Lil Rel On Katt Williams Beef, Kanye West Spiraling, Tiffany Haddish & Common, R. Kelly Encounters

all this kind of success and it's a group of people at the same time, so as you know, I'm excited because we have all these different things happening. successful radio hosts and we have cats that have been on several sitcoms, we have cats that still tour Arenas everywhere and sell out, we have this cat that's like, you know, look at Kevin, he's selling underwear, now he's got everything what you know, I mean, it's like you. I know comics are selling shoes Mike Epson is buying his neighborhood, right? You know, Michael Blackon is going to like it again, there's so much going on, it's like I hope sometimes people can take the time.

I know it's competitive what we do, but take the time to be like. Hey, what are we doing this? You know we have a Jamie Fox who won an Oscar, yes, a black comedian and we think about almost all of them came from De Jam and Comic View. It's true, you know what I'm saying, like our people made us stars and now they're all crossed, yeah, that's cool. I am not who I am who I am thanks to them you do not have a Hannibal burs or Gerard carmichel without all these sacrifices, which is one of the things that I look at the camera, you tell me I look at all my ogs.

I love you all. I want you to realize all those things that happened saying like I'm talking about all the things because I've been hearing a lot of things on Club sh Shay is watching. I understand that people knew that you've had

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and people ask you to do things that you weren't comfortable with with your nose, which made it easier for me to walk on your nose. So when you were asked to do things you didn't want to do and things like that, your nose helps me help Gerard, it helps Hannibal, it helps so many people, your nose and look at it from that perspective, don't think that everyone because we're doing it now that we haven't even gone, I haven't gone through any of the things that some of them have gone through because of their nose, and you have to realize that the business is like damn, we need, we need the funny.

So we can't even test them, we have to capture their talent, yeah, and that's what I have to say. Kanye is Al too, sorry from Chicago, what's the motivation to see a local become this global icon? became let me tell you something, that College Dropout album. I bought it with four comedians and we drove around listening to it, you know, it doesn't matter what you know. Kanye said and did a lot of things since then, that College Dropout album for Chicago for Chic like If you talk to other people from Chicago, you know you know the stars or whatever we all were, that one was like that person we like, He's a superstar and he did it his way, he's an underdog and then I like him especially for the nerd group, the backpack. group, you know what I'm saying, you know how to wear your sweaters and you know he was a man, he changed my life.

I used one of my cars at the time. He used to say that he used to call me Kanye's comedy. Do you know what I am? saying that because he inspired me a lot a guy, he did it his way, he loved his voice so much that he liked walking into these rooms with Jay-Z. They had to show him love even when you watch Ye's documentary, The Last Dance. and that documentary gives me chills sometimes because I remember the moments like, you know, I saw it last day, you know where you were when you saw it and I know how it inspired me and that's why I get goosebumps when I watch them and I and I look at Kanye when he paid for his first video, the Through the Wire video and you see D in the video, you see Harold's Chicken in the video, you see that it's so Chicago and it's number one on 106 and part and it's the most local video that I could do it, but in the whole world it's the number one video, you know what I'm saying, yeah, so I was inspired by that like yours, like it's not like Chicago, we have an idea how I say it, it's not . like K, it's like we're really confident in the Chicago castle like incredibly confident and that's because you know, I told you I grew up and the things I saw were like if I can get out of all of that, I'll be fine.

That's why coming to La, I was coming here to dominate right when I was hitting the stages here. I love when they used to put me in the new face part of something because the next time they put me on the show, I went too. tough so they like it man we gotta put him in the Regular Show he can't do the opener anymore because he tries too hard too so he used to come here like he's a problem. Chicago made me feel. like a star and I did all the work I had, as a shout out to Mary Lindsay who owns jokes and those Comedy Club gave me a place every week where I could freestyle on stage and do new material and just bring and develop my own audience and Learn a comedy business because I learned how to book my own shows, because no one wants to book me like that, so I had to book my own.

You know what I mean, and I'm glad you brought me along. I know, look, Kanye, Kanye is a lot, but in that early stage, I love Kanye for how he inspired us, man, so what's up with the last rant, where are you? C says something I agree with, right? I don't understand how if we say that someone talks crazy and we all have family members who talk very crazy, do we really pay attention to them? the platform are not as influential as him, but does he really influence anyone? See how you see what happened when they took Jesus away from Adidas yeah so tell me if that played a part or not but here we go actually but they took him away and then they needed them again yeah you gotta understand something this is a person that knows who they are, they know their business and they know what they had to offer, you know what I'm saying and so because of that, as much as they like it, we did this like we were done with it and then you'll see months later, well, we have to sell the rest of the product, yes we have to give you your money anyway because we buy everything. product yes, so that he knows his business.

I think so, you know, I think so, he just talks better in music sometimes. I think he just makes songs like him, he stops talking regularly, just make a sound. He lost his mother. You lost your mother at a young age. Yeah. Do you think he hasn't healed from that because he was very, very close to his mom and I don't know the relationship, so maybe you can correlate, maybe you can say, well, this is the kind of relationship I had with my mother? and this is how I dealt with it and so maybe we can better understand what Kanye is going through dealing with the tragedy and the sudden loss of his mother.

I think it's funny you say that so I'm going to go to MH therapy and it took me years to do that and I didn't realize how much my mom died at 09 but it was still affecting me all this time you know it wasn't until a day I had a panic attack on the stairs and I had never had one before. I was walking to the set and I couldn't stop crying and my assistant came in and said, "You know, she could tell you that she was" and she had been talking to me about going to therapy, actually, which she is. interesting, I said, well, pick them up, let me talk to someone and my first session was literally about how I never grieved or got over my mother's Stu and a lot of us went through that, you know, not just yay, you know, I, you already know. and I hope she doesn't mind if I say this to my good friend Tiffany Hadish, she's one of my best friends and you know, we talk about this and some of us tend to be busy, right, we're busy, we, we, no that's how you handle it that's how we handle it and you're not handling it you're not handling it right and so to me you know when I you know and my she was just saying she was just talking about how she had to slow down. and just dealing with it thought that working would help and all it does is make you more tired first of all physically out of mentally and spiritually you're just tired now because now you're trying to make up for something you can't make up for so when I came to you , I had my first therapy session and we went through it and I didn't realize how damn I'm still like oh I was I'm still trying I didn't give myself room to cry Was it because you were so busy with the comic and stuff and you're trying to grow your career that you didn't take more time because I didn't feel like you had that because you say I have to attack what IR well, we say career, right, I think it's race and I think it's blackness, okay, I think it's the black people who have always been told to just get over the movement.

When you get over it, you have to get over it and which is okay, you should get over things, but it's okay to be hurt by someone you love so much, yeah, being gone mhm, that, that, you love, that, that was made like I didn't realize that. You know, and once again therapy opened many doors for me. I didn't realize it was a thing. I didn't realize all the other traumas, you know, young people like that was all part of it and you know, when Look, yeah, I remember telling this to someone a while ago and I even remember watching the documentary and I had to pause it because I got really emotional because I started to see his pain.

I could relate to that as if that brother was still suffering. That's why you gotta be careful who you let into your life, man, you know, especially as black people, our pain comes from so many different places, our personal pain along with generational cultural pain, and if you don't have people who can recognize it. around you that's something that's a problem and then when you make all this money for people, they don't care at all, right? And I think he still goes through that a lot, you know, he still lashes out at people. Who really cares?

You know what I'm saying, yeah, because when you get hurt, it doesn't matter. I mean, you take an animal that's hurt, you might be trying to help it. Everything he knows is hurt and he is going to lash out even if it is. you're trying to give him the attention he needs to get better, yeah, so those people that you mentioned because he's hurt and he's dealing with what he's dealing with, he doesn't understand the people that are in his life that are actually trying to help him. That's the interesting thing when you know what's funny, the only thing we don't talk about.

If I can be honest, I think Kye is on the Spectrum. He was looking once more, yeeesus again and the way his mother spoke to him. my youngest son is six years old he has autism he's a language man it's a way you have to talk and I'm watching the things she says and I'm like oh wow which makes it even more fascinating to me that he might like it even function and do all these wonderful things, but I'm like, oh he, that's why she was able to say, think about it, she's the only one who's been able to speak her language, you know what I'm saying and I thought, I think. that's quick, I was looking, they were walking through a field, I think on the south side, near the old house, and you know, and I think that's one of the things I hope I don't know if Kanye talks to anyone and always I have said it. this before as you know sometimes you wish you could be friends or someone yes Kanye is one of them it's people that passed away I wish I was friends with I wish I was friends with Luther vros I wish I was friends with Whitney Houston You know what I wish I had been friends with Richard before I wish I could have talk to them, you know, especially, you know I mentioned Luther because I was watching an interview with P La Bell and she said, "You know as much as Luther never wants to say publicly." he was gay because he didn't want Pat Lael to say he didn't want to disappoint his fans or his mother, that's crazy, and I would like you to know that you wish you had a friend to be like man, your brother, what's your The gift It has to do with yeah, you know what I mean and you know the same thing with Whitney.

It feels like a lot of these guys, especially in our business, are in so much pain and you know Kanye is one of those guys. Let's think about it. I met Kanye a million times, we've been around like everyone else CH, we all have the same friend right? um, but it's one of those things where if anyone could ever sit down and have a conversation without anyone I would love to. I do that because I think I can still see someone dealing with that kind of pain from his mother and he doesn't give her moments. I give him moments now.

Sometimes I remember that I did my last special. I kicked everyone out of the dressing room just so I could cry okay I filmed it I filmed my last special at the Chicago theater and this was all based on you I told you I told you she left me one day it's something I never forgot she said my name was going to be in light so you know I did the Chicago theater and I remember before the show started I stood outside across the street CU we used to walk and go to school uh buy clothes and school supplies downtown from Chicago and go see it at Christmas, but we always pass by there.

Chicago Theater and saw the lights, so I saw LEL Howry live under the lights. I watched that thing for about an hour and at one point I remember when I finished the show and there was a standing ovation and you know you're trying to close. the show and you can go back and watch it. I actually choke up a little bit because I literally looked out and saw her standing there in the crowd and then I thought, oh, I really did this. You did it, you know, and it was even a lot of fun, even at the end of that night, you know, the end of the show I praise Bernie Mac, I felt like I saw my mom, I feel like I saw Bernie and I go backstage and I'm one of the people who doesn't have Fan Fair, you know, theDo you know when my mother died?

I remember we were planning his funeral and that was the first time I'm the oldest so I got to sit with my aunts and I love them all for that, we're planning a funeral and it's hard and my uncle walks in, I told her. You, the Redeye newspaper, we used to be in Chicago, sometimes guess who's on the cover, Red Eye, I didn't know that was going to happen, okay? It was because the last festival I told you about was in Chicago, right? OK? I wasn't even the biggest name on the cover of the network to promote the festival.

Wow, I didn't know that was going to happen. He comes in with a bunch of red eyes and my uncle with them, old black man, hey, doctor. Look what I told you, the doctor told you that God got you, didn't he? Doc and I remember having to grab that and just walk out of the room and just be like, I love the moments where, like God, everything is going to be okay and that was a moment where I wasn't sure if it was, but God always shows up like that, damn, here we go and you know, once again, moments like leaving was that moment when we did the premiere of leaving, yeah, when I walked the red carpet before, no one knew who was right, so no one , everyone had an interview, okay, I left the theater, security had to walk me to my car, wow, because people rush me in my my people with my family and me.

It's like, oh, what's going to happen, you know, it's just that I said this. I've done a great job of taking those moments, so the moment where I had that moment, what are you talking about, that reflective moment, was the last special one. That's why I love it, I tell people go watch the special, just watch the ending, look at me, that's me in that moment, looking at that audience, watching Chicago defend me at the Chicago Theater, watching my mom there, seeing Bernie there and just seeing myself. like I actually did this wow how can you find someone in the business and then you said you said your ideal date, a five star restaurant and a strip club guy?

You could get more contrast, I mean, that used to be my ideal date so what's the ideal date now? It's going to sound very big dinner and a nap what dinner and a nap yes, well, what happened after dinner to call you take that nap the food that we old people like you know something and it's funny that you're true, it's hard to find the love here. I I Yvonne just reminded me of everything the other day and she saw me with my fiancé. She likes that you remember you. You were because one day I was irritated.

I'm in these streets, right? I was like mad, we were freaking out, like you remember that day, you were screaming like you had, you won't find anyone here in Los Angeles, in Hollywood, now you just have to be on the streets. and then danella came out of nowhere and it's like, well, not out of nowhere, but she, yeah, changed my life. You, oh, were married before. Yes, this would be my second time. At what point did you think you would remarry? I wanted. but at some point I started to feel like I wasn't going to meet anyone because, especially when you do what you do, you do what I do, and then I stopped seeing if anyone really likes me because of my kind of stuff and you just know everyone. .

The intentions are all weird, so I don't know, man, so I thought, I guess I'm on the streets, right? We see this all the time, people proposing that sporting events and all these events make you nervous, you say no, I'm a good family, I was so nervous, and I'm never nervous, which is what you know, what made me nervous. He is my son my son my oldest son he is like your dad what if she says no? I said why the hell did you put that in my head yeah ex I see you thinking the same thing I'm thinking if you were more nervous about proposing to me or more nervous during a scene, it was a you know what the nervousness was, I don't know if it was nervous about her, no , he's nervous about life changing and he was pretty much like the butterflies of, really, thank God. to you for letting me find her.

I didn't think she would do this again. I didn't think I'd get the chance to do it again. It's like, oh, I didn't know I'd meet the real me like someone who feels like a real soulmate, right? What do you do with your kids is you give them credits you put them on your stand up you make sure they get production they get uh credits on you what what did he do to you how did you decide what how did that come about Nas Nas put his daughter as an executive producer of it could have been anyone of those albums and that was like, oh, that's what we should be doing, that's literally I L.

I read an article about Nas doing it. I'm a big Nas fan, right? and I thought, that's brilliant, right? Yes, she understands. royalties for the rest of her life. Wow, now this is going to get interesting. Let me know if this real mom of your babies tried to scam you. Jesus, now correct me. I mean, I'll go. Stop me, okay? a child, true, is still there. The boy is here Yes, the boy is here, you were led to believe that he was yours, well, yes, it is very interesting because I have to find out how I have told the story correctly and it may be the only time I can. say it but well I'll let you say it I was going to set it up but I'll let you say it because it's been said before but that but this is what I'll say this is how it becomes clear this is the adult, we have a beautiful son together named Harlem Howry, he's amazing, It's artistic, you know, and we may not have the perfect relationship, we don't because it was a lot that she put me through, she really did, but at the same time we had this beautiful baby here and that's all the focus is right. , you know, look and don't get me wrong, believe me, it was, you know, it was like Wendy Williams and it was all the TS, it was a lot, but at the same time this time it's grown like you know he's here and there, nothing, you don't know , she was married at the time, no, she was married, well, she was, yeah, that's what I'm saying, she was married at the time, but look, look, really.

You deserve everything you got into with a married woman I didn't know she was married she didn't tell you they were divorced at the time but I won't let myself say this again I can't and we're talking about black people because black people get divorced differently yeah , yeah, yeah, okay, okay, you know what I mean, I left the house, you, he left the house exactly three years ago, you know, they go, they don't do the paperwork, no one wants to pay the fees, right? right?, they have everything. relationship and then I'll tell you, you know once again, you know, I don't, she, we, we don't have the perfect relationship at all and I didn't like anything that she did and nobody deserves any of that right and you know, but at At the same time I don't hate her for it, I'm not mad at her for it, I've already put it behind me and at this point it's just me, I think the focus should just be making sure we raise this little man, be the best human being he can be. possibly it's, that's all I care about, so it's old news, so it's like eh, well, tough, yeah, I mean, anything is hard when you're well, first of all, it's hard to be a parent long distance, right?

I know that's what made this whole situation unique and you know what it was um and I knew from the beginning and I tried to explain it to her, but at that moment she wasn't really there, she wasn't listening. right, um, but man, when you do it, because I get all the kids for the summer, mhm, man, I love those Summers MH, you know when, when I'm, you know play with them, talk with them and laugh with them, and I'm watching how you. I know this, what I love about Britney and Judah, that he's my older brother, you know, because it was a lot for them, you know, you know, the day I told them they had a little brother, possibly me, Britney , she was young, Britney, like she was you.

Like, oh god, what the hell did you do? The basics, you know, I mean, but when I tell you, you know, the first time I brought Harlem home and I had them all with me during, I think, the holidays, one of those holidays, they stayed up with me. All night CU he was, you know he was awake, he was a baby. Britney didn't put it down yet, don't you like this? And I had to have a real conversation with Britney and Judah, the two oldest, it was like I said. Let me tell you something. I got them back forever.

I don't like that everyone else made me feel how they made me feel. You two had my back. I have them forever, but they also understand that dad, I'm not a perfect human being and you won't be, so if someone isn't going to judge you, you can tell me anything well, I promise I won't judge you well, do your children Do they understand what you do, the sacrifices you make and that? You may not be present at every event, but it's for their own good, so it's very interesting, so Britney and Judah understand that, along with my ex-wife, we are good parents and you have to know who you are with.

I'm not going to be able to be there for a lot of the things, right, you know what I'm saying and with Harlem you know it in their mind, sometimes it feels like you know who I am, what's my life like? It's and what the job is and and you knew it when you met me, yeah, and then what do you do to me? One random day, she hit me, like you could come get it. I'm in La tu, in Chicago, that's not possible, I'm just there. give him my private, I don't have a private, even if I did have one, that's still crazy you know, but that's also an adjustment, which is why co-parenting is very important and sometimes it takes a while, but I don't do it. do.

Be a man, I like my ex wife, she and I have figured it out in a way that I think I'm sure you know that with Harlem everything will be easier at some point, but you know it's not always easy and you know you and You're Never Doing Enough, of course, you know what I mean, so that's okay. I'm going to take you out here on this. How are the children with the fiancé? The children get along well. You know she has four daughters. Alright? That was the coolest thing actually is the way everyone got along, it's like everyone gets along, we're a family unit, you know what I mean?

Harlem is the six year old baby when I say it. Everyone participates when they're around, everyone does the right thing and you know, even with likes, so I remember how we did well, so I met his two oldest first M, you know, they're 20 years old, you know what I'm saying, like that that I met them. First, talk to them and let them know that I really care about her mother, blah, blah, blah, and then with the younger kids because they are all almost the same age group. You know, Britney and Judas are 14 and 13 years old. Their youngest children are between 13 and 12 years old. right, so it's all the same group, the nicest thing is that we all take them there to find our little place that we like and they are all nervous to meet each other, they all like literally REM about me and then I forgot what broke the ice and Then everyone started laughing and the next thing you know, especially for Britney, because Britney is surrounded by all the boys, you know, for her to have a group of girls, girls, right?

To be honest with you, I have been a beautiful man, as I did when I photographed my friends on vacation. You know they were all in Hawaii, which was really fun and interesting because my ex-wife was dead and she wanted them to have a good talk. You know, I remember. I forgot that even they were like, yeah, let's go to the beach. I'm like, oh, they're really tough, you know, but I love that you know that and that's part of having a blended family. Danella, am I a woman? that I never thought I'd meet just powerful and smart and outspoken, she's an author, she's a, she's so dumb, you know what I'm saying, MH, you know, and like her mom passed away, uh, in September and, um, I'm very happy.

I had a chance to meet Miss Sandy and you know I went to Mississippi she's from Mississippi Terry Mississippi and I went there she you know she got one of them blacks pops but I like us old blacks get along we're equals right ? I know, I mean, that's my old man, everyone, right, and I remember talking to him like we just met, he took me for granted, I'm with him, we just talked, we laughed and she was nervous, like that What a girl, first of all, you old idiot, the black man I'm telling. You, I'm F, right, you, you have nothing to worry about.

I can sit with these guys for hours, of course, talk, sit on the tractor and just, you know, it's been this beautiful M, my family adores her, my aunts, my uncles. everyone and she you know she loves me, it's been beautiful to be honest with you, so you know, I hope no one gets mad if we don't have a real wedding and end up married someday And Wonder, congratulations everyone, I appreciate you so much, brother. The thank you man my myice a slice got the roll of the dice that's why all my life I've been grinding all my life all my life grinding all my life sacrifice hustle P the price I want a slice I got the roll of a dice that's why All my life I've been grinding in my life