The REAL Story Behind Mark Curry vs. Steve Harvey Feud! 😲 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE

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let me tell you something about that
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voice right there go ahead now put your
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headphones on man go ahead Mark you put
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your headphones on I said this last time
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that he's like a doctor you know when
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you ask what is this profession he
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doesn't have to just say comedy he can
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say medicine because what he says is
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healing it's like medicine Mark Curry
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since
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1982 has always had the ability to make
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people in Oakland and people around
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Northern California the bay area which
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is a challenge in place to grow up in he
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always had the ability to make us laugh
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this is from the 80s this is when the
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crack era became big this is when a lot
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of young people were selling drugs and
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doing things in the streets and putting
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their lives on the line not just for
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incarceration but just with mortality
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cuz that's where Oakland was and you was
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either a rapper or you was in those
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streets but not many people was doing
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comedy that's what makes lenel special
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give it up for l
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and the thing about him Mark could go do
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comedy in sabran park he
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could he could do comedy in Royal Park
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yes he could do comedy in Maxwell Park
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he could do comedy in mosswood park he
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could do comedy in San Antonio Park he
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could do comedy in Diamond Park he could
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do come on man Shin bright like diamond
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the park he could do uh what's at theary
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you know he could do uh San Francisco
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it's funny I performed at all those
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places and I know I was crazy I did a
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show at Diamond Park back in the day you
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did a show in Diamond
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Park yo and these places in these areas
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are areas that not everyone's going to
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be able to walk in and make you laugh
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and he's been able to do that for over
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you see two three over four decades is
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it four yes wow I never count I never
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use numbers okay I never I I was
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wondering how long it was I never I
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never looked it up you never looked you
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over four you don't have to I do the
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math that's over four brother that's 40
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years yeah yeah 42 to be exact 42 years
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ladies and gentlemen how many people can
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say they do something on a high level
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you know Mr Cooper you know him as the
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host of a Showtime at the Apollo you
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know him he was inducted to the Hall of
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Fame
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the one and only Oakland's finest give
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it up for Mark Curry ladies and
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gentlemen Curry here thank you very much
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thank you I am in the house since 40 40
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years in the game I didn't even know
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that you look amazing Brother come on
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man and I never say numbers I never say
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numbers because you look at numbers and
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numbers is is numbers you know numbers
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you know numbers is something we did in
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Oakland back in the day you know so I
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never look at numbers look num I don't
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look at numbers cuz you say 40 years in
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the game you start thinking about you
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say I'm slow man I've been doing this
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that long I just I'm a rookie and a vet
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that's where I look every time I wake up
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I'm a rookie and a vet uh you know I go
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in there I tried to it's my first time
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on stage I can't believe I've been doing
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it 42 years wow that's crazy you gotta
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be proud of yourself though yes because
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think of the first year you didn't know
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if it was going to work no I was still
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working at pay and safe drugstore in
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Berkeley California damn pay and save I
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was working at pay and save yes I worked
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at pay and save you guys I do shows sign
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autographs and go back to work at pay sa
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I'm you know I'm a town man I like to
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have my money so my money that the the
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you know the drugstore was my legitimate
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money that I knew I had to have and so I
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stayed on that job and I did comedy at
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night I would drive I would get off at 3
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o'clock drive to Los Angeles do a show
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at 8 damn and um be back Monday to do
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you know to be at work wow wow and then
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how much would you make on that show
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when you drive to Los Angeles Maybe you
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no money 350 200 500 750 that that was
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distribution yeah that was distribution
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from Oakland to La jokes I'm instead of
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joke I'm selling you know instead of
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dope I'm selling joke you about the
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pound so w so we moving it so we moving
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this weight moving This Way La
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everywhere Las Vegas driving everywhere
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that's all I would do I would drive but
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Monday you guys I had to be at work at
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12:00 pay I diday and so how much was
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the the the salary you paying what was
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you making at I still have my paycheck
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at home I was making three like 75 a
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week or something like that 375 a week
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yeah yeah $300 so one paycheck would go
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to my rent and the other paycheck I
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would live on wow yeah doing that I did
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that and so from yeah from paying save I
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went straight to Hollywood 98 no 82nd
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Avenue from 82nd Avenue to Hollywood
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82nd come on man there you go
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man 82 what maor bank ma Bank I'm 7 not
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700 but I moved to 80 82nd talking that
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[ __ ] he said 700 700 we representing you
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know you know we had the spot we had the
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best spot so and so we and so that's
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that's the history man I've been doing
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this so long and you're right when I
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started it was the crack era so you know
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you had to you had to finesse your joke
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so you get shot straight up no for real
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straight up that's Survival it was
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survival it it was survival ComEd that's
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why I do a lot of stuff on crack addicts
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you know you know because I I would see
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them crack addicts are incredible people
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I just saw one he had a washer and dryer
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and the washer was still spinning
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oh but he had a TV on top and the TV was
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working and it had the game on I said
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what's the score play he said magic hurt
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I be watching magic hurt said oh the
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Ingenuity of these dudes see he that's
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the town
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man now Mark is it true that the first
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time you ever performed at a comedy club
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was off of a D yes it was it was at it
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was at a dare it was old the lucky lion
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over on hagenburger the lucky the lucky
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lion the ghetto spot over in hagenberger
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and um and uh it was I wanted to do
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comedy it was a Gong Show and soulbeat
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was doing this it was a Gong Show so now
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Lun worked on Sobe yeah yeah she worked
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you see I'm making a
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connection right right right so bam I
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got gong but I was still on the mic I
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still was floating on the mic I was
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saying this raggedy place I should have
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you know this money I could have and the
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people were laughing at what I was
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saying I said I said right then our star
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was born and right then you know I
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started doing comedy and uh funny thing
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about it was I couldn't get into none of
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the the the white comedy clubs like the
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punchline and all these let me in but
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here I am opening up at the Oakland
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College [ __ ] you know with Bill Graham
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for all the rap shows I I opened up LL
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KJ um Eric B and rock Kim that's what
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that's what NWA NWA was the first On's
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on they and IC te they would they were
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just little groups they were nothing and
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I opened Eric B and all them and I saw
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Eric B later and he remembered that show
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82 Bill Graham would say to me he didn't
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even say my name comedian go out because
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when they start fighting every rap show
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when when the group went down they just
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start fighting that's what they do
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because there was nothing else to do so
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you fought so he they would push me out
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there and I would do comedy and I knew
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half the dudes I knew who was banging
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who was warn who was not so I would go
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out and perform at the Oakland Coliseum
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before I could even get into any comedy
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club that's crazy they wouldn't even let
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me in the comedy club experiencing us
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all this I'm like I just did the
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Coliseum fool yeah look at look at you
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now man on Mark Curry you did a joke you
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used to um you did a joke about KLA
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Harris waiting on her time for Joe Biden
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to fall off so she could be president
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you joked about that yes now look what
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happened I know exactly that is how you
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know that how you know that
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come on man stop yeah
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wow she was waiting you know she was
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backstage did he fall did he fall go see
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if he fell oh he didn't fall you know
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what he didn't fall did he fall go see
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go see go see so something like that
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were you looking at okay how can I
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insert humor into politics or and or
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were you also making a prediction no I
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was just in certain comedy and you know
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and you know I the prediction came came
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right you know personally I want my
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president old I want my president old I
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want him old so when he signing bills he
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going to look at them he going to read
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them and see them I want him old I want
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him slow I want a slow president about
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that you want her old now oh no no no
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she's going to be phenomenal beautiful
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black woman is President it's going to
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be phenomenal she going to walk in like
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this first of all you're late thank you
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you're late all yeah black women going
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to get mad and you know after a while
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she going to say you know it's funny how
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that you you walk in here you want1
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trillion but you can't give me a
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birthday card thank you very much we'll
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take a look it's going to be it's going
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to be accountability accountability in
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the White House come on now cability I
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like that comil ability I like that know
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they going to change them drapes first
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thing T them old drapes in that white
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house that them drapes been in there for
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I don't know how long she GNA change
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them drapes black women go let's change
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these drapes cuz they funky let's just
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change these drapes this smells like oo
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racism or something it smells like
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she's from Oakland yeah she's from and
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she's from Oakland come on man now in
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all seriousness how how big is this that
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this woman you know now she's in this
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seat and you know we're voting for her
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yes this is the most this is the most
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incredible thing ever and I I think that
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is women women give a chance you know
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women didn't have a voice now women have
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a voice I mean these other people taking
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women's everything away so having a
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sister in from Oakland with the roots of
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the Black Panthers and the roots of of
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of our fighting powerful powerful come
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on man get that big round of applause I
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love it Oakland got a lot of roots baby
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talk about the Black Panthers and it's
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influence on Oakland As a community and
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and even on you I'm going tell you this
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a story of the Black Panthers I was one
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of the first children to get the wick
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program the Black Panthers started the
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wick program when I was a little boy it
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was an ad in the paper that the Black
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Panthers and Huey Newton they were
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giving out free food and I know I was
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the first boy there cuz I had a 5-speed
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bicycle and I was about six foot tall
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and I remember getting that package from
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the truck and I remember because it had
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uh cereal sweet cereal I said oh I love
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this so I I can honestly say I was the
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first black child to receive Wick
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program out of Oakland Out of the Black
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Panthers bam I had a chance to meet huie
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P Newton working at pan safe drugstore
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I'm working in I'm working listen I'm
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working at pay the story gets deeper his
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wife would come in for R I didn't know
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it was his wife it was just a beautiful
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lady I always speak to her I never knew
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it was it was huie Newton's wife and so
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had a son he knew had a son so he got
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caught stealing so she brought the
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little boy back to me and tell him to
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give me you know before Mr Cooper a
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speech you know hey don't so I told him
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don't steal in it ain't d d d come to
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find out it was huie P Newton's son wow
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and so huie P Newton came in one day I'm
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at to register I said is that Hy Pete
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Newton so I can honestly say that I had
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a chance to have conversation with huy
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Pete what was he like at that time he
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was incredible he talked real he was he
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was he was he was he was so excited that
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I knew about the party and then I told
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him my sister was in the blank P my
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sister was a black panther she was a
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Decoy for Angela Davis so all the
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light-skinned girls with big naturals
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when Angela Davis went to a building 15
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20 women went that way so they wouldn't
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follow her and that was one of my
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sister's jobs yeah yeah oh my gosh hold
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up stop for a second Mark hold up we got
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what so we got popo coming to the house
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asking for Angela Davis that's true I
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remember that they came about seven deep
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seven deep you know as a black kid you
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knew not the answer to the door don't
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say nothing M don't say nothing don't
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say nothing y don't say nothing
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especially in Oakland yeah Oakland so
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that so that's so I got a chance you
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know this iconic figures I got a chance
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to talk to huie P new man that's amazing
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bro you know so I talk to him about the
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movement he he wrapped to me a little
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bit so that to me is incredible you know
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to meet these iconic people and just to
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touch them and say hello and speak with
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him I can honestly say that Mark Curry
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is here man you got a show tonight too
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man at son H he's going to be at Sony
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Hall tonight you doing one show or two
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shows one show sir one show pop up one
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show only we need people to down there
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Sony Music Hall okay Sony Music Hall is
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at 235 West 46 Street here in New York
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that's Manhattan that's Time Square
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pretty much that's two blocks over yes
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come on too and the real Mark curry.com
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hit me and I'll give you guys some
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tickets if you hit me on my oh on
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Instagram no my website the real Mar
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Curry on yeah.com the real Mar curry.
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and you can get tickets to see him
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tonight at Sony Music Hall we going to
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come back talk more with Mark Curry got
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let's let's go to Oakland man give us a
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Oakland go go Tony what do you want to
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hear who just tell tell me the artist
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not the song you know give me some of
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that E40 E40 you want some
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40 give me some 40 out you know yo you
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know me and 40 found out we with blood
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relatives like four four years five
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years ago yeah never knew wow that whole
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time I want to I want to come back and
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find out about the relationships you
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made over the years sway he going dumb
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right
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now I like it man Mark shake them dreads
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he shook his dreads he shook them
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off sh him off yo I love this man right
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here Mark Curry man I love you brother
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you symbolize so much I love you too man
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you are love you're such a pillar in our
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in our community and there's so many
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people including myself who have been
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inspired by people like you and Lenell
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and the success that you have had and
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continue to have but the thing about
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Lenell and you is it's not it's jokes to
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make you laugh to make you feel good but
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to make you think that's what it's all
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about it's to make you think to make you
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think these jokes got to make you think
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because you look at you look at uh
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was all
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these players playing on steroids yeah
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Jackie Robinson was was playing on
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racism think about that every time you
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know he get up the pitch they would talk
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to him hey boy you going to hit the ball
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boy and that ball was white all
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right yo I'm actually D that's why he
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was hitting them home runs like that all
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right all right I'm good I'm good I'm
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good that's how he that's that's how he
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got it out of his system that's it
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that's it they talk about the hood
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doesn't have sustainability are you
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crazy we recycle I saw a brother right
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up on the SC scooter rob a dude then two
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dudes robbed him and a DOD Challenger
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when the dod Challenger SUV robbed him I
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said that's recycling that's
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sustainability in the hood oh we keeping
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it together in the Hood the money didn't
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go nowhere no trickle down there you go
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Mar that's the Oakland Economy right
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there right let the dope dealers out of
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jail you know why last thing the dope
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dealers need the dope dealers need to
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teach math at the University who better
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all right imagine Ault biller teaching
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math at a univ we got $500 we got $500
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first of all I want everybody to go get
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your books and take your books back and
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get the receipt boom boom and then take
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that receipt and copy it that way we
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double that money right there that $500
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that's $1,000 can you buy that we take
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that put it into a 501c program put that
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in no tax when we take that out bam we
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take that F and go get a rental car we
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wreck the rental car boom we get an
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accident we could take $10,000 from that
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accident that we may get boom pretty
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soon we got $5,000 that $5,000 you give
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to the right people can double that
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money up we pretty soon we in the
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corporation we got $0000 in one day can
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you buy that damn man free to drug deal
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and Mark Curry say he don't like numbers
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he don't like no you just did a whole
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lot of numbers right I got confused
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right there that's once you got to a
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thousand I was like this is too much um
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man I love this Mark carry give him a
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big round of applause I feel good you
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you you're the youngest of eight how
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many people I'm I'm the baby of eight
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kids growing up in in the in the in the
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hood Oakland we had a two-bedroom house
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m two bed 1018 73rd Avenue baby yeah I
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was in bed at 3:00 just to get a
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bed to get a B but how did y'all where
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did y'all sleep like with eight kids you
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know what I didn't I never had a bed
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this is true I didn't have a bed till my
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sister moved out I was about 18 so I
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just I slept Community you know whoever
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a bed I was a little one so I SLE I
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didn't have a bed that's crazy I didn't
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have a bed that's I never thought about
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that I didn't have a bed Mark Curry
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never had a bed I didn't have a dang I
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didn't have a bed till I was 18
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tell my sister she had canopy beds and
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my mama refused to get rid of the canopy
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I paid too much for those I'm a grown
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man with two canopy beds in my room yeah
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that's true but then you got you got
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kicked out at what age I got kicked out
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at 18 straight up I got kicked your
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father kicked you out my father kicked
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me out cuz father's was hard then you
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know fathers was hard soon as he got a
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bed he got kicked out I got kicked out
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cuz my father was hard you know the kids
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talk back now I couldn't have talked
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back to my father my kids talk back I
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said something back to my father he
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would have shot me in the kitchen
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straight up father black fathers didn't
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play I remember I said to Father Merry
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Christmas he said because you ain't
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paying for nothing
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that's didn't mess me up that's black
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father but did he see you succeed yes
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the only thing about it was I was the
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only one with a father at home in the
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whole ghetto I don't think I was the
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only one in my whole Community with a
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father I said why I got to have a father
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at home I got to be home at seven I
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can't smoke nothing can't drink nothing
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can't cuss I was the only one with a
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father at home but my father saw me when
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I did but I thank you Jesus for that
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because it made me right and the first
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time my father saw me perform was when I
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did Jamie Fox when I did the sergeant
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easy on Jamie Fox and the reason I acted
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like that you guys because it was the
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first time my daddy came down the
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Hollywood and hung with me and so I said
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let me show him what I can do and that
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was that Jamie Fox episode and he saw it
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he saw it he was in the he was in the
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audience you guys he was in the audience
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my father was there and he saw that and
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I had a boat at the time and I took him
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out on the it was his birthday my boat
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was called the sea pimp and so I took
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him out on the birthday he said to me he
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said this the best birthday I ever had
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in my whole life so oh my goodness that
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was the greatest time oh my God that was
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the greatest time ever that my father
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cuz he didn't come to Mr Cooper he
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really didn't come yeah I don't know why
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but you know what I'm talk about it but
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he saw me at Jamie Fox I said let me
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show him what I can do what your boy can
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do come on he got to see that come on
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man man I'm going to go to these phone
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lines real quick too 88 742
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3345 uhoh we got the uh the the Oakland
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offici is on the line from the biggest
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podcast in Northern California no voters
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give it up for L rap
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l yo what's happen what's up with y'all
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man how y'all doing what's up you you
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you still in the
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bed yeah I can tell I'm get up I can
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tell you still in the bed yo yo so mark
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this is family Lord Rab's family my
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cousin C my first cousin C RAB are
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brothers and they got a podcast called
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No voters and um and you know it's
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official what's up fellas how you guys
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doing out
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there good how you doing I'm doing
19:43
excellent man I'm excellent man we in
19:45
there
19:47
chilling man I I I I love I love what
19:50
you're doing man you always been a hero
19:51
in Oakland you know that man and um oh
19:54
man from the from the black parties to
19:56
sway said like the the the the the being
19:59
on two short to representing Oakland in
20:02
the show but a lot of people don't know
20:05
what I wanted to call in and say a lot
20:06
of people don't know your connection
20:08
from Young do with your nephew being in
20:10
that video man I want you to speak on
20:12
that a little bit for everybody well
20:13
young do was my you know he was my
20:15
little young home homie he would come to
20:17
my house in LA and I have a CD when you
20:20
know how you had the CD with your phone
20:21
number still on it yeah with do I got
20:24
that I still got his CD you know you you
20:25
know you first passing out CD he would
20:27
come to my house I renting cars and he
20:30
was saying I'mma do this rap thing you
20:32
know it was all right but you know he
20:34
had he had such a big dream and we wrote
20:36
a movie together I mote I wrote a movie
20:38
for Dolph me and Dolph was gonna do a
20:39
movie he had enough we was gonna put the
20:41
he's GNA put the money up I remember I
20:42
said he said I said man how much you
20:44
want to put up I said who you trying to
20:46
get he said man uh I'm trying to get
20:48
Tiffany hattis he said he may be expens
20:50
she may be expensive he said I got it he
20:52
was ready he was ready to drop a 500 it
20:54
was nothing on 500k easily for Tiffany
20:57
hadish wow if you go over Dolph's house
20:59
he had at least he had every kind of car
21:02
there was he had every car that was out
21:04
wrapped with new rims on it I'm like and
21:06
they was busting all the windows out I
21:07
love these dudes yeah man yeah young
21:09
Dolph was he was a little young young
21:11
you know when he got you know that was a
21:13
terrible situation he was a great
21:14
business mind oh my God he was an
21:16
incredible business M incredible
21:18
business mind that was the thing he did
21:20
all those videos he did all that he
21:22
didn't have a manager he did all of that
21:23
stuff himself so he was incredible and
21:25
he gave back a lot too that people
21:27
didn't realize he did a lot of work as
21:29
well he did a whole lot of charitable
21:31
work you know for Memphis so that was my
21:33
Young Homie I didn't know how you guys
21:34
know I knew that how do you guys know
21:36
this stuff Mark you're Mark Curry man
21:37
and that's l r come on man and I'm me so
21:41
hey hey let me I got both I got both of
21:43
y'all here this is a question I want to
21:45
ask you uh these are Oakland offici
21:47
Noles right here right business like
21:50
what and Mark used to play basketball in
21:52
high school then and then he quit yeah
21:54
all right he wanted to play for the
21:55
Warriors and um so when you see hanging
21:57
Mr Cooper Mr Cooper in that in that
22:00
series actually got a 10day contract
22:02
right okay so I remember all this
22:04
brother and so I want to I want I want
22:07
to ask you all um let's talk about the
22:11
Warriors how would the Run TMC Warriors
22:14
stack up against the Splash Brothers KD
22:17
Warriors in seven games oh oh they
22:22
wouldn't they wouldn't match up cuz we
22:24
had a few individuals that was great and
22:27
we had some SP but Don Nelson and the
22:30
players was
22:31
high what you know what what he say he
22:34
said they was high h i g not High Street
22:40
from high not all of them Tim Hardway no
22:45
Tim wasn't High Tim Tim no Tim Tim that
22:48
would have been a great game the
22:50
crossover was nice Mitch Richmond was
22:52
almost like um was who matched up with
22:55
clay and uh and Mullen was just another
22:58
when I played for the Warriors let me
22:59
tell you guys you guys want to hear a
23:00
story yes you guys I got story Heather
23:03
go ahead Heather are you related to Del
23:05
Curry in anyway um Steph Curry Dell
23:07
Curry you know we all Shooters
23:10
baby we all Shooters I just looked at
23:12
your last name when he was talking about
23:15
who and I'm like wait a minute how long
23:17
did you play for the Warriors I this
23:19
when I played for the Warriors I got the
23:21
10day contract right spree well was my
23:24
roommate spr was my roommate I go into
23:27
the Oakland see him to go to the
23:29
practice they won't let me in because
23:31
I'm not a Golden State Warrior they know
23:33
I'm Mr Cooper they say you Mr Cooper
23:35
baby but uh we can't let you in this I'm
23:38
I'm so I'm being late for the NBA first
23:40
practice uhuh my daddy worked at the
23:43
Coliseum so I called my daddy he rolled
23:45
up and let me in so here I am the first
23:47
day of practice for the NBA I'm late I
23:50
walk in the whole team sitting there oh
23:52
my God coach Nelson looked at me said
23:54
hey what's up Hollywood I'm glad you can
23:56
make it it's like this come Step Up up
23:58
here on the top of the key it's like
24:00
this you going to take a shot if you
24:02
miss it the whole team Run 10 laps and
24:04
you don't have to I was like what
24:07
immediately they start cussing me out
24:08
Tim Hardway said mother blang bangang
24:10
bang blang I was like so boom top of the
24:13
key I take the
24:18
shot I make it like what what like what
24:23
tell business like what come on man I
24:26
made it I made it you made the shot I
24:29
made the shot wow bro and Bam and here I
24:31
am practicing with the Golden State
24:33
Warriors and I wasn't the last cut I
24:35
wasn't the last cut so I'm balling so
24:37
I'm in the game with Charles Barkley he
24:39
walk I'm not supposed to score they said
24:41
you know in this episode you're supposed
24:43
to score you're supposed to be sad we
24:44
write the episode but Charles Barkley
24:46
said something to me I'm from the town
24:47
so I like yeah whoa whoa whoa whoa um
24:50
you know he said something called me a
24:51
bee I like who you talking to homie and
24:54
so we we fighting on they can hear you
24:56
they can hear us on the on the mon a
24:58
monitor so I said no man you got me
25:00
mixed up with somebody else homie so me
25:02
and him we went at it immediately cuz he
25:05
he tried to punk me I said no we ain't
25:07
you Ain can't call me no names homie
25:08
Charles Barkley called you a b he called
25:10
me boom he said yeah whatever whatever
25:12
he didn't think I cuz he dunked on me so
25:14
he didn't think I was G to score so I
25:16
said they would they didn't want me to
25:17
score I said give me the ball I said
25:19
make sure you give me the ball boom gave
25:22
me the ball turned around and called him
25:23
one right
25:25
back town business Town business
25:29
and and he came on to the show this is
25:31
true he came on to the show we had Funk
25:34
he didn't want to say nothing to me I
25:35
opened up the door and he didn't he
25:37
didn't speak to me you guys I said oh
25:39
hell no I said I'm done I'm gone how
25:41
much you pay him 50,000 I give him
25:43
50,000 get him out go get me Gary Payton
25:45
I didn't want this dude anyway I wanted
25:47
Gary pton they didn't want to give me
25:48
Gary pton so they gave me Charles Barker
25:51
and so I me he we had Funk the whole
25:53
time you and Charles bar Charles he
25:55
didn't say nothing to me on my show I
25:57
said homie you you Ain going to talk to
25:58
me on my show I the producer I said no
26:01
heck no so it was it was Funk have you
26:03
seen him since I've seen him since we
26:05
cool we cool okay good I'm glad there
26:06
you go that's how you in the story
26:08
that's how we cool now that's all that
26:10
matters at that time at that time and so
26:13
I'm the only one to ever score in the
26:15
NBA game thank you very much and you're
26:17
not related to D Curry yall just play
26:19
shoters we just Shooters we just
26:20
Shooters I don't believe you but all
26:22
right cry Curry s in the morning come on
26:25
you see us Mark Curry is live on his
26:28
instag Instagram IG stories make sure
26:30
you follow him at the real Mark Curry uh
26:33
and RAB from Lord RAB is here from no
26:35
vultures podcast no vultur baby no
26:38
vultures get them vultures off you fool
26:40
okay so this is what I'mma do while we
26:42
got R got go ahead we got to get Mark in
26:45
there we got no vultures you got to do
26:48
the podcast CU you know what and I don't
26:50
like no vultures I like that you can't
26:51
have no vultures only way vultur you got
26:53
to be dead meat am I
26:55
right that's right right that's right so
26:57
you never dead me always keep moving so
26:59
the voes will stay away from there you
27:01
go I'll connect y'all to Mark you and R
27:03
y'all should definitely sit down and do
27:05
something I'mma bra Before I Let You Go
27:08
Mark what are your you you've been
27:10
around a good interviewer man you're a
27:11
good interviewer you saying stuff I've
27:13
never thought well that's good Mark
27:16
welcome to the um to the top of the pile
27:19
all right um wow let me ask you this
27:22
that I got you both here you watched the
27:24
hip-hop scene evolve yes in Northern
27:27
California
27:28
put out his first album I want to say in
27:31
1982 oh wow a year before Run DMC put
27:34
out their first album people don't
27:36
realize this right right I got some
27:39
another story for you hit me first time
27:41
I opened up you know for two short and
27:45
and everybody was when that album came
27:47
out two short had on a leather leather
27:50
suit Run DMC was no UFO I think was
27:54
there UTF UT TFO and I opened up that
27:57
show M and two short I thought I did
28:00
comedy in 87 but I was talking to two
28:02
short he said no he two short told me 82
28:05
I said why you saying that he said
28:06
because I was he because I opened up for
28:09
that show he said that show was 82 so
28:12
bam and I didn't get paid I remember blo
28:14
be didn't pay me that I was I was
28:16
waiting for my money and I didn't get
28:17
him but you know but I remember that and
28:19
I remember to short when that album came
28:22
out and I remember that distinctly and
28:24
he was going against Run DMC come on man
28:27
that's true Real History now now if you
28:29
get
28:30
short I don't know if anybody got a
28:32
better memory about the business than
28:34
two short right is incredible with the
28:36
with the business with the business and
28:38
you got to consider that that man has
28:40
been since 1982 42 years wow right in
28:44
your opin for for your on your own
28:46
personal list what are your top five
28:49
albums that ever come out of the Bay
28:51
Area wow top five albums ever come out
28:54
of the Bay Area let's look at Sly Stone
28:57
coming out of Sly Stone straight from
28:58
the Yay Area
29:00
baby um bam coming out also I liked um
29:04
coming out of course to short too short
29:06
was the moniker of life to to us growing
29:09
up he he helped us out um E40 everything
29:12
he came up with sprinkle me came out we
29:14
got to we got to give him up for that uh
29:16
let's go back to uh uh even The Whispers
29:19
The Whispers Whispers did they thing
29:21
coming out to Bay Area baby come on come
29:23
on he digging in the crate yeah yep um
29:25
um um I'm going throw the Tony's in
29:27
there you got to throw the Tony in they
29:29
they didn't they they they were
29:31
incredible yeah and still are they still
29:33
are who else Hammer oh MC Hammer we
29:37
never we never we never vibed never H
29:39
with hammer I never really you know hung
29:41
out with him or did anything with him I
29:43
wish he would have took me on tour back
29:45
then but he didn't but you know he was
29:47
incredible he was incredible he was
29:48
beyond incredible Hammer I remember I
29:51
saw hammer in Hayward I had never seen
29:52
anything like that I had never seen
29:55
anybody yeah he was incredible what was
29:57
that noise
29:58
Hammer let's get it started and your DJ
30:02
and your DJ was weak
30:05
yeah hey RAB what about
30:08
you um let's talk about newer artists
30:11
who are those standout newer artists you
30:13
think people should
30:14
know right now as of right
30:18
now L Russell yes L Russell I like L
30:22
Russell Luss right now Luss L Russell
30:25
most definitely you got John Matt a
30:28
young guy he's fresh on the scene I
30:31
like uh who else we got we got uh we got
30:35
uh Jane all black
30:38
Jane po we got Jane Hancock we
30:43
got Mr Fab we got DB by the bag we got
30:48
um who else we got right now those I was
30:50
just nameing guys that are super young
30:52
yeah um J Walt you gotta mention Jay
30:55
Walt Kamaya Kamaya jwalt the HBK yeah
30:59
people should look into the HBK too
31:01
because that goes from Kalani to I AMU
31:03
it's a lot of people in that uh the maze
31:06
champ green Ian Kelly Ma Grand National
31:10
Ian Kelly um uh Lil bear Lil bear got
31:14
some Raps like he's like the Oakland
31:15
Larry June y'all should check him out
31:17
okay all right thank you RAB I
31:19
appreciate that man I'll make sure you
31:21
two get together I think that'll be a
31:22
great conversation man hey l r no
31:25
vultures man what y' what's the latest
31:27
post y'all got coming up man the latest
31:30
post we got well tomorrow we got uh love
31:32
rants coming so we going to do love
31:34
rants from the HBK y'all remember beat
31:36
the [ __ ] up I beat the [ __ ] up yeah oh
31:40
yeah I remember that that was a
31:43
religious song that was uh was that was
31:45
the uh that gospel group that gospel
31:48
group that's the gospel group I remember
31:50
that I remember that gospel group that
31:51
was the um yeah what a way memory what
31:55
kind of question is that right remember
31:56
beat the [ __ ] up
31:59
that no I don't please R rap describe
32:04
what
32:06
happened all righty
32:08
then we got and we got we got the
32:12
legendary L be the baby base guy coming
32:14
up too oh my gosh take him back to Vans
32:17
I like that come on man he going to talk
32:20
about lifting lifting all the curses he
32:22
left off of people and the curses he put
32:24
on people okay that's what's up man I
32:27
love it man Lord rap uh good to hear
32:29
your voice you know tell the family I
32:31
love him and uh Lord rap y'all should
32:33
follow him on Instagram he does a lot of
32:35
amazing things um not just in the
32:38
business but he travels a lot and he
32:39
shares his travel with a lot of great
32:41
stories and information rap how can they
32:43
follow you man hit me at no vultures on
32:47
anything or Lord RAB on anything there
32:49
you go man RAB I appreciate you brother
32:51
thank you sir love appreciate y'all all
32:53
right I'll meet you at Lake Mary tonight
32:56
what's y
32:58
hey hey Mark let me ask you this because
33:00
I like I lunell is an angel yes she was
33:04
sent to us for the greater good of she
33:07
used to eat ice on Sobe yeah remember
33:09
that what's up this is so L first of all
33:13
let me go she be eating um we got some
33:16
people coming up with the right this
33:21
is heyy everybody's there call me hey
33:24
Ricky call
33:25
me L used to
33:29
yeah she do that on her live right
33:32
now breakfast with lunell yeah in the
33:36
morning good morning hey Terry make sure
33:39
you park your car over there in the
33:41
driveway she be doing all kind of things
33:43
that right but but something about
33:45
Lenell when when she talk she's she's um
33:48
a empath or is she's an oracle she is
33:51
Town business she but her wisdom yeah
33:54
her wisdom and and and her covering is
33:58
something special when when did y'all
34:00
meet how did that relationship develop
34:02
me and lenel
34:04
met soulbeat days first time I ever was
34:07
on TV was Sobe wow yeah first time I
34:11
ever was on TV and Sobe because I signed
34:13
a let me see soby yes first time I was
34:16
on TV was
34:17
soby and um I remember I was on 82nd
34:20
Avenue at the quarter pounder and I was
34:21
a first time ever signed the autograph
34:23
really at quarter pound I remember I
34:25
rolled up in quarter pound I was still
34:26
living I might been living at my mom
34:28
82nd I was living at my mom house so
34:30
boom 82nd went up to go get a burger
34:32
said I saw you on TV it was a show time
34:35
at the Apollo first time and I signed my
34:38
first autograph I never forget that I
34:40
like how excited was you for that it was
34:42
it was incredible yeah is it quarter
34:45
pound or 802 quarter pound is a um is a
34:48
chain that we had in Oakland a burger
34:50
joint they sold a quarter pound burgers
34:53
that weigh a quarter pound pound exactly
34:55
and they were selling pounds in there
34:56
too yeah
34:59
all the pounds so so what what I what I
35:02
what I especially like is the triumphant
35:04
in comedy and that in that particular
35:06
triumphant is Mark Curry wow
35:10
Lenell and C Williams and C Williams we
35:13
were all on tour yeah man Cat Williams
35:15
the goat man he just he's an awesome guy
35:18
he's like a brother to me yeah you know
35:20
he's given me so much he's giving me
35:22
wisdom the dude got wisdom he got wisdom
35:24
Beyond wisdom you know and you know a
35:27
lot of times I rap to him you know I
35:29
talk to him about he he gets me right he
35:31
can only one he the only one can get me
35:33
right yeah he can look at me and get me
35:34
right so he is incredible he's a genius
35:36
he's the genius and you got people got
35:38
to remember he doing coliseums fool he
35:41
doing Coliseum sold out coliseums he
35:44
could do them twice if he wanted and so
35:46
got to salute that yeah and I never
35:48
really realized until I looked at him I
35:49
saw Justin beaver you know we was
35:51
backstage I said Justin Bieber I said
35:53
dang dude you doing the same stuff as
35:55
these other people you know you rolling
35:57
ston
35:58
so it's incred you know and a lot of
36:00
guys wouldn't have me open up for they
36:03
get blown away but C you know C is cool
36:05
with that cat is in his world he let me
36:07
do whatever I want to do he's the only
36:09
one who ever took me out besides Damon
36:11
wayin that you know shout out to Damon
36:13
wayam another iconic legend they don't
36:16
talk about him enough they don't talk
36:18
about Damon Williams dam was one of the
36:19
best Damon Damon could write an hour in
36:21
an hour I was on tour with him he was
36:24
one of the best I've ever seen I I I can
36:27
always say first time I ever when I
36:28
first came to New York you guys with
36:30
Damon way first time I ever went to the
36:32
Village Damon way the village
36:35
underground no no oh the village the
36:37
street The Village oh the what do you
36:39
call it the what's the area The Village
36:42
The Village the day when they were
36:44
selling shoes and they were selling all
36:46
kind of stuff first time and you know I
36:48
remember the hotel was the royalt that's
36:51
first time I ever came to La it was with
36:52
Damon Wayne because he was on tour and
36:54
that's why I got my HBO special you guys
36:57
formed at Showtime I at the pilot with
36:59
Damon because he was doing his special
37:02
HBO saw me and said who is this they
37:05
gave me a special Damon Wayne said you
37:07
gonna get a special and I like man I was
37:10
living in Oakland working at pay sa and
37:12
and HBO called me and said you have HBO
37:15
special in 30k I'm like what that's true
37:19
I was living I was living in Oakland
37:20
yeah BW I didn't think it was really HBO
37:23
I was like yeah right my yeah right yeah
37:25
who is this HBO yeah we'll see I didn't
37:27
think it was them and they gave you 30k
37:29
the 30k was that your biggest check to
37:31
that point to that point me and me and
37:33
um Martin Lawrence did our specials
37:35
together in Chicago wow I I did one he
37:40
opened up I mean I I he headline one and
37:43
I headline one so we did two specials we
37:45
did our specials together you and Mark
37:47
Martin Lawrence me and Martin Lawrence
37:48
did our special in Chicago one night
37:50
stands HBO wow Mark Curry is here man I
37:54
love it I a never said any of this stuff
37:56
ever oh you wel come home man good yeah
37:59
cuz it seems like especially with Cat
38:00
Williams like he doesn't speak about
38:03
himself so much and what he does for
38:05
people and it's nice that people were
38:08
hearing all of these things now you know
38:10
about what cat L mentioned that too that
38:13
he he B her out and to hear you say that
38:15
I just think it's incredible salute to
38:17
him yeah he's a he's an incredible human
38:18
being I don't even know how to even say
38:20
it in the world of Comedy he can go he a
38:23
beast but he's cool you know his head is
38:26
you know he knows you know knows a lot
38:28
he knows very intelligent so you know me
38:30
I'm a I'm a fly I'm a Oakland dude so he
38:33
calms me down it's all right Curry just
38:35
relax you don't with the Steve Harvey
38:39
Steve Harvey situation listen to this no
38:41
one knows this
38:43
okay I was with cat I went there with
38:45
Cat Williams to the whatever the the
38:49
whatever the thing was Shon sharp no no
38:51
to the to the to the H what was it the
38:54
Death Jam 25th or something
38:58
when I jammed up Steve Harvey when he
38:59
trying to you know he's trying to you
39:01
know you jammed up Steve Harvey for
39:02
taking jokes yeah for taking taking
39:04
jokes he Tred to you know he catch a
39:05
fade so you from you from the town you
39:07
going to catch a fade wherever you are
39:09
you was trying to fight him no no no no
39:11
no no no we don't we don't try to fight
39:13
if I I would have walked up and knocked
39:14
him out what you do you just want to do
39:16
I just want to conversate to him and see
39:18
what was the situation why was you
39:20
taking my material and I you know but
39:22
the thing about it was I came with Cat
39:24
Williams okay I came to the and Cat I
39:26
said I saw him I said who's White Rose
39:28
is he said that's Steve Harvey's rooll I
39:30
said let me go I'm about to go steal it
39:31
I said I go go take it let's get the
39:33
keys and I'mma take it you know but cat
39:36
I said I'm GNA go Jam him cat said no
39:37
man now's not a good time he was the one
39:39
who C me down not now brother not now
39:41
not now but that Oakland in me you know
39:44
when I see you I see you so you did it
39:45
anyway yeah cat C was the one not C was
39:49
like relax not now man not
39:51
now you know so he's incredible I love
39:54
he's incredible and then that that
39:55
seemed like that's lived as course yeah
39:58
it lives as course and y'all all moved
40:00
on oh yeah we moved on we moved on he
40:02
can have them jokes I got many more boy
40:04
there you Mar Curry man I'm glad you
40:06
moved on man you know getting pass it
40:09
getting P it moving forward man what's
40:11
what's some of the life lessons you
40:12
learned in this right now in this
40:14
business in this business life lessons
40:16
keep your family close to you you know
40:19
you in Los Angeles so everybody is you
40:21
know it's different you keep your family
40:23
close don't tell nobody nothing just
40:25
like a old dope dealer in the 80s you
40:27
know don't let nobody know where you
40:28
live don't let nobody know what you
40:31
thinking you know don't you know I drive
40:33
a a hoopie you know I got another car
40:35
but you know I don't break I don't let
40:36
everybody see what I'm driving I'm just
40:38
I I live in like a 80s Dope Dealer
40:40
because I hate to say that's what I grew
40:42
up with so when I come to La I don't
40:44
Jamie Fox was giv all them parties and
40:46
puffy I I didn't go none of them parties
40:48
I remember the Playboy mansion used to
40:50
call me all you going to come to the
40:51
play I said no I got my own Playboy
40:54
Mansion you got your women I got mine we
40:56
talk I got a own I would never go so I
40:58
my life like in Oakland I live it
41:00
quietly and don't you know I don't I
41:03
don't let these people see cuz if you
41:04
let them know what you doing they'll
41:05
still that they'll trust me on that so
41:08
I'm just quiet and and I when I hit
41:10
stage I try to be a beast I try to kill
41:13
you there you go you got worked up we
41:16
need Cat Williams to calm you down get
41:19
tell Cat we love him oh he set the year
41:22
off man cat you can tell him right now
41:24
cat we love you brother I remember cat
41:26
from back in the day everybody Chappelle
41:28
they used to all come to the Bay all of
41:30
them come to the Bay they used to and
41:32
watch and watch watch yeah Chappelle you
41:35
Chappelle used to come to the bay and
41:37
watch they used to watch yeah yeah and
41:39
Cat started in the bay yeah cat got his
41:42
the the bay on cat ped a lot of
41:44
Comedians and that's why they got the
41:46
love for the Bay right right but cat we
41:48
to put that back up oh yeah there you go
41:50
cat I'm extremely inspired motivated and
41:55
proud of you brother keep going in the
41:57
way you protect our our pillars out of
41:59
the bay I will forever be an ally Lenell
42:02
is my my sister Mark is my brother thank
42:06
you Cat Williams we appreciate you
42:07
Brother come on man appreciate you okay
42:10
take that off my face pause turn this is
42:14
beautiful man I didn't never I never
42:16
thought it'd be like this and I didn't
42:17
think sway knew that much about me come
42:20
on I am not lying you guys I'm humble I
42:23
I just you know I think nobody knows me
42:24
but I just like I'm I'm I'm about to
42:26
tear up I'm like man it feels so good
42:29
because some of these stories I've never
42:30
told nobody and you knew about them it's
42:33
like that's some crazy stuff man I man
42:36
bro you sway you you are incredibly huge
42:39
and you know something about me come on
42:41
you Mark Curry man I watched I watched
42:44
you on um I ain't tripping from my
42:46
mother's house off the 23rd in the back
42:49
just looking at it how were you you was
42:50
like a teenager I yeah I don't yeah I
42:53
was a teenager that gave me my ghetto
42:54
card too short gave me my ghetto card I
42:57
got my ghetto cards I got a black Visa
42:59
that night b b and forever you are you
43:03
are supremely respected in the town wow
43:06
Northern California and if you're not
43:08
that's because they didn't grow up
43:09
knowing but if you look at his career
43:11
the reason why people like you lenel
43:14
headlined the Apollo yes she's from
43:17
Oakland Town business come on Mark Curry
43:19
had a HBO special when that was like
43:22
rare like a unicorn yes and he hosted
43:24
Apollo and he had his own t series that
43:28
is even rarer in Hollywood he's from
43:31
Oakland Cala Harris is a vice president
43:33
of the United States and now she's
43:35
running to be president of the United
43:37
States Oak and she has my support and
43:40
she's from Oakland yes that's right I
43:44
put you right there mark wow I'm running
43:46
for vice president okay I am vice
43:49
president don't mess it up for
43:52
us he was doing good he was hey Mark I
43:56
want to say man thank you for coming I
43:57
was excited to see you today Mark Curry
43:59
is performing at at the Sony Hall
44:02
tonight Sony Music Hall 235 West 46
44:05
Street what time you performing 8:00
44:08
there at 7:30 just come on in people
44:10
just come in I can get you tickets if
44:11
you hit Mark Curry up at Mark theark
44:14
curry.com the real Mark curry.com he'll
44:18
give you tickets yes Mark love you
44:20
brother I love you man this is
44:22
incredible thank you brother thank you
44:24
man give him a big round of applause
44:25
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