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Luenell Takes on Netflix and Las Vegas with "Town Business" and "Fresh Out of Favors" Tours
Oct 10, 2023
It’s impossible to miss Luenell, with her signature platinum-colored hair, bold fashion choices, and bold personality. She’s been gracing the comedy scene for over two decades, but lately, she’s been making a name for herself on Netflix and in Las Vegas. In a recent appearance on Sway In The Morning, Luenell talked about her new comedy special "CHAPPELLE’S HOME TEAM - LUENELL: TOWN BUSINESS," which has been earning rave reviews on the streaming platform. She’s also gearing up for her "Fresh Out of Favors" tour and her residency in Las Vegas, proving that she’s not slowing down anytime soon.
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Luenell Takes on Netflix and Las Vegas with "Town Business" and "Fresh Out of Favors" Tours
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something let me tell you
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something talk to us who we got in the
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room today our
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family who we got in the room today
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ladies and gentlemen our homie let me
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tell you something
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Oakland I promise you Oakland on
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everything I love I'mma put my whole
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heart on the plate right now if you are
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in the Bay Area if you are in Northern
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California and when you talk about this
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industry of entertainment
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and you talk about how this industry
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economically empowered so many people so
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many people got rich off of it so many
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kids have gone to college so many
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Executives have sored and accelerated
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and profited from it um but not
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everybody who's done that has done the
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Justice that's deserved to the place
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from whence they came and I tell you
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this right now Oakland we talk about a
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lot of iconic figures in Oakland whether
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it's the Golden State Warriors the the
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Raiders or the San Francisco 49ers or
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Felix Mitchell or Uber or Facebook or
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whatever Silicon Valley Sheila E Sheila
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E right come on she is from Oakland Tony
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Tony Tony Oak MC Hammer Pointer Sisters
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okay edn Hawkins singers poter sisters
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Tower Power come on Carlos
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Santana sling the Family Stone oh Grand
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Central Station uh did you say the sled
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what wait who who did you say poter
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sister Pointer Sisters okay Pointer
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Sisters yeah you know to be rapping
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Forte rapping Forte FY sort of Sway and
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King Tech you better say that an enti
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okay Soul beat yeah soul beat Chu
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Johnson That's right The Bird Cage The
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Bird Cage JY Locker Cross winds uh uh uh
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uh uh Mr G Screaming Eagle come on come
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on yo
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damn uh uh that said cross Jeff The
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Thorn and
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thistle right there like dominoes right
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now Mr
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Fab you ain't got nothing Mr F the
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Scottish Right
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Center um the Oakland uh Oakland not uh
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the Oakland
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Auditorium you know we used to do
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give the count the
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Martinique the OM
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um the Safari room ever and Jones that's
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a restaurant slash entertainment but
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it's iconic though it is it's iconic it
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counts uh it counts uh what's the one
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yoshies
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Yosi which you know you can go back
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to like banss that was Berkeley signs
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yeah wow signs uhhuh wow the oh wait
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minut the what was that other one the um
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uh The Bird Cage The Bird Cage so the
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bird cage was owned by my family oh no
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yeah the Wesley Family no but I used to
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do the bird cage and they used to have
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spaghetti dinners in the back yeah man
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you get spaghetti and potato salad some
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drinks and some comedy and stuff potato
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salad drinks and comedy and spaghetti
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you are an institution in itself to
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Northern California you are a icon
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walking you are a goat you have upheld
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the realness and the tress and the
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transparency in which we are made from
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you are in all of our DN and you
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witnessed it all all of us lenel I used
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to call in the soulbeat and talk to you
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live on TV on the cable network you have
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been in the DNA the soundtrack of any
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success that we have seen in recent
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decades that have come out of Northern
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California and I want to say
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congratulations to my sister I'm proud
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of her she's one of the funniest people
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in the business and have consistently
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been there for years she has her new
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show Chappelle's home team lenel Town
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business is
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[Applause]
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here to business yes and the reason
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people say how come you so cool with
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Dave Chappelle number one is Dave Chael
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is just a cool ass dude totally number
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two is Dave Chappelle spent a lot of
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time in Northern California in the '90s
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yes and we received him just just like
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cat just like Cat Williams yes the other
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goat exactly the first goat to put me on
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yes because nobody in the business
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nobody nobody no matter how much you
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love them no matter how much you support
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them nobody ever took me on tour butat
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Williams not one comedian not one and he
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took me twice 15 years apart how how did
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y'all meet Lyell you and Cat in Oakland
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wow in Oakland just fighting around and
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then um in La he went to LA I went to LA
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Mark Curry had already went to LA Laura
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Hayes had already went to LA it was it
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was time you know you either going to
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stay in the circle and just keep doing
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Jeff and you know jimmies and Jeff and
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jimmies and vinen and da just keep doing
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that or you got to go you know at some
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point depending on what you want some
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people don't want International world
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domination Fame like me
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yeah some of them just want to be the
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hood classic and that's fine yeah yeah
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yeah but not me not you is this your
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time is this out of your entire career
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how would you describe this moment well
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I would say that this is as much time as
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as I could have hoped for of course you
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know when I was on tour with cat it
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wasn't my choice was his you know when I
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was doing shows with day before they
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weren't my shows they were his I've done
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specials with Snoop bad girls of Comedy
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I've done funny women of a certain age
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I've done things out in Canada just for
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left but they weren't about me yes those
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trucks weren't set up for me they were
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set up for something else and I just
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happened to be there collateral damage
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but for Chappelle to put more than just
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a standup special this is a whole ass
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Love Letter you know from the beginning
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if you've seen it from the beginning
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with the airport visuals then the
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special which reinforces the airport
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visuals and then the love letter at the
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end cuz you know some people uh are film
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Buffs and they'll freeze it and read I
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wrote a thank yous I wrote thank yous
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just like on an album cover thank you to
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this person that Ander the town and
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everything like that and then with the
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retrospective photos that are there
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during the credits and and the top it
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off we're going to have Oakland we have
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Oakland goap singing at the end
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[Music]
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of my sister right there just send me me
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candles you get the
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candles you got the goate candles come
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on
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man go candles shout out to nanii her
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brother who's out there making things
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happen we going to be doing some events
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in Oakland yeah uh really soon
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absolutely done I've done done enough
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events in Oakland cuz you know I come
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from the old D comedy in a Royal Park a
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royal park on a table I did I did comedy
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at at Nolan Park on a pic noan Park did
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you go to the zoo after I went to a
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little pis poo Zoo
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yes all our animals was tied wo out on
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their last leg old bald ass lions and
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[ __ ] bald ass l no I'm you know come on
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Nolan Park was you know Oakland Zoo
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struggle struggle Zoo
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them animals are safer in that Zoo than
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they are outside the cages that is for
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sure yeah we we you know Oakland is such
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an amazing place it's magical that's why
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so many people from all you name Dave
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Chappelle to Cat Williams to Drake
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everybody has come to Oakland and become
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prince prince prince got a lot of his
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people from Oakland Prince got Rosie
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games from Oakland Prince got Bonnie
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Boyer from Oakland Prince got Sheil eeve
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from Oakland he had a club in Oakland on
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Grand Glam slam I remember that yeah it
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was by the grand [ __ ] with Oakland by
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the Grand Lake Theater yes yes yes it
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was I didn't know that yeah Prince [ __ ]
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with o heart Lenell was there I mean you
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know look did you did you
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wow Michael as well though that's
8:48
perfect you got a tattoo of Prince
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symbol Prince symbol tattoo on my right
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microphone hand but I felt bad because
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you know everybody prince prince prince
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but let's not forget about Mike Michael
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right so I felt you know all you when we
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was growing up it was always pick one
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Prince Michael Prince Michael Prince
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whose team are you on I'm on both a team
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so I got bad right here on my left hand
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from when she did the bad Alum oh [ __ ]
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need some love damn okay get L some
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banana on my hand or something what
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happened to the wine [ __ ] okay okay here
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we go so so s in honor I I've asked our
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friend ingred um best ingred best is a
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my sister but friend uh colleague the
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whole n we worked together in the 90s we
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had a promotion company called
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StreetWise okay and so that's how come
9:35
in the 90s when you start like around 92
9:38
93 and then mid 90s you start seeing all
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the rap groups wuang Clan Black Sheep
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all these different people Brand Nubian
9:45
Naughty by Nature who else Big Pun who
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else we were working we uh Lil Kim
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biggie Craig Mac all all these total
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mace these were all the people we worked
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their to make sure they made an impact
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in the bay so we could bring more
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economy to the Bay more events in the
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Bay and that was my partner King Tech me
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and and ingred Krystal ad who was my
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partner in it ingred has gone on to
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start her own wine company yes Oakland
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hear me out right it's called iass wines
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I told ing Lenell was coming she said
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can I give her a bottle I said you might
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have to give her a crate ingred this is
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all right so angry you got a bottle for
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yes I do and I want you to try the wine
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you mentioned that you like red wine yes
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but what else did I say you said I don't
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like dry and I like shiras and I said
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you know what our red blend is cab
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shiras petite sarra and malb back right
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okay I'm probably going to pass out
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because I haven't eaten and I'm
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extremely exhausted but I'm going to
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take one I'm take one for the team you
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go you in the safe
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place and is liquid grape so it's kind
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of like eating sort of like breakfast
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huh fruit and I got a banana yeah for
11:03
some potassium after
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not listen Cheers Cheers I got
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some I love you give it up for this is
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to this is to amazing career consistency
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keep going lenel is here tenacity with a
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tenacity come on
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resilience from Think Like a Man to to
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Dolomite is my name A Star is Born
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spring breakdown All About Steve taking
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to Coming to America all the things
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she's done let's salute and celebrate
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lenel right now Bay are is on Oakland's
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on you know come on we going to come
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back open these phone lines let's get
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let's open the phone line hey citizens
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call up 888 742 3345 way in the morning
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sexiest comedian on stage the sexiest
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comedian on stage there's a lot of sexy
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comedians on stage ten y but not one of
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them is sexier more empowered than the
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one we have today say it again not one
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comedian is sexier or more empowered
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than the one we have today I can hear
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one more time not one other comedian is
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sexier or more empowered than the one we
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have here today nail is here if they
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were maybe oh man how many to have a
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residency in Vegas M we have discovered
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how impactful and huge that is I'm the
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only black woman with a comedy residency
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in Las Vegas n the only not the first
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I'm not the first but I'm the only one
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there now currently she's the only black
12:43
woman you can go to Los Vegas I can't
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and see doing comedy in a residency
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that's right in the world Jimmy Kim
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Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club every Sunday
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Monday night 9:30 p.m. behind the link
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under the big ferris wheel ooh
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I like how you said that that's my 976
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voice what's what's some of the what's
13:03
some of the like people wouldn't believe
13:05
what you've had to endure over the years
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please come on okay let's
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see I um am the eigh of eight children
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uhhuh I'm the eighth of eight so that
13:18
means she didn't eat no I ate well cuz I
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wasn't raised with
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them wow get out
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L
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unfortunately but I was I was raised in
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in the Bay Area my brothers and sisters
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was back in Arkansas girl me disana and
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um then I uh uh have 17 nieces and
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nephews wow um my sister was murdered my
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father was
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murdered um I lived in the car I had a
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crazy Las Vegas marriage I was
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incarcerated with my daughter was a baby
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for a bank robbery I set it off wow
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you drove the car you pulled the gun
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what you do I didn't do nether I put the
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money in my bra and walk out the
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[ __ ] D let's go town
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business that's the bro that's how you
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do it no no accomplice to snitch on me
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so how you got caught oh well the amount
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of money that I took was a felony was
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over
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$50,000 and this was years and years ago
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felonies never go away yeah only Mr me
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go away had a felony been able to go
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away after the statute limitation 10
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years I'd have got away with but because
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it didn't go away way when I you know I
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I I confess after several Audits and
14:45
then I was able and I was able to uh get
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out on my own Recon and they said when
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you come back to jail we going to send
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you I was like all right pum I went back
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to Oakland Town business business and uh
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when I was doing comedy there I was
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always nervous cuz my name was in the
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paper and all this [ __ ] but what
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happened was I had my baby and I applied
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uh as an Oakland uh unread mother would
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do I applied for uh Aid at my social
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security number
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cross it's it's her [ __ ] fault over
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there her daughter here say hi to your
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daugh tell them your daughter's my
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daughter
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Janelle Janelle gorgeous I'm try to Y
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how big that bra was get 50 racks in it
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in
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your yeah I did cuz I worked at the bank
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so it's
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EMZ but it's still bank robbery
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whichever it sound more thuggish to say
15:42
bank robber robbery yeah you sound hard
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look the the the the time was the same
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whe whe the [ __ ] you call it
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embezzlement or Bank Robie or set it up
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whatever [ __ ] you call it twin tow
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Correctional [ __ ] facility for
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women godamn it 53
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63020 it's not my my [ __ ]
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booking number you gotam right
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on because it's ingrained in my [ __ ]
16:03
head that's why how long you did Lun um
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a mere four months and 18 days but for a
16:10
[ __ ] you never been incarcerated that's
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really you know 24 hours is is a long
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time did you develop any friendships um
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I did and that was then and I don't [ __ ]
16:19
with them [ __ ] now but they did help a
16:22
[ __ ] out comedy special alert I don't
16:25
[ __ ] with them [ __ ] I [ __ ] with them
16:26
[ __ ] now no I was actually very
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popular because I have a degree in
16:32
English Lit okay a lot of the girls I
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was in jail with was you know illiterate
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they needed to write letters to the
16:38
judge I would do that for commentary
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that's good my hustle [ __ ] I know how
16:43
to make a whole ass Christmas card with
16:47
color you got to take the M&M's and you
16:50
got to let them sit in little bits of
16:52
water and then the color comes off into
16:55
the water then you can paint with that
16:57
that is innovative
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jail [ __ ]
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jail sh jail [ __ ] only get four months
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for 50
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racks I'm a bad [ __ ] I was supposed to
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go to the penitentiary but because I
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only had one uh I didn't have no prior
17:14
PRI they they didn't send to me what did
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you need the money for I didn't need it
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I just took it all right let's let's get
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out of jail she's free all right she's
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free now thank you going to make me
17:25
trade this banana for some uh some cor
17:29
chip get my hair
17:32
braided okay so I'm curious to when when
17:35
I see you on giant stages I see you open
17:37
up for cat I see you on the road with
17:40
with Dave Chappelle I see you on these
17:41
movie screens I smile because to know
17:45
how far I remember see sway sway knows
17:48
the whole
17:50
entire story and only people from
17:52
Oakland Dew yeah yeah the people I did
17:55
start my first uh set I ever did was in
17:58
Long Beach and I met Robin Harris the
18:00
very first night I ever did comedy I
18:03
still have his business card at home wow
18:06
and it's laminated now and um and I
18:08
don't have to dig it out I know right
18:10
where it is you know and went and um
18:13
from there you know met young DL and all
18:14
that kind of stuff but sway knows every
18:19
street I've walked every bus I've how
18:22
about that 82
18:25
l282 but that L don't make his many St
18:28
[ __ ] limited you can get from
18:31
[ __ ] the suburbs and H San downtown
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minut
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[Music]
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yeah22 did the 82 L go on the freeway
18:39
did it go no the 82 L went all the way
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from like Hayward to downtown on on on
18:47
International and then the 40 went down
18:50
foothill where soby used to be when it
18:52
was in the little apartment before it
18:55
moved over by East M and [ __ ] the 70
18:58
three went down no the 70 went down 73rd
19:03
to the airport and [ __ ] like that and
19:06
what was the uh Malibu Grand Prix
19:08
remember that over there off the 80 by
19:10
the by the to the yeah by the col Malibu
19:13
Grand Prix wow I think J might have went
19:15
to that Malibu Grand Prix I'm not sure
19:17
so what what do you
19:19
consider like when I sat with the
19:22
president in the White House live on TV
19:26
B that you heard me that was we from the
19:30
town Town business right gangsters in
19:32
the building gangsters in the White
19:33
House [ __ ] around let a real one in
19:35
let a real one in let a real one in let
19:38
a real one in come on and made him real
19:40
yeah they have to okay that was a
19:43
milestone for me yes what do you
19:44
consider a milestone for you in your
19:46
career oh this moment right now this
19:49
moment in time where I can come to New
19:51
York and I have a billboard in Time
19:53
Square on man wow that's beautiful
19:57
congratulations not only that but I got
20:01
a billboard on Las Vegas Boulevard what
20:04
wow I have a billboard I have a
20:06
billboard on Sunset Boulevard come on
20:09
come on and I have several in Oakland
20:12
right now by the bay brid come on and at
20:16
the 12 Street Bar
20:18
Station Street and some of them charging
20:21
stations from you electric car driving
20:24
[ __ ] no but for my daughter saw
20:27
the Lost my daughter saw the Time Square
20:30
billboard before I did cuz she got here
20:32
a day before me she met with me I did
20:35
you know some other press I I did Sherry
20:37
Shepherd I did Good Morning America Good
20:39
Day New York do I smell weed I hope so
20:42
anyway and so um I'm flashback damn you
20:45
all right not really a weed flash girl
20:48
got me drinking this wine for breakfast
20:49
I'm like where the weed at
20:51
[ __ ] just sense memory thing I'm sorry
20:54
you all right yeah muscle memory muscle
20:56
mem muscle memory muscle memory but for
20:58
my daughter to come to New York and
21:01
she's a dancer and she danced under my
21:04
billboard you know I'm [ __ ] up Nowell
21:06
you did that beautiful I'll show it to
21:09
you I not so bad
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I
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wow it don't get no better than that
21:15
I've had some great moments and stuff
21:17
like that but you know I do it all for
21:19
her anyway what else am I going to do I
21:21
only got one kid well you thank God one
21:23
one kid one baby daddy [ __ ] that's
21:25
how
21:27
you think is is is um I think we've been
21:31
taught wrong incorrectly on how we
21:35
receive time and and how we correlate
21:38
time with success right and people
21:40
believe you got to experience all your
21:42
success early on or this this clock
21:45
that's running and it's going to run out
21:46
and you're you're going to hit a you're
21:48
going to hit a plateau where you reach a
21:50
certain age and then you can't make more
21:52
money or have more success I was told at
21:54
40 that that's when it starts to decline
21:57
h I made more money speak on it wow I've
22:02
had more
22:03
success after after 40 than I ever did I
22:07
had stress and strain but that was a
22:09
part of the the grind yeah you know my
22:12
my kid is going through it now being a
22:14
dancer you know being dark skinned girl
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and you know and everybody's on this
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exotic [ __ ] tip and all this type of
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stuff and you know and and and and just
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with him not being uh not being um
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continuous you know what I'm saying you
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work and then you don't work and then
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you have money then you don't have no
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money and I'm like yeah I I've been
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there I know what you're going through
22:37
what she has that I didn't have is a
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supportive and financially stable mother
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who was able to pay for her to go to San
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Diego State flat out okay she don't have
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she don't have no uh student loan de
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stent loan debt and you know I had an
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extra apartment laying around so she
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Zing she don't payent she she she pays
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what she
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can you know what when she
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can yeah that's a good life that's a
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soft life the girl myter get in the
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camera my daughter's on this celebrity
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kid [ __ ] she's like Mom I'm a celebrity
23:18
kid I'm like [ __ ] who the celebrity
23:21
come on it right there we need you to be
23:24
on the mic my daughter's on the
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[ __ ] mic where I want go go on
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D I need another shot please let me get
23:32
denell on the camera I ain't playing
23:34
yeah who consist wait turn her mic on T
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she she she's she's doing okay L ladies
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and gentlemen in the listening
23:41
audience sway did you know me when I was
23:43
pregnant oh no
23:45
anyway thought it was me when you were I
23:47
was going to say we might need to run a
23:48
little DNA she kind of look like me no
23:50
she don't she look like a daddy okay hea
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hether squeeze squeeze the
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bottle squeeze the bottle squee the you
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got her tied Dell that's my daughter
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welcome to the
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show let me say this oh my God I know a
24:09
lot of artists sit and look at these
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interviews in the Leisure when you see
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this young lady you see denelle and
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you're looking for choreography you're
24:17
looking for somebody who has a great
24:19
image you're looking for someone to coar
24:22
with you in your vide yeah specifically
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Usher
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jonce Drake I'm trying to I'm trying to
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be hey hey Drake does
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Drake got a channel here right here
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works here hey Drake hi it's me
24:38
lunel I really would like to meet you I
24:41
come to Canada sometime because I do the
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J for last Comedy Festival I know you
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like to laugh Drake I can make you laugh
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all night long so if you ever want want
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to sit around and share a very expensive
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bottle of wine and um talk about life
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and have a few Chuckles I'm down and in
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the meantime give my daughter a job so I
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can get this [ __ ] out the
25:04
goddamn St wait minut what you
25:08
Happ I think we should I for T [ __ ] I do
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something for Drake
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they we got the bottle of wine right
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there and I think we should invite L to
25:19
Sway in the Morning laughs lyrics and
25:20
flows oh yeah we going to do a broadcast
25:23
next year where we going to have um um
25:26
MC's in we do a we would do a annual
25:29
comedy search at Carolines and a lot of
25:31
great no more Carolines and no more
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Carolines salute to them ain't it
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happened to the white folks the white
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folks yeah the white folks that on
25:39
killing what happened they didn't want
25:40
to keep paying that bill well I know
25:42
that I know that rent was probably
25:44
$75,000 of goddamn MTH more than that
25:46
probably more the time squar I know I
25:49
know like it was Heavy How long can you
25:52
keep it up yeah and you know not every
25:55
comedian is lunell what they should have
25:57
had did
25:58
give me a residency in New York as well
26:02
I could have done like you know
26:04
Wednesday Thursday and um you know I'm
26:07
sure the people would have came to see
26:09
me not saying not saying I would have
26:11
saved the club but this is New York and
26:14
one thing e East South Coast everybody
26:18
don't you might be the [ __ ] where you
26:21
are okay but when you come to New York
26:24
you better bring your [ __ ] EG
26:26
gang cuz these [ __ ] ain't playing one
26:28
of the one of the goals for every comic
26:31
I think is to crack New York especially
26:33
if you're not from New York cuz they got
26:36
their clickish and stuff too but you got
26:38
to be a bad [ __ ] cuz New York
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gives a [ __ ] they give a [ __ ] [ __ ] I
26:42
don't care about your little Comic View
26:43
Credit [ __ ] what you you know what I
26:46
mean it ain't just the Apollo right you
26:49
[ __ ] get down but I've never
26:52
I've never I only have one bad
26:54
experience doing comedy in New York and
26:56
that's because rip Michaels always be
26:57
putting 15 [ __ ] on the goddamn
26:59
show and one night I was number like 15
27:03
and we was in the Bronx and it was about
27:06
2:30 in the morning everybody tired and
27:09
[ __ ] they're like [ __ ] we don't want to
27:10
hear what you got to say I'm like me
27:12
neither let's go thank you and good
27:14
night Len Town business what about
27:17
overseas though I'm curious to because
27:19
you know comedy is about Nuance
27:21
sometimes it's regional what about
27:23
overseas how who was your best market
27:25
and your worst Market well first of all
27:28
I have performed a lot overseas yeah
27:30
I've been to Qatar New Year's Eve
27:34
okay on New Year's Eve New Year's Eve I
27:37
did qar I've done Korea and Japan now uh
27:42
here's the thing the special believe it
27:45
or not is going to be translated into 50
27:47
different languages wow you didn't
27:50
mention that you one it's going to be
27:53
distributed in 125 countries hey wait
27:56
hold up Oakland Oakland whatever you
27:59
celebrating you need to be celebrating
28:01
Lenell that's right she's opening so
28:03
many doors for Oakland and Northern
28:05
California especially in comedy but not
28:08
just comedy okay it's entertainment
28:11
across the board does she have a lunel
28:13
day in Oakland not do you have a LEL
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there no let me tell you about that but
28:16
let me just finish one thing about
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overseas the best audience I've had
28:20
overseas was all military okay anything
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milary military anything military is the
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best best best they have to see anybody
28:29
all they happy to see a [ __ ] with some
28:30
perfume on I'll be like I throw these
28:33
titties up in that ass and a yeah I know
28:37
I'll be putting on enough perfume to gag
28:39
a
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maggot wait what I I smell like a stray
28:44
ho and they love
28:46
it get out shout out to the Army and the
28:50
Navy and the Air Force and the Marines
28:53
and the Coast
28:54
Guard so we need a lunell day in Oakland
28:57
you do but here's the deal let me tell
28:59
you how Oakland have [ __ ] me so many
29:01
times so remember we used to have a
29:03
Christmas parade yeah and I used to
29:05
always ride the city council say can I
29:07
ride in the Christmas parade they was
29:09
like no [ __ ] and guess what now they
29:11
don't even have a Christmas parade no
29:12
more well that's cuz they don't have a a
29:14
draw well they could Santa was the
29:16
[ __ ] draw Hello you know they
29:19
don't I just want to sit on Santa's lap
29:20
get a few presents know damn all
29:24
right that was sexy you got some calls
29:27
real quick I know yes yes John is in
29:29
Cleveland John man hey
29:32
John hey what's up I am a
29:36
Ambassador 45 I got that you know a
29:39
couple years ago sway what's up
29:43
everybodyy hey when you was in Cleveland
29:46
I I took that picture of us and I posted
29:50
and I got like a [ __ ] two or three
29:52
thousand likes and Lov about that [ __ ]
29:55
and you know and I was the one that was
29:56
kind of talking [ __ ] we went back and
29:58
forth but I I ain't say nothing bad cuz
30:00
I us to turn my ass up that part at the
30:02
end of the day you know I enjoy you know
30:05
I enjoy you I love you and every time
30:07
you come I'm always there and uh [ __ ] I
30:10
[ __ ] I'm playing on in Vegas at the
30:12
end of the month and I'mma come [ __ ]
30:14
with you for real that's that's awesome
30:15
everybody I know from Cleveland's a
30:17
gangster yeah truly I love Cleveland up
30:22
D let me ask let me ask my daughter
30:24
something before we taking call so
30:27
Janelle how has this experience you know
30:29
you've been seeing mommy I've been
30:31
around and I've been around not around
30:33
not around everybody's used to Daddy
30:35
being on the road being in the military
30:36
going working that when mommy's not
30:39
there to like tuck you in and mommy's
30:41
not there to check your temperature and
30:43
stuff like that has been difficult but
30:45
now with the Advent of the the new house
30:50
and hell and
30:53
yeah how does this make you feel right
30:55
now baby because I do it all for you
30:57
baby I know um it feels unreal and like
31:00
I keep telling everybody it's just the
31:02
best inspiring story I could have a lot
31:05
of people look up to other people I
31:07
really can just look at my mom and that
31:10
is enough that is the inspiration that's
31:13
what I want to do that's what I want to
31:15
look that camera right here look at that
31:17
camera which one this one this one right
31:19
there no that's what I want to do that's
31:22
how I want to live that's how I want to
31:23
carry myself so really it's just
31:24
inspiring I think as as kids we don't
31:27
get it um I'm 27 now so I kind of
31:30
understand a little bit more uh what
31:32
sacrifice means um what what putting
31:35
yourself um putting your kids first
31:37
means like you know I when Mom's not
31:39
there to tuck me in I'm like how dare
31:41
you but now that I'm older I'm like
31:44
thanks for the car thank you so much
31:46
thanks for the car by the way um you
31:49
call your people like Gucci real quick
31:51
I'm thinking about falling through you
31:53
know let's lose let's use these connects
31:55
oh dve who's the jet leaving
31:58
a jet Le yeah no no no da Dave summonsed
32:01
me to come to Yellow Springs and I knew
32:04
that I was going to be able to get on on
32:06
the jet so I could bring a plus one so
32:09
ain't no [ __ ] worthy right now so then
32:11
so I said I'll bring my daughter my
32:14
daughter didn't give a [ __ ] about Dave
32:16
Chappelle my daughter didn't give a [ __ ]
32:18
about me but my daughter gave a [ __ ]
32:20
about selfie selfie J live J jet live #
32:26
J got up in here honey go through
32:30
security that is amazing the Nail's Off
32:32
the Chain by the way I but it's
32:34
beautiful phenomenal dancers absolutely
32:36
phenomenal phenomenal congratulations
32:38
that's incredible give denell a round of
32:40
applause my baby you know y'all follow
32:43
her D what's your social hash um i d a n
32:48
e l l e d o e e it's Dano it's D on Tik
32:53
Tok and on Instagram okay no Twitter
32:56
lenel what's what's next
32:58
well of course they're already frothing
33:01
at the mouth for another special okay
33:03
and this one would be an hour I'm sure I
33:06
might produce it myself so I'm starting
33:09
to work on a new show you know I think I
33:11
might have to do part two to airplane
33:14
[ __ ] because some more [ __ ] happened the
33:16
other day I think I might have to do
33:18
part two you know cuz these folks is
33:20
still acting up and um I of course do
33:25
have the desire to the next black female
33:28
in late night TV I think it's time yes
33:31
it's time the time has been done
33:35
come diversity in late night cuz late
33:38
night look just like the damn sended old
33:40
white man after old white man after old
33:42
white you know what I mean I work for
33:46
one it's not that oh hi Jimmy I'm just
33:48
saying Kim yeah hi Jimmy but everybody I
33:52
mean you know it's it's time to get some
33:55
some they've had sisters in late night
33:57
before I just don't feel like they have
33:58
the right one to click into late night I
34:01
am late night all ever since you've
34:03
known me all I did was work at night you
34:06
know comedy don't sometime it's in the
34:08
day you know if you're doing old rest
34:10
home or some [ __ ] like that yeah but in
34:12
the it's mostly night time my My Life
34:14
Starts after 6 and so I want to do like
34:18
Jimmy kimel's got a sweet sweet sweet
34:20
sweet spot like I think jimy Co yeah I
34:23
just filmed with him I just did Jimmy
34:25
Kim on Tuesday right m yeah good guy
34:28
yeah he's a good he's a good guy he's
34:30
like Adam Sandy you know he one of them
34:32
white guys who care yeah all right not a
34:36
lot of them real that rare you got two
34:40
unicorns right there yeah he gives a
34:41
[ __ ] they give a [ __ ] yeah man lenel
34:44
we're proud of you give it a round of
34:46
applause for lenel come on man come on
34:50
make sure you watch her
34:53
special bu business I'm watching it
34:56
entirely this weekend and I'm going text
34:58
you could please do it's only 33 minutes
35:00
[ __ ] don't
35:01
act and then and then um you can you can
35:05
follow me on Instagram no don't say
35:08
follow I'm trying to get rid of three
35:09
[ __ ] now you can write me on Instagram
35:13
on my DM at lunel at l n l l now I may
35:19
not get back to you as quick as before
35:21
because since the special of course my
35:24
DM is filled the [ __ ] up like you can
35:26
dick filled the [ __ ] up so I tried to
35:29
answer people personally but I think I'm
35:31
coming to a time where I'm not going to
35:32
be able to do that anymore okay I like
35:34
the Nail's not handling does theil work
35:36
or she just I work for her okay you in
35:39
between my dance jobs um in between that
35:41
the strike kind of slowed that excuse me
35:43
she's on Pro she just this was an
35:46
audition to work for me no I'm on the
35:48
payroll now oh my God officially I love
35:51
a child that understands what it is yeah
35:53
the strike about the lift too the strike
35:55
is about the lift get it she ain't
35:57
leaving
35:58
you she gets it well there's nobody
36:01
better than
36:04
her care
36:06
about you could trust I that little
36:08
glass of wine I think I'm drunk good we
36:11
celebrate congratulations all that You'
36:13
done I love you too tell you
36:17
tell [ __ ] unle let him know MC
36:22
Hammer I don't feel he
36:25
Hawkins
36:27
here we go here we go yall be Wilding
36:32
pimps yeah for show look the W Brothers
36:36
The W Brothers the mo Brothers oh Mickey
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[Music]
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Mor Oak natives out of here the
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[Applause]
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[ __ ] I think that's
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it on the [ __ ] on the [ __ ] La face
36:58
with Oakland
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booty we want to thank ingred best for
37:02
coming by I best wines make sure you
37:04
follow we appreciate you we'll be back
37:07
Monday God willing shout out to Heather
37:10
hea be Heather be let me tell you
37:11
something he and I I listen to this
37:13
[ __ ] in the I got one car that
37:16
stays on series and one car that is you
37:19
know a.m. okay and um he I just want to
37:23
say shout out to you that you have been
37:25
a strong black woman holding her down
37:27
for many years I'm at real sway across
37:30
the board get her out it's Tracy G
37:34
Lonnie light I'm at the happy hour whb
37:37
I'm leaving I'm about to go I'm about to
37:40
go to HB live follow me in channel 126
37:43
I'm about to go get it in for no
37:45
judgment Friday no judgment oh I didn't
37:48
get the
37:49
message we going to in with Drake and
37:51
jcole Drake call me call me baby okay we
37:55
going to put that message out there so
37:57
to see it okay L proud of you you're
37:59
amazing keep going and we only at half
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[Music]
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time
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