Dick Gregory Taught Me
The Dick Gregory Taught Me podcast not only embraces Mr. Gregory's legacy but also uses it as a guiding principle in its content. The podcast features interviews and stories with friends, family, and celebrities, all of which are influenced by Dick Gregory's theories on Social Identity, Politics, Economics, and Social Topics.
Dick Gregory Taught Me
15:| Leon Rogers - Chicago Comedian - member of 107.5 The Chicago Morning Show on107.5 WGCI
Welcome to episode 15!
Join us as we sit down with the iconic Leon Rogers, who takes us through his journey navigating the city's vibrant yet demanding comedic landscape.
We share plenty of laughs and heartfelt reflections on the importance of community, loyalty, and understanding one's worth.
Chicago isn't just a backdrop. It's a training ground, and we dive into stories of resilience and triumph and explore how Chicago's grit and diversity make its comedy scene one of a kind.
This episode is a rich tapestry of laughs, learning, and love with Leon Rogers and Zoe Leigh. From reminiscing about teenage antics and evolving party cultures to discussing political activism and economic empowerment, our conversation is both nostalgic and forward-thinking.
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Speaker 2:One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. As you know, I just got back from Los Angeles, vietnam, and you know, being right in the middle of the ride, when it was going on, it was like so many things was happening at once, you know, like the cops made an arrest of this one guy for stealing a television set four days after he stole it, and I thought this was very unusual. So I was asking the officer. I said, well, what type of intelligence department do you have here in los angeles where four days after a guy steals a television set you can make the arrest right in the middle of a ride? That's going on? You know, he said, willie, it's no credit to us, we never would have found the guy had he not made the mistake of mailing in that 90-day warranty. And one weird thing I'm standing on the corner and this one guy's running down the street with a couch on his back. So I said, hey, buddy, are you a looter? And he says no, I'm a psychiatrist. I'm on my way to a house call.
Speaker 2:And what I really hate to mention now but I must, did you happen to see those pictures they sent us back from Mars? Kind of made you hate. You paid your income tax. I looked at them. One paper had nerve enough to say they were very revealing. Like I've seen more revealing pictures than readers digest. I looked at all of those Mars shots and I tried to figure it out. It was nothing but just a picture with a little bit of white and a whole lot of black. They could have filmed that over South Africa.
Speaker 4:What is this?
Speaker 1:Oh well, god bless. This is Zoe Lee. This is episode 15 of the Dick Gregory Told Me podcast. I am very excited because Aldi is here and he has his mic, aldi.
Speaker 4:Aldi.
Speaker 1:Aldi Aldi and we have a legend. We have a Chicago legend in the building. I will tell you, I was real nervous asking him to come on the podcast. I'm like man, he too poppin'. He ain't going to be like I ain't going there, but I asked him. I went to go see him on Wednesday at Bar 10. And you had some good people in there there was some bangers up in there one day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:It gave me like comic view Black.
Speaker 5:Wednesday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it gave me the old comic view, the old comic, the old deaf comedy jam. Like it just was nostalgic, like I was just waiting for Martin Lawrence to come up in there with the mic.
Speaker 5:But the, the destined legend, leon Rogers. What's up y'all? How y'all feeling? Man? First of all, I want to say thank you, zoey, and your partner, for having me on, because I feel like we don't do this enough with each other. That, though I may be, at a certain part of my career, I understand what it's like to be on that lower tier. So when people ask me to do shit, I do it. You know what I'm saying, because at one time I was asking motherfuckers to do shit and they wouldn't do it. So I said I would never be that person.
Speaker 1:Woo, that is me too. I saw the guy say that I said I would never be that person. Now, that is me too. I saw the guy say that I would never be that person. I would never be that person.
Speaker 5:Now I can't do everything Right, Because some people will try to abuse your generosity Like you know, it's the simple fact. Like you, zoe could call me, because I know Zoe has seen her grind.
Speaker 5:You could call me and say, leon, I got a show, only got $500. Can you? Can you? I got you. Shh, don't tell nobody, I got you Right. I want y'all to know, if y'all happen to see me doing a show, that's oh God, I made more than $500. But then you got this other guy who's a struggling promoter and I might do it for him because I think he a cool dude and I want to see him win Right, but not every time he calling me Right.
Speaker 3:It's the same thing.
Speaker 5:At some point in time you got to respect who I am and respect my talent and respect what I want, because my friend's going to do that Now. I know the next time Zoe call me she going to be like hey, appreciate you doing that for me for five. Boom, I got the blah blah blah for you right here, no questions asked I got sponsors.
Speaker 1:Now, baby, you see what I'm saying I got sponsors. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 5:But see, you'll get people that'll have you do the show for 500. Then they get the sponsors and they go out of town and call everybody else and never call you back. Yeah, and you help build that. Then if you say that, if you go live and say that you a hater, so I don't say shit. There's a couple of people that have done me like that. I don't say a word. I don't say a word. I keep it moving and when I see them, hey, how you doing Blessed. But they know they can't call me. You cannot call me Because I'm going to tell you I'm not the greatest in the world, I'm not the best comic out of Chicago. No, you're a legend. But guess what? You're a legend. My presence is your present.
Speaker 1:First of all you are a legend. That's number one, thank you. Number two is you know your worth and, at the end of the day, people need to understand that. And loyalty is a big thing that we do not have in the community, in the community as much as we need to have in the community.
Speaker 2:Like Damon Williams, my first show that I ever did with Dick.
Speaker 1:Gregory. I said, hey, I don't know how to do this. I didn't realize that I had Dick Gregory. I was like, oh, could you? You know, host, I'm going to have Niche, because Niche I just started with Niche Shout out to Niche, yeah. And I was like he's like, yeah, yeah, I'll do it. And I was like, all right, you know, and it's just like I just always. It's like I love comedy, I love the underdogs and I feel like the underdogs is not Stick. Stick is one of my favorites.
Speaker 5:Bad man, that's a bad man Ball head Like I.
Speaker 1:Just why are we not where they need?
Speaker 5:Nah, we gonna figure this out, I'll tell you what it is. So and this is no disrespect to anybody that's listening, in any other state or whatever because I got love for the sport of comedy across the globe.
Speaker 5:But Chicago got some of the baddest motherfuckers in the country, and I'm not saying that because I'm from here, because my brothers and sisters in Atlanta they get down, they tough. My DC brothers and sisters tough. Detroit tough. But I'm telling you, these people that come out of this city, none of them sound the same. They all have a different perspective. D-ray does not sound like Corey Holcomb. Corey Holcomb does not sound like Deon Cole. Deon Cole does not sound like Damien Williams. Damien Williams does not sound like George Wilborn. You let me know when I can stop. George Wilborn does not sound like Kenny Howe. Kenny Howe does not sound like Niche. Niche does not sound like Corey Bell. Corey Bell does not sound like Moe Good. Mike Sapp don't sound like Moe Goode. Moe Goode don't sound like Mdubs. Mdubs don't sound like motherfucking. Sheldon Calhoun. One of the new Jets is out here. We could go on forever.
Speaker 1:I just named you about 15 comics. I love my Erica Clark.
Speaker 5:I didn't even say her. Michelle Rell, I didn't say her.
Speaker 1:Lil Rel Wildcat Come on now.
Speaker 5:Craig Robinson, doc, mark, mike, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, mark, uh, mark, uh, simmons, right, mark, simmons. B Cole, muhammad, come on, man Mitchell, we could go for days. Yeah, yeah, a lot of Marlon. Come on, a legend, a legend, we could. Stephon, stephon, yo, I could go for fucking Stitch. Shebby Debbie, I could go for Shebby Debbie. Tiny Thickums, Marilee Marilee, oj Lamont, yes, I could go for Uncle Hank, big Lo Tierra, Fucking the West Side, going crazy right now. West Side. Mojo, mojo Brooks, god damn, I could go. Prince T-Dub, I can go for fucking days, days.
Speaker 4:Yes, we done? Kissed in the white ones. Is that a festival?
Speaker 5:Wait a minute, we just had one.
Speaker 3:What's so funny? Shout out for knowledge, meachie.
Speaker 1:Meachie Hall, meachie Smitty B, one of the best writers Smitty B, yeah, I could go on and on for days.
Speaker 2:Who was?
Speaker 1:that guy that came on the first one.
Speaker 5:The first one. Uh-oh, I said that on Mexican.
Speaker 1:Oh B Cole too.
Speaker 5:No, we said.
Speaker 1:B Cole, d Banks, d Banks, d Banks, that's his name. Yeah, he was so funny, hilarious and guess what dog.
Speaker 5:Guys like him, Guys like you know, like these are the people you don't see unless you come out. I didn't even get to the Christian Toomies of the world.
Speaker 3:Right Anthony Bonzano.
Speaker 5:Who are Christian Toomies? I'm not just talking about black comics. I'm talking about comics Chicago. There's some serious motherfuckers out here bro.
Speaker 1:Chicago's own language. They have their own like country and it's not to even shit on.
Speaker 5:I'm not, stephen.
Speaker 1:Black yeah. Calvin Evans, comedian, finch yeah.
Speaker 5:I mean, fuck Listen, I could go on, even our people that we got that bomb?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Brandy. Well, Brandy and he's not from here, but Brandy and he started here.
Speaker 5:Brandy cut her teeth here.
Speaker 1:Yes, he cut her teeth here.
Speaker 4:Brandi was in the trenches here. She was in the trenches In the trenches out here. You think Chicago's the rite of passage for most people.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, let me tell you something.
Speaker 4:Damn fool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, damn fool, they say, Stick had the hardest room, they say the hardest.
Speaker 5:Oh, I bet Fucking that DJ's out in the boys and mommas. Yeah, they said that was my hardest room.
Speaker 1:Now you have the hardest, you and Don Steve.
Speaker 5:But I tell you Stig had one of the hardest rooms in that era. Before that, marlon Mitchell had Giovanni's, giovanni's, if you could go into Giovanni's, it was three Giovanni's. Mark Simmons, I think, had the warehouse on 100 and something and hosted.
Speaker 5:Okay 130 and hosted. You literally stood behind the bar and performed At the warehouse While the Gangster Disciples were having meetings. Gd In front of it For the people that are listening nationwide Gangster Disciple is one of the gangs in Chicago. It's a long, it's like a college. It's like a college. You had levels, you graduated. They would be in there like a whole bunch of shit going on and then you had Diane. Diane Corder, yeah, had the clique. She was there Wednesday. I don't care how great you were doing in the click right, yeah, when upstair. The club was upstairs so you could hear the music through the floor. You could be ripping and all of a sudden you hear ooh, ah, oh, ee.
Speaker 5:Everybody would get up and leave and go upstairs, that's the house music Diane would tell you you don't worry about it, you ain't buying. They always gonna Diane Corden like TNT Comedy Hook with Damon Williams. All jokes aside, battlegrounds out here you could not fuck around and the comics that you would see on TV that was great would come to this bitch. Chicago audiences don't play and that's why I think when our comics leave here they have stripes and badges of honor that you really can't get nowhere else. Maybe Detroit, maybe Atlanta, new York I love New York comics. You know what I'm saying. They fly. Shout out to Rob Staple and a lot of my guys.
Speaker 3:I've been in this game since 96.
Speaker 5:So I've seen, I've got to travel and see, and I'm not saying it to be an ass.
Speaker 1:I'm from New York but Chicago is different out here, Chicago different.
Speaker 5:And nobody sounds the same. I cannot stress that enough.
Speaker 1:Lisa Laird Look as I'm talking, I'm telling you.
Speaker 5:Shit is still popping up in my mind, yari Baez. Shit is steadily going to come up. Alex Ortiz, we could go for days and days, and days, and at the end of the day, notice, I ain't even saying Even Josh Johnson.
Speaker 1:Come on, he's a bad man, he came he did one of my little shows when I first started, when I was getting my, he came. He was one of the people in there and I will never forget. I'm like look at him now.
Speaker 5:Naeem Naeem, naeem Lyon yeah, from Philly, but live out here now. And he said Leon yo I'm from Philly. We get out, but this shit out here is different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because Ph get down to Really get down to Shout out to Turengo and shout out to Naeem Lyons.
Speaker 5:Shout out to Kevin.
Speaker 2:Hart Shout out to my man, spank Horton.
Speaker 5:Shout out to all them killers out there, sean Banks, all them dudes out there. But I'm telling you, this shit out here is very different.
Speaker 1:I'll bet on Chicago, like if there was like bets A tournament. Like like bets A tournament, like a tournament. Right yeah, chicago guys, what up?
Speaker 5:We getting two people in the final four Like.
Speaker 4:Comedy Olympics, if we did a nationwide with Tony Scofield.
Speaker 1:I forgot about my big bro on Steady Summer Yep.
Speaker 5:So I say that, to say this like, and then I didn't even mention the gods, the people that are on the Mount Olympus of Chicago. Chicago comedy. That I end up talking about Okay, I'm ready, so I gave you Dion Cohn, and I mean you thinking like oh no, no, no, no, no, no. You forgot Robert Harris. Robert Harris, bernie Mac Baby baby cake James Hanna, james Hanna. One of the greatest writers to ever touch a pig.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, Mr Hanna.
Speaker 5:We're talking about the pantheon of fucking Chicago greats. Pantheon of fucking Chicago greats. I didn't even talk about them. Yeah, you know, a lot of people say Red Fox is from St Louis, which he is, but it's just like Mr Gregory. But he killed out here. Dick Gregory made the name for himself at the Playboy Mansion or the Playboy Hotel down here yeah, richard Price from Peoria, but he killed. He's an Illinois boy and nobody recognized Peoria. So we said Chicago.
Speaker 5:But I'm just saying, those are the gods, those are the Greek gods, that's the Zeus, the Apollo, the Ares, we demigods, we Thors and shit like that. Right, I like that For all my cartoon gods out there. We Thors, we Thor's and shit like that. Right, I ain't no following my cartoon guys. We Thor's, we been banished to. Earth. We not up there with Odin and shit, right.
Speaker 4:We can't even go up there.
Speaker 5:You know what I'm saying Until you do your deeds down here, that key card Paz don't even.
Speaker 4:Exactly Shit don't work, it's red.
Speaker 1:So what so, what so. So I'm giving you, I gotta give you, nah, five comedians.
Speaker 5:Chicago. I gotta take my top five, top five Of all time. No disrespect to anybody here.
Speaker 4:This is my personal top five list.
Speaker 3:It's hard. A lot of these dumb motherfuckers don't listen to this podcast.
Speaker 5:No way I'll say what I want to. I ain't finna sit up there and listen to that shit. All right, someone's going to say it. No particular order. Okay, no particular order. Yep, bernie Mac. Well, no, that's the one order. Bernie Mac, number one.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 5:Bernie Mac. Top five out of Chicago. Bernie Mac, I got it. Can I use Dick Dick be number two? Okay, dick. Now the last three. This shit about to get real, uh-oh. Dion Cole.
Speaker 1:Okay, dion. Dion is funny, Damon Williams. Okay, mr Dion is funny Damon Williams.
Speaker 5:Okay, Mr Williams God damn, wait a minute, it's giving Leon. Can I get a honorable?
Speaker 3:mention yeah.
Speaker 5:All right, cool. All right, if I get an honorable mention, I'm cool. So I said Bernie Mac, dick, gregory Damon Williams, dr Cole, corey Holcomb.
Speaker 1:Corey Holcomb 5150 fucking insane, bro.
Speaker 5:That's one of the the shit he talks about. He shouldn't even be able. He should be canceled he made a. He literally made a joke about flushing a miscarriage down the toilet. Oh my god. And went viral for it on Shaq's show. I knew right then I said that's unstoppable, unstoppable. He did a joke about flushing a child Unconfortable truth Down the story and he was like oh, my God the baby. He said the baby was like, and I was like, oh that's it, he's never working again, shacking him in the audience, going nuts Right.
Speaker 1:It's comedy, baby.
Speaker 4:They're getting conversation in the earpieces.
Speaker 5:Go to commercial. Go to commercial, don't say anything. And my honorable mention, tony Schofield.
Speaker 1:Tony Schofield. But mind you, I love.
Speaker 5:George Will Born Off Sonia D, our Chicago's fucking crazy dog.
Speaker 1:It's hard, man it's hard.
Speaker 5:We the dream. When it comes to comedy, we can put a multiple combination of dreams in.
Speaker 1:Then I have to go to this question, since we started talking about that, right? So we're going to jump into Chicago politics real quick. Mm-hmm. Okay, as you know, we're facing Shout out to the quickest mayor ever.
Speaker 5:Yo, come on now yo. I love my man man, fly haircut, fly brother. Good dude man, but goddamn, you only saw one Lollapalooza. You didn't get two Lollapaloozas, man, you're going to be gone before the next Lollapalooza. You didn't get two Lollapaloozas, man, you're going to be gone before the next Lollapalooza.
Speaker 4:Didn't you see two, wasn't it two? No, he got one and a half.
Speaker 5:He came in on the table.
Speaker 1:Yeah, his full one. Yeah, he ain't going to make it he got one and a half Lollapaloozas.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he got in the middle. That's right. That's the honeymoon. Yeah, Lori.
Speaker 5:Lightfoot got to celebrate Halloween. She was the coronavirus killer and everything.
Speaker 4:She didn't even wear a costume.
Speaker 5:Did you see she did a rap video and they got taken down so quick. Lori was this. It's always her that say the grass is greener shit. Now you see, after looking shorty wasn't that bad and I hate it. Lesson to evil. Shorty wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, we're going to do a lesson to evil.
Speaker 5:It wasn't that bad Because, look, she came on our radio station. I kind of fucked with her. She said, yo, my job here is to get shit done. She didn't care about getting us the FCC fine, and I told my producer. I said don't cut it. I got that clip. I'm going to send it to you so you can plug it in. She literally cursed live on air. We went crazy in the studio. So our producer was finna, hit the dumb button. I said don't you touch that fucking dumb button.
Speaker 1:Let it ride, let it ride.
Speaker 5:The man just cussed on my show there goes a grand right there, yeah. She got it Right. She got it. Have you ever noticed, though, her or George Daniel was never in the building at the same time?
Speaker 1:Why I think?
Speaker 5:so the motherfucker look like George Daniels. They're the same person. They are the same.
Speaker 1:You know now you think all I think George care about his suits, George.
Speaker 5:Daniels and Lori Lightfoot were never in a building at the same time.
Speaker 1:Because they're the same person.
Speaker 5:When one go out, the other come in.
Speaker 1:Yo, george Daniels, shout out to Lesnar. George Daniels, just be out here smiling.
Speaker 5:He don't know who is who he be like hey, hey, no, he be like hey, hey, you know, I was here when Elvis recorded that. When Elvis came in and he was like going to win this race, I was right there and I had the first cassette that came off and I sold it at George's Music.
Speaker 6:Room White people wasn't even coming over here at that time.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you a bartender hate to see George, come what they be like.
Speaker 3:Listen.
Speaker 5:George Daniels and Cher suck the souls out of babies to stay alive. Them motherfuckers are vampires. George is going to outlive all of us. George will be dancing at a party. It'll be one in the morning. George will be sweating, I think. George still fucking.
Speaker 1:Have on one of his little casket lining jackets.
Speaker 2:I love George.
Speaker 1:I want to be fucking at George's age too, so I hope that he still is.
Speaker 5:Hey, let me tell you something, george. Hey, that's about a man. Haircut everything, george. Have on his little jackets made out of casket lining, all his motherfucking suit jackets look like something you can find at Gatlin's or Leek's funeral home. Hey, leon, you know.
Speaker 3:I'm out here, man, you know I.
Speaker 5:Back in the day, yeah, Me and the Rolling Stones and the Gap Band fucked seven bitches right here on this floor in the studio while Quincy Jones produced we Are the World. You'd be like, damn George, that's some cold shit.
Speaker 4:Michael Jackson walked in. We were like you don't want any of this, michael Right and Mike said I don't.
Speaker 5:And then he went back to the Ferris wheel with the kids. Yo, george is amazing dude. That's another person when he just talk, you just shut the fuck up, just sit and listen to George, he know everything. Don't argue with him about music or nothing.
Speaker 1:That music room. That music room should have been a landmark.
Speaker 5:That small little store on the west side dog. Every big artist that comes to Chicago comes and thanks that man for moving they work Because he would buy a bunch of their tapes when nobody was Sam Goody and them wouldn't buy Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt. He said I bought. You know I bought a lot.
Speaker 1:And everybody had to come to me to get it. You need that, See. You need a George Daniels. See, we need to find another George Daniels for this.
Speaker 5:But with this streaming era.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, please tell me that's on the list the Drake and his shit, oh my God the Drake, why I had to delete every record, every record that's on my playlist for him.
Speaker 5:Why would he do?
Speaker 5:that, so let me go on record saying this for all the Drake stans that listen to your guys' show. Come at me, try to chop my head off. I think Drake is one of the most phenomenal rap artists to ever do it. You want a bop. You want something that your mama, your girlfriend and your side chick can all listen to and feel happy. Drake's the guy. You want, a song that your sensitive homie that wears calf socks, silk shorts and silk tops with the chain open can listen to and cry about his broad. Drake's the man, but as a man, drake a bitch. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:A bitch, a whole bitch. I can't align with that, the music amazing. I'm sorry A bitch.
Speaker 5:A whole bitch. I can't align with that. The music amazing. Here's my problem with the whole lawsuit thing. Let's just say it's true, I'm going to give it. I always like to give people what they want and then I'll give them.
Speaker 5:Okay, so Drake stands. Let's just say Drake's label, in a contract dispute with him, say you know what, we're going to humble you and we're going to push this record more for him to beat you, right. And when he beats you now, when you come to the negotiation table, instead of you getting $600 million, we only got to give you $400 million, right? Let's just say that's true, motherfucker, it wasn't a problem when it was working for you, when you was doing it. So you tell me. Now Drake's fans will say I say back-to-back. Who to say that they didn't push the fuck out of back-to-back? Now the difference is the difference. Is you and Meek Mill not on the same label? I get it, but as far as the credibility of hip-hop, that fucked Meek's career up when Meek got served with Back to Back, that kind of hit him hard.
Speaker 5:He ain't been the same since he ain't been the same, but now it's happening to you because it's business and motherfuckers was like, and there's a fatigue on Drake. It's like we tired of you. We tired of you Maybe not the public, but the industry is tired of you and your privilege and your diva mentality. So we, finna, fucking humble you. We, finna, show you you're not big in the game. That's the same thing that's happened to Diddy right now.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 5:The game is short. You're not bigger than us, bro, and when you think you that motherfucker, we will show you that you're not Right. When he fell out with, it started, everybody want to think it started with the uh sewing the liquor company Mm-hmm. This is my personal belief. I believe when it it started when he fell out with his mentor. The guy who passed away With the hearing aids. He still alive. Oh which one. That came out that he was bisexual. To be reckoned with.
Speaker 1:Oh well, clyde.
Speaker 5:Davis, clyde Davis, who gave him $2 million to start Bad Boy back in the day. I believe him. And Diddy was talking to Diddy. He was like, hey, man, get your old ass out the way man now and.
Speaker 5:Clive was like oh, that's what you think. He grandfathered him. Boy, let me show you something. Boy, I'm the hidden hand, right, don't look at my net worth. I got a whole bunch of money that Forbes can't count, right, and this shit and power, right, yeah, alright, hey, man Damn, I didn't even think about that yet Start the ball rolling.
Speaker 5:So he probably told the motherfucker to advise Puff to go sue them people, because he knew how it was going to turn out. I'm just saying, at the end of the day, when you get to a certain level, especially when you're a person of color they're going to show you.
Speaker 5:You're not one of the 16 families. So stop it, man Right. And people don't know what the 16 Families is. Go look it up, go do it at home, go read. But yeah, you right, but no, you right, you right. So it's like with the Drake thing. I was just so mad. I was like, okay, why not do this for any of the other songs? Because he put out Euphoria.
Speaker 1:There was a whole bunch of songs Like listen man. Meet the Grams was worse than they Not Like Us.
Speaker 5:You got your ass kicked in your game. Yeah, you got your ass kicked on the battle. It's not like we ain't seen you lose a battle before because Pusha T served you up, scraped you up, man you get. But all your fans said what your fans used with Pusha T was who knows who Pusha T is?
Speaker 1:Drake is bigger than.
Speaker 5:Pusha T. He make bigger slaps than Pusha T, but no, we're talking about the sport of hip-hop. He burns your ass on a diss record.
Speaker 1:And Clipse. Everybody know Clipse, everybody love Clipse. Exactly, clipse had a fan base.
Speaker 5:Yeah, now is it his biggest race? No, no, you know, the cute girl that got Botox lips injections is not listening to Pusha T and Malice Right, she's listening to Drake. We get it Right. But when the shit worked for you then about who get the most streams and who make the bigger slaps, because you couldn't say he had the better bars and the better diss record.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Now you had a motherfucker. Not only he had the better bars than this record, he beat you on the streams and he made a fucking slap that everybody was getting down to Right. That hurt your ego. Now you trying to sue, making it seem like you're suing for the better benefit of artists across. Get the fuck out of here. This is all about you and your ego Period, and if you had won this battle in public perception, we would have never heard of this lawsuit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you, yeah, like you lost fam, Like you lost.
Speaker 5:In public perception. I just said that last song you put out, before he put out that line like killed it. Like if Dropping Give Me 50 was the shit and you, the one in public perception, you wouldn't have did this lawsuit. You, the winner on about your way, but because you lost. But now you make a statement no, I'm not suing Kendrick, I'm suing the label and people who used to work there. Fuck out of here.
Speaker 3:That's a whole move.
Speaker 5:You a hoe and just own it. You a hoe, just own it. Take the L, bro. Just take the L, do your last album Do your last album you make money off of us.
Speaker 1:Thank you, like that whole line that Kendrick talks about you a colonizer. You proved it. You proved it. This is proving it. Yeah, you proved it. I'm upset.
Speaker 5:The system didn't work for me. Yeah, now I'm going to be a Karen. You're right Now, I'm going to be a Karen, you a bitch, and that's why I don't respect him Musically. I can't front on the dude. He got some slaps that I'd be like. Okay, drake, I can't even listen to them right now.
Speaker 1:I'm like the mad ex-girlfriend. I can't even listen to them. I'm pissed off. Anytime he go, every time I listen to my playlist, I just anything feature him. I can't do it.
Speaker 5:I'm pissed right now I just I don't do that Like I literally enjoy some Drake music when he rapping. Like when he like. I just hit the switch Switch switch.
Speaker 1:I'm like okay, yeah, but what switch? How? But?
Speaker 5:then, as a man sitting amongst men, you do ho shit, how you light-skinned but still a dark nigga.
Speaker 1:No, you're not.
Speaker 5:It'd be like me and you getting in a fight. You slapped the shit out of me because I was wrong. Right, right, we scrapped and you beat my ass, the real man. All right, you got it and we still cool, we got that out the way. But I talk, shit, we scrap. You whooped my ass when I thought I had the advantage, right, and then I go file a police report. Right, that's what he just did. Yeah, let's box, let's box. And I know I'm trying to whoop his ass, let's box, I, let's box. I know I'm finna. Whoop your ass, kendrick. But then it don't happen. Then you go to the police. Hey, he jumped on me, they jumped me, they jumped me.
Speaker 3:Then you go and lie. You don't even say it was one-on-one.
Speaker 5:There's five of them and they jumped me. Get your bitch ass out of here.
Speaker 1:I was so mad.
Speaker 5:Hold that.
Speaker 1:So pissed off, but that is. I hope people see it. There's a lot of people that Until the Drake stands out there that's going to give Zo and the show a lot of clicks.
Speaker 5:Thank you, I want you to do it, but you know deep down in your heart this is a bitch move. Stop trying to paint it in the guise of business. Stop trying to paint it in the guise of he's some this ain't business vanguard trying to free the artist. Get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 1:Nah, he lost Fuck out of here. But my thing is. But this is when it's the time.
Speaker 5:I'm fighting, I'm doing what Prince, you are no Prince, sir.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, but this is the time where you gotta bring your kids. Anybody that is riding with Drake, if their child is riding with Drake. This is when you got to bring out the ether, you got to bring out the super ugly, you got to bring out Tupac.
Speaker 5:You got to bring out Jack the Ripper, second round knockout. You got to bring out the Jadakiss. You got to bring out the Jadakiss and the Segal battle, where niggas could have died Right, right, and you have to say when niggas could've died?
Speaker 1:Right Right, niggas could've got killed Right. This is the time Like, hold on, hold on Drake and Kendrick, hold on baby, this is light work. No, no, no, let's sit here. We're gonna sit, we're gonna spend a day and listen.
Speaker 5:I'm talking about Tupac. That's why I fucked your bitch. Personal, y'all think calling somebody a pedophile? Yo man, that's like a comic getting on stage, hey Leon. That's why I fucked your bitch. What, what. And then I'm going to look at my lady and she's going to be like what you think that went down, I don't know. Right, I got to check, got to check the temperature.
Speaker 4:Emotions going up yeah.
Speaker 5:I'm fucked up right now because he said that with too much confidence.
Speaker 1:Too much confidence. He practiced that in the mirror, yeah.
Speaker 5:So, yeah, like People were saying shit back then that you had to fight, like what? Now he called you a pedophile and he was like no, I'm not a pedophile. But then everybody's pulling up videos of you talking to 13 to 14 year olds yeah, so that's. It was your ego, man. This is all ego and that's what I hate about it. Like if you just say, hey, man, okay, you got me Right and then come out and make an album that go to number one, that's how you defeat that, that's how you erase that narrative, right, but you know what you did after that battle? You made house music with Kaytranada. I love Kaytranada.
Speaker 1:I love it, I love it Right. So now you made a song with Kaytranada.
Speaker 2:I like Kaytranada, that's my man.
Speaker 1:Okay stay with Kaytranada.
Speaker 5:Y'all staying on Canadian lane, yeah, but see, but see if he stays with Kay Trinata. Now it's like Kendrick is one long term. I ran you out of hip hop. You're doing like Come on, I don't know his comeback.
Speaker 1:I don't know what I said earlier. He's Mandy Moore. Now he's a Mandy Moore. That is fucked up. He's a Mandy Moore, God damn.
Speaker 4:I mean as a musician, I can't give nobody else a little heart.
Speaker 5:Jessica Simpson. He's doing mall openings. Can't be Britney. Maybe Britney Spears, cause Britney has slave you know, she still has some hard shit. Mandy Moore and them was only.
Speaker 1:Britney Spears cause he can do Vegas. Drake is cold but no, but he lost every. He's a bitch.
Speaker 5:A hip-hop shot Like on the hip, on the hip, the heads.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:The motherfuckers who this is?
Speaker 1:a sport. He lost them Future and them walk away from him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they all walk, even them, even them.
Speaker 1:Like what is? This is what I'm worried about. This is what I'm worried about.
Speaker 6:I just like Future because he's the most toxic person ever.
Speaker 1:I love Future, I love Future, oh my God. Future is everything. Future is everything that I tell my I'm riding with.
Speaker 5:Future, when my daughters be like Dad, who should I date? I'll bring up Future Music. Don't date no motherfucker like this. Okay, Future you can have anybody else in the world Go Boosie. Anybody, anybody, do not date Boosie trying to settle down.
Speaker 1:Don't date this motherfucker. He is toxic. I love Boosie. As a female, you got to have Nino Brown and somebody like Future.
Speaker 5:I just tell my daughters don't date a Future. That motherfucker is the devil. He is the songbird of the generation, but he is the devil yeah but Anybody.
Speaker 1:That devil, yeah, but man.
Speaker 5:Anybody that lyrics of his song say I just fucked your bitch and some Gucci flip flops? Yeah, I'm done.
Speaker 1:I'm cool, yeah, I'm cool, I love him and he's part of the Dungeon family. A lot of people remember that. Wow, old school ATL. Yeah, so yeah, watch for the hook.
Speaker 5:Goody Mob yeah.
Speaker 1:See, that's the Dungeon family, I know.
Speaker 5:Goody Mob, watch for the hook.
Speaker 1:Damn On the documentary. Oh man 3,000 talking about it. Yeah, like we, man this is it?
Speaker 5:Hey look, now I ain't going to lie. I would lose my mind on that collab if Andre came back and rapped on a track with Future. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:I think it's going to happen. Well, you know, I would drive around with that shit on.
Speaker 4:They sort of did something. A blue solo on a.
Speaker 1:With Killer Mike's new album.
Speaker 3:I love.
Speaker 1:Killer.
Speaker 5:Mike Shout out to. Killer Mike, though yeah, shout out to Killer Mike. Killer Mike, a bad man. Killer Mike, a bad man. See, killer Mike a bad man. See, that's somebody who, if he wants to talk to me about politics- I'm listening Right and they was trying to push him back.
Speaker 1:I'm like look.
Speaker 5:I would vote for that motherfucker if he was running for anything I'm like I learned from him too.
Speaker 1:Now, After Dick Gregory, he took me.
Speaker 5:If Killer Mike ran for anything, I'd vote. If he came to Chicago and ran for anything, I'd vote. If he came to Chicago and ran for anything, I'd vote for him. Yeah, like he Just off his basic perspectives on where black people need to be. David Banner, that's another guy, David Banner. Yep, See, there's people out here, Chuck D, the Chuck D's of the world. David Banner, you know Killer Mike's. There are people out here that Lupe Fiasco. See what?
Speaker 1:y'all want to say he is very he's a rhyme fest.
Speaker 5:Come on man, he ran for Alderman.
Speaker 1:Yep he just got school board.
Speaker 3:He just part of school board so there are people that came to me and was like Leon, you ever thought about running for Alderman or something?
Speaker 5:I said no, and let me tell you why yeah. I'm going to say why. I'm going to tell you why. Yeah, I'm going to say why Because that's not my passion. And I feel that people that do that you have a passion for them. I don't. I'm going to get to the point where I'm going to be sitting in a meeting or something and 98th and Loomis Leon going to come out when we need Homewood. Flossmoor Leon, you understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:They don't want to ask you Are you from Chicago or are you from the suburbs Born?
Speaker 5:and raised 98th and Loomis 98th 17th South Loomis. I went to two high schools.
Speaker 1:now, Okay, this gets critical in Chicago.
Speaker 5:There's a little trick in that, because I went to two high schools.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 5:I went to Quigley South, okay, 79th and Western, western St Rita, you're welcome. Okay, getting our building. It's because, for all you young people that think that that's where St Rita was at, no, st Rita was in the hood. Quigley South was on 79th and Western. They closed Quigley South.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 5:And now St Rita took over that building, but I ended up in Eisenhower, okay.
Speaker 1:And in Blue Island. So you do any of the like go back and give back.
Speaker 5:Oh we ran a, me and my mom and my aunt Dot Dorothy. We ran a food pantry St Margaret of Scotland, my old grammar school, 99th and Troop.
Speaker 3:So I was raised.
Speaker 5:Catholic.
Speaker 1:Okay, I was raised Roman.
Speaker 5:Catholic.
Speaker 3:Me too. I was raised Roman Catholic.
Speaker 5:And a lot of people look at me crazy when they say you was raised Roman Catholic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, that's crazy. I went to Quigley.
Speaker 5:South because I wanted to be a priest.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm going to tell my mom I wanted to be a priest. My mother raised St Elizabeth. She went to St Elizabeth and everything.
Speaker 5:I wanted to be a priest until I found out you couldn't get no pussy. I know I'm not doing that. I want to be one of them, guys, because that is crazy though. Nah, I don't want to be one of them.
Speaker 3:They need to figure that out.
Speaker 1:No, they need to figure that out, they really do. Catholic archdiocese need to get that out, yeah, let the men have wives, man Like come on now. That's why they do this.
Speaker 5:Jesus had somebody with him. I know y'all don't want to hear it. You think wait hold on.
Speaker 1:Watch this.
Speaker 5:I'll call you on the truth. I'll call you on the truth.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something.
Speaker 5:You think Jesus had a bitch wash his feet and he wasn't fucking Right, my wife don't wash my feet and we've been together 23 years. You think Jesus said she washed his feet and Jesus said man, you know what? Hey, all right, peter and them, leave us. You may leave, you may leave here. Matter of fact, take this basket Right, tapped it four times. They had nine loaves of bread and some fish. Y'all go out there and eat.
Speaker 1:That's where Coming to America, get his. Yeah, and if you look, at the last supper picture.
Speaker 5:Everybody in the photo has beards, except one person, the person sitting to the left of him. Because you don't sit to the right, the father sits to the right, sitting to the left of him. He got on a blue and red robe. This is how it was painted Blue and red robe. She had on a red and blue robe. If you read your history, the women back then, to match their husband, they wore the same colors. They just alternated it top to bottom. And back then it wasn't no motherfucking, everybody had beards, shit, the hair just grew, even if it's stubble. They was trying to say no, that's just a young. No, it's not, that's his bra, rob.
Speaker 6:Markman Right. Rob Markman, right next to him at the table Rob.
Speaker 5:Markman, If I'm sitting at the table with a bunch of y'all my bra next to me, we eating?
Speaker 4:Are you kidding? All this power that he had, right, he ain't had no bitches, right? See he be at night.
Speaker 5:He don't want to say it. Jesus ain't had no bitches.
Speaker 1:Right, jesus had bitches. That mama was a baby mama.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:Let's talk about it. Stable of bitches.
Speaker 1:Right, I stayed with my bitches Every way he went. I ain't going to say Jesus ain't got no bitches.
Speaker 5:Remember when he went and flipped over all the tables Right.
Speaker 4:Hell yeah, Maybe that should be a shirt. Jesus got bitches.
Speaker 1:Jesus had hoes Jesus had, hoes Jesus had hoes yeah he had hoes Boy, you can't, you can't sit here and tell me that that shirt is sell out.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a little cold like possum.
Speaker 5:No, no. Look Jesus had hoes and then list all of the pastors that cheated. So did Jimmy Swagger List them all. So when anybody try to come at you, be like hey, I'm comfortable with truth. We was made in his likeness. That's what I said you gotta let me. Let me do it.
Speaker 1:I'm the person saying you got to, let me do it. I'm the person. Let me go, let me go.
Speaker 5:Dude, let's print that shirt. Jesus ain't hoes. So did Jimmy Swagger, so did name all the pastors that got called cheating.
Speaker 1:Right Ooh.
Speaker 5:Boom, boom boom. Now so then, when they talk that shit, you get quiet. Hey, hey, hey, when they talk that shit, you get quiet. No listen, we were made in his image. You know that hoes Jimmy Swagger had hoes.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something Hoes is life. I don't care what nobody say. They gave me 30 minutes to rock on the Breakfast Club. I was glad to say that. Side bitches for life. They're not going anywhere. They're not going anywhere.
Speaker 5:The views and opinions by Zoe Did I represent? The views and opinions of her guests, even though he may have been down that road back 10 years ago.
Speaker 1:Yo, Okay, listen, right yeah let's get up there, bro.
Speaker 6:Can I try some of that, corey? Go ahead, brother, enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah yeah, this is we got, should we? Yeah, because they owe us a check too. Yeah, because that? Because he loves cold brew, right?
Speaker 5:So when you sent that to me, I don't drink coffee.
Speaker 1:I sent that to him Okay.
Speaker 5:I don't drink coffee Cold brew. It's like coffee. It gives you the coffee hit, okay, but with the liquor kick and it's dope, it's smooth.
Speaker 1:How long has this been out?
Speaker 5:Oh, jameson's been out, it came out. I don't know if Jameson's been out but this. No, it came out right after the original brand came out.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it's been out here, but a lot of people don't know.
Speaker 5:They just drink the regular Jameson. Okay, I'm a whiskey bourbon snob. I'm actually trying to become a whiskey bourbon sommelier.
Speaker 3:Okay, I want to get the little copper pen.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, we got to figure this out. I want to be able to taste whiskey and be like oh, this is a 1865.
Speaker 3:You supposed to have too much. The problem is you supposed to have too?
Speaker 1:much. You need sponsorship. You got some, but you need more.
Speaker 5:Well, I am, I am I, rob Markman? Well, I am. I do Shout out to Milagro Tequila, rob.
Speaker 1:Markman Fuck with Milagro.
Speaker 6:They're my peoples.
Speaker 5:Rob Markman. You got Ray-Ban, rob Markman, ray-ban. We working on Ray-Ban making them bigger, rob Markman, right now it's in the yeah, let's see what you can do stage, but we want that to go.
Speaker 1:Rob Markman. Oh no, Let us know what we yeah.
Speaker 4:Ray-Ban needs some blue blockers.
Speaker 5:But no, this is just it With the Ray-Ban Wayfairs and I hate to be doing a commercial for them right now. We're not getting paid for this. You can get the. Yeah, you can Just beep it out. You can get your lenses however you want them. So I have blue tint polarizing switch from light to dark lenses.
Speaker 1:So you're really like a little nerd. Polarizing switch from light to dark lenses so you're really like a little nerd.
Speaker 5:Techie, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize. I love tech. The legend is a nerd, so I love listen. This is what.
Speaker 6:I tell everybody about me.
Speaker 5:This is the weirdest shit ever. I love tech. Okay, I love old school anime. I like a lot of the new school anime, but that's because of my daughters, so I sit and watch with them. I watch Attack on Titan, I watch Black Butler because of them, okay, but I'm an Ultraman Spectraman, johnny Cycle, giant Robot, voltron, trans-o-z, guy, right, nice. Then you know, I did six years in the military, in the Army.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a long time, and this is where my love of music came in because in the military, all we really had time to do you are a DJ too.
Speaker 5:Yes, this is a DJ too, and I play everything. So I'm not one of them guys where you're just going to get a bunch of trap music from me. I'm going to go to the trap. I'm going to go to the golden era of hip hop. I'm going to go to the 80s. Take on me, aha. I'm going to Phil Collins. I do it all. So it's just like I was born in 71, and I feel like I grew up in a time where I was coming in on the tail end of the Motown era, right in the heart of the disco era, from the disco era to hip hop, from hip hop to grunge. You know what I'm?
Speaker 5:saying so everything from Nirvana to Goodbye. Nice to Know you, that's my shit.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, come on.
Speaker 5:Eileen, to all of the new wave Devo, whip it All the way into you know, r&b, new Jack, swing, and then to now. So I just feel like I came up in a great era where I got to listen to that. And my father man Rest in peace to my dad man my dog had me listening to everything from Jimi Hendrix to Coltrane. So you know, I just feel like I'm versed and I feel like DJs are losing the aspect of keeping music alive. They only want to play what they think is going to flood the dance floor.
Speaker 5:Djs play for promoters now Because the promoter was like I want my dance floor motherfucking packed and I want the crowd in here, but they're not even dancing, they're not. They're standing there looking at each other and standing on the wall and they're playing. You'll have this DJ come on and play this song and then the next DJ come on three songs in. He played the song that this DJ just played. To me that's not a club experience. I want shit.
Speaker 1:that had me be like oh shit, all right, so give me five top DJs you like, oh.
Speaker 5:I like this right here. No particular order. No particular order. Okay, dead or Alive. Dead or Alive. Dj Timbuktu, one of the greatest to ever do it out of this city.
Speaker 6:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5:DJ Ferris.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 5:Jay Ella, jay Ella.
Speaker 1:You say I want to get five. How many?
Speaker 6:you want, can I get ten? Okay, get ten.
Speaker 1:Okay, you can get ten.
Speaker 6:I was going to say because you know what.
Speaker 3:Because I be thinking ten be too much, but I think ten is appropriate. No, no, no as ten. This is how I can tell no, no, no.
Speaker 1:I love music.
Speaker 5:This is how you can tell when ten is not enough when you can name 10 and you still got 20 to 25. That could have made the top 10, it's not enough. Chicago's big Okay. So let's start back over.
Speaker 6:Timbuktu, timbuktu.
Speaker 5:Jay Ella.
Speaker 6:Jay Ella Ferris.
Speaker 5:Ferris, dj Ferris. Shout out to DJ Ferris. Have you heard of him?
Speaker 3:Charles Protégé.
Speaker 1:Yes, protégé, yes, protégé. That's a bad boy, he's good.
Speaker 5:DJ Dollar Bill William Green.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:My mentor.
Speaker 6:Yeah yeah, I don't know the man.
Speaker 5:The first person that ever gave me a set of turntables and taught me how to get here, Okay. Boy Genius.
Speaker 1:Boy Genius, you made it, oh my God, hold on, I can't hear myself. Come on, man Boy, junior, boy, junior, hold on, hold on, oh my God, I love.
Speaker 5:Boy Genius. No, no, listen, oh my God, no, ruben Quinteriara is my man Ruben.
Speaker 1:I love Ruben, I love Ruben. You made me.
Speaker 5:Ruben, that, that's my man G. No, that's my dog. We talk.
Speaker 1:Like that's one of the DJs I talk to. I love Ruben.
Speaker 5:Boy Genius Shit Because it's tough.
Speaker 1:Vince.
Speaker 5:Adams.
Speaker 1:Okay, I never heard of Vince Adams. Vince Adams is bad man, Okay.
Speaker 5:Bulu Master, yeah Bulu.
Speaker 1:That's getting tough.
Speaker 5:I got two left.
Speaker 1:I'm going to my mind. I got two left.
Speaker 5:DJ Sundance.
Speaker 1:Yes, okay, that woman.
Speaker 5:She good, that woman. That's the first DJ that told me Leon, I don't give a fuck who you going on in front of or who you going on behind, play your box, play whatever you feel like playing and play the shit out of it. So, dj Sundance, I seen her rock behind everybody.
Speaker 5:God damn, I can't believe I'm finna do this, and it's not because this person bad, it's just who I'm leaving off. So let me give a big shout out to Mike Dunn. Let me give a big shout out to Wayne Williams. Let me give a big shout out to Maurice Ice, cold, pepper, et, eric Taylor. Let me give a big shout out to Commando, big shout out to my man who used to work at GCI with us. Goddamn, I think I'll be having Alzheimer's because, I be forgiving people's families.
Speaker 5:Jamal Smalls Jamal Smalls, my Air Force brother. He was in the Air Force, I was in the Army. Oh goddamn. He on the chicken spot now. He used to work at GCI with us. He on the chicken spot. Kid Clay is dope. Mike P Goddamn. I be thinking I be losing my fucking mind sometimes DJ BG, amazing female DJ.
Speaker 6:Cut.
Speaker 5:Cuts, cut, cuts. Amazing, I love Cut Cuts. I love everybody. I'm saying I love, but my last one, I think I got it. And I think this is because to me he is the greatest on-mic talking shit DJ out of anybody in the city of Chicago.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 5:That's my man, sean Mack. Sean Mack, sean Mack know how to rock a fucking.
Speaker 1:So that's what it is. It's him talking on that phone, I mean talking on that mic.
Speaker 5:He is an MC slash, true, dj? Okay, he knows how to. He can stop that motherfucking music. If you want your day one bitch, grab that bitch. Hug that bitch, say I don't like it. Everybody going crazy Chime at it, but trust me again, like comedy Chicago has a plethora. We forgot Terry Hunter, terry Hunter, dj Naphis a plethora. We forgot Terry Hunter, terry Hunter, dj Naphis, dj Naphis. I forgot Mustafa Rocks. Mustafa Rocks, maurice Joshua, yeah, grammy Award. We got Grammy Award winning DJs right here, in the city we do. My man Malik Shabazz.
Speaker 1:Yeah, malik Shabazz, I was thinking of him.
Speaker 5:Flyboy Wonder, flyboy Word, flyboy Word, my man Vic Vic. Yeah, oh man, I mean we got, and it's a bunch of female genius, ampm, ampm, suki Cheese.
Speaker 1:I love Suki Cheese. Come on, go, they're cold, go they cold. Badum, dj Badum.
Speaker 3:Come on man, yeah we got it.
Speaker 1:It is a lot. Barley Jack Master Funk.
Speaker 5:Legends yeah, yeah, andre.
Speaker 1:Hatchett, chardonnay Ray, andre Hatchett.
Speaker 5:Stop playing. Yes, Ron Hardy Gene Hunt Woo.
Speaker 1:I could go down the list. Yeah, we is. That's what irritates me.
Speaker 5:Oh, I'm irritates me because For us to be in the middle, there's so much raw talent in it, I know that we need another mayor because we can get out of debt.
Speaker 1:I promise you we can get out of debt.
Speaker 4:Bring back all these clubs and bars that close.
Speaker 5:Well, that, but but fairness, though I agree with you 100%. First of all, right, but we got to stop fucking shit up. We as a people got to start. When motherfuckers do stupid shit out here, put their ass in jail. I'm tired of people fucking up great spots that we hang out at over there Egos and over there Machismo.
Speaker 6:And that's really all it's about.
Speaker 5:What was the spot my man used to own that opened Nipsey's up on Stoney Island. Oh, he owned a little Louisiana-inspired spot and they closed it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, teddy, gilmore, teddy.
Speaker 5:Teddy has always had party rooms.
Speaker 1:That were fucking amazing. I started realizing that I'm like damn Novo Tavern he had, he had that spot that was in.
Speaker 5:Hullsville Cherry Red, cherry Red.
Speaker 1:I'm like, why do y'all keep doing this?
Speaker 5:Great parties but you get one asshole can shut down eight years of successful parties.
Speaker 1:He moved. He got up out of here, he moved.
Speaker 5:But my thing is this what used to make me mad, Like I hate it when, as a promoter, you get a bad rap because the motherfuckers that come there fuck shit up. Your job is to fill the space, Right you?
Speaker 1:gotta like start looking back, because at first I thought it was him. You know I was like, and so then I had to start looking back. I'm like, nah, it's these like, who are these promoters and stuff? All I said was it was these nigg. I'm like. It's like, damn, I done went to every opening you know that he's had since I've been here since 2012. Everyone gets shut down. And I started looking like well, you keep having these same promoters too, some of these people. You just got to put them to the side and say this ain't the crowd.
Speaker 5:Yo shout out to cats like Sigma Chris.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Shout out to cats like the few good guy, the few good men guy.
Speaker 1:Few good men, guy Ronald Platt, ronald Platt. Ronald Platt is my man, that's my brother.
Speaker 5:Ronald Platt and Sigma Chris are two dudes that I respect. Lou Baker, yeah, civilized Empire, lou.
Speaker 1:Baker, lou Baker, yeah, lou Baker.
Speaker 5:Anthony and Omar was doing their thing. Shout out to Omar, Bad back having ass. Yeah, Shout out to. But I'm going to tell you nobody has done it like these guys.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 5:Nobody has done it like these guys Back in the day, Phil and Nate Yep everybody says that Nobody, and I love all these dudes, Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Nobody has done it like Phil and Nate.
Speaker 5:Yeah, a lot of OGs say that Philly Nate used to have parties. The ladies was gorgeous beautiful heels, dresses, slits, makeup done, hair laid, Guys clean. May not necessarily been suits, but fly, Fly. Blue Jack era, Nothing happened.
Speaker 4:They doing parties in the fucking art museum we got to do something, then but it's a different generation now, so Remember we talked about that though, when the first episode Motherfuckers don't respect fly shit.
Speaker 5:But, we got to make it fly.
Speaker 1:That's the problem.
Speaker 5:But my point is. My point is when Phyllinae at.
Speaker 1:Can we get a break?
Speaker 5:Phyllinae throwing parties in Brazil now.
Speaker 3:This shit is beneath them and God bless them. I want them to call me the fuck.
Speaker 5:Philae, come get your boy. I remember they threw a party in the art museum. Motherfuckers was partying around $15,000 pieces. That's why I love art and nothing happened and nothing happened.
Speaker 1:You can't do that shit now. We can, we ain't gonna talk about it on this podcast, but when we get off, we gonna talk about it, it is hope you a legend.
Speaker 5:I'm about to bring him out of retirement he doesn't know who he is so these little goofy motherfuckers will have the Mona Lisa smoking a hookah.
Speaker 1:Fuck up a piece of art.
Speaker 5:We ain't doing no hookah. I don't even want to date no girl that do hookah.
Speaker 1:These young little bitches be doing hookah. No, what I'm saying is I can't do it.
Speaker 5:What I'm saying is I came up in an era where putting something on social media wasn't a thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you had to find out about the party from my we got to do the invitations no, no, no, no, no, no Listen to what.
Speaker 5:I'm saying you had to find out about this party from my recollection and memory and my story to you. So that's why I'm from a generation of storytellers, mapquest, we all we from a generation. When I saw Rakim the first time at the International Amphitheater and he came out the floor in a pyramid with the gold on his shit we didn't have no fucking phones where I could Instagram it. I had to tell my man how the concert was and guess what? You had already talked to man how the concert was and guess what? You had already talked to your barber earlier that day. You got the same story a different way, and you was enthralled because you're like, damn, I want Leon's perspective Now why we got to tell motherfuckers to not record at a comedy show.
Speaker 1:Right, or like what Dave Chappelle does Rob Markman.
Speaker 3:Lock your shit up, Rob Markman.
Speaker 1:As soon as you go in there, you got to put your shit. Rob Markman, you want to know?
Speaker 5:why? Because my jokes will be across the country before I get a chance to tell them to people. Rob Markman Right.
Speaker 4:Rob Markman.
Speaker 5:And that's a shame, yeah, but Ohio ain't seen it yet, motherfucker, let's keep it that way. What did I say Wednesday? Hey man, unless the comic asks you to record them, do not record.
Speaker 1:Because I was going to say that Maybe we need to start doing that. You need to start doing that there. We do do that there. No, we got your little bags.
Speaker 5:Make it some Ziploc bags to start with my point goes to, that is the mentality of this generation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Everything is microwave popcorn.
Speaker 5:Nobody cooks the meal anymore. We doing it in two minutes, nobody cooks. It's something to be said. We all got mamas right. It's something to be said. We all got mamas right. It's something to be said when you walk in and your mama got them peppers and onions sizzling in a skillet, and then she got the rice boiling over here, and then she making this butter chicken sauce over here, and then she combine that shit and serve it to you hot. Remember how people could cook, right? So everything got done at the same time. Rob Markman no, rob Markman, that's not today. Rob Markman no, rob Markman.
Speaker 4:Today. Rob Markman, I still do that, rob Markman. Come on me too. Rob Markman, I love cooking. I like prepping, chopping things up. Rob Markman Bro, that shit is the freshness.
Speaker 1:Rob.
Speaker 4:Markman, they don't even know what prepping is. Rob Markman, go to the grocery, tell the truth.
Speaker 5:Sometimes you cook shit just because of the color of the dish. You just like this shit looks colorful. It looks fucking amazing. I got video saved on my phone right now. When I showed you I was cooking some shit, I said man, this shit looks beautiful.
Speaker 1:I don't even want to eat it, and when a man want to cook it's going to be good Sometimes.
Speaker 4:I'm just visualizing dishes in my head. I don't even know what it is. You know how it's going to taste like, exactly I think I was like I think I need this, let me go to the store, let me go get some orange and green bell peppers, because I think this shit will look good on top of this chicken and fucking rice.
Speaker 5:I don't even know how this shit going to taste. I'm also like trying to like memorize smells.
Speaker 4:Is it curry or is it pepper? I don't know, rob.
Speaker 5:Markman, this is how your grandmother cooked. If you're Mexican, this is how your abuela cooked. Whatever you say in Nigerian, this is how they cooked. You remember that? That shit sparks memories.
Speaker 4:Rob Markman, that's how I usually pick meals, or?
Speaker 5:cook.
Speaker 4:Based off memory and nostalgia Rob Markman.
Speaker 1:And we losing all that, we losing the recipes. Rob Markman, don't, nobody do that shit. Now you know, these bitches don't even have no dining room table.
Speaker 5:I don't have it they ain't got no bed, they got a head mattress. Like it's like that. Got six pair of Louboutins and a motherfucker head mattress.
Speaker 1:I'm about to go mess with this little young chick. Come over there. She don't know how to cook.
Speaker 4:She don't got nothing she ain't got a head boy, but she know what club we about to go to.
Speaker 1:We're going to get in for free and they're going to have a bottle for us.
Speaker 5:All her towels that shit wild. All her towels are white but they great Right, Because she dirtied in them Dirty.
Speaker 1:But fine as hell. Fine as hell though I be double tapping three times. Oh shit, I forgot, you already did it. Okay, yo, we gotta change that If my wife listening.
Speaker 5:I don't be double tapping, I just look, no. But being serious, though, like that is the thing the party era now is about who got the most drip on and how I look standing on the couch. The party era I came from, we left sweating and musty, because we was dancing all night With three numbers.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 5:I challenge anybody now Go to the club and the club closes at 2. So that means they start cutting on the lights at about 1.15.
Speaker 6:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 5:Motherfuckers are still playing for Nito Right At 1.15. At 1.15. You are sending motherfuckers outside infused with violence. When I went to parties, if the party was over with at 1, 12, 15, we playing, who can get some pussy music? Slow jam you play the slow jam you trying to grind on somebody. House party man, come on, house party, bring that back, and there's a few promoters that try to do that. But I'm saying the DJ culture today is so bent up on being the best and being loved.
Speaker 4:I missed out on that because I remember all my aunts and uncles that live around here, man listen man. They would be getting ready Come on, come on, bro, and then the neighbors would be the DJs. Yeah, that's what you could wear.
Speaker 1:That's what you could wear. It's a block of fair and I grew up in this house, in this neighborhood.
Speaker 4:so I remember just like man. I done went home with their moms let them have the parties in the basement and stuff.
Speaker 5:Come on, man, I done. Went home with so many denim burns on my penis From grinding on little girls not getting that Right. But you went home like damn.
Speaker 6:I got to call Felicia tomorrow Right, not man I going to fuck them motherfuckers up.
Speaker 5:That bumped into me.
Speaker 4:Right, I remember my uncle downstairs literally getting ready, ironing his clothes and then calling his ladies, his homies, like you know, we're going to go to the set Right and I was like seven or something, but I would hang out with them. I was like whoa. I was like what are you?
Speaker 1:guys doing. I got a sister that's 20 years older than me. I remember she used to get her dress. She used to have a little red little dress on and she'd be ready to go to the club. It was in the early 90s. I'd be like, ooh, I can't wait till I get older.
Speaker 5:But everything now is what you got on the labels, all that shit. I see a bunch of dudes in a section with one bottle Like bottle shit wasn't even a thing when I was in the club. If you saw somebody with a bottle, you was like that motherfucker rich. We was too busy drinking and out with the girls on a thing Like a flex on being rich. Back in the day was a motherfucker coming in the club with his steering wheel and his snatch-out radio in his hand.
Speaker 6:Right, you know he had a cold-ass car.
Speaker 5:He took his steering wheel off and had his snatch-out radio.
Speaker 6:He had an Audi.
Speaker 1:You're like, yeah, that motherfucker had an Audi. I remember my uncle.
Speaker 3:He put his whole steering wheel in the club.
Speaker 4:My uncle would be like showing one. My aunt would make fun of my uncle. He's like why are you going to the dance party? You can't dance. He's like yeah right, check out. I've been practicing this move all week. Right, he's like oh, I'm going to get down, check it out.
Speaker 5:I've been practicing.
Speaker 4:And he would do that move and they'd be like oh, oh oh.
Speaker 5:Everybody would be excited. And he's like but now it's the dude that comes in with the new Louis Vuitton fanny pack.
Speaker 2:Oh, this one for real, this one for real, did Not?
Speaker 5:everybody likes you, or what the girls is. How many bottles at their table and they come over.
Speaker 4:Like his cousins and they go to the basement, set up the boom box and practice moves for the party later. Rob Markman.
Speaker 5:Jr Bro. Think about it. If you throw a house party right now, right, If you throw a house party right now, how many people coming over and dancing at the house party, playing spades? It's a fucking. Some people might not come unless you be like are you cooking? Some people might not come unless you got something for them cooking, Like, some people might not come unless you got something for them.
Speaker 1:It's like you got to get in rules now. Like this is a house party. This is the house party. Like kid in play, yes, please go read we having a good time yeah yeah, like please go watch these three movies before you attend this house party.
Speaker 5:Look, you motherfuckers. I'm going to say this right now, and I know I'm going to catch a flag for it. You motherfuckers don't even make out at house parties, no more. No, we should go sneak off to somebody's mom and daddy bedroom. You're like man, I told y'all, y'all couldn't come in here, right, they ain't doing none of that.
Speaker 1:This is bad, but that's better than they. Parents' bed, right? All that fucking Ralph's room, man, ralph's daddy room.
Speaker 4:Man. Shit bro. I don't know how to make a bed.
Speaker 1:You fucked it up, so it's just like they don't even eat pussy.
Speaker 3:no more Come on.
Speaker 1:It's better, it's better over here.
Speaker 4:Oh, dude, I remember having throwing parties.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5:The views and opinions of Zoe represent the views and opinions of guests. Oh, opinions of guests. So yeah, niggas ain't even pussy. No more like that.
Speaker 4:I'm throwing parties at my parents' house and having to take pictures because my mom would literally she's like I know when things are moving and fucked up Exactly, and. I'm like no, Joe, she always caught it. Maybe it took a few days, but she would just give me that stare. It's like few days, but she would just give me that stares like, that's the era I'm from. I'm looking for those clues.
Speaker 5:So you came in, so you came in on the era. I came in on the era where you put water in the alcohol bottles because your friends came over and drank shit they wasn't supposed to drink. Oh, I did that too, and you put the water in the bottles. And then your uncles would come over and be like man, this goddamn old granddad is a lighter than.
Speaker 5:That's how I got discovered drinking. Like true story, true story. My friends came over, we did school, we kicked it, we all downstairs taking shots of Johnny Walker. Now I don't at this time, I don't know shit about liquor, I just know this liquor, right. So I don't know the cost, the value, but at the time we drinking Johnny Walker, blue Label, right. So this shit cost money. So we pouring, we getting fucked up, and I'm like, oh, I got to fill it back up to where it was at. So I put water in it.
Speaker 5:Two days later, my father, like hey, come here, let me holler at you, say you been down here drinking on this bar. I went full slave. No, sir, no, sir, I was not drinking off that bar, sir, I don't know what you talking about. Sir. My father say, man, don't fucking lie to me. He said all right, since you want to play the game, he cracked open a bottle of Johnny Walker Black, poured me four shots. He said since you want to be grown and drink, he said because I know you're drinking, because you put water in my scotch and that scotch costs too much for you to be fucking around with. So this is what you do, since you're a grown man. Now you're going to drink with me and your Uncle Harry. I'm like no sir, I would never put no water in your scotch sir, you's got me confused.
Speaker 5:I was a good slave I'm a good castmate boy, but he got me Because I know what I did, Right, man? Let me tell you something, dog. He made me drink them four shots Every time they took a shot. I had to take a shot, man. I got to three and thought I was going to die. Mind you, I'm 15. I'm a sophomore in high school.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Draped the fourth shot. And then he said and now, now, because it was at night, it was Friday night I'll never forget. Right Saturday morning he woke me up at six in the morning. Of course you know I'm hung the fuck over 6 in the morning. Of course you know I'm hung the fuck over. I'm slapped, cut grass, clean out the garage, that motherfucker working me till 12.
Speaker 5:Damn, so what? I tell y'all I didn't take another motherfucking drink till I graduated senior year. I was a sophomore, but my point is those were the risks we took. Right, that was the shit we did when we had motherfuckers come over. We kicked it. Now motherfuckers come over and it's weird shit. Now I heard some shit about one of my guy's daughters had a rainbow party at her house. Oh my God, you don't know. Oh my God, you don't know, as of all my fathers out there, if you hear a daughter say she's having a rainbow party, grab her and send her away, lock her up, send her to boarding school. So what a rainbow party is? Girls call over two guys in school that they like, they all put on different shades of lipstick and they see how far down they can go on the little boy's dicks.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, oh my God.
Speaker 5:So like if she got on red, she got on blue, she got on green. They go to see who.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, the rainbow party.
Speaker 5:Meanwhile the two boys just getting head Stay away from future.
Speaker 4:Stay away from rainbow.
Speaker 1:Rainbow party.
Speaker 5:Well, he told me that. I said, bro, are you serious? He said, yeah, man, I'm like, you know how you see tears. I don't want to laugh because of that. You know how you see tears in people's eyes, like if they blink, the tears going to come down. He talking to me like that At the time we both, because we both the same age. So at the time it's like a 46-year-old man telling me this and I'm like, oh shit.
Speaker 4:I don't know. You're grounded.
Speaker 5:Grounded, grounded. Fuck that. Cut your fucking lips off. Oh my God, so I?
Speaker 1:came home immediately Fuck up out here, when he told me that story.
Speaker 5:I went home and hugged all my daughters Like oh my God, you look the best I love you so much, you motherfuckers.
Speaker 4:I'm not going to tell you You're allergic lipstick that's crazy I had never heard no shit like that.
Speaker 5:How old was this? I'm 53, so I was 46, 47 when it happened. Woo, but.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying, so they probably.
Speaker 5:Oh it's evolution.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, yeah, it's evolution from the spin the bottle.
Speaker 1:Yeah Right, yeah Right. So we came up spin the bottle truth or dare rainbow parties.
Speaker 5:When you seen that girl? That?
Speaker 1:was pregnant.
Speaker 3:in your high school you used to be like damn, you know what I'm saying it used to be like damn, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:You used to be like one random, or seven, or what is it.
Speaker 5:Two minutes in the closet or whatever, Bro, here's my thing. Here's my thing Truth or dare Truth. You have a choice I can tell the truth or I can take a dare Rainbow Party. There's really no choice. We have this makeup on Right.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:We're gonna suck your dick to see who goes the farthest down.
Speaker 1:Like, who thought of this? There's no, I gotta find out. I thought it was a root.
Speaker 5:These prerequisites these rules that are embedded already? How old are these kids Today? On.
Speaker 4:What's that channel with the documentaries A&E, yeah, a&e the story of the rainbow parties?
Speaker 1:The rainbow party sound wow.
Speaker 5:You come through the door knowing the little boys come through the door and boy, that's why they don't care.
Speaker 1:They don't care, these boys don't treat you right. Well, y'all started rainbow parties at 14.
Speaker 5:It's not like Truth or Dare, where a guy's coming through the door like okay somebody might act.
Speaker 4:It was like Chris Fall Autumn Night.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Little kids got dropped off in Cleveland Ohio.
Speaker 5:It's like Truth or Dare, Somebody might say you know what, coming through the door of Truth or Dare, somebody might ask me to kiss a pussy Right, there's a possibility of that. But when it's like, hey, we're having a rainbow party at the house, the two dudes that's coming like.
Speaker 1:I'm finna get my dick sucked.
Speaker 5:You know what I'm saying sucked. They calling each other like there's no answer, but I am getting my dick sucked.
Speaker 1:They getting dressed up to get their dick sucked.
Speaker 4:Hell yeah, Bro. What kind of shampoo you using on your balls, dude? It don't matter, I don't care Because I'm going to get my dick sucked.
Speaker 1:This is crazy. And when you told me that?
Speaker 5:dude. I was just like I wanted to hug him. I'm like as a father, I thank God, right, my girls are so fucking lame, I'll take a.
Speaker 2:I'll take a pronoun fighter before a rainbow man, come on dude, before a rainbow clubber.
Speaker 5:Yeah cause, my cause, my oldest, my oldest. She just sprung on us two months ago. That she's he, him, they and them okay and we had the conversation.
Speaker 1:Don't argue.
Speaker 3:No, we had the conversation.
Speaker 5:I said listen listen, I said no, no, no, no. Let me tell you something. What you're not going to do is be mad at us because we don't get it right away. Right, Because for 24 years you've been she, you know baby girl. You're my first Now Baby girl, you my first Right Now. You, he, him, they and them. I'm going to respect that. He, him, they, them. I'm going to respect that. But if I fuck up, you can't get mad. Don't charge it to my head, Don't charge. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Charge it to my head and not my heart. Now I have a friend like that.
Speaker 5:Her grandmother well, his grandmother. See, you know what I'm saying. Now see how easy that is.
Speaker 1:You can fuck that up. He's 80 years old. She's probably like she's probably pushing 90. Now he got mad. You can't get mad. No, because she still calls him baby girl. You can't get mad at that, sir. Sir, you were her baby girl and you have to tell him she's fucking 80.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I said she's 80.
Speaker 1:I said she's 80. I said she's 83. You are her granddaughter. You just turned yesterday, you just turned into.
Speaker 5:You're not even a year, your grandma might have heard Marcus Garvey speak.
Speaker 3:Motherfucker, the fucking is mad yeah man.
Speaker 1:Every time I come over there she's talking about some baby girl. Baby girl, you are still the baby girl. I still call you your real name sometimes, right, I slip up and don't.
Speaker 5:I'm not being disrespectful Right.
Speaker 1:This is a habit and I told my.
Speaker 3:I told.
Speaker 5:I told my and that was another thing I said. So do I call you my son or you still my daughter? No, I'm your child. Hey motherfucker, it's too many hurdles.
Speaker 6:I need you to simplify it for me. Once somebody says, hey, how many children do you have, I have three.
Speaker 5:Then they'll be like what's the breakdown? What do I say? You have a child and two daughters. No, but they're gonna say but the oldest says call them he, him, they and them. So wouldn't that make them your son? No, they say, I'm not.
Speaker 1:I would just let the wife deal with it. No, no, no.
Speaker 5:I figured it out because I do it in my set. Now I say okay, so here it is. This is what we're going to do to make it easy for me, because I'm 53 and my mind don't work like that. Right, yeah for me, because. I'm 53 and my mind, don't work like that, right, yeah, how many children do you have? Three? What's the breakdown? I got two daughters and that motherfucker right there. Yeah, there you go, you motherfucker now.
Speaker 4:You brought this on to yourself.
Speaker 1:Nah, real talk, hey motherfucker come here. That's not the reason why I'm out here fighting. I said, let me take my gay ass out here. So they out here fighting.
Speaker 3:I said, let me take my gay ass out here.
Speaker 1:So they, out here fighting for pronouns.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, we need liberation. You know who I got against.
Speaker 5:Pronoun liberation Hold on, I never do this. I never do this. But do you know who I have to get on this show with you? My little cousin Chance.
Speaker 1:I'm ready.
Speaker 5:No, you're not. No, I'm going to tell you right now. I'm going to send you a pre-tape before you sign.
Speaker 1:Chance is when I say this motherfucker needs a platform because he will go crazy, but he is over the top. He's over the top, I need that we need that.
Speaker 5:I'm going to show you his IG when we get off and you're going to be like nope, Leon, you right, Go ahead. No, we need. I'm telling you I'm telling you, zo, it's just so. That's why, when people get in, the whole ally talk and all that stuff. You know why I hate that? Here's why I hate that Because I treat people how they treat me. I don't give a fuck what your pronouns are I don't care about none of that shit.
Speaker 5:You treat me like an asshole. Guess what? You get an asshole back. I don't care about your gender. I hate that shit Because there are some gay men that I would rather be in a dark alleyway and have to fight my way out than I would some of my straight homies, because I know them. Motherfuckers ain't going to run, they ain't going to back down.
Speaker 5:Right, I got some straight homies that I know that'll bail on me in a heartbeat when shit get tight, but I got a motherfucker, that's like if that motherfucker was in the foxhole with me, I'd put my back to the wall, but I know Right With them heels and everything. Yeah, I know they're going to weep, let's do it. I know they're going to shoot. They're going to shoot everything that comes their way Right. That's all I'm worried about. Complete the mission. Complete the mission.
Speaker 5:So when people do the whole bragging about being an ally thing. I say why you got to brag about it. If you're an ally, you're an ally, I don't have to brag about shit. Do I agree with everything? No, my oldest daughter. We have conversations. And I think that's what's missing in the world today People just sitting down. How long we known each other, though.
Speaker 1:Ooh since 2013. So we've known each other, though Ooh, since 2013.
Speaker 5:So we've known each other over 10 years. Yeah, my point to that saying is You've never came to me and said yeah. I see Zo, and then the day Zo get mad at me for seeing her and Zo, then what the fuck do I need to? What do you want me to do? Because this is what I see. This is my nigga, I don't care what. Remember that day when we was at a what was the festival? And they was giving you a.
Speaker 1:I wanted to say, I was like I don't know if I'm yes, because I was telling my mom. I was like when they see you standing that line, I'm like.
Speaker 5:We was out at the festival, yeah, and I said hey.
Speaker 1:At the hard part festival.
Speaker 5:Yo, it's like it's a good motherfucker. I tried to use whatever leverage I had.
Speaker 1:But I saw him standing in the line.
Speaker 5:And.
Speaker 1:I'm standing and I'm like why is he standing? He's trying to talk to my no she good. And I'm like why is he standing? He's trying to talk to me, like no she good. And I'm like but why are you?
Speaker 5:even in this line Like why are you waiting for your ticket? It just goes to show you that it's all about how you race, right? I've never played the Leon Rogers card. Yeah, because, at the end of the day, me being on the radio is just a job. Me doing comedy is just a form of entertainment. I even asked him because I went in she's slapping more for me than I am.
Speaker 1:I went in and I texted him I said do you mind if I said that I'm not?
Speaker 2:the right person.
Speaker 5:He was like no, just leave me out of it, but I understand what you was talking about, Because I'm like how dare you leave Leon Robinson and his wife in this line?
Speaker 5:Like Leave Leon Robinson and his wife in this line, Like y'all is. That's me, though, and bro, when I say when I travel, you're either going to see me with my wife of 23 years, Nicole, or my brother Dave, I don't have an entourage, I don't move around with a bunch of motherfuckers, that's just it, Because I feel like the day I have to do that, like I've had cops, friends of mine, yeah man.
Speaker 1:Yeah you do. You need security, you need solo dollars.
Speaker 5:I said for what? Who do I bother? Do I walk around? I'm in here right now. What type of jewelry?
Speaker 6:I got on.
Speaker 5:Right, you want this Michael Kors watch. Take it, motherfucker Right, you want that car. I got out there. You want?
Speaker 1:that car I got out there here. That's what insurance is for. That's what the granny said. The granny said I don't need no body parts, I don't walk around with diamonds on none of that shit.
Speaker 5:I don't wear my wealth. My wealth for me is that my kid went through Columbia College and graduated and only got $5,000 in debt. Look at that yeah, that's good. Look at that, yeah, that's good. We gonna knock that shit out.
Speaker 2:The first year. She's out, she just graduated.
Speaker 5:Congratulations, my second one is going through. She's not gonna have that much debt Right. And my third one ain't gonna have nothing because we understand and learn the whole saving for college shit. So that's wealth to me. Right, Wealth to me is not having a car note. Wealth to me is instead of a 30-year mortgage 15.
Speaker 4:Those are things and you go on.
Speaker 1:y'all go on vacations. You know what I'm like? A motherfucker man.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to sit up here and work and motherfucking not be happy.
Speaker 4:Right, it's like life, wealth, or I don't know.
Speaker 5:Well, people put the wrong. So look, I'm just looking in here, right, you're a musician. You want to know how I could tell you was a musician as soon as I stuck my head in this motherfucker?
Speaker 1:Because there's 13 different variations of guitars in this bitch? I don't know. First thing you ask and then I ask the dumbass question.
Speaker 5:You play guitar and I know he's probably like nah, motherfucker, I just got all these hanging up because it was Halloween and I was pretending I was Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 3:Nah, but. But you understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 5:You understand what I'm saying, then I noticed the little figurines and I was like oh okay, yeah, I got weird shit like that too.
Speaker 5:He got the cone heads on top of it. I think I peeped that shit. I'm into all that shit, right? So it's like I tell people wealth means different things, right. Rich means different things to different people. The people that like to have every Jordan that come out. I'm not mad at you, I don't judge you. That's what you think is dope. God bless you. For me, I think about when I check out of here, when I'm gone, how's my family going to live? But I also had that blueprint. My dad rest in peace. Leon Rogers Sr lost him 12 years ago to lung cancer.
Speaker 1:I lost my dad too long ago.
Speaker 6:When he left.
Speaker 5:His last words to me was like hey, man, you ain't got to worry about your mama, she good, and my grandbaby's good. I left them a little something too. That to me is wealth For a man to be on his dying bed and tell you hey man, I get it, I'm dying. You want your mom to be straight, I don't want you to be stressed. Young blood, she good. Console her because I'm leaving in the physical form. My wife lost her mind when my dad died because that was you know what I'm saying my two babies. That's their papa.
Speaker 5:He said once they get over that understand I'm here through eternity. Right Once they get over that understand I'm here through eternity. Even though I'm gone, I still have a hand in how I help them. Help you, help them. They're great.
Speaker 4:That's like irreplaceable wealth.
Speaker 5:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:You can buy over and over again, right, but things like that, rob Markman, that spiritual shit where my kids to this day still recall shit from their grandfather.
Speaker 6:Rob Markman.
Speaker 5:Right, Rob Markman. And they 25, 19. He passed before. My oldest one was even out of eighth grade Rob Markman, Right, Rob Markman. So it's like that's the type of shit I strive for, you know what I'm saying. A lot of people think like, oh, I got all this money. That's material shit, that shit can get destroyed, replaced immediately, but the fact to have somebody give you a mentality that okay, so my mentality is when I leave out of here, I want to make sure I got shit set in place. Everybody lives the same way.
Speaker 6:Nothing drops off. Right.
Speaker 5:And that's what he did for my mom and my kids. So you know, that is a thing I think we struggle with as a people. We want to wear our wealth. I got the flyers car, I got this. I got that man. I drive a Ford Explorer. That bitch get me back and forth to work every day. That's all I need. That's just paid for. I don't have a note, that's what they need to understand. Somebody asked me that on my YouTube live the other day. I don't care about none of that shit.
Speaker 1:They was like what do you like to wear, or something like that, like what's your favorite clothing? I was like then I said you know what I like to wear? Louis Vuitton. I said the cologne, though Like I like to smell good. I said so I wear Louis Vuitton, but I wear the cologne, shout out to Imagine. Yeah, yeah, that's one of my favorite brands I like Elevaneste.
Speaker 5:Shout out to my man Naeem. Go see my man Naeem. Comedian Naeem Naeem. He a Louis Vuitton guy. He work out in Louis Vuitton and Oakbrook. Okay, Shout out to Naeem baby.
Speaker 1:So yeah, but people didn't understand. Like yeah, I wear Louis Vuitton, but I wear the cologne.
Speaker 5:I do too. I do too, but I'm going to put you up on something right here, right now. I got a guy. I find people that can do what I like for a lesser price and they black my man, willow, hummingbird Fragrances out in River Oaks, ma. Make you any motherfucking fragrance. You want Louis Vuitton Imagine Creed, royal Water, vivatil, where it wrote what was it like.
Speaker 1:I won't give you the number, go see it, alright.
Speaker 5:I be smelling like Killian Love. Don't Cost a Thing All the shit that I used to spend $500, $600 for I get $200 to $300 cheaper. It smells the same.
Speaker 1:Okay, because what it is?
Speaker 5:is. It's the oils. That's all it is is the concentrated oil. It turns it into a spray. So, instead of hitting you in the head for the $325 an ounce it's only $125. Okay.
Speaker 6:You get two ounces and you rotate Come on man Black on.
Speaker 5:So, like that, you see what I got on right here. Look, I'm sitting right in front of you.
Speaker 1:I don't know what to ask you when she was coming on Leaders down, leaders down.
Speaker 5:To my people. Shout out to Corey Gilkey yes. Just got inaugurated into the Southern Baseball and to the A-ball with him. Shout out to my man, Corey. Gilkey that just got put into the Southern University Hall of Fame. Sports Hall of Fame for baseball. He's the face of leaders. Okay, leaders.
Speaker 3:I love it.
Speaker 5:Fly, dave, jeff, dave, Jeff. Fashion geek, my man, zoe Zoe, yeah, bobby Simmons, success Him and Vail Bobby. I do rock for Bobby. So my thing is I try to support all black labels. I always tell people you know, we know about Louis Vuitton, we know about Gucci, but do you know and I want everybody out here to Google this there's a brand called Louis Stewart. The brother that makes Louis Stewart was one of the lead designers for Louis Vuitton. He left when they wouldn't promote him and they were putting the celebrities in over him. No disrespect to Virgil and all them guys, but they were giving them the shot before they were giving him and he had been with them the longest. The Damier print. Louis Stewart came up with that. Okay, he left, created him and Alex Thomas.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was about to ask you. That's their bag line, that's Louis Stewart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was about to ask. Okay, I was about to say yeah, alex, yeah, I like that Another comedian.
Speaker 5:I got two or three bags from now. Yeah, luxury, okay, quality, but you know what I'm saying. But because this is why we need more black, famous, big time motherfuckers to get this shit Right and flaunt it. Because I hate to say this, zoe, but you understand, we zombies, we see a motherfucker, we see a motherfucker. Can I tell you how many people that said I drink Belagro tequila because you say you drink it, which I'm?
Speaker 1:grateful. But God damn, no, you're right, we that motherfucking, we are.
Speaker 5:You can't tell me to put some shit in my mouth. I got to see you use it, and this is what I always said about me I will never promote anything that I don't drink or that I don't use. Am I a bourbon tequila whiskey guy? Absolutely, but the tequila I drink is Milagro, right, milagro, and before that, avion.
Speaker 1:Yep, avion, I love Avion too. Yep, you were the oh yep. I remember you used to say that online on the radio.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I did, I used to drink Avion tequila.
Speaker 1:I was like I want to go to.
Speaker 5:Avion. I used to drink Avion tequila. Yeah, something in the flavor of it changed me Okay, and I had tasted Milagro tequila before they even came to me about endorsing it.
Speaker 1:And I was sipping on that.
Speaker 5:Okay.
Speaker 1:I was sipping on that.
Speaker 5:Sammy Hager's tequila, cabo Wabo Cab. Sammy Hager's tequila, cabo Wabo, cabo Wabo. Okay, I was sipping on that and I was sipping on Tres Aduras Aduras.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, you know, yeah, tres Aduras.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so I drank, I drank. But when Milagro came to me and was like, hey, we want you to endorse us, I was like, cool, I actually drink. Yeah, but if Milagro came to me and I didn't like the shit, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1:I don't, nah, I'm not going to do it, dog.
Speaker 5:Because I don't want motherfuckers drinking some shit. I ain't drinking. You see me outside and I'm not drinking it, you be like, oh motherfucker, you got me drinking this shit and you don't even drink it. So what I'm saying is, with our black labels, we have so many people in Chicago that got luxurious, Like Eric Knowles, right on 71st and State Street. He does suits.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 5:For men, boys, women, dresses, whatever One Stop Shopping. It's a black haberdashery. Okay, Styles by Dave, another guy Suits, whatever can get you right, but we so quick to mine because it's Hugo Boss or Balenciaga Rob Markman.
Speaker 6:Right Rob.
Speaker 5:Markman, and I'ma just be perfectly honest Some of y'all be out there and that shit need be trash. Rob Markman, right it.
Speaker 4:shit is trash. So Styles by Dave Fitted suit is a suit you know, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you got Styles by Dave, and what's the other suit?
Speaker 5:Eric Knowles GQ.
Speaker 1:Gentleman, because I got, because we got to wrap this up, I got you.
Speaker 5:We didn't even do this, we rolled it. No, but this has been great conversation yeah. And I'm always willing to come back.
Speaker 1:Yes, Well, I wanted to ask you. So my birthday is coming up.
Speaker 3:When is your birthday?
Speaker 1:January 23rd.
Speaker 5:Sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1:Outside in the cold and shit. I just can't. I can't relate to none of you.
Speaker 5:I'm going to have one of the coldest New Jack City parties to this day. I can't relate to you motherfuckers that have birthdays where you got to wear coats to go outside.
Speaker 1:I'm July the 7th. I'm outside. I'm pure naked. I'm a Hedo. I love cancers though, so I don't have nothing to say about cancers. I'm a.
Speaker 5:Hedo butt-ass naked with flip-flops and a.
Speaker 4:Kangaroo. Yes, sir, with the flip-flops.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, and Leon had my Paper Pussy t-shirt on in Jamaica.
Speaker 5:Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:There was a guy that was there. His name was Coach. I don't know if you know who Coach is. Coach took the picture, sent it to me and was like you worldwide.
Speaker 5:I was outside, that's.
Speaker 1:Leon Rogers. I'm like Coach, you know, leon. I was outside you worldwide. I was outside. That's Leon Rogers. I'm like coach, you know Leon. I was outside man, so that was kind of cool that y'all all were there at the same time, Because I'm like, how do you like so?
Speaker 5:yeah, so that's it. Hey, listen when I tell people that's what I'm saying. Like, even though you know that, come to think about that, even though, like, so, oh, you made that shirt. Man, give me that motherfucker. Now, I couldn't wear it on my TV show that I had on Fox. But when I do a show on stage or something, I'm like, man, i'ma do this shit Because I'm about supporting Chicago. I'm Chicago, I'm black first.
Speaker 1:I'm on a pilot trip.
Speaker 4:There's a friend of mine that made this hoodie.
Speaker 5:Come on, man, come on. And what did I say when I came in Dope ass sweatshirt? I need it, just like this. Chicago hates you. Shout out all these people from Chicago, sir, and madam I fuck with everybody, and my thing is, we don't get behind our brands.
Speaker 3:Do you know that there's a?
Speaker 5:black car maker that made an electric car. Nobody knows this shit. Go look at Google it. It's hot, the car hot, but we ain't buying it because all we know is Tesla.
Speaker 1:Even like Freddy Fingers I'd be like that's where we need to be. He got TVs, he got cell phones. Like what are we doing?
Speaker 5:But it's just. It's just. We got to start the ball rolling and we got to start showing them that economically, inventing shit, making shit, we are powerful. Yeah, just imagine if we didn't shop for one day. We are the Einstein Imagine if we didn't shop for one day. We are the Einstein Imagine if we didn't shop for one day. I say that all the time, black Friday, let's just say we don't go nowhere. Nowhere, motherfuckers, don't buy online or nothing.
Speaker 1:They'll be like whoo Right, I think we need to sit down and have a conversation with them.
Speaker 5:Oh man, how many niggas you know, man can't wait till the motherfucking 75-inch TV is gone. Right, we go by 234.
Speaker 1:Yep, they be like shit. Got my basement done.
Speaker 5:I'll get two TVs.
Speaker 1:This shit going to look like a sports club, right, you living with your mama.
Speaker 5:You done decorated your mama's whole motherfucking sub-basement with six 75-inch screens. Right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Right, that's the good child. I hate our mentality man.
Speaker 5:But then when I say hey, look this Louis Stewart. Shit is hot man, it's a black-owned luggage company, it's luxurious. Oh, that shit ain't Louis, right, this motherfucker used to design for Louis.
Speaker 1:But these are the people that are who all going to be there. These are the who all going to be there type people, instead of just coming to the party because you want to come, you want to enjoy, you're trying to figure out who's there, and that is the mentality that we have to get out of. Like I'm 38 years old, I'm not going into, I'll be 39 in January, I'm not going in this year, just like. All right, yep, I voted for this man, da-da-da-da. Nah, I'm about to show y'all we going to get that White House. Black America, it's time for us to get that White House. So this is how we go. I've been trying to tell. I told everybody the boycott last year. I've been saying that I said we don't fuck both of these people, but nobody ain't going to do it. So it's like all right. Well, if I got to pick the lesser of the two evil, or if I got to pick what I'm, because I'm out here fighting the establishment, I'm fighting the different press right here.
Speaker 5:I understand what's going on right now.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go ahead and go this way, because my thing is we ain't never get these niggas 60 years Understand. So my thing is now I'm coming to y'all, I got our plan. Now, if you don't fucking take this plan in this next year, that's on you. Yeah, I'm trying to tell you now I'm going back to black America and I'm going to say, hey, it's time for us to pick our own person.
Speaker 5:We get in that White House because we're not, they're not going to play kick the can with us. And getting that White House by any means necessary, that don't necessarily mean president, Getting that White House with a vote, head of Senate, head of whatever. So motherfuckers got to say okay, we got to listen to them.
Speaker 1:That's all you're saying, Like let's go. It doesn't make any sense why we are still here at the bottom of the boat.
Speaker 5:We don't care if it's Cory Booker or Tim Scott, right? Somebody just got to have our interest in mind, right?
Speaker 1:And this is it. This is the list. We don't even require much Facts. You know what I'm saying? You bothering us Facts. We just want to make sure our money right If we paying taxes y'all done. Shot up fucking taxes so high, Absolutely yeah, just leave us.
Speaker 5:We already making the culture, we the culture. Rob Markman Jr, Can I say something? Man, you know people going to hate to hear this, but the Minister, louis Farrakhan, has been saying this shit for years. I remember they had the big conference here. I went to Chicago State when they had the black caucus here.
Speaker 3:The people that were supposed to be speaking for us.
Speaker 5:They were all sitting there at the table and Minister Farrakhan said something. My man from BET was running the whole thing. That did the news shit. I forget his name.
Speaker 1:You're talking about with the pretty?
Speaker 5:eyes no, no, no, not him, not the sexy eyes. The new no, no, no, not him, Not the sexy motherfucker.
Speaker 1:The news dude I know you're talking about the new, you know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 5:But, anyway, his name slips my mind because I got convenient Alzheimer's, I'm telling you. But Farrakhan said something he said in the 1960s. The motto was more jobs, more something, something he said in the 1980s. The motto was more jobs, more something, something. Now this in the 90s, this is like 98, 99, he said. In the 1990s, the motto was still more jobs.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:He says so what in the hell has happened for 30 years? Y'all still asking for the same. He didn't say shit. But basically he said we still asking for the same shit 30 years ago.
Speaker 1:And now it's 24.
Speaker 5:And he said and that's not on them, that's on us. And he said and that's not on them, that's on us, that's on us. And I said, wow. When I went back and looked, I'm like wow, because I feel like and I'm pretty sure y'all agree with me on this they give us other shit to throw us off the trail Diddy is to throw us off. What's really going on? Just keep some shit out. We talk about Diddy. I work on the radio.
Speaker 5:Right, we talk about motherfucking Diddy every day, and I'll be sitting up here like.
Speaker 1:Right, he cooked Right. Why are we still talking about him? Why are we still talking about him? Let him cook.
Speaker 5:Oh, dirt, dirt, and then throw another one up Dirt, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:He cooked Right. Why are we still talking about him? Y'all don't talk about y'all, but what?
Speaker 5:about this. That's not going to move the needle.
Speaker 6:Right Yep.
Speaker 1:Right Yep.
Speaker 6:And that's why I'm getting them.
Speaker 5:It hurts.
Speaker 1:It hurts because it's like damn, like I unfollowed Shade Room, baller Alert, neighborhood Talk Because I couldn't like, economically we're not well and if y'all don't understand that we in 2024 and we out here living like this because ain't nobody ask no questions, and then, like I say, I'm out here fighting the establishment, the law of the land is the US Constitution. Y'all violated the Fifth Amendment, Facts Okay, and y'all can't get my money. But y'all got my mother on this Section 8 and these food stamps over here telling her how much food stamps she can get, and all that why you just brought all these illegals over here and cashing them the fuck out, but you won't pay my mother her money when y'all this is the law of the land and she has proven that she has helped this infrastructure survive Right.
Speaker 1:But this Section 8 that y'all exchanged. Okay, we took your property, we're not going to pay you, but we'll give you this little Section 8, and we'll give you this food stamps you only can have, but so much food stamps. But the people coming over here, you're giving them thousands of dollars right in our face and we ain't supposed to say nothing when you just won't settle my case. My mother got everything to prove, my godfather got everything to prove they're still alive. But you won't settle this case when you violated the Fifth Amendment. That's the US Constitution, that's the law of the land.
Speaker 5:You know they play that Constitution shit how they want to Right. You know it matters on some things and then again it won't. When a motherfucker mow down somebody of color with a pistol, the Constitution is in place. These are Americans, right. The defendant is right. But let me turn around and do the same motherfucking thing. Then, all of a sudden, the right to bear arms is non-existent. Yeah, I just got pulled over by police. This is fucking funny that you say that I was helping my wife load out her trailer. She was the makeup department head for a movie.
Speaker 6:So she had to load out her trailer.
Speaker 5:So, her car is not big enough to put all the shit in. So I said well. I'll help you, babe. We put everything in my truck. We driving coming off the west side, detectives roll up on me like motherfucker, I had contraband in the car. Yeah, because you roll down all four windows. So I'm laughing and I want to say this because I want my young brothers and sisters to listen on how to deal with police.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Came up to the car. Yeah, roll all four windows down.
Speaker 6:Okay, right.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you got license and registration. Sure do.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Well, can you get it? You didn't tell me to get it. I don't want to move until you tell me.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Well, what does that mean? I said because y'all some scary motherfuckers and I don't want to reach in my pocket and you blow my motherfucking brains out because you're scary, Because you came to the car with your hand on your sidearm and your partner has his hand on his sidearm next to my wife.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:So my wife is a makeup artist. First of all, let me explain everything to you. My wife is a makeup artist. Everything you see in this car is loaded as makeup materials that she used on the thing. So I know why you pulled us over. Pulled us over because you see all this shit in the car. You think we out west, we on some bullshit, but you tried to give me the guys that you pulled me over because I didn't have a front license plate Right.
Speaker 5:I said, well, okay, all right, we'll go with that. But I got buddies and everything that drive expensive cars like McLarens, corvettes, they don't have front license plates.
Speaker 5:So that's bullshit. But okay, right, I'm going to roll with it. That's something you can play with, or not? Okay, cool, what do you need? License registration? All right, my license registration is right here in this central console. This is what I'm reaching for. I'm pushing it open right now. If you would like for me to get out the car and you come look for it, go ahead, but just not give me consent for you to search my car.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Well, I said are you a concealed carry holder? I said, yes, I am.
Speaker 3:Is it a weapon?
Speaker 5:in the car. I said, no, it's not. There's no weapon in the car. I was going to help my wife unload her trailer. What I'm just asking. I didn't know if you were not concealed or carried. Say yes, you did, because it's attached to my license. But let's play the game.
Speaker 1:I will sit in.
Speaker 5:I sit in and talk to you motherfuckers all day because I'm going to stay calm, because what you want me to do is get mad and get loud. So then now you got free reign to do whatever you want to, won't you? But I'm going to stay perfectly calm, and this is what I tell a young gentleman that I mentor If you're not doing anything wrong, stay calm and give them everything they ask for, because that way we can defend you.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:But if you yelling, talking all that shit about I know my rights and all that goofy shit, they're going to win. Because what they're going to say is you're disturbing the peace, you're resisting.
Speaker 2:You're interrupting the shit.
Speaker 5:Stay calm. Gave them my license. Gave them my concealed carry permit. Let them go back to the car 15 minutes. We know all goddamn well it don't take no 15 minutes to pull that shit up. But now he's searching. I got to find something on this motherfucker, Because now I'm going to look like an asshole when he come back to the car. Give me my license and everything, Everything, check out, sir. Yeah, but you know you gotta get a front license plate on, because in the state of Illinois I say no problem, son, I'll do that immediately.
Speaker 6:You have a nice day and Merry Christmas, Right.
Speaker 5:It was the day after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5:I mean they're trained to be you know you had some dummies, you thought you had an easy motherfucking lick. Then, when it wasn't, and I didn't gaslight you, I played it cool. And that's why I try to tell all my young guys if you're not doing nothing wrong, man, just comply. Even if you don not doing nothing wrong, man, just comply. Even if you don't have an ID, comply Right, be cool, because then we, as your big brothers and your uncles and the patriarchs of the motherfucking community can help you.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:But if you snapping and going off and you in the wrong, you can't snap and go off and you ain't got no ID, right, got to be cool. Obviously, I don't have my ID. I left it at home. I'm sorry but my name is so-and-so-and-so-and-so I live blah blah, blah, blah blah blah blah blah, blah and you ain't got shit on you.
Speaker 6:you good Right.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that de-escalates bogus to you. We got him Mm-hmm Right Because you got people that know how to talk to people in the system to get that shit done Because, trust me, they don't want bad press.
Speaker 6:Right, they don't want bad press.
Speaker 5:Yeah, anything right now. That's the last thing they want. That's why I said you know, and I don't want to know how you feel about this I never wanted to defund the police.
Speaker 1:I need the police. Oh yeah, they never know. Defund the police, I need these motherfuckers. I will walk away from somebody that say defund the police now, when they wrong.
Speaker 5:What I do want you to do, though, what I police officer to have to get insurance.
Speaker 1:That's good, and insurance policy.
Speaker 5:So when I do something stupid there and I was wrong, instead of the city getting sued, they sue your insurance company. Now you got officers out here with four and five. Come on G, come on G. You got officers out here with four and five motherfucking cases on them that the city done, settled for 60 million.
Speaker 1:Right, just one officer, and that's our money.
Speaker 5:Thank you. Now our taxes go up and all that shit because, we got to pay this shit. But if he had insurance and his insurance got to pay that shit now, after two of them, hey, man, we can't insure you. Now, that's when you in wrong. Now, yeah, now you can't be police no more.
Speaker 6:It's like if you're a bad driver.
Speaker 3:It's like hey bro, this is the third time. What's going on? How many times?
Speaker 5:Man shout out to Progressive.
Speaker 3:I love them.
Speaker 5:For my insurance. The motherfucking went up because a motherfucker hit me in the parking lot of a Juul and I wasn't even in my fucking car. Explain that to me. My shit get sideswiped. I filed a claim because the guy who was doing my car was like hey man, they fucked you up just enough where this shit gonna be about $2,000. And I went to one of the homies. I didn't go Right. Imagine if I went to one of the homies I didn't go Right. Imagine if I went somewhere real. My man said they fucked you up just enough where I got to replace this door.
Speaker 1:And your insurance went up. It was $500.
Speaker 5:But my insurance went up. That's crazy, that's fucked up. So why you can't do that to a police officer? Nah, you right you go out here and shoot a motherfucker in his back, yeah.
Speaker 1:And the crazy thing, they're dealing with this detective right now. This nigga got so many cases from back in the day when Daly was doing that torturing thing. Burge, yeah, so they've been talking about this at City Hall. This man is about to get like a billion dollars. The city about to pay out a billion dollars.
Speaker 5:What does that mean to us? Yeah, and mind you, when I say we're going to get taxed for that, that ain't even coming from the green boxes that Dailies has set up. That's killing us every day. Right, how the fuck you get a mayor that leave here and still make goddamn $300,000, $400,000 off the city and put us in a trick bag for 100 years, and the company is owned by Saudi Arabia?
Speaker 5:Man Stop playing with me, man Stop playing with me, and the only way we can get out of it is if we sue the city. Right, the mayor got to sue the city to get out of that contract.
Speaker 1:He ain't going to do it and Daley is like shit I get $250,000, $300,000 a year for consulting them.
Speaker 5:Fuck, you got to pay boxes on 71st and Evans folks.
Speaker 1:Even with the red light cameras, people starting to talk about that like how it's more on the south side.
Speaker 5:You know a lot of stuff is going to change and then the people who are getting fined and getting ticketed can't even fucking afford to pay these tickets. Right. So now you got a bunch because I'm going to tell you I'm going to keep it $100. I got two cars in that motherfucker that they kept. I said, how much do I owe on the tickets? They said $3,500. I said, oh, I ain't pay that much for the car. $3,000? You can have that, motherfucker.
Speaker 3:Go turn around sell a bitch. We're donating, we're donating. Go put it on the auction.
Speaker 5:But even with that though right Shout out to my Pontiac GTP 06.
Speaker 3:I left for that bitch.
Speaker 1:But even with that right they should take whatever the auction is, take that $3,000 and get my money back.
Speaker 5:Oh, you know what they do they sell that motherfucker for $3,000, then they say okay, your tickets was $1,500, and then these fees, these fees, these fees, these fees.
Speaker 4:Man, please. They're putting up an auction for transportation.
Speaker 1:That's how I ride. I cannot Chicago. They mad, they mad. I do not care.
Speaker 5:So this one lets me know Chicago is a mob city. It's mob. They activate and work like the mafia. You got these fucking aldermans, you know? No, I don't want to call out no names.
Speaker 1:The Disgrace 50. I'm not clear on motherfuckers. I was the Disgrace 50. Okay, so you know the Disgrace 50. I'm not clear on motherfuckers. I was the.
Speaker 5:Disgrace 50. Okay, so you know, but you more versed in it than I am, so I just don't want to call it because I don't, for fear of looking like a jackass, because I'm not saying the right person. But you got these motherfuckers that they're going to build in their district but they're calling their brothers construction company Right. Meanwhile you got a gang of black Hispanic-owned construction companies that if you had a $20 million budget you could throw them a million, you could throw them two, but nah, you're giving your brother-in-law the whole 20.
Speaker 6:Yep.
Speaker 5:And it takes three years for him to build this shit. Well, this shit could have been built in two years, have been built in two years a year if you hired all my motherfuckers.
Speaker 1:With our workforce. Now I will say this about the migrants Our workforce is here, this is our workforce, but we ain't got no money to pay them. I've been saying that, but you right, how the hell yeah.
Speaker 5:When them list of jobs come out every year, like I found out like sitting close to a brother I know named Mark. He's from out west.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:And it's a list of shit that comes out.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:For glazers, carpenters, electricians, sanitary waste, garbage.
Speaker 6:It's a list that come out.
Speaker 5:The same people get it every year.
Speaker 6:Yep.
Speaker 5:Right. Well, you got a bunch of company, $20,000,000 fucking jobs. They give it all to one person instead of saying, okay, we're gonna get you 10, get this person 5, get this person 3. Bunch of people working. You'll be a good, you'll be in control of everybody, but we paying these companies.
Speaker 1:Rob Markman and the great thing y'all ain't got the money when y'all do Rob.
Speaker 3:Markman.
Speaker 1:It's bullshit, rob Markman. So it's just like but what I see is it ain't no regulation, it ain't no like the way I move-.
Speaker 2:Rob Markman, it's the vibe.
Speaker 1:Rob Markman, you play like you. I looked at this like with Dick Gregory. You always say like it's a game. So when I got into this and when I realized like okay, the Democratic Party that my mother been voting for for this long, and my grandmother and all this, and this her hometown.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they super different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like this her hometown and y'all not going to pay. I was like, okay, I'm going to step into the ring then, because my thing is, y'all, oh, I flipped this shit red. Like that was my moment. Like my mentality was not like, oh, we're losing our women rights because we're not losing our rights. You know what I'm saying? Like I don't care what nobody said. Like, if you want to have unlimited abortions, you still can have. That we weren't losing. So that whole thing was some bullshit. But what I'm looking at is like, economically, you keep effing us over. The government keeps effing us over, but we keep getting effed over and ain't nobody going to say, everybody going to say, well, it's the white man or this is just how Chicago is. Nah, fuck this shit Give me. I want City Hall. Then I want City Hall. Since this is how y'all go, I want city hall. Y'all not gonna pay my mother.
Speaker 5:I want city hall because I know I can run city hall, I know I can make sure everybody good, I know niggas price taxes ain't gonna go up, because I understand the grassroots of the problem, right, whereas you guys are so out of touch because you're in your offices and now everything becomes about relationship and business, right, and keeping your position instead of saying, all right, I'm going to help what's down here, right. But the thing about that too though and this may set a few people off I get it from the person who's right here and doing the business stuff, right.
Speaker 5:Okay, so I'm going to bend down here and I'm going to help all these people, Right? Okay, so I'm going to bend down here and I'm going to help all these people, right? What's the guarantee that they're going to help me when it's time to get to this level? No, no, and that's some of the shit we fuck with, though.
Speaker 1:So you got to stay with both. See, the issue is everybody ain't going to be able to come. That's just what. It is right when a person the next person who runs if they get another black person to get in there, because between Lori Lovett I think Val is going to be next. And everybody say Paul Val yeah.
Speaker 5:I think Val is going to be next, but my thing is what I'm looking at is Since Chewy gave up, who going to take Chewy had to give up, I think he would have.
Speaker 1:But Chewy can't get in there, ain't?
Speaker 5:no-, but the way Hispanics is running shit now. Look at the police force. My little nephew just graduated. When I went to his graduation it was more Hispanics than anybody.
Speaker 1:But let me try to tell you it got us. Let me tell you my favorite old cousin. She said when Chuy Garcia was running, when Tony Preckwinkle and all was running, she was like Colin Powell. Yeah, she was like Never seen Colin Powell with Tony Preckwinkle and all that was running.
Speaker 5:She was like Colin Powell. Yeah, she was like You've never seen Colin Powell and Tony Preckwinkle.
Speaker 1:Uh-uh oh.
Speaker 5:Tony.
Speaker 3:That's funny.
Speaker 1:I can't stand her either. That's the homie man Size 12 shoe.
Speaker 6:I'll fuck with her.
Speaker 5:She's going to be boy. I'll fuck with her.
Speaker 1:I ain't mad with her, she's a good people. I'll fuck with her, I ain't mad at her. I ain't mad at her. But what I say is we need somebody that's going to understand. The South Side and the West Side need some help. We need our money. Period Okay, and they got the money. I'm down there watching them pushing money. There's a Brian Ciccio Lopez. He's an alderman down there. He's pushing for one billion dollars in TIF money to go to Pilsen.
Speaker 5:Pilsen community is coming down there to make some fucking statues or some shit and. I hate that shit.
Speaker 1:the Pilsen family, the Pilsen is coming down there, that's the Hispanics. They coming down there and yellow school bus is like no, we don't need any TIF money. We see how the TIF money does the niggas. Basically they want to say that no, that TIF money belongs to the South Side and West Side. We're blighted areas, we're blighted projects. So you got to have somebody in there that understands that we need our infrastructure money.
Speaker 5:But let me ask you a question. Do you think and this is just me and, like I said, I'm not fully versed in it I look at it from a distance. I'm not fully versed in it, that's why I don't really talk crazy about it. But how you just broke it down, how much it is that when you say we need somebody that understands, they fucking understand.
Speaker 1:No, when I say understand, I mean somebody that's willing to say, hey, I'm running for office, I'm running for the mayor of Chicago. And when they start asking them, well, why? Well, A, do you see? The South Side and the West Side? The South Side and the West Side needs help. And if we do not fix the South Side and the West Side up, if we do not fix the South Side and the West Side up, if we do not help with their infrastructure, these kids are going to continue to come downtown and fuck downtown up, and downtown is where our bread and butter is.
Speaker 5:But I guess what I'm saying is do you not think the motherfuckers that are in position of power know that and they don't care? They're stealing your money? No, but what I'm saying is that keeps the. Yeah, they don't care. Yeah, that keeps their shit rolling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you got everybody that's in there, like his whole, like, for instance, this man's administration, and they said it with Lori Lightfoot too. They said Lori Lightfoot could have been better, but her whole administration didn't know what they were doing. It's just like a chief of staff, a manager. The chief of staff is the most important person, and that is the problem. What I'm seeing is the chief of staff. I'm seeing the advisors like who are these people? That is the problem. That is why we're not getting our return, and I think that that's what America needs to see, especially black America. My thing is, we're not getting our return on investment. We, the culture, we, chicago, and I think that that's what America needs to see, especially black America. My thing is, we're not getting our return on investment. Like we, the culture, we Chicago, we losing everything. Like one of the questions I wanted to ask you because we got to. I know we've been doing it for two hours, three hours, but it's such a great conversation, good stuff though yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but one of the things that I wanted to ask you like we're in $1.2 billion deficit right now? Yeah, it's fucked up.
Speaker 1:So one of my things, I was going to ask you if the city was like you know what? Let me call up Leon Rogers, let me call up Damon Williams, let me call up Marlon, let me call up some heavy hitters in Chicago in comedy right, and they say, well, we want to throw a Chicago festival, we want to do a South Side Chicago festival and a West Side Chicago festival. We're going to give you the money to get the people to bring the people here. Like you know, get the comedians and all that right, that will sell out. Like this You've got, we've got Second City. We've got all these people will come out. Bill Murray, all these people love the city of Chicago. So you've got you bring it out. And then you've got people like Dave Chappelle that will come. You've got people that will come because it's just you've got. So my thing is that, right, there is how motherfuckers can make the money back.
Speaker 5:But here's the problem I have with that when dealing with the city, because I watch how they do. At the end of the day, they will take the fucking idea and they will take it to benefit whoever they want to benefit. For example, when we talked about this remember I had that conversation with you Wednesday the Chosen Few house picnic is one of the longest running fucking things in the city. I remember when that shit started, Right when it was grassroots. Then it got to the point where they had to start paying the city for cleanup in Washington Park. Now it's so fucking big. They got sponsors, everything. It's a worldwide event. They're bringing DJs from all over the world Brazil, Portugal, Spain House DJs. Then you got the chosen few. Shout out to Wayne Williams, Shout out to everybody. You know what I'm saying. The city started a house picnic.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:At the Bean. What pisses me off is, instead of starting that at the Bean, why not tell the chosen few hey, we want to put money behind you guys keep that same vibe and just bring it downtown.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:So that showed me the fuck shit that they would be on A hundred percent. I agree with you, man. Listen. Dion Cole, d-ray, rail, all these guys come back and grab the comedians from they part of town and do a festival, which Rail is doing right now. Right, that festival we just did. It was amazing. Shout out to Knowledge Beckham, shout out to REL. They put together some dope shit.
Speaker 5:I was glad I was a part of it, me and Don Ski. Our room on Wednesday nights, the Funny People Bar 10. Eight years running we was a part of that. It was amazing. Niche Room that she did at the Promontory Amazing, we're a part of that Game. And shit at Riddles Part of that. But what I'm worried about, zoe, is them taking it. They take it, they take the concept, they take the idea. First of all, they buy the owners out, because that's how it starts. I got to get to y'all first. Let's just say me and you, the owners hey, we're going to get y'all two million, y'all walk away. We need black men and women. That's going to say no, we got something great.
Speaker 5:We don't fucking need y'all to do it. But then the city will make it hard for them to function.
Speaker 1:They will take the shit.
Speaker 5:That's why we got to vote our own people in there, Take the shit, infuse all they Northside people who they want. And now this shit is nothing of what we planned it to be.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:The what's Funny Comedy Festival is for comics of color to get the spotlight, because when they do Montreal, when they come to Chicago, the only people they highlighted and it's no disrespect was the white boys up north, the white women up north.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Then they put a couple, they sprinkle a couple of us in there to get that dollar Right. But this festival is about us, right? Shout out to Mary Lindsay yeah, that's the fucking inspiration for this. Because Mary Lindsay used to say y'all got me fucked up, montreal, y'all going to come to Chicago and y'all not going to have Damon Williams, y'all not going to have Lil Rel.
Speaker 5:Y'all not going to have Leon Rogers, y'all not going to have motherfucking Ballhead Y'all. Not to overlook them, kevin Hart came here and shot a whole special with nothing but these people and you're going to tell me they're good enough for Kevin, not good enough for y'all. Fuck you If y'all can't have none of my comics on this show. Y'all can't use Jokes and Notes as a venue. Y'all can't go here and do this spot black as a venue.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Mary Lindsay for that Shout out to Mary Lindsay the queen, my point is as strong as.
Speaker 5:Mary is, she's one voice. So it would take all of the black comics in Chicago to say we not coming to fuck with none of y'all festivals if y'all can't honor this one, that we do. But me and you both know there are comics that want to be on that's going to cross over and do their shit.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:And say fuck that, Fuck y'all.
Speaker 3:Right, and that's why they win.
Speaker 5:So my point with that I love that whole idea. Right If the city would play fair, but we know the city not going to play. Right If the city would play fair, but we know the city not gonna play fair.
Speaker 6:The city gonna play fair.
Speaker 1:The city gonna shit on us.
Speaker 3:They gonna try to lowball us.
Speaker 5:They gonna try to steal it and take it.
Speaker 1:Are you ready to be at the table? Hold on hold on, listen, listen.
Speaker 5:I'm so ready to be at the table, but I'm gonna be that nigga at the table that say hell, no, no, no, that's some bullshit, right, but that's what you need.
Speaker 1:We need those people at the table, but what I'm saying is.
Speaker 5:What I'm saying is if me and you saying it, then the other three motherfuckers you got there with us ain't saying it. Well, you know? No, it's hypothetical, we're talking in space.
Speaker 1:You're going to give a number. You're going to go back to your people. You're going to give a number. We're going to give that number to the city Because we're getting out of this debt, and you're going to use Chicagoans to get out this debt and you're going to use who we have here that would love to go downtown.
Speaker 5:I'm just saying, that sounds good. Okay, that sounds amazing, nigga.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you like when I tell you that shit sounds amazing.
Speaker 5:But I understand on that side who I'm dealing with and working with where I work. I understand how they move, Not even by who they are. I don't even know who they are.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:How they move Right and they are shrewd as fuck. They got people that, while they talking to me and you, they got some tentacles going around to tap into him. No, you're right. And they say, oh, you, just as cold as Leon and Damon Williams. Well, how much would you do it for? Oh, I'd do it for 500. Me and Damon I done seen this happen. Me and Damon done said 25. You can't get us unless you give us 25. You can't get us, unless you give us $25,000.
Speaker 5:You can't get us unless you give us a budget of $100,000. They take their tentacles. They go around the hell and say how much will you do it for? We got $25,000. Well, I can put you a show together for that. Yeah we want to put some of these people on the show, so you'll end up making five grand and then we pay these other people. Okay, right.
Speaker 6:Instead of that motherfucker being like.
Speaker 5:No, what did?
Speaker 2:David and them tell you Right.
Speaker 5:They told you 25? Well, I'm 25 too, right? So you got to give it to somebody. Even if it ain't me or you, you got to give it to somebody. The first thing we have to work on is unionization and loyalty between the grassroots. And when I say we've tried to work that angle before, where I say, hey, let's form a union when promoters book you, these people, with this much time in the game, this is the least you can get. So let's just say you got under 10 years in the game.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:The least a motherfucker can pay you is $500. Right. Stick to it Mm-hmm. And if you got 10 years or up in the game, the least a motherfucker can pay you is $1,000.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:The least a motherfucker could pay you is $1,000. Right the least. Now if you want to negotiate, $755. But we ain't Right. The least money everybody's going to make out here is $500. Do you know, motherfuckers didn't even want to sign off on that. Because they call you Zo. Zo say, hey, shit, I ain't got 10 years in the game, but I'm 500. I'm funny. They call you Zo and Zo say, hey, shit, I ain't got 10 years in the game, but I'm 500. I'm funny. They call me man, I'm 25. They call you sir. You say, hey, I'm 1,000. They call this guy who's on the same level as you, Above you, but the same level as you. You tell them 500.
Speaker 5:What you work for, you just fucked the whole. You fucked everybody. You fucked the ecosystem up. Because now, here it is Zo, but you're a newcomer, You're charging five. Here you are, You're a mid-level guy, you charge a thousand. He just said five, Right, I'm definitely not getting a call Right. And now Happens all the time in my industry. The call Right and now the undercutting shit is crazy and these motherfuckers, when they see the checks from the city, will bend. Look what they did. I'm telling you the house shit.
Speaker 5:They fly in everybody from New York and everywhere else they don't even use the chosen fused DJs and these motherfuckers, the one that made the shit hot out here.
Speaker 1:Okay, then that's when that means I gotta go talk to the department of special events, because they gotta explain to me why. Why have you heard of the chosen few? Well, let me give you a little pamphlet of what the chosen few.
Speaker 5:But yeah, so we got, okay we have to take this idea that we created and made great and bring it downtown. And they said, and I'll guarantee you, the city looked them dead in their face. You can call, I will get you Wayne Williams and tell you you can have them on here and they'll probably tell you.
Speaker 5:The city looked them in the face like, oh, you don't think we can get motherfuckers to do a house show down here without you. We would rather spend. How fucked is it? They would rather spend money to go book DJs from New York well, the alderman.
Speaker 1:That is for the bean. He's running for mayor and let me tell you something People want me and Miss Jessica to back them up. Right, because we done moved this to a whole. We almost flipped this day red Right, just all on principle, like y'all going to ignore us Watch. He really, really, really wants our backing. These are the times that we need to talk to him now. Hey you, the 40s, yeah you, the.
Speaker 1:Fuck around and find out, right, yeah you, the alderman, you need to come next year. We're going to invite you over, because you probably never been over here to the children's. You heard of it but you never went. Let's take you over here. So you got to take him on a nigga field trip. But so think about it.
Speaker 5:If you think about, as far as the black dollar Right, the three major events in Chicago that pooled the most black dollars, chosen Few, chosen Few. Silver Room, silver Room, brewfest yeah, which was the Hyde Park Fest before it turned into Brewfest, that bull's the most.
Speaker 1:But I heard that them two don't talk, but my part. So if that's a problem too, I don't, even I don't even give a fuck about yeah, but they don't. They need to stop that, because we need to figure this out.
Speaker 5:Listen, listen, listen. Here's. This is just me personally, right, I don't give a fuck if they don't talk. Right, the city sees that these are three money-making events that niggas are there every year. I can't tell you a year why I miss Silver Room, black Party. I'm upset if I missed one, if I'm out of town doing that shit because it's like a big-ass black family reunion. Right you town doing that shit because it's like a big-ass black family reunion. Right, you done. Had Clark Kent rest in peace.
Speaker 6:Clark Kent, you done had some great Busta Rhymes.
Speaker 5:Everybody, lil', kim, if I'm a politician, if I'm a politician and I'm finna, run for mayor of some other Chicago. Hey listen, silver Room, hyde Park, music Fest, house, music Fest, house, music Fest. I get in office. This shit will be a curriculum of the city and it will still be you. I'm not going to take it and conform it to Lollapalooza. No, this will be you.
Speaker 1:This is y'all. This will be y'all. We just need the money.
Speaker 5:I will help y'all get the money. We will allocate shit. Because the dude from the Civil Room, black Party, said I want to throw it, I just can't afford it, no more, right. And then us ignorant motherfuckers was mad because he was charging $100. I said well, you do know it costs to bring motherfuckers in town, right, and if you upset about paying $100 but got a motherfucking Louis Vuitton waist belt on, fuck you. No, you're right, I spent $100 on good weed.
Speaker 4:Right and toys what?
Speaker 5:the fuck is you talking about? I just bought a motherfucking $800 Megatron figure motherfucker. What do I care about spending $100 to go hang?
Speaker 3:out and have a great time.
Speaker 5:But my point is the solidarity in us.
Speaker 1:But Paul Ballas ain't going to do that.
Speaker 5:We got to get a nigga in there Know what I'm saying. Paul Ballas would do it. If he saw that everybody that loved these festivals and they got shut down because the city was on bullshit, stop fucking with them Paul Ballas would listen. Yeah, I want to come see Busta Rhymes.
Speaker 1:But this is where we need to start fighting now, because the election is coming up. The local election is coming up, but this, leon, this is what I'm asking you to do, you and get the crew together, get a list and think of this economically, I don't care how much.
Speaker 6:What's your worth.
Speaker 1:Everybody's worth because the city got it. You understand, the government has it, we have it. No, we know they got it.
Speaker 5:That's what makes me so mad that something like Silver Room goes away, something like Silver Room goes away, something like Silver Room goes away, something like Brewfest goes away, but the Randolph Street Market Fest still stays alive, right, that's like dying.
Speaker 5:That's us, that's us as a people not getting behind this shit and saying, hey, we're going to do whatever to keep this shit popping because it is a staple in our city. That is for us, man, to see all the Hyde Park over there by the promontory and shit flooded and nothing happens. No bullshit nothing.
Speaker 1:They should have kept it over there.
Speaker 5:But once again, shit gets bigger. I get it I understand it.
Speaker 1:Then they got to go downtown. We deserve downtown and I'm okay with all that. Yeah, something else.
Speaker 5:What I'm mad with is me and your friends motherfuckers we know complaining about having to pay $100 to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well then, they just ain't Fuck you, this ain't for you, but we need them, though no.
Speaker 3:If we're going to make this shit last man listen.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're going to have to have a conversation.
Speaker 5:No, listen, lollapalooza right, let's talk about it. Lollapalooza ain't for us, it's not. They sprinkle a few black acts in there to get you to come out. So they got all this shit, all this, the killers and all these motherfuckers, then these motherfuckers, and then they'll throw you a sexy red or a lotto to get you to come down. Right, right, because we're going to pay to go see those acts. Right, but imagine you got a Silver Room block party where you got Busta Rhymes, common these are the headliners. Okay, if we want to throw a motherfucking White Stripes in there, cool Right. But the main element of this shit is for us. Right, but the main element of this shit is for us, right. Suenos Festival Mm-hmm, that shit's about to end. Right, because the city is charging these motherfuckers out the ass. And now they gotta charge more and they people like we gotta stop giving a fuck about how much shit costs and just go Right, because that's how Lollapalooza survives Motherfuckers come out of town and be like I don't give a fuck if it's $500.
Speaker 4:Right, right, Thousands of dollars. Come on bro.
Speaker 5:We got to create our shits and have it going to the point where the city be like oh, these motherfuckers coming regardless, Right, Regardless. But when we start complaining about how much shit costs, you motherfuckers got on Balenciaga shoes. Why are you mad at $100? I was like that's all. I literally was thinking we was going to have to start paying festival prices.
Speaker 4:You're going to spend that on the drugs You're going to be taken Exactly.
Speaker 5:You motherfuckers go to Pitchfork. Y'all go to all that shit where it's only one fucking artist for you and $30,000 for the other side Instagram pics and shit Suck my dick right, Just do it. Why can't we do that for Silver Room Black Party? No, you're right.
Speaker 4:This is when we should keep planning our festival with the young couple.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:But then guess what Guess, what Guess what.
Speaker 4:I still want this, we still got it.
Speaker 5:Guess what, guess what Y'all going to grow it. It's going to start small. Y'all going to grow it. Everybody going to be with you when you grassroots, y'all going to grow it. Then Zo going to get on this crack, this motherf, to have extra security Overtime.
Speaker 1:No, not if I'm the mayor of Chicago. It's $100 a ticket.
Speaker 5:It's $100 a ticket. Oh fuck, that zone tripping. That shit used to be free, goddamn it.
Speaker 1:Zone is sold out, but what do you think about this? Now, I do have an idea. So when I was going to do my festival, I was going to let it be free, right, and I was going to sell my merch, my merch sell out like that, and that's how I was going to do an RSVP, you know, on Certain Mouth People Media. I was still going to get sponsors to pay for it. It was going to be a regular festival, but it was going to be free and I'm selling my merch.
Speaker 5:That sounds great, but guess what? Human nature? Let's just say everything was free and you said we're going to keep it to 5,000 people.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 5:Everything's free. 5,000 people. You cover that. 5,000. Word get back Instagram, facebook, social media. That was a hell of a show. You had Tyler the creator or whatever, right Like his NARFest Mm-hmm. When that shit first started it was only 4,000, 5,000 people. That shit crazy. Now.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:NARFest is crazy Like I want to go in there and been able to get tickets for the past two years. That shit is crazy. So anything that's good is going to grow. When it grows, the cost of throwing it grows Okay. So now even though you got sponsors. Yeah, that shit is cool, but them sponsors is barely covering what it costs to have security, like you said security, sanitation, all these type of fees and everything that the city is going to put on you because they see you popping.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, and those permits Y'all. They see you popping.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, in those permits Y'all. They see you popping. It'll make life hard and it ain't gonna be necessarily city. It's one motherfucker, it's the dude who's in control of. For example, I got homies that are chefs and sous chefs in restaurants downtown and you know what they always tell me? They say there ain't a motherfucking restaurant in the city of Chicago that got an A rating. You might see it on the thing, but it ain't no A rating. It's impossible, dawg. We have too much live food laying around. Everybody got rats, everybody got roaches.
Speaker 4:It's an A grade bro. Everybody got rats, everybody got roaches. It's a green bro.
Speaker 5:And at first I was like nah, but then I thought about it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, dude they're everywhere.
Speaker 5:A thousand pounds of lettuce, carrots, shit. How you going to keep all that away from a motherfucker? Oh yeah, it's hard to get good help too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, chicago ain't the most rattiest city in America.
Speaker 5:And restaurants got A ratings. Now the difference is if you see a roach on the wall in a steakhouse, that means they infested, if they out like that.
Speaker 5:But he said bro, every night you think the grease trap get cleaned out every night, motherfuckers is tired. It's 1130. We been cooking since fucking four. I'm going home, I clean that, grill off that shit back there. It'll be there tomorrow. That motherfucking box of lettuce that just came in. We set that shit down when we come in the morning. There's a hole in the bottom of that box Because, motherfucking Ben and his homies, they went in there and ate lettuce. So we just take that box, throw it away and we go to the box that don't have a hole in it. He said Leon, you a motherfucking fool to think that a restaurant really has an A rating. No, restaurant has an A rating. But guess what? You know why they got an A rating?
Speaker 3:Because when that inspector come in. It's like hey, uh.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 5:Fuck on out of here and give us our A rating and four free meals.
Speaker 6:Right, I'm gonna bring my family.
Speaker 5:So when you know it's Chicago, Nigga Rob Markman. When they say the Windy City, it's not about the wind.
Speaker 4:No, it's not Rob Markman.
Speaker 5:It's about the politicians blowing smoke off everybody.
Speaker 4:That's what I tell you. I was like. You know, it's not the Windy City, Rob Markman.
Speaker 5:Everybody said that All my boys be like. They call y' because the hawkers Nah, dog, it's because of the politics and the mob and everybody blowing shit in each way, blowing smoke up each other's ass. So that's the biggest problem. I'm not. I know we can do some shit. That could be great, okay. The problem is when it gets great and the motherfuckers that are sitting downtown on them councils and all that shit that got their hand up our mayor's ass because you gotta have money to run.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:So you gotta get in bed with somebody that's gonna help you, because most motherfuckers that run for mayor Brandon Johnson wasn't no millionaire. Right Be different. It's different if a motherfucker like me, who, my man, ain't gonna talk and they say the problem, not the problem, fucker, the problem not the problem. Fuck her on the victim, not the criminal. Who is that? Willie Wilson, don't fuck up, willie Wilson.
Speaker 3:Shout out to Willie Wilson, I'm fucking.
Speaker 5:Willie Wilson. That's my man, because when I first heard that commercial, fuck her on the victim, not the criminal I said, okay, I don't know what he said, but all I know is that motherfucker gave away free gas for two weeks straight.
Speaker 1:Right, right, he just gave $100 out.
Speaker 5:Somebody like him get in who got a bag of money. It's a lot different Because he could say you know what? I'll let y'all have that Because I'm paid over here, Right, I. But I let y'all have that because I'm paid over here, Right, I know how to go get some real money. I'm going to press these motherfuckers over here that's how it's supposed to be the construction motherfucker that want to build this building downtown. I'm going to press him Because I said for an order for me to give you this $20 million contract. You give me 10 of it, Right, I'm going to let you go. They've got real influence.
Speaker 4:Give me 10 of it Right, I'm going to let you go. You've got real influence.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'm not going to press this fucking festival, this some shit. I'm going to put some money in Right and I'm going to look great to the city because I kept this shit going.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 5:But the average motherfucker that's getting in there ain't got Willie Wilson money.
Speaker 4:Infrastructure and entertainment are two different things.
Speaker 1:Right but we got the money though.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but the motherfucker who ain't got, but the motherfucker who most motherfuckers who get mayor ain't got money like that.
Speaker 1:So they gonna press, how do?
Speaker 5:you think you need. They gonna press everybody, even if you was mayor, right, they gonna press. Motherfuckers gonna press you. Gonna be like hey, hey, shit, hey, you motherfuckers is lacking, come on now. I know I would.
Speaker 1:I would make sure we have all the money.
Speaker 5:I'll make sure we have our shit, but I'm going to press this motherfucker Because the festival is going to make the money for the city.
Speaker 1:This will be. It will be a no-brainer what you say. High Park Brew Fest yes.
Speaker 3:Chosen Few and the Sugar Room, chosen Few and that comedy festival.
Speaker 1:Chosen Few and the Sugar Room, chosen Few and that comedy festival this right here is going to make all the money that we need it is. I don't want to hear nothing.
Speaker 5:But watch this though. So that comedy festival let's just say the comedy festival will pull in five. It was projected to do two. Pull in five. You're going to say shit, I need a million off that.
Speaker 1:Who need a million off that? The mayor.
Speaker 5:No, the mayor, don't you the?
Speaker 2:fuck, they don't.
Speaker 5:I am. I know I helped y'all motherfuckers get all that. Y'all give me something.
Speaker 6:I'm gonna throw some shit to the school. You gotta do that.
Speaker 5:I'm gonna throw some shit to the school, but y'all giving me something.
Speaker 1:But you gotta do that after five years you gotta make some money. First. I got to make sure you're comfortable. I got to make sure your wife comfortable. We got to make sure the comedians you got to take people out to dinner to make sure they come in like a Dave Chappelle, you know you got to be gentle with him.
Speaker 5:You got to take him out to dinner and ask him, that's you being in that position and knowing and understanding where we come from, the average motherfucker who get that seat up there, that ain't them.
Speaker 4:Right, they never touch a broom, so they like y'all making that money.
Speaker 5:Hey, oh, I'll shut this shit down Because I don't give a fuck. That's some shit. Y'all like that, ain't the Christmas what's? The shit they do when they light up the tree and shit downtown. Oh yeah, dude. That ain't shit that tourists come to see. No, ain't no tourists coming and fucking with y'all? So I shut this shit down. Well, the house thing it is, but guess what? No, but that comedy festival.
Speaker 1:That brew fest went around. The the Brewfest went around. The Brewfest was here. Yeah, the Brewfest was here.
Speaker 5:Shout out to Dave, jeff, goddammit, our man, yeah yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:The problem is what you said earlier today. You were saying that rich right. What rich is to you? That's the problem what rich is to?
Speaker 5:me is the definition.
Speaker 6:Right right right, I'm good.
Speaker 5:I'm not worried about shit.
Speaker 1:I can go on a vacation.
Speaker 5:I don't you know if I have children, my child- can be all right, I ain't got to buy no Lamborghini.
Speaker 3:Yes, right I don't care about that.
Speaker 1:But if I want to escalate, I can get in and I ain't tripping Right. So if you're culture, because we're losing- it, see.
Speaker 5:But now you see, it goes back to what I'm saying. But that's what you come from, that's what I come from. Most of the motherfuckers that win. They don't come from that. They don't give a fuck about your culture. They really don't give a fuck about their culture. They give a fuck about. Oh, I'm in here Now, let's see how this shit works.
Speaker 6:Man, we got, we got.
Speaker 5:Every male I done seen come out the seat. They ain't had to work no more, right. And the last, the last one that believed in culture. They killed him. Yeah, nah, because, because, think about it, harold Washington. Harold Washington said I'm putting CPS first. Our kids going to have the best fucking education ever. They're going to have the education like the suburban kids have. Well, what happened then?
Speaker 1:Right, that's why you got to bring your own chef in there. I'm bringing everybody.
Speaker 5:We taking money away from the police to get to the CPS? I don't give a fuck about none of that shit over there. Our kids in the inner city are going to have all that's when DARE all that shit?
Speaker 2:was popping.
Speaker 5:I came up in that era. Yeah, we knew our police officers.
Speaker 1:I think money is there, Like when I look at this budget, money is there for everybody, including the special events. Special events get big money. They just not letting you know. You understand that's what I'm saying. Like it's money there, it's just.
Speaker 5:But you're right, oh, I know it is because I see Fulton Market Fest, Randolph Fest, some obscure fucking street on the north side fest. I see all that All on the north side but they don't send money to pieces of the streets on 79th when Father Flager and them do that shit.
Speaker 1:Father Flager, that's a different story.
Speaker 5:But my point is take away the person.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:That shit that they do over there. They don't send no money to them.
Speaker 1:Right or Bob Billiken. The Bob Billiken parade getting worse and worse.
Speaker 5:Come on man, Only thing they do is say we the longest running shit next to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. So Chicago could wear that as a badge of honor Soon. As they can't wear that as a badge of honor, guess what? Bud Billigan going to be gone like a motherfucker.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bud Billigan said. Now that's another one. I said they need to revive Because there's no way in the day see Muhammad Ali all the people. What is going on Now?
Speaker 5:the nigga that got two million followers on Instagram is the Grand Marshal. Shout out to Jason Weaver.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, jason Weaver, he's an.
Speaker 5:OG though.
Speaker 1:He's an OG.
Speaker 5:And he did a lot for Chicago. But I mean we would have like a Quincy Jones Right. It would be like motherfuckers who do like.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, george Daniels, I can't believe this. Why, george Daniels, not doing?
Speaker 5:it. I can't believe this motherfucker is going down fucking you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:No, that is true.
Speaker 5:But that's what it goes back to what they culture and they like and what we like.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you they took the house music party. Put, I'm telling you, they took the house music party. I know he's talking about it because I was going to go there. That shit made me mad.
Speaker 5:I said I will never support that Because my boy came in from out of town.
Speaker 5:He's from New York. He was like yo, I'm coming to town, louis Vega is spinning, y'all doing the house festival. Man, come kick on me, man. I said I'm not supporting that shit dog. I, I'm supporting that shit dog, I said because just the week before we had the house picnic, which is like a black family reunion Right, cvs Simeon, all the CPS schools out there, catholic high schools out there, niggas used to play ball against each other, we out there kicking it and no problems. You've never heard of anybody getting shot, killed, stabbed, no fight, anything at this event. Why wouldn't the city say, hey, let's take this and blow it up.
Speaker 5:Can we add some Hispanic DJs and maybe like a Diplo or somebody, just somebody we can add to just bring a little flavor so we can get people from Germany and shit in here, which they do. That too, the house music picnic got people from Germany, sweden, finland coming in because they know the songs. But hey, can we do? You know, men at a masters at work, can we get them down here with y'all? We'll pay for it, we'll pay all y'all DJs and you know we'll cover y'all little sanitation and shit. And then whatever money y'all make off the door, split it with the city. 60-40.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Now we gonna make our own till. Everybody is free. Everybody is free, but we got all types of concession stands there that we making all our money off of.
Speaker 5:We making all our money off the parking. We making all our money off the people want to get the VIP line to get in before everybody else, before the free line. Okay, you got to pay $50 for that. That means you get in first and you can set your seats up and your tents up in front of the stage. So we making money but we have the power to say that shit is free, Whereas we know y'all don't have that power.
Speaker 5:Y'all gotta charge everybody that come through that fucking door. That's what I don't like and that's what I think they would do with the fucking comedy.
Speaker 1:No, we're going to make sure. Oh, this is some great shit y'all got.
Speaker 5:Yeah, all right, fuck y'all. We, the city of Chicago.
Speaker 1:It will be that comedy festival that little rail and knowledge came up and that's what.
Speaker 5:I would want, yeah, I would want the city to be behind it, but the city snakes. This is what the city gonna do. Okay, yeah, can we speak to Kevin Hart? Yeah, kevin Hart, this is the city of Chicago. We would like for you to come in and do the Chicago Comedy Festival. We would like you to headline it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's where he got to be, like I can give you a list, but that's my point Some Chicago comedians started with Corey Holcomb. Oh, that's my point.
Speaker 5:These whole ass niggas gonna say I'll take your motherfucking million.
Speaker 1:And we're going to fix that 2025, we're not going in with that mentality.
Speaker 5:These whole ass comedians are gonna take the million to come in and do it. And then if we turn to the audience and say, look, chicago, don't come out and support that, now, fuck that, that's Kev. No, I'm telling you Now we're going to stop here, that shit frustrates the fuck out of me.
Speaker 5:We get it with bum-ass promoters. It's promoters that done crossed comics, not paid them, not doing it. Why are they still throwing shows? You want to know why? Because there's a comic that quit his job and want the world to know he's a stand up comic, so he'll work for anything. And then there's an audience member that don't give a fuck, they just want to laugh, so they will support this man's shows when comics are saying this nigga don't pay people, he short them, he take their money, but people keep going and fuck with him. So it has to start with us, with the solidarity of saying like this garbage motherfucker can't throw shows no more because he don't pay nobody. We got to ice him out, we got to freeze him out till he done and gone, or then when he learned to work and pay people what they worth and pay people on time. Not even pay people what they worth. Pay them on time. If you say 500, give them 500. Don't sit the fuck up here and tell them 500.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe it needs to be like a. Maybe you guys need to have a conference or something Like yo, because Chicago has too much talent and too much money for us not to figure this out. So we gotta figure this out. We're figuring this out, you gotta love your co-hosts don't you.
Speaker 5:I love that. She's so fucking positive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we gotta figure this out. Because the money?
Speaker 5:because we got the money as a motherfucker that then sat up and tried to galvanize comedians in a fucking union. And just watch how something is little. I'll tell you this story and Niche will verify this. We had this thing called the Comedy Co-op. Okay, we based it off the Wire. Remember the Wire? Uh-huh, how they had the co-op Right. All of the Comedy Co-op. Okay, we based it off the Wire. Remember the Wire? Uh-huh, how they had the co-op Right. All of the drug dealers worked together. You take care of your spot, you take care of your spot, I take care of mine. We all worked together to make money Right.
Speaker 5:This was the thing All of us had a room on a night, okay. We said look, we all pool our resources. Fly one comic in. Put them in a centralized location hotel. He go do the room. Monday make $250. Tuesday make $250. Wednesday make $300. Whatever, we can afford to pay.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Based on the size of our room. Right.
Speaker 6:Thursday $250.
Speaker 5:But let's just say, on the average, you made $250 for five days. Yeah, that's decent money.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Room, get them back and forth to the rooms, right, and a flight Right, but it's being split five ways Right? So if his flight is $700, that's five people splitting $700.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:If his room was $400, that's five people splitting $400. That's five people splitting $1,100. Was 400? Was five people splitting $400? Was five people?
Speaker 6:splitting $1,100?.
Speaker 5:Right, do you know? That shit lasted a week, and let me tell you what happened. We had a comic who I won't say his name, right? Well, I'll go pick him up and I'll drive him around everywhere Volunteer, right, but then at the end of the volunteering, yeah, I need $200 for driving him around everywhere Volunteered, right, but then at the end of the volunteering, yeah, I need $200 for driving them around everywhere. Well, ain't nobody ask you to drive them around everywhere, right? Technically, if we want to get funky with it, once we get you here on the plane, it's your job to get to the rooms.
Speaker 5:Right Making $250 a night, right and where we had you at. At the most on an Uber it's going to cost $10, $20.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:And once you get to a spot, it's probably a comic there that'll take you back to the hotel. You know how this shit go.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm. That shit lasted two weeks.
Speaker 5:You had comedians that wasn't promoting their room well, so wasn't nobody there, right, shorten the comic, I said hey, man, five of 500 had a man 250. Right, if you take a loss so big. Had a man 250. Right, right. They couldn't do something as simple as that. Now you telling them to band together for bigger tabs of money. We got to start from the ground. I'm telling you. We got to start from the ground level and train these motherfuckers.
Speaker 3:So I'm not even. I swear to God.
Speaker 5:I'm not even coming at you.
Speaker 1:I'm not coming at you on crazy shit.
Speaker 5:This is two adults talking and I'm just telling you from my experience if they couldn't fucking handle $250 a week Right, $250 a week Now I'm blessed, I got a job Right.
Speaker 1:But if you couldn't, promote your and you're using your connect. You know who you are I'm talking about. We bringing the killers in, yeah.
Speaker 5:Smokey Suarez. We bringing in hitters Right and my whole thing was I'm calling this dude like hey, hey, we got you Whole week. It's my word. Right Now, when we go through the week and the motherfucker gets shorted at this room, that room, I call the person hey man.
Speaker 1:Goddamn dog Right.
Speaker 5:Then I come out my pocket and hit Duke because I done told him this Right, so now I done stopped giving my word. I'm saying shit like hey, I know him this night. I know the night my man Damon run. I know the night my girl Tanisha run.
Speaker 6:Right For sure.
Speaker 5:You're going to get your two-fifths, yeah, everybody else. I don't know Right Now if you can come in. If you say you want to only do our three nights, right, cool, we got you. Okay, that shit was crazy, that shit lasted on two weeks 14 days, two comics, because at the end of the day guess what?
Speaker 5:I don't want my name soiled, so I'm not going to keep connecting my name to that shit. And when he get to the fourth day, you motherfuckers ain't got your money. Fifth day ain't got they money. Saturday. Wish it could be a day he could be. You know, on comedy Saturday you could be somewhere making some big bread. You ain't making no money. Saturday wish it could be a day he could be. You know, on comedy Saturday you could be somewhere making some big bread. You ain't making no money.
Speaker 1:What I have learned in Chicago the egos here is crazy Nuts. It's insane. I think that is a big downfall, but I also think that that is what it is a downfall and I think that is what. Well, it is a downfall and I think that is what's messing up what Chicago comedy could be, because right now y'all rocking with the DC Young Flies, the Mojos, on top of old school comedians that will come in and bless Wednesday Wednesday should be a line outside the door. It gives me death, can't be done. Now we bless that Our Wednesday Wednesday should be a line outside the door Like it gives me death can't be done Now.
Speaker 5:We bless that Our Wednesday we stay packed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm saying like but y'all bringing the peep like it should be, yeah, I got T-Murf.
Speaker 5:I got T-Murf, mike Sam M-Dubs, niche Corey Bell in a room on one night. Right, that's crazy $10. Then when homies come in from out of town, let's just say somebody like Carlos Miller coming to town, he doing a big show, somebody be like hey, leon, I'm pulling up to your room. Right, that's the status we have and, mind you, maybe you should start a podcast.
Speaker 4:That must be a cool feeling when you have comedians come out and be like hey, can I pull up?
Speaker 5:there I want to work on some time and, mind you, me and Don Ski don't make no lot of money from that room. It ain't no money to pay no rent or nothing. It's money that I give that shit to my daughters. Throw them that little $250, $300. The point is it's a platform for us to work on material that's stronger Then when I have strong comics come through.
Speaker 3:I tell the young comics don't be upset.
Speaker 1:I'm like hey, rob Markman, I wasn't. That's when I was ready. I was like, man, I'm ready to go in here, give me some time. I was like, uh-huh, all these heavywears going in. I was like I'm not going to get no time, all right bet, so yeah but, you see motherfucking.
Speaker 4:You see, keep your bartenders in mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5:Damn it. Damon Williams and Kenny Howell walk in. Right, the fuck I'm going to do. I'm going to let Burt hey, Burt, I understand you brought six people here. I will give you listen next week. You come, you all good. But trust me, Burt, they're not going to be upset that they didn't see you. And fucking Damon Williams walked in, or motherfucking D-Ray walked in and said hey, man give me five minutes.
Speaker 1:I will never forget when I went to Laugh Factory Jokes and notes when I was living in New York. I was coming here visiting my mom. I went there for open mic and I'm like I'm ready. Man D-Ray walked up in there. It was a wrap. I said damn, I just came over here from New York. I was so mad.
Speaker 6:But you know I get it now.
Speaker 5:I went to LA. I went to LA and was about to do D Ray night.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, you know, d Ray got a Monday.
Speaker 5:Monday, yeah, and I go out there. I say I was third on the list, Right Fucking. Chris Rock walked in. Everybody. D-ray literally said he said I love you.
Speaker 3:That's how I know it shouldn't be bullshit.
Speaker 5:He said I love you Leon.
Speaker 3:You know I love you right?
Speaker 5:I said yeah, I know, dog, I know what you're about to say. He said yeah, chris just said he wanted to go up. Chris Rock went up there and did two and a half hours of comedy. Right. Then he came down and D-Ray was like you know what. I still might have some time. I might put you up Guess who the fuck walked in, chris Tucker, another two and a half hours. I want to do some time, another hour.
Speaker 1:Next week. What the fuck I look like.
Speaker 4:At Another hour. All right, next week. What the fuck? I look like man, at least you got some pro-role seats. Yeah, yeah, Okay so yeah, I got to watch geniuses work. Yeah.
Speaker 5:That's kind of dope.
Speaker 4:That is dope, that's kind of cool that you work your way up but you get to witness. Dude, that'd be like you as a musician, a guitar player.
Speaker 5:You're like it's a jam session and you up there and then fucking, eric Clapton and Prince walk in.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:And say we got this dawg.
Speaker 6:Slash.
Speaker 4:I'm like here you go, here you go for the right. Did they put?
Speaker 6:it up for you Exactly Get the fuck out of here. We know how to tune.
Speaker 5:But the new comics of the day? They can't handle that, right. They're like who of the day? They can't handle that. You're like who? Chris Rock, man, fuck that, I was here at 7. I signed the list, bitch shut up.
Speaker 1:You don't know who, chris.
Speaker 5:Rock is. I don't give a fuck. If you don't know, shut your bitch ass up and I'll see you next week. You want to go up next week? Here's some drink tickets.
Speaker 4:Suck my dick.
Speaker 1:Right, they don't say suck my dick as much as they need to. That's a problem, that's a problem. They talk man juice.
Speaker 5:They didn't go out and watch.
Speaker 1:Deuce, deuce.
Speaker 5:Rock just walked in. The fuck I look like putting you up. I saw your five minutes last week. You barely made it why. I know this motherfucker just talking about paint peeling off the wall. It's from the tennis bitch.
Speaker 4:Right, they're going to make money off those.
Speaker 5:And even if he don't, it's Chris Rock, right? Eddie Murphy could come up and sit on stage and say, hey, y'all how you doing, and they don't say shit else.
Speaker 4:For two hours.
Speaker 1:I love Eddie Murphy. I know he'll never come out of retirement, but Eddie needs to just come out for one good time.
Speaker 5:But you know what, though I think with Eddie and Jess, you know, I know we've been saying we're going to wrap up, but with Eddie, yes, this is I'm, so you don't understand that's fun to talk about it's probably
Speaker 4:like what three hours it's going to be like Three and a half oh my God, all right, let me go ahead.
Speaker 5:I'm going to say this again. I'm going to shut the fuck up, because I got shit to do today. Got to stop by Chick-fil-A. The new one, whichever one, chick-fil-a is mega heaven. What they spicy chicken sandwich with some lettuce on it? God damn On the fallies. What Come on with the Chick-fil-A sauce? Anyway, eddie Murphy does not ever have to do a piece of stand-up again in my book, do I think he would be funny if he came back just talking about today. Imagine Eddie Murphy talking about the Diddy shit.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:We'd go fucking crazy, crazy. But I think from Eddie's mindset, here's his thought process. I'm so far detached from the generation that's consuming right now. I don't have a presence on social media.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:And if you think about it, everybody that's hitting right now. Presence on social media Cat Williams Right. Viral with Shannon Sharpe shit Right. Still living off that All of your comedians now have a social media presence Right, and it doesn't have that. I'm still living off that All of your comedians now have a social media presence, and it doesn't have that. I do movies. I'm probably not going to connect to young motherfuckers. And to the old motherfuckers I'm going to connect. But old motherfuckers ain't moving a needle and I hate to say it, because I'm an old motherfucker.
Speaker 5:If I didn't have to have Facebook and Instagram for my job, I wouldn't have a page. I wouldn't have a page. I wouldn't. Don Ski had to tell me when he sent me the flyer Leon, post the motherfucking flyer for Wednesday. I'm like motherfucker. I told motherfuckers that I'm going to be there. No, post the flyer, og. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 5:I think with Eddie he's like and then where could he practice his material Without it being posted? It goes back to my thing where we said if this was an era where motherfuckers didn't have access to posters set, he would probably come back. But where is he going to practice? There's somebody sitting somewhere with some form of recording shit that's going to post his new jokes before he gets to tell them on his fucking thing. And Eddie's probably the type that doesn't want to be an asshole and ask people to bag up their fucking phones every night. Right, eddie probably is the guy that want to come to. Eddie's probably the guy that probably want to come to Eddie's probably the guy that probably want to come to a bartender's and say you know, let me get five minutes and test this shit on a real crowd.
Speaker 5:Yeah, he's doing some low key shit as soon as I say Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 4:Boom Phone's out.
Speaker 6:Yep.
Speaker 5:Yep, Even after I told these motherfuckers don't do it Now. Fuck that. This is Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 5:And Eddie don't want to say could I have everybody's phones bagged up at bartender's Now? You look like an asshole, but they don't understand that you're working on some shit. It's not like a musician Me and you can be working on a fucking song and we can go in here. And you can be working on a fucking song and we can go in here and we can send that song to her and say Zo, we want you to listen to this and tell us how it sounds.
Speaker 5:But now, if it get out, we know who leaked it. Right Comedy, you just on stage, yep.
Speaker 3:So that's why I don't think I don't need control of it.
Speaker 1:I don't think he's going to come back Because that Hannibal thing that's a gift and a curse, like he was just telling his jokes, but it's like damn you done, messed up sort of his career. He didn't do nothing. He a cop, he a comedian. You know what I'm saying? Phone.
Speaker 5:Recording that set. If nobody ever sees that video from that show, bill Cosby, don't go through all that shit. I firmly, 100% believe that.
Speaker 1:For sure.
Speaker 5:Now I will say this too, though and it hurt my heart because Bill Cosby is one of my idols but 50 bitches ain't lying, I don't give a fuck. Just the law of averages. Let's just say 48 are lying. Oh yeah, I don't give a fuck. Just the law of averages. Let's just say 48 are lying. Two are telling the truth. That's two too many All right.
Speaker 1:That's all I say. I just thought he had a terrible lawyer too, because he had paid off the girl.
Speaker 5:I mean he still got out of it because they fucked the prosecution, fucked up and did some shit they weren't supposed to do. But my point is this when I listen to guys talk that shit about yeah, this motherfucker being real road I said do you have daughters? And when I asked them a question they said yeah. I said okay.
Speaker 5:Your daughter comes in home to you one day and say look, I want to tell you something because it's bothering me. It's been bothering me for four years but I never said anything. I was raped by your best friend who was my volleyball coach. I didn't say nothing because I was your best friend and he said that if I told you it, would you know the family would be destroyed or he'd kill you, or whatever Fucked up. I said what's your first reaction? You want to go kill the motherfucker who did it right.
Speaker 5:Right, you're not going to say well, what did you do? I said so. With that being said, when y'all be so cold-hearted to say quick, to say a motherfucking lie that's somebody's daughter?
Speaker 5:Right, that's somebody's daughter. That's why I've always told my daughters don't ever lie about your actions. Right, you freaked out one night, drank some of this shit and somebody used you as a Chinese finger trap, but you was with it. Own it, right. Don't say nobody did nothing to you, because what you do, then you got a lot of uncles, cousins and a daddy that care about you and we going to go kill somebody and we might go over there and get killed ourselves.
Speaker 5:So don't do that. Don't lie. It ain't even about the legacy of the man you lied on, which that's a stain you can never get rid of. When somebody say you tried to rape them, whether they guilty or not, that stain is always there, right? So it's not about him, it's about the other men in your family and women in your family that's going to come to your defense and not wait for the court system and want to fuck Buddy up. Right, buddy could be sitting and waiting on us and fuck a couple of us up. Now people are dead, people are hurt. People are hurt, people in jail Over a lie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that be weird, Because, like I say, women lie and men lie. I done seen both sides. I'm like, damn, I get it. Yeah, so it's like, but I just feel like it's getting worse. I feel like, no, no, what I see is it's not both like women lie to and men lie to, but it's only the men that are getting like.
Speaker 5:I'm starting to see being a woman be weaponized, and I don't like that. It's just like I got a little cousin. He's gay, he weaponizes his gayness, and I don't like that.
Speaker 1:It's just like I got a little cousin he's gay, he weaponizes his gayness, and I don't like that shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that is the issue.
Speaker 5:Like he'll come at you, like are you calling me this?
Speaker 6:And I'm like man Right, yeah, then one day I just say yeah, I am Now what?
Speaker 5:Right Now you the victim, but you talking mad shit.
Speaker 1:So that's what I got at. I don't like weaponizing it Like.
Speaker 5:I don't weaponize my race, right, right, I don't be like because they bring our plates to the table and he got more rice in his plate than mine. Oh, I ain't getting no rice because I'm black, right? Or you serve me chicken because I'm black. I never do that, right, if you wrong, you wrong, you wrong, you wrong, you wrong. Rob Markman, right, rob Markman. But I'll never pin it on race, rob Markman, right, rob Markman. You just wrong, motherfucker. You know what you're doing is wrong. Rob Markman, right, rob Markman. It's fucked up. Rob Markman, right, rob Markman. Now, what your reasoning is, I don't know. Rob Markman, right, rob Markman. Is you're treating me this way because I'm this color, black, or whatever?
Speaker 5:But right now motherfucker, you just wrong.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 5:Right, we'll figure it out, but nah, man, I just this was fun.
Speaker 1:Yes, this was. I am very woo. Three and a half, I think this is the longest one. I have right, this was fun. I got to go.
Speaker 5:I got to get ready to do a show tonight. Where's your show at? We're out in Linwood at Events by Tiffany. It's myself, Tony Schofield, I want to say Marlon Mitchell is on the show. Okay, and then after that I'm off to my man, Jay Moore, Crown Affair at the Godfrey Hotel.
Speaker 4:You got two shows.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's working Well, thank you for taking the time to come here.
Speaker 6:I appreciate this, this is fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is.
Speaker 5:Anybody that does the podcast is better with liquor.
Speaker 4:We tell liquor a few times. Drink while you're doing it.
Speaker 1:It's fun. We didn't even like yeah, we just got into it. I didn't even need my questions.
Speaker 2:We just went through it. It's fun. We didn't even like, yeah, we just got into it.
Speaker 5:I didn't even need my questions we just went through it.
Speaker 1:That's good.
Speaker 5:Drink or drink while you're at the podcast, just don't fall down all them fucking stairs, leaving us.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 5:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, no, I got to ask a question have you ever had a party or anything over here and somebody took the tumble? No, and somebody took the tumble no Because that would be epic G.
Speaker 1:Man, that probably would be me. That would be funny Because they would stairs.
Speaker 5:you're not going to really be too fucked up, You're going to be fucked up, but they ain't like marble stairs they would. And you make it all the way down to the bottom because there really ain't no like landing where you stop you going all the way to the bottom?
Speaker 1:You're definitely going to the bottom.
Speaker 5:You're going all the way to the bottom. G All the way to the bottom. That shit will be funny as hell. Just get your drunk homie and just no.
Speaker 4:I just moved here. Okay, I moved back here. I was living up north, but I've only been here a few months, so I haven't had I know, that's the car I got to.
Speaker 5:He probably goes down there.
Speaker 4:He's being nice, I'm good. Actually I moved on my own. I had no help.
Speaker 5:Okay, oh, you sure you moved all this shit up here, yeah.
Speaker 4:Nah, bro, okay, and it was raining too. Nah, this is why I'm lazy.
Speaker 5:We moved from my house in Lansing to Homewood man. I ain't touch shit Well now, I know. I didn't pack shit. My wife was looking at me. I was like I gave these motherfuckers this money. I said, handle your business. And then when we got to the new house, I said, set my shit up so I ain't gotta touch nothing that's what I did when I was packing.
Speaker 4:I was like this doesn't look like much. I can do this on my own. And then comes the day of the move and I'm only two hours in. I'm like God damn, I got a lot of shit and I have to go farther south now. You're a better man than me, I didn't touch a motherfucker.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I ain't touching nothing either.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you're right, they could have stole from me and it was raining and shit throughout the day, so I'm just getting soaked moving, trying to keep carrying boxes.
Speaker 5:They could have took all types of shit from me. I didn't check inventory or nothing.
Speaker 1:I'm not, I ain't when it comes to that, I ain't packing.
Speaker 3:I should have taken the next three days off at work, because on Monday morning I'm just like.
Speaker 5:Only thing I did, like all my collectibles and shit. I knew the bins they was in. I put them in my car. Rob Markman oh okay, rob Markman. Everything else went in the truck. Rob Markman, my wife said you put all them fucking toys in your car. I was like, yeah, I don't give a fuck about it.
Speaker 4:Rob Markman. Yeah, that stuff in my car, I think.
Speaker 5:I had like the first three hours in my car and then I had fucking toys, whatever my wife wanted to call them. I called them action figures and collectibles, but whatever she wanted to call them the pronouns are action figures and collectibles. They was all in the car with me. I didn't give a fuck about my children's dental records, right.
Speaker 4:Next, if I do have to move, I'm definitely just going to drop the coin and get the worst because it no, no, I'm definitely just going to drop a coin and get the worst?
Speaker 1:No, I'm not, I can't Well. Thank you so much for taking the time. We got almost four hours. It was good. It was a good conversation and I think everybody will be surprised and happy that you did it. And I appreciate it. Thank you so much, mr Rogers. Good time, leon Rogers, the OG. And yeah, we gonna talk about these festivals because the city got the money and we are going to figure it out.
Speaker 5:And I'm with you. I'm a hundred man, I'm in line with you, but we gotta whip these motherfuckers into shape and get them to ride with us. I'm a hundred man, I'm in line with you, but we gotta whip these motherfuckers into shape to get in the ride with us.
Speaker 1:You're right, we might have to document it we got to man.
Speaker 5:I'm telling you it's frustrating. I've been there and on the lower level, not even talking about the level you're talking about just on the lower level. It was so frustrating. I'm a hundred percent%. I love the spirit, I love the energy but yeah, you get in the room with these motherfuckers and you be like man. God damn it. I can't believe I paid for pizza For these stupid motherfuckers, right.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be. I'm trying to tell you I had to, like I've lost so many friends. Yeah, there ain't no way in the world we this stupid. There's no way in the world we this dumb. So yeah, you're right, but we're going to get it together. We're going to get it together.
Speaker 5:Hey man, follow me at Leon Rogers on Instagram, at Leon Rogers on Facebook, at Leon Rogers on X. I'm on X and I'm on WGCI 107.5 from 6 am to 10 am Monday through.
Speaker 1:Friday, we all gonna let Marilee be the host. Marilee always comes on, man, she just needs to be the permanent host, crazy motherfucker.
Speaker 6:She just needs to be the permanent host.
Speaker 5:You know what I wish? Listen for me. That would be amazing, because that chick is fucking retarded.
Speaker 1:I love Marilee I love Marilee man fucking retarded. I love Marilee. I love Marilee man.
Speaker 5:She made you know there's three people that when they walk in the room, I just start laughing. I don't care how mad or upset I am. She's one Marilee, marlon Mitchell and Muhammad and Muhammad. When they walk in the room, I can't. I don't give a fuck what I'm mad about.
Speaker 1:Muhammad's good too. Shout out to Muhammad.
Speaker 5:I just start laughing because I know they're going to say some shit, just being themselves.
Speaker 1:My mother loves Muhammad. She's like he funny. See now my father.
Speaker 5:He thought Marlon Mitchell was the greatest shit. He said Marlon, better than you. And I couldn't let, because Marlon was like, hey, baby, what's going on? Show you this donut. You know, marlon? Oh man, so it just comedy is for the soul. I want everybody to go out there and laugh. I want us to, as a people, to read more. I want us to start picking up literature Stuff that you think is not interesting. Read it and find out how can it affect you, because I used to be a person that'd be like I ain't reading that shit.
Speaker 5:man, I don't care about redlining on the South Side, but then my grandmama got put out of crib, you know, because of shit and we couldn't save it. It was too late. Let me start reading about this. Let me start reading about, you know, being able to buy buildings for $1,000. That's, you know, being able to buy buildings for $1,000, that's back taxes. How Panagia became a great. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 5:So it's just you know.
Speaker 1:I don't Well, you get it. See, that's all we got to say. We got to start having, like, some talks.
Speaker 5:But my thing is I think everybody gets it. I just think in this day and age, nobody wants to be looked at as a lame or a nerd and as a lame or a nerd, and instead of trying to be cool, this is the cool shit. Shout out to my brothers like Courtney. Jones Chase, that just showed me the whole shit about real estate and how this shit work.
Speaker 5:Show me about the fundamentals of receivership. We need more of that and I'm glad I got to come sit down and talk to you and just talk about shit, that I like Rob Markman, the Boss of the World, and that's it, you know what I'm glad I got to come sit down and talk to you and just talk about shit that I like and that's it. You know what I'm saying Because most podcasts got an agenda. We literally sat around and talked about shit that we like, and none of that on the paper.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so thank you.
Speaker 4:Don't just back up, yeah, so I appreciate this because that's why I like you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so thank you so much you know what I understand, so we're going to validate my parking. Let's go. Oh yeah we got you.
Speaker 4:Oh, we good, we got you, we got no permit parking.
Speaker 5:No permit parking Nah y'all gave me this mother of a cobra. I'm straight, I'm good. Keep it, dog. This shit's good right. That was tasty yeah that shit was fire on the way home.
Speaker 4:Let's go Chick-fil-A Next up.
Speaker 5:Chick-fil-A Spicy chicken sandwich with lettuce.
Speaker 1:All right Peace.
Speaker 2:Ladies and gentlemen the boat is leaving the building. Please don't throw any more panties.
Speaker 1:Thank you, until the end, fix me some of that dick gravy.