T.I. Built Da Partments 2 Without Hollywood Help… The Cast Tells The Story

this is expeditiously i am tip t i have uh-huh now the following experience is not a test the conversations and stories expressed on this podcast are meant to be an expression of purpose and truth this show properly entitled expeditiously is a free exchange of ideas and opinions no judgment no preconceived beliefs no fear you're encouraged to share your thoughts and ask any question as long as it's done with respect and that's through true love and respect for others that we will change the world and speak truth to power one show at a time now without further ado this is expeditiously i'm tip t i harris what's happening man i'm tip harris your host here expeditiously today is going to be a very important show man i'm honored to have uh the cast members four of the cast members from departments two and you know one of the cast members you know were just introduced to the department's university part two the other three uh actually kicked the dough down with departments one and we're going to talk about the experiences we're going to talk about what they learned we're going to talk about how the the second one was different from the first one uh and all of them you know have a different connection to me so it's going to be interesting to have this conversation uh three two of them are comedians and one of them is just funny naturally and he can't help himself yeah we have from the far end uh my young twin man king harris yeah man show some love yeah show some love harris plays trent uh in department one and two uh we have kelly k dub yes there it is i never planned i had no plans of applauding that was no that was not in my plan i just think we did it for king harris yeah yeah no no this is my son no man so so uh kelly k dub man he plays uh jimmy jimmy is it jimmy or i keep forgetting your name because you you got a name then you got the name tag there's a different name yeah man what's your character name man well y'all call it mike i just named him jimmy man you you you you help me name him jimmy i renamed him man jimmy now his name mike but he wear a shirt say jimmy yeah everything in atlanta cost you damn much money man here bro not everything damn he spent no money on that outfit i know that bro say you looking for team money yeah team money bro tall yeah brave yeah i never heard of it yeah alley mechanic that's what you call it shade tree shade tree shade tree yeah i'm about shade trees i'm real i'm a scum i can feel it i can feel it that fast talker yeah yeah that's him you go fix the carburetor upload the radiator yes sir yes sir you got fixed though i'm gonna run a straight wire and all they came in for more change if you don't want a straight wire here that's straight wire bro from the trunk to the battery you'll get where you need to go but you probably won't get back and you get that point a you get from point a to point b but you may not get back to a hey man uh i want y'all to name a memory i want y'all to name a memory uh of this for this film the part two name a memory that you that you experienced that you don't think you're gonna forget i'm glad you're out there huh being out there yeah yeah during the filming since she says it's kelly care first experience let her answer first are we talking about actually like viewing the movie or the experience of the experience of film oh man the experience of film like you said i think you said it best a family reunion a kickback being around your brothers your homies people who really get to create and you like oh that's funny you get to see people in a different light you get to see them stretch themselves out like obviously basically you thought these niggas weren't shitting i couldn't read nothing i got the script like oh they all script look at them and but i also saw them take the script and make it their own and i was just super impressed by all the comedians i ain't got no mail mail yeah all i got is bills you still ain't paid the last bill how you selling all that bullshit weed and your electricity still on nigga because i wanted to feel like a trap you got that feeling don't you hell down okay hey uh king king king yes sir man what's up man tell me what how was your experience different on the second one than it was for the third one bro it wasn't different man i felt like i was at home you know what i'm saying it was the uh same same people you know i'm saying it was it was some new faces but they blended in real quick it was just real genuine set like you know what i'm saying okay like it felt like going to school and you just in the gym the whole day that's exactly what it felt like from 7 to 3 30 you just so it was it was really it was really just fun man um you know how you spent your days i mean you spent your days detention was fun too yeah you can make it fun with the right crew yeah you in there with the right ones but yeah man it was i like my character man my character got a little you know he's a little player man you know what i'm saying he's figuring it out and when i asked you know what was one of the funniest things that was said somebody said when when k-dub said the nav looked like saucer santana i just felt like some shit could have got cut off who was behind the edits that's what you really got to talk about because i bet you did a voiceover with that shit i don't even remember what i'm saying no he said it he said it oh man can we talk about the fact that robin ann said papa's a pussy what's his name jesse jesse i don't know if he fell for real for real or he but that's what i'm saying that shit was golden this movie really allowed jesse from milwaukee too no jesse from arkansas okay got it yeah he's just being there a little bit yeah he's just being there a little bit lot okay but this movie was it was it was magical it was magical you let people do them right and people got recognized by doing them when justin screamed out boy they ain't gonna take us that's how mad he was mad that day for real yeah he was actually mad hey man shout out to jesse whitehead and uh and jesse man uh oh and uh and blanco the bank had bounce scene was funny too oh yeah one time for get cool you still were doing it like it's certain stuff yeah get cool play man you gotta watch and realize the humor and stuff yeah yeah get cool he did his thing watching it by myself at home my family i was watching it like from a creator's eye but watch you want to know it's crazy it felt different from the scene when he bought the water bottle i was waiting for the bank head bounce i'm like because it didn't come up right after he bought the water bottle i'm like bro where's the bank head bound then when it came back on the screen i started crying yeah i think even the editor man we was in the edit room and we saw i they was laughing at so many parts that's why you can't watch movies with people so when king was doing that i'm like y'all chill you're about to like they still laughing at some other i'm like man i'm gonna watch this at home yeah but you can't you were interrupted for other people other people gonna find so that's you know i mean funny to them but the flow was so smooth y'all were so smooth like the the cast i mean the behind the scene people that's what made that's what created the energy behind the but i'm talking about the crew yeah the crew okay the people that that make the the world come together because a lot of time it'd be so tense but y'all was like do it and we was like okay yeah money bag is an animal boy yeah money back crazy he got off when he's been crazy in there yeah that scene the white that to see her booty like that that's the favorite scene y'all don't think about nothing man you should pause about everything like hey man come here what would i say what would i say like my sense of humor is kind of like regular like you don't like too much ain't funny to me right where it's like you not trying to do too much like write that funny yeah it's where it's funny not trying to be funny because um i think i just talk with different delivery to kind of make it make something that's not supposed to be funny sound funny and i like to just kind of go off of the last thing i heard what was said so i like to improv most most of it okay but i got good people right here to improv off of you know yeah i we we roast each other every day we see each other hey man one of the funny one of the funniest boys that i saw with king when he came when y'all when y'all had to hit your league and king said but y'all got it going on don't you how old is that who said that was that loads of somebody y'all say y'all got it going on well i think people don't know with king like of course we older than king but king had us doing that he like king since the first apartment king was gambling on set so it's like now over that going to king trailer he ordering food on i'm saying before he gets that like when he's gonna hang with king kill the other king don't tell them we know it's good we know it's rubbish weed i'll tell you that i'm right here doing hey look you want to know what's so funny that was so funny you don't know you got me two zips free that day this is how i got it this is how i got it i have nothing to do about it hey let me let me know with any of that listen So it was a set. It was we were shooting in Blue Flame. And somebody was rolling their weed, but their phone went off. And he said, man, who's phone is that? They ran out. Somebody said, can you drop this weed on the floor? I said, hell yeah. Come on with it. Whoever that is is going to see this interview and say, hey, man, you know you're on the train. Yeah, yeah, because he came back. So three years after I knew him, I said, bro, that was me that had to got the weed. Oh, so you actually took it? Because when he came back in, he said, damn, man, I dropped two zips, man. Somebody got me. I said, damn. Did you drop the muck, boy? Oh, God. Now that's a crazy thing. Did you look over here? Hey, three years later, I said, bro, you know what? You're a cool nigga. You end up being cool. I took that weed, man. Did you give anything back? Huh? Did you pay? Huh? If you got a hundred, get here. Look. This is what he said. He said, it's all right, buddy. He said, all the little buds you left around, I done got them two zips back. Damn. He really needed that if he just lost his hood. Oh, man. Goodness, man. Tell me the difference between shooting Departments 1 and Departments 2. You don't have to answer this, kid. Two was a movie. One, we was like, it was supposed to be episodic. Yeah. So you brought that together to make that a movie. Shooting Departments 2, we knew we had a movie. We knew what was the ending going to be. Departments 1, we thought we had some more episodes. And then it would rain. Y'all come up with ideas off the fly. So it was like, just put that together. Departments 1 actually came out so good that Departments 2 was able to be a movie. And it would feel more money on Departments 2. Well, it probably wouldn't, but they made it better with the resources. We had one trailer on Departments 1. Then it became two. It became two. I had my own trailer. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. We set the foundation for it. We were standing in the apartment. We were changing clothes outside behind the tree. We was in somebody's real house. The first apartment we did the crate challenge. We out there doing all type of shit. We had to entertain ourselves on the first one. We didn't realize that was some people's house for real. Like, niggas were treating it like it was a set. But they like, hey man, you can't just put your feet on that. Niggas just sitting there just putting their feet on it. But they scared to say something. What's one thing that y'all learned about each other while filming this movie? K-Dub ain't got no filter. I mean, I kind of already knew that. But the movie kind of just let me know, like, he'll do this shit on camera. He's not just. He not pretending. Yeah, it's different when we. I'm going to die about this shit, man. I'm going to die. I'm going to pee on me right now. Man, whoever is not to talk about, he would talk about him. Yeah. And that's why I was like, man, this man is a real, like. He's standing on this shit, man. He not pretending. I'm going to die. Yeah. He not pretending. Yeah. It's different when we. man whoever is not to talk about he would talk about him and that's why i was like man this man is a real like he's standing on this shit i enjoyed it i can tell you this man what i i didn't learn much about everybody i already knew everybody i kind of raised all these i was in heaven i was in heaven because i ain't never cared to do a movie i'm not auditioning for one i don't care being one like this that was heaven for me why i don't want to do me and you partner but allegedly allegedly because i don't say that shit in public i don't want to say it in public you but uh no i i wasn't happy because i'm shooting a goddamn real movie that's gonna be seen and i'm able to do me and i ain't really have to do much even though i over the years i guess i put work after but i ain't have to wonder and i want no eggshells or nothing plus i wouldn't even end this movie when i have the one told me i was shooting a movie yeah we tried to leave that i know you really did you're not ready now so listen to me they have called me i knew don't nobody's called me you know man i'm gonna call me man and i said uh why you wasn't at the table reading today and i was like what table reading he said let me call you back i felt like i had talked to you you did you did when he called tip right away next thing i know that he was gonna say now pick up quick man he read that room quick now it was like but sometimes like you need certain people even like to bring somebody else up at the part like with k dub and certain scenes like when he in the scene with like hearing welch when they going at it like you know what i'm saying he's just a good person to have on like a lot of people think he's a bad person yes which he is yes he is he's not that vision he want he want the he want the ultimate goal to be a championship yeah and now you need a player like that you know like a michael irving one of them players like you know what i mean yeah it's getting worse and worse we need darren straubing now you talking the way you talking now you talking the way you talking the white girl i done missed him oh shit and i flew right over my head look oh man okay man so uh y'all telling me how is it different knowing me personally and knowing me you know you know as a as a as a in a personal aspect how is it different knowing me as a director kind of shame all right it's kind of a shame almost a little bit you up either way you know we don't do what the you want to do either way you know that tip hands on if nobody don't believe it i think if that could edit on set that be up there editing like you know like if he he could have somebody doing the work for him that really was directing out there i'm like this trip what you mean you walk around with your headphones on that's how you hear bro you know what i'm saying what i'm saying what i'm saying like when he'll be still talking on the phone yeah yeah and then be like we want what case and set close the game he got the out of there niggas forgot about that bro we used to work like from the sun come up to the sun come down we'd be like bro we can't get out of here early that one day we got out of there two o'clock tip sent you home we ain't know why until we got damn got on the internet see that nigger smiling everybody was happy when he won we all thought we came up that man walking over like crystal wheat i'm talking about one minute he was directing next minute he was going down you went down that hill for real hell down bro but then like how you use your own resources though like you know how some people be like uh like you might have be on some sets and they be like we need this we need that man buddy having the shit that you need everything cars clothes everything the landlord need to found him okay but even though the wardrobe was on cool we like okay i had on boxers well i ain't even had no reason to have on no boxers what you mean they put on boxers on me when for what who boxers they put on you who boxers who boxers they wanted to sew who boxers they put on you naf ronnie's ronnie's naf it had naf name on it hell nah y'all hips about the same size we about hip and heel we about we over here about to touch each other leg here's how we laugh we we over here hot as hell hell nah bro how to keep them in my cage till they cool off hell nah bro okay okay i think you know i think honestly you just transitioned well from knowing you and the set because you cool you let people figure it out themselves but then you see the direction you know where you want it to go and then you allow us like to figure it out you would give somebody a tip and then you like okay shit they do it it ain't too much pressure that's what it is you are no pressure easy breezy okay you think so for me i mean you don't ever come at me like that you maybe because i'm such a great because you had your shit together i do i do and i think that's why we how great do i care for getting out here lying i ain't have no lines that's what i'm saying and i didn't you tell me i'm shooting something 10 minutes before we shoot it me i was on set every day they'll be shooting they be like dude we gonna have you coming in you just act like you don't want them here i'll be like huh when they come in just act like you don't want them here i'll be like all right you ready no get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out you don't want them here get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out get out yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah back at the movie, I'm like, damn, y'all really was going, I could have said more, did y'all I feel like you could have said more in scenes like man could've been funnier. Yeah, but sometimes I think it was like is it's a Conversation - yeah Yeah, like I think a lot of times and we need mention that nigga Jay ski was getting off That's one scene. I wish I would have been a part of that church Work, you know, he was Hollywood. He had somewhere Yeah You weren't present you weren't present none that day but it could open the came out where the case there came my good So tell me how much of your character each of you how much of your character is actually You and and how much did you have to pull, you know from your experiences to put into the character? Oh I'm a wife. So I hug and love my husband too, but I can easily snap and go crazy like that, too I mean not no cheating so I don't thank you. You know, you seem like a easygoing like yeah That's what I'm saying. People don't he definitely don't think that I can. No, I don't think so. I can't see you upset, you know, you do Yeah Yeah, I mean, I mean I'm a wife though So I can go from zero to a hundred real quick So that scene was said it was just perfect like oh you loving me and then you're going to talk to a girl I go to jail real quick Hey, man, you know, you know, I really love about y'all like y'all that you handle You have the scenes on your own like you don't really need a whole lot of Nudging towards the right thing to do you can like do it on your own. I could just let y'all go You know what I'm saying? Yeah, like like what was the best part about that? freedom, yeah, yeah, I'll do that Talk about yourself. I'll be right back I got to go fix it Go ahead. Show me how good you is He getting old, man. He getting old, man. He can't hold his bladder no more I'm gonna tell him you said that I'm gonna tell him you said that But now and being honest you do get to just be yourself. You know directors who want you to read word for word that stuff don't make it fun I can tell you can read. Pick you a question to read. Can't go. All right He got all type of vocabulary words. What scene did you do that you felt like was cut out? Then you cut the scene out. They cut it short that running scene They cut it short that running scene They cut it short that running scene I keep saying that, bro. I'm telling you we ran about eight nine times up that hill You needed that, bro. I just made that question up No, he asked us. What did he ask us? No, he asked us. What did he ask us? No, he asked us. What did he ask us? Out of us Is your character really your character? My character is definitely my character My character is definitely my character It's definitely who I am. It's who I want to be You want to be a mechanic? No, I want to be that guy Not the hands-on happy, but the smarty Not the hands-on happy, but the smarty Talk shit kind of guy Talk little shit in the neighborhood Be a hard time a little bit and move on That's exactly the person I want to be Ain't with nobody, but with everybody Yeah, by myself, though I like it It was easy for me I think Tipcar Gravy Having all these comedians at his house That was the perfect time When he entered into the comedy world That was just like Everybody just surrounded him with love And that's exactly what he did And he paid it forward He gave it right back to everybody Paid up, said the album pissed him off 'Cause he left comedy He said no more shows after that Nah, I ain't gonna lie When I heard Let 'Em Know He was playing it I think we was at his Alpharetta show We was at Healing, I heard it Tip played that song And I'm talking about we bobbing our head I looked to K-Dub and he had that look That made me realize Oh yeah, this nigga gone Ain't no more Ha Ha Mothra So it was like You gotta figure it out And then when he cut his hair I was so happy I was so happy when he cut his hair But when KP cut his hair too I said they really outta here I said KP is over man It's over, no more shows Hey man listen bro It's just a slight hiatus You know what I'm saying We'll get back to the funny Let me get to the money right now Yeah, we with it But it's like a It's an even flow to like drop that And now you got the apartments dropping So it's like a domino effect Apartments and we got other stuff Thought she was the one That's the move, that's the one That's what changed my life You left me out that one You had stuff going on You should've seen how he did Me and K-Dawg At least he left you out That nigga brought us to set I know how he got you now Y'all was in the beginning scene And the end It was good And talked a lot They didn't cut y'all first Oh they changed it The edit he showed us that time I said what happened to y'all The movie was too long I didn't do that Was somebody talking about the animals I looked at him I'm like Were you doing the same shit you said The movie was too long He did what they said he did to him Hey man Okay so back to the apartments Back on top Who was your favorite person To do a scene with Bag I think bag It was so natural like that's how me and bag Just be all day talking shit I think bag Kinda like in that K-Dawg realm You don't know what he might say too Bag would say some shit that Nigga what script you reading His improv shit will make you go with it I think bag Man bro you really can't go wrong With nobody on that On that cast list Anybody you in the scene with It's gonna be some gold shit And me and Sam been doing those skits So that was so funny because your director Was like love said And it just happened that I was on set And he said we gonna put skit in a scene Perfect We been getting millions of views from just doing this in Walmart And it came to real You can't make this up welcome to the A For the players play I feel like I'm so grateful I moved to Atlanta just to have this opportunity To be among this energy You know we could have just been in Milwaukee Yeah man and look at God This real Niggas acting got better too shout out to Juan From the first part minutes to this part minutes You could see the jump in him He was understanding the scenes and stuff like that If that makes sense Who put that bag in that bag When he was cooking up the baby That was brilliant He ain't had to do no acting Yeah That nigga said Oh don't give me no script What about you King Who was your favorite person to do a scene with Oh man I'ma of course say anything With Pee Wee and Jay Ski Man For sure Get Cool I like Get Cool cause it's like I just be like how I'ma run game today That's how I felt I like the scenes with Get Cool Cause it's almost like I can just run some type of game He be looking like he really confused This nigga is perfect for this shit You can say anything man He got the cartridge He got trusting eyes Like your eyes say I believe He really listening Oh Tokio too Tokio baby Yeah she get off bro It went a lot of scenes with her and everybody Cause you know she was mostly doing it with Shay and Erica But man she was getting that With them in that goddamn truck That shit was funny Duval scenes always kill me I mean We gotta see more Duval man Duval don't wanna come to work man If y'all press Duval That be almost the funniest part of the movie Damn Cause it be like really like Cause it be like you gonna drive Tip will tell him drive up And he get out the car and we just attack him He be looking real like confused too Hey man what do you think people are going to love most About part 2 The community That back to back You gonna laugh at something It ain't 15 minutes of bored nothing Damn it It's like the movie got my comedy time What you talking about man What is you talking about How you bringing this back to you This is not about you dog Where's my wife Where's my wife You look at my stand up Go on YouTube You go watch this movie Watch the YouTube It just keep going never stop It don't let you go Just keep going that's my stand up Do y'all think Do y'all think You think that you guys are Finding new fans From department universe For real Y'all got people coming up to y'all And talking to y'all about y'all The timing is perfect cause like People just been watching the fuck out department So they was like hey man They was start saying your name from Like man when y'all did that shit I was like oh they just getting on to it So now they be like man when y'all dropping out I'm dropping another one It just so happen we had a date And it was like boom Hit em right there in the face They just not watching the first one yeah i think the way you had it oh go see uh department part one on tubi you know what i'm saying you can watch number two without not knowing what happened in one yeah that's what's so good about this yeah yeah for real and um and for all of everybody man who uh if you don't have all black you know what i'm saying and you wanna you don't really want to subscribe to anything because you ain't got no like no steady credit card and nothing like that it's all right i understand i did what you do you know you pay on it for this then let it go next month you feel me so then what you do you go to departments2.com d-a-p-a-r-t-m-e-n-t-s-2.com and you can you can purchase it one time so when you get your credit card when it when it charged up go ahead and you know what i'm saying one-time fee it'll be yours for life you understand me and uh you can have it in your very own way library uh so what y'all think need to happen with the characters in the universe for part three or should it be a part three should we just leave it right here no no you sure it gotta be a couple of weeks would you turn it into a tv show it needs to be a series would you turn it into a tv show it's gonna be a series it needs to be a tv show because it could always be moving parts that everybody can have their own world and you were being funny for real but everybody can truly have their own part you can branch off you can branch off and then we can get I've been talking about it. Tiptoe. You know, Pee Wee? Yeah. Pee Wee, the Avengers of Pee Wee. The Avengers of Pee Wee. And when you rolled on that ground to go get that money, man, and you went back, I know you took your shoulder blade out when you did that. When you went back, you was on fire. Amen. You got legs. But no, like, I think even with us watching each other, like, you know what I mean, do different scenes, we don't see all that. So it's like, watching the movie together, it's like, well, this shit funny. Yeah. You ain't even have to be there. So it's like being a fan of it yourself. So, of course, I think it could go. A series. Okay. Okay. Well, let's talk about the things y'all got going on outside of the film. King, what you doing? We on tour, bro. Yeah! Let's go! Let's go! What you mean? What you mean? You know what I'm saying? That shit different than the King. Yeah, it's just different, man. So how is this tour different from the other tours that you done been on? The ladies are older. Whoa. What you trying to say? I'm just saying. I'm just saying. You asking me the differences. I'm putting out the differences. All right. Cool. When you say older, like, tell us, King. Like, what you mean? You know, older. How much older? Probably like in the 30s up. Oh, that's good. Yeah, you did what I'm saying. I didn't say old. I didn't say. I said older. That prime time right there. That's a prime time. The money show. That's the money. The money go from 21 to, you might peak at 30. Okay. 21, 30. The money girls, they like candles and stuff. Yo's, you know what I'm saying? They turning up. They turning up. What do they like, though? So what do 30 and up like? Hey, man. Don't talk too much. Your mama watching. Don't say too much, man. Don't say. Hey. That boy Pop said, where you told your boyfriend you at tonight? I said, oh, shit. I said, oh, shit. This is going up. Oh, man. Nah. But tour's been extraordinary. It's been an experience, man. Man. It's just, it's an honor to be there. Just to see all of the problems, the goods, the bads, pros and cons. Seeing how you handle them. How do I handle them? What problems you be seeing? I mean, hey. Well, last show, the sound was messing up. So seeing you get on that. But the money, this was so funny. About the money. So the money, I'm like, bro, we got to. You're like, well, his sound messing up. But I know my sound's not going to mess up. I'm like, how the hell you know that? He's like, I just know. Go out there. Sound messed up. I said, see, I told you. So it's just seeing you go communicate to the boy, like, hey, do this, do this. Get back in your zone. It's just show how to be professional. And be hands-on with what you're doing and your tour. I think that's what the fans actually pay for when they come out to see a tour. Of course, they can hear the music in the car, but the experience of how the artists adjust to the unexpected. Like, if the sound go out completely, what the artists going to do? They get to see that moment. I think that's what people pay for when they come to a tour. I think it's like a build-up, too, when that happens. Because, like. When it first happened, they started chanting, we want dip, we want dip. It showed how much people really want you. So it's like. You started that chant. She started it from home. Hey, you know what I think? I think I'm just asking this question. It's not related to any of the initial questions for you, King. I think I've seen people ask how your life has changed. Since you had a son. Since you're a father now. How have you changed? How's your attitude changed? How's your outlook on life changed? It's changed quicker than it was changing, for sure. What does that mean, King? I was always pushing to change for the better. We just said we couldn't see it. It just takes time. This just sped the time up. So I can say that. But I just tried to lately. Just not engage in problems or try to stay away. So you mean to tell me you can have a problem and then not even just address it. You could just have a problem and go about your business and focus on something positive. Yeah. So my new saying is my opinion don't matter. So I might form it, but I want you to know it don't matter. If I feel like you eat too much and I say, bro, you eat too much. Know that that don't matter. So it's like I've been trying to more like make it seem like if I do say something, what I'm saying don't matter. So it don't. So they don't feel no way. So they don't feel like I'm trying to belittle or act like this or do this. So I just try to find different ways to resolve problems. So you wake up every day with improving on your mind. Yeah. I did that for my kid, though. Okay. All right. Hey, man, that's good to know, man. We learn something new every day, man. Right on, King. Now, K-Dub, what about you, man? Tell me. Yes, sir. Tell me. Tell me. What is it about? Tell me. This film has made an opportunity for you outside of it. What do you got going on? Well, me personally, I've been a journeyman in the comedy world. A journeyman. Explain to the people what that is. I just do shows. I do a lot of shows so I can sell more tickets. You know, as we all know, that's the hardest thing in comedy. Yeah. So I can sell more tickets. You know, that's pretty much it. I'm selling tickets because. That's your bread and butter. That's what it is. That's what it's going to always be. Now, man, you can always go back to fixing cars. I ain't never really fixed no cars. You just told a lie when you got home. You said you was a mechanic. I grew up fixing them. My dad a mechanic. Okay. Now, I ain't never went to fix no cars, but I put TVs on the wall. I did all kinds of stuff. That's not a car. You did this? Did what you did? I did whatever. All this kind of stuff. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Whatever this is, I did some. All the little flows and all this type of stuff. I did a lot of stuff, but that ain't what I'm going to go back to do. I'm going to continue to tell jokes. And this way has benefited you mostly by selling tickets. Yes. If I can do as simple as that, if I can do anything and get anything and be funny, that's going to sell some tickets. It don't matter what it is. So, where can somebody catch you right now if they want to see you be funny? They can catch me in that movie department anywhere, George. What do you mean where they trying to catch me? They're going to search the media so they can follow your journey. Oh, that's Comedian K-Dub 23. Okay. All right. That's everything. Comedian K-Dub 23. So, that's the brand right there. Okay. Comedian K-Dub. Comedian K-Dub. That's the whole brand. Because I've seen people call you K-Dub. They just call you K-Dub. I don't know. Or Dub. I've seen people call you Dub. They just call me anything. I call you K-Dub. Yeah. I think when they try to have a relationship with you, Debbie. Debbie? I just made that up. I love you, Debbie. Who said Debbie? She said call you Debbie. Who said you call you Debbie? Debbie? But Debbie? Is that what you said? Is that what you came up with? Debbie? But you know what I'm saying? As long as he don't answer to it. Yeah, it's a girl, bro. Like, hey, Debbie. Oh, a girl said that. I'm like, oh, yeah. Nah, it was a big bouncer at the club. What's up, Debbie? Welcome back. We got your section over there, Debbie. We got you. We know you like a hookah. We got my nigga Debbie in the mother. We got your strawberry mint hookah for K-Dub. Oh, we going up all night. My nigga Debbie in the mother. Why don't you take care of the game? Can I get a strawberry mint hookah? He ain't going on stage without a hookah. He ain't going to move. God damn. I'm finna leave here and go get me a hookah. All right, Kelly. Kelly, what you got going, man? What have the department done for you to be able to, you know, showcase your talents and what's what? It just added on to the empire. I'm a constant builder. Okay. Me and my husband been building this from the ground up. No representation. And then you meet people and you realize that you don't need nobody but the right people. Everything is in alignment. So I'm really happy. Her comedy tour was already popping. And now people like, dang, you on the apartments. Dang. You just went to the all black film festival and did a movie premiere. Dang. Your podcast popping. Dang. You on content creation. Dang. You like, oh God, I can't do nothing. But thank you. Right. So I'm just elevating and where the position I supposed to be and it's kind of weird for me right now Because I got this energy. I'm a joy dealer. So not step in a room. I expect the energy to show joy joy How much time come man? Okay, I know I can step on the set I know I can step in a church I can step in corporate step in a college Room and it's all gonna be the same reaction. So my god, what are you doing in this season? Like what direction you taking me? Okay, so I don't know if it's gonna be radio TV I don't know if it's gonna be gospel. I don't know if it's gonna be clean, but whatever it is It's gonna be you know what major speaking of speak you mentioned college and one thing that I don't think people Either they don't they're not aware of it or they only knowledge it enough you you are educated. Yeah, I'm a teacher Yeah, I have a degree in communications and then I got an alternate license in education I received my master's in administrative leadership So you got a master's degree and here you is at here telling Joe made more money than I ever made in my life Telling Joe would you understand what I'm telling you owner on a circuit in New York? I can make more money in New York. You can work five and that's what I'm saying I move to do I did the work but what what tell me what did what what kind of education? What is like? Where did you teach? So I started off in elementary school where there's stuff contained But then I went to high school where I was teaching American Authors world in English Oh, did you ever had a student teach you some? Oh man, they taught me the most valuable lessons about being who you are So somebody can grow from it I was I should have been a guidance counselor. Okay, you don't think I didn't want to grade the papers I really want to just be in the kids business and help them grow and that's how I knew it's time for me to leave I started grading the kids depending on how I felt the bottom. I'm like, you know what you cool you can get a It's time for me to go My career started did you ever give a key at the answer let me don't you see is right here because listen you ain't you Ain't cheating you ain't trying it. Mmm. I need you at least you ain't cheating. You ain't trash She's she's Speaking your language. Yeah, I know he over here like that. Yeah, that's right I don't get caught though. Yeah, that's right. I used to get caught but more importantly, I'm just I'm just like in this all I'm in straight gratitude So I you know, I text you often and tell you just random. Thank you. I'm around people randomly I know my gift is bigger than anything I can but I know I want God to get the glory on all the things Right. I don't care if I'm in a club. I don't care if I'm in the church God You're bigger than everything and that's what's happening. He popped in my head. He doing it so quietly everybody like where Kelly come from? Kelly is a grinder. Mmm, you hear me and I stay in my lane I'll support everything in it and it's supposed to happen the way it's at the 2026 fire. Okay, what about you now? What you got going on? I think with departments it just like Bro, you know like a lot of people they were moving to LA moving to New York like you know what she was saying So yeah, we doing all this right? I love going around Atlanta and folks saying wow, I seen a new party I never wanted to be the biggest nigga. No, I just want people even like coming from school like bro Like it wouldn't I heard you roasted such-and-such early morning. I always like oh you heard about that shit So when the niggas stop me now, I'd be like what the apartment what y'all nigga what? They ain't got to finish the city. I got them up. Why was you watching this shit? I just that's what I always have some shit to do. What a lad place you was. That somebody stopped you. Shop the cab mall. Shop the cab mall. Shop the cab mall. It was Monday. A nigga said bro, me and my old lady she ain't gonna believe it bro. We were just watching this shit. But Monday was yesterday. Yes, it was yesterday. It was yesterday. So when he said this shit, I know he ain't lying. He said me and my old lady, man, bro, what's your name on that? They don't have to know my name on there, but they seen this shit. I said Pee-wee, big damn show here, nigga. I love that type of shit, bro. Nigga ain't got to know my real name. You watch the movie, you know me. I just want to be like a hood, like a hood legend. You just said it. I want a lot of people. There's a lot of actors I grew up watching that ain't never knew they name until they got grown. For real? Like who? Bokeem Woodbine. What? I knew his name because of how unique it was. That man stayed working, man. Oh, he worked it. Bokeem stayed working. Bokeem Woodbine from Jason Leary. The brother of Jason Leary. Thomas Byrd, he's a Luther from Saturday Night Live. I ain't know that name. He from right there, Griffin, Georgia. For real. Clifton Powell, I feel like that's the pinnacle. I know his name, but if you anywhere, everybody know a movie. You got Samuel L. Jackson, Clifton Powell. I don't know. You don't know Clifton Powell? Pinky Alfred. But if you see him, you know him. I just seen him. Not too long ago. Claren Whitten III. I didn't know his name. Oh yeah, Claren Whitten III off of Tail from the Hood. Yeah. And Hood. How do you know I sleep? I don't know a lot of actors' names. I don't know a lot of actors. Christian Bale, I know Christian Bale. Batman, played Batman. Oh, man. The Dark Knight, best Batman ever. He gonna get trapped. I know. For the 21-year-olds with the candles and shit. Talking about the Batman. I had a candle lit. No, Christian Bale ain't the best Batman, bro. Who the best Batman then? Michael Keaton, bro. Michael Keaton? Michael Keaton? He was the first one, wasn't he? Yeah. Man, hey man, I appreciate you. I want to say thank y'all, man. Each and every one of y'all for, you know, just contributing your talents and your skills. Showing up and being funny. And believing in the vision. Because it wasn't me. It wasn't a whole bunch of money behind it. It wasn't no guaranteed network to be showcased on. But y'all just showed up for the love of it. And I appreciate y'all for that, man. What's your favorite thing about the party? My favorite thing about it is that we did it together. We didn't need nobody to green light us. We didn't need nobody to sign no check for us. We just, you know, utilized our own resources. You know, it was really just us calling each other. Us calling each other. Like I said, which camera are we looking at? Like it was the idea that I was slept on. And then I talked to Tip about it. And the next day he had a camera set up out there at the apartment. And it happened just like that? It happened just like that. I talked about it. Next day he went and got a camera. I called him the FDC. Tip called Kelly. Hey look, but you know what though? But you know what though? The real thing that started me to, I guess, I don't want to say being interested, but getting serious about directing is, uh, so I was talking about, you know, what I ought to do or what I planned on doing in the future. And for my birthday, Tamika bought me a damn camera. Bought me a real, like a, what is it, an Arri, Alexa Arri. A real, like, movie making camera. And after she bought the camera, I was like, well I got to do something with this shit. And that's when, you know, we started writing the script. Now that I got a camera, I got a way to, you know what I'm saying, to actually shoot some shit with no more excuses. So, I have to say she was the, uh, she planted the seed. She planted the seed. I planted the seed in her. Yeah, we been thinking you. I never thought that. We been thinking the wrong thing. I never thought of that. We ain't shit without you. We shot that whole thing with one camera? She bought me another one. She bought me two. She bought me one, the first one. And then, uh, I think after we did Department 1, she bought me a second one. We shot the Apartments 2 with your personal cameras? Yeah. Man, come on. That's fire. What? Nah, T.I. and Tiny, they create, they create superstars. Oh, man. I text Tiny often, like, do you mind signing me? Hell nah. Hell nah. I talked about it, but the only tip could've got, like, bruh, to get people's schedules like that, get D.C. on, uh, set. Get Duval, get Carlos. Shout out to D.C., Carlos, and Duval, who are also executive producers. The people he was bringing in just to have them on set, I'm like, they there. They having fun. Those are big names. Let me be very clear, he called the people from all over, from Milwaukee, from Arkansas, from Detroit. One time from Myron. Yeah, Myron, Myron. Shout out to my boy, Myron. He came from Milwaukee, and that's when I called you. You like, where I'm at? You like, "Man." You know? So that's exactly how it happened. It's big, it's big productions can't get these people on set. Exactly. And not to sit there either. Yeah, boy, I could get you sitting there. And having fun. Hey, what's a secret about, about each of your characters that, that nobody, nobody knows? A secret. A secret? About your character. That's in the script. Mm-hmm. Well, now, it ain't gotta be in the script. It could just be a secret that, you know, nobody, go ahead. My secret that I think is that they don't know, I don't live over there. I don't live in a ragged apartment. I don't stay in a junk like this. I come over there to fix cars every evening. I go back to my penthouse. Penthouse. What, what floor you on, dog? Nineteenth. That man is livin'. Oh, man. I don't live over there. Oh. What about, what about your, what about your, uh, Kelly, your character? Um, that Rochelle really just, um, been lookin' for love in that apartment. And in love with Mr. Wilde, too. In love, in, in, yes. what and it was easy for me to take that time and spend with him so yeah okay okay how about you uh peewee man quiet as a kilt bro it's probably in the history you got pablo man you got pablo you got frank lucas big mix then me that apartment don't sleep on it when they stressed your collar out your neck on your shirt talking like this the real this me i ain't gotta touch this a week a week okay you wanna know what's crazy yeah trent can't get off what you mean i didn't get off the first one the second one my girl got shot she go to the ambulance hey you know what but you crushed the out of fat man d's at the end nah that i ain't talking about that get off the free game man look freak out your man god damn your freaking oh man all right man hey listen bro i appreciate y'all i appreciate y'all how spending the time with me uh what we gonna do right now what we gonna do right now man we have a a segment uh uh uh expeditions is called the word of the day word of the day is dedicated to the guests uh and all the conversation that was had um and the word of the day for today's episode is uh bondinage what did that mean bondinage i'm gonna tell you i'm gonna tell you you know what i'm saying just just just just just bear with me bondinage is light playful conversation or banter bondinage bondinage i'm gonna try to use that in the song department's cast kept the atmosphere lively with playful bondinage you should probably open up a school bro you think so yeah and so you can so you can not come again everybody said hey man i ain't had a school to skip in a long time hey man y'all have any parting words anything y'all want to tell the people go watch departments too go watch go watch one on tubi go watch two go to departments2.com or if you in the subscription go to all black go to all black you feel me anybody else anybody else you already got it hey man this has been expedition this is expeditiously i am tipti head