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01x04 - Money and the American Way (a.k.a. NBA SamBoi, Never Broke Again)

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Pause with Sam Jay". Aired: May 21, 2021 – July 8, 2022.*
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Each episode takes place in a house party, where comedian Sam Jay talks to guests over drinks about the episode's central topic.

01x04 - Money and the American Way (a.k.a. NBA SamBoi, Never Broke Again)

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- Hey!

- What up?

How you doing?

- What's going on, superstar?

Hey, what's up?

- How you doing?

- How are you? Hey!

How are you?

- I'm good, yo.

- What's up?

- I'm good. How you doing?

- This is my girlfriend.

- It's nice to meet you.

- This is my friend Wesley; we

went to high school together.

- Nice to meet you.

- You need to get

the inside scoop

from when she had her wraps.

- Right.

- Yeah.

- And it's like, I can put

a computer together

and talk to a ugly

American white lady

and be like, "You're a queen,"

and the b*tch give me $5,000?

I'm taking that.

I wanna be one of them n*gg*s

that gets rich off pork bellies

and sh*t.

There's n*gg*s getting rich

off bacon.

Like, come on, dog.

- That's the easiest way

to create generational wealth.

You die, your kid--you got

a million-dollar policy?

You dead, your kids eat.

They're good.

- I had the babies all day.

I took them out of the house

because she had--

- Oh, you took--

them grown-a*s people.

You talking about babies?

- They are 21 and 20 years old.

They are not babies.

- Them n*gg*s could do time.

They get locked up with us.

They are not children.

- You remember that Crip

we had in school?

He used to always--

he had his Crip Bible.

- What's in a Crip Bible?

- Crip religion, my n*gga.

You're acting crazy

'cause you're part white.

Don't do that.

Don't make me expose you.

all: Oh!

- Don't do that.

- Cut the camera!

Cut the--

- Yo, this is what happens,

right?

- What happens?

- I will DM Wesley,

and I'll be like, "n*gga"

"My money manager's telling me

I gotta pay taxes."

"And I'm mad about the sh*t."

And then he'll be like,

"You do."

And I'll be like, "Why?"

- Oh, my God.

- And then I don't talk to him

for, like, weeks,

and then I, like, buy a chain,

and I'm like, "Yeah, yeah."

And then I'll read something

he posted.

He's like,

"If you wear your money,

you're probably not

making money."

And I'm like,

"f*ck this n*gga."

"f*ck this n*gga.

He don't know my life."

Especially 'cause, like,

I'll call my business manager

and I'll be like,

"Yo, can I get a grill?"

And then they gonna be like,

"No, you can't afford it."

But it's like, b*tch--

- You said a grill?

- Yeah, like--

- Like, the one on your teeth

or the one--

- On my teeth, Dad.

- The cooking one is practical,

though.

- He is the money man.

- Yeah, he's the money man.

That's what I'm talking about.

I'd be like,

"I want a grill for my teeth."

The n*gga be like,

"Oh, you can't afford it."

And it's like,

"How can I not afford it?

n*gga, I got a HBO show."

Not--not--you know,

I'm not coming on Sundays.

But, n*gga, I'm coming on TV.

- Yes.

- I should be able

to get this sh*t.

It's hella--it's a little

f*cking frustrating,

you know what I mean?

- Maybe "Can't afford it"

is his way of telling you

you shouldn't afford it.

- But it's also like,

just tell me

the white people secrets

of how to get this bread.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Stop f*cking with me,

you know what I mean?

- You want the white people

secrets.

- I wanna know the sh*t.

- I want

the white people secrets.

- You have them.

Don't lie.

Claire has 'em.

- You are it.

You're already doing it.

- No, I'm not, dog.

I'm buying sneakers.

- You're talking

about investments.

- And I know that's not right.

I want the secret secrets,

m*therf*cker.

- If you had listened to Elon,

you could've invested

in Dogecoin.

- I got a little bit.

- So there you go!

- I got a little--shut up.

Nah, I'm out of here.

- Nah, that's not it.

Dogecoin ain't it.

- The biggest fear is, like,

I know I'm making enough money

that my money

should be making money.

- Right.

- And I'm at a place in my life

where I'm like,

"I shouldn't necessarily

ever go broke again.

I should never be broke again

if I do this right."

Even just about me,

it's like,

n*gga got a family and sh*t,

you know what I'm saying?

- Right, yeah.

- Yeah.

- And I the only person who's,

like, built a surplus

so they rely on me financially

sometimes for sh*t.

They're not f*cking failures

'cause they're asking me

for something.

It's just like, sh*t's

f*cked up sometimes, bro.

- Right, right, right.

- But I should be able

to help them

buy a grill, buy sneakers,

and still have f*cking money.

- The teeth grill still?

- Yes.

- Okay.

- And still have money.

I should be able to do

all the things,

you know what I'm saying?

- Right.

- And there are

f*cking secrets,

so, Claire,

give 'em the f*ck up!

- I have no secret.

- Got them all.

- Yo, when they told me

we was gonna do this, I like,

"Yo, I don't know

how to f*cking play golf."

- You don't know

how to do this?

- Hell no.

- I don't either.

And I have, like,

no depth perception at all.

But what is a, like,

multimillionaire's routine?

Like, what's

your daily routine?

- My first thing I do is

my alarm goes off

around 6:00, 6:00 a.m.

- So problem one is I'm getting

up at 1:00 in the afternoon.

- If you wake up too late,

all the money's off the table.

Everyone who gets up early took

all the money off the table

before you wake up.

- Ooh, sound like

something Diddy would say.

For real.

Thank you.

- Of course.

You went to jail.

You mentioned that you were

in prison.

- Yeah.

- And you went to jail

for selling weed.

- Yeah.

- How much weed?

You were selling a lot of weed?

- It was a lot of weed.

It was a lot of weed.

It was a lot of weed.

I mean, my indictment

was for 3,000 kilograms.

- Ooh, you better bag

all that weed.

You better be able to talk

that weed talk.

Was it good weed, or you were

selling some bullshit weed?

- Nah, see, this was back

in the day

when you didn't have

to sell good weed.

You know what I'm saying,

this was when reggie

would work;

it was a different time.

But it just got so efficient

and it got so big

that it caught the federal

government's attention,

and then it just took me into

a whole nother world and just,

you know, started me

on the journey I'm on today.

- But what turns a weed n*gga

into a app n*gga?

- You know,

it's crazy that for me,

tech is just a means to an end.

You know, while I was

in prison, I noticed that

we all had the same problem.

It was very difficult

and expensive to stay in touch

with our loved ones, right?

It would be crazy things.

Like, phone calls can cost

as much as $15 for 15 minutes,

and it's just ridiculous,

so that was the problem

I was trying to solve.

I wanted to make a platform

that made it easier

for people to search,

find, and connect with anyone

that they may know or love

that's currently incarcerated.

And then that just led

to the creation of my company,

Pigeonly.

- But I mean, I think people

can be definitely intimidated

moving into a space that

they're not familiar with.

- For sure, for sure.

- So how did you leave

what you had come from

and navigate

that space successfully?

Like, what were the tools

that you used?

- What I learned to do is that

when I would pitch my business

and I would talk to investors

or I would pitch to, you know,

future potential employees

and things like that,

I was--as much as they were

trying to evaluate me,

I was trying

to evaluate them

to see if I wanted

to f*ck with them or not.

And as soon as I got a inkling

that they wasn't rocking

with what I was doing,

I'll move on.

- So were you

always comfortable,

or did you have to, like,

build the confidence up

to, like, step in there,

especially with your background

and everything?

- Yeah, I wasn't

100% confident,

'cause, you know, at first,

I had the thoughts of,

"Man, do I gotta put

a white face on this?"

- Mm-hmm.

- "Do I gotta put

a white boy in front

to see if I can do this?"

And I quickly got over that,

right?

Because I think, for us,

in spaces

where we're not accustomed

to being,

I think it's really important--

because we come from unique

and diverse backgrounds,

that gives us a unique

and diverse look,

outlook and perspective,

that allows us to do sh*t

that other people can't do.

Right, and I can do this 'cause

I've been to jail, right?

So I'm the best person

to do this,

and once I understood that,

then I never looked back.

- That's what's up.

There's a lot of, like,

moral

judgment around money, right?

- Yeah, for sure.

- Especially when you make

a lot of money,

people assume you had to do

something, you know,

terrible to get it.

- Yeah.

- There's this assumption that

people at the top, you know,

inherently just sh*t on people

at the bottom.

- It's usually us

who struggle with that.

Like, we have a very

conflicting relationship

with wealth and money

just as Black folks, right?

And, you know,

as I started to learn

and be around people who

taught me how money works,

you start to lose the guilt.

'Cause when you understand

how the game works,

you make decisions,

you do things that allow you

to make money, right?

So I think we have to get

more educated financially,

and I learned that

from the people I was around.

I learned that from, actually,

cats in jail,

to keep it all

real with you.

Like, you know, I was locked up

with

Dudes that, you know,

from Wall Street.

I was locked up

with politicians,

people that used to run

Fortune 500 companies

on the stock market,

all kind of stuff, right?

And that became education

for me

to understand

how money work.

- It's kind of funny to me

that, like,

you had to go to jail

and be around, like,

white men who were locked up

- Had nothing better to do

than to teach me.

- Right.

-

- To learn the white secrets

of money, you know what I mean?

- Yup, yup, for real.

That's real, that's real,

that's real.

- To get access to it, like,

they had to, like,

fall down to give you,

like, access.

So, like, in a way,

it's like,

we need all white people

to go to jail, essentially

- That could work.

- To balance

this whole sh*t out.

Maybe just,

like, six months

Yeah.

- Each.

- Right.

- This n*gga Andy

is poorer than me,

and he be talking

about buying property.

What kinda white-a*s sh*t

is that?

And like,

"Oh, I'm gonna buy a house."

- Well, you know

I married into money.

I ain't got sh*t.

- Wow.

- My mom's a 75-year-old nurse

still working.

I know some of

the white people secrets

but it's just 'cause

they let me in the party.

You know, like, I can listen.

- That's what I'm saying.

Thank you!

- But it shouldn't be

that you want those secrets.

It should be that

all of us pay more taxes.

- I don't like that.

That's, like, broke n*gga sh*t.

- We should be charging

the rich people more taxes.

- All right,

you go over there with Zack.

Zack!

Go over there with Zack.

- We want different

white people secrets.

- We don't want any of that.

I mean it.

Get outta here!

I'm tryna get a g*dd*mn boat.

- You what?

- I don't know what this

n*gga's talking about.

Do you own a helicopter?

- No, but I want one.

- You want a helicopter?

- I do want one.

- You're gonna go full

"Wolf of Wall Street"?

- Yeah.

I want a plane too.

- People are nuts.

You don't need

to have your own plane.

- I do want a plane.

- That's a little crazy.

I don't want my own plane,

but I do want a sneaker room.

- Sneaker room?

- That, like, I hit a button

and, like,

all the lights come on

and then there's, like,

Transformers statues

that are, like,

life-size Transformers

and they, like, hold out, like,

my favorite sneakers.

You know what I'm saying?

- Yeah, that sounds

- And then when I take

the sneakers off,

they, like, transform,

like, back,

and they just stand and then

they wait till I come back.

- Till you're back.

- Yeah.

- I mean, that's a lot,

but you could do that.

- That's a lot.

- So I wondered, though,

if you have any opinion

on why it is such a secret,

why--the way money works

and what it does.

Why is it such a secret?

- We've been always playing

catch-up, and, you know,

we can have

hour-long conversations

about the history of America,

and we can jump

on all those things, right?

But my mother couldn't teach me

how to be financially savvy

because she wasn't taught that

from her mom,

and her mom wasn't taught that

from her mom,

and my mom's grandma was

a child sl*ve, right?

So it's not that far removed

from where we come from, right?

- Right.

- So I think when people

put that in context,

they understand.

But the thing that

we have in our benefit?

That there's a lot

of information out there.

And, you know,

I learned a lot on Google.

- So you just, like,

Googled, like,

"white secret to money"?

-

I mean, I started focusing

on, like,

how to build a business.

And I think when I raised

my first million dollars,

I pitched to about

60, 70 people.

Only six said yes, so I had

a sh*t ton of noes, right?

- Mm-hmm.

- And every person

that told me no,

I asked them before

I would walk out the room,

"Why are you telling me no?"

And some people not brave

enough or bold enough

to even ask that question.

And every time somebody told me

why they told me no,

I would take that

and learn from that,

tweak what I would say

and tweak what I was pitching,

tweak my whole business model

to make it better

so when the next person

tell me no--

by the time I got through

50, 60 noes,

I had a pretty

damn good pitch, right?

You know what I'm saying?

So and then I learned

from that.

So I take the opportunities to

learn from everyone around me,

everyone I talk to,

everyone that have the--

you know,

even if I get five minutes

of your time,

I take the opportunity

to learn from everyone.

And that was just my strategy

of trying to make up

some of the ground

that I knew I was starting out

from behind

the starting line

as everybody else.

- Do you feel like

you're rich now?

Do you feel rich?

- sh*t, n*gga got a lot more

than he used to have.

sh*t.

Keeping it all the way 100.

I mean, yeah.

I mean, I feel--

I feel like there's a lot more

I want to accomplish, right?

But yeah, I enjoy the ability

to get up every day

and do what I love,

and that level of freedom

is what I value,

and in that sense,

I do feel very rich

in that sense.

- All right.

How much money you got

in your bank account right now?

- I got enough

to eat lunch today, for sure.

- Who's richer, you or me?

- You.

- Nah.

You said that too quick.

That's how I know

that ain't true.

- Definitely you,

definitely you.

- It's confidently you.

It's weird 'cause, like,

you can get contradicting ideas

in this society,

you know what I mean?

Like, I was raised by a very,

like, upstanding woman

who believed, like,

you don't steal.

You know, my mom used

to always tell me that, like,

"There's nothing lower

than a thief."

And, like,

that sh*t rang in my head

to the point where it's like,

I can't even do certain sh*t.

But that sh*t be making me

feel like a sucker.

- Yeah.

- It doesn't make me feel like

I'm on a higher ground.

I'm like, "Oh, no.

I just got f*cking duped

into some poor mentality."

- Being lame as hell.

- You know what I mean, like,

because I can't f*cking

take advantage of a system

that's taking advantage of me

and has no problem

taking advantage of me.

I remember I tried to, like--

I tried to, like, take a watch

from Marshalls, right?

It was a Gucci watch.

- A Gucci watch at Marshalls?

- A Gucci watch.

You gotta go

to a good Marshalls.

Go to a good Marshalls.

That's the scam of Marshalls.

Marshalls sends sh*t out based

on the f*cking community.

So if it's in a poor community,

you gonna get all

Beverly Hills Polo Club.

But if it's in a rich

white community,

you're gonna get Gucci.

And it was sitting

on the counter and I was like,

"f*ck that, this sh*t's on the

counter, it has no tags on it."

Took it, got all the way out

the Marshalls

and then my conscience was

like, "This f*cked up."

- Oh, hell no!

- "I can't f*cking

take this watch."

- What?

- Because that's how my mom

made me think.

So I'm thinking

of all the consequences.

What if I take this watch

and the cashier lady,

she loses her job

because her register's short

or merchandise is missing

and now she can't feed

her daughter?

You know, I'm going down

this crazy f*cking line

which might also be true,

but it's also kind of, like,

mentally a f*cking trap.

So I go back and bring

the f*cking watch back,

and I leave it on the counter.

I'm like, "Hey, man.

You left this out."

And I know the lady

was looking at me like,

"You f*cking loser."

And she probably took

the watch.

Like, "Dummy.

Free watch!"

f*cking clown!

- Or imagine you took it back

and they were like,

"No, you already left

with it, n*gg*r.

You're still going to jail."

- Right!

Or that.

100%!

- You're still going to jail.

- They're telling us

to be moral and not to steal,

and these n*gg*s

are funneling, laundering

- Yes.

- Doing the whole f*cking nine.

- Not paying no taxes.

- By the time karma catches up

with Jeff Bezos,

that n*gga will be on Mars.

Like, what are you

talking about?

- There ain't no karma on Mars.

- Not at all!

- At all, at all.

- Nah.

- It doesn't exist!

What it do?

- What it do, what it do?

- Ain't sh*t, bro.

- What's the deal?

- Chilling.

- What's popping, Jay?

- You're, like,

a full-grown man.

- Yeah.

n*gga's grown now.

- Damn, bro.

How's around the way?

- Um, sh*t.

It's cool, man.

You know how Roxbury is.

- Yeah.

- I mean,

you know Boston in general.

It's just, like, real settled.

- You seen Shizzy?

- n*gga, my last Instagram post

right now

is me and Shizzy,

you know what I mean?

- Yeah.

- That's my boy.

- I was so glad when

I saw y'all, like,

come back together.

- Yeah, we always really

been together, honestly.

- Yeah.

I always think about being

a kid in Boston.

So what was your relationship

with money, in your opinion?

- Like

- Okay.

- Growing up young,

understanding money,

what did you understand

about money as a kid?

- Hustling.

You gotta hustle to get it.

f*ck a nine-to-five

because popular sh*t--

- But your mom worked.

- Yeah, but, like, come on.

My mom worked all the time

to the point where it's like,

"Yo, I don't want that for her.

I don't want that for her."

And then I see my boy pull

some sh*t out his pocket,

make a one-two, guy walked

by and then all of a sudden,

he's up racks.

- I guess what I'm asking you,

though,

is, like, how do you compromise

that image

- Right.

- Of what you're seeing

- Right.

- But--and this is, like, not

putting you on the spot at all.

Because, n*gga,

I seen the same sh*t.

- n*gga, put me on the spot.

- I'm not, though.

It's just like,

how do you go from a kid

- Yeah.

- To a teenager

who's aspirational

and decides what they wanna do,

"I wanna make music.

I wanna f*cking"

- Do films, right.

- "f*ck with videography,"

right?

To a n*gga that tries

to run a scam?

- I wouldn't say a n*gga

that try to run a scam.

Damn, you got real, like--

- I mean, that's what's--

- n*gga who did--like, listen.

- Say what you're gonna say.

- I feel that, I feel that.

- Well, tell me

what you were gonna say.

- I think--so, right,

I didn't know what a scam was,

being younger, right?

And that's--

I'm just being honest.

Like, I was, like,

22 at the time.

And I don't be hearing

them words.

Like, I wouldn't see

a m*therf*cker, like, "Oh,"

see him moving money like,

"He's a scammer."

I don't know what the f*ck

that even meant at the time.

- I had a homey

from around my way

who tried to scam

the Boston b*mber fund, right?

Like, so after the f*cking

marathon bombing,

they created a fund to help

marathon victims and sh*t.

So once he signed

for the check,

the feds swoop in, right?

Snatch this little n*gga up.

Which is another level

of, like,

why this sh*t is fake and not--

it was like, this whole thing

is just like

a gambler's island.

It's like, what is that?

You knew this little n*gga

was doing this.

You could've just called

the n*gga up and be like,

"Hey, man, we know

you're trying to steal.

Don't steal."

"Bye-bye."

You know what I'm saying?

But no, you set him up

and waited for him

to f*cking sign for that sh*t

so you could nail his a*s.

- There's a fine line between

scamming and surviving.

- Yeah.

- There's a fine line.

- Is there?

- There is.

- But that's according to who?

It's not according

to the n*gga you scamming.

When I then see on the news

this young man,

who I know from my community,

to be a kid who just wants

to do videography and travel.

Like, when I know you

to be that

- Right.

- And now I see you on the news

and you're being arrested

by federal agents,

it made me go, "Damn!"

because you do know

there's a possible consequence.

So what I'm asking you

is what made you risk it?

- I'm not the only person

in history who ever, like,

tried to get paid through means

that wasn't typically

the right means for them,

right?

I haven't seen too much happen

to people in the past,

so I'm not worried about an

outcome of my intention, right?

It all starts from intention.

This is a bad situation I'm in,

and I feel like

I can change it.

It might not be

the right means,

but sh*t,

I'm trying to change it.

- There's a part of me

that fully gets it

and just thinks

you shot a bigger shot

than n*gg*s

was willing to sh**t.

- Yeah.

- You get what I'm saying?

'Cause it's not like--

I don't feel

like any m*therf*cker

that comes from

where we come from,

that comes from,

you know, Boston,

that comes from Roxbury, comes

from Dorchester, Mattapan,

is without some type of "scam,"

some type of, you know,

lies to the welfare n*gga,

some f*cking,

you know,

sell they food stamps,

somebody f*cking--

just how you get by.

- Some type of hustle,

some type of hustle.

- That's how you get by.

Yeah.

- I grew up with rich kids,

and their parents never

told them not to steal.

Like, rich white kids?

-

- Their dads were like,

"Look at these idiots

paying taxes on their house,"

you know?

- That's what I'm saying.

- No rich parent tells

their kids

to do unto others

as those who do unto you

because everybody that do

something to them serves them.

- Exactly.

It's poor sh*t.

- I golf every week with n*gg*s

that tell me all kind of--

- Golf?

- Yeah.

I golf, like, every day.

- Don't look at Mexico

like he can't golf.

- He said, "You golf?"

- He golfs with rich

white people.

- Them n*gg*s given me

stock ad--am I lie?

- Mm-hmm.

- They giving me stock advice,

and I'm like,

"Ain't this ill*gal?"

They're like,

"How is it ill*gal?

Are you gonna tell

that I told you?"

- And the only reason I'm

calling it a scam is because

we've always referred to all

these things as hustle

to a point where white people

write it off

as Black people sh*t

that they do and it's like, no.

They understand scams

'cause they scam.

- Facts.

- You know what I mean?

And in that sense, it's like,

yo, I used to work at

and I was leaving, and I was

trying to move to Atlanta

to get the f*ck out

of the city.

I knew I was about to quit.

- Okay.

- I f*cking--

the Palm Treos

had just came out.

- Them old-a*s phones.

- Remember, but they was

the first touchscreen joints.

- Oh, yeah, they were.

- The 3.

The Palm Treo 3, it was the

first, like, boop boop boop.

Crazy.

And so I ordered

mad replacements

under different accounts

and then sold all them shits.

- See, you had some time

to do all that sh*t.

- And that's how I got

the f*ck to where I was.

You know what I'm saying?

Which your story, my story,

in a different America, right?

For us, different colored skin,

different ways that

m*therf*ckers handle us,

we now are--

- Different access to sh*t.

- Yeah, we're multimillionaires

that are now teaching a class

on how to do what we did.

You know what I mean?

And you think about

m*therf*ckers, like,

you know, Brian Williams,

the m*therf*cker crashes,

lies about crashing in Iraq,

and, like, gets to have

a career after that.

He doesn't spiral all the way

to the f*cking bottom

of the barrel.

Or, like, Jordan Belfort

or f*cking the

"Catch Me if You Can" n*gga.

Like, they write movies

and sh*t like that.

And then it's like,

there's you,

and it's just like,

"Oh, no, you know,

f*ck you, you f*cked up."

I guess I wonder, like, what do

you feel about that sh*t?

f*ck.

To be completely honest

with you, right?

I'm blessed.

I did three years

in prison straight,

no chaser.

It was a moment for solitude.

Sometimes you need to sit your

a*s down and really recalibrate

and that's what I got--

I was awarded that chance to.

It was probably one

of the best moments in my life

as far as just being able

to see the truth within me,

'cause ain't nobody

gonna show you a mirror

and be like, "Hey, this is you.

You need to slow down."

They gonna wait till you crash.

- But, you know, like,

white kids get Europe.

- They do.

- They f*cking get therapy.

- They get Hawaii.

They get therapy.

- That's a f*cking shame

that a n*gga gotta go

sit in a box.

That sucks.

- It sucks,

it definitely sucks,

but at the end of the day,

I got an option to make.

I didn't choose to be

in Boston in poverty.

You know,

I didn't choose that sh*t.

I didn't choose

to not have the resources.

I didn't choose that sh*t.

So yeah, it sucks,

but at least I made

a better choice going forward.

- Cheers to that.

- Hey.

- How we ask for money now,

because of the internet,

has definitely

become f*cking crazy.

- First off, if you homeless,

you need to have a GoFundMe

and a Cash App.

I don't carry cash no more.

- But n*gg*s don't

even know what that is

or know how

to access that sh*t.

- f*ck GoFundMe.

It's a virtual paper cup.

I do not f*ck with that sh*t.

Especially now.

I feel like

when GoFundMe started, right,

the iteration

of GoFundMe was like,

okay, you would see a n*gga

on there be like,

"I need a liver."

- Yeah,

a Make-A-Wish Foundation kid.

- "I need a liver,"

or, "There was a fire,

and like, sh*t,

my sh*t's crazy."

But suddenly

it turned into this thing.

I don't get that sh*t.

- I almost setup a GoFundMe

for something, and I was like--

before I was done

with half the page,

I was like, "This is--no."

Like, n*gga, they make you

write a paragraph.

Like, n*gga, I gotta sit here,

in MLA format,

write why I'm begging.

n*gga, why is you

on the internet?

- But it's also, like--

- You got Wi-Fi, n*gga.

What is you doing?

- It's also too f*cking easy,

you know what I mean?

Like, it's no real steps

to the sh*t anymore.

It's just, like,

a go-to for n*gg*s.

Like, my little cousin

got rear-ended.

This n*gga, like, 17 years old.

He got rear-ended.

He started a GoFundMe.

It's like,

"n*gga, you're not a dad of six

trying to get them to work.

You're just a kid."

- n*gga, you got a car.

- You're just a kid.

- Where is your insurance?

What do you have,

liability, n*gga?

Like, where is your insurance?

- You just don't have a place

to finger your girlfriend,

you f*cking clown.

Go work.

- This is Tatiana.

She's 23 years old,

and she went on vacation

with only $400.

She thought the rest was going

to be covered by unemployment,

but it never showed up,

and now she wants strangers

to donate $1,500

to get her back home.

This is the case

of "Assed Out in Atlanta."

- Now, it says here

you went to Atlanta

from March 6th to the 8th?

- Mm-hmm.

- Now, we all know

that's All-Star weekend.

So you went down there

to get you a baller.

Thought it was gonna be

a slam dunk,

and then the shock clock

ran out.

- Well, Your Honor--

- You thought it was gonna be

nothing but net,

and you ended up

netting nothing.

- Okay, well, hold up.

- In my day, when you wanted

to go to the All-Star game,

you would just find an uglier

n*gga who wanted to lay up.

You too good

for a short n*gga with a job?

- Short n*gg*s don't serve

that D.

- Whoa.

- Well, I'm glad I'm 5'9".

Hello.

- It says here

you live on Ocean Ave

and Lincoln.

- Yes.

- Now, that's the projects.

It doesn't cost $1,500

to get back to the projects.

What you need to do

is call your mama,

tell her you're dumb,

ask her for $50,

and get your a*s

on the Megabus.

- What is a Megabus?

- You know what that is.

Your bra strap's showing.

And stop begging the people

for money.

It's not our fault

you got bad p*ssy.

- Uh-uh, that p*ssy

get thrown real good.

- Good p*ssy

gets plane tickets, ma'am.

Get out my courtroom.

- Sam's cousin G

has 5,000 VC points in "2K,"

which he plays

on his brand-new PS5

that he bought for $500,

but those points

won't buy him the ab*rtion

he needs for his girlfriend,

Renée,

which also costs $500.

This is the case

of "Maybe Mama Drama."

- I'm good.

I gave you the money

for the ab*rtion.

What the f*ck happened?

- James and them came over,

n*gga bet me $1,000 I couldn't

beat him without Steph Curry.

Like, n*gga, I don't need

a light-skinned b*tch

to beat you in "2K."

I'm nice on the sticks.

You know?

You know how I be.

So only problem

was I had to get the PS5.

Once I got that,

I was ready to go.

Only thing is--

- Nah, I'll see you

at the baby shower.

Guilty.

- Marquis can't swim,

and he says

it's capitalism's fault.

He says the survival

of g*y men

is bigger than being

landlocked by white supremacy.

He won't settle

for average treatment.

He's ready to jump

into the waters of opulence

and the deep end of life,

if only given the resources.

He's seeking a life

that is plush,

silky, fragrant,

Fergalicious--you know what?

This goes one for, like,

another three paragraphs.

He wants $75,000.

"Here Come

That n*gga Marquis."

- Your Honor,

I am Black and g*y.

- I'm Black and g*y.

- Well, I don't have a boat.

- Get the f*ck

outta my courtroom.

- What the f*ck

is your problem,

you f*cking co*n?

You supposed to be on my side.

First of all,

she not even g*y for real.

In fact, she suck d*ck

better than I do.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

- I know all about you.

- Ey, ey, ey, ey, ey!

- You don't deny me like that.

- Hey, you not just finna throw

sh*t like that at the judge.

- She suck d*ck!

- That was in '98!

- Absolutely not! Uh-uh!

- James Baldwin

is rolling over in his grave

right now.

- f*ck you and James Baldwin.

- Say his name.

g*y rights.

Marsha P. Johnson.

Uh-uh.

No, don't f*ck with me!

- I can't believe that fruity

n*gga threw a fan at me.

- Janay says

she's a Trump supporter

whose parents had kicked her

out on the street

for being too American.

She claims she loves Jesus,

unfinished babies,

and scorched crosses.

She feels that if people

just talked to the police

a little nicer,

they'd be a little nicer.

She's asking for $150,000

to fund the police

and to fund, well, Janay.

- It says here

you went to CPAC

and you hate corn bread.

- Your Honor, I made it all up.

I'm not a Republican.

I'm not even a Presbyterian.

These white people out here

giving away free money

to Black ladies in Trump hats.

So who am I not to take it?

- So you're telling me

you committed fraud

and financial crimes

to trick some white people

out they money?

- Yes, Your Honor.

I saw the bag, and I chased it.

- b*tch, well done.

- Okay!

- Hell yeah,

I can't even be mad at you.

This isn't even your fault.

You know what?

'Cause these stupid crackers

always be

both: Believing

that stupid cr*cker sh*t.

b*tch, yes!

- That's what I'm saying.

- You know what, girl?

You deserve a boat.

You should get you one.

I know a guy

who could hook you up.

- Yeah, yeah, keep America

great, baby, do it.

- And keep us paid,

you know what I'm saying?

- That's what

I'm talking about!

- Hell yeah,

bang a gavel to that.

- Yes.

- The thing is,

this place sucks.

We all know it's icky,

and the money for sure

makes it ickier.

But what are you gonna do,

live in the woods

and survive off berries?

I mean, trees are cool,

but at the end of the day,

I like stuff.

Most of us do.

And I would like to have

the kind of life

where if I want stuff,

I can get it.

And that means playing

this gross-a*s game.

But we can make it less gross

if we just tell everybody

the jig.

Put n*gg*s on.

Yes, money corrupts those who

are down to be corrupted,

but you can also

do good with it.

Build up your community,

secure your family,

be a safety net

for each other.

Don't just give someone

a few dollars.

Tell them how to make

dollars for themselves.

We should all have the tools.

Warren Buffett needs

a high school textbook.

But also,

if you got a lot of it,

give people money,

you stingy b*tch,

and don't judge them

for how they use it.

We're all just trying

to slice some joy

out of this crazy-a*s pie.

No man's wants

are above another.

At the end of the day,

it's all just stuff,

and that's why

I bought that grill,

so I can give you n*gg*s hope.

SAM JAY: Do you ever just want

to leave your kid at a park

and just be like,

"Whatever dog, work it out"?

So you've been pregnant

a good majority of your life.

I did not expect to have

nine children.

God damn, is your womb

made out of steel?

My eggs, her uterus,

then it's like sperm,

whose sperm? Strangers sperm?

Homie sperm? Family sperm?

But I don't want a baby

running around

looking like Chris Redd,

you know what I mean?

If I get pregnant as a stunt

I'm hiding in Paris.