The Real Report - Gianni Paolo on Power Book II: Ghost, 50 Cent's influence, acting with Michael Rainey, and Hollywood's dark side

23:43Tony Yayo:Yo, listen. That shit was getting - That had to get to y 'all head. Y 'all niggas was like - Y 'all was the only actors that actually 50 booked y 'all rap artists. Y 'all had walkthroughs. Meech made a lot of money. Michael Rainey made a lot of money. Gianni made a lot of money. The Ghost made a lot of money. Tommy, like the way 50 had it set up is like y 'all had rappers, like y 'all was rappers. That's the first time you ever seen actors do walkthroughs like rappers. And the only other equivalent of that is like, I guess, an actor going to like Comic-Con. But it's like, who the fuck wants to sit at a booth all day long and sign papers?

24:21I'd rather be at the Club of Bottles. Of course, of course. 50 really like, and he did that. He made that happen. He posts us on his Instagram. He made us stars for that reason to have us make money like that. Like that wasn't for him. Like sure he's promoting the show, but like he does a lot of shit for us to help us out and, you know, have us do shit like that where I don't see any other actor ever doing what we do. There's like seven or eight of us that can really like go to a club in Tallahassee or Houston and, and sell out a club. Like kind of nuts. Definitely. I talk about that all the time.

24:51I'm like, if you, if you, when I go to set and I like, I shot a movie last year with Sophie Turner from Game of Thrones. She's like, that's the biggest show ever probably, right? And I was explaining to her, I was like telling her like what a club hosting is. And she's like, so people just pay to come and party with you in the club? And I was like, yeah, she's like, this is the coolest thing I've ever heard. I'm like, you're on fucking Game of Thrones. And how you don't know? Yeah, like they just don't know because it's just such a different world. Definitely. It's a different world.

25:19Tony Yayo:It's crazy, man. And you had the like crowd hype because like your scenes, like you being in court and everybody I thought you was going to snitch. And you didn't snitch. The writers love me, man. I always tell people like, do fucking good work because then the writers want to write good shit for you. But if you show up to set and you're a fucking asshole and you don't take your shit seriously, you don't have your lines memorized, the writers don't want to make you succeed. So every time I would come to set, I'd be improv and I'd be going to talk to the writer who, because every writer for that episode is on set.

25:50So I'm like, what should we do? Can we add a joke here? Should we switch this out? Even like that YSL Rico joke that I made that went viral. And I said that in one of the scenes that we're at the money thing, whatever. I don't even remember what the fuck it was. I know what you're talking about. I changed that out. It was like Gambino Crime Family. I'm like, if you help the writer and you talk to him and the producers see that, because I really was trying to make every episode. I'm going to bring you into right now time. This is what's going on now. I cared about the show so much. I was like, some people just show up and they get their fucking paycheck and they go home.

26:24I'm like, I want to make every episode as good as possible. I would go up to the producers' offices and I'd be like, what's the next episode look like? I want to go through the wall. When I went through the wall, that wasn't scripted. Shit like that to elevate the show because I cared so much. So then the writers cared about me and they gave me cool shit and they made me look lit. And that's kind of like a push and pull as an actor or a writer. You want to make them look good, they make you look good.

26:49Tony Yayo:Right. Did you go to acting classes or no? Before, yeah. When I first moved to LA, I was doing a little bit in Rhode Island before I moved. And then I was doing I did live improv classes at Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade. It's called UCB. And that's kind of like Donald Glover started there and and Will Ferrell, Melissa McCarthy, like all the great start at Groundlings and UCB. That's like where the comedic acting comes from and where like, you know, a writer's brain of jokes and stuff. But then I took like more serious acting classes for the first like couple of years I was in L.A. and I popped in and out with an acting coach.

27:22But like, I don't know, sometimes I'm like, I know everything I need to know about acting at this point. Like, I'm going to learn more just by working now. Like, a teacher's not going to teach me anything that I haven't already done.

27:33Tony Yayo:What gives you your drive? Because I've done seen you in London. Yeah. Then we could be in Miami. Then you're in Italy or Paris or something. Michael Rainey's in Jamaica. You're in Jamaica. What gives you your drive? What made, say, this guy from Rhode Island to all the people that want to be actors out there from Rhode Island gives them this drive to go to LA 19 years old, no money, catering you went from serving food to you know, Aston Martin trucks and all that shit I love it, like I legitimately love it like I love pulling up on you guys you're going to tell me when I'm 10 years old look, you're going to be friends with all your favorite rappers you're going to be on 50 Cents TV show he's going to bring you out on stage in front of 70 ,000 people at Tottenham Stadium in London.

28:22I'm going everything. I'm living in the moment. I'm having fun. I think that's just like, I enjoy it so much. This is where I think other people do it for not themselves. They're doing it to prove something to someone or this. I genuinely just do it because I have so much fun. And that's why I'm an actor because of the fun that I have doing it. The second it stops becoming fun, I'm not going to do it anymore. But I just have fun. That's why I do the podcast with Mike. I leave the studio after doing two episodes. It's like, God, that was so fucking fun. We really just had Michael Ely in here. I grew up watching him.

28:54Fat Joe in here. We just have crazy people that I grew up idolizing that I just sat down and chopped it up with for an hour and had them on my podcast. Definitely. I just love what I do. That's really it. That's crazy. Yeah.

29:06Tony Yayo:To live your dream just to think. They said he was from Vermont. The kid from Vermont fucking just jumped Rhode Island. So what's next for you, though, man? What's next? What you working on next? So that movie just came out that I did, Trust. I did that last year. We got crushed in the box office, but it's killing it on streaming now. OK. Shout to Trust. Where do we see that at now? On Paramount Network. It's on Paramount Plus now. Shout to Paramount Network. But dude, it's so hard. Like to do those types of movies, there's genre horror movies or there's superhero Marvel movies. There's kind of no in between.

29:39It's kind of hard to be in theaters and make a movie do like it used to do five years ago. um but we're we're crushing on streaming now and um yeah dude i'm just i'm getting ready for the next thing i'm just auditioning and figuring out what the right play is because you could go and do something and get stuck on a show for eight ten years and not be happy you know what i mean like the money doesn't mean anything to me i'm like i'll tell my team all the time like not that not that not that and then when the right thing comes in that you know um it's hard too because once you do a show like power you don't want to go backwards so what if you do power and then all of a sudden you're doing like a no shade to any like the procedural shows but you do like a like a a a fire show or you play a firefighter this or that like da vinci right now um but but but it's like you go from such a lit show when you're with 50 and then all of a sudden you're just like i don't know i don't want to take a step back so i'm being very like strategic because i

30:35Tony Yayo:remember we was talking earlier you said you could either take a role where you're making 20 million or you could take a role that makes you a big star. Yeah, so this is a story from, you know, Chris told me that there are these two guys and I won't mention the names because I don't know if they want the story out there, but one was a show, that Dick Wolf show, so it's going to go seasons. You know, if Dick Wolf's getting involved, it's Law & Order, it's Chicago Fire, it's all those shows, you know, you're going to go for 10 seasons. Now, the other show was Ballers. now I don't obviously Denzel Washington's son why not booked it but another actor booked Ballers and then another role at the same time and they were essentially like do you want to be rich or do you want to be you know famous and he was like I kind of want to be rich so he took the role that now it's on you know 14, 15 season whatever and he's rich he wanted what he wanted his family will be good forever and now you know Denzel Washington's son he doing Tenet doing Christopher Nolan movies i don't know what his paychecks look like but like i essentially would say that they're both pretty rich at this point but like he made a decision to go maybe if i did ballers i wouldn't have gotten to that next step it would have just ended in three four seasons right so it's kind of a that's the game with acting is like everything is like a strategic fucking move and it's like if they think you're hot if they think you're doing well then this casting director or this producer will bring you in for this movie so it's a very strategic game that people don't really you know kind of know about um but they're both rich and i you know i love for my friends when you hear about the stories because wasn't will smith will smith he was supposed to be in the matrix and he did that stupid cowboy movie i think back in the days am i wrong or right here he did that flop that dumb movie remember that movie will smith did wild wild west so will smith was he turned down the matrix yeah but here's the thing when when you get a script you don't know if it's going to be good or not you don't you could read a script and go this is fucking incredible and then the director could ruin it or even afterwards the director could have directed it great and the producers are like we don't think it's going to do good and they chop the movie up so will like will smith that could have been better than the matrix in his mind probably but that's what i'm saying that's how these guys probably right that right this is all about the decisions right it's all about like when you get to that level and you have 10 scripts you've seen entourage right you have 10 scripts you got to pick the best script to that's going to blow you up the most in your lane that you want to do it's a very strategic game it's not just like oh i booked this let me go do it they'll lock you down for seven years you can't do nothing so how do guys like dicaprio and guys like that pick the best scripts they just get lucky well not at this point so dicaprio was a child actor so he got gilbert grape really young and he's obviously a great actor but once like he's kind of grandfathered into where he's done so many hit movies now it's now it's a thing where the biggest directors coming the best writers are coming to leonardo dicaprio as opposed to like there's 30 or 40 a-list actors but they're all fighting to do a christopher nolan movie they're all fighting to do a paul thomas anderson movie as opposed to like these the best scripts are going to leonardo dicaprio no matter what that's why he has 20 years of hits because he's getting the best scripts that he's seeing all these scripts first before any actor in town.

33:59So he's kind of grandfathered in. He turns the shit down. Yeah, he turns everything down and he picks what director he wants to work with and who he trusts. That's why he works with Scorsese a lot. He knows it's going to be a banger. Scorsese's not doing bullshit. So once now if you look at me, my path is to go, okay, cool. Do a great movie with a great director. Boom. Book that. Do a big series. Get a lot of notoriety. Then I might get a better script. And then you get to the top and then you can pick whatever you want. But it's getting there to be able to pick shit is kind of like the life of an actor to get there.

34:33Tony Yayo:Right. What y 'all did was so big, man. Me watching TV, I remember it was three shows on that we always watch, Mert. Snowfall, Godfather of Harlem, and Power. To me, that was like a classic year of TV, bro. Like, for real. I was just bouncing back on all them shows. I mean, what would 50 say if you didn't watch Power, though? Would he be like, what the fuck, man? Nah, I mean, you got it. I mean, it's good TV. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, people think, yo, we going to yes, man, 50 to death. When it's good, it's good, man. I agree with that. It's just good shit. Yeah, the actors, the actors. I agree with that.

35:09If it's good, it's dope, it's dope. I mean, the original Power, it's a fucking masterpiece. Like, those six seasons are a masterpiece, you know? It's hard when you start doing spinoffs and you have different writers' rooms and different actors in different places and kind of tied all together. like sometimes it gets a little difficult but like those six seasons of power are fucking masterpiece and i didn't watch an episode of power until after i had already shot those four episodes of season six because i didn't want to i didn't want to know more than what brayden should have known like there's actually a scene where me and tommy meet in season six of power but that wound up getting cut um yeah why did they cut that i think probably just for time but he he He came into the dorm room where he found out that Tariq stole his drugs and was selling it.

35:55And he came into the dorm room and he sees me and he goes, get the fuck out of here, Bieber. And I run out. So we had already met. But it cut to the point where he was already in the room. And I think it just goes right into him being like, you fucking, you stealing my drugs? So I forgot what the point. Oh, so we had already met. What was the point of why the fuck I was saying that? Damn it. It's great TV. It's six seasons of a masterpiece, right?

36:26Tony Yayo:I think about lines for the next movie and shit. You see, that's what actors do. Yeah, but it's six seasons of a masterpiece and then they just need to kind of go off and figure out what's the best way and kind of like, you know, Joseph did his show that, but it's hard to really like make it work all together after like there's different... So when did the bond with you and Michael Rainey start? Because it was like, you know, it was so funny because y 'all used to go on Instagram and, you know, y 'all used to, who had the best outfit? Y 'all used to go against Meech. Meech used to hate on y 'all.

36:58Tony Yayo:You know, y 'all used to hate, you know, y 'all used to hate on him, whatever. Y 'all used to go back and forth. But it's like, you never seen two actors like mesh like that and actually be brothers outside the studio, in the club. Yeah. It started, so it started actually just the first episode that it came back for season six of um of uh power where i was just like i said you i was living in la so they flew me to new york and i'm just in new york city i know a couple people but you rap and you're just like oh fuck like i'm not doing shit so we were on set and like most actors you meet are very proper they're very like you know reserved they could be a little crazy but like michael's not like an actor actor michael's a kid that grew up in staten island that just so happens to be on a tv show like he doesn't let that fame or anything kind of get to him he's very like a normal kid because he grew up in his family home with all of his friends around him and his day job was just go to power now obviously like he got bigger and bigger as like ghost happened and all that but when i had first met him he just he brought up a girl and he brought up a car and i'm my head i was like started talking about that girl looks fine as shit and i like look over at him and then we just started talking and that was day one back of season six of power pick me up that night me and him went out to the club it was over from there we were it's going out every night i was flying back and forth to do the episodes and then i would me and mike would go out and then he'd hit me be like you coming back for next hour i was like i don't know i'm not reading the episodes like am i coming back so i would i was like maybe i'll just go to new york and kick with mike even if i'm not in the episodes and then that's when we got the call for ghosts and i was we were just fucking outside every night.

38:37I mean, Garrett will tell you he's sitting over there. He ain't never seen a set like me and Michael.

38:44We would, but here's the thing. We would like, we'd be sitting courtside of the Knicks game and we'd be like, okay, we got the club set up tonight. Got a bunch of girls pulling up. Got to be at work at 6 a.m. We got to be off book because we got to be professional. So we'll be sitting at the Knicks games, like running lines with each other being like, all right, well, you got the shit here or whatever. All right, we'll cane this and that. and we're running lines sitting in the Knicks game and we're not going to the club until we got the scene without looking at the paper. Look at that. We got the scene down like all right now we can go out.

39:16Should we take care of our shit and then whatever and then you pull up to set next morning you're 100 % and you're ready to go. We fucking party like crazy but we had our shit all the way down and I think that's what I think that's just what the producers and everyone loved about us we were on our shit.

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41:06I was wearing the G-Unit tee with the G-Unit sneakers at school and being crazy. Like, that was always me. So that's why, like I said, even like a lot of Brayden's writing paralleled my life a little bit of like, you know, growing up around like tough areas. But also at the same time, like your parents, you know, you got to be presentable. And like a lot of shit mirrored my life. That's why like when Brayden happened, I was like, this is literally like fate. This is fate. You can't write a better show for me to do, you know? Meet all my heroes. You, and it's just like, it's just wild. So, yeah, I'm grateful for it.

41:44Tony Yayo:Well, you did a great job. It was fucking great TV. And we want to see fucking more from you. Because it was like, yo, remember your brother? Your brother? Because you was the black sheep of the family. Did you get your sister kidnapped? Brother, drugs in the crib. But here's the thing. I always say, like, it stems from Tariq a little bit, you know? It was always for it, man. It's all fucking, you know? And I'm not, it's Michael's fault. It's Tariq's fault, okay? They write, but I always make this joke because I'm like, everyone's always mad and angry at power and this and that. And it's like, imagine there would be no show if Brayden and Tariq, oh, wow, we just sold a million dollars worth of dope.

42:20Nothing bad happened. Let's go to Miami. There'd be no TV show. Of course, when you're driving there, you gotta get a flat tire and then a cop's gonna pull you over and then someone hits you, but really the cop is dirty. That's what makes the show. So like people get so mad at it. And like, if you wanted it to go the way you wanted it to go, there would be no TV show. There'd be no beef with Monet. Ghost would still be selling drugs. Like there'd be no issues.

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45:46You're going to say in a year and a half he's murdering people. And it doesn't make sense. So the writers were like, I'll start turning you out. Like, let's turn him out, get him acting real crazy. It was kind of like a vehicle, which the writers did to like make Brayden go crazy and really turn him into what he turned into. Now, season five, he would have been fucking nuts, which I would have loved to see. Of course. They had different plans, you know? Definitely.

46:07Tony Yayo:It was must-see TV. Any show that makes me want to run home to go see it, it makes me feel like The Wild or The Sopranos or any of them shows that we talk about. That's why we always want to know what you're doing next. You know, what's going on next? what's the plans I definitely like the next thing I want to do another show I want to do another show I like movies but like you go do a movie for two months and then you don't really create like a family you know you just shoot a movie for two months I don't haven't seen not one crew member from that movie trust that I did a year ago so I'm like like I I'm family with like the power crew so I want to go do another tv show do it for a couple years and then then I start picking my movies that's really the the people don't know that we all fan like the whole part i remember it was one time people thought you and joseph didn't like each other yeah people why people thought that or did y 'all not like each other that was real that was real that really didn't like each other that that was real that beef was real oh i thought it was for the i thought y 'all had like show beef no that the shit that happened that was on stage which everyone saw and we squash it and you know it is what it is now but like yeah we that that was real and it was just like a miscommunication that snowballed into something and then obviously like it got squashed.

47:21But yeah, that was real. That wasn't for everything. Everyone, half people thought it was real, half people thought it was fake, but like that wasn't for like the cameras or anything. But I stood on business, he stood on business and that was it. And we squashed it. My God, they stood on business. But now we all family. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But family even have. Of course. You know what I mean? This fucking guy right here. You know, I can't fucking stand this guy. You see him cursing on YouTube. Yeah, actually, you got a client, Sam? I'm curious about the dynamic of the podcast. Like, who's coming in late?

47:54Who's doing what? Listen, I'm running the show, man. Fuck, God. You see who runs the show. You can see who runs the show. I just dropped a bomb, and I'm just going to take the mic away. Trust me. You see who runs the show, man.

48:06Tony Yayo:When I went to YouTube, you seen how hard I was working. Vlad, your show. Yep. Breakfast Club, Shannon Sharp, Kill Tony. I will say, your numbers are fucking nuts. Nobody gets those YouTube numbers. Yeah, they was laughing at me on the jet when I was talking about YouTube. Vlad, man, get out of here. Now he's doing Vlad and the whole world is doing Vlad. Everybody follow the Yayo blueprint. Shannon Sharp, Vlad, Breakfast Club, TMZ. It's the Yayo blueprint. It's cool, but I stay humble. Know what I'm saying? He wanted to say it's the yayo blueprint, but he stayed humble. Rob Markman I gotta give you your flowers.

48:46You were doing all of it before anyone was doing it. You were going viral. You were doing it like it really is.

48:51Tony Yayo:Rob Markman And I appreciate all the people out there that support me, support this guy, support Uncle Murda when he was laughing at me. I love you guys. And I love that y 'all like, subscribe. As a matter of fact, what we gonna start doing, we're gonna start doing giveaways on the show. That's something me and Murda thought about. Rob Markman, Hell yeah. Rob Markman, Next week we're going to pick out the subscribers. We appreciate y 'all. Rob Markman, We got some nice gifts for y 'all coming. And no other show is doing that. This is what we do. Because we got 50 Cent. We got you. We got the whole power staff.

49:20Tony Yayo:You know, we're going to get all the actors. Rob Markman, What's next for you guys? Are you guys going to tour? Are you guys dropping new music? What's the vibe for you guys? Rob Markman, Right now we just, we partying, tours. I mean, he got some music with Empire. Rob Markman, I'm definitely about to drop some new music. So after Empire, I just did a new deal with them. So I'm definitely about to drop some new music. I got a project on the way, so I'm about to fuck the streets up right quick. You never know what's going to happen. Like, we at 50, you know, we at Live, Fountain Blue in Vegas now.

49:49Wait, he's beefing with people on Instagram. Are you waking up, like, fucking picking your eyes, being like, oh, now I got to beef this guy? Like, what's going through your life?

49:57Tony Yayo:This is what I tell 50. I say, 50, you got so much money. All I would hear is blah, blah, blah, 100 mil. Blah, blah, blah. You know, he wakes up. blah, blah, blah, 100 mil with the Planet Hollywood thing, blah, blah, blah. He gives a half a mil away in Shreveport to domestic violence and stuff. So we on the phone and he's laughing. I'm like, I told him if I had his money - He don't take it serious. So to him, if he ain't taking it serious, we can't. How the fuck we gonna take it serious? He just having fun with this shit. But I told, listen, this is what, I know him better than anybody, right?

50:29Tony Yayo:Yeah. And I feel like this, and I hope he don't get mad that I say it. Serious. Don't say it then. Hold up. I don't know. I don't care. I'm going to say it. Fifth is already crazy, but I feel like when his grandfather passed away, I feel like he got even more crazy. When we was at the funeral, I know all he had was his grandmother and his grandfather. So I know when he put his grandfather in the ground, I said, I said, yo, everybody better watch out. Even me and Murda. You better watch out. He fire you on Christmas. You know what I'm kidding me? Yo, this guy's crazy. Yo, this guy's crazy, man.

51:03This guy's crazy.

51:05Tony Yayo:But if you do do, and you know, and talk about your experience with 50, because if you're coming to set and you're doing what you got to do, he's going to respect you because that's what we see him do. You know what I'm saying? I guess me and 50 just like, I guess when I just started like kicking it with him and coming to shows and like, he called me one time when he called me last year, like, because sometimes you don't know. You're like, I think he likes me. I think he loves me. Like, he's always bringing me out. You know what I mean? Like, you're like, you never really know. Trying to figure it out.

51:34Tony Yayo:Yeah. Yeah, you're 30 years in. You're like, I still don't. I'll be like, I'm trying to figure it out. He called me when we were talking about the Fightland stuff. And it was like one of the best phone calls I've ever had. Because he called me. He's like, I really fuck with you. You know what you're doing. You know how to move. You know how to post on social media. You know how to be you, but also make people attracted to the show and draw people in. and you and Mike are going to host them together and going outside. He's like, a lot of the other actors on Power, they don't do that. So you cast someone because you're just casting someone.

52:11You don't know if they're going to be comfortable going in New Orleans or I'm flying to Poland and pulling up on you guys. Definitely not. Facts, facts. There's probably an amount of actors on one hand, you can count, that would fly to Poland, dolo, to pull up on five. Now I had a Poland fine shit out there that I was going to visit. To pull up on five, Like what other 25 year old white actor from Vermont is pulling up and doing that? You know what I mean? Fuck you. Fuck you, Eddie. So I think that's why me and... Fuck Eddie. I think that's why me and five like have such a good relationship is because he knows that I get it.

52:52And I know like that's the shit you got to do. You know what I mean? I'll pull up to Vegas. I'll be outside with Chris Lofton. Like I'll go to the shit that you need to go to to create hype for the show and do what needs to be done. So he called me and he expressed all that to me. And that's when the first time I was like, okay, yeah. Because sometimes you don't know. It's just you hit him.

53:12Tony Yayo:You know the energy's different when he's - Nah, nah, nah, nah. He fuck with you. How do y 'all deal with that? Because I done been in clubs and people be like, Tariq Braden, motherfucker want to shoot you. When people take the character a little too far. Like when I'm fighting the club or... Bro. Because people really be stuck on the character. Five years before that, I was sleeping on a pop fucking air mattress with no bread, no motion, hustling every day, wearing the same clothes, going to acting class. My socks were so dirty, I'd come home and I'd take my shoes off and my shit would be all dirty on the floor in my apartment in LA, my shitty apartment.

53:47Call me Brayden as much as you want. I'll take every fucking picture you want me to take. I'll be at the fucking club. Like I'm not too cool for anyone because I know where I came from. Like, so if someone's going to pay money to watch power, they're paying their fucking 1099 on stars to watch the show. They're following me on Instagram. They're commenting on my shit. Like that's someone that's a fan of you and supporting you. Like I never understood it. No shade to like fucking meet you in them. But like, I never understood like the man, don't touch me in the club. It's like without this person, who the fuck would you even be?

54:19so I feel that because I'm like I was hungry and wanted to be an actor and I've done everything that I've ever wanted to do because of these people that love the show so it's like I'm not going to be too cool for them I don't think I'm better than anyone else because I'm an actor people know who I am I just get to laugh every day and like my Monday night is doing the fucking real report with Uncle Murder and Tony Ayo definitely like what's who else is you know what I mean I just like love doing it I'm like it's going to continue because that's the attitude that I have and a lot of people don't continue because they're dickheads on set or then directors and producers, they know that and they don't want to work with people like that.

54:55It's all relationships. Yeah, definitely.

54:57Tony Yayo:And I know, but you know, when everything happens so fast for y 'all. Yeah. Like when I seen it, like we, Michael Rainey was kind of different because he kind of was a kid on the show. Was he seven years old? Eight years old? Yeah, he was, I think he was around 10. 10? So what? So eight years, what was it? Yeah, he's 24 now. So he did probably, yeah, 13 years on the show, 12 years on the show. 13 years old I remembered so I was when it aired because we took a break for the pandemic when it aired I was staying at this the director of Maz Spa I was staying at his spot in East Village and I would walk to Equinox the gym to work out on my days off I would when I before the show aired like I had done a couple episodes in the original Power but like you do two three episodes people don't really notice you when Ghost aired after that second episode when I was like in it more bro I couldn't walk down the street it happened in two weeks it happened in two weeks the week before I was on the I would call I call my my mom or I call like family or my friends like walk into the gym and I have my headphones and I just walk to the gym down whatever street it was And two weeks later, Brayden, Brayden, Brayden.

56:08Every five seconds, I couldn't walk to the gym anymore. Even my mom would be like, are people like, people be like, can I stop asking you for pics? And it happened so fast. And I just did that giant movie with Octavia Spencer. I've never gotten recognized from that. The second power happened, it all changed after that.

56:24Tony Yayo:How do you stay humble now? People will see you in the street. You got beautiful women. You know, I've seen you in London. You know, you like beautiful black women. You like the Spanish. You like all kinds of women. So how do you keep yourself level? Then the jewelry, then the cars. But what does that even mean? Like, what do you mean, like, stay level? Like, how do you keep yourself humble? But I don't know. I don't think there's like a non-humble to like. I feel like I'm just, I just don't see the change. Like I don't see or faking it or it just doesn't, it doesn't compute to me of like why you all of a sudden are getting recognized that you just turn into a dickhead.

56:59A whole different person. Yeah. Like it never, it doesn't make sense to me. So that's why I'm like, oh, I don't know. I'm just like being myself. Like most of these actors are not being themselves. All right.

57:08Tony Yayo:Let me, let me give you an example. That's like y 'all went to the club, right? You're drinking, shout to the Branson boys. You're drinking the Branson. Love it. You know how that shit have you. I like to like him and DeRoy. Yeah, yeah. I like the shim. You know I like the shim. The Shem. The Shem and the Branson. You know the wild nights, Branson nights? Yep. Wild nights. Now, you got to be on set six in the morning. I don't know if me and Murdy, you think you could do that? I mean, off the Branson, on a wild night, six in the morning. How do you do that? Off the Branson and drinking, and then you got to be on set six in the morning.

57:39Tony Yayo:You got fucked up last night. You had a chick in your bed. You had a wild night. You want to know what gets me to do is that 10.8 million people are going to see what I'm about to do the next day. 10.8 million people are going to watch what I'm about to do. So it's really on me. Do I want to look like I've been look like shit and be drinking all night and have a bloated face and do this and do that? Or do I want 10.8 million people to be like, damn, he was fucking funny and he was sharp and he knew what he was doing. So it's I don't know. It's kind of like up to you. There are a lot of actors that show up to set and fuck off and they don't work again because they're just like, well, it showed in the scene.

58:19Like people watch the show, but other people that are doing other shows watch power. So if they're going to be like, I don't think he's a good actor. You just fucked yourself. That 10.8 million people saw because you wanted to hook up with a girl one night that you could hook up with on Saturday. You know? Wow. Discipline.

58:34Tony Yayo:Yeah, it's discipline because you got to think about tell them how you remember your lines. That's one question. Yeah. and how many fucking takes you out of doing the show? A lot of people memorize lines different. Like Michael Rainey will just legitimately look at the page. He's got a very photographic memory. So he'll look at it and he'll go, yeah, I got it. And then he'll have like a whole paragraph. I'm like, what the fuck? That's how I do. Yeah, that's crazy. I wish I had that. He can't do that. Me and him, we went to acting class, not to cut you off. We went to acting class. Why are you trying to shut up?

59:05Yo, yo, shut up. Yo, you hear me, Johnny? This guy is trash, man. Shout out to Wendy. I'm the star. Shout out to Wendy. Shut the fuck out of here. Yo, I did that shit. He carried a big bag. I looked at it. He carried a big bag and got shot. I was nice. Bro, he carried a big bag. He got carried a big bag. I was nice. I was nice. I was nice. You didn't even say nothing. Shout out to Bruce Willis. Shout out to Wendy. I looked at that shit. This guy could not do it. He could not. It took him a long time. Some people have different... Like me, I would FaceTime my little brother at night. Like, even if it's like 2 a.m., I'm like, wake up.

59:37Like, motherfucker, we got to do this. And I have to hear it. I have to hear it every time, like in my bed. Before I go to bed, because I can't do it the day of. You got to sleep with that in your brain. So I have to hear it. Now, Michael, very photographic memory. I just run it back and forth. I just run it back and forth and I'll, okay, I won't move on to the next line until I have the whole one memorized.

59:59Tony Yayo:But when you, let me tell you, when you do a movie, right, like Murder, Dave. I don't really care. Hold on, hold on. Here he comes. Get the fuck out of here. And you get out there. You get the bank bag. Get the fuck out of here. And you get shot. Get the fuck out of here. Does that count? Get the fuck out of here. Because for me, I had lines. I had hostages. Hold on. You gotta let me talk. It don't matter. You in SWAT 2. You in SWAT 2. That shit don't count. In his movie, look. In his movie, he had a bank bag, right? And got shot. I don't give a fuck. He was looking like a cop. He had a vessel.

1:00:27He had a bank. Listen, me, I was protecting the money. I played a gangster. In SWAT 2 that nobody saw. You know what I mean too? All right, cool. Benny Boom got to fix that. You got to fix that. Exactly. Nobody saw SWAT 2. I was good in that. I told him that's like Shotis 2 that nobody saw. Remember they had a Shotis 2. Nobody ever fucking saw Shotis 2. And that's like this Scarface 2. You just asked him what movie he want to be in, right? I said I was the Scarface. He said Scarface 2. No, I want to be Scarface. See, that's Benio. You killed me with that one. But listen, this is what you not understanding, right?

1:00:59Tony Yayo:What I'm saying to him is my part that y 'all didn't see, that he's playing. I'm not gonna ever get me mad anymore. Right? That y 'all didn't see. And he extended cut. Right. We didn't see his movie either though. I haven't seen it on Tubi or Netflix. Rob Markman, Reprisal, Moose Willis, it was on Netflix and in the movie theater, brother. We was number three on Netflix. Listen, look, I haven't seen it on Netflix or Tubi. And you know I always go to Tubi a lot too. I think you made Tubi. I think you might have made Tubi. Nah, I haven't seen it on Tubi. He had a bank bag and got shot. It was all good.

1:01:31Tony Yayo:I had a hostage. It was all good. There are no small parts, only small actors. There you go. Listen, that's a small part. No, he had. Your part didn't even count. I had a line. Look, I had lines, right? I had lines. I had to practice because I got shot in the head, right? Don't want to mock myself. I got shot in the head, right? I had an actual hostage that was Benny Boom's wife. You definitely got to explain all this because nobody's seen. Go ahead, though. She was Benny Boom's wife. She was a hostage. It's going to come out now because I'm...

1:02:04Tony Yayo:So look, I had... And Benny Boom's like, yo, that's my wife. You got to be careful with blanks. His gun was in the holster. He ain't do no action. Nothing happened. Like, nothing happened. I'm falling through glass. I was gripping on... I was gripping on... I was gripping on my hand, man. That's the thing. Yo, Gianni. Did you find it harder now? Or did you enjoy it? Pause for both of those, but...

1:02:28Tony Yayo:You gotta say it different. When you were on your back and that scene - No, pause. Pause. No, what I'm saying is, he did nothing. He took a bag and got shot. I had squid packs on the top of my head. So they were blasting you in the face? How long was you on set? How long was you on set? How long was you on set? He said too many pauses. I did stunts. Too many pauses on the story. But I did stunts. So when they blasted you in the face when you were on your back - See what I'm saying, pause on it. When I did my movie with Bruce Willis, I had to get - You didn't do anything. You got out in the bank bag.

1:02:57I actually went to Cincinnati, yeah? You know that? And I was on set for like a week. I shot in Detroit. It was a real movie. I was on set for a week too. No, you wasn't, yeah. Now I'm lying. Yeah, I had to go to Cincinnati. Fifth had me lit out there and all that. Yo, bro, I was on set. You know why Fifth never put him in the movie? Because he know he can't act. I'm just being honest with you. That's why Fifth put me in the movie. Yo, look, it's Benny Boom 4.

1:03:17Tony Yayo:If you ever see that movie, I play a good act. He don't even know how to deal with blanks and guns. I'm shooting blanks. That's what I had at the movie. You didn't do anything. You got shot in two seconds. You didn't even have lines. I was in there for 10 minutes, brother. We ain't going to talk about this. Give me some paper towels. And before he did it, and before he did Money in Valence, shout out to Money in Valence. Money in Valence, don't let my Money in Valence niggas come from you. Yeah, all right. They could come from you. I don't care. It was in 1K. I don't care. They didn't have the technology back then.

1:03:45Shout out to y 'all. Money in Valence was popping back then. We had it lit. Shout out to my guys. We had Money in Valence lit. That was popping. You was okay in that. I was popping in that.

1:03:53Tony Yayo:I was popping that. I was popping the money down. I love Money and Violence. It was a great show. I even shot my little brother in that movie. The lens we have now wasn't like that. I shot my little brother. See that? I got fans. Ain't nobody saw SWAT 2. You remember SWAT 2? You remember SWAT 2? You remember SWAT 2? Nah, he don't remember SWAT 2. I didn't know they made a second one. I'm not going to lie. But the first one was really good. The first SWAT, right? SWAT was good. So that's not really his fault. The one that he wasn't in was good. Yeah. Yo, let me explain something to you. If 50 put me, all you see is put Yeo on the show.

1:04:24Tony Yayo:Put Yeo on the show. I don't never see nobody say put on the show. Rob Markman Now they definitely say put murder on the show. Rob Markman Put Yeo on the show. Rob Markman Did you talk to him about being in power? Rob Markman I don't even worry about it because I got other things coming. Rob Markman Yeah. Rob Markman You know I got big things coming. Murder don't even know what's going on. Rob Markman You know he can scredit my acting. Rob Markman Still my brother. Rob Markman You don't want to tell me that. Rob Markman You know I'm just staying humble man. Rob Markman So what's next? what do you what do you want to do what's the goal i see you in the gym i see you working out i see you staying healthy you know it's movie star time you know no i i uh i want to do like someone's career who i fucking love is bradley cooper's like he did he did hangover he did like one of the most iconic comedy movies of all time and then he just started doing like you know silver linings playbook he just started picking the right movies i mean uh limitless and he just not like he's someone's career that i like really fucking love so like that's like my blueprint like he started on a show for a while too i think it went four or five seasons and then he kind of bounced around and then he found his footing like that's like my goal was like bradley cooper and if i that that's it like that's that's the the bar for me like i can't i'm not going anything lower than that how do you how do you feel about like would you um would you be happy to do like franchise movies oh of course i don't know why like i mean i guess like people kind of can get stuck in something but like even like you look at robert pattinson you know who that is he he was the the kid from twilight he played the vampire in twilight oh yeah yeah yeah okay i mean yeah he like played a corny vampire and i like those movies but like he played a corny vampire for five movies and and people were like he's gonna get tight the guy is he's batman now he's the new Batman.

1:06:09The guy, he's doing cool ass A24 Safdie Brothers movies. He's doing whatever the fuck he wants to do. So like, please bring me the franchise movie because the franchise movie is going to get you the movies that you actually want to do. Because once you're associated with the Marvel, you know, with the superhero movie, then your name carries enough to green light that script that you fucking love. You know what I mean? That five to ten million dollar script that you're like, this is a story I want to fucking tell. So go do the superhero movies. Make the big money. Get super famous. Get the Instagram following.

1:06:41So then when you want to do this A24 project, you have enough clout in your name to just get investors to go, yes. You know what I mean? That's why I don't ever turn down. I'm not going to say no to a franchise. Got you.

1:06:52Tony Yayo:What do you feel is the biggest franchise movie to you? That I would do or just in general? In general. Or you would do. Both. I mean, like everyone said, but like Dream Roll would be Joker. Now, I don't want to like. Go as far. Heath Ledger is like, that's my favorite performance ever. Yeah, definitely. So even me being like, fuck, I would have to compete with that is still like, that's daunting for me. But it would probably be Joker or even maybe Batman. The Batman franchise, I think, is the biggest. Batman and Spider-Man. Those are the two biggest. Now, you could go to Fast and Furious, but internationally, those just don't do the numbers that Batman and Spider-Man will always do because of the comic books.

1:07:35you know? Right. I think Harry Potter was a big franchise. Yeah, that was, I think that was the top three.

1:07:40Tony Yayo:Yeah, that shit was. There's a lot of franchise movies, like he just named Fast and Furious, Harry Potter, whatever. But a lot of that acting kind of like sucks. And I don't mean the actors suck, I mean it sucks going to set and like Fast and Furious is probably a lot of fun because there's a lot of driving shit like that but a lot of the Spider-Man shit and the, it's a lot of CGI now, so you're like, it's like dead quiet and you're like Got you. It's a lot of fake shit. So you're not really having to pour any or do any effort into that stuff. That's what might be challenging for me. But like some of the best actors say like, I get paid to wait.

1:08:15I get paid to do, you know, I act for free because I love it. But I get paid to do the dumb shit. That's where these big checks are making me be like, all right, I'm not going to acknowledge the fact that I'm doing a fake spider out of my, you know what I mean?

1:08:27Tony Yayo:Got you. Because you feel like the AI movie, AI is making movies better, no? No. Yeah. I don't think. Do you feel AI is making movies? Yeah. No. Why not? I don't think they are. Are you a fan of AI? You feel like it's fucking up the acting game a little bit? I don't think AI will ever replace an actor because someone at home wants to see an actor. Do people go to the movies because fucking Zendaya is in it? Yeah, no, I'm not saying the actor. I'm saying just the AI technology. Like he said, the actor's just doing this. Like DiCaprio, when he fought the bear. Technology is different, yeah. What movie was it when DiCaprio fought the bid?

1:09:03Yeah, he went on the Oscar for that.

1:09:04Tony Yayo:When he fought the bid, that was AI. Yeah. That shit looked real as hell. Okay, I get what you're saying. Yeah, I'm not saying the AI. I thought he was talking about like the AI verticals. Overall, but the actors and everything. Yeah, of course. Oh, it's killing it. Yeah, I mean like certain AI, like that technology is like you need it. And it actually helps movies because you can make them for cheaper. So people can get their projects greenlit, like without having a$60 million budget. You're like, oh, we could AI this in. maybe this budget goes down to like 20 million and more stuff can get made.

1:09:32Now it gets rocky with like what kind of they're trying to replace actors and take away jobs from people. But I just don't think it'll ever do it because people want to go see 50 in a movie. People want to go see Zendaya or Robert Patton. Oh yeah. Definitely. We want to see them. I'm not talking about the actors.

1:09:49Tony Yayo:I'm talking about like, what's the new movie that just came out? Hail Mary? Yeah, I saw it. It was - Huh? Project Hail Mary. Now I'll watch that. Did you love it? I loved it. It was one of the best movies I've seen in theaters in a long time. Listen, if you didn't see it, I'm not going to give you too much on it. Yeah, for real. I've been seeing it. But it's one of the best movies I've seen in my life. Yep. And the graphics was crazy and the writing was crazy because when you watch alien movies, right, the alien is always somebody evil or something crazy or going to kill you or something. When you watch an alien, it's usually scary.

1:10:23Tony Yayo:Yep. So the only alien movie that really was like where the alien was friendly was E.T. Yep. So we seen E.T. years ago. So when I seen this, I was like, Hail Mary. It was so good. It was crazy. And he was fucking unbelievable. A friendly alien. Yeah. You used parts of that thing where you felt it like, oh shit. Yeah, it was amazing. I didn't know what I was getting into because I didn't see the trailer. I was like, I know. Project Hail Mary. I'll make sure y 'all see that. And what's the guy? Who's the guy? Russ? Gosselin. Ryan Gosselin. He was unbelievable and he was so good. I think he could win an Oscar.

1:10:51Tony Yayo:Who's the female actor who's in there? It was great, man. I just watched that. Went to the movies, go see that. Project Hail Mary. That's what I'm talking about. And that's what I'm saying. AI. Like, just how everything is. Yeah, I get what you mean. All right, so that, so, because I didn't see that yet. Y 'all going to make me go check it out. We don't want to spoil it too much. So it had a lot of AI involved in that movie? Yeah, there's a robot in the movie that he talks to. Pretty much the whole second and third act. So, like, he, yeah. Okay. There's a lot of AI. Okay. And, you know, I'm into, like, all the SpaceX stuff.

1:11:22like, you know, because think about it, like, the way future, like, technology's going now,

1:11:27Tony Yayo:like, they're trying to make, SpaceX is trying to get, you know, a station on Mars. You know what I mean? Yeah. Just thinking about that, like, in the next 10 years when, you know, people are, like, living on Mars. That, like, I just want to be around and see something like that. Yeah. That's crazy, man. Yeah. When you really, really think about it, you know what I'm saying? I like Earth too much, I think. I think. I like, I like the bitches on Earth too much to go to Mars. No. Yo, imagine, imagine. I like Dre's. All I'm saying is imagine you taking one of your girls to Mars. That's the ultimate trip right there.

1:12:00Tony Yayo:It don't get no better than that. Lexington's going to get so crazy. You're like, I'm taking a baddie to Mars this weekend. What are you doing? That's actually fucking hilarious. You got to think about it where technology's going, man. That's why I kind of liked it because I was like... And just the whole fact, alien concept. The last friendly alien movie, like I said, we've seen was E.T. come on E.T. everybody love E.T. where's your favorite place to go when you do travel cause you travel a lot I mean I love to go we've been everywhere man that's why I'm like curious like you've fucking seen every place oh I always tell people start off with Paris Amsterdam and I would say Dubai yeah and for three different reasons you can't smoke in Dubai so you be tight but it got the best shit and then you do like 10 years over that joint in the sand.

1:12:50Tony Yayo:You know what I mean? So we got Dubai, but I love Dubai man-made beaches, the buildings, the vibe, everything. Rob Markman - What about you? Where do you like going? Me, I like - Rob Markman - You guys tour? I like Dubai too because of like the, what he said, like the man-made infrastructure, you know how they got that set up. I like Australia a lot. I like, yeah, Australia is dope, man. I like Australia. I like London. I like Paris too. Yeah, London's always - Yeah, London's always a good time. It's always a good time in London, man. London got the best Jamaican food. Oh my God. I ain't going wild.

1:13:17Tony Yayo:Did you go to that Somali spot with us? No, I didn't go. I got to go next time. I didn't go. That Somali spot. It's crazy. I got good African food or anything. Just London. London feel like New York without the guns. Just knives and different accents. I fucking stab you quick in London. That's the only thing. But I love travel, man. You know that. I think that's the best thing about us. It's the best. It's meeting the people. Like when you say you meet all these people, like to me, like being an actor, like what would you rather be? honestly an actor or a rapper, Mark? Mark Barrett - I would really have to say, I can't knock my past, I would say rapper, but I want to get into acting.

1:13:56I want to eventually get into acting, but I love the music. Mark Barrett - Fuck all that, I'd rather be an actor. Rob Mark Barrett - I love the music. Mark Barrett - I think they both have their pros and cons, obviously. You guys live a faster, more fun and lit kind of life. Think about it, you're only seeing me and Michael and people who are on power. 99.9 % of actors that does not happen. They're going to their show, whatever Amazon Prime or Netflix or show that they're on they're with a bunch of married cast members that are very proper and honestly dickheads sometimes and they grew up doing theater and it's this big thing and then all of a sudden everyone goes home to their own thing and you're on set somewhere and you gotta go back to your hotel room.

1:14:42Like you don't have it's not lit with 50 and murder. You're not going to the clubs like if you were to just be an actor. The only reason it looks cool to you is because you see power, which is sick. And no other actors live like we do. But that's the only reason why you're like, I would rather be an actor. Green leg gang. Right. Now go do a movie in fucking Australia or wherever and you're there for six months. And I'm telling you, he's going to be like, I want to go back to being a rapper. I promise you. It's like, it's not as lit out of the power universe. No, I like being on set. I like big budgets.

1:15:16I like the big budgets. I was in when I was in Cincinnati. Y 'all have big budgets, baby. I was like, damn, luckily I had to connect to get some bud out there. It's boring, bro. Other than that, it was boring. Like some set, I'm just in my hotel room waiting for them to call me back the next day to do the same old shit again. It was like, damn.

1:15:30Tony Yayo:We was in Detroit. They was beefing about coming to the store. Get out of the store. It was different. I'm talking about this professional shit that me and him talking about. The professional shit that me and him talking about is different. I'm talking about real, like yeah, Bruce Willis, the professional set. I know what you talking about. But he got shot in two seconds. The Biddy Biddy Boom hood shit he talking about. Bro, he got shot. He just said they was at the grocery store. Of course you probably think it's cool. No, he's on the corner. It was a big set. We got a big set. Get the fuck out of here.

1:15:55Betty Boom's killing me without this shit coming up.

1:15:58Tony Yayo:But I haven't seen his movie either, for real. I haven't. I haven't. What's the name of your movie? What's the name of it? Reprisal. Reprisal. Somebody let me know. I haven't seen it on 2B. Netflix. Y 'all can Google it. My shit was on Netflix and in the movie theater. SWAT 2. It was in the movie. You probably can't even Google SWAT 2. Yeah, I went to the movie theater - You got it with that. I actually went to the movie theater with the family and watched that shit. I was pumped up. Like I'm in the movie with Bruce Willis? You got that one. Mr. Die Hard. I can do that. You crazy? I was in that shit.

1:16:30Tony Yayo:Benny Boom. And you with Benny Boom. SWAT 2. That shit was supposed to be in SWAT 1, motherfucker. He was with Bruce Willis. Come on, legend. Die hard. Come on, man. I will say it is like being an actor as opposed to that is like I'll get to go somewhere and I'll get to live there for like if I go shoot a movie in Ireland or Italy, you get to live there for two months and like you're not staying in a hotel. They're getting you a house and you're walking up the street and you're getting, you know, getting your car or whatever. And you're living there like you're from there. From there. Got you.

1:17:00You guys are in and out in a day. So I think that's kind of like the Frozen God.

1:17:03Tony Yayo:Rob Markman, TV is I'm a movie guy and Murda knows this. Rob Markman, Right. Rob Markman, He knows I'm a heavy - Rob Markman, He loves his movies. Rob Markman, I'm a movie guy from like back in the days. Like I'll say, people, I'll be like, what movie Richard Pryor was in? I always ask Mike and nobody would know that. I'll be like, Superman 3. Rob Markman, Right. Rob Markman, To me, that was his breakout movie because Superman back in the days. Come on. Rob Markman, Right. Rob Markman, Because to me, TV back then, like is more classical than kind of now. Rob Markman, Like I'm not saying there ain't classic movies with TV now, but The Godfather, Scarface the list goes on and on look he laughed at me because I love Uncle Buck that's one of my favorite we had this conversation on my podcast the crew has it hit podcast me and Michael Rainey Jr we had this conversation and you were saying that there weren't as many hits but like there are there are hits now but like I get what you mean they're classics to maybe you because you grew up with them but like you think about like Wolf of Wall Street or like I don't know many movies that are as good as Wolf of Wall Street Rob Markman, And that's a classic to some of the young boys now, and he right.

1:18:05Rob Markman, That's like my classic. Rob Markman, That's they shit. Rob Markman, You can't tell them nothing about that.

1:18:08Tony Yayo:Rob Markman, Okay, but some movies can never be done like you laughed at me about Scarface too. Rob Markman, Hold on, hold on. Rob Markman, You were right about Uncle Buck. Rob Markman, Hold on. Rob Markman, Hold up. Rob Markman, Hold up. Rob Markman, Cause my nigga Wizzy and a few people from the hood did say like, yo, Merck, how you don't know about Uncle Buck? Rob Markman, Yeah. Rob Markman, But then some people told me like, nah, Uncle Buck wasn't like, but they said it wasn't a home alone. Rob Markman, But then you can't compare that to Home Alone. Rob Markman, It wasn't a Home Alone. Rob Markman, You can't compare Uncle Buck to Home Alone.

1:18:31Tony Yayo:Just Macaulay Culkin was in it. That's it. And Uncle Buck came first. I'm a movie guy. Rob Markman, He's an Uncle Buck guy. He love Uncle Buck. You can say anything about my family, but Uncle Buck is where I draw. Rob Markman, When it comes to Uncle Buck, he gets so serious. Rob Markman, I'm watching movies before I was born. Meaning like my favorite Sean Penn movie is Bad Boy. Rob Markman, Did he just say he was watching movies before he was born? Rob Markman, No, I'm watching movies that was out before I was born. That's what I'm saying. No, before he was born, you mean? No, before I was born.

1:18:57Tony Yayo:How you was watching movies before you was born? Nigga, shh. No, I'm telling you, you're not listening to what I'm saying. I watch - Am I bugging y 'all? He's not listening. You have to listen to etiquette. I said I'm watching movies that was out before I was born. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I didn't know. Okay, okay. No, it didn't. Did you know what I mean? We can rewind the tape. Rewind the tape. I said I watch movies - I've never been higher and not smoked in my life, but I'm good right now. Rob Markman, You know the murder of gay don't experience it. Rob Markman, You know this guy got no etiquette when we go.

1:19:27Rob Markman, I showed him what a salad fork was.

1:19:29Tony Yayo:Rob Markman, No fuck, he's happy for that. Rob Markman, This is my brother. Rob Markman, None of the two people don't know what a salad fork was. Rob Markman, This is what I'm telling you. Rob Markman, I like you. Rob Markman, You know? Rob Markman, Yo look. Rob Markman, So what I'm saying to him is like, my favorite Sean Penn movie, you ain't probably watched. It's Bad Boy. Rob Markman, I have not seen it. Rob Markman, Yeah. You got to watch that one. He's in jail. It's old school. He run over this gang member's little brother. You know what I mean? These two dudes is wilding in the house, doing extra stuff.

1:19:56Tony Yayo:And he get the cans, because one scene could make it for me. You know, I'm a TV guy. Michael Knight back in the days, the 18. Just to me, that was classic TV. I like that. I said that to the 18. Michael Knight. Karate on Sundays. Bruce Lee. You know, look at Wu-Tang. You know, all that. The Five Deadly Venoms, Wu-Tang. All that come from our era. Rob Markman - Karate movies. That's a fact. TV, like my favorite movie, The Mac. Richard Pryor was in that. That's one of my favorite actors. Richard Pryor, John Candy. Yeah, I don't know. I just think that there's unbelievable movies at both times. I don't think a time is better.

1:20:30People could be biased. It's not better than Scarface. You think about even the comedies. That's why stand up for your time. You look at Hangover. Hangover is the best comedy movie ever made. Hangover and Tropic Thunder. You'll never beat those. No comedy movies. What comedy movie back then is beating them? Name one movie that's funnier than Tropic Thunder or Hangover. I mean, Hangover is good. I don't even know what the fuck Tropical Thunder is. You've never seen Tropic Thunder? No. It's one of the greatest comedies of all. Yeah, Mr. Movie Man, have you seen Tropic Thunder?

1:20:57Tony Yayo:No, I'm... I'm actually good. Did you see Tropic Thunder? What was the movie with Dave Chappelle? Take Me to Samson. What was that? How High or Blue Streak? No, Dave Chappelle. Half-baked. Half-baked. Half-baked is better than that shit, bro. Take Me to Samson when he had the weed deal. that's a classic for me. Dave Chappelle. I don't think half of it. Coming to America, there's so many classics that are better than the 80s than now. You're bugging. There's not going to be another Scarface. There's not going to be another Boys in the Hood. Not a Menace Society. What? He still call Mayor Tate fucking old dog.

1:21:31Tony Yayo:Yo, old dog. What up? That's what I'm telling you. He said Mayor Tate. He called him Mayor Tate. You said Mayor Tate. Who the fuck is Mayor Tate? No. Councilman Tate. Councilman Tate. He said Mayor Tate. Rob Markman, for power. Yeah, but yeah, Lorenz Tate. I know Lorenz Tate, motherfucker. But you said, Coucherman Tate. That's what I'm saying. Because we talking about the show that he's on, Coucherman Tate. I love it. I just said, that's my man. He said, Coucherman Tate. You had too much Don Julio, brother. Coucherman Tate. He call him because we, you know, we always, you know, shiesty talk. You know what I mean?

1:22:02Tony Yayo:I know his name is Lorenz Tate. That's great. But Coucherman Tate, he's at dinner calling him, yo, old dog, yo, old dog. I do still call him old dog. Rob Markman, I'm not gonna lie. Rob Markman, When did Menace Society come out? How many years ago? Rob Markman, That was like 90 what? 94? Rob Markman, I still call my man old dog. Rob Markman, How many years? 94? Rob Markman, 30 years ago. He's still calling him old dog. Rob Markman, That's a fact. Rob Markman, That's fair. Rob Markman, That's what I'm saying. To me, all older movies are just more classical. Scarface, I watched a thousand times and like Goodfellas, the list goes on and on.

1:22:35Tony Yayo:Now, I'm not saying Wolf of the Wall Street ain't good, but there's a lot of - Rob Markman, Now, Wolf of the Wall Street is a classic. Rob Markman, That's a classic. That's a classic. There's new classics. I'm just saying there's more classics, it seem like. I think in 30 years, you'll call these movies now classics. And people will be like, oh, like, people will be calling, you know, someone from Twilight. They'll be calling Robert Pattinson Edward in 30 years. Like, it's all relative to the time, I think. Bro, bro, bro. Let me explain something to you. No, I agree with you. Let me explain something to you.

1:23:02Tony Yayo:First Blood, Rambo. Come on, bro. They ain't making shit like that. It might not. Did you see Rambo? What? You never watched First Blood? First Blood. You just said Project Hail Mary was one of the best movies you've ever seen. It came out 10 days ago. It was dope. No, that was dope. It came out 10 days ago. Thank you. But now. Thank you. Thank you. No, that was dope. It's one of the best movies you've ever seen. Yes, yes. Interstellar. They've never made something like Interstellar back then. The only reason why I liked it, because what? They took something from the 80s. It was the first friendly, the second friendly alien movie.

1:23:37Tony Yayo:But it's way better than E.T., is it not? Nah, you're bugging. I'm not going to say that. It's way better than E.T. Graphically wise, but E.T. is a classic. I'm not going to say that. It's good, but it's not anywhere near Project Hail Mary. Listen, I'm going to say Project Hail Mary to graphics, like when he was shooting 1K in Money and Violence to now. You know what I mean? Yo, Money and Violence. I need all my Money and Violence niggas when y 'all see this nigga. He be trying to sit on that shit talking about that shit was in 1K. So what are you saying? We made history, y 'all. So what's up?

1:24:04We made history. So what you saying? He tried to act like our shit wasn't a profit. I didn't say that. I said it was in 1K. Rob Markman, I said it was in 1K.

1:24:09Tony Yayo:It was in 1K. It was in 1K. It did cool. Then the dudes had to fall out. The business was fucked up. Both shows fucked up. You know what I mean? Shout out to them though. I love Money and Valence. But if that's the biggest movie role for them though, what I'm saying is - Rob Markman, Mr. Swat 2. Hold on. Hold on. We're going to get off that. But graphically, yes. Project Hail Mary is, come on. It's the graphics, AI, all this shit is new. Of course it looks better. But, E.T. is kind of like almost the format. It was different, but still, it was a friendly alien with your man. It was a friendly alien on E.T.

1:24:45Tony Yayo:So every other alien movie, the alien is killing everybody. Come on, bro. I know my movies, but you can't tell me - Rob Markman I won't give you that. You do know your movies, yeah. Rob Markman When I watch First Blood and Stallone is all jacked up, and he's cut the fuck up, and he's beating motherfuckers in a precinct, and you know he's got the voice and he getting shot with rocket launches and to me it was just classic shit. That's another franchise one. Rambo 1, 2, and 3. Rest in peace to Chuck Norris 2. Rest in peace to Chuck Norris, man. That's what I said. Legend. Then we go to Bruce Lee.

1:25:18Tony Yayo:Don't, don't. Let's not talk about karate movies. We go to Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. One of the best fight scenes ever on TV. You ever see that movie? Yeah. What's the name of that movie again? Rob Markman, because I watch all Bruce Lee shit, Enter the Dragon, all that shit. Rob Markman, The Way of the Dragons, because I always get it mixed up. Now what's the movie when Bruce Lee fought Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? Y 'all don't even know this stuff. Rob Markman, I don't know that. Rob Markman, See y 'all don't even know that. They don't even know movies. Game of Death. Rob Markman, I remember that. Rob Markman, Classic.

1:25:46Tony Yayo:Rest in peace to Bruce Lee. Rob Markman, I remember that. Rob Markman, But Chuck Norris passed away, and you know what I've been doing? I've been on Tubi all day watching, because they got like five Chuck Norris. Rob Markman, He was on Tubi trying to find SWAT too. It's not on there. It's not on there. It's not on there. It's cool. I haven't even seen it yet. It's not on there. What's crazy about my generation is that I only knew who Chuck Norris was growing up because of Dodgeball. Because he had that one scene in Dodgeball. Wow, look at that. Wow. That's crazy. I haven't even seen Dodgeball.

1:26:16Sometimes I think of shit like that where I'm like, at the time, Steve McQueen was like the biggest - What the fuck is Dodgeball? I was thinking that -

1:26:22Tony Yayo:No, there was a movie called Dodgeball 1 and 2, I think, right? I don't think I've seen it. No, it's just the first Dodgeball with Vince Vaughn. I think I have seen Dodge. One of the greatest comedies of all time. But what I'm saying is Chuck Norris, he got a fight scene with Bruce Lee and they fighting this crazy. And Chuck Norris was like karate hero. Bruce Lee was karate hero. Rest in peace to both of them legends. But that fight scene, people don't understand how serious that was for movies. They fighting, they fighting. You know Chuck Norris had the taco meat on the chest. He had the hair.

1:26:51Tony Yayo:And Bruce Lee is, he get him, what the? He grabbed the hair off his chest and then he blow. And like that fight scene, you got to watch that movie. And then the other movie when he fought Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, oh man, that was like classic TV. Rob Markman - Yo, I'm telling you, bro. I watch all Chuck Norris movies, bro. Like I'm on Tubi now, shout out to Netflix too. But you know, they talking about Netflix prices went up, but I let him, I'm on Tubi. Rob Markman - Netflix prices did go up? Rob Markman - That's what they said. Rob Markman, what shows are you guys watching now that you like? You have anything new that's come out in the past couple months?

1:27:27Rob Markman, what I'm watching? Rob Markman, you see Mobland?

1:27:30Tony Yayo:Rob Markman, Mobland is fire. Rob Markman, I think Murder had me watching that. Rob Markman, I'm waiting for the second season to come out now. Rob Markman, they come out there. Rob Markman, I would love to be on that show. Rob Markman, the second season they come out there, right? No, second season they come out. That shit is fire. Rob Markman, what's the movie, what's the thing with Itra Selba? Rob Markman, Hijack. Oh, Hijack. I like the first season. I didn't watch the second season. The second one is good too. I watch the second season. Rob Markman, Besides that, I just go to be, I go old school because they got Rambo one, two, three up there.

1:27:56Tony Yayo:They got all the old movies. Rob Markman, He's just not watching anything new. He's just watching Chuck Norris movies from the company. Rob Markman, I love it, man. I love it. Chuck Norris passed away, so they got all his movies up there. So I just started watching old Chuck Norris movies and shit like that. You know, because it's classic TV for me. Not saying there ain't classics now, but you know, classic TV for me. What's your schedule like? What you doing? Rob Markman, I'm chilling, bro. we're doing our podcast this week so we're cool and probably you know hit Knicks do all that do the New York shit because I'm only here from I live in LA but yeah dude I mean you pulled up on us like I always like I remember shit like that like we it was December everyone was everyone was everywhere and I was like yeah yo we need a guest pulled up on us nothing and now you know it's time to return the favor of course and you guys are fucking killing it like this isn't a favor for me to you this is a favor for me I'm coming on to plug my podcast All of us, man.

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1:29:22Tony Yayo:I appreciate you having me. Gianni in the building. Thank you, Ryan. Power star, movie star.

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