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of HBO Sports.
It's unfair to hold comedians
to the same, I'm not a politician.
It's Hollywood. It's what we're
supposed to do. Dark liquor.
Big parties and an occasional
line of cocaine.
That's, what we're supposed to do.
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Hold on. I do not like,
I hate cocaine.
I just like how it smells.
THE SHOP
EPISODE 1
SEASON II
- How old is Jamie Foxx ?
- I'll be 52 coming up.
Hell, no. God !
I think he's lying.
- I stay young.
- I did your fiftieth, though.
That was a year and a half ago.
And that's what's fucked up.
50K is in the bag.
I said that he looked like forty.
I knew when I was getting older when
shit started slipping away though.
Sometimes you don't know. I went
to a DJ Mustard party in LA,
which I should never do because
it's always young motherfuckers
at the parties in LA.
So I drove my Rolls Royce.
A mistake because
that shit is big as fuck.
And the young folk don't know
what the fuck that is.
I pull up, and I'm pulling up,
the steering wheel is big.
Them niggers are like, who is this
nigger riding in a black refrigerator ?
This nigger's like, excuse me,
guys ! Pulling in !
So I get out and the, and the
fucking valet pulled,
two valet niggers had to pull
the big ass door.
But you know, all the young
motherfuckers got the Ferraris
and all the different colors.
I said, wow,
that's nice.
So I go in the motherfucker.
And this is when I knew
I was playing it a little... I was
out of my league with the young shit.
Because the DJ
was shouting out everybody.
He was like, oh, shit, we've got
Chris Brown ! And it was like,
went up in flames. And, oh, shit,
we've got Trey Songz out here !
And then the dude said, oh, shit.
We've got Jamie Foxx
in this motherfucker.
And I stepped out, you know,
from my shit, right ?
And he said,
young ass old nigger.
And I was like, oh, shit,
that ain't cool. That ain't cool.
Let me step back.
Step back. Fuck !
So, you stay young, but sometimes
I just got to pick my spots.
My thing is, I always stay fun.
But not enough,
but people are scared.
People are not having fun
and people are terrified.
People are bogged down in Trump
because they're afraid to just,
to not say speaking points.
Like everyone's kind of talking...
Comedians about to be... it's sad.
Y'all are about to be extinct.
Not me. I'm going to talk
about all you motherfuckers.
Well, not just comedians.
Even comedians are getting shit
for being the essence of being...
- I'm telling you, of being comics.
- Fuck that.
The funniest laugh is when
you say the shit that motherfuckers
ain't supposed to say,
that's my job.
But the thing is is, it's not even
just comedians that are getting it.
It's kind of everybody. It's this
weird expectation for entertainers
to be civil rights leaders.
And there's moments
where it does overlap and
you've made strong statements.
Your life has become kind of this
political statement in and of itself.
There are times when it overlaps.
And then, there are times where,
if you're a comedian, if you're
an actor, what you're doing is art.
And what art is showing people
your mistakes,
showing people your flaws,
what's wrong.
It shouldn't be beholden
to this political obligation.
An entertainer being a role model...
it sometimes happens and sometimes
they're just
good at what they do.
What do we think
about Kevin Hart, Foxx ?
It was fucked up.
The Oscars lost out.
They lost out because Kevin Hart
is the nicest fucking guy
in the fucking world.
- He wants everybody to love him.
- Yeah, he is.
What happened was, is that the Oscars
have now allowed in a sense,
for people to hijack them. Because
the Oscars are supposed to be
about that night. It's supposed to be
about people who put their work in
and go get their statues. When you
now allow this so-called social media
whatever to take Kevin Hart out,
we all miss out.
How did you deal with that, AD ? When
people booed you in New Orleans ?
My first, so the first game,
coaches are like...
First time I've heard something
in 20 minutes.
And it's like, they're booing ?
That's exactly how he felt.
Everybody was coming to talk to me.
Man, don't let it get to you.
I really didn't care.
But when you, when I walked
into the arena and I heard it,
I'm like, damn,
seven years I've been here.
All the stuff I did for you.
- All the community stuff and I get...
- I'm definitely gone.
I'm gone gone.
And so, it bothered me.
And then when it,
when we tipped it up,
it was over. I was like, man,
I'm going to get 30. I see people,
catch the ball and they booed.
When you were about to clear
a catch, they'll boo.
So now when I caught it, they boo,
I'm like, man.
And I just laugh in the middle of
the game and DHO
or shoot it or whatever.
Then they start cheering
when I'll miss a shot. And then
when we started losing,
I kind of went on a run myself,
and they, we want AD !
- You've got to make up your mind.
- They change that fast.
You can't boo me
and cheer me.
Now with all this attention,
is it tough for you right now
not knowing what's going
to happen next ?
It is tough.
Because you just don't know.
I have one year left on contract.
I'm not sure what they're going to do.
Obviously I've stated my intentions.
But I did that this year and they
didn't, they said,
we're going to keep you here.
So...
For me, it's just... Not knowing
what's going to happen.
At the end of the day,
everybody in this room,
they just want to do what they do.
AD, you just wanted to be great
basketball player. The fame came.
I just wanted to make it to
the league. The rest just happened.
- I was famous at 15 and a half, man.
- Those are like Michael Jackson ages.
And at sixteen I was on the cover
of Sports Illustrated.
At sixteen and a half
I was on ESPN and it was a wrap.
So what's the key ? Being able
to have the expectation
of being the greatest player and
to live up and if not surpass,
what's that ?
It's crazy because I talk to my guys
all the time, I talk to my wife
and there's times where I'll wake up
and I'll just be shaking my head.
I'll be like... How the fuck am I,
how am I here ?
Right.
What is it ? And the one common
denominator has to be
the support system.
I believe there had to be
a Amber Alert sent to everybody
in my hometown when they knew
that that guy, that kid right there,
we can't let him fail.
We can't, we can't. Because I've got
five of my best friends
that's doing great right now. 2 of them
that's playing overseas basketball.
Another one is the athletic director
at my alma mater high school, St. V.
One of my little brothers
who we grew up with...
He's working with the Kansas
as a advanced scout.
And the other one is working,
great family man, five of them.
And then I've got five other guys
that Mav knows that I grew up with
died, dead, shot, killed, gone.
What happened... ?
Where I wasn't on this side... ?
Because this side that's all dead now...
That I know that I've got
in my phone book right now
and I can't even call right now
because they're six feet under.
They played sports.
We all played sports.
All eleven of us.
But what happened that stopped me
from going here
and took me here
with this group ? With this crew ?
And not this crew ?
- It had to be some...
- A nigger mama.
- You made the right choices in life.
- Sometimes it's for real.
When it comes to like family and
friends, do we really owe them ?
So didn't I tell y'all my take on
this shit ? I be like, yo,
I don't owe nobody shit.
Who are you going to please ?
I tell people if you give your cousin
10.000, what you'll give your aunt ?
Twenty because
she baby-sitted you ?
What you gonna give to your
grandma ? It's never gonna stop.
Sometimes I don't even enjoy my day,
bro. Because of me just feeling
so responsible for everybody.
I'm talking about uncles, aunts.
You forget about all the niggers
that you was just dreaming with
when you was poor.
All you're like hood promises,
people cash in on that shit.
Like my aunt hit me
and she was like, you remember that
condo in Florida you was talking about ?
I was like, I needed your couch.
I'm not cashing in.
All you said was
yeah, keep working hard.
That's not worth a fucking
250.000 dollar condo.
I owe you a Lexus now ?
Because you believed ? What did
that cost you ?
It didn't cost you shit
to believe in me.
If it didn't work out,
what did you lose ?
And it was obvious.
I had obvious talent.
My biggest thing was my parents.
I always feel like
I always owe my parents everything.
And they sat me down when I made it
and said,
you don't owe us nothing.
That frees you then.
I feel your mom and dad,
they're some real G's.
- One thing I love about his parents...
- My mom's like that too.
His mama and daddy though,
they're so gangster though
because they don't want
to be in the limelight.
Yo, they'll literally like go
to the game and be sitting
at the concession stand
watching the game.
But everybody ain't
like that though.
The hardest thing in the world
for me when I got my shit,
and I got mine early, 18.
I got mine early.
- So it's hard to deter.
- The hardest thing for me was...
The hardest thing was
to tell my mama no.
Then then, my life became amazing,
was when I told her no.
- My mama will get a new car Monday.
- What'd you say, Chainz ?
My mama's picking up
a new car Monday.
She said, I'm fighting to get
a new car.
I need to get what I want.
I want to have, she says,
I says, I told her, you're right.
Because it is my mom.
- And I told her you're right.
- What you gonna do ?
My mama just moved into a brand new
built house from the ground up.
Not like she found one.
Not one that she found
on Zillow or ...
A brand new built house
that she built and this is exactly
what she wanted.
She just moved in there in this past
October. So don't feel bad.
And I've been doing this shit
for about seventeen years now.
She wanted a new one. And I want
to break ground,
and I want to build,
and I want to live how...
But when you're doing this like
and making money you've got
to build a brand and shit like that.
What are you willing to do
to make money ?
How far are you willing to go ?
I seen Jerry Rice doing,
this shit hurt my soul.
The Popeye's shit ?
He had helmet on
with a face mask.
But the middle of the face mask
there was a chicken wing that spun.
- Most NFL guys they'll do whatever.
- Why is that though ?
Because I don't think they set
their self up for the career after.
You look at all the greats.
What are they doing now ?
- Like Shannon Sharpe who be on...
- TV.
This guy's the biggest joke.
It's like, bro,
you going to put the Hennessy
in the backwoods up there.
- I agree.
- Then you're fixing to criticize me ?
Like, bro, you're a joke.
So you're setting a bad example.
Then you're hating on it. Like,
what are you really standing for ?
So it's like... Man, these guys
are running around,
just doing anything
to just make a buck...
When did you start realizing that,
AB, and paying attention to that ?
The older you get, it's just like,
why is Randy Moss still on ESPN ?
What'd you say, LBJ,
you're done playing,
you're going to go on TV
and commentate the basketball ?
- No, I'm trying to own team.
- Exactly.
So like why are you doing,
what I mean ?
AB, would you go back and play
in Pittsburgh ? Is there any shot ?
Nah, there's no shot
of him gong back to Pittsburgh.
Yeah, what happened with that
the last week of the season ?
So the last week of the season,
we're going into the final game.
We've got to win. And we've got
to hope the Ravens don't win.
So we could advance to the playoffs.
I'm a little banged up. So
I meet with Coach Tomlin
and I'm telling him like,
hey, man, I'm a little banged up.
So I'm going to need a little time
to get right. So he's like,
if you're banged up, man,
you can just go home.
- Leave practice.
- Yeah, you ain't even got to be here.
So I'm like...
Damn, that's where we at ?
- Yeah, damn. Yeah !
- Right. You know what I'm saying ?
I can't get no treatment ?
He didn't get no treatment ?
So you'd think it's like,
I'm going to war for these guys.
Putting my life on the line,
and it's like, it's an unknown
when it comes to me just
like right now, the write-ups.
They control the narrative.
You know what I mean,
a good foundation. They could just
paint you any kind of way then.
That's the thing people
don't know is like,
it's a controlled
environment to where they could,
they could kind of determine
if they want to let me eat or not.
Because you need the coach to call
the play, and the quarterback too.
- Yeah, for him to be on the same page.
- Was you and him on the same... ?
It's like one of those things where,
it's the ego. I don't have a ego...
- Because I'm just trying to win.
- And you just got sick of it.
Yeah, once the last game came,
everybody's wanting to go home
with the confusion, I'm like, damn,
this is where they're really at.
Because now they're showing me
the reality.
All you have to go do is call me out,
we lose the game, he's like,
AB should have ran a better route.
- Why would Ben do that ?
- The type of guy he is.
He feels like he's the owner. Bro,
you threw the shit to the D line.
What the fuck ?
I'm over here wide open !
You need to give me a better ball !
But it's like in the League,
you'll have a guy
from the team that'll be like,
boy, you can't say nothing.
I need you to get out there like,
but it's like why I got to be acting ?
At least ask a nigger how he feels
first. Right or wrong.
Then if it don't matter how I feel.
Then fuck it then, why am I here ?
That's totally different
from our sport.
If I want it, I can go grab
the rebound, and I can go shoot.
I can go get a steal and change
possession and then shoot again.
I can get a charge, I can take
it out and throw it to a nigger
who I know will throw it
right back to me.
It's a alpha male game.
Then you become yourself, and
now they attack you for the shit.
They don't like yourself.
They're talking about my furs.
Like who don't like to get swaggy ?
That's why we work hard,
you know what I'm saying ?
They're like, he came to the game,
yo, it don't matter what I come with.
But that's the narrative
they try to create.
Once you're doing your own thing, it's
like, yo, this guy's a distraction.
He's this type of guy.
All I ever been was a guy
who came from Central Michigan,
sixth round, who worked his ass off.
- Sixth round.
- That's amazing.
Three contracts later,
I'm milking the game.
It's the same as what's going on
with AD right now.
AD's been in the league, this is
your what, your seventh year ?
Seven years in the league,
nobody's ever said anything.
No, no media. Not a fan.
Not a friend.
Not nobody's ever said anything
negative about AD.
But you can tell,
when the narrative changed...
When you don't do
what they want you to do.
And that's why, we've got to continue
to control the narrative too
and continue to back each other up
because they have so many people
at the top of these food chains
that will control your narrative.
We all seen it when Meek
has his situation.
How they tried to control
that narrative.
Nobody wanted to hear
his side of the story.
That's been going on for 11 years.
People might look at it and be like,
he violated probation. But you've got
to be like, yo, what did I do ?
Not even this time. Last time
I went to jail, I stayed in Virginia
when I was supposed to stay in DC.
It was like a state line.
And I went to court,
the judge is like, yeah, you know,
you violated it. You stayed
in Virginia. You were supposed
to stay in DC. I'm like...
I was going to a show.
It wasn't like I was like just doing
some random shit. And I'm working.
What did they charge you
with that time ?
I got charged with an F1 felony.
And an F1 felony is like,
you've got F1, F2, F3.
F1 is the worst.
I got an F1 felony for popping
a wheelie. Of course.
If you follow me,
you've been seeing me online.
I've been popping wheelies
on Instagram my whole life.
That's a part of my lifestyle.
It's a traffic ticket.
I know the thing about it.
The worst thing, if you pop a wheelie,
you don't get a traffic ticket,
they take your bike, all right ?
You get fines, anything.
You don't go to jail for...
a traffic ticket.
Unfortunately, I popped a wheelie,
I got locked up in New York.
Eight months went by.
The case got thrown out.
Went back to court on probation.
Two to four years.
- After I even beat that case.
- That's crazy.
People don't understand,
police contact is a violation.
I know you seen Starbucks.
The kids got...
They was lording them. I'm like,
if that was me, I could have got
three years for having police
contact. Like there's a person
in a courtroom that gave me 4 years
just because I got pulled over
for making a U-turn.
But explain that.
Because that's a trick bag.
A lot of people don't understand.
The trick bag is the probation.
- Exactly.
- It's almost impossible to live...
Free of any type of mistakes.
So it's like, and then the other thing
is this. What is the infatuation
of law enforcement or of agents...
With rappers ?
That was always been my thing.
I threw a party for Puff back in the day.
I get a call, throwing a house party
at my place, 200 people. Puff is there.
Missy Elliott is there.
Pharrell was there.
But I get a call. And it said,
hey, J, ou by yourself ? I go, yeah.
He says, I want you to know
there's federal agents in your party.
For what ?
They're watching y'all.
All we do is make music.
We're just having a good time. Why ?
So, it's two things. One, like I said,
it's different when it comes to you guys.
There's always somebody watching you.
Then the trick bag of that probation...
It keeps the system going. Like,
half of the people that was in prison
when I was in prison,
it was just lifers, rapists
and people on probation.
There wasn't like no in between.
I'm chilling with people
that got 80 years, 50 years.
And I'm like, yo, I didn't
even commit a crime.
How did I even get here ?
We're in the mountains.
They got you in a room, 24 hours
a day like shackled down,
and you ain't committed a crime.
Like if your dog, the dog bit
somebody right now,
your dog shook my ankle up,
are you going to go lock him
in a closet for three months ?
No, hell no. You'll go to jail
for locking your dog in a closet
for three months.
How could you lock a human in a closet
for 24 hours a day for 4 months ?
Like how can you do that ? Even
like being around like Bob Kraft
and them guys, I'm getting in the
room and being like, yo.
This is what we be doing through real
life, in room like how we is right now.
You know anybody that been shot ?
No, never met anybody.
All right, there's seven of us
in here. I'm the only one
that ain't been shot. All we worry
about is not going to jail,
and going to prison. My kids
worry about what summer camp.
Which house they're going to
in the summer, man.
So, did they, did they understand you
when you said that it isn't right ?
And it's different. They know people
go to jail for no reason
because this is America.
This has been America.
But when you see it and feel it
and its attachment to you,
it's a whole different feeling.
So, when I get in, like around me,
I always feel like I have to express
that to the other side of America.
- I call it two sides all the time.
- I saw that at the Super Bowl.
You guys were there for the reform.
And I was on some party shit.
I was like, let's turn this shit up.
We've got Meek, nigger,
do, doing shit.
And he goes,let's pop off, nigger.
In front of all these white people.
Say nigger. Let's get this shit going
because I wanted you to do your hit.
It's all like the biggest CEOs
in here, and they don't know me. He do.
I said it on stage. I said
I ain't fixing to be standing up here
shouting out nigger in front of all
y'all, you don't really know me.
I'm like, let's just keep it focused
on him right now.
They throw kind of hard, son.
You fuck around and get smoked.
And these people in here
are 60 years old.
They're like get smoked ?
- I don't see any cigars in here.
- I played the shit anyway.
- You played the record anyway ?
- I played the track.
But they was with it.
Be honest, they was with it.
Here was the thing he did, though.
He said, J, I'm on a new page.
And the way that motherfucker looked
at me, I said, okay.
This, this is sincere.
Switched the record.
Blame it on the ghost. Got...
And then we went into my shit.
- And now we're stepping now.
- It was different.
But that was, that meant a lot.
And that meant a lot to the fact
that you, when you came back,
the way you guys came, you,
Drake holding on,
it feels good.
- It was big for all of us too.
- Big for the culture.
I always talk about this like
this pride over progress.
As African Americans we got, we've
got a lot of motherfucking pride.
And it stunts the progress.
And it stunts the growth
of what we individually...
Could actually make, create
and be with our lives.
Like for all of us
to be sitting in this room
as successful African Americans
in all our different sports
and the music...
And TV and, production, everything...
We're one in a billion.
But we can never let our pride get
in the way of our progress
because if we do...
Then the next Meek or the next Antonio
or the next 2 Chainz
or the next Jarrod or the next AD...
They're going to get hit.
Like we've got to continue to make sure
we always keep that progress going,
not lose the pride, but know that
the progress got to stay
a little bit above the pride.
It's kind of I think what we're all
going through. We're just growing.
I think everybody's growing and then
it's important for me to have,
substance in a lot of my music,
more substance than I'm used
to dealing with. Because if I can
inspire one person a day which I know
I can do more than that,
then I feel good about myself.
Yeah, absolutely.
And that's what it should always be
about. Like, shit, when we got out
of situations that was not on our side.
But we got out.
So now how can we inspire
the next person ?
And the next person after that ?
So like you said,
if you can inspire one person...
Which we all know we inspire
more than that,
but if you can inspire one person,
that one may be able to inspire two.
For me, it used to be the other way
around. I used to want a fan a day.
Because I didn't feel like enough
people knew me.
- So I'm doing everything I could...
- I always tell you, what you did...
Is one of the greatest. It's right up
there with Nike, Apple,
as far as branding.
This nigger went
from Tity Boi to 2 Chainz.
I didn't realize it was the same
person for a while.
- Am I the only person ?
- I didn't know that shit either.
- I didn't know.
- I thought he was bold for that.
How the fuck did you rebrand yourself ?
What was that process like ?
It just started sticking.
It was nothing that I just did.
One day, I think I just gradually...
Changed.
And I was smart enough to know like
during radio interviews,
that sometimes when I said it, I could
look at people's faces and realize
that, you know, this is rubbing some
people he wrong way.
But it was a organic name for me.
Like my family called me Tit.
My mama called me Tit.
My daddy called me Tit.
Like that was, like it was a thing
about me and my mom's relationship
like being her titty baby.
It didn't mean like I won
a titty sucking contest or...
Like I be named Tity Boi,
girls would be like, oh !
Who's this fucking... ?
Man, fuck your titties.
Well, that's great to have like
Tity Boi have some,
such a deep meaning behind it.
And like girls getting offended...
You think I'm named
after your titties ?
They be, they be exaggerating too
like, Tity Boi, oh, no.
Like, I'm going to, like you're fixing
to try to hit them right ?
Careful with that nigger.
I got a name that I felt was a,
like because I think,
the Tity Boi thing came organically.
So the 2 Chainz thing
had to come organically.
And then...
When I looked in the mirror,
I knew I had something
to bring to the table.
So everything just started happening.
You can feel that shit.
It's like a fucking game.
It's on fire.
You can feel it.
But you know, you know
what's crazy ? Is that I feel like,
you feel the momentum shifting.
And I think that right now,
I think AD is finally starting
to feel the momentum shift.
And you was crazy,
you brought it up because,
as great as he's been in our league
for these last five years...
I think now he's finally starting
to see the momentum shift.
- And who...
- Can you feel it ?
- On who he is though.
- Yeah, and that's what it is.
All the media coverage around me.
And now I'm getting a chance
to take over my career.
Say what I want to say
and do what I want to do.
So now you see everybody,
I see AD changing, you know ?
Everybody's telling me,
you're growing up.
It's about time you take care
of your business, of your career.
So now it's like, as a player,
as the CEO of my own business,
I've got the power. I do what I want
to do, ot what somebody tells me.
And that's them butterflies like...
Of knowing that
something's going to happen next. Not
knowing what's going to happen next.
Knowing it's going to be a W.
You don't know what form,
how it's going to look when
it comes. That's that feeling.
And there ain't nothing wrong
with it at all.
I think the best, like, when,
once you get to a point
when being uncomfortable is good
for you... Like we get so caught up,
people get so caught up in doing what
they do and they're so comfortable.
They're just so comfortable.
With waking up every day
and going to work
and clocking in and...
Eight o'clock they get in and five
o'clock they get off
and they go home and they...
Do it all over again.
And they eat there, eat there
dinner at 6:30 and they go
to sleep at nine and, yeah !
And then at six in the morning,
it's the next day and they're like,
we're at it again.
No, be, I like being uncomfortable.
I like getting comfortable
with being uncomfortable
where I'm pressing the limits and
the buttons on the people that might,
on the people that there was before me
that didn't want to do it.
I will say this, because I am
that generation ahead of you.
And what I would always say is, what
you guys are doing is trailblazing.
Because when we came through
the umbrella
of the Civil Rights Movement.
My parents and what my parents'
parents did,
we came through sort of clean.
If you look at me, Puff, and
everybody, we came through clean.
We didn't see racism right in our face.
So in the '90s, nigger, we was...
Champagne was, we didn't have
anything like what you have now.
Social media and there's a cop.
Pulling a gun on a black kid.
We was like, oh, shit !
But we didn't know how
to get beyond our gates.
Beyond our 47.5 percent tax bracket.
Because we didn't know how to,
like nigger, what do we do ?
We was almost on some white people's
shit. This is going on ?
This is amazing. Did you see ?
There was black people shot !
But I'm giving you the real shit.
So when you talk about the generation
before you, it was a little bit of
subliminal plantation thinking.
Like, damn, if I make this move...
I'm going to fuck my money up.
When you guys stood up, man, ESPN
and y'all did this.
That sent...
that sent shockwaves through
everybody because the black athlete
or the black rapper...
Black rappers are just all
about fucking, having a good time,
smoking weed. Black athlete,
shut up and dribble.
Now y'all say this. That's the reason
for some of the things that go on.
Trying to find out what you're up
to and what you're not.
Because when y'all speak, man, you
woke up a whole generation of kids.
- And that's why we all commend Kap.
- Of course.
That's why we all commend Kap.
Because Kap...
Kap stood for something
that was bigger than him.
He sacrificed, who, how many people
can wake up and say, you know what ?
I'll give everything that I've worked
for my whole life...
- For the better of the conversation.
- Yeah.
I'm going to lose everything
that I've got personally
for the better of the conversation.
That's why we can sit here
and salute Kap. I hope whatever
the amount of money that he got...
Sets him up for him, his kids,
his grandkids,
and his grandkids' kids' kids' kids.
I hope it's that much money.
I really do because,
the beautiful sport was taken away
from him.
So I hope that...
Whatever the settlement was,
and I hope that it sets generations up
for forever.
I actually want to know,
how much money did he get ?
That's the nigger in us though.
Nigger, how much money ?
I heard it was like close to a billion.
Niggers are like, nigger,
I'm going to start kneeling.
When you win the Oscar,
there's a certain...
Most people, when they win the Oscar,
motherfuckers start talking
in English accents and shit.
I started out, I was at...
You know ?
Sometimes that Oscar
could fuck you up.
I kept it ground level though.
I didn't go to the Governors Ball.
We went to where all my homies was
and shit. They took the...
niggers was taking pictures with
the Oscar and was smoking weed.
And Oscar got high and like,
this motherfucking Oscar jumped off
the base and was like, man,
what the fuck, man ? I know Denzel
don't do this kind of shit.
THE SHOP
END OF EPISODE 1
SEASON II
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The following is a presentation
of HBO Sports.
It's unfair to hold comedians
to the same, I'm not a politician.
It's Hollywood. It's what we're
supposed to do. Dark liquor.
Big parties and an occasional
line of cocaine.
That's, what we're supposed to do.
And I want to say this on cam...
Hold on. I do not like,
I hate cocaine.
I just like how it smells.
THE SHOP
EPISODE 1
SEASON II
- How old is Jamie Foxx ?
- I'll be 52 coming up.
Hell, no. God !
I think he's lying.
- I stay young.
- I did your fiftieth, though.
That was a year and a half ago.
And that's what's fucked up.
50K is in the bag.
I said that he looked like forty.
I knew when I was getting older when
shit started slipping away though.
Sometimes you don't know. I went
to a DJ Mustard party in LA,
which I should never do because
it's always young motherfuckers
at the parties in LA.
So I drove my Rolls Royce.
A mistake because
that shit is big as fuck.
And the young folk don't know
what the fuck that is.
I pull up, and I'm pulling up,
the steering wheel is big.
Them niggers are like, who is this
nigger riding in a black refrigerator ?
This nigger's like, excuse me,
guys ! Pulling in !
So I get out and the, and the
fucking valet pulled,
two valet niggers had to pull
the big ass door.
But you know, all the young
motherfuckers got the Ferraris
and all the different colors.
I said, wow,
that's nice.
So I go in the motherfucker.
And this is when I knew
I was playing it a little... I was
out of my league with the young shit.
Because the DJ
was shouting out everybody.
He was like, oh, shit, we've got
Chris Brown ! And it was like,
went up in flames. And, oh, shit,
we've got Trey Songz out here !
And then the dude said, oh, shit.
We've got Jamie Foxx
in this motherfucker.
And I stepped out, you know,
from my shit, right ?
And he said,
young ass old nigger.
And I was like, oh, shit,
that ain't cool. That ain't cool.
Let me step back.
Step back. Fuck !
So, you stay young, but sometimes
I just got to pick my spots.
My thing is, I always stay fun.
But not enough,
but people are scared.
People are not having fun
and people are terrified.
People are bogged down in Trump
because they're afraid to just,
to not say speaking points.
Like everyone's kind of talking...
Comedians about to be... it's sad.
Y'all are about to be extinct.
Not me. I'm going to talk
about all you motherfuckers.
Well, not just comedians.
Even comedians are getting shit
for being the essence of being...
- I'm telling you, of being comics.
- Fuck that.
The funniest laugh is when
you say the shit that motherfuckers
ain't supposed to say,
that's my job.
But the thing is is, it's not even
just comedians that are getting it.
It's kind of everybody. It's this
weird expectation for entertainers
to be civil rights leaders.
And there's moments
where it does overlap and
you've made strong statements.
Your life has become kind of this
political statement in and of itself.
There are times when it overlaps.
And then, there are times where,
if you're a comedian, if you're
an actor, what you're doing is art.
And what art is showing people
your mistakes,
showing people your flaws,
what's wrong.
It shouldn't be beholden
to this political obligation.
An entertainer being a role model...
it sometimes happens and sometimes
they're just
good at what they do.
What do we think
about Kevin Hart, Foxx ?
It was fucked up.
The Oscars lost out.
They lost out because Kevin Hart
is the nicest fucking guy
in the fucking world.
- He wants everybody to love him.
- Yeah, he is.
What happened was, is that the Oscars
have now allowed in a sense,
for people to hijack them. Because
the Oscars are supposed to be
about that night. It's supposed to be
about people who put their work in
and go get their statues. When you
now allow this so-called social media
whatever to take Kevin Hart out,
we all miss out.
How did you deal with that, AD ? When
people booed you in New Orleans ?
My first, so the first game,
coaches are like...
First time I've heard something
in 20 minutes.
And it's like, they're booing ?
That's exactly how he felt.
Everybody was coming to talk to me.
Man, don't let it get to you.
I really didn't care.
But when you, when I walked
into the arena and I heard it,
I'm like, damn,
seven years I've been here.
All the stuff I did for you.
- All the community stuff and I get...
- I'm definitely gone.
I'm gone gone.
And so, it bothered me.
And then when it,
when we tipped it up,
it was over. I was like, man,
I'm going to get 30. I see people,
catch the ball and they booed.
When you were about to clear
a catch, they'll boo.
So now when I caught it, they boo,
I'm like, man.
And I just laugh in the middle of
the game and DHO
or shoot it or whatever.
Then they start cheering
when I'll miss a shot. And then
when we started losing,
I kind of went on a run myself,
and they, we want AD !
- You've got to make up your mind.
- They change that fast.
You can't boo me
and cheer me.
Now with all this attention,
is it tough for you right now
not knowing what's going
to happen next ?
It is tough.
Because you just don't know.
I have one year left on contract.
I'm not sure what they're going to do.
Obviously I've stated my intentions.
But I did that this year and they
didn't, they said,
we're going to keep you here.
So...
For me, it's just... Not knowing
what's going to happen.
At the end of the day,
everybody in this room,
they just want to do what they do.
AD, you just wanted to be great
basketball player. The fame came.
I just wanted to make it to
the league. The rest just happened.
- I was famous at 15 and a half, man.
- Those are like Michael Jackson ages.
And at sixteen I was on the cover
of Sports Illustrated.
At sixteen and a half
I was on ESPN and it was a wrap.
So what's the key ? Being able
to have the expectation
of being the greatest player and
to live up and if not surpass,
what's that ?
It's crazy because I talk to my guys
all the time, I talk to my wife
and there's times where I'll wake up
and I'll just be shaking my head.
I'll be like... How the fuck am I,
how am I here ?
Right.
What is it ? And the one common
denominator has to be
the support system.
I believe there had to be
a Amber Alert sent to everybody
in my hometown when they knew
that that guy, that kid right there,
we can't let him fail.
We can't, we can't. Because I've got
five of my best friends
that's doing great right now. 2 of them
that's playing overseas basketball.
Another one is the athletic director
at my alma mater high school, St. V.
One of my little brothers
who we grew up with...
He's working with the Kansas
as a advanced scout.
And the other one is working,
great family man, five of them.
And then I've got five other guys
that Mav knows that I grew up with
died, dead, shot, killed, gone.
What happened... ?
Where I wasn't on this side... ?
Because this side that's all dead now...
That I know that I've got
in my phone book right now
and I can't even call right now
because they're six feet under.
They played sports.
We all played sports.
All eleven of us.
But what happened that stopped me
from going here
and took me here
with this group ? With this crew ?
And not this crew ?
- It had to be some...
- A nigger mama.
- You made the right choices in life.
- Sometimes it's for real.
When it comes to like family and
friends, do we really owe them ?
So didn't I tell y'all my take on
this shit ? I be like, yo,
I don't owe nobody shit.
Who are you going to please ?
I tell people if you give your cousin
10.000, what you'll give your aunt ?
Twenty because
she baby-sitted you ?
What you gonna give to your
grandma ? It's never gonna stop.
Sometimes I don't even enjoy my day,
bro. Because of me just feeling
so responsible for everybody.
I'm talking about uncles, aunts.
You forget about all the niggers
that you was just dreaming with
when you was poor.
All you're like hood promises,
people cash in on that shit.
Like my aunt hit me
and she was like, you remember that
condo in Florida you was talking about ?
I was like, I needed your couch.
I'm not cashing in.
All you said was
yeah, keep working hard.
That's not worth a fucking
250.000 dollar condo.
I owe you a Lexus now ?
Because you believed ? What did
that cost you ?
It didn't cost you shit
to believe in me.
If it didn't work out,
what did you lose ?
And it was obvious.
I had obvious talent.
My biggest thing was my parents.
I always feel like
I always owe my parents everything.
And they sat me down when I made it
and said,
you don't owe us nothing.
That frees you then.
I feel your mom and dad,
they're some real G's.
- One thing I love about his parents...
- My mom's like that too.
His mama and daddy though,
they're so gangster though
because they don't want
to be in the limelight.
Yo, they'll literally like go
to the game and be sitting
at the concession stand
watching the game.
But everybody ain't
like that though.
The hardest thing in the world
for me when I got my shit,
and I got mine early, 18.
I got mine early.
- So it's hard to deter.
- The hardest thing for me was...
The hardest thing was
to tell my mama no.
Then then, my life became amazing,
was when I told her no.
- My mama will get a new car Monday.
- What'd you say, Chainz ?
My mama's picking up
a new car Monday.
She said, I'm fighting to get
a new car.
I need to get what I want.
I want to have, she says,
I says, I told her, you're right.
Because it is my mom.
- And I told her you're right.
- What you gonna do ?
My mama just moved into a brand new
built house from the ground up.
Not like she found one.
Not one that she found
on Zillow or ...
A brand new built house
that she built and this is exactly
what she wanted.
She just moved in there in this past
October. So don't feel bad.
And I've been doing this shit
for about seventeen years now.
She wanted a new one. And I want
to break ground,
and I want to build,
and I want to live how...
But when you're doing this like
and making money you've got
to build a brand and shit like that.
What are you willing to do
to make money ?
How far are you willing to go ?
I seen Jerry Rice doing,
this shit hurt my soul.
The Popeye's shit ?
He had helmet on
with a face mask.
But the middle of the face mask
there was a chicken wing that spun.
- Most NFL guys they'll do whatever.
- Why is that though ?
Because I don't think they set
their self up for the career after.
You look at all the greats.
What are they doing now ?
- Like Shannon Sharpe who be on...
- TV.
This guy's the biggest joke.
It's like, bro,
you going to put the Hennessy
in the backwoods up there.
- I agree.
- Then you're fixing to criticize me ?
Like, bro, you're a joke.
So you're setting a bad example.
Then you're hating on it. Like,
what are you really standing for ?
So it's like... Man, these guys
are running around,
just doing anything
to just make a buck...
When did you start realizing that,
AB, and paying attention to that ?
The older you get, it's just like,
why is Randy Moss still on ESPN ?
What'd you say, LBJ,
you're done playing,
you're going to go on TV
and commentate the basketball ?
- No, I'm trying to own team.
- Exactly.
So like why are you doing,
what I mean ?
AB, would you go back and play
in Pittsburgh ? Is there any shot ?
Nah, there's no shot
of him gong back to Pittsburgh.
Yeah, what happened with that
the last week of the season ?
So the last week of the season,
we're going into the final game.
We've got to win. And we've got
to hope the Ravens don't win.
So we could advance to the playoffs.
I'm a little banged up. So
I meet with Coach Tomlin
and I'm telling him like,
hey, man, I'm a little banged up.
So I'm going to need a little time
to get right. So he's like,
if you're banged up, man,
you can just go home.
- Leave practice.
- Yeah, you ain't even got to be here.
So I'm like...
Damn, that's where we at ?
- Yeah, damn. Yeah !
- Right. You know what I'm saying ?
I can't get no treatment ?
He didn't get no treatment ?
So you'd think it's like,
I'm going to war for these guys.
Putting my life on the line,
and it's like, it's an unknown
when it comes to me just
like right now, the write-ups.
They control the narrative.
You know what I mean,
a good foundation. They could just
paint you any kind of way then.
That's the thing people
don't know is like,
it's a controlled
environment to where they could,
they could kind of determine
if they want to let me eat or not.
Because you need the coach to call
the play, and the quarterback too.
- Yeah, for him to be on the same page.
- Was you and him on the same... ?
It's like one of those things where,
it's the ego. I don't have a ego...
- Because I'm just trying to win.
- And you just got sick of it.
Yeah, once the last game came,
everybody's wanting to go home
with the confusion, I'm like, damn,
this is where they're really at.
Because now they're showing me
the reality.
All you have to go do is call me out,
we lose the game, he's like,
AB should have ran a better route.
- Why would Ben do that ?
- The type of guy he is.
He feels like he's the owner. Bro,
you threw the shit to the D line.
What the fuck ?
I'm over here wide open !
You need to give me a better ball !
But it's like in the League,
you'll have a guy
from the team that'll be like,
boy, you can't say nothing.
I need you to get out there like,
but it's like why I got to be acting ?
At least ask a nigger how he feels
first. Right or wrong.
Then if it don't matter how I feel.
Then fuck it then, why am I here ?
That's totally different
from our sport.
If I want it, I can go grab
the rebound, and I can go shoot.
I can go get a steal and change
possession and then shoot again.
I can get a charge, I can take
it out and throw it to a nigger
who I know will throw it
right back to me.
It's a alpha male game.
Then you become yourself, and
now they attack you for the shit.
They don't like yourself.
They're talking about my furs.
Like who don't like to get swaggy ?
That's why we work hard,
you know what I'm saying ?
They're like, he came to the game,
yo, it don't matter what I come with.
But that's the narrative
they try to create.
Once you're doing your own thing, it's
like, yo, this guy's a distraction.
He's this type of guy.
All I ever been was a guy
who came from Central Michigan,
sixth round, who worked his ass off.
- Sixth round.
- That's amazing.
Three contracts later,
I'm milking the game.
It's the same as what's going on
with AD right now.
AD's been in the league, this is
your what, your seventh year ?
Seven years in the league,
nobody's ever said anything.
No, no media. Not a fan.
Not a friend.
Not nobody's ever said anything
negative about AD.
But you can tell,
when the narrative changed...
When you don't do
what they want you to do.
And that's why, we've got to continue
to control the narrative too
and continue to back each other up
because they have so many people
at the top of these food chains
that will control your narrative.
We all seen it when Meek
has his situation.
How they tried to control
that narrative.
Nobody wanted to hear
his side of the story.
That's been going on for 11 years.
People might look at it and be like,
he violated probation. But you've got
to be like, yo, what did I do ?
Not even this time. Last time
I went to jail, I stayed in Virginia
when I was supposed to stay in DC.
It was like a state line.
And I went to court,
the judge is like, yeah, you know,
you violated it. You stayed
in Virginia. You were supposed
to stay in DC. I'm like...
I was going to a show.
It wasn't like I was like just doing
some random shit. And I'm working.
What did they charge you
with that time ?
I got charged with an F1 felony.
And an F1 felony is like,
you've got F1, F2, F3.
F1 is the worst.
I got an F1 felony for popping
a wheelie. Of course.
If you follow me,
you've been seeing me online.
I've been popping wheelies
on Instagram my whole life.
That's a part of my lifestyle.
It's a traffic ticket.
I know the thing about it.
The worst thing, if you pop a wheelie,
you don't get a traffic ticket,
they take your bike, all right ?
You get fines, anything.
You don't go to jail for...
a traffic ticket.
Unfortunately, I popped a wheelie,
I got locked up in New York.
Eight months went by.
The case got thrown out.
Went back to court on probation.
Two to four years.
- After I even beat that case.
- That's crazy.
People don't understand,
police contact is a violation.
I know you seen Starbucks.
The kids got...
They was lording them. I'm like,
if that was me, I could have got
three years for having police
contact. Like there's a person
in a courtroom that gave me 4 years
just because I got pulled over
for making a U-turn.
But explain that.
Because that's a trick bag.
A lot of people don't understand.
The trick bag is the probation.
- Exactly.
- It's almost impossible to live...
Free of any type of mistakes.
So it's like, and then the other thing
is this. What is the infatuation
of law enforcement or of agents...
With rappers ?
That was always been my thing.
I threw a party for Puff back in the day.
I get a call, throwing a house party
at my place, 200 people. Puff is there.
Missy Elliott is there.
Pharrell was there.
But I get a call. And it said,
hey, J, ou by yourself ? I go, yeah.
He says, I want you to know
there's federal agents in your party.
For what ?
They're watching y'all.
All we do is make music.
We're just having a good time. Why ?
So, it's two things. One, like I said,
it's different when it comes to you guys.
There's always somebody watching you.
Then the trick bag of that probation...
It keeps the system going. Like,
half of the people that was in prison
when I was in prison,
it was just lifers, rapists
and people on probation.
There wasn't like no in between.
I'm chilling with people
that got 80 years, 50 years.
And I'm like, yo, I didn't
even commit a crime.
How did I even get here ?
We're in the mountains.
They got you in a room, 24 hours
a day like shackled down,
and you ain't committed a crime.
Like if your dog, the dog bit
somebody right now,
your dog shook my ankle up,
are you going to go lock him
in a closet for three months ?
No, hell no. You'll go to jail
for locking your dog in a closet
for three months.
How could you lock a human in a closet
for 24 hours a day for 4 months ?
Like how can you do that ? Even
like being around like Bob Kraft
and them guys, I'm getting in the
room and being like, yo.
This is what we be doing through real
life, in room like how we is right now.
You know anybody that been shot ?
No, never met anybody.
All right, there's seven of us
in here. I'm the only one
that ain't been shot. All we worry
about is not going to jail,
and going to prison. My kids
worry about what summer camp.
Which house they're going to
in the summer, man.
So, did they, did they understand you
when you said that it isn't right ?
And it's different. They know people
go to jail for no reason
because this is America.
This has been America.
But when you see it and feel it
and its attachment to you,
it's a whole different feeling.
So, when I get in, like around me,
I always feel like I have to express
that to the other side of America.
- I call it two sides all the time.
- I saw that at the Super Bowl.
You guys were there for the reform.
And I was on some party shit.
I was like, let's turn this shit up.
We've got Meek, nigger,
do, doing shit.
And he goes,let's pop off, nigger.
In front of all these white people.
Say nigger. Let's get this shit going
because I wanted you to do your hit.
It's all like the biggest CEOs
in here, and they don't know me. He do.
I said it on stage. I said
I ain't fixing to be standing up here
shouting out nigger in front of all
y'all, you don't really know me.
I'm like, let's just keep it focused
on him right now.
They throw kind of hard, son.
You fuck around and get smoked.
And these people in here
are 60 years old.
They're like get smoked ?
- I don't see any cigars in here.
- I played the shit anyway.
- You played the record anyway ?
- I played the track.
But they was with it.
Be honest, they was with it.
Here was the thing he did, though.
He said, J, I'm on a new page.
And the way that motherfucker looked
at me, I said, okay.
This, this is sincere.
Switched the record.
Blame it on the ghost. Got...
And then we went into my shit.
- And now we're stepping now.
- It was different.
But that was, that meant a lot.
And that meant a lot to the fact
that you, when you came back,
the way you guys came, you,
Drake holding on,
it feels good.
- It was big for all of us too.
- Big for the culture.
I always talk about this like
this pride over progress.
As African Americans we got, we've
got a lot of motherfucking pride.
And it stunts the progress.
And it stunts the growth
of what we individually...
Could actually make, create
and be with our lives.
Like for all of us
to be sitting in this room
as successful African Americans
in all our different sports
and the music...
And TV and, production, everything...
We're one in a billion.
But we can never let our pride get
in the way of our progress
because if we do...
Then the next Meek or the next Antonio
or the next 2 Chainz
or the next Jarrod or the next AD...
They're going to get hit.
Like we've got to continue to make sure
we always keep that progress going,
not lose the pride, but know that
the progress got to stay
a little bit above the pride.
It's kind of I think what we're all
going through. We're just growing.
I think everybody's growing and then
it's important for me to have,
substance in a lot of my music,
more substance than I'm used
to dealing with. Because if I can
inspire one person a day which I know
I can do more than that,
then I feel good about myself.
Yeah, absolutely.
And that's what it should always be
about. Like, shit, when we got out
of situations that was not on our side.
But we got out.
So now how can we inspire
the next person ?
And the next person after that ?
So like you said,
if you can inspire one person...
Which we all know we inspire
more than that,
but if you can inspire one person,
that one may be able to inspire two.
For me, it used to be the other way
around. I used to want a fan a day.
Because I didn't feel like enough
people knew me.
- So I'm doing everything I could...
- I always tell you, what you did...
Is one of the greatest. It's right up
there with Nike, Apple,
as far as branding.
This nigger went
from Tity Boi to 2 Chainz.
I didn't realize it was the same
person for a while.
- Am I the only person ?
- I didn't know that shit either.
- I didn't know.
- I thought he was bold for that.
How the fuck did you rebrand yourself ?
What was that process like ?
It just started sticking.
It was nothing that I just did.
One day, I think I just gradually...
Changed.
And I was smart enough to know like
during radio interviews,
that sometimes when I said it, I could
look at people's faces and realize
that, you know, this is rubbing some
people he wrong way.
But it was a organic name for me.
Like my family called me Tit.
My mama called me Tit.
My daddy called me Tit.
Like that was, like it was a thing
about me and my mom's relationship
like being her titty baby.
It didn't mean like I won
a titty sucking contest or...
Like I be named Tity Boi,
girls would be like, oh !
Who's this fucking... ?
Man, fuck your titties.
Well, that's great to have like
Tity Boi have some,
such a deep meaning behind it.
And like girls getting offended...
You think I'm named
after your titties ?
They be, they be exaggerating too
like, Tity Boi, oh, no.
Like, I'm going to, like you're fixing
to try to hit them right ?
Careful with that nigger.
I got a name that I felt was a,
like because I think,
the Tity Boi thing came organically.
So the 2 Chainz thing
had to come organically.
And then...
When I looked in the mirror,
I knew I had something
to bring to the table.
So everything just started happening.
You can feel that shit.
It's like a fucking game.
It's on fire.
You can feel it.
But you know, you know
what's crazy ? Is that I feel like,
you feel the momentum shifting.
And I think that right now,
I think AD is finally starting
to feel the momentum shift.
And you was crazy,
you brought it up because,
as great as he's been in our league
for these last five years...
I think now he's finally starting
to see the momentum shift.
- And who...
- Can you feel it ?
- On who he is though.
- Yeah, and that's what it is.
All the media coverage around me.
And now I'm getting a chance
to take over my career.
Say what I want to say
and do what I want to do.
So now you see everybody,
I see AD changing, you know ?
Everybody's telling me,
you're growing up.
It's about time you take care
of your business, of your career.
So now it's like, as a player,
as the CEO of my own business,
I've got the power. I do what I want
to do, ot what somebody tells me.
And that's them butterflies like...
Of knowing that
something's going to happen next. Not
knowing what's going to happen next.
Knowing it's going to be a W.
You don't know what form,
how it's going to look when
it comes. That's that feeling.
And there ain't nothing wrong
with it at all.
I think the best, like, when,
once you get to a point
when being uncomfortable is good
for you... Like we get so caught up,
people get so caught up in doing what
they do and they're so comfortable.
They're just so comfortable.
With waking up every day
and going to work
and clocking in and...
Eight o'clock they get in and five
o'clock they get off
and they go home and they...
Do it all over again.
And they eat there, eat there
dinner at 6:30 and they go
to sleep at nine and, yeah !
And then at six in the morning,
it's the next day and they're like,
we're at it again.
No, be, I like being uncomfortable.
I like getting comfortable
with being uncomfortable
where I'm pressing the limits and
the buttons on the people that might,
on the people that there was before me
that didn't want to do it.
I will say this, because I am
that generation ahead of you.
And what I would always say is, what
you guys are doing is trailblazing.
Because when we came through
the umbrella
of the Civil Rights Movement.
My parents and what my parents'
parents did,
we came through sort of clean.
If you look at me, Puff, and
everybody, we came through clean.
We didn't see racism right in our face.
So in the '90s, nigger, we was...
Champagne was, we didn't have
anything like what you have now.
Social media and there's a cop.
Pulling a gun on a black kid.
We was like, oh, shit !
But we didn't know how
to get beyond our gates.
Beyond our 47.5 percent tax bracket.
Because we didn't know how to,
like nigger, what do we do ?
We was almost on some white people's
shit. This is going on ?
This is amazing. Did you see ?
There was black people shot !
But I'm giving you the real shit.
So when you talk about the generation
before you, it was a little bit of
subliminal plantation thinking.
Like, damn, if I make this move...
I'm going to fuck my money up.
When you guys stood up, man, ESPN
and y'all did this.
That sent...
that sent shockwaves through
everybody because the black athlete
or the black rapper...
Black rappers are just all
about fucking, having a good time,
smoking weed. Black athlete,
shut up and dribble.
Now y'all say this. That's the reason
for some of the things that go on.
Trying to find out what you're up
to and what you're not.
Because when y'all speak, man, you
woke up a whole generation of kids.
- And that's why we all commend Kap.
- Of course.
That's why we all commend Kap.
Because Kap...
Kap stood for something
that was bigger than him.
He sacrificed, who, how many people
can wake up and say, you know what ?
I'll give everything that I've worked
for my whole life...
- For the better of the conversation.
- Yeah.
I'm going to lose everything
that I've got personally
for the better of the conversation.
That's why we can sit here
and salute Kap. I hope whatever
the amount of money that he got...
Sets him up for him, his kids,
his grandkids,
and his grandkids' kids' kids' kids.
I hope it's that much money.
I really do because,
the beautiful sport was taken away
from him.
So I hope that...
Whatever the settlement was,
and I hope that it sets generations up
for forever.
I actually want to know,
how much money did he get ?
That's the nigger in us though.
Nigger, how much money ?
I heard it was like close to a billion.
Niggers are like, nigger,
I'm going to start kneeling.
When you win the Oscar,
there's a certain...
Most people, when they win the Oscar,
motherfuckers start talking
in English accents and shit.
I started out, I was at...
You know ?
Sometimes that Oscar
could fuck you up.
I kept it ground level though.
I didn't go to the Governors Ball.
We went to where all my homies was
and shit. They took the...
niggers was taking pictures with
the Oscar and was smoking weed.
And Oscar got high and like,
this motherfucking Oscar jumped off
the base and was like, man,
what the fuck, man ? I know Denzel
don't do this kind of shit.
THE SHOP
END OF EPISODE 1
SEASON II