Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, Everybody's DJ M V Jess hilarious,
Speaker 2: Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: be on Crocket. Welcome back. It's been a long time too,
Speaker 1: not that long, but long enough. You're here for a
Speaker 1: good reason though, a hip hop story. Come on, brother,
Speaker 1: come Friday. Independent. You know what I'm saying. Independently, a
Speaker 1: hip hop story. And I wanted to really emphasize because
Speaker 1: people are like when they see a movie, right, they
Speaker 1: always assume why it ain't playing near me? How come
Speaker 1: it ain't at the theater right by my house? Well,
Speaker 1: because there's no big studio behind it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. This is me and my boy Domain. We
Speaker 1: just put this thing out. But it just thank you, brother,
Speaker 1: it just happens to look great and it has a
Speaker 1: great message, and it's it's for the culture, by the culture.
Speaker 3: It's amazing that Domain looks so tall in person as
Speaker 3: opposed to how he looks.
Speaker 1: In the in the movie. Right because he plays the
Speaker 1: frowayre a freewayway for you.
Speaker 3: I hope you'll them put in the call to let
Speaker 3: him know it's all fun and games.
Speaker 1: Now. We spoke to him on Live theother day. Freeway
Speaker 1: is our brother. Man. He loves, he loves the energy
Speaker 1: around it, and he's amazing if you need to love
Speaker 1: the energy around it before you. But he's seen us
Speaker 1: do the impersonations before, man, so it's all love and
Speaker 1: it's all love. Charlamagne, you're trying to start ship.
Speaker 3: I was just like, I was like, why free Way,
Speaker 3: why Freeway getting all these shots?
Speaker 1: Because he saves the days, the hero. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? He got to go through a few trials
Speaker 1: and tribulations and jokes. It's a comedy. We gotta we
Speaker 1: gotta make fun of people. We all get some strays.
Speaker 4: And when you said this is independent, it's completely independent.
Speaker 4: Shout out to you for writing and producing it too, Like, ma'am,
Speaker 4: that's amazing. I love saying it because I love seeing
Speaker 4: us do things like that.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 4: I want just to figure back what you said off of,
Speaker 4: like how he's trying to start stuff with the impersonations
Speaker 4: and people getting people to play them. Has anybody ever
Speaker 4: like been offended by you like doing impersonations.
Speaker 1: Or just nah, I'm the I'm the guy that they
Speaker 1: I'm friends with all of these people first of all,
Speaker 1: and then you know I'm the guy that I'm the
Speaker 1: hip hop weird al where I've become the guy that
Speaker 1: they know. I'm showing love to them, and it's like
Speaker 1: a it's like I'm giving they know I'm giving them flowers,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so it's almost like
Speaker 1: a badge of honor. Like NAS asked me, man, why
Speaker 1: you ain't never did an impression to me? So when
Speaker 1: I when I hear a god MC asking me to
Speaker 1: do an impression, that means I mean something to the culture.
Speaker 1: So this is a love letter to everybody in the culture,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: When when I was watching the movie, the thing I
Speaker 3: kept thinking about was this is the only vehicle Avion
Speaker 3: could showcase all of these skills that in one.
Speaker 1: Play and placause you've been doing all these characters forever.
Speaker 3: But it's like, I don't know, Hollywood, wuldver understand exactly
Speaker 3: what it is you do, Like you would have to
Speaker 3: do this on your own.
Speaker 1: Well, that's it's funny you picked up on that, because
Speaker 1: that's why I originally wrote it. I wrote this back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. So when I did it,
Speaker 1: that was at the time me and Domaine was doing
Speaker 1: all of the the YouTube parodies and everybody every time
Speaker 1: I go, someone, yo, do jay Z, do this? Do that?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm tired of doing these goddamn impressions.
Speaker 1: Why don't I just put them all in one project,
Speaker 1: So y'all can have all the impressions in one one sitting,
Speaker 1: and I'm done with them. That's how I thought at
Speaker 1: the time, But now it's just like, all right, it's
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use all my tools and to my advantage.
Speaker 1: You know, how many do you do in the movie?
Speaker 2: How many impersonations?
Speaker 1: I still haven't counted, but it's probably twelve.
Speaker 5: Russell, Jay, Jas, Luda Cornell, Web, Drakez, Joe, Joe Budden
Speaker 5: h did we say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Drake Ship, Will Smith Fresh Prince, Oh yeah. And
Speaker 1: I'm doing Biggie's voice for Cedric on the rat. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. It's a lot, man, Dang we cooking.
Speaker 1: But when I say it's independent, I mean I literally
Speaker 1: paid for this movie with stand up tour money, right.
Speaker 1: He demand had all the cameras in the film. Know
Speaker 1: how we both know how to edit, we both know
Speaker 1: how to produce, so this was really uh an effort.
Speaker 1: So to see that when I dropped that trailer, to
Speaker 1: see it spread around the Internet as fast as it
Speaker 1: did within a day, and to see all the culture
Speaker 1: from Snoop to Exhibit to Cedric to deon Cole Russell Simmons,
Speaker 1: like everybody was posting this joint and just rallying behind it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I'm just thankful to
Speaker 1: the culture for seeing it for what it is. I
Speaker 1: don't think it was real at first. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You played so many games sometimes that I was like.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, I don't think it was real.
Speaker 1: I was like, me, it's a funny trailer. Thought it
Speaker 1: was like a sketch trailer. I did. I can see
Speaker 1: that because you always playing rightfully, so I do play
Speaker 1: a lot. But you know, I'm also very serious.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize it was a real movie about two
Speaker 3: weeks ago. I saw the trailer and I was like,
Speaker 3: that's a funny trailer. But then if I saw people
Speaker 3: like Charlie Mack and everybody keep posting it, and I
Speaker 3: saw the post I'm like oh this is really a movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, because everybody used to his parodies like nah,
Speaker 4: but you see certain people posting it's.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, I gotta be all the time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you seeing Snoop. Snoop is one of the biggest fans man.
Speaker 1: He's like really championing the movie right now too. But again,
Speaker 1: this is my love letter to the culture. But we
Speaker 1: put some production value into it too, Like it ain't.
Speaker 1: It ain't like some bootleg kind of cheesy movie. We
Speaker 1: got lighting, we got cameras, we got the whole situation,
Speaker 1: and it's a it's a great story.
Speaker 3: We gave you the idea of him because you said
Speaker 3: you started in two thousand and eight, but it feels
Speaker 3: so timely because last year it was the fiftieth year.
Speaker 1: Yeah hip ho. Yeah. So I wrote it in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, and because I incorporated so much of
Speaker 1: hip hop history and the nostalgia that doesn't change, right,
Speaker 1: So the only thing I had to change reference wise
Speaker 1: was some of the some of the newer references, like
Speaker 1: in the original scripts when they were trying to go
Speaker 1: around and get the message of hip hop back out
Speaker 1: to the culture. We went to places like one O
Speaker 1: six in Park and Tavis Smiley Show. So I just
Speaker 1: swapped that out for you know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: Funk Flex and Joe Budden and all that. So you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Did you ever consider not playing
Speaker 1: all those roles in the movie?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Not, the ones that I knew that I could play.
Speaker 1: I never considered like switching them out. The only one
Speaker 1: that I wasn't supposed to play was ghost the ghost
Speaker 1: Face character. But you know, we had a we had
Speaker 1: a situation and I had to step in at the
Speaker 1: last minute and to do do what I had to do.
Speaker 1: But no, I always wanted to showcase myself and my friends,
Speaker 1: like the main place three characters, Puff Freeway, who else?
Speaker 1: Mo D? Yeah, oh my god, bodies D in the
Speaker 1: in the flashback scene that we showcase some really historic moments.
Speaker 1: So the battle between Kumo D and Busy B, which
Speaker 1: was the time when lyricism was now like the showcase,
Speaker 1: you know, even though we had Graham Astercas and those
Speaker 1: guys doing it, that was the battle that made people say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to go away from party MC into lyricism.
Speaker 1: And so we wanted to just showcase real moments in
Speaker 1: hip hop history interlaced with comedy.
Speaker 2: How much homework did you have to do? A lot
Speaker 2: of this stuff you grew up on and you knew already.
Speaker 1: I knew a lot of it. A lot of it
Speaker 1: was already living in my brain. What I did do
Speaker 1: was research on like dates, times, people's ages so it
Speaker 1: could be realistic to our portrayals of them. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Theaters whit theaters. Yeah, we have a
Speaker 1: deal with AMC. We have a close friend over there
Speaker 1: that was like presented the idea to us, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: the streaming game is amazing, but a movie like this
Speaker 1: you need to see in theaters. It's a difference between
Speaker 1: looking at or listening to an album on your phone
Speaker 1: versus listening to it in the studio or in your car.
Speaker 1: Like this is a hip hop movie. It's a musical, right,
Speaker 1: so the beats in the in the rhymes, if you
Speaker 1: listen to it in the theater, Like when we had
Speaker 1: our premieeres the two screens that we've had, you see
Speaker 1: people in the theater like doing this. They nodding their
Speaker 1: head and they rocking and they're cheering. After the finale song.
Speaker 1: I won't say what it is, but after that finale song,
Speaker 1: they are cheering in the theater, so we wanted to
Speaker 1: have that movie going experience, and because we have a
Speaker 1: connection over there with AMC, it just felt like a
Speaker 1: good look for us. You know, most movies have a
Speaker 1: thousand to four thousand, those big budget movies, those superhero movies,
Speaker 1: they have four thousand locations. We were like, all right,
Speaker 1: give us one hundred and fifty and let us just
Speaker 1: work with that. And that's plenty for us because again,
Speaker 1: we don't have big marketing dollars behind us. It's my
Speaker 1: stand up money, you understand me, So call you called
Speaker 1: in a lot of favors to this. Of course, man,
Speaker 1: this game is all about relationship absolutely. I mean even
Speaker 1: me being here with y'all, Like I just put out
Speaker 1: the call Eddie, and you know, y'all show love to
Speaker 1: me all the time. So I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to promote this indie movie and that's why I'm here.
Speaker 1: So same with the movie. I called Cedric Little Real.
Speaker 1: It was all text messages. Charlie Max, he put in
Speaker 1: calls little Mama, came out, she played the m C
Speaker 1: light boy. But everybody was perfectly cast. It was it
Speaker 1: was everyone that I had in my mind that I
Speaker 1: wanted to play these roles. They all showed up for me.
Speaker 6: Give us the sense of the budget, Nope, five million
Speaker 6: like mine your own, god damn business.
Speaker 1: The sense of the budget is minya got damn Who
Speaker 1: may want to do the whole independent film?
Speaker 5: Nah?
Speaker 1: The ball park range. They be shooting on their phone.
Speaker 1: You keep shooting on their phone. We got other things
Speaker 1: we're doing over here. Charlemagne, I'm gonna come to you
Speaker 1: next time. You're gonna invest He got it?
Speaker 4: Oh, we got it, got we got you got them
Speaker 4: to be in it, Jackson.
Speaker 1: Fuck that charlam is gonna be an actor. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: turn him into a Morpheus. Nigga. You get talk with
Speaker 1: the perfect eyebrows, already got those.
Speaker 2: That's not you get tired of doing impersonations?
Speaker 1: Is it one of the things?
Speaker 2: Like it's like I'm tired of doing a goddamn pressice time.
Speaker 1: When I when I wrote the movie, that's when I
Speaker 1: was tired of it because I was like, I want
Speaker 1: the world to see me for whatever. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: give a shit. Love me for how you love me,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. However, you recognize me, have
Speaker 1: you whatever you you take on if you just know
Speaker 1: me from an Instagram post, it's all.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite one to do?
Speaker 1: I don't have a favorite impression to do. I just
Speaker 1: I just do them. But my my favorite new one,
Speaker 1: because it's been so well received in these screenings, is
Speaker 1: Cornell West. I didn't I've never seen you do. I
Speaker 1: never seen anybody hilarious. I've seen a couple of people
Speaker 1: do it, but I just did my own take on them.
Speaker 1: But that was my first time doing them. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know I could really do it. So I just
Speaker 1: told my makeup artist, I said, just give me the wig,
Speaker 1: give me the gap and the teeth, And once I
Speaker 1: had the whole garb on, Charlie Mack almost passed out laughing.
Speaker 1: He just couldn't contain himself. It was just so funny
Speaker 1: to him. So that's when I knew the look was
Speaker 1: right on. And then when the cameras game was, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to get down here into the breakfast cloud,
Speaker 1: even though they don't have no eggs, bakers, our vocado toad.
Speaker 7: You see you see Charla Madney, Yeah, Charla Madney understands
Speaker 7: what the eyebrows mean to the black people.
Speaker 1: You see, you see y see Now, why do they
Speaker 1: have Jet sitting in a gender you see? I don't know,
Speaker 1: because she's the queen of the gender people. You see.
Speaker 3: It's just immortalized those characters forever. Like, do you even
Speaker 3: do off? You do jay Z anymore? Do you do
Speaker 3: Russell anymore?
Speaker 1: After that? Yeah? Okay, yeah you have to. I mean
Speaker 1: the two that you just named, Jay and Russell, they're
Speaker 1: fans of my impression of them. Rus love it. So
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, and this movie is one of those
Speaker 1: movies that's gonna live on forever, even though we set
Speaker 1: out to do it with our our hopes and you know,
Speaker 1: let's see what it does. Let's let's see we can
Speaker 1: make a movie. Now that we have it done and
Speaker 1: you can see it, it's gonna live on forever. What
Speaker 1: is hip hop culchy to you?
Speaker 3: Because I always thought about this because even back in
Speaker 3: the day when y'all used to do the sketches you
Speaker 3: and Nick, it always kind of felt like y'all was
Speaker 3: making fun of down South music.
Speaker 1: Nah, what we made fun of is lazy music, okay,
Speaker 1: because that's that's the distinction. In the movie, the barbershop
Speaker 1: scene shows you that this conversation between old heads and
Speaker 1: young heads and old music versus young It's always been
Speaker 1: a conversation. You know, that Barbershops scene was about blues
Speaker 1: versus soul. So that's me pointing out saying, look, as
Speaker 1: old heads, we gotta stop saying that the young generation
Speaker 1: is trash or that they we just don't understand them.
Speaker 1: Were older. We're not supposed to understand them. But all
Speaker 1: of them are. Some of them are great. The same way,
Speaker 1: there's some garbage old niggas. Everybody in the nineties was
Speaker 1: not fire, you know what I mean, So we can't
Speaker 1: sit back and be like your hip hop always been fired.
Speaker 1: There's some garbage niggas in the eighties and the nineties, right,
Speaker 1: So there's some lazy young rappers. And then we got Simba,
Speaker 1: and we got l Russell. We got some dope, dope
Speaker 1: guys out here. UZI Vert is a bee boy, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. He chooses to do songs like
Speaker 1: I just want to rock, and that's him having fun.
Speaker 1: He has the creative artistic freedom to do that. But
Speaker 1: that dude's really a bee boy. He will win mill
Speaker 1: on your ass, he will do some flares, he will
Speaker 1: top rock on you. So you can't say he's not
Speaker 1: of the culture. So it's just to point out to say, look,
Speaker 1: we gotta stop bickering. We use the young people as
Speaker 1: a device to get the backpack character, Jay Bum to
Speaker 1: have something to be like, Yo, man, hip hop is
Speaker 1: fucked up. And when he goes to the Rosco Russell character,
Speaker 1: that gives him the incentive to point Russell around to
Speaker 1: say hip hop is fucked up. But as we start
Speaker 1: going down the journey, black culture starts to be put
Speaker 1: on the spotlight and the elites of the black culture
Speaker 1: start to be you know, so we all are responsible
Speaker 1: for where we are as a culture.
Speaker 3: Because it wasn't about, you know, just hip hop being bad.
Speaker 3: It was what the negative impact is having on people.
Speaker 1: More so about that, yeah, more so about you know,
Speaker 1: the deaths and you know, the drug overdoses. It's been
Speaker 1: a lot more of that in the last fifteen years
Speaker 1: than we've ever seen in hip hop. Chris Rock, that's
Speaker 1: another character, you play, Craig, and he did the whole hell,
Speaker 1: but god, they do a whole, a whole I wanted
Speaker 1: to do a whole stand up special in the movie
Speaker 1: of Chris Rock just talking about hip hop. In the
Speaker 1: Brilliant way that he breaks down everything. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I see you comedians are crazy in these rappers right now.
Speaker 1: You know I used to always say this in inter
Speaker 1: of your other man comedians, we're not rappers, man, let's
Speaker 1: let's not be let's not let's not beef with each
Speaker 1: other and do all that. But it's it's really there
Speaker 1: now get worse. Why though, I don't know. I have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. I've never been the guy
Speaker 1: that that brings his personal beefs into the public. If
Speaker 1: I say anything about somebody that's gonna be positive. I
Speaker 1: have positive things to say about all these guys. But
Speaker 1: you know that that's not a popular message. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I just stay out of it.
Speaker 1: Has nothing to do with me. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: ever get involved in that kind of stuff. If I
Speaker 1: got a problem with you, me and you could talk
Speaker 1: about it. It's as simple as that. Like we've grown
Speaker 1: as fuck. Like why why am I on a microphone
Speaker 1: talking about anybody. I'm gonna just call you and if
Speaker 1: we could work it out, we can work it out.
Speaker 1: If not, I just don't mess with you.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like it hurts or helps comedy.
Speaker 1: I think it divides the audience. It makes the audience
Speaker 1: have to choose. And we're in such a we're in
Speaker 1: a Dick riding society, so people who want to choose, uh,
Speaker 1: they want to rally behind whoever they think is whatever.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, it definitely can divide the audience. And
Speaker 1: I think we're more We're just more of a beautiful
Speaker 1: creative people that that ship. We don't.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 1: It's not me, you don't not me.
Speaker 3: I agree with the Dick riding society and the best
Speaker 3: Dick changes from moment to moment.
Speaker 1: Running back.
Speaker 4: But over there, over there that you can't even impersonate.
Speaker 1: Why that that's a new movie.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm trying to say, is whoever people think
Speaker 3: trying to say that whoever said people think is hot,
Speaker 3: they hot from Dick based on the moment whoa look.
Speaker 1: Like it was in January then there was more nique,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it looks like when
Speaker 1: I said it's a Dick riding society, we could have
Speaker 1: left the analogy we understood it Dick that was that
Speaker 1: was something different. You could have came through with your
Speaker 1: own addition to the same problem would be a consistent
Speaker 1: dick ride, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, God, Yo, you want to talk about who Dick?
Speaker 1: Wow? He just went with it. Was got weird. How
Speaker 1: involved with Charlie Mack into making of this? You're gonna
Speaker 1: go from follow them dick? Don't make Charlie following them dicks?
Speaker 1: How dare you? Charla Mane can come up with another question?
Speaker 1: Charlie his first out di limo, first out, the first out,
Speaker 1: the port on, no matter where you go after that.
Speaker 1: So you can leave now? Can we got done with all? Right?
Speaker 1: We're done with done with Dick. We delivered. But look,
Speaker 1: look I have a Dick. It's all good, Charlie. Charlie's
Speaker 1: big bro's he's hip hop, He's the connector. There's not
Speaker 1: a call that he will not make. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. The first person that saw this movie in
Speaker 1: full was Will Smith. Because of Charlie Mack, Me and
Speaker 1: Charlie went to Will's theater and screened it for him.
Speaker 1: Will gave me forty five minutes of filmmaking gems after that,
Speaker 1: just wisdom, and he loved the movie. And we saw
Speaker 1: him at the fiftiest celebration of hip hop where he
Speaker 1: the first time he performed again and he was telling
Speaker 1: people back said, yo yo Apion has this movie. Hey
Speaker 1: it plays like forty people right, great, but yeah, that's first.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to move away from the dicks.
Speaker 3: Did you ever think about having the real characters in
Speaker 3: because there's a moment where Fredro's in there.
Speaker 1: We wanted to have a mix of that just to
Speaker 1: make it grounded, to make it feel valid, to make
Speaker 1: it really feel like they were sitting next to a rustle,
Speaker 1: and then when you see Jay, you really want to
Speaker 1: feel like it's Jay. So yeah, we did purposely sprinkle
Speaker 1: in some real ogs just to yeah, give it that
Speaker 1: real hip hop, grounded feeling.
Speaker 2: Is there any character that you tried to catch that
Speaker 2: you just couldn't catch? It was like I tried, but
Speaker 2: it's just it's not fitting.
Speaker 1: Right impression wise. No, everything that we that was on
Speaker 1: the page the movie is pretty much what was on
Speaker 1: the page, So we were able to cast it or
Speaker 1: play the roles that we wanted. Shout out to my
Speaker 1: boy Jevin smith Man, Jevin smith he played fifty or
Speaker 1: forty five cent two short e forty that dude man.
Speaker 1: We all been rocking together for like twenty years YouTube
Speaker 1: doing all of the spoofs. But yeah, he's one of
Speaker 1: those guys that transforms also. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that do impersonations, but to be able to
Speaker 1: transform your face enough to where it looks like you
Speaker 1: really believe that that's the person, you know, he one
Speaker 1: of them dudes.
Speaker 3: So that one scene when it's a is you playing
Speaker 3: Cornell and Joe Budden at the same time? Is that
Speaker 3: difficult to pull off? So my body double is my security. Carlos,
Speaker 3: this is my god. We just happened to be the
Speaker 3: same size. He's more muscles than me.
Speaker 1: But the for the characters that we were playing, he
Speaker 1: was able to play the Roscoe when I needed him to.
Speaker 1: He was the second Joe Budden when I'm Cornell. So
Speaker 1: it just all blended the right way.
Speaker 3: Were you concerned about portraying Russell because of like the
Speaker 3: controversy surrounding him.
Speaker 1: I wrote it in two thousand and eight, so you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, before all of that stuff happened.
Speaker 1: I just I made the movie about the culture, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I was it wasn't a thing
Speaker 1: to emphasize anybody's cases. I don't. I'm not in that world,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. So I just made it funny
Speaker 1: enough and universal enough to where it's about the culture
Speaker 1: and we're just telling a story about hip hop.
Speaker 3: And if you tell a story about hip hop, you
Speaker 3: can't tell it without talking about fact.
Speaker 1: I mean, he can't tell it aout talking about did
Speaker 1: you have to? He contributed? And then we also wanted
Speaker 1: to do characters that we could convincingly portray. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He's somebody that I've been doing impressions
Speaker 1: of for so long. And then the whole yoga thing,
Speaker 1: like me and my my tidy whities. I just thought
Speaker 1: it was a funny device to use, and then to
Speaker 1: have a narration of him with the lisp the whole
Speaker 1: movie why not.
Speaker 4: Moment?
Speaker 1: Do you think you want to offend the lip list community?
Speaker 1: You mean like yourself? Yes? Did you? Were you sharp?
Speaker 1: Were you offended? Watching the movie? No? Listeners like the
Speaker 1: listeners all over the place protesting he goes to the club,
Speaker 1: He'd be like, am I on the list?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 1: Where where where can we find this movie? Off?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: AMC No, it's very lim that it's only one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty nine okay, one hundred fifty nine. Go to
Speaker 1: AMC Theaters dot com search a hip hop story and
Speaker 1: just see where it pops up in your area. It's
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty nine locations. And uh yeah, the people,
Speaker 1: the people will determine how successful this movie is in theaters,
Speaker 1: and then we'll we'll figure out the streaming deal or
Speaker 1: the streaming platform that we want to go to after that.
Speaker 1: But right now, if you want to enjoy the movie,
Speaker 1: you'll see it this weekend.
Speaker 3: What's considered the success, like, well, you need to like
Speaker 3: make your money back some profit.
Speaker 1: This is a bird going back to the budget situation,
Speaker 1: eighty million, eighty to one hundred million, that'd be fantastic.
Speaker 1: That would be great period. That'd be a big eighty
Speaker 1: million Charlamagne. Bob Marley just did seventy. We love that
Speaker 1: worldwide salute to the Marley film man. For sure.
Speaker 2: I'm about to ask to what you do is sketch
Speaker 2: it so early? Did you get your yea necessary I
Speaker 2: should say profit or check from YouTube because you were
Speaker 2: doing it before it was cool man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I wasn't. I wasn't. They didn't even have
Speaker 1: the partner program when I was doing it, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, the only thing that I got at
Speaker 1: the time. We would get like some brands that'd be like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: we'll give you a couple of dollars to throw this
Speaker 1: brand in here or whatever. But for the most part, no,
Speaker 1: we just got cloud props. And I learned the social
Speaker 1: media game before a lot of people were on it,
Speaker 1: which is what makes me still relevant to this day
Speaker 1: because I'm not the old head. I was never the
Speaker 1: old head that was like, man, fuck these young niggas,
Speaker 1: fu fuck, just hilarious. She using her phone, that's cheating.
Speaker 1: I embraced it from day one because I if you
Speaker 1: can use any platform, why wouldn't you use it? Why
Speaker 1: would you be that nigga? I always say, like, that's
Speaker 1: as dumb as when they put power windows in cars.
Speaker 1: You the old niggas. I'm man, I need to roll
Speaker 1: that shit down. I don't want to push no buttons.
Speaker 1: I roll shit down. It made me more comfortable with
Speaker 1: how I feel about things. You not a real nigga.
Speaker 1: If you're not rolling it down, you ain't real. Right
Speaker 1: what use every platform and just adjust to the times.
Speaker 1: Old niggas.
Speaker 3: Other than stand up sketches, the hardest comedy to me, though,
Speaker 3: why it.
Speaker 1: Is very good. I don't think miny artis. I don't
Speaker 1: think many people are. In the history of comedy. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's been too many people who are funny
Speaker 1: at sketch where there's a difference between skits and sketches.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Online is where you see a lot of
Speaker 1: skits and a lot of it is, you know, rehashed.
Speaker 1: People are borrowing from this person that person, and it's
Speaker 1: all good. Like there's nothing new under the sun, so
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna think about the same idea. Right, But long
Speaker 1: form sketch. That's why In Living Color was so impactful. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: That's why Saturday Night Live is an institution. Chappelle Right,
Speaker 1: Chappelle Show, long form listen. Chappelle was so unorthodox with
Speaker 1: sketch he did. He broke the mold right some episodes
Speaker 1: he did traditional sketch three minutes, let's go to commercial break,
Speaker 1: then come back to another whole new sketch. The Rick
Speaker 1: James and the Prince of Charlie Murphy story was the
Speaker 1: entire episode. So he broke the mot He told a
Speaker 1: long form sketch in thirty minutes, and it was funny.
Speaker 1: Every time they came back and it just kept upping
Speaker 1: the ante. So sketch is a whole different art form
Speaker 1: and you have to know how to write. You have
Speaker 1: to understand story, and it takes you to a different level.
Speaker 1: Skits that's that's what people do on the internet, and
Speaker 1: it's great, like it's making them money. But if you
Speaker 1: want to entertain people and be able to hold their
Speaker 1: attention and do a film or long form sketch, you
Speaker 1: have to know how to write. You have to know
Speaker 1: some old school principles. I never thought about the different
Speaker 1: struct that makes Well.
Speaker 3: Why do you think you know early on you didn't
Speaker 3: take off which sketch the way you should have. I think,
Speaker 3: how do you remember I remember Short Circuit back in
Speaker 3: the day that was like what seven?
Speaker 1: That was before? Yeah, I don't know. I think I
Speaker 1: think at some point there were sketch was oversaturated, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and networks didn't want to take
Speaker 1: the chance on it. I mean, Fox gave me a
Speaker 1: chance to do it, but they put me with all
Speaker 1: the wrong executives. When I had to explain to them
Speaker 1: who Manny Pacil and Drake were at the time, I
Speaker 1: was just like, Wow, this is the journey that we're on. Nah,
Speaker 1: So you know, it's just the wrong people doing this.
Speaker 1: So that's why I went to YouTube and just started
Speaker 1: doing my own ideas, because it's like, why am I
Speaker 1: waiting around for somebody to give me anything. We've always
Speaker 1: been like, let's just do it, let's just go shoot it.
Speaker 1: So you know, I feel like sketch has gotten me everywhere.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, how you might judge it
Speaker 1: because you missed the numbers and want to no budgets.
Speaker 1: It might be a different.
Speaker 3: You've always been one of the best doing sketch, But
Speaker 3: that just shows me that, you know, Hollywood don't know
Speaker 3: what the they be talking about.
Speaker 1: All. That's why we do our own independent movies because
Speaker 1: you know, you can't audition for the same casting directors
Speaker 1: all the time because they want to A lot of
Speaker 1: them like to hire their friends and you know it's
Speaker 1: that thing too, But uh, when you show them what
Speaker 1: it is you want to do, it changes the conversation
Speaker 1: for you, you know what I mean. It's the same thing
Speaker 1: that Ryan Cooler Michael b did with fruit Vale Station.
Speaker 1: Like they made a movie about a very serious, real
Speaker 1: life event, but they presented themselves as no, we are
Speaker 1: those guys. We really know how to make these stories
Speaker 1: come to life. And that's what me and Demaine did
Speaker 1: with a hip hop story.
Speaker 3: And you've been building that based online for so long
Speaker 3: that those same people will show up just Friday.
Speaker 1: That's right, man, Come on, say it again, Charlemagne, I
Speaker 1: forgot what I said now.
Speaker 3: People, Yes, you've been building your based online for so
Speaker 3: long that those same people are gonna.
Speaker 1: Show up this Friday. There you go, right, you got
Speaker 1: a real base, yes day.
Speaker 2: The hip Hop Story is out this Friday, and we
Speaker 2: appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 1: Brother, appreciate are you trying Tomaine for bringing up Dix
Speaker 1: Dix budgets, Dix Budgets.
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