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Marlon Wayans brings new comedy special "Good Grief" to the Apollo Theatre | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Nov 16, 2023
Marlon Wayans is one of the most iconic comedians of our time. Known for his signature laugh and quick wit, he has been entertaining audiences for decades. Recently, he stopped by Sway In The Morning to discuss his latest project, a comedy special called "Good Grief". In this special, Marlon pays homage to his parents and honors their legacy by performing at the iconic Apollo Theatre. With his mother's passing only a few years prior and his father's recent death, the special promises to be an emotional and hilarious ride.
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Marlon Wayans brings new comedy special "Good Grief" to the Apollo Theatre | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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yo man I don't know if there's another
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comedian that I've watched more than my
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I call him my brother always you know
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and uh and he finds a way Tracy to find
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something else to talk about in a way
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that's unique to him to make you laugh
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at something you thought about a 100
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times already you know what's crazy
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hearing that back I was like man I was I
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was so young that was like I'm so much
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better now you felt that way I was
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listening to that like I'm so much
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better than that I'm ashamed of that
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joke wow if I was Jay-Z I'd punch me in
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the face really I Salange i' kick me in
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the balls no I I just no it's not that
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it's it's a cute joke but that was my
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first special I'm I'm about to film my
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fourth special uh God loves me no that
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was the third one no good grief good
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grief good grief good grief good grief
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not like good grief good grief good
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grief good grief yeah and and and and to
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me I feel like now I'm now I'm getting
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getting good because I'm talking about
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things that are not comfortable I'm
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talking about things that hurt and I'm
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talking about pain and I'm making people
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laugh and meanwhile I'm dying inside but
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that means that I'm really it's like the
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layers of an onion right my my my niece
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shantee she was hot on me I was like
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stop you little Dyke and
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she we know Shante that's our girl right
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there stop bullying me put your Co your
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[ __ ] piece away and stop bullying me
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come on no cuz she put that strap on on
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think she'll do stop bullying me before
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I beat you with your own strap on you my
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niece come on Shante that's like I said
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that's our
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family it's it's my real
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family thought we talking about I want
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to hit her with one of them little them
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little pieces that she wear on them
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strap on and leave a dick print on her
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on her back that's the closest to Dick
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come up here anytime you ready I got of
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get y okay she was like when I first did
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my first special woken she said Uncle
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Marin I just think that you got so much
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more material that you could talk about
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I said Shante I said this is my first
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special I just want people to know that
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I do stand up and that I'm funny right
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and I said over time I'm not going to
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drop one special my goal is to drop 20
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specials and to watch my Evolution over
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the time and the course of me dropping
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specials and how much better I progress
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and I did that one and then I did the
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next one two years later and then a year
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after that I did my next one God loves
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me and now a year after that I'm doing
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good grief every year I'm going Drop
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Like an album you plan to do it every
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year I'm dropping album telling DB like
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it's a lot of people doing a lot of
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specials I want to playing like Drake
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you want the you want the Drake play I'm
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tired of being in first class that's
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nothing but coach with bigger seats
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tired of these white people bringing
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their damn dogs on the plane when I have
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my jet I ain't bring no damn dogs on the
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plane and lying and saying they security
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dogs or or or emotional support dogs you
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ain't never [ __ ] hug your puppy when
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you sad about some [ __ ] you ain't never
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hug and what's this little stink beard
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you got going on that's torch right
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there man come on MAR that's torch
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better than
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yours [ __ ] your beard look like it was
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in a fire [ __ ] that [ __ ] look like
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pubic hair [ __ ] you Ain talking [ __ ]
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your [ __ ] look like ass hair [ __ ] got a
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who braided your ass hair and put it on
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your [ __ ] chin [ __ ] stop you got you
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got
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alipa your [ __ ] your [ __ ] look like the
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[ __ ] Will Smith smack Chris Rock over
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it's all right [ __ ] but I got you got
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alipa in your pockets
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[ __ ] how about that [ __ ] you got alipa
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in your pocket your life got alipa
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[ __ ] come on man how you like that
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[ __ ] nice try you still got ass ha on
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your [ __ ]
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you got a dingleberry bed is that funny
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though [ __ ] you look at your I'll take
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a picture of your [ __ ] I will spread my
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ass and take a picture side by side with
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that [ __ ] you call a beard
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[ __ ] that [ __ ] is that [ __ ] is ugly
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[ __ ] that [ __ ] look like a lonely Dread
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[ __ ] one you got one hey Mar you got a
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you got a Ting growing on your [ __ ]
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chin I'm going let you ride
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please I don't look at that look at this
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[ __ ] chin you got ner Ain got ain't
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got the nerve you can't even shape your
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[ __ ] up man that [ __ ] look like the
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Caribbean
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islands Yoo let's talk about good G like
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Reef that [ __ ] is bad man yo what
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is beard line
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receive don't forget was Bor type of way
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about why did you do this to this why
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you twisted like you got nervous habits
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come yo we was just talking about this
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earlier today of how like New York Met
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You got to be ready this on the street
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corner that's l in Harlem right there
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all day all day oh that's a smart that's
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one of them [ __ ] I stay up from the sun
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up to sun down keep going now I go
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around the side I start looking at gear
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[ __ ] I start I start breaking it down
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like a Terminator like all right [ __ ]
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New York moment right got no jaw line
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you know look drunk in the
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face got how eyes can't can't talk about
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nothing bad come on with the mer nothing
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bad about it okay so good
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grief I didn't even I mean stop you was
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going you was saying how much you
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matured since that day and you went 20
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years backwards I apologize to you I you
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know I he brought me to to the block and
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I I just want to apologize on tooop just
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now my my bad I came in here minding my
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business so I was talking about the
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special and he said something and I
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just I
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started see see how happened I see what
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had happened I was I don't know what
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happened you can we play it back I want
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to see let's play it back can the
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audience tell me how this happened list
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you know maybe we can right right
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all right DB you want to say something
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not now [ __ ] I'm shutting the [ __ ] up
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what happened you came in and said I'm
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matur since my first stand up I'm a new
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man I'm in tune with my pain now my
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whole stand up is
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different me I don't know I apologize
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got to work it out he's just right now I
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apologize I apologize to the listeners I
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apologize Shante talking about hitting
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her the back with her own own dildo
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dildo I'm sorry Shante stra I didn't
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mean I want to leave a dick print on
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your back with a strap on that was I
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guess that was wrong with me Craig can
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you text Shante tell her uncle says he
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loves her and he's sorry Craig a
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comedian too Craig funny but he he he
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done stand up a couple times but he
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funny Craig is a right he wrote scary
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movie with us he wrote uh don't be men
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uh wrote on Marlon he Craig been writing
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with us for a while he writer and a
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producer get in the camera man let's see
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your face man nobody ever ask you to get
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in front of man yeah Craig he don't need
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too Craig tired of him stealing my
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[ __ ] look at maron's cousin your
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handsome self get out of here okay damn
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he make me have to cheat and go yeah
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well my dick is bigger look at that
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ladies damn my God yall do that when did
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that happen to family functions when of
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y'all Thanksgiving when happen talking
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[ __ ] oh okay so good grief what is good
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grief good grief is are very special
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special about my dead parents oh
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man oh man it is it's about like it's
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it's I'm
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celebrating this [ __ ] crazy I just
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stepped outside of myself you talking
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about yourself you heard yourself say
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you heard right I'm crazy cuz when you
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told me that artist what's his name SFA
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SFA yeah I met him just now and you said
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yeah he's a dope artist I said hey [ __ ]
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draw me something cuz he looked
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like cuz he got the B he had the B out
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braids you know what I mean [ __ ] one them
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them dreads that he never wash like he
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don't I don't wash my ass I just
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paint he had a garlic you know a little
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goat and smell on him and I I thought he
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was an artist but when you said an
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artist I no it smell like lamb chops
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something he was ging but he's European
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G and so I apologize my European people
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yo but you tried to lift him for the
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sweater he had on did he yeah yeah I
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actually order right now seven it was
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good
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quality I was like this this Negro is
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from he Parisian yeah well from the UK
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yeah for the UK across the pond okay
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okay good grief the time okay I'm
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performing at the Apollo it's two sold
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out shows uh officially I'm sold out um
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but you can try online but uh you know
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I'm coming home my parents is born and
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raised in Harlem and I wanted to and I'm
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I'm born and raised in Manhattan uh down
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on uh
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it used to be you know the the projects
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Chelsea the you know Fon but now it's
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it's the meat packing District so I lost
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all my street
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credit I hate gentrification cuz it
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really it really [ __ ] up your street
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credit soon he's going to be like I'm
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from Harlem like [ __ ] get out of here
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it's nice up there now you got
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Starbucks Harlem still keep it real cuz
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they ain't got a Macy's they get still
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got a jazzy Jays what's that they still
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JY Jimmy that's how you know if you
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ain't got a Macy's or nor nah we Jimmy
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Jazz
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yep they real they took Target out of
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they took the target out of Harlem too
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down they just got a dollar store
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now T was like a these [ __ ] ain't
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buying nothing they she shoplifting
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that's why they did it they said they
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lost a lot of money because of that they
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still shop liming H that's why with them
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puffy jackets they was they Ste the
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store puffy jackets even in the summer
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Marl abolutely yes when you had men okay
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so I'm doing my I'm doing my special God
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what is it good grief good grief it's
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called good grief and it's I've went
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through a lot the last three years I
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lost I lost uh 57 people that I loved
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damn and one year in three years in
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three years and so I just want people to
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know that you know you can go through
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pain you can go through hurt and at the
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end of the day you can still smile yeah
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and it's about the celebration of life
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and it's not about the death it's about
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the the the the birth of your own
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existence and celebrating yourself and
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really uh celebrating what was fun and
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funny about the people you love so
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there's a really funny special is
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dedicated to my mom and my dad and uh
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yeah so I'm doing it in at the Apollo
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when my mom performed when she was a kid
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with her sisters the green sisters they
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all performed and they won two times at
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the Apollo and uh my parents born and
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raised in Harlem so I wanted to come
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home and honor them and and uh put a Dr
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rest I love it man it's good grief at
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the Apollo this Saturday 6:30 and 9:00
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p.m. I'm at the nyak right now nyak
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Rocky County Levity Live I I don't know
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what that said that oh that's like
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minutes outside of the city sound M okay
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so that sounds like Palisades and their
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mom yeah cuz it's really nice in nyak
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and where you said Rock count yeah that
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sounds like there's projects there that
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sound like [ __ ] still pee in the
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stairwells it's nice in the elevators
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and do graffiti so I'm going to be in a
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nice part nyak with his trees and his
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real birds No Pigeons and uh No Pigeons
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real birds but come on through it's it's
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I'm I'm I'm I'm practicing for my
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special and um I'm having fun so I'm in
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niak I think there's still a few more
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tickets there one tonight two tomorrow
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and then on Saturday I'm at the Apollo
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and then on New Year's Eve I'm at the
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Roxy in Atlanta with a brand new set I
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got a brand new hour I'm trying to do
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I'm figuring it out that's hard brand
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new hour and uh yeah come at the Roxy in
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Atlanta two shows get your tickets now
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if I come to that New Year's Eve show I
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want a table man let's do it let's do a
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party let's do an after party somewhere
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we should do that [ __ ] Bro think I want
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suits and sneakers I want s suits and
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sneakers and ladies and dresses and
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sneakers and then afterwards we do an
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after after party at Magic City we make
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the money then we blow it on all the
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strippers with the big asses that smell
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like lamb chops no don't not well we
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ain't making money that I'm spending
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money that you making money no if we if
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we do the party we make money only make
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money because we're going to put some
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nice ladies with big asses through
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nursing
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school no nursing school how often do
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you go to strip clubs now I don't really
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like strip clubs cuz I I don't like cuz
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they rub on you and I you rub on certain
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amount of time my bust a nut sorry D
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damn it's going to happen you still got
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that
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ability at this stage disability man I
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can't your dick retired [ __ ] I got
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teenage dick [ __ ] you get happy you rub
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on me I'mma squirt up just like yeah
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that's sound effect but that's why I
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don't like doing it I I I just rather
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give these ladies money and go thank you
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and and then leave I I'm good for 15 I'm
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too generous they see a sucker when I
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walk in they like sucker and I got a
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good heart and I don't want to touch
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them and stuff cuz I don't want them to
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feel like I'm lascivious
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so I willon take if they want to rub on
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me with their glitter and I don't want
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that Glitter [ __ ] cuz it don't come off
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take three days to come off y guess you
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in trouble comes with a smell it do
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little fish sticks on it glitter comes
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with a SM hold up we got mark on the
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line in Florida Mark what up say hello
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to Marlin we Mark what up
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Mark hey everybody good morning good
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morning good morning hey hey hey hey
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what up man what's up brother hey it's a
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pleasure to be on with y'all I listen
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every single morning that I can y'all
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really bring joy to my life and to just
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breathe positivity and all that good
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stuff but I must say to my man Marlin
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way listen brother um I took my old lady
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to go see you the Hard Rock down here in
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Tampa uh you know a little while ago and
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I can say that this man put on one hell
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of a show yeah one hell of a show I
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about I thought you about to say that
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[ __ ] ain't funny I was like what you
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call talking all this positivity and
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going [ __ ] on my craft impossible thank
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you man actually Marlin I don't even
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know if you remember but like a couple
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people you know had the phones and
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everything that was a whole situation
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people put away your phone as you said
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during that just enjoy the moment enjoy
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the comedy I'm 38 years old so I I grew
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up with you know the Way's brothers and
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and scary movie you know that's my
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generation so I just want to say seeing
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you live and in person was a a privilege
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and an honor man and I really appreciate
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your work and everything you do thank
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you man U your comedy is is is top Nots
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brother and just God bless Youk I
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appreciate you coming out and I
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appreciate your support man and uh uh
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best years ahead of me man like I I
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really feel like in stand up right now
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my best years are ahead of me like I'm
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I'm I know how to leave my body leave my
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set and just just have fun in a moment
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and I could Rock I'm Not Afraid at any
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stage that's the thing right I I played
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that one room you saw me in the Bronx
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yeah I was I was in the Bronx it was sou
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of K F yeah and I know many I smell like
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dead bodies I know a lot of [ __ ] bomb
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there they smell like
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pastelles bak and dead
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bodies I knew some hard Crow it's a hard
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Crown but I lit I lit that [ __ ] up you
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lit it up cuz you can't care right you a
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I'm a surfer I don't care how big the
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wave is I look and go I can't wait to I
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go to water I can't wait to get on that
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when you know your art I'm not afraid of
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anything I I I don't care hey hey Mark
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you a citizen bro and then you did
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something really dope cuz I I went up
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there who was our with rich rich nice I
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think rich nice and our with and we sat
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and they and we sat and I was like [ __ ]
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man the Acoustics ain't even for I
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didn't think it was the room was meant
16:25
for stand up oh it's meant for a party
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it meant for a party it's meant the best
16:29
sound system you want to have for a
16:30
party but for stand up was like [ __ ] how
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Marlin going to do man the first thing
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you did that I thought was dope the
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announcer said if you want to take fil
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if you want to film anything do it now
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while he's coming up on stage put it on
16:43
your stories after that cut it yeah so I
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can't think of the song You came out to
16:48
but it had everybody fired up they got
16:50
to do their filming that was their fix
16:53
and then they cut it and I just saw you
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piece together you might have had a
16:57
routine but you pieced together together
16:58
a show just off the cuff just talking to
17:01
people man I app plotted that [ __ ] I was
17:03
like yeah that's my guy now if he would
17:05
have bombed I would have well here's the
17:08
thing I don't know that [ __ ] let's go
17:10
let me get my to go here's the thing
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right because I don't I stop I don't
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hype myself up when I do shows I used to
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Hype myself up now I ground myself I
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have me a green tea I sit there because
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when I go out my first five minutes I'm
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jabbing at the audience I'm jabbing
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that's I want to see where they at I
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want to see are you tight are you ready
17:29
to get loose are you want to how dark
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can I get oh y'all tight all right let
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me go a little darker let me make you
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hate me now I'm going to make you love
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me and I'll make you hate me again and
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I'm by the end you going to love me
17:39
again or not sometime I leave you with a
17:41
nasty taste in your mouth be like take
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it I'm out
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[ __ ] because the set ain't about y'all
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the set is about me growing as an artist
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what y'all a lot of times what they
17:51
watching is I write on a stage I don't
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sit down with a pen and pad and go
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what's funny I don't do that I go on a
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stage with something that's on my heart
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or in my spirit and I just let that lead
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and then I write my sets I write my sets
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on a stage I never write it down I don't
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do that he'll transcribe it like we'll
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get the audio and we'll transcribe it so
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I see the words and be like oh okay but
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the reality of it is I don't I don't
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look at that I learn mine as I piece it
18:19
together on a stage people paying to
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watch me right and then I get it
18:23
together and then I do a special and
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then I start from scratch and then do
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another one I don't want to on material
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for 15 years I don't want to do that I
18:30
don't want to store with the same set I
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want to go all right this is what's
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happening in my life right now and I'll
18:36
talk about it and then that goes away
18:38
and then it's the challenge of
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recreating something funny because that
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makes you a better writer a better
18:44
producer and as an artist you evolve I
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don't be stuck in my my my my my early
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years I'm 50 man I got to talk about
18:51
real [ __ ] yeah man well it's all I I
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said we were talking with
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um recently we were talking with les who
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was it Leslie Jones Leslie Jones but not
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that's not who I was speaking of we were
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talking to someone who was saying with
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their process is now they we we you get
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to a point I've done this a long time in
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the beginning I was trying to make my
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mark you know yo look what me and King
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Tech are doing yall have y'all can't
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hold a candle to this [ __ ] I don't care
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who you compare us to nobody's ever done
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what we did give me that give me this
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and now it's all about how much can I
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give right right no more about the game
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right cuz the give is the game you know
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what I mean and it's like the pressure
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of like right I don't do it I'm not in
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competition with nobody there you go I'm
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in competition with myself I don't care
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about what anybody else is doing I don't
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want to be I don't want nobody else's uh
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success I only want what God got from me
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and that's by making me the best artist
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that I could be digging deep and finding
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funny with where there is no funny
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what's funny in death mhm and that
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that's what I love about this set is
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what's funny about death the scariest
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darkest thing and I got a whole hour on
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it wow and for me that's the stuff I
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want to talk about you know what I mean
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like I and I I know my next three or
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four specials once I get the story and
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I'm giving story a lot of comedians they
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do jokes I I got jokes with story I'm a
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writer right I've been writing movies
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and TV for 30 years so before I go jokes
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I go what's the story I want to tell how
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did you get to the point man I used to
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see like when Paul Mooney used to be
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signed with stepson records under a guy
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named Bill Stephanie in the early 90s I
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had a production deal over there we were
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putting records out through bill
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stephony so I when Paul Mooney would
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come to the Bay I would go see him at
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the punch line homie yeah homie oh look
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look at the white
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people that [ __ ] is crazy I used to
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watch Paul Mooney as a kid me and my
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brother my brother Dam used to take me
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Sean Craig uh Damian and we go to The
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Comedy Store we'd sneak in we was like
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eight and 10 years old and we' go to The
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Comedy Store and we'd watch Paul Mooney
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perform and he used to he used to talk
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so crazy that there'd be one lone white
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person left in the room y That's so
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that's what I was going to ask you Paul
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Mooney would leave the crowd so [ __ ]
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up yes and I and that would make me
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wonder what was this funny was what was
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the purpose what was was slavery funny
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oh it's too real homie it's too real 400
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years of it must have been a hell of a
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joke on me that niggga is dark yeah but
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he was one of the greatest because you
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sit there and he literally don't care
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about making you laugh he sit there and
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he just cares about telling the truth
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and that as a comedian you got to have
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the balls to tell the truth and that's
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and that's when you talk when you tell
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me when you explaining where you are
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Paul moony comes to mind not because of
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the nature of the content the real right
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the real and then the not need for
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validation absolutely and I don't even
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talk about I don't even talk about like
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um pop culture no more yeah I don't care
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yeah that comes and it goes I don't care
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about the news that comes and it goes I
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want to talk about things that's going
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to be forever my experience in this
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lifetime and what hurts me and what I'm
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going through and how I can make that
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make somebody feel good cuz guarantee
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you I'm not the only one dealing with
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death I'm not the only one dealing with
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grief everybody in that crowd is going
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to be dealing with grief I'm just giving
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them a ro a blueprint on how to handle
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it and keep yourself positive through it
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cuz you know a lot of people can't it's
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hard to deal with but laugh your way
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through it me I want to give them the
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Way's way we be at funerals my family
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crazy we be at
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funerals and we always got jokes and
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people think we crying but we laughing
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one of my cousins uh died and my auntie
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buried him in jeans and sneakers and um
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and a Yankee hat that's the joke is
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being so my brother Damon leans over and
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he goes you know if there's a dress code
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in heaven I don't think SE he's getting
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in [ __ ] up and people thought we your
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look at your family over
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there people thought we were crying but
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we were laughing every funeral we always
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got jokes man why not right the way way
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man we take what's bad and what's sad
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and we make you glad there it is man we
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got Sean on the line from Toronto I
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thought my brother was like Sean where
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you at where is Sean man why a
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see yeah I'm right here I just want to
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say he came to
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Toronto and shut the place down like I
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hope he does the shock his impression of
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shock is
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incredible his him talking about his dad
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and his mom it was incredible
23:58
thank you brother me and my wife laughed
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for a week after the show beautiful D
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they laugh after a week after that might
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be a get Book World Record I'm In My Bag
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Man we still look at each other and I
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know what to say it because it seems
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like that's what he's going to be doing
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so I don't don't don't get don't give
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him away but I know what you're GNA say
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but don't give away this this guy is
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he's his prime now he's full year than
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ever he going to look at feet
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differently and heads differently
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and he I just want to say
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congratulations man and keep going don't
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stop thank you for sure hey Sean thank
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you you a
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citizen go drink some water Sean go
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drink some water say that might be that
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might have been his last
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show I'm hype I'm hype I'm hyp okay okay
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got that steam room all right has there
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ever been a time Marlon where being such
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a jokester being a comedian has been to
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your detriment where folks didn't take
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you seriously at a time where you were
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meant to be taken seriously whether that
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was in a business meeting or whether
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that's in your love lab how do you
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navigate that I don't care people can
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have their point of view of you but why
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am I going to succumb to their point of
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view people get to know you over time
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what their impression you is is just an
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impression so why am I going to let that
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defeat the complete human being that I
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am if girls like he too silly well you
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want to miss out on this big old dick
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that's on you
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oh yes was that wrong no that's the end
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of the show thank
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you Marin I you want to miss out on this
25:49
deep conversation right right right deep
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de deep conversation wow that's on you
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but and
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what just happened Mar it's the ball of
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wngs
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effect that's what happened I love this
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dude man give it up for Marlin Williams
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man yo you are so necessary for all of
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us good grief at the Apollo this this
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Saturday November 11th 6:30 at 9:00 p.m.
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get your tickets and I'm at the nyak
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right now tonight and tomorrow nyak two
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shows get your tickets and in New Year's
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I'm in Atlanta at the Roxy get your
26:26
tickets now it will out there it is man
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love you brother I love you more thank
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you brother abolutely
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every time man we want to thank sord for
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coming byday you a citizen baby goat
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meat you
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dope his new his new album Tracy yeah
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it's in beautiful project we'll be back
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tomorrow Lola Brook is coming tomorrow
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yep Lola Brook and John B John B wow
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he's still alive John B still alive yo
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Marlin last time I saw Pac was with no
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was with John B John B they was um he
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was hanging out with John B John B was
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at the how do you want it video shoot oh
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and then we did this last interview with
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Pac on his trailer but John B was in the
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trailer with um JoJo from um um jodessy
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the whole whole time but I know you have
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the relationship with Pac as there some
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reason I I saw Pac 20 minutes before he
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got shot 20 minutes me and Omar I did
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Above the Rim with pot yeah Omar did uh
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juice with pot and uh
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me and and Mitchell also did juice with
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P he was the guy that said you got your
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juice now man he hates it but yeah he's
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he's a we had him on a show what you
27:38
talking about you got to do now man he's
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he's the hood famous and so um I never
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seen a [ __ ] get so much [ __ ] off one
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line this [ __ ] had one line you got the
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juice now I think that's what he did
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when he bust nuts on
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girl you got the juice now baby all
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right so anyway I saw
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P so we saw him at the um he was at the
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Luxor and we was out there for the fight
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and we saw hang out me him Omar cuz we
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all a bunch of Performing our high
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school Hood kids so you it's like [ __ ]
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that grew up in the projects or whatever
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grew up in the hood but we went through
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these performing our high schools and so
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when they did juice and I did above the
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real now we all used to hang out me and
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Jada was cool in California and so 20
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before he got shot we saw Pac we was in
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a cab and oh was like yo I'm going to go
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over there and say what's up I was like
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yeah right bet and then I sh Knight and
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a lot of red [ __ ] I was like no I'm
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good I'll be over here just give po My
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Love he said come on man I said man you
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dark skinned [ __ ] you Audy belly
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buttons don't care about nothing you
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ain't afraid of nothing and so he went
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over and uh we shook his hand and we
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gave him love and you know and then we
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went back how was his energy in that
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moment he like yo what's up it was
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uncertain it was very like hey what's up
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what's up he wasn't present it was like
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he had worded like things on his mind MH
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you know what I mean I think they had a
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fight earlier he wasn't you know I mean
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and I I just felt like he wasn't he was
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thinking about stuff you know how you
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not present you know what I mean like
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you thinking about stuff and you're not
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really present like you know so we shook
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his hand and then we went to the cab and
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he was getting in the BMW that same car
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and he looked at us getting in that cab
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like I know this BMW is fly but man I
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really would like to be in that cab with
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those safe [ __ ] and uh 20 minutes
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later he got shot wow wow yeah damn man
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thank you for sharing that yeah oh man
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so 20 and then I saw biggie 20 minutes
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before he got shot no I swear to God I
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was at you was at that party yes I was
29:39
at that party and my brother Keenan we
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we were I saw big we was on the escal go
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yo I love your family bro y'all are
29:46
funny I keep doing what you do and he
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had I remember we going down the
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escalator and then we got in the car and
29:54
he got in his car and my brother Keenan
29:56
had a drop top Mercedes and we heard po
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K said no go and I had my Range Rover
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and he sped off with like three bad
30:05
[ __ ] in his car and my old ass Rain
30:10
Rover over a speed bump and then I went
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to eat at uh Jerry's Deli yep and I got
30:17
the news that they were at Ceda Sinai
30:20
and puff and Mark Pitts who I went to
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school with and Tracy Lee who went to
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college with me who had uh who was on
30:26
Mark pits labeled by a storm they were
30:29
up there and uh and and and biggy died
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and so you know um there's a picture
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with Tupac and Biggie a famous picture
30:38
parac and Biggie at glamslam yep and if
30:41
you look to the side there's a 19yearold
30:43
Maron way sitting there twisting his
30:46
hair watching the two of them we all
30:49
hung out that night so I think my point
30:51
is um don't hang around me [ __ ] cuz 20
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minutes later shot d minutes from now
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stop no no thanks thanks while you were
31:03
there I was on live on air at 92.3 to
31:07
beat doing the Wake Up Show with keing
31:09
tech wow so we would headed to that
31:12
party I think it was a Vibe party
31:14
because we were coming off of air right
31:15
off right off the um aut off of
31:19
Willshire the beat was right down the
31:21
street so I was rushing to get off the
31:22
air to come to that party and then
31:25
somebody called while we were live on
31:27
the air to tell us biggie just got shot
31:30
you got to announce it I was like I'm
31:33
not announcing that I don't know if
31:35
that's true or not I didn't believe it
31:37
and then when we got off a he just
31:38
wanted to go to that party I didn't want
31:40
to go to the party D I wanted to go to
31:41
the party but I just I just could not
31:43
believe that
31:44
though believe when Pac got shot you
31:47
understand this is like the third time
31:48
he got shot I like oh he got shot'll be
31:51
all right was he what he going when he
31:53
what album he going to make off this
31:55
this time he got shot and uh we thought
31:57
he was going to live yeah we all did cuz
31:59
it was like a week yeah we felt he was
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going to C pck he going to come through
32:03
yeah yeah man I'm going to stay in the
32:04
office for the next 20 minutes you know
32:06
we got security downstairs I'll join you
32:08
you know that was that was tough time
32:10
and that's why I say like all this
32:11
beefing and all this nonsense yo this it
32:14
could escalate right and we too old to
32:17
to be that dumb like and the kids like
32:19
stop with this this this it's stupidity
32:22
man life is so precious I'm so grateful
32:25
to be able to be 51 yeah right to be
32:27
able to have lived a long life my
32:31
parents would have wanted that you know
32:32
I think about his mom you know that's a
32:35
heartbreak for a mother that your son
32:37
you got to mourn your son no parent
32:39
wants to bury their child yeah you know
32:41
so I just think about all that nonsense
32:44
and it's just like let's let's just kill
32:46
that noise they they need to bring
32:47
positivity back to hip-hop I think so
32:49
too let's do I want to hear I miss that
32:51
old school headed for
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self-destruction you headed for
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self-destruction C away it's
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whack
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