Club 520 - Bill Bellamy on HOOPING with Penny Hardaway, comedy shows, MEETING R. Kelly

Summary

Club 520 Podcast – Bill Bellamy on Hooping with Penny Hardaway, Comedy Shows, and Meeting R. Kelly

Release date: January 5, 2026
Host: DJ Wells (with Jeff Teague, Bishop B Henn.)
Guest: Bill Bellamy

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Episode Overview

This episode of Club 520 features veteran comedian, actor, and (as listeners learn) lifelong hooper Bill Bellamy. The crew dives into Bill’s basketball stories, iconic comedy era memories, thoughts on today’s NBA, and wild behind-the-scenes moments from his entertainment career—including a legendary R. Kelly story. The vibe is relaxed and hilarious, with Bill matching the hosts’ energy beat for beat.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bill Bellamy’s Hooping Credentials

• LA Fitness & Celebrity Runs:
  • Bellamy talks about still playing ball "relatively good" but jokes: "I ain’t really explosive like I used to be...now I’m jump shot, I’m mid-range, keepin’ it simple." (08:08)
  • Reminisces about high-level celebrity runs at Santa Monica College: Baron Davis, Paul Pierce, Nick Young, and "a few gang members mixed in." (09:11)
  • "If you lose, you be mad...you might have to wait like 5-6 games." (09:39)
• Best Hooping Celebrities:
  • "Off the top, Chris Brown...probably one of the most athletic guys that I didn’t know was that athletic." (10:05)
  • Flex Alexander and Tank—Tank "uses all his fouls in the first quarter," then sings to you. (10:19)
  • Jaleel White ("Steve Urkel") is surprisingly tough: "Jaleel is tricky because he’s kind of like unexpected quick." (11:00)

2. Classic Street Ball & East Coast Basketball Tales

• Rutgers Roots:
  • "We had John Battle, Roy Henson—made it to the NBA. Ray Rice in football…" (11:35)
• Street Legend Shoutouts:
  • The awe-inspiring "Ali Mo," described as 6'8", "blue black," unstoppable in summer leagues: "He was unguardable, it was a show in a show." (12:54)
  • Skipping at the Rucker: "They’d say, 'If you look at Skip, he gonna put you on the ground!'" (13:54)
• Legendary Summer League Game:
  • Talks about playing against Penny Hardaway, Larry Johnson, and Scottie Pippen at University of Maryland, and describes the day LJ hurt his back:
    "Grandmama was like the first LeBron, okay? ... Penny threw the alley, LJ caught it and went down. He never been the same." (16:41)

3. Comedy, Crowd Work & The 'Golden Era' of Black Sitcoms

• On Crowd Engagement:
  • "I love just being off the rip with it...if Jermaine Jackson or Deebo ever come to my show, stay in the back. If I can see you, I gotta say it." (22:06, 22:54)
• Reminiscing About Def Jam & Standup Legends:
  • "Martin didn’t even have to do his set—he was tearing motherfuckers up." (23:14)
  • "We got the best comedy class ever, bro...Dave, Chris, Sid, DL, Chris Tucker, Eddie Griffin, Steve Harvey..." (24:00)
  • On sitcoms: "We don’t have those same sitcoms like we used to...I think we could do it now; people want to see us." (25:22, 25:36)
• Comedy in the Internet Age:
  • "Does not mean you’re a comedian yet. You could be funny now...but that stage with a mic and a stool? That hit different." (47:54)
  • On social and standup stars: "Mojo Brooks, Desi Banks, DC Young Fly...they not cheating the game. They are talented, and they embrace their fan base." (49:42)

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4. Memorable, Wild Club & Comedy Stories

• Jermaine Jackson’s Hair:

  • The crew and Bellamy roast Jermaine Jackson’s infamous hair (fro mistaken for paint).
    Bellamy: "It looked like the stuff do your roof with. You gotta heat that up—it’ll seal it." (19:12)

• Changing Comedy Norms:

  • On how today’s comedy is more restricted:
    "We can’t say nothing...Bernie Mac wouldn’t have made it...I feel like we should be able to laugh, as long as we not being disrespectful." (33:53)
  • Classic bit: “Back in the day, whatever was wrong with you used to be your nickname—cross-eyed Larry, club foot Willie, bowlegged Shirley…" (38:53)

• Short Women & Club Stories:

  • On seeing a short woman at the club:
    “I picked her up and put her on the counter...she said, 'thank you', everybody busted out laughing." (39:07)
  • “Back in the day, it was this one cute Puerto Rican little person...she might have caught me slipping.” (41:09)

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5. Behind the Scenes of ‘How to Be a Player’ and His Acting Career

• Why Bill Made His Iconic Character Likable:
  • "The character wasn’t likable at first—had to make him charming and funny so women would want to watch." (41:59)
  • "How to Be a Player is basically the best day of your life. You get all the chicks, have the most fun, and bring your friends." (43:14)
• Cast Shoutouts & Legacy:
  • Names the cast (Bernie Mac, Natalie Desselle, AJ Johnson, etc.), reflects on their legacies.
  • "I have guys in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s that watch How to Be a Player...that was almost 30 years ago." (44:20)
• Life Imitates Art:
  • "When I did the movie, afterwards, I went and got a loft—just like Dre [the character]." (47:04)

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6. NBA: Then and Now — Hot Takes

• Favorite Current Players:
  • Guards: Anthony Edwards, Jayson Tatum, Steph, KD, Jalen Brunson, Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Luka ("offensively, I think he’s unguardable, but he don’t play enough D for me." (60:50, 62:09)
• Jaylen Brown vs Luka Debate:
  • Bellamy: "If it’s not just about buckets, I’m going with Jaylen Brown." (62:39)
  • Explains importance of team play and defense:
    "Luka is all offense...but in playoffs, you gotta play D." (62:52)
• LeBron vs Jordan — Who’s the Real GOAT?
  • "LeBron is the goat of this decade...Michael Jordan is the goat of basketball." (66:21)
  • "Of the last 30 years, LeBron is the best basketball player I’ve seen." (67:05)
  • On starting a team:
    "You gotta go with Mike...but LeBron is magic, not MJ. Stop comparing him to Mike." (67:23)

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7. Meetings with R. Kelly and Behind-the-Scenes Memories

• All-Star in Orlando, Hanging with “Rob”:
  • "R. Kelly bought Hennessy for the whole row...he was just such a good dude, very genuine. I used to hoop with him sometimes." (70:52)
  • "All the times I hung out with him, he was so dope...would get us all drunk, take us out." (72:08)
• In the Club When "I’m a Flirt" Comes On:
  • "Kells is at the end of the VIP, and when 'I’m a Flirt' came on, all the women got up. It looked like I was in the music video...I said, oh, I done made it!" (74:41)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

"Grandmama was like the first LeBron, okay?...Size, athleticism...he was probably one of the most athletic three-fours at that time."
— Bill Bellamy on Larry Johnson (16:23)

"Back then, whatever was wrong with you used to be your nickname."
— Bill Bellamy (38:53)

"Mojo Brooks, Desi Banks, DC Young Fly...they not cheating the game."
— Bill Bellamy on new school comedy (49:42)

"The character wasn’t likable at first—had to make him charming and funny so women would want to watch."
— Bill Bellamy on playing Dre in How to Be a Player (41:59)

"Luka is all offense...but in playoffs, you gotta play D."
— Bill Bellamy (62:52)

"LeBron is the goat of this decade...Michael Jordan is the goat of basketball."
— Bill Bellamy (66:21)

"Kells is at the end of the VIP, and when 'I’m a Flirt' came on, all the women got up. It looked like I was in the music video..."
— Bill Bellamy (74:41)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Hoop Stories & LA Runs: 07:56 – 11:00
• East Coast Streetball Legends: 11:35 – 15:05
• Penny/LJ Summer League: 15:35 – 16:41
• Jermaine Jackson’s Hair Roast: 18:21 – 20:15
• Comedy Crowd Work & Def Jam Era: 22:06 – 24:22
• Golden Age of Sitcoms: 24:22 – 25:36
• How to Be a Player: Behind the Scenes: 41:44 – 47:04
• Comedy in the Social Media Age: 47:54 – 50:17
• NBA Player Debates (Jaylen vs. Luka, LeBron vs. MJ): 60:41 – 67:23
• R. Kelly Stories: 70:52 – 75:38

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Final Thoughts

This episode serves as a living oral history—Bill Bellamy’s infectious storytelling touches on the intersection of basketball, comedy, and Black pop culture from the ‘90s to now. The conversation is rolling with laughter, ribbing, and genuine respect, making it a must-listen—or, thanks to this summary, a must-read—for anyone who loves hoops, stand-up, or the art of a good story.

Transcript

[Bill Bellamy]

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[Bill Bellamy]

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[Bill Bellamy]

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[Bill Bellamy]

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[DJ Wells]

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[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah, I'm going tomorrow to get mine, man. It's time. I need to upgrade immediately, man. Tap in.

[DJ Wells]

Come on. Yeah, they'll pull up to your crib. You don't even got to do nothing. You ain't got to go tap in with the. The. The stores or whatever. They'll have the phone come to your crib. Boost Mobile pull up to your crib and you get everything situated for you.

[Bill Bellamy]

Boost Mobile. Is Boost Mobile for real?

[DJ Wells]

Yeah, it's mobile. They getting active. Listen, man, everybody, they pulling up.

[Odoo Advertiser]

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[Bill Bellamy]

Ain't no way they pulling up.

[DJ Wells]

Boost Mobile. Pulling.

[Bill Bellamy]

Setting up my service on my new iPhone 17 at the crib.

[DJ Wells]

You ain't gotta leave, man. Come on, off the couch with it. Listen, doorstep sir. C code, you know what I'm saying? When you get a new phone, the worst part is transferring your contacts, your pictures and messages. All that. You ain't even gotta do all that. They gonna handle that for you. Just tap in. Listen, man, the most powerful iPhone ever. IPhone 17, Boost Mobile got you in. They gotta leave the crib. They gonna bring your phone, transfer, refer you, man. What's the excuse not to get a behen?

[Bill Bellamy]

Ain't no excuses. Especially they pulling up to your door. Would I never know other providers ever did that.

[DJ Wells]

Come on, man. Doorstep service.

[Bill Bellamy]

Wow, that's definitely new, man. Damn, it's tight.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah. Shout out to Boost Mobile, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

All right, man.

[DJ Wells]

We back another episode of Club 520 podcast. I'm your host. My name is DJ Wells. Brought to you by Boost Mobile. You know the vibes. Get you your loved one. That new iPhone 17, they'll pull up to your crib and handle the rest. And Bill, gotta ask you a question before I introduce you. Did you have a Boost Mobile back in the day? Did you have that chirp.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I had it. I think I had every kind of trap phone. No, for real? For real. Cause back then, that Boost Mobile joint was hot. We had the Startech joint. We had the. Remember the one that you turn Sidekicks. The Sidekicks? Is that. Am I telling my age? No, no, we had Sidekicks. Yeah. The Sidekick was really the first iPhone. Oh, God, it was. Yeah. Cause Cass was in the hood like, hey, man, wait till I turn this motherfucker, though. That shit was fun as hell.

[DJ Wells]

Hey, man, that's the boss man. Shout out to the good people over here at Boost Mobile. Also shout out to Hard Rock Batman, official sponsor of Club 520 and 520 in the morning.

[Bill Bellamy]

Shout out.

[DJ Wells]

I got to be him. And he got this thing called a crash out parlay. So he either going, you know, saying, make the household cool, okay? Or everybody going to have to move out, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

Oh, Lord. Yeah, it got. It got ugly in 2025.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Man, you know he r some people.

[DJ Wells]

Christmas.

[Bill Bellamy]

Wash all that away, man. Good.

[DJ Wells]

We good.

[Bill Bellamy]

We ready to start fresh, though. Yeah, we ready to start fresh. New year, New year, new me. New year, new me. Okay. All right. I'll pray for you.

[DJ Wells]

Shout out to the last man. Shout out to StockX. Keeping us fresh in the set as well, man. We got a special guest in the building, but you know how it goes. Introducing Blast to my far left. We got my dog Bishop B. Heading out the prairies. How you at, Nasty?

[Bill Bellamy]

Chatting, man. Glad to be here today. We gotta. It's gonna be a good one.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah, we got a legend on the show now. Listen, this is. You know what I'm saying? He's our resident chef in the building. You know, we always criticize my man Jeff about his food takes and the stuff that he decides to do in, like, nice establishments. He puts ketchup on steak. And he's been finding some support out here. We want to see. How do you feel about that?

[Bill Bellamy]

Obviously, you've been around. No, it's very hood. I see where JT coming from. You know what I'm saying? Cause ketchup, really? And it's gotta be Heinz. I ain't never been a Hunt's cat, you know what I'm saying? Hans, go with everything, bro. So, like, I'm trying to peep game, like. Okay. If he in a nice restaurant. You gotta hide it, though. Is he full throttle? Bring him the bottom. Oh, damn. From the bottom.

[DJ Wells]

It can't be an ass.

[Bill Bellamy]

Can I get a place in LA like you in LA? You at steak 48? You actually get some ketchup?

[DJ Wells]

Yeah, I just like. I get ketchup.

[Bill Bellamy]

And you ain't got no fries, no wedge. Okay, Just. Okay, so he ain't just all the way pricing.

[DJ Wells]

He's lying.

[Bill Bellamy]

He lying, bro.

[DJ Wells]

Give me a little side of ketchup.

[Bill Bellamy]

So do you. Do you. Do you get steak sauce at all? Do you do? Because I don't like, like, Honestly, I like A1.

[DJ Wells]

No top tier. I get it every. Now I got it. Like one time we went out.

[Bill Bellamy]

You don't do. You don't do the highest 57 joint.

[DJ Wells]

Oh.

[Bill Bellamy]

Cause that one. That one's got a different taste. Like it ain't. That's a little bit more tangy.

[DJ Wells]

No, no, I like that.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah. He just won't catch it.

[DJ Wells]

I just want to catch it.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah. He gonna keep his section 8.

[DJ Wells]

Still to my right. My dog Young Nacho. Young Tig. How you what? I'm good, man. They talking about the ketchup already. It's gonna be a legendary pie, man. We got a legend in the building, man.

[Richard Sherman]

Thank you, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

I appreciate you.

[DJ Wells]

Come on, man. Like we said, man. Legend in the building, man. He's been around our entire lives. Entertainers. Thank you, man. Movies, TV, comedy. We got the one and only Mr. Bill Bellamy in the building. Big Dog. We appreciate you, Slide, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

I'm excited to be here with y', all, man. I like what y' all doing that they don't tell y', all, like, where the podcast is, though. See, that's the thing that's scary about, like, these podcasts. Cause you think everyone is gonna be in this high rise building. Like, when you come to. You gotta want to come to y'. All. Cause when you roll up, it look like an episode of bmf. Yo, what season, though? Yo, it' the streets is lit right now. So when it. Cause the funny part, when we pulled up, I was like. When we turned the corner, I was like, I don't think they here because this is a slash. It looked like the joint where you drop off the keys and you roll. Oh, God.

[DJ Wells]

But.

[Bill Bellamy]

But when you come inside, it's souvenir. I'm just joking.

[DJ Wells]

I'm just joking.

[Bill Bellamy]

Collision repair building for sure.

[DJ Wells]

Your first house.

[Bill Bellamy]

Hit your best house. Right, right, right. Y' all on your way up. I feel you.

[DJ Wells]

I feel you for sure. Appreciate you pulling up, man. We got so much to talk about. Let's get straight to it, man. You a Hooper man.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yes, sir.

[DJ Wells]

Now I got right here be here. You know what I'm saying? He been going around playing a lot of celebrity podcasts and shout out to top billing. You do y' all thing. Y' all trying to jump into space, man. What's going on? We got three on three, into two on two.

[Bill Bellamy]

Listen, listen. Like, I'm still hooping relatively good. Like, I ain't. I ain't really explosive like I used to be. Like, if I cross you one or two times, I ain't got no more left. Cause I just don't have this pop pop. I used to have the pop pop. Ha. Now, ha. And then I go sit down, like, you know what I'm saying? Now I'm jump shot. I'm mid range, you know what I'm saying? I'm keeping it simple. Cause like, unless I play with cats that really hoop, I be nervous at these LA fitnesses and stuff. Cause it's always like them three, four dudes that ain't never played organized basketball nowhere. They run into you, they Undercut you, they run right into you with they whole head.

[DJ Wells]

That's a fact.

[Bill Bellamy]

You gotta play like, kind of like safety wise, you know what I mean?

[DJ Wells]

Without making a car.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to get out. I want the cardio at this point. But like before COVID it used to be official in la. I used to play up at Santa Monica College on Sundays when I wasn't working. And Baron Davis would be up there.

[DJ Wells]

About to be there.

[Bill Bellamy]

Paul Pierce, I seen him up there a couple times back in. Who else was up there? Crazy. What's my man? He always smiling, man. He played for the Lakers. He got in trouble. He was dating. He was dating Izzy. Izzy. Nick Young, Swaggy P. Swaggy P. I love Swaggy P. He talks so much trash. I love Swaggy P. He always smiling while he talking trash.

[DJ Wells]

Facts. That's a wild hoop session. Bd Paul Pierce, Nick Young and a.

[Bill Bellamy]

Few gang members mixed in. They hoop like it was used to be live hoops, man. And if you lose, you be mad. Cause they had the three courts. So like you trying to make it to the middle court. And if you lose, you. Oh my God, you be way. You might have to wait like five, six games. That's how good it was. Who the best celebrity that you done seen? Who that can. Who. All your years in this. You about what, 30 years in this space? I'm about 30 years in this space.

[Lenovo Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

I'm gonna tell you right now, right now, off the top, Chris Brown.

[DJ Wells]

Okay.

[Bill Bellamy]

I would say breezy. Cause I would say Breezy is probably one of the most athletic guys that I didn't know was that athletic. Like when we. We used to play the Entertainment League in la.

[Lenovo Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

And. And he was playing and he was really good. Him Flex. What about Tank? Tank? Tank. Tank can actually play, but he play football, basketball. He used all his fouls in the first quarter. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Be fouling the out you. And then he'll sing you. Sing to you. So it's weird. No, but for real, take and play. Who else I played with, that was pretty good. That shocked me. Jaleel White.

[DJ Wells]

Okay.

[Bill Bellamy]

He said he could. Yeah, he could play. Yeah, Jaleel can play.

[DJ Wells]

All right. Who winning between you and him?

[Bill Bellamy]

Me and Jaleel, we've had some really good battles. It just depends. Now I kill him, but a couple, couple games he caught me slipping. Like Jaleel is tricky because he's like. He's kind of like unexpected quick, you know what I mean? Because he could get by you real quick and whatever. He not jumping over, you know, but he got. He got speed, like. And he know how to get to the cup. So I give him respect, you know what I'm saying?

[DJ Wells]

That's all growing up in Jersey, you know what I'm saying? Rutgers, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yes.

[DJ Wells]

Some of your favorite Hoopers growing up, or. You know what I'm saying? Are you tapped in with Rutgers basketball at all?

[Bill Bellamy]

Yes, yes, yes. So I gotta take you back. So y' all was probably, like, in third grade then, but some of the best Rutgers players that. When I was at school, we had John Battle. John Battle was a guard that made it to the NBA. Roy Henson, he.

[DJ Wells]

I know Roy. He worked at the NBA for a long time.

[Bill Bellamy]

He played. Did he play in Atlanta?

[DJ Wells]

Yep.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah, I think so. I don't know why that popped in my head. Let me see. Anybody else made it to the league? Not in basketball, but in football? We had Ray Rice. Yeah, we had Ray Rice and maybe another other football player that made it, but not many guys that I knew during my span made it. But I played with a lot of great street ball players.

[DJ Wells]

Okay.

[Bill Bellamy]

You know what I'm saying? Back in the day, like, when I first came to the game in the early 90s, it was nothing to play, not to play in the summer league. If you could hoop, you could get on the team. That was a big deal in the east coast. Summer leagues was big. So if you knew somebody or you hooped, you could probably get on a team and pick, like, you know, coming off the bench or whatever. But you could play, you know, I mean, they would let, like, cats that they knew play. But one of the best street Hoopers I ever seen in my life outside of Skip to my Lou guard wise, was this dude named Ali Mo.

[DJ Wells]

Oh, yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

I never seen nothing like that in my life. He was 6, 8, blue, black. Oh, God. He had everything. I mean, it was like. Let me give you, like, 92, 93. I will never forget this, bro. He might have shot. He might have went 15 for 15. Like, it was just unbelievable. He was going on every way. Pullback floater from the three going through Duncan. I was just like, yo, he's unguardable. Like, it was a show in a show, and he was doing, like, moves that you ain't seen before. Yeah, like. Like he was doing Euros then. And we didn't even know what to call it. Like, he was doing tricky street shit. Did he travel? We was like, yo, yo, he was one of them. Oh. Oh, that's a new York legend, for sure. Yeah, he was here, bro. You definitely watch basketball. I remember playing in a game with. With Skip, right? And everybody. This is. We had no. Back then, you know, we had the team up. You know, we had the little trap phones and shit. So it wasn't no Internet and shit. But In New York, Cas was talking about Skip. They was like, yo, man, don't look at him. Don't look at his waist. You can't guard him. He got it on a string. And you was like, what? They was like, yo, I swear to God, bro, if you look at him, he gonna put you on the ground. Oh, my God, bro. I was trying to guard this dude. It was like I was. Bro, I went on everything. I was over here. I was over there. I was like, yo, man, go get him, bro. Hey, yo, my man, go get him. You know what? That's when you know you can't gu. Hey, my man, I'm good. You played him at Rucker? We played at. It was in New York. It used to be so many great celebrity, like Summer League Jones. It was really an interesting time in the early 90s, because the Rucker was must do. But all the pros was there. Like, you couldn't play at the Rucker unless you was a pro. I never played at no Rucker like that. But the Rucker was dope to go to. Did you ever go to the Rucker? Nah, I never was able to make it. Like we go, like, when we visit. But I wanted to ask. You wanted to see somebody push.

[DJ Wells]

I wanted to go see a live matchups.

[Bill Bellamy]

I want to hear Duke on the mic talking shit. Everybody was coming through the ruck. Did you do it?

[DJ Wells]

Nah, I ain't play at the Ruck.

[Bill Bellamy]

You ain't never want to?

[DJ Wells]

Yeah, I played at Dykmann. I ain't playing at the Rucker.

[Bill Bellamy]

Well, Dyckman is dope, too, though. It's the same thing. But the Rucker was just more of a, you know, a New York kind of, like, historic thing, like from when Kobe put up crazy numbers. KD came through like every. Everybody who was. Did Brian ever do it?

[DJ Wells]

She was supposed to play that Blackout game.

[Bill Bellamy]

He was supposed to do the Fat Joe versus Jay Z. But something happened. Like you said, Fat Joe, Jay Z. See that? That was the kind of era we was in where it was like, ballers, guys who were like good hoopers with pros. And I used to play in a lot of them. I remember one of my favorite games. I don't know why you making Me think of this. One of my favorite games I ever played with pros was we played at University of Maryland. Penny was in the league. Larry Johnson was in the league. Scottie Pippen was playing. Yo, this is. Let me tell you how crazy you out there. What the hell? This is how crazy it was. Cause you could play in the summer league back then. The pros didn't have no restrictions. And I played in the game where Larry Johnson hurt his back.

[DJ Wells]

Damn.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yo, he took off. You know how freakishly athletic Larry Johnson was. Grandmama was the first LeBron, okay? Oh, think about size, athleticism. I mean, he was probably one of the most athletic three fours at that time.

[DJ Wells]

I get a lot of Zion comparisons for him.

[Bill Bellamy]

For Larry Johnson, I could see that. But I'm just saying, like, when have you ever seen another athletic Larry Johnson? Especially back then. Hell, no. Let me tell you, it was so crazy, right? Penny was coming down, you know, And Penny was really nice. Tricky looking off alleys, you know. He was like, to me, a baby magic. So Penny came down, Boom, boom, boom. Did some real quick cute shit and just threw it like this. LJ came baseline, but it was a little behind him. He caught it and still made it bow. And then he just went down. And everybody's like, oh, shit. He was rolling around and that's. He never been the same. I remember the game. And that's when they stopped letting him play.

[DJ Wells]

Damn, damn, damn.

[Bill Bellamy]

If it ever come up, he'll remember. Damn, dog, you sure did. True story. I'm keeping it real. Keeping it real.

[DJ Wells]

We'll have some fun tonight. Barbie at work tonight.

[Bill Bellamy]

Be here. Where you at, B? Pull up. I need a drink.

[Richard Sherman]

Hello.

[Bill Bellamy]

Hello. Oh, God damn. This for breakfast? Yeah. What y' all having?

[DJ Wells]

What we got today?

[Bill Bellamy]

Old Fashioned.

[DJ Wells]

Okay.

[Bill Bellamy]

We gotta act like prestigious. Me. Okay, okay. We grown.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah. Steak on. Catch up. You know what I'm saying? We still drink Old Fashioned around here for sure. The building, the show. We like to play a lot of unnecessary videos on here. Okay, since you're here, we gotta have tradition. Go ahead, load the first one. Shout out to my guy, Jermaine Jackson. He is a. Well, we can start there. Jermaine Jackson is a constant topic on this show. Shout out to our guy Kevin on stage. Now, being here, he had us. This is a little clip by his hair. And we found out that apparently his hair on the side is not paint, it is his fro.

[Bill Bellamy]

You know this.

[DJ Wells]

Let's go ahead and play the clip for more content.

[Bill Bellamy]

I can't. I can't. Take it. You can't help. It's so crazy.

[DJ Wells]

You could be giving us tonight's lotto numbers. The password to Sally Mace.

[Bill Bellamy]

How's he keeping a straight face? How do we look up? How old? He said he got to be 70.

[DJ Wells]

You think he's 70?

[Bill Bellamy]

I' ma say 71, 50 something, man. I don't know. I'm gonna say 71.

[DJ Wells]

We got. I'm going 70. 71.

[Bill Bellamy]

All right.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Oh, I just threw that off the head.

[DJ Wells]

So he said the side of his hair be. Hint. It's not paint. It's his fro. Just let it down.

[Bill Bellamy]

It looked like the stuff do your roof with. Oh, God. You know. You know, like when you get a leak and you don't want to pay the roofer, you go get. But you gotta heat it. You know, that's what it look like. You know, like, they be like, yo, Jermaine, we gotta the roof leak. Or go up there and he'll just lay his head on there. That's what I'm talking about. That right there, you gotta heat that up. It'll seal it. Hey, and you got to put the mop. You got to use a wet mop. Somebody here do construction. He know exactly what I'm talking about.

[DJ Wells]

How big is the bucket?

[Bill Bellamy]

I think what he do is whenever they. I think whenever there's a construction site and they doing it, he just go see that bucket and put his head in there. And then we get in the car, he just lay it down.

[DJ Wells]

And it's a ponytail in the back.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah, he got a ponytail.

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[Bill Bellamy]

I thought it was just smooth all around playing with me. If he ever came to my comedy show, I got a whole hour. I will tag his ass up. You can never go to a comedy club with that hair. Hey, look. Hell no. He got a little weight. I don't understand the front, though. That's different. He cut that out. It's a tunnel.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah, stupid. Now, Barbie, I don't know if you're in the sugar daddies, but if your sugar daddy had that.

[Bill Bellamy]

If your sugar daddy look like that, he better be taking care of you, like, completely. That got to be like, you know what, girl? I'm just. I'm a ride it out. He got three more years. That's it. Yeah, I can do three.

[DJ Wells]

I can do three.

[Bill Bellamy]

I'll put a ponytail in four. Oh, you don't put your pouring. Let's see when you.

[DJ Wells]

Beautiful hair, yo.

[Bill Bellamy]

But the thing that it's so interesting is like, you know, and, you know, this Shit, you know, being in league and shit. Some people just so eccentric, right? I'm like, deebo Samuels, throw me off. Debo Samuels is so talented, right? But his gear be killing me. I don't never know which angle he went. Yeah, he. Debo bugged out with it. You know what I'm saying? I be like, where is he going? He looked like he just got out of baby oil tub with. He got chains on and lip gloss, all kinds of. But, but. But he.

[DJ Wells]

But.

[Bill Bellamy]

But he got baller, though.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah, yeah. Hey, that's crazy. You pulled that pickup, yo.

[Bill Bellamy]

I did. I did a. You look at that. Look at it. Depot don't care about that. Was out of pocket. This one right here with the thigh meat out. Yeah, that was. And the little black socks and whatever he was on his Uzi verb. Shit. Listen, it looked like people scared to say stuff. Yeah, yeah. Cause he looked like he bite.

[DJ Wells]

Deep of nature.

[Bill Bellamy]

Aaron, you can't kill, baby. Oh, man. No, I was just playing deep. How much does that take into your show, though? Like, crowd engagement. I love that shit, bro. That's what people want to hear. Like, comedians, we just want to be in the moment. Like, I got scripted shit that's really, really funny. But I love just being off the rip with it where, you know, I'm just thinking fast, you know? And that's the beauty of repetition, of being. Doing a lot of shows and stuff like that. But if Jermaine Jackson or Debo ever come to my show, stay in the. Say, how far back do you go? Like, you mean hard? Like. No, I'm saying, like, if you on stage, like, are you in that? Well, if I can see you. Yeah, it has to be. It has to be natural. Like, for instance, like, if I see it and I think it, I gotta say it. Like, that's just, you know, that's a rule. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Wells]

Y' all both dangerous, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yo, you like that, too? Yeah. Ross say whatever. Yeah, that's what. But people love that about you. That's why Charles Barkley so damn funny. Like, he be saying stuff on tv. Be like, what? But it be funny. Cause it's so honest. And I think the best comedian. People do that. Yeah.

[DJ Wells]

Now, Barb, want to ask you this. Would you go front row on your first date to a comedy show?

[Bill Bellamy]

Would I. Yeah. Depending on who I'm with. It depends on. And it depends on how you dress, too. If you look nice, nine times out of 10, you're not gonna get hit. But if you Think. Think back when DEF Jam came out. Martin was wearing out. And if you had an outfit that was real crazy, Martin going right there, and that makes it funny. The greatest of that. Yo, he's the greatest of that. Martin didn't even have to do his set. Yeah, he was tearing. Motherfuckers. I used to love that about Martin. Boy, that's. Yo, that's them there. Yo, that's my class.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah, that's my class. That's crazy. Jamie in there, too. Jamie. Yeah, I was on. I was on Joe and Jada, and I said, yo, we really actually got the best comedy class ever, bro.

[DJ Wells]

I agree.

[Bill Bellamy]

Like, we probably 40 deep. We probably 40 deep in talent. Like, if you want to go through the lineup, it's crazy. You just said, we got Dave, we got Chris, we got Sid, we got DL we got Chris Tucker, DL Hughley. But you see what I'm saying. And I'm Eddie Griffin, Steve Harvey.

[DJ Wells]

That's basically everybody in college that you grew up with.

[Bill Bellamy]

That's definitely. Yeah, that's like Bernie Mac when y' all were shorties, when we was doing. And we were all. And here's the dopest thing about it. For the cats that you know. Bruce, Bruce. And I'm just rattling names, it was the first time we ever got a chance to be TV stars. Think about it. Like, they was making sitcoms back then. That's true. So look at all of us got shows. Like, I had a big deal at NBC. I was on the wb. Sid and Steve was on the wb. Jamie Wyndham was on Fox. Who else had a show back then?

[DJ Wells]

Sid Martin. Steve Harvey.

[Bill Bellamy]

Martin was on Fox as well.

[DJ Wells]

Steve Harvey's.

[Bill Bellamy]

Damn, I'm throwing a blank. Eddie Griffin had a show with Flex. They did. Sure did. Homeboys in Space. No, it wasn't. Yeah, yeah. So, like, there were a lot of opportunities that we got from being very funny.

[DJ Wells]

You know what? That's interesting you said that, because we talk about it on here all the time. Like, we don't have those same sitcoms like, you used to have those spaces.

[Bill Bellamy]

It's like, look forward to it.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah. Like, you got Mikey Epps, you got this thing on Netflix. But, like, is there a possibility that return it or that have changed? They just look in a different direction now.

[Bill Bellamy]

No, I think we could do it now because we want to see us.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

You know, that's why platforms like Tubi are doing really well, in my opinion, because no matter whether it's good or bad, we still want to see us. If we were to put up good content, good shows. That's why podcasts are really good, because people want to see us being funny and authentically us. So if we were to put up a great show, go on any platform, people will watch it? I think so. I would watch it. I'm looking for. I'm watching reruns and that's all I do. Yeah, I watch reruns.

[DJ Wells]

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[DJ Wells]

I gotta show that I can't remember exactly what it's called. Was on Envy, mtv. Rock and Jock. That's what it was. That was my man.

[Bill Bellamy]

How old were you when you was.

[DJ Wells]

Watching, man, I had to.

[Bill Bellamy]

What year was that? From 92. From like 90, 91. So right from 90. I was on MTV from 91 to 98. Right. So we were doing it every year, and it got bigger and bigger. And this is why I love the 90s. It was so dope because I got a chance to meet some of my favorite heroes, you know? You know, I played ball with GP Yeah. Kevin Garnett was fresh in the league. Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, also the kid that played baseball, Ken Griffey Jr. Shout.

[DJ Wells]

Out to swing, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

It's like, who else played that was in the league? Is that Brian McKnight up there? Brian McKnight. You see me there? Who's in the middle right there?

[DJ Wells]

Is that Christmas? I want to be famous. Right here.

[Bill Bellamy]

That's when you wanted to be famous? I wanted to do that because it was silly. What was dope about rock and jock? It was kind of silly, but we was actually playing, and it was actually a celebrity game. But we had all them bullshit baskets. Did you remember? That's what made it fun. Like, Gary, pay to this day, got the most points ever. I think he got.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Remember he had like 175 points. Yo, he figured out how to get the 50. The 50 was way.

[DJ Wells]

He kept on it way up.

[Bill Bellamy]

And he did the 50 and it fell into 25.

[DJ Wells]

I. I was like, I want to get on this game so bad. I was like, six or seven.

[Bill Bellamy]

That's dope. You remember that, though? It was fun. That was a fun era.

[DJ Wells]

Real celebrity. But speaking of basketball. Go ahead, load it up, man. My boy Scott Van Pill almost started here off real tragic right here.

[Bill Bellamy]

What happened?

[DJ Wells]

What is this? They show two. Two guys.

[Bill Bellamy]

He said, come on, bro. He said he caught himself. God is good. The camera's rolling. He almost crashed out. He said, what? It is love. Love is everything. I ain't never seen that before. When that happened, it just happened. Wow. They just gonna let it happen? Okay. Let it ride.

[DJ Wells]

You got to love you with love. I was gonna ask, obviously, you've been doing comedy for so long, has the guidelines kind of changed with sensitivity towards things a little bit different?

[Bill Bellamy]

See what he said? Are you crazy? We can't say nothing. Yeah, Bernie Mac wouldn't have made it. Bernie Mac wouldn't have made it in. What the hell going on? Bernie would have crashed after boys had acquired the gyms. Okay. Happy New Year, Birdie. Would have crashed. I remember the first time. This is so funny. I'm gonna do it in a comedic way because it was the first time I ever seen it before. Right? Yeah. So I forget. It was the NFL draft. And I think his name's Mike Sam missed the sec. Everything Worldwide. He was like. He was. He was everything. Yes, right? So I was like, yo. Because I don't. You know, I don't know anything. So I'm like, I love. I love sports. I love football, basketball, whatever. So I'm like, yo, my man Sec, he's moving like that. That's. Dude, it's crazy. So I'm like. So I'm, like, invested in him. So I'm like this. I'm like, yo, I'm watching it. I'm like, yo, I know he gonna go big. Cause I was watching him kill. He was like a baby Lawrence Taylor, right? So I was like, dang, man. This dude, Mike Sam, boy, this dude right here, I know he going, top five, blah, blah, blah, right? So I'm watching the draft, and I had to say, I'm sorry. Do you see? No, I'm being honest. It's so funny right there. It did. Cause it just caught me off guard. So, you know, you don't expect that on dead ass. So we at the crib, you know, when we drinking and stuff. And then, because I always watch the draft, you know, I'm keeping it 1,000, right? So I'm like, oh, man. I know. My man Mike said, went pour some of this, man. I know Sam about to get it. I know he going, top five, drinking and stuff. And they say, give it up for Mike Sam. Nah, nah, nah. And then my man turned. I said, where you going? Then he kissed my man in the mouth with the cake. I said, Times have changed. I was like, okay, you know what? You just gotta say congratulations. Now, speaking about that, we can get off of it. But you and Jamie Foxx had a moment like that on the episode, man. Oh, yeah. Yo, yo, yo. Yeah, we did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You remember I had the big toe. Oh, God. He was that coming to play. But see, that's the thing that I love about the 90s in that era. We could joke about stuff and not. Not be offensive, but we could joke about. You know, we pushed the line a little bit. Not so crazy. But now if you were to do that same thing on tv, man. They might cancel your show. I don't think that's fair. I feel like we should be able to laugh and, like, you know, as long as we not being disrespectful. You feel me? Like, we know. You know, we know what we dealing with. But I'm saying, like, in a respectful way. Humor is humor. Everybody should be laughing, bro. Like, on some real funny shit. Like, why is people like, oh, like, I did a joke one time, I said. And I put this up. I was like, yo, man, whatever was wrong with you back in the day used to be your nickname. Like, think back when you was a kid and you was in the hood to be like, yo, you know, Cross side Larry, man, I ain't seen him. He all right. It used to be whatever's wrong with you. Yo, Club Foot Willie. Yo, he can't play today. Oh, okay. Ms. Willie. Willie not coming out now. His foot. His foot so wrong. His foot today. Like, you know what I mean? Remember Bowleg and Shirley? Whatever your. And then we used to say midgets. You can't say that now. You gotta say little people. Yeah, and I had a funny situation, right, with this little person. Listen, I wanna say midget so bad, but I shouldn't be drinking. So, listen, I'm in a club, right? And I keep hearing a voice. So you know how the bar is. Like, we tall guys. So the bar is probably hitting us, like, mid right here, right? So I'm up here, it's loud, it's a lot of people. And I hear a voice say, help. I was like, what the fuck going on, man? You hear that? And I'm like, yo, my man, can you help me? And I looked down. This is a little midget lady. She said, I've been down here trying to get a drink. I said, are you serious? You've been right there. That was you? She was like, yeah. I was saying, help. I was like, you know, can you tell the bartender I need a drink? So I picked her up and put her on the counter, like. And she said, thank you. Everybody busted out laughing. But that was just me being a comedian in the moment. Cause I was like, if you stay down, ain't nobody gonna see you. I thought that was a kid. As a kid, I thought she was in here. I was like, did she hear me? I thought she got in here. That's a real kid. Okay, my bad. But she was that side.

[DJ Wells]

Guys.

[Bill Bellamy]

They solid, though. They like baby people. They feel like them bullies, you know, they tight you ever. You ever picked up a pit, it says that's what the. The midget feel like. They experience that. I always see that the back of them, they always got a wagon on them. The girls do. They always be strapped. So. You sound like you my dude. See, I. I could talk to you. So. So day we in New York, right? I don't know why you making me think of stuff. So we in New York and it was this one girl, she was a little Puerto Rican. A little person, a little cutie though, bubble. They come in every, every nationality. I didn't know that. And so me and my boys used to be talking like that. Like we be like, yo, man, if she was just a little taller though, you know? You know, cats don't act like they won't do it. But they be talking about, man, real talk, man. If she can get some regular hands off. Cause I think your hands throw you off Boxing Glo.

[DJ Wells]

The hand BBL is crazy.

[Bill Bellamy]

I don't pass out that hand. That little hand touched me, I'mma pass out. It be too little because the fingers be stubby. They got construction worker. The N are like, can we say that? Can we say this?

[DJ Wells]

Yes, we can.

[Bill Bellamy]

I'm sorry.

[DJ Wells]

Look at.

[Bill Bellamy]

I should have never had this old fashioned, man.

[DJ Wells]

Y' all crazy.

[Bill Bellamy]

I know what you're talking about too, man, but. Yeah, but so you sound like you like you one of my boys. You know what I mean? That's how we be talking 1000% back in the day. It was this one cute little Puerto Rican little person. And she was adorable too. And she was so nice, but she was actually really pretty girl. And we used to be like, man, she used to do all the parties, hand out the flies for the next party thing. And so me and my boys, we drink it in the club like real tall dog on everything. She might catch me slipping.

[DJ Wells]

Man. Hilarious.

[Bill Bellamy]

We ain't never seen one jtu, man. I'm saying all that he's like, right? He got. He like, I got two in the truck. I keep. I keep in there like a spare out the game. I love this podcast. I love this podcast. Appreciate you.

[DJ Wells]

Thank you.

[Bill Bellamy]

Oh, yeah, thank you for the cocktail.

[DJ Wells]

I want to ask you about, like the movies, man. Okay. Yeah. Like how to be the player, you know, man, I kind of lived my life a little bit like that.

[Bill Bellamy]

Okay. A little something.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah. For about 21, about 25.

[Bill Bellamy]

Okay. You had a four year, like a college.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah. You, you know, I mean, I was inspired by that movie, man. What went into that role like, what made you take that role? Were you living like that?

[Bill Bellamy]

What? I. I was just. Just getting that real money, you know what I'm saying? At first, you know, like when you get in the league, at first you get that first solid contract, you know. You know, you straight. You seven figures with it.

[DJ Wells]

What you buy first? Crazy. Purchase a crib.

[Bill Bellamy]

Tired of living in apartments and stuff. So most cats was buying cars. I just bought nice crib off the rip. Because my big thing was I want something to put my car in, you feel me? I didn't want to have a car and, you know, be at the apartment type. So first thing was a crib. So I'm so. I'm really. I'm single, you know what I'm saying? I'm getting that like, first level of, like, cool success is starting to happen. Then I get this movie, right? So I'm like, dang, this movie kind of live. So I figured when I read the script, the first version of it was, the character wasn't very likable. He was very arrogant. So I was like, that's not gonna work. So I'm talking with Mark Brown and I was like, he can't be arrogant because no one's gonna like him. I say he gotta be charming and funny so that the stuff he doesn't that he's doing is not gonna come off offensive. He's gotta be like, almost getting left, you know what I mean? So we went back and forth over and he was like, yeah, B, I like them notes. I was like, yeah, because think about it, women gotta watch it and wanna like it. We can't just have dudes in the theater and they get in a fight with they chick. Cause this dude is just smashing everything moving. I said, what it's gotta be is like, he's in the candy store. He just got the best day of his life. He can get any candy he want today. And it's basically. Cause how to Be a Player is basically the best day of your life. You getting all the chicks you want, you having the most fun, and you bring in your friends. That's really what the movie is. That's what it is. And so with that kind of energy, I was like, I am going to bring so much fun to the character that women won't have a chance to get mad at me. They just gonna be like, he is stupid as hell. Like, oh my God, he got another girlfriend. He got this right here. And then the dudes would be like, yeah, nigga, I do. That's me all day. And I have had guys from every age group say, yo, man, I was in. Me and my brother used to watch that. My mama used to want us to watch it. I have guys in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s that watch how to Be a Player. And that was, what, 30 years ago? 27. I don't know, but it's amazing to do a movie that make people feel like that.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah, that's fire.

[Bill Bellamy]

I don't know if I could do that now. But look at the cast. We had Bernie Mac Pierre. We had Natalie desale. We had A.J. johnson. R.I.P.

[DJ Wells]

R.I.P.

[Bill Bellamy]

We had Gilbert Gottfried in there. We had. Oh, man. J. Anthony Brown was in there. He was playing Unk. Who else I had in there? I had Elise Neal.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Wow. Let me think, let me think, let me think. Let me think of somebody else. Oh, we had Goldie, Max Julian, who was a wonderful person. So my sister passed away. That Natalie Sell. We lost a few cast members. We also lost Bernie, obviously. We lost max, Julian and A.J. johnson. So, I mean, you know, it's a blessing that their legacy is still moving. You feel me? So I think that was a wonderful thing.

[DJ Wells]

Like, you have a cult classic, especially in our community, like, that's a classic.

[Richard Sherman]

Yes.

[DJ Wells]

What's that feeling like? Cause we see a lot of movies that, you know what I'm saying, people might like, but it's like, that came out. Everybody love this movie.

[Bill Bellamy]

Pierre was a horrible wingman.

[DJ Wells]

Oh, yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

He low key.

[DJ Wells]

A hating ass. He ain't know how to set the screen.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah, low key. Oh, God. He didn't set no screen. No scream.

[DJ Wells]

I like his podcast, though. I like his podcast.

[Bill Bellamy]

We talk about how people get treated, like, outside of their character in the real world. We would have treated Pierre back in the day.

[DJ Wells]

Oh, God. We would have been like, man, you weak.

[Bill Bellamy]

I wonder, do people feel like that about him now, like, in real life? Cause people treat me like, you know, they like me because they feel like I'm that guy. Like, you know what I mean? A lot of rappers just be like, yo, I'm in a club like Bill Bellamy. Or they you in a lot of songs. Like, I'm in a lot of songs. So it's like. Like, whatever that character is, it resonates with cool. It resonates with being on, you know what I mean?

[DJ Wells]

Like, I'm on, I'm up, I swear.

[Bill Bellamy]

So, like, if you play a lame character, I wonder, do people be like, man, yo, what do they be giving Pierre? He never told me that. I would ask him.

[DJ Wells]

That's Funny.

[Bill Bellamy]

He was funny, though. He was funny as hell. But I'm saying, you. That movie, man, it's like everybody can relate to somebody. Yes, sir. They got an uncle, like, you know what I mean? Jay Anthony or aj, Just anybody. Like, all them characters are relatable to sort of neighborhoods. I had a dude, couple months ago said that he. He. He did his whole closet because of that. Because of how to be played. He wanted all his sneakers lined up. And I forgot about that. I was like, yo, yeah, my closet was kind of lit. And remember, it had lighting in it, so you could see all. It was kind of dope. Yeah. And I had the. And I'm gonna tell you how much that movie affected me. So when I did the movie, I went. Went after I had the movie, I had never had a loft before.

[DJ Wells]

Okay?

[Bill Bellamy]

I went out and found me a loft, bro. And so now, this is so crazy how art imitates life. So I literally lived in a real loft. Like, I had a 3.3level loft, just like Dre. It was so crazy. I was like, yo, man, I'm really living this shit today. Cause it wasn't that. It wasn't a lot of people who had lost cause. That's when they was converting, you know, old schools and warehouse buildings into, like, loft apartments and stuff, for sure.

[DJ Wells]

I wanna ask you this question. Obviously, still on the road, still getting money, still doing standup. How would you tell yourself to start doing comedy in 2026? Cause nowadays, like, we don't see as many standups. We see a lot more. Instagram, comedians, skits. Like, those are the more popular things. How would you start in today's era on the gram. Social media?

[Bill Bellamy]

I think what they're doing is wonderful because you ain't gotta wait. You know what I'm saying? Like, you could showcase. You are funny. You can tell a story. You could think of something really quick. I think that's the beauty of technology now. Does not mean you're comedian yet. You could be funny now. You know, a lot of these cats do skits and you got to edit sound effects, voiceovers. Yes, sir. But that stage with a microphone and just some water in the stool, that hit different.

[DJ Wells]

That's a fact.

[Bill Bellamy]

That's like trying to guard this. And you play at LA Fitness, and when you and he going full throttle, and you like, oh, man, I'm Mr. LA Fitness. Not today. So that's what. That's where you gotta. You know, you gotta go, okay, I can get on like this, but I gotta do practice to get there. You know what I mean? Because comedy is an art form. Like, it is like. Like I tell my son, it's like shooting shots. You gotta get shots up. You cannot be a shooter without shooting. Nah, 100%. You cannot become a great shooter if you're not in the gym putting up shots. I tell my son shit all the time. It's like, bro, you are never gonna be a great shooter unless you shoot a lot of shots. Now you. Now the ones you missing, you gonna start making. Cause you shoot just like some of them bad jokes I did that I messed up. If I was practicing more, that gap closes now, my set is better. You feel me? It's the same thing. And you and I just tell the cats, don't cheat the game. You know, you could get famous on. You can get famous on the Internet. I love these dudes that's killing. Like, Mojo Brooks. That dude, he funnier than a motherfucker. Desi Banks, funny than a motherfucker. D.C. young, fly, funny than a motherfucker. These cats, off the top of my head, I think they have the best of everything. Why? They're really, really funny. They are not cheating the game. They are talented, and they embrace their fan base. They don't just get like. I was just talking with DC the other day. We working on a movie. He was like, yo, man, I gotta keep feeding it. Cause that's what that people know me from. He didn't go, oh, now that I'm big on this and that, he's still funny.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

And that's the beauty. Like, for me as an og, if I think of something right now, I'll be like, damn, man. I'm gonna go in my car real quick. Let me get my camera in. Because I got an idea. And I could that a lot of that go viral.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Because if I'm waiting for my special to come out, or I'm waiting for the movie to come up, y' all might not see the movie, you might not see my comedy special. But if I put up them little commercials that keep me relevant, especially if I hit, you know, Jermaine Jackson, I do something about his haircut, or I do. I pick a topic that's so right now. Like, you know, the Diddy thing right now is crazy. It's in the culture, it's in the people's mind. Like, oh, my God. Did you ever go, like. You know, like, people. People like, thinking about it, like. Cause back in the day, you know, maybe going to that party would have been a thing. But now you, like, did you go, fam. Oh, God. Right? Everybody, like, did you ever go, Yeah, I hope you wasn't in there. Entertained during COVID speaking about the Internet. Like, during COVID them stories, I said, oh, they gonna come get. They gonna go get his what? Hey, you said some shit. I said, oh, Bill Cloudy. No, but I kept his for sure, you know? No, but the thing about me, why I don't think people get mad at me? Cause I'm never mean about it. I'm just telling you my perspective. Like, I just did this thing where it really happened when I met Mannie Fresh, and I'm a big Mannie Fresh fan, but I never met him in person. But I love Mannie Fresh, right? And so people was like, bill, you wild as hell. Why would you do that? But it's true. So the thing about Mannie Fresh, to me is I love music, right? So his own style, his own sound. I don't know if you know how many artists. I mean, he's the mastermind behind, you know, Lil Wayne and, you know, Cash Money he was doing. This is when nobody knew who Mannie Fresh was. They just knew the beats. So I've been following his career, but I was. I never met him, right? So I was in Houston, and my boy Al, who do my security when I'm there, he was like, yo, B, man, you know, Mannie Fresh is in town. You know, he got a little joint you gotta pull up. It's gonna be crazy. I said, oh, my God. So I get there, and I'm like, man, I can't wait to meet Mannie Fresh. So I get into vip and I'm looking. Cause I'm thinking, Mannie Fresh, probably tall, you know, whatever. And I'm like, standing around looking. And this person DJing, and I'm like, yo, he must have a warmup joint, you know? Cause they don't come out right away. I got there probably like quarter to 12, 12, 30. I was like, man, he ain't coming out. But every time I look over there, and it was like a stud. And she was like, yo, what's up? I was like, oh, he helping them people out. You know, I'm just being honest, but I'm drunk. I'm drunk.

[DJ Wells]

So I'm looking.

[Bill Bellamy]

I'm like, yo, this stud keeps saying, what's up? Different times. But I'm like, yo. I'm like, yo, you know, I never seen a stud dj. I was like, okay, this stud is doing. She doing her thing.

[Richard Sherman]

So.

[Bill Bellamy]

So now it's like 115. And I'm like, yo, Al, man, I'm about leave, man. I'm waiting to meet Manny Fred. She said, why you ain't say? He right there. I was like, what? I ain't know the stud. Where's Manny Fred from the dick this, bro. I'm a story people that I'm sure Manny start following me from the store. It wasn't a mean story, but from a distance, like, I didn't know. Especially off that liquor. It'll definitely get. Yo, I'm drinking. I don't know, man. And everybody's like, me, you crazy. I'm like, dog. Cause he ain't got no facial hair, no eyebrows, and that's the hair. And he got the stud haircut.

[DJ Wells]

About that story we had went to Dreville Fest, and my nephew did the same exact thing. We like to go, Manny fresh Eli her. It was like, no. No disrespect. The lip. Yeah. Like, are you crazy? He did the same exact thing.

[Bill Bellamy]

But so you know, I'm not like, oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Everybody. It's just like, people don't think I'm that tall. Like, when people meet me, they be like, oh, that ain't no Bill Bellamy. Bill Bellamy little. And then when they meet me, they be like, damn, B, you kind of tall. I'm like, I don't know what I look like on tv. You know what I'm saying? It's the same kind concept. And especially when you meet celebrities. Like, I remember the first time I met Yao Ming.

[DJ Wells]

Oh, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

Man, you ain't never seen nothing like this. Like, you know, like, I didn't know a human being could be that big.

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[Bill Bellamy]

Yao Ming was unreal. I was like, God damn. And he played basketball.

[DJ Wells]

And that's crazy because, you know, Shaq, like, that's feeling me. So, like, bigger than Shaq. That's crazy.

[Bill Bellamy]

Shaq is regular to him. If. If you don't see Yami, Shaq's the biggest guy in the world. And then you put Yaming next to Shaq. Shaq looked like he was 610 or 6 9. It was crazy. So that's. That's the concept.

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[Bill Bellamy]

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[DJ Wells]

That's one. Now you. You have one of my favorite skits. He said crackheads can't lie, right?

[Bill Bellamy]

No, Crackhead. One of my favorite Instagram videos, man. Crackheads can't lie, Man. Crackheads. Everybody got a cousin or a friend that's a crackhead. The thing about crackheads, to me that's funny is they tell you what you want to hear to get the crack. Like, they not going. They'll tell you anything. You gonna do better. Yeah, yeah. You know that stuff gonna kill you.

[DJ Wells]

Yes.

[Bill Bellamy]

You gonna stop, right?

[Odoo Advertiser]

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[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah. Now I'm gonna give you this money, and when they see you about to get it, they start doing like this. I swear to God, I say the same. I don't know why they do this. They be like, they start rocking. Cause they be excited. You could give a crackhead $20. It's like they hit the lottery. That's right. And everything that you trying to continue to say, they run.

[Richard Sherman]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

So you be like, listen, I'mma give you this money, dog. Okay? And I want you to get you something to eat, bro, and get you some new socks. And. And they be like, oh, Bill, as soon as he put it in. Yeah, for sure. You be like, you gonna get them socks. They be running to get that crack, boy. I don't want to say what I really want to say, but they just. They just more grateful than the other people that be outside.

[DJ Wells]

Oh, okay.

[Bill Bellamy]

That's all I'm saying. Oh, you gonna leave it, right? Yeah. Okay. Right there. I love a good crackhead, bro. I support, like. But here's the thing about crack is, cuz, it's a joy when you give them that dub. It's a joy to feel good about that. Make you feel like, yeah, I seen a crackhead fall off a roof, get up and keep walking. Oh, God. That's all my uncle hired for his construction staff, so. We see that all the time. Y' all hire crackheads? Yes, bro. I ain't going to shout this company, cuz, you know. Right, right. I don't want to up the business, but.

[Richard Sherman]

Hey, that's a real company.

[Bill Bellamy]

That's my brother. He crazy.

[DJ Wells]

It's a bad shout out if you coach. Yo, don't do it.

[Bill Bellamy]

Don't do it. Don't do it, though.

[DJ Wells]

All right, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

Before we get out of here, who's.

[DJ Wells]

Some of your favorite players currently playing in the league? I know you still tapped in.

[Bill Bellamy]

Oh, man, I love so many players, man. Okay. All right, let me go.

[DJ Wells]

Guards.

[Bill Bellamy]

I'm. I'mma do. I'm going to go by position. Okay. Yeah. So my guards right now.

[DJ Wells]

Shout. Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Killing the game. Anthony Edwards. Well, he's not playing, but I love Jayson Tatum. I hope he come back healthy. Who else is currently playing that? I love watching him get busy. Let me go, Steph. Obviously, I'm going down the west coast. Kd. Well, KD really a three, but he a fucking guard. But let me go. Let me go.

[DJ Wells]

East.

[Bill Bellamy]

Jalen Bronson, JB Little big man.

[DJ Wells]

Little big man.

[Bill Bellamy]

Little footwork. Yeah. Jalen Bronson got. If Jalen Brunson was 6, 6, 6, 7, it's already crazy, but for. I think he might be 5, 11, maybe 5, 10, maybe 6 foot the most. Most cook, everybody. I love his name.

[DJ Wells]

If he was 6, 7, he'd be crazy.

[Bill Bellamy]

He be crazy. Who else on the. I'm going down the East. The East. Oh, Darius Garland.

[DJ Wells]

Shout out dg.

[Bill Bellamy]

Can't nobody guard him. Super tricky Donovan Mitchell. Another one my favorites going down the East Coast. Miami.

[DJ Wells]

You a Laker fan?

[Bill Bellamy]

I love the Lakers. I like Luka. I just don't. He don't play a good enough D for me. Like, he don't help me. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I love Luka. Offensively, I think he's unguardable. He big, slow.

[DJ Wells]

So let me ask you this question. It's a per. We just had a debate, me and him. You taking Jaylen Brown or Luka right now, this year?

[Bill Bellamy]

Don't move the goalpost.

[DJ Wells]

That's what we was debating. That's what we was debating.

[Bill Bellamy]

If I gotta be 100, if it's not just about buckets, I'm going with Jaylen Brown.

[DJ Wells]

Thank you. That's all I want. Now, listen, making money moves. Last night, Jaylen Brown just average dropped 50. He had 50 last night. He was mad he didn't get that Player of the month and dropped 50.

[Bill Bellamy]

But this is the thing, like, about basketball that I could share with you that I, from my perspective is there's certain guys that do certain things really, really well and they lock in on that. Luka is all offense, and that's cool if, you know, you need a bucket. Okay, cool. Who's going to lock down Luka? Not locking down nobody in the playoffs, bro. He don't extend the energy that it Takes take to play D. So how he helping you? He. He turning sideways. He letting Cash roll. So y' all just catching him on this bad day? No, no. L. Dope. No, no, I'm just saying, bro. In the playoffs, we got to get to the playoff. I'm a Laker fan. He do his thing, okay? He do his thing in the playoff. He's not going to guard. No, we got to play a Zoom. No, listen, Bill. That's why I'm paying Bill Bellamy, Jamie Fox. I'm paying your other niggas to do this other shit. Okay? I'm here. But you a big guard, right? Yeah. Here's the thing, bro. At some point, you got a guard, because you can't. You can't. This is why. OKC so dope. They play defense for real. 1989, 90s goddamn Detroit Pistons defense. So when you playing them right, and they. They all on the floor, they all tipping. They all. They. They. They frantic about it, right? So. So we got to play seven games of that, bro. You cooked? Nah, for sure. The Browns are all retired. I'm just saying. Yeah, it's over with. I' if you just going out the hoop, it's Luca, bro. He unguardable, bro. Now, when you're doing the team, of course he unguardable and all this, but if you put four defenders or three, two defenders around, okay, but if he. I'll tell you how Luka can help us. If he average a double in assists, that's. That'll. That'll. That'll help him. Because if he can come off the pill, he don't need 40 a game. He don't need 35. Luka could do 25 and 10 every night, easily about 35 and 10.

[DJ Wells]

Right now he doing 35 and 10. Yeah, he doing 33.

[Bill Bellamy]

Oh, he doing 35.

[DJ Wells]

10.

[Bill Bellamy]

My bad.

[DJ Wells]

It's almost 33. Tennis.

[Bill Bellamy]

Now.

[DJ Wells]

He build defense now.

[Bill Bellamy]

Hey, Luca, I'm sorry. I ain't got my numbers right.

[DJ Wells]

What you were saying, the numbers. 33.

[Bill Bellamy]

I'm just saying. I'm just saying, conceptually, if you're trying to win. I know what you're saying.

[DJ Wells]

You can't.

[Bill Bellamy]

You can't ask LeBron at this point in his career to do all of that. You hire these young guns, you know, maybe we grab one more piece, somebody that's going to rock out. But LeBron and Luka are ball dominant. It's very hard to have a team when the ball don't move like that. So when you got a team, this is why the Pacers, to me, was. Was dope. When they was winning, before Tyrese got hurt, the ball was like, fling, fling. Don't nobody care who get 30. Don't nobody care. When the. When the Celtics, when the Celtics were at their best, they was moving the ball. So the better, the better. Teams that's playing like the community, they win because it's hard to guard them niggas. Like, it's tough. So case in point, I don't know why you got me talking basketball, because I love basketball. But the thing that's the hardest thing to me to watch is when the ball be sticking. Because everybody watching, you know, or LeBron, who I love the goat. Whatever. LeBron need eight dribbles. He not LeBron or Jordan. No, LeBron is the goat of this decade.

[DJ Wells]

Okay?

[Bill Bellamy]

He's not the goat of basketball. Who's the good goat is Jordan. Michael Jordan.

[DJ Wells]

I remember he was at the space.

[Bill Bellamy]

No, I'm just being honest. I'm just Michael Jordan. But of this decade, of 20 years that I've been a fan of basketball, LeBron is the greatest player that I've seen in this era. LeBron is the best basketball player in the last 30 years. I'm just giving it to you. Yeah, I respect it. I've been watching LeBron since he was in the ninth grade. So I'm invested. I seen it when they said. When they was like, yo, he gonna be the next. I was like, okay, well, he's only in the 10th grade. He's playing in arenas. He did everything they said. Be a witness. Oh, he's stronger, bigger. He's killing NBA players in the 11th grade. He did all that.

[DJ Wells]

So fact.

[Bill Bellamy]

I mean.

[DJ Wells]

So you taking over Mike.

[Bill Bellamy]

Okay, that's crazy. No, not over. No, no, you start. No, I'm starting a team. So you start a team with pick.

[DJ Wells]

And you start a team. You take Mike.

[Bill Bellamy]

What we doing? What we doing?

[DJ Wells]

Ask the question.

[Bill Bellamy]

No, you start your team with Jordan. Jordan or LeBron? LeBron in they prime.

[DJ Wells]

Prime.

[Bill Bellamy]

Both.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah. We're just starting the team, bro. This your.

[DJ Wells]

You got the first thing I'm going.

[Bill Bellamy]

With Mike going, Mike. I gotta go with Mike. If we starting. Yeah, we. Cause Mike is that nucleus for you now. If we are building a team, a different type of team. Cause to me, what cats don't ever talk about is LeBron is magic. Nobody even give him that. Stop trying to compare him to Michael Jordan. Compare him to Magic. He has all those attributes. Leadership on the floor, pass the ball. He's unselfish. He's unguardable, stronger, bigger than any guard. He can get to the cup. He fixed every part of his game since he started. LeBron has fixed every flaw in his game.

[DJ Wells]

That's a fact.

[Bill Bellamy]

Oh, he can't. He can't close. He closed. He can't play with his back to the best.

[DJ Wells]

Sound like the greatest to me. No, but what you describe it sound like the great. It don't sound like the greatest to you?

[Bill Bellamy]

No, but I'm saying, like, how do you feel?

[DJ Wells]

I think he the greatest ever. I mean. Yeah. I mean, I grew up in this era, so Mike. I think Mike is like somewhere over there. I can't believe he, like, real. Yeah, like, that's how good I think Mike.

[Bill Bellamy]

You saying what I'm saying. In your experience, what you witness, LeBron is the go, but you witness both. I witnessed both. Both live. And I can only separate it like this. It's like almost trying to say Michael Jackson and Chris Brown, they both great. They don't have to be greater than the other. They're both great. They're just. They're striking in different decades.

[DJ Wells]

But I don't think Mike. I don't think Chris.

[Bill Bellamy]

Well, who closing your concert then? You got the money to afford both of them. Who closing your concert?

[DJ Wells]

Yeah, Michael. Chris Buntz.

[Bill Bellamy]

It's not about who better. I was just Michael Jackson clown. But Chris Brown on his ass. Mike might have to do another moonwalker new. Cause Chris Brown is flipping. He do three hour shows.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Facts. You ever been to Chris Brown show lately? Yes, yes, yes. Man, Chris Brown got so many goddamn hits, you get a headache. You forgot, like, you were like, oh, I know Chris Brown.

[Lenovo Advertiser]

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[Bill Bellamy]

Oh, that's right. He definitely don't need to open her. Let me tell you how crazy Chris Brown show is. And nobody says this Chris Brown can do another tour with just the features he was on. Oh, God.

[DJ Wells]

Facts.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yes.

[DJ Wells]

All B sides.

[Bill Bellamy]

I'm just doing. I'm just doing features. Him and Drake could do that. I'm just gonna do a concert with the features I did. I'm not gonna do my other stuff. That's how good they are. That's how much content they put out.

[DJ Wells]

That's crazy.

[Bill Bellamy]

What artists of your generation you think could do something like that? Besides our R. Kelly. What side? Arenas. Oh, it's so many people besides R. Kelly. I love R. Kelly. That's my rain and shine.

[DJ Wells]

You said now.

[Bill Bellamy]

Robert.

[DJ Wells]

Robert did it.

[Richard Sherman]

Robert.

[Bill Bellamy]

Robert, we still love you, bro.

[DJ Wells]

R. Kelly.

[Bill Bellamy]

Rob. Rob is something. He's special, man. God, y' all Gonna have it.

[DJ Wells]

I gotta go.

[Bill Bellamy]

We can wrap it up. Let me do one quick story with Rob. I love Rob. I love Rob, man. Where was you. Where was you when All Star was in Orlando?

[DJ Wells]

Shit, I was probably.

[Bill Bellamy]

Orlando was what? Look it up for me, dawg. All star year is 2000.

[DJ Wells]

Orlando. I was in high school.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah, they was in high school. When was Orlando?

[DJ Wells]

2012. 2012. I was in the league.

[Bill Bellamy]

You was in the league, right?

[DJ Wells]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

So we in Orlando, so you was probably there. You know, I will never forget this. So R. Kelly had a row. Like, we was all in the same row. And he bought Hennessy for the entire row, right? And so I had met Rob many a times, but this is like the first time, like, I'm drinking with him. Like, real. He off the clock. He not on the show. Whatever. Whatever, right? So my role manager at the time, Big E, you know, he six, eight. He's like, yo, man. Yo, man, I. I don't want to be sweating Robert, man, but, yo, he kind of fly, man. He. He a big dude, but, you know, he's. You know, you don't want to look like he. He a fan. Yo, yo, be real talk, man. And he drink hand to see me or everything I love. I'm buying everything. He dropped me, so they had to.

[DJ Wells]

He.

[Bill Bellamy]

And Rob took a liking to Big E, man. He said, man, big fella. He said, man, big fella, real one, man. I said, yeah, that's my guy, man. I said, man, he don't wanna say, hey, he love you, bro. He said, big fella, you a fan, man? He said, man, I fuck with you.

[DJ Wells]

A little bit, man.

[Bill Bellamy]

So him and Kells became real, real cool and shit. And he was just such a good dude, you know, Just a real Chicago kind of cat. So when all that stuff happened, I felt so bad because all the times I hung out with him, he was so dope, genuine kind of dude. Like, he would take every. He would get us all drunk.

[Odoo Advertiser]

He.

[Bill Bellamy]

He'd take us all out like he was. He. And he was a Hooper, too. He liked to play ball. So I used to hoot with him sometime. It was fun. I respect, man, and I see. I see you. Respect kills.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

Let's go to your generation. Always off the court. What he did, that's his life. You know what I mean? But we just talking about the music. No, no, the. I don't know if it's enough. Another epic person of my decade that could really kill it like that. Well, you got to go with, like, Shade Lauryn. Hill just ain't gonna be on time.

[DJ Wells]

Lauren Hill just ain't gonna be on time.

[Bill Bellamy]

Yeah, Lauren Hill not gonna come, but.

[DJ Wells]

She gonna be dpu.

[Bill Bellamy]

But I'm trying to think right now. Ch you think? What you thinking, Kel?

[DJ Wells]

Different.

[Bill Bellamy]

That's it.

[DJ Wells]

Do you have your passport?

[Bill Bellamy]

I was trying. I was just asking you why. I'm asking you because, like, man, you grew up in. In the right era, bro. Yes. Oh, man. Tupac. Why am I slipping? Yeah, Tupac and Big. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[DJ Wells]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Bill Bellamy]

I'm gonna do one more story for y', all, then I'm gonna go. Cause I'm hungry.

[DJ Wells]

Yeah. Facts.

[Bill Bellamy]

Respect. Do you remember when flirt came out? Yeah, I'm a flirt.

[DJ Wells]

Bow wow said that was his song.

[Bill Bellamy]

Okay. Wait till I tell you this. Crazy ass. That. So I'm in Miami. All the way up. I think it was Karoo Ny. I don't know if you. How old you are, but back then, Karoo Ny was everything. So I'm in Miami. I don't know why I'm there. Maybe I'm doing a show. Something, something, something. But I go to this dope ass after party, and Kels is there. And this when his song is crazy, right? Yes, it was the biggest song. Damn, 28, right? Oh, God, the song was so mother fucking crazy, right? So I think Catino Mobley was with me. I think it was. I think it was. I think he was in the league at the time. For whatever reason, I think I remember seeing Catino in my mind. So anyway, we rolling up in the club. We all fly. It's a bunch of bad chicks in the vip. So imagine you walk in the vip. It's the one where all the couches along like this. You sitting looking this way. You sitting this way. And Kells is all the way at the back looking this way. So I got to step up and walk in, and I see Kells. I said, oh, Kells, what's up? He go like. He do like this. Like, what up, nigga? You in the game. You in here. I'm like, what's up? Then I said, Damn, 28. And all the women got up, and it looked like I was in the music video with him. I said, oh, I done made it, Cuz. It looked like the music video. And everybody, when I walk up, I'm a flirt. And he started walking through, pouring champagne. I said, oh, my God. I am in the game. What are the odds that the number one song would come on? And I'm in the fucking club. With the man and he walking around like the video. And it was nothing but killers in that video, in that vip. Straight killers. Shout out to Rob.

[DJ Wells]

Hey man, what better way to close the episode?

[Bill Bellamy]

We appreciate you.

[DJ Wells]

Thank you, man. We pulling up tonight. My dog.

[Bill Bellamy]

Come on, jt. Come on.

[DJ Wells]

Make it money. Move. Shout out to boost mobile Stock X. And last but certain, not least, Hard Rock. Bet we appreciate y'.

[Bill Bellamy]

All.

[DJ Wells]

We'll catch y' all next time. Shout out to boost.

[Bill Bellamy]

Peace. The volume.

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[DJ Wells]

This is Julian Edelman from Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jewels.

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[Bill Bellamy]

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[DJ Wells]

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