T.I. & Da Partments 2 Cast Break Down the Characters, Chaos & Comedy Behind the Sequel

(upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Hey, say what's happening, man? I'm Tim Paris, and today I'm your host for Expeditionally. This is a very special episode today, man, because I get to sit down with an incredible group of talented people. This group of people, man, I have known from their day job, man, in other walks of life. We have comedians and very, very talented DJs and music personalities, but also they're a part of the collective group that brought the vision of the film, "Departments to Life," specifically, "Departments to," all right? Now, as the writer, the director, and the producer, I had the opportunity to be on set with all of them, and to handpicked them for the roles that they planned. Let me tell you, man, they bring last energy and plenty of Atlanta flavor, Philadelphia flavor, and all kinds of other flavors to life, you know what I mean? Now, the comedy is back bigger and funnier than ever taking us once again inside the unforgettable "Cita View Apartments," where every neighborhood has a story, every doorstep has drama, and every day delivers nonstop comedy. Now, in addition to "Cita View Apartments," we also have the backstries. The backstries has a story of their own. You did, every community is filled with people who are going to be very unique in their own characteristics. Now, we're talking behind-the-scenes stories, unforgettable moments on set, favorite scenes, and what fans can explain from this highly anticipated sequel. Now, today we have the incredible cast members, Shay Mac, Robin Ann, and Fat Man D's, and man. What's happening, y'all? - What do you do? - Yeah. - What's happening? - What's happening, y'all? - Ain't that third of our man, can't we go, can we go storm with the ladies, can y'all tell everybody, you know, your name, what you do, and what character you play in the film. - My name is Robin Ann, and I play "Mabel," and what I do is, I put them y'all on the stage, they change. (laughter) - They're a dog, man. - It's Shay Mac. - Yeah, you know, I'm Shay Mac. I'm a DJ by day, a mom by day, and I'm an actress, in between time. I'm from Philly, you know, I bring some gangster swag, when we were talking about guns and all that, I was just thinking about that shit. (laughter) - And I play "Makela," I play myself. - Okay, okay. But you also have a part cast as well. - I also got a part cast, me and my boy BL, and Diny and Chad is called "Culture Chad" G.P.T. Make sure y'all check this out. - Okay. - The big fan of "Tips" on the show, you know what I'm saying. - Our first Mac tip, well, we actually Charlie Mac introduced us, we did the "Voter Dog" campaign. And that's how I first met "Tips." - "Voter Dog," that would like the Obama, the first Obama-- - Yeah, I think it was '08, '09, or something like that. And then, you know, "Tips" has always been "Tips," but, you know, as a person that admires people and also want to be successful, I just stayed on my own path and in my own lane. - 'Cause you weren't needing DJing at the time. - Oh, no, no, no. I was doing none of that at the time. I was bartending at the time. - Okay, yeah. - I just got into DJing game because, you know, being around like artists, you know, you devil, you devil, you devil, and I always had a vibe from you. Like, I used to play piano when I was a kid. - Okay, so you can stay up late. - I'm a little something. - You can play "Rivin' in the Sky" or something like that. - All right, all right. - I'm good. - I'm a little the bar. - I'ma come back. We're gonna come back in your shoes. - Come back a little bit. - I'm so mad. - I'm fat man DJ, you know what I'm saying? I'm a fat man by day, I'm a DJ by night, you know what I'm saying? And I play "Zick," you know what I'm talking about from the back street in the part of "Minch 2" and he really wasn't too far off my, who I am, you know what I'm saying? He just, a bivoree not doing what the bivoree not doing. I have to say the real thing. [BLANK_AUDIO] Versus us all. >> Hey, what crazy about that? No me would like, bro, that's just you. And you said that you had to see the red, you re-reinverte. But that's just what you be doing, that's just what I do. But I don't do it no more like I did, you know what I'm saying? So it was good, it was actually a lot more acting, you know what I'm saying. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Well, let me, I got a question for all of you. When you first got the call about the opportunity to be in the park minutes, like what was your reaction, you know what, what made you say that this was the opportunity for you? >> Well for me, like for me, honestly speaking, you know how sometimes you believe you're going to meet somebody one day. And I knew that one day I was going to meet you, but I just didn't know when, I knew how. >> What made you feel like that? >> Because I'm a comedian, I do do comedy, and, and, and I mean that man was because I, you know what I'm saying? I've been doing comedy, ma'am, a girl, we've been, a dirty soul, you know, we have been so many, Lord, we've got love. But I always seen you doing your music, but when I seen you come all the way inside of comedy, it was like, okay, I don't know, you know what I'm just doing, I know I'm going to get the chance to see you now. So, when I saw you intercoming, when I saw you doing comedy, I just knew then I said, okay, God, this is my opportunity. When you called me, it was just like the moment that I was waiting for. I was like, Lord, I knew that guy never said that to me, but I knew I was in his spirit. >> But let me ask you a question. What was, what was so important to you about meeting me? What was it that you wanted to achieve by meeting me? >> Well, actually, what I wanted to achieve was to tell you that I appreciate you and everything that you have done, showing black people's how to become an entrepreneur, how to be a business person. >> For real? >> Yes, and I need you to know that you spoke so much to me before I even met you, and I need you to know that you've been a rapper. I've never seen a rapper come out of retirement, go back in, but you came out and showed us how to take your money and invest it in your community, and I love you for that because you show us how to, when you get the money, put it back into your community. And I wanted to tell you, thank you, you got so much for us to do. But thank you for listening. >> You know, and you got so good job, but I'm paying attention, and I always wanted to tell you, thank you. >> Man, that's all good, but you know what, to be honest with you, thank you all, you know what I'm saying, thank you all, because I'm just an instrument, you know, God, just put it on my heart to move, and all I do is say, okay, you know what I'm saying? It's real something that's easy for me, but no matter what I'm doing, if it ain't received well by the rest of the people that I'm doing it around, then it don't really matter as much, so I appreciate y'all for you know, and for being patient with me, because I don't fuck off a lot, too. >> That's okay, I just want you to know, I'm gonna tell you from myself, I'm gonna tell you this I'm gonna be done with, I just want you to know, because I know somebody else may want to tell you this and that, we appreciate you. >> I want you to know that you are very much watch, that you are very much appreciated in our community. >> Well, thank you, thank you. Now, Shay, man, I appreciate, hey man, listen, I do, man, thank you, the glory should go to God, but I appreciate y'all acknowledging, you know, the hard work or the effort is being put in, I appreciate you. Now, what about y'all hard work or effort, because y'all showed up every day, in the heat. >> I was DJing, and miss Ann called me, and I don't know what was going on through that Saturdays, I DJed for 13 hours, right? >> Why? >> Because I do, I do two places, I do a brunch set, and then I go, and I do a never set as well. >> You said 13 hours. >> Yeah, so I started at one, I get home, I leave, I made my first gig at 1 p.m., I don't get home until 3 a.m. >> One Saturdays. >> 13 hours, Shay. >> So, yes, I- >> He debted me the motherfucker dancing, and you see the breath. >> Well, I made it come, they come, I had a last stop. >> 13 hours. >> I'm sitting there DJing the shit, I see my phone, I see your name pop up, I'm like, hello, I'm thinking of some, I don't know what it's about, I'm thinking of some maybe DJing or event. >> Yeah. >> She told me that shit, I said, do you know how much shit I've been going through, yes, I'm ready, I don't. >> I get Genji set up, I'm like, look, whatever y'all got to do, y'all got to do. Genji was still in school at the time, but it was so hot, you know, it was so hot, so I was like, all right, so look. Genji, we're going to set you up, I'm going to drop you off at school, my view is going to pick her up from school. We had a whole regimen program, and I was in school at the time. I had to tell the school, like, look, T.I. called me. I got to shoot the part of the show. You want to see me? One time for the independent black women getting it done. [APPLAUSE] Yeah. But when I got that call, it was just like, damn, keep doing the work. No matter what you do, just do the work. And some other work is going to come and bless you and put you in another pocket and space in the form. And I ain't going to lie. It was kind of intimidating because, you know, I consider as friends. I worked with you and been around you for about some years. And when he was in director mode, I was like, oh, man. And you were like, see him get upset. I don't know that's not in my pay grade. But seeing him in that type of mode, you don't want to mess up. But you're like, oh, shit, that's my homie, man. I'll pass it a little later on, like, I need to get my chat. What about you, Deez, and how you felt when you got the call? Hey, so I'm keeping 100 with you, gang. I would work in the plumbing company, Charlene. I had been a guy now, plumbers helpful for two years. I don't know anything that helped me for two years. So you were Luigi? Bruh, all I did was live water heaters off the stain. Like, that's what I was looking for. I was like, hey, get him in here, get him in here. I was like, oh, the only black dude at the company. No kids. They every time the heavy water heat on, stand old, hey, come on. I pick it up. I put on float and then I roll it out to the van. I run out there and get some parts. You know what I'm saying? I wear a tight blue shirt with the company name on it. So, cack your pants, not looking pretty. I get all work. You feel me? I had $56 in my account, type of activity. I said, you know what I'm going to do? I'm feeling the goal in there, Kroger, Charlene. I'm going to get an eight piece flat. Bopee, Hawaiian Roller. And I'm going to go home. You feel like I was, I'm feeling to go home. No drink, but I'm going to drink water. Like I said, I had fit to sell them up, because I'm feeling walking in Kroger. I stood out there, smoked middle poke. I'm just thinking about poke. That's a new port. A square cigarette for those who are waiting to know. I said, I smoke a poke, my phone rang. I'm so dejected at the time, because I'm feeling like, man, I thought I was feeling to be winning. I ain't even know real. I can't fit under sinks. You feel me? Like real, like my shoulder when he built the plumb. But I'm always here trying to make something myself get trailed like they 1090, but you back. You don't blame me, go get the treat. You got to make sure your body go with the treat. And I ain't living that. So I'm up, I don't fit under no sink. And I'm standing out there. I flick the poke, the phone rang. I almost didn't pick it up. I said, I look, I said, who is calling me? He said, till, I was like, come on now, because you know how you have somebody number, but it's you don't call it. I had a number for a few years, but it was just in the bowl. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, that ain't really, you know, I ain't no, I got this thing. But every night again, it would motivate me the way I got somebody number, but I picked it up, you said, these, I said, it is him. I said, what's happening, hey, I got a part for you and then move it. I think it's just for you. I said, oh, yeah, you said, yeah, I said, say no more. What I need to do is that can you be at such and such the mom for a table read four PM, I said, yeah, you know, I was scheduled to be not plumbing, but plumbing the next day, I was scheduled to be assistant plumbing for the rest of my life, bro, I called them folks sooner. We got all the fault. I said, hey, you white people, yeah, I ain't going to be there tomorrow. They were like, okay, everything okay? And then, yeah, I was excited, I bought that chicken and I ate it with a, with a relax attitude, okay, but the press added too, yeah. And also, I want you to know that when I got the power, I wanted you to see that I can, you know, come in there and do my job and you not have to keep directing me and not be doing stuff, and I just wanted to be in there to do what you was paying me to do. Right. What's the, you know, I, it was, you did it. You did it. Any paid, any paid. Any paid. No, any paid. I'm just being in there doing what I was supposed to be done and show you, you know what? Honestly, just cause I'm black, don't mean that I can just come in here. We were all black. We were all black. It wasn't just sad sometimes. You know, we couldn't afford the white folks. We don't want to come in. We were all black. I was like, now I want him, I want to show him that I can come in. I can do my part. I'ma do what he's saying. Do what he asked me to do. You know, I'm saying cause some folks don't want to follow protocol. And I, and I enjoy doing that and show you that I could do that for you. Man, one of the things that, that I was impressed by all of you was that you understood the assignment and you understood the circumstances of your character. It didn't take a lot of explaining. You know, just pretty much one time. Hey, look, did what you doing. This, this is the mentality of your character. This is what we need to push the story forward. This is what's on the script. Okay, go. I think I would have told her that camera put like 50 pounds on you. I just want to say unequivocally that I am not the size of the nigga or the cat that I play. I would totally alone when I think myself. I knew this shirt would tie that foot, but when they gave it to me in the wardrobe. I said, "You show you when we wear them." And she's like, "Yeah." And I was like, "All right." Hey, man. We've been here, bro. I wanted to, like, what I got from that experience was like, "Damn, this, this, this is all right." Like, I see, like, I see somebody so busy, but doing so much other busy shit. That kind of just motivated me into, like, you know, just keep your best foot forward. Whatever dream, whatever goals you have. Just do as much as you can to achieve it. And I loved it. I loved it. I thought I'm so comfortable in my role, like even when I need it. I was like, "Damn it. It really felt like you're like my own nigga." So I see you out in public. That's how I'm gonna carry you. I'm gonna make sure you're straight. I'm gonna make sure anybody, you know, in a way or in a section or out of pocket, I'm gonna make sure you got your order. Make sure you ain't got too much hookah. It felt like we was related. Yeah. I mean, I just like that. Anyway, I'm gonna tell you what my intention was. The part, man, the entire idea of it is, and because, of course, as y'all know, D.C. Y'all fly out, so produces it alongside me. And it's the idea of this for this came when D.C. and I, um, we were going around from network to network, streamers, servers to streamers, servers in and out of offices, talking to white people, pitching the idea about doing something that was part sketch comedy, part scripted, uh, set in the community. Similar to the part, man, it's not quite the part, man. I think it was set at a liquor store. It wasn't in the apartment, but it was still like a community driven comedy. Uh, and you know, we sitting there and we pitching to my ideas, telling them what we got and how we feel that it's going, that it's going, that it's going to work. And we just sitting, watching people who not of the community telling us what they think will and won't work in our community. And we walked out of there, feeling kind of like how you felt when you were going to get their chicken, their boss chicken. We were kind of like, man, damn, bro. And much of we didn't accomplish individually and collectively like we still can't go in nowhere and get our stories told. And we were like, man, fuck this, bro. We just need to do this. Should I itself? Yeah. And that at that moment, that's when we said, I cool. But we both said I don't know our own missions to develop something, get something done, then we can pull our friends together and we could bring it to life without nobody's authorization. And y'all help us do that shit. Not just once, but two times. And so I appreciate y'all, man, for even believing in us enough to do it. Hey, brother, let me tell you something like DJ, CNN, Hudson, and Float, everybody got to have a dream. Hey, listen here. It was either go out there and not fit under the scene. Or it would come my head and be on set with a tie that brown shirt and glasses and tie that jeans. What about it? MMO. It was something like one, two, and I was walking too much. I put a crease in the water. I was back there, I said he can't call me a hundred, ten dollars. Hey, man, it's all good. But that just goes to show you that there are no perfect situations because when you felt like you wasn't following your dream, it was a shit. It was still like, it was still a shit, so it ain't no perfect situation. I got the note, I got the note, I actually think you should make a sitcom. OK. I think and believe-- no, not I think. I believe you should make it a sitcom. Well, let put it out there in the universe, man. You know, if that's the law as will, if that's what it meant to be, put it out there in the universe. And we'll get it done, man. We already got the characters in the story, you know what I'm saying? Maybe now they can see what we're saying. Nah, it's true. It's definitely a true message in it. Oh, yeah. And I'm happy to be a part of Black History. And Black History, I know, I saw that in my daughter. Like, yeah, that's my mom, like, she's so tight. So we got a fan. So part one, we got part one on 2B, doing numbers, doing that, doing that thing. And we got part two on our black. They said it's the highest view Tyler that they have on the net. Thank you. I'll take you more pictures. I got you three there. Oh, yeah, I can't wait for my listen. Stewards, madam, team, me, my homo, watching the move. You married Roblin? Yes, I married. [LAUGHTER] Man, hey, I thought you're a girl. Yeah, man. I thought you were juggling your music. [LAUGHTER] No, thank you. You know you land in the bed and you got your leg crossed, you know the woman, all you know the same thing. [LAUGHTER] You know what I'm saying? Y'all tell you what to do, boo, boo, boo, man, and then you know all the men still. He would come man my scene came up. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. I never was loud so hard in my life. All the things I remember the leg came up. Oh, man, he said, wait a minute now. Well, he was like, honey, is that you? Yeah, that's me. [LAUGHTER] So he got a little upset. And then I got a whole whore in the movie. [LAUGHTER] And then I got a whole whore in the movie. He was silencing it. So you didn't tell them then about what you were doing. I didn't know that it was like, I didn't know why. So what was his response? What was his response? Like, how did he-- how did he tell you? He enjoyed it. He-- I told him I was like, man, come on, man. Let's you know what I'm saying. [LAUGHTER] Hey. You look at your-- I was like, hey, that gave me the-- That gave me the-- It was a thrill. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Come on, baby, fight me. I almost ain't having a-- I did you have a threesome. Oh, my goodness. I thought I was going to punch you. Oh, my goodness. Hey, you know what? Now, but you know what, sit down. When that's on the tape, man, where-- [LAUGHTER] It's a piece of work in the-- in the movie. When you go to her crib, and you see the pictures of her, it was-- You see if you wonder-- [LAUGHTER] She don't live the life, maybe live the life, home. Maybe live the home. I like you. I like where you in me, I sit on the toys and stuff. [LAUGHTER] Oh, my goodness. It was hilarious. Speaking of-- we're speaking of-- Speaking of sings, "Deezy," what was your favorite scene in the shoot? OK. To shoot, actually, the one went up when-- maybe came outside. OK, on the board. They had done too much of the money. OK, good. Boy, they just smothered the fucking rock. Me. What? Uh-huh. And you got all my motherfucking money. You got money. I also enjoyed the scene that we actually ended up cutting that, which is, uh, at the plasm. We can't-- Yeah. Yeah, that was-- And I was trying to break up the fine. Yeah, we got the fine. Yeah, we're the same, man. Yeah, that's a good one. Outtax, man. Uh-huh. We're going to put together a nice little real outtax. That was handy. Yeah. What about you, Shay? What was your favorite scene in the shoot? My favorite scene was the one with money bag and death. I like the kitchen scene. I think I did really good on that scene. And the scene with Zani and Tokyo. OK. And I forget, I forget. I know you, Thomas. OK, so we were all there. And with King, I mean, King just tickled me, period. He was like, see, so him. It don't matter what he says. So he was tickling me, all set. So I was just way excited to work with him. But those scenes that really-- they were, like, personal-- You know one of my favorite scenes of yours. They're open to seeing what you and Tokyo-- Oh, yeah, you and the bag of the truck. I would lay her down in the bag of the truck, even in the last. He was in the bag of the truck. So that's all dedicated to the shoot. So we got a pickup truck. So the camera set up, the film, nil, through the windshield. I'm laid down in the flag, yeah. And I'm telling them, I'm telling them, say this. Say this. Say that. Pick this song with it. And I got the little hand here, like the monitor. I can see what the camera's shooting from then away. But I'm laid down looking at it like this. I'm like dedicated for it. He was like, it was so shocking to me. Because I was like, you know, you come around all these stars. And you know, you're just being yourself. But it's like, yeah, I'm around all these people that I'm this before me and after me. That's what I thought when I see it, you want me to see it. Yeah, I was like, I was like, me being a hopeless scene. I was like, this is heavy. This is heavy. This is for everybody back at home. This is heavy for me. Man, it was hard, man. It was hard. I enjoyed directing y'all, like, you know what I'm saying? Like finding. Because it's, you know, as an actor, the most valuable thing that you can have on set is a director who understands his vision and how to communicate it to the actor. You know, no matter how talented you are, if you confused about what the director wants you to put out there, you ain't going to never be able to perform to the best of your ability. So I appreciate y'all, man, you know, just being direct the book, you know. I appreciate the whole movie because I enjoy it. I enjoy it because it was all of us. And because it was directed by you. And because it was us that did it, and you that put it together made it possible for us to do it. And I had fun through all my scenes, all of them. I had a great time. And I thank you. I did. I had a good time. So did I. People don't know my mom. People don't know what to say. And it's, it's so crazy because it was so hot. It was hot. It was hot. And it was hot. I was surprised. We made it. But it was hot. It was hot. It was, boy. But it was just so. And then what's that line you said, tip before you said, if you live by the chairs, you die by the booze. Yeah. And I think about that every time because I'd be looking like, oh, this is yours. This is mine right here. Thank you. I'd be looking like people on the end understand. So when I see a. I ain't going to dwell on haters comments here. Where? I ain't going to dwell on haters comments. But. People don't understand what it takes to even be able to come up with something like this. Grab us sufficient and reliable partners to start to go to these offices, go to these meetings, get told, no, to still keep going. Right. And I was just like, damn, this shit is lit. It is. Yeah, I just saw you put the glass on, you guys call hands. Those other movies that you was in, you know, everything that you did before and I'm because you was watching and you was looking and you knew that one day you wanted to produce movies for yourself. I had no idea. I'd be a director though. I didn't know. I did not know. It made me a director to be on it with you. I couldn't afford to pay a direct direct direct direct direct direct direct direct direct. When the dude who was in charge of like the crew, the camera guy, you get mad at the crew, the way He'll be like he'll be like he'll be like he'll be like he'll be like he'll be like he'll be I was like, oh my God, I need to do this all the time. You gotta give me everything, you gotta put me in all your jobs. And you know how Adam Sanders started to cut you off? You know how Adam Sandler always got a couple of people from the movies. >> That's true. And you at Appa Town, yeah, that's right, that's right. And uh, Scorsese you keep the same team too, but yeah, I ain't got no problem with it. We'll continue to push and move and push and move Now what you were saying before living by the cheers and dying by the booze and where haters have to say you do know that most people Who criticize other people or people who ain't doing shit themselves? Very rarely catch somebody who bussin. They asked to get shit doing out here criticizing people If you bussin they asked to get shit done, you know, okay. I don't tell you like I don't live by the booze The green light From, you know, taking it out and showing people and whatever. How did you feel like? What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what a company and you could put it on there? Well, okay, so I, so check it out. So the first thing, okay, the first thing I never even went to a company Well, wait a minute till your point, Robin, and when we did departments went It was supposed to be a season. So we did like three Three episodes. We did three episodes of the apartment one And I went thinking that shooting them three episodes would get a Network to partner with you so we could continue to finish the season. That didn't happen It was like nah, nah, nah, it's too raw. It's too, you know, too much. There's too much there too much They really didn't like when you shot a miren in the ad. They were like nah, she's too violent. You know, so I just kind of sat on it for a while kind of again feeling like you felt it with that box The chicken I would like man We're just gonna say I'm gonna just just sit and chill and just wait to see what happen and it will now have to be on it Which is now by way the world like man, come on man. What we doing bro? What's up, man? What's up? We need to and so I would like man Well, I tell you what We're just editing into a movie. Let me just see what it look like as a movie So I read re-approach the division of it and kind of cut it up into different instead of different episodes making it like different acts of a movie and when I did that I Didn't even go back out to present it to nobody. I was like man. I'm gonna just build the website I got one upon the Eric Thomas Suners from Swearer. We built the website and then we did like a press junket and Start posting it on Instagram and put in press out saying come to this website and you can rent it for 499 or buy it for And the reception from people who had went and spent their own money to rent it and buy it that you know Gave me the confidence and let me know that what we were doing was right And from the success of that Then we attracted the attention of all black which did what gave us you know a deal for the first one after that deal Was over we didn't took the fervent to be when we told our black. We're working on the second one They can't straight to the table all for the success of the fervent You know, I ain't even really have to you know, you had to do nothing. I had to do too much And so, yeah, so that's you know, and then we're just gonna continue to work now Again to rob an endpoint is people coming out of talking about hey man What you think about making this a series? I'm like, oh, it's a good idea. I wish I thought of that I see well, I just gave confirmation. You feel Man, I mean, but you know, we we gonna see what happened But if it don't go no further than ever right here, I appreciate the journey that we've been on I appreciate just Us being able to pull together and do some shit collectively without having to wait on somebody else Exactly to tell us we can't get a story ain't change at all. It's been the same thing You'll be saying that same exact thing like you know, we could do this like This is easy. We gotta come together though. I mean you know, that's that's the thing All of the problems that we have in our community is black people all of the problems that plague us They would be They would be solved 99% of them just by us sticking together. Yeah, you know, we could just stick together That's it. That's it. It's seen it's sound simple, but it's very powerful and we could just stick together and not Sell each other at night. You know, I'm saying that not try to Tate each other down and we could just get a whole tight and foot with each other And believe in each other a little bit You know, I'm saying you can you ain't got to you ain't got to take yourself too far at your way But if you get got now don't go at your way to try to hurt nobody. That's right. Yeah, I mean if we could do that Then we'll be able to overcome 99% of the shit that fuck us up Generations just take a generation Tell me what do you think people are going to love most about this movie? The fact that it was all black and Everybody You know saying this is a movie about it. It's about Atlanta. What you think they go take away from it in Philly? I think that They're one they're gonna want to know Atlanta more You know what I'm saying because you're have the you have departments and we got the project. Okay, but We got up like apartments and they just like apartment You got apartments that ain't project section, but they seem it seems it's just seeing this same shit going on Yeah, same shit going on, but it just seemed like it seemed different just with the accent and the tone of voice and It's the same thing. It's the same thing. It's the same thing and I think they're gonna want to get tapped it in Atlanta more like Like the boys of the backstreet Everywhere is different, but it's the same culture Rational that yeah, what you what you what you what you think do you see it. Hey, bro, listen, I don't know I really don't know They gonna see I tell you what I had like the most Where it was got there Somebody feel like they got sold if a nigga be like man couldn't so me out You know so crazy. It was very hard We're seeing could you not keep a straight face? Like money pay my be a little bit saucy. I think you would talk about that And where do you how do you at it's brain to process this like this? I'm gonna tell you what got there and got me Robin man when we were doing the scene on the port. Yeah, we had nothing back three full time The last time she had not man line she just kept saying ah-ha We did it together. I'm proud that we was had an opportunity to do something together. Again, um, aside from the people sitting here with you, who were your favorite character? The key in K-Dull, the key in K-Dull was my favorite character. The key is in K-Dull, okay. Two legendary underground comedians out there. I got it. It's always Tyler, he's so talented and I think Tyler's one. Who's also a writer. I'm so light-skinned. I mean, I'm gonna do it. He can't. I said I'm gonna point out that they're sticking the gilves. And K-Dull is always. One night, I'm at a, I'm wanting one of his comedy shows and I'm with a guy. And the guy doesn't know that me and K-Dub is cool. But K-Dub don't know that I'm with the guy either. K-Dub tearing my ass up. And the crowd, everybody's clapping and the guy was like, "Yo, he grabbed me, what, you know what, you know what? I said, that was just my phone." But he's always a character, man. That's my two plays. And what's yours, fat? My two-fade. Me? Okay. I got to say me, can't nobody else go and say it. Wait a minute, man. No. I do. No, man, you said that because I need to say myself. I'm a man, I say that I'm from the people sitting here. Oh, I say I'm from the people sitting here. Okay. Say I'm from the people sitting here. Got now J-ski. Okay. Okay, he, he don't say words. He said, but you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you understand the vibe of what he's saying, but he don't know what the fuck the word is. Uh, J-ski and, uh, I ain't gonna cap you down. I mean, you know what I'm saying. I don't know. No kids in the fridge. Uh, cuz yeah, I was watching it. Never mind. I can't say I can't say the fuck I want. Of course you can't. Of course you can't. All right, J.S.K. and got them. Uh, man, you just saying that because she said that to you. Don't we gonna keep it a J S.K. because we said who said J S.K. and then you know what I like what got down one with the baby. Yes, man. Yes, man. Yes, man. Yo, but who made that song? What do you mean? That's our song. No, they read out. They remakes it. They had to. Yeah, yeah, cuz that shit was so good. I was like. Yeah, we shout out shout out to the shout out to the organ player in the choir. Yeah, we call out last minute. They just pulled up and we kind of came up with some with some with some shit on the on the fly and they wrote with it. So yeah, I appreciate everybody who came. It was a true collaboration, man. Is there any any question that you want to ask your favorite character? You said J S.K. You said K.D. up. Uh, you said the key. So what you want to ask J S.K. when we do what we do his interview. Uh, and when you're going to bring me up there for the show that you doing. Oh, okay, you want to ask them about. Oh, but something about the part about the movie. Oh, about the movie. Uh, so what I want to ask about moving. Uh, shit. I remember all the lines drunk in the morning. Hey, man, was remembering lines, but that's something that was really like, you know, was that a challenge? No, I'm good. I want to. For me, it wasn't. I went to school for theater. Okay. So you play Othello and shit. Uh, no, but I did play a dude in a in a black playwright's play. I chose to stick with my people to like, how to say and tie the stick together. Yeah, I found the dark skin playwright. We perform that. We did. No kids. When I was in college, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I got a master's associate degree. The master's associate. I never did. I spent a master degree time at a two-year school with what I'm trying to do. Yeah, I went to GBC for about five years. I feel like I know what I'm doing. But I was up there. I was on the stage, cancel everything. Okay. Yeah. What about you, Shane, man? You had a hard time in your life. Um, I just wanted to do it in the right way that you needed me to do with it. Yeah. Uh, you gave me some direction. And I, I think I was just probably overexcited or maybe just too filly, but I just wanted to be not filly, but not Atlanta. I wanted to be that character. Yeah. I mean, I don't think, uh, I don't think you care. I don't think your character necessarily had an address on it. Man, I think you, you kind of like anywhere you say, man, you know what I'm saying? And, um, I don't really have, I got a question. Are we going to see more Jimmy? Like, are we going to put some more Jimmy to, uh, I mean, we, we, you know, we got it could, it could be in the court. I think, I think he sold money. My question to the, he was. Uh-huh. I, he played. I, you played the preacher. Like, he had already been a preacher scamming both the folks. Yeah. He played. He played. He played. Like, he was a real scam. He was, he was clean too. I was like, oh, I, I, I ain't no, no better. I thought he'd been doing that for real. Oh, man. Well, he did, he did. I just want to know, I do. I want to put it back now. He held it together with, uh, with Robin Man put that thing on his lips. I know that you got it right here. When you. Yeah. Now, wait a minute, young man. Oh, man. Hey, listen, I, so I find a question, man. I found a question. Why does everyone need to check out department to right now? Because it's funny. It's hilarious. It's who we are. And it's the new beginning of what we need to start doing watching our channel, watching us on TV and watching us grow. Okay. Okay. Uh-huh. It's a message. It's a message. It's, uh, a true message. It's all in between there. It's, it's, it's black history. Okay. Um, it's for the culture. And, um, and people take their time off the work on this, man. You gotta appreciate the prayer. Okay. So you watch it. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, first off, they need to watch it. Um, say, man, go on there. Even my, uh, I was in it. How I was new. My legs. She said, she look good. I said, yeah, she said that, uh, and the other, the other thing that's going to see it too. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Talk back. So you said, so you said, so she, she, she, she, she gonna get called. Yeah. She get you. Yeah, I'm better. I was a little bit. Did y'all see that? But then on the cut. That's in front of me. 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Uh, the cast of the department's two showcases an interest in dichotomy. Why actors like Tyler and now bring over the top comedy comedic energy. Others had more heartfelt, relatable performances creating the balance that gives the film a unique appeal. All right. Amen. Thank y'all. Fat man, Deez. Jay-Man. Driving there. Thank y'all. Cast members of the department, too, and this has been Expedition. This is Expedition. I am til T.I. have.