She doing right. Hey, man. That is made for all the girls out there who ain't got no paper. Hey. She got paper and she cooking. So y'all ones who ain't got no paper, man. Hey. A girl with paper cooking is kind of crazy. That's crazy. You work with your girl, which I think is. I do. I love working with my wife. I haven't worked with my girl yet. And I am not in fear of it, but I just understand, like, that is a different level of relationship where you can blame the other person for, like, very specific things. And then you can bring that shit home. You just don't. You gotta eat that shit. You gotta eat that shit, yeah. Y'all some good men. Once you make a decision. Once you make a decision to work with your wife, half the shit you gotta eat. Like, okay, this is. I gotta let this go. Like, ultimately, I think she's better at most of the stuff I don't do anyway. So as opinionated as I can be, I'm still not the executor of some of those things. So I try to be very, like, of course, like, conscious of that. So I, like, work with her. I look at it. It's great working with my wife. Honestly, I think she's got great taste. I think, also, she's only an asset in the stuff that we do. I wouldn't want to be with somebody that wasn't an asset in that way. That's rude. I'm a dream. I wake up every day with a new dream, with a new thing I want to do. You can sell anything, bro. Come and tell me. Hey, man, I tried. You're buying it. No, I'm for real. You a trained husband. Trained husband. No. Man. That's a bar. The way you say it, that's what you're supposed to say. Nigga, I know I'm trained. That's what made me sad. The nigga said it, and I felt heartbroken. I was like, she has trained me. Fuck. No, but that's a bar, though. Happy wife, happy life, though. I really believe that's what it's about. Happy spouse, happy house. Yes. I really believe that, bro. Would you, like. Would you work with Rihanna? Do you ever dream of like that? Like, I know you both were actors. Yeah, she inspired the fuck out of me, so that's a no-brainer. She hella talented, bro. Like, I'll be like, you dope. You been wanting to do this since you was young, young? Yeah. I play sports. I did not want to do this. Yeah, how did you get into acting? Man, because when I moved out here and got signed as a model, I was like, I've always wanted to act. You see the Disney commercials and shit. When you watch Disney Channel, you're like, I want to do that shit. But we in Sacramento. You want to do this? You're like, all that, all that, all that. Welcome to Disney Channel. But honestly, just the short version, modeling gave me the foot in the door to act. But then once I said, yo, I want to act, I took that shit super seriously. But seeing somebody like Ryan work, that shit just come natural to her. And she worked hella hard. I would love to work with her just to learn from her. But she's so, I guess that's that Capricorn energy. She'd just be locked into what she do. Oh, you did a cap too? Yeah. Yeah. It's the caps. Yeah. It's the caps. I don't try caps, eh. I knew he was going to go there and smack the fools out of you. I didn't tell you. I was super rude, nigga. I don't care what star you grab, man. I don't need people to be like, oh, yo, it's good. I'm like, yeah, I don't see it all, guys. Yeah. It's probably one you connect to. Two more and you ain't even pay attention. What are you? I'm a Sagittarius. Let me tell you. They be like, oh, Sagittarius, y'all some hustlers. I know some homeless Sagittarius. He's still hustling. It's a flip side to everything. They hustling more than the other homeless niggas. Yeah, yeah. Hey, bro. They asking a little different. Hey, man. That's how you spend it. Yeah. What's up? No, I don't try. Hey, man, I just, hey, end of the day, man, I think food is important. You ain't wrong. You ain't wrong, though. Food is vitally important. I think people don't even know they thinking about food, but they thinking about it. Because think about it. If you go on vacation, it's part of, they get you with the food. They ain't doing nothing. Well, taking a bottle, drawing a heart, and costing you $10,000. And put some rice in the middle and flip a coin. Boom, boom. Boom, boom. It's turning your heart. Yeah. I love that kind of. And you put your phone out. You do. You smile. I'll be like, watch this. It's a volcano. People at home, man, don't know it. People don't even know. But, man, that's what's up, man. I just love to see, man, because they say, you know, black men can't be in relationships and see a brother, Gage, married, on the way. And I just feel like. He's happy for us. We at a 75% rate right now, man. Yeah. We need to bring you over here. Or you got to convince us to break up with our girls, one or the other. I don't want to tell you. You don't want to come over here, bro. No, for real. That's good. I'm going to tell y'all, man, ain't nothing like having a wife. Ain't nothing like having a woman at home. You don't want to be out here free. Being able to do what you want to do. I knew the nigga was on boy shit. I knew he was on boy shit since it started. I said, bro. No, you had me at first. I was like, hey, you know. Hey, if that nigga was. Do what you want in your life. You don't want this life. Here we go. This is crazy. You wouldn't want to live like this. Okay. I have a question, though. See, me and my situation, right, we're looking at houses right now. We both own our houses. But we're looking at, I'm going to sell mine, she's going to figure out hers, and we're going to move on. We're going to move into a new house. And the conversation is, like, how do we split that? How do you split it? Yeah, like, to me, it's 50-50. Oh. Ain't going to lie, man. 50-50 can get a little ugly. You know that dog you was talking about? See, that dog don't pay no bills. I've been here before. The 50-50 thing to me, to me, it's just a real, if we both are earning what we earn, let's just be 50-50. I was in a relationship before, and we bought a house together, me and this girl, and we went 50-50. We paid for more of the, I think, either the mortgage or down payment, something that was in my name. It was, like, a small separator, but it was really 50-50, but it was a small separator. And then we broke up, and it became, like, a conversation, and you're like, damn, we got to, but she had to go just because I had a little separator that was a little more, and on top of that, no, no, not like, I didn't kick her out or anything. It also was the house. You didn't kick her physically. It was in my name, and she was from overseas, so she couldn't have stuff in her name. Oh, you got her. Boredom? No, she rich. She was rich. But no, 50-50, bro, I ain't going to lie, it's case by case, though. Yeah, it's definitely case by case. So it's like, it depends on where you want to be at in your life and what you want to do. That's one thing about being in a relationship, man, is y'all business. I don't even think nobody can really give you no advice on that, because I'm going to be honest, she ain't going to be that dog, though. That dog going to bark, you know what I mean? The thing is, okay, you got to think also, like, at a 50-50 thing, it's like we're equally in this. It's both of us have our skin. I think that we have this idea of relationships our whole life. We've all been taught we got to take care of our women, all these things. And I agree with that. You know, I think that's like, that is a real thing. It's keeping her safe, protection, all those things. But there is a certain point where it's like, I feel like, yeah, we got to, somebody has to pick up slack. I don't work like a normal job. I'm not somebody who's at work five days a week. She's at work five days a week. So I'm home most of the time. So yeah, obviously, like, I'm a stay-at-home boyfriend. So you got to do this, you are. Yeah, I am. It's my house. It's not like it's like I'm saying to her, it's like I'm, so I feel like there is an obligation for me to like, take care of little things like that. And it sounds like, I think a lot of dudes wouldn't say that or speak up on it. That's 50-50 though still. I know, that's what I'm saying, but like some people don't, some people are like, oh, the idea, she got to do laundry. It's like, nigga. 50-50 sound like niggas is keeping score. Am I, am I, am I just being like, if I'm, but like, it just, we don't want niggas keeping score. That's right. I'm clapping because y'all are clapping because I don't want to be the only one not clapping. I just feel, I just feel like if like, it's like you say you at home, like if it's some dishes in the sink, nigga, I'm a, I'm a clean dishes because I don't like when dishes in the sink. I'm not like, yo, babe, these are still in here. It's like, nigga, I'm a, I'm a do it. It's my house too. Like that's, but I feel like family, you just, you just pick up the slack from one another without even thinking about it. It's not, yeah, the 50-50 is not so much a financial thing to me. It's just all of it. It is. Everything is. It's a relationship. It's a relationship. It's just saying that I'm going to be there for you. I'll be the, it shouldn't be 50-50, it should be a hundred, a hundred. That's what I was going to say. It should be both of us doing the most that we can. That's a bar though. I ain't going to lie. Cause it's like my man said, like I cleaned up at my house. Like I'm going to wash the dishes. I'm going to keep the kids. Like when me and my wife, my ex-wife was married, I'm going to do all of that, you know? So I just think it's a team. And then when I was in the streets, I used to get her paycheck sometimes, her income tax and flip it. So it was like, when she used to get her income tax, I'm like, nah, you know what we're doing with that. Like, I know your friend's going to the mall, but you ain't going to give me that. I'm about to hold another four-way. So it's like, it's like when you, cause when you're in a, cause when you're in a relationship, it's like that. It's like, it's us, man. It's like, I think people mess up a relationship when they get too much outside opinions and information. Yeah. Y'all know each other. So it's like, it's y'all. It's a personal deal. Yeah, parents, and keep parents out of your relationship. You got to be home. You got to live with that person, bro. Your mom doesn't live with that person. Your homies don't live with that person. You have to wake up every day and choose that person that's on the other side of your house. Why would you let these outside voices come in? That's your one real family member. Like, like not saying it like that, but like, like that's the one person you chose to be with versus all your other family. You didn't choose. You didn't choose your mommy, you didn't choose your dad, you didn't choose the kid. Like those are people that, you know, come from you or from the situation or from the DNA, but you're not choosing those people. Once you choose that person, it's really you and that person. You and that person, bro. Yeah. You say that to everybody. You say that to the camera because I left a lot of girls. Well, you're the one not married, so I was talking about that. Because their mama was in their relationship too much. The one I married, her mama stayed out of our business. That's why she got further than everybody. But sometimes. That's why she got further. She got to the final level. That's why I tell her all the time. The final boss. I made her good. My ex-wife, I say, girl, I married you. That means it was something. Without a prenup. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. That means something. You was a real, real, you really cared. Oh, I love that girl. Yeah. Was you on already? Yeah, I was on. I married her. I had already got engaged to her when I was coming up. I went. It was a coming to club weekend. Made like 100 grand. I was in Texas. And I came. I said, you know, we getting married Monday. Because now I'm up. I chose who I love without a prenup. But once I got in a relationship, I realized it's hard when you don't made it. And they ain't made it. Because unless they, if they're still ambitious. Because an ambitious person trying to make it. Yeah. I'm like, ooh. So I'm talking about my ideas. I'm like, man, I'm going to go to. Houston next week, I'm going to go to. And it's like, oh, I'm going to get this eyelash company started. And I'm like, ooh. That's going to cost me money. It ain't going to make that much. Oh, so you. Oh, so you showed them dreams. You was a businessman at the end of the day. I was a businessman. I'm like, baby, we might as well do this. But it's like, I couldn't feed her dreams the same way. How much of it is on you, though, with your partner? When you make it, to make your partner understand that you, we both made it. Like, how much of it is, like, also on you? To not separate those things and make the person feel, like, isolated of, like, oh, I made it. You didn't. That's hard when you come from. Like, we made it. Because if you're my real teammate and my partner, even if it's just me going to work each day and you don't have a job. Let's say you ain't got a job. Yeah. If you're still handling and taking care of my mental, I can go to work and perform each day. If you're making sure that the house is taken care of in a way. If you're making sure my life is easy. You're still working as well. Like, we just have different jobs. So, like, how much of it is, like, we both made it when I made it. I try to make her feel like that. But the problem was, we come from the same place. So, coming from that small town, it didn't really happen. I'm the only one in that area. It never happened. It happened. So, it was kind of resentment on her end because she felt like she could have been doing more because she was talented. Yeah. She's very talented. She's just as talented as I am. But the issue is, the lane I made it in, she couldn't help in that lane. See, when I had the nightclothes and tried to be a rapper, she fit that world. Okay. But this, the comedy lane. It's a niche lane. So, she didn't see where she could help. But you don't bring your, you don't bring, like, the same way she helped you in the other world, you wouldn't bring her into that world. She couldn't help. She didn't even know where to fit in. Me and her was talking about this the other week. She didn't know how to fit in with comedy because we're from the same place. on the streets. When you're in front of the streets, you ain't thinking about being a comedian. You thinking about rapping and nightclubs. So it's like when I made it in this game where it's called stand-up comedy and social media are brand new, she didn't know how to help. That's why my next relationship, we were both comedians. So it was like, it was perfect because we talking about the same thing every night. So it was like, it was equally yoked in that department. So you like working with your partners then? Oh yeah. Like everybody, yeah, I love that because I feel like that's the only way, especially with social media. Social media don't make relationships so hard because if you're in the house with your girl, back in the day, she only could see y'all and what was on TV, which we know this is an imaginary thing. But now you could be in the house and your girl scroll through and see your wedding. I want that on my wedding. So now, you know, you compete with the world a little bit. Now it's like, so it's like yeah, I like working with them. If Ryan continued to take off, how much of you would be like, would it like, I mean, I think that, you know, I have friends that do really well and like we got out here and you're all striving for something. To me, part of it, you have like this healthy competitiveness as long as it doesn't like actually overtaken and become like I don't want this person to win. How much of that you think would, I don't want to say bother you, but like, you know, just inspire you more? It wouldn't bother, I mean, I love Ryan so much. I want her to succeed but that's how I am with everybody in my family. I think I want to be the nigga struggling. Not everybody. I want everybody to be happy doing their shit. Don't put that on you though. Don't point to you. No, no, of course, of course. But I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying struggling in a sense of like a good struggle, a journey. I want to be the one that everybody good and I can just focus on what I need because I hate, bro, I be thinking about my family all the time. I don't really get to like appreciate my shit. So like when Ryan taking off, I'm like, one, that's destined. That's going to happen and I'm just like, how can I Yeah, no fact. And then I'm like, how can I service her? How can I help you? How do I make it easier for you? Because and like I said, I'm inspired by Ryan. So the shit she be doing, I'll just be like, bro, that's fire. Like I asked her so much shit like any opinions on shit creatively. I'm like, yo, how you feel about this? How you feel about that? Because I think her taste is fire. So it's just like for me, I think I think me and her, me and her don't we talk about more about what we don't want to do and how that might look rather than like we know what the shit we want to do. So when you're doing it, it's like, yes, go. Yeah. But then it might be some shit that come across the table. We're just like, man, hell nah. Yeah. Hell no. But some money be good. You be like, yeah, money always give me those. I always ask her scenarios like the price. What's the bag? Like, where do you compromise the taste of the creative? The integrity. Yeah, the integrity. But I mean, if you in competition with your partner, bro, that's like hell. That's hell. Hell. That's hell. Hell. That's hell. It really is. You been through that? I have been. I was with a girl. She hated me, I'm pretty sure. Like, I don't know. I just feel like she always hated on me. Whenever people would talk about me in a room in a way, I think part of her felt like, that nigga, like, and I would feel it, but I also would, I think I grew up in a my brother, I have hella brothers and they're all very competitive. Part of me thought it was normal in the time. I just felt like, oh, people gone, the closest people gonna hate on you. That's part of the game. And there is still part of me that feels that way, that like, you know, it sucks, but it feels at times like the higher you go up, it continues to dwindle down with the people that you communicate with because there are some that are not so happy with the higher that you are. For sure. And those are the people that are close to you. Yeah. And it breaks your heart. But, yeah, no, I went through that for sure. I felt like, oh, this girl don't, she ain't really a fan of mine. She don't want me. And I didn't, and I didn't realize until after and I got my wife, who's like my biggest fan, and I realized, oh, shit, this is how it's supposed to feel. You're supposed to have somebody that's just like, you know, champions you in this way at all times and supports you this way at all times. But, yeah, for many years, I was like competing. I think, you know, it drove me because you're in the household with a hater. So it's driving you like, I gotta pick up each day and show this bitch. But then you don't realize that you're living with a whole bunch of hate in your heart, too, based off this person. So. It's hard to find a real teammate, man. I think that's what everybody's looking for. Somebody who really, truly, like, want to see you win. Yeah. You know, you don't know who really want to see you really win until you really, really start winning. Yeah. Yeah, until you really start winning. You ain't test it until it's really come. Yeah. And then you realize, man, don't nobody want to see you win more than yourself. So it's like, you gotta remember that. I want to see my girl win so damn bad, though. She winning, ain't it? Yeah. She already winning. But it's like. That's how I feel. There's a thing where it's like, we work in different industries, but I understand her industry, and she understands mine, I feel like. So it's like, we know the struggles that we both face. And with that, it's like, man, I know what the fuck you going through. I get it. Just keep going, my boy. I got you. I got you. Like, I got your back. She took over her company and became the CEO recently, and like, she owns the company, but she had hired another CEO and fired. That dog, what? Yes, sir. And. Yes, sir. And when she became CEO, it was like, like, every day she came home with more problems. And you know, easily a nigga would be like, just, who cares? Don't worry. I'd be, bro, I'd be sitting on the couch, you'd be in tears. I'd be like, I'm right here with you. I got you. Whatever you need. I'll put on some music, make it all good. But like, that understanding of, yeah, you got to be the teammate. You got to be the coach and a player sometimes. You got to be able to play both those positions to make sure that the other person feels those things. That's real, bro. Mm-hmm. I ain't gonna lie, man. Y'all need to speak more of that, because they don't think that we, they got a narrative out there about black men. Like, we can't, we all, man, all y'all, all us emotionally connected. Oh, brother, I've been therapy a long motherfucking time. Yeah, I've been therapy. And my wife a cancer, so she just, like, super. What cancers do? They, they just, like, they're more, I guess, emotionally, like, aware. So she, you know. What's a cancer birthday? Come tell us. July 10th is hers, so it's in between, I think, from, like, June 22nd to, like, July 22nd. No one. She must lie about her birthday, the one I'm talking about, because. You said aware? June 22nd to July 22nd, I believe. Oh, this one's. Nah. July 20th, maybe, yeah. Nah, this one I'm talking about. She was a cancer? Yeah, she had cancer. And let me tell you something, she's not aware of nothing. She's not aware. She's not aware of anything. Okay. You gotta check the rising. I mean, a difference. I don't think. The moon. I also don't think. We're not getting to that, though. I need the whole chart. Bro, I called my mom one time and asked her, what time was I born? She said, don't mess with no girl like that. Yeah. She knew you was on CoStar, nigga. She knew you was on CoStar, right? I don't like when girls ask me that, man. Do not talk to that woman. Like, you can't even. That's some spiritual pussy. You can't even cook. That's some spiritual pussy right there. You're gonna get trapped in there. I know the stars. There's no way you know the stars, but you don't know why you're having a headache every three days. Like, that's too. But your bills do. Yeah! That's a high level. That's a high level of knowledge to know and not know all the simple things. Like, man, how does somebody know about the stars, but don't even know what's going on here on Earth? I don't put that much power into it. I know some people who really do it. People I work with. I be like, bro, there's no way. This is an actor, man. And producer. I think it's real. I just think those things are on top of the person. Like, the experience of the person and everything. I don't necessarily think the person who grew up in a broken home and was beaten. It's thinking the exact same thing as this person who grew up in two people's homes. Because they got the same birthday. I think that maybe, maybe in some ways, they may have takes that feel this way, but they still have different experiences that made them who they are. So, I don't put that much power into it. I'm like, yo, birthday this? We can be together. Like, Gemini. I'm a Gemini, nigga. Yeah, I be like, two people. Nobody likes me, nigga. I be like, I'm a Gemini. People be like, ah. Like, Gemini got two. They say it got two personalities. We got more than that. Yeah. I got, like, two personalities. Like, ten of them motherfuckers, for sure. I don't need to have no more kids. That's not it, man. You are an avid Facebook user. Yeah, Facebook, for sure. You think Facebook over Instagram, over Twitter, over everything? Oh, yeah. I knew the audience. Yeah. Facebook got the. You get your audience. Like, the aunties and the mamas and stuff. With Instagram, it's a shared audience. So, it's like a shared audience. You never can. You can never hold attention. You can never. Nah, because they are stars themselves. Valid. The Instagram crowd, the ones taking pictures of the food, they ain't paying attention to you. That makes sense. Facebook audience, you would be hot and nobody would even know you hot. Like, I've been hot since 2015 and they ain't never been really hot because the Instagram audience is more loyal. It's the Tyler Perry audience. So, they gonna be there. Which one? Facebook? Yeah, Facebook. Facebook audience. Because they the mamas, the aunties, and. They the aunties. So, it's like. They already done lived. So, it's like, you know, hip-hop. Hey, they. Man, they ain't out like that. They going. Hey, man, they going to see. Hey, they going to see Charlie Wilson. Charlie Wilson. The Facebook audience. You're wrong, though. Facebook audience don't run off cloud. Me too. So, say, like, my own fans get on me. If I drop something trash, they gonna say it. So, say, like, I cook something and you cook something. And yours better than mine. My fans gonna be like, nah, man, his was better. Versus Instagram, they go with trends. It's trendy. It's trendy. It's trendy. It's trendy. So, you can't. You don't even know if you're really hot for real. Because it's. So, I always knew that from the. I always knew that from the beginning because I feel like social media is like a social intelligence. It's all high school. So, however high school was or your. neighborhood was, you know which audience is going to be around the longest. Like my ex-wife, I remember when I knew I never wanted this audience because I remember Wale was hot. They were like, Wale the best. Meek Mill then was hot. Wiz Khalifa, they would switch every other month versus whoever like Mary J. Blige. They love Mary J. Blige. They love Lauryn Hill too. They love Monica. It's like that same audience and to be honest, Brandi and Monica the only concert that I went to that selling out arenas was full of black people. You think about it. Rappers, when they sell out arenas, a lot of white people come. Because to be honest, that audience, they're like Brandi and Monica, the Mary J. Bliges, them audiences there forever versus the other audience, man, you're going to have to do a back flip and I ain't got time to do the stuff on social media. It take. How's the algorithm on Facebook? Like is it like Instagram's algorithm is, to me, I hate it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Y'all do, yeah. And that's your whole shit. Like how is that with Facebook? Is it? It's like I've been on it since 2014 though. So I stay so consistent like I'm grandfather then. Yeah, okay. You know, I drop like 50 videos a day right now. I was going to just ask you what's the highest. I said 30. You said 50 videos a day. Yeah, yeah. 40 to 50. I'm dropping 40 to 50. Right now I'm getting like 1.8 billion views a month, but it's that audience. How many videos do you let's just say currently have archived that you're like, I ain't even put these out. They all on ice. I don't even know because, see, I got 22 producers. So they turn in videos. I love this nigga. I drop. Amazing. Like the last 12 days myself, I did 260 videos and I just hold them and I just keep it going. How much time is that in a video? How much time are you spending per video? You shot 260 in the past few days. How much time? Is it like you're shooting like a day? Yeah, I shoot 20 videos a day. On a regular day, I shoot 20 videos. Improv? Are you writing? No, I write. So it's like I got continued storylines years ago. So it's like I got Amber and Shayla. I write that. I got Amber. Amber was with she was my girl, but then my business partner she ended up with this guy. I mean, it was cool, but I was dealing with her behind her back. But then her best friend ended up getting pregnant by her husband. So the micro drama thing everybody doing, I've been doing it since the pandemic. So I write these stories and then I got other producers. They write their stories. You be writing your new hoes and stuff? Huh? I feel like you always. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh. Hey, man. Hey, man. Everybody got to eat, man. I feel like I always look up and see some new work on your shit. Hey, man. Oh, yeah. I put everybody to work. My baby, my kids, everybody. But you know, Facebook, it's just that audience, man, that I knew. I knew from the beginning who I was aiming at. I was aiming at the audience. Because it's more longevity. That's very smart. I love the artists that just know their audience and feed that audience. That core. I think that's hella important, bro. Everybody always be trying to get more people. Yeah, because that audience, Instagram going to follow you anyway if you get some money. Yeah. So this is what happened with Instagram. You get some money, they follow you. People come to my shows that I know ain't my fans. They just come because Country Wayne, we know he up with the Facebook stuff. So when I went on interviews, I strategically talked about the money on purpose because I knew Instagram was going to come regardless. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. I'm just groupies, you saying? Well, Instagram and Facebook technically are connected. I know. Yeah. So in a weird way. Instagram, they look at people. But lifestyles, it's nothing new. It's like, that's why rappers talk about money. You're not wrong. I think about that all the time. I could present a crazier lifestyle, but that's not my personality to be like, I need to present a lifestyle. But I do think about the fact that people are into these very materialistic things. Oh, yeah. I don't want to ever be that person, but I know that I could get a response from this thing. Instagram, the world, man. It's the world, but it's the audience out there for everything, bro. It's like, you got to know your audience and whatever your audience is, man, whatever you. It's like marriage, for real. Love who love you. I think some people are like, I knew what audience loved me and I fed them. And I think most people want. I know who everybody want. They want the world. They want that other audience because people have this audience and still try to please that audience. Yep. And it's like, they want that one because it's louder. But to be honest, bro, Tyler Perry got richer than everybody. So your favorite actor, your favorite R&B singer, your favorite who? The reason why Tyler Perry is richer than everybody is because he's like, listen, this audience is overlooked. See, what it is, people don't try to please their grandmas. They don't try to make their grandmas proud and their uncles proud. They try to make dudes proud. They try to make the world proud. So what it is, this audience is not the most popular because nobody try to make grandma proud. So I knew this audience, the Mary J. Blige audience, I fed them. I was dancing. The songs. It was times that my people, my PR and my team was like, man, you need to act younger. I acted old on purpose. I had a beer and used to keep it raggedy and keep it what's-her-name to make people think I was 40 before I turned 40. I'm 38. But I did that on purpose because I knew this audience is the long game. That audience is going to switch up. I seen it happen. Look at all our favorite rappers who was hot back then. The audience got older. I feel like fans have a big part of that, too. I feel like sometimes fans set the standard of real success is when everybody is. When you doing shit on a commercial level, that's pleasing everybody. And then you miss your own audience doing that. Servicing them because everyone's moving the goalposts to make. It's like, oh yeah, you could do that, but you got to do it on a higher level. An artist to me that could sell out his venues to his core fan base and consistently all the time stay on. That's, bro, that's ultimate success to me. But if you're trying to. If you're not appreciating these shows because you want to be in the arena and you're doing things, you're making music that don't sound like you, now you done lost your core fan base. It's like, I think the fans play a big part of that, too, and the stand culture of not letting the artists just live in their own world, be them, and be successful with their audience. And I feel like a lot of people fall into that trap, bro. Yeah. That's why I'm like, you really got to figure out what you want to do. What is the goal? You really have to think, what do you want to do? We all share the same goal, man. Use your art to bless others, but man, you got to make some paperweight. I think people are scared to make money. It's a lot of people are scared. I'm like, bro, God is okay with you getting some money out of it. And I think what happened is, those big. When the internet came, the prefix of a word helps you with the definition. Internet, I-N-T, it's interception. It intercepted the power, so the industry doesn't have the power no more. So for the last 10 years, I think Tiffany Haddish was one of the last ones that was able to bubble off a movie, and it really I seen overnight. Her comedy club tickets went up, you know what I mean? But nowadays, it's who on the internet? Like, bro, a person could go and. Listen, Chuck could go in the biggest movie right now. If Drewski just dropped a hot video for seven days, he going to be. Look at Kassonette. The internet really got the game. It's just that it's hard to accept that the internet really intercepted the game like that. Instagram got your bitch. Yo, I know people selling tickets. I know people selling tickets right now like crazy. Stand-up comedy is still alive and well and thriving. I think social media's changed some. What were you going to say? Same thing. Social media's changed so much. I think in acting it's like. Brother, it's one of the biggest parts of it now. Do you think it's affected your work or no? I really don't know. I don't know. I know for me, I know for me, like, there's a way that I want my brand to look, and I at the same time, I also, like, don't really care to give too much of who I am on the internet. Yeah, how do you balance that? How do you balance, like, getting engaged? How do you, like, did you post that a week after, the day after, a month after? No, no, we got engaged last August, and then we let people know in October. But we talk about it, how we want it to look, how we want to do it. I feel like there's. I'm all about balance, right? It's just like you let people into your world, but at the same time, you gotta keep some shit sacred, especially as an actor, I feel like, personally. But that's just the standard I set for myself. But I think social media, sometimes I don't know if social media has helped me get a job or hurt me, you know what I'm saying? I really don't know, but I also don't try to put too much thought in it, because what happens is I start overthinking everything. Then I can't do what I want to do personally, because I'm like, well, what if, once you're worried about how people are looking at you to the point where you can't make a decision, that shit is like, come on, bro. That's the bar, bro. That's the bar, what you just said. You can't care, bro. You can't care. It's a new game. I don't care what people say. I never did, though. But I come from almost going to prison. So when you don't took penitentiary chances, you never care. It's just some comments. I don't care what this man, I swear to God, bro, when people be telling me they care about social media, I'm like, how you care about what somebody say? Lock your phone. Put it away. But no, that's the bar, though. I think everybody on social media, man, whatever talent you do got, it's the golden era of just, hey, man, showing it to them, whether it's acting or whatever, you know what I'm saying? Because the internet got the people, bro. I grew up in social media, meaning, like, I was on Twitter and Instagram at 15. But I was, like, in high school, going to school, and getting to school, going to library, and getting on Twitter. Because that's what I was doing at the time. And I think I grew a fan base just being a homie of homies and it all worked out, thankfully. But, like, even then, yeah, there was a moment in time where I didn't give a fuck what I put on the internet. not understand what a digital footprint was. you get to a certain age you look back at all the shit you said on the internet you're like maybe let's slow down a little bit and so now i think it's like i've learned to instead of like you know i used to like post on instagram like three times a week now i post like once a month just because i'm like i don't really have nothing to post i don't take no pictures or nothing i think that's another thing is like having stuff to post and a lot of people create content to post which to me isn't right because it's not real that's you creating something to post rather than just posting your life it's a brand instagram became that though i feel like early on it was just us posting pictures it was just like you could post anything you could just post a corner somebody got to a check be like she was today and nobody cared and you might get a whole bunch of likes on that then it became like only selling things like part of me hates being online because i'm like i don't want to always sell you things i'd rather just have a conversation with you and i don't think people care about just having conversations then you end up feeling like damn where do i even live in a place like that like this because i don't want to sell you shit i'm not the guy to sell you shit and then i just like oh i want to talk about this thing but you like hey that conversation is either so big that people don't want to have it or they're just like that this is simpler like you know i mean like yeah social media for me is just like i don't have fun on it i think i we used to have fun it used to be a fun thing i care so much about my brand when we like establishing a brand that like even as you watch like the evolution of these things i wouldn't do youtube early on just because i was i don't want to do anything on youtube it doesn't feel like people are transitioning from youtube to in tv and film and then that changed right you don't know the times end up changing you feel like oh shit this thing actually worked in this person's advantage so all of it is kind of like in real time i i commend you i tip my hat to you for staying so true to your brand for knowing that and having the vision because if you're young it is very easy to get blinded by what the world wants from you as well yeah yeah because they definitely want you to um to to this day if you're on social media you're never going to be looked at as a big big starboard until you get the big movie to some people so it's like i think i think people i think people battle with that and um but it's like man at the end of the day social media is the it's more stronger today than it was when i started yeah it's like when i first started it was like you man you still was the whoever the stars was were the stars but every year it kept going down down down and then social then the pandemic it just hit a shoe and then now it's like nah bro social media is almost a must because it's your leverage in business deals you know what i mean because if you if you walking over you walking there with a fan base yeah that deal different yeah and i and i understood it from a business point of view it was like okay because i don't feel like doing it i don't feel like but it helps you with everything you do outside of it like you you're on i had quit though i started back because of the pandemic i had got off of it because i don't feel like doing it either but that's why i built you quit still had 2 000 videos to post no no i was supposed to zero i started back because of the pandemic i just started posting that volume but what happened was i started realizing oh let me put other people on my platform so that's what i did i did if constant would have made duke dennis and all them post on his so what i did that's not me posting those videos i got my storyline in the morning then bread he poked bread turning about he turned in 293 videos this month mike turned in 212. delicia turned in about 60. uh so it's other people doing it because i knew if i stayed on social media too much you're going to fall off i mean it's very smart you can't stay hot you got to put other people on like luane when he did young money that was the perfect time because it kept him irrelevant forever yeah first if he would have kept rapping we love you but a sound so i i just took i learned from everybody man the social media just it's like a big playground for sure you know what i mean and you're going on tour when i'm what well i go are you on the first course no september i started doing um i'm going to some comedy clubs to work with some new jokes you know i just dropped the special congratulations i got i got a movie with me and coco jones independent movie called that's her me and coco jones congrats on that congrats i did 100 independently it's coming out theaters uh in february and that's just going to be a lot of fun for me and coco jones i love that you know yeah so we you know on this comedy special just dropped on amazon in march called nostalgia yeah so me and we rolling man we got a lot going on for y'all yeah all right a random question you um you've seen this new ai jesus app no i ain't seeing that ai jesus you can just write jesus serious this is dead serious i just saw this earlier and it was just like a new ai just drop where you could just like chat gbt but you could just write jesus and people believe that huh i mean people believe anything of course it's insane to think about it it was like hey bro that's the market the first message jesus i was like this is crazy jesus they don't took it now they don't took it too far yo if you like your prayers ain't good ain't that creative my my producers be trying to use ai man they skits with trash i believe that i got a group chat i say y'all must be using ai ai is not creating you know right away now i use ai for the music in the skits but i go in there and i freestyle the song whatever the video about i freestyle you still have to put work for it it is not creative the script they was giving them was i could tell they were using ai their their storylines were trash i say y'all are using ai because it's not creative because they admit it huh yeah okay you know they told because they you could just tell it was just like um uh it was like first art i mean you know i mean it had the story off yeah yeah it wasn't it wasn't that prompting yeah it's like like he runs out the porch and he falls on the ground and then that's too simple everybody was fighting on my page i'm like hold on hold on why are these storylines somebody hit somebody hitting they um you know what i mean how the ai videos do they was trash man i'm saying i know you knew they were trashed personally numbers the numbers were trash the numbers can tell see that i don't know like right now right if if you go on social media talk you're going to naturally bring audience because you've been talking on shows the girl kendra g i told her to go on social media i say she was a radio host i said you're going to take off yeah she took off because what it is the algorithm going to show you who is going whoever lasts the longest it's going to choose you it knows what you are so the algorithm is not a trick it's just that you have to be good for real yeah that's all the algorithm is most people just ain't funny and they they think they funny because people don't told them they funny but time is going to tell every the most disrespected thing in the game is funny but a comedian ain't just funny they can trigger you yeah kate williams can make you you get an argument with him he can make you hate your life well he made that radio host say her life yeah oh man yeah it's not all the fingers through there that's it the algorithm she got on you go to lane bryant blame yeah he murdered her all right i mean bro comedy i think is it's the best tool in the world it's like we need it for everything i think if we laugh through problems we solve a lot things like easier and better because if we all walk in with like our big boy pants on we're all tough and nobody gonna be accepting anything exactly man you got to kind of the gesture in the past and like ancient times were a real historic thing they were really important because they said the things that people were scared to say and because they were funny about it it was fine you could make fun of the king because he's a jester and we all want to say these things but because it's said in a funny way we're like ah that's fine you can't hurt about the feelings of either that's the that's the line with comedy like how do you see it you don't think you can hurt nobody feelings i grew up roasting i'm saying but you can't intentionally do that as a comedian because a lot of comedians be sensitive they say stuff then somebody say something back to them yeah like no you if you say it you got to be able to stand on it that's true so i think that's the problem with comedy now like the comedians are sensitive a lot of them they want to be just said but don't nobody say nothing bad i'm a comedian but now i'm a human yeah so it's like you got to be able to take what come with it because that's why i don't talk about people if you notice you you've never been to find a video of me talking about somebody because i'm like i talk about okay you can't take it huh because you can't take no i can take it oh i i don't know what that person going through today yeah okay i don't play with people like that okay okay gotcha i'm like bro i don't know what that person's going through and in the end of the day you know i'm already up so it really ain't fair yeah so i i talk about my function down yeah i punch your punch in there you can't do that you can't punch down bro do that i talk about me and my family and that's what worked for me i tell stories i don't really go at people like that i go at people even playing field like okay you in a relationship i'm in a relationship man what you i come here because to be honest man if you go there people can say something about your kids yeah so i talk about my kids because uh you got 10 too man my kids i talk about my family but my family have to go through it because i talk about them but i pay them to talk about them okay um well that was a great episode i think we got a lot of good out of that oh yeah i think that was hilarious and i like how you came back at the end and saved your relationship very important very important i'm gonna call you in a week hey man you gotta get my number bro i'm coming out to see you my boy i need to know i know you'd be cooking too who me yeah i do if you stand at home you gotta be cooking i've learned how to cook recently yeah i am now a steak master i like that it's pause that's not yeah i guess i mean y'all pause me so much in new york the guy always steak master i guess i'll let you have no reason just own one i'll let him have that one that's all right thank you guys for watching the shop um Thank you guys for being here. 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