Michael B. Jordan

the chosen a few come on preaching. We've we've watched this young man grow from just smell a little bud, smeller the seat, through the wire, through the wire, smell little buds the seat, into the biggest superstar in the world, our friend in the building. Yeah he wops. Okay, this is who game. We're still working on this Who game. But but he's still a good friend. Makes might Yeah, man, graddri it's cooling. Finally Snigger brought oranges. He brought oranges.

Its acute orange is a cute one one did not bring. I ate the rest of him on the ride over here. He's a solo artist. Damn you understand what the team player. He's a solo artist. It's crazy like we see Frank, but he ain't got no cute that all Frank ugly Well, Frank is all beard. He said he don't have at he thought he might be, thank you, my brother, the

thank you for joining us. Man. I know you are. Um, you're on a world win um of a tour um and life has just been really good as it has um from the inside looking in, from the outside looking there, and um as we've known you for so long. UM, you deserve it. Thank you, man, you deserve it. Appreciate it. You work hard, you got the gift, and you're only getting better, which is very scary, very scary. No boy directing there, no, no listen, listen. Yeah, you're gonna you

You're gonna eat everything on the say. I mean, there's some things on the table. I didn't even see yet, so I gotta you know, I'm at this part of the table. But this there's there's a there's a there's a lot of a lot more table to go through. So let's let's do it. Let's let's do a kind of a fast track. Let's do We want to keep you long, but we want to get to some information.

Let's do a fast track. Let's do let's start at Let's start at that first phone call after after after the magical audition, and someone says you got the part which part which one. The first one was the Wire, the first one major role for Whire wasn't the first one. Hardball was probably the first ball. Yeah yeah, I mean

baby Baby still trying to prove he wasn't. I I would say, you know, the Wire, the Wire, No, sorry, Hardball was probably the first one that really had me travel, you know, part of an ensemble cast, you know, per diem you know what I'm saying. You know, it was real. It was real, you know, like like you know, just the whole production of like making a feature film. That was like my first kind of introduction to like the game on that level, working with you know, Keanu Reeves

and Diane Lane, you know, just um, it was. It was one of those projects at the time. He was shooting The Matrix, so we didn't even know what that was going to be, you know what I'm saying. So it was I think he was in the process of shooting it. We met Lawrence Fishburn. He took us out to dinner one time, all the kids and stuff like that. We met Lawrence Fishburn and stuff like that. So you call him Larry Larry, I didn't. I can call him

Glad No. But but but I think that was the first I was the first kind of like, you know, okay, I can I think I could do this? Is this is cool. I'm more curious about the industry, you know, understanding a little bit of the fundamentals of what acting is. Before that was just kind of like just showing up, reading the lines and you know, and trying not to

you know, fuck up. But that one was the first time I think I'm kind of teetered into the realm of like a character and like how to like you know, so to speak. So, yeah, so are you in school at this time? I'm in school, you know what I'm saying, getting like tutor, you know what I'm saying. So I'm

just skipping a lot of days of school. But at the same time, you know, there's a there's an on set teacher that you got put in a certain amount of hours in that you know, us and the rest of the kids will you know, do a couple hours of school and then and then get back to work. So when does school change? When is it you go back after to like regular to regular school, went back to Harriball regular school. Uh, And at that point, you know, you're still in the acting tip. You know, what I mean,

you're still hustling, You're still trying to with that. I'm like, you not a star at school. I mean I'm Hollywood, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I think everybody that's trying to do something in the entertainment industry in like middle school, high school becomes Hollywood no matter what, like that's your nickname. They're not really that creative outside of that, it's like Hollywood. It's like what it is? So like that was the like a cheer, like yay, Like nobody

understood it. I mean, how could you you know, you're doing something that's so against the norm. And where are you New y So, nort New Jersey doing that? Uh you know yeah yeah, So I'm sure that's tough. You're from Brick City and you're going to do movies and because it's just it's just it's not normal. It's not how do they process it? I mean, ain't for nobody

really process you know what I'm saying. But for me, you know what I'm saying, it was it was it was you know, leaving school early, going auditions, mission days of school. You know, you might see a you know, a model's ad in the Sunday paper or toys or rest add or you know, a little Freedo with those the de rito's, uh you know value pack with the little like you know points on the back of it. You were collecting like buy something off the you know,

out of the book. Like, yeah, I was a little kid in that, you know, shit like that I was doing. And then you know, then the wire kicked in and all my children, Yeah, and then it was you know, was on the story. It was the storytories. Man. Yeah, you didn't know that. I did know that. I know something I don't know. He's probably watching the stories. No, my mama watched Mama grandmama had the stories a lock,

That's what it was. So like all my children was definitely where I kind of like learned like the work ethic of acting like the actual Yeah, because they locked then yeah, I mean you do like one hundred and you know, episode and a half a day, one hundred hundred plus pages a day, you know what I'm saying. Plus yeah, they're cranking them daily. Tyler Perry before Tyler Perry,

what I mean, soaps is some machine. I mean there is no like you know, you rarely get multiple takes, so It's like if you didn't if you ain't study, if you ain't know your shit, the next day it will be on air and people will be watching you fuck up. So like you only need one and two those so you like, no, no, no, should no, no what. I'm gonna be prepared. I'm gonna know my ship better

than anybody. So like that was kind of like, yeah, and when and when that did you move to LA to do the Stories or were you still I was in New York, so like, so after I finished the soap operas, that's when I moved. Once I wasn't going to college, I was like, all right, I'm not going to school. I'm gonna move to LA. I'm gonna keep pursuing this thing. And so so right after I finished my my run on the Stories, I up and moved

to uh to La. That's what y'all scoundrels. Yeah that time, man, Yeah, part boy, And what was that transition like for you coming from New York coming to LA And maybe the chase is different, maybe the you know, the process is different. Just now being in Hollywood versus being in that space in the middle. I feel like the grind was like I had a work ethic and developed a work ethic

from like being on the East Coast. It was just a certain level of like grit and like just wanting to go get it that really kept me locked in out here in LA and then seeing the pace of La is a little bit different than it is, not a little bit a lot different than it is on the East Coast. So just yeah, just the you know, just being hungry when we want to like, you know, lock in sacrifice. You know, the one thing I did was hooping audition. That was it. We rarely went out,

you know what I'm saying. Like, well, besides when me and Sterling was promoting you hooped? What mean? League? Come on, I'm just asking listen, y'all know if y'all you know you who? If who you know too? Because I mean I know y'all know you and I have we got championship. Oh my lord. You know what I'm saying. Y'all were playing a political game a lot longer than me. So you had already knew that you had the politics with Shane, you had to do this, and that you got the

little Stack team and play with your friends. I would just have stucky to get on the squad. This is the worst time I heard that. Yeah, team, I mean you had team chemistry, y'all play with who y'all wanted to play with? I got, I got my homie and then everybody else. Yeah, I had got, I got place for a team, You had your home, you had who was he? Did you not long it took to get league? When you finally got it, he shot for all the seasons.

So yeah, scored thirty five? You shot eighty times. You know y'all lost, right, I don't let you get that A little boy like that, man, Yeah, maybe maybe fifty times. Because I got I got a championship with my first team. So you write about the politics though, because my first team we won and who I finally got me Jamie fob Yes, Corey Hardrick, King Spurs, Okay, we were the King. I was on the King's Corey Hardrick. Uh Roderick fucking Roderick right man? Yea, yeah, yeah, come on. Roger Kenneth

Career was on my team. Uh time, Marcus Polk, Charlie Burrell and Brione we had and then when I finally got JN they put him on an island and he

was taking forty shots. He was averaging thirty two. Yeah for y'all um, now, but that was that was the beginning of really all of our relationships due the Entertainment League, you know what I mean, where we really built our bond with each other and everybody started to just get get to know each other because they were there were people in the league that it was just like, uh, yeah, yeah, du talented, but I don't really fun with him. Yeah, you know what I mean, And that's just life and that,

you know, I mean. In an interesting thing, I felt like the league kind of brought that concept of how if you do make it to one of the professional leagues, you're dealing with multiple people and multiple personalities because what we do is very singular, like even with you go to your trailer, like we found we found out that. Okay, now we're in a locker room with each other. Now

we're going to eleague parties. Now it's like damn, they're sanctioned things and they taking all star teams to different cities and guys are participating in that, and you start realizing, like, yo, who's a real person. Yeah, Like you know, I remember when we first really got cool and and it was something it might have been an egg event and he was like, man, just gonna pick me up. And I'm like, all right, shit, little far As here at the time, way out, all right, we're picking about and but just

building those relationships and finding people within this industry. Man shout out to Shane, shout out, Shane. Put something together that really connected a lot of us that we've kept going and then even you know, me creating with Tank the R and B money run for years that now it's like, you know, I had to like calm it down because start going viral and like take put your phone up, tut of these phone calls that you know

you were a part of. Chris Brown and pulled up and you know, the brim Brothers and Jamie Fox and but somewhere safe that you know, we're not gonna get some food that just want to hack us exactly because that, you know, because we do other stuff, because we have something to do it. It is what I'm always trying to tell Jay Valentine. I do other things. Yeah, but he knows I have shows on the weekend, right, but on the fastest break, he wants to hack my wrist,

He wants to hack my fingers. This is the money making part of the ball. This is hands are not part of the ball. Where is your client manage me? You know what times I quit? I can't even imagine. It doesn't matter. You wasn't getting a shout out. It's okay, all right, out of this basketball place. Nobody plays better

than me. Oh my lord. Did you ever feel any downtime or or any lag or pc yourself in a space where you were at a crossroad and trying to really figure things out to get to that next level? Oh yeah, I mean I would say the summer maybe before I booked Red Tails, I would say was probably one of the crossroads for me. I was like, all right, this is the last rent check I got. I don't overdrafted everything I could overdraft and borrow money from every

out I could think of. This doesn't work out this month, I'm heading back to Jersey, and you know, we were gonna figure it out. We're gonna you know, I don't know what I'm gonna do, but we're gonna we're gonna figure it out. Um. And then audition for it, booked it.

That found out that thing's giving that that I had got the role, and that was like the first time that I had enough money that I could actually stack, I was like, okay, cool, I could pay off everything I need to pay off this, put a little something up. I can stay out here for another six months, you know what I'm saying, et cetera, et cetera. And then literally the jobs just kept I kept booking from there.

It was just kind of like that kind of opened up the floodgates for me, and then it just kind of continued from that moment. So I would say, like when I moved out here, you know, I was still booking like little episodics, you know what I'm saying, guest starring roles on you know, Cside or Lauren Order or whatever it was. I was cool, but I was getting

to know town. I was getting no casting directors. I was getting to know, like, you know, the players that are in there, that are in the you know, the entertainment world. And also you know, the executives and the casting directors loved the shows that I was doing, so like it was the work that I was doing that they would see that either if they didn't like it, their wife loved it. You know what I'm saying, Oh my god, my husband loves you. Oh my god, my

wife loves you, like, let's come in. So like it was like this invested interest of like, you know, certain people in town to kind of keep me booked them busy, I guess a little bit. So that that was that was that was a good run. But you know, I would say that when I first moved out, it was like still booking jobs but still dead broke. So like yeah, you like, oh yo, that's wasn't name from the wire, but I'm like, yeah, but I'm me and Sterling's applying at Jack in a box or like you know what

I mean, and like no, y'all overqualified. Like it was a moment where it was like, yeah, we were going to fast food spots um trying to you know, apply for jobs, and it was like one of those moments sitting in the car before we went there, it was like, Yo, we're about to do this shit. Are we about to apply for goddamn fast food right now? And these nigs gonna know who I am, So it's not like, oh, it's like a random person Like no, that's the tough spot.

I was willing to take the l you know what I'm saying, and like and deal with the you look familiar, are you the you know what I'm saying, just the kind of definitely was gonna get that with a number eight. He didn't even know that he could have just called me out of the game a quarterdouns. He didn't realize that, you know what I mean, I am on the back you know a hey man Wallace, Wallace, I know, I know you man. Nah nah the time take your food to keep it quishing. Um the fast food. I listen.

I remember being in ranch of Couca Manga after the money when the money was low and I was I had a I had a rented Lincoln town car that I was hiding from the rental company. Okay, um the story, okay, it was taking. It took off because I had you know, they had a two bedroom. There was only like so I took off the ranch. All got in there. You

picked me up around that area. So we were deep and I'm looking at this best Buy like I could pack boxes here, I could I could stack some box right, because if you go do the like the open night and made me trying to figure it out though, but hanging out with box right and it looking like yeah, everything was together when him at the party and I'm right next to him and the almost was rubbing. It's like, okay, they're doing it. And then I drive that the town

car back to back to ranch show. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, that rubber really meets the road and trying to figure out what that next movie. That's the entertainment business in a nut show. Yeah, because it's it's about staying the course. It's about staying out here or wherever that is. That that's that you're close to the work that will one day you'll wake up and you'll get that phone call that it changes for you, you know what I mean. Like I remember having a conversation

with you. He's like, I gotta go to the bay. I was like to the bay and he was like, it's a movie out there. It's like it's an indie movie. And the crazy thing is, you know our relationship and my relationship with with our fellow brother Tristan Wild. He also was supposed to be part of that movie and got sick when he was doing UM nine two one zero And I remember you called me and you were like, bro, this this movie is is special. And at first you didn't tell me what it's about you, just like you,

you know. And then I never forget this. You said you should come up here. I was like why, and he was like, no, nig because you're from the Bay. I'm telling you you could just play one of the parts. And I was like, ning, I'm not an actor. I knew you setting me up there, but I could say brow three times in the movie and I'm like, nah, I'm cool. I mean you told He was like, he finally told me what the movie is about with Oscar Grant, and I was like, oh shit, I knew about the

whole thing. I was like, this is about it's about to be different. This is going to be different. And the crazy thing is my cousin at the time was going to college or before. But before that, with Ryan, your cousin was the number one linebacker in the nation of the time. He go to sc him and Ryan both from Oakland. They linked and him he already telling me about him. And then you like, hey man, this

young director out the Bay. He got this great idea and and what you did with that movie it represented us so well with you not being from the Bay, like just not aside from us all being black men, but just the Bay Area. We have a very like it's a particular island that we live on out there right there. It's just so different from the rest of the West Coast. But the rest of the world. We got our own language, we got our own the way

we dressed. It's just we live in our own world. Tanker, tell you go up there, he'd be like, I enjoyed myself. I love it, but it is different. So to capture that and the way you captured it, bro, I don't even know if I've ever even told you over all these years, like you really made me proud of just a friend because I didn't see my friend anymore. Ye, And that's a huge part, you know that with acting. I did not see Mike, you know what I mean, Like I saw you playing Oscar and I'm like, oh,

he he did this such a great service. I appreciate that. So thank you from us, No, no, thanks all mine. And just be able to like embody that that character and that you know that moment in time. You know me, I was real pissed off around that time just in general, just like it was a lot you know, shooting's going on.

Trade by Martin just got shot. There was a lot, a lot, a lot of shit going on in the world, and like that was an outlet for me to kind of express myself the way I could, which is through the work. You know what I'm saying, And then you know,

and say something. You know what I'm saying. So so you know, meet and Ryan and you know, going through all the steps, so moving up there and living and staying in you know, you know, just you know, in close proximity to to you know, Oscar's friends and family, you know, people that you know. I had had to get to know him through the people that knew him

the best, you know. And that was my first time really doing like a like a real deep dive like that, you know, as far as doing like a real the real homework, you know what I'm saying, and like and and so so for me, it was doing a bunch of things. I got a chance to say something, I got a chance to prove that could carry a film, you know. But then also I represent you know, so many other you know, Trayvion Martins and Oscar Grants throughout the world. You know what I'm saying that that don't

get their stories told. You know what I'm saying that doesn't get an opportunity to you know, to get justice, you know what I'm saying. So so yeah, that movie meant a lot, checked a lot of boxing for him. I want to get to the where are you going? You know? I want to get to the I want to get to the Blockbuster. It's happening right now. But I just want to ask you one question before we get to the you know, to the series of of amazing,

amazing body of work that you've got. Appreciate that, um, because we see, like we've we've been in Hollywood for quite some time, and we kind of understand the overtones and then the undertones of how this thing kind of moves and shakes and and the question I wanted to ask you is like, why do you think it's you?

Out of all the people you've come up with, and out of all the people you know, you've worked with, that you know put in the work and who are talented and you are amazing, is only talented amazing work ethic? What is the special quality about Michael B. Jordan that

sets him apart from everybody else? I mean that's tough only because women of faith and understanding, you know that it's above us, you know what I'm saying, Like our blessings were blessed, you know what I'm saying, and highly favored, you know, so we know spirituality, God has a lot to do with us and success and the blessings that we have, and just and just the avoidance of bullshit, you know what I'm saying that could knock us off our path, because that's equally as important. You know, I'm

talking about family prayer circles, people that we're shielding. So there's that that that goes there. Um. I mean I was a little bit what this movie was about for me, you know, trying to figure out like you know, having that conversation, you know, kind of exercising my way through you know, why me? You know, and I think part

of it is chosen you know, for certain things. And then also my ability that I think maybe the I don't know, process information, think, put things together, you know, build shit, you know, I um my gut, my intuition. You know, I listened to that shit all the time, you know. Um being able to read people. You know, here the hear the note behind the note? You know what is it? What is what is the real intent

behind things? You know? Being able to kind of like dissect that all the time, um, which is a lot. But at the same time, it's my norm, you know what I mean, So you know, And then I said the work ethic. You know, it's a combination. It's it's a bunch of different things. I don't think it's like the one thing that that makes it makes it different. I think it's just a combination of just um particular point of views and approaches and disciplines that that equal.

You know, the ability to like, you know, do what I do. You know, Um, that's the I want to accept all of that, right, because all of that is very much true. Oh, I feel like you're you're part of a bigger universal message. It's empathy, bro. I think it's empathy being able to, like I feel, I'm an EmPATH, you know what I'm saying. But once you feel and you understand what it is, you can give people what

they need. Well, that too, that you are proof that good people went hmm, that being a good aggression, being an amazing human being, because there's always this quote of good guys always finished last. That's not true. I agree, And you are giving good people an example, an example you can do it the right way. You cannot be part of that, part of that and these other things. You can do it the right way. You can be raised right, you can talk right, you can act right,

you can walk around, you can do your best. I met your mom and daddy. Yeah, yeah, you're from you from good stock, bro, Like you come from good things. And what he's saying is absolutely right. You're an example for that, bro, And we're here to tell you that. Look all the rest of this ship, you have been consistently you from the day I met you, And I had no idea you was going and looking at Jack in the box applications because that didn't matter to me.

I like, that's the homie. Like I never get caught up in none of that. My friends and my friends, but now we all know what this life has done for you in a position that put you in and you are the same exact person. Appreciate that you're the same exact person. If like, listen at the at the premiere, if we catch your eyes, it's expected. Yeah, I don't. I don't care who in this mild. We gonna hug out, We gonna tell each other we love each other. Man.

Thank you, Thank you, and congratulations, and this is what it's supposed to be when it's a real brotherhood. Yeah, this ain't about nothing else, and we got to stop telling people that it's about Oh, he ain't checked in with me, he ain't called me. And I man, we got lives and we're busy moving. But when we when we catch you, we catch these eyes and I see my brother, tell where we left, bro, So you know close to you. For that, I appreciate in a real way.

I was trying to figure out if you was trying to ask why you wasn't kill Munger, and he was, that's that's I thought you was going there, but you didn't go there. You didn't go there. No exact question. No, we're curious. You know when we kill mother. No he killed Killker. I can't be killed Monger. He went crazy, he rocked. I just made him think maybe like the home killed Morkers home. Let's get let's let's get to

the ship man, let's get the creed man. Let's do it. Um. Bro in In the one, I said, okay, he's coming. In the two, you sat in that hospital bed, you shook me up. I said, he's here. In three, I said he's out of control and you cheated. What you talking about the little girls in cheek of control? It's a cheek coat. I said, Oh, out of your mind, eurtic control. He must be stupid stum sitting I'm in

there doing this. Whatever, Bro, I watched, I watched. I watched Create three and I was so proud of you favorite so many levels. I watched that entire movie with a smile on my favor and even when I was emotional, I still had a smile. Yeah it was. It was a man. And I'm sitting next to Kevin Gates. And when I say enjoying himself, I'm talking. You see that's where it goes right there, that's a souldier You had

the what's going on? Right? So y'all were engaged? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, I say, at the time of his life, I love it. Great movie. It was, Bro, it was, it was it was amazing, and it was more growth. Yeah you're the director, man, it's crazy. It's a star. Give me give me the process real quick. Of you learning sign language? Oh so like I was learning sign language while I was working out in preproduction too. So like one of the things me and Bianca once I got the me and Tessa.

When I got the new script, I was like, man, we should have just kept up with it from Creed too. We would have been way more fluent right now. We would have been great, you know what I'm saying. But but we we put ourselves on a you know, a fast track to kind of like learn it, uh while while I was working out. So like, while I was working I would work out, you know, have production meetings, script meetings, you know what I'm saying. Whatever, we're building

the thing. But then I'll just go off to the side for a little bit, do an hour a day, you know what I'm saying, with with my coach, and we would uh, you know, go through the basics, you

know what I'm saying. He would kind of like, you know, he would sign I would you know, you know, mimic the sign, and then he will test me on those like four or five signs, you know what I mean, every like fifteen minutes or so, and then we would like, you know, recap that entire hour and I would try to go off memory and do that, and then the next day they'll recap half of what we did the day before, et cetera. Et cetera, and kind of just stare stepped me to uh until I didn't have any

more time laugh. But honestly, on the day, I'm a real visual person. I'm a visual learning so I could I could, I could pick up on signs pretty quickly and then register it digested and then and then go go do what I gotta do. That was that was a very special part of the movie. Thank you, and and it and it was like it was it was we put we we It was a natural evolution of things. Of course movie. You know, Donnas meets the love of his life. You know what I'm saying, He asked progressive

hearing loss. You know, we don't know what where where that's going? Cool? Second film we pick up he's starting a family of his own. You know what I'm saying. Now you know that the daughter can or can't she? You know, the parents have more concerned you know, a healthy baby. You know what I'm saying, kiddy get passed down? Does she have it or not? The heartbreak of you know within you know internally between the Donnas is okay, damn, Now what how am I going to move forward with this?

Questions around that and it was played beautifully by you know, Rocky and Adonnas. You know what I'm saying, really trying to figure out like what manhood is and like what parents all about. You know, cool, we got that the third film. I don't have to talk about it. We're

already fully a self family. You know, the house is already tricked out, and Donnas has clearly invested time to make sure and money to make sure his daughter is going to get all the things that he never got, you know what I'm saying, and really trying to like you know, make her life a lot better and comfortable, et cetera, et cetera, and building all the things and blah blah blah blah whatever. So in this movie it was really important, like to just normalize in the way.

You know, it really felt inclusive and it wasn't about the audience or anybody having sympathy for her. It's like, no, it's the empathy. You know, I understanding. You know what I'm saying, what you need. She's Mila Davis Kent, Mila superstar, superstar, superstar, Yeah, and so talented, and I learned so much from her, so just and then she encouraged me like look like even if you don't know exactly the sign gesture, your

body language is signing you know what I'm saying. And the deaf community appreciates that so much by not just talking to them or like getting frustrated, no gesture like try, like and that's something for us that you know, the hearing. We're definitely you know, you know, we're ignorant in a lot of ways. But but but and and but just getting out of your own get it out of our own head and being like, oh I can't do this, somethe feel stupid. D No, just try and I think

it'll make a big difference. And my last piece, I mean, listen and them, I mean, let me tell you something, man, listen, what's up? What's up? Yeah, because I act a little bit like if you're a TV one and and and like lifetimes I'm like Michael beal okay, um, Michael G. I'm like Michael G. Michael G four Michael anyway, Um, you guys were having so many conversations outside of the script, like just within the physicality of how you guys were dealing with each other, from eye contact to no eye

contact to when I say it was crazy. It was like y'all had done movies before, like you guys have been sync before in other moments to build because the build up that of chemistry, yeah, is really crazy and it's rare. It's rare, and that undercurrent that y'all were carrying along with what was being said in the environment. But it was incredible, Thank you. Man. No, he's he's a special talent, you know what I mean. He's a

kindred spirit too, you know what I'm saying. He immediately he would feel like one of us, like like a brother for sure. Um and and and he he he, he has so much depth to him and complexities that just played perfectly you know in the film that we needed from our antagonis you know what I'm saying, to to to counter the counterbalance are equally as complex and the depth of a Donos you know, of our heroes so so so he played that perfectly. He was a workhorse.

He you know, he was willing to get into shape. He was sacrificed, you know what I'm saying. He's you know, you know, just time just to really put it in and take this shit seriously, learning choreography, learning a certain style, you know, and bodying you know Damien as a character, you know what I'm saying coming from Crenshaw just being like just an la la story and and it and it worked, man, it really worked. And then the box

and stuff just really like um fell into place. And that was one that I probably daydreamed the most about from like just over the course of the entire trilogy, just like how would I do the fights if I ever had an opportunity to do them? And like that was something that I really like said, we just want to swing for the fences. So why is he here? So? Why is he here? I mean, this is an R and B money, This R and B parka podcast. What was it? Okay, let's do it. Yeah, so you drink

your tea. Oh yeah, I'm here to Uh no, Lord wanted to keep me humble. Were going with a cheat. I don't know where he's going down? Where you going? It was a little bit like it was little cheers and that a little bit. I heard cheers a little bit. It's a lot of bar action. It's low kind of far action to top five. Yeah, don't look at your top five, Michael, looking at you, Michael, You're top five?

All be single yea, all this be Song, Micha Be, mich Go Bees talk five yo yo yeah, Tang Yang Tang Tan Yeah, clearly right now, Michael stop up, fuck Michael B. Jordan's your top five R and B singers. I'm going Marvin Gay. M h gotta go Marvin Gay. I'm going Russian. There's no particular order us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going. So if he's the king of pop, does that consider for play with Michael Jackson Beyonce four? Oh man, um, this is tough luth who ended out right look and

that thing out right? Yeah yeah, lufa, lufa. I don't mention thanks going in there. I got you said. I don't mention thanks going in there. You're six man. You know what I'm saying. I got I gotta you know, Michael Jordan, I don't mind coming off the bench. I'm just saying, but I started, Yeah, we got we got one more thing, one more thing for you. Wonna let you out the doll You've been associated with it a lot of great people. Yeah, but in this segment, you

better not. I ain't saying no names. I ain't saying no name. I ain't saying no names. Don't you don't say shit? I ain't saying no. I love y'all. I'm sorry I took to get here. I got this again, back standing invitation. Listen right now, you give us a story funnier fucked up or funny and fucked up. The only rule to the game is you can't say no names. This is Michael B. Wakanda, Creed Wire, Fruit Fruit Bill Station Jordan Whoa. I ain't saying no names, man, I

got stories now. I gotta figure out how to tell these stories without no names. Okay, let me see what I got for y'all. It was frank. It was trying to think. What's it going? Um My mind goes, y'all, Okay, this listen. Uh you know, I'm no I'm gonna think it's something good. So so so let me let me, let me ponder. Come on, ponder. I would rather y'all give me like a city and then let me and then okay, okay, okay, is getting warm. Uh So I'm

down in Miami. You know I usually stay at that particular hotel, and um, I'm promoting the film, so I'm money down there for a little bit of time. You know, you hit you know certain outlets. You know what I'm saying, you know, just television, Telemundo. You know what I'm saying. You know, you bounce around, you do your press or whatever, and you go back to the hotel and then that's when you do the rest of the press. You know what I'm saying, press, junk and cool. Cool. So I

had my dad press. I didn't eat that much that day because I woke up. It's a little late. You know what I'm saying, Uh, from the night before, which is it is we're in Miami, so there's not a lot of sleep going you know. You know, liquid I v's are helpful, Coconut water's top top tier rehydration. So next day, don't eat that much. Don't eat that much. Um. A couple of other co stars don't eat as much as either, So nobody's really eating a lot. A lot of tea. Un get the voice together, talking a lot.

So we leave the hotel and when we go to uh, we go to dinner. At this point, you know, order advertisers here. I said, but you know, we're really drinking. We're really we're drinking a lot, you know, alcohols flowing. So it's a lot of drinks, not a lot of food. I repeat we have, we haven't. We didn't eat a lot the last couple of days. So we proceed to

have a good time. Take a little little nibble here, a little of this, a little that, you know what I'm saying, Tasting a little bit, and I ain't eat a full meal. Cool? Great, right as time. I'm a little lit um. A couple of the people that I'm with they lit too, a little bit more more lit the I am. I'm usually the guy that, like you can't tell, is like really drunk, but I'm but I'm nice. I'm there, I'm all the way there. It looks like the lights around. Ain't nobody home? All right? A couple

other people a little bit more visibly messed up. So in my mind, I'm like, okay, cool, let me let me, let me let me help these people get to where you know where we're going, you know what I'm saying, safely. So I'm in the middle of, like, you know, trying to, you know, help people get to where they gotta go, et cetera, et cetera. We run across some ladies. All right,

this is Miami. You know what I'm saying. We're outside, you know what I'm saying, the venue in which we're getting ready to go into, and some ladies that are there, they might have recognized maybe a couple of us or whatever case may be. All right, they wanted to roll in and we all rolling all access. So we're in this particular spot, more drinks are coming, a certain group of ladies are there. Um, one of the people that they're starts now look so good, you know what I'm saying.

They they you know, they stumbling a little bit, you know, balanced, a little off, all right, cool, And I'm like, hey, yo, I think it might be good. You probably should go back you know what I'm saying to where we came from. You know what I'm saying, where we where we reside at. You know what I'm saying. I think it's I think it's I think it's done. You know. We gotta get up in the morning. We gotta leave. This is we did it. We did it, guys. We had a great time.

It was a great time. Cool. So he didn't want to go. So he didn't want to leave, So he proceeded to to grab the bottle from a lady that was with us, and he grabbed it like so like he grabbed the bottle with like such force that he he cracked his own like face with it right like bah, and he just kind of like kept drinking. I saw it vividly, so I was like, oh shit. I was like, oh man, like that that was like that was like it was you know, it was a big bottle filming

like that. I with that. That that's that's hurtful. That that's not that doesn't feel good. But he kept drinking like it was nothing. So everything was cool, blah blah blah. Great, So we had the rest of the night, had a good time. But blah blah blah. Get back in the car, cool, get back to the tell cool. I'm skipping over a lot of things, but that's not important to the story. Got it. Next morning? Wake up? My phone is like, what is going on? Hey, what's up? Fastop? Yeah, what's

going on? Oh shit, what happened to you? What happened? He no, Mike, tell me what happened? Well, no, you're good. Happen what's good? What's what's going on you? Yo? Oh? Like I don't know, I don't I don't know how to. I don't know how to. You know, if he was calling the person I was supposed to calm him down and like act like it wasn't that. I wasn't. I wasn't the one. I'm fresh fresh, I'm fresh, Yo. You

need to you gotta we gotta call somebody. And I don't know if you can get on the plane like that, like like I don't know if they're gonna let us. Do you want a plane like that? So you might need emergency dentists, you know what I'm saying, some stitches you feeling? It was, it was the whole situation, and that was. It was a knight in Miami. That's saying names. I did a good job. A couple of times I almost sucked up. I did a good job, a good job.

Moral of the story is, huh, don't drink with Michael B. Jordan without eating, without eating? Yeah, because you want to try to match my ship, and don't don't match my ship. And if you're looking for you're looking to be consoled, consolt or comfort, don't call don't, don't, don't don't. I'm gonna tell to you real you're not you. You butch your ship, you bunch your ship. It's it's it was, it was, Yeah, it was m wow, I have been any knights in Miami of those kinds that I don't

really remember, you know, just just thank the Lord. I woke up in the hotel I checked in. That's crazy, not me. I don't live like that anymore. Ever, what you mean? I don't live like that. I always know where I'm gonna wake up at again. Ever, Okay, you know me a long time. You ain't never seen me get they ain't. Nobody had to do. I know you hold your ship very well too, though. No, no, no, no, no, he doesn't. He don't do what we're talking about. But

he gets extremely violent. Yeah, depends what he drinking, you know. Okay, it doesn't matter. Nice guy. He's like people, Yeah, these niggas. And then it just goes from there. It goes from there. It goes from us having a great time to him telling Steph Curry all right, telling niggas take a picture with us if he want to be safe out there. I said, why do I have to sell them? Why do I have to if you want to be safe?

Why does it have to be the masage? Why do I why I got the picture with pictures on my face? Shot crazy? That's not how I related The man with his brother. But Mike be my brother. Oh man, you're awesome brother. Yeah. And that's just not that's just not you know, friends talking. That's that's um. You know, I'm gonna pull myself outside of that outside looking at it. Man. Amazing brother, man, thank you've done amazing work. Um. Um your your your legs clean man, and keep it that way. Brother.

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