The Real Report - Tracy Morgan breaks down near-death crash, 30 Rock & SNL success, Brooklyn roots & being cousins with Nas

21:52Well, when I got on Saturday Night Live. When I got on Saturday Night Live, me and Horatio were saying the first game, we went there, I spilled beer all over the parquet. They had to stop the game. They had to stop the game and wipe it up. And then, you know, I started making the guys laugh there, and they made me royalty there. And I've been going there for years, and, you know, me and Dolan is like this. Yeah. When I see Dolan, we don't shake hands. We hug.

22:17Tony Yayo:You think Dolan never going to let Oakley back in? Never? Nah, I don't know if that relationship is not toxic. Yeah, because he's the man with the money. I don't know. I don't know. But it would blow the roof off though. If Oakley walked in, the fans, what about us? We would love to see Oakley back in the garden, man. I don't think the boss man going to do it. I don't know. I won't get involved in that. I won't get involved in that. I feel bad that their relationship went the way it went. Yeah, because you coincide Tracy. You the man. Well, I ain't the man. Spike is the man. Well, you turn into the man.

22:44Tony Yayo:I'm like you. They just say Spike is bad luck, man. They just say Spike bad luck, man. But Spike was there when they won. People just make up stuff, bro. Yeah, yeah. Spike is always there. Spike is always there. Spike been there for the last. Number one Knicks fan, man. Yeah, for the fourth. I get at the Spike. He been there when they was ain't shit and he's still there. No, no, no, no. There was a time that he backed off. But Dolan told me him. Dolan told me him that when we win the chip, me and Spike is going to be on the float. and they want to fly me out to away games. But I'm too busy. Yeah, that James.

23:16I'm too busy. I got to work. That James Doe's money different. I got to work. I'm on tour. I got to work.

23:20Tony Yayo:Yeah, talk about the new TV show that's coming. Well, I got one on Envy's. They just announced it like two days ago. I seen it on your Instagram. Follow my boy on Instagram. Okay, that's what I'm talking about. New TV show, new money. It's always a good thing. Me and Cedric the Entertainer has one on CBS. So I have never been done before. Two major networks, two TV shows. at the same time and I feel good. And then there's stand-up. But let me tell you something, you know, Merck. Always know where the stakes lie. What do you mean by that? The stakes. Where's the money? Where's the money? Know where the stakes at.

23:54Stakes ain't in stand-up for me. I'm doing TV. The stakes lie. Know where the paper at. Know what means something to you. The stakes. Know where it lie. It don't lie in stand-up for me. It don't lie in them two TV shows right now because that's who pay me. So know where your stakes lie. Definitely. Listen to what I'm saying, because a lot of people don't hear you. They just listen to respond. They want to make you wrong and then right. I'm going to make you wrong, and I'm going to be right. So I don't hear you. I'm just listening to respond. So everything you say, I'm going to say back, something back, something slicker back.

24:35I had writers like that. I had to let them go, because you don't hear me. How are you going to hear my voice? I pay you. You don't pay me. I pay you. You don't pay me. You better hear me. Do you hear me? How could you know where I'm at if you ain't been where I'm from? You know where I'm coming from? You hear that, Murk? How could you know where I'm at if you ain't been where I've been? Know where I'm coming from?

24:57Tony Yayo:Definitely. You know who made that? Who said that? Where I got that? Cypress Hill. Oh, shout out to Cypress Hill. You told somebody something today that really struck me. You said you're overthinking it. and it's true. You're overthinking it. We keep this as simple as possible. When you start letting people in your life, you're going to complicate it. Keep it simple. Stop overthinking it. Stay out of your own head. It's not that it's bad. Don't listen to that nigga management. It's not that it's bad. It's just unhealthy. You know, I was late. I was in the room, but I think we was just overthinking it.

25:29Tony Yayo:Yo, yo. The mind is a dangerous place to be without a flashlight and a gun, buddy. So you're out of there, man. Some things you got to leave in God's hands. that's what my lady told me leave it in God's hands it's gonna be what it's gonna be if this is my day it's my day for sure just cause you lay down and go to sleep don't mean you got to wake up lay me down if I should wake yeah cause you had to learn how to talk eat everything again so I got closer to God than everybody in this room you know what he told me what he told me none of your business between God none of your business that was a good one that nigga None of your business.

26:11When God tell you something, when God tell you something, don't you go back and tell nobody because he heard a conversation and you ain't here. That's between him and you. Between you and your God. Ain't nobody business. Not even your mom or your father. Between you, he heard a conversation and you ain't here. So don't be telling nobody what God told you. A lot of people, like my man said, can't hold water. they can't hold water a lot of people a lot of snitching that's the thing now it's the culture snitching self snitching

26:46Tony Yayo:yeah that's like the new snitching I'm not doing that kill a nigga and go rap about it I killed this nigga I'm not going to jail over no money I ain't going to jail over no woman I'm going to jail over my kids see that's the gym right there see that's a fucking gym right there and when I come in I'm coming in cross that line if you want to those my babies man. I'm laying my life down for them. I told you I came out that coma. I had to fight. I wanted to see my daughter. She was only 11 months old. And you know what? Last year, last June, People Magazine called me for a quote. And in that quote, I forgave the driver.

27:23Live your life, man. It was an accident. So I asked my doctor. I said, doctor, I know the industry, trucking. And it's based on greed. If they don't get the goods there in time, they don't get pay. Was that greed? He said, no, Tracy. It's just poor judgment. We all guilty of it. Ain't nobody here perfect. There's only one perfect person in the world. That's a perfect asshole.

27:51Perfect asshole. You the perfect asshole. They say Diddy was the perfect asshole. No, this is a no Diddy. This is a no Diddy. They said Puffy might be washing drawers and clipping toenails. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You see R.

28:09Tony Yayo:Kelly singing for the inmates' wives. Like, yo, they just had that online. So they say, you made a tagline? Sing for my girl. I believe I can fly. I told you what I was like. You go up top, you dealing with the real gangsters. I tell the youngins all the time, you can have the guns with the switches, modify, shoot a million niggas. When you go up top, ain't no switch, modify. I seen that interview when you was talking about switch, too. So a lot of niggas don't know. a body, a usual body could cost you like$50 ,000 to start. You know, so a lot of niggas get in trouble and don't have the money.

28:40That's why I'm off the streets, because I grew up. I grew up a grown man.

28:44Tony Yayo:Tracy, Merc, this is what it come down to. When you get to a certain amount of money, you can't be having mad girls at the crib. No. You can't be having wild parties, because the lawsuits are going to come. No one. You can't be having SOS. That's who I trust. Yeah, lawsuits are going to come. That's who I trust. Wifey. You see my daughter? There you go. There you go. I don't play no games. Mommy, no, you're thinking. No, no, no, no, no. Come on, man. Come on, man. Come on, man. That's what I'm saying. I'm chilling. You can't have your wild parties when your money's up like that. Because not saying a woman can say anything.

29:19Tony Yayo:Some people don't grow up. Anybody can say anything. Some people don't grow up. You know people like that? You know people like that? They being a 60, still acting like you 17. You know how many years you just wasted? if you 30 still acting like you 15 you just wasted 15 years I'm not doing that I'm trying to go forward ain't nothing back there you know what's in the past a forest full of horrors I look in the past man that's where I got hit by trunks you know why I don't play the streets no more cause that's where all my trauma happened my friends went to jail for life my friends got murdered that's where all my trauma happened street anxiety yeah I'm not with that still have it I'm learning yep street anxiety But everybody want to keep their edge.

30:02They think it's about their edge. No, that's just your personality. From birth to 10, it's all personality development. That's who you going to be the rest of your life. Yep.

30:15Tony Yayo:The rest of your life. And these YN niggas out here, they can't even really shoot. Shot a lady in Harlem by Axe. Yeah, I see that. So shout in the head. It's like, these niggas can't even shoot. They got switches. And it's like, you look at the government like, Like, what the fuck is going on? Because now you can shoot more niggas with that switch on the back of that shit. So now nigga catching two, three bodies. But where'd they get the switch? Who created the switch? Niggas getting on internet. Niggas, it's just. Oh, my God. It's got to be the government of somebody. You know what I'm saying?

30:44Tony Yayo:It's just getting in the hood so easy. Let me tell you why music is not the way it used to be in the 70s and 80s. Because they replaced soul with technology. People don't go to clubs and dance no more. back in the days, you go to Red Parrot, Bentley's, you was there, you gonna swear her perm out. Y 'all gonna rock all night. It wasn't no it wasn't none of that. It was just letting the music take you where it wanna take you. You letting the music take you where it wanna take you. Why you don't, why we don't got no more block parties? What happened to all of that? Ain't no more clubs in New York since 9-11.

31:18They shut all of that down.

31:20Tony Yayo:Tracy, the scammers are not renting buses. The drug dealers was doing that. The scammers ain't doing that. Yeah, it's a little different now. The skimmers are like the new drug dealers we can say now, right? Them niggas ain't, you ain't seen that one skimmer say, yo, let's get 10 buses and go to fucking Greater Bens. You know where Diddy made his money? Familiarity. Because a lot of his songs was based on old songs. So he had the older crowd and the young crowd. If you're a comedian and you ain't got no white people in your audience, you ain't getting no money since when we had money. Since when?

31:54sad and alive at 30 Rock my crowd is 90 % white and I'm still being me still talking about niggas shit and they love it look at that they want to know how we survived the jungle how was it I'm telling you everybody's interested in the hood I want to ask you

32:09Tony Yayo:about 30 Rock oh that was incredible I had some we had the we had the record for Emmy nominations 29 wow Tina Fey is my sister I was just with her you saw us at the game yeah Tina Fey at the game She's great. You did tell me that. You did tell me that. She's my sister. Shout out to Tina Fey. Super actress. And now we got another TV show, the same writer as Robert Carlock. The same writer is writing my show. So I'm probably going to get an Emmy behind this. Look at that. Look at that. Dope. That's dope. But we have to shoot it. My co-star is Daniel Radcliffe. Harry Potter is my co-star. You know what it is to be number one on the call sheet?

32:46Big. I got two TV shows on two major networks. Never been done before, so I'm in rare air. And I will not take that for granted. I will work very hard. I will set the tone on my set. This is not a team because teams lose. We got to be a family.

33:04Tony Yayo:Y 'all hear that? The Knicks got to be family. Family. Family. Eat together. We sleep together. We fight. We argue. We laugh. That's family. You can't pick and choose your family. You can pick and choose your team, but family is family. And that's how we got to do it with the Knicks. Yeah, unfortunately, this guy over here is like that. Y 'all family. Unfortunately, it's this guy's family, man. In the last life, guaranteed, the way y 'all energy is, guaranteed in the last life, y 'all was probably brothers. He probably smacked his shit out of somebody in the basketball because they said something to you.

33:37Now, that is my brother.

33:38Tony Yayo:Like, when we on the road, it's me, him, and light the ball. I don't believe in friends. To me, you're my brother. To me, you are my brother because I don't believe in friends. Friends turn their enemies over bullshit. That's right. You my enemy over a girl? You my enemy over money after all that we've been to? Well, fuck you, nigga. You wasn't my friend anyway. Word. Because if you're around me, you're my family. I don't believe in friends. I don't believe in that. They turn their enemies over nothing. You all through history, you see somebody stabbing somebody in the back. Look what Judas did.

34:13Hmm. so I don't believe in friends if you murder smart nigga you crazy yeah yo he know what time it is

34:24Tony Yayo:smart nigga right here period can I ask you a question that nigga asked me one time to do this show I said where? when? we here now we here now what's the I meant murder what did I say on the phone I said I'm gonna meet murder definitely facts facts and he was all that I thought he was gonna be A cool motherfucker. I told myself, man. I said, yo, go with the Brooklyn War stories, Murda. He definitely said that. Yo, man, where you saying that? I'm East New York. East New York. We're in Vietnam. Vietnam. You better believe me. I used to live over there across the street from the White House. That's what y 'all call it, Vietnam?

35:01Tony Yayo:It's like that. East New York is like the murder capital. It's worse than Brownsville. It was worse than Brownsville. East New York, the murder capital. What? East New York. I was scared. I'm not going across the mother Gaston. Anybody know East New York was worse than Brownsville? East New York was worse than Brownsville. You know the White Castle right there? East New York was always on some murder once there, man. Of course. I lived in that building in Fairfax. That's a hoax story. My arm was getting high. They had all the holes over there in Pennsylvania. Yeah, my arm was getting high. I gave her four jumps to playhouse with my little girlfriend back in the day.

35:3317 years old. Playhouse with my little girlfriend. He had four jumps. And I was in a crib. I was in a crib. Fairfax. My life is crazy, man. My life is crazy. I lived in Coney. I was born. No, I asked my moms. I said, Mom, when I was born, did we go straight to Best Style? Because how my father met in Tompkins? And she said, no, I took you straight to Coney Island. So me and Marbury, because I lived in Marlboro, where Wyclef is from. So you was in Coney Island? I lived in Marlboro, of course, street from Lafayette.

36:05Tony Yayo:Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, and then we moved over here when I was nine. We moved back to Tompkins when I was nine because when my father said she wanted to be next to her mom's. And both of my grandparents, both sets, lived one floor apart. And my man Al lived on the 12th. One grandparent instead of grandparent lived on the 12th. My best friend Al got murdered, lived on 13th. Then my mother and them lived on 14th. So I was raised around a lot of love family. You know what I'm saying? And my father was Richard Pryor funny. He did comedy in Vietnam. arm. So I'm just mimicking my dad. Oh, shit.

36:40Look at that. I'm just mimicking. My dad was a musician. Never seen him have a job. He was always the leader of the band. And he was funny. So my friends knew what I knew about girls. But when I was around under my father and his friends, hearing them joke and all that, that's where I get it from. My dad died in 87 of AIDS. I dropped out of high school to take care of him. It's all in my documentary on Vice TV. We gotta check that out.

37:06Tony Yayo:Shout out to Vice TV. Yeah. Got to check out that documentary. I remember when I first saw it, I started crying because it was so accurate. It was my life. Like when I got on SNL and I thought I was being culturally isolated because it's like the whitest thing on TV. And then one morning, about 3 o 'clock in the morning, I had a talk with Lauren Michaels. And Lauren Michaels said, Tracy, I didn't pick you because you black. Pick you because you funny. And when he said that to me, I let go and let God. Look at that. And that's when I met Tina Fey. And Tina Fey is the one, Judge Judy and all that.

37:36She blew me up. And I just started going. And then, I dirty rock. At first, I had the Tracy Morgan show in LA. That's when I lived in LA with Marcy Cursey. Same ones I did the Cosby show. I had the Tracy Morgan show on NBC. Then I got canceled throughout the year. Tina Fey came here and asked me, you want to do Dirty Rock with me? And I said, hell yeah. And I, yo, ever since then, the last OG, I write. Before I got hit by the truck, I was writing a show. And then after I came out to Coleman and all that, when y 'all was home watching the Emmys, I was at the Four Seasons on Delheny with Jordan Peele pitching him an idea.

38:17And then that's when he came up with The Last OG. I did 15 years. Tiffany Asher was my baby mother. We had twins. It was dope. You was going to be on it eventually. You was going to be on it eventually. My last season, I had DMX on my show. Rest in peace. And the next day, the day before he was supposed to appear, he died.

38:38Tony Yayo:Damn. And I had to replace him with wood. See life. Damn, look at that. DMX was my guy. I met him. I used to see him in Harlem. My guy. Rest a piece to the dog. Yeah. He was massive. I think he might have been maybe the closest thing to Tupac because he was radical. The radical. Yeah, he can't. Radical. Yeah, yeah. Get at me, dog. All that crazy shit. Yeah, he was radical. Everything. It was radical. His shows. And with my comedy, I try to be radical. I'm in front of all these white people. I'm doing me. I got to do me. I don't know how to do nobody else. I can do me. Yeah, because a lot of motherfuckers.

39:21Martin Lawrence didn't put me on the Martin show. He didn't put me. I did. Because if I wasn't funny, Martin wouldn't have fucked with me. Got you.

39:29Tony Yayo:Right. He only fucked with the best. so when I had the Tracy Morgan show that two little kids the little kid was upstaging me on the show I didn't mind because it's benefiting us so the head of NBC caught me in one day and he thought he was being smart he didn't know how smart I was he said so I hear the little kid is upstaging you on your show I said well if he ain't I don't want him on my show I only fuck with if a little kid can't upstage me I don't want him on my fucking show I only fuck with the best Little kids and animals post-up stage you because they so cute. It's crazy. They so cute.

40:07That's a fact. Yeah, because it's like

40:09Tony Yayo:the comedy world changed. It's like a lot of motherfuckers ain't funny. Instagram. I'm not doing no comedy to my phone. I need a live audience. Comedy is the only thing you can't achieve. If Eddie Murphy was to come back, he would have to start at the clubs just to get his act together. And for him to get from the door to the stage would be hell. He's too old for that. He's a grandfather. He don't want to deal with that. So why mess with a legacy that's already tight? Mm-hmm. Right. He's Eddie. It's hard. You know how hard it is to get people to the movie theater doing stand-up? He did that. He got the record.

40:43Kevin Udo got the record. He got the record. What's your favorite Eddie Murphy movie? All of them. I'm not leaving nothing out. Eddie's a genius.

40:50Tony Yayo:I'm just saying there got to be a favorite because I'm going to see a common number. Then I'm going to go with trading places. You know what? You know what? You're right. Me? No. You want to know the favorite one I love? The one I was in. coming to America 2. I was just about to say that. Wasn't you coming to America 2? You know why I love that record? That movie coming to America 2? Because it show female empowerment. I empower my woman, man. I support her. Go for it. Shout out to Michelle in the building. Go for it. It's not Michelle. Melissa, Melissa. Go for it. Go for it. Sorry. I got your back.

41:20Sorry. Go for it. We need to empower that. You got a woman, empower her. Stand by her. Be by her.

41:27Tony Yayo:Now, we can't even say there is one because Beverly Hills Cop. Coming to America. Yeah, he has some classic. The one I was in was Coming to America 2. Oh, yeah, Coming to America 2. I mean, the best part I like, and I told Eddie this recently, the best part of that movie is when J.J. Favre, what's his name? J.J.'s father. He was in it. He was McDowell. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. When he was talking to Eddie, he was talking to Eddie, and he said, what do you think your mother would say if she was here? And that made me cry. What do you think? Because she died years ago. What do you think your mother, I always thought she was the smartest Eddie with his last name was.

42:07And what do you think your mother would say? I go, wow, that's heavy. It's always your wisdom, man. Got to rely on knowledge, wisdom, bring forth understanding. And understanding is the highest level of love in the Lord's kingdom. And the great thing about understanding, you know what understanding means? The absence of confusion. You know what the absence of confusion is? You know what the absence of confusion? Peace of mind. We all know why we're here. There ain't confusion about why it's three years on the stage. We ain't confused about that. We know what we got to do. We got to kick it. And sometimes we got to listen.

42:45There's a reason why God gave us two eyes, two ears, and two nose and one mouth. He gave you a mouth to shut the fuck up and listen. Fucking tell him all that time. You're always trying to over-talk people. You always trying to over talk, nigga. I just be like, yo, man.

42:58Tony Yayo:Yeah, shut up and listen for a minute. Please, man. Start the interview. Tell him all the time. You know what I'm saying? You know what it is? I heard you mention Martin was your OG, right? Yeah. How you feel about Cat Williams coming at Martin and all that shit like that? Cat Williams came at Martin? Yeah, coming at Martin, talking about Martin and all that shit. Oh, we don't care about this. We don't listen to that. Okay. All right. Martin's a very set of legacy. Martin loves Cat. Yeah. Oh, I got you. Martin loves Cat. I love you. That's what you got to do. Love your enemies too. Show some mercy.

43:30You did say that earlier. I heard you definitely said that. Just like you, murder. I'm just like you. I'm just like you, yeah, yo. And the minute you know that, it'll make you a better human being. It'll put mercy in your heart. Just because you got your enemy down don't mean you got to kill him. Help him up. You already defeated him. My father's always telling me, don't look down on nobody unless you're going to help him up.

43:51Tony Yayo:That's right. Say that in the Bible. So the minute we know that, make us better human beings, man. Right. I try to live by side. Listen, man, I don't face death. I got closer to God than all y 'all. I mean, 10 days in a coma, you think about counting 10 days. I was out. I was out. So I'm just fortunate to be here. I don't believe in luck. If you want luck, go to Atlantic City, go to Vegas, nigga. I'm fortunate. I'm blessed. That's what I tell this nigga over here, man. Every morning when I open my shades. Go to Atlantic City, go to Vegas. you want luck, nigga. Every morning when I open my shades, even on a cloudy day like today, I say the sun might not be out, but it's up.

44:29The rest is up to me. Bless.

44:30Tony Yayo:I woke up this morning. Your decisions, man. Your choices. Y 'all made some great choices. Think about it. Yeah, yo. Where you at in life, man? You made some great fucking choices. You too, Mert. Facts. Great choices. Think about it. That's a fact. Me, look. Where you at? We in here. Everybody in this room being productive. Time is the most powerful thing in the universe. Right. Time. When they want to punish you, what they give you? Time. When they want to reward you, what they give you? Time. Time. You can live 30 years with cancer. Time. You got time. I don't got time for that. Time. So I think when we expire and we go to his kingdom, he going to ask us, what the fuck did you do with the time I gave you on earth?

45:12Did you help or did you hurt?

45:14Tony Yayo:Right. Wow. Did you think about anybody else or did you think about yourself? man nah you gotta do something with your time stay productive hey it's us the Jonas Brothers and guess what we have some big news huge news we created our own podcast called Hey Jonas we invented a podcast well we didn't invent it we just contributed to it we're the first people to do podcasts pretty wide range of podcasts but this one's extra special so how do we actually come up with the name Hey Jonas guys I honestly don't remember I think it was on a call about what we should call it and well we were thinking originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers this is how you guys remember it going down yes I have a very different memory of this we were talking about a thing a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say hey Jonas and then I wrote down on my little notepad hey Jonas and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast But thanks for remembering that, guys.

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49:10Tony Yayo:Can I ask you something? Yes, sir. You know, you are courtside Tracy at Madison Square Garden. And you're in the VIP with James Dolan. You know, this guy owns the Knicks. He owns the Rangers. He has the Garden of Dreams. So... Why you don't talk to him? Why you don't say hello? Thank you for letting me be here. When the big money's there sometime, I'll talk to him. Nah, you get money. Nah, man, you don't talk to him. You can't buy your friendship with him. Huh? You can't buy your friendship. No money. You just say hi. Next time I see him, I'm going to say hi. How you doing, Mr. Dolan? So what I wanted to ask you is, when you got sick, unfortunate, you threw up.

49:48He allowed me to come back. Now, if I was sitting there drinking beer, it would have been a different story. I got food poisoning. That could have happened to anybody in that arena. And he understood, and he put out a post when I was in the hospital. I was in the hospital three days after that. I threw up 103 times that night. It got worse when I got to the hospital. Wow. And I went to Hackensack. I threw up 103 times and only blood was coming out. God damn. And then I'm, it was. I heard it was hot dogs. Was it true? You ate some bad hot dogs or something? No, no, no, no, no, no, no way. No way.

50:20It had nothing to do with the garden. I was sick three, four days before that. Copy. I didn't feel well. Got you. And he put out a post saying that they couldn't wait for me to come back. And that night, that next night when I got there, Josh Hart called me in the hospital because I did their podcast. I did their podcast, him and Jaylee. Shout out to Josh Harg. Yeah, shout out to Josh Harg. Josh, yeah, man. Great people, man. And I'm just like y 'all. Great people. Thank you, man. They don't know that. The world don't know that. They seeing us. They feeling the energy.

50:47Tony Yayo:And I just appreciate you for the time, man. Feeling the energy. So you get rid of your fear of what the people want to hear, what they don't want to hear, because you don't know. You put talent in front of them. What y 'all doing now? Y 'all putting talent in front of them. That's all they want. Definitely. Talent. Put it in front of them. that's how you make this show successful the way you want it. You got to get the talent and put it in front of them because they're going to see a part of them they don't see. They seeing a part of Tracy Morgan they don't see. They see the funny dude. They don't see this.

51:21Definitely. I just thank the Lord that y 'all allowed me to come on this show. Man, we thank you. We appreciate having you, man. Right on, man. We definitely appreciate having you. And I got to get to talk a little bit and my perspective on things in life and all those things. I'm here with my lady. That's awesome to me. Definitely, man. Thank you, Melissa.

51:43Tony Yayo:Thank you for being here. It's all right with me. She's a good person. Definitely, man. That's what it's about, man. Yeah. And that's what you want because we ain't getting younger. We're getting older. I don't have time for games like that. I find my funny out there. Y 'all get y 'alls out there. Y 'all stuff is out there. Mm-hmm. People hear it. Definitely. Yo, where you getting diamonds on that break? I fuck with that risk, but what the fuck is going on over there, man? 47th Street. Jesus. Right down the block, 47th Street. Now I see you and Rod Diggs. It's hot journey. He got some clarity on that.

52:25I haven't seen that video. Rod Diggs.

52:27Tony Yayo:Free Rod Diggs, man. Free Rod Diggs. You know what's the craziest Rod Diggs story? We was out the country. I think we was in Denmark when that happened. We was in Denmark. Denmark. And a white boy came through. In front of our hotel, blasting the music. And I'm like, Murder, that's you? And he's like, yeah. Then I'm like, who's that? And he's like, yo, that's Rod Diggs. Definitely. You know what I'm saying? It was me and Rod Diggs. Was he nice? And we was way on the season. Rod Diggs was nice, man. Rod Diggs was nice. He used to be talking that shit, man. Free Rod Diggs. He was nice. You know the Brooklyn niggas, they go, the Brooklyn and the Bronx niggas, they kind of, all the young niggas, they go to jail before they blow it.

53:01Tony Yayo:when you really look at the format. A lot of hot niggas in jail. Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn. Most of my kids. I mean, I've been to the island twice, man. Brooklyn, that was like a rite of passage to go to. You know what I'm saying? Big H and all of our school. Yeah, the rite of package. You was doing what you saw a lot of the dudes your age doing. You was doing just what you saw. We was kids. You ain't lying about that. We was kids in the 80s. Then I ran away from home. at 13 years old and slept on an A-train for two nights by myself. An A-train? I was smart enough to know when I was that little to sit next to an older black woman and act like she my mommy and I knew when to ride the front of the car to stay safe.

53:47Tony Yayo:Yeah, because back in the day you don't recognize danger. You really got to think smart to pay attention like I'm going to sit next to an old lady so she look like my mom's her aunt or grandmother or something. Yeah, and I knew when to ride the front and the last night I got out in East New York and slept in the alley next to a green. Then I went to my dad. And when I remember like it was yesterday when he opened the door, I ain't see anger. I saw hurt. Did this to my kids? I was getting two, three beatings a day, man. I couldn't take no more. Because if you're the first person in my life punking me, what you think the world gonna do to me?

54:22And I got tired of being scared. It take balls to go for your dreams. We got balls, man. like that, man. It take balls to go for your dream. Because you know what's stop us? One little thing, the word if. What if it don't work? What motherfucker do something else? If.

54:42Tony Yayo:I'm trying to tell niggas that every day. You know what my plan B was? There was none. I got to get mine. I'm from Bed-Stuy. Do or die. I got to get mine. Brooklyn, baby. He don't like all this Brooklyn talk today. Trust me. I got to make it. Brooklyn ain't no plan B. It's do or die. It's Brooklyn episode today. That's right. I'm glad you know. And for the record, this motherfucker was born in Brooklyn, Tracy. You know that? He was born in Brooklyn. He was born in Brooklyn. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Let that nigga know. Let that nigga know. Nas is going to slap him down for that shit. Fuck out of here.

55:15Tony Yayo:Shut the fuck up. Nas to your murder. Why you going around? Don't do that no more. Yo. Say that to Nas. That's my nigga. Say that to Nas to Juggle. That's my cousin. You see, like, while you was late, you didn't know, but you was late, and you know, we found out, Shout out to my nigga Nas. Speaking about Nas, we found out why you was late. Let me remind people again. Nas and Tracy Morgan is cousins. Did you know that? Oh, shit. Yeah. That's my cousin, man. You know what I'm saying? Look at that. I don't call him Nas. I call him Esco. Look at that. And we love each other, man. I love Nas. I spoke to him about two hours ago.

55:49I was on the phone with him. You buy a jet or a boat, you're going to have two happy days. The day you buy it and the day you sell it. All they do is drink money. and drink money

55:59Tony Yayo:yo that's the same shit 50 be saying drink money talk about jets fuck that shit drink money 50 produces 50 is the production he produces TV shows he makes TV shows well if he don't put me in a movie I'm fucking with you I ain't got time yo but if you if you fuck with me if you fuck with me you can't be yo-yo in the movie cause I'm gonna play you against character I bet I'm ready step out the cuff is on don't worry yeah you have to You have to. That's a natural... That's your process. Look at LL. Yeah, 50 put me in the movie with Bruce Willis, right? To do TV? And I was playing like a... He was a bank teller.

56:39Tony Yayo:I wasn't no fucking bank teller. A bank cop. He was a traffic teller. And I was trying to make fun about that. Like, 50 put me in the movie with Bruce Willis, and he had me playing the army truck guard, you know, protecting the money. I'm protecting the money. So he was basically... Stepping out my comfort zone. Now he did some bum-ass movie fucking SWAT 2, right? Some bum-ass SWAT 2. and this motherfucker just being himself you know regular street shit that's not how you do it you gotta step out your comfort zone Tracy you know what I'm saying he got shot in like two seconds Tracy this is what I'm trying to tell niggas if you get shot in a movie or TV in two seconds you not really at it it's about five minutes I had about to go five minutes you need a good I had five minutes you should do stand up I should do stand up I'm ready man you should try it I'm gonna try it try everything once I just want murder in the crowd If you don't like it, that's not going to happen.

57:28That's not going to happen. Yeah. I'm going to murder. I'm going to imagine murders in the crowd,

57:33Tony Yayo:and I'm just going to be roasting niggas. You don't know how to do it. You can't do that. This nigga, let me tell you how this nigga is. You ever got booed? You ever got booed? Never. No, they would turn against you. Yeah. So what you're going to do is get them on your side. I would teach you. I would go out with you. Ask that, Trace. Did you ever get booed and have to bounce back? Yeah. Okay, look at that. I don't remember. I got a million standing ovations. in front of 10 ,000, 5 ,000 people. I only remember the boos. Look at that. I only remember the bombs, man, because that's when I learned.

58:03I got to go back to, listen, the winning team don't celebrate. The winning team is in the locker room cursing God out. The winners are celebrating. The losers got to go back to the drawing board and see, oh, we ain't play defense. Eh, eh, we got to do it over. Nah, it's when I learned when I bombed. Hmm. In the beginning? That didn't ever happen now. But in the beginning, yeah, I bombed. It didn't happen often, but I bombed. Got you. Because that's what I learned. I'm going to write this. I'm going to write now. But it's here. I write now. But it's here. Comedy ain't like hip-hop, where you could be J.C.

58:42I ain't never write. I didn't get the fuck you wrote. Stop this shit. You wrote Biggie, wrote y 'all wrote. Y 'all ain't that much of a genius, motherfucker. The Brooklyn. See the Brooklyn. You write. You write. I write. I write my jokes. There's no way in the world I could do two hours and not remember. My shit's right on the teleprompter. Real shit. I know my— Listen, comedy is basic. Premise, set up, punchline. That's all you got to remember. And that's what I would teach him. You're not going to get up there and just snap on everything. That ain't comedy. Premise. Come up with a premise. Just like you write hip-hop.

59:21He going to write a lot. Come up with your premise. What you going to rhyme about? Then you got your premise set up. How you going to set them up? You going to set them up? How you going to set them up? You going to lower them in. And then you lower the bone. That's the punchline.

59:33Tony Yayo:I would definitely go to your comedy show. This is going to be my coach right here. I would go to your comedy show. What you going to talk about? You going to talk about sex? You going to talk about relationships? That's what I do. Because you know why? Because we all do the same shit. Me and you just talked about that. I'm just like you. When I take a shit, I lean on my left and wipe my ass. Just like you. Well, I look at the toilet. Before I flush, I look at the toilet paper. Just like you. Because that's your measurement. You got to fold again. Sometimes you miss it. Get a little doodle right here.

1:00:08You smell it. You smell it. I can't fuck with Tracy. You smell it. That's it. You look at it before you flush. You look at it. and the minute you know that it'll make you a better human being

1:00:21Tony Yayo:nah you right yo you drop so many gems man definitely get nah nah whenever we kick it whenever we around each other let's we kick we always go people gonna be seeing Tracy and Murda Tracy and Yayo talking and in their minds gonna be millions of people around it in their mind they gonna I wonder what they talking about I wonder what the fuck they talking about we can then you go we just talking about getting money that's what we just talking about you can make anything up after that because they don't know. Why is none of their business? We kicking it. Would you eavesdropping on us money? Why you standing there?

1:00:57I tell you, man, I was wild when I was young, man. I was just like them, carrying burners and all that. Come on, man. I was wild. I'm glad I grew out of that because I probably would have lost my life. Hell yeah, or be in jail for the rest of it. Yeah, we know that. We know that. I told you why I don't mess with the streets. That's where all my trauma happened.

1:01:16Tony Yayo:I'm done. Too much technology. Tupac got shot going in the quad. Going in to make music. Weird. Think about it. Tupac got shot in quad. Got to be careful, man. I don't go to clubs no more. I ain't been to a comedy club in four or five years. I got writers. Like my man said, I don't write rhymes. I write checks. I got writers. And you know, I surround myself with people who do this as a necessity. They need to do this. You ain't got to write rhymes no more. Surround yourself with some cash that do this as a necessity. He got to do this to pay his rent. So I'm going to get the best out of him. I surround myself, being I'm Tracy Morgan, with people who need to do this as a necessity.

1:02:16I ain't got time for it. I don't. I don't. I got to take care of my family and all that. I got real life outside. Show business is this much of my life. The rest is my wife, my fucking kids, all that. Real life. I held on that. Because when you don't deal with reality no more, when you locked in a character, he's not murder all day. He's not yay all day. He don't got the energy for that. Imagine if Buster was Buster all day. It would be fucking... He might be Buster all day. Because Buster be seen... I'm serious. Yeah, man. He might be Buster. You know what? I'm serious. Sometimes we all... Where does Superman live?

1:02:56Where does Superman live? In the fortress of what? Solitude. Sometimes we all need a place to just go think. I need a place to go think, man. I can't... I don't got the energy for that.

1:03:08Tony Yayo:What Superman Richard Pryor was in? I know you know. Huh? I forgot. Four? Superman. I think it was three. I think it was three. I don't remember. But that was when Richard was going down. You think that helped his career with that one? Me and Eddie was just talking about this. So we had Eddie's crib. But these niggas don't watch the classics. I watch the classics. We was watching Richard when he was filming Stir Crazy. He was going in on Gene Wilder. Corner Walk on the fucking, all this crazy shit. He was high as a kite. And then Eddie said, see that Richard? Funny as a motherfucker. Then he set himself on fire.

1:03:46and we never saw that Richard again. Never saw that Richard again. Started doing things like the toy, shit like that. The toy, I like that toy. I like the toy. Yeah, but that wasn't Richard. It wasn't Richard. He went out of his own. You got to see Blue Collar. That's a Christmas. You got to see Blue Collar. You got to see the Richard. The Richard. The real Richard.

1:04:08Tony Yayo:You didn't like Richard in Superman 3? I love Richard. Richard is my king. But toy is, why I say toy. But those are the movies at the end. His demise at the end. You got to see the Richard before that. I watched the Richard before that. The raw Richard. No diddy. Oh, yeah. Carl Walsh. You know Carl Walsh was the first OG? You remember the dudes put the gun down, Abdul? Remember that guy? Abdullah? That was an OG. No, but I felt like him. That's the definition of an OG. When you stir the youth in the right direction. Yeah, Carl Walsh. He said, put the gun down, Abdul. Nah, because you know why Superman 3, you know, I was a big fan.

1:04:47Tony Yayo:Everybody was a big fan of every Superman as a kid. So when he dropped Superman 3, when he was in it, and Richard Pryor - But he did that for the money. Because he was broke. Did it for the money. Whenever you do anything for the money, you don't do this for the money. You love the hip-hop. You love this shit. Definitely. You can't, it'll kill you. Yeah. If you do it for the money. Man, I ain't doing it. I don't do comedy for the money, man. It's work at the post office, man. I do this because I love to do it. I ain't got to do this no more. I got to buy a Walmart truck. I ain't got to do this no more.

1:05:23Walmart money, nigga. Walmart money. I do it because I love it. Real shit. Because I do it because I love it. And if I ain't have comedy, I'd probably die. Wow. If you ain't have hip hop, you ain't have, you'd probably die.

1:05:37Tony Yayo:That's a real shit, though. I don't do that. Real shit. Think about it. Think about your life. Take a stop. Think about your life. I love doing this. I get off from watching him laugh and him laugh and you laugh and you laugh. And all y 'all, we had this, I had this whole room laughing. I guess it was turnt up. When you was late, when you wasn't here, we was, we was turnt up. You should have started the show. You tough, right? You see how he's smiling? You should have started the show. The audience is going to laugh. They're going to get a kick out of this. I would have started the show. I know you would have started without me.

1:06:07Tony Yayo:I know. I know how you would have did. Tracy Morgan, I would have started the show. Glad you see that, Tracy. He would have started without me. You know, for me, I'm going to say it when this is over. I got to talk to y 'all. I got to tell y 'all something when this is over. I got to get ready to go home and watch the game.

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1:06:31Tony Yayo:Make some noise for motherfucking Tracy Morgan. Thank you for your time, man.

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