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[Applause]
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Rotten Tomatoes gave it like 99 I want
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to know who the one hater was
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on his feet
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what was your first pair of J's you
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earned you wore
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um man my brother Damon was on everybody
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was on Living Color I have no Nikes man
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growing up we I bet we had Converse and
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we didn't have the cool ones we had we
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had the ones Magic Johnson and Larry
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Bird didn't wear
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for real we had to skippies we had to go
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to to the
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you know your sneakers are bad when you
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have to go to the meat section in the
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supermarket to get them
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all man in the 80s I'm serious I'll
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sneakers smell like ground chuck it came
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in a bag
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no they came with the tag right on and
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you can just grab them right there hope
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they got your size if not you're wearing
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two socks
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I mean my brother Sean went shopping my
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dad gave us money to get school clothes
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and we went and we was trying to get the
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Adidas with the shell toe and my father
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you know we knew he would spank us if we
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came back with the Shell Toes because
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there was like 20 something dollars so
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me and Sean got the the ones without the
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shell toe and they were missing the
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shell and we came back and my dad said
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how much are those and we said 13 that
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man whooped our ass
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and we went right back to the store and
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got the meat sneakers
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I didn't get a pair of uh Nikes until my
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brother Damon was on a Living Color and
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I took his he had the Jordan fours and a
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flight suit and I remember I took his
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and he wore a 12 and I wore nine but
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I'll be damned if I didn't ball three
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pairs of socks and put them in a toe and
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I won
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and then we almost got robbed
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by some Brooklyn dudes my Omar Epps was
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wearing my my sneakers he wanted we were
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going to summer school and this man you
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go come he always want to win my [ __ ]
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I'm like [ __ ] get a father again
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my hand me down
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came your Downs down
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my [ __ ] get y'all get a job what's so
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crazy I was just telling Tracy to
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everybody yesterday that man I was
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talking about your dad two weeks ago he
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was saying how your father was like his
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father because oldie
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if you want to be a father then ditch
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some ass whippers out he deserves some
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stealing orange strawberry banana juice
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beat his ass dad beat his ass so
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Omar decided to wear my uh my my flight
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shoes I mean my four Jordan fours in my
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flight outfit and some Brooklyn Nick
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they was coming out of everywhere
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what's that Will Smith movie when um
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one dude formulated from gum on the
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streets
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another dude took off a rat costume that
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came out of nowhere before we knew and
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then they were walking behind us like
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yeah we gonna get that one I got the
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lights came one yo you got your Hammer
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ready Shine Your hammer
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[Music]
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so we took off running and we ran into
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this hottie Krishna place
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on 14th Street in Union Square and the
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guy said I'm sorry my brother you can't
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be here you have to be Hare Krishna I
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looked at Omar and I said how do we join
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yeah
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we live in Brooklyn
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our head shaved we're just looking at
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pamphlets look at that girls
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we're just getting assignments I'm gonna
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take JFK he gonna take LaGuardia
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oh that's too good
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that's your first pair of jeans
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I'll never forget them now I got 1100
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because that's worth the athlete's foot
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I worked at U.S athletic I worked at um
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uh uh Foot Locker I've always had a job
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yes I was always Marlon always had a job
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because my father my mother believed in
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Devil's hands Idle Hands is the devil's
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workshop and
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[ __ ] contribute to the household
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you you live here
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these sheets ain't gonna wash them
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shelves
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my father had us paying rent
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contributing at what age
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I was like can I get some [ __ ] first
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my God can I at least finish stop
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puberty
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I always worked in sneaker stores and um
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when I got older I was like I don't want
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cars I don't want jewelry when I make
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money I want to buy so I want my own
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sneaker store and in my house that's
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what I I have and I don't even keep it
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in my house because it's too many
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sneakers I got a storage facility and I
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just keep my sneakers in like a like a
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U-Haul Storage like yeah like a store
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somebody buy me a pair of sneakers 1100
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probably 1150 and I probably I'd say
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maybe 1200. damn I just gave away 600. I
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was going to say I gave away to like men
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and shelters or
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um well I gave it away to like I give
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like clothes and stuff to Goodwill and
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things like that and sometimes to the
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shelter and and you know I got I don't
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have to give away the shelters remember
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this is 6 347 wins not all of them have
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money and most of them [ __ ] wearing
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size 12. so I I gotta donate to the
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nephews family right yeah man and you
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know and I give to stranger like I took
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all my furniture I was remodeling my
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house I took all my furniture and I gave
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it I donated it to Habitat for the
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humidity
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decent human being I am God God loves me
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he does and Marlon Wayans I mean I like
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that I'd like to hear that he took my
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parents but at least he waited till I
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was 50. yeah if he would have took him
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when they was when I was 20 oh the crack
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I wouldn't
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smoke crack but you guys smoked it up I
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was smoked it and I'll just be like I'd
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have one of my friends with me just be
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like I'ma smoke this rock just don't
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let me suck dick that's something
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I just want this rock just watch my back
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[ __ ]
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say no get it away splash some water on
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me oh my God but you got 50 years old
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that's amazing I like people
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I always look at the bright side right
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I'm so blessed to have had them as long
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as I had them 50 years they met my
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children they they're they're in me I
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still remember them I you know they are
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such a memory in my heart I know what
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they want from my journey my father my
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last words was to him I said I want you
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to fight
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but if you feel like you know you want
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to go home it's okay I said I know where
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to find you right in the Bible and my
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father always said if something ever
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happens to me I'm right there in that
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Bible I want you that's going to be your
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best friend so when I got my Bible right
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by my bed and when I want to see my
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father I talked I read that Bible and
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honor his father so wow God raised my
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father so he had to be a great man
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absolutely his real daddy I don't know
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where that [ __ ] at but God God took
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care of how on that and if he wasn't he
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was such a a great dad like my mama
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cursed him out so much I said pray he
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left
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but then I realized when my mama gone I
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realized why she was cursing him out
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this [ __ ] hard-headed you don't listen
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to nothing I told him to move to
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California yeah I'll get that Sean come
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on yeah you gotta be out there never
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worry I was like this dude and just you
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know I think over time he just really he
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missed my mother yeah like when my
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mother died my dad threw up at the
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funeral like like like it was like a
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like the team America puppet
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sweating yeah and I know my mother she
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sat up in a coffin like I know you ain't
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doing this [ __ ] at my funeral hold your
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[ __ ] together
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but her attitude looked like if I could
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get up right now I would get up and so
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my dad
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threw up and he went to New York and
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when he went to New York we begged him
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to stay out in Cali and when he went to
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New York I said to my brother I said I
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know he's going home to die because you
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know he missed my mother and I slowly
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watched him and like day by day I would
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fly back to New York once twice a month
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sometimes three times a month just take
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him to dinner whatever once he stopped
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going out covet hit he didn't want to
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quarantine with us he didn't just had
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his vodka and his drinks and you know I
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just watched him go and all I could
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think was you know for three years
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watching him you know and he would miss
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my mom and I just go damn
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my mother must have had some incredible
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[ __ ] this [ __ ] follow her ah man they
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used to love somebody that much you like
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I'm gonna kill myself now I ain't got no
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reason to live I'm a starve and drink
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for three years the ass was that good
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damn power damn but the love was that
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power right you call it love [ __ ] they
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had 10 kids they were doing some [ __ ]
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yeah so I had the opportunity to see air
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which was just incredible yes thank you
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truly truly um
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Michael Jordan not being interested in
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Nike of course he wanted Adidas right it
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made me think in your career has there
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ever been a project that landed on your
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lap and he was like not into it but the
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pitch was so Stellar you were just like
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[ __ ] it
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no but there has been things
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where we pitched and we were
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like poached by maybe five different
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companies
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and you have to make a choice right so
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we were Michael Jordan I mean we pitched
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white chicks and little man we had a
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bidding war right
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with
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DreamWorks it was Fox it was uh the
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Weinstein Company
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uh Miramax Dimension which did the scary
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movie and then it was Joe Roth and
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what's the name of that company uh
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Revolution
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I worked with Joe Pryor we had worked
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with the round the weinsteins
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and they had [ __ ] us on Scary Movie
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and we was like [ __ ] y'all we ain't
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doing that [ __ ] with them they offered
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the most money they came over the top
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and offered more money because we had
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that we had three projects we had the
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new scary movie that we was gonna do
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alien flick and uh they were like they
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offered more money and we got so
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mistreated by them in the past that we
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was like you know what I'll take less
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money to have a better experience and so
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we went with Joe Roth and we did white
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chicks and little man and they got mad
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and literally stole the movie that we
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pitched them for scary movie three and
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they still and they stood out what uh
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scary movie three oh and they stole it
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really stole it stole it and me and my
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brothers was like choke on it yeah you
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can't do nothing about it [ __ ] yeah we
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gonna make a classic over here we're
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gonna we're gonna go over there sorry
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take that take that because all you're
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gonna do is ruin your franchise which is
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what they did you had a wonderful
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franchise you think franchises just
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happen because you putting people in a
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movie no
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we created the movie we knew what it was
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we know how to make it happen you think
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other people can execute this I'll give
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them one movie take that stolen idea now
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watch every movie after that my Time
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Square movie five came out I did a
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haunted house and haunted house did
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better numbers than scary movie and we I
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paid only a million and a half to do the
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movie so you know there's just sometimes
13:15
it's about Better Business right in
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business there's a Karma to business you
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have to be good it's not just about the
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money it's about how do I feel working
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here I'm not a toxic person I like love
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I like having fun I like to laugh I will
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work my ass off Sun up the sun down just
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feed me make sure I'm there make sure
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I'm comfortable I will work my ass off
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there's never a day I'm not gonna hit
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the mark
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I want a good experience life is too
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short I'm 50. life is too short yeah to
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have any kind of [ __ ] in any kind of
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experience I won't be the [ __ ] and I
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won't accept that kind of treatment from
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anybody because my life is short and
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time is the most valuable thing that I
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have and you think I'ma waste it on your
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ass and your bad energy [ __ ] find your
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father leave me the [ __ ] alone damn man
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I think is there anything else you want
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to say yes watch my special God loves me
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and see why God loves me and uh it's
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doing really well on HBO Max
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um it's a really funny special and I say
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I knew God loved me you should see it
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you're gonna love it oh you have to
14:23
watch it this song You're gonna watch it
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you haven't seen
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let's be a man Heather you're gonna call
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me and be like you you stupid
14:31
get them it's called God love me I say I
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knew God loved me on March 27 2022 at
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approximately 10 32 PM Eastern Standard
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Time which is 7 32 Pacific because at
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that exact time once and when Chris Rock
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cracked the joke on Jada Pinkett Smith
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and Will Smith got up and slapped Chris
14:48
Rock that had nothing to do with Chris
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nothing dude will nothing do with Jada
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that was God He Loves Me Now I want you
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to see why that slap had nothing to do
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with them and everything to do with me
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and that's out on HBO Max right now and
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then I'm coming your way Tampa I'm gonna
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be uh doing some stand-up at your way on
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uh damn damn on uh May 4th I'm gonna be
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at the Hard Rock the Seminole Hard Rock
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that's May 4th and then Chicago I got 12
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shows I'm doing in Chicago at the
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Schomburg improv they're selling out so
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hurry up Marlon kind of famous right now
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oh yeah get your tickets for the uh the
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Chicago improv and then um a lot of
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things are sold out y'all I'm gonna be
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at the Waterloo New York damn that sold
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out too uh
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yeah
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I've been trying to beat somebody hey
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can you get Sean what's in Damon
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schedule would you ever uh Shantae is a
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hilarious your cousin would you put her
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up to Contour with you absolutely not
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here's the thing I love Shantae but
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she almost fought me
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I get over that and she hits hard
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she you know look she she crazy she
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crazy little lesbian this woman elbowed
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me like a dude I said hey
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now don't do that Shantae I'm a father
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and once I looked down and seen her
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titties I was like all right
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she hit me like a dude I was like damn
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she killing it bro but she funniest but
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I actually I put Shantae and she got mad
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at me
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because I farted on her
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I was gonna say what you do I'm an uncle
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and that's what we do I farted on her
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and then she was like you know Shantae
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she's dressed like a dude I fought her
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she goes I'm a girl I said oh now you
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want to be a girl
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but we made up and she loved me I love I
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love it and um she is killing it and she
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is such a talented
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um just a talented from every
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perspective because I think it's
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interesting that she has a female
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perspective yet she deals with like a
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dude yeah and I just think that that is
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always so funny and I think it's because
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she grew up around me and my brothers
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and she was always like our little you
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know one of the boys and so to see her
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and see her perspective on Comedy is
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really great
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um and I I as my tour progresses I
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definitely will take Shantae I put her
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in uh another special I did which is
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Headliners if y'all need to watch what
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Marlon do I'll be watching to take a
17:31
[ __ ]
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Jesus she's just ghosting that's an
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Irish that was the Irish good product to
17:37
her soul man that was a Irish goodbye
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without drinking she ain't drunk so
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that's I got a [ __ ] you didn't hear that
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she's on Earth if you have to be at the
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happy hour mom thank you for coming
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through brother I appreciate you thank
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you for having me every time man I want
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you to know that I I am yes I am hurting
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I lost my father who was one of my
18:00
dearest friends but the one thing I got
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from him my mother that I want to give
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to all your listeners is you know
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sometimes in your worst moment it's okay
18:08
to still feel Joy it's okay to search
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for Smiles it's okay to just be happy
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and the world don't have to know what
18:17
you feel yeah and sometimes you could
18:19
convince yourself that you're actually
18:21
happy when you're really broken and I
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went on stage and I did stand up I I
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write I was my I found out my father
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died 15 minutes before my set and I went
18:31
and I did two shows and then after the
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show I cried my ass off but the joy of
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what I do is that every stage I get on I
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get to find Smiles so in your life find
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Smiles you will need them they will save
18:45
your life I love y'all love you man
18:47
thank you for all the overwhelming
18:49
support the love the Emoji hands the
18:51
prayers the doves and even the haters
18:54
um [ __ ] y'all and thank y'all
18:57
Marlon Williams thank you brother thank
18:59
you go see it April 5th all right we'll
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be back tomorrow you guys thank you for
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tuning in
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