April 3, 2025 • 42 mins
Yooooo you're having an acid flashback!!! Take a listen to Benny Blanco's episode where he talks about bringing his iMac to the club, being thrown in the trash, and much much more nose dive stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What up.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It's Eric Andrey and guess what, You're having an acid flashback.
That's right, you are flashing back right now to a
favorite past episode of bombing. This one's with music producer
Benny Blanco, whose new album I Said I Love You
First with Selena Govez is out. Now. Make sure you
stream that shit because I told him personally I would
get it to number one top of the charts. But first,
have a nice trip down memory lane and enjoy my
(00:21):
conversation with Benny last year about bombing in the music industry.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Love you lots, bombing, bombing with Eric Andre.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So that is your biggest bomb or some bombing stories.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I have so many?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I know you get You're like auto pilot.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Okay, okay, let it roop, Okay, okay, a few one
of them. It's like I'm like eighteen years old. We're
like on I'm we're like performing for the first time.
I'm like getting like free drink. I'm getting blacked out
every time because I never had like I've only had
like like you drink like out of someone's like your
pan Karan's like liquor cabin. It has like a quarter
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of a bottle of Triple Sex from like six years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, it's like disgusting.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You have like you guys Split One Mad Dog, except
with like eight people special.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's disgusting, disgusting.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
So like finally I'm like getting alcohol. I'm playing with
spank Rock Amanda Blank, I'm at this like fader thing
and it's like this is so yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We're like the kid.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Did you ever go to college?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Not a day? No No.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I went to an audio engineering school for like four
months but dropped out. And I'm the only one of
my everyone to college except me and the family.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So I'm like, so.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I remember, I'm I'm at the show and I'm getting
like fully blacked out, like like like so drunk, and
I remember I start daching and I was like I
didn't have like I didn't have money like that, so
I literally would bring I didn't have a laptop, so
I bring an iMac to the club, like.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
A big purple plastic like a huge GiMA to the club,
and I would like and I was so bad.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, it was crazy, And I was so bad at
DJAN And basically I'm with one of my friends and
we're like so hyped and we're like dancing and stuff
and basically like I accidentally turned the bpm so like
for people who don't know what that is, like, I
made the song incredibly fast, like like one hundred bpm sward.
So it was like so before it was like and
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then was like and I was like and and I
couldn't stop it because my friend spilled a drink all
over the keyboard, the laptop or the fucking computer, whatever
the fuck it is. The So so I'm sitting there
and it's so fast and like name spank rock here
is like thinging and they all just went along with
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it so like and they like did it and nobody
even noticed, and they were so mad.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You were rapping and Amanda was a game. And then
and they were wrapping.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
And it was like it was during my DJ said,
they like came out and like did a special thing.
Basically that night, I get so wasted. I get so
unbelievably wasted that they kicked me out. Okay, Home, Sweet Home.
It's called in New York.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You know it's like near Christy Street. Yeah, you have
to like go down yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah yeah I remember that spot.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
So we're I'm actually confusing two nights this is one
one of whatever who.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Gives nobody it's the same.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It also could be the same night for this story.
It'll be the same night.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And I remember I I they they actually, you know
when someone's like, oh, they threw me out of the bar,
They actually picked me up. That I was so belligerent
while I was ejing that two men picked me up
and they threw me into guard And I remember at
the time, I was getting paid three hundred dollars, okay,
and it's like the most embarrassing thing. They throw me
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in the garbage and then the guy takes out not
even like three like nights, he crumpled three hundred dollar
bills and throws them. So they throw them at me
on the ground. I'm black, Did you dude to deserve that?
I was probably being an idiot.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
In what sense?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It was probably just so drunk, like spilling stuff, like
being an idiot. So I'm out there and I remember
like standing up and like looking at my friends and
they were out there and I.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Was like, I hate you.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I was like, fuck you, And I like looked at
my I was like I hate you, like and I
was just like I was just like I gone off
the rails. I went fully, fully off.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
The rails, eighteen year old Penny.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That was like the throw your friends your only out.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, but that's what you do when you're eighteen.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Oh my god, I have so.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Many Okay, tell me some more bombing stories.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So okay, so first, this is like the opposite of
a bomb.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I'm playing poker one night and like, my friend's mom
puts me on her Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Then she calls me the next day and she's like, yo,
my son's best friend. You're his biggest influence in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You have to.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Let him come like intern for you. I was like,
I don't need another intern, and they were.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Like please, and I was like all right, fine.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
So like I meet this kid, this kid's fifteen years old,
and he's like, I got a intern for you, and
I'm like all right. Like he was just like a
sweet kid, and I was like intern for me, and
I was like, all right, I'm in New York and
I was like, but I'm building a studio in LA.
You got to just build the studio and I'll be
out in like a few months. And then he was
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like he was like all right, so did.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You give up a budget.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, we did the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh okay, build your own mind chop.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So basically his kid starts working for me and then
like he eventually like is about to graduate high school
and like he's in like his last semester and I'm like, yo,
I'm going on the road with Ed Sheeran. Do you
want to come and like learn? And he's like yes,
And then like eventually I'm like he's in college and
I'm like, yo, we're going on tour with this person.
Do you want to come, like like see how it's
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all done?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
And he's like working his way up, never even tells
me he makes music, and then one day he like
sits me down and he's just like dude. When he's
like nineteen, he's like, dude. My therapist said, if I
don't play you my music, then like I just like
he won't work with me anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
And I was like, yeah, of course man me, no, no, no, no,
he played me his music.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Yeah, I'm like, yeah, no, he plays me as music
and it's bad. Yeah okay, but like I see something
in the kid somehow. Fast forward like a year or two,
I sign him and then he's the actual biggest producer
in the world right now. He literally just one Song
of the Year at the Grammy's. He's like the biggest
producer in the world. And he's he've been working with
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me since Blake.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, Blake. Now, okay, you want to hear a funny
Blake story.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's a bomb.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Okay, great, this is a bomb of a story.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Wait, so you met Blake because your friend's mom was
just like, hey, I got to put you on my Instagram.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And she just put me on Instagram in a poker
game and he was like, who the fuck is it?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
How do you know?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Benny, Like he had no idea and that it was
just like a random thing. Whoa, Yeah, it was so random.
So okay, So okay, Blake. It's his first day. I'm like,
finally in La. He's been working for me for like
eight months, hasn't done anything. He's like cleaning toilets. Everything,
his life sucks.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He finally walks in I'm in LA and I'm like, yo,
we're going to a studio. Okay, We're gonna work with
the weekend. And he was just like holy shit, He's
like what the fuck. He's like this is what I've
been waiting for. He's losing his mind. So the Weekend
comes in and I'm like, Blake, like just be cool,
and he's like, okay, cool. We're in the session. Literally
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fifteen minutes into the session. We're in a room like
this small, and we're like me in the Weekend, are
like going back and forth and we're like singing stuff,
we're playing beats, and all of a sudden, he takes
his phone out to try to take like a sneak
no and it goes like it goes and it flashes,
and he literally Blake doesn't know what to do, so
he goes like this, He goes and he throws his
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phone and just like leaves the room and just like
doesn't know what to do. Like the weekend doesn't notice,
and it's like all good, but he was so embarrassed
he left the room and did not come back for
the rest of the session.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
But Blake bomb with Aericdre. With Aericdre, who's the worst,
Who's the one?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Basically it's like the first time I work with Diddy,
and I'm like so excited.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I'm like, oh my god, this guy's like my hero.
Like it's like he's a full legend, and I get there.
He lives up to everything.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
He's like in the thing he's getting like his haircut,
he's directing a music video. He's like someone's like doing
stuff with his toes, Like it's like all that stuff
for Instagram and stuff is so real.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
He's like he was like he was like it was crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
There was like somebody he had like a bottle of
champagne that he was like deciding whether it was gonna
be like the new logo, like so many things are
happening at once, and then he's like I get in
there and he's like you always like you know, I
just got back from fucking Paris, Like I'm in France,
I'm in all these different places, like I want to
make that like fucking like disco shit, like the record's
spinning and there's fucking cocaine and when it comes to
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your turn, you just got to snort it right up.
He's like, I want to make that good shit. And
I was like, oh okay, so like uh, like what
do you think like something like more like daft punk
or like craft work, And he's like looked at me.
He was like they shut the fuck up and I
was like, and he's like, stop trying to confuse me.
And I was like, oh, I was like okay. I
was like I'm sorry, and then like and then there
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was like two people. I remember there was these There
was like his assistant and then someone else's assistant and
they were like and he was like, I bet you
my assistants faster than yours to like the other person.
And then they were like he was there was like
and you like yeah, and they were like both yelling
for their assistant and like didesus isn't actually came like
later and he was like you're fired.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Just like.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
One time.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I was like, Kanye used to have this like warehouse. Okay,
it's like insane warehouse. And we like after church, his
like uh Sunday services, which actually were like incredible. They
were so sick, Like did you ever go to one? No,
they were they were amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
They were like allergic to religion.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
No, it wasn't religion. It was just like sick.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You're watching like a Kanye show and it's like and
everything he did was like so amazing, Like he was
my hero growing up. So like we're like at one
of his things. I hope we don't lift this. This
one's so good.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We were we were.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
We went back to like his like facility. He had
like a factory, and like you walked in and like
we were like with one of my friends and we were.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
This story's crazy. We were.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
We're like, okay, So we walk into Kanye's factory and
we're like walking around and we walk into my friends
like little studio and we're just like waiting for Kanye
to show up.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And I like I walk.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Into one room and and it's like all of his
like easy stuff and all the samples, and it all
like looks so cool.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's all like set up in the coolest way.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
There's like mood boards everywhere, and I'm like this is amazing,
and I'm like touching all the fabrics. And then like
I walk into another room and it's like the coolest
room you've ever seen with just like with just like
shoes and like men in like lab coats like making
shoes and that are like seventy and I'm like yeah,
I'm like, I'm like holy shit. And then I go
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into another room and there's like one of those like
big dry erase boards. And this was a while ago,
and it says like.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
How to make Kanye West a billionaire?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And it was and it was like had like allays,
like a count information, like everything on a thing, and
I was like, we're definitely not supposed to be in here.
And they have like like all these different ways to
make him like a billionaire and I was like, oh shit.
So then we like walk out and we walk into
this other room and it's him and he's having like
a full meeting with like people, and he has a
screen that's bigger than this room.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
It's like this wrap around screen.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
It's like twenty feet tall with like and it has
like a computer on it and they're like looking at
it like a website. And it has this thing where
you like press the clothes and like drag them and
then it's like a woman like in the clothes and
she's moving around and then like a man. And I'm
there with my girlfriend at the time, and I remember
I remember like yeah's in there, and we're like it's
like a few of us, and we're like, oh, I'm sorry,
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we didn't we didn't mean to come in here. And
he's like, no, no, come in and we're like okay.
He's like and he's like my girl at the time.
He's like, he's like, what do you think about these clothes?
And she's like, uh, She's like they're they're amazing, They're
so cool. And he's like, go press the button, go
like try it on, like it like like you can
press a button and we'll make it all try on
and she was like okay, oh sick.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So she like goes up the.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Screen is like three thirty foot screens, like it's insane,
and she like goes to like click one and you
know how like if you like swipe a mouse like
down to the bottom of the screen, like it like.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Puts the computer in sleep mode. It literally just goes
like this goes and like we're.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
In a room full of darkness like with all these
people and we're like and she's like losing her mind.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And then like someone's like, hey, do you know the password?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And like uh, Cone is like, oh, let me try
and do like types and it's like it's like doesn't work.
And then he like tries another one it's like and
it just like doesn't work. And then like finally like
one of my friends just writes like password in it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Everything shines back up and hacked all don't know, and.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
It was like and then he like he goes like
this she like she like is still standing by the thing,
and he's.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Like maybe maybe I'll do the next one. And then
it's just like she's like a full like walk.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That's like a moment.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's like a bomb that that's a bomb. That's a bomb.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
My favorite is when when whenever, like you're with someone
and like like one time I was, I was with
my friend and we were like outside of a party
and we couldn't get into this party, and like do
you know how you have some of those friends that
are just like they're shameless, they'll do anything like and
we were like outside of this party, we weren't getting in.
This was like ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We're probably not gonna be able to use his name,
but we can use this story.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
So he's like we're like outside of this like New
Year's party, and we're like there's no way we're getting
it in. It's like watch them, like Brad Pitt walk in,
like everyone's walking in, and then we have another good
story a bomb. So we're watching like Brad Pitt walk
in and then he literally sees Andy Garcia walking by
the actor the big actor.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
So we see like Andy Garcia like, oh, he's like,
I'm good friends.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
He goes I'm friends with him, and.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I go with your friends with Andy Garcia and he
goes yeah, and he goes up to him and he
goes hey, Andy, and Andy goes like this.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
He's like, he's like remember me.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And then he's like, I said, first of all, if
you have to start a sentence, you're not friends with that.
And then like and then like he literally goes like
it's like right in front of the bouncer and he's like,
remember we had like dinner like two weeks ago. And
then he's like you remember like I was with like
I was with no one Gary. And then he was
like yeah, and then he was like could you help
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us get in? And he's like he's like he's like
a many Garcia, what am I gonna do? You think
I'm gonna get you in? I'll be able to get
you in.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And then he's like he's like, come on, just try
and then like he just goes to the bouncer. He's like,
you let these guys in. And then guy's.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Like but so it wasn't a bomb.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
But it was such a bomb.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, it was such a bah.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Just much more satisfy.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
With Aridre.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
With Aridre, have you ever been beat up before? You've
ever been in a fight or you have been.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
In so many?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Really?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
When that's not a bomb?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, it's like about failure. It's not about bombing. It's
just about fucking the trials and tribulation of life.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
What's what's a when you think of like the biggest failure,
you try to black those out.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, but it makes you likable, it makes you endearing.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm trying, it makes you relatable.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
About like when did you get beat up?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
My god?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So many?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Why?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What what are you talking when? Where?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
What do you I used to go to freestyle battles.
I would just like win and then they just beat.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Me up, like I really like a guy like name one,
like a guy punched you in the face.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I used to get beat up all the time. That's
not even a good bomb. Let me think, is I'm good?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That's great? What are you talking about? You're sitting on gold.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You go to freestyle wrap battles and win, You're great
at freestyle rapping.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I mean I was. I don't think I'm great anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Really, what would you rap about?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I don't I don't know. That was like thirteen, there
was thirty, it was twenty something years ago.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And then guys would beat you up when you won.
So you would go to a rap competition and be
like rap out a rap, rap rap, and then.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Just just jump me when I left.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I don't know the guy's name.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Why why you couldn't care less? Like because this is
like grocery food shopping.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
This isn't good. This isn't good. This is a bad bomb.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
This is you.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
No, no, I want like a good failure.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Let me think of like this is this thing?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
No no, no, like like a like a big one,
like a a better story. Yeah, let me let me
think of a big one. Okay, this is how I
got into that. This is like my first thing to
get really into the music business. And it's like a
bomb for like six months.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I used to do this thing where I would go
on my Space and I would direct message every single
person in the world like I could know and like
just like be relentless. And there was this guy. He
was one of my favorite producers. His name was Disco
d Okay, and I messed, what.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Is he famous for?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
He did, like he created a type of music called
ghetto tech. It's like Detroit yeah, so he's one of
the yeah yeah yeah, those are all him so so
basically it's so crazy. So like he just had like
a whole ghetto tech. So he was like one of
the creators of ghetto tech. And then he also produced
like amazing like some of my favorite like fifty cent songs.
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Like he was like he was the first person I
ever met. He was the first parton. He introduced me
to spank Rock. He was working with spank Crock. He
was working with most deaf he was working with working with.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
He didn't invented ghetto he was.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
One of one of the guys.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
There's like one of the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
So basically I used to d M him every day
and he would never answer. And then I saw that
he had a studio time available, and I said, how
did you figure that out? I just saw he had
an ad on on his MySpace for studio time and
I was like, hey, I want to book out the
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studio for a day, and he was like, for sure,
come up here. So I came up, and when I
got to New York, I was living in Virginia at
the time I drove up. When I got to New York,
I didn't drive. Me and my friends, which dude, we
would do the craziest things. I didn't have anywhere to stay,
so we would go. I would go up for meetings.
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These are yeah, this is the bomb shit. I would
go up for meetings every single weekend. And I would
go on a Friday, and I would skip some of
school so I could get there in time for like
the last meeting. And after that, we didn't have anywhere
to stay. We didn't have any money, So me and
all my friends we would sleep in the McDonald's in
Times Square and we would take turns sleeping, and like
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one person would stay awake and then one person would sleep. Yeah,
and we used to just like we to dude, we
used to sleep. We used to sleep in Hoboken Station
because like the cops wouldn't come there, and like we
would all we'd sleep in a car and like one
person would stay awake and we would do all the
ship and it was me and like a few of
my friends, and sometimes like you'd go, I'd go like
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all the way there and and like the meeting, they'd
be like, ah, sorry, can't make it like and I'd
be like, fuck, I drove all the way here.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So we'd have to like try to figure out something
we could do.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
But basically one of the times, I like go in
with Disco Deep and I get there and I'm like, dude,
I don't want studio time.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I had to get through to you.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I really think I could be like the best producer
in the world. I think like you could help me,
I think. And he was so angry. He was like,
you're wasting my fucking time. And I was like, dude, please,
I'll do anything. And he said okay. He said, I
literally am leaving tomorrow. I'm gone for two days. If
you can book my studio for the two days you
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have a job, you can be my intern. And I said, yeah,
of course I can book the studio. It was like no, dude,
it was like six hundred dollars a day, so I
and we didn't have money. I called every person I
know and I was like, please, I'll pay you back.
I'll do anything, like and I had. I got it
booked somehow. I booked the studio the whole time, and
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I put in, I put in there was like a
few extra hours, and I put in two hundred of
my own dollars and I had no money. Yeah, like
and he was like, all right, you did it. He
was like, I'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
How did you Who did you book? How did you get?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Just any person I knew?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Who?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Who?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I knew a few people in New York I knew
like these like bad local rappers, and I would be like, Okay,
you come for two hours and then like I'd be like, dude,
I'll give you a deal, and I'd like and I
just was like I finagled. Like it was like I
made like I got like eleven hundred dollars or something
in two days. And I like I did it by
like everyone I knew and like a few of my
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friends from Virginia. I was like, dude, please, just like
I'll find a way to get you back, like and
I just made it happen.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Was he like renting? I don't really understand. It was
just like it was just like your rent studio time,
like you can out of his studio, like you can
rent a really, have.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You ever been to a studio?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Oh, you've never been to recordings.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I'm not in music.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Oh okay, so so like so quit when I graduate
when I was twenty so basically playing classical music. Recording
studios ye are are rented hourly or by the day,
and and it's just like a rate. It's like a
fixed rate. And he had a studio and when he
wasn't using it, he would rent it out, okay, And
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I rented it the whole time. And he was like, great,
come back next weekend. And I was like, I have
no money. How am I going to get back? And
then he was like you can stay. He was like,
every time you're in New York, you can stay at
my place. And I was like, okay, so at least
I have a place to stay now. The time I
started doing that, sixteen, I sixteen about I started doing it.
I would travel back and forth every weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Sixteen long of a drive was four and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You tried.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I used to take the funk Wa bus y. Yeah, yeah, dude.
It used to be twenty dollars round trade.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
It was like, oh, take it at three thirty am,
and it was like it was like four bucks it was.
And they had like shrimp on the bottom of it
broke down.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh my god. Yeah, I was on it was insane.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's it would like it would like sometimes it would
just smell like trash the time, but it was like
it was like heaven to me.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I loved it and I would get back like just
in time for.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You were just close enough to New York City to
like really start you get to see it start entertainment,
I start. Yeah, I think like I was.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
In Jersey and New York City.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That's smart that you were like in the proximity.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, it was like it was just close enough and
like so then when I would go, I.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Think that's half the battle, just being in the place
where it's happening, dude.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
So it's so I remember one time I'm there, okay,
I'm I'm eighteen now, and he's like, yo, I got
some important sessions coming through. It was like t I
was there first and then afterwards it was it was
it was spank rock and he was like, I got
this guy coming in. He was like, whatever he wants.
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You're his studio assistant, you're his bitch, you do whatever
he wants. I was like, okay, So like it's in
Williamsburg the studio and it's like two thousand and six
and he walks in and he's like, oh, I'm kind
of hungry, and he was like, can you order me
this thing? So I ordered him this thing from this
place called any Time. It's not even there anymore. So
like I'm in the session and I like bring him
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his food and he's like, hey, what do you think
about this? And he like wraps a thing to me,
this bankrack, and I'm like, oh man, that's so good.
And then like I'm working with him the next day.
The next day, same thing, bring him in his food
and he's like he's like, hey, he's like what rhymes
with like telephone or something. And I was like, oh, maybe,
well maybe telephone. I was like, beellphone. I was like telephone, telephone.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Telephone is such a hard one. So so I.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Like he like takes the line and then we start
like talking and like developing this like report.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But he was new too. He was like he was cool.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
He was like very cool, and it was like and
I didn't care.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I only cared about cool shit because I was like
living in Williamsburg at the time, and it's like, you know,
this was like before Santi was even a thing, like
we put her on her first, like her first collaboration
was with us, and I remember like one night they
were like, Yo, we're gonna go back to the studio.
I need you to prepare the studio. So I took
the train, and the way that it worked back then
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is like from where I lived, I had to go
all the way in the city, then all the way
back to brook because I lived in Brooklyn too. There
was no like connector because the L train used to
like not connect to anything. So like I like went
all the way in the city, all the way to
his thing, and then he was like, actually, I need
you to bring this demo CD to me. He's like,
I'm actually gonna be with Diddy, and I was like fuck.
So I had to go all the way back then
(25:31):
all the way there and he's like and then he
was like, we left, We're at the next place. You
got to meet us in the next place. So I'm like,
the fuck this is this is this is disco d
He's like, and I'm like fuck. So I like go
to the next place and then he's like gone from
the next place and he's like, dude, He's like meet
us to the next place, and I'm running in the
rain with the CD and I'm like and I I
finally get there and I'm like and he's like, dude,
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we went to another place.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Just meet us back at the studio. I'm crushed.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Why is with you or no?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's just like I'm too so and I'm like too
slow because I didn't have any money, so I was
like fuck it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, I was like, I got it.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I'm just gonna take a taxi for this last thing
and I'll just like eat less the next day.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So I like take the taxi.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I get back, I'm like covered in rain and it's
like everyone's there.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's like most death is there.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You're locking every single person. Everything is a race. Everything
is a race. I'm sitting there and there's like models
and artists and it's like it's crazy. It's like this
was like the first time where I like saw like
I'm like whoa yeah, and I'm sitting there and I
remember all the girls and everyone were just like, oh
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my god, you're so wet, like like dry off and
and and spank Craft was like, oh man, it's good
to see you, like blah blah, and I'm like in
heaven and then like the guy just humiliates me that
disco deep, just like full humiliate amilia. First he was like,
go get us, go get us snacks. Okay, So I
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go downstairs. I bring him back and it was like
he was like, that's the wrong one. And he opens
up a bottle of a bag of potato chips and
pours him on my U in front of everyone. And
then like and then I'm like and he was like
and he was like and I like finally like walk
into the room and stuff, and he's like, no, you're
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not allowed in right now.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
He's like, you can't come in the room. And I'm like,
there's this little.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Samurai dude.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
There's this little window and I just can look in
the studio and I see everyone in there, like and.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'm like sitting outside.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
And then I remember the next day I saw he
was the best, but he was but he was he
was trouble. And the next day I came in and
I remember he was like, all right, play me your
beats because I think he felt bad. He was like
playing your beats and like playing my beats and he
literally takes all the files and deletes them at least
my whole hard drive and he's like these suck and.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
He was like start again as a monster. And he
goes start again, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
And then like and then another time another time he
took my hard drive and he threw it out the window,
and and and and and I was like crushed all
these because Psycho, I was crushed. And he would be
like but he would always tell me something. He'd be like, Okay,
this is why I deleted it all him. He was like,
I want you to watch me make a bet. And
I was like studying him because I was obsessed with
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this guy was so far ahead of his time, and
he was so good at dealing with artists and so
good at it.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
He actually I learned everything.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I would never be who I am without knowing what
he did. Like really, if he was around for like
a little bit longer, he would have been like one
of the biggest producers. He was just like suicide. He
was he was he was like, was too far ahead
of his time, but like and he like he like
it was. It was really like karate kidship, but he
would like torture me like it was dude.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
One time, was he getting off on it or was.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I think he was just crazy. One time.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
One time, I was literally they had like a session
coming and he wanted to have like a really big
screen TV for the session, like for the as the computer.
And I remember I was setting it up and he
was like faster and he had a bamboo stick and
he was.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Hitting me with it and I was like, you're putting
it out. I was like, I wanted bombs. Here's my bombs.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And I was like and like I was just like crushed,
but like he would just give me these like nuggets
of gold like at all times, and like, honestly, like
a lot of the people that I work with today
are people that I met through those times. So it's
like so it's like I don't know if this is
supposed to be one of those things, but it's like
all the shit you're taking and all the stuff you're
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doing to build up your career and you think it's
not worth it, like that stuff comes back, like I'm
working with these people. I'm working with people I literally
met seventeen years ago, right seventeen eighteen years ago, and
I went through some shit and it's like, dude, I
went through so much much shit, you know how many times,
like I didn't get credit, Like I like made a
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whole song and got.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No credit stolen from you.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Oh my god, are you kidding me? Dude?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Horrendous dude.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
One time I had a number one song stolen from
no credit, one song, no credit, And I remember I
like went in I went into the manager of that
person's thing office and I was like and I was like,
they stole my song, and he was like, no, they didn't.
And then I opened up a laptop and I played
my version with a date stamp that was like before
the one they created. And then I remember like the
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manager was like hold on. He like closed the door
and he was like, let's just talk about this. And
then and then I remember I called the person who
stole it from me and I was like, hey man,
you you stole that thing like that was mine. I
did that like I did that, and he said, what
are you gonna do about it? And then he was
like he was like, he goes, I'll bury you in
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legal fees. He goes, you don't have any money to
fight this. He goes, just just take this one. Just
just just like gave me like a virtual pad on
the back. He was like, you just take this one,
You'll get the next one. Like, oh my god, do
you know how many Do you know how many times?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Yeah, but like but but all of those moments, like
that's why I like when I sign kids like it
makes it gives me like so much pleasure to like
to like give these guys like fair deals and like
and like to.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Put potato chips in their hair.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
No, no, but to like watch these dudes, Like I
have so many people that I signed that I watch them, like, dude,
I have like, well.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You're like you're like an abused child that gets to
like raise and.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
I didn't, yeah, and I didn't, like I didn't do that,
I like paid it forward. And it's like it's so
cool to like see that. So it's like all these
things that you have like when you're growing up, they
make you who you.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Are, right, Okay, but oh my god, you have to
you have to process that.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Kidding.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I have so much trauma, like this thing could Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
When when I was I honestly like one when when
I was like twenty something and I like start like
twenty one and I started getting like so much success
to started making money for the first time. I didn't
know what to do. I lost my mind. I lost
my crazy. I lost my mind. I like didn't leave
the house for like six months. I was like gore phobic,
Like I like, dude, I literally lost my mind eggs
(32:22):
and I and I had to see. I had to see,
Like I saw a therapist like three times a week,
and he like built me back and then like and
then I came back like better than ever.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Lost your mind doing drugs or lost line And just.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Like it was all too much. There was too much pressure,
too much, drivers much money, too much. Like I just
like didn't I didn't understand, Like I wasn't built like that.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
I'd never seen any of this shit.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah, I didn't know song stealing was so yeah, it
goes right all that shit that's fucked up. Yeah, And
like because like joke thievery and comedy is so taboo
and all comics will snitch on you if you steal
a joke, Like comics are looking out for each other
with joke thievery. Comics are looking out for.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Each other with that you ever steal a joke?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Never, no, never, I have like one type of comedy.
My comedic creative choices are so idiosyncratic. And specific if
I even if I stole a joke, it wouldn't work.
I have like one I sing one song, and I
singing it well like there's only there's only one tempo,
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one speed, one volume. You know, I only can do
one thing. So and even if like I had a
joke that was like similar to somebody else's joke, and
like it was written from my it was purely written
for it never went on TV or anything, but just
somebody like suggested like, oh no, Lucy kas a joke
like that. I never did it. Yeah, and I never
(33:43):
put it on Netflix. I never went on TV. Just
I like I did it at the Laugh Factory and
like they would put comics on their website. Sometimes somebody
was like in the comments, was like, that reminds me
of this joke, and I was like, just the fact
that it reminds you of that joke, it's gone. It's
out of the repertoire.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Yeah, no, it's just like it's like but getting crushed
is like part of it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
It's like it's all it's all like I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Know, I just don't. I've known you for a while,
I didn't know any of that shit happened. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Oh my god, I have so many where I'm just
like crushed.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
The chips on the head is shitty.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Oh my god, I got, I got. When you're coming up,
you really get crushed.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Like the people that are successful are the people are
just willing to put up with all that crushing and
they don't get discouraged enough to quit. Dude, you just
can't give up, du you keep going.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
We would we would stay in the studio for like
a week at a time. I would fall asleep. I
remember I was I was falling asleep at the computer
and and and like and like they were throwing it
at me and they were like, dude, wake up. They're like,
we gotta keep going. And I was like I was like, like, dude,
one time I had to go to the hospital. I
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was so sick and exhausted.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
And exhaustion like the medical term, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
I had actual I had like actual fatigue. And they had, dude,
they had to. Like the people I was working with,
they had me on a on like a schedule and
like a thing that would ring, and it would be
like you gotta go to bed now, Benny, like to
get me like back to like life, like dude, we
were working like I was working like like sixty hours straight.
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But like that shit like makes you.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
That ship made totally, totally absolutely. I was so broke
when I started doing comedy, I was homeless. I would
sleep in the park. There's this little park called Saint
Barton's Park. I would ask I go on stage at
open mics, do my set, try to make everybody laugh,
and then ask audience members if I could sleep over
their house? Did they say yeah? Sometimes I would. I
would add like tooth brushes all over the city. I
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would like crash at different people's houses. I would sleep
outside crazy. I would eat like one dollar microwave Indian
food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner because there was the
cheapest thing in the order. When this is like this
is like just just.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
After you're just like taking it off.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I had like patch work.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Yeah no, dude, it's.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Like, dude, we're bombing, like like everyone's bombing.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
First.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
It doesn't end. Bombing doesn't really constantly, it doesn't end. Yeah,
your failures will never end, you.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Know how often? Like I feel like but nobody knows,
like everyone's just like, dude, you make like every big
song wor you know, how many songs I have to
just like completely.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
And the crazy thing is I'll be like I'll be.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Like this shit's gonna be the fucking best ever, and
that just like fails and I'm like, oh well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I'm like storrty again.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
And I just like I just like, won't I refuse
to quit? Yeah, I don't give a fuck. I'll fail
every day. I don't give two ships that I care successful.
I'm like, I'm shameless than that, Like I don't care
about failure at all. Yeah, Like it's like, do you
care about failure? Does it crush you?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I've had it crush me before? Does it when I
go up? I bombed on stage the other night doing
stand up, not last night, but last week, and it
used to crush me. And now I just look at
my jokes like totally objectively. I'll just be like all right,
I'm gonna do this, this, this, this. And I went
up on stage and I had my notes with me
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and I was just like, but da da da dah.
I did one joke it went well. Then I was like, great,
that joke works. And then I was like blah blahuh
crickets And I was like that joke mads work, and
then I was like, but da da da, Okay, that
joke still got some fucking gas in it. Now it's
like just objective, like I don't take it personally. I'm
just like uh huhh. And then I'll go back and
I'll listen to the voice memo and I'll be like, oh, yeah,
I stuttered over that word, and I was like, Oh,
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that's too harsh for the audience's ears. I should reorder that.
I just look at it completely objectively.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
What if you make like a movie and it just bombed,
soul crushing show soul crushing.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I've only made one movie and it did well, but
it didn't make any money. So I did it? Did
it bombed and did well simultaneously?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Do you read like reviews?
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Like if somebody said, like a bad review about the
Eric Andre Show, are you crushed?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
What we did for Netflix? We took all the bad
reviews and we put it as part of the marketing.
So it's like, this movie's disgusting New York Times. Yeah,
this movie's fucking written by children New York But whatever,
you know what I mean? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Sometimes
I'll tell my publicists like, don't send me the bad reviews.
I'm not I'm not in.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Would your public send you the bad review all the time,
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
He'll go, he'll go, and he has him in order.
It'll be like great, overwhelmingly great, good, medium, mixed, unfavorable, brutal.
They'll have them online and you go.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
You go right for the brute.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
You used to go right for the brutal. Now I
started protecting myself against that stuff early on. It depends.
It depends like when the when something first comes out,
that's when you're the most sensitive. And then with time
you can stomach the bad reviews. But some of the
bad reviews are good for you. You want to look
at like all the negative feedback and see where there's
commonalities and take that as a note, be like, you
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know what, we shouldn't do a scene like that again. Yeah,
so it's not all about it's not all a bit.
The best. The best was the New York Times reviewer
rips us a new asshole. That's tough because the Times
you want the Times for it's good for bad trip.
Then the New York Times Sunday section came back for
like whatever lifestyle or whatever and gave us like the
(39:02):
best review. Ever, so it was like, oh, there's inner
New York Times turmoil. And it was like such a
victory because it's like the Sunday section they don't need
to report on. It wasn't like a movie reviewer. It
was like just like lifestyle and whatever the fuck and
he gave us a fucking awesome review and it was
such a fucking victory.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
It was like, hell, yes, yet, like.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
The New York Times, I don't even want that shit.
That's a shit your printing frame, you know.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Of course, my mom, like my mom actually thinks I'm thought.
I was like nothing until I was like a backup
on sn now. One time she's like, dude, one time, Oh, actually,
I have a good one. One time I'm playing a
show and uh, we're on stage and it's front of
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like twenty thousand people, okay, and it's with the band
and I'm they're all playing and I'm controlling all of
the music. So like so like you know, how like
people played a track and like and I I mean
controlling the entire thing. And I have like a real
computer that's like it's like plugg dan and stuff. And
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this guy is like playing a guitar. He's so fucked up,
and he's like and he's like and then knocks out
my plug and the computer shuts out, and they're like
just like because there's no track. And then I'm like
fuck and it's like we're completely empty. And then I
go to plug it back in and we're at like
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a vestival and it literally when the computer turns on.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
It was like it was.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
So sick when it happened, but it was like, but yeah,
it's like three oh three at the time, it was
at Warped tour headline.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Like just like fucked we just fucked it off.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
Like it's just like, yeah, I'm just like, dude, we're
getting like crushed every day. Every his crush every day
is just like a full, a full like just melt down,
just like I'm I'm like melting down and having the
time of my life at all time. Like you know,
when you look at like in music.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
What you got to lose, you gotta do it, You
gotta try try and.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
Fail comedies like this, Like but like I can, depending
on like a day, like I can like look at
myself and just be like, dude, this is the best
album like I've ever made. And then like the next day,
I can just be like this drash, like my career
is so.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Totally like and it's just like I'll write a joke.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
And I'll be like, I'm a fucking genius. Yeah, I
wrote the best joke in the world, and then I
will say it on stage and it will bomb horribly.
I'm like, I'm a fucking asshole. I'm a loser. This joke.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Fuck this joke?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Did I say as a genius? I met up a
fucking loser.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
Yeah? What's your biggest bomb? Have you said it on
the pod a million times?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I like bombed opening up for Chris Rock. You know what,
there's so many bombs in the beginning, That's what I'm
saying that. It's like, it's kind of like when you
were like, yeah, yeah, I got beat up at a
freestyle wrap. It's like, yeah, yeah, I got a bottle
thrown at me and a knife full out of him.
I'm like, it's kind of all the blur to me.
It's like, yeah, it's like another day at the office.
So you're just bombing at all times, Ladies and gentlemen.
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Benny Blanco, Bye.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
With eric Andre.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
It's Eric Andrey and guess what, You're having an acid flashback.
That's right, you are flashing back right now to a
favorite past episode of bombing. This one's with music producer
Benny Blanco, whose new album I Said I Love You
First with Selena Govez is out. Now. Make sure you
stream that shit because I told him personally I would
get it to number one top of the charts. But first,
have a nice trip down memory lane and enjoy my
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conversation with Benny last year about bombing in the music industry.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Love you lots, bombing, bombing with Eric Andre.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So that is your biggest bomb or some bombing stories.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I have so many?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I know you get You're like auto pilot.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Okay, okay, let it roop, Okay, okay, a few one
of them. It's like I'm like eighteen years old. We're
like on I'm we're like performing for the first time.
I'm like getting like free drink. I'm getting blacked out
every time because I never had like I've only had
like like you drink like out of someone's like your
pan Karan's like liquor cabin. It has like a quarter
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of a bottle of Triple Sex from like six years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, it's like disgusting.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You have like you guys Split One Mad Dog, except
with like eight people special.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's disgusting, disgusting.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
So like finally I'm like getting alcohol. I'm playing with
spank Rock Amanda Blank, I'm at this like fader thing
and it's like this is so yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We're like the kid.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Did you ever go to college?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Not a day? No No.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I went to an audio engineering school for like four
months but dropped out. And I'm the only one of
my everyone to college except me and the family.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So I'm like, so.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I remember, I'm I'm at the show and I'm getting
like fully blacked out, like like like so drunk, and
I remember I start daching and I was like I
didn't have like I didn't have money like that, so
I literally would bring I didn't have a laptop, so
I bring an iMac to the club, like.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
A big purple plastic like a huge GiMA to the club,
and I would like and I was so bad.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah, it was crazy, And I was so bad at
DJAN And basically I'm with one of my friends and
we're like so hyped and we're like dancing and stuff
and basically like I accidentally turned the bpm so like
for people who don't know what that is, like, I
made the song incredibly fast, like like one hundred bpm sward.
So it was like so before it was like and
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then was like and I was like and and I
couldn't stop it because my friend spilled a drink all
over the keyboard, the laptop or the fucking computer, whatever
the fuck it is. The So so I'm sitting there
and it's so fast and like name spank rock here
is like thinging and they all just went along with
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it so like and they like did it and nobody
even noticed, and they were so mad.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You were rapping and Amanda was a game. And then
and they were wrapping.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
And it was like it was during my DJ said,
they like came out and like did a special thing.
Basically that night, I get so wasted. I get so
unbelievably wasted that they kicked me out. Okay, Home, Sweet Home.
It's called in New York.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
You know it's like near Christy Street. Yeah, you have
to like go down yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah yeah I remember that spot.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
So we're I'm actually confusing two nights this is one
one of whatever who.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Gives nobody it's the same.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It also could be the same night for this story.
It'll be the same night.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
And I remember I I they they actually, you know
when someone's like, oh, they threw me out of the bar,
They actually picked me up. That I was so belligerent
while I was ejing that two men picked me up
and they threw me into guard And I remember at
the time, I was getting paid three hundred dollars, okay,
and it's like the most embarrassing thing. They throw me
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in the garbage and then the guy takes out not
even like three like nights, he crumpled three hundred dollar
bills and throws them. So they throw them at me
on the ground. I'm black, Did you dude to deserve that?
I was probably being an idiot.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
In what sense?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It was probably just so drunk, like spilling stuff, like
being an idiot. So I'm out there and I remember
like standing up and like looking at my friends and
they were out there and I.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Was like, I hate you.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I was like, fuck you, And I like looked at
my I was like I hate you, like and I
was just like I was just like I gone off
the rails. I went fully, fully off.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
The rails, eighteen year old Penny.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That was like the throw your friends your only out.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, but that's what you do when you're eighteen.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Oh my god, I have so.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Many Okay, tell me some more bombing stories.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So okay, so first, this is like the opposite of
a bomb.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I'm playing poker one night and like, my friend's mom
puts me on her Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Then she calls me the next day and she's like, yo,
my son's best friend. You're his biggest influence in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You have to.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Let him come like intern for you. I was like,
I don't need another intern, and they were.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Like please, and I was like all right, fine.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
So like I meet this kid, this kid's fifteen years old,
and he's like, I got a intern for you, and
I'm like all right. Like he was just like a
sweet kid, and I was like intern for me, and
I was like, all right, I'm in New York and
I was like, but I'm building a studio in LA.
You got to just build the studio and I'll be
out in like a few months. And then he was
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like he was like all right, so did.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You give up a budget.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, we did the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh okay, build your own mind chop.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So basically his kid starts working for me and then
like he eventually like is about to graduate high school
and like he's in like his last semester and I'm like, yo,
I'm going on the road with Ed Sheeran. Do you
want to come and like learn? And he's like yes,
And then like eventually I'm like he's in college and
I'm like, yo, we're going on tour with this person.
Do you want to come, like like see how it's
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all done?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
And he's like working his way up, never even tells
me he makes music, and then one day he like
sits me down and he's just like dude. When he's
like nineteen, he's like, dude. My therapist said, if I
don't play you my music, then like I just like
he won't work with me anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
And I was like, yeah, of course man me, no, no, no, no,
he played me his music.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Yeah, I'm like, yeah, no, he plays me as music
and it's bad. Yeah okay, but like I see something
in the kid somehow. Fast forward like a year or two,
I sign him and then he's the actual biggest producer
in the world right now. He literally just one Song
of the Year at the Grammy's. He's like the biggest
producer in the world. And he's he've been working with
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me since Blake.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, Blake. Now, okay, you want to hear a funny
Blake story.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's a bomb.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Okay, great, this is a bomb of a story.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Wait, so you met Blake because your friend's mom was
just like, hey, I got to put you on my Instagram.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And she just put me on Instagram in a poker
game and he was like, who the fuck is it?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
How do you know?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Benny, Like he had no idea and that it was
just like a random thing. Whoa, Yeah, it was so random.
So okay, So okay, Blake. It's his first day. I'm like,
finally in La. He's been working for me for like
eight months, hasn't done anything. He's like cleaning toilets. Everything,
his life sucks.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
He finally walks in I'm in LA and I'm like, yo,
we're going to a studio. Okay, We're gonna work with
the weekend. And he was just like holy shit, He's
like what the fuck. He's like this is what I've
been waiting for. He's losing his mind. So the Weekend
comes in and I'm like, Blake, like just be cool,
and he's like, okay, cool. We're in the session. Literally
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fifteen minutes into the session. We're in a room like
this small, and we're like me in the Weekend, are
like going back and forth and we're like singing stuff,
we're playing beats, and all of a sudden, he takes
his phone out to try to take like a sneak
no and it goes like it goes and it flashes,
and he literally Blake doesn't know what to do, so
he goes like this, He goes and he throws his
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phone and just like leaves the room and just like
doesn't know what to do. Like the weekend doesn't notice,
and it's like all good, but he was so embarrassed
he left the room and did not come back for
the rest of the session.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
But Blake bomb with Aericdre. With Aericdre, who's the worst,
Who's the one?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Basically it's like the first time I work with Diddy,
and I'm like so excited.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I'm like, oh my god, this guy's like my hero.
Like it's like he's a full legend, and I get there.
He lives up to everything.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
He's like in the thing he's getting like his haircut,
he's directing a music video. He's like someone's like doing
stuff with his toes, Like it's like all that stuff
for Instagram and stuff is so real.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
He's like he was like he was like it was crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
There was like somebody he had like a bottle of
champagne that he was like deciding whether it was gonna
be like the new logo, like so many things are
happening at once, and then he's like I get in
there and he's like you always like you know, I
just got back from fucking Paris, Like I'm in France,
I'm in all these different places, like I want to
make that like fucking like disco shit, like the record's
spinning and there's fucking cocaine and when it comes to
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your turn, you just got to snort it right up.
He's like, I want to make that good shit. And
I was like, oh okay, so like uh, like what
do you think like something like more like daft punk
or like craft work, And he's like looked at me.
He was like they shut the fuck up and I
was like, and he's like, stop trying to confuse me.
And I was like, oh, I was like okay. I
was like I'm sorry, and then like and then there
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was like two people. I remember there was these There
was like his assistant and then someone else's assistant and
they were like and he was like, I bet you
my assistants faster than yours to like the other person.
And then they were like he was there was like
and you like yeah, and they were like both yelling
for their assistant and like didesus isn't actually came like
later and he was like you're fired.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Just like.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
One time.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
I was like, Kanye used to have this like warehouse. Okay,
it's like insane warehouse. And we like after church, his
like uh Sunday services, which actually were like incredible. They
were so sick, Like did you ever go to one? No,
they were they were amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
They were like allergic to religion.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
No, it wasn't religion. It was just like sick.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
You're watching like a Kanye show and it's like and
everything he did was like so amazing, Like he was
my hero growing up. So like we're like at one
of his things. I hope we don't lift this. This
one's so good.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We were we were.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
We went back to like his like facility. He had
like a factory, and like you walked in and like
we were like with one of my friends and we were.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
This story's crazy. We were.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
We're like, okay, So we walk into Kanye's factory and
we're like walking around and we walk into my friends
like little studio and we're just like waiting for Kanye
to show up.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And I like I walk.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Into one room and and it's like all of his
like easy stuff and all the samples, and it all
like looks so cool.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's all like set up in the coolest way.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
There's like mood boards everywhere, and I'm like this is amazing,
and I'm like touching all the fabrics. And then like
I walk into another room and it's like the coolest
room you've ever seen with just like with just like
shoes and like men in like lab coats like making
shoes and that are like seventy and I'm like yeah,
I'm like, I'm like holy shit. And then I go
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into another room and there's like one of those like
big dry erase boards. And this was a while ago,
and it says like.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
How to make Kanye West a billionaire?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And it was and it was like had like allays,
like a count information, like everything on a thing, and
I was like, we're definitely not supposed to be in here.
And they have like like all these different ways to
make him like a billionaire and I was like, oh shit.
So then we like walk out and we walk into
this other room and it's him and he's having like
a full meeting with like people, and he has a
screen that's bigger than this room.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
It's like this wrap around screen.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
It's like twenty feet tall with like and it has
like a computer on it and they're like looking at
it like a website. And it has this thing where
you like press the clothes and like drag them and
then it's like a woman like in the clothes and
she's moving around and then like a man. And I'm
there with my girlfriend at the time, and I remember
I remember like yeah's in there, and we're like it's
like a few of us, and we're like, oh, I'm sorry,
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we didn't we didn't mean to come in here. And
he's like, no, no, come in and we're like okay.
He's like and he's like my girl at the time.
He's like, he's like, what do you think about these clothes?
And she's like, uh, She's like they're they're amazing, They're
so cool. And he's like, go press the button, go
like try it on, like it like like you can
press a button and we'll make it all try on
and she was like okay, oh sick.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So she like goes up the.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Screen is like three thirty foot screens, like it's insane,
and she like goes to like click one and you
know how like if you like swipe a mouse like
down to the bottom of the screen, like it like.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Puts the computer in sleep mode. It literally just goes
like this goes and like we're.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
In a room full of darkness like with all these
people and we're like and she's like losing her mind.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And then like someone's like, hey, do you know the password?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And like uh, Cone is like, oh, let me try
and do like types and it's like it's like doesn't work.
And then he like tries another one it's like and
it just like doesn't work. And then like finally like
one of my friends just writes like password in it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Everything shines back up and hacked all don't know, and.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
It was like and then he like he goes like
this she like she like is still standing by the thing,
and he's.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Like maybe maybe I'll do the next one. And then
it's just like she's like a full like walk.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That's like a moment.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's like a bomb that that's a bomb. That's a bomb.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
My favorite is when when whenever, like you're with someone
and like like one time I was, I was with
my friend and we were like outside of a party
and we couldn't get into this party, and like do
you know how you have some of those friends that
are just like they're shameless, they'll do anything like and
we were like outside of this party, we weren't getting in.
This was like ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We're probably not gonna be able to use his name,
but we can use this story.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
So he's like we're like outside of this like New
Year's party, and we're like there's no way we're getting
it in. It's like watch them, like Brad Pitt walk in,
like everyone's walking in, and then we have another good
story a bomb. So we're watching like Brad Pitt walk
in and then he literally sees Andy Garcia walking by
the actor the big actor.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
So we see like Andy Garcia like, oh, he's like,
I'm good friends.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
He goes I'm friends with him, and.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I go with your friends with Andy Garcia and he
goes yeah, and he goes up to him and he
goes hey, Andy, and Andy goes like this.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
He's like, he's like remember me.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
And then he's like, I said, first of all, if
you have to start a sentence, you're not friends with that.
And then like and then like he literally goes like
it's like right in front of the bouncer and he's like,
remember we had like dinner like two weeks ago. And
then he's like you remember like I was with like
I was with no one Gary. And then he was
like yeah, and then he was like could you help
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us get in? And he's like he's like he's like
a many Garcia, what am I gonna do? You think
I'm gonna get you in? I'll be able to get
you in.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And then he's like he's like, come on, just try
and then like he just goes to the bouncer. He's like,
you let these guys in. And then guy's.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Like but so it wasn't a bomb.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
But it was such a bomb.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, it was such a bah.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Just much more satisfy.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
With Aridre.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
With Aridre, have you ever been beat up before? You've
ever been in a fight or you have been.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
In so many?
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Really?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
When that's not a bomb?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, it's like about failure. It's not about bombing. It's
just about fucking the trials and tribulation of life.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
What's what's a when you think of like the biggest failure,
you try to black those out.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, but it makes you likable, it makes you endearing.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm trying, it makes you relatable.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
About like when did you get beat up?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
My god?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So many?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Why?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
What what are you talking when? Where?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
What do you I used to go to freestyle battles.
I would just like win and then they just beat.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Me up, like I really like a guy like name one,
like a guy punched you in the face.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I used to get beat up all the time. That's
not even a good bomb. Let me think, is I'm good?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
That's great? What are you talking about? You're sitting on gold.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You go to freestyle wrap battles and win, You're great
at freestyle rapping.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I mean I was. I don't think I'm great anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Really, what would you rap about?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
I don't I don't know. That was like thirteen, there
was thirty, it was twenty something years ago.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And then guys would beat you up when you won.
So you would go to a rap competition and be
like rap out a rap, rap rap, and then.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Just just jump me when I left.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I don't know the guy's name.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Why why you couldn't care less? Like because this is
like grocery food shopping.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
This isn't good. This isn't good. This is a bad bomb.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
This is you.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
No, no, I want like a good failure.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Let me think of like this is this thing?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
No no, no, like like a like a big one,
like a a better story. Yeah, let me let me
think of a big one. Okay, this is how I
got into that. This is like my first thing to
get really into the music business. And it's like a
bomb for like six months.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I used to do this thing where I would go
on my Space and I would direct message every single
person in the world like I could know and like
just like be relentless. And there was this guy. He
was one of my favorite producers. His name was Disco
d Okay, and I messed, what.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Is he famous for?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
He did, like he created a type of music called
ghetto tech. It's like Detroit yeah, so he's one of
the yeah yeah yeah, those are all him so so
basically it's so crazy. So like he just had like
a whole ghetto tech. So he was like one of
the creators of ghetto tech. And then he also produced
like amazing like some of my favorite like fifty cent songs.
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Like he was like he was the first person I
ever met. He was the first parton. He introduced me
to spank Rock. He was working with spank Crock. He
was working with most deaf he was working with working with.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
He didn't invented ghetto he was.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
One of one of the guys.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
There's like one of the Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
So basically I used to d M him every day
and he would never answer. And then I saw that
he had a studio time available, and I said, how
did you figure that out? I just saw he had
an ad on on his MySpace for studio time and
I was like, hey, I want to book out the
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studio for a day, and he was like, for sure,
come up here. So I came up, and when I
got to New York, I was living in Virginia at
the time I drove up. When I got to New York,
I didn't drive. Me and my friends, which dude, we
would do the craziest things. I didn't have anywhere to stay,
so we would go. I would go up for meetings.
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These are yeah, this is the bomb shit. I would
go up for meetings every single weekend. And I would
go on a Friday, and I would skip some of
school so I could get there in time for like
the last meeting. And after that, we didn't have anywhere
to stay. We didn't have any money, So me and
all my friends we would sleep in the McDonald's in
Times Square and we would take turns sleeping, and like
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one person would stay awake and then one person would sleep. Yeah,
and we used to just like we to dude, we
used to sleep. We used to sleep in Hoboken Station
because like the cops wouldn't come there, and like we
would all we'd sleep in a car and like one
person would stay awake and we would do all the
ship and it was me and like a few of
my friends, and sometimes like you'd go, I'd go like
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all the way there and and like the meeting, they'd
be like, ah, sorry, can't make it like and I'd
be like, fuck, I drove all the way here.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So we'd have to like try to figure out something
we could do.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
But basically one of the times, I like go in
with Disco Deep and I get there and I'm like, dude,
I don't want studio time.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I had to get through to you.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I really think I could be like the best producer
in the world. I think like you could help me,
I think. And he was so angry. He was like,
you're wasting my fucking time. And I was like, dude, please,
I'll do anything. And he said okay. He said, I
literally am leaving tomorrow. I'm gone for two days. If
you can book my studio for the two days you
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have a job, you can be my intern. And I said, yeah,
of course I can book the studio. It was like no, dude,
it was like six hundred dollars a day, so I
and we didn't have money. I called every person I
know and I was like, please, I'll pay you back.
I'll do anything, like and I had. I got it
booked somehow. I booked the studio the whole time, and
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I put in, I put in there was like a
few extra hours, and I put in two hundred of
my own dollars and I had no money. Yeah, like
and he was like, all right, you did it. He
was like, I'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
How did you Who did you book? How did you get?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Just any person I knew?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Who?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Who?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I knew a few people in New York I knew
like these like bad local rappers, and I would be like, Okay,
you come for two hours and then like I'd be like, dude,
I'll give you a deal, and I'd like and I
just was like I finagled. Like it was like I
made like I got like eleven hundred dollars or something
in two days. And I like I did it by
like everyone I knew and like a few of my
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friends from Virginia. I was like, dude, please, just like
I'll find a way to get you back, like and
I just made it happen.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Was he like renting? I don't really understand. It was
just like it was just like your rent studio time,
like you can out of his studio, like you can
rent a really, have.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You ever been to a studio?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Oh, you've never been to recordings.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I'm not in music.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Oh okay, so so like so quit when I graduate
when I was twenty so basically playing classical music. Recording
studios ye are are rented hourly or by the day,
and and it's just like a rate. It's like a
fixed rate. And he had a studio and when he
wasn't using it, he would rent it out, okay, And
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I rented it the whole time. And he was like, great,
come back next weekend. And I was like, I have
no money. How am I going to get back? And
then he was like you can stay. He was like,
every time you're in New York, you can stay at
my place. And I was like, okay, so at least
I have a place to stay now. The time I
started doing that, sixteen, I sixteen about I started doing it.
I would travel back and forth every weekend.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Sixteen long of a drive was four and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You tried.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
I used to take the funk Wa bus y. Yeah, yeah, dude.
It used to be twenty dollars round trade.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
It was like, oh, take it at three thirty am,
and it was like it was like four bucks it was.
And they had like shrimp on the bottom of it
broke down.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh my god. Yeah, I was on it was insane.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's it would like it would like sometimes it would
just smell like trash the time, but it was like
it was like heaven to me.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I loved it and I would get back like just
in time for.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You were just close enough to New York City to
like really start you get to see it start entertainment,
I start. Yeah, I think like I was.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
In Jersey and New York City.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That's smart that you were like in the proximity.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, it was like it was just close enough and
like so then when I would go, I.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Think that's half the battle, just being in the place
where it's happening, dude.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
So it's so I remember one time I'm there, okay,
I'm I'm eighteen now, and he's like, yo, I got
some important sessions coming through. It was like t I
was there first and then afterwards it was it was
it was spank rock and he was like, I got
this guy coming in. He was like, whatever he wants.
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You're his studio assistant, you're his bitch, you do whatever
he wants. I was like, okay, So like it's in
Williamsburg the studio and it's like two thousand and six
and he walks in and he's like, oh, I'm kind
of hungry, and he was like, can you order me
this thing? So I ordered him this thing from this
place called any Time. It's not even there anymore. So
like I'm in the session and I like bring him
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his food and he's like, hey, what do you think
about this? And he like wraps a thing to me,
this bankrack, and I'm like, oh man, that's so good.
And then like I'm working with him the next day.
The next day, same thing, bring him in his food
and he's like he's like, hey, he's like what rhymes
with like telephone or something. And I was like, oh, maybe,
well maybe telephone. I was like, beellphone. I was like telephone, telephone.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Telephone is such a hard one. So so I.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Like he like takes the line and then we start
like talking and like developing this like report.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But he was new too. He was like he was cool.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
He was like very cool, and it was like and
I didn't care.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
I only cared about cool shit because I was like
living in Williamsburg at the time, and it's like, you know,
this was like before Santi was even a thing, like
we put her on her first, like her first collaboration
was with us, and I remember like one night they
were like, Yo, we're gonna go back to the studio.
I need you to prepare the studio. So I took
the train, and the way that it worked back then
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is like from where I lived, I had to go
all the way in the city, then all the way
back to brook because I lived in Brooklyn too. There
was no like connector because the L train used to
like not connect to anything. So like I like went
all the way in the city, all the way to
his thing, and then he was like, actually, I need
you to bring this demo CD to me. He's like,
I'm actually gonna be with Diddy, and I was like fuck.
So I had to go all the way back then
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all the way there and he's like and then he
was like, we left, We're at the next place. You
got to meet us in the next place. So I'm like,
the fuck this is this is this is disco d
He's like, and I'm like fuck. So I like go
to the next place and then he's like gone from
the next place and he's like, dude, He's like meet
us to the next place, and I'm running in the
rain with the CD and I'm like and I I
finally get there and I'm like and he's like, dude,
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we went to another place.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Just meet us back at the studio. I'm crushed.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Why is with you or no?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's just like I'm too so and I'm like too
slow because I didn't have any money, so I was
like fuck it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, I was like, I got it.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I'm just gonna take a taxi for this last thing
and I'll just like eat less the next day.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
So I like take the taxi.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I get back, I'm like covered in rain and it's
like everyone's there.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's like most death is there.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You're locking every single person. Everything is a race. Everything
is a race. I'm sitting there and there's like models
and artists and it's like it's crazy. It's like this
was like the first time where I like saw like
I'm like whoa yeah, and I'm sitting there and I
remember all the girls and everyone were just like, oh
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my god, you're so wet, like like dry off and
and and spank Craft was like, oh man, it's good
to see you, like blah blah, and I'm like in
heaven and then like the guy just humiliates me that
disco deep, just like full humiliate amilia. First he was like,
go get us, go get us snacks. Okay, So I
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go downstairs. I bring him back and it was like
he was like, that's the wrong one. And he opens
up a bottle of a bag of potato chips and
pours him on my U in front of everyone. And
then like and then I'm like and he was like
and he was like and I like finally like walk
into the room and stuff, and he's like, no, you're
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not allowed in right now.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
He's like, you can't come in the room. And I'm like,
there's this little.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Samurai dude.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
There's this little window and I just can look in
the studio and I see everyone in there, like and.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'm like sitting outside.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
And then I remember the next day I saw he
was the best, but he was but he was he
was trouble. And the next day I came in and
I remember he was like, all right, play me your
beats because I think he felt bad. He was like
playing your beats and like playing my beats and he
literally takes all the files and deletes them at least
my whole hard drive and he's like these suck and.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
He was like start again as a monster. And he
goes start again, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
And then like and then another time another time he
took my hard drive and he threw it out the window,
and and and and and I was like crushed all
these because Psycho, I was crushed. And he would be
like but he would always tell me something. He'd be like, Okay,
this is why I deleted it all him. He was like,
I want you to watch me make a bet. And
I was like studying him because I was obsessed with
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this guy was so far ahead of his time, and
he was so good at dealing with artists and so
good at it.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
He actually I learned everything.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
I would never be who I am without knowing what
he did. Like really, if he was around for like
a little bit longer, he would have been like one
of the biggest producers. He was just like suicide. He
was he was he was like, was too far ahead
of his time, but like and he like he like
it was. It was really like karate kidship, but he
would like torture me like it was dude.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
One time, was he getting off on it or was.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I think he was just crazy. One time.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
One time, I was literally they had like a session
coming and he wanted to have like a really big
screen TV for the session, like for the as the computer.
And I remember I was setting it up and he
was like faster and he had a bamboo stick and
he was.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Hitting me with it and I was like, you're putting
it out. I was like, I wanted bombs. Here's my bombs.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And I was like and like I was just like crushed,
but like he would just give me these like nuggets
of gold like at all times, and like, honestly, like
a lot of the people that I work with today
are people that I met through those times. So it's
like so it's like I don't know if this is
supposed to be one of those things, but it's like
all the shit you're taking and all the stuff you're
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doing to build up your career and you think it's
not worth it, like that stuff comes back, like I'm
working with these people. I'm working with people I literally
met seventeen years ago, right seventeen eighteen years ago, and
I went through some shit and it's like, dude, I
went through so much much shit, you know how many times,
like I didn't get credit, Like I like made a
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whole song and got.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No credit stolen from you.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Oh my god, are you kidding me? Dude?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Horrendous dude.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
One time I had a number one song stolen from
no credit, one song, no credit, And I remember I
like went in I went into the manager of that
person's thing office and I was like and I was like,
they stole my song, and he was like, no, they didn't.
And then I opened up a laptop and I played
my version with a date stamp that was like before
the one they created. And then I remember like the
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manager was like hold on. He like closed the door
and he was like, let's just talk about this. And
then and then I remember I called the person who
stole it from me and I was like, hey man,
you you stole that thing like that was mine. I
did that like I did that, and he said, what
are you gonna do about it? And then he was
like he was like, he goes, I'll bury you in
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legal fees. He goes, you don't have any money to
fight this. He goes, just just take this one. Just
just just like gave me like a virtual pad on
the back. He was like, you just take this one,
You'll get the next one. Like, oh my god, do
you know how many Do you know how many times?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Yeah, but like but but all of those moments, like
that's why I like when I sign kids like it
makes it gives me like so much pleasure to like
to like give these guys like fair deals and like
and like to.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Put potato chips in their hair.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
No, no, but to like watch these dudes, Like I
have so many people that I signed that I watch them, like, dude,
I have like, well.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You're like you're like an abused child that gets to
like raise and.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
I didn't, yeah, and I didn't, like I didn't do that,
I like paid it forward. And it's like it's so
cool to like see that. So it's like all these
things that you have like when you're growing up, they
make you who you.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Are, right, Okay, but oh my god, you have to
you have to process that.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Kidding.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I have so much trauma, like this thing could Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
When when I was I honestly like one when when
I was like twenty something and I like start like
twenty one and I started getting like so much success
to started making money for the first time. I didn't
know what to do. I lost my mind. I lost
my crazy. I lost my mind. I like didn't leave
the house for like six months. I was like gore phobic,
Like I like, dude, I literally lost my mind eggs
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and I and I had to see. I had to see,
Like I saw a therapist like three times a week,
and he like built me back and then like and
then I came back like better than ever.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Lost your mind doing drugs or lost line And just.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Like it was all too much. There was too much pressure,
too much, drivers much money, too much. Like I just
like didn't I didn't understand, Like I wasn't built like that.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
I'd never seen any of this shit.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Yeah, I didn't know song stealing was so yeah, it
goes right all that shit that's fucked up. Yeah, And
like because like joke thievery and comedy is so taboo
and all comics will snitch on you if you steal
a joke, Like comics are looking out for each other
with joke thievery. Comics are looking out for.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Each other with that you ever steal a joke?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Never, no, never, I have like one type of comedy.
My comedic creative choices are so idiosyncratic. And specific if
I even if I stole a joke, it wouldn't work.
I have like one I sing one song, and I
singing it well like there's only there's only one tempo,
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one speed, one volume. You know, I only can do
one thing. So and even if like I had a
joke that was like similar to somebody else's joke, and
like it was written from my it was purely written
for it never went on TV or anything, but just
somebody like suggested like, oh no, Lucy kas a joke
like that. I never did it. Yeah, and I never
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put it on Netflix. I never went on TV. Just
I like I did it at the Laugh Factory and
like they would put comics on their website. Sometimes somebody
was like in the comments, was like, that reminds me
of this joke, and I was like, just the fact
that it reminds you of that joke, it's gone. It's
out of the repertoire.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Yeah, no, it's just like it's like but getting crushed
is like part of it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
It's like it's all it's all like I don't.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Know, I just don't. I've known you for a while,
I didn't know any of that shit happened. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Oh my god, I have so many where I'm just
like crushed.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
The chips on the head is shitty.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Oh my god, I got, I got. When you're coming up,
you really get crushed.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Like the people that are successful are the people are
just willing to put up with all that crushing and
they don't get discouraged enough to quit. Dude, you just
can't give up, du you keep going.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
We would we would stay in the studio for like
a week at a time. I would fall asleep. I
remember I was I was falling asleep at the computer
and and and like and like they were throwing it
at me and they were like, dude, wake up. They're like,
we gotta keep going. And I was like I was like, like, dude,
one time I had to go to the hospital. I
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was so sick and exhausted.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
And exhaustion like the medical term, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
I had actual I had like actual fatigue. And they had, dude,
they had to. Like the people I was working with,
they had me on a on like a schedule and
like a thing that would ring, and it would be
like you gotta go to bed now, Benny, like to
get me like back to like life, like dude, we
were working like I was working like like sixty hours straight.
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But like that shit like makes you.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
That ship made totally, totally absolutely. I was so broke
when I started doing comedy, I was homeless. I would
sleep in the park. There's this little park called Saint
Barton's Park. I would ask I go on stage at
open mics, do my set, try to make everybody laugh,
and then ask audience members if I could sleep over
their house? Did they say yeah? Sometimes I would. I
would add like tooth brushes all over the city. I
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would like crash at different people's houses. I would sleep
outside crazy. I would eat like one dollar microwave Indian
food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner because there was the
cheapest thing in the order. When this is like this
is like just just.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
After you're just like taking it off.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I had like patch work.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Yeah no, dude, it's.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Like, dude, we're bombing, like like everyone's bombing.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
First.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
It doesn't end. Bombing doesn't really constantly, it doesn't end. Yeah,
your failures will never end, you.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Know how often? Like I feel like but nobody knows,
like everyone's just like, dude, you make like every big
song wor you know, how many songs I have to
just like completely.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
And the crazy thing is I'll be like I'll be.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Like this shit's gonna be the fucking best ever, and
that just like fails and I'm like, oh well, yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I'm like storrty again.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
And I just like I just like, won't I refuse
to quit? Yeah, I don't give a fuck. I'll fail
every day. I don't give two ships that I care successful.
I'm like, I'm shameless than that, Like I don't care
about failure at all. Yeah, Like it's like, do you
care about failure? Does it crush you?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I've had it crush me before? Does it when I
go up? I bombed on stage the other night doing
stand up, not last night, but last week, and it
used to crush me. And now I just look at
my jokes like totally objectively. I'll just be like all right,
I'm gonna do this, this, this, this. And I went
up on stage and I had my notes with me
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and I was just like, but da da da dah.
I did one joke it went well. Then I was like, great,
that joke works. And then I was like blah blahuh
crickets And I was like that joke mads work, and
then I was like, but da da da, Okay, that
joke still got some fucking gas in it. Now it's
like just objective, like I don't take it personally. I'm
just like uh huhh. And then I'll go back and
I'll listen to the voice memo and I'll be like, oh, yeah,
I stuttered over that word, and I was like, Oh,
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that's too harsh for the audience's ears. I should reorder that.
I just look at it completely objectively.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
What if you make like a movie and it just bombed,
soul crushing show soul crushing.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I've only made one movie and it did well, but
it didn't make any money. So I did it? Did
it bombed and did well simultaneously?
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Do you read like reviews?
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Like if somebody said, like a bad review about the
Eric Andre Show, are you crushed?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
What we did for Netflix? We took all the bad
reviews and we put it as part of the marketing.
So it's like, this movie's disgusting New York Times. Yeah,
this movie's fucking written by children New York But whatever,
you know what I mean? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Sometimes
I'll tell my publicists like, don't send me the bad reviews.
I'm not I'm not in.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Would your public send you the bad review all the time,
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
He'll go, he'll go, and he has him in order.
It'll be like great, overwhelmingly great, good, medium, mixed, unfavorable, brutal.
They'll have them online and you go.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
You go right for the brute.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
You used to go right for the brutal. Now I
started protecting myself against that stuff early on. It depends.
It depends like when the when something first comes out,
that's when you're the most sensitive. And then with time
you can stomach the bad reviews. But some of the
bad reviews are good for you. You want to look
at like all the negative feedback and see where there's
commonalities and take that as a note, be like, you
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know what, we shouldn't do a scene like that again. Yeah,
so it's not all about it's not all a bit.
The best. The best was the New York Times reviewer
rips us a new asshole. That's tough because the Times
you want the Times for it's good for bad trip.
Then the New York Times Sunday section came back for
like whatever lifestyle or whatever and gave us like the
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best review. Ever, so it was like, oh, there's inner
New York Times turmoil. And it was like such a
victory because it's like the Sunday section they don't need
to report on. It wasn't like a movie reviewer. It
was like just like lifestyle and whatever the fuck and
he gave us a fucking awesome review and it was
such a fucking victory.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
It was like, hell, yes, yet, like.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
The New York Times, I don't even want that shit.
That's a shit your printing frame, you know.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Of course, my mom, like my mom actually thinks I'm thought.
I was like nothing until I was like a backup
on sn now. One time she's like, dude, one time, Oh, actually,
I have a good one. One time I'm playing a
show and uh, we're on stage and it's front of
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like twenty thousand people, okay, and it's with the band
and I'm they're all playing and I'm controlling all of
the music. So like so like you know, how like
people played a track and like and I I mean
controlling the entire thing. And I have like a real
computer that's like it's like plugg dan and stuff. And
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this guy is like playing a guitar. He's so fucked up,
and he's like and he's like and then knocks out
my plug and the computer shuts out, and they're like
just like because there's no track. And then I'm like
fuck and it's like we're completely empty. And then I
go to plug it back in and we're at like
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a vestival and it literally when the computer turns on.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
It was like it was.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
So sick when it happened, but it was like, but yeah,
it's like three oh three at the time, it was
at Warped tour headline.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Like just like fucked we just fucked it off.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
Like it's just like, yeah, I'm just like, dude, we're
getting like crushed every day. Every his crush every day
is just like a full, a full like just melt down,
just like I'm I'm like melting down and having the
time of my life at all time. Like you know,
when you look at like in music.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
What you got to lose, you gotta do it, You
gotta try try and.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
Fail comedies like this, Like but like I can, depending
on like a day, like I can like look at
myself and just be like, dude, this is the best
album like I've ever made. And then like the next day,
I can just be like this drash, like my career
is so.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Totally like and it's just like I'll write a joke.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
And I'll be like, I'm a fucking genius. Yeah, I
wrote the best joke in the world, and then I
will say it on stage and it will bomb horribly.
I'm like, I'm a fucking asshole. I'm a loser. This joke.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Fuck this joke?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Did I say as a genius? I met up a
fucking loser.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
Yeah? What's your biggest bomb? Have you said it on
the pod a million times?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I like bombed opening up for Chris Rock. You know what,
there's so many bombs in the beginning, That's what I'm
saying that. It's like, it's kind of like when you
were like, yeah, yeah, I got beat up at a
freestyle wrap. It's like, yeah, yeah, I got a bottle
thrown at me and a knife full out of him.
I'm like, it's kind of all the blur to me.
It's like, yeah, it's like another day at the office.
So you're just bombing at all times, Ladies and gentlemen.
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Benny Blanco, Bye.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
With eric Andre.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Bombing with Eric Andre is brought to you by Will
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