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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
1:45 - Dana Garrett Interview
7:48 - D'Angelo Discussion
12:35 - Luenell Apollo Theater Performance
16:17 - Truth and Freedom in Comedy
19:42 - Luenell on Rap Beefs
22:18 - The Revolution & Michael Jackson
24:38 - Diamonds Symbolism
25:40 - Managing Nerves
28:18 - Embracing Vulnerability
29:12 - Staying Grounded in Fame
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that she said that you got to be
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something
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special you got to be resilient you got
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to offer something that the world ain't
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seen sometimes to make it in New York
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they say if you can make it here you can
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make it
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anywhere I've been living here for 24
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years what does that tell you yo that
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ain't a place on the planet I can't go
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Tracy G that's you got to understand why
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that is s
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DNA it's it's the genetics get to it
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it's the makeup
0:30
come on it's the formulaic makeup it's
0:32
the it's it's it's the it's the
0:34
adversity it's the one and not the two
0:37
it's the one and not the two and where I
0:39
got that from is a place where our next
0:42
guest is from come on she personifies it
0:45
when I tell you this ladies and
0:47
gentlemen tell them about it if you look
0:48
up the word resilience and success
0:51
excellence and marvelous all inone you
0:53
see her picture I guarantee you that she
0:55
been putting it down for decades man
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Dolomite is my name a star is born
0:59
spring breakdown All About Steve Think
1:01
Like a Man it Think Like a Man Too it
1:03
goes on and on and on facts it goes on
1:06
and on and on and we played that clip
1:09
she said when you come to New York you
1:12
got to be a bad [ __ ] period you
1:15
cannot do comedy in New York successful
1:18
unless you are that and ladies and
1:20
gentlemen we're celebrating all the way
1:22
from the city of Oakland Town business
1:25
Town B to Harlem New York yes she will
1:28
be headlining the most famous venue in
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Harlem the legendary the iconic the
1:34
Apollo Theater this Friday L will be
1:38
heading line in the Apollo
1:45
Theater nobody yeah they done [ __ ]
1:47
around let a real one in now
1:52
is I don't know
1:55
wow but you know I'm I'm beyond beyond
1:59
honor here the irony though right my
2:02
baby daddy is in the building I'm one of
2:04
those iconic black women who have a good
2:06
relationship with my baby daddy yes yes
2:09
he wants it he can't have it but anyway
2:10
he's over there come step in the camera
2:13
man can he be seen yes say say his name
2:16
L know his name ain't baby
2:18
daddy well the court papers you know
2:21
still okay his name is Dana Garrett Dana
2:25
what up brother how you doing stand up
2:27
man stand up man got the camera over
2:30
there put the camera on on man there you
2:32
go my beautiful daughter that was here
2:34
last
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time Bay Area baby come to now we got
2:38
the Y up in here okay down we got the
2:41
the library
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up man we got to salute that man oh my
2:45
God that's not even why I said that [ __ ]
2:48
we got to salute that man she don't want
2:50
me to get started no no no but let me
2:51
tell you why this is Iconic not just
2:54
because I get along with him when I met
2:57
him he was a comic before I was oh he
3:00
was a com he was touring with Bernie
3:02
Bernie Mack and he did the Apollo
3:04
already okay 40 [ __ ] years ago did
3:08
you when sbad was hosting wow did you do
3:11
the amateur you got to get them on the
3:13
camera okay come on I'm going talk to
3:14
him you got I'm going let you say
3:15
something is he on camera move it over
3:17
to Mike Mike move him over to move to
3:19
your right Janelle get this on Films
3:22
they
3:25
films move over to your right a little
3:27
more Michael there you go there you go
3:29
let's get them in the frame to the right
3:32
all right so like she said 40 years Go
3:34
Back 40 right Sinbad was the host okay
3:37
all right SB says what you want me to
3:38
say about you I said man I open up for p
3:41
Bell commodor surface blah blah blah
3:44
surface
3:46
surface we going back surface is that is
3:48
that don't disturb this group surface
3:51
surface so I say s back I said man just
3:54
don't say I'm from the town from Oaktown
3:57
at that time Hammer had changed game and
4:01
everybody on East Coast wouldn't
4:02
couldn't take anybody from the West
4:04
Coast or from Oaktown cuz we had the
4:06
game on lock yes okay yes so when I when
4:09
I when he introduced me he said all the
4:11
way from Oaktown here he is Danny
4:13
Garrett I walked out and they did not
4:17
like me from the jump they they booed
4:19
the whole time they didn't they didn't
4:21
boo they was trying to boo but they knew
4:22
I said y'all like my outfit they was
4:24
like n no
4:26
n that's where you got to get them first
4:29
with the out yeah so you know so that
4:31
didn't get him so then the Boxy Twins
4:34
they was up in the up in the balcony so
4:36
I started ripping on them then I was
4:38
like man I didn't want to talk about
4:39
nobody I didn't come to do that cuz I
4:40
got an act so time went by I stayed out
4:45
there the dude next to the camera said
4:47
wrap it up so then I knew I had got my
4:49
check cuz I was paid to be on there I
4:51
wasn't an am I was paid oh you were paid
4:53
comedian so when he said rap it I said
4:55
oh NBC they got my check I'm cool there
4:57
it is so so to point being
5:00
he haven't walked through the Apollo
5:01
doors in that long and that's why and so
5:04
I thought it would be amazing to bring
5:06
him
5:07
back not only that but this after after
5:11
Friday both my both of my daughter's
5:14
parents will have played the Apollo wow
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oh my
5:18
god wow so that's why we're here as a
5:20
family that's my niece over
5:23
there with the fly Shades we love it hey
5:27
your whole team look fly I got a e it's
5:30
a lunel thing what it's a lunel thing
5:33
yeah and so I just thought to this not
5:36
only that like you know I'm real big on
5:39
Legacy yeah so in the air probably if
5:44
not now within the hour I'll be flying
5:47
in the Apollo Legend Kiki
5:51
shepher that's fire [ __ ] Kik coming
5:54
to introduce me I said Kiki you got to
5:56
do
5:57
it I want you that's fire I'm staying in
6:01
town Friday bro it's going to be iconic
6:04
going come out in 12 your your own uh
6:08
Brooklyn's own AG white comedian AG
6:10
white is going to open for me he's from
6:12
Brooklyn he's a beast he's on the road
6:14
with me constantly and so this is just
6:18
going to be it's it's everything I could
6:20
ever dream of and I couldn't even have
6:22
dreamt it because I've been to the
6:23
Apollo I've been up in the dressing room
6:25
been a little theater I rubbed the log
6:26
rot my name and wide out on the wall
6:28
like everybody else uhhuh never thought
6:30
I'd be performing there though cuz you
6:33
think of the Apollo as a musical venue I
6:36
don't think of it as a me but you know
6:40
Live Nation and all they Infinite
6:42
Wisdom got a [ __ ] up in there arm R and
6:46
I will not disappoint I got a whole
6:50
mtown esque outfit it's you know if you
6:53
think these nails are sparkling way too
6:56
break out your eclipse glasses that's
6:57
all I can you going to be shining
7:05
Dana going to tell any jokes or he just
7:07
going hell no he going to sit his ass
7:09
down and watch his baby mama okay hey
7:13
Dana man good to meet you bro you got
7:15
town all over you man pleasure you from
7:17
the Town come on man you know you
7:19
watched it we we you know you brought it
7:22
Dana done D interview on serious boy his
7:24
dick is hard right now let me see that
7:26
thing it's been a while oh
7:30
his his daughter's right there what are
7:32
we doing she know how she got
7:35
here we get her started then we B going
7:38
back and forth no sit down [ __ ]
7:41
[Laughter]
7:44
okay crazy crazy yo I love it D'Angelo's
7:48
on the line man D'Angelo what's up man
7:51
he's from Maryland what's good what's
7:53
good fam it's the road warrior how y'all
7:55
doing what up family much love you know
7:58
I shout you out every night on
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oh you you know I'm tapped in hether I'm
8:02
tapped in baby I'm tapped
8:04
in but I want to give LEL a shout out
8:07
I'm a big fan and U I want to let you
8:09
know lenel we got a a common friend uh
8:12
uh Steph Shu Steph
8:15
Shu you
8:20
dyslexic you know what sh that's my Sho
8:24
the [ __ ]
8:25
said I'm sorry baby I just woke up I'm
8:28
on the road baby okay I forgive you I
8:30
got your back I knew who he was talking
8:32
about
8:34
yeah he's from um yeah I forgot he from
8:40
uh Baltimore yeah he's from Baltimore
8:43
yeah Baltimore yeah yeah that's my
8:44
that's my my parttime chef and my
8:46
partner for sure all right hey Chef St I
8:49
mean D'Angelo peace all right man come
8:51
come come come to Apollo Friday I need
8:53
to send a couple of shouts out though I
8:55
need 50 to come to my
8:57
show yeah because uh FY loves comedy
9:01
yeah and he's been to see like when I
9:03
was on tour with CAD he's been to see me
9:05
on Valentine Day when I did showed Bill
9:07
Bell me and some other people he put me
9:09
in ghost book too that's
9:12
right is my lowkey friend FY okay if you
9:16
within the sound of my voice baby I'm
9:18
going need you to show up at the Apollo
9:19
on Friday if anybody knows him tell them
9:22
lunell is putting the word out also I
9:25
just did another interview I sent a
9:26
shout out to my rough riters in honor of
9:29
Darkman X if you out there and you're a
9:32
Rough
9:34
Rider pull up on Friday the hell was
9:38
that that was do motorcycle that was my
9:46
motorcycle sound like Scooby language
9:48
right there man okay well whatever I'm
9:50
not a real motorcycle that was pretty
9:53
good though I the Riders know what I'm
9:55
talking about they know they know you
9:56
still doing the Jimmy Kemo Club um in
9:59
Vegas remains every Sunday and Monday at
10:01
9:30
10:03
p.m. every Sunday and Monday I'm the
10:06
only black female with a comedy
10:08
residency in Las
10:11
Vegas so so so that's a lot on your
10:14
shoulders then right they going to look
10:15
at you to open the door on my ts okay my
10:19
I got bad shoulders but these titties
10:20
they still hanging in they sitting baby
10:22
s out to KI where cardi at cardi I need
10:25
you to come too you want cardi B to show
10:27
up VOA message one time did she yes she
10:32
said she love me that was good enough
10:34
for me that's a real one though yeah
10:36
cardi that's a real one the two people
10:39
50 that's a real one I know I only [ __ ]
10:41
with the goons you know that yeah I know
10:43
that you you always had a thing for a
10:44
thug I know damn it like my ex-husband
10:47
he was on death row and I don't mean the
10:49
record
10:50
label what ain't nothing like a man with
10:53
a booking number to get a [ __ ] set
10:55
straight you know
10:57
oh did you know him d you know my bab
11:00
you know my husband my
11:04
ex-husband I like all my men to know
11:06
each other so ain't no [ __ ] oh wow
11:08
that wouldn't work for me I know that's
11:10
why you not my
11:15
man we could have been a power couple S
11:18
I don't know what the fu is the issue we
11:21
would have ran the we would have ran the
11:23
West Coast I know I know we still do
11:25
anyway from the East there we go come on
11:27
I'm so proud of you I'm a I can't even
11:29
every time I come in here and I you know
11:32
cuz y'all just y'all know sway but I
11:35
like we come from the dirt the same dirt
11:38
dirt dirt and Public Access TV and so
11:41
beat day and all that type of stuff we
11:43
always talk about that when I come in
11:44
here but it was a really big thing cuz
11:46
this was bet before there was a bet
11:48
that's true this is black own and
11:49
operated television station in Oakland
11:51
that featured all the Bay Area artist
11:54
for colonies and everybody Forte and for
11:57
Rober Forte short way back in the
12:01
day all these folks souls and Mischief
12:04
come on man we used to play all that and
12:07
and I had to play it when the video was
12:09
on like a beta looking little eight
12:11
track thing but it was big you put it in
12:15
and you play the video cuz I was a VJ
12:18
she was a VJ before you know some of
12:21
these VJs you discovered on them TV
12:23
Downtown Julie Brown Downtown Julie
12:25
Brown that was lenel sticking them big
12:28
ass tapes in the in the slot I thought
12:30
she was going to say something else okay
12:32
that
12:33
[Music]
12:35
part we know a lot of history and it's
12:39
wild cuz when I be out here on the East
12:42
Coast I'll be listening to KDAY on the
12:44
app but when I'm in La I'm listening to
12:48
Heather and [ __ ] in the car I got one
12:50
car that's only serious radio and one
12:52
car that just listens to local [ __ ] uhuh
12:55
so and my Mercedes Heather you'll be
12:58
glad to know that that's when I listen
12:59
to you I listen to KDAY in the superl
13:03
I I shout out lyel every time I think
13:07
when I knew you was coming to Apollo
13:08
last night shouted you out on fly you
13:10
always got can you believe they're
13:12
letting me do no but can you believe
13:13
this though they're letting me do the AP
13:16
like I'm not there with a group normally
13:18
I do byself I do theaters with groups
13:20
you know guys D and said and you know
13:23
Bill b and lunell but this is me you
13:27
know and and I'm really that's amazing
13:30
got no but L here's the thing let me
13:33
just say this to you you killed your
13:36
special like special body that [ __ ] you
13:39
body that [ __ ] body like body like when
13:41
you body somebody y y like my girl cot
13:45
oh no that's Megan
13:47
what shout out to Megan so I think like
13:50
Lenell it's just it's time like it's
13:52
just your time and your blessings just
13:54
coming back and and you you going to
13:57
kill that you going to kill it Apollo
13:58
too we didn't know the story behind it
14:00
but that's crazy you shared that but
14:02
it's you killed that special it's Tom
14:04
lell you know the thing about it that's
14:06
wild to me is that okay as you're coming
14:09
up and and things are starting because
14:11
you know I started coming before there
14:12
was any money before there was any de J
14:14
before there was any Comic View or
14:15
anything like that just being happy to
14:17
be in the club if you if you got $50 you
14:19
was killing the game for $50 maybe some
14:23
chicken maybe two drinks that was you
14:26
you on top of the game then and of
14:29
course it's um discouraging as you go
14:33
through your life and you see things
14:36
change like social media and now you see
14:38
people that are younger than you making
14:42
millions of dollars and you're like wow
14:45
I guess you know sometime you can think
14:47
that maybe this [ __ ] is going to pass me
14:50
by now I've never really thought that
14:52
cuz I've been consistently blessed to be
14:54
working all this time but you just when
14:56
the opportunities come that you never
14:58
expect like the last time I was here I
15:00
did Broadway yeah I did Chicago at the
15:03
at the Ambassador Theater who the [ __ ]
15:05
saw that coming down the pike thank you
15:07
tamaron hall and then now I'm doing the
15:10
Apollo and you know I don't know what's
15:12
next Radio City come on let's go Madison
15:17
Square G
15:19
mg so uh I I'm just very happy B Smith
15:23
always says he gets greater later and if
15:25
you just keep living you know um we
15:27
don't get everything that we want when
15:29
wanted but we do get things in God's
15:31
time and and you know I wish I had what
15:33
I have now when I was 25 but I would
15:36
have surely [ __ ] all that up by now
15:38
yeah yeah I lost the house the cars
15:41
every goddamn thing by now yeah but now
15:44
I'm cool I love it too and it's when I
15:46
look at you it's very surreal because
15:48
you look the same uh coming up and your
15:52
energy is the exact same doesn't change
15:55
this waistline got a little bigger I'm
15:57
kind of mad about that okay I blame my
15:59
daughter people say oh you know lyelle
16:03
you look good you look the same i' be
16:04
like yeah I'm just carrying this baby
16:05
fat she's 28 years
16:08
old can't believe you did that to your
16:10
mom baby fat did to me yeah um I want to
16:15
ask you this too man um I know because
16:17
every time you come on the show you talk
16:18
about our brother Cat Williams and since
16:20
you last came that I believe is when
16:23
that sh Shay interview happened right
16:25
that club what interview what the club
16:27
sh Shay you don't talk about that at all
16:31
no what sh Shay what is Shannon sharp
16:36
what about him the the cat interview you
16:37
don't talk about that I I can talk about
16:40
it yeah I just want to know what do you
16:41
think what is there to talk about what
16:43
do you think is the best results that
16:45
came from it what do you think cuz it
16:47
opened up a lot of conversations and we
16:49
just been seeing Chain Reaction since
16:51
well the truth shall set you free MH and
16:54
there's been [ __ ] in the music
16:55
industry [ __ ] uh uh [ __ ] um
16:59
who said record industry Shady said that
17:02
it's been [ __ ] in in the in the music
17:05
industry and in the entertainment
17:07
industry all this time and you can only
17:10
keep secrets God damn it so long and I
17:13
think if he spoke the truth and then the
17:15
truth started falling from the sky did
17:18
he then you know that what what is that
17:21
cat's fault no he just spoke the truth
17:23
then the truth started popping the [ __ ]
17:25
up yeah I don't know where's did
17:30
what do you think of the well where is
17:31
he
17:33
though well don't get quiet now know
17:37
where he is supposed to know where he at
17:40
didy come to
17:45
uh get out I got some people looking for
17:48
you come to the follow DT I can get you
17:51
in the back
17:54
door get out you
17:57
too we just tell out you get the hell
18:01
out of your old show for asking yeah you
18:04
get out too you get out your time I'm
18:07
thinking what would you know I was
18:10
always curious to your reaction people
18:12
are would like to see me on sh Shay I
18:15
don't think that I'm big enough in sh
18:17
Shay's eyes to be on his show CU he's
18:19
had some pretty iconic people I may be
18:22
iconic to the people there's been people
18:24
who aren't as iconic as you on his show
18:27
well what's his problem hey sh sh don't
18:29
be it happened I'm sure Shannon Shar
18:31
bring you
18:32
up if you do it don't I'm going to eat
18:35
you you're going to eat right yeah what
18:36
you think go so it felt like since that
18:39
interview we starting to see like the
18:40
corridors open was always there what cat
18:44
we did a
18:45
movie we did a movie um we we did the
18:50
tour Pimp Chronicles way back in in 15
18:54
years ago and then after that we did a a
18:57
film right and uh cat said early way
19:01
back in the day when he was doing com he
19:03
was like there cocaine on your no I can
19:06
see you you know and he was telling
19:08
people that then they wasn't receiving
19:10
it so now that people have got sloppy
19:13
with they [ __ ] and everything's on the
19:15
internet don't blame a [ __ ]
19:17
because they said you know I I saw you
19:21
over there doing that so don't do that
19:24
if you don't want me to say nothing you
19:25
know it's people if you're doing what
19:28
comes what say say what granny them say
19:30
what done in the dark will come to come
19:33
to the light that ain't nobody's fault
19:35
but your own you know what I'm saying if
19:37
you doing shady [ __ ] it's GNA catch up
19:40
with you at some point shade45 welcome
19:42
to the show we got lell here
19:44
uh have you been following the rap
19:47
beefs I really don't uh because I just
19:51
don't you know it's it's just like me
19:53
wearing my diamonds people be like oh my
19:56
God now yeah be like oh Lun uh you walk
20:00
around with all that [ __ ] I don't walk
20:03
around or live in a world of beefs and
20:09
rap beefs and internet beefs and [ __ ]
20:12
you know where I'm from from Oakland I
20:14
got a website that'll tell you where the
20:16
[ __ ] I'm at every week of the year you
20:19
got a problem with me let's talk about
20:20
it in person I'm not going to spend all
20:22
after do typing back and forth and then
20:25
[ __ ] you and all this [ __ ] you know
20:27
I'll call you on the phone say [ __ ] you
20:29
I won't I got beefs with three [ __ ]
20:32
right now but you don't know who the
20:33
[ __ ] they are you got three [ __ ] mhm
20:37
wow are they a group
20:40
or all three of them have individually
20:43
done some [ __ ] [ __ ] that I don't agree
20:45
with and so I can't [ __ ] with him no
20:47
more do you to him
20:50
um in in so many words a little bit they
20:55
know you know silence speaks loudly okay
20:58
that's
20:59
yeah you know I yeah I just don't I
21:02
don't I don't get involved in rap beat
21:03
now my daughter she keep me up on [ __ ]
21:06
okay she keep me up on game like who
21:08
[ __ ] with who and stuff like that but
21:10
you know I'm unless the Stylistics is
21:13
beefing with the Del phonics I don't
21:15
[ __ ] know what the [ __ ] going
21:18
on I don't know what's
21:21
going get out I'm kicked out
21:26
again said at least the
21:29
is be I heard the temp in the tops was
21:32
beefing the tops was beefing what the
21:37
hell tops they got beef hey okay I'm
21:40
sorry I was just gonna chy and say
21:42
sometimes I think these beefs could
21:44
start maybe maybe more so in real life
21:46
because someone does not feel
21:49
comfortable with admitting fault and
21:51
saying I'm sorry are you someone that
21:54
can easily you know take responsibility
21:56
and be like my bad I say I'm sorry even
21:59
when I don't think I'm wrong just to
22:01
ease the [ __ ] sometimes I'll just
22:04
apologize even when I know when in my
22:07
mind I feel like I'm not wrong I'll just
22:09
do it because it's you know if it make
22:10
you feel good and we can move the [ __ ]
22:12
on then okay but being stuck in [ __ ]
22:16
because if you feel like you're right
22:17
and other person feels like they're
22:18
right you can rarely convince the other
22:20
person that they're not right now you
22:22
can spend all day doing that [ __ ] do I
22:24
have all day to do that no I got checks
22:26
to get so D okay I'm sorry sry whatever
22:33
yeah got it you know that I see you got
22:36
the
22:37
prince oh and Michael though let me
22:41
see I bad you got and the tattoo Prince
22:44
here and Michael here and Prince here
22:47
and Michael here because you want to
22:49
know the story behind the please okay
22:53
when George Floyd and amama Aubrey and
22:55
those murders were going down and we had
22:59
black lives matter and everything was
23:01
going on it was very painful to me as a
23:04
black person especially the Silence of
23:07
my white friends my white friends fell
23:09
silent they didn't say hey Lindell this
23:11
is really [ __ ] up we feel really bad
23:13
is there anything I could do no I
23:15
haven't talked to them since wow some of
23:18
my white friends so like I said your
23:20
silence speaks loudly so we I had I felt
23:24
like we was in a revolution and I didn't
23:26
know what to do I said well Prince had a
23:28
band called the revolution I'm going to
23:30
get this tattoo to remind me of that
23:33
time in history and I'm going to get it
23:35
on my microphone and so that people know
23:38
where I'm coming from and then wow it
23:40
got sad because I said but I loved
23:43
Michael first and in the death of Prince
23:47
people be forgetting about Michael I
23:48
don't give a [ __ ] what they talking
23:50
about Michael Jackson was the biggest
23:53
Entertainer I've seen in my lifetime and
23:56
I've seen some big ones come on you know
23:58
know and so I said and I remember
24:00
growing up it was always on eony
24:02
magazine Michael and prince prince and
24:04
Michael pick one whose side you want Jet
24:07
Magazine Michael and Prince Prince
24:08
Michael all my life so I felt like it
24:10
wasn't right to walk around with Prince
24:12
When I actually loved Michael first so I
24:15
got the Michael bad tattoo on my hand
24:17
I'm the original bad girl in comedy it
24:19
all fit I a diamond Prince necklace I
24:21
got a diamond Michel per that's amazing
24:24
there's a method to my madness yes it is
24:27
the rest of the [ __ ] is just cuz I'm and
24:28
I wanted some bad [ __ ] go you better
24:30
talk your [ __ ]
24:31
L cat got me started on diamonds and
24:34
I've been hooked like a like a crackhead
24:36
ever since nice though but that's
24:38
Diamond just my daytime Jewels
24:43
you my day are je and you want to know
24:46
why I got six [ __ ] with me [ __ ]
24:49
why my daughter she
24:51
strapped damn is that what that purse is
24:54
all that purse she always carry is that
24:56
pearl handles show them your gun baby
24:58
what's the what's it the 22 2 show the
25:01
got mommy B you got a little
25:03
tutu got a little Tut two in your
25:06
purse back up little back up little back
25:08
up okay some open ass people right there
25:12
get nous I don't get nervous so much in
25:14
clubs when I know that they're there to
25:16
see me like at my residency in Vegas I
25:19
know they came to see me but they're
25:20
tourists they're not your friends from
25:23
around the way right so you gotta be you
25:25
know uh you got to make everybody laugh
25:27
that's your job to for the white black
25:30
oh young they came to see half of them
25:32
think they come to see Jimmy Kimmel
25:34
surprise it's
25:36
me psych right I don't get nervous in
25:40
the clubs I get happy in the clubs cuz I
25:42
know they're out there they came to see
25:44
lunell this is great I do get nervous
25:47
for television [ __ ] because I might slip
25:50
I rarely do because I am professional no
25:52
matter how I talk you know freely on
25:55
here but um and of course big stuff like
25:58
I did do you know uh MSG before and I
26:03
was nervous then and I've Done big [ __ ]
26:05
with shapel and I get a little nervous
26:07
then this Apollo thing yes I will be
26:10
nervous then and I'll just channel that
26:12
nervous energy into the ACT though
26:15
because you know it's a lot to me riding
26:17
on my shoulders as you was that clip
26:19
that you played when I first came out
26:21
you can be a comic you can be a comic
26:22
you can be big in
26:24
Louisiana yeah you can be big in
26:26
shreport you can be big in in Maine but
26:29
you really ain't [ __ ] if you ain't came
26:31
and cracked New York if you don't get
26:33
the approval of New York as a comic I
26:35
feel you're just swimming in the water
26:37
you just treading the water you're not
26:39
going in the deep end New York is still
26:41
that place for me but I'm old school
26:43
though okay there's a lot of people who
26:45
never come to New York and they make
26:46
money and they don't give a [ __ ] but for
26:48
me as a purist you know as a Paul Mooney
26:51
follower uh and stuff like that New York
26:54
New York CU I think I was the last Comic
26:56
to performed to Carolines before put
26:58
close what man we love Carolin boy I
27:02
don't know why it's got to be the money
27:05
you know if if Caroline sat there for
27:07
two years and didn't make money and if
27:10
their rent was let's say $75,000 a month
27:13
and I'm surprised they didn't sell it
27:15
three months in you know what I mean
27:17
they held on so they held on they did it
27:19
I don't know so you know there's a lot
27:21
of people with a lot of money that could
27:22
do a lot of things that don't and if
27:24
somebody in this town wanted to save
27:26
that club they could have mhm but they
27:28
didn't it was a great club man we did a
27:30
lot of broadcast with Carolin car
27:33
discovered a lot of uh first time I
27:35
played there was like wow a Carolines
27:38
you know uhhuh the seller is cool it
27:40
gives me little bunker phobes down there
27:44
smaller Carol got the better chicken
27:47
yeah yeah the better chicken is car and
27:49
that's important in the comedy club club
27:52
and a strip chicken yes chicken is The X
27:55
Factor well you know it's the way you
27:57
suck your fingers and each your gristle
27:59
that counts okay damn that [ __ ] got we
28:02
talking about chicken sometimes
28:05
sometimes I'm talking about chicken
28:06
sometime I might be talking about
28:07
something else read between the lines
28:14
Way live I gotta read man Mike m go you
28:17
a great reader yeah know you're always a
28:19
treat I'm really enjoying this and not
28:21
just because you're funny but I'm
28:22
enjoying getting to know this
28:24
vulnerability side of you right would
28:26
you like to know more
28:30
absolutely don't say absolutely blow it
28:32
off like yeah sure lunell no I'm serious
28:35
he kind of blow that off right he did
28:37
yeah that's my problem so I ain't got
28:38
nobody they scared go ahead what the
28:40
[ __ ] you want not what the [ __ ] do you
28:43
want [ __ ] you want no I do want more of
28:45
the vulnerability because it's rare you
28:48
see people who are at the top of their
28:50
game like
28:51
yourself not jaded still excited still
28:55
happy still appreciative still enjoying
28:58
the moment hearing that you're nervous
29:00
about the Apollo because it is the
29:02
Apollo thinking about cracking New York
29:04
City because New York City is the
29:06
Bedrock of comedy and how you get your
29:08
chops how do you still just seem stay so
29:12
grounded appreciative humble when you're
29:16
literally at the top of your game well
29:18
actually because I'm not first of all
29:21
it's only for the people I'm not an
29:25
industry [ __ ] if you will notice I've
29:27
never had had a show I've never even
29:29
been a cast a part of anybody's cast I I
29:32
didn't get to do any different worlds or
29:35
living singles or or Martins or or or or
29:39
no the way don't [ __ ] with me you know I
29:41
never did blackish I never did none of
29:44
that [ __ ] nobody's never had me on their
29:46
show nobody's taken me on tour but cat
29:49
so the only reason I have a career is
29:52
the people the people know what they
29:54
want they they ride for me I ride for
29:57
them I try to look the best I try to
29:59
smell the best I try to give the best
30:01
show I don't want people leaving going
30:03
oh that was nice I want people on my
30:05
lashes [ __ ] my lashes are off and I
30:07
can't believe it I choked I almost
30:08
choked I'mma PE on myself I I I try to
30:11
give him that so it's I'm I'm I'm a a a
30:15
mercenary a slave for the people not for
30:18
the industry the industry just don't
30:20
really focus me because um you know like
30:23
how they call Captain king of
30:24
underground comedy well he now he's at
30:27
the top of his guy do they treat him
30:29
like he's at the top of his game not all
30:31
the time because you know there's a if
30:34
you're going to be a truth teller and if
30:36
you're going to be a renegade and if
30:38
you're going to work for the people and
30:40
not be an industry [ __ ] then you're
30:43
going to be in a certain category just
30:45
like Paul Mooney Paul Mooney iconic
30:48
figure was he at the top of his game no
30:51
could he ever be no because you would
30:53
cuss out white in a minute then give a
30:54
[ __ ] so there has to be a certain amount
30:56
of don't give a [ __ ] in you to do what
30:59
we do anyway but I just you know uh uh
31:03
I'm I'm still striving to be the next
31:04
black female late night TV I'm still
31:07
striving for that because late night
31:09
television nothing but white men like
31:10
come on it looks like the Senate up in
31:12
that [ __ ] you do so we need some
31:14
we need some some
31:17
color that yeah you'll catch it in a
31:20
minute it'll it'll come back around to
31:22
you so I I just don't uh I don't really
31:26
care about the other sh like I don't
31:28
care about doing movies I care about
31:30
doing TV I like TV that's filming from a
31:32
live audience because why the people I
31:36
like the
31:37
people and the people like me Lenell
31:39
ladies and gentlemen have the be you
31:41
want to close real quick yes so no I'm
31:43
not leaving
31:44
godam how did so did how did you get I
31:46
want to do a tiny Death series I'm
31:48
singing [ __ ]
31:51
on freyle I don't want to go hold up we
31:54
got a be for you oh no no no no yeah I
31:58
thought so bars I got bars that's the
32:00
vulnerability mik was looking
32:02
for I can't do it real quick I know you
32:05
mentioned cat you went on tour with him
32:07
then how did your special with Dave come
32:08
about did he reach out to you or you
32:10
reach out of course he did how the [ __ ]
32:13
you reach Dave
32:16
chel DM out of all the millions of DMS
32:19
that he probably get with [ __ ]
32:20
begging every goddamn day right oh yeah
32:23
he reached he reached out to me to come
32:26
to Yellow spr we had met we had met when
32:28
Eddie came to do Saturday Night
32:30
Live we but we had met before that at
32:33
the Montreal Comedy Festival he was
32:35
paying attention to me I was paying
32:37
attention to him but I didn't think he
32:38
was paying no attention to me then when
32:40
I saw him over here at at Rock to when
32:43
when Eddie came to do uh Saturday Night
32:45
Live we ran each other to again again
32:48
then later during The Rona he uh summons
32:51
me to come out to Yellow Springs to
32:54
perform in the cornfield I was like what
32:57
Dave Chappelle like Dave Chelle wants me
32:59
me and I came out there and while I was
33:03
there on stage with my ride or die my
33:07
daughter Dave reached over to my
33:10
daughter and said I'mma get your mama a
33:12
special and I'm going get an extra
33:14
amount of dollars he told her she told
33:17
me Dave still ain't told me it happened
33:20
and he ain't told me he told her but
33:22
like I tell everybody as a black man in
33:25
America talking to the child of a black
33:27
woman I know that he know better than
33:30
the lot of my baby and if he told my
33:32
daughter it must going to be true and
33:34
then it was and then it was a ill ass
33:36
special you did congratulations shout
33:39
out to Da for that all right I know LEL
33:42
I got some callers that I promise love
33:44
to talk can I talk to of course you can
33:46
Windows on y did not do it for me I need
33:49
to do over LEL is here 888 742 3345 wend
33:53
what's your what's your question or talk
33:54
to her she's here talking to a icon kid
33:58
hey L how you doing how you doing hi
34:00
baby Hey listen I wanted to tell you to
34:02
follow up on that conversation y' was
34:04
just say you are definitely the people's
34:07
champ of Comedy because I was just
34:10
thinking about what you were saying how
34:12
you know if you're gonna go the industry
34:14
way you got to tiptoe and do this your
34:16
ass don't tiptoe no [ __ ] where
34:20
and you give it to the people the way
34:22
they goddamn wanted and I love you for
34:24
that and man I'm glad you can be
34:26
successful operating that way and many
34:30
many much uh more success to you keep
34:32
doing what you're doing cuz it's working
34:34
thank you got in lell so we need you
34:37
thank you thank you come to the Apollo
34:39
Friday if you can man you know what I'm
34:41
in the shot I gotta figure out a damn
34:43
way to get there cuz you about to kill
34:45
some [ __ ] you know you know what you do
34:47
wend you catch a flight you land in New
34:50
York call from Chicago don't do me like
34:53
that man you know I got [ __ ]
34:56
man she was in town I'm sorry baby I
34:59
forget I interational come on interal I
35:03
was local on C
35:10
we man I'm be boy I tell you I'm going
35:13
be thinking about that cuz I know you
35:15
about to kill it all right I I
35:16
appreciate you thank you so much brother
35:18
you citizen window got to talk our [ __ ]
35:21
sometime she one of the biggest one of
35:23
the first Arenas I ever did C put me on
35:25
uh at the Ari Crown in Chicago that was
35:28
the first one of the first big big
35:29
theaters ever did who else out there
35:32
number two we got Ron from tampo
35:35
Linea on what's going on
35:40
baby
35:42
Florida oh [ __ ] up Ron Ron go ahead man
35:45
how y'all doing going on man it's all
35:49
good I just to call thank you I just
35:51
want to call and tell you I love you L
35:53
all all the time I love everything you
35:55
do baby I was just in D
35:58
I was just in Daniel Beach Florida last
36:00
uh last weekend I think was it last
36:04
weekend yeah yeah I missed you when I
36:06
was out there
36:08
baby I'm sorry it's hot out here you
36:11
know we'd be in the house yeah I can dig
36:14
it Hey Ron you got a question or
36:16
something no man I just want to
36:20
show you H him up [ __ ] they they freeze
36:24
up I'm telling you they freeze the [ __ ]
36:25
up damn Len hung him up all right we got
36:27
Jay in Philadelphia
36:30
goad hey hey what's going on what's
36:32
going on y'all What's happen hey Lun hey
36:35
baby Hey listen I just want to tell you
36:38
I'm in my early 40s I know your
36:40
daughter's there so I don't want nobody
36:41
be you are
36:43
sexy when I hear you speak when you talk
36:48
I'll be like that Lun yes she can get it
36:51
and listen I got a I got a great name
36:53
for your late night show what is that
36:56
you definitely need to be on late it's
36:57
gonna be called lunel late oh that's
37:01
brilliant you
37:03
must wow why didn't I think of that yo
37:07
you you sure know how to pull out the
37:08
Smart Ones Len I mean I'm I'm blowing
37:11
away I'm go
37:13
smack write that down Mark
37:16
right that I love you keep I love you
37:21
hey Jay you a citizen J why I ain't got
37:24
no [ __ ]
37:27
[Laughter]
37:30
shade of it all the shade of it no I I I
37:33
I really like uh live from Las Vegas
37:36
Late Night with lunell l l l l you you
37:41
got to get LL to say be your you know
37:43
the the narration I would love listen I
37:46
there's certain there's certain stations
37:49
I I be on on my pandor LL Cool J Radio
37:55
Rock The Bell e EPMD Channel I stays on
37:59
that and um because I stay on Latifa you
38:03
know cuz I thought about coming out to
38:05
ladies first but I don't want to you
38:07
know the men they get all in their
38:08
feelings and ah this gonna be a [ __ ]
38:10
show I just [ __ ] so I said I don't do
38:14
like that but um I'm actually gonna be
38:17
giving omage to James Brown when I when
38:19
I come out come out the king of the
38:21
Apollo that he laid in state there I I
38:24
have to pay Omas to my elders yeah James
38:29
that's what the kids don't do they don't
38:31
give a [ __ ] but I gotta That's Why Kiki
38:33
coming out I could have got sexy red
38:36
godamn I want
38:38
Kiki not what what you don't want sexy
38:40
red Ino Kik I didn't say that
38:44
redik sheer is am that's dop yeah that's
38:47
the legend that going to be great crazy
38:49
I told what I told Kiki I said whatever
38:50
you're wearing put a slit in
38:52
it that leg out what wherever your your
38:55
neckline stop drop it and and and put on
38:58
that good raw that good and come on out
39:01
and show them what 71 look like Kiki
39:03
Kiki 71 years old no and she looks
39:06
amazing but look at Shar Shar 77 [ __ ]
39:09
Ed from
39:13
Oakland that bch been that happy hey
39:17
Shar been that happy since I got you
39:19
baby I got you baby that comedic timing
39:22
is
39:24
crazy oh my God Town business
39:30
all day man that kid going down in
39:33
history Boy Yes
39:38
[Music]
39:40
literally this is what we do I do this I
39:44
do this what's the youngest that you
39:46
would entertain okay so when I first got
39:49
here last night I'm ignoring that
39:53
question that I would entertain yeah oh
39:56
my age Brack is goes like from 25 to
39:59
50 25 to 50 you heard what I said
40:03
variety bag if you're mature young man
40:06
at 25 years of age you know I can't what
40:11
men M mature you know at a different
40:14
rate than women I'm 25 in my heart now
40:18
my waistline says 60 but my my heart
40:21
says 25 25 and so you know what's what's
40:25
the problem you got old didn't didn't
40:27
Nero just have a baby with a little he
40:29
just had a [ __ ] kid yeah me cuz I
40:32
smashed a 25 look cheers to me the [ __ ]
40:36
you talking about
40:41
Tracy
40:43
heying holla that's why I said them
40:46
Rough
40:50
Riders K get kicked out four times kick
40:53
her they kicking her out the kick out
40:56
four mother
40:58
yo wait hold on we going to go to North
40:59
Carolina bro's on the line bro from the
41:02
north kakalaki what's up what's going
41:07
on welcome to the lenel show in the
41:09
morning all right go ahead hey
41:16
man I'm sorry baby can you say it again
41:19
start again no no I just wanted just
41:22
pretty much call in and just show y'all
41:23
some love like everybody from had to be
41:26
you know
41:28
of course Miss Lun and Sway and
41:30
everybody in the studio I mean it's just
41:32
good to hear real people that's really
41:35
vibing together good energy because we
41:37
see a lot of negative [ __ ] you know what
41:39
I mean so to see some good positive [ __ ]
41:43
you know um I always liked you as a
41:45
comedian because being from North
41:47
Carolina Mom Mom's May was a big thing
41:50
you know so I I always got that vibe
41:52
from you that type of spirit where you
41:54
know you just don't give a damn you be
41:56
yourself so much love uh for me to y'all
41:59
that's all I wanted to say love thank
42:00
you so much thank you so much people
42:03
always bring up moms when it comes to me
42:06
I I I I I find that odd because I I
42:10
identify more with leanda pige than M
42:13
maybe people forget about leanda leanda
42:15
P that AA was a dirty [ __ ] baby
42:19
she could
42:20
take she could take scripture and make
42:22
it naughty and she had a flourishing
42:25
standup career before she ever got with
42:27
red on the television show and she had
42:31
her only fans too have you seen her what
42:34
huh Dana where that pict L Wanda pay and
42:37
she have yep she didn't have her only
42:39
fans they didn't have that then but she
42:40
was naked a lot like me like but naked
42:44
yeah well not but you know but you know
42:46
she was she was doing a little Stripes
42:48
while she's digging at she had a banging
42:50
ass body you can Google it where's your
42:52
research team you looking at him Heather
42:55
one you
42:57
there 17 phones in the [ __ ] room
43:00
somebody I know about leanda pagee
43:02
because to no I know about that because
43:05
to lel's point um red fox fought for her
43:08
to be on that show they initially casted
43:11
another woman as on Esther and he didn't
43:15
want her initially but they had on and
43:17
he fought for her to finally get that
43:19
job because she to lel's point she was
43:21
killing the comedy circuit when you look
43:23
at her outside of those clothes that she
43:25
was the a Bible to woman she was was
43:27
beautiful shapely she could dance she
43:29
could sing she was the full package yeah
43:31
and and not only did he fight for her to
43:33
be on the show he fought for her to act
43:35
like she did cuz when she went in an
43:38
audition she saw the hell back to she
43:40
tells the story I saw it on on YouTube
43:42
recently and she's like red red was like
43:45
come on Lana you know you can do this
43:47
act like you normally do bullshitting
43:49
and that's when she was like you old
43:50
fish out fool and blah blah blah and and
43:54
history was right I think a lot of the
43:55
shows took from that that that energy
43:57
like you think about Fred and Esther you
44:00
had Jean Martin and Pam you had this one
44:02
and that they all kind of took from that
44:05
thaty between them to H yeah and that
44:08
was a great show and a great Dynamic I
44:10
wanted to say to you
44:12
s since we clearly have this history and
44:15
we have such good chemistry we always
44:17
have a good time in there I don't know
44:19
why we can't do something more together
44:21
like I wish that you know when you doing
44:24
these big concert you know I'm being I'm
44:26
booked and busy but I could probably
44:28
squeeze you in sway
44:31
somewhere and you know sway be on the
44:33
red carpet and he be this and that and
44:36
you always take your daughter that's
44:37
always whoever say okay time okay it's
44:40
time for Daddy to cut the string Y and I
44:43
want to be doing something with my my
44:45
[ __ ] sway there you go I put it out
44:48
there if you don't [ __ ] call me and I
44:50
come back in this [ __ ] and we ain't
44:53
done nothing together it's going to be a
44:54
different show you won't like me
44:58
P that's a threat you fishey
45:04
food yo I would love to do anything I
45:06
would love to do we got to figure it out
45:08
we talked about this you this don't make
45:10
no sense we got to figure this out the
45:12
biggest things out the time besides like
45:14
short and digital and [ __ ] like that but
45:16
we need to be as far as voices and
45:18
entities and recognizability we need to
45:20
do something together I'm just saying we
45:23
going to figure it out sway day sway day
45:25
when we do um do that it's not on the
45:28
schedule yet but that little boy sway
45:31
Lee I I [ __ ] with him too yeah well yeah
45:34
any sway you rock
45:36
with what why
45:39
Le dead yo Len honestly I would I would
45:42
be honest I we got to do that yeah that
45:45
don't make no sense for us not to do
45:48
something a lot of that happens though
45:50
in the bay come on we go well you know
45:53
when no it's scheduling it's scheding
45:55
just like when they was trying to do the
45:56
color purple very difficult to get
45:58
Taraji scheduled to match Fantasia
46:01
schedule to match you know everybody
46:03
else's Daniel
46:05
Brooks yeah when we bring back to
46:07
Festival that's one thing but I I can
46:10
see us doing other things and I want to
46:11
do it where there's a whole lot of rers
46:13
there oh you want to have that exp okay
46:16
broadcast in Vegas since L does Sunday
46:20
and Monday do you know they just gave me
46:22
the they gave me the key to the Strip
46:25
This is the city council did this the or
46:28
whoever the people is the people but I
46:30
got the key to the strip and I also have
46:32
a proclamation naming March 11th lunel
46:35
day in Las Vegas damn it's hanging on my
46:39
it's legal [ __ ] it's legal talk
46:42
different life if we wanted to I'm just
46:45
throwing this ideal out there if we
46:47
wanted to broadcast from the Jimmy
46:49
Kimmel Comedy Club oh it's done anything
46:53
that that I want to do that can happen
46:55
yes absolutely let's do it positively
46:58
without a
47:00
doubt on lenel when is len day March
47:03
11th oh we got to do something sooner
47:05
than soon that this year we're going to
47:07
work on it that would be fire we going
47:09
to work on that we' never broadcast in
47:11
Vegas right she ready to go her Su pack
47:14
she ready to go to
47:20
v ah she ready to go to Vegas let's go
47:23
that's one thing about having a
47:25
residency there you don't have to beg
47:26
people come to Vegas and now the
47:28
weather's changing yeah it's about to be
47:30
popping honey they got the Usher got
47:32
this concert coming up too yeah little
47:33
Ur is coming back Bruno is coming back
47:36
uh wuang is coming back Wang coming back
47:39
Edition is coming back too new edition
47:41
Vegas is black now yes Vegas is no
47:43
longer where you go at the end of your
47:46
career to die Vegas is like oh my God
47:49
how can I get a piece of that yeah
47:51
because you know what's always blew my
47:52
mind about Vegas let's say you're in a
47:54
[ __ ] band that plays after the the
47:57
magic show at 4:00 a.m. at the Chuckle
48:01
Hut on Sahara still can't nobody tell
48:03
you [ __ ] cuz [ __ ] I'm in veg you know
48:06
what I'm saying everybody out there is
48:08
just proud to proud to be there and it's
48:10
really really really really changing a
48:12
lot of opportunities as a matter of fact
48:13
there's a documentary I think it's on
48:15
Amazon didn't there Amazon Prime called
48:19
blacks in Las Vegas wow it starts off
48:21
with Sammy Davis Jr and it ends up with
48:24
like me and Usher and and and and other
48:27
people that's coming out Mariah coming
48:30
Mar's coming to Vegas coming to
48:32
[ __ ] Vegas Tom join and I will
48:36
be there JLo had a good
48:39
run yep
48:41
crickets you come out yo Heather kick me
48:45
out you going out too no no no Heather
48:48
you get out all you [ __ ] though
48:51
I'm taking over the goddamn station all
48:53
y'all get the [ __ ] out no you know what
48:55
here's the okay no let me can I say
48:58
something about JLo cuz she's from the
49:01
Block here's the thing about Jenny the
49:04
[ __ ] is beautiful no doubt M the [ __ ]
49:08
is super talented she does sing she
49:11
dance her [ __ ] ass off and she
49:14
can act okay her her thirsty activities
49:20
have overshadowed the fact that the
49:22
[ __ ] can really act nobody could have
49:24
done Selena like JLo true nobody and
49:28
then Monster-in-Law mother-in-law the
49:31
one the thing [ __ ] great ass movie
49:33
and she does a lot of romcoms and [ __ ]
49:36
but all this other [ __ ] I don't know
49:38
why they want um they haven't gotten the
49:41
right she did even another movie where
49:43
she had that domineering husband ma
49:46
that's yours the one where the cans is
49:47
all turned the same way my niece does
49:50
that yeah the abusive husband enough
49:53
called enough no no that was enough
49:57
Beyonce no
50:00
jul oh well [ __ ] J
50:03
JLo I'm
50:08
right but she just she really wants to
50:11
be taken serious as a serious actress in
50:14
Hollywood and they just won't they won't
50:16
let her because I think she just haven't
50:19
had the right right right right one one
50:21
thing to put her over I'm not sure what
50:24
that is because her Vegas Act is is
50:26
great I saw it in Vegas oh did you yeah
50:28
it was good it was ENT yeah she did a
50:30
whole lot on that stage you got to do a
50:33
whole lot on that Vegas stage you you
50:35
you what what you have to do is this in
50:37
Vegas it don't matter how cute you are
50:39
it don't matter how talented you are
50:42
what matters is if we put your name on
50:44
this site and if we put your picture on
50:47
this flyer well [ __ ] break
50:49
bread stand in line and come see you
50:51
that's what the [ __ ] matters and that's
50:54
all that matters will they come see you
50:56
I'm happy to say you know I sell out
50:57
every week yeah you better talk your
50:59
[ __ ] L okay come on man give it up for
51:02
Len L we coming to Vegas coming to
51:07
Vegas that be great I think that's the
51:10
move the you can do we can do it that's
51:13
the move I I I can get you plugged in
51:15
it's not a problem cuz I have the key to
51:17
the strip okay okay Lenelle we love you
51:20
congratulations um I'm really happy for
51:23
you I'm really happy for you every time
51:25
I come in it's a little bit more a
51:27
little bit more and I'm happy to be able
51:28
to say that um all y'all can follow me
51:31
on Instagram at
51:33
lunell you look you did that like
51:36
Grandma there you see
51:38
how digging in his I'm sorry y'all
51:41
didn't
51:43
see follow me on Instagram at lell l n l
51:49
l and I'll see you at the Apollo on
51:51
Friday if you can make it I'm going look
51:54
and smell amazing
51:58
I'mma make it I'm coming Friday I swear
52:01
I was supposed to go to at Friday but
52:03
are
52:04
you Heather I got you you I'll come out
52:07
I'll come out you know what check mark
52:09
check my phone see if I have Heather
52:11
personal [ __ ] cell phone call she got
52:14
more than one phone so make sure you get
52:15
the right one call this [ __ ] I'm like
52:17
where you at [ __ ] Heather you going to
52:19
go what time I'm just saying 7:30 is the
52:22
show Yan but you know that's the no my
52:25
show in Vegas start till 9:30 I'm a late
52:27
night girl okay so 730 7:30 you roll
52:31
yeah okay all right we going to have we
52:32
going I'm going get these digits you a
52:35
changed your number no we the same we
52:36
the same no you don't still have a 510
52:39
number do you no
52:42
[ __ ] that's a 510 you got a 510 no no I
52:49
don't want to talk to nobody you to know
52:50
oh this what I wanted to ask you yes and
52:53
in in conclusion I know you got to go
52:55
some we what what do we
53:00
do about as oaklander what do we
53:04
do about what has happened to Oakland
53:07
the Oakland that we grew up in was Tower
53:10
of Power ground Central Station inv vog
53:15
two short you know it was it was the
53:19
Edwin Hawkins singer it was everything
53:22
Oakland uhhuh it was Pride it was you
53:25
know black pride and the Panthers and
53:28
the Muslim before the murder and the
53:29
extortion charges and um sorry youself B
53:32
but you know what it is
53:34
and that's what they did it oh I'm in
53:38
trouble am I in trouble now with the
53:40
nation of the fruit with the fruit of
53:42
the nation which one I'm in the door
53:45
door move forward let's move forward no
53:47
but okay but I'm just saying what do we
53:49
do about what is happened to boots on
53:51
the ground we need boots on the ground
53:53
we need they got no leadership they got
53:56
no city council they don't even have a
53:58
Christmas parade no more we we need to
54:00
get in that city council we need to get
54:02
in the political Realms some of our
54:05
folks somebody like let's say Mr Fab
54:07
who's out there all the time yeah you
54:09
know and he's he's hands- on with the
54:11
community he might be a good candidate
54:13
to run for office see you take a you
54:15
take a guy like Red Grant is running for
54:18
he's doing what he need to do in DC
54:21
uhuh the people that we want like the
54:24
people that we want to talk to are not
54:26
listen
54:26
to this the the kids that's bipping and
54:30
robbing they're not listening to this
54:32
[ __ ] that makes sense their parents are
54:34
listening to it but not the kids you
54:36
know we yes when we grew up in Oak had a
54:39
roller rink it had two one in Bayfair
54:41
one on 73rd when we grew up in Oakland
54:44
they had drive-in movie theater they had
54:46
places you could go but they don't have
54:48
none of that no more what these kids
54:50
going do that's we it's a it's not a one
54:53
answer solution but part of it is to get
54:56
those roller rings to get the funding to
54:58
do those programs to do those little
55:00
they got to shoot it up but that's just
55:02
part of it that we're not done you know
55:04
that's in the city council is where we
55:06
going to create activities we got to get
55:07
the old folk we got get we got to people
55:10
got to walk the neighborhood has to get
55:12
involved in politics the youth got to
55:14
and there's youth groups out there we
55:15
got to empower them but we got to walk
55:17
the neighborhoods like we got to be I
55:20
ain't walking a [ __ ] thing at o
55:22
right
55:25
now well but you know when when when you
55:28
know the we can't walk away from it we
55:31
got to walk into it well I think I could
55:33
but I would yeah and so it's a it's a
55:36
lot of grassroot work that has to happen
55:38
but it ain't going to matter if we not
55:40
in those positions of power when it
55:42
comes to uh funding and education all
55:45
these other things you want to see
55:46
community centers we have man in need a
55:48
community center man need so I used to
55:51
go there you know we had community
55:52
centers all these different programs
55:54
that were supported by the city and
55:56
neighborhoods we not see like if I
55:58
wasn't you know doing what it is I do
56:00
and if I had time to devote to trying to
56:03
get Oak back together I'm popular enough
56:05
I might would run for something like
56:07
that but I you know I have to eat and
56:11
running for City counil doesn't always
56:13
but you could support somebody you know
56:15
what I mean like so I mean so it's
56:17
multi-layered is the point I'm making
56:19
they got a maybe we can talk about it
56:20
one day when we go to Oakland cuz I
56:22
really would like to uh participate in
56:24
the next so be day I haven't had a to do
56:26
it shout out to Chuck too Chu Johnson
56:28
joh not the originator but the the young
56:31
Chuck Johnson who's been keeping that
56:33
Legacy alive yeah I saw the doc that
56:37
they that he did right and I saw you in
56:39
it of course you I think I'm in it too
56:42
of course we're the mayor and mayoret of
56:46
of bayor and we're the prom king and
56:49
queen of Oakland right we we're the
56:50
Jay-Z and Beyonce of Oak know I'm Jay-Z
57:02
we out
57:03
give okay we going to be at the APO
57:06
Friday night L we love you yo hit the
57:09
fan heav hit the
57:13
fan all right man know that yo love you
57:17
Len we going to make it happen I promise
57:20
you before I get out of here it's my
57:23
goal say that again I want to do
57:25
something with you before I get up out
57:26
of here I promise you we going to make
57:28
that happen that's on the top of my
57:30
priority list and it's going to be fun
57:32
and dope at the same got to be that all
57:34
right cool ladies and gentlemen y'all
57:35
have a great day stay on the right side
57:37
of positivity and we have
57:39
nothing left to say
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