 Yeah, so uh, what we was talking about we was talking about the you feel me with the you fit now No, no, nigga, you're saying you're saying your dad ain't mad at you for putting the business in there Long as it's real Allow me don't be this. I mean you put people business in there long as I mean you not it ain't gossip if you just in regular Conversation, you know I'm saying you out there trying to use this on a story that affected you exactly So, you know, he likes shit. That's feel like game to me Cuz you know sometimes when you holding like some demons and did somebody speak on your behalf, like, you know I'm saying it's better like you fit me. Like me A proud father moment we saw with a different perspective as well, you know I'm saying you did So that was good You was able to translate it to the people without him sounding harsh about it Oh, why he did cuz I said he didn't but I made it sound harsh because I called her a bitch and all type of shit Cuz I'm speaking from yeah, I made you for how my dad talked to me about the situation So I'm like, you know, I'm saying I have no emotion to it But he was proud of me Oh mamas, yes, Timmy, it's the Cali kickback. Yeah, my it's your boy Louis belt. You feel me We got my dog Jamal Chula Feel me in a bit. How you feeling wine? Oh, man. I'm hanging in there man. You know chillin like a pair of slacks, man Oh, okay. Pea pop you pea. Yeah, man. Yeah, man. I'm just glad you popped up Okay Trying not to be emotional We got a special guest in the building man one of my plan partners You understand me a living legend shite town in the building D Ray Davis Thanks for having me man. Oh my I'm glad you want to get down I know it's been like four years. I'll be building in my brain. So it'd be hard in my mind. I feel like I I'm there. You know, I mean especially the places and I consider I learned this from Years ago, I did a movie called a seafeller and I'm shout to Dwayne Martin for put me in that and during the movie I learned a lot like on the acting side but I learned more on the personal side as I would get on him Like I'll be hitting them up like I need this I need that because I thought we were real close and friends And he said a D. He me one day said you me, you know, I know you good when I'm good I know if you're really bad, I know because you say I'm really bad belongs. I'm good You good so I take you all the bullshit first in my life before I get to me Yeah, so I handle all my parents bullshit when you hit me up. I handle my daughters I handle my my my try to my bills my my mind what I'm trying to be or whatever creatively I could do and in this business the short term we have in this show business, which it is the business Then I get to me then I go, you know, I need to give my hair Brady You know, I'm gonna get a haircut hit Lewis up. Yeah, you're fitting the me category Yeah, you don't fit no like that outside you ain't one of the dudes I'm like, let me put them fires out in this shit. It's like all right now. I'm settled I know you good because we talk and if it was bad bad, you'd be like yo D handle this So when we do have our conversations when you getting, you know, give your zone You won't have a conversation real quick You like yo hit me up and I'm like, let me hit this because this is outside of the me part The me part is what we're talking about this your shit for life I feel like I'm you know, I could come down here. I know me. He's gonna make it work any time So that's why they wouldn't know it wouldn't know my schedule. So busy. It was like man I'm now I'm getting some me time. So this week I was like I'm down to me and I hit you Yeah, I say yo man, what you doing when you when your show this week? Yeah, cuz I'm down to me That's what we just like talking about earlier like, you know trying to figure out like, you know You got to take put all the fires that builds you lost your debit card And then you got to connect it to you know the auto pays, you know doing all the last shit You know what I mean, which it could be, you know, it could be testing, you know And it'd be the things that that only you could do because of how How we were raised for one we don't trust any people, right? Yeah We were taught, you know, we've had people very close to us still from us take from us Yeah So it's a lot of times that we don't we don't want to delegate that workout because we feel like we're giving up some way too personal Like you're like my car be messing up and I'm like I gotta go make this call and we so used to our car now working I'm and I do I do well in life, you know, I'm saying but I still get embarrassed by my car now work Right, so you want to go handle your bank statement by yourself and these are things while while this is happening Somebody waving like what's up deal like yeah, and they like oh, that's a that's a weak ass nigga I try to speak to D-Ray not knowing that end of the day before we are any of this I keep saying this on stage lately. We human yeah before any of this before I'm D-Ray the comic before many things else It be things that bother me and and one thing I love about Lewis is that He'll get to that first when he see me. He play. How you doing? Whatever we discuss on the personal booze Then we'd be like then it'd be like now let's get to the business Yeah, so he'll understand whatever emotion. I'm having on stage what I want to do good whether want to do bad if I don't want to talk to guys at night. He could pretty much read it like he I don't give my own guy I ain't gotta give him a look no more. He's just like amen. How led me? You know I'm saying so cuz it take one to know one and I feel like you wanted a most genuine people in this industry that I ran across but Before we had a relationship you was one of the people that um, I didn't really have a Likely like I wasn't feeling you from afar I'm not and to protect myself man to this day. That's gonna always be my move. Yeah I am not like the average comic. I don't hang out of the comic spaces I don't gotta go and this is not no disrespect to nobody who loves the actual craft for comedy I didn't come into it how you did I did not see comedy and watch it I did not grow up and say man. I did not see nobody that was so dope made me one new comedy I was never inspired by nobody but the bread the hustle That's it when I seen comedy. I seen me promoting I didn't see me as being one of the greatest which accidentally happened because I was in the business of comedy and I had to gift a gap So I was able to translate that to the stage. I was I didn't have to work on my art I didn't have to work on my jump shot. I came with it my three I came with my rebound now my work ethics is something that still goes in and out due to the fact I'm from a dope boy mentality of getting How do I flip this joke flip this comedy rather than There's work to be done as well, you know, there's some hard hardworking guys and Because of that a lot of guys are further in their careers not than me but for Where they wanted the fight to get mine was still coming. It was still multiplying like the the mind was still growing So I kept myself standoffish for a minute and for for a reason. It was like if I let them in my house If I don't let them in my house, I have no excuse but myself about my failure Yeah, if I let nobody else around me Into this this area man, then I can't say he stole my joke. He did that I we can't say I took something from him Or I don't owe him this I had them some mentality that the least people you the less people you know the less people you owe You know what what was crazy, right? I've been following your career since 2002 barbershop, right and And you was a standout character, right? I always wanted to get into film and stuff like that And a lot of people I was telling a lot of motherfuckers always be like, oh, yeah, you're gonna I feel like you got that D Ray, you know energy and In film because like you'll pop up in here pop up over there and pop up over there or some shit like that Be ready king drop man. I'm a king of cameos. Yeah I'm gonna drop. I'm a being some I've watched tv But you know, I've I've watched tv before and seen myself on six different channels at once Then I've watched tv and I see myself at all, but I love the gamble of it. I love the hustle I love that it feels so sam jackson ish that it's like sam was everywhere, you know i'm saying And that's what that's what I liked about it like just like just talking not comparing myself to sam I'm on my way though sam. I'm not John said it John told me keep working. That's all but I'm saying as far as the want for the work And the want not minding being I've turned down a lot of stuff. Yeah, why? um I wanted my my vision to be my own a lot of cases. Um Let's get into like I've turned down roles where I might had to play Another they wanted me to not not like women in the in the team And I felt like I didn't carry enough masculinity around to rebound from it, right I feel like I'd get lost in it because they're like you got green eyes. You like seeing already and no matter what they say That has something to do with it no matter what they say My my persona or if you see a dude being gangsta all the time That's why it's really funny you see him play that way in a minute But if you I've had yet to explore what my true talents were were to be confident enough Yeah to get into that, you know what I'm saying or getting to play outside of my like playing a white guy Any of those anything that I knew I wouldn't be Be super good at a great or willing to do the work in I didn't really want to rock with it and I'd be like The things I talk about on stage. I've done the work where they've been from pain Where they've been through lived where they've been through these are my true stories So I'm able to tell these stories from a place that no one else can and if I were Telling from a woman's perspective or someone else I would want to get into the art of it And I didn't have the time to get into the art so I would have been disrespected Yeah without even You'll come off as like a bot how you know from your from your career like by all means necessary I'm trying to get this up here on some shit like that. It's more so like, you know, I'm gonna pick my points But now at the same time I'm gonna get that big joint, you know when it comes, you know But a lot of people don't see like your day to day who you are on a regular It ain't about yeah, I would never throw it all on the table. I do I'm not for to run up to a producer with a script Those guys who do that got the craziest hearts. I've been in the room with people in pitch I've I've actually I'll talk to my talk myself out of a room before I know that because I talk a lot But my confidence would not waver I'm gonna leave this room whatever I told you about me or not You're gonna see me again No matter what and you could try not to but talent wise natural shit. I know when I'm good at I know I could shoot There's like a dunk or no, he gonna dunk throw the ball. I'm gonna catch I'm gonna catch the the the What's what's for me my alley you More than likely thrown from myself. Yeah, right. I still believe in me like that. But I'm not gonna go it's a I'm not gonna embarrass or take away from my character for an opportunity. Exactly. Exactly. I'm mama's Yeah, I mean, I think that's the definitely I just had to like like calm myself down. It's just fake for people at home We might some of acting Speaking to the smoke character people people saying, uh, you know, because I'd have met you, um Yeah, we met uh some years ago. Um For show, I don't it's not gonna sound like a long time But yeah, I think we met like 2015 type shit and uh, you had a different energy about you You know, I'm saying everybody everybody in the industry. No, you know, the the original d-ray and the d-ray right now You know, and you you had a temper I'm not saying my temper has is left completely because I have a different passion. My temper is I moved it around, you know I shifted the energies But a lot of my temp temperaments come from Trying to show people stuff in the moments that I think they don't get and this gonna sound weird But I've argued with people. I know I'm right. I've argued with geniuses Well, I know I'm right in this moment because I'm right because it's right is right not about We're talking about factual information and we're talking about statistics and stuff like that And yeah, you might win but in the actual moment. So I would always try to argue my points back then because I come from a place of Uh hood politics where it's like we play these games I was always aggressive with my comedy. I always felt like yo, I did better than whoever whoever went up Whoever the hell went up. I'm better than that nigga anyway. And um I with the confidence that I had that comes with a certain arrogance That gives off but once again that shows you I'm shielding myself If I don't let 10 niggas at my table I don't If I don't go to your table, then I'm not you expect to go to my table. It should be a courtesy every time Yeah, the man times you come to my home. It should be a thank you. It's a presence to be around my presence. You understand me? It's a presence No, no, but don't protect just protect your life before this shit was coming out before social medium I'm mental health. I always want to protect my energy without knowing what the words was I knew I stopped wanting around me and what I stopped wanting around me and people do that with me If I come in the room sometimes I bring a certain energy. I know them Super lame ass regular niggas. I know your soul your money is the only thing that took you there when I walk in the room It's it's crazy. Yeah, cuz broke or rich people gonna treat me the same When I walk in the room my energy feels so rich. Yeah that your account can't reach it That's just presence my facts my essence alone and I feel like let's say I'm lying to myself I feel it. I see it anybody around like it's more like the fuck because But I in the bad part is I would love for us all to be right there. So you'll understand me better. Yeah I feel like if in in the bad thing about comedy and the good and bad thing is that we We're in it separately and we rarely bring each other or boost each other me myself. I'm attracted to talent and comedy I want to see some menu Pause call whatever the words or I want to see I want to see What again You can't say that No, no, no, no, no, no, no bromo whatever No, no, none of it, but I'm saying but the words itself they call it shock attack too because if it was a woman sitting here It would still sound just as bad. It's just it's just what where we at now regardless I just wanted to come across or pla or platform. That's why that's why only reason I would Oh, yeah, no, I wanted to be heard correctly that regardless of the fact of how they like I Protecting yourself and your spirit is is your your choice when I walk in a room I want all us to be lifted. I I'm attracted to The talent the driving people the energy of people and then wanting to get somewhere No one's ever told me I'ma do this and I did not believe them because I told people and my fuckers didn't believe me And I did it so nobody around me. So I feel that energy that might give me a different type of Vibe toward you then someone who I feel like if they do got it They not showing it and if they not showing that they don't want it if they don't want it I don't want to be around nobody that don't want it Yeah, because I want it and not because I just want it because I need it. Yeah, like Your reason for doing comedy man different. I got I'm feeding my fuckers So I can't just give shit away including my energy including my jokes My Ontario I'm on the way and check it out August 13th at the ontario improv stop playing with me. I know y'all be at the mall out there I want the whole ie to pull up Of Pomona bring y'all ghetto ass out too. I know how y'all fuck around at Pomona So I'm being Ontario ie come see me. You understand me. I'ma pop out like this And when I pop out I want to see y'all got them me. So get your tickets right now. Thank y'all love everybody It's your boy Louisville. I got balance tour. I'll see y'all in a minute at what point at what point like Like tell like like I said 2002 you came out you did your barbershop at that point you feel like hold on nigga I'm about to be the nigga now and shit like that, right? It was like me the nigga meaning like I'm finna blow up Yeah, I'm about to blow up right now. I'm gonna get the biggest shit I've had I've had moments like that about maybe about Three four times where you well, I thought it. Yeah, exactly, but it never came from when I thought it It always came when you did it from out of fucking nowhere. Yeah I'm the funniest motherfucker people go back before they got our yard day, whatever we go I'm funny as nigga to direct and then the room people not gonna say if they want to say anything I'll ask all that they're not gonna say I'm not funny And if you want to say I'm not funny, let's go a 15 minutes for 15 minutes for 15 minutes Unwritten shit and see who we build the set within that time. I'm that kind of nigga I'm gonna take my crap. So I want to win So I don't want to act like like What was those moments where you felt like a moment? I felt the moment I felt the moment I felt like I was gonna like barbershop was cool because I was the only dude I I start calling myself. Well, that's a movie I forgot what that's a movie moves all the time. I say movie moves, but I never shit on nobody neither why was happening So when like I was like, I'm the shit and you're not because I always act like I was a shit So somebody was in the movie before me. I still was like So it was the same build, but the times where my mind was like Probably the biggest time of my mind. I thought I thought that was around the biggest time on mine Well, I thought it was a rap was I had been um I did jump in the room. Yeah doing really well and shout out to Tracy Edmonds who are a lot and and um, I had died of Imagine that kind of around the time can't remember what it was move any murder. I was like 2007 2006 I'm like that. Yeah, so the producers His name is a big producer is very cool man down on earth guy, man But he was he liked me and imagine that so they were getting ready to do so I had done One movie didn't imagine that then I get I was doing High wise I did jump in the room and then I did 21 Jump Street. I'm like, oh my god I'm there. I'm on the move man Yeah, listen to the words it's like jumping the broom the 21 Jump Street the jump And that producer hit me up and they're like, yo, we getting ready to do G.I. Joe and I'm like what it's a wrap. So now I'm on the jump in the room red carpet With my 21 Jump Street haircut And I'm filming at the time that show I'm working working. Yeah. I'm on a carpet while I'm filming. So what's up? But Johnny Depp was moving. What's wrong with everyone hopped out of the Rose Royce. Yeah situated by the way It was yours. No, no, no, I'm Now pass that though pass that though, uh, unfortunately, I've made beyond crazy Rose Royce money, but yeah I am a giver. I'm a I've gifted. I'm trying to figure out right now how To I'm paying taxes on people money that probably don't even love me no more Right man, I feel like but but once again thought I had everything a billionaire had without the cars without the anything Situation everything. I was there's a beautiful nigga. I'm hood. I had this you're fighting to be me every day You you have to Do something more and been exciting the day to get the attention. I'm getting just for sitting on the couch showing Facts, you know, do you think that's why a lot of your problems came with other comedians? Like not problems, but like I was talking to two shirts He was like man, I love y'all together because D Ray me y'all so similar man I seen D Ray beat a nigga ass at the gas station. I'm like But I know but I'm like, I don't know because But it's funny because no them Them situations had nothing to do once again Just one someone to learn in that moment that didn't want to learn in that moment Um, but pass all that I thought I was getting the movie a gi-jo I thought I was gonna be the lead but my manager called me and he said I forgot what the name of the character was but ended up being um the rock And it's a roadblock is the the character name But he said the actual name of the the sergeant name, which I can't think of now And I said when he said the sergeant name, I said that's roadblock and he said no, it's dumb He called me that monday. You got it. It's you and the rock and I was like me in the rock I said who the rock plan? It was like the sergeant's name. I said that's my character's name. He said no Your roadblock. I said they the same It's the same person And then I seen that shit my stomach hurt when I tell you when I was at that premiere And my agent I'm gonna tell you I was at so I'm at the premiere. I'm gonna tell you I'm at the premiere I'm sitting there. The reason I thought I was close The premiere started my names coming up my agent leans to me. She gets a call. Hey They said you're in the top two people That you're the top. You're the top choice. I'm like, I'm the top choice. I sat back like I thought of all the niggas I won't gonna speak to no more nigga made a list That's why they happy because he he wanted to be evil to get his blessing. I'm gonna get blessed and I'm gonna shit on these I said not talk to I ain't said shit, but I definitely had to listen. I ain't got to do this shit but now she was funny, but um it's it's If I if I got it, I wouldn't be worried about that because I wouldn't have been ready Yeah, rock was ready And as you're seeing from there where his career went from that to being the sequel saving machine to allowing me I still did I did uh GI Joe 2 though, which was pretty dope. I know I end up no I end up doing that one I did it I wasn't that one with him And I was a little like man, I gotta go do it, but me being in the scene with him alone was still That's how you know I'm gonna be working We didn't got that we didn't got the uh elevated situation. I really wanted to get down We just skipped some steps. You feel me? I really want to get down to the chicago the root You know because you very connected To chicago you part of the culture out there and one thing I noticed that um a lot of comedians be from cities But the city really don't embrace them. They claim cities that don't claim them And you're actually one of the comedians that the city actually claims. So how did that come? How did you? I know you hosted a room at uh, chicago called riddles My yep, did you start? um, like because you love hosting too Love hosting. I always started Chicago No, I you said because of chicago. Yeah hosting. No, damon williams being um Like probably one of the best hosts in the world like if you ever see him just go go go He's he was always improv and I wanted I wanted to be better than damon and then damon said to me one day He's only is he's only as great as the person. He makes greater than him So I could never win anyway. It's kind of like um Denzel And sydney portier. He was like, uh, damn like every time I think I catch you you get me again and hosting wise he So I just wanted to be better than damon and be just fast So I said we would do games and get fast in it. So that's what that came from just off the cuff just loving the freedom of hosting Okay, not being stuck into a set because sets bored me to this day I've changed. I probably had six specials in my mind and changed him because it sounds like a A record to me and then I've seen people years later doing a bit of that Standup that I did from that set and I've like, oh you watch you thought I threw that away And I've like no I should go break out the tape on his nigga playing back to back But I don't do that How you go about when people steal your jokes is you one of the comedians I know that actually up front confronts a comedian be like, hey, you know I just don't want to be us realistically about that now I really just don't want us to be doing the same bit at the same time Right So we need to make a decision right now Do you feel like you got it for me if you feel like you didn't and I'm but I believe though I'm good enough to have thought of it first, but Because I because I'm showing it in the like In my play like this was basketball And me and you's both putting up threes and me and you's both stand on the side And it's like who you're going to pick to make the three? I think they point to me to make the joke Then you but if someone's standing there and they go D I don't know man. He's quick. I go fuck. All right, let it go Yeah, because I've also seen comedians when I'm like, this is brilliant I've also seen comedians go up for the first time and say one joke and I'm like, yo Where's he at and he disappeared? I'm like that shit was brilliant I think it's not one to be competing against myself or want the Weird shit because now you can't really now with the memes So they'll just take your bit dog and run a whole joke or people will tell you My joke that was on netflix. I'm like the the nigger joke with the dog and people just ran with it We paying homage. No, you're not bro. Yeah, I'm in the writer's guild. What are you talking about? Not paying homage. You have to say my name Why is it important though? Like, you know, I'm saying because well, it's how we eat It's how we eat. It's your book. It's your uh, it's your life if something's so if something's a broad subject You can't own that but people actually still in your personality and who you are I don't trip as much as swag as swag is music and my swag has been remixed. I see it all the time I don't say nothing, but the people that do do it Then know they do it have what have sets on me like on a level not that they're doing me but that they Like I fuck with you D. Right? And so I don't feel bad. I feel complimented right Yeah, I'm learning how to receive Like, you know, because a lot of people would do you and act and try to be you in front of you and act like Like hold on I could see your name who I'll act like who include myself in web moments And I could tell what jokes and what moves people made because initially I come from a class. I come from a class where we we have some great comments though. You got to remember, man I I saw Cory Holcomb. You know what I'm saying? There would be no courage without seeing Cory Holcomb and TK Kirkland for me to say bitch I wouldn't have had and and Cory instilled it like because he knew out at the time how I was feeling That's the word I needed to use Yeah, so he's like what the fuck you doing? Nigga tell tell him about that bitch and it was like, okay Good coaching the daemons. I wouldn't be who I am wouldn't move. I move Michael Callier my host not see daemon is a host but he daemons are low daemons are lower Then we can move them and move with the mic. But there's a There's a almost like a defense to it a boxing style to it Where you got the dude who's like a dude in the uh The kuma top. What is it called that that and that's the michael cal. Yeah, that's michael cal. Yeah, so No, if they're great, it's like michael jordan watching dr. Jay. You're gonna pick up on some moves Now if I go up there and I say i'm bald hit it and my wife left me i'm being daemon if I if I You know when someone's being someone you know, I mean, you know But I know see swagger something is different because I was the the first guy doing that I was the first rapper slash type my swag wouldn't know i'm gonna have chicks that look like this I'm gonna have this that look like that my flyer's gonna be everywhere I was the first dude promoting the way I was in chicago like a rapper to the point where people walking Like you've been the I was promoting sundays and people walk up to me and say Yo, you're a comedian. I was telling this girl's comedian this dude walking your comedian I was like, yeah, this in a subway and he goes you should do This dude named d-ray spot to me And that's what I knew There was I was big my name was bigger than myself, you know, I would get stickers made I was walking around I wouldn't buy pants unless they had pockets because I wanted flyers in every pocket I would go to sleep at night and I was because I moved from the other money I would go sleeping and something's gonna sound weird. I would smell the flyers I was sitting counting that do sound weird. I was smelling like this is my money fresh cut And I would count every flyer like it was money. I'd be like every time I get somebody that's that crack one two three four five I would sit not all the flyers, but like I was in that vibe I feel you shirts shirts like that the best flyers to me was on the ground No better promotion than something somebody gotta step around So I never got offended my friend larry get mad. He want punch niggas in the back of the head They throw the fly on the ground like let people see that shit Then then what I do when people weren't doing it double-sided flyers Double-sided glossy flyers Comics wasn't doing it. Yeah the first Damn find a fly before it go ahead. The only thing I would say that That damon really like gay like damon when he handed me those flies because he was promoting house of blues I don't think he know what he did that day Because he said if I pass on the flyers I get to perform Then he put my picture on the flyer and that was it. I never want to see nothing else ever Damn, that's some shit. Yeah, I I always wanted to tell you on record You know, like, you know, we always talk, you know, real life type shit, but it's like, um, you know, I'm very thankful for you um Because you play a big part of um the growth the growth I'm going through, you know what I'm saying because, uh You know you you didn't came a long way You the matured and then I'll be fighting these little demons and shit because I'll be I feel like, you know They walked up to me. I'm minding my business by the way Probably barely met him This girl is praising me by the way The young lady's like, da-da-da He goes Why you want this old nigga something to the level of that and I said, oh, that probably sounded old saying it hold But but d-ray being in because a lot of people don't know like how we even you know got locked in a lot of people think Because you know d-ray a fly nigga, you know, he confident He funny all that shit and I think a lot of people think we connected on some cuz You know some arrogant funny shit, but it's like we really got connected on some like Yeah, on the corner. Yeah on the corner into it. Then we got to that symbol So that means But he this nigga old a this nigga also told some we got to because somebody already had a little bit of I said, no already I told your brother motherfucker But but the energy, um, I like like we talked about earlier corrected people. Yeah. Yeah We had a conversation people was around the way it sounded when the way it was we was able to correct each other Talk about it wasn't right a way to the click did it because I still need to see him comedically Yeah, popping that shit. Yeah, you popping that shit anybody that popped that shit need comic out that knows I love popping that shit me and my brother brothers pop shit all the time gary on and Michael blacks and them dudes in my mind, you know, these are my brother brothers. I'm a pop shit about combat I like to treat like sports. So I want to see him play And he played and I want to see how it was and the vibe was hitting and I remember this girl was with me And I was like, yo, what you think about him? Like hosting like how you like you feel like he hosting and she was like He not hosting And I was like Yeah, like she already thought that he already had the job Damn He was hosting he was doing shit. He's not hosting and I was like Yeah I'm not told to and everybody first and then cocoa remember she was like it's cocoa against if anything ain't funny Cokes be like, uh, this was because you seen every fucking joke and now she's not dissing no comics But certain shit make a laugh. No, but she saw it. She was like, I see why you did I see why why This was the choice. Yeah, because I didn't I didn't know the independent side of the uh, I didn't know the independent side of you that much. Um, I was I was talking to uh um, I was talking to jerue Of somebody, uh, you know, just chopping game and I was just telling my what I got going on And um at the time I didn't even know your situation You know, I'm saying and they like I'm telling like, yeah, you know, I put together my own shit I remember that was a conversation we had when we didn't know each other He was like, nigga, I put my own shit together in Chicago. Like, what are you saying? I'm like, nigga I put my own shit together in Oakland. Like what the fuck are you saying? Like, you know what I'm saying? And it was just like it was just like I understand. I'm like, oh Shit, we above and here because we don't know each other. We kind of very similar type of shit. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, damn D-Ray really uh, uh a real independent Stand up Stand up guy. I'm thinking you was like a Hollywood nigga. Well I don't not want to play the game Because or not be any because it I I've been in enough films where I wasn't talking like this before I probably couldn't even had translated what I really Really said what I want to say Had I not been around learning in Hollywood as well, but I never not I want to be to connect the liaison Between telling someone from Hollywood do because niggas didn't have to break down the walls The way I did when I got here had a lot of things to fight and I didn't have that I didn't have a shtick. I didn't have nothing for me hosting improv. I I tried to get a watch the words used now. Fuck is Chicago bully my way onto the improv They wouldn't let me uh I had dope boys in the back trying to pay spike to put me up. He told me no the first week and I was like I'ma get back I wasn't discovered there, you know what I'm saying? I got up and then I was handling myself And then they let me host one time because my manager I signed with the man right manager He was the owner of the improv so I was like just the best move to make at the time They make the move and then I started saying let's just see me host I'll host the room. I'm the rawest host in the fucking world Let me host a monday and then on that monday. I went got floris made. I said d-ray davis every monday That's crazy call me and she said this ain't the way we do things d-ray And we had a conversation and she's like I'ma give you a try. She's very Aaron is was a very big Instrumental part of me being an improv too um And that's why I got strong at honed the craft and honed and if I didn't have that confidence I couldn't have stayed there. Uh-huh if I wasn't that asshole And had to put the thing people don't see is that a lot of times you think I'm being an asshole to you I'm really being an asshole to myself because I'm applying so much pressure to myself If I talk shit about me being funny, then I'm not funny. I fail So if I'm if I walk in that base like I'm d-ray fucking davis when you see me go up And I'm about to shoot these fucking threes or me you have a conversation about a joke I should do and I get up there and feel feel like that joke might not rock fuck that I'm not finna lose tonight and I said I'm fucking d-ray davis Yeah, and the wife and leave it like I bump I try to speak to him. He said fuck you Mrs. Girl try to talk to me because I'm just that I look like this ain't one talks to me This nigga I was gonna holler at the nigga acting funny. Yeah. Was he funny? Yeah, he was funny funny than a motherfucker. That's why you want to talk to me still entertaining And sometimes I can't and sometimes you're talking to me and you see now you know me so you know I zone the fuck out. Yeah with or without weed I loot I literally be like I and I there's nothing I don't know I want to take the medication for work because who knows how that's going to affect my comedy You take that shit away because that's the very thing that keeps me fucking, you know That's another thing like so like, you know in the black community a lot of times Uh, we instantly diagnosed as like add and shit like that, right? Which are my initials? Antoine d-ray davis That's crazy But like so, so I was like diagnosed hell of young as add, but right, but they try to put a nigga on Ritalin I'm like nah, man. You trying to make me just focus on school But now my thought process is way more faster, you know doing all the other shit that I want to do in general But Understand that I do take Adderall at times right where now I could actually focus on Compartmentalize some of this shit or whatever that may I get that that's I guess what this does Yeah, exactly. That's that so that's what that does because you see you seem like a talk of the motherfucker I'm gonna talk to the motherfucker. I know this nigga is too. I'm some shit, you know what I mean But but also you around if it like you hustle you around and was just part of it as well You come from nothing Everybody trying to get a conversation in around you You got to be aggressive to get in your words If you had a mama like my mama should be the shot you got to explain yourself real fast again Yeah, real quick If you're around women that's been around line line niggas You got to talk fast and an average nigga to get the conversation in and it takes the average nigga for five seconds And you got to be a salesman which we are because we only selling ourselves because if we didn't do it Nobody wouldn't do it for us because they believe that we already here or they believe we already got that I'm consistently selling myself. I'm consistently trying to convince people some that they should see that they don't want to see Because I'm saying you should see it right So no matter what no matter what that that's going to be part of your person out Yeah, if that's who you are good part. So We don't just speak for ourselves You also could see to a young boy into it with the police who can't speak for himself You're going to talk faster than you can obviously Let a little shorter to go. Hey y'all nigga kill each other. We have that power too We're just applying it in different areas right now So without this without this superpower a lot of the world I mean people you see people do it politicians do it Uh preachers do it. Yeah, I'm not knocking the lord nor trying to be blasphemous But if we decided in this room, we wanted to become preachers. Yeah, we could we have a conversation And then the winner that's not just comedy comedy This is something that we're born with you know what I'm saying, so Hey, what's happening? It's your boy Lewis belt August 20th. Get your tickets right now Lewis belt will be in st. Louis. Check it out, man Chingi Nelly all you niggas pull up man. I don't know if y'all still beefing I don't know what y'all got going out there all the women with brown booty holes. It's still good. Just pull up On me. You understand me? Uh, I don't know. This is my first time out there. I'm just excited man I just just come to the show. I can't wait to see y'all What you feel like the state of comedy is at like how you feel about uh Where it's going stand up comedy wise because we got a lot of influences social media influences Yeah, but we fighting back man. We also I mean we got we got that but we got the guys who are really trying to do it Like batch really work on this crap. I got a respect to the work on this crap Got the people that that could flow both planes carlos who plays within twitter Not so much instagram plays within the twitter shit, you know, you got a uh because back in the day, man Everything no matter how much you try to stop it and slow it down. They were saying this about Actors in the radio and when people just were singing and then the video came out Like then the video came out then the one no more radio star Then the movie came out and the video like if it weren't for that those platforms you wouldn't be here right now So it's important that We at least embrace them because we definitely need them because that's where the world is going now as far as theft of content And shit like that. I definitely have an issue with original content if I post a meme you says yours Give me i'll tell your name I'm like, yo, this is his this is his words until somebody says it's not somebody has to come Yeah, because you really care about the craft. I feel like I didn't I didn't really know that about you until I learned to The crap I just was funny, but the crap itself and listening to the rooms and stuff like that And I feel like that's the things I'm going to read the book With anything else you have to be I'll say this with the police anything else you have to be fully fucking educated just be educated That's it. I mean that's the rap world everybody Don't just be mean saying I don't know who this rap is and fuck that person Like I don't know what that is like now if someone says it to you must mean something at least take that moment to say You know what I'll check it out But it's not a formal way to learn how to educate yourself in like the entertainment space So I feel like everybody learned different things like what is your way? How did you educate yourself to be like all right? This This is this is how I'm supposed to go about the craft the comedy the process for me Well, I didn't stray away from the fundamentals uh I was like fundamental the fundamentals are very important Being in love with a craft or something is you just like the way it looks It's like people who love art and I just happened to be in love with something I was doing which don't happen all the time Because I had seen all the pain from it. I had made a decision. I had had I remember I left like I said I left the hospital with my wife to go perform on a Sunday night You know what I'm saying back there Yeah And I cheated on her with the craft I cheated on a lot of stuff with the craft So if I put all this effort into who she is, I better fucking love her now. Now. I can't just love her I have to be around all the time now if she's upset with me comedically comedy being that I have to I have to embrace her I have to talk to I have to see why she's feeling the way she's feeling Why is the game going the way it's going? Are you upset with the good? Do I need to write harder? Do I need to write less? Do I need to you know invest more into The youth in comedy do we need to go back to slapstick? What makes it a comfortable relationship between me and comedy so we can keep this marriage going because The relationship it can't end or can't leave neither one we can't leave each other Yeah Minute so that's what keeps me pretty much grounded looking at the craft of comedy the craft of art. You know what I'm saying Damn, if you look carefully enough at craft Art is in it Damn Even the letters Yeah, no that that go crazy for sure in that acting shit That's something totally different because it's like man you uh, you being in snowfall man at this point everybody calling you peaches shit That shit was that shit was a journey. I enjoyed myself. Did you think that role was going to be that big? Because that's a big ass role. I never think about it while I'm in it man It's hard for me because I just don't want to get too comfortable in anything which Kills my celebrations a lot of times so I'm like, oh man I got to know one show and then it'd be like, yeah, what's tomorrow? Asked myself the same questions that everybody else asking because Acting being the woman I'm pretty much cheating with on comedy Right. It's like that's your bad bitch. I you know what I'm saying, but negative. She ain't like I'm you know what I'm saying It's like that. I give you that vibe ain't paying like home. So What I'm supposed to do, um, but I've definitely taken the craft Acting more seriously being out of which I was surrounded by people who ate it breathed it needed it You know actors they act man So I get the act and then go express myself on stage or even talk about the set or talk about anything But that's they have just that Yeah, exactly. Maybe express themselves to there But there's no like real like acting place where they all go hang out besides like like where like what we have to Be able to talk to each other. So I'm like if they could take it this serious and they don't have no outlet I need to take a justice series at least around them while I'm being a supportive member of this situation. Yeah And you know that that's that's literally how I be like So I'll be acting and stuff like that and I try comedy too because I don't have a place to express All of this. Yeah, man. Ain't no more fucking acting on some shit. You know how many times you performed as a comedian It was that one time. It's that one time Do a comic, huh? That big ass Yeah, it was it was in my night at oakland due to what's coming back Like, you know, I'm like on a day to day. Yeah, I could be funny or some shit. Lou always tell me like nigga You supposed to put that shit on stage. Put his hands in the back pocket for this year now Yeah, so I wrote a script Right. I wrote a script, right? I like it was you know, a couple of jokes. I knew I was gonna lead into It was a hard crowd Yeah, you know, it was a tough ass crowd and it's like all these motherfuckers know who I am Shit like that. They're like, oh, yeah, who this 10 milli milli niggas think that he doing comedy niggas. You're not funny I kind of like got nervous up there on some shit like that. That light is different, huh? And then Lou told me he said man, you know, it's it's it's one thing of being, you know That today kind of funny then being up on that stage funny and then I had to sit back and you know Revaluate like fuck man. I don't think I can necessarily get up on that day. I'm good in front of the camera You know and around people and shit like that. But like that that's uh, you know, when did you uh, you know Was it ever a period like getting into stand-up comedy where it's like you knew you you brushed through that uh, that threshold Nope It come natural it come natural I hear comedians say all the time like yo every comic gets booed it's never happened And if you have the footage give it to me The only one time I remember where the crowd was as hard as it could be It was my first out the improv all white people was hard, but still never no boo still laughing White people ain't gonna boo you. They're just gonna be quiet But don't know how to laugh at mama being on crack jokes, but now everybody has y'all welcome right y'all welcome my fuckers but it's I never and then at the uh, the Madison Madison Square Garden I was opening up for Kanye's uh tour and uh When I opened I went in the middle because some act didn't come for some reason and he let me do some dates And there was no backdrop. No nothing. I was in between. I think nerd and uh loopy fiasco And then nerd was going after that and they was ready to see them and they did not want to hear none of that They was like the hell wrong with you Get your ass out and I went to the the ladies in the building You're gonna build all that shit's all like i'm still not gonna get booed. We still gonna win He jumped out of it and then uh, all right there were three third times I was opening up for uh the tour of red man and met the man blackout tour in chicago and I probably had 11 minutes of comedy And them niggas was about an hour late I was up there like what you drinking? I was into it became a uh, uh, uh, uh Oh I was so happy when I seen I was so happy when I seen them come. I like thank god That was a wild night, man. Damn one of them niggas threw a bottle of Hennessy into the crowd And I know nobody caught it with their hands Which you feel like it's the toughest city you you performed in I'm awesome I don't think the toughest city I've had just crazy moments. I drove I got $300 a drive from chicago down to haydive, missouri And I was in haydive haydive, missouri and um They had dancing and stuff going on no stage and the DJ was like Coming to the stage right now. Stop dancers. Stop dancing. Stop dancing. We're gonna do some comedy And I got up there and I was about seven minutes a hell I probably made it to 15 minutes got paid, but they did not want to hear none of that They want to get back to their wings and dance and I've had some rough moments Uh Davenport, iowa was down there one time did a spot call the runway And I didn't know the promoter's wife was there whatever and the crowd was being too reality So I started roasting this late in front and it was a promoter's wife I said something to the fact when we done in here you so dirty They're gonna turn yours out down and mop the floor with you was something like that And the DJ was like man, fuck this nigga Like in the it was literally a runway. So that mean I had to jog all the way back So I remember just yelling out my boy name who drove me. I was like Low let's go low I ran to the back and when I ran to the back I see the niggas start coming on stage to get me and all I heard was the DJ said that's not a Fuck we do it in that point. He played the benjamin's And I jumped the con dipped um What's some other amazing times anybody ever try to fight you? Yeah, they always lost that you had to fight somebody after a show that was in the crowd I fought about I was suspended so I had to call me now I was suspended from the improvs for like two years for fighting in the bathroom And I was suspended from the improvs for um Me and a manager had an incident a long time ago, which he prompted so And that was because of what you were saying on stage No, that wasn't because of that the managers because our seating situation You know how about my seat area? So I just said my young lady sitting there And he had somebody sitting there and I said could you move and he was like He went to say ain't nobody scared of you for no reason. I'm like I'm like I asked you to be though. I'm just saying please You you think you always been on edge because you last came with green eyes No, I would know but just listen to the conversation though You can hear it and know it when I'm wrong people tell me I'm wrong When I'm wrong people say I'm wrong and no matter what my emotions are I got to take that into consideration that someone else observed me being wrong Especially if somebody that rocked with you and I wasn't wrong. Everybody around was like, yo Then he invited me outside and everybody scared you. I was like cool, man. He's like come outside and I was like The manager We ended up being I man, he ended up but it was wild and I don't know if you don't see this or not But he had a book in me on the A show I ain't gonna say what show what name but he booked me a show as we talked But it was it was a while that they suspended me like that and I was I showed it that Monday and they gave me that paper What is this But for the most part man not really challenged because I learned also in our art, which I try to teach. I don't know when the Sit down and actually write it all out, but We have to be I've always been apologetic in them Whether it be a straight on apology. Uh-huh or Between the lines So it's always like Would you a fly as nigga exactly? I'm trying to tell you that too. Yeah Because we are and we empowered with the mic Now there's been times I put the mic down and just roasted like you want me to show you how good I am But even in the moments. I'm still winning because the echo is here Yes on me. Yeah, I have a mic without having one. Yeah, so it's so I know I'ma win that Yeah, I usually try to compliment somebody first and then I'ma roast your ass. So if you're watching this Absolutely horrible I'm gonna come in your motherfucking mean it at all nigga. I never listen to your compliments again. I know you I'ma compliment your erosion nigga. That sounds like what every black person do they play, you know, he in school He's done selling them drugs That's not like where every black person is Boy you looking clean as motherfucker, but boy them ears boy. No, no I remember when you That's a nice card. Everybody shoot that bitch up to the one girl about the uh the oxtails Oxtails it was funny as hell because you you're using the comedy You know, I mean, you know as you get on about the oxtails, but compliment. I bet it's not as good as it Oh mama. She's like, hey, I'ma need some of the oxtail Yeah, that can feel good about it. No, we can't give them too much. So they're gonna be stealing our motherfucking I don't know how funny this gonna be on camera. But uh, this comedian from Chicago And him and I would do this thing. But I think I'm pretty sure he thought of it because he's crazy His name Marley, you know Marlon Mitchell Marlon Mitchell is hilarious Marlon Mitchell Would compliment you the whole time. He never said nothing bad about your shit. What you knew he was talking about you It was so fucking dope like you be like like you be like, I see you baby got the rate of patch I see you you've been up there. You've been up in the Vegas. It's okay. Like but it's real But it's funny. I see you back. Look at your shoe for you. How you doing? It's so big And it would be some of my favorite moments in the club because he would do that and I would just man We had fun. Chicago was Speaking of Chicago, are you already to anthony davis because I am not last name is davis and you look just y'all look at like Nah, man, you sure that man's a young man for one But we uh, we ran each other in the airport years ago I think it's right when he got drafted and we took a picture and I was like, it was you know Plus both being from Chicago area Anthony my first name Antoine I ain't I ain't the nigga daddy Oh, you could be that Uncle and I ain't the nigga uncle cousin. None of that. You wouldn't claim that's a bag right there And y'all and I think y'all nigga definitely look y'all looking at two light-skinned niggas with grades because that nigga do not look like me We do not look like I got green eyes Y'all put a comment y'all think d-ray look like anthony davis That nigga With your address your mother fuck up. They're gonna be like minus the brow. I'll put brows on all y'all houses Airbrush brows with spray paint brows on all y'all cribs Yeah, no, that's that's some shit. Y'all always wanted to ask I didn't need to find think nobody asked you that No, we ain't related man Davis every now and then I tweet yes Just because I like I'm a mystery nigga mysterious song you wouldn't be mad if you found out that was your son or something You'd be like damn For a show and no disrespect at all, but I know I ain't been with no I ain't been with no eight-foot woman Where that nigga jeans come from I would have still had to be like 10 or 15 maybe Well, it's the way else fucking you're right No, man, I'm glad you came through man. Just do it again, man. We just this is an intro to it. This is Oh, people know that we associated, you know, I'm saying a deep deep We be talking so much in real life awkward to talk to a nigga on camera It's like it's awkward even interview. Yeah, because a lot of stuff A lot of stuff is we if we have a dude we need the stuff we talk about We want to be teaching it but when we first saying it we upset So we wondering why the niggas acting like that But we want to be teaching them not just you know, I'm saying being like why you act like that But figure it out help each other. Maybe the niggas business Niggas can't get the situation we get they're not gonna feel feel like you earn where you at because they'll never see what I see My folks also didn't think that LeBron was going to be where he's at or stuff like that It's what I do. I've seen women right a lot of Jackie long Nick Cannon and they went I wasn't like super crazy just supported enough to know You know great when you see it, you know who you want to pass the ball to you know Who's gonna be flying who's gonna keep shit comfortable and who willing to learn He outlawed to learn on the business side of things, but I wouldn't want to Fuck he so we want to fuck it up What he's going I want to fuck it up and he's like It's gonna happen if it's gonna happen we're gonna have it on this time Yeah, I love dropping the jewels on it though. Yeah young pimple like yo niggas but Forcing him to do it why he's being creative It's just skewering. It's not what the fuck skewer. You heard that? Yeah, I don't know what the fucking word even mean right there Yeah, I was gonna say I didn't know that word But it would be I feel like my crap was unorthodox and it worked Business wise gonna be important So I just dropped the jewels because I could see the other side of it and when it occurs I'm able to catch it and be like that dude gonna be important because it is this dude I'm gonna be important because that and hope he sees the importance and The business side of shit rather than the personality because they human right Man, if you stay mad at niggas when they don't act like you that mean you expect another you niggas And if that happens, how are you gonna be the great one? Thanks, I hate getting mad. I used to get mad at people doing comedy and do jokes Why you do it like that? I'm like you can't And why I'm gonna be upset with him because he's not me in that essence like I'm sure he does something great But in this moment in that thing Why would I be upset? You can't duplicate me man? I I can't I can't look for me On me about that my pops stop being mad at niggas because they ain't you right can't do it man It'd be hard too because you try to explain to them like yo man. You don't see why Okay, I gave you I gave you a gallon of juice, right? You don't see why you come back with two gallons of juice You should give me a gallon back Right. Yeah, you don't feel like I should be the first you like man. I got two gallons now You don't feel like it's like a nigga And then if you give it to me, I'll give it back to you because I don't want it or need it Yeah, but at least trickle it down Trickle it back the courtesy Yeah, a lot of motherfuckers don't be having that type of criminal courtesy niggas criminal courtesy Yeah, and I'm going through that phase where I got this fire. Yeah, so I'll be like You feel me and then they may be like Nah, it's cool, but I'm like but if I already be lit enough because in the place he's at And I don't know much about Star Wars, but it's as simple as Anakin trying to jump at Obi-Wan when he had the higher ground You're in a higher ground You basically have to hire no matter what you got the higher ground. So they got to come up. You got it Yeah, nigga, you going down is putting yourself at a disadvantage in that moment Yeah, no matter Anybody I Anybody I give a legit argument where it gotta be somebody I believe don't want to be in the place. I'm at Say that again. Anybody I give a genuine argument with I have to believe You you don't you don't want to be in the place. I'm at if I think you want to be in the place. I'm at Why are you with you? I definitely don't want to be where you at a while arguing with you me Yay, want to be funny. It's my friend. Yep. I know you want to be in a place about a funny minute I want to be a rap star. We got real arguments It's a real argument I want to be a billionaire. We're gonna really argue But if I don't want nothing but you like if we don't have no That's why a lot of these verses don't make sense to people because the people like why I'm a rapper against you And I heard you do my style three times I'm going against me. So now I got to prove I'm a better me than you Damn, I'm not gonna do it. So I'm not getting the arguments. I just want to compliment people I want people to move on and be great and be the greatest you you could be I have given advice to comics who I think Might not I'm not gonna rock with you Like we're not gonna sit in Brainstorm because it's gonna be more of my brain in my storm You know what I mean? But if I have a joke for you a tag for you You got one for me sit talk chat real quick. Cool. I got that we both helped each other that that makes sense But I can't be I'm I'm arguing sit and talk about anything I don't know nothing about sports. So I'll argue with you if you argue with me You're you an idiot Right and I sit and do it all the time. Yeah Michael joined the greats play on earth But I'm not gonna run through his stats because I'm not that great at remembering the stats But if you go through stats, you wouldn't argue with me I won already because I'm your complete I'm not arguing with you. I'm not arguing about who the greatest top five comics Are you never gonna tell me that Mike up saying top top top no matter what sure I say about We're not gonna argue because you're not there. You're talking about I'm watching you want to be me Are you gonna tell me about another one? Yeah and basically like Beef not beefing because like, you know, like comedy don't be no beef. But like, you know, like Basically, it's not good for business not seeing eye to eye all the time. Yeah, we're gonna all we're men We're going to I'm learning from you. I'm listening y'all so You guys got to show me the why I'm always down. You got to show me the why it works And I'm with it. So it's not like I don't want to hear your new ideas I'm argue about you was new or who who shouldn't be on instagram who tick tock show me the why and put it in the way I can understand because until then I'm I'm stagnant, right? I'm just and that ain't how my life moves at all Everything is traffic. I'm used to jumping in that that going up the shoulder You got to show me why I should get back in the lane and learn how to other than that I got to go So you show me now Paul like I come you show me your talent. We hear we working I'm willing to listen to do now. I know you're talented and we'll listen to you Do your jokes and work our shit and why me and you banter and about bullshit We drop in the business jewels at the same time. Thanks. We're talking about the audience at the same time talking about listening We're talking about the cameras. We're talking about Stuff at the same time you telling me like yo D. Why we ain't putting this out every week on me We ain't putting this out. I'm like, I want to be like Prince and put you like Fuck that Give me the footage Kevin. Oh, you gave digging my footage Yeah, Louis working. No, no, no nigga. Hey, Louis. D. What we doing? So now we got to move forward on now like Monday raised. I was I was wrong. He's right But he made me understand the why the why is The other streaming places that I believe the other streaming comedy shows I believe don't have what we have are doing well They're doing well. So Why we ain't doing great Exactly why I'm letting them why I'm letting them do well and I'm we still sitting back What am I waiting on now for me to be 70 and drop it? Then he's like, so he's like, let's go. So now we're talking about now We we doing that That's all I don't know. Yeah, I feel you. Yeah. No, it makes us it make a lot of sense though Just an all the shit though But I just appreciate you because um a lot of things from a comedian standpoint You tell me things that other comedians is scared to tell me and that's the part I do respect You know I'm saying I think the gift and uh, not the tumor horn But the gift is being a good comedian is that you know you naturally good That's the gift that you know Certain things you just can't learn you can watch comedy all day. You can't learn this shit You feel me the bad part is though It gets intimidating when when you want advice and you won't get you you know, you want information People like, oh, no, you good, you you know, they don't want to give it to you because if if I get that then it's over Yeah, you feel me. So I appreciate the outrageous for always. Um Giving me an insight I'm gonna tell you this before before you leave. You the only reason I roast the step curry On my on my first comedy special because I went to the improv in our practice And I told you what I was practicing for and I'm like, man, if step curry pull up, should I roast? You like you go what? Me like you have to you have to you know, so I'm like the greatest And now the highlight of the shit and you're not gonna the greatest shoes of all time If he invited you to go you about to go play you okay? You can't play You about to go see this like this dude, you don't get those moments, man. So that's great. And I knew you know how to do it If you were another comment and ask me and I thought you were gonna say something crazy out of That shit is this After like You got to imagine that's just his jump shot imagine with that niggas real shot like If I shoot you Everybody can shoot you from here at the crib make it curvy the word who you want to curve the bullet and want it Accuracy man, so but that was a yeah, man. Let me get moments Shit like that man, you know I'm saying when I when I'm a little edge be cool and I could trust that because I know okay You know He had a temper at one point. Yeah, so it's not like Scary shit, you feel me? He more like on some wise shit like nah, you feel and I still try to fight with it often with myself with with with Because where is it coming from we still never went and sat and talked to nobody so all we do with ourselves We don't really go get therapy and when he's doing they ain't about sitting on the couch and pay, you know money I can sit one niggas Bob a shot talk this shit around, you know I'm saying see see something and it might not be exactly what I want to hear But you ain't about to tell me something fly either when I get out of here because your homies let you talk All that shit black, but you're still gonna get the bit like some give me some energy on the way out some fly shit No, yeah, so It ain't always about the angry shit, but it's just about the direction of it all because if you take certain directions and other things you Wanting that That incident won't happen So you take direction of if your demeanor is he on the list he going up Somebody come in And a lot of stuff don't be your responsibility Exactly. It's the responsibility of the game. Exactly. It's two people who are going next and like we just said Mike up so Mike or one of the big name people come in We've all been bumped Yeah, Mike want to Mike wants to go next and the question is do you still want to go after there's time? All right, that's my last weekend. Okay, that makes sense to me. I understand your passion There's Mike Could you please But let's do it while we right here. You know, we're not finna do the The Middle man, middle man, all that shit. You want to go up? You go ask the headliner I need to get up and get out of here or if a dude is you feel like and why wouldn't you It's gonna I don't I'm some giving people more information When people show up, I don't know if you notice. I let people just go up I'm like, I'm not gonna do a lot of time. I was gonna do a lot of time that day I was like, no, what's the name here blackhead? No such as let them go Because I want to see what my niggas How they hooping right now, how they how they legs working? I gotta be on tour with this guy soon. Let me go Let me see his boxing style. Let me drive on take this guy. Oh, he's stomach hurt Oh, he's level a little slow like let me drive on take that moment and watch a little sparring I ain't got to see the whole set. I see the reaction play. Oh, he ain't in his bag. I'm in my bag Now I'm not gonna go show my bag. Yeah, I'm a chill my bag pop it Yeah, why not? So if a great come in like someone all of that don't need to even be down there I'm sitting down dog I was about to See, I do but see I do good with the grace. I just don't do good with niggas. That's not great Don't walk in here with this great energy like you're great. You're not a motherfucking great But see the thing that make them think they great is that energy from what from their tribes The try and when they're where their tribal where their tribes at the respect level is about They um Like we we we we not just we not just heard we smart So I want to come up like we just some hood guys We still got a little bit you still got a little bit of the dev jam and you a little bit of the grams Well, I just do is they didn't move on it's a lot of coming central more more of that So they're not so then in their mind is that and they come and um And they'll come around us But it's but we got to do that too because we humble ourselves we walk in these rooms We just don't walk in those rooms like we great, but sometimes We have that swag we bring in from the we have that need no brown about us walking in them rooms I had it walking in other rooms and I've had moments was like I'm never gonna bond but I have moments when I'm like Oh, this is why I need to practice all arts So Once again, man, I see what once again about people being like don't even like even if they agree That's what they need for they confident, but you know you better. Yeah, that never bothers me. Yeah That's crazy. I'm I'm I've seen that before too. Just going to the Mondays and stuff like that a great come in and like really That was ass like on some shit. I mean they up there learning again. I can't wait to look it back up here. You know Yeah, no, it's a it's a no that too that too. You know, that's real dog You're like people been in the house too long man. You ain't whooped out here dog I'm out every day man. And that's why I always go and that's why I child myself You won't go dog. I'm like, no, I put me last. Yeah, let me see if I still let me see after all these people with these Jokes, etc. So yeah end of the day man. This this is This is a hundred different conversations bottom line is I'm not gonna say nothing gonna affect you things gonna affect you because you once again We hear me but end of the day when it come to and I ain't gonna say stand your lane on the deal Because man, we we switching everybody doing all kinds of everybody trying to sing and rap I go because I don't want to shit on myself when he dreams it might come later after this I might want to be in the whole horticulture one day. Yeah, not the weed kind I'm about to say we got farms and shit but but Just because you're already settled once again, dog I would tell you in any instance just don't you don't got to come down especially when you're already You in there you at the crib and they come in and wipe and they feed, you know what I'm saying? fact Now, you know what the disrespect is but it's like, hey man, I was gonna put you up But your thing be like you should know and some niggas don't know Exactly That's the truth some niggas shouldn't know you be like you should know but they don't they're like What do I do? Are you like Some it's as simple as this I walk in the room with four girls Mm-hmm a dude the other day man. It's simple at valet I'm leaving I'm leaving valet and the girls are two girls that work at the club and my My cousin And another girl her girlfriend. Yeah walking my cousin is a straight up girl but At home he goes Damn, you keep bitches and right there. He didn't know so said to me being like the fuck you say it was Amen. I know you ain't used to this. See that hurt worse. Yeah, who ain't got no, no, no, no, no I know you ain't because you wouldn't have dressed it like that stressing keeping ladies around And if the woman you be around let you talk like that then I know we ain't living in the same era So there's no way you can even holler at these women and there's my cousin who's a police officer Who won't blow your brains out over her bitch like but still but I'm saying though it's People don't know what they're doing sometimes man Yeah, people don't know what they're doing and and we have to accept I have to accept that and address it because of what I've given off before Because there was a time when you were a show before Five six so I could see where his energy came from. Yeah, exactly. Yep. Exactly. I have to accept who I am This might be a problem a lot a lot of shit though. You have no idea Women men anything if you ever stole something before don't be like don't bring up when I say no, no, no, no You did you stole some shit nigga. Yeah, let's put that on the table. Yeah now that we both know you a thief How do we move forward exactly? Yeah, but don't ignore the fact Dude, I had this comes up. It happens comes is I'm like, I know what I did to make you feel this way I get it. Yeah, but they ain't got nothing like but right now though I know I did but right now they ain't we talking about but I'm going to accept That because I did do that. I was like, yeah So that's the only thing long as you longest when you and I hope none is probably gonna make sense a lot of my fuckers Because they you know frequency is different for me But as long as back to what I said at the beginning of Of I just kicking the cali is intent is everything with me Intent is everything from the beginning to the end. Do you intend to hurt me? Did you intend to? Did you intend to make this fucked up like that? Are you walking the hand intentionally trying to fuck up or destroy my show? Because if you're not Okay, I get it. But if you are tell me let's get to it then Let's get to it That's that's gay When you see my look like when you see a little shorty when you see a little shorty You see a little shorty of the bar. You just mackin. You bend yourself Do you know you don't know what's my bet? You ain't no intentions of exactly a great bitch Have you seen me with it and then you slip to the bar? Mama nigga Let's get to it. Yeah, that's what it is. Let's get to it. That's it But for the most part when they come down there and see you they trying to get to where you at not get to it Yeah And I gotta know that in life and I keep sending them to you on purpose Every time they ask me about bookings now your host is right over there. Yeah, Danny's right over there I have no idea how they book it. You know, you know, it's crazy All the times I'd have been to to improv on monday's, uh, you know, I peep lujolo, you know, stilo And they could do that shit with no ego, bro You do that shit with no ego, you know what I mean? Who don't have no ego Look the way that he managed things now. I mean like motherfuckers come in and oh, I thought you been on stage That's my ego big on stage He big on stage But just like, you know, just I had a devil walking here talking to lads like that Yeah, I'm gonna sit down like wait a minute. What what's going on? Oh, no, I know what you mean. You mean like he ain't shitting on people But if you come in respectfully he listen, but that's why that's why but I also left it for the firm hand of The way I ran it still had that He has a chance to run it the way I run it without having an asshole stand Yeah, and that's what you've been trying to save me from that. Yeah I have that so since I had to do everything and nobody knew the work going into it He don't have to do everything but I want him to do the work And get it to the point where it's you know, I'm saying what they they understand is just a this is just how it works And if I went somewhere else, this is what I do for you I don't have to do what you did Yeah, that's the problem people have. Yeah with everything If I had to do what you had to do I do it But I don't because I did something else. What's your other thing to make you not have to talk to Lewis I don't want to go ask Lewis But nigga go get a special go blow the fucking room up so hard your shit buzzing and when you walk with Lewis nigga They like lose this such and such Yeah When I walked in the room when I got to the place I went to after my name at buzz with no TV no nothing It was like that's D Ray and I'm sitting back like yeah, I'm in See if they're gonna do it all new or they already called about you Yeah, they already called about you I get text about dude this dude funny another and I'll put it in the group chat via such and such If the person suck I put the tag This is this this yeah this person refer to them Because it's on you but the confidence as far as like man, that's you can you Somebody coming in bottom line There's steps to take unless you took other steps bottom line. Yeah, yeah improv is popping man Monday's crazy. It's some fly some fly shit If you want to pull up and if you want to do it if you want to do it You know the way to go about it and if you don't want to go by that way Man dude, man independent route masterpiece that shit. Yeah And then you'd be like oh, I gotta let you man We gotta let you through the door because they know where I go. I feel like in the And there's some places I go by the way, there's some I've never done the comedy seller I believe probably one time in New York if I went there's no one for me to call So you know what I'll do D Ray Davis, you know D Ray Davis do I'll go down there and I'll say Hey How do how does a comedian get on if they happen to go? Are you a comedian? I go. Yeah, damn it person. That's one step. You get to the next person. What if they go? Who fuck is this? He's a comedian. I've never seen him You never seen me sir. I understand that so from you from this point on what would be my step? Yeah Step on stage Yeah The night thank you wait wait wait Wait now them steps are passed Now I show up my pens out. Yeah, it's for the sign-up sheet in the autograph Yeah I'll go to the comedy store every week. I'll be like who you got up here, which I do in poetry I didn't see the list shit. It's talking shit. You don't even know who it is. I don't care. Put me last Laugh factory ask pookie. Put me last So they talk my shit What you doing D Ray the greatest comedy show y'all gonna see tonight. Yeah, I just talk like that all the time Shut up man. You guys got to talk that well. All right. Let's see if I do it or not Yeah, we'll bet a hundred dollars Fuck you nigga, of course Yeah, you got really believe in yourself That's the moral of the story. No, you gotta stand on it. You gotta stand on it. We talked about a band three Comedically biblical things. Yeah, this is a real comedian episode right here. This is a real comedian But we need we needed that though. You understand me? Yeah, man We never talk about comedy on this podcast And you applied the pressure too, nigga, because you was like you said I'm like, people don't know we know each other We be talking in real life and I said what nigga? I know your mommy and daddy. They most comfortable with them here They got some of the age around them and I got a lot of relationships like that people Because I'm not I'll be more about the relationship and not the pic But I got they showed applied that pressure though. They was like, you ain't nobody sent up the cover You ain't you ain't claiming me all you know, like you ain't pulled up to the motherfucking thug mansion kelly kickback You understand me? We ain't chopped game. Yeah me. So I appreciate you man I feel like I gotta These ain't things you want to promote before you get up out of here man. Mondays Come on a monday man. Everything else going to promote itself. Y'all know I be out about if you care You be a minister if you don't care you won't be and if you are smart y'all listen to something in here and treat All this conversation like food take the the nutrients out and just shit out the rest And if they don't and they don't know you feel me monday at the hollywood improv You understand me pull up, you know every monday, you understand me You guarantee and he got two movies on the way too. It's important. Yeah. Yeah two movies. They are damn I do have two movies on the way. Yeah, you do My fault, man Thank you, brother. Yeah, appreciate it. Really got anything you want to say Wayne? No, man. Hey, look, it's Been an honor, you know being with a great, you know Y'all got me out here hanging with you life's kid niggas. Yeah How you life's kid too? We was up pretty early in two. I'm brown Yeah, sometimes we say that too around us. You might be a little brown They round them around them dark niggas you life's kid You fluctuate. I'm in the middle. You fluctuate between the niggas Pick a side Instagram Jamal true love man, you know the rest. Oh, yeah. Yes. That means Lewis bell, man Make sure y'all subscribe man D Ray Davis. We in this thing that D Ray Davis We gone