But I will say this too about COVID too.
It got people start thinking about your life too.
Like, get your life in order. Get everything in order. You know,
get yourselves a will, get yourself trust,
get some life insurance.
Hmm.
Black people, I'm tired of supporting fish fries.
I swear to God I am. Just...
You know how many fish fries you gotta sell to raise $8,000?
N----, just, let's stop it. Just be responsible.
N---- be like, "Fish fry, $5 a plate."
N---- it's $10,000 to bury this n----.
How many fishes are we gonna fucking fry to bury this n----?
This is too much.
We still selling these goddamn fish... You know what I'm sayin'?
We ain't even sellin' catfish no more. We sell some other shit.
Don't nobody eat perch. Nobody eat perch.
We up here trying to sell fish fries.
Let's just get some life insurance and be responsible.
Now, I got it, but I don't tell people how much I got,
'cause I don't want my family to start
looking at me different, you know?
People see how much you worth, that's when they, you know...
I don't want to come home one day and my son is like,
"Man, I'm short, man I need some money,"
and I walk in, he go, "Ooh, there it go right there. There it is."
You know?
'Cause during that too, me and my son, we got a little closer.
And one of the things I love about parenting
is just, like, watching your child grow.
Uh, my son's 31.
And one of the things I love about it and then I hate too,
is like... matter of fact, Royale, he was just up here.
Royale got two sons, they doing well and he brag about it.
He's like, "One about to graduate from Howard,
another about to graduate from--"
And I'm like this, "Roy, don't nobody give a fuck
what your kid's doing."
'Cause when your kid not doing well,
you don't give a fuck about nobody else's child.
'Cause I'm like this, "Roy, don't nobody give a fuck that your
kid's graduating. N---- go on with your bullshit, fuck."
My son don't even like school. This n---- just...I can't...This n----.
School ain't his thing. Never.
Every year, elementary, "This ain't my thing, Daddy."
"Okay, well, n----, you in the fourth grade."
"You don't want to wait to figure this shit out?"
"N---- this the fourth grade, son. How you know
that this ain't your thing, in the fourth grade? This n----."
I realized at a very young age too. Now most of you in here,
if you have kids, you know the sticker you get to put on your car,
it's like "Student of the month" or, "Great student"?
N---- at third grade, I was like,
"I'm never going to have one of them stickers ever."
This n---- gonna deny me that, and, my God, he did.
That n---- never got one of them.
Attendance was fucked up. This n---- awful.
Then he got to college and, "Daddy, this ain't really my thing."
"Again? Again, n----? Just... What is your thing?"
"I don't know, Dad. I'm into music."
I said, "Well son, let me tell you something, if you ever find a job
that you love, you'll never work a day in your life."
He's like, "Okay."
My son's a DJ.
I'm like, "Okay..."
I can't say nothing 'cause the n----
one hit away from me moving in with him. So I can't say nothing.
You know what I'm saying? 'Cause right now,
I be like, "This n---- struggling,"
but if he go, "Yo, Daddy, I just got signed, Dr. Dre."
"My n----, I knew you was gonna make it, boy."
"Boy, I...N-----, I'm your soldier for you, n----."
"I'm going to pack and leave my wife and move in with you."
"That's what you need, you need a father in your life, n----."
You know.
But COVID hit and shut down everything in the Bay Area
so he couldn't DJ anymore.
So he's just trying to you know, find some work.
I was like, "Son, shit's hard for everybody."
"I can't keep giving you money. You gotta find it."
This n---- calls me one day, "Dad, I went to apply for a job. I got one."
I was like, "Where?"
He's like, "A dispensary."
I was like, "You got a job at a dispensary?"
He's like, "Yeah, Dad. Yeah."
"I found my thing, Dad. I found my thing."
This n---- has been there for a year and a half.
He ain't missed work one day as a...
I asked him, "How many hours do you work?"
He was like, "70, 80 hours." I was like, "N----, that's impossible."
He's like, "No, I volunteer a lot, Daddy. I'm..."
So, I went up and visited where he's working at.
This n---- picture is up.
This n---- had been employee of the month seven straight times.
I was like, "N---- what the fuck is this?"
He was like, "Yo, I gave one to somebody else. I let them have it."
This n---- know all the strains and everything.
He'll tell you about all the stuff.
And then he tell me sometimes, 'cause we cool like that,
"Dad, I got this new...this new, I want you to hit,
me and you sit down, get high, get, you know, chill."
I'm like, "Okay, first of all, what you talking about?"
He like, "This Killer Kush."
"First of all, son, the title says 'Killer Kush.'"
I'm in my goddamn 50s.
I wish I would smoke something that say "killer n---- just..."
Yeah. And he was like, one time, my son was like,
"We should pop a molly Daddy and just chill."
"N----, I am your father. Who the fuck do you think we are?"
We not that fucking cool, son, to be sitting here talking about we
popping mollies. I'm somewhere sweating n---- with my shirt off.
Somebody like, "Who that? Is that your daddy?"
I'm walking around, my stomach out,
"Y'all good up in here? Y'all good up in here?"
Like, "What is he doing?"
This n---- in there. I'm doing this shit...
The kid is like, "What is wrong with the old dude?"