INTERVIEW: Mike Epps Talks ‘We Them One’s’ Tour 2026, ‘The Upshaws,' ‘Last Friday,’ Kai Cenat; Streaming + More

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – Mike Epps Interview

Episode: INTERVIEW: Mike Epps Talks ‘We Them One’s’ Tour 2026, ‘The Upshaws,' ‘Last Friday,’ Kai Cenat; Streaming + More
Date: November 13, 2025
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne tha God (and guest host Lauren LaRose)
Guest: Mike Epps

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Breakfast Club features comedian and actor Mike Epps, who joins the crew to discuss his long-running career, the upcoming "We The Ones" Comedy Tour 2026, the end of his Netflix sitcom "The Upshaws," the long-anticipated "Last Friday" movie, the evolution of comedy, building generational wealth, and adapting to new platforms like streaming. The interview is wide-ranging, honest, and often hilarious, with deep commentary on Hollywood, Black entertainers, and life, woven through classic Mike Epps banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Mike Epps' Relationship with The Breakfast Club & Legacy

• Mike jokes about not being honored enough by the show despite being a frequent and early visitor:
  • "That's what I wanted to come here and talk about. I wanted to talk about the neglect that has been going on with the Breakfast Club." (04:22)
• Recognition of his longevity:
  • Charlamagne highlights that Epps is one of the few Black comedians to have a hit sitcom last over five seasons, noting this is a rare achievement in television (06:44).

On Staying Relevant and Creative

• Epps describes why he never leaves the road:
  • “That's the thing about me. I never leave the people... and that's because Hollywood is... they don't trust me 100%. Even now, white people do not trust me, man. And I've been working on it for years.” (05:43)
• Material comes from everyday life, not writing:
  • “A real comedian ain't sitting there writing shit... You catch me wherever you catch me at, I'm gonna be funny.” (08:49)
  • “If you come and see me that night at the comedy show, you gonna hear some shit that happened that day. I'm talking about it right on the stage.” (09:19)

The Black Experience in Hollywood

• Discusses ongoing struggle for respect:
  • “Anybody black in any situation, you still gonna have to fight just to fight... it's even harder for us because we doing it against each other. We our biggest competition...” (09:54)
• Calls out how quickly Black culture can “forget” greats after one misstep:
  • “One mistake in our culture can cause people to not f*** with you. Which is weird as hell to me.” (11:28)
• “We’ll push the narrative. We'll go so hard against each other.” (12:24)

Fame, Security, and Being Real

• On not needing security and living like a 'normal person':
  • “...Nobody's paying attention to your mother f***ing ass. You can walk around by yourself and save your security money... Just live like you're a normal person so that you can enjoy this shit.” (16:59, 18:53)
• Jokes about seeing celebrities with excessive security:
  • “I think it was Bobby Valentino? This nigga had two big ass niggas in the city. I couldn’t even see the little nigga!” (20:21)

Social Media, Streaming & the Young Generation

• Admiration for streamers like Kai Cenat:
  • “That's why it's working for him, because he's not affected by it. He ain't on there trying to show you how much he got... he's just being himself and making money.” (21:44)
  • “You gonna make more money and get more success being yourself than anybody in the world.” (22:01)

Comedy and the Craft

• On discussing other comedians:
  • “I'm so tired of talking about people, talking about other comedians and other artists. I'm sick of that shit… I'm so blessed, I don’t have no room to talk sh*t about nobody, you know?” (15:08)
• On relatability and working as a team:
  • Praises Netflix, Wanda Sykes, and Kim Fields as part of his success: “You have to have a great team. Nobody's doing this sh*t by themselves.” (07:58)
• On mentorship and honest feedback:
  • “The worst thing in the world is to think you the sht and you ain't the sht... my special called Delusion... you really gotta be out of your mind and delusional to be successful and make it and keep going.” (24:25)

"The Upshaws" Ending

• Explains creative tension and show ending:
  • “The Upshaws ended because the writers, Wanda Sykes and the other lady, Regina Hicks, they just couldn't see eye to eye... everybody didn’t agree with it all the time... kids got grown, you can’t write stories around them... I’m thankful that I’ve been able to be on TV for six years.” (34:26–37:28)
• Epps on creative input:
  • “I never went in the writer’s room... If I got a script… I'll tell them, hell no, I ain’t doing that. I ain’t doing that.” (38:35)

Family, Maturity, and Personal Growth

• On growth as a father:
  • “Most of us are still trying to find ourselves when we make kids... now I'm at the age now I got two new young kids. I'm the best father in the world.” (40:39)
  • “It takes 50 years for a man to get his sh*t right. So be patient.” (42:26)

"Last Friday" Movie Update

• On the next Friday installment:
  • “Me, Ice Cube, Aaron Magruder, and DJ Pooh were just together sitting in a room writing this movie. This movie gonna be crazy.” (46:19)

“We The Ones” Tour Details

• What makes this tour special:
  • “This comedy tour is like a party, bro... you get 85 south together, and myself, man, them niggas are a fool... ain't nobody out here better than us. You go get a comedy lineup... we gonna spank they ass.” (44:36)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Black success in Hollywood:

  • “You still gonna have to fight just to fight. I never seen a race of people that, quote, unquote, are successful and still have to prove themselves.” – Mike Epps (09:54)

• On living authentically in showbiz:

  • “Most of the people in the business are just pretend. All this shit is copied shit. I see the entertainers walking with the... coffee in the hand... that's some shit he’s seen somebody do.” (18:53)

• On social media and youth:

  • “You gonna make more money and get more success being yourself than anybody in the world.” (22:01)

• On letting personal drama go:

  • “The little shit stops you... I always focus on the prize. I never went in the writer's room... But if I got a script... I'll tell them, hell no, I ain't doing that.” (38:35)

• On personal growth and fatherhood:

  • “It takes 50 years for a man to get his shit right. So be patient.” (42:26)

• On the competitive, “plant” nature of showbiz:

  • “That's how Hollywood is, too. That's how show business is.” (11:17)

• On writing comedic material:

  • “Nobody can really write for me anyway... I'm gonna say some shit funnier than whatever you put on the paper.” (47:08)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Start of Main Interview & Mike Epps Roasting the Crew: 03:11
• Mike on Hollywood and Staying Hungry: 05:43–07:58
• Discussion on Comedy Writing Style and Tour Material: 08:45–09:41
• Respect in Hollywood & Black Comedians: 09:41–12:29
• Celebrity Security and “Living Normal”: 16:59–20:19
• Streaming, Kai Cenat, and Reaching Young Audiences: 20:51–22:27
• On “The Upshaws” Ending: 34:26–37:28
• On Fatherhood and Growth: 40:16–42:26
• “Last Friday” Movie Update: 46:04–47:17
• What Makes the “We The Ones” Tour Special: 44:36–45:41

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Tone & Vibe

The episode is classic Breakfast Club: raw, candid, funny, and full of energy. Mike Epps’ trademark humor blends effortlessly with moments of deep honesty about Hollywood, the pressures on Black entertainers, and personal transformation. The crew keeps things both probing and playful, with Mike throwing as much shade as he gets and speaking directly to his love of community, authenticity, and the craft of comedy.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode delivers the unfiltered, hilarious, and wise perspective of Mike Epps as he pours out stories about showbiz struggles, personal milestones, and the uniqueness of staying true in the entertainment world. You’ll get inside updates on major projects, see the reality of creative differences behind shows like "The Upshaws," and laugh at sharp commentary on everything from streaming to alumni parties and “sugar daddies.” For fans, comedians, and creators, it’s a study in resilience, humility, and always, always finding the funny.

Transcript

[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Charlamagne tha God]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Charlamagne tha God]

Even talk to me.

[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Charlamagne tha God]

Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Larose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building, A legend of icon, Man. Stop introducing Mike Eps like he regular. God. Okay, goddamn right then. You said it. The icon, the legend. I don't even know why he here. He got so much going on, I had to check to see what he's up here for. I'm not going to lie. I saw that they said Mike Eps was here for the weed. One store. I said it's a typo from the last time he was here. There's no way they about to go back out again. Again.

[Mike Epps]

Out again. Hey, how y' all doing out there in the world, man? Breakfast Club, baby. We on a Breakfast Club. I'll be watching this all the time, but, you know, and I say to myself, I wonder when I'm going back again.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Anytime you want to.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, you did the first.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You did the. Mike Epps did the first skit with the Breakfast Club we ever did.

[Mike Epps]

I did? Yes, you did.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't remember. Remember when the girl was holding the food and he smacked the food out her hand? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Epps]

I never did get anything out of there. I never did get nothing from it either. Never got a check or piece of cake, a bottle of wine or none of that shit.

[Angela Yee]

You on the wall. Is he on the wall?

[Mike Epps]

Hell, no. Look how y' all treat people.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Mike on the wall.

[Mike Epps]

Nope. Ain't on the wall, man. But see, that's what I wanted to come here and talk about. You know what I'm saying? I wanted to talk about the neglect that has been going on with the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Talk to me, Mike.

[Mike Epps]

And Mike.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, man, you a legend. You a icon, man.

[Mike Epps]

And see, I'm ready to do like Birdman Brian Williams on y' all right now. All three of y'. All.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You, too.

[Mike Epps]

You, too. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, I ain't gonna say it no more.

[Angela Yee]

What we be doing? What happened?

[Mike Epps]

No, I was just sitting there watching all them clips. You almost got in, like, several different fights in here.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You say that so nonchalantly, right? So articulately. Yes.

[Mike Epps]

God, I was a little worried about.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That shit, though, Mike.

[Mike Epps]

I know it. But they was just showing all the different clips, and everybody that wanted to fight you was, like, this close Yep.

[Angela Yee]

Who you think would have won out of him and Beanie? That was the craziest one.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They gonna be the funniest beat your ass right now.

[Mike Epps]

They standing, like, arm's length of away.

[Charlamagne tha God]

From each other.

[Mike Epps]

Right there. Right there.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I've been in worse situations, man.

[Mike Epps]

I know, man. That is just hilarious, though. I'm like, damn.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What makes you want to go back out on the road so soon? I feel like y' all just ended this, though.

[Mike Epps]

Well, you know what? That's my thing that I see. That's the thing about me. I never leave the people.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Epps]

And that's because Hollywood is. They don't trust me 100%. Even now, white people do not trust me, man. And I've been. I've been working on it for years.

[Charlamagne tha God]

How don't they trust you? Proved yourself times 30.

[Mike Epps]

No. You know, I don't know, man. You know, I. I. I feel like I've. I feel like I've always deserve bigger opportunities, but I do be getting big opportunities.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Mike, you just did six seasons of a sitcom on Netflix, man.

[Mike Epps]

I know what you talking about. I'm greedy. I want.

[Angela Yee]

What is it that you want?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Every show.

[Mike Epps]

What's bigger that I want? Yeah, I want. I really want. I want to be. I want to be in some more movies with white people because it means money. When you see me with a. If you catch me with a honky, the money gonna go up.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know, when you think about.

[Mike Epps]

Black honkies, make your money go up. Go ahead.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That word.

[Mike Epps]

In a long time, when you think.

[Charlamagne tha God]

About black comedians, it's not too many black comedians who've had hit sitcoms. I'm talking about sitcoms that have lasted.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know what I'm saying? There's only a few. Like, you got the Cosby Show. You got Sanford and Son, right? Martin, Martin, Martin. I don't even know if Bernie Mac. Did Bernie do five seasons? I don't even know. God bless the dead. I'm not sure.

[Mike Epps]

No, I don't know. I don't know.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But I've been a handful.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. I've been blessed to do. I've been blessed to still be in the business. And that's how I stay in the business, man. I never. I wake up every day. Like, I'm just now getting in it. Like, I never got in it. I never celebrate myself being in the business. I'm never bragging or, you know, I'm always a fan still. I'm always looking at the business. From a fan's eyes. Like, if I look at the business from a fan's eye, I ain't gonna never fall off. Cause I know what the fans like and what the fans want. And I'm even judging myself like a fan too. Like, oh, that shit ain't gonna work.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Bernie Mac and Jamie Foxx had five seasons. You got six.

[Mike Epps]

Damn.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's a big fucking deal, man. The way his brothers, I don't know how many seasons they had. That's a big deal, bro.

[Mike Epps]

It is. It's pretty good.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And you on Netflix.

[Mike Epps]

On Netflix, That's a big deal. One of the hardest platforms to get on and to be successful on. So shout out to all to Netflix for giving me a Tess Aranda, giving me the opportunity. And Wanda Sykes and Kim Fields. Just a great team of people. And that's the key to succeeding. You have to have a great team. Nobody's doing this shit by themselves. When you see somebody successful, you can best believe it's a team behind them that made them, that helped them propel, you know.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Now you going back out on the road? Yeah, we done ones Comedy Tour 2026. You didn't. It feels like you just got off the road, Right. How do you get a chance to create new material? Cause usually they say material comes from living life.

[Mike Epps]

That's right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

If you always on the road, where's the material coming from?

[Mike Epps]

I mean, if you look at the news, the shit is just hanging off the tree. It's just low hanging fruit. Every day it's some new shit. And that's the thing about being a real comedian. A real comedian ain't sitting there writing shit. You finna get it right off the cuff. Just like you catch me coming out to bodega. Damn, Mike was hell. And I say some funny shit. That's. That's a real comedian right there. We ain't gotta write. I ain't gotta write. Shit, I ain't gotta write. You catch me walking down the street, I'm gonna be funny. Catch me at the drugstore, I'm gonna be funny. You catch me wherever you catch me at, I'm gonna be funny. And I just feel like that's. That's what I do. That's how I write. And if you come and see me that night at the comedy show, you gonna hear some shit that happened that day. I'm talking about it right on the stage. And I'm gonna make it funny, you know, So I trust. I trust my funny.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You was talking about the honkies, right? Do you Feel like Hollywood truly respects black comedy legends the same way they do white ones. Or is that respect something y' all still gotta fight for?

[Mike Epps]

Oh, yeah, we definitely. Let me tell you something, man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Any.

[Mike Epps]

Anybody black in any situation, you still gonna have to fight just a fight. You know, I. I never seen a race of people that, quote, unquote, are successful and still have to prove they sell. Never. I. I don't see another race that has to still do it. And, you know, it's even harder for us because we doing it against each other. We. Our biggest competition. Each other. I was looking at. I'm like, I was at the strip club. This was years ago.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Years ago. He said that quick.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was at the strip club.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You ain't know if your wife came in here with you or not.

[Mike Epps]

She got ways of being in places like this, man. No, but. Yeah, but. But I was just in the strip club. I was just thinking to myself, man, these dudes are really in here competing with each other, throwing the money, and they got another guy to come out, and it's just a scenario for life. They got another guy to come out at the strip club and throw money. And then after you throw your money, he collect all the money and take it back there to the girls again. And that's what they. That's how they get you to throw money. They say, yeah, they got a dude out there to throw the money. That's how Hollywood is, too. That's how show business is.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So somebody that starts it off, it ain't even a plant.

[Mike Epps]

Basically straight plant.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Mike Epps]

You know, Damn.

[Angela Yee]

So you still feel like you're proving you're working to prove things to people in your career at this point?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, because, you know, I was just listening to everybody talk about how bad of a movie that was that Denzel and Spike Lee just did with A.S.A.P Rocky, that movie they was just talking about. Yeah, it wasn't a great movie. And I'm like, damn. Literally, when they were talking about it, it damn near made you forget it. That it was like, man, Denzel was in that movie. Like, you know, it wasn't a great movie. You damn near forgot about everything he did. Cause you was focusing on the fact that it wasn't a good movie. You know what I mean? So one bad, one mistake in our culture can cause. Can cause people to not fuck with you. Which is weird as hell to me. I don't get it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But what you said is true, though.

[Mike Epps]

They catch amnesia.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But what you said is true. We'll Push the narrative.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know what I'm saying? We'll go so hard against each other.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. And that's what. And that's another. I mean, and, you know, that's another reason why we're all great, too, as well. We put. The pressure that we have against each other is crazy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

When I saw Mike earlier, he said, charlamagne, your elders is after you.

[Mike Epps]

That's funny as hell.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They want his ass, too, right?

[Mike Epps]

They want his ass.

[Angela Yee]

Dana Pews pissed right now.

[Mike Epps]

They want his ass. But see, he. He. But see, you got a plat. The platform that you guys have is unstoppable. It's whole lot different than coming inside of a church or coming inside of a political arena. This is the real platform.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's culture, real people.

[Mike Epps]

Hell, yeah. You touching everybody, man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know, I think about you, Mike, too. Cause you've been funny your whole life, man. But as you've grown, what does being a comedian mean to you now compared to when you first started?

[Mike Epps]

Well, when I first started, it was confused. It was disruption. You know what I mean? When I was a kid, because you never seen black kids, you never see, and you never will see black kids in a. In a career center talking about they want to be a comedian. So if you see a young black kid being a comedian, he's being disruptive. They call that disruptive. Oh, he's a disruptive. This is the motherfucker disruptive. But that's what I was. I'm a comedian, you know, So a comedian career is not something that you can go to college and go get. They don't teach it in, you know, in career class. This is some shit that just happens, and, you know, you take advantage of it. That's what I did. I always been funny, but now the shit then became a business, you know what I mean? So I gotta cut the funny on and cut it off. I'm like, oh, here come the money. I gotta do some business. Let me cut that funny. Or let me trim it down a little bit. I could still be funny, but I'm doing business. Let me trim it down a little bit so I can get the business done, you know? But I, you know, I know how to turn it on and off. When it's time to be funny, I'm funny. When it's time to talk, Talk real shit, I'm gonna talk real shit. And that's how I adjust my shit, man. That's how I adjust everything.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's one thing that Mike Epps hates? I know there's always A Friday question. Yeah, there's always a funnier than who? Who's not funny past me. What's one thing you hate discussing and talking about that pisses you off?

[Mike Epps]

I'm so tired of talking. I'm so tired of talking about people, talking about other comedians and other artists. I'm sick of that shit.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She said I got to erase some of my questions.

[Mike Epps]

Well, no, no, no. The only reason why I said that is because I'm like. It's just. It's just running in a circle, man. You know what I mean? It's like I ain't got nothing to say about nobody at this point. I'm matter of fact. I feel fucked up talking about something. I'm so blessed, I feel up talking negative about anybody. You know what I mean? I don't have no room to say nothing negative. Cause I'm blessed now if I wasn't doing so great. Maybe so, but man, I'm so blessed, I don't have no room to talk shit about nobody, you know?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You bought a whole block, man. Yeah, you understand? Like, do you understand that's so many black people's dream to buy a whole block in they community where they from? Come on, man.

[Mike Epps]

I know it was in Indiana though. I wish it was in LA or New York. I know it way more. Man, that shit is so boring, man.

[Angela Yee]

Why you do that to yourself all the time?

[Mike Epps]

No, you know what though?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You don't stay on the block. You sleep on the block sometimes.

[Mike Epps]

Hell yeah. My son sleep in my room that I slept in when I was a kid.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's crazy.

[Angela Yee]

I love that.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, that's crazy. And what's crazy is people still getting murdered in the neighborhood. Some niggas died in the alley and.

[Charlamagne tha God]

In the block you just bought.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. The detectives is knocking on the door. We need to see your camera, Ms. Dale, I said, oh, man, I ain't got no cameras around. Will you see the camera? I said, don't none of that work. But it just go to show you that. It just go.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Tell nobody that, man.

[Mike Epps]

No, it just go to show. No, it worked. But I, you know, I get you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Epps]

But you know, it just go to show you, man, that nobody's paying. If I could tell some of these stars, some of these people that are famous, nobody's paying attention to your mother fucking ass. That's another thing I hate. I'm like, some of these people are in delusion, like you're wasting fucking security money. Ain't nobody fucking thinking about you. I wish I could Just take a chart and just show all the artists and just point at em and say, ain't nobody think about your motherfucking ass. Ain't nobody think about your. You can walk around by your goddamn self and save your security money. You don't need no security. People love you. Why do you have somebody around you all the time? Cause I walk around this by myself. I don't have no security.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You never got punched in the back of the head, though. See, I done got punched in the head on camera, Mike, twice.

[Angela Yee]

You up here calling people the boo boos.

[Mike Epps]

Well, yeah, well. Well, Charlemagne, I think you. I mean, I think you're gonna have to do something. Like what? He gotta pop that pistol on somebody's ass or something? At least once they gotta know you would do it. The security. They don't gotta know you'll do it. Once they know you'll do that, you can walk around this by yourself.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hell no. Then you be on. You'd be like, look at this. And threw his whole life away. You know what I'm saying? Cause Mike Eps told him to shoot.

[Mike Epps]

Well, you ain't got to shoot nobody. Yeah, but this. I just said that to say this, that most. Most of these people walking around here that are in entertainment business just to live like you're a normal person.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I agree.

[Mike Epps]

Just live like you're a normal person so you. So that you can enjoy this shit. Because most of the people in the business are just pretend. All this shit is copied shit. I see the entertainers walking with the. I'm like, that's some shit he's seen somebody do with the coffee in the hand. And the dude is walking. The guy got his hand.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What the fuck is going on?

[Mike Epps]

That. That should irritate the shit out of me. Some nigga watching me every fucking five minutes to see if somebody gonna do something to me. I always say to myself, if I was. If I was trying to get somebody, I'm a fuck him and that security up. Both of y' all up. I'm gonna get the security first because that's who's supposed to be protecting. Let me get this first. And then I'm gonna get just that. So the security don't work. That don't work. I guess it keeps down. But if I catch a. That be talking with a security. Get your punk ass out of here. Get my head start.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Cause once you go for security, the.

[Mike Epps]

Other one going, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. The other one gone. So. So. So so some of y' all need to save your fucking money. Ain't nobody thinking about your ass. You look crazy walking around with security in the damn Whole Foods.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Was it a comedian or what?

[Angela Yee]

Who you seen in Whole Foods?

[Mike Epps]

Who did I see in the.

[Angela Yee]

With the security?

[Mike Epps]

Who the fuck was that I seen in security?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Don't fall for that. She trying to get you to say her name. Don't.

[Mike Epps]

I think it was Bobby Valentino? This nigga had two big ass niggas in the city. I said, now what is going on in here with the. I couldn't even see the little nigga. Cause the security. I said, where are you and the nigga. Nah, I'm just kidding, Bobby.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Like, I just called the street for no reason.

[Mike Epps]

I'm just fucking with you, Bobby.

[Angela Yee]

You Bobby. Start streaming.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, hell yeah, I'm gonna start streaming. I went on that little kid, what's his name, man, he was a straight fool on there. And I'm sitting there looking at. I'm sitting on the streaming platform, saying to myself, how in the fuck is he getting paid? When they had the COVID When the. When Covid went down, I was on. I was on live skating, DJing. I was doing all this shit live on my Instagram. Then the shit became streaming, and he's making all this money. I'm like, I was doing that shit and wasn't getting a dime, so now I got to see if I can get a dime.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He was on the wrong platform. You know what I like about Kai? Kai got all that attention from social media, but it don't seem like it affects him up here. Meanwhile, you got a bunch of older motherfuckers on social media losing their mind because of that audience. But Kai mentally seemed more together than him.

[Mike Epps]

That's why it's working for him, because he's not affected by it. He ain't on there trying to show you how much he got, how much of a bigger star he is. He's just being himself and making money. And that's what you young kids. If y' all watching the Breakfast Club, you gonna make more money and get more success being yourself than anybody in the world. I know it's people that you admire, but even if it's somebody that you admire that you really like, you like, ah, I kind of feel myself being like him. Start hating on them. Start saying, fuck that motherfucker. I can't stand his ass. Cause he's influencing. So you gotta hate on his ass to not be influenced.

[Angela Yee]

What's gonna be the, like, vibe of your stream. It's gonna be this.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, it's gonna be this right here. Comedy.

[Angela Yee]

Whole Foods.

[Mike Epps]

Whole Foods. Speaking on all, like right now, all these food stamps. They didn't cut these food stamps off. I'm starting to see a lot of girls on dates that they normally wouldn't go on.

[Angela Yee]

They gotta eat.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, they gotta eat.

[Angela Yee]

They've been doing that though. That's. That's the thing.

[Mike Epps]

What's that?

[Angela Yee]

You go on dates because you want to eat. Like, people do that.

[Mike Epps]

She does it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She used to do that.

[Mike Epps]

You did that before.

[Angela Yee]

First of all, I could feed myself, but I know.

[Mike Epps]

Have you ever did it before?

[Angela Yee]

You be like, I want to go here. I don't want to pay for it. This is back in the day, not happening.

[Mike Epps]

Now.

[Angela Yee]

I'm great. Where I'm at right now, you're getting.

[Mike Epps]

Money, you're getting money.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. But you go, you don't want to pay for something. You have a person you call and be like, oh, I know he'll come and pay for it. So boom.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Wow, that's crazy.

[Mike Epps]

So sugar daddies, if you listening to this, listen to how you're getting screwed over.

[Angela Yee]

They know what time it is.

[Mike Epps]

A sugar daddy, though.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, she love going to an alumni party. That's her thing.

[Mike Epps]

What is that?

[Charlamagne tha God]

At the colleges? She like going to the old alumni party.

[Angela Yee]

I get paid to be there and it's work. We are not going to do this, cuz my man is not going to appreciate this. I don't need to be in no alumni party.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Love going to them old alumni parties. You told me that. Yes, you did.

[Angela Yee]

You and that little bald head over there.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I love going to them old alumni parties. To them old men. Beyond me. You told me that shit.

[Mike Epps]

What do you get? What do you get from an old alumni?

[Angela Yee]

He's lying. I don't know what he.

[Mike Epps]

Well, just answer for another girl. What would a girl get from an old alumni?

[Angela Yee]

The dates you talking about and whatever she wants.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So old alumni, they graduated from college, they successful, got a little change.

[Mike Epps]

They got a little change.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And they.

[Mike Epps]

Them old college niggas is cheap as hell. They ain't spending money on you like a nigga that get dope money.

[Angela Yee]

I wouldn't know. Cause I never did that.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, this nigga's a troublemaker, man.

[Angela Yee]

I think the wind is hitting his head too hard.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know what I want to know with comedians, right? Do you ever look at a comedian.

[Mike Epps]

Set, let's say a special. Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And you call them be like, yo, that wasn't funny. You should have did this better because you are the og. Do you ever do that or you think comedians would be too?

[Mike Epps]

No, no. Yeah. I don't call people and I'm pretty sure the fans will tell your ass that's a fact. What I don't like is when are blind and deaf and crazy and can't see and hear that you ain't shit. You gotta be able to hear, see and know you ain't shit to become something because that's the worst thing in the world is to think you the shit and you ain't the shit. And I guess you supposed to do that and that's what my my I just shot a special called Delusion and that's what the special is about is you really gotta be out of your mind and delusional to be successful and make it and keep going. You guys are out y' all mind to do this show right here. This shit is crazy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Charlamagne tha God]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

Hey y', all, it's Kadeen and Deval, the hosts of Ellis Ever after podcast. This holiday season, whether you're cooking for.

[Mike Epps]

The family, out buying gifts for the.

[Angela Yee]

Kids, or crowded in holiday traffic, tune out the noise and tune in to Ellis Ever After.

[Mike Epps]

On Ellis Ever after, we get real with our crew about family. If you feeling like you feeling, that's.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Probably because you a good parent.

[Angela Yee]

Friendship.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Be careful what you put in your body.

[Mike Epps]

Move your body and love it the.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Way you love them cars that house, them clothes, them shoes. Love yourself, the brunches, love in marriage.

[Angela Yee]

You know what's become attractive to me and it's because I've self corrected and I guess I detoxified myself. Accountability. Like it has been mad attractive. So attractive to me and everything else in between. I've told my most embarrassing moment on this podcast before which was me taking a in a ziploc bag.

[Mike Epps]

So listen to Ellis Ever after on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. It's okay not to be okay sometimes and be able to build strength and love within each other.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Thanksgiving isn't just about food. It's a day for us to show up for one another. I'm Eliakhani, host of the podcast Family Therapy, a series where real families come together to heal and find hope. What would be a Clue. That would be like. I've gotten lots of text messages from him. This one's from a little bit better.

[Angela Yee]

Of a version of him because he's feeding himself well. It's always a concern, like, are you eating well? He's actually an amazing cook.

[Mike Epps]

There was this one time where we had neighbors and I saved their dog, and I ended up inviting them over for food. And that was, like, one of my proudest moments.

[Charlamagne tha God]

This is family therapy. Real families, real stories on a journey to heal together. Listen to season two of family therapy every Wednesday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I just enjoy that we get to talk to legends like you. Like. Yes. That's. That's amazing.

[Mike Epps]

I still gotta be crazy, though.

[Angela Yee]

You know what's crazy?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You still.

[Mike Epps]

You still gotta be crazy because you still holding the. Still holding a certain amount of power in your. In. In your. In your hand, in your tongue with. With the people. This is powerful Breakfast Club. This is. You know, that's why I pray for direction.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I pray for God every day to God lead my steps and guide my tongue. That's it.

[Mike Epps]

He's not doing a great job. Cause you still talking on here. I just seen you say some the other day. That was crazy. I said, you better stop with them monkeys, man. Them hockey's gonna get you charlamagne. You see?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You see what Trump call him?

[Mike Epps]

Say?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Trump could say he got low iq. Trump called me a racist sleeve back.

[Mike Epps]

He called you to. Hey, how does that feel, man? To have Donald Trump talking to you, man? Tell that to call me, man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't even think about it. But like you, I go home.

[Mike Epps]

He know you, huh?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I guess.

[Mike Epps]

Don't go to jail. Yeah, he said some nasty about me, the ball head, ass.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But like you, I go home. So when it's all said and done, at least I can know I'll be in South Carolina doing something.

[Mike Epps]

What Diddy doing right now? He probably working out. They probably shooting ball right now. They probably shooting ball in the pin. What time is it right now? They shooting ball right now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He works at the library at the chapel.

[Mike Epps]

Do we? Yes, he works. How the fuck do you know this? That nigga don't work in no damn chapel.

[Angela Yee]

He do. We reported it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And he came up in that era, that 90s New York era.

[Mike Epps]

I definitely did not.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes, he did.

[Mike Epps]

You did, didn't you?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I definitely did not. Yes, he did. I was young, like 14, 15 back then.

[Mike Epps]

But see, I was looking at. See I was looking. I was looking at Diddy's situation. I said to myself, God don't make mistakes. Sometime he might have took that man off the street to save his life. Yeah. That's how God works. So.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Right.

[Mike Epps]

You know, look at it as a blessing sometimes. Sometime our.

[Angela Yee]

Our.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Our.

[Mike Epps]

Our. Our failures. Things that we fall in in life are blessings. You know what I mean? Every time I took a fall, I got a blessing out of it. So let's not stop looking at all this, at people falling and saying, damn, man, they fail. Guess what? No God is called. A setback is a comeback. You know what I mean? We all get set back so that we can come back. So, you know, when black men fall, y', all, we gotta stop teasing them.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I think we gotta learn from it too, though. That's what Minister Fragon said. He said, when you see a great man fall, don't laugh, learn for real. Yeah. Cause he said with the same thing that tempted him on the way up. You gonna have to face them same temptations.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. And it's a whole. It's a hundred different ways to get fucked up out here.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Mike Epps]

Everybody think it's just one way or three ways. No, it's a hundred different ways to get fucked up out here.

[Angela Yee]

So no Diddy jokes on stage?

[Charlamagne tha God]

The Diddy shit flame?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. Hell yeah, I got some Diddy jokes. I got jokes about everybody, okay? Because I'm a comedian, and that's what I do, you know, I try to make sure I don't go too hard because I still got kids, you know, My kids. My daughters know. Diddy's daughters. They. They friends.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But some of that funny, man, it's hilarious. Nut and rub it on his nipples.

[Mike Epps]

See, I didn't. I didn't. I don't make jokes about that part of it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But you heard that, though.

[Mike Epps]

I didn't hear that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes, you did.

[Mike Epps]

See, you added some other shit on there. I said, I ain't even heard that shit right there. That's. That's crazy, man. That man ain't did no shit like that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't know if he did or not. I'm just saying that's what the.

[Angela Yee]

That was said.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's what the prostitute said. Prostitute said, huh?

[Angela Yee]

That was set in court during the time when they were having the conversations with Cassie.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, see, see, I would go if I was him. I would get out and go quiet for a year, and everybody ass get up. All them snitches, and I'm them up. Cause you was in my backyard eating sliders and drinking free and all kind of shit. Now you're gonna tell on a no. You got I'm you up, I'm blowing your car up and all that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Problem. Now you allegedly did that already.

[Mike Epps]

I'm a rap ass and throw a brick through your window while you eating with your.

[Charlamagne tha God]

When you talk about the upshot, why did the Upshaws end?

[Mike Epps]

Man, the Upshaws ended because the writers, Wanda Sykes and the other lady, Regina Hicks, they just couldn't see eye to eye.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Really.

[Mike Epps]

The lady, Regina Hicks, they both did a great job. First of all, before I go any further, they did such a great job writing. We had the best writing team. I mean, man, the writing team was incredible. But, you know, I think the lady Regina, she had an agenda that she wanted to push with the show, you know, and everybody didn't agree with it all the time. You know, they wanted the show to go this way. Show started off this way, and then it starts slanting. Then it went over there. And then it went over there. We should have just kept it right there in the middle. Might have did 10 seasons. But I think it was about. In the writing, you know, I can't mix somebody's personal life up with what's on paper. But what's on paper, and then it, you know, whatever's on paper and then you guys film it is what we see. Nobody's paying attention to nobody's personal life, you know.

[Angela Yee]

When you say in the writing, though, is it how they were trying to bring it in, what the stories were around, like, the character? Like, what exactly in the writing is the issue then, though? Because her personal stance has to come into her work on screen.

[Mike Epps]

Not necessarily. She. She. She played a straight woman on the show.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, but. But Wanda Sykes is very like. Like you. You're not gonna make her do anything she doesn't wanna do, stand next to anything she doesn't wanna sit next to. Right, right. But she's an ally for a certain. Not even an ally, but, like, she speaks out openly about being a part of the community.

[Mike Epps]

Yes, but on the show, her character was a straight woman, and that's what she portrayed on film, on camera. But in the script. And that wasn't the issue with the script. That was just one out of a million things that I think personally might have kept the show from going. I mean, if you really want to think about it, the kids got grown, you know, we really couldn't go no further because of that. The kids. You know what I mean? The kids, you know, that's what they do on these TV shows, when the kids get older, they cut the show off. Once the kids get older, you can't write stories around them because it's like, damn, kids are grown now. But like I said, it was many reasons why the writing at the end started becoming a little different. We actually went back to. We actually in the middle of the seasons, we kind of lost it. But then in the end, when you see this season right here, you'll see we end up getting it back, you know, but it ran its course, man. And again, I'm thankful that we. That I've been able to be on TV for six years.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But don't that frustrate you though? When two people, I guess, can't get along, so a whole production goes down the drain.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. Hell yeah. And you know what's crazy about that situation? I used to go to Wanda all the time and tell her, hey, Wanda, you know, I need somebody to fight for me in them rooms. Cause I ain't in there to fight for them. And I've made it this far in my career being non confrontational. I let so much shit go. I let so much shit happen because it's not that serious. And I'm always looking at the big picture. I don't never look at the little small potholes because I know I'm trying to make it to the end of the road. So, you know, a lot of my success, I wouldn't even have it if I was. Oh, man. Well, I got a problem with this. And no, y' all gotta change this. And no, that irritates, man. You gotta go through life like whatever, what means the most and all that little shit because the little shit stops you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's right.

[Mike Epps]

You gotta, you gotta not pay attention to none of that little shit and focus on the prize. And that's what I did with this show, you know, I always focus on the prize. I never went in the writer's room. I might have went up there one or two times. But if I got a script and I'm sitting on the set and I'm reading it, I'll tell them, hell no, I ain't doing that. I ain't doing that. Because when you're doing television and you sitting at a table reading, you guys are doing a table read. When you come back the next day and you get on the set, the script gonna be different. You like now, this ain't the shit I read sitting at the table. Because every night they go in there and rewrite. So, you know, that's the upshot always.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Felt like it was written from real life. So I always wondered, like, how much of you the man is hidden. And that shows like humor in the.

[Mike Epps]

Heart, like all of that shit. Because I think. I think at some point they started going on the Internet, digging in my real life.

[Angela Yee]

Damn, what part?

[Mike Epps]

All that shit. Any. Watch the show. If you watch the show, you'll start seeing all kind of. I'm like, damn. And I got offended by that. And then I said, you know what? This is what's going to make the show good. I can't get offended about something that's real and true. Let him. Let him write it. I stopped getting upset about it because some of that was. I'm like, that is me. I'm like, well, the is on the Internet, you know, the is on the Internet. I fell out with my daughter. The is on the Internet that I had multiple baby mamas. The is all this. Everything you want to write is on the Internet. So you can write a whole script off. Just Google my gaps.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Speaking of that, what did becoming a husband and father again as an older man teach you that you didn't understand the first time around?

[Mike Epps]

On the second marriage? Yeah, yeah, my new marriage. What did I learn this time that I learned?

[Charlamagne tha God]

What did you learn, like having children later on in life as you older?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What did you. What did that teach you that you didn't understand the first time around?

[Mike Epps]

You know, I tell. I tell people all the time, man, that especially adults and children. A lot of us are not. It takes a lot. It takes us a long time to become an adult. Just because somebody say they are an adult don't mean they're an adult. And a lot of time your kids don't realize that either. Most of us are still trying to find ourselves when we make kids. You know what I'm saying? We trying to find ourselves. So. So you're a kid too, mentally, you know, your mind ain't. Is not mature enough. So now you raising a kid, trying to figure yourself out. There's an old saying to say, man, we grew up together, me and my kids. Cause I was growing up too. But now I'm at the age now I got two new young kids. I'm the best father in the world.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's what's up.

[Mike Epps]

And I just told my wife the other day, I said, damn, I'm a good father now. And she bust out laughing. She laughed. It was funny because the is real now. I feel like a real, like, man, I'm doing that. That My. My past wife was cussing me out about, but I just wasn't there, man. Now I'm there. You know what I mean? I'm like. And then I look at my older kids, and I'm like, damn, I wish I could have been that guy with them. I wish I could have been the same guy I am now. When I had my first daughter, she would have got the real mic, the good mic. But unfortunately, it takes time. I tell women all the time. It take about 50 years for a man to get his shit right. So be patient.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Shut the fuck up.

[Mike Epps]

Be patient out there, ladies. It takes 50 years for us to get our shit together. And then you'll get the last 10 to 21 years. No, just good.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Look, she. So listen, your blessing might be at an old alumni party.

[Angela Yee]

My blessing is sitting at home waiting for me right now. Hey, babe.

[Mike Epps]

He's waiting on you, huh?

[Angela Yee]

Yes, he is a blessing.

[Mike Epps]

He ain't got a job.

[Angela Yee]

He's cool. Don't worry about him.

[Mike Epps]

No, that nigga ain't got no job. You tell her what she said? She got offended. The nigga's at home watching Jerry Springer right now waiting on. He probably pick you up every day. This nigga sitting outside with a toothpick in his mouth.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Bam.

[Mike Epps]

Bam.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Not bad.

[Angela Yee]

Don't do him. No, he does not. We're moving this week. Okay.

[Mike Epps]

Y' all moving?

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[Mike Epps]

Where y' all moving to?

[Angela Yee]

Just two different places.

[Mike Epps]

That's nice. I'm glad you're in love. You seem like you're in love. You're giving your man a shot.

[Angela Yee]

We're not moving together, but we just happen to both be moving this week, so. No, I don't listen to you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You did not no more.

[Mike Epps]

You was dating two men at one time.

[Angela Yee]

I've always been very intentional about where I'm at right now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I get it.

[Mike Epps]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

I don't know what Charlamagne is talking about.

[Charlamagne tha God]

We was calling that two Low all over the city with two different. It was crazy.

[Angela Yee]

I was not. I was being spotted with one person. I got videos and back to saying, yes, I love.

[Mike Epps]

Don't let this nigga do you like that.

[Angela Yee]

I got more upshot questions or something.

[Mike Epps]

Don't let this nigga do you like that. All I can tell you, if you dating more than one person, get you some antibiotics.

[Angela Yee]

I'm not dating more than one person.

[Mike Epps]

Keep your urinal tract cleaned out. Jesus Christ.

[Angela Yee]

Whoa. You ready to end the interview?

[Charlamagne tha God]

We the ones commenting. You don't know what year that is. Any.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, My God, right?

[Mike Epps]

Is that her?

[Angela Yee]

My hair is short, going crazy.

[Mike Epps]

That ain't her.

[Angela Yee]

He always trying to pin stuff on me.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What you mean?

[Angela Yee]

Mike, focus. That is not me. He always lying.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Let me point this in.

[Mike Epps]

Get your tickets. 2020. Let me tell you something. This comedy tour. I've had such a great time doing this comedy tour. This is our third year doing it, man. This comedy tour is like a party, bro. I don't know if y' all ever seen it before, but, you know, you get 85 south together, and myself, man, them niggas are a fool. And this. This comedy tour, I mean, every city that we show up, man, some of the best rappers, some of the performers come out in every city, go out and perform, man, and it's a party. You know what I mean? It's like going wild n out. It's like going to a fresh fest. Cause you got all these different artists on the show, and we the ones. Man, ain't nobody out here better than us. You go get a comedy lineup and line them up with us, we gonna spank they ass. I don't care who it is.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You got J. Ski, you got just Niche. You got Mojo Brooks, Nat Green, T.K. kirkland.

[Mike Epps]

What?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[Mike Epps]

We didn't added T.K. on there.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's good. That's good.

[Mike Epps]

T.K. been looking for this spot for years.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I love T.K.

[Mike Epps]

T.K. Is a veteran.

[Angela Yee]

Wait, before you leave last Friday. Don't say oh like that.

[Mike Epps]

Hold on. I'm still talking about the tour. Now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Go ahead.

[Angela Yee]

Go ahead.

[Mike Epps]

Make sure you go get the tickets to we the ones tour we come. The first city we coming to is my. My hometown, Naptown. Y' all know y' all better go out there and get them tickets for that. You know what I mean? And then we got another. Just go on there and check out the dates and shit. What you want to say to me?

[Angela Yee]

Oh, I wanted to know. Last Friday is happening. Are we getting Chris Tucker back?

[Mike Epps]

I don't know if we gonna get. They said Chris Tuck. Cube said he been talking to Chris Tucker, but I don't know. I might have to run around and catch his ass coming out of one of these Bible studies or something to see if it's real.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But.

[Mike Epps]

But me, Ice Cube, Aaron Magruder, and DJ Pooh were just together sitting in a room writing this movie. This movie gonna be crazy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Now, you know when you say Aaron Magruder, you excite the whole goddamn Internet. Aaron, that's the creator of the Boondocks Black Jesus. For people who don't know. He's a genius. Like, that's something special right there.

[Mike Epps]

That's top tier writing, man. And I think that's why Ice Cube went and got him. Cause he's gonna bring that to the movie. And not to say that we weren't gonna make it hot, like, we've always made it hot, but this is going to give it another extension on it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Aaron Magruder and DJ Pool need to be the only ones writing that script.

[Mike Epps]

Aaron McGruder, DJ Pooh.

[Angela Yee]

Dang, he just took you off the writer script.

[Mike Epps]

I ain't thinking about that nigga, man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Mike in there for the comedy. Like. Like, you know how they'll write. And then they'll be like, mike, punch this up.

[Mike Epps]

What? Can I be honest with you? Nobody can really write for me anyway. Yeah, they can write some shit on the paper. But I'm gonna say some shit funnier than whatever you put on the paper.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's right.

[Mike Epps]

And I'm gonna give you yours, and then I'm gonna give you mine. And when you get in the editing room, you're gonna see which one was better. Hello. You know what I'm talking about?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. And that's how I feel about this comedy tour right here. Ain't nobody comedy tour better than. And I'm headlining this year. See, last. All these other years, I've been hosting. I go up for five minutes, six, seven minutes. But if you really want to see a Real Mike Epps Hot, 35, 40 minutes, come out to this tour right here.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hey, them niggas be fronting on you, Mike. I was having this argument behind the scenes about you the other day. They said, man, Mike just be hosting. I said, you ain't never watched none of Mike specials.

[Mike Epps]

Well, they just seen that because they came to them, too, because that's what I told them.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Because we was. See, I ain't want to say it was you, but go ahead. I was arguing with this, and he said, djing? He said, all Mike knew is host. I said, man, Mike funny. They were talking about comedians. And it was like, well, Mike on the tour. I was like, well, Mike hosts the tour. I was like, he don't do a set on the tour. I said, man, Mike got hours. I ain't never seen Mike. I said, mike got hours.

[Mike Epps]

That's what I'm saying. See, people be sleeping on me. Cause I ain't out here honking my horn and blowing and doing all that crazy shit. But that's how I like it. I like to be underestimated I like you to not be paying attention, and I'll sneak up behind you and bop you upside your head. That's how I love my life. I love it. And I've been doing that. That's how I've been doing the whole time. I've been watching all these dudes. They making plenty of money. They killing them. Guess what? I'm still standing right here. And £190, I can run, play basketball, and chew bubble gum and talk shit. And, you know, I mean, got a nice little pistol collection. I'm still out there building. Building houses. That's right, man. 10 in my business. Loving God. That's right. You know what I'm saying? Always loving God and keeping the faith. That's why I told them people need food stamps and stuff get cut off. Don't worry about that. See, black people, we've been getting our cut off. We've been getting our doors kicked in and stuff. This is not for us. So don't take this as personal about the food stamps and all that. I'm actually glad they cutting some of these niggas off food stamps because some of us need to not be on food stamps because it's a trickle down effect. You get the food stamps, then you go buy the food that give you cancer. Then you eat the food to give you cancer, then you're sad. You. You walk around here upset, your diet's up. Now I'm telling you, some honest guy. True. Your diet then sent a lot of niggas to prison. Explain.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They gonna take all of this and put it on Fox News.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And it's gonna say, mike F. Says you don't need to be on food.

[Mike Epps]

You think so?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And you're gonna go viral. And they gonna call you maga.

[Angela Yee]

Mike, you gotta finish the joke down.

[Mike Epps]

Listen, listen, brothers and sisters. Listen, brothers and sisters.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Brothers and sisters.

[Mike Epps]

You don't know what this world is coming to. No, listen to this. No, they can't say that about me. See, that's one thing about me. Little boosie. Badass. We can't be canceled.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, y' all can't be canceled. But I'm just telling you, the Internet gonna be mad. DL Hughley.

[Mike Epps]

About you Internet ass. And everybody out there that think they want to be mad and say, so you, man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And I'm gonna text you. I'm say, mike, your elders is after you. Mike Epps. Ladies and gentlemen, the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. Y' all finished or y' all done.

[Mike Epps]

Every now and then I rinse it.

[Angela Yee]

Out and I dead and the smell never leave.

[Mike Epps]

I don't know what what to do. I'm always in the dark.

[Angela Yee]

The sweat in that sh smells like a dark.

[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Angela Yee]

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[Mike Epps]

And you know we don't hold back. So come be reasonable or shady with.

[Angela Yee]

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