- No, no, no, no.
Dawg, you would die for them.
- Real talk.
- See, that's what cats out here be running their mouth.
You ain't willing to die for what you're saying
but I'm willing to die over what you sayin'.
- Comedian mogul.
Best-selling author actor.
The list goes on.
He's a legend.
Steve Harvey.
I present to some and introduce to others,
The man, the myth, the legend himself.
Steve Harvey.
- I like that.
Yeah. Yeah.
- What's up bro?
- What's up man.
It's a pleasure, man.
- Man. I got you.
I got you.
Y'all laced up and ready.
Gotcha Scotch per your request or we gotcha
Cigar. You know what I'm saying?
a darker blend.
Know what I mean?
Boom. And we can just start it off.
Simple with a little sip of (mumbles)
Would you like to make the first toast?
- All right.
- There ya go. Yessir.
- All right, here is to everybody that gets up
and keeps getting up. Every time you fall, rise again.
Yes, sir.
- Yeah. Appreciate you, brother.
- You got the good stuff. - So, this is Sip N Smoke,
Where- number one, this is a candid conversation.
You feel me?
You the OG in the game, one of the pioneers
of black excellence from the entertainment standpoint.
Well, you know, I just started off for me.
Take me through the world of, of, of, of Steve.
When you just have this big accomplishment, you just
sign a deal, you create something
That's like what you're drinking, what's your smoking.
- I try to reward myself along the way, you know
I've uh I take everything in levels.
You know, like I reward myself as I accomplish.
I don't just reward myself as I want things.
- Right.
- When I see something I want, I attach it to a goal.
- Wow.
- That keeps the drive alive.
I'll always keep the goals out in front of me.
And then when I do reach the goal
that's the reward. Cigars for me, it's like yoga
to a lot of people because it's a breathing exercise.
You know, it's a moment to reflect.
It's it's really, it's not the flavor, it's tobacco,
- Right.
It ain't the flavor - these ain't delicious, you know?
it's tobacco, you know what I mean?
But what it is, it symbolizes accomplishment for me.
So I get to sit down and breathe
and take in my moment and, and, and enjoy the ambience
of where I am and the accomplishment that I made.
And it trains your brain to always aim for something.
- Right.
- See what hurts us, man
when we start making money is when we first make money.
We've been without so long,
- right.
- That we just, we just go buy.
And I did it in the beginning too.
You know, one of my first piece of money I made
I spent all of it cause I had nothing.
- Right.
- But as I learned over the years, man, I, I, you know
I started tapering that down
and I started working towards rewards, you know?
- With this new show
this is something that people haven't necessarily seen me
in. They used to see me with a, with a football
in my hand, helmet on, being an athlete, gave me some things
some do's and don'ts that you can empower me
with to go to the next level.
- Well, I mean, the first thing that's kept me relevant
for so long it's authenticity.
I think you can't be in, in front of the camera
for a sustained period of time and not be authentic.
- Right.
- Because you can't fake the funk but
for so long. Authenticity is the best thing you could do.
You just got to be Cam, no matter what
now that's going to come back to bite you sometimes,
- Right.
- Because everybody don't want the real Cam
Newton all the time.
Everybody don't want the real Steve Harvey
every time. I've just grown up to be authentic on TV.
I'm myself.
This is how I talk.
You know, look, man, they told me long time ago
they said, "Oh, you gonna have to change the way you talk.
If you wanna stay on TV
because you to country and your grammar ain't correct."
So I said, "well, let me ask you a question
which one of these sounds best to you?"
"I am broke" or "I me is rich"?
Now, which one of them sound best to you?
- ME?
- I went with I me is rich.
So if I change all the way I am
I'm gonna mess around and be broke.
- But a lot of times, people, people forget that and
they look at me, they look at what I wear,
they look at how I talk.
They look at how I look. And I used to always say to people
especially when I came into the league
it was like, you know, this is the blueprint
the drew breeze, the Tom Brady's, the Peyton Manning's,
these type of players, the Steve Young's, right?
And, and for me, I was like, yeah, that's fine.
But I'm from Atlanta, Georgia.
A lot of those athletes they're great in their own right,
But in order
for me to impact and to empower my community
I need to be me for the kid that sees me being
and doing the things that I'm doing
and the things that I'm accomplished.
They can be able to relate to it and say, man
"Cam came out of these streets.
I can come out on the streets."
- Right
- You said something that's very impactful about Muhammad
Ali, you know, growing up in the sixties
he was the first person that
that you heard as a black person say, "I'm great."
And you believed him.
- He gave me hope.
You know, I'm a little kid, man.
"I am the greatest."
I went what?
And it implanted in my mind
that I could be great at something too.
You don't get paid money to be ordinary.
- They don't, they don't pay to see humble.
From a fathers lens
what advice could you give me being a father
by allowing your children to step in their own greatness.
- The thing I've learned about fatherhood, ain't no manual.
Ain't no blueprint for raising your kids
and you have to allow them because they are going to
so it's not you allowing them.
They're going to make mistakes,
- Right.
- And you have to allot for those mistakes.
Because wh- no matter what you teach them
as a parent they, one day are going to make a decision thats
completely adverse to everything you've ever taught them.
Just stay with them because they gonna make mistakes.
And you got to keep loving them.
Now, my sons
they are a little bit different. When they make mistakes
they can come to me.
But I got that "You got to figure this out."
- Right. - I'll give it to them.
But one day you got to be the head of a household.
You got to be somebody's husband, somebody's father.
It's going to require toughness.
So I'll make them struggle a little bit more.
My daughters is different.
I'm protective of them.
If you attack my daughters or my wife, I'm coming for you.
I'm real protective of them.
But as a parent, man, you got to let them grow.
- We both have something in common and raising
a step daughter, raising a step son, raising a child
that didn't biologically come from you.
It takes a hell of a man.
- All day.
- So for me, how does that change?
How is the growth?
Because there is some disconnect.
There is some type of, I'll say, some mental tampering
that you have to disassociate and say, because
it's a man that has such an ego.
You can be, you can feel so great.
And if this child says
you're not my dad, it can make you feel, there's this small.
- Oh, look, man, I don't.
- So how do you, how do you handle it?
You know, taking on that type
of responsibility in this day and age
- You don't man.
I done been through it because you know
when I married, Marjorie, Marjorie had three children.
The challenge in that man is that, I mean, you know, I
one time or one of them said to me, you ain't my daddy.
And then my question was okay, but where he at though?
You know?
Cause I get tight too.
Don't, don't step to me disrespectful
because I'm doing the job and men who take
on another man's responsibility that should
that should be a day for them.
Right. You know, really.
I mean cats like me and you who step
up who play fathers when cats done walked away
from their responsibility, that's a different kind of man.
- It does take a hell of a man to be able to look a person
in their eye and have the same, love, the same compassion.
If it came out
to a life or death situation, you won't even blink.
- You would die for them.
- Right.
- See, that's what cats out here be running
they mouth, you know, Oh, you don't understand.
I will die for them. Now, whatever you saying and
that yakety yak you talkin',
You ain't willing to die for what you saying
but I'm willing to die over what you said.
Now that's a different dude here we talking to now.
So, We talkin, we talking about a grown ass man, now
- I need to ask this question.
When did it click for you?
You were a boxer, auto worker, an insurance salesman
a carpet cleaner, and a mailman.
Now, you got your own show, a bestselling author,
a TV host, a radio personality, an actor, a mobile, right?
Like when did it click?
- Everything starts in your imagination.
That's what young people got it.
If I could tell a young person.
So believe in your imagination, because imagination is real.
I was writing jokes
for this comedian named AJ Jamal when I was 27 years old.
- Right.
- And I didn't know what he was doing with the jokes.
He would give me $10 for writing a joke for him.
But he was going to comedy clubs using them.
I had never heard of a comedy club.
So he'd give me $10.
And so one day I was over his house, turning in these jokes
and this girl named Gladys Jacobs was over there
and she said, "You the one that writes AJ Jamal's jokes?"
I said I write some of em, I don't know what's happening
She said, "why don't you tell the jokes yourself?"
I said, "how?"
She said, "why don't you go to comedy club?"
And I said, "what is that?"
She said, "you don't know what a comedy club is?"
And I said, "no", she said "you should come."
So she took me to the comedy club
which was in Cuyahoga falls, Ohio 40 minutes from Cleveland.
I went up there, man.
And I wo- had wrote some jokes
for the dude that I hadn't sold him yet.
So I just started doing the jokes.
They had a clap off, I won amateur night, $50.
We drivin home that night and I'm crying the whole way home.
And she said, why are you crying?
It ain't but $50.
I said, no, no I'm born.
I said, this what I'm gonna do.
That was October 8th, 1985.
- Looking back on your rise to fame
Do you think if you had social media
would it have benefited your career
or would it have, you know, would you have benefited more
or benefited less having it or not having it?
- I'll tell you like this, like the Kings of comedy,
We existed in 97, 98, all the way to 2000 with no social
media, they didn't even do a newspaper article
on us until the third year we was on tour.
We were selling out basketball arenas everywhere.
- So you had Bernie Mac, rest his soul, DL Hughley,
Cedric The Entertainer,
- That's right.
- And yourself.
- That's right.
Ced my best friend, right?
I ain't never laughed so hard at nobody in my life
Than Ced The Entertainer.
You know, we've been together, me and Ced met in 88.
Yeah. We've been friends ever
since. We was the Steve Harvey show,
we was the Kings of comedy.
I mean, my career was tied to
he is if it wasn't for Ced, man
I probably wouldn't even be here at the level I'm at today.
- That's remarkable.
We got a segment on this show where we do the nightcap.
I ask the same question and it's
it's up to your discretion how you want to answer it. Right?
- Okay.
- So the nightcap consists of this
Steve Harvey: what's now?
And what's next?
And is there anything you would like to do
that you haven't done yet?
- Your careers what you're paid for, your calling is what
you're made for. Right now, for me,
I'm more in the motivational space
than I am the comedy space, to teach
and share the information I've learned since 1985
And before. It's two things you can't Google.
You can't Google experience and you can't Google success.
Yo ass gotta get out there and get it.
- Gotta get it.
- Ain't no elevator to the top.
You got to take the stairs.
- The steps.
- Like I know I'm getting older, you know
I'm 64 years old. Fly as hell though.
You know what I'm saying?
Cause you looking to get your camera to zoom in.
I'm fly.
No, I don't let nobody take that from me.
You can say what you want to say.
I'm 64 and still relevant.
- Steve, my brother. The OG, Uncle Steve.
- Yeah.
- I appreciate you for blessing us
with your presence on sip and smoke, man.
It was an honor- a honor, man.
And I don't want you to take that lightly
or the viewer to take that lightly.
You know, you dropped some major gem stones in today
and I just want to say thank you for your blessings.
Appreciate you guys for tuning in.
- Hold on.
Cam, let me say something to you.
So there's an African proverb, "Lions don't turn around
when small dogs bark." Don't even turn around dog.
You a lion.
- Yes, sir.
When them small dogs is barking, you ain't even got turned
around. Cause you turn right.
You could snap there.
So if a lion turn around on a small dog, that
bitch is fixing to fold.
He fit in the folding crumble.
Keep walking through the jungle man.
Cause you, you a lion.
Lions don't turn around when small dogs bark.
- Man, I'm gonna take that.
- That's you, man.
- Appreciate that, Steve.
- I'm glad you havin me down here, this is a dope ass spot.
- You got to same Muhammad Ali pictures I got.
- I appreciate everybody tuning them.
Sip and Smoke.
I'm your host cam Newton with the unbelievable guest
Steve Harvey.
I'm signing off. One finger, one pinky, one thumb, one love
- Usin the bag.
You don't have the opportunity to-
- Nah, I can't say none of this on family feud.