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Will Smith & Martin Lawrence: The Untold Stories of Bad Boys 4! 🚨 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Jun 7, 2024
🎬 Get ready for an explosive episode of "Sway In The Morning" as **Will Smith** and **Martin Lawrence** reveal the **Untold Stories of Bad Boys 4! 🚨** This is a must-see interview where two of Hollywood's biggest icons dive deep into their legendary partnership, sharing exclusive behind-the-scenes details and heartwarming anecdotes from their journey together.
Listen in as Will and Martin discuss the dynamic chemistry that has made the **Bad Boys** franchise a global phenomenon. They also address rumors, set the record straight on personal matters, and reflect on the 30-year bond that has fueled their on-screen magic. From their hilarious off-screen moments to profound insights on friendship, fatherhood, and facing fears, this interview is packed with unforgettable moments.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
1:53 - The Making of Bad Boys for Life
7:41 - The Importance of Fatherhood
12:44 - How Do You Create Comedy
15:47 - How To Have Fun With Fear
19:08 - How Important Is Charlie Mack To Your Career
22:22 - Listener Questions
27:01 - What Inspired Bad Boys
30:26 - Wrapping it up with Grandmaster Caz
35:30 - Will Smith Writing a Book About Grandmaster Caz
37:35 - Final Words
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we are live ladies and gentlemen big
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round of applause already come
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[Applause]
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on we got the bad boys in here
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officially here at Sirius XM SW the
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morning I got he the be right here give
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he the be a round of applause try ly
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light DB torch Penny jamming Drew and
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two of the most respected revered people
0:24
that ever come out of entertainment
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please make some noise for the one and
0:27
only Martin Lawrence and will
0:40
Smith wow this is incredible incredible
0:44
to see
0:49
incredible this is
0:53
awesome wow good to see will how you
0:56
doing how you doing love the movie
1:01
a lot of meeting and greeting going on
1:03
you going to sit right here right here
1:05
Martin we have Will Smith and Martin
1:07
Lawrence live in the studio with us in
1:09
the house and they shaking hands with
1:10
all the people who won tickets to be
1:13
here this is incredible and will got on
1:15
the Fly chain all right we'll do this
1:18
thing we'll this thing feeling a little
1:19
sexy by myself you
1:21
know yeah man come on Martin you look
1:24
good too man they didn't mention your
1:26
sweatsuit Jack man I that's you know you
1:29
you you you had to come up in the 70s to
1:31
wear a sweatsuit jacket like
1:34
this exctly I have a great wardrobe yeah
1:38
our lady and uh she she hooks me up she
1:40
hooks you up I like that man you looking
1:42
good man look at these gentlemen we they
1:45
grow I grew up with them but you grew up
1:47
watching them and look how amazing they
1:49
look Keep Together absolutely uh yes man
1:53
I got a chance to watch the movie the
1:55
movie is incredible thank you brother
1:57
thank you thank you thank you but before
1:58
we get into all of that I haven't seen
2:00
you all since the last time I know Bad
2:02
Boys three bad boys three right and now
2:04
we we're at Bad Boys 4 how you been
2:07
spabulous spect spabulous yes yeah now
2:12
this this this run this time together
2:14
with with Marty Mar it's uh you know
2:17
because of the the strikes we had
2:18
strikes in between the movie right so
2:21
it's it's kind of extended the time that
2:23
we've been working together so it's been
2:25
like a year it's and it's been yeah it's
2:27
been one of the you know just one of the
2:28
greatest periods of my life life this
2:30
dude this dude's a real one right here
2:32
wow okay man you know it's interesting
2:34
cuz when you see the on screen chemistry
2:36
between the two of you I wondered like
2:38
do they still get along oh
2:42
yeah most definitely yeah better than
2:44
ever man better it's the dynamic the
2:47
same like you know Martin your character
2:49
is always messing up Will's car or will
2:52
you know what I mean like but in real
2:54
life what is the dynamic like is it is
2:56
it that are you the mess up and Will's
2:58
the voice of reason or N I think we're
3:01
both the voice of reason because we want
3:04
the best for each other you know yeah no
3:07
real life has been like just you know we
3:11
on set the the work environment is like
3:14
absolute respect okay right you know and
3:18
we are we are there to win as a team
3:21
we're there to win together so it's like
3:23
an energy of service to one another that
3:26
is like you know make me teary when I
3:29
think about this
3:31
dude hey man I can only imagine man
3:34
y'all looking good man give a big round
3:35
of applause for him again thank you and
3:38
and thank you for saying that we look
3:41
good and and that I look good because
3:43
there's a room out there that I had a
3:44
stroke man that's totally not true so I
3:48
just want to clear that up but I thank
3:50
everybody for the concern and the love
3:53
and just thank you but Marty's all good
3:56
Marty all right baby you heard there's
3:59
also rumor and I was going to bring it
4:00
up that you're a clone that was the one
4:02
that I heard you clone that's
4:06
AI so you're feeling good Martin you're
4:09
feeling good you're looking good thank
4:11
you nothing wrong with you all right so
4:14
we can shut that down right
4:16
now I'm here I'm here yeah you know it's
4:21
when I look at you too because we we you
4:23
know I we cut from the same cloth came
4:25
up around the same time you know y'all
4:28
just made it bigger quicker than me and
4:29
the lot more
4:32
money I still get up every morning will
4:34
I know kind of [ __ ] up right no we get
4:37
know we getting up every morning we
4:38
getting up every morning still okay no
4:41
it's uh it's just it's a really
4:43
beautiful time man when when I when I
4:46
tell you like when I look at this movie
4:47
I've been watching it with a bunch of
4:49
audiences and it really is centered on
4:53
love and friendship and the joy and fun
4:57
that comes out of having a ride or die
4:59
you know and it's like when you just
5:01
Center it on that and then allow the
5:04
comedy and everything to come out of
5:06
that you know it's just it is it's
5:08
fantastic watching people watch the
5:11
movie and they don't even you you don't
5:14
you're not thinking about that when
5:15
you're watching it but what you're
5:16
really seeing is 30 years of people
5:19
we've been we've been Partners in this
5:22
business more than half of our Lives wow
5:25
you know it's like the first movie was
5:27
30 years ago yo you know yeah and when
5:31
you look when you you look back it's
5:34
like you don't realize you're like
5:36
signing your life with somebody you know
5:38
you just we just looked up and it was 30
5:41
years yeah we we got married 30
5:45
years stuck in that marage the whole
5:48
time stuck in the marriage the whole
5:52
time one one of the things I I I I saw a
5:56
thread and I really start seeing this in
5:57
the third movie is you you guys as these
6:01
officers but you starting to deal with
6:03
getting old aging right you know and in
6:05
this particular movie without giving it
6:07
away you deal with immortality yes
6:10
absolutely your character deals both
6:11
your characters deal with immortality yo
6:14
once you reach 50 that becomes a real
6:16
ideology right yes Absolut you know it's
6:20
a big thing when you when you realize
6:22
that you're going to die you know and
6:25
it's like we with the movie what we told
6:27
ourselves is we would never make of
6:29
these just to like you know grab the bag
6:33
you know that if we were going to make
6:35
one of these movies we had to have
6:37
something we wanted to say and when we
6:39
sat down like this to talk about it
6:41
there was real stuff to talk about it
6:43
now it's that it's a popcorn movie and
6:45
it's fun but we we like to think of it
6:47
as gourmet popcorn
6:49
okay carel
6:52
on you know where there's some you know
6:55
some ideas you know and it's like we
6:57
wanted the characters to grow in in the
6:59
way we wanted Mike and Marcus to grow
7:02
similarly to how Martin and Will are
7:04
growing okay right so we wanted to be
7:06
touching on things that were like age
7:09
appropriate and not trying to still be
7:11
young boys like we 25 you know cuz I
7:14
think that's how you can hurt the the
7:16
the franchise and even the the growth of
7:19
people along with us cuz you going
7:21
through a lot of the stuff that we're
7:23
going through we're going through the
7:24
same thing well but you have a lot more
7:26
money to go through different it hurts
7:30
more
7:31
with s a little more yeah I can't see
7:34
you the pillows could be a little bit
7:39
softer but HB you want to jump in there
7:41
I do thank you guys again for doing this
7:43
we've been excited about it one um I saw
7:45
the film last night one of the threads I
7:48
picked up and maybe I dug a little bit
7:49
deep was fatherhood yes absolutely I've
7:52
been um I lost my dad in
7:55
2018 he was the love of my life um when
7:58
I watched the film it made me think
8:00
about you guys both 30 years ago because
8:03
I noticed that fabulous episode on the
8:06
Fresh Prince ofel when Ben verine played
8:08
your dad and how that stuck with me
8:10
forever but Martin when I thought about
8:13
you in the Martin show there was never a
8:15
father figure on there and the father
8:17
and I wonder was that on purpose if if
8:20
you can answer that and will and why
8:21
that episode was so important why Martin
8:24
pay never had a father figure on the
8:26
show cuz my D wasn't really there you
8:31
know like my mom my mom's was the was
8:34
the rock she was the you know the mom
8:37
and dad you know my father was there
8:40
sometimes but not enough you know so you
8:43
never chose to address it like how the
8:45
will character addressed it on the FR no
8:47
I I I chose to highlight my mother the
8:50
strength who uh who guided me to be who
8:53
I am wow thank you for that and well cuz
8:56
I it made me think about it last night
8:58
yeah and for for me I've had a a real
9:01
transformation of my perception of my
9:04
father in the last probably five years
9:07
my father died in
9:08
2016 um so it was it was you know I
9:12
always had the impression of my father
9:15
as like a really oppressive he was
9:18
military you know and you know we had to
9:21
put hospital corners on our beds wow you
9:24
know making our bed and our shoes tied
9:27
in the CL you know it was like it was a
9:29
was really military and I had a negative
9:31
perception of that and then after my
9:33
father passed and I wrote my book and I
9:35
got to really look at it is when it it
9:38
my impression of my father adjusted it's
9:41
like you know he prepared me for the
9:45
absolute ordeals of
9:48
life like he he played an ogre in my
9:53
life so I knew how to deal with that you
9:57
know and I saw him totally different in
9:59
the last few years of my life because of
10:03
the weight and the pressure that he put
10:05
on me I am emotionally Invincible like
10:09
he created a a spirit within me when I
10:13
was really young that that I'm
10:16
unbreakable and I used
10:18
to not quite I used to almost hate him
10:21
for it and now I see what what he was
10:25
doing he he taught me to survive hell
10:29
wow wow damn [ __ ] Will Smith man thank
10:31
you for that will you bring up um Martin
10:35
Heather and and I I always looked at
10:38
Garrett Morris you know who played oh
10:41
Stan Stan you know and by the way round
10:44
of applause for him for getting his star
10:47
Hollywood being the first black comedian
10:50
on SNL but he also he was the station
10:53
man for manager for u w what's up w
11:01
know but he's a legend in comedy that we
11:04
don't talk enough about right you you
11:07
employed him what what did you learn
11:09
from him what was it like working with G
11:11
uh that he was just real cool and uh
11:15
real professional you know very very
11:18
smart and just fun to work with just uh
11:21
jubilent every day and I just loved to
11:24
work you know had a lot of fun with him
11:27
you know that's that's uh
11:29
uh from Garrett mois from uh [ __ ] High
11:33
from
11:35
Co what is it that you want son
11:39
knowledge will get it for you yes
11:42
exactly classic when you look at that
11:45
and I think about his time coming up
11:47
Garrett Morris and now the current
11:49
landscape of um comedians especially
11:51
black comedians it's been a fiery year
11:54
you know it's been a lot of truths you
11:57
know coming to the surface when you sit
11:59
back and assess that what are your
12:00
thoughts on that a lot of comedians are
12:02
talking about a lot of comedians you
12:05
know and it's creating this energy what
12:06
are your thoughts about that well I I
12:09
don't know about you know talking about
12:11
other comedians in in a negative way I
12:14
mean I mean if you got to fire back you
12:16
got to fire back but uh you know I think
12:19
comedy should be all about comedy you
12:21
know making the people laugh and give
12:23
them what they want and uh this world is
12:26
in enough turmoil and heartache and
12:29
every everything else and so uh to use
12:32
comedy uh for negativity is just not the
12:35
way to go you know you got to you got to
12:37
keep the comedy keep the laughter you
12:40
know so people can keep the spirits up
12:43
like all right cool man what with y'
12:45
comedy both your comedies are extremely
12:47
unique will I know you didn't start off
12:49
to be a comedian but you funny as hell
12:54
will funny dude man we'll walk in the
12:57
room you start laughing
12:59
that's the ears that's the ears yeah
13:01
that's my ears just make people
13:04
giggle still works bro look like a
13:09
trophy get
13:13
out so so in in these scen do y'all ever
13:16
change scenes just to go with your
13:18
impulse or Instinct has that happened in
13:20
any of the movies where you just Chang
13:21
the comedy in the scene well he'll take
13:24
the straight mans at times and I I'll
13:27
take the comedy but then he'll take the
13:30
comedy and I'll take the straight man
13:32
and we'll switch like that that that's
13:34
the beauty of U of like you know
13:36
Martin's comedy IQ right so we'll go
13:39
into a scene and you know it'll be
13:42
written a certain way but now we're
13:43
going to try to figure out okay what's
13:45
the real Lane for your character what's
13:47
the lane for my character and we learn
13:50
how to make room for each other right
13:52
and you know a lot of times you know my
13:55
character might have a joke and it's
13:56
like uh no that's better if your
13:57
character says that and I play this and
13:59
we can go into a scene and find it in
14:03
the moment and a lot of times it's it's
14:05
different than what's on the the page
14:07
but the script was really good for this
14:08
one though we didn't it wasn't as much
14:10
ad living but you know Martin has a
14:13
really um unique comedic capability that
14:17
he can be really Broad and it's like
14:21
super broad physical comedy without
14:25
breaking the drama and that's what I see
14:27
a lot of times with comedians where they
14:31
they can go so broad with the the comedy
14:35
that they break the reality and I think
14:37
what's really great in Bad Boys is the
14:39
spectrum that we we can cover from drama
14:43
to Comedy right that you can have a
14:45
moment and Martin can be
14:47
extremely Broad and hilarious and my
14:50
character is dead serious and they don't
14:53
compromise one another and I think that
14:56
that's a that's a you know I credit
14:58
Martin with that it's like it's a he
15:00
understands where the edge is he
15:03
understands where one more physical
15:06
gesture and it breaks the reality of the
15:09
moment you know yeah I try to get into
15:12
the signs
15:14
of will did just kind of break that down
15:17
like a college professor the whole room
15:19
is like what is he saying I told
15:22
everybody will should be a motivational
15:25
speaker we just look at will when he
15:27
talk
15:29
anything Tracy throw a question
15:31
at got it but he's like that on the set
15:34
he can talk about anything anything he
15:37
could break down he could break down you
15:39
ever get tired of him no no he has a he
15:42
has a brilliant mind he's a he's a
15:44
genius man I agree will SMI genius go
15:47
ahead come on trigger with this fourth
15:51
installment I got to say the both of you
15:53
guys have helped me have a deeper
15:55
appreciation for Action films because I
15:57
feel like a lesson is how to have fun
16:01
with fear yes that's a good one I love
16:04
that how to have fun with fear that's
16:06
beautiful and look at challenges through
16:08
the perspective of an adventure like
16:10
that's something that we can take away
16:11
from and when sway had mentioned
16:14
immortality and when you were speaking
16:16
about your father as well for the both
16:17
of you guys it makes me curious what was
16:20
your relationship with fear 30 years ago
16:24
and what is your relationship with fear
16:25
now what has changed what has stayed the
16:28
same MH ooo my relationship with Fair
16:31
probably that I wouldn't make it you
16:33
know that um I wouldn't accomplish the
16:36
goals that I I was set out to to try to
16:39
get and you know and just uh just trying
16:42
to get by every day you know so um that
16:46
probably was my fear but as I went went
16:49
on and challenged myself and and took
16:53
things on you know I I I was able to
16:56
conquer yes conquer my fear mhm yeah I I
16:59
lived uh in pure Terror you know as a
17:03
little boy like fear was the center of
17:06
my being what what I started doing like
17:10
in the past 10 years when I I got
17:12
conscious of fear as being like the
17:15
central human block fear fear is like
17:18
the central human block that keeps you
17:20
from starting a business that you want
17:22
to start it keeps you from getting out
17:24
of a relationship you shouldn't be in it
17:27
keep like fear is absolute Central human
17:31
block the love that you want is on the
17:35
other side of loving somebody into the
17:38
dangerous place yeah right so it's like
17:42
for me as soon as I realized that I
17:45
started consciously attacking my fears
17:48
and you got you might remember on my
17:49
50th birthday I did a thing I jumed out
17:53
jump out if I'm scared I'm going in and
17:56
being able fear I don't think fear ever
17:59
goes away you just become friends with
18:02
it you like okay there you are there you
18:04
are you're trying to keep me from having
18:07
what I want now I know you're not going
18:09
to leave but what you're not going to do
18:10
is stop me from going forward but that's
18:12
a devil yeah that's the devil wow
18:17
W absolutely and and and that and I just
18:20
want to say uh people that have big EOS
18:23
eag stands for edging God out yes never
18:26
do that so check your e
18:29
yeah that's for real check your ego I
18:31
love it man we got Will Smith we got
18:33
Martin Lawrence here we talking bad boys
18:35
r or die we going to come to go to a
18:37
song and we going to come back and let
18:39
our audience get a chance to ask some
18:41
questions absolutely how about that the
18:43
audience gets to ask questions huh wow
18:46
shave 4 five okay y having a good time
18:48
in the
18:49
lobby hear us you can't hear
18:52
us how you shaking it you're responding
18:55
to me yes [ __ ] up wait somebody's lying
18:58
they can hear us will Martin can y'all
19:01
wave at them over wave at them over
19:02
there all right shout out to Charlie M
19:05
in the building Charlie M got a book
19:07
coming out yes he does how important is
19:09
Charlie Mack to your career listen D I
19:12
wouldn't have no career if it wasn't for
19:14
Charlie Mac there's there's been uh you
19:17
talk about ride or die there's been
19:18
multiple times in my life when gunshots
19:22
rang out and Charlie Mack ran towards
19:24
who was shooting he ran towards the fear
19:26
he ran yes Charlie Mack ran towards who
19:28
they were shooting so you know it's it's
19:30
that's a real live rid or die uh tested
19:34
in the fire so
19:36
yeah Charlie M you you have a person
19:39
like that Martin in your life oh most
19:41
definitely my brother my best friend
19:44
Larry my best couple of best friends you
19:47
know um I have best friend I just lost
19:50
uh played nipy on the Martin
19:53
show that was my that was my ride to die
19:57
power yeah so you know have a few of
19:59
them you have a few we had Patty leel on
20:02
the show she was celebrating her 80th
20:03
birthday last week I know y'all watch
20:06
the show I know y'all commented and
20:09
everything like And
20:11
subscribe Pat say I face I FaceTime Miss
20:14
Patty from Saudi Arabia I was in Saudi
20:18
and we were there on tour and we made a
20:20
point to stop our tour to FaceTime and
20:24
and say happy birthday
20:29
what' you do well we I'm sorry we don't
20:33
you know FaceTime I can't compare to the
20:35
party we threw for p with Moet bottles
20:39
and Mark we flew in Kenny
20:42
lore y'all was
20:44
pressing was bad
20:48
Wi-Fi these rich guys they don't want to
20:50
spend no
20:51
money EAS to FaceTime her right I mean
20:55
how many friends like Patty say
20:57
something interesting have to pointed
20:58
out she said she only at 80 she only has
21:01
how many five five friends in her friend
21:03
Circle wow and I notice mine has gotten
21:06
smaller as I got old how about y' how
21:08
how big is your friend Circle your real
21:10
true mine is real small yeah definitely
21:13
yeah definitely get gets smaller um you
21:16
know I don't I don't have a lot of lot
21:19
of uh new friends you know so it's like
21:22
if you look at my squad that's here with
21:24
me now you know it's a collective
21:27
hundred years you know there people been
21:30
with me multiple people been with me for
21:32
30 plus years wow you know so it it's uh
21:36
you know for me like like loyal loyalty
21:39
is a real thing loyalty is a real thing
21:41
just in case you forget who we got
21:42
sitting here we have uh let me see what
21:46
Forbes has deemed the most bankable star
21:50
worldwide wow his films have grossed
21:53
over uh he has eight consecutive films
21:56
grossing over $100 million
21:59
domestically come on Martin has given
22:02
careers and lifelines to numerous
22:05
amounts of actors and comedians that
22:07
have gone on to be incredible human
22:09
beings he has won a series of Awards as
22:12
well for what he does in his skill set
22:14
get them around of a I seen them when
22:16
they were the Bad Boys yes the bad boys
22:21
let's take some some listener questions
22:23
that's Kanani right there Lon light
22:25
that's our that's my nephew that's NE
22:28
what up man okay like that put the
22:31
family to work tell them who your your
22:33
who your parents are um well my father
22:35
you actually know my father and he
22:37
wanted to give you an extended like
22:39
hello um and he mixed uh welcome men and
22:42
black with you in La his name is Gordon
22:45
yes absolutely that's your father that's
22:48
amazing tell him I said what's up yeah
22:52
right got a good ear and my my mother
22:55
susette Williams uh music music business
22:58
offical shado publishing she's amazing
23:00
manage Lauren Hill man have have I met
23:03
her I met your mom you probably met
23:05
her day Sony back in the Sony days all
23:09
right now okay so now with all that
23:11
greatness in his family we have him
23:14
interning
23:15
and he's pushing mics right now no no
23:17
that's where you that's how you got to
23:18
do it no you got to no you got to you
23:21
got to start back and it it's not that
23:24
it's not a degrading thing it's like
23:26
it's you got to learn it all from the
23:28
bottom you got to so you have to
23:31
understand all of the aspects like I
23:32
know how that camera works right so I
23:35
know how the lights work and how they
23:38
function and like when when you learn
23:40
things from the ground it's like you
23:43
know earners are Learners you know so
23:46
it's like that that is a it is not a
23:50
degradation at all it is a way that you
23:52
can build your foundation for your
23:55
greatest success come on I respect that
23:57
damn man going to come to work early
23:59
tomorrow come on time man all right go
24:02
ahead so you going get some um we got
24:04
some
24:05
listeners who has a question over here
24:08
Frank stand up come on let let me tell
24:10
you about him real quick and I and I'll
24:12
stop talking I walked into work this
24:14
morning and this man stopped me um 7
24:18
something in the morning and he he
24:20
followed me through the lobby and
24:22
Oakland start coming out so you tased
24:25
him tased him and when he woke
24:30
he said I I'm a listener and I wrote you
24:32
and Heather um a personal letter and he
24:35
wrote us some letters we read on air by
24:36
the way I hope you don't mind oh you
24:38
listen to that amazing bro thank you for
24:40
your words you okay absolutely you go
24:44
ahead man uh yes so my name's Frank
24:45
what's up Frank from Massachusetts uh
24:47
thank you guys congratulations on
24:48
careers and now a Siri spanning you know
24:52
decades decades but um yeah so my
24:55
question is with this new movie Ride or
24:57
Die what's been your favorite part of
24:58
the process so far making it making it
25:01
with this guy yeah making it with this
25:05
guy man having the ball blast yeah you
25:08
know it for me you know Martin and I we
25:10
stood together at like um a rap party or
25:13
something like that and we were looking
25:14
at Bad Boys one and it was on the screen
25:17
and we were standing there looking and I
25:18
was just like
25:21
remembering where my mindset was during
25:24
that time like I was going to be the
25:26
biggest movie star in the world and I
25:27
had all my goals and I was set and I was
25:29
going to do and as we were standing
25:31
there looking at it I realized that kid
25:35
didn't notice he was in the middle of
25:37
his dreams wow he was there he was
25:40
making bad boys one where was he going
25:44
what what did he think was going to be
25:46
bigger and brighter than that moment and
25:49
it was like such a shock standing there
25:52
with Martin and I realized like life is
25:55
right now yeah your life is not when you
25:58
do the the next thing it's right now
26:01
this is your life right now and it's
26:04
like wake up and be in your life you
26:07
know and yes you can want the other
26:09
thing but it can't be at the the the
26:13
degradation of the beauty of breathing
26:16
and being alive and being together right
26:19
now in the moment in the moment you know
26:21
and I and Martin really you know hit on
26:24
that for for this movie so I would say
26:26
that was the best thing it's like the
26:28
ration like all of us right here this is
26:31
our life right now we're in our life
26:33
right now it's not tomorrow that's
26:36
beautiful and you all are in the same
26:39
Moment Like This is Our Moment this is
26:43
our moment right
26:45
now never happened before never will
26:48
happen again this is ours like that's
26:51
like that's an magical idea to me damn
26:54
man I took my glasses off I wanted to
26:57
see this moment this block here all
27:00
right who who else we got L light oh man
27:03
good afternoon I want to thank yall for
27:06
taking the time to take these questions
27:07
you know um first question I got for you
27:10
is where do y'all get the inspiration
27:11
from to continue this specific movie
27:15
franchise when they're good you just
27:17
want to do more yes exactly you know
27:20
yeah it's like the they're they're
27:23
they're progressing you know in terms of
27:26
story in terms of ideas
27:33
it and I think think the of this
27:36
franchise in particular is like a a real
27:41
yearning of the human soul to have a
27:43
ride or die right somebody that is going
27:48
to be down with you no matter what you
27:52
you're allowed to make a mistake you're
27:53
allowed to do something wrong and they
27:55
riding with you no matter what so from
27:58
for me that idea and holding on to that
28:01
idea and putting that idea out in the
28:03
world is I I will continue to do that as
28:07
as long as people want to see it amen
28:09
all right okay Lonnie light let's work
28:10
the room over here man you're doing
28:12
great by the way bottom up do great
28:15
great got a question over here there you
28:17
go young man all right what's up guys
28:21
Asher from Brooklyn building my question
28:24
is in your career what is a movie or TV
28:27
show that has impacted you guys
28:29
personally that has impacted us
28:31
personally all right uh that's in
28:34
impacted us personally oh wow um what is
28:37
a movie or TV show all right um so there
28:40
there's a there are a couple of things
28:42
that that
28:43
really uh I I would say in terms of
28:48
inspiration to be a
28:53
performer
28:54
um
28:56
probably Eddie Murphy
28:58
48 hours but across Eddie Murphy's
29:01
career I probably say Eddie Murphy was
29:03
like the single greatest inspiration for
29:06
me it's like I want to do that I want to
29:10
do that got salute
29:12
Edie Edie Mar for me Eddie Yeah Eddie
29:16
like that that it was real when Eddie
29:19
did it it was like oh wow he sounds like
29:22
me he like look like me like in 48 hours
29:25
you don't get a better debut than that
29:27
oh my God get a better debut than that
29:29
yeah so I I would I would say you know
29:32
48 hours and Eddie in general like for
29:36
to kept that kept me on fire um and as
29:39
as far as a single piece of
29:41
entertainment uh Michael Jackson's
29:44
Thriller oh like like I almost passed
29:48
out the first time I saw it was too much
29:51
for me to handle emotionally like nobody
29:54
was doing that like you know and it was
29:56
the Cinematic quity of it with the music
29:59
and they debuted it on regular TV
30:03
remember that it was like 8:00 like they
30:06
prime time they turned television off so
30:10
he could do Thriller and it was it was
30:12
like the most amazing thing so I think
30:15
like the combination of Thriller and
30:17
Eddie Murphy was like always Staying
30:20
Alive in my mind as the heights of what
30:23
I wanted to be able to offer the world
30:25
great question all right we got Will
30:27
Smith Martin Lawrence here uh man I know
30:30
we got to wrap this up
30:32
right uh but when you talk about uh
30:35
people who or movies or TV shows that
30:37
inspired you last time will was here we
30:40
single-handedly resurrected his rap
30:45
career remember was a forgot he could
30:49
rap
30:51
like look at that oh wow he took this
30:54
seriously all right but that all came
30:56
from somewhere
30:58
Will's actually gonna wrap this dud
31:01
anytime brand new F come on don't say
31:04
that do I ain't G do
31:06
that I could have done it but but it it
31:09
just makes me as big and as you know
31:11
incredible of a human being both of you
31:14
have evolved into um acting comedy um
31:18
charitable work that people don't know
31:20
lending I know more about Will Smith
31:22
than I care to know right but you know
31:27
it's healing you
31:30
through experien we've seen it all now
31:34
we learn from it because we see you
31:36
still standing yes amen yes absolutely
31:38
you still teaching ab and you still
31:41
sharing right so I want to say thank you
31:43
to you no I appreciate it could be a
31:45
ugly time you know but you the way
31:47
you've handled things I'm your peer I'm
31:49
not no kid I'm I'm inspired by you right
31:53
and you as well Martin so I want to say
31:55
thank you to both of you if I never done
31:57
that but will I know at the core of it
31:59
all is hip-hop in your heart yes sir
32:01
that's the Hip Hop I mean before before
32:03
Eddie Murphy
32:05
yeah before before Eddie Murphy it was
32:08
the it was the god MC Rock Kim
32:13
okay okay let's do the lineage before
32:16
that it was Mellie Mel okay so I would
32:18
say I would say Melly Mel in terms of my
32:23
rap career and even and before Mellie
32:26
Mel was grandmas
32:29
so my entire style my everything the
32:34
that the way that I rap was is based on
32:37
grandmas Cass event it was the the fresh
32:41
prins the character everything was
32:44
centered on grandmas caz's verse evet
32:48
and I was like I want to rap like that
32:52
wow it was a long time ago but I'll
32:54
never forget got caught in the bed with
32:56
this girl named I was scared like hell
32:59
but I got to wait we
33:05
got
33:06
got it's too
33:09
different it is too different got got
33:13
it wow what a moment what
33:18
a Ladi ladies and gentlemen the full
33:22
complete and total inspiration for the
33:25
Fresh Prince grandm
33:29
C what up Grand Master C Cas over
33:35
fly he wrot the verse for big Hank on
33:38
Rappers Delight cold Crush Brothers the
33:42
original right here the legend the icon
33:45
standing and you can find them on Rock
33:47
The Bells radio give it up for grandm
33:50
cash get
33:53
that got me you got me you got me you
33:57
got me you got me got you will that was
34:01
good that was good you know hey you know
34:04
you rocking with will come on man come
34:07
on singing lyrics
34:11
lyc I was in the back I and you was like
34:14
and
34:21
M
34:25
yo C come get on the mic come over
34:28
sit down you can take my chair man this
34:31
is grandm right fantastic brother so my
34:36
first my first record and I do it in my
34:39
in my audio book I talk about it so so
34:43
there you know 12 years old I was trying
34:46
to like develop my style and all of that
34:49
and you know you you you're moving all
34:51
over the place when you're young trying
34:52
to find yourself and when I heard the
34:55
verse evet I was like it was flow but a
35:03
story and punchlines it's funny he's
35:06
like he's putting jokes in the places
35:09
and it was like I learned the structure
35:12
of four bars and the punchline from from
35:16
IET and it was like the it was the who I
35:20
wanted to be exploded after I heard
35:24
grandmas Cass wow love
35:28
that's it Cass yeah I
35:31
mean let me tell you my my value to the
35:35
to the culture of Hip Hop is not in the
35:37
records that I made you know what I mean
35:39
I don't have Platinum plaques and all
35:41
that but the
35:43
influence okay that I that I left on
35:46
other people and the successes that
35:47
they've had because of those and
35:50
partially due to those influences is
35:52
what has me here to this day keeps me
35:55
alive Will Smith writes a book yes okay
35:58
and devotes like damn near chapter to
36:00
you okay that that shows other people
36:03
who didn't have any idea of who you are
36:05
who you let me let me check out who this
36:07
guy isely okay when Ro Kim gets
36:10
interviewed and says yo one of my
36:11
biggest Inspirations Grand after cat
36:13
make you want to check out well let me
36:15
check out who this grandm Cass guy is so
36:17
basically I I you know my life continues
36:20
and expands through these guys okay who
36:23
took the influence and ran with it and I
36:25
can say that like I'm respons for one of
36:28
the most successful entertainers in the
36:30
whole
36:31
world sir that guy right there the most
36:34
bable he's the only one I'm good I'm
36:37
good you got to be proud of this dude
36:40
though right I am I am Ultra proud what
36:42
he taking as we celebrate the so-called
36:44
50 years you talking about the
36:45
stratosphere this guy's going beyond the
36:47
stratosphere he's transcended the
36:49
culture of Hip Hop he's transcended
36:51
music um pretty much every medium and I
36:54
mean that 50-year thing when you you
36:57
know started facing your fears and
36:58
jumping out of planes and bunie jumping
37:01
I'm like
37:02
y That's my guy that's next level right
37:05
there so yeah I'm I'm extremely proud of
37:08
him I'm extremely proud of him will
37:10
jumped out of plane so we don't have to
37:12
so we don't have to appreciate you will
37:14
will always looking out for the coach
37:16
right and listen Mark I I never got to
37:18
the de Comedy Jam but I never missed one
37:21
on
37:21
television that it would it would not be
37:24
what it was without you you heart
37:29
that and everything that came from it
37:31
believe that I miss you I miss you
37:34
snapping on
37:35
it well look man I I think this is the
37:38
perfect way to not bring this to an end
37:40
but to transition to our next moments
37:42
yes exactly transition to our next now
37:45
our next now all right but let's give
37:48
these guys a big round of applause if
37:50
you haven't seen the movie go see the
37:52
movie Bad Boys for ride or die give it
37:54
up for Martin Lawrence give it up for
37:57
Will Smith and give it up for the icon
38:00
grandm Cass Heather be Tracy G DB TCH my
38:05
whole team here tone I see you Ty Drew
38:09
Niah all and to all of you citizens
38:12
thank you you all are
38:14
citizens y'all have a beautiful day sh
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