Up next in 10
KENYA BARRIS on Writing 'You People' with JONAH HILL Starring EDDIE MURPHY, JULIA-LOUIS-DREYFUS
Jan 25, 2023
Kenya Barris stopped by Sway In the Morning to talk about what to expect from the latest Netflix blockbuster, 'You People'. Barris collaborated with Jonah Hill on the film that features some of the biggest names in comedy and entertainment. Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Lauren London, Nia Long and David Duchovny highlight an all-star cast.
The movie is out now, check out the trailer and details on the movie here: https://swaysuniverse.com/netflixs-you-people-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-plot-cast-and-release-date/
Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/SubscribeSU
Watch the Best of Sway In The Morning! http://bit.ly/BestOfSITM
Check out More From Sway’s Universe
http://swaysuniverse.com
http://twitter.com/swaysuniverse
http://instagram.com/swaysuniverse
http://facebook.com/swaysuniverse
#KenyaBarris #YouPeople #Netflix #SwaysUniverse #SwayInTheMorning #SiriusXM #Shade45
About SWAY’s UNIVERSE
Exclusive interviews from Sway Calloway and the Sway In The Morning/ SwaysUniverse.com team with some of today's biggest celebrities, like Kevin Hart, Kanye West, Eminem, Usher, Jessica Alba, Steve Aoki, Torey Lanez, Julia Stiles and so much more.
Sway’s Universe
https://www.youtube.com/UCuS96jkLKpTaGB_OWnwZV_A
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
[Applause]
0:12
that's right no blessings Left Behind
0:15
count them up okay man the Magic Man
0:17
himself Money Mike Muse yo what up
0:20
wow man I I you know since I've come
0:23
back from Ghana I've been outside you
0:25
know I've been answering the invites
0:27
yeah you've noticed that sway has been
0:29
RSVP
0:34
I'm just so open to just different and
0:37
new experiences that I can ex that I can
0:40
have simply by being outside and so our
0:42
good folks over at Netflix she always
0:44
makes sure that I'm I'm at the
0:46
screenings and so she sent me an invite
0:48
to see you people um which is the
0:50
directorial debut of our good friend
0:52
who's been here before for a movie
0:55
um and he's also a writer on it the one
0:57
and only Kenya Paris is here
1:00
no in your Barris is back last time he
1:03
came I feel like we did a therapy
1:05
session
1:07
was going through something I don't know
1:10
man you're going through something I
1:12
live in a burning house you live in a
1:14
burning house no and it makes for great
1:15
films and TV shows I feel like you said
1:18
it a flame on purpose just so you can
1:20
see how you come out
1:21
yeah you know sometimes I feel like for
1:25
Creative people a little bit of
1:26
self-sabotage helps create something you
1:28
know helps helps you creatively maybe
1:30
that's what I'm doing yeah people always
1:32
like you're good at putting on first I
1:33
was like because that's because I live
1:34
in a burning house yeah it's not a skill
1:36
you want to easily get yeah right right
1:39
oh you're doing you're doing great in it
1:41
and it was interesting because we went
1:43
to see
1:44
torch and I went and saw the premiere of
1:47
the film you people which is now on
1:49
Netflix you can watch it right now
1:51
um co-written by Jonah Hill good friend
1:54
of ours yeah
1:55
Jonah Fredo the show hip hop head
1:58
extraordinary Sneakerhead is he Jonah
2:01
Hill is a sneaker head oh that's dope
2:03
hard body uh Sneakerhead like um and it
2:07
starts a lot of great people Eddie
2:08
Murphy the legend is in this one
2:10
goodness okay uh Julia you love her
2:13
Julia Louis-Dreyfus I was telling the
2:15
citizens this morning if you have not
2:17
watched this Phenomenal Woman in
2:19
Seinfeld I can't even have a
2:21
conversation with you once you do that
2:24
then you will understand what I'm
2:25
talking about see her and you people
2:27
she's a girl she's a ghost right she's a
2:29
black panther too
2:31
she's had a big oh yeah that's right a
2:33
couple months yeah she was a black
2:35
panther
2:41
oh okay okay all right all right knee
2:44
along Nia Long is lighting up the screen
2:46
she should have been in more scenes in
2:48
my opinion uh David Duchovny is in it uh
2:52
who else uh Lauren London our sister
2:58
she delivered in that she over delivered
3:00
she over delivered Mike Epps Rhea
3:02
Perlman who was just on our show a
3:04
couple of months ago
3:05
[Applause]
3:07
LaLa Anthony
3:10
is a natural
3:12
she delivered her lines naturally and it
3:15
was just um a real interesting topic
3:17
Kenya you surprised me when I I saw you
3:19
in a little private room and that we
3:22
were in and I was so happy for you and
3:24
you seemed like you was just biting your
3:26
fingernails about this one why
3:29
um I think with that cast it's like
3:31
you're either gonna do it or you're
3:33
gonna really not do it and I feel like
3:35
it's sometimes hard when they're like
3:37
here's everything you want now do it
3:39
that way if you mess it up you're like
3:41
it's on me okay and I feel like that was
3:43
I was a scary part so did you create
3:46
that in your own head nah man
3:51
like I think they wanted you to succeed
3:53
right I mean yeah they want you to want
3:55
me to succeed I feel like
3:58
I don't think I think at every point it
4:00
was will this happen will this happen
4:01
will this happen will this happen will
4:03
this happen I feel like it was
4:06
um they supported me in writing big
4:08
checks and sort of you know giving me
4:10
letting me really do my thing at the
4:12
same time when we got to a point of like
4:15
what the movie when the movie was in the
4:17
can
4:18
it was
4:20
the way it happens with the studio it
4:22
starts being like The Cutting Room floor
4:24
cutting room floor and what we keep you
4:26
know I'm saying what they like what I
4:27
like how the movie should flow I feel
4:29
like
4:29
um I give this this agent warns about a
4:32
lot of credit okay he uh
4:36
he's a white man but like he was Eddie's
4:39
agent but he called and he we were
4:42
cutting the movie they wanted all these
4:44
Trims and he was like you know I think
4:46
this is something different he was like
4:48
let him let it let his voice go and let
4:50
him do it and I feel like I really
4:51
always will appreciate that for him
4:54
because sometimes white men have to talk
4:55
to white men in the the code the code
4:58
the wink yeah but he um he gave you know
5:03
I think they started seeing it different
5:05
and I I think one of the big things for
5:06
me is like I don't think that there had
5:08
been and I can't think of a lot out
5:10
there has been any but like
5:12
sort of mainstream big comedies like
5:14
that directed by like a person of color
5:16
or you know people like that and I feel
5:18
like we don't get those opportunities
5:21
and so because we don't get those
5:22
opportunities which is interesting
5:23
interesting to me because they love
5:26
Chappelle they love Kevin Hart they love
5:28
Eddie Murphy they love Chris Rock they
5:30
love our comedy yeah but we don't get to
5:32
tell those big comedies to Big audiences
5:35
you know and so I think they were used
5:37
to we know how this goes we know how
5:40
this cut pattern goes I'm like that's
5:41
not how what and I think the reason that
5:44
I I got lucky is because I had been
5:45
working for so long I knew what I wanted
5:48
to do and so I was willing to fight and
5:51
say if it doesn't work I'll take I'll
5:53
take the L you'll take the L I'll take
5:55
that but at least I can say I take I did
5:56
it the way I wanted to do it you ain't
5:58
taking oils on this one this story is
6:00
about a couple uh from two different
6:02
cultures and their families experience
6:03
culture clashes yeah and I just thought
6:05
it was very timely because of the the
6:07
national discourse that's been happening
6:09
recently with the Jewish culture Black
6:11
Culture all the time time you know and
6:13
and then you know the Divide you know
6:17
the lack of understanding
6:19
um the nuances that go on between that
6:21
Dynamic so Jonah Hill plays a character
6:23
that falls in love with Lauren London's
6:25
character her family is Muslim his
6:28
family is Jewish it's crazy so how much
6:31
of because of that dynamic
6:34
like how much how much X how many egg
6:36
shells did you have to walk because
6:38
Jewish folks may not want to be
6:40
presented a certain way and then you
6:42
want to make sure that you rap Black
6:44
Culture a certain way like was that a
6:47
tug of war not when we were doing it I
6:49
feel like me and Jonah were like let's
6:51
really do it and really go there I think
6:53
if we had tried to do that movie
6:55
in the last three three to six months
6:57
yeah it wouldn't have got made I think
6:59
that we happen to be ahead of the curve
7:01
and you know and we didn't know I was
7:04
just a lucky patient way it came out
7:06
during this conversation and I think in
7:09
some aspects I hope it helps because I
7:11
feel like we need to have more open
7:13
conversations we need to talk about how
7:15
people really feel how people really
7:16
think I think that's the way things
7:18
actually get solved did you learn
7:20
anything about Jewish culture through
7:22
working with Jonah Hill on this that you
7:23
didn't know
7:25
um yeah yeah I feel like I hadn't really
7:28
been I hadn't been like to a synagogue
7:29
you know like that a high holiday
7:32
synagogue I hadn't you know um I think
7:35
the Jewish parents and black parents
7:36
actually share a lot I'm saying where
7:39
there's a lot of similarities now like
7:40
talking loud and you know overloving
7:43
their sons and Cadillacs and gold and
7:45
like you're saying backpack with stuff
7:46
like stuff but I feel like I I had in
7:49
the religious and cultural parts of it I
7:50
didn't really know as much as I thought
7:52
I did at the B
7:55
um Kenya thanks again for being here I'm
7:57
fascinated
7:59
I'm fascinated
8:01
um by the cast like we were talking
8:03
about the cast earlier and just like
8:06
personally for you how do you direct
8:08
Eddie Murphy like uh in some people to
8:11
me
8:14
it's I I was making a joke making Eddie
8:17
laugh is like scoring on Jordan
8:20
there's something just as a writer
8:22
comedic writer when you when Eddie's
8:24
looking at your script and he kind of
8:25
laughs you're like
8:30
um but he's a master and he like
8:33
literally I don't think people know this
8:35
like you know you see Eddie being funny
8:36
but when Eddie steps in front of that
8:38
camera it's surgical like he knows his
8:41
line he knows his changes he can flow
8:44
with the best of him like I was really
8:46
blown away I understood when he why he
8:48
gets the money he gets when you put him
8:50
on camera Eddie had a stable uh a line I
8:53
mean we were just talking one day he was
8:55
like look man he was like I'm Gonna Give
8:57
You 37 7 and 7. if you can't win with
9:00
that then that's on yes on the coach he
9:03
was like I've been doing this long
9:04
enough to know you get two or three
9:06
months with me and you can't put the
9:08
movie together that's on you and I was
9:11
like I it stuck with me because he knows
9:13
yeah it's LeBron you know he knows I'm
9:16
gonna give you what I can give you you
9:18
know I'm saying and if you can't if that
9:19
don't put you in a position to win the
9:22
game then nothing and it's really true
9:23
he really does he doesn't do it much
9:25
he's you know he's kind of taking take
9:27
some time but like when he steps to
9:29
camera it is it's something else the
9:31
same thing with Julie's drivers yeah
9:33
exactly like I feel like that it was two
9:35
ghosts and David Duchovny was is a mega
9:38
star he's a mega people like you know
9:40
people forget he's X-Files he's
9:41
Californication he's all these movies
9:44
you know Nia's an icon you know she's
9:47
been doing this forever like I think the
9:49
breakout for me
9:55
yes Sam J she no the crazy thing about
10:00
this is nobody audition wow everywhere
10:03
when we picked we you know I just was
10:05
like I think I want that person I think
10:06
I want this person and
10:08
Sam was like I don't know if I want to
10:10
you know if I cannot I was like no you
10:12
got it if you want to come do this with
10:14
me you know I'm saying I was a fan of
10:15
hers on she was a writer in SNL right I
10:18
love her show
10:20
um but she just had the way she thinks
10:23
the way her mind thinks the way she
10:25
approaches stuff I really feel like
10:27
people are going to see that character
10:29
who she is in a totally different way
10:30
and Lauren London yeah yeah Lauren
10:33
London I will say it I think she's the
10:35
black Julia Roberts I feel like you want
10:38
her to win she's just yeah there's
10:40
something about stars Julia Roberts
10:43
George Clooney De Niro Sandra book
10:45
they're kind of the same person in every
10:47
movie yeah a version of it but that's
10:49
where the star is you just like them and
10:52
that's what I saw with Lauren like
10:53
something about her you want her to win
10:55
she's comfortable accurate yeah yeah and
10:57
I feel like she's so intentional you
11:00
know and she's been through stuff and
11:01
she's like her journey has changed and
11:03
she's become very much so like the
11:04
person who
11:05
makes you feel like the things that she
11:08
takes she won't she takes them because
11:09
she feels like she has something to
11:10
bring to the role and I feel like she's
11:12
my sister amen I couldn't have got
11:14
through this without her wow man Kenya
11:16
barish is here we're talking about uh
11:17
you people who's the writer and
11:19
directors on Netflix right now Tracy G
11:21
yes I gotta say Katie as soon as I saw
11:23
that trailer I was so tickled I'm having
11:25
like a stay at home date night with my
11:27
boo and we're watching it on Netflix
11:30
say that out loud and so I was actually
11:33
I want you to see it with her audience
11:34
if you get a chance okay seriously I
11:37
think it's I think watch it with your
11:39
boo but I definitely feel like it's one
11:41
of those movies comedy I think is meant
11:43
to be played with audiences so if you
11:46
get a chance it's in theaters for a week
11:48
okay or you can catch a screen or I'll
11:50
send you something but like if you get a
11:51
chance watch it with some people I'll
11:53
take you up on that because I think you
11:55
also learn from looking at the different
11:57
aspects that make folks laugh all these
12:00
different cultural references
12:03
um which brings me to I was very
12:04
surprised to see a group of people
12:07
online that saw the trailer and felt
12:10
like Kenya Barris has a fixation on
12:12
mixed race storylines I do I really do
12:15
[Laughter]
12:19
it's crazy I feel like I it happened
12:22
because I did a show about my family
12:25
that I'm super proud of in Blackish my
12:27
wife's biracial my the kids look like my
12:30
actual kids
12:32
but you know and I I took it and then
12:34
there was a spin-off with Yara who's yes
12:36
our girl who's you know amazing which
12:39
I'm super proud of that spin-off there
12:41
was a spin-off about the the mom
12:43
character's life you know saying which
12:45
was based around my my kids mom's life
12:47
and like you know the things that she
12:49
went through
12:50
and then I did a show on Netflix that
12:52
was still based like me playing me black
12:55
as [ __ ] with Rashida who's who's
12:57
biracial that's where it starts yeah I'm
12:59
saying but that's all based on my family
13:01
and if you go outside of that people
13:03
don't think remember like it's
13:04
Intergalactic it's shaft it's coming to
13:06
America it's the game it's girlfriends
13:09
it's gross trip it's you know it's I
13:12
literally I will go head to head I'll do
13:14
a versus for who's black you know what
13:16
I'm saying
13:18
I'm saying well guess who's put up black
13:21
[ __ ] I'm saying you and Spike I'll go
13:24
against anybody I really mean that I
13:26
really mean it like I feel like I'm
13:28
my career has been dedicated to us and I
13:32
feel like you know the
13:34
people that's the thing with internet
13:35
they they look for like where's the
13:38
thing we can talk about let's make it a
13:39
thing and I feel like it never really
13:41
bothers me until it comes to my kids
13:43
okay that's when the only time I really
13:46
like stepped up when I because I was
13:47
like they were like well these aren't
13:49
real black kids and I was like what like
13:51
my kids are you know coming home they're
13:53
the flying buttermilk usually at their
13:55
school and they come home and they're
13:56
like what is nappy dad I want to do this
13:58
with my hair like you know why can't I
14:00
do that and I feel like
14:01
they go through things that I feel like
14:03
black kids go through and I feel like I
14:05
don't when I start seeing that because
14:07
they actually read Twitter that's the
14:09
only time I really want to defend you
14:10
know any of that stuff but I really do
14:12
think that you know it's it's everyone
14:15
needs to have an opinion everyone needs
14:16
to have something to say facts sometime
14:18
I have moments and I'm like let's let's
14:20
have these I want to get into it yeah
14:23
but um in general I think that that is
14:25
you know it started from from blackish
14:27
and I feel like that's the one thing I
14:29
feel like sometimes we are our own alpha
14:31
predator
14:32
we get into stuff and we are the heart
14:36
and I think that's the thing when you
14:37
there's not
14:38
you you there's not enough of us telling
14:41
stories so one story can't hit everybody
14:43
I'm saying but the way we do that is
14:46
that we actually celebrate each other so
14:49
that we make and brought make up more of
14:51
us rise up so you can have 10 different
14:53
stories with 10 different points of view
14:54
you know and I feel like I
14:57
I'm not gonna stop I'm not gonna not
14:59
hire Zendaya you know I'm saying yeah
15:01
like she's the [ __ ] like I'm not gonna
15:03
not hire her but that's what it's sort
15:05
of and I'm not gonna go and hire Janelle
15:08
Monae because she's dark skinned I feel
15:10
like you know I'm gonna get the best
15:11
person
15:12
for the job and who I feel like fits the
15:14
role and I feel like that is how we
15:17
shouldn't you know trying to do things
15:18
like we shouldn't you know this isn't
15:21
improv like you can't call out names and
15:23
people just do the thing I feel like you
15:24
have to do what's what you feel is the
15:26
best way to tell the story so I take the
15:28
the criticism and I take it you know
15:31
um you know there's been hilarious jokes
15:34
I keep saying that say say biracial in
15:36
the mirror three times can you bear us
15:38
appears
15:39
to your favorite one thanks baby looks
15:41
like Kenya Bears produced it okay
15:47
but I feel like you know mine and
15:49
there's like ones like Kenya Bears Must
15:50
Be Stopped really be able to say you
15:53
need healing but I feel like I I
15:57
definitely like I think recently I took
15:58
it was responding back to people and it
16:00
was so funny him saying I was like I got
16:03
a little time today it was so funny
16:05
everybody I responded back she was like
16:07
oh my God no no no no
16:08
yeah that's what they do and I really
16:12
want the smoke single person was like
16:13
you know it was it was very interesting
16:15
no one really wanted to get into the the
16:18
smoke nobody really wanted to get into a
16:19
conversation about what they were saying
16:21
immediately it was like oh no no no no
16:23
oh my God you're responded and I feel
16:26
like people just want
16:28
you know that's the culture we're in a
16:30
hot take just one attention
16:32
I
16:34
say it openly all the time
16:37
you have to register
16:39
for the internet I think so I think I
16:42
think if because you can be so digitally
16:44
Brave when you don't have people you
16:46
don't have to stand in your own without
16:47
in your ten toes down yeah if people
16:49
don't know Heather be through the rock
16:51
then she might throw 20 rocks I'm saying
16:54
but if they got to be like headed to the
16:55
Rock it's like hmm I don't if so I feel
16:57
like that well because I do feel like
16:59
I've been lucky enough to have a career
17:01
before this and you know I'm saying
17:03
hopefully I'll have a career after this
17:05
yes but what if a kid is just coming up
17:07
I'm saying what if a kid is just doing
17:09
something in there you know like that
17:11
can destroy them I look at my you know
17:13
my daughters you know gets in arguments
17:15
with people online I'm like baby don't
17:16
do that like I feel like but for her
17:19
one of them is 16 one was 21 with that
17:22
for them it's like that's my dad and I'm
17:24
defending this and I'm like yo you're
17:25
just adding I think it is looking for
17:30
you know people don't people controversy
17:32
tracks I'm saying people just saying I
17:35
love you doesn't track you know what I'm
17:36
saying but people saying like you know
17:37
who's snitching who's doing this I don't
17:39
[ __ ] with this person that's the click
17:40
bait yeah okay let's go here let's let's
17:43
stay in this space dude I'm now I'm
17:44
really curious because I hate Twitter
17:45
and I think Twitter is dangerous to our
17:48
democracy I think dangerous to our
17:50
culture I think it's dangerous ideology
17:52
that just goes unchecked that has no
17:54
substance whatsoever people just tweet
17:55
to retweet this conversation you
17:57
mentioned earlier that this movie
17:58
probably wouldn't have gotten made two
18:00
or three months ago due to all the
18:01
anti-semitic rhetoric that was happening
18:03
in our country to which Twitter was
18:05
responsible for that to happen and the
18:07
way they allowed
18:09
um such individuals to tweet such
18:10
anti-semitic rhetoric but then it was
18:12
also to this social conversation about
18:14
Judaism and all the type of things I
18:16
don't want to get too deep into that but
18:18
you mentioned I'm just curious then
18:20
since this was made beforehand and just
18:22
a few moments ago you said you hope that
18:24
this educates or enlightens or
18:26
illuminates the conversation what did
18:28
you mean by that can you expand upon
18:29
that more what do you hope that this
18:31
movie will moderate between a black
18:32
Muslim and a Jewish American I think one
18:35
we're all better together and I'm not
18:37
trying to say that on some saccharine
18:39
you know [ __ ] I really do feel like
18:41
particularly
18:43
I don't know about about the Nation of
18:45
Islam I'm saying but particularly
18:48
African-Americans and you know and the
18:50
Jewish culture
18:52
there would be no Martin Luther King if
18:53
it weren't for his Jewish supporters him
18:55
saying like that was who
18:57
financed him put him on those front
18:59
lines civil rights would not have
19:01
happened if you hadn't had the liberal
19:02
sort of Jewish supporters there was a
19:04
time in this country when we got
19:06
together and like Barack wouldn't have
19:08
been in office I'm saying the idea of
19:10
you know us getting together and doing
19:12
things we are two Niche groups that when
19:14
we come together we're super powerful
19:16
because they have the financial means
19:18
and we have the numbers and we have the
19:20
spirit and the soul and I feel like I
19:22
hate when things you know happen and you
19:25
know I think it was close to midterms I
19:27
think it was you know sorry fighter it
19:29
made liberals look weak it made a lot of
19:32
black people say I think I'm I'm
19:33
thinking about voting Republican you
19:35
know I'm saying I think like you saw
19:36
like a huge rise in Black conservatism
19:38
you know saying I feel like we got to
19:40
just watch in my personal opinion we got
19:43
to watch what the game is you know and I
19:46
feel like you know I called when Kyrie
19:49
was getting the [ __ ] I called my agent I
19:51
was like can I talk can we get along
19:53
with Davis over is that his name Adam
19:54
Silver Adam Silver yeah commissioner I
19:57
was like because this is feeling like
19:59
Kunta Kinte Toby yeah it's like it's too
20:01
much you know I'm saying I was like I'm
20:03
not even sure Kyrie watched that
20:04
documentary yeah I'm saying like I just
20:07
know like you know I might have been
20:08
some [ __ ] his uncle said he sent 10
20:09
minutes now people need to hear maybe he
20:11
did maybe he didn't but he quickly said
20:13
I'm sorry I'm saying hey he was like I
20:15
want to donate and you know he was like
20:17
I wasn't trying to figure and I feel
20:19
like that's not this and it was so at
20:21
the same time as the Kanye thing I was
20:24
like I called and I was like gosh you
20:25
understand this is tonnage I'm in the
20:27
barber shops and you're turning people
20:28
against
20:30
a situate against against you in a way
20:32
that we were allies and I was like you
20:34
know there's there's a moment for this
20:36
you know I'm saying and the whole list
20:37
came out and this came out and I'm like
20:39
I feel like we need to just like be
20:41
careful about notice what gang we're
20:43
playing I'm saying and I feel like it is
20:47
you know I think that
20:49
that Jewish culture has to like embody I
20:53
mean it's asked to like take and be
20:55
taken ownership they do run a lot of
20:57
Hollywood I'm saying they do have you
21:00
know a lot of positions in in media they
21:02
do have a lot of positions in banking
21:04
that's because they they good for them
21:06
but own it they did a lot of folks have
21:09
profited off of Black Culture absolutely
21:10
but own it it's not a privilege and but
21:13
I feel like at the same time
21:15
to me if we were canceling Kanye
21:17
we should have canceled Kanye you know
21:19
I'm saying there was a lot of
21:20
opportunities that we could have stepped
21:22
up and we could have said well I need to
21:24
cancel them but we could have pulled
21:25
them and be like we're going to stop
21:26
supporting you bro I love how you said
21:28
that because we allowed him to go
21:30
unchecked this is we're talking about
21:31
black Twitter Twitter in general goes
21:34
unchecked we allow as soon as he said
21:37
slavery was a choice right we still have
21:39
what I'm saying with the George foreign
21:51
they went and I think that you know as
21:54
in humanity standpoint they could have
21:57
checked it for you know for us at that
21:58
point but we didn't we can't just keep
22:00
looking for other people to defend us we
22:02
gotta step up and check our own self and
22:05
be like at the same time somebody messed
22:07
with their crew they handled their
22:09
business you're saying but they need to
22:11
also say we handed our business because
22:14
somebody messed with our crew don't hide
22:16
it under anything I just think there's a
22:17
lot of conversations that we can have
22:20
together just being honest you know I'm
22:22
saying just being honest I feel like you
22:25
know it's nothing wrong to say that a
22:28
large amount of Jewish you know people
22:29
can have you know power and
22:31
entertainment and banking that's that's
22:34
just facts yeah I'm saying and I think
22:36
that sometimes people say that that's
22:38
you know Spurs anti-semitic thoughts
22:40
because you're saying this is not it
22:42
doesn't if you take ownership to it not
22:44
you know one of the conversations I had
22:46
is like
22:47
let us help us help you and you help us
22:50
and let's do this we've done so much in
22:51
the past together let's continue to sort
22:53
of like make real changes because
22:55
there's a election coming up and we need
22:59
each other I'm saying because that
23:01
election if we don't get back together
23:04
there I don't know how we're gonna have
23:05
any change or any real power I feel like
23:08
and to to separate two people who really
23:10
when it comes to election time we make
23:13
big differences I'm saying I I
23:15
personally think that this is not by
23:16
accident
23:18
Kenya parish is here man you people is
23:20
the movie
23:22
um
23:23
it's in it's on Netflix on the 27th yes
23:27
okay and then in theaters this week and
23:30
it really explores uh the dynamic
23:32
between a relationship of two different
23:34
cultures and then once their families
23:36
get involved to melee uh continues to
23:41
happen um I I really enjoyed
23:44
um those Dynamics like the reason why I
23:48
asked you that because I I feel like I
23:49
learned I got a sneak peek inside of
23:51
Jewish culture that's what I wanted to
23:53
be and I wanted them to get the sneak
23:54
peek inside us yeah yeah because the
23:56
idea of a black man
23:58
now being able to be like I'm not I
24:00
don't want my daughter to marry like we
24:02
can say that like you know what I'm
24:03
saying and I feel like I probably you
24:06
know I remember telling my daughters
24:08
like you know I'm saying like I'm I I
24:10
raised you as princesses I don't want to
24:12
give you to the oppressor and I was like
24:14
I want you to be happy come home with
24:15
what you want I'm saying but I
24:17
definitely had those thoughts I'm saying
24:19
I definitely and I feel like we're at
24:21
the place now where we can have those
24:23
thoughts and there's a certain
24:24
entitlement that goes and I think Eddie
24:25
does it so well you know I'm saying and
24:27
I think he's in his own life he's sort
24:29
of you know could sort of Channel some
24:30
of that and I feel like
24:32
having those Peaks behind the doors and
24:34
those conversations those are my
24:35
favorite conversations we don't talk
24:37
enough about that black men with
24:39
daughters who feel that way I got a
24:41
daughter and I feel like I'm like I've
24:44
said the same thing yeah I didn't think
24:46
other people say that like I kind of
24:48
want you to be in in a community that's
24:51
like-minded like-hearted like spirited
24:53
there's nothing wrong with that like if
24:55
you're a Jewish moms like I just want
24:56
you to grow up in Maryland too there's
24:58
nothing wrong with that that's him that
25:00
they want to keep their culture going
25:01
you hear people you know there's nothing
25:03
wrong with that I'm saying which you as
25:05
long if you're trying to take away your
25:07
kids happiness and they find someone out
25:08
there that's a little bit different yeah
25:10
there's nothing wrong with saying you
25:12
know what I love being black I want you
25:15
to have black kids I want you to
25:16
continue to experience and evolve us as
25:19
you know I'm saying we've given I've
25:21
given you certain privileges so that you
25:24
can give that get with another you know
25:26
person and you guys can evolve us and
25:29
build and build and keep building
25:30
yourself I feel like there's nothing and
25:32
wrote that that's not I think it's wrong
25:34
if I start
25:35
hating on my daughter's happiness yeah
25:37
I'm saying but like other cultures are
25:39
like I want you to marry what you know
25:41
yeah I want you to marry a nice Italian
25:43
Guys
25:45
well Nikki's on the line from Cali if
25:48
her parents said that to her she didn't
25:50
take the advice because she's in an
25:51
interracial relationship what up Nikki
25:53
how you doing
25:56
oh my gosh Kenny Burris you are such a
26:00
gem
26:01
um I crack up I I love blackish loved
26:05
your sweatsuits and black it out
26:08
more I want more black AF okay so that
26:11
question I love what you just said
26:13
because that was my question
26:15
um about you raised your daughters as a
26:17
princess you know and here's my thing
26:19
growing up my mom's Mexican my dad's
26:22
black and I was just raised like you
26:25
know I just be happy you know whoever
26:27
makes you happy however as an adult
26:29
woman now I really do wish at some point
26:33
my mother had a conversation with me to
26:36
say well do you know like basically to
26:39
break down history like and I needed to
26:41
hear that when I was younger so I could
26:42
have as I was growing up and I believe
26:45
that would have shaped some of my
26:46
choices of the men that I dated I feel
26:49
like I wasted my time having dated
26:52
certain people whereas I would not have
26:54
made those choices had I known a little
26:56
bit more about history it's no fault of
26:59
my mother's at all but I was wondering
27:01
should parents have those Converse
27:04
should black and brown parents have
27:05
those conversation with their black and
27:07
brown children like do you know history
27:09
like I want to teach you history and do
27:11
you know if you date the certain people
27:13
what might happen or what might be said
27:16
and you know just like that and then the
27:18
choice is yours ultimately however I
27:19
just want to put you up on this game
27:21
because this game of life is so real you
27:25
know when it comes to dating and
27:26
sometimes like if we don't have those
27:27
conversations we get older we make
27:29
choices we get in these situations and
27:32
then that's when we have to learn and
27:33
it's kind of difficult to learn at that
27:35
later it's too late at that point yeah
27:37
and I feel like black and brown you know
27:40
you it's kind of a past we grew up in
27:43
the same neighborhood yeah we go through
27:45
in this country a lot of the same things
27:46
I feel like
27:48
you know the conversation of when you
27:50
you know I'm just been keeping it real I
27:52
think when you start crossing over into
27:54
you know black and brown going to White
27:57
we're going to you know other cultures
27:59
that don't really share what it's like
28:01
to be a minority in this country I do
28:04
feel like there is a kind you need to
28:06
make sure that you have that
28:07
conversation with your kids to say
28:09
that's gonna be something you guys have
28:11
to talk about that's real the fine print
28:13
the fine print and I feel like my
28:15
favorite thing is when you see the you
28:17
know when I see my kid my friends who
28:18
were mixed growing up you could tell if
28:20
they had a white bomb because their hair
28:22
would be like you know what I'm saying
28:23
it's like the no line or like the you
28:26
know saying the recess ponytail or
28:28
whatever the case would be but it was I
28:29
think those were the stories we're kind
28:31
of playing with with bow one blackish we
28:33
started talking about and people were
28:35
like I hadn't heard that before but we
28:36
all knew it we all talked about it
28:38
behind closed doors yeah and that for me
28:40
is what I like doing
28:42
just with the stuff that we talk about
28:43
how do we have a conversation that looks
28:46
to sort of expand and not ostracize
28:50
people but actually let people in by
28:51
talking to them about what we're talking
28:53
about what our conversations are and
28:54
hearing their conversations I think this
28:56
movie does that uh Nikki uh thank you
28:59
for your call your transparency
29:01
that means
29:07
my heart secretly okay no Kenya I wish I
29:12
wish yeah so I would be in the public
29:14
please I'm walking carpets
29:17
is Ross
29:20
you said what crazy Ellis Ross I love
29:22
tracing
29:24
I'm not dating Tracy
29:26
I know but in my heart you are you guys
29:28
are perfect you're both
29:29
you're both oh thank you so much
29:34
in a relationship together yeah
29:36
everybody want to see Kenya happy
29:40
Nick are you a citizen thank you all
29:42
right in the morning uh Kenya Barris is
29:44
here man you people or something uh
29:46
we've been talking about this all
29:48
morning I appreciate you you asked me
29:50
what I thought yeah yeah I thought it
29:52
was excellent I thought it was done well
29:55
um I was uh a little
29:58
[Music]
30:08
yeah yeah I could see that you work to
30:10
stay away from cliche stereotypes and
30:13
and and those sort of things I wanted
30:15
the Jewish side to know more about our
30:17
side yeah you know I think that I but
30:20
for me
30:21
I I only want to talk about what I know
30:24
yeah I'm saying and I think
30:26
I'm not going to try to assume or be
30:29
such a researcher when I'm supposed to
30:30
be a witness okay I told the story from
30:32
what I you know and the things that you
30:34
know Jonah gave and you know I try to
30:37
stay true I see so many people try to
30:39
like do things and I'm like you've never
30:40
really lived this you're just talking
30:42
off with you know your opinion so that's
30:44
for me that wasn't the place that I felt
30:46
like I could tell completely the story
30:47
from witness great I think it's it's
30:50
going to be a great conversation piece
30:52
for a long time to come I hope so I told
30:54
sway I was like I want you to look at
30:56
this movie like you listen to a Kanye
30:58
album yeah
31:00
I was like break it like destroyed it I
31:03
was like I want you to tell me the
31:04
absolute truth and I feel like we don't
31:07
we don't give flowers enough you know I
31:10
told you last time I was like I feel
31:11
like things that you say okay and people
31:14
love the the negative [ __ ] whatever but
31:16
then when it comes out and it's like
31:17
what you actually were saying was right
31:18
yeah he was saying how often is that
31:20
talked about you know what I'm saying
31:21
and how no one everybody wants to tell
31:23
you what you're doing is wrong until it
31:25
works and then everybody
31:30
and I don't know if you still got those
31:33
like whoever did the Wardrobe on this
31:35
set is incredible Michelle Cole okay
31:38
incredible I wherever those I want I
31:41
want her to you know style me uh she
31:44
does everything I do the music was great
31:46
the music supervisor who was that a help
31:48
Gabe hilfer who's the best in the
31:50
business yeah Gabe did it did his thing
31:53
who did Kendrick's album composed it
31:56
and he he gave us a different sort of
31:58
you know
32:00
Baseline for what I wanted the music to
32:02
be
32:03
um we wanted to be a love letter to La
32:05
there's a lot of West Coast there's some
32:07
MCA in there said some Nipsey some some
32:11
poxies we wanted to be that in a way
32:14
that we feel I feel like I hadn't really
32:15
seen before
32:17
um and I think it was for me a really
32:19
good preparation for if I'm gonna do
32:21
this I'm only going to direct stuff I
32:23
write and I want to make sure that and
32:25
that's the reason I got into before
32:26
because I've written a lot of movies
32:29
and sometimes I'm look I'm like that's
32:31
not the way I saw the movie yeah but you
32:33
can't complain because you didn't do it
32:34
so I'm like you know what less is more
32:36
I'm not gonna you know put my I'm not
32:38
vouching for nobody I'm like from now on
32:41
it's gonna be the stuff I do or or
32:43
people that I really trust that put my
32:45
you know put stuff on I feel like I
32:47
really want to make sure like at this
32:49
point you get an opportunity like I look
32:51
at Ryan coogler I was going to say Ryan
32:53
coogler Ryan is on Scorsese level yeah
32:56
because he you know especially with this
32:58
new move you know he put himself in a
33:00
situation he hasn't missed him saying
33:03
everything from Fruitvale to
33:06
you know um black panther black panther
33:09
to Judas Judas which you produce oh yeah
33:12
like he has been what he does he takes
33:15
his time he's a genius and I'm saying
33:18
I'm like I I wanna I wanna hopefully be
33:21
in that category where I can say like
33:22
the stuff that I've done
33:24
I'm standing behind it whether it works
33:26
not but I'm gonna say like I'll put
33:27
myself into it so I feel like that's
33:29
what Ryan's the less is more guy and it
33:31
shows in his words it shows can you
33:33
embarrass man I think it shows in your
33:34
work I can't wait to see the verses with
33:37
Spike Lee and Kenya Varys that would be
33:39
really interesting can't wait to see
33:41
that one and and I want to say sam J is
33:44
a star shout out to Sam Jay she and
33:46
she's the thread in the whole movie
33:48
Superstar you know who else is in there
33:51
um Dion we had to cut so much Dion Dion
33:54
cold everybody on set every day he came
33:58
Julia Eddie Herbert was like like he was
34:01
he's like the dude who comes to the
34:02
wreck run and puts up a hundred yeah
34:04
you're saying and like he's a special
34:06
guy but Travis who plays young Taco who
34:09
plays for his stuff he is another Super
34:11
hilarious and Mike Epps whenever you get
34:14
I love seeing Mike Epps and Eddie Murphy
34:17
and scenes together
34:19
[Music]
34:21
okay okay can y'all know you gotta go
34:24
man but thank you we love you brother
34:25
great job all right all right every time
34:28
man you people it's um it's in theaters
34:32
this week Premiere it uh and it's on
34:34
it's on Netflix
34:36
oh yes yeah in theaters this week for
34:39
one week for one week and then on
34:41
Netflix starting next Friday you got it
34:44
you did it again bro congratulations
#Arts & Entertainment