You want to walk in? We can start it, you can walk in? Yeah, let's do that. We can start that motherfucker. Er, er, er, er, er. You in that motherfucker? Chair, are we going? Yeah, man, so, yeah. What we talking about? Try to sound cool.  Oh, man, I appreciate it, man.  We better together. You understand me? Yeah, on my mama. It's the Kelly Kickback, man. You understand me? It's your boy, Louis Belt.  Come on. What's happening? Cooling, cooling like a fan. Yeah, man, I like that, man. Recipes my boy Teddy Ray, man. This with the LA hat, folks. You understand me? We shooting in LA, you understand me? But that's my dog hat, man. You know I'm a Playboy from the Bay Boy, you understand me? You know, every little twisty, man. We five hour drives from LA, man. We're from a whole different soil, man. We connected to LA, man. He's my cousins out here, man. I got a special guest in the building, man. You got a special guest? One of my OGs straight from the town, man. He paid the way for comedians like myself. I know it ain't who I think it is. He paid the way. It ain't no comedian that came out of Oakland before him. I got me to the motherfucking couch. My dog, Mark Curry, man. Yeah! He's Christ. He had to push me. We're here breaking shit, man.  We trying to get paid. We trying to sue somebody.   Who is that? What's going on? That's right. We don't do that no more. What's going on in here? You just landed like you just flew out of the sky and landed in LA from Oakland. You know what? Hey, I was bipping. I was out there. What did you know about the business? What you know about bipping? We created bipping. These youngsters think they did something. We had live pumps back in 90s and 80s. 1980s. We had live pumps. What? One of the cow Berkeley. I had a Volkswagen with a bottlepuck in it. What? That's what's wrong with the OG. They swear they made it up. Y'all did not start breaking in windows in the 80s. We had to open a car to see him. It wasn't enough cars in the 80s for y'all to be breaking in. We didn't have to. We could get into. We didn't have to break the window. Take the whole car. It's aggression. It's an art. Have more finesse back in the day. Exactly. How you guys doing? I'm good, man. Glad you were able to make it, man.  For the show, for the show, man. We riding for you, baby. We're going to keep it lit. We're going to get some more money to get these mics. What's going on, man? You came over here and you just flew out of the sky? I feel like we're in a porno. We're in a porno. The bag is yours. We got this. How do you need it? They shoot the part. They shoot the porno. It goes down. Anything under the sun. We could get it done around this motherfucker. They got Backwoods 101. You can tell that youngster. They got a book, Backwoods 101. How to start off with Backwoods. First, open the package. Smell that aroma. There's about six of them in there. Unroll them. Take your time. It's Backwoods 101. That's right. I did a little Nike box. I like that a little just do it. They don't have zoom here. I'm sorry, everything is stationary. It's a porno set. This ain't Mr. Cooper. It's a porno set. We don't know about it. It's a porno set. We just got to find some holes. We missed some holes right now. You know the porno. It's a Capri set. What is this? This is crazy. He's going to bring a legend on. It's a Capri set on the floor. And what kind is it? And it's a strawberry set. That's that one. That's the hood favorite right there. That's a kiwi. That's a kiwi. He didn't give him one. He did it. That was a kiwi. He didn't even give me one. You and Kool-Aid drinking this before your time. Kool-Aid. Let's pimp the game. Kool-Aid was nothing but pixie sticks watered down.  The game of strong sugar was the addictive quality at the time. That's a quick question. Kool-Aid or Tang? Kool-Aid or Tang. Same thing. Tang used to go crazy. Still a sugary drink that had you amped up in school. I wonder why you had the principal's office. He had his problems. No, it's too much sugar. Kool-Aid was bad too.  They was. I forgot about that. People stopped doing that. I think some bitches in the hood still. Probably watching projects. They still doing it. What a great topic. Bitches who died their hair with Kool-Aid back with this. Hi. Do you need to dye your hair? How did that come up? Because I thought about it. Bitches who died their hair with Kool-Aid. That'd be a good book. White people wouldn't read it. This is so creative. Tatiana was so clever. Oh yeah. She really was. White people know what Kool-Aid is. It's a mixture of black people's choice. Black people's choice. For their beverage. Kool-Aid been around since slavery I think. Black people had to figure it out. I love it. Because who else can come up with Kool-Aid? I love these quotes. Because they had great Kool-Aid. What's go crazy? What's the most popular one? Fruit punch. That gotta be the one. We'll take a survey. What was the most popular Kool-Aid? Yeah y'all put a comment. What was the most popular Kool-Aid? Yeah. But I couldn't wait to say this on camera. Mark Curry. As a young individual from Watts. Well my mama she had the basic TV channels. Right. We all had them channels. And growing up. You really shaped my childhood. We're hanging on Mr. Cooper. I just want to say thank you for being you and giving a person from the hood.    And I just want to say bro you're a legend. Mark, I appreciate that man. I'm going to keep it at that. I was trying to take that. Get out of the way. He's still an Oakland nigga man. Honestly Mark. That second class was a mother.  And I want it to be just like you nigga in a Jamie Fox show where you gave Jamie and Braxton a hard time.  And I'm thankful to be around. And that means a lot to me. About Oakland. But I had a father at home. And I was like why do I have to have a father at home? I was the only one with a father at home. Me too. I share my pops with the neighborhood. My dad everybody. He run his mother.  Make a decision now. Make your own decisions now. Yeah.  Did you look up to anybody locally? You know my favorite comedian was Richard Pryor. He was always at first I would listen to him in Big Paul's $69 charge. I just wanted to add eight tracks. I'm a kid. These guys had to raise cars. That's the only time I could listen to Richard Pryor. I never even told that story. I forgot it was an eight track.  Where else was it? We put it in. We listened to Richard Pryor. I was like wow, wow, wow. And I had a chance to see him. I was like I still had the ticket stuff. I was talking about the circle star theater. He was coming to circle star theater. It was 18 and over. I think I was like 14. I was like 6'2". So I put on the big old pimp hat. It's a platform. I borrowed my brother's clothes. I walked in as a 6'6". And they thought you were grown. I looked grown. I was already 6'2". I had a coat on. And I went to go see Richard Pryor. What time? 1974. 1974. 1974. No, at the circle star theater. What did I say? It tore it down. Everybody knew about it. It was in San Carlos. It was a circle star theater. And it turned. It was where everybody came. That's hard. I saw Teddy Penegrin. I saw Richard Pryor there. That's amazing. I remember where I was sitting right here. I saw him walk by. That's what I wanted to say. I saw him. Maybe I moved over. I don't think nobody was sitting at the seat. I went and I was waiting for him. I actually saw him walk by. He walked by. I said, damn, Richard Pryor. That's crazy. But I know somebody. He got on people before they had a chance. They were sitting. He roasts the motherfuckers off top. I was like, whoa! He was hitting them.  That's what I saw. He was the first person to really improv like that? No, no. I'm not saying that. That's what he did. That's what you saw. That's what stood out to you. That's what I saw. I didn't even want to be a comedian. Okay. Did you want to be a comedian at the time? You know, I did. I gravitated toward that. But it wasn't something you did at the time. Yeah, right? You want to be a what? They didn't even have that. It was like, what? It didn't make sense. So it was a depressed dream. A comedian. We're doing the script. Hey, check it out, man. It's your boy Lewis Bell. Hey, Indianapolis. Pull up. Get your tickets right now. July 16th. I will be out there. That's a Sunday. So don't find out on Monday. Pull up on Sunday. Get your tickets. We're going to act them up on the floor. Thank you. Hey, quick question. Did you meet Richard Pryor again as Mark Currie? Yeah. After I saw Richard Pryor, this is, you know, I saw Richard Pryor and years later I got a chance to open up for him. Look at God, man. We fast forward, though. We're going to mislead these niggas because they think you're going to pay and take it and then open up for a nigga that fast. They don't work like that. They put the motherfucking work in. So that was 74 when you went to go see him. Damn. As a youngster, I was like, you know, I was like, wow, I just was, because I had listened to this person and it resonated with me. I was like, wow. And I was gifted, funny. So I just wondered, I was gravitated toward. Because I'm very interested in your story to the beginning process before Mr. Cooping and all that because coming out of Oakland, it's just so different. You know what I'm saying? My whole thing is like, I didn't know you was popping before Def Comedy Jam until I met you and you were like, because we was at the Def Jam reunion, right? So I'm in there. I'm sitting with Mark. You feel me? We having a good time. He take care of me and make sure I'm straight. Martin walked in the whole building start clapping, give a Martin Lawrence a round of standing ovation. They clapping, right? So then I'm sitting there and I'm like, damn, Martin here, right?  I'm a little nigga. So at the time thinking, he look like he like he like Martin my little nigga. So I'm like, yeah, all right. He get up, he like, come walk with me, nigga. Mark Curry, walk up, Martin Lawrence like, Mark, what's up with it, boy? Mark like, yeah, this is my little nigga, Louis Belt, you feel me? So I'm like, damn. And then he told me, nigga, he was popping me for all of them. I say, well, damn, really? No, not before Martin, me and Martin together. Oh, okay. Me and Martin did our HBO specials together.  No, Martin was a star from HBO special. Martin went on to do Martin. Okay, so that's how you got Martin. He changed TV when he did Martin. Martin was so incredible. I would watch him work. Damn, look at that. I thought it would be Mr. Cooper. I was like, wow, I go see Martin and he's like, what did I see? And a DJ. That's how I got a DJ. I went back, I went to DJ. It was like, what? What? Because y'all did the talking dirty at the dart. Yeah, Martin hooked me up with that. So how did you get an HBO special before your TV show? Well, at the time, you got HBO special then you got a TV show. So you got HBO special and they saw, it was a tape of you. We could do something with that. That's hard. So you really have to be talented. You really have to be talented and then you became famous. I think today is the same way. It should be, right? I don't feel that way. I feel like you got to get famous and then you get certain opportunities.  Not skilled and talented but just a weird personality. Like, it'd be like... Like you. I mean, I mean... You know. But like, me, that's why it took me a long time to step in the comedy. Because I respected the art so much. I seen so what all the comedians did and it's a certain level of respect.  But I was like, I can't disrespect the people that come before me without knowing what I need to know.   It was no... How did you... Do you feel like you had to be in LA to make it out of Oakland? No, I came... Yeah, you had to be in Los Angeles but I didn't leave Oakland until I was ready. I was ready. I was ready. My game was strong. You saying ready as being a strong comedian. Yeah, my art. My art was being a comedian. So I stayed in Oakland and I grinded. I kept a job. You know, in Berkeley. Pan-save in San Francisco.  Yeah, no, I had to dress. Yeah. I would observe, you know, like the pimps and the max taught me just observe the game to see what you're getting into before you get anything. So I would go to these clubs and you know, my story was weird. I have a very unique story because my story done, now listen to this, I couldn't get no clubs. You know, any of the clubs in San Francisco they had their favorites.  I was coming from a different background. My background was from the Coliseum. I played the Coliseum. You know, with too short, too short, opening act was iced tea. I think NWA had just started. Oh, that, uh-huh. The headliner was Eric being rock him, Velo Kujae, Slick Red. So you started becoming more popular and known because of the rappers. No, I was doing Coliseums. What you mean? I was opening up for him. But there was rappers performing after you though, right? Just like a shower at the Coliseum and the comedian come out. Bill Graham, the late great Bill Graham, he didn't even know my name. He said, put the comedian out. Boom, boom, I'm doing Coliseum. That's hard. But I couldn't even get into the club. I just did the Coliseum. I can't get in this club.  Coliseum is bigger than the motherfucking comedy club. God said his footsteps upon that. And then it went backwards in a sense. Once he, you know what I'm saying? I knew. But when I go back to the store, I stayed open until I was ready. When I say we're ready, San Francisco comedy competition came in second. I'll say okay. Every competition I won. But in the meantime, I was in distribution. I was distribution myself to LA. I will work a shift in paying save. This is true. I will get off Saturday. If I had to do a Friday show, I would get off Friday at 2 o'clock or 3 o'clock. Get on the road and be in LA by 8. Wow. You know what's crazy? Because we have a similar story with a kind of that. I used to work at the warehouse. And I used to get off at 1 p.m. I used to start at 5.  I was popping in the bay. I felt like I was peeking. I got to expand. I used to get off work and then drive to LA when I got off work.   I was like 8-9. Shit. Almost 10 years ago. That's why I respect him so much. I don't know.  He called me like, nigga, I'm outside. He drove from the bay. He hopped out of the car.  I'd never forget. She was firing. It was a red car. Probably her car. Really from the soil. The nigga hopped out.  Just to tell me that. Shook my head and he didn't stay. He dipped off.  Why? Because he was good in comedy. I was good in comedic skits on social media.  But this was the only nigga that really came down.   It's crazy because we were doing those drives back and forth and I kind of felt like, man, I'm paving away. I'm doing something that nobody from my section ever done. You know what I'm saying? Because I gotta do this because it ain't nobody that's gonna come grab me from Oakland. Because I'm going crazy. Because what's so crazy is I remember seeing Mark Korean in Oakland and I'm Bay Area poppin'. I'm telling you Sonny Bo, everybody know me, right? I'm poppin', right? On my young ego shit? Yeah. I'm thinking Mark Curry is supposed to know who I am. Yeah. Like I see you in Oakland, right? At a show. I thought you were supposed to know who I was. Right? It was complex. What's that?  There's so many.  That was the boo-boos.  You be like, that's the same place. But you know, to speed up the story, make a long story short, I seen him and I kind of felt I felt like this was wrong with the Bay. Niggas don't even know what's going on, right? Like Mark Curry's supposed to know me. Make a long story short, I seen Mark at LA and I'm like, you know what? Next time I see Mark Curry, I'ma just walk up to him. You know what I'm saying? And just be like, you know, say what's up, bro? I'm at the event and I'm like, what's up, bro? You feel me?  He like, he didn't know who I was.   He just didn't know. And then when he got to know, he like, Niggas and Niggas Mark said, Niggas got more followers than me. I said, no.  I just wanted to make sure we know each other, man. I knew he was. You know, the game is strong. I know everything. It makes you work for that. Come on. You know how to make it work, you understand?  I wanted to see if you was real. Only hands if I shake them because they ain't real. So we can see what you was about. You really from Oakland? I really ain't from Oakland. What you from? Yeah. That's crazy, bro. So it's just really the... That's a good point. You know, motherfuckers be there. Everybody got a little hot phase, but who really here to last? Because it's really about them sacrifices and them driving them flights, man.  So you have the confidence to hit the stage and be funny and have fun with it and you don't have no stress. You feel me? That's the art. If you're doing the sketch, the sketch is going to be funny. I know it's going to be funny. That's what I worked for. I worked for it to have some fun on stage. You know what I mean? To have some fun.  What great job is that? I can write it. Smarter than you believe. They see you. They feel you. They believe you. And you can take them anywhere you want. You believe it. They're going to believe it. Facts! Who else is going to believe it? You on stage?  I ain't even picked. You just told on yourself. That's what I want to say, man. As far as the black community and I speak for all of you, we thankful for you because... You can't... The black community, I would like...  Because, in a sense, we didn't have that many examples to show us how to be as black people.  Have you ever put on a dress? I did. I did put on a dress. It was with Sherman Hemsley. Man, what made you do it? You didn't win out, Mark. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. I said, I'm finna break the record. I'm gonna be the first Bay Area neighbor to ever put on a dress and make it. But I did it with my choice. It was with Sherman Hemsley and I wanted to work with Sherman Hemsley. I thought it was very funny that Sherman Hemsley liked me and it was funny. I thought it was hilarious because I was throwing him around because I said, look, man, when I was there, I said, okay, I'm gonna throw you some man, I'm ready. So I was like, whoa. I knew he was a great actor and I knew that I could improv with him.  He tried. Look, I had the dress on and you can look the episode up. I think it's very funny. This is on Mr. Cooper? Okay. And I never, you know, anything like that. I believe that Mr. Cooper, I tried to represent the black community in a positive light. They didn't want a buffoon. They wanted to be a buffoon. Mr. Cooper, he had a lab top.  Look at the book. When he was sitting on there, watch what he was doing. So he was trying to improv.   I was with ABC, they were powerful.  Honestly, man. Why do you think it's not like that now? Well, you know, I don't know. And I don't know. And I don't want to sit here and say I don't know. You don't want to say these niggas ain't funny enough to have a show? What'd you say? What'd you say? I'll speak it.  I don't know. But that's not something for us to worry about. Exactly. You're on your way. You guys have a beautiful podcast at an old porno studio. Yeah. Yeah. When the cameras come off. You guys got to be out here. Come on. We don't have to worry about that. You got to worry about how we get on. How do you become the next show? How do you become the next show? What's that show that became popular in two brothers? I don't know. It's a comedy show. No, it was just like this. And they got on TV. You talking about 85 South? No, no, no. I think they... Oh, them niggas got to know who it is. I think I know. They became very big. Shout out to the 85 South show. Real niggas, man. But the other two dudes I think they broke up. Yeah, they did. Whatever they were, they became. I don't remember them doing this. They got a show. Yeah, I know what you done with. Nah, I love everybody. I forever got love. I'm down with 85 South. That was a real OG. Yeah, yeah. But this nigga Lou. I got a lot of love and respect. Lou's a player. Because... He brought me out there. He got his Oakland card years ago. Official like a referee whistle, man.  They never got bipped.   But Lou funny. But Lou is the nigga that got me into really hitting that stage doing stand-up. Him and a comedian, Ronnie Roth. It was a tool that got me into stage because when you was doing that two-short shit, I don't know if you remember, but it was you and Teddy.  Yeah, let's do it. What's your first joke? What's your first joke? Let's do this. You can't talk about jokes around the ledges, man. Let's cut to the fat. My first joke was what was my first joke? What's the topic? What is your first joke? My first joke was letting them know that I was from L.A. Doing crowd work and sound like Nibs, he talked to me being a comedian. My first joke was that I didn't tell you something like that. So basically, yeah. My first joke was pretty much about street food, Mexican tacos. Saying how it sound when you ordered from a fire taco spot. How the Mexicans talk with broken English.  You can't tell your joke though because people watching and then when you go before, don't tell your joke.  I don't want to hear that joke.  We love our street tacos. Oh my goodness. We ain't got street tacos in Oakland. We do not. They took the cart. We got the trucks. We took my cart. What's the difference between Oakland right now and Oakland in the 70s and 80s? We was hyping in. 79. We didn't swing our cars for the simple. We did. We were more finesse. More player. I had no truths and voices. I've been to bring back Cougars club, Cadillac club. I was in the votes wagon club. Hey guys. When you first got your money. What car you like R and N***a? I'm going to give my little hood car. A hood car? Not hood car. Just what car you got first? You got your money. First car I got. I didn't buy a car on Mr. Cooper. I kept the same car. I kept the 87 Dodge Rated, I still got it. I drove that for the first two years.  Straight up. There's only two niggas I know that still got the car they started with, him and Ludacris. It's the only two of them. Really? Damn, I wish I had my old ex. I got all of them. That's all of them. Really? Damn, you never gotten the cracks in any of them. I lost a few cars. No, no, no. I got my dad, my father's 72 Plymouth. I'm an old school. I got my father's Plymouth that he bought off the showroom floor in Alameda, California. Black man walking in in 1972 with his nash cash because he couldn't get credit. So, you know, my father said, he said to the dude, you know, he looked at some cars. He knew which one he wanted. He wanted that gold one. He knew how much it was. He had the money on it. How much is that one? How much is that one? He said, I want that one. He said, man, you can't afford that one. He said, how much is that one? He said, yes, I can.  What are you talking about, man? He's a very roll boy. So I still got his car, 72 Plymouth, 360, you know. So I love cruising that. And I bought a Mercedes convertible in the 90. I still got it. Damn for real. Yeah, after my Dodge Raider, I would drive that one to Mr. Cooper only. Back and forth. I couldn't bring it to the town. I bought it to the town once. I had to put a pistol on the mother. You lying. I'm not lying. True story. True story. You was in Oakland. In your car. I'm Batman. I'm going to do that with the car. My car was Batman. I was Batman. Coming through Lex Luthor. All black. This a real thing. Oh, yeah, it was called Strawberry. That was the car name Strawberry, man. Nobody had that. Even Gary Payton was like, OK, no one. D.P., you know that one? No, you know, no one had that one, you know. And I remember that. Somebody told somebody to try to rob you? Oh, yeah. What? That's a story. That's a true story. Try to get me on that little angle walk. I said, angle walk.  Just try to angle. You start walking, and then he start walking. Yeah. We don't play that nigga. Step back, clack, clack. This how you know you finna get robbed of Oakland when the niggas say, hey, check it out. Check it out. Somebody say, check it out. Don't check it out, y'all. Don't, don't, don't. Hey, hey, excuse me. Can I talk to you for a second? No. Nah, I'm cool. You want to buy a CD? No. Can I pump your gas? No, nigga. We ain't jacking them out. Yeah, there ain't no gas to jack them out. Come on, now. Hey, ATL, pull up on me. You understand me, July 27th. I'm at the Uptown Comedy Court, and you understand me. It's your boy, Lewis Bell. Not to help. Come on. Feel free to pull up on me. Pop your pee. Come on, we're going to have a good time. Get your tickets right now. Do not miss out. I just had nations out. Yeah, nations is a legend for sure. Let me get a little cheese.  We need some dice in there. Oh, yeah, nigga. It's always near. You understand me? Oh, well, mama. God damn, man. But we were hyphy before, y'all. No, no way. We were different. Well, you know what? Y'all was player. Yeah, we were player. See, I'm old player. Sonny Bo Hyphy. Yeah. Sonny Bo Hyphy. I was supposed to be with y'all. I'm not supposed to be with these young niggas right now. Because these Sonny Bo, Sonny Bo is, they still like that. Yeah, yeah, for sure. They still like that, for sure. Yeah. You just did it when you did it. Oh, mama, mama. No matter where they go, it could be a funeral. Yeah. Well, was it was it hard being a celebrity, making out of the hood, and you got 1,003,400 cousins and nieces and nephews? No. Because people don't know. People think of the Bay Area and, you know, we got Steph Curry. Shout out, Steph Curry. You understand me? It's my player partner. You understand me? But it ain't no more Currys than his family and a Curry. We have a big family. Hugh's family. Hugh's family, baby. Lot of Currys. God, man, how many nieces and nephews you got? I don't know. You really don't know, huh? That's impossible to tell. I mean, it's really impossible to tell. There's so many. Yeah. There's not so many, and they're going to kill me. Damn, you can say my name. But we have a lot of Currys. Yeah, I was in my feelings about that, too. I'm like, I know it's nieces and everything. I just don't know Mark, man. I know it's nieces, man. Right, right, right. I saw Sonny Bo 98. I saw Sonny Bo last time. Sonny Bo was on 98. I think I'm hanging out. Sonny Bo, Sonny Bo. You're in the station wagon. That's hella funny. Sonny Bo's in the station wagon. No, that's some shit, man. You'd have been in this game for a long time. My game, I've been in this game long. You're the first person to open up for it. Take a guess. First person to open up for it. No. Boom, boom, boom. Bill Cosby? Boom, boom, no. A singer. Prince? I mean, no. No. No. Older than that. A singer? Yeah. Hello, old niggas. Play the piano. Tom Malcolm X. Who your bro, Charles? Ray Charles. Ray Charles? Ray Charles at the Richmond Auditorium. In Richmond? Richmond Auditorium. That's hard. At the time. Still got the poster. I don't know what year that was. Hey, man, hey, look. You open up for, uh, the first person to open up for it. See that motherfucker. I think it was 1988. 87, no. Damn. 87. Ray Charles?  He wasn't able to see you. There you go. That's all.  They say he had chunkles. Like, he was beating niggas up. Ray Charles? Off his money, yeah. Niggas, didn't you see the movie Ray Charles? Yeah, I seen it. I see him beating nobody up. He dived on the table on the nigga because the nigga sure changed it. They probably just put that in the mood to make him just as mo. Make it entertaining. You know how Charlie Murphy had the true Hollywood with Rick James?  So you heard that from some OG niggas in your hood. Mark Curry really didn't work with him. How was Ray Charles? He beat me up with my money. I'm telling you, nigga, look, when I say no, you know the house you came to on 85th of November? Nigga, Rick James pops stayed on the next block from me, nigga. Rick James pops? Yeah, niggas just tell you the story. Oh, you're saying Rick James or Ray Charles? No, but I'm saying.  Mark, you know anything about what this nigga talking about? Well, I'm a little confused right now, Jim. Let's go back into podcast. OK, let's talk about Rick James or Ray Charles. We were talking about Ray Charles, but I said.   The drugs have kicked in. See, look, the niggas in the comments going to know what I'm talking about. Yeah, put a comment. Well, that's a true Hollywood story that niggas thought this person was in a certain way. Like he was just a wild nigga, but niggas used to really fight.  Ray Charles, that's great. You know, I don't remember.  No, somebody, I think I had a book or something and they asked me that I want to open up for Ray Charles. And I said, yeah, I became a little comedian, you know, just doing, you know, that's a good question. I don't even know where that book came from. Right? My father didn't believe me. You know, he didn't. That ain't about to open up for Ray Charles. Good luck.  That's all in all of you. Have fun. Now tell him about that. What was the worst show you ever done like on some like starting off? Worst show? I remember I did a show at the Beverly Center back in the day. At the mall? Yeah, at the Beverly Center. Back in the day, the Beverly Center was poppin'. The malls were poppin' at the time. That's like, that's barely here. Yeah, yeah. Like for his parents, that was lifestyles of rich and pain. That was... Yeah. And they even went, that was a trip. You was performing at the mall? Well, at the bottom part, they had a club and that's L.A. was poppin', so you can't be L.A. L.A. was just like it is now.  And I remember she paid me a lot of money and nobody listened. But as the game was real, I knew that money, I said, I ain't gonna stop talking, give me my money. I think they gave me, I don't know, $600 and $900. That's chicken, that's damn it, $6,000 for right now. Exactly, we're like, what? She had saw me perform somewhere. That's why it's important. I'm going out to eat some more. And she had money and it was her birthday party. And she said, she wanted me. I think Jeffrey Osborn performed in front of me.  I didn't care less, I got that paycheck. I enjoyed, that's why I learned the game. I did a show in San Ramon, I'll never forget this, where it was two, three people in the place I was doing comedy and even two people were kissing the whole time and one person, I said, fuck, I just kept talking, get my little money.  Be back and pay and save in the morning. Somebody was kissing, you didn't address it. No, no, they were kissing the whole time making out while I was doing comedy. Damn. I remember that, so. But I always kicked them. I oughta brought one of my bitches up there.  I don't finna, I learned how not to have a bad show. Oh really? Like DC, I did a national, the national, I don't know what it was, it was a national, it was the DC, it was 10,000 people in DC. I was like, it was Tina Marie, cameo.  I was confident, how can I win them over? So I got there early and came and you know, and when they was coming in, I walked to the audience. Well you came, when they came in, you walked in. When they was coming in, I said, give me the microphone early. So I had the microphone early. They was come, hey, look at this brother coming in. You can tell he got his own chicken, da, da, da. So I was hitting them, doing them, doing them. About a show, started, they knew me. I was bigger than everybody. That's, you feel me? Smart move. Yeah, that was the smartest move. Yeah. It was like 10,000 people. But by the time they started coming in, I had people. When my girl was a chicken, okay, she still ain't pulled that chicken out. She been talking about that chicken for two days. Building rapport with the audience. Yeah, damn, make them like you as a person. They ain't tell you jokes.  I think I learned that in ugly because it ain't no comedy club.  Niggas ain't come for the comedy show. So you gotta win the crowd over. They ain't tell you jokes.  Like, silence scared me.  I just got out of here. What's happening, nigga? How you feel me? I don't got no opening joke. Right. That gives you that fierceness. Open. Yeah. Coming from Oakland, staying in Oakland. You know, Oakland is Oakland. Yeah. They gonna let you know what's up. Yeah. You can come out here and go to the improv and then joke is gonna work. Yeah. Yeah. And that's what I was, you coming from here, it's gonna work, especially improv. Yeah. The math factory. Yeah. It's gonna work. If it's gonna work in Oakland, I knew it's gonna work there. Guarantee. If it's gonna work there, it's gonna work there. It's gonna work on a big stage. Thanks. It's the domino effect. Can they work on TV? Yeah. That's why, you know, I always try to write for TV. Try to say, can I do this joke on TV or can I do this joke in New York at a jazz, at an opening up for somebody or whatever? That's why I would write my jokes. So I never had to change them. Oh.  No, that's what I'm ready to go. Brrr. Bop. Bop. Bop. Bop. Bop. Bop. Thank you. That's to check people. That's to check. How you doing? Nice suit. Thank you very much. Nice suit. Yeah. Damn. That was hard. Yeah, I noticed you got a lot of relationships with a lot of legendary comedians, you know. I always wondered, what's your relationship with Cat Williams? Cat Williams, number one, it's my brother. How did y'all get connected? We've been on tour for like seven years. That's crazy. Thank you, Cat. He's brilliant, incredible mind. Yeah. You know, smart brother. That can go.  It can go. It can go, boy. Yeah. It can work and go. That's another one of them niggas that like I would say is a comedian that's informal.  And it's only a handful that is good at that. Right, right.  And to see that you mesh well with the newer generation means a lot because, you know, sometimes the older comedians can, you know, be upset at. Facts. But the fact that you guys have a mutual respect for each other. Well, he a legend. He's a legend. Yeah. He a rock star. He a rock star. For sure. How did y'all get connected though? It seemed like Cat Wayne's got a good relationship with a lot of Oakland. Cat called me. This is a Cat called me. I was at the Burbank Airport. I swear to God. I said, who is it? It's Cat Wayne. I said, yeah, right, man. So I didn't think it was Cat Wayne. I said, yeah, whatever, man. I said, what you need, player, what you trying to do? What you doing here? What you need, Cat? Yeah. Okay, I'm Cat. You know, I didn't believe it was him. He said, man, you know, we need to tour together. I said, wow, that'd be interesting. That's all. Let's talk about it. Simple. Damn.  I don't know, you know. And he just, he just, he just hit you like awesome because like when he was coming up and you was already establishing who you were, he just always wanted to work with you or you didn't done something for him like awesome. Like you feel me? Like you done looked out for him at a period of time.  You know, he asked me to go on tour, which I thought was awesome.  It is. You know, it's just like, yeah, iconic, that's right. And I didn't see you when I, I seen you out there, man.  When we was in Detroit, man, I pulled up on you, man. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Detroit. I have fun. You know, now I've learned to have fun.  You gotta have fun with the show. You know, you can't be stressed with it. You know what I mean? You gotta have the confidence, you got the confidence. You gotta have the confidence to go out and make it fun. Go get the bag, but have fun. Yeah.  I mean, stressing. Yeah. Lana Richie, I say you, say me. Lana Richie is eating, eating, talking to the show. More fruit, ladies. More fruit, ladies. That was a fun show. You know, niggas be at peace, man. That was a fun show. Yeah, you know. He was high when he was doing them songs, Zoom. Say you, say me. He was high in the mirror. You say me, I say Zoom, Zoom. I feel like dancing on the ceiling.  You ever met Whitney Houston? I was on tour with Whitney Houston. That's hard. What? What? I think I met Whitney Houston two years ago. Have you met God? Niggas, I was on tour with God. Niggas, niggas. He drew me. I was going to be the one. You're going to watch these OG niggas. OG don't lie. OG don't lie. OG don't lie. So he was on tour with Whitney Houston. That's crazy. Whitney Houston did the star strangle banner. This is a concert that night, bam. Saw that on YouTube. I was a comedian. I opened up with Whitney Houston. Wow. That's hard. All right. Yeah, he went to a wedding. It was at her wedding. You did a show with Michael Jackson? Don't lie. No, I never met Michael Jackson. All right. I was going to say. I never met Michael Jackson. I had a chance to meet him and I didn't meet him. Yeah. You know, I never met Michael Jackson. That's strange though. You ain't even seen him. I thought I was going to say it. I thought I was going to say it. Tell us. Niggas walking through somewhere. It was at Magic Johnson's first opening theater. Yup. At the ball with Crystal Ball. And he came in and Michael Jackson was over there and I didn't go meet him. Yeah. Dude, was you that type of person? I'm going to see if I could have met him. I should have met him and see if I could have got this. Yeah. Take his watch. Take his watch. How you doing, man? Oh, my query. Nice to meet you, query. Thank you. He will now realize his watch is going until he get back to Neverland. Yes, he would have. Michael Thug. Michael was a thug. Did you not watch? They said Michael was a query. Oh, me? Oh, nigga, my uncle. Bro, he was in the picture with my uncle. The picture with Michael Jackson throwing up the seat. Yeah, is that a real picture, bro? That's my uncle's, bro. Real picture. Really? I'm God in heaven. I love it. I'm God in heaven. Damn. I got old school pictures of my pops gangbag. And bro, like back around that time. Yeah, I seen the pictures. But Michael Jackson, that was a real one. Bro, that's a real picture. It's a real picture, bro. Michael was a thug. Any from Gary, Indiana? Yeah, yeah. That's the jazz for sure. Niggas not too far from Mike Apps. Yeah, yeah. Bro, Michael's really him.  No, that's a, you got a hell of a story, Mark, man. It's just, you know, yeah. My game is strong, baby. Thank you, Jesus, for being in this game so long. How many years? 40? I don't count years. 30? I don't count years. It's damn near 30 years for show. It's a 30 years for show. I don't count years. I don't do the number thing. Why? That's important. It's not. Why not? You improving what you do is important. OK. You staying, you know, I was doing the things that power cats are not. And you improve. You make it easier. You got a point, because it is a lot of older comedians that be hella mad, grumpy, and shit, because I've been doing this for 20 years. I know it's the past.  I know what I'm doing right now, too, nigga. Right. I'm happy to be there. I'm happy to do it. You know, I'm blessed. Incredible job. Oh, mamas. You know, be here.  Tell me, people, are we reaching the real Mark Currie on Instagram? I need one million followers for my birthday. Come on, let's do that. Let's do that. June 1st. June 1st. You make it happen. Jim and I. Let me see it. Jim and I. Mon and I, too. June 1st. Oh, one million? Is that possible? I think you had, like, what, 300,000? Oh, nah, nah, that's possible. 700,000? Hey, come on, now we're not a week. Yeah, come on. We can make it happen. Let's speak on it. Yeah, come on, make it happen. Hey, follow the real Mark Currie, man. Follow the real Mark Currie on Instagram. We can make it happen. Whatever I got to do, man, make it happen, love. Oh, my mama. Oh, my mama. Come on. We got to make it happen. At least you can give me that. At least you can give me that. Yeah. Come on. I got a little falcon, and that might give you. A little falcon needs some wheels. It's not just the engine that needs a hand.  What? How you deal with these hoes coming up? Mark, we can't have a real Oakland Bay Area legend this motherfucking, not talk about the ladies, man. Come on, man. Let's talk about the ladies. Come on, man. Let's talk about the ladies. How did you deal with the women, man? Did you? We don't, the public don't know. Everybody know you as Mr. Cooper, Mark Currie, but you know there'll be a lot of people that, if you know you know, but if you don't, you don't tell your private life. Why not? Why not? You know why you don't tell your private life? Why? Because just like ice, you know, ice, ice melts, and it goes away. But the game is never told. If you got to be bold to be in the game. Papiope, you know? Papiope, I hear you. This guy, I'm here in the game. Yeah. The reason I'm talking like, because it feels like I'm in the back of a brawham with his seat. You don't even see the brawham. It feels like, I feel like I'm in the back, you know? That's how you get the followers now. Everybody posting a girlfriend. Shout out to Phil Mostlamp. Everybody posting that girl? Yeah, Phil Mostlamp. Yeah. Phil Mostlamp taught me a game, a little game. Really? Yeah. The P. My sister Brenda, rest in peace, Brenda. Imagine calling your sister and Phil Mostlamp over our house.  What you say to Phil Mostlamp? The date! Nigga Gordon, what you had my sister got for Phil Mostlamp? Hey, nigga, how you doing? Yeah. For the people that don't know who Phil Mostlamp is, man. You understand me? Legendary pimp. You understand me? Yeah. Out of San Francisco, man. You understand me? A lot of people don't even know about that San Francisco life, man. They'll be thinking it's zesty out there, man. There's some real players out there, man. San Francisco, no joke. Yeah. You gotta go across that bridge. Yeah. I feel like that's where you think games are. We're going to be in San Francisco, right? Oh, yeah. We're going to get cops. Cops Comedy Club. You understand me? That's right. You know Mark Curry? June. June 6. June, no, 9. No, June 7 to 9. What is that? Yeah, June 7 to 9. Please let me be the right thing. Yeah, no, it's June 7 to June 9, if I remember. Hey, that's where a lot of places get that game from where niggas don't want to be honest. No, it's not June. No, no. No, it's June 9 to June 12. June 9 to June 10. Cops Comedy Club, Mark Curry. This is a quick commercial of your Cops Comedy Club. He's opening it up for me. It's crazy. He'll be there, too. It's the Brown Dr. Dre. That's right. If Dr. Dre wore brown and it was a UPS manager, he would look like this. Hey, man, give me the beat. You crazy. That's right. That's right. It's the UPS outfit. That's right. It's crazy. That's hella funny. Yeah, that's right. I need to clip to my Instagram, man. My mama, she going to fall off. What's your mom? Give her a shout out for your mom. Elaine, hello, you mama. Yeah, my mama's who put me on you. Oh, really? I'm at age. Yeah. Yeah, I'm at age where being only 40. That's what you're saying. I'm in there. Hey. It's like, why? No Fugazi here, boy. You know, it's real. You know what I mean? I pop that color. Yeah, pop your B for the one of B's who want to be. That's the same. Yeah, I'm doing my turn to look up to see what's up. I'm talking my shoes up and tying them screws up.  Tell him about the soil. Tell him about the soil. Yeah, you understand me? My mom is when I pop it, I'll stop it. Yeah, yeah. Mr. Fab, man, player, shit, too short, man. I'm bipping. Yeah. I'm bipping. I'm new single. I'm bipping. Fab, where we at? I'm bipping every night, every night in the window, creeping real boom with my hoodie on the $10. Where you at? Where you at? I got a purse at the gas station. I even robbed a hearse. Yeah, we ain't hear a mark come through that bank, slide through like a dark. I don't rap, but I'm Mack. What? I don't pimp, but I don't simp. Hey, no simp.  Choo's up. What? Mark Curry. What's up? Hey. Ha, ha, ha. You know, we'll be at Bibi Memorial Church, no. Our rhythm is so different out here. We hella weak at rapping, but it's a vibe, though. We're not trying to rap, but somebody going to take that and they're going to take and turn it into something. You know what I put a beat to that?  Yeah, I love them. You like them? I love them.   He going to name somebody old.  No, no, no, no. Yes, thanks. Before I go on stage, I go to Haifee. OK, OK. I go to Haifee station on Pandora and go Haifee. So, you know, and just, you know, all the way, whoop, that gets me going. Everybody don't understand the Haifee. I don't play that to everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's regional, you know. It's regional, you know. Shout out all black. Shout out all Sonny. Yeah, Sonny Bo just before on the Haifee tour. Shout out to Mr. Fad main for booking Sonny Bo on the Haifee tour. Mr. Fad got a nice little new Sango out. Oh, yeah, he got all type of slaps. I like that new little Sango out. That's another nigga that got game. Oh, yeah, we all got knowledge that you can't get a car. That's why I got the game from. Pop my pops, you feel me? My uncles, you understand me, Mr. Fad. Mark, you the game is some game, too.  I still keep on my pocket. You understand me and pull it out when I need to know. What, how did you get into the deaf jam? Did I get you in there? I got in there and did when I seen you got me right. You got me a better seat in that. That's how you met everybody. Yeah, that's hard. You introduced me to Martin Lawrence, man. I never figured that's that's why I'm like, damn. Mark really is that nigga, though. Oh, I'm like, I'll tell you, Mark, I thought I was the nigga. I'm like, nah, I'm the nigga, I'm the nigga, I'm the sexist. I'm like, no, Mark, Mark really solidified. He real legend out this motherfucker, man. So I appreciate that, man. I don't want to hold you up too long, man.   A lot of people don't even know we got a relationship because I don't think we ever did nothing on. We did a skit. One thing here with two-short. I remember that. We did do a skit. We did, we did.  We did something else. And we did a skit in Hollywood, but that was like, I ain't go a lot after that. It was like seven years ago. It was at the comedy store, and we did a skit. And you told me it was, the skit was like, I'm like, what's up, Mark Curry, man? I'm from Oakland now. I'm trying to get a TV show, man. How I get the show? It was like, you want to get a TV show? Still a car.  We got to show the clip. We got to put that in there, man. It ain't show the clip, but that's skit, man. Oh, my mama. Quan, you got anything you want to say before we get up out of here, man? Hey, nah, man. I'm going to say to you, thank you for those words, because I didn't realize, you know, until later, until guys, your aides, come up to me and say that. Yeah.   I just started hearing that seem like the last five years or the last couple of years, you know? That blows me away. It's because I like, that's why I have a lot of problem with niggas out here in different spots, because niggas don't like to be honest.    And then, you know, like hot, hot, like when things happen and motherfuckers are with niggas, I'm going to tell you now and I'm going to say what you did because at the end of the day, God could have sent me to send you a message. So I'm going to tell you the truth, bro. Yeah, not for real. Thank you for everything. Yeah, no, you appreciate it in this game, Mark. For real. I appreciate it.  And it had to come from somebody that I'll pay the way for you, niggas.  But in my head, I'm thinking I paid the way. I didn't know what he done. I didn't even know his story. I just knew Mark, Mark, Mark, none of that. I didn't know. I thought I was the nigga, Mark. I paid the way. Mark, Mark wasn't on that freeway with me, niggas. Oh, by myself. I dropped my tears on my own. I was on the freeway listening to EPMD. That was your little playlist. You could have it to LA, huh? Yeah, too short, of course. What was it? It was a cassette. No, two steps on CDs. But we listened to it short. That's how you get closer to the artist, man, that five hour drive from the bed at LA, man. All I had on that roll was Meek Mill, Nipsey. And who was my third nigga? Meek Mill, Nipsey. I was off Nipsey and Meek Mill for show in my, and shit, Jay-Z.  Now I got to slap Jay-Z because nobody understands what I'm going through right now. These square niggas.  How many of us have been? He on Highway 5 slapping friends with nobody. Two house speakers. Two house speakers in the back. Damn. These are details. That's crazy. We got similar stories at different times. Two short was gonna shout out to Short Short. Oh yeah, shout out to Short Short. Made me famous. In his video, two short video, I ain't trippin', I became a, I was a legend then. I was a legend then. Local legend before you got to, exactly. What? What? I was a two short video. Damn. Thank you, Short. And that's the two short video. What? We got so, and this is stuff that I didn't know we got so many. Shout out Filthy Rich, man. Shout out, you know, the whole live wire, really. You know, I didn't came up with the rappers, man. Yeah, instead of me, all of the niggas, man. They looked out for me. But of course, Mr. Fad, man. Mr. Fad played a big part of my career. You know what I'm saying? Instead of me just fuckin' with the rappers.  Mr. Fad, I'm sorry I wasn't just throwin' the shirt. Oh my. When I went in there with my sisters, remember my sisters, we stole the shirt. Fad, we gon' want that money. I'm sorry, I know Fad. That nigga hustlin' on his nigga, man. Hey Fad, let me help you out, man. I gotta know before you. Yeah. I already paid. You gotta be Fad. You gotta be Fad. Yeah, man. So we gon' make it happen, though, man. Yeah. I gotta shout out a couple of rappers. Oh yeah, shout out to shit, man.  I was going to say, he was like, he was being honest. Yeah, that's why we didn't say nothing. I don't know them niggas. Yeah. I don't want to disrespect them. Yeah, he is. It's on the 3rd Avenue in the house. We made it, baby. Oakland, California, look at this. We made it. Yeah, still. LA made it. LA made it. Oh, my mama's made it. What's up, what's up, man? It ain't too many of us, man, but it still is mansion, man. It's still me, huh?  I didn't realize it. But nigga, my favorite movie that inspired me, Menace of Society, you know, nigga, it was 75 cent of Oakland niggas in that film. No way. Hell no. Too short, and it was a few other niggas. Short was the only niggas friend of town in that movie. No, it was. Menace of Society? I thought you was going to say the Mac, baby. Yeah, the Mac. Oh, the Mac. Oh, the Mac. No, yeah, man, the Mac, man. We need to remake that, motherfucker. Martin, come back. Was it the nigga Harold from out there, too? The nigga Harold? Can't come think I cute? I don't think so. I'm not sure it could have been. If he is, that nigga a legend. Yeah. But I don't know. It's a small, it's a small barrier, man. We all know each other. Niggas, short was in Watts, niggas. Oh, yeah, we know short was in the Mac.  You got a story about the Mac? The Mac? Yeah, the movie, the Mac. Well, not me, the movie. I lived it. I lived it. Yeah, that's you. You said I lived it. I lived it. I lived it because that was my era. Yeah. So I lived that era. Yeah. I remember the cars.  That hard. 60 Caddy, I always kept a car. Yeah.  I was, my daughter's like, what kind of, what is this thing? I always kept big cars. I went through that. That's what I grew up with. I grew up, even the preachers. If you look at, what was it now? Shit, half of the preachers was pimps before they was preaching. They weren't pimps, but they had parts. Yeah, yeah, they were pimps. Niggas a pimp. You know what? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You was a pimp three weeks ago, man. Right, right, right, right. So I went through that, that whole era. Yeah. What were we talking about? What were we talking about?  Like, that's how I knew about Two Short. What's from that movie? I didn't know about it before. Oh, damn. My mama told me.  Yeah, so I'm like. I'm so old. I did a thing with Two Short. I don't know whose album, I think it was Ice Cube's first album. Two Short's first album. If you go look back, Ice Cube came to Oakland when I was a comedian. And I guess Two Short, you know, it was Ice Cube, before he was Ice Cube came to, Two Short and they did either a song. I think, I don't know who did the song. I think Ice Cube did the song. You can look it up on Google. Yeah. I mean, it was 1988. Damn. That's what a guy, Ice Cube came down to Oakland and I'm with Two Short. Yeah. Two Short was bigger than Ice Cube. Yeah, at one point for sure. Yeah. That was the first time I was on TV, Two Short. That go crazy. And then Apollo, I was the nation's quarter pound burger.  Yeah, I did the quarter pound. I won't remember, I was coming in a quarter pounder right on 98 for, what was that quarter pounder on 89 for something. I don't know if it's still there.   That's how the Hooties used to talk back in the day. Oh my God. Oh my God. That was the first time I ever signed an autograph. That's the quarter pounder. Blew me away because I was back at Pay & Save the next day. Yeah. I used to go kill. That's crazy. Do Colin Sims ain't be at Pay & Save the next. What people say, you were good. You were good. Yeah. That was crazy.    Well, I gotta quit this motherfucker, it's over now. I'm too popular to be sitting at this motherfucker, man. I gotta get a father here, man. We all talk, nigga. We went in the same niggas. Nigga, when you was popping, working at the warehouse, nigga? I was working at the warehouse. And now look, what warehouse were you working in? I was working at Kimco Staffing.   I was working there, nigga, packing up T-shirts. L.A. dudes had better jobs than us. Yeah, job. They ain't got no opportunity. You guys had better cars, back when I was coming up, L.A. dudes had cars. You guys were incredible with that. We had a certain type of car in the bay, without, I had a Volkswagen coming up. I was a Volkswagen cry. I was, you know, I knew other cars, but I had a VW. I was just saying weird, but I had a little VW.  Really? Back in the day, in Oakland, we'd have had a whips. Oh, we had whips. Not everybody. Dope dealers. You had a dope dealers, yeah, right? But you said everybody had it. Los Angeles, they had, everybody had it. They had cars, like, damn. That was kind of a car that after a male, damn, nigga. Back in the day, we had a box Chevy. We was, we was scraper. We had scraper's way before you. Fags. We called them big boys. Y'all used to call them hoodies. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Nigga, I got my hoody. Yeah, no hubcats. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. That's what niggas got to bring back. Honking, nigga, the road. Geez, nigga, they dip it out of there. Honk, bop, bop, bop. We couldn't do no donuts. Young niggas don't even know how to honk. We didn't have enough horsepower. We couldn't swing the LTD. Boop, boop, boop, boop.  That's what my pops say. He had a car that didn't reverse. You've never seen it. You can't reverse, nigga. I'm like, damn. Yeah, that's a pocket change. I want to say, Oakland, we see, I see the WIC program and the Black Panther started the free food program, which became the WIC program. And I was a part of that. And I always wanted to tell somebody that because I remember the Black Panthers handed me food. Yeah, that's correct. It was quite a free program. I always wanted to say that because I saw, you know, I was looking at some facts and it was about the WIC program. The Black Panthers, I mean, would give us free food. And that's how I grew up. My comedy was different. We had the Black Panthers. Facts. We had the Muslims. We had the pimps. We had the hippies. We had the Hell's Angels. We had all these people to influence me. Yup. That's amazing, bro. Facts, yeah. People don't know how much influence that the Black Panthers and the pimps got out there for sure. Don't build it. Oh, my mama. My boy that passed away, Bob. He's originally from Oakland. Oh, okay, yeah. And he was a part of the Black Panther movement. Yeah. And he came, that's why I like- That's why that two-part documentary, Dear Mama, that's you were crazy. Yeah. The show, nigga's like- I mean- Dear, you got a stamp or something, nigga. On me. I have a story. You know I got stories.  Yeah. You got a two-part story? Yeah, a two-part story. Believe it or not. With two-part, I was doing the Apollo. Yeah. And I brought all my sisters down. My whole family.  And so we walking down the street and Tupac was filming the basketball. Yeah, I bought a room. Yeah, I bought a room. I bought a room, yeah. So we were in the same hotel and my sisters saw him. He from Oakland. Oh my God, how you doing Tupac? They were touching his eyebrows. I remember that. But look at you, you know, he was respectful. And so anyway, I saw him on the set. He said, come by the set. So I came by the set in his room and he wrote, Dear Mama. And I'm not, I would never lie on Tupac. Come on, man. If I'm lying, he said, look at this, man. I just wrote this piece of paper and bam, it was Dear Mama. Damn. Come on.  That's crazy. That's rock, nigga. Hey, nah, hey, nah. Hey, I'ma turn, I'ma turn a little nigga. You a boy for that. What's up? Because nigga, that, come on, man, that's love. They did the Apollo. He was with Digital Underground, I was the host. Yeah, yeah. Tupac was there and Oakland, Oakland came in. Yeah. Oakland came in. The first time I smelled weed at the Apollo. Damn. It wasn't my weed, but when they came, it was like, they really smelled like they left the soil. Yeah. They turned it out, Digital Underground turned that out. That's hard. They pledges, too, man. Yeah, they pledges. Shot G. Shot G. They put on masks. Yeah, he a big influence with Sonny Boat, too, because I realized, I'm like, oh, they eat two different niggas, but he the same person. I mean, I never knew that as a kid. Oh, my mama. And that's how Sonny Boat is. It's people really don't know Sonny Boat me. And I'm like, I embraced that because of Shot G and how he did the little Humpty Humpshit. Yeah, Humpty was huge.  I don't think it was international. So, Shot G, man, Digital Underground. Oh, my mama. And Pac was a real niggas. When he got on, he still kept them around and put them on songs. Feel me?  Bay Area, baby. Hell, yeah. Bay Area, man.  Bay Area legend, Oakland legend, man. Mark Curry, man.  Stop, Scopney Club. Yes, Lord. June 9, 10.  You understand me? Oh, mamas. The real Mark Curry on Instagram. And we're pushing this due to much ENT, you understand me? Out of Oakland, California, man, you understand me? So, we push an issue on this movement, man. You already know what it is, man. Yeah, got your own movement. You already know. Thank you. We'll be having my movement coming up. Yeah. It's doing the Mark Curry movement coming up for the seniors, not for the seniors, but for the older crowd. This is high-feeders using your hand. All the dudes who are high-feed now, you see them dudes now named Nexar, man. Yeah, them niggas, oh man, them high-feed niggas, oh jeez, now. Niggas ain't in high-feed no more, they ain't. They ain't high-feed no more. That needs some icy hot, nigga.    It's your boy, Lewis Belt, man. Make sure y'all keep tapping into the episode. Lewis Belt, watch something quiet. Mr. Kelly, kick back. We out this thing. Yee! Chase that bag. Yee, yee!