Desi Banks steps into Club Shay Shay, bringing a whirlwind of laughter, wisdom, and unexpected insights to his conversation with Shannon Sharpe. The duo embarks on a discussion through the vast landscape of the entertainment world, beginning with viral videos. Desi breaks down White Air Forces versus Black Air Forces energy. He talks about Blueface's ex Chrisean Rock's face tattoo. Desi and Shannon navigate the modern world of relationships with humor and candor. The episode takes an unexpected turn with stories involving Rick Ross, his new girlfriend, Pretty Vee and cheating strories. Desi reveals the sage advice Martin Lawrence and Kevin Hart gave him.
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Hello, welcome to another episode of Club Shade Shape. I am your host, Shining Sharp. I'm also the reprid of Club Shape Shak and the guy that's stopping buy for conversation on the drink. Today, He's taking the Internet and the entertainment world by storm. He's one of the most stand up one of the most brightest and biggest stand up stars today. He's one of the most influential influencers of his He's a digital genius, an ultimate triple threat. He's an actor, comedian, and an entrepreneur. And he's a former color as a college athlete, social media sensation, cultural influencer, prolific content creator. He's consistently landed in the Hollywood Reporters' Top ten most Popular comedians, alongside Kevin Hart and Joe Rogan. He's a writer, producer, director, host, or father. We'll talk about that, a household name. He's solidifying his status as a bona fide superstar, and he's brought Parley to Club Shad Shape Ladies and gentlemen, Desi Banks.
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Yes, you know we do on top of the thing. I ain't if we're gonna take the whole thing now, no hell Noah would be This would be the quicker club in the history of club Bro. Yes, sir man, how you do how you do it? I'm great, man, I'm grilled to be here. Like I said, Man, this is lettendary. Just to even get this opportunity right now, bro, because like I said, it's been a it's miss shaking him. Boy. Yeah, I don't know if I want to drink too much of that, because boy, just.
Take just enough, you know, to keep us going, you know, keep it flowing.
Okay, well how many do you think? You know, I need to not get to that point to you know.
I think if you just sip, maybe we'll reflip fill the glass, half filled the glass maybe once. I think if you sap, don't take it to the head, des it.
Okay, I'm just making sure because you know that, you know, a lot of your mouth get to run.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, you drank too much of it.
But normally people that people normally tell the truth of kids drunks and angry people. So you're not a kid.
I'm not angry. I ain't angry, but boy, boy drank. Everybody tell the truth.
So let's let's talk about your skits. Like when you put together Skip, what are you trying to accomplish with said skit?
When I come to my skits, man, I try to stay relatable. You know what I'm saying. When people watch my stuff, either you don'et went through it, you don't saw it.
Oh, okay.
You know what I'm saying. I try to connect you like that, like, well, man, I've been through that. That's like my cousin or you know what I'm saying. And it's really like a lot of stuff I've seen growing up, you know what I'm saying. So a lot of my stuff be authentic, man, and be true to myself. You know. So when you see a lot of other people doing skits and stuff like that, man, I feel like, you know, I don't know if it's no authentic to them, but I know when I do my stuff, it's real.
It's so a lot of your skits is through personal experience or something that you've seen someone close you go through it.
For sure for sure, Either they don't went through it. I don't went through it. Like I said, we don't saw it live somewhere, or we just thought it was a great idea. You know what I'm saying. I feel like I understand the culture when it come to my skits. You know what I'm saying. I like to have phone my skits.
You know what I'm saying. So, yeah, so what would you say it was one of your all time favorite skits?
My all time favorite skits. Probably my bind days when I did tweak a tweaker, I came outside and some crazy day to burst is just chirping, right, And I never heard birds chirp like that, and I felt like they was having a dope conversation. So I decided to join in. You joined it, And I came outside and I listened, and I looked at the left and I looked at the right, and I said, and I walked back in the house, and I swear to God, that video right there was like it exploded like that moment right there was a moment of vine that changed my life. You know, I've been doing social media for a long time.
Did you did you know that when you started doing skits that they were going to take off? Or were you what were you trying to accomplish when you started doing skips?
Well, at the time, you know, I was playing ball at first, so you know, football was like my first dream. I wasn't even thinking about it. I had friends who always told me like, look, man, hey, you need to you know this, ain't you You know what I'm saying? You good? But hey, you're good at this. And I had friend like my boy shop Pun and my dog Vincent man. They used to always be on me about that. I used to have me in school doing crazy, you know, crazy stuff like acting our movie scene. I war most humans in high school, you know, So like this, this comedy thing is, It's always been a part of my life. I feel like I'm not one of the ones that just picked on you know, picked up on it on social media because I seen somebody else do it. I think that's what's a lot of stuff, like, you know, transition from I generation right now. A lot of people see stuff and they think that's you know, that's what it is. But no, this is serious to me, and I was born to do this. It was always a part of my life. You know. Even when I was a kid in the wound. My mama used to beat our senior hall. Yeah, our senior hall on the belly and I say, y'll, senior hall. I used to be in that kicking and I just ache store like, I just feel like, you know, I was I was destined for this, you know what I'm saying, a.
Lot of your skits involved people that's actually working at their.
Job, for sure.
For sure, have you ever got any one fire for doing a skit?
You know what's crazy. I don't know if he got fired, but he did tell me to take a video down, and I was like Brezia. We was at Bennie Hannah, I mean a Bennie Hanah skit, and I actually do I said, bro, you sure you want me to do that? He said, man, yeah, I'm you good man. I know the manager. You ain't got worry about that. I said, okay, so he would give me a uniform and hat and all that. Actually he took his UNI for him off and gave it to me, and I did this skit right there. It was crazy. It went viral and everything. I probably say like two hours later. He kicked me up quickly, like, yo, my man won't know. Can you take the video down? I'm not, man, I'm gonna get fired. I said, buddy, you cook, You're finished, You're done. But it's viral now.
Even if I took it down, it's already everywhere everywhere. Yeah yeah, yeah, they didn't. Got it saved all their friends and everything.
Everybody to see me, Beny Hunter. Now they think I'm going to work, man.
But a lot of your skis you at waffle house, you cooking on the grib, your police car, you at the funeral home, you at the movie theater. So how do you come up and say, if you know what I think, today I'm gonna be at waffle house or to day I'm gonna be a mortician on.
How have you?
How do you come up with the skiffs that you're gonna do in a particular day.
So at that time, like when I was getting the mail truck, the FedEx truck, you know, when I was doing, I swear like all that stuff was just coming. Like for example, when I did the mail truck, somebody hit me up from FedEx like, Yo, you want to use my truck? And then uh, the waffle house came and then like everybody was just hit me up, come do thatack know you know what I'm saying. So it was just it really was just flowing, you know what I'm saying. My way, Like for the waffle house, you know you have to go at nighttime.
You're nice and slow.
Yeah, and then you throwing, you're throwing something like look, let me just throw you the little huntred real quick. I ain't gonna be loan and they shut it down for us. Have my guys come in. You know, everybody do they little. You know, we do our let's seeing real quick, leaning that's too long, you know what I'm saying, and we get it done. But there be people that support us, you know what I'm saying. They want to see it get done. And you know some of the people just be happy to just even get their little one two little scenery in and you know it'd be cool.
What that you think about? Because these are common everyday people and they get an opportunity to have, like you said, one of two minutes waffle house or bedex guy. Why do you think that resonates with them so much?
I just think they they they first, they just happy to be around the energy. They're just happy to be around Daisy. They just happy to be a part of something that's gonna be dope, you know what I'm saying. So you know, they people may see it and see them in the video. I'm like, I saw you in Dazie Banks video or whatever it is. You know what I'm saying. Not saying that this is something they want to do. They just be happy to be around it, you know what I'm saying. I'm just happy that I could be a light for these people and make these people feel good, like forards even for them to get two hundred dollars. They probably ain't gonna two hundred dollars all day, you know what I'm saying. So that's a that's a blessing for them, you know. So you know it's just been a light. But so many people like I did with the fedexual, they don't be in it. They just want to see me do it. I done, did the garbage man truck all that, and I think my Homebok did get fired for that garbage truck.
Well, you got to throw a mobs at the man that lost his gig though death. You got to break him off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yah yeah. I gave him a little song you gave I couldn't get him.
What are you getting when you when you gave a little something to hold the moment til he got a new job.
Show?
Have you ever got hurt? Have you broken anything doing skits?
I ever wrote?
Nah?
Yeah you would know if you.
I don't think I ever Uh. I think I always been one hundred percent. Now I ain't a brother, No, No, I've been good. I've been cool.
Do you remember your first viral video?
My first viral video. It was Atlanta Talk video. That's slang slang. I was doing directions high Atlanta people talk when they do directions, you know, they all it's adding extra holod that do what I you to do. I need to make that right real quick, make a real slow folk wanna be down the street. You don't see them folk down the street. I need to put their left, make a real U turn. When you got down hit Whistley chop pad with shopped, come down and got down Cali Road, pat Color Road, Go down and crush, get the crush, go down the Bouler cray hit the spot. Then you're gonna go on to the pilot at the windows. When you get to the winning you gonna see c J outside, he gonna say ski. When he says ski, don't you know you gotta go to the back to the white House in the back, then you might right down the street on the other side.
But that's not talking bro for real though, you know.
Yeah, But that was like my first bill of there ever went by. It was it was, it was. It was crazy and like it was like my homework. Like I said, who told me they started? It's like, bro, I think you need to start doing these vine and it was like after college, you know what I'm saying, start taking the seas And when I started taking the sis, bro, like I just found my purpose in it. Man, you know what I'm saying.
You felt that was your calling. Now all of a sudden, you like, you know what, as much as I want to take this, this this football thing, and I really would, I really really want to go to the next level, that's not gonna happen now, I can re I could really take off with this.
For sure, for sure, like I said. And then I had to like remind myself, like I said, I had to tap into my purpose. You know what I'm saying. I started reading this book called Perfectly Driven Life, and that book right there like changing my life. And it allowed me to see, you know, what was my calling in the world. I used to say, I feel like I but I know I got a gift and a talent and and a light you know for this world. I got assignment for this world. Like I said about your gift will make room for you. And that's exactly what I've been doing. You know, I've been touching a lot of people in this world. You know, when I say touching them, I'm talking about getting them closer to God, helping them change their dreams. You know when people come ask me questions, how you do it? You know stuff like that. You know, uh yeah, it's just just being that person. Man. And I feel like everybody in this world they got assignment, you know, but it's up to you if you want to tap into it, you know. But I feel like I'm I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing this world.
But how difficult was it, Deisy? Because you football had been your lifelong dream and as you say, if you saying in the video, bust that quick, right, y'ally?
Like I said that my person that's always been a part of me. Right even when I played football, I was the funny guy on the team. I was the one that no, no, no, no, no no, he let me do it. Anybody else that wanted to be funny, no, that's daisy job, you can't do it, you know what I'm saying. So I was that guy on the team. Like even in high school, you know what I'm saying. Coach Coach Bonner used to let us get away. We do me and my boy Pawner was crazy me Pawning roll. We was insane on the team when it came to funny stuff, like everybody knew on the team, like we were the guys that made everybody laugh. You know what I'm saying. But I said, one of the most humans. Even growing up as a kid man Martin Lawan used to watch Martin them all the time. Big fan of Edie Murphy Man to this day. Edi Murphy is my favorite actor comedian. You know another. Professor is my favorite movie to this day. He's one of the big reasons why I do a lot of character work when it comes to a lot of my videos. I'm sure one day I'm gonna have my own feature film like that would But what character work sitcom work, Well, that's what you.
Want to do. You want to be like Edite because Eddi played the groundmightd he played for He played the Daddy, played the brother everything.
You played the Professor, everything everything the Professor, even Martin, you know what I'm saying, show like that too. You know. So those guys like two big inspirations when it comes to the stuff that I'm doing, I feel like they was really relatable, you know it. When it came to comedy, they was so far the culture you know when it came to comedy and you know, uh, well, like I said, I'm a student of the game. So I watched people that's done it before me. You know what I'm saying that I take it. I think those guys are you know, student for you know, people that was before them. You know, Eddie looked at Richard, you know, you know, everybody had that thing. You know. I look at those guys and that they liked my homework assignment for you know, me growing and you know, being a commedian in this world.
I did twenty one Savage and man, he started treading it because he said type ship, type god. I swear to God. So you like, hey, you know in type shit and you know we went down there type.
Shit, oh God, tight ship, tight shit, type shit.
So what is it? What is it about Atlanta slange that resonate and people use it so much? Not just from Atlanta.
It's just like it like you just got the South, like we just brain it, like we just you know, we just.
That's that's it.
It's just like that, I don't know, you know, we just tight ship, like you know.
Like I didn't know type ship was a was a type was what was like was was said so much until I heard him and then I hear everybody. I'm like, bro, where I've been all this time?
You got that no cap like everything?
Yeah? Yeah, I mean they didn't start with.
That like they say light with everything like yeah, like you know what I'm saying, Like you mean like that.
You also did a skit where you talked about White air Force ones.
I got a light air Force, I got a white ones on.
Now what okay, if you got on white air Force ones, what's the.
Buyde see right here?
Cool?
You're cool real okay, fireplace.
Yeah, I got your little.
Yeah you said, I swear.
To god, you know you vibing on types here right ship? Okay? Now you got the black airports ones on?
Huh black for one? Yeah, but don't play me. What was going on with okay?
Standing on that Benney, big big Benney?
Oh God, don't god player, that's what you want to.
See. I remember when the black airports won all the security guards that the mall had. The Black airports won because you know, you need to be something comfortable show. Now black airports want the transition that means something entirely different.
Almost different, like even like if you've been in football. You got white Force one players and you got black players. I would say you'll be a black and football player. You was a dog.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying, Ray lewis Black one dog, white Office ones football players. You know I'm gonna say, Oh, they'll Beckham you know, you know they you know they saucy. Yeah, uh you know, Uh, what's my guy who used used to do the thing Victor Crews? You know they white for us on you know stuff like that, Uh Tyrie Tyrie Hill. Yeah, white forces you know like that that that that's the difference between our from football reference. You know.
So how often is your energy? So how often would you say you're a white Air Force ones guy compared to a black Air one.
For me, I'm a White Forces all the time. Yeah. But I would say it's also a mentality thing. A lot of people still got it in the in them. You know what I'm saying. You gotta have the shoes on that no ladies shoot for you know, well, we get down, we get strapped to we gotta proven trapped.
Regord, when you're doing skips for women, how do you do how do you determine whether or not you're gonna do a skip, especially in today's society, so you got you gotta be a little care for sure. But when you do a skip with a female young lady, what's going through your mind? And you was like, Okay, this is what I envisioned it, and hopefully everybody else see it the way I was intended for it to be.
Well. For the skip that I do with women, I try not to be too too no, too negative as far as like, you know, sexually right my stuff. I just try to be relatable, like relationships stuff, you know what I'm saying, stuff that we donet been through. You know, when it come to hogh, dudes feel or you know, when the girl rub on them, when the girl massage. I'm like, you know what I'm saying, Like y'all could be upset with each other, and you know, girls not women how to do things that make you boy come here, like you'd be sitting up. You're like, man, this is just stupid. Bro. You just RealD. She'd be like, what what you doing? Like she gets closer to you, like, man, what you doing? She done went down? Yeah, like man, you playing shit? What you're doing? She don't pulled you in yeah, stupid and all that mad is you know what you're gonna do you all for?
So let me ask your question. How do you how do you how do you find these these women to do your skips? DM them? I mean you have a personal relationship with them?
Yeah, A majority of women I do work with, uh, a personal relationship with him. Like a lot of people that I've done videos with. As far as women I've been doing them, we're doing it with them for for a minute, so we kind of like build like this kid, yeah, kind of knowe be some mom you know Canda, you know, do stuff pretty v right, you know, uh yeah, and you know other girls I do stuff with, you know, Uh. I select those people because I feel like, you know, okay, they want to take their acting seriously. So I try to select people that I feel like, you know, you know, it's gonna build something for them, you know what I'm saying, when to come of my skills. But there may be tons of women hit me up, but my idea be like I know what you want to do, but I ain't doing that right come to that. You know, I'm trying to really build something that you know, I could turn this to a TV show I can turn this to a movie and stuff like that. So I try to work with serious people.
So you have you have had to tell women know or decline.
I just don't say you, I just leave leave on red. Yeah, that's it. You know. Now you got a thing.
When you can accept it.
So I ain't even accept it. I don't leave it there. You leave it there, and then you might say it but what happened?
But see now all of a sudden you run into them down.
What she said idea. I'm like, Red, when you did that? Swear to god, Okay you you did it.
So what happened is you said, well, let me show you.
Oh no you did. And I'm like, okay, what you do?
Right?
You're at yeah? How about bad? Well I'm just getting to it. And I said, you who your favorite actress?
That's it, dumb for.
Get out of here.
You want someone that's really serious about the craft for not someone that just like, oh he goes viral, this is my opportunity. But you want someone optionally you understand that that there. You want there to be something in it for them, but you want them to take it serious and not be the first time and really have a sense of like, Okay, I like this actress and this is kind of the direction that I want to be and maybe you can help me get in that direction.
I got to have serious people, because that's how I'm gonna be serious. You know what I'm saying. You don't want no women around you. They're gonna allow you to take advantage of them, but they just around because they just want to get some clout. I don't do that. Like I said, I take this business serious. Everybody I work with, every short film, I do, every scenery I do them. Them are real people. I'm a real actress, right, Yeah.
So if you're in a relationship, how do you get your people that you're in a relationship with to be cool with the women that you shooting the videos with? Because everybody ain't gonna be cool with that.
Yell, look it up for you.
Here.
I ever get it one of them, They ain't get one of them. Okay, there you go. Uh uh. But it's hard, man, that's hard. I dealt with it. I'm just being honest.
Because everybody thinks it's something more to what than what you're actually doing.
They missed that. They see that the chemistry can look so.
Good it's supposed to.
Yeah, this is like, yeah, that's what Martin Martin. Everybody thought Martin dial number together. Yeah, but that's that's the show. It's like, you know, so when I'm acting, I wanted to look real, right, I don't want it like I'm playing. I'm not. I'm not trying to do it right now.
They don't have no chemistry exactly.
Y'all need to stop doing video with each other. It ain't good. No, everybody, No, this is gonna it's gonna look like you're supposed to look right. You know what I'm saying. And if you get upset with it, you don't understand my assignment, my purpose in the world, what I do. Hey, that's on you. That's on you. Like I said, I've dealt with it. I dealt with it, and I don't want to deal with it no more. You gotta have women that understand you. You ain't gonna be to understand your career, your life get away.
They understand me, But you got to gotta see. Everybody can understand something as long as they're not in it. Dessy, you don't realize how hot fire is until you're standing in the middle of it. Okay, I can handle it. Oh, oh, I can handle it. Danna stay at beginning. Then all of a sudden, you're doing these skits and they see the chemistry and they see the bond between YouTube. So what you got going over her?
Exactly? Why she's calling at this time of night?
Why?
Yeah, why was she calling you this time of night? There ain't no skit going on that time.
And it probably be an idea that she called me about.
What got the idea?
A skip idea?
Do you need to do you need to leave and go see what the idea is about?
Oh no, I don't need to.
I'm just checking.
Hey man, you don't need.
I'm just checking. Big gone. If you have to leave to go, she can't discuss it. Do you have you ever had a situation work?
Some of these people liked be my friend, like I do remember these were friends. But women don't understand that.
Is work friend. Huh, that is you remember nothing? You remember nothing, professor, you remember clumb brother said colleague.
Noah, in fact exactly but nah, man, like yes, and I've learned man in this and this, uh, this industry, like I ain't gonna say in this this career place that I'm men, it takes really strong women to like really like be by your side when it comes to this stuff because like we being like we be around a lot of women, you know what I'm saying. Sometimes it ain't just because we want to talk to them. Sometimes it's just we want to bid a relationship. You know, they they got stuff they want us to be in. They have opportunities for us, and you know this is gonna help us get this income so you can get whatever you want. I don't understand women that you know they get everything that they want. A gay, I'm talking about you doing the most for this woman. You ain't doing nowhere near this woman that you think I'm dealing with, and she ain't getting all that You getting everything, you know what I'm saying. So that's when I be kind of like lost man. But you know, I think also when it comes to like relationship with a woman in an industry, man, you got to get to know that person first before you rest the relationship, like be friends, you know what I'm saying, Like learn that person, like you know what I'm saying. Make sure that person supports you, support your career, you know what I'm saying. First before y'all really dive into that, you know what I'm saying, because if you don't, you know, it can it can get lost, you know what I'm saying. And like I said, at first, everybody gonna be cool at first, Yes, you know what I'm saying, but you got to remain yourself through all that time. You know what I'm saying, Once it get once to grow, girl, because it's only gonna contend the elevation. You know what I'm saying, You're gonna I'm gonna send it to be around those type of pretty well whoever you think it is right? You know what I'm saying.
But have you ever been in a situation where the person you're dealing with as well? Why that person don't ever talk to you when I'm around? And it seems like every time I'm not around, I see y'all talking, but they don't talk to you.
Oh no, every every every if I brong a girl or I do with it, may they y'all tried to talk. It ain't ever been like that, And they ain't ever not tried to talk to me. Everybody at their way around me. I don't know if that make.
A person feel.
I don't know, hey, but you know, and it's like, say, you want to introduce them. I want to introduce you to these people. You can't act no way? Why are you acting no way? You know what I'm saying. I tried all the people you you you say a problem or whatever. I tried to bring them around, right I got and you still you know, and then you know, download they try to understand. But sometimes it should be over, you know.
So how long does it take for you to like, you know what, this isn't gonna work.
Man, It took I'm sitting boy, me let me sit get up there.
So, so you were in a situation, yeah, and you were trying because you really cared about this person, and for whatever reason, it was always it seemingly the women you're doing the skit with. How long before you finally came to the realization it's just.
Not gonna work. It like even like if that that that's the thing it, I don't just I leave so quick. You know. It takes time for stuff to build up up bit of and like, okay, this is it's just not it just ain't clicking, you know what I'm saying. So it times time. I'm like, okay, maybe space is needed. You know, maybe you need to refine yourself, refocused on you know, stuff like that, to like, you know, to see what actually I do, you know, like be that person you was at first one.
You know, when you create space, other things that are allowed to come in there. You know, when you clean out your refrigerator, what you do you replace with more stuff. You clean out your closet, what you do replace with more stuff. So if you give you and a female space, what's gonna happen?
Des it? It depends on what you want to help. It's up to what you're working on in that space. I ain't saying you gotta go do that crazy, but hey, meditate, connect, connect with God, you know, find yourself again. You know, see what you what it is that you really want? You know what I'm saying, What type of man you want? What type of woman you want? You know is you know, look back in the beginning and when y'all started, how things was, Why it's not this no more? You know, stuff like that.
Could you be married? Could you be married and do what you do?
Can I be married to do what I do? Man? See me, I don't know. I'm still learning that, you know, what I'm saying. Like I said, I will have to find out if that to be a woman that really just understand everything, just understand what I do and support me in you know, of course, god fearing woman, you know, spiritual woman, connections with women, you know, stuff like that, or a real woman. You know. But right now you're open to getting married yeah one day, one day, Yeah, one day, one day, Donald, But right now I'm so focused on my career and my purpose. You know, my family, my.
Kids, Monday or Tuesday.
One day, one day when the glory comes, it would be out wo be one day glory, glory, glory as the grandma you say, glory, David, glory.
Is their time limit? How long do you believe a man should date a woman before he asked her hand in marriage or do you and do you believe it should be old fashioned where he go ask her father, if her father's alive or whomever the significant matters are live or you just like, hey, bay, let's go do this.
Yeah, their father's stuff. That's like that's it.
I don't say that like that. That's that's how it was. That was like like like my mom when she got married my dad. I don't ask my grandfather in generation before that. So I don't know if that's still I don't know if that's still a thing. I'm sure it is, yeah, but.
I mean I think, of course, when you cool with the pops, you know what I'm saying, y'all connect and stuff like that, of course you're gonna go to him. Yo, Pop, Hey, I'm thinking about doing this with your daughter. You know what you think? If you like you?
You know what I'm saying, What if you ain't cool with the pop?
Was?
Can you get married to a family if you're not cool with the family.
I'm gonna be real. But I don't been through that too. Huh. That's hard too. That's hard too.
I don't know what they didn't like about DESI.
I ain't. I ain't doing it quick enough. You ain't do what married married with a daughter you just met her, probably, but they won't.
This is the dollar.
I don't know what is up.
But how long were you dated? That'll give me that give me an idea because I don't know if you might have to take another drink to make sure you tell.
The truth, and me gonna take the joint.
So how long were you dating Desert.
When when I when I met the park.
No, how long had you been dating your daughter.
Before? I probably it probably been maybe like seven months, may be quicker than that.
So you dated, let's just say between four and seven months. Then you met the dead Okay, the dad you're from. The dad sitting down and having a conversation and he says, what, I'm the dad and you're dating my daughter.
I ain't gonna care howld yeah, hold on some other stuff, and he was huge trip. He's tripping, yo. So it wasn't it like front start. Yeah?
Yeah, so it wasn't necessarily about the daughter.
Yeah, I don't know what it was on some man stuff like where he's from, you know what I'm saying, Like he they bring that energy. M hmm yeah, and he's from he's from Africa. Okay, yeah, so they look at stuff differently, right when it comes to their daughter, which I.
Respect, Oh yeah for sure.
It's like but it's like, I guess I can't really have no real conversation with you until I do that, you know what I'm saying. So it's like, okay, like we you know, we can't talk, we can't build it up. No, you need to do this. I don't care if you got to go signs the papers, just go do it. They're like, Okay, you ain't gonna rush me to do no ship like that. I still I'm getting the nose stuff right, you know what I'm saying, Like, No, I don't do me like that.
So it ended shortly after that because you didn't see.
Short like we was good, like we're good like ya, we was good. We we both didn't worry about that. But her mama was so cool like with me, she ain't she like, don't listen to him, don't worry about that, you know what I'm saying. Her mama knew I was a sweethart self. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
The popit is hard. You need you need everybody, You need everybody on board desert.
But yeah, cause Pap gotta bring it down.
Yeah, how that it gonna be? You go over to the house and then Pop give you the cold shoulder.
Man. Look, hey man, hey, I ain't gonna talk too much about them, but yeah, mhm.
Y'all still cool. Y'all they cool to I ain't.
Hear I ain't hurt fyhing dude. Man, Yeah, fac says some ship boy. Is that more than that?
It was. I want to get your takes on shack in the little duball. Shaq said men should never open up the women. He said, because if a man opens up to a woman, she's gonna end up throwing it in his face. Well, you're doing this because your daddy didn't love you, your daddy didn't hug you, your daddy didn't do this, or your mom wasn't there. What do you what do your take on that should a man open up to a woman, or how soon if he does open up to a woman, how soon should it be?
I mean, I think I'm fifty probably fifty fifty with that when they come to women like that, I mean, you got to open up. I feel like a real man will open up to a woman that he really really liked. I don't care what the circumstance is there, specifically trust her. I feel maybe not anmature woman only. I feel only an immature woman would throw it in your face. If if that's it's like, you know, what's why was that, loblo? You know what was the reason of that? I mean because and also we I mean we as me and we we thought stuff in women face too.
Yeah, y'all all do it.
You know what I'm saying, But I don't you know, Yeah, that's if you like a woman, you do it. I don't care what it is like. If you like her, it is what it is. If it's life, if she gonna talk you let her do it. Whe'm gonna talk to you anyway.
They do it anyway, right, how soon though, three months, six months, a year before you feel that you're comfortable and you can share some of Daisy's most intimate thoughts feelings.
Probably about about two or three months, that's when it gets.
Yeah.
Yeah, now y'all gonna get you know, y'all y'all in, y'all locked in, right, you know what I'm saying, y'all. It's like you'll know in three months if you're really rock with this person or not. Right, like y'all don't have conversations prior that y'all connected on you know, And like I said, dudes know anyway in the first, like you know who this girl is. In the first you could see a girl out especially nowadays. You know what I'm saying. Now that you got these as a girl girl, you know who's not. I'm not finna tell you nothing about my like girl you you you won't. You've been posting persons and well the shoes, real heels and ship like that. You've been in the club doing TikTok, drinking little stuff. I'm not finna tell you nothing right, you know what I'm saying. But a real woman, No, you're gonna you canna break it down. Word, You're gonna you'll You'll tell you the truth, right, you know, like the trust and not the trust when to come to stuff like that.
Little said you never want to be a woman's first good man. You're going to be the lesson. Do you agree with that?
Yeah? I think every every woman good man is gone. I think that was the first man that probably broke a life, I mean broke broke on. Yeah, that was the one she really loved and it didn't work out. I think everybody that I had that first love, that first woman, that this was it. Everybody that I've been at that point where they thought they were finna die. I'm finna die. Yeah, I can't eat. I'm sick. You know what I'm saying. I don't, I don't. I don't even want to feel that again. No, that's oh that's suck.
See. Love is the only thing. See, love is worse than death because it's the only thing that to kill you, but keep you alive, to feel, to hurt.
Jesus Christ, take me to the gravey. I don't want to be here, and you everybody had that. I'm all ready to go. I don't want to be here no more. Bush That ain't that was a busy that we be lost in that though. Yeah, when you're young, you know it's this that that, this that that. It's that you be thinking about what she's doing with somebody else. That's what it be, man, because.
You already know what she did for you. Oh man, what if she got to experience from you and to take that thing to.
The next and he over there kill them, he killed I'm talking about it ain't the heart. That not the stuff they touched at the heart, a heartbeat, I'm talking about yea. And she over there, she peeping, peeping, she ain't skirt, she pissing.
To ask you this day because there have been a lot of talk about fifty to fifty. Okay, we go out on the date, we split the bill fifty to fifty. What are your thoughts on dating and where are we going on the first date? And always is it Dutch or am I taking everything? What's your thoughts on that?
I mean, if I'm telling a girl out, of course I wanted to be on men, Yeah, I ain't. I don't even know. I mean, unless you want to do it.
You let you let a female play for the first day.
Just said maybe I got it. Okay, I don't do it.
Ship go ahead, good, thank you.
You know what I'm saying. I ain't gonna just say do it if I'm taking one out and that's gonna be on me for shure, for show, for shure.
How has social media made dating harder?
It's hard, man. I think it's Uh, it's a lot of competition now when it comes to relationships. You know, I think women get lost in what they see, you know, from a persona or you know, from women dressing, from how they view other people, relationship stuff that probably don't last. You know, women get lost they seeing other couples going on vacation and man that they man or whatever it is not taking them there. And you know, women get mad at that and they were like, I deserve this. I deserve to go out of the town. I deserve to take flights and stuff like that so people get that that that that type of mentality. You know, we don't live in the mentality of women no more. You know how it was when our mama's and stuff was growing up with grandmama was growing up. These these women ain't the original original no more. These are social media women now, right, you know, it doesn't change them, right, you know, And that's the that's that's that's the hard like, that's that's the battle, man. You know what I'm saying, These they just want a club now, you know. But it's still good stuff. I would say with when the come to women, it's a lot of more entrepreneurs. When to come to women, a lot of women doing business out there. When it comes to certain things, a lot of women are being bosses, you know, on their own. They I feel like they get money that I you know, too much relying on men when they come to a lot of stuff. And I like that. That termed me on. I love to see a woman that's that's about our business, you know what I'm saying, doing her own thing, you know, because I know myself do my own things. So I understand the mentality that they that they have. Right. So that's like even with women. I would love to connect with a woman like that that do their own stuff. They understand the grind, They understand what it takes. They understand, you know, how you gotta do it. They understand the long hours. They understand the investments that you gotta make, they understand all that stuff. But they and those you gotta find that right person. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta find the right But it's you got to pick your side too, you know what I'm saying. You gotta pick your side. You know, you got your like I said, you got your your rapticide, you got your good side. It's up to you. It ain't not wrong that raticide. It's still still good in there. You can't get caught up.
And but you have to understand what the regicide is.
Therefore, there you go, and you know they won't. They want what they want right and they and that's okay, And that's okay. Ain't nothing wrong with it. That's that's that's what you want, you know what I'm saying. But I just I just want to want to come and when I like the next level right when it come, you know, I like those those women that doing that, that's that's up there there.
But you know what social media has done is it's allowed men and women to have access that they never had before m Because if a bad woman was in Miami, you actually had to be in Miami to see her.
For sure.
There's a bad woman in California or Middle America, you had to be there to see her. That was social media. They right there. All you do is open up right there. Oh that's what you're right there, you fly.
Damn you're in Miami. I'm here too, and me at such and such. Pull up now, you'all.
And it's gotten. It's made people think that there's always something better.
And they feel like if it's that easy too, it's that easy boy, it's good God, cause you could be that. That's all. That's all. Women just want to get flown not all women, ladies. This is not all women Premier shop, but those type of they just want to get flown out. They just want to be in a nice hotel so they can do some little videos. Yeah until they friend girl, I'm out here, I'm gonna lit, I'm gonna live my best life. They want to hang out. The uh, the passage of the of the car and being there thema getting there where they have flying like that happy. They want to be in their beat, saying with their feed, showing their booty, doing their little dance. They want to show all the little food that you ordered, like they got trump. They find it in sushi. I just showed the sushi in it. Yeah, And they want to go to the club. Ain't on that night. They want to get drunk, and you want you get drunk good. They want to do get killed. That's it, but that but that they want to they want to get their purse. So they got it. They do that to get that purse because after you done did all that, they after you did they in the bed. They in the bed like they in the bed. They're like that and they be scrolling and looking at person and they hit you with.
It like you you be like, yeah, great man, ain't so yeah's man, I'm gonna call your red.
That that perd.
They want that pird they do and gave it to you when they done gave it, so they wait your time.
So I look at blue Face and Christian on he's he's in constant ready currently and they've had a very very contentious relationship. They're back and forth, they fight, they love, their love to fight, to go forth the dog. And she said, you know what, I love this man. I'm gonna get a picture of this man on my cheek.
Ain't got a girl crazy because I thought they were done right? Yes, I guess she must love him.
Oh it's gotta be that boy.
That boy, I don't know where you got on him.
He gave. Well, if if a chip got attaed to a daisy on her face, what are you thinking?
You goddamn you dumb?
His here? You so you don't you done?
You?
You done with? You dun't.
But y'all you dumb.
So you know you you wouldn't want to, You wouldn't want a young lady to get let's just say, not a faith. But what if she got daisy on her show?
I see it now, don't do the face? Yeah you can do that's that's I like it.
Oh so if you gotta tap to a deav anywhere, that's.
That's that's pretty. I love it. Yes, I love it a lot.
Right.
You may feel like, Okay, I'm doing my thing, you feel me, I don't do right thing?
The skit that you did with Sukie, Yeah look real, yeah.
Come on, uh yeah, like even for that, Like, Okay, so when I do pick women, I try to pick women that this is what they do. So I want to bring your environment of what I think you do to this place, right, So that's how that's how I was trying to paint that picture of that skip.
Do you do you rehearse before you guys do the skit? Do y'all do a dry run? Do y'all guys do a walk through before you do the skit? Or you just come on and says, Okay, this is the idea of what I'm going for.
Sometimes we go through it. Sometimes we have it up here and it's like we're gonna go. We'll just say I got a boom boom boom boom, and and that be it. But like if we've got like females will like rehearsal with them so they can be comfortable, you know whatever that So, yeah.
So that scene with Suki y'all got you know, if a young lady asks you to do something really really I mean, so what I mean, okay, let's just say that's a severn. Young lady says that I want you to take this thing to a nine or ten.
That's that's different. Ten ten Yeah, that's serious. That's like, that's not the massaging videos. Yeah with the booty. Yeah, we got the boot out. Yeah, that's that's when you're doing all that. That's that's a ten. That's somebody real boota cheeks. Yeah, like that's boota chees. I'm reving or any of.
Those women in a relationship. Do they have boyfriends?
I would hope not. If you align your girl to sit here and getting she's making money.
Up, but she got to get paid this. She better, That's what I'm saying though. That's what living. She make an ant and hustle. She better.
She better be getting paid because she's letting that mail rob I know, he tapping thew gee, he tapping them geep. She feels good on that table. In her mind she thinking, oh my good, my man, ain't nothing did this? Oh?
Really?
The camera cut off? She said, you're good. She's like, yeah, I'm good. She's sitting that chill, gonna ask you want some joints?
Straight?
Yeah, I take something. She still got her clothes on? What Yeah? What you it ain't.
Okay, okay, I'm just saying that. Yeah, that was going, that was going, okay, I'm just taking I'm just taking. I mean, you beat some pretty Pretty B so you I mean you've had real current skits with those.
Yeah yeah, yeah, uh yeah me and v uh yeah bet some of them them my girls right there. Man. You know, when it comes to content, you know, when it come to the short friends or whatever, it's gonna be my first two women that I pitched to when it comes to a lot of things, because like I said, we already got that chemistry. We done built it up, you know. So they talented. You know what I'm saying to them, They killing They doing their thing too. Man. I love I love them. Yeah. Oh hold on.
Rick Ross and Pretty Be Pretty b did a hilarious videter what you reveal Rick Ross had a new boot? Did you call him like it's gonna be okay?
And she me, if y'all know, B No, I don't know. Oh, we don't give it, don't give She don't care about that, she I said, Man, that social media stuff so crazy and I ain't gonna put the beers out there, but it's so crazy. It's crazy, man, you know, like even like that, like even that girl I don't know, the girl from Cannapeit, but just how they do now like they put out. They they explained, they say, old men, so that we're doing this, we're doing that or whatever it is, man, real boss woman or whatever that man. No, f F they know they got it. Man, they ain't got to do none of that explaining. I got him. I'm at the crap, I'm here, I'm at the house. You know what I'm saying. Right, So that's the difference between a social media girl and the girl that ain't. You know what I'm saying like that? Yeah, yeah, I hate the Gospel of women a lot of so I hate that you do a.
Lot of cheating skit. Have you ever got caught.
A lot of cheating skits?
Yeah?
Have you ever got caught cheating?
Yeah?
Have ever got caught cheating? Let me be back in like high school.
I'm about like caught calls not no, hearsay not no, or such and such told me she was with you or such and such say they saw you at the movie or the skating rink, not not not not that caught call.
However, got caught chat yea in high school at the movies? Yeah? I did. And it was crazy too.
So so what happened?
Uh, we was at the movie and we were leaving out and she let me the reason why I want she because she was walking in with somebody else too.
What damn when y'all went together?
How y'all be like sh that was going on? I said that, you know, and it was so crazy. I got to text like wow. While they in the movies, they're like wow.
And you know, god, bo, I know she hit you with the wild fit to a Commo dan Z.
So the gods what she you know in high school? You know that's that, you know?
But yeah, wild me, I can't believe you do me like this. I can't believe you went together and.
What she said? I'm like, what's up with you? We ain't together? We we just we just we just we're chilling, y'all together. What y'all gonna do? Y'all need that movie? Yeah?
Wow, I hit it with that Wow. You know what? Wow?
So I'm finga gone wow over here.
So did y'all did you ever speak to this young lady again?
Yeah?
You were back? I know, yeah, I know you. I know you. You're like, wow, I can't believe you here that come on over here, like let them do this.
Wow together exactly. Yeah, you know but and you know, high school, You know y'all for some reason, in high school, y'all can let stuff slide, right. You know what I'm saying, I don't grow up now. We don't let that slide in.
The day's time. Let's just say for the part, you got one, you walking and you're like, okay, you coming out and she coming in.
You gotta man up with shit.
You got me so yeah, ain't no coming back from that one, No hunt.
I mean they.
So like how like you we were talking earlier about a lot of these like are personal, some of these are not all. Some are personal stories. And when something is personal, you're able to relate or make it relate a bowl to the people that you're trying to show this to because you're speaking from firsthand knowledge. But I no hearsay for sure, not what someone told you. But you've gone through this for sure.
I said, all my stories that I do do, it's real, you know what I'm saying, growing up as a kid or whatever it is, like, I like to present that. That's just my style of comedy, right, Like I said, From Eddie Murphy's to the Martins, I feel like when they came to they comedy. That's where they went from. And I feel like when you're a comedian, you got to go to what connected you go to what hits hits homes for you. You know what I'm saying. And that's why it's presented so well because it's real. Right, It's true. You know what I'm saying. I'm not getting it from nobody else. It this is my life, right, you know what I'm saying. So I can make this story look as real as possible because I saw that I've been through that, you know what I'm saying. So I said, when they come to your gift for whatever that you try to do, man, you gotta find your your your realness, find your white Uh why you do stuff? You know what I'm saying. I feel like that's what's gonna connect to the world. It's gonna be so authentic, you know what I'm saying. Original? You know. I feel like that's what make legends, right, you know they do their original work. It ain't. I ain't just doing this because I seen another comedian do it. Uh, but I'm still Lester. No, I'm doing this. No, this is my story, this is my stuff, right. Yeah.
I read word next put you out. Oh yeah, do so we tell that story.
Yeah, that's when I was first uh you know, in my beginning stays is, you know, really chasing my dream of comedy. And at the time, I felt like she didn't believe in my dream but my goals. I used to want her to support me so much. I you know, I thought that was gonna be a woman I was gonna be with. You know what I'm saying. I did a lot of stuff with her. You know what I'm saying. Every down that I got and where I was working, I gave it to her. The only thing I wanted to do was get me a haircut and pay my cell phone bill, so I, you know, shoot my video, right. But I felt like at the time that the money, uh it wasn't coming fast enough, you know, it wasn't there. So she went, you need you need to get a job, you need to do this, you need to do that. Well I can't do this no more, so you know you might have to, you know, go do something else. So that sent me to my grandmama house, you know what I'm saying. So I was stay at my grandma for a little minute, and at that moment.
That happened late late at night. That was like yeah, yeah, like so you put you out like two three in the morning.
Yeah, And it crazy Like I cried, like I cracked out, was crying already, like you know, you know when you're chasing something, man, you're trying to make this, trying to make the shit work. And man, I remember this shit. Like yesterday I was trying to talk to hers. She's like, boy, if you don't go to sleep. I was like, what, yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like damn, like okay, And that made me cry even hardest. I just walked on it. I walked in the living room and I was just like, damn shit, like alright, fuck it. You know what I'm saying, it is what it is. And like I said, I had this. I'm so spiritual, I'm so connected with God. I had this bubble Gune rapper man, and this bubble gonna rapper that I held done for a little man. I still got a picture on my phone and man, it said stand up comedy. I swear to god it said stand up comedy. And that was the thing that I was like running away from for for a long time, like I didn't want to do it cause you know, I was you know, a little fear was kicked in when it you know, when it came to it. But and I saw so crazy if I used to have these I used to have these crazy dreams bro like real talk. I used to have these crazy dreams while I was in like prison, like when I when I was over there, I was in prison and like the gates was open, Like the gates was open, like come out. But I was so afraid to go out, you know what I'm saying, Like you know what I'm saying because I didn't. I couldn't see. I didn't know what was gonna happen. But I was like, well, I'm trying to give you freedom if you just trust me and lean out on your own understanding and just come out. You but you might can't see it because it's so, it's so the something, it's so you know, but I promise you when you step out, you gonna you gonna see. And I remember I was at my grandma house and I got an email maybe like it was crazy, maybe like two three days later and I got an email of this, uh for me to do this hosting this for the stand up I had the hostess Scommis show. I think it was like in Mariotta in Atlanta, Georgia, and I was the youngest, you know, the youngest to me on is like I was still fresh at doing it, and I was like, man, okay, I gotta come up with a set, man. I remember I came up with a five minute set. It was just five minutes, and I was like, I could just take these five minutes. I could just do whatever in between. The hoster and I end up coming up with five minutes. Brouh and I recorded and I was just so happy to do that five minutes. They remember that. So I'm goin to take this to the show. And I took it to the show, and I ain't gonna say it was my best show, but I remember I got like that first laugh and I was like, oh, I gotta laugh. So it's like, now, how can I continue to get more last? What I got to say to get more last? And that one land right there already told me, oh I can do it. I can do it. I just gotta see how I can get more last, you know what I'm saying. So that moment right there that changed my life when it came to stand up, but I ain't. I ain't stopped. Since I ain't stopped, sins and stand up has been one of the most blessed, blessed with things in my whole entire career that changed my life forever. Of course, I want to be an actor and it's ted. Of course I'm gonna get that, But stand up really getting me the respect, it's really putting me around a lot of legends. It's giving me opportunity to do shows with a lot of great people. I've done shows with people like Mike Epps. I've done shows with people like like d Ray. I'd have done shows with Earthquake. I done done shows with what Gary Owens. I done done shows with Bill Bell and Me. I had done shows with with h Bruce Spruce. I done done shows with what. Dang my lady, I gotta I gotta shout her out, og lady, Damn I more somebody done show was more loot Nell. They all gave me great advice. Don show. Of course, my boys eighty five South Dun Shover Them, DC, Carlos, Country Wayne out of that showed a lot of a lot of greats man and I got a lot of mentors now Kevin Hart my mentor, Mikeel's my mentor. Uh.
You know, like I said, you're the great next young talent.
Hey, and I appreciate that. You know what I'm saying, shout out to keV, Like, keV give me a lot of game every time. You know what I'm saying. keV is one of the ones that's doing it. You know, he at a higher level, a real big level, and he inspired me, you know, not just with comedy, just his work ethic. His work ethic is amazing. It's it's dope at you know what I'm saying. Like he's He's one of the one of the biggest reasons why I contend to work out in the gym, like I do. You know what I'm saying, the the that's brandable. You know, that's how you're able to get those Nike deals. That's how you're able to get those commercials. You know what I'm saying, That's how you're able to get those type of things. And you know, oh, that's that's what I want to do when it comes to this. You know what I'm saying, the next level. You know, he even put me in a super Bowl commercial. You know what I'm saying, I don't, you know, work with him, met Martin Lawrence, had a chance to meet Martin. You know what I'm saying, sit down with him. You know. So stand Up has been that thing that has pushed me to that place. So now that I think about it, when I first got that ticket that that Bubba Gum rapper when it said stand up, come and not knowing that this was gonna be the thing that was gonna change my life forever, you know. And when that did that, it just showed me. When I took that leap, It's like, okay, this what when I was dreaming, that's what God was trying to show me. Come out here. I'm trying to show you what's gonna change your life forever. And it did you know, that's bringing movie That's bring me the opportunity to to big movie auditions, you know, to everything that's gonna take me to the next level. But all this was always a part of my dream of something that I wanted to do. I always said, when I was staying with that ex that you know that did that, I always had the vision that I'm gonna beat these people. When I was doing character where I was getting it from Eddie Murphy. I had already. It was already in my head. I knew what I want to do. But I knew if I just believe in God, trust God and put in his work, I was I was gonna accomplish it. But I also needed people to believe in me around me. But if nobody gonna believe me at the time, I got to see it to believing myself. Right, So I gotta leave. You know what I'm saying. Now, get my own space. And I made my first nine hundred dollars on on YouTube.
Oh it's up, Yeah, you ain't look bad. Oh ain't you in trouble?
Now? Offer it stapped me about ten al must I stacked up for about three months. I got up to about ten thousand dollars. I wanna go get me apartment. And after that that's when Riddy took off. Now everything went going, but I was Had she not.
Did what she did, do you think you would have tooken the leap of faith that you did, or it would it just happened a lot much much later because she forced you. You don't have no choice. You living back with granting now, so you got you got to you got to make a decision just like this desert ya and had she not did that? Because you look like you said you got that bubblegum rapper, And it says, stand up, now, how long had you had that bubblegum rapper? Because you probably had it for a long time. For a minute, yeah, and you weren't doing nothing with it.
Nope, nope, nope. I won, but I had it came back to me. I looked at that again. I said, I need to do it. Yeah, I need to do it. And I did it. And I remember, like I said, I was at my grandmama house and it was so crazy. They had my back. It was so my granddaddy recipes my granddaddy. They had my back, and they told me it's gonna be alright. It's gonna be alright because they knew what I was working for. You know what I'm saying. They knew what I were, They knew what I wanted to do, and you know, and and and it came to pass, and its continue to elevators continue to grow. But that was a moment in my life that I really took a leap of faith in and really chased my dreams because I told my mom, I said, I ain't coming back to Yo Hot. I don't want to come back home over there. I'd rather go with my grandma house. And you know what I'm saying. And I was there for a little bit until I found my apartment and then it was old with it was old with.
What advice would you give me? That's living with a woman and the woman is the bread winner. Man, how do you navigate that system that.
I think you gotta find it? Well, well, if you're not mad about her being a bread winner, you know, as long she supports you where you're at, then that's okay. Okay, you know what I'm saying. That's that's fine. It don't matter if she's the bread winner or not. But if that bring you jealousy or whatever it is. Where as a man, you need to find yourself first. You need to go get yours first, and then think about being with a woman so you can make sure your confidence good. Yeah, and make sure you can, you know what I'm saying, be able to be the man at the house like you would want to, cause at the end of the day, I do feel like men should always be the bread winner when it comes to stuff. You know, you should always be the man at the house. You know, she should never have to come to you and say, boy, you need to you need to be doing this. Boy, you need to go do some other stuff. You need to go do some investment. You need Nah, you know what I'm saying, Not in that type of way.
How did it make you feel that you're living with someone and she was the bread winner.
At the time, I thought it was cool, you know, I thought she was support. But I think my dream didn't come fast enough, my purpose didn't come fasten up right, So I think that's what happened. You know, when a woman want things and you know they're not getting it. I'm not for me. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna hold a woman back. If you want to go be happy with other things, that's okay. It is what it is. I learned from it. Boom, That's what it is. Because you want to go do these vacations, you want to do whatever it is you want to do. Man, go ahead, I'm gonna be good. I promise you. I promise him. And I always had that mindset. I'm gonna be straight regardless. I swear that that man up there, man, he be there every time every time. Man and my supporters that I got too, But they've been there for a long time and they love to see the growth of what I do. You know what I'm saying. So as long as I got that I'm straight and I got people around me, they understand I got a great team. Five the boy they they scrapped to. They scrapped too, and they believe too. They want to go to the top too, right, Yeah, So when you got people around you don't want to go to the top with you. Boy, it gets here.
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You've done skis with Martin, Lawrence and Kevin. Like I mentioned earlier, Kevy said you're the great talent. Did you feel like you made it once you got with those icons? Those are guys Martin. We know what Markin represents. Martin does stand up. Martin is box office in Hollywood as it comes. Martin is the same thing Martin does stand up. Martin had the Martin Lawrence Show, which was a cultural phenomenon. He's bought big Box Office to be able to get here. You are DESI bank starting your career trying to ascend to the heights of which they already are, and now they're in your skits. How did that make you feel?
It made me feel like I'm on the right track. Okay, I would say that I'm not where I want to be at you know what I'm saying, don't. I haven't had my own TV show yet. I've had I've had that big box office movie that that went over, went everywhere, they had international, that had the world. That's my one of my biggest goals when it comes to this career. I want to be in those big movies. I want to be that that that rock star of comedy, that that that new thing of the generation. Because I can act for real, like I'm I'm like, I ain't just one of the one. Like I've took acting class, I've done all that. I can really do it for real. And I you know, even if people that's I there, I don't want them to ever look at me like I just come from social media. I'm a real student of the game. I take this serious. You know what I'm saying. You give me a strict I'm gonna study it from beginning to end. I'm an rd between the line. I'm gonna do everything that's needed when it comes to that script. You know what I'm saying, I have moved. I have a movie that I'm actually about to do like soon. I would have shot it last year, a twenty four PM. I would have shot it last year. Would have been in New York for two months. But of course the writer to strike hit. I'm glad we got we you know, we deserved when it came to that. But yeah, a lot of other projects as well too. Man. But I know it takes time. I know it's a process, and that's what I contend to, you know, just to enjoy that process, you know what I'm saying. Like but but again I say, man, thank God for stand up because stand up actually keep me, keep me going, keep me not having to worry about, you know, me not working when it comes to like acting and things like that. You know, keeps me busy.
What is some of the advice if you don't mind sharing that. Martin and uh Kevin shared it with you.
One thing I can say with Martin, he tald me like we'll t He tell me to keep God first, and he said, whenever you fear you whenever you feel like nervousness or anxiety or feel whatever it is. He said, close your eyes and squeeze and squeeze your hand. And when you squeeze that hand, you should be squeezing God hand. You know what I'm saying. And he said, man, you gotta take God with everything everywhere you go when it comes to this stuff. You know what I'm saying. So I I I kept that with me and with Kevin. He told me to uh, don't get lost in the sauce. You know what I'm saying. Don't get lost in the sauce. Be yourself, you know, stay outhentic mum, and just keep doing what I'm doing. You know what I'm saying. I found you this way and that's what it is. Even that my keps gave me great everybody's to me too. He's and enjoy this, you know what I'm saying. Cause as you grow, as you grow, the the the fun that you do now is go and when you get up there big that that kind of fun stuff it, you know, it go low because you're so busy doing you know what I'm saying. And also you can get lost, and you know what I'm saying, So you know he he told me that as well. So you know, those guys have given me amazing advice, right, you know what I'm saying, And I appreciate them guys. Yeah, yeah, Th'm my Guy'm my guy.
The skid that you did with Boozy, were you shooting the gull? Were you nervous?
Nah?
I wasn't. Man, Man, Man Booz is we we he man. Booz is like an older cousin to me. You know what I'm saying. Boozy is so much good energy, man, fun man. You go to Boozy's house, man, He's gonna get the best tune of sounds that you don't have in your life. They may be jail to him sounds. I'm talking about that. That's what I said. Boy got good to not Boo. Good people. Man love. He floats seats at the game. He gives you flow seats to the game. You know what I'm saying. Uh yeah, Like we dope, man, We have a good time every time.
This kid that you did with Lula with the stolen car at the ATM, how do you convince.
That no, that was lou Idea, Lou, that was ludthercris Idea. That was he he wanted men wanting to do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was so shocked at me. It was crazy because I was telling him I got the same it's a ninety three acre that he got, and we was talking about that's how I kind of like started, and he was like, yeah, I got this ideal with this little car, man, I want to do it with y'all O me and Wayne, And I was like, yeah, I'm cool. But yeah, Luther came up with that, man, and you know at the time, you know, of course, I know, I know he needed that kind of light on him to take away that negative stuff of him getting his car stolen. So yeah, no, it was fun. Man lit a dope person to an Atlanta man. A lot of legend for sure.
Are you surprised when celebrities want to do skits with you?
Nah? I mean I do, But like I said, it just remind me still like you new man, you fresh. But people love you, right, you know what I'm saying. If they accept it, they like something they see. So it was good work. Yeah. So it's like, yo, you know what I'm saying, I just want to continue to do stuff like that. You know what I'm saying. I even tell a kid and mipe them all the time and put me in the Yeah, ski's cool, but put me to move right.
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