Brandon T. Jackson On Upcoming Film 'Trap City,' Returning To Acting, Journey Of Faithfulness + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, it's way up and answer that.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, I'm sorry. We're doing so much right here.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Before the interview even started, it was like a pre
interview interview.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
It was.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
But my girl, Jasmine brand is here, of course, and
you brought two special guests with you. Say, okay, we
got Brandon T. Jackson here, whoa don't forget the tea exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And our guy Tell is back.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I gotta ask because Brandon and how both of you
guys have the Detroit connection with each other and you're
starring in the movie. That's how actually directed produced.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
All of the things.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Did y'all know each other before this project?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No? No, what happened was okay, so let's let's back
up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
We were talking about the whole break that I was
doing from Hollywood. I was, I was, I always wanted
to make my own films, and I tell had I
was driving now see Kayper Films. One of my best
friends in high school introduced me to Tell, and I
had this other film that I was pitching him, and
(01:14):
we started to make that film. But something happened with
partners whatever. So I got a hold of my guy,
one of my guys, it was this script and Tell.
Of course we rewrote it and got it all together,
and I was like, Yo, check out this trap city thing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We can shoot this for this, we can shoot it
twenty three day. Shoot. We got this, let's get it.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
So when I brought the script, when I brought the
script to Tell, he was like, he's like, Brandon, can
you pull this off?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I said, yeah, let's let's go, you know what I mean.
And then he believed in. He believed in the whole
journey and then we It was crazy because we had
to reach it.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It wasn't even really a I'll be honest, it wasn't
even really a script. It was like a bunch of
pay It was a great concept. And then when we
got together we just kind of like found the moments
and and and it's almost like Friday where people just
kind of improved a lot of stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And he like a sh of an outline kind of
how you wanted to go, but you guys were able
to have more space to Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
It was because it was like when we okay, honestly
and and Tell will tell you this. He's I'm gonna
tell im, I'm truthful with everything. This was probably the
hardest film I ever made in my life.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You gotta tell the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
This was the hardest film we I mean to the
point where Clift and Power on one scene.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Amazing, you know how you look all laid back.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We had him for two days.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Two days I know that we were sure we were
going because he was doing a play, so we had
to fly him in. He takes taling because he's had
a headed headache. He accidentally takes Tyland a p m.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Oh my goodness, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Instead of that knocks me out, we're doing the same.
He's like, man, hold on good. I'm like you good.
It's like, think I took the wrong I took the
wrong time, and I said took a sleeping pill on
an accident.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
So when you see him in the scene like you
ain't no rapper, he looked like but he really sleeped you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But he was listen. It was like it was just
so many things that went wrong on the set and
that that it was.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It was just what did you guys found this in Detroit?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, we feel someone Detroit and some in Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Okay, but it was the challenges of of.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Because Jez is in it too, so he got Jeezy.
He gotje Z in the film.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
The film was actually it's the magic behind it because
we were already editing going to and he's like, we need,
we need to get Jeez.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
To play this other part with the pastor.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Which everyone calls him a pastor and you know obviously
past the je Z. Yeah, and so now y'all got
him in there for real as a pastor.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
He's great in it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
He sets off the movie don't my name that I love?
Speaker 7 (04:03):
He always sounds like a boogie man coming at you.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You know what I mean? Take it to the grades?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Do you want to hear this casting process? So tell
you got g Z. I mean Clifton Powers and Erica.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I called Erica. I called uh, I call everybody.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I would send it to Tale like tell yo, check
check check her out, check Erica out, check uh Clifton
owt yo and.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Tell it like, let's let's just do it. Man.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
When we saw the movie, he saw that there was
something missing and he's like, Yo, we need, we need,
we need to get a rapper in this.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I was like, tell I am a rapper.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He's like, no, we need a real rapper, a bathroom wrapper.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah that I'm not a real rapper. I'm a TV rapper.
I do soundtracks and that's it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I think backing up Angel So, I was doing other
movies before Rapsody. Then Brandon and I were hanging out
on the other movie, and that's how we got together.
So it's really the Detroit connection that got us into
Trap City. But of course the Trap Cody was shot
in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Use yeah, yes, Sam. I came to the set, and he.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Came to the set, he came to the premiere. He
supported that. Then he saw that we are doing certain
things in Detroit, and that's all he came.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But tell you gotta tell you, gotta tell this, You
gotta tell something.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
He got the perfect name. Tell you gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We've been to hell with this movie.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Can tell us some more.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I want to hear. They don't want to see us
make it. I'm serious. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
But it trap.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
It is really the story and the journey. It's almost
the same ourself were trapped in the making the movie.
Set back after set back. Then we got out of
the setback, and that's really the story of the film itself.
Anybody who gets, you know, get caught in the trap.
They have to get out and so so the tagline
is doing get caught in the trap, and that's what
(06:03):
we did. So we broke free and.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Free here what year did you guys start this start?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean, we gotta tell them the truth we started.
I gave him your telling today.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Because because Tell sometimes he keeps stuff in his challenge,
is very good at that. Like I'm like, man, hey, man, hey,
we trapped. Man's three in the morning. I call him
at three in the morning.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
With a whole look, what's the edit. Tail will be
like Brandon, I'm going to meditate. I'll have answers for
you in the morning.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I'm like, we gotta get these theaters. So tell a
call you with solutions. I'm the person that kind of
bring up the problem of what we need to do.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I like solutions.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I like solutions, very solution oriented person.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah, I do great creative solutions when we're talking about
technical see producers are it's different type of producers.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You got creative producers. You got different.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Tell is one of those guys that he won't he's
humbled with this, but he was like the five hundred
top businessman Detroit.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
He's on all the cover and all this stuffs.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
He knows how to get that. You know, he's humbled
with it, but he knows how to get that stuff done.
Where it's like the technical stuff me, I'm like, Yo,
let's let's let's make this soup, let's get this blah blah.
So when we have problems, I mean, we started this
movie in two thousand. I gave you the script of
twenty eighteen, which was pretty much nothing, and then twenty
nineteen we started shooting, and then COVID happened.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
They yeah, yeah, okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yeah, and then we was editing through COVID and then
it was just and then we had to reshoot Gzy stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It was just a bunch of it.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Was just Yeah, we shot GZ in twenty one twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
How much a budget did you guys?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Go? Probably times okay?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But and what made you say this should be in
theaters Because a lot of people are doing like direct
to streaming services deals. It feels like that's been lucrative.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But this is this the A list to be movie. Okay,
that's what.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
We love it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
To love it, this is I know exactly because you're
not gonna get Denzel Washington. You're gonna get Denzel Wasshington. Okay,
I'm telling you that eat evan falcon, not eatan hawk.
The thing is this would I love I tell you
not to give it coman But you know, really the
(08:24):
reason why I felt like, I feel like, why why
can't these type of films go to the theaters?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Because they can't.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I'm tired of look saying, like people marginalizing films that
have niche audiences like they did. They tried that with
Tyler Perry to try to do that with like a
lot of people in the faith based market or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I believe that this is a film that people can
come out and see because it's something that you wouldn't
expect to do amazing.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
See in the theater.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Right. And that's precisely why we pursue theaters, right because
you know.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
They said it cannot be screened in a theater.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
A shout out, no, no, no, no, get to get Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I mean, I mean, typically for an indie film and
an urban film, it's very hard to get them on
theaters and pay money to put them on the theater.
And and for us, we didn't pay any money. We
partnered with all the theaters thirty US cities, seventy theaters
for the Phase one. It's already we are already making
history from an indie movie, from an urban movie, right, Angela.
(09:34):
So that's what we did. And they said, hey, you
don't belong in this box. We said, we're gonna break
this box. Damn box away.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We the people say we can't do stuff. That's that's
that's one of our Like.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Our pet Peeves me and him called we were both short,
not like that, No we are.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We gotta tell yeah, yeah, five nine is short. I
can get a The five ten's.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
All for me, Like, I'm you know, yeah, we're sure.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
I mean five ten. I think it's cool for god.
Five we could work with that. You can get up there.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I got a little lift in your shoes.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
If I get the right shoe, I can get up
the level really quick.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Would you if you, if you weren't who you are,
would you get the surgery because you know the men
are getting the surgeon.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I might take don't even worry, I might take two
years off. For get that.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Just go ahead. Sorry, okay, so.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
No, no, on a real note, uh what we're saying.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But I feel like going to the movies is a
different type of experience than it used to be, you
know what I mean, because now I feel like I
can't go to a theater if I can't order a
drink from my seat.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah, it's a spoiled different.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Situation because it's not necessarily about the amount of seats
in the theater. It's more like the experience that you
have and how they're able to make money from you
doing extra add ons, not just the movie ticket.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's a little I think this culture is trapped culture.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
And in the city I'm from, I'm really uh from
a place where hood suburbs, right, and it's like the community.
Of course, my dad, you know, my dad's a pastor.
We were always in the community. And that's why I
left Hollywood, because I was trying to help the community.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And that's why when we were talking about whole nother
space talking before.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
This interview started, and I said, it was inevitable.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
For you to have the crazy moment.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
The crazy moment because I feel like being in Hollywood
doing what you do and the juxtaposition of having like
coming from a family of ministry.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, I was as always going to be like.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Your preacher's kids it's makes sense now.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I mean, but it just just not just just the
religious side of it, which you know, I love, but
I'm saying the more community side.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Like we was.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
We was always trying to my grandfather and his will.
He wanted to create so many which boys home houses
for people that been on drugs and things like that.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He wanted to you know, read like have the whole city.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
And your grandfather through some for Detroit.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Yeah, my grandfather's Detroit and my father you know, and
it's so hard these days. He got one block off,
you know what I mean, because there's so many politics
and so many things. So that same spirit got on me.
It's like it's time to go health the community. My
thing was, I was trying to see.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
If black people, our people could.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Really come together because I got tired of the I
got tired of the.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We can't do it every time we come together. I
hated that excuse, right, Yes, man.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I posted the other day like there was a post about,
you know, I think something about buying a home. Somebody
was like, I'd rather just rent. I don't want to
buy a house. So I had left a comment like,
you know, I learned about investing. When I bought my
first house, I bought a property that was a two families,
so I was able to help pay my mortgage and
that helped me get my second house. Somebody was in
the comments like you bougie now, and you people can't
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do that. Black people don't own homes like that, and
you know, get the f out of here. And I
was like, damn, but that's because I didn't come from money.
I had to really like scrimp and save to get
my first house and try to do things in this
smart way. And I was saying, how like, your first
house may not be your dream home, it may just
be a good investment. And that was just some advice
that I got when I bought my person and they
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was jealous. And this one person was going helf in
the comments like black people can't do that, and I
don't know, why are you trying to tell people to
do that just because you did it, because you bougie
and you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I was like, okay, here.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We go, and that's why I was like, damn, this
is my issue. You can't do it. We would giving us.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on technology that
could have aggregated our people and had us having our
own system without breaking up the you know, the white
man system that they would say had a whole thing
perfectly right, spend all this money, presented it to people
that we can't do that. I'm like, you know what,
I'm going back. God told me to.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Get back to WORKGGA about that, all right? You know
what I'm saying, get back to work.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Let's get this a yeah, because because it's like it's
just it's just could be at the same time, right,
you know, you could have this this thing that you
really care about and want to do, and then you
also can work in Hollywood. No, you can, but but
but but philanthropy is is really giving it up and
(14:21):
really caring for the people and doing you know, I
was with my mother Teresa more.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But I'm I'm bad. I'm with my sunglasses.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Are I told you I saw him in the hallway.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I'm back with the sunglasses because it's like you like,
you know, if if if if, if Moses hit the
rock because the Negroes, you know, I just can't you.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
See God face to face and you still hit the rock.
I'm done. So but I love my people. I love y'all.
Word of the camera is, I'm just telling y'all people.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
You need your people to come see this film.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Hell yeah, trap Trap City is all about that though,
it's all about there's the whole listen and this is
so true and every community, right when somebody a bunch
of people get locked up, if you get out on bail,
you was snitching to something.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, And that's always the rumor, like if you don't
get as much time or something happens, you have a
good he's telling.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But then it's also like, who really wants to go
to jail?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I don't. I don't want to.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't
want to do more.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Than two days. I can't go to I.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Don't want to.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And even what is snitching because even if you look
at like the whole trial with Young Thug and Aleana
and Gunna and everything that happened, and you know, sometimes
it's like, well they know all this anyway I can
get it's just a it's a weird cold, it's a
weird code. Because it's also like, well, if I wasn't involved,
or why should I go to jail for somebody who
don't care about me.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's just a crazy like do you.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Take the rap for somebody who's doing like what system?
Do you be righteous and be like, okay, I'm gonna
go with god system and say, okay, I didn't do nothing,
you know, but do you not tell it's we? You know.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I also feel like then no snitching thing is an
older generation thing. Kids today do not care that no
follow that code.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
There's no code.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
First of all, I still.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Support you if you snitch. They don't care if you
have good music.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, music is all right.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Yeah, we're gonna don't play its.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Working and keep going.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And you know, so that's also something that I feel
like is ever evolving.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You know what's funny about it? We don't really I
don't know. I want to spoiler.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I don't want to say, but we deal with that.
That was a good way, you know, the way it
works when he I mean, if he snitches or not,
you gotta watch.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
But the way we dealt with it, I think it
was a good neutral place.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, we're not gonna tell too mass because.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's too much no spoiler, but it was definitely a.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Neutral place and we did go ahead. No, I wanted
to ask a question about dating a stripper?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Oh really? Really?
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Because I just want to say, before y'all came in here,
Jasmine was like, I would be a stripper.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Listen if I had because you know, we watched the
movie if I. And I was telling Ange, if I
didn't have any money and I had a body, I
would be a stripper. She did well for herself and
she ended up with, well, I don't want to ruin
you know, but yeah, would you ever date.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
The younger me? Would? Yeah? I mean the single me?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Would you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
I don't want to go there.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I just that's how we're asking. Tell would you date
a stripper?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Or no?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
I don't want to hear nothing else, yes or no?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
No, bottle of red wine exactly.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Before we pushed off this real quick. And if you
had the perfect body, not that you don't, would you
and you were brought.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Don't And I was broken. No, I don't think I would.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I definitely.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I don't even like walking around the house naked. I
can't even see myself like being somebody either. I think
certain people are very comfortable with that. Like I have
friends who I went to school with who are very
comfortable with being naked everywhere, you know, and I've just
never been like my family.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I don't come from like a comfortable naked family.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Yeah, what what is a comfortable naked family?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You know have some families like they're very comfortable, but
like just getting changed in front of you and doing
things like that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We're not comfortable like that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
When I was younger, my mom, not even when I
was younger, really wasn't like that.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I like, I like being naked.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I don't know, I didn't even know such a thing existed.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Listen, and this is when we had I'll never forget
when we had said of baby and skillet Baby on
lip service, they both sleep.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Like they naked.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
They do not.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
They do not want to sleep naked.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
They really, Yes, there are certain guys who will not,
like you know what, you know, all guys do not
sleep naked.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
I just thought about that.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, they don't. They don't feel comfortable. What does something happen?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
They got to get up and suburban do sleep naked?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I gotta go back to the trap, go.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Back to the hood.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You don't want to be that's true, you don't want
to be naked.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Something happened the gun out and naked.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You have a mink on with nothing and just shoot you.
Now that's another that is.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's a whole other movie.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Another thing I wanted to ask about is this code
of like And I feel like this happens all the time.
Somebody gets locked up and then his man ends up messing.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
With his chick. Because this happens all the time, because
that's who's close to you. Hold my girl down while
I'm gone and while I'm locked up.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
And then they're gonna pray. We're gonna pray about this.
You know he's gonna be he gonna get out, come.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
On, mar shin I help him. He might be helping financially.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Let me give you massage real quick, unless you massage,
not that.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Dude that we're gonna we're gonna pray, you know what
I mean. I'm I'm a stand up, but you get
on your can I say that I'm.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Any out the movie And so I'm glad that you're back, though.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
How are you feeling comfortable and happy that I.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Feel that God is with me right now?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And I can feel when he's not, even when I'm
drinking his asap rocky uh.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Uh No. I on a real note, I do I
feel that I'm very humbled.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I've been through a lot of hell and I got
to meet you know, great friends on my journey and
and I just I'm a different person than when you know,
I first came out, and I knew that was talented.
But it's like you not, no matter how talented you are,
if God ain't which you can't do nothing. And I'm
not trying to preach like that because I've been through it.
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So it's like, I know, I feel that win. So
it does feel good to be It feels I'm humbled
that God will even find grace uh in somebody like.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Me for real, like to say, you've been through it.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I've been through a lot of a lot of I
lost everything. I lost everything trying to help other people.
I lost my wife, lost my family. I was on
the rooftop of lottery Take to Talk remember that same Yeah, yeah,
that was me in real life at one point.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You know it is.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
But it's like God, he always made away, you know
what I'm saying. So that's why I know it's not me.
So Trap City will be out December thirteenth in the theaters.
My new show Family Business Makes y'all see Orleans Family Bus,
New Orleans. I new uh comedy special chest out is
coming out. So y'all can hear all the stuff that
I've been through And you're still Detroit and I'm still
(21:35):
I'm still Detroit, definitely.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah. And we have two premiere one in Atlanta, one
in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Okay, it's only right.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
I'm invading both of you premiers. Uh, that's it.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I mean eleventh in Atlanta until thirteen. Troit.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Oh man, I'm we're going next week. We'll be in Detroit,
the ninth City, eleventh.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, we're coming out there to go.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Me to Troy. Yeah, we go to tr right one Monday.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
We're doing we got.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We're going for an event from Mary Sheffield.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
We love.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
But Andre and I have a thirty thirty unit building
in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
The women Towndtown really Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
They have a lot of interest in realistic Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
So he's already preleasing put me on Yeah, yeah, no,
we did.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
We definitely invested in Detroit. I think it's a great
place to invest in. I think even when it comes
to movies, Detroit is like killing the game when it
comes to doing indie films.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Yes, they got a call follows.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, in particular to Dennis read we love I Love part.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Definitely in the dentist read movie on Yes We Lovens.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Dennis is we know we made him our partners in
the nineteen nineteen distribution.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
That's my cool.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, I'm a silent I don't talk about it too much,
which they they telling me too.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I'm supposed to market. It's on marketing, y'all.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Dennis hashtag levels yes, I know, always hashtig level.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
And I want Dennis to you know, get to you know,
want him to get the shine too, because he helped,
like he molded Detroit filmmaking. He definitely had him Mula films, Mullah,
all of them. Everybody shout out to tell man, Yeah
everybody man.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
He's like, don't forget me, yeah, right here for real
and listen. We also want to dig into you being
a father. You have four children, and you're old.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
This is thirteen. I got a seven, eight and a
five year old.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay, amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Now how does that affect like decisions that you make
in life?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Oh my god, it changed me. I mean it's like,
you know, it's crazy. I'm selling these comedy clubs. I'm
still out late, coming home late. You know, it's like
it's different when you got kids that you can't wake
up and everything.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's like it's just it's a.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Different get like the night life. It changed me to
be like a day person more that was a night person, right.
You know, we go to comedy clubs, you know what
I mean, go to that one, yeah one, yeah, so,
and it's.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Like, I can't know coming to the house. You know,
you had a couple of shots.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
You gotta be like, you know, let me go take
the shower and me go pray, let me go get
all this energy off there.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And it's just different. It humbles you. I feel like
I feel like I feel I ever seen the.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Movie Hook mm hmm when Peter forgot how to fly?
Because yeah, kids and all this stuff. And then I
feel like like I'm back in neverland.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I know how to fly again. And my kids are
they're definitely my happy thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You see, we're drinking during the day. It would do
daytime things.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, you see exactly.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
I understand it because I have a three year old
and I you know.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
To me earlier, can you believe I'm a mom?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I haven't.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I cannot believe.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Look amazing. I can't believe.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Yeah, well she's my mom, but I can't believe. But
it does make it. Are you done anymore?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
I definitely if God blesses me with more, uh, I
definitely would definitely probably one more.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Okay, maybe a little girl.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
It's in the box office.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You don't have any girls.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I got two boys and two girls. Another girl. Yeah,
that's perfect, I.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Know, but the two youngest.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
What the boys are wild?
Speaker 8 (25:17):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Of course the two boys.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think you people want their boys to be wild.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I don't. Nobody want no calm little listen.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
My little girl is wild.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
It always thought out cool, Like I give them an
option you want to y'all want happy daddy or mad daddy?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Right, They're like, we want happy daddy.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Then they started getting happy, you know, I started thinking
turning up, turn up.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I said, y'all want happy daddy.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
It always goes from ship.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That's your fun because that's how you are to So
they turn up like you.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
That's the schooling mysel phone going to school with it.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I don't playing them stupid games. Is popping taking you
to take YouTube from a five year old.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I have a three year old and the YouTube she'd
be It's interesting how kids watch other kids play with toys.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Toys like you don't want to just play with the
toy watch when.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
The tires run over toys? What oh it's.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
A I need you.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I'm like, get your go outside.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
It is addictive though.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Now I want to ask you also about Danzel.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I saw recently they were saying how Gladiated Too was
like the biggest movie so far, yeah for him, which
I find like, Denzel is one of the greatest of
all time. I think there's no argument when he comes
to that. But to see him talking about, Okay, I'm
winding down in my career and just now he's having
the biggest movie like of his whole entire career. For
(26:49):
you just looking at him, and I know you've gotten
advice from Denzel in the past, to you, what does
success look like for you?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Honestly, I used to wish to want to be the
biggest movie start in the world. And when I got
to a place where you know, I was working with
Eddie Murphy and and.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
It was Lawrence Martin, Lawrence and Legends.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I Actually it's so funny because I I realized what
I was afraid of today Actually m hm, Like, I
know it sounds crazy, but I was. I was scrolling
down Instagram, and I know, I don't know if it's
happened to anybody, but you ever be thinking something and
not saying it because you know if you say, they're
gonna get.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You with the ads.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
And I realized that I was holding myself back up
constantly too, So I was I was afraid of my
own power.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Once I got there, I got afraid of.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
The whoa one because our people was acting how you know,
it got weird.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
People start acting different at different So.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I don't know if if people if everybody chill out
and be cool and let's.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Just do the art, let's go, let's go home, let's
let's have a good time. For it's peace in it.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I would love to be a huge movies start again,
if God would allow that, But if it's coming with
a bunch of craziness and people telling amen, man all
that you don't love me no more?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Man, you change, but you.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Know that comes with it. I don't know if you
can have one without the other.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I feel like on this run, I changed because all
them people that was sleeping on my couch always talking
about that they were jealous.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But now they're on the TV. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Say them names, but I definitely want.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
To know my couch.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, but it's it's it's everybody that was jealous of
me coming up there. Now a lot of them are,
which we would say bigger or more relevant right now.
And I look back and said, that was just jealousy.
I don't like that type of energy. I grew up
in the family of note it was all happy for
each other, like I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
For Teal, like like he's putting the movie. He's putting
real quick. You gotta tell.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yourself for that, And.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
So I would.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I would be a big I would be a big,
huge movie star. Againting if if if if if there's
a peace in it, but if it's not, I'm cool
with whatever guy has for me. I do feel like
it's gonna be another huge run, but it's it's only
if I want it, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And also the power of.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Being a producer on things too. Yeah, I see that
that's something that's important to you as well.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Yeah, I mean my executive producers would tell, you know,
we we've been through the mud. We did this together,
and uh, this this was my this was this was hard.
This was this graduate. Tropic Thunder was my graduate school
for acting. Trap City was my graduate school for producers.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
So the challenge for Brandon Angela is very simple. Right,
He's used to high level Hollywood major studio funks, right,
so exactly, and.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
To come to then.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Not today exactly, and it was a downgrade for him
to you know, be in the trenches on the.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yeah, and it's for you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You can't do another one though, No, I love it. Now.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
You got humbled in the process of and.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Sometimes you don't even realize how good you have it
and understand the budgeting of what you're getting when you're
on these major productions. Now telling the business side of
things for anybody else, because everybody is interested in, like, oh,
I have a movie idea, I want to do this,
I want to do that. How do you recoup your money?
And how difficult is that because clearly it's still a business, right,
(30:34):
you invested money and getting this done, So for you,
what has to happen for you to be like this
was successful?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I mean obviously I have to recoup first.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Right, but how does that like?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Is that ins is that on streaming? How does that so?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So in in in the in the film like this,
we are trying to recoop through the theatrical. Then we
also try to recoop through the video on demand so
people can download. Then we're going to go to the streamer.
Then we're going to go to.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The to be.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
So we're gonna take levels, yeah, in different levels and
transchius and get the money, you know, because when we
are trying to give it to one guy, let's say
the wholesaler, Hey, the wholesaler Costco, take my movie, give
some money, I walk away. But they wouldn't do it.
So then that's why we went to theatrical route because
you know, the major streamers, Netflix wouldn't pick it up.
(31:23):
So now the momentus and theaters, everybody in the in
the brother.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Is calling okay, okay, you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
It's always like that.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
They said no, it's Hayler Perry, you know they and
then the people get behind you and that's the same.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And that's what I'm saying with with this film is like.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
This is that movie that that that I believe that
people are going to get behind because it is and
I hate to say it like this, but it's the
little engine that good movie and it is and it
is what I'm saying that because it's a good movie.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
But it's like it's David and Goliath at this point,
you know, is.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Exactly what because we're we're we're, we're we're the we're
the small film hitting theaters and we keep getting calls
for more and more theaters. They're seeing the value in it,
they see the interest, they see people calling about it
when you know, when the tickets are going on for sale.
And I called Tail and he's like, we got more theaters.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I'm like more. I was like, okay, yeah, let's go.
So it's David and Goolive right now. We're having a
good time.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
And what was it like for you making those calls
to get people to come be and because you know
acting and I know, like you said, the budget isn't
the same as these Hollywood productions, so but you also
want to make sure people are taken care of just
like you would want to be taken care of. So
for you getting such big you know, people that have
done a lot of other movies and people that were like,
oh look there goes.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You know, like I need you for two days, yes,
in and out, in and out and out. You got it.
With these type of films, you have to shoot.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You got to shoot block shooting, you gotta you gotta
shoot out twenty three days in Uh So I would
say a month and a half to two months post
if you can, and then in three months you have
a film. I mean, films are very Once you have
a script, I can knock out a script in seventeen days.
(33:12):
Script I'm writing, I actually wrote. I got so many
script I wrote one, uh two weeks ago. That's done
with the first draft is now I gotta go over
go with that, do a dialogue past.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
But that one I'm about.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
As soon as we get this one done, I'm gonna
either either go to tail with it or maybe go
back or go to I don't know, Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
TA.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I love y'all, but y'all be taking too long, y'all.
We don't need a movie, oh my god. But it's
it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
A challenge, you know, with these actors that you know,
calling them and saying, come do this movie, please, and
we have not a lot of money.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
So it's a lot about relationships.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Relationships. We look, we're gonna, we're gonna pay you and bacon, bitch, and.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I come to your movie of course. Yeah, I mean,
I no offense. I'm very boosie with films. People.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I've had some other actors tell me they will come
through that movie, and I just like, Bro, you.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Know, I love movie. That's all I got.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Like, I'm not I'm not a tall man, so film,
I mean, film is my passion.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
It's like a baby.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
You don't you know what I mean, you gotta dress
your baby right, you gotta it has to be right.
And that was one of the things that you know,
men tell I'll be like, hell, come on, we gotta this, bro,
we gotta and he'd be like, Brandon, calm down, I'm
about to go meditate.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
Well you can saying the same thing.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
My meditation, looking like, because I drove him crazy, are
you like, like, how do you meditate?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Are you just quiet?
Speaker 8 (34:42):
Just quiet?
Speaker 5 (34:44):
And come back with the answer yeah, exactly, breathing, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got yeah. No, because I'd be like like, right now,
I'm talking about look, we gotta get this on the
street teams.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
We gotta get this.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
He's like Brandon, and I don't want you saying that
next time I call you my drama.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
And I meditated.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, but no, I love this and it is a
story about redemption, and it's also what sometimes people get
caught up. Like you said, trap City, you want to
leave something behind to try to like turn over newly,
but your past does sometimes catch.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Up with you.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah, and sometimes it's hard to leave things alone that
you got yourself so entrenched in.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, like like, yeah, everybody needs a second.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Lead these ladies alone.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Get out my DM. Since I, you know, cut my
hair all my DM when I had locks, I'm like
what girls like love?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
They like locks too.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
It's it's probably a different type of girl in your
DMS now, like the clean cut.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
It's different.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
I was like, okay, and to me, that's corny because
if you don't like me with locks.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
No, it's just like you made like a woman with
a certain hairstyle and then you see it like, oh, okay,
she's with short hair.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Like that's there.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Is not a superficial person, but.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
She's given the balance they like, they give that balance.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yeah, visually, I don't care about do you like locks.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Or no, I don't mind them. I'm not a visual
part like I'm not. I don't need a super guys,
I'm not always not always always. That's not the most
important thing for me.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Prefer you not be that attractive.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
The more attractive, the more headaches, or the more money,
the more headaches. Damn when you think about it really quick.
If when you think about it, if a guy is
super fine, he's been fine since he was in kindergarten.
He always had little girls helping him with his homework,
the teacher teachers pet like it was. He comes with
a different set of like characteristics because he's always kind
of like, yeah, I got time for I like ugly.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
And then somehow you guys like something happened like I
thought I was ugly. I mean, I don't even know
if I don't know what's going on right now, Okay,
I just know that I don't know, honestly, don't.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
It's different for you because you're a public figure, like
celebrity makes people look more attractive.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Thank you for telling me, I was you fort a
chance with you? He's like, he's not, No, I mean,
you're celebrity making that.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
No, I feel like celebrity. It's a different rules, it's
a different roll.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
When I did roll bounce right, Yeah, Like I started
trying to think, what you look like? I look like
I thought it was ugly.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
I thought I was, and then I didn't. I was
always the funny, high pitched kid. They'd like, you know what,
you know the whole thing? Just did we get here
what you send some some somebody being ugly?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Or did we get understand that?
Speaker 6 (37:48):
I feel like you did. But it's fine.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, Like I need to meditate.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Let's medicate.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
I want to say something other day, he called me
out of the blue. I mean, obviously, keeping bro. I
want to thank you so much. I said, why. I'm
so excited. Man, my love life has changed.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
The home and outside. Keep the whole thing, man, don't
do the outside is wanting.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
And I'm good. Yeah, I'm not doing no more.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
No I'm doing I'm doing a scam because then they
want your money, you know.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Oh my goodness, Okay, no more, okay, good don't do that.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
How long have you been faithful? Well well not, well.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
That's a whole long story. When I went through my
crazy face, just can carry it out. I was not
a good I was not a good man to to
my family.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
So we we we we decided to. I didn't decide.
She just kicked me out.
Speaker 7 (38:59):
She decided I'm not dealing with this.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
And yeah, so from that then I started dating. Uh
And remember I.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Was out of the whole culture. I was in my
you know, spiritual thing. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
I don't know what only fans was at the time,
so I didn't realize that, you know, girls you can date,
got websites that subscription models to and then you know,
for me personally, I'm more of a conservative guy when
it comes down to you know, but I'm not judging anybody.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
But the thing is the dating.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
What was a question?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Angel? I dated a lot. I was d you start
dating again? And you started realizing.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
That wasn't the question.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
How as long you what's the longs you've been faith
You went.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
All around you because because that when you say faithful,
it's like you're on a break or you're done that.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
You know, I'm sleeping somebody, you mess with.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Somebody, you're in a relationship. How long have you been
faithful in your relate?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
My related when we were together, I was faithful, you know,
I was faithful.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
He's still Okay, what I said, how long has it
been now? Like you've been faithful?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Now oh yeah, I'm chilling.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Now, well we're not well, how long we're we're we
are working at we have we're really you know, we're
we're recommitting.
Speaker 6 (40:17):
It's a working program.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
I'm dating. I'm dating my ex wife again. Okay, like
that second time around, second time around? How did you
manage to get a second chance?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Cut my hair? And I'm sure no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
She real I realized that she actually really loves me.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
And I don't do well.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
With because, like you said, celebrity stuff. I have a
lot of insecurities. Be honest, I believe sometimes I think,
you know, especially as a prices we be making up stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
I'd be like, do you love me for real? And everything.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
I think that when I found out that she really
did love me, I got my I got my stuff
to get out and say, you know what, but you
gotta be you gotta hone it in because you know,
being all.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Over the place as the artists. But what really broke
us was was.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
Was my my my my spiritual journey. I was very
harsh on you know, sometimes you know, y'all gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Weed in the Bible. Don't mix.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
If you smoke weed and read the Bible, don't do
that because you're gonna you're gonna see everything in the Bible.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
And I got really, I got overdeeped.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
And that's happened to a couple of us, you know, Lauren,
a lot of us, like we've we wanted so much
from to live a certain way because we come from
certain things. And I think that I overdid that and
I pressured things, and I think I wasn't a good
I think it made me worse. Not the Bible, but
the judgment, the judgmental of of of everything, you know.
(41:47):
I think it wasn't And I think that broke our
relationship and then it started to be so I mean,
I don't I feel I wanted to hold he talking
about the relationship.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
No, I was gonna say. Some people have the personalities
where when they do something that they do with in
extremes like you know, so sometimes that happens.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
That's why I don't do drugs, thank god, because if
I was to do drugs, I would you you would
know so, but I'm an extremer.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
You would know you would they for real and meditating.
So I think that was the that was the big thing.
But we're dating again, and okay, I'm taking this seriously.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
It's nice to be with somebody who really knows you
though too and loves you.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Like I was talking to Terrence Howard today.
Speaker 6 (42:30):
He's like, so famous, you're so famous. I was talking
to Terrence Howard.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
I'm sorry, Terrence is one of my good friends.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
Not like that, but we literally like not I mean,
we're actors with I don't I'm not saying like the
drop names, but you know, he was like, you know, Brandon,
the thing that that that that that happened to me
was you know, with my wife. I just you know
what I went through. Everybody saw in the media. Just
the thing is like, you know, I have my second chance.
(42:57):
Don't mess up your second chance. I was like, thank you, Terrence,
I appreciate that it's your time to send Brandon and
put this number in the calculator five five five.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
With that.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
No, no, he's actually y'all gotta watch when y'all see
my special.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I can't wait. I talk about that. Is it coming out?
Terrence is the real deal? Shout out to Terrence Man,
that's my bro. Man.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
You're especially gonna be like, are you doing it yourself?
Speaker 2 (43:20):
I produced it myself, but a lot of people want it.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Yeah, that's the best way to go because that's how
you get it's done.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I'm sure. I'm sure you the trailer when we when
we cut the did try to get it well?
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Well, no, Tell Tell was was a busy doing Trap.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
City, but I was.
Speaker 8 (43:37):
I was tapped in the track.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
He was trapped in the trap I was shooting over here.
No I know. I told Tell about it. He's like,
let me finish getting Trapped City off the ground.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
Because for me, I'm I'm running like I'm writing a
movie called Transit right now.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Got that.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
I got my show making a brand that I'm doing it.
It's a It's a ghetto shark tank. If you ever
want to us, it's a hood shark tank. It's pretty much. Uh,
it's wild'ing out in shark time. People picture their ideas
and we just clown them.
Speaker 6 (44:05):
Let's do it. Yeah, we want to be on a
judge people.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Shirt lines exactly. It's gonna be crazy. It's just straight fun.
Is the full little show?
Speaker 5 (44:14):
So shoot fifteen episodes independently, I might put it on
Zeus shout out to people.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Want yeah, let me, he's my childhood friend. Yeah, let me.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
He's like in the church, was growing up in the
church world.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
To let me and my father to let me. Father
and my father were like this. My father was on
his dad's network.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
That's and that's how let me know how to run
a net.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Network because his father's hate. My dad was like the talent.
And but my dad bought the network from his father. Okay,
so oh wow, yeah, so it's like a thing. And
then he became Then he got Zeus. Baddy's church, baddies church.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Wow, all right, we bring the church. No, let me,
let me and let me. We we've been. We've been,
we been that Batti's Midwest now to yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
He's doing you know, I'm very I'm very proud of
his his uh just it's amazing, just how he I
remember when he pitched.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
It was called black Box.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
One at first, and then he came and called me
and said, I think I'm I'm calling Zeus.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I said Zeus. I said Zeus. And at the time,
you know, I was in my mold. I was like that,
ain't Jesus. I know zeus.
Speaker 6 (45:30):
Listen, I remember what he did preachers at l A. Like, yeah,
well he's to produce shows for BT.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
I mean he came but he came up.
Speaker 6 (45:37):
That ain't Jesus right, because we all came up.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
We all came up in the church, So you're right.
But I'm proud of his success. He actually he said
he's gonna he wants to he wants to run the
special too.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
He's one of the Well he saw it. He was like, yo,
b I know it's funny. This is a little bit. Actually,
I'm gonna try.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
I don't need to curse, but actually cut a lot
of the cursing out, and I watched it back. I'm like,
you know, I really don't need to curse, but I
don't want to. I don't want to be pigeonholed. He's
a clean comic.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Guys, come on out to the Yeah the Hall, we
are you comedy show. I never I'm a rebel with
all of.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
It, but I think excessive cursing is too much. Yeah,
it's gotta be like intentional cursing.
Speaker 8 (46:19):
Exactly to make a point.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
And and and my next special I'm writing right now
is called Classy Rebel I'm a classy there.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
It is like that, a class that is who you.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
I'm over I'm over it. I'm not too Hollywood. Am
I too?
Speaker 5 (46:31):
Hood?
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Am I to church? Not too?
Speaker 5 (46:33):
You know what I'm saying cocky, but sometimes I am.
I'm a classy rebel. You're not gonna catch me, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Like a meditating thug.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Yeah, I'm meditating. That's a joke. Let me write that down.
Speaker 6 (46:49):
For horror films. For horror films. She loves horror movies.
She likes to write them. She's she's always telling me
different synopsis in her mind. She loves horror.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
No tail invest right here the fact meditating. I don't
like how you laught. That's funny.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
All right, Well, you guys, the movie isn't theaters December thirteen,
Whoa and Atlanta the screening is on eleventh, Yeah, and
then the premiere and then in Detroit the premiere is their.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
Okay, the movie releasing on the thirteens.
Speaker 6 (47:23):
Okay, perfect gradualy yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Thirty cities, seventy theaters of today.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
He relaxed. Now he got that one, and like it's
coming out.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
No strippers, all right, but thank you guys.
Speaker 8 (47:40):
Super Brandon, I'm not listen.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
I'm out. I'm out. I'm out the trap, trap City here.
Thank you, Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Good thank you.
All right, it's way up and answer that.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, I'm sorry. We're doing so much right here.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Before the interview even started, it was like a pre
interview interview.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
It was.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
But my girl, Jasmine brand is here, of course, and
you brought two special guests with you. Say, okay, we
got Brandon T. Jackson here, whoa don't forget the tea exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
And our guy Tell is back.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I gotta ask because Brandon and how both of you
guys have the Detroit connection with each other and you're
starring in the movie. That's how actually directed produced.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
All of the things.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Did y'all know each other before this project?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
No? No, what happened was okay, so let's let's back
up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
We were talking about the whole break that I was
doing from Hollywood. I was, I was, I always wanted
to make my own films, and I tell had I
was driving now see Kayper Films. One of my best
friends in high school introduced me to Tell, and I
had this other film that I was pitching him, and
(01:14):
we started to make that film. But something happened with
partners whatever. So I got a hold of my guy,
one of my guys, it was this script and Tell.
Of course we rewrote it and got it all together,
and I was like, Yo, check out this trap city thing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We can shoot this for this, we can shoot it
twenty three day. Shoot. We got this, let's get it.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
So when I brought the script, when I brought the
script to Tell, he was like, he's like, Brandon, can
you pull this off?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I said, yeah, let's let's go, you know what I mean.
And then he believed in. He believed in the whole
journey and then we It was crazy because we had
to reach it.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It wasn't even really a I'll be honest, it wasn't
even really a script. It was like a bunch of
pay It was a great concept. And then when we
got together we just kind of like found the moments
and and and it's almost like Friday where people just
kind of improved a lot of stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And he like a sh of an outline kind of
how you wanted to go, but you guys were able
to have more space to Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
It was because it was like when we okay, honestly
and and Tell will tell you this. He's I'm gonna
tell im, I'm truthful with everything. This was probably the
hardest film I ever made in my life.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You gotta tell the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
This was the hardest film we I mean to the
point where Clift and Power on one scene.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Amazing, you know how you look all laid back.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We had him for two days.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Two days I know that we were sure we were
going because he was doing a play, so we had
to fly him in. He takes taling because he's had
a headed headache. He accidentally takes Tyland a p m.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Oh my goodness, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Instead of that knocks me out, we're doing the same.
He's like, man, hold on good. I'm like you good.
It's like, think I took the wrong I took the
wrong time, and I said took a sleeping pill on
an accident.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
So when you see him in the scene like you
ain't no rapper, he looked like but he really sleeped you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
But he was listen. It was like it was just
so many things that went wrong on the set and
that that it was.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It was just what did you guys found this in Detroit?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, we feel someone Detroit and some in Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Okay, but it was the challenges of of.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Because Jez is in it too, so he got Jeezy.
He gotje Z in the film.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
The film was actually it's the magic behind it because
we were already editing going to and he's like, we need,
we need to get Jeez.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
To play this other part with the pastor.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Which everyone calls him a pastor and you know obviously
past the je Z. Yeah, and so now y'all got
him in there for real as a pastor.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
He's great in it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
He sets off the movie don't my name that I love?
Speaker 7 (04:03):
He always sounds like a boogie man coming at you.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You know what I mean? Take it to the grades?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Do you want to hear this casting process? So tell
you got g Z. I mean Clifton Powers and Erica.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I called Erica. I called uh, I call everybody.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I would send it to Tale like tell yo, check
check check her out, check Erica out, check uh Clifton
owt yo and.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Tell it like, let's let's just do it. Man.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
When we saw the movie, he saw that there was
something missing and he's like, Yo, we need, we need,
we need to get a rapper in this.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I was like, tell I am a rapper.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He's like, no, we need a real rapper, a bathroom wrapper.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah that I'm not a real rapper. I'm a TV rapper.
I do soundtracks and that's it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I think backing up Angel So, I was doing other
movies before Rapsody. Then Brandon and I were hanging out
on the other movie, and that's how we got together.
So it's really the Detroit connection that got us into
Trap City. But of course the Trap Cody was shot
in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Use yeah, yes, Sam. I came to the set, and he.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Came to the set, he came to the premiere. He
supported that. Then he saw that we are doing certain
things in Detroit, and that's all he came.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But tell you gotta tell you, gotta tell this, You
gotta tell something.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
He got the perfect name. Tell you gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
We've been to hell with this movie.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Can tell us some more.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I want to hear. They don't want to see us
make it. I'm serious. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
But it trap.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
It is really the story and the journey. It's almost
the same ourself were trapped in the making the movie.
Set back after set back. Then we got out of
the setback, and that's really the story of the film itself.
Anybody who gets, you know, get caught in the trap.
They have to get out and so so the tagline
is doing get caught in the trap, and that's what
(06:03):
we did. So we broke free and.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Free here what year did you guys start this start?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I mean, we gotta tell them the truth we started.
I gave him your telling today.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Because because Tell sometimes he keeps stuff in his challenge,
is very good at that. Like I'm like, man, hey, man, hey,
we trapped. Man's three in the morning. I call him
at three in the morning.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
With a whole look, what's the edit. Tail will be
like Brandon, I'm going to meditate. I'll have answers for
you in the morning.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I'm like, we gotta get these theaters. So tell a
call you with solutions. I'm the person that kind of
bring up the problem of what we need to do.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
I like solutions.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I like solutions, very solution oriented person.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah, I do great creative solutions when we're talking about
technical see producers are it's different type of producers.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You got creative producers. You got different.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Tell is one of those guys that he won't he's
humbled with this, but he was like the five hundred
top businessman Detroit.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
He's on all the cover and all this stuffs.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
He knows how to get that. You know, he's humbled
with it, but he knows how to get that stuff done.
Where it's like the technical stuff me, I'm like, Yo,
let's let's let's make this soup, let's get this blah blah.
So when we have problems, I mean, we started this
movie in two thousand. I gave you the script of
twenty eighteen, which was pretty much nothing, and then twenty
nineteen we started shooting, and then COVID happened.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
They yeah, yeah, okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yeah, and then we was editing through COVID and then
it was just and then we had to reshoot Gzy stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It was just a bunch of it.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Was just Yeah, we shot GZ in twenty one twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
How much a budget did you guys?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Go? Probably times okay?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But and what made you say this should be in
theaters Because a lot of people are doing like direct
to streaming services deals. It feels like that's been lucrative.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But this is this the A list to be movie. Okay,
that's what.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
We love it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
To love it, this is I know exactly because you're
not gonna get Denzel Washington. You're gonna get Denzel Wasshington. Okay,
I'm telling you that eat evan falcon, not eatan hawk.
The thing is this would I love I tell you
not to give it coman But you know, really the
(08:24):
reason why I felt like, I feel like, why why
can't these type of films go to the theaters?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Because they can't.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I'm tired of look saying, like people marginalizing films that
have niche audiences like they did. They tried that with
Tyler Perry to try to do that with like a
lot of people in the faith based market or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I believe that this is a film that people can
come out and see because it's something that you wouldn't
expect to do amazing.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
See in the theater.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Right. And that's precisely why we pursue theaters, right because
you know.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
They said it cannot be screened in a theater.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
A shout out, no, no, no, no, get to get Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
I mean, I mean, typically for an indie film and
an urban film, it's very hard to get them on
theaters and pay money to put them on the theater.
And and for us, we didn't pay any money. We
partnered with all the theaters thirty US cities, seventy theaters
for the Phase one. It's already we are already making
history from an indie movie, from an urban movie, right, Angela.
(09:34):
So that's what we did. And they said, hey, you
don't belong in this box. We said, we're gonna break
this box. Damn box away.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We the people say we can't do stuff. That's that's
that's one of our Like.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Our pet Peeves me and him called we were both short,
not like that, No we are.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We gotta tell yeah, yeah, five nine is short. I
can get a The five ten's.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
All for me, Like, I'm you know, yeah, we're sure.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
I mean five ten. I think it's cool for god.
Five we could work with that. You can get up there.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I got a little lift in your shoes.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
If I get the right shoe, I can get up
the level really quick.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Would you if you, if you weren't who you are,
would you get the surgery because you know the men
are getting the surgeon.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I might take don't even worry, I might take two
years off. For get that.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
Just go ahead. Sorry, okay, so.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
No, no, on a real note, uh what we're saying.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But I feel like going to the movies is a
different type of experience than it used to be, you
know what I mean, because now I feel like I
can't go to a theater if I can't order a
drink from my seat.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yeah, it's a spoiled different.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Situation because it's not necessarily about the amount of seats
in the theater. It's more like the experience that you
have and how they're able to make money from you
doing extra add ons, not just the movie ticket.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's a little I think this culture is trapped culture.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
And in the city I'm from, I'm really uh from
a place where hood suburbs, right, and it's like the community.
Of course, my dad, you know, my dad's a pastor.
We were always in the community. And that's why I
left Hollywood, because I was trying to help the community.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And that's why when we were talking about whole nother
space talking before.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
This interview started, and I said, it was inevitable.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
For you to have the crazy moment.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
The crazy moment because I feel like being in Hollywood
doing what you do and the juxtaposition of having like
coming from a family of ministry.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, I was as always going to be like.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Your preacher's kids it's makes sense now.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I mean, but it just just not just just the
religious side of it, which you know, I love, but
I'm saying the more community side.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Like we was.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
We was always trying to my grandfather and his will.
He wanted to create so many which boys home houses
for people that been on drugs and things like that.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He wanted to you know, read like have the whole city.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
And your grandfather through some for Detroit.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Yeah, my grandfather's Detroit and my father you know, and
it's so hard these days. He got one block off,
you know what I mean, because there's so many politics
and so many things. So that same spirit got on me.
It's like it's time to go health the community. My
thing was, I was trying to see.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
If black people, our people could.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Really come together because I got tired of the I
got tired of the.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
We can't do it every time we come together. I
hated that excuse, right, Yes, man.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I posted the other day like there was a post about,
you know, I think something about buying a home. Somebody
was like, I'd rather just rent. I don't want to
buy a house. So I had left a comment like,
you know, I learned about investing. When I bought my
first house, I bought a property that was a two families,
so I was able to help pay my mortgage and
that helped me get my second house. Somebody was in
the comments like you bougie now, and you people can't
(12:58):
do that. Black people don't own homes like that, and
you know, get the f out of here. And I
was like, damn, but that's because I didn't come from money.
I had to really like scrimp and save to get
my first house and try to do things in this
smart way. And I was saying, how like, your first
house may not be your dream home, it may just
be a good investment. And that was just some advice
that I got when I bought my person and they
(13:19):
was jealous. And this one person was going helf in
the comments like black people can't do that, and I
don't know, why are you trying to tell people to
do that just because you did it, because you bougie
and you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I was like, okay, here.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We go, and that's why I was like, damn, this
is my issue. You can't do it. We would giving us.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on technology that
could have aggregated our people and had us having our
own system without breaking up the you know, the white
man system that they would say had a whole thing
perfectly right, spend all this money, presented it to people
that we can't do that. I'm like, you know what,
I'm going back. God told me to.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Get back to WORKGGA about that, all right? You know
what I'm saying, get back to work.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Let's get this a yeah, because because it's like it's
just it's just could be at the same time, right,
you know, you could have this this thing that you
really care about and want to do, and then you
also can work in Hollywood. No, you can, but but
but but philanthropy is is really giving it up and
(14:21):
really caring for the people and doing you know, I
was with my mother Teresa more.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But I'm I'm bad. I'm with my sunglasses.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Are I told you I saw him in the hallway.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I'm back with the sunglasses because it's like you like,
you know, if if if if, if Moses hit the
rock because the Negroes, you know, I just can't you.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
See God face to face and you still hit the rock.
I'm done. So but I love my people. I love y'all.
Word of the camera is, I'm just telling y'all people.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
You need your people to come see this film.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Hell yeah, trap Trap City is all about that though,
it's all about there's the whole listen and this is
so true and every community, right when somebody a bunch
of people get locked up, if you get out on bail,
you was snitching to something.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, And that's always the rumor, like if you don't
get as much time or something happens, you have a
good he's telling.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But then it's also like, who really wants to go
to jail?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I don't. I don't want to.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't
want to do more.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Than two days. I can't go to I.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Don't want to.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And even what is snitching because even if you look
at like the whole trial with Young Thug and Aleana
and Gunna and everything that happened, and you know, sometimes
it's like, well they know all this anyway I can
get it's just a it's a weird cold, it's a
weird code. Because it's also like, well, if I wasn't involved,
or why should I go to jail for somebody who
don't care about me.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's just a crazy like do you.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Take the rap for somebody who's doing like what system?
Do you be righteous and be like, okay, I'm gonna
go with god system and say, okay, I didn't do nothing,
you know, but do you not tell it's we? You know.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I also feel like then no snitching thing is an
older generation thing. Kids today do not care that no
follow that code.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
There's no code.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
First of all, I still.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Support you if you snitch. They don't care if you
have good music.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, music is all right.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Yeah, we're gonna don't play its.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Working and keep going.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And you know, so that's also something that I feel
like is ever evolving.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You know what's funny about it? We don't really I
don't know. I want to spoiler.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I don't want to say, but we deal with that.
That was a good way, you know, the way it
works when he I mean, if he snitches or not,
you gotta watch.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
But the way we dealt with it, I think it
was a good neutral place.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, we're not gonna tell too mass because.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That's too much no spoiler, but it was definitely a.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Neutral place and we did go ahead. No, I wanted
to ask a question about dating a stripper?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Oh really? Really?
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Because I just want to say, before y'all came in here,
Jasmine was like, I would be a stripper.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Listen if I had because you know, we watched the
movie if I. And I was telling Ange, if I
didn't have any money and I had a body, I
would be a stripper. She did well for herself and
she ended up with, well, I don't want to ruin
you know, but yeah, would you ever date.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
The younger me? Would? Yeah? I mean the single me?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Would you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
I don't want to go there.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I just that's how we're asking. Tell would you date
a stripper?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Or no?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
I don't want to hear nothing else, yes or no?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
No, bottle of red wine exactly.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Before we pushed off this real quick. And if you
had the perfect body, not that you don't, would you
and you were brought.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Don't And I was broken. No, I don't think I would.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I definitely.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I don't even like walking around the house naked. I
can't even see myself like being somebody either. I think
certain people are very comfortable with that. Like I have
friends who I went to school with who are very
comfortable with being naked everywhere, you know, and I've just
never been like my family.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I don't come from like a comfortable naked family.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Yeah, what what is a comfortable naked family?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You know have some families like they're very comfortable, but
like just getting changed in front of you and doing
things like that.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We're not comfortable like that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
When I was younger, my mom, not even when I
was younger, really wasn't like that.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I like, I like being naked.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I don't know, I didn't even know such a thing existed.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Listen, and this is when we had I'll never forget
when we had said of baby and skillet Baby on
lip service, they both sleep.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Like they naked.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
They do not.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
They do not want to sleep naked.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
They really, Yes, there are certain guys who will not,
like you know what, you know, all guys do not
sleep naked.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
I just thought about that.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Yeah, they don't. They don't feel comfortable. What does something happen?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
They got to get up and suburban do sleep naked?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I gotta go back to the trap, go.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Back to the hood.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You don't want to be that's true, you don't want
to be naked.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Something happened the gun out and naked.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You have a mink on with nothing and just shoot you.
Now that's another that is.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
That's a whole other movie.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Another thing I wanted to ask about is this code
of like And I feel like this happens all the time.
Somebody gets locked up and then his man ends up messing.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
With his chick. Because this happens all the time, because
that's who's close to you. Hold my girl down while
I'm gone and while I'm locked up.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
And then they're gonna pray. We're gonna pray about this.
You know he's gonna be he gonna get out, come.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
On, mar shin I help him. He might be helping financially.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Let me give you massage real quick, unless you massage,
not that.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Dude that we're gonna we're gonna pray, you know what
I mean. I'm I'm a stand up, but you get
on your can I say that I'm.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Any out the movie And so I'm glad that you're back, though.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
How are you feeling comfortable and happy that I.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Feel that God is with me right now?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And I can feel when he's not, even when I'm
drinking his asap rocky uh.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Uh No. I on a real note, I do I
feel that I'm very humbled.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I've been through a lot of hell and I got
to meet you know, great friends on my journey and
and I just I'm a different person than when you know,
I first came out, and I knew that was talented.
But it's like you not, no matter how talented you are,
if God ain't which you can't do nothing. And I'm
not trying to preach like that because I've been through it.
(20:45):
So it's like, I know, I feel that win. So
it does feel good to be It feels I'm humbled
that God will even find grace uh in somebody like.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Me for real, like to say, you've been through it.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I've been through a lot of a lot of I
lost everything. I lost everything trying to help other people.
I lost my wife, lost my family. I was on
the rooftop of lottery Take to Talk remember that same Yeah, yeah,
that was me in real life at one point.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You know it is.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
But it's like God, he always made away, you know
what I'm saying. So that's why I know it's not me.
So Trap City will be out December thirteenth in the theaters.
My new show Family Business Makes y'all see Orleans Family Bus,
New Orleans. I new uh comedy special chest out is
coming out. So y'all can hear all the stuff that
I've been through And you're still Detroit and I'm still
(21:35):
I'm still Detroit, definitely.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah. And we have two premiere one in Atlanta, one
in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Okay, it's only right.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
I'm invading both of you premiers. Uh, that's it.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I mean eleventh in Atlanta until thirteen. Troit.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Oh man, I'm we're going next week. We'll be in Detroit,
the ninth City, eleventh.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, we're coming out there to go.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Me to Troy. Yeah, we go to tr right one Monday.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
We're doing we got.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We're going for an event from Mary Sheffield.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
We love.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
But Andre and I have a thirty thirty unit building
in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
The women Towndtown really Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
They have a lot of interest in realistic Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
So he's already preleasing put me on Yeah, yeah, no,
we did.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
We definitely invested in Detroit. I think it's a great
place to invest in. I think even when it comes
to movies, Detroit is like killing the game when it
comes to doing indie films.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Yes, they got a call follows.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, in particular to Dennis read we love I Love part.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Definitely in the dentist read movie on Yes We Lovens.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Dennis is we know we made him our partners in
the nineteen nineteen distribution.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
That's my cool.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, I'm a silent I don't talk about it too much,
which they they telling me too.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I'm supposed to market. It's on marketing, y'all.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Dennis hashtag levels yes, I know, always hashtig level.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
And I want Dennis to you know, get to you know,
want him to get the shine too, because he helped,
like he molded Detroit filmmaking. He definitely had him Mula films, Mullah,
all of them. Everybody shout out to tell man, Yeah
everybody man.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
He's like, don't forget me, yeah, right here for real
and listen. We also want to dig into you being
a father. You have four children, and you're old.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
This is thirteen. I got a seven, eight and a
five year old.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay, amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Now how does that affect like decisions that you make
in life?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Oh my god, it changed me. I mean it's like,
you know, it's crazy. I'm selling these comedy clubs. I'm
still out late, coming home late. You know, it's like
it's different when you got kids that you can't wake
up and everything.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's like it's just it's a.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Different get like the night life. It changed me to
be like a day person more that was a night person, right.
You know, we go to comedy clubs, you know what
I mean, go to that one, yeah one, yeah, so,
and it's.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Like, I can't know coming to the house. You know,
you had a couple of shots.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
You gotta be like, you know, let me go take
the shower and me go pray, let me go get
all this energy off there.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And it's just different. It humbles you. I feel like
I feel like I feel I ever seen the.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Movie Hook mm hmm when Peter forgot how to fly?
Because yeah, kids and all this stuff. And then I
feel like like I'm back in neverland.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I know how to fly again. And my kids are
they're definitely my happy thoughts.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You see, we're drinking during the day. It would do
daytime things.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, you see exactly.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
I understand it because I have a three year old
and I you know.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
To me earlier, can you believe I'm a mom?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I haven't.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I cannot believe.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Look amazing. I can't believe.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Yeah, well she's my mom, but I can't believe. But
it does make it. Are you done anymore?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Let's see.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
I definitely if God blesses me with more, uh, I
definitely would definitely probably one more.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Okay, maybe a little girl.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
It's in the box office.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You don't have any girls.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I got two boys and two girls. Another girl. Yeah,
that's perfect, I.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Know, but the two youngest.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
What the boys are wild?
Speaker 8 (25:17):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Of course the two boys.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I think you people want their boys to be wild.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I don't. Nobody want no calm little listen.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
My little girl is wild.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
It always thought out cool, Like I give them an
option you want to y'all want happy daddy or mad daddy?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Right, They're like, we want happy daddy.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Then they started getting happy, you know, I started thinking
turning up, turn up.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I said, y'all want happy daddy.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
It always goes from ship.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That's your fun because that's how you are to So
they turn up like you.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
That's the schooling mysel phone going to school with it.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I don't playing them stupid games. Is popping taking you
to take YouTube from a five year old.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I have a three year old and the YouTube she'd
be It's interesting how kids watch other kids play with toys.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Toys like you don't want to just play with the
toy watch when.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
The tires run over toys? What oh it's.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
A I need you.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I'm like, get your go outside.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
It is addictive though.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Now I want to ask you also about Danzel.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I saw recently they were saying how Gladiated Too was
like the biggest movie so far, yeah for him, which
I find like, Denzel is one of the greatest of
all time. I think there's no argument when he comes
to that. But to see him talking about, Okay, I'm
winding down in my career and just now he's having
the biggest movie like of his whole entire career. For
(26:49):
you just looking at him, and I know you've gotten
advice from Denzel in the past, to you, what does
success look like for you?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Honestly, I used to wish to want to be the
biggest movie start in the world. And when I got
to a place where you know, I was working with
Eddie Murphy and and.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
It was Lawrence Martin, Lawrence and Legends.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I Actually it's so funny because I I realized what
I was afraid of today Actually m hm, Like, I
know it sounds crazy, but I was. I was scrolling
down Instagram, and I know, I don't know if it's
happened to anybody, but you ever be thinking something and
not saying it because you know if you say, they're
gonna get.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You with the ads.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
And I realized that I was holding myself back up
constantly too, So I was I was afraid of my
own power.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Once I got there, I got afraid of.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
The whoa one because our people was acting how you know,
it got weird.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
People start acting different at different So.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I don't know if if people if everybody chill out
and be cool and let's.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Just do the art, let's go, let's go home, let's
let's have a good time. For it's peace in it.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I would love to be a huge movies start again,
if God would allow that, But if it's coming with
a bunch of craziness and people telling amen, man all
that you don't love me no more?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Man, you change, but you.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Know that comes with it. I don't know if you
can have one without the other.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
I feel like on this run, I changed because all
them people that was sleeping on my couch always talking
about that they were jealous.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But now they're on the TV. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Say them names, but I definitely want.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
To know my couch.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, but it's it's it's everybody that was jealous of
me coming up there. Now a lot of them are,
which we would say bigger or more relevant right now.
And I look back and said, that was just jealousy.
I don't like that type of energy. I grew up
in the family of note it was all happy for
each other, like I'm happy.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
For Teal, like like he's putting the movie. He's putting
real quick. You gotta tell.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yourself for that, And.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
So I would.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
I would be a big I would be a big,
huge movie star. Againting if if if if if there's
a peace in it, but if it's not, I'm cool
with whatever guy has for me. I do feel like
it's gonna be another huge run, but it's it's only
if I want it, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And also the power of.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Being a producer on things too. Yeah, I see that
that's something that's important to you as well.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Yeah, I mean my executive producers would tell, you know,
we we've been through the mud. We did this together,
and uh, this this was my this was this was hard.
This was this graduate. Tropic Thunder was my graduate school
for acting. Trap City was my graduate school for producers.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
So the challenge for Brandon Angela is very simple. Right,
He's used to high level Hollywood major studio funks, right,
so exactly, and.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
To come to then.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Not today exactly, and it was a downgrade for him
to you know, be in the trenches on the.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Yeah, and it's for you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You can't do another one though, No, I love it. Now.
Speaker 8 (30:10):
You got humbled in the process of and.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Sometimes you don't even realize how good you have it
and understand the budgeting of what you're getting when you're
on these major productions. Now telling the business side of
things for anybody else, because everybody is interested in, like, oh,
I have a movie idea, I want to do this,
I want to do that. How do you recoup your money?
And how difficult is that because clearly it's still a business, right,
(30:34):
you invested money and getting this done, So for you,
what has to happen for you to be like this
was successful?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I mean obviously I have to recoup first.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Right, but how does that like?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Is that ins is that on streaming? How does that so?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So in in in the in the film like this,
we are trying to recoop through the theatrical. Then we
also try to recoop through the video on demand so
people can download. Then we're going to go to the streamer.
Then we're going to go to.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The to be.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
So we're gonna take levels, yeah, in different levels and
transchius and get the money, you know, because when we
are trying to give it to one guy, let's say
the wholesaler, Hey, the wholesaler Costco, take my movie, give
some money, I walk away. But they wouldn't do it.
So then that's why we went to theatrical route because
you know, the major streamers, Netflix wouldn't pick it up.
(31:23):
So now the momentus and theaters, everybody in the in
the brother.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Is calling okay, okay, you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
It's always like that.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
They said no, it's Hayler Perry, you know they and
then the people get behind you and that's the same.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And that's what I'm saying with with this film is like.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
This is that movie that that that I believe that
people are going to get behind because it is and
I hate to say it like this, but it's the
little engine that good movie and it is and it
is what I'm saying that because it's a good movie.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
But it's like it's David and Goliath at this point,
you know, is.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Exactly what because we're we're we're, we're we're the we're
the small film hitting theaters and we keep getting calls
for more and more theaters. They're seeing the value in it,
they see the interest, they see people calling about it
when you know, when the tickets are going on for sale.
And I called Tail and he's like, we got more theaters.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I'm like more. I was like, okay, yeah, let's go.
So it's David and Goolive right now. We're having a
good time.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
And what was it like for you making those calls
to get people to come be and because you know
acting and I know, like you said, the budget isn't
the same as these Hollywood productions, so but you also
want to make sure people are taken care of just
like you would want to be taken care of. So
for you getting such big you know, people that have
done a lot of other movies and people that were like,
oh look there goes.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
You know, like I need you for two days, yes,
in and out, in and out and out. You got it.
With these type of films, you have to shoot.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You got to shoot block shooting, you gotta you gotta
shoot out twenty three days in Uh So I would
say a month and a half to two months post
if you can, and then in three months you have
a film. I mean, films are very Once you have
a script, I can knock out a script in seventeen days.
(33:12):
Script I'm writing, I actually wrote. I got so many
script I wrote one, uh two weeks ago. That's done
with the first draft is now I gotta go over
go with that, do a dialogue past.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
But that one I'm about.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
As soon as we get this one done, I'm gonna
either either go to tail with it or maybe go
back or go to I don't know, Hollywood.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
TA.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I love y'all, but y'all be taking too long, y'all.
We don't need a movie, oh my god. But it's
it's it's it's it's.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
A challenge, you know, with these actors that you know,
calling them and saying, come do this movie, please, and
we have not a lot of money.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
So it's a lot about relationships.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Relationships. We look, we're gonna, we're gonna pay you and bacon, bitch, and.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
I come to your movie of course. Yeah, I mean,
I no offense. I'm very boosie with films. People.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I've had some other actors tell me they will come
through that movie, and I just like, Bro, you.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Know, I love movie. That's all I got.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Like, I'm not I'm not a tall man, so film,
I mean, film is my passion.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
It's like a baby.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
You don't you know what I mean, you gotta dress
your baby right, you gotta it has to be right.
And that was one of the things that you know,
men tell I'll be like, hell, come on, we gotta this, bro,
we gotta and he'd be like, Brandon, calm down, I'm
about to go meditate.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
Well you can saying the same thing.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
My meditation, looking like, because I drove him crazy, are
you like, like, how do you meditate?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Are you just quiet?
Speaker 8 (34:42):
Just quiet?
Speaker 5 (34:44):
And come back with the answer yeah, exactly, breathing, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got yeah. No, because I'd be like like, right now,
I'm talking about look, we gotta get this on the
street teams.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
We gotta get this.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
He's like Brandon, and I don't want you saying that
next time I call you my drama.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
And I meditated.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, but no, I love this and it is a
story about redemption, and it's also what sometimes people get
caught up. Like you said, trap City, you want to
leave something behind to try to like turn over newly,
but your past does sometimes catch.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Up with you.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah, and sometimes it's hard to leave things alone that
you got yourself so entrenched in.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, like like, yeah, everybody needs a second.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Lead these ladies alone.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Get out my DM. Since I, you know, cut my
hair all my DM when I had locks, I'm like
what girls like love?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
They like locks too.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
It's it's probably a different type of girl in your
DMS now, like the clean cut.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
It's different.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
I was like, okay, and to me, that's corny because
if you don't like me with locks.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
No, it's just like you made like a woman with
a certain hairstyle and then you see it like, oh, okay,
she's with short hair.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Like that's there.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Is not a superficial person, but.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
She's given the balance they like, they give that balance.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Yeah, visually, I don't care about do you like locks.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Or no, I don't mind them. I'm not a visual
part like I'm not. I don't need a super guys,
I'm not always not always always. That's not the most
important thing for me.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Prefer you not be that attractive.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
The more attractive, the more headaches, or the more money,
the more headaches. Damn when you think about it really quick.
If when you think about it, if a guy is
super fine, he's been fine since he was in kindergarten.
He always had little girls helping him with his homework,
the teacher teachers pet like it was. He comes with
a different set of like characteristics because he's always kind
of like, yeah, I got time for I like ugly.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
And then somehow you guys like something happened like I
thought I was ugly. I mean, I don't even know
if I don't know what's going on right now, Okay,
I just know that I don't know, honestly, don't.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
It's different for you because you're a public figure, like
celebrity makes people look more attractive.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Thank you for telling me, I was you fort a
chance with you? He's like, he's not, No, I mean,
you're celebrity making that.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
No, I feel like celebrity. It's a different rules, it's
a different roll.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
When I did roll bounce right, Yeah, Like I started
trying to think, what you look like? I look like
I thought it was ugly.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
I thought I was, and then I didn't. I was
always the funny, high pitched kid. They'd like, you know what,
you know the whole thing? Just did we get here
what you send some some somebody being ugly?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Or did we get understand that?
Speaker 6 (37:48):
I feel like you did. But it's fine.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, Like I need to meditate.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Let's medicate.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
I want to say something other day, he called me
out of the blue. I mean, obviously, keeping bro. I
want to thank you so much. I said, why. I'm
so excited. Man, my love life has changed.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
The home and outside. Keep the whole thing, man, don't
do the outside is wanting.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
And I'm good. Yeah, I'm not doing no more.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
No I'm doing I'm doing a scam because then they
want your money, you know.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Oh my goodness, Okay, no more, okay, good don't do that.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
How long have you been faithful? Well well not, well.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
That's a whole long story. When I went through my
crazy face, just can carry it out. I was not
a good I was not a good man to to
my family.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
So we we we we decided to. I didn't decide.
She just kicked me out.
Speaker 7 (38:59):
She decided I'm not dealing with this.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
And yeah, so from that then I started dating. Uh
And remember I.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Was out of the whole culture. I was in my
you know, spiritual thing. I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
I don't know what only fans was at the time,
so I didn't realize that, you know, girls you can date,
got websites that subscription models to and then you know,
for me personally, I'm more of a conservative guy when
it comes down to you know, but I'm not judging anybody.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
But the thing is the dating.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
What was a question?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Angel? I dated a lot. I was d you start
dating again? And you started realizing.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
That wasn't the question.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
How as long you what's the longs you've been faith
You went.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
All around you because because that when you say faithful,
it's like you're on a break or you're done that.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
You know, I'm sleeping somebody, you mess with.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Somebody, you're in a relationship. How long have you been
faithful in your relate?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
My related when we were together, I was faithful, you know,
I was faithful.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
He's still Okay, what I said, how long has it
been now? Like you've been faithful?
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Now oh yeah, I'm chilling.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Now, well we're not well, how long we're we're we
are working at we have we're really you know, we're
we're recommitting.
Speaker 6 (40:17):
It's a working program.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
I'm dating. I'm dating my ex wife again. Okay, like
that second time around, second time around? How did you
manage to get a second chance?
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Cut my hair? And I'm sure no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
She real I realized that she actually really loves me.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
And I don't do well.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
With because, like you said, celebrity stuff. I have a
lot of insecurities. Be honest, I believe sometimes I think,
you know, especially as a prices we be making up stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
I'd be like, do you love me for real? And everything.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
I think that when I found out that she really
did love me, I got my I got my stuff
to get out and say, you know what, but you
gotta be you gotta hone it in because you know,
being all.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Over the place as the artists. But what really broke
us was was.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
Was my my my my spiritual journey. I was very
harsh on you know, sometimes you know, y'all gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Weed in the Bible. Don't mix.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
If you smoke weed and read the Bible, don't do
that because you're gonna you're gonna see everything in the Bible.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
And I got really, I got overdeeped.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
And that's happened to a couple of us, you know, Lauren,
a lot of us, like we've we wanted so much
from to live a certain way because we come from
certain things. And I think that I overdid that and
I pressured things, and I think I wasn't a good
I think it made me worse. Not the Bible, but
the judgment, the judgmental of of of everything, you know.
(41:47):
I think it wasn't And I think that broke our
relationship and then it started to be so I mean,
I don't I feel I wanted to hold he talking
about the relationship.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
No, I was gonna say. Some people have the personalities
where when they do something that they do with in
extremes like you know, so sometimes that happens.
Speaker 5 (42:03):
That's why I don't do drugs, thank god, because if
I was to do drugs, I would you you would
know so, but I'm an extremer.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
You would know you would they for real and meditating.
So I think that was the that was the big thing.
But we're dating again, and okay, I'm taking this seriously.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
It's nice to be with somebody who really knows you
though too and loves you.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Like I was talking to Terrence Howard today.
Speaker 6 (42:30):
He's like, so famous, you're so famous. I was talking
to Terrence Howard.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
I'm sorry, Terrence is one of my good friends.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
Not like that, but we literally like not I mean,
we're actors with I don't I'm not saying like the
drop names, but you know, he was like, you know, Brandon,
the thing that that that that that happened to me
was you know, with my wife. I just you know
what I went through. Everybody saw in the media. Just
the thing is like, you know, I have my second chance.
(42:57):
Don't mess up your second chance. I was like, thank you, Terrence,
I appreciate that it's your time to send Brandon and
put this number in the calculator five five five.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
With that.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
No, no, he's actually y'all gotta watch when y'all see
my special.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I can't wait. I talk about that. Is it coming out?
Terrence is the real deal? Shout out to Terrence Man,
that's my bro. Man.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
You're especially gonna be like, are you doing it yourself?
Speaker 2 (43:20):
I produced it myself, but a lot of people want it.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Yeah, that's the best way to go because that's how
you get it's done.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I'm sure. I'm sure you the trailer when we when
we cut the did try to get it well?
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Well, no, Tell Tell was was a busy doing Trap.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
City, but I was.
Speaker 8 (43:37):
I was tapped in the track.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
He was trapped in the trap I was shooting over here.
No I know. I told Tell about it. He's like,
let me finish getting Trapped City off the ground.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
Because for me, I'm I'm running like I'm writing a
movie called Transit right now.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Got that.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
I got my show making a brand that I'm doing it.
It's a It's a ghetto shark tank. If you ever
want to us, it's a hood shark tank. It's pretty much. Uh,
it's wild'ing out in shark time. People picture their ideas
and we just clown them.
Speaker 6 (44:05):
Let's do it. Yeah, we want to be on a
judge people.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Shirt lines exactly. It's gonna be crazy. It's just straight fun.
Is the full little show?
Speaker 5 (44:14):
So shoot fifteen episodes independently, I might put it on
Zeus shout out to people.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Want yeah, let me, he's my childhood friend. Yeah, let me.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
He's like in the church, was growing up in the
church world.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
To let me and my father to let me. Father
and my father were like this. My father was on
his dad's network.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
That's and that's how let me know how to run
a net.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Network because his father's hate. My dad was like the talent.
And but my dad bought the network from his father. Okay,
so oh wow, yeah, so it's like a thing. And
then he became Then he got Zeus. Baddy's church, baddies church.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Wow, all right, we bring the church. No, let me,
let me and let me. We we've been. We've been,
we been that Batti's Midwest now to yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
He's doing you know, I'm very I'm very proud of
his his uh just it's amazing, just how he I
remember when he pitched.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
It was called black Box.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
One at first, and then he came and called me
and said, I think I'm I'm calling Zeus.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I said Zeus. I said Zeus. And at the time,
you know, I was in my mold. I was like that,
ain't Jesus. I know zeus.
Speaker 6 (45:30):
Listen, I remember what he did preachers at l A. Like, yeah,
well he's to produce shows for BT.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
I mean he came but he came up.
Speaker 6 (45:37):
That ain't Jesus right, because we all came up.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
We all came up in the church, So you're right.
But I'm proud of his success. He actually he said
he's gonna he wants to he wants to run the
special too.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
He's one of the Well he saw it. He was like, yo,
b I know it's funny. This is a little bit. Actually,
I'm gonna try.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
I don't need to curse, but actually cut a lot
of the cursing out, and I watched it back. I'm like,
you know, I really don't need to curse, but I
don't want to. I don't want to be pigeonholed. He's
a clean comic.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Guys, come on out to the Yeah the Hall, we
are you comedy show. I never I'm a rebel with
all of.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
It, but I think excessive cursing is too much. Yeah,
it's gotta be like intentional cursing.
Speaker 8 (46:19):
Exactly to make a point.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
And and and my next special I'm writing right now
is called Classy Rebel I'm a classy there.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
It is like that, a class that is who you.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
I'm over I'm over it. I'm not too Hollywood. Am
I too?
Speaker 5 (46:31):
Hood?
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Am I to church? Not too?
Speaker 5 (46:33):
You know what I'm saying cocky, but sometimes I am.
I'm a classy rebel. You're not gonna catch me, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Like a meditating thug.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Yeah, I'm meditating. That's a joke. Let me write that down.
Speaker 6 (46:49):
For horror films. For horror films. She loves horror movies.
She likes to write them. She's she's always telling me
different synopsis in her mind. She loves horror.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
No tail invest right here the fact meditating. I don't
like how you laught. That's funny.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
All right, Well, you guys, the movie isn't theaters December thirteen,
Whoa and Atlanta the screening is on eleventh, Yeah, and
then the premiere and then in Detroit the premiere is their.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
Okay, the movie releasing on the thirteens.
Speaker 6 (47:23):
Okay, perfect gradualy yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Thirty cities, seventy theaters of today.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
He relaxed. Now he got that one, and like it's
coming out.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
No strippers, all right, but thank you guys.
Speaker 8 (47:40):
Super Brandon, I'm not listen.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
I'm out. I'm out. I'm out the trap, trap City here.
Thank you, Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Good thank you.
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