1 00:00:00,534 --> 00:00:01,768 [theme music] 2 00:00:01,869 --> 00:00:04,505 NARRATOR: From New York City-- the only city in America-- 3 00:00:04,605 --> 00:00:07,875 it's the show that invented news. 4 00:00:07,975 --> 00:00:12,112 This is The Daily Show with your host, DL Hughley. 5 00:00:12,212 --> 00:00:14,081 [cheering, applause] 6 00:00:14,181 --> 00:00:21,188 [theme music] 7 00:00:30,797 --> 00:00:32,599 What is going on, everybody? 8 00:00:32,699 --> 00:00:34,067 How you guys doing? 9 00:00:34,168 --> 00:00:41,008 All right. 10 00:00:42,009 --> 00:00:43,310 Welcome to The Daily Show. 11 00:00:43,410 --> 00:00:46,580 I am DL Hughley, and this is my last night guest hosting. 12 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:47,714 And thank you, guys. 13 00:00:47,814 --> 00:00:50,250 I had a great time, met a lot of good people. 14 00:00:50,350 --> 00:00:52,052 And Happy Black History month. 15 00:00:52,152 --> 00:00:56,290 [cheering, applause] 16 00:00:56,390 --> 00:00:57,291 It goes fast. 17 00:00:57,391 --> 00:00:58,525 You got to mark them all down. 18 00:00:58,625 --> 00:00:59,793 That's it. 19 00:00:59,893 --> 00:01:01,061 I got to meet a lot-- 20 00:01:01,161 --> 00:01:03,063 so this couple, you've been married 44-- stand up. 21 00:01:03,096 --> 00:01:04,565 Stand up. You've been married 54 years. 22 00:01:04,665 --> 00:01:05,766 - 55. - 55. 23 00:01:05,866 --> 00:01:06,767 Ooh, look it. 24 00:01:06,867 --> 00:01:09,436 He got it right. 25 00:01:09,536 --> 00:01:15,275 Now, that is a long time. 26 00:01:15,375 --> 00:01:17,444 And you said the key to it is, what? 27 00:01:17,544 --> 00:01:18,445 HUSBAND: Patience. 28 00:01:18,545 --> 00:01:19,980 Patience. 29 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:21,715 That's the wrong-- she's supposed to say that. 30 00:01:21,815 --> 00:01:23,083 You're supposed to say love. 31 00:01:23,116 --> 00:01:25,385 And you say-- and you say it's, what? 32 00:01:25,485 --> 00:01:26,620 WIFE: Madly in love. 33 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:27,788 Madly in love. 34 00:01:27,888 --> 00:01:28,789 All right. 35 00:01:28,889 --> 00:01:31,558 All right. 36 00:01:31,658 --> 00:01:33,694 I'm going to have something nice for you guys, 37 00:01:33,794 --> 00:01:36,096 but only half of it because-- you know. 38 00:01:36,196 --> 00:01:37,397 Thank y'all for coming out. 39 00:01:37,497 --> 00:01:38,498 I appreciate that. 40 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:42,436 [cheering, applause] 41 00:01:42,536 --> 00:01:44,938 We have a great show for you tonight, 42 00:01:45,105 --> 00:01:46,874 so we're going to get into the headlines. 43 00:01:46,974 --> 00:01:52,579 [theme music] 44 00:01:52,679 --> 00:01:56,216 This is a crazy story from California, where a dad, 45 00:01:56,316 --> 00:01:58,719 he drove his whole family off a cliff in a Tesla. 46 00:01:58,819 --> 00:02:01,588 So fortunately, they all survived, 47 00:02:01,688 --> 00:02:02,656 but when the paramedics arrived, 48 00:02:02,756 --> 00:02:04,925 the wife said that he did it on purpose. 49 00:02:05,058 --> 00:02:06,760 Now, I've been married for 38 years. 50 00:02:06,860 --> 00:02:08,862 I can tell you, I love my wife and children very much. 51 00:02:08,962 --> 00:02:12,499 And I would never drive them off a cliff. 52 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:13,734 But I've thought about it. 53 00:02:13,834 --> 00:02:14,935 I've thought about it. 54 00:02:15,068 --> 00:02:17,304 [laughter] 55 00:02:17,404 --> 00:02:19,273 Anybody who's been in the car with screaming-ass 56 00:02:19,373 --> 00:02:25,546 kids and a cliff available-- 57 00:02:25,646 --> 00:02:28,448 either you have thought about it, or you're lying. 58 00:02:28,549 --> 00:02:29,449 Look at him. 59 00:02:29,550 --> 00:02:32,085 I thought about it, yeah. 60 00:02:32,186 --> 00:02:33,987 But I was patient. 61 00:02:34,087 --> 00:02:37,925 [laughter] 62 00:02:38,091 --> 00:02:39,426 Kids will drive you crazy. 63 00:02:39,526 --> 00:02:41,228 You ask me about that bathroom one more damn time, 64 00:02:41,328 --> 00:02:44,264 we're going off the cliff, I swear. 65 00:02:44,364 --> 00:02:46,600 Even the judge would be like, will the defendant-- 66 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:50,904 I mean, hero-- I mean, defendant, please stand up. 67 00:02:51,004 --> 00:02:52,406 All right, what I don't understand 68 00:02:52,506 --> 00:02:54,875 is how a Tesla can survive going off a cliff, 69 00:02:54,975 --> 00:02:56,109 but it can't make it down the street 70 00:02:56,176 --> 00:02:57,177 without blowing the [muted] up. 71 00:02:57,277 --> 00:02:58,512 I don't understand that. 72 00:02:58,612 --> 00:03:02,316 [laughter, clapping] 73 00:03:02,416 --> 00:03:03,951 But now we're going to move on to the dumpster 74 00:03:04,051 --> 00:03:05,285 fire that is Fox News. 75 00:03:05,385 --> 00:03:06,820 Now, you have got to hear the latest 76 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:09,156 thing they're talking about when it comes to police 77 00:03:09,256 --> 00:03:10,357 shooting Black people. 78 00:03:10,457 --> 00:03:13,460 Many on the left know just who to blame and want 79 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:15,529 to blame-- white supremacy. 80 00:03:15,629 --> 00:03:18,065 Here's something that Whoopi, the ladies of The View 81 00:03:18,098 --> 00:03:19,066 apparently don't know. 82 00:03:19,166 --> 00:03:21,668 White people do get beaten by the police. 83 00:03:21,768 --> 00:03:25,272 In fact, far more white people are killed every year 84 00:03:25,372 --> 00:03:27,241 by cops than any other race. 85 00:03:27,341 --> 00:03:29,376 According to an online organization that 86 00:03:29,476 --> 00:03:34,348 tracks this data, 374 white Americans died during police 87 00:03:34,448 --> 00:03:36,316 altercations in 2022. 88 00:03:36,416 --> 00:03:39,920 If you average that out, a little more than one per day. 89 00:03:40,087 --> 00:03:41,622 I don't know if the ladies of The View 90 00:03:41,722 --> 00:03:46,093 know any of the names of the people-- the 374 people. 91 00:03:46,193 --> 00:03:49,129 So based on both academic studies and actual data, 92 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:52,966 there is no systemic racism in policing. 93 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:54,134 It doesn't exist. 94 00:03:54,234 --> 00:03:56,003 Now, of course, there are good cops, 95 00:03:56,103 --> 00:03:59,206 and I would say that's the vast, overwhelming majority. 96 00:03:59,306 --> 00:04:04,511 And there is a small majority of bad cops. 97 00:04:04,611 --> 00:04:05,512 He said it-- 98 00:04:05,612 --> 00:04:10,184 small majority of bad cops. 99 00:04:10,284 --> 00:04:12,452 Now, that is a Freudian slip for your ass. 100 00:04:12,553 --> 00:04:13,453 [applause] 101 00:04:13,554 --> 00:04:14,454 That is one. 102 00:04:14,555 --> 00:04:15,689 That is one. 103 00:04:15,789 --> 00:04:18,125 [applause] 104 00:04:18,225 --> 00:04:19,793 Obviously, it wouldn't be surprising 105 00:04:19,893 --> 00:04:21,662 that police kill more white people than Black people 106 00:04:21,762 --> 00:04:23,597 because there are way more of them. 107 00:04:23,697 --> 00:04:24,798 Way more. 108 00:04:24,898 --> 00:04:27,067 That's like, more white people die in NASCAR races 109 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:28,068 than Black people. 110 00:04:28,101 --> 00:04:30,971 Of course. 111 00:04:31,071 --> 00:04:32,306 Somebody check on Bubba Wallace. 112 00:04:32,406 --> 00:04:33,307 Make sure he all right. 113 00:04:33,407 --> 00:04:34,308 Make sure we got-- 114 00:04:34,408 --> 00:04:36,076 [laughter] 115 00:04:36,143 --> 00:04:37,578 But Sean is right. 116 00:04:37,678 --> 00:04:40,380 The police do need to stop killing white people, too. 117 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,082 Welcome to the struggle, my brother. 118 00:04:42,182 --> 00:04:43,083 You tell 'em. 119 00:04:43,183 --> 00:04:48,655 [cheering, applause] 120 00:04:48,755 --> 00:04:50,090 He's like the white Al Sharpton. 121 00:04:50,190 --> 00:04:52,092 It's great. 122 00:04:52,159 --> 00:04:53,560 And finally, here's a story about why 123 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:56,830 you should always keep your eyes on your children. 124 00:04:56,930 --> 00:04:58,098 REPORTER (VOICEOVER): Meet Mason 125 00:04:58,131 --> 00:05:01,034 Stonehouse, the six-year-old with a big appetite. 126 00:05:01,134 --> 00:05:03,136 This past Saturday before his bedtime-- 127 00:05:03,237 --> 00:05:07,407 I gave him the phone to play, and I wasn't paying attention. 128 00:05:07,508 --> 00:05:08,709 I was watching my show. 129 00:05:08,809 --> 00:05:10,377 REPORTER (VOICEOVER): But Mason wasn't playing a game. 130 00:05:10,477 --> 00:05:12,613 He was scrolling through the Grubhub app. 131 00:05:12,713 --> 00:05:15,115 What dad didn't know is that Mason was actually 132 00:05:15,215 --> 00:05:18,385 placing order after order, and all those orders 133 00:05:18,485 --> 00:05:19,753 were being filled. 134 00:05:19,853 --> 00:05:24,358 A parade of food delivery-- the total damage, nearly $1,000, 135 00:05:24,458 --> 00:05:26,693 helped by Mason's generous spirit. 136 00:05:26,793 --> 00:05:30,297 And then he tipped 25% on every single order. 137 00:05:30,397 --> 00:05:37,070 [cheering, applause] 138 00:05:37,137 --> 00:05:39,973 And that is why you drive your family off a cliff. 139 00:05:40,073 --> 00:05:44,711 That's why. 140 00:05:44,811 --> 00:05:48,348 Only a father would leave a kid unattended that long. 141 00:05:48,448 --> 00:05:49,783 That would never happen with a mother. 142 00:05:49,883 --> 00:05:51,585 He ordered $1,000 worth of food. 143 00:05:51,685 --> 00:05:52,653 He should be glad that he didn't 144 00:05:52,753 --> 00:05:53,687 open your browser history. 145 00:05:53,787 --> 00:05:54,688 Ooh. 146 00:05:54,788 --> 00:05:56,590 [laughter] 147 00:05:56,690 --> 00:05:58,959 I'd have gave him $1,000 just to keep that quiet. 148 00:05:59,092 --> 00:06:00,127 [laughter] 149 00:06:00,227 --> 00:06:01,295 You can have all the food you want. 150 00:06:01,395 --> 00:06:04,097 Just don't tell your mama. 151 00:06:04,198 --> 00:06:06,366 For more, we're joined by Dulce Sloan. 152 00:06:06,466 --> 00:06:07,835 Dulce, what do you-- 153 00:06:07,935 --> 00:06:12,372 [cheering, applause] 154 00:06:12,472 --> 00:06:16,476 What do you think about this whole Grubhub history thing? 155 00:06:16,577 --> 00:06:17,678 Well, I'll tell you one thing. 156 00:06:17,778 --> 00:06:21,148 This would never happen with a Black family. 157 00:06:21,248 --> 00:06:23,684 [laughter] 158 00:06:23,784 --> 00:06:27,688 If a Black child spent $1,000 on his father's phone, 159 00:06:27,788 --> 00:06:29,389 there wouldn't be any heartwarming 160 00:06:29,489 --> 00:06:31,358 news story about it. 161 00:06:31,458 --> 00:06:33,794 That $1,000 worth of food would be served 162 00:06:33,894 --> 00:06:35,529 at that child's funeral. 163 00:06:35,629 --> 00:06:37,064 [laughter] 164 00:06:37,097 --> 00:06:41,502 [applause] 165 00:06:41,602 --> 00:06:42,870 You never hear from that little boy 166 00:06:42,970 --> 00:06:46,406 again, unless there was some white woman talking about him 167 00:06:46,507 --> 00:06:48,909 on a true crime podcast. 168 00:06:49,076 --> 00:06:52,079 Little boy dead. $1,000 on my phone where I pay rent? 169 00:06:52,112 --> 00:06:53,080 He's dead. 170 00:06:53,113 --> 00:06:54,081 He's dead. 171 00:06:54,114 --> 00:06:56,149 So why do you think he was so lucky? 172 00:06:56,250 --> 00:06:58,218 I mean, listen, he was lucky. 173 00:06:58,318 --> 00:07:02,122 But also, he needed to learn not to be so greedy. 174 00:07:02,222 --> 00:07:04,925 He was lucky because he was a white child. 175 00:07:05,025 --> 00:07:07,528 And the thing is, he didn't have to order $1,000 176 00:07:07,628 --> 00:07:09,029 worth of food all at once. 177 00:07:09,129 --> 00:07:10,330 No, little man. 178 00:07:10,430 --> 00:07:13,534 You're supposed to order it a little bit every night. 179 00:07:13,634 --> 00:07:17,638 And then you keep the scam going for years. 180 00:07:17,738 --> 00:07:19,540 Like, you don't walk into your local grocery store 181 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:20,574 with guns blazing. 182 00:07:20,674 --> 00:07:22,042 No, no, no, no, no. 183 00:07:22,075 --> 00:07:26,146 You just "forget" to scan half the shit at the self-checkout. 184 00:07:26,246 --> 00:07:27,614 [laughter] 185 00:07:27,714 --> 00:07:30,551 [applause] 186 00:07:30,651 --> 00:07:33,153 But you got to admit, this had a happy ending. 187 00:07:33,253 --> 00:07:35,522 Grubhub refunded all the money. 188 00:07:35,622 --> 00:07:37,191 AUDIENCE: What? AUDIENCE: What? 189 00:07:37,291 --> 00:07:38,192 What you mean? 190 00:07:38,292 --> 00:07:39,693 [laughter] 191 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:43,397 Grubhub gave them all of the money back, refunded it all. 192 00:07:43,497 --> 00:07:45,566 Grubhub gave them $1,000 back? 193 00:07:45,666 --> 00:07:46,667 The hell? 194 00:07:46,767 --> 00:07:48,068 They wouldn't give me $7.00 back when some 195 00:07:48,101 --> 00:07:49,703 driver ate my French fries. 196 00:07:49,803 --> 00:07:51,538 [laughter] 197 00:07:51,638 --> 00:07:53,841 [cheering, applause] 198 00:07:53,941 --> 00:07:55,709 Do you know how hard I'd have to work to get 199 00:07:55,809 --> 00:07:58,278 $1,000 back from Grubhub? 200 00:07:58,378 --> 00:08:01,014 I'd have to start a hashtag, be trending on Black Twitter, 201 00:08:01,114 --> 00:08:04,451 call the NAACP, have a sit-in at the Grubhub headquarters 202 00:08:04,551 --> 00:08:06,486 with the ghost of Martin Luther King. 203 00:08:06,587 --> 00:08:08,922 [laughter] 204 00:08:09,022 --> 00:08:10,424 $1,000 back. 205 00:08:10,524 --> 00:08:13,560 But listen-- wait a minute, I ain't got to do all this. 206 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:14,728 I just need to have a baby. 207 00:08:14,828 --> 00:08:15,829 Yeah, just have a baby. It's perfect. 208 00:08:15,929 --> 00:08:16,830 Yeah. 209 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:18,098 Why do you need to have a baby? 210 00:08:18,198 --> 00:08:19,733 Well, one, because I've looked like a mother of three 211 00:08:19,833 --> 00:08:20,801 since I was 15. 212 00:08:20,901 --> 00:08:21,802 Two-- 213 00:08:21,902 --> 00:08:23,604 [laughter] 214 00:08:23,704 --> 00:08:25,138 Hey, man, listen, I started high school 215 00:08:25,239 --> 00:08:26,139 with D-cup titties. 216 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,376 I should've been way more popular. 217 00:08:29,476 --> 00:08:30,744 Stupid boys respected me. 218 00:08:30,844 --> 00:08:33,046 Listen. 219 00:08:33,113 --> 00:08:35,482 Two, because kids are the ultimate loophole 220 00:08:35,582 --> 00:08:36,483 for stealing shit. 221 00:08:36,583 --> 00:08:37,484 DL HUGHLEY: Ooh. 222 00:08:37,584 --> 00:08:38,785 Just pretend the baby did it. 223 00:08:38,886 --> 00:08:40,153 You're going to get it for free. 224 00:08:40,254 --> 00:08:44,691 Like, oh, no, did my sweet baby boy crawl across my keyboard 225 00:08:44,791 --> 00:08:46,493 and order another Chanel bag? 226 00:08:46,593 --> 00:08:47,494 Ah. 227 00:08:47,594 --> 00:08:51,732 [laughter] 228 00:08:51,832 --> 00:08:52,799 You little scamp. 229 00:08:52,900 --> 00:08:54,735 Oh. Somebody come get this baby. 230 00:08:54,835 --> 00:08:55,736 He's wild. 231 00:08:55,836 --> 00:08:56,737 He's wild. 232 00:08:56,837 --> 00:08:57,971 What if the baby snitches on you? 233 00:08:58,071 --> 00:09:03,410 First of all, my baby going to know better, OK? 234 00:09:03,510 --> 00:09:04,912 What I look like having a snitching-ass baby? 235 00:09:05,012 --> 00:09:07,014 You crazy? 236 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:08,282 Two, who's going to believe him? 237 00:09:08,382 --> 00:09:11,084 He's a baby. 238 00:09:11,185 --> 00:09:12,786 It's his words against mine, and he 239 00:09:12,886 --> 00:09:14,888 only knows three of them-- 240 00:09:15,022 --> 00:09:17,424 Mama's not home, OK? 241 00:09:17,524 --> 00:09:20,761 [cheering, applause] 242 00:09:20,861 --> 00:09:24,097 They won't know shit. 243 00:09:24,198 --> 00:09:25,232 Mommy didn't do it. 244 00:09:25,332 --> 00:09:27,234 Come on. 245 00:09:27,334 --> 00:09:30,070 Plus, babies don't have object permanence. 246 00:09:30,170 --> 00:09:34,908 How is he going to snitch on me after I stop existing? 247 00:09:35,042 --> 00:09:36,777 [laughter] 248 00:09:36,877 --> 00:09:38,679 [cheering, applause] 249 00:09:38,779 --> 00:09:41,048 Ooh. 250 00:09:41,148 --> 00:09:44,117 Where's Mommy? 251 00:09:44,218 --> 00:09:46,753 Mommy's not home. 252 00:09:46,854 --> 00:09:51,658 Who got Mommy a Chanel bag? 253 00:09:51,758 --> 00:09:53,060 That would work for a little while. 254 00:09:53,126 --> 00:09:54,695 But obviously, the baby's going to be an adult, 255 00:09:54,795 --> 00:09:56,663 and so then what would you do? 256 00:09:56,763 --> 00:09:58,365 Then they get their own baby, and then that's how 257 00:09:58,465 --> 00:10:00,334 you build generational wealth. 258 00:10:00,434 --> 00:10:01,735 [laughter] 259 00:10:01,835 --> 00:10:03,103 [cheering, applause] 260 00:10:03,203 --> 00:10:05,539 Now, that-- that's a plan. 261 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:07,641 Dulce Sloan, everybody. 262 00:10:07,741 --> 00:10:09,276 All right. 263 00:10:09,376 --> 00:10:10,544 When we come back, we're going to talk 264 00:10:10,644 --> 00:10:13,714 about how rapping can land you in prison, 265 00:10:13,814 --> 00:10:14,748 so you don't want to go away. 266 00:10:14,848 --> 00:10:17,584 [cheering, applause] 267 00:10:26,593 --> 00:10:33,567 [cheering] 268 00:10:38,238 --> 00:10:41,742 Welcome back to The Daily Show. 269 00:10:41,842 --> 00:10:44,044 Now right now in Atlanta, the rapper Young Thug is 270 00:10:44,144 --> 00:10:46,012 on trial for gang activities. 271 00:10:46,113 --> 00:10:48,548 And it is not without controversy. 272 00:10:48,648 --> 00:10:50,684 REPORTER 1: Atlanta rappers Gunna and Young Thug, 273 00:10:50,784 --> 00:10:53,186 responsible for dozens of chart-topping hits, 274 00:10:53,286 --> 00:10:54,588 they find themselves at the center 275 00:10:54,688 --> 00:10:56,790 of a controversial debate in court. 276 00:10:56,890 --> 00:10:59,659 Should rap lyrics be used as evidence in the courtroom? 277 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,596 The rapper's lyrics, one piece of evidence prosecutors 278 00:11:02,696 --> 00:11:04,331 are using in the indictment. 279 00:11:04,431 --> 00:11:05,999 (RAPPING) I never killed anybody, 280 00:11:06,099 --> 00:11:07,934 but I got something to do with that body. 281 00:11:08,034 --> 00:11:09,836 REPORTER 1: The prosecution citing lyrics 282 00:11:09,936 --> 00:11:13,373 like that in the indictment as proof of criminal conspiracy. 283 00:11:13,473 --> 00:11:14,941 The district attorney believes he 284 00:11:15,041 --> 00:11:17,110 is the ringleader of the YSL gang, 285 00:11:17,210 --> 00:11:19,045 and his lyrics are fair game. 286 00:11:19,146 --> 00:11:22,315 I think if you decide to admit your crimes over a beat, 287 00:11:22,416 --> 00:11:23,316 I'm going to use it. 288 00:11:23,417 --> 00:11:28,288 [laughter] 289 00:11:28,321 --> 00:11:30,891 That sounds like every mama I've ever seen in my life. 290 00:11:30,991 --> 00:11:33,527 [laughter] 291 00:11:33,627 --> 00:11:36,363 FYI, young people, when your name is Young Thug or Gunna, 292 00:11:36,463 --> 00:11:37,564 you're going to go to jail. 293 00:11:37,664 --> 00:11:38,565 That's-- 294 00:11:38,665 --> 00:11:40,000 [laughter] 295 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:41,368 You mumble rapper, but they heard 296 00:11:41,468 --> 00:11:42,669 him clearly on that wiretap. 297 00:11:42,769 --> 00:11:44,838 I know that. 298 00:11:44,938 --> 00:11:47,541 The issue is, should prosecutors use 299 00:11:47,641 --> 00:11:49,609 rap lyrics in criminal trials? 300 00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:52,145 That's what I want to talk about tonight in our segment, 301 00:11:52,312 --> 00:11:53,814 Long Story Short. 302 00:11:53,914 --> 00:11:59,753 [cheering] 303 00:11:59,853 --> 00:12:01,421 Well, since the '90s, prosecutors 304 00:12:01,521 --> 00:12:04,791 have used lyrics as evidence against defendants in more 305 00:12:04,891 --> 00:12:06,326 than-- over 500 trials. 306 00:12:06,393 --> 00:12:07,461 But don't get me wrong. 307 00:12:07,561 --> 00:12:09,763 If you rap about something you did 308 00:12:09,863 --> 00:12:11,331 do, well, that's a confession. 309 00:12:11,431 --> 00:12:12,999 If you rap about something you didn't do, 310 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:14,768 that is artistic expression. 311 00:12:14,868 --> 00:12:17,337 And here are just a few examples of ways 312 00:12:17,404 --> 00:12:19,940 rappers' lyrics get used in court. 313 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:21,341 REPORTER 2: A rapper named Torence 314 00:12:21,441 --> 00:12:24,845 Hatch, known as Lil Boosie, was tried for first degree murder. 315 00:12:24,945 --> 00:12:28,749 Prosecutors argued that a few cryptic words of one rap song 316 00:12:28,849 --> 00:12:30,150 were, in fact, a confession. 317 00:12:30,283 --> 00:12:31,618 REPORTER 3: Rapper McKinley Phipps 318 00:12:31,718 --> 00:12:34,988 was sentenced to 30 years in prison for manslaughter. 319 00:12:35,088 --> 00:12:37,791 Prosecutors presented spliced-together lyrics 320 00:12:37,891 --> 00:12:40,961 from two different songs as evidence at his trial. 321 00:12:41,061 --> 00:12:43,296 REPORTER 4: Police say Antwain Steward, a rapper who 322 00:12:43,397 --> 00:12:46,333 goes by the name Twain Gotti, made a big mistake when he 323 00:12:46,433 --> 00:12:48,201 recorded the song "Ride Out." 324 00:12:48,301 --> 00:12:50,570 Police believe Steward brags through his lyrics 325 00:12:50,670 --> 00:12:53,640 about how he killed Brian Dean and Christopher Horton. 326 00:12:53,740 --> 00:12:58,712 Listen. 327 00:12:58,812 --> 00:13:00,514 REPORTER 2: Some of the details match the shooting 328 00:13:00,614 --> 00:13:01,581 happened on a porch. 329 00:13:01,681 --> 00:13:03,850 No witnesses immediately came forward. 330 00:13:03,950 --> 00:13:04,851 But others don't. 331 00:13:04,951 --> 00:13:05,952 The time of day is wrong. 332 00:13:06,052 --> 00:13:07,320 There wasn't a stabbing. 333 00:13:07,354 --> 00:13:08,922 The caliber of the gun is wrong. 334 00:13:09,022 --> 00:13:11,525 And there's only one victim mentioned, not two. 335 00:13:11,625 --> 00:13:14,461 Based largely on that rap and on the accounts of two 336 00:13:14,561 --> 00:13:16,830 witnesses given years after the shooting, 337 00:13:16,930 --> 00:13:21,334 the rapper was arrested and charged with double murder. 338 00:13:21,368 --> 00:13:22,335 OK, they got the gun wrong. 339 00:13:22,436 --> 00:13:23,370 They got the stabbing wrong. 340 00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:24,604 They got the number of victims wrong. 341 00:13:24,704 --> 00:13:26,573 The only thing they got right was the porch. 342 00:13:26,673 --> 00:13:28,608 And every Black person I know got a goddamn porch. 343 00:13:28,708 --> 00:13:32,345 I mean-- and, by the way, not everything Black 344 00:13:32,446 --> 00:13:34,047 people say in songs is true. 345 00:13:34,147 --> 00:13:36,917 Like, Bob Marley-- he didn't actually shoot the sheriff. 346 00:13:37,017 --> 00:13:38,952 [laughter] 347 00:13:39,052 --> 00:13:40,954 He just wanted you to think he did so y'all wouldn't [bleep] 348 00:13:41,054 --> 00:13:41,955 with him. 349 00:13:42,055 --> 00:13:43,523 That's it. 350 00:13:43,623 --> 00:13:47,294 Sir Mix-a-Lot-- he don't like big butts. 351 00:13:47,327 --> 00:13:48,328 Nope, he's more of a boob guy. 352 00:13:48,428 --> 00:13:49,329 Trust me. 353 00:13:49,429 --> 00:13:51,531 [laughter] 354 00:13:51,631 --> 00:13:52,866 And I'm a comedian. 355 00:13:52,966 --> 00:13:54,668 I ain't never in my life seeing a rabbi and a priest walk 356 00:13:54,768 --> 00:13:55,669 into a damn bar. 357 00:13:55,769 --> 00:13:57,871 I've never seen that. 358 00:13:57,971 --> 00:13:59,106 Art is an expression. 359 00:13:59,206 --> 00:14:01,675 They use this to reflect Black life in America. 360 00:14:01,775 --> 00:14:03,076 And now they're being punished for it. 361 00:14:03,176 --> 00:14:05,212 But some prosecutors say, too bad. 362 00:14:05,312 --> 00:14:07,647 REPORTER 2: David LaBahn is a former gang prosecutor. 363 00:14:07,748 --> 00:14:10,050 He's now the CEO of the Association 364 00:14:10,150 --> 00:14:11,418 of Prosecuting Attorneys. 365 00:14:11,518 --> 00:14:13,620 I would say you can't have it both ways. 366 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,356 Cannot say that I'm rapping about stuff because this is 367 00:14:16,456 --> 00:14:19,826 what I live in, and this is what I see every day, 368 00:14:19,926 --> 00:14:22,462 and then come into court and say, 369 00:14:22,562 --> 00:14:25,766 everything that I said in that rap is completely untrue. 370 00:14:25,866 --> 00:14:29,069 Yeah, you can have it both ways. 371 00:14:29,169 --> 00:14:31,671 It's called fiction. 372 00:14:31,772 --> 00:14:33,106 And they-- 373 00:14:33,273 --> 00:14:37,310 [applause] 374 00:14:37,411 --> 00:14:39,679 They have a whole section in Barnes and Noble's. 375 00:14:39,780 --> 00:14:40,680 Read a book, bitch. 376 00:14:40,781 --> 00:14:44,951 [laughter] 377 00:14:45,051 --> 00:14:46,853 I don't even think that prosecutors think 378 00:14:46,953 --> 00:14:48,021 their lyrics are a confession. 379 00:14:48,121 --> 00:14:49,289 They just do it because it works. 380 00:14:49,356 --> 00:14:51,057 And it works because juries are made of people, 381 00:14:51,158 --> 00:14:54,461 and people are kind of racist. 382 00:14:54,561 --> 00:14:56,029 As a matter of fact, in a recent study, 383 00:14:56,129 --> 00:14:58,098 people were given identical lyrics 384 00:14:58,198 --> 00:15:01,935 and told that they either came from country artists or rap 385 00:15:02,035 --> 00:15:03,203 artists or heavy metal artists. 386 00:15:03,303 --> 00:15:05,138 And, surprise, surprise, people were 387 00:15:05,305 --> 00:15:07,007 more likely to think that rap lyrics 388 00:15:07,107 --> 00:15:08,708 were written by a criminal. 389 00:15:08,809 --> 00:15:11,178 Clearly, rap is just code for Black person. 390 00:15:11,311 --> 00:15:13,113 Country is code for white person. 391 00:15:13,213 --> 00:15:14,848 Heavy metal is code for, who the [bleep] knows? 392 00:15:14,948 --> 00:15:15,849 I don't know what that is. 393 00:15:15,949 --> 00:15:17,751 [laughter] 394 00:15:17,851 --> 00:15:20,020 But there is violence in almost every art form. 395 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:21,788 But the one with young, Black rappers 396 00:15:21,888 --> 00:15:23,824 is the only one that gets treated this way. 397 00:15:23,924 --> 00:15:25,325 And this isn't even hypothetical. 398 00:15:25,425 --> 00:15:26,860 There was a white woman on trial 399 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:27,994 for murdering her husband. 400 00:15:28,095 --> 00:15:29,996 And she had written an essay called, 401 00:15:30,097 --> 00:15:33,300 "How to Murder Your Husband." 402 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,302 And guess what-- the judge-- 403 00:15:35,402 --> 00:15:36,670 he wouldn't allow the essay to be 404 00:15:36,770 --> 00:15:39,272 read in court because he said it could prejudice the jury. 405 00:15:39,306 --> 00:15:41,775 [groaning] 406 00:15:41,875 --> 00:15:43,710 She lucky Dr. Dre didn't write the foreword. 407 00:15:43,810 --> 00:15:47,114 [laughter] 408 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:48,482 And I agree with that judge. 409 00:15:48,582 --> 00:15:49,916 It does prejudice the jury. 410 00:15:50,016 --> 00:15:51,618 The worst part about all of this 411 00:15:51,718 --> 00:15:53,920 is that rappers have to listen to their lyrics 412 00:15:54,020 --> 00:15:57,290 get butchered in court by people with no flow at all. 413 00:15:57,324 --> 00:15:59,559 Hey, this is that slime shit. 414 00:15:59,659 --> 00:16:01,595 Hey, YSL shit. 415 00:16:01,695 --> 00:16:03,930 Hey, killing 12 shit. 416 00:16:04,030 --> 00:16:06,133 Murder gang bitch. 417 00:16:06,299 --> 00:16:09,302 YSL until we're dead and pale. 418 00:16:09,336 --> 00:16:12,973 I never killed anybody, but I got something 419 00:16:13,073 --> 00:16:14,674 to do with that body. 420 00:16:14,775 --> 00:16:17,010 Ready for war like I'm Russia. 421 00:16:17,110 --> 00:16:20,080 Slimeball [bleep] like ya, ya, ya. 422 00:16:20,180 --> 00:16:21,081 Would I lie? 423 00:16:21,181 --> 00:16:22,549 I got mob ties. 424 00:16:22,649 --> 00:16:26,286 [laughter] 425 00:16:26,386 --> 00:16:28,855 And y'all thought Nick Cannon couldn't rap. 426 00:16:28,955 --> 00:16:32,059 [laughter] 427 00:16:32,159 --> 00:16:34,661 So, look, there are a whole lot of problems with the justice 428 00:16:34,761 --> 00:16:35,662 system in America. 429 00:16:35,762 --> 00:16:37,130 But this is an easy fix. 430 00:16:37,264 --> 00:16:41,902 Long story short, just stop using lyrics in court. 431 00:16:42,002 --> 00:16:48,608 [applause] 432 00:16:49,676 --> 00:16:50,877 That rhymed, but don't use it against me. 433 00:16:50,977 --> 00:16:52,646 I was just kidding around. 434 00:16:52,746 --> 00:16:54,147 Stay tuned because when we come back, 435 00:16:54,281 --> 00:16:55,482 I'm going to be talking about this issue 436 00:16:55,582 --> 00:16:58,151 with a rapper whose lyrics got him sent to prison. 437 00:16:58,285 --> 00:17:01,621 [cheering] 438 00:17:05,631 --> 00:17:10,870 [applause, cheering] 439 00:17:10,970 --> 00:17:12,338 Welcome back to The Daily Show. 440 00:17:12,438 --> 00:17:15,408 Now, my next guest tonight is a rapper whose lyrics put 441 00:17:15,508 --> 00:17:16,809 him in prison for 21 years. 442 00:17:16,909 --> 00:17:20,012 But he recently put out a new album called Son of the City. 443 00:17:20,112 --> 00:17:21,914 Please welcome Mac Phipps. 444 00:17:22,014 --> 00:17:24,884 [music playing] 445 00:17:24,984 --> 00:17:31,757 [applause, cheering] 446 00:17:31,857 --> 00:17:32,758 All right. 447 00:17:32,858 --> 00:17:37,296 New York, New York. 448 00:17:37,396 --> 00:17:39,932 It must be weird to see the very thing you were 449 00:17:40,032 --> 00:17:42,435 convicted of a long time ago being in the headlines 450 00:17:42,535 --> 00:17:43,736 again, huh? 451 00:17:43,836 --> 00:17:46,572 Yeah, and this time with another rapper. 452 00:17:46,672 --> 00:17:48,140 DL HUGHLEY: I know you're glad about that part. 453 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:49,775 That's pretty-- [laughs] it ain't you. 454 00:17:49,875 --> 00:17:52,111 Yeah. 455 00:17:52,211 --> 00:17:54,580 You remember what the lyrics were that they used to send 456 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:55,881 you to prison, to send you? 457 00:17:55,982 --> 00:17:56,882 Yeah. 458 00:17:56,983 --> 00:17:58,384 So they used two different songs. 459 00:17:58,484 --> 00:18:00,419 It was a song I had called "Shell Shocked" 460 00:18:00,519 --> 00:18:02,288 and one called "Murder Murder." 461 00:18:02,388 --> 00:18:05,124 So what they did was they took the chorus part 462 00:18:05,224 --> 00:18:06,459 from "Murder Murder," in which I say, 463 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:07,860 "Murder, murder, kill, kill. 464 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:09,328 It's real on the battlefield." 465 00:18:09,428 --> 00:18:11,998 So they took "murder, murder," and they took a line 466 00:18:12,098 --> 00:18:15,234 that I used from "Shell Shocked" about my father, 467 00:18:15,334 --> 00:18:17,370 where I said something to the effect like, 468 00:18:17,470 --> 00:18:19,338 "He gave me his name, he gave me the game, 469 00:18:19,438 --> 00:18:21,507 and if you F with me, he'll put a bullet in your brain." 470 00:18:21,607 --> 00:18:23,709 So they put them together, and they said, 471 00:18:23,876 --> 00:18:25,411 "Murder, murder, kill, kill. 472 00:18:25,511 --> 00:18:29,448 If you F with me, I'll put a bullet in your brain. 473 00:18:29,548 --> 00:18:31,484 This is the words of this young man." 474 00:18:31,584 --> 00:18:33,152 And then they pointed to me in court. 475 00:18:33,252 --> 00:18:34,286 And yeah. 476 00:18:34,387 --> 00:18:35,721 That made me scared to finish this interview, 477 00:18:35,888 --> 00:18:38,257 I'mma tell you that. 478 00:18:38,357 --> 00:18:40,059 But interestingly enough, because-- 479 00:18:40,159 --> 00:18:41,193 here's the thing. 480 00:18:41,293 --> 00:18:42,595 I think-- I'm an artist like you're an artist. 481 00:18:42,695 --> 00:18:43,929 I think that art should be protected. 482 00:18:44,030 --> 00:18:45,097 MAC PHIPPS: Absolutely. 483 00:18:45,197 --> 00:18:46,699 I think that there should be no limits on art. 484 00:18:46,799 --> 00:18:47,900 I shouldn't necessarily know if you mean it or not. 485 00:18:47,967 --> 00:18:48,901 MAC PHIPPS: Right. 486 00:18:48,968 --> 00:18:49,902 That's the purpose of art, right? 487 00:18:49,969 --> 00:18:50,903 MAC PHIPPS: Right. 488 00:18:50,970 --> 00:18:53,306 But ultimately, there are a lot 489 00:18:53,406 --> 00:18:56,409 of people who say a lot of things they actually did, 490 00:18:56,509 --> 00:18:57,610 and that's the problem. 491 00:18:57,710 --> 00:18:59,912 There's a difference between artistic expression 492 00:18:59,979 --> 00:19:01,013 and a confession. 493 00:19:01,113 --> 00:19:03,849 And I think that some people are so determined 494 00:19:03,883 --> 00:19:07,086 to prove how hard they are or where they came from that they 495 00:19:07,186 --> 00:19:08,421 telling on themself. 496 00:19:08,521 --> 00:19:10,690 And the whole street code-- snitches don't get stitches, 497 00:19:10,856 --> 00:19:11,991 they get immunity from prosecution. 498 00:19:12,091 --> 00:19:13,426 That's what they get. 499 00:19:13,526 --> 00:19:16,262 Right. 500 00:19:16,362 --> 00:19:18,364 And I guess-- and if you might-- 501 00:19:18,464 --> 00:19:21,701 and to add to that, I think that even if there are 502 00:19:21,867 --> 00:19:25,071 people that's doing what they're saying, 503 00:19:25,171 --> 00:19:26,872 I speak for the majority. DL HUGHLEY: Right, dead on. 504 00:19:26,906 --> 00:19:28,607 And for the majority, it's straight fiction. 505 00:19:28,708 --> 00:19:30,376 I mean, most of these guys-- 506 00:19:30,476 --> 00:19:33,379 I mean, not the more well known artists, but let's 507 00:19:33,479 --> 00:19:34,914 talk about some of these artists 508 00:19:35,014 --> 00:19:36,382 that don't have as big of a name. 509 00:19:36,482 --> 00:19:37,750 DL HUGHLEY: Right. - In this song, he says-- 510 00:19:37,883 --> 00:19:40,519 and I think prosecutors don't get the right to cherry-pick 511 00:19:40,619 --> 00:19:41,887 what is fiction-- - They do. 512 00:19:41,988 --> 00:19:43,289 --and what is not. 513 00:19:43,389 --> 00:19:44,657 That's specifically the gig. 514 00:19:44,757 --> 00:19:46,525 What they do is they don't care about being right or wrong. 515 00:19:46,625 --> 00:19:47,626 They care about if they can win. 516 00:19:47,727 --> 00:19:48,627 Right. 517 00:19:48,728 --> 00:19:50,296 And I think that what-- we have 518 00:19:50,396 --> 00:19:52,598 this conflation with words and what 519 00:19:52,698 --> 00:19:53,766 they mean and their impact. 520 00:19:53,899 --> 00:19:55,334 And we just showed you an example 521 00:19:55,434 --> 00:19:57,770 of the kind of biases that can-- like, I write 522 00:19:57,903 --> 00:19:59,972 an essay called, "How to Murder Your Husband," 523 00:20:00,072 --> 00:20:01,307 that isn't admitted. 524 00:20:01,407 --> 00:20:02,541 Right. 525 00:20:02,642 --> 00:20:04,443 You write, "Murder, murder, kill, kill," and it is. 526 00:20:04,543 --> 00:20:05,845 Right. 527 00:20:05,878 --> 00:20:08,547 And it is unfair, but I think the whole thing is that we 528 00:20:08,648 --> 00:20:11,117 have to protect art in general, whether we agree, like it, 529 00:20:11,217 --> 00:20:12,218 or not. - Right or not. 530 00:20:12,318 --> 00:20:13,319 I don't like everything I hear, 531 00:20:13,419 --> 00:20:14,620 but art needs to be protected. 532 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,621 And then I-- 533 00:20:15,721 --> 00:20:16,856 [cheering] 534 00:20:16,922 --> 00:20:21,627 And I totally agree. 535 00:20:21,727 --> 00:20:25,031 I totally agree because in one song this young man may say, 536 00:20:25,131 --> 00:20:28,100 well, I killed four people, but in this very same song, 537 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,670 he says he own a Bugatti, a Learjet, a helicopter. 538 00:20:30,770 --> 00:20:31,971 Right. 539 00:20:32,071 --> 00:20:34,240 And he's sitting here with a court-appointed attorney, 540 00:20:34,340 --> 00:20:35,441 so we know this is false. 541 00:20:35,541 --> 00:20:36,475 Right. 542 00:20:36,575 --> 00:20:39,378 So I mean, in hip hop, we use similes. 543 00:20:39,478 --> 00:20:40,913 We use metaphors. 544 00:20:41,013 --> 00:20:42,615 We use hyperboles. - Right. 545 00:20:42,715 --> 00:20:43,683 We exaggerate. 546 00:20:43,783 --> 00:20:44,884 Rakim said it. 547 00:20:44,917 --> 00:20:46,919 We like to exaggerate, dream, and imagination. 548 00:20:47,019 --> 00:20:48,754 So I just think that it's unfair 549 00:20:48,888 --> 00:20:51,290 when they get to cherry-pick, OK, this part of the song 550 00:20:51,390 --> 00:20:53,659 is true, and this part of the song is fiction. 551 00:20:53,759 --> 00:20:54,660 I just think that's wrong. 552 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:55,928 Even now, you've been through everything 553 00:20:56,028 --> 00:20:57,063 you've been through. 554 00:20:57,163 --> 00:20:58,364 The one thing I noticed about you when I walked 555 00:20:58,464 --> 00:21:00,232 into your room, you still got light in your eyes, 556 00:21:00,333 --> 00:21:02,301 so that's-- that means-- and it's not 557 00:21:02,401 --> 00:21:04,570 just because of what you do, it's because of who you are. 558 00:21:04,670 --> 00:21:06,372 And they're-- art does that for you, man. 559 00:21:06,472 --> 00:21:07,373 So-- - Right. 560 00:21:07,473 --> 00:21:08,975 --the fact that you go through that, 561 00:21:09,075 --> 00:21:11,310 have an experience that could turn you sour, 562 00:21:11,410 --> 00:21:12,979 and you use it to create-- guess what-- 563 00:21:13,079 --> 00:21:14,447 more art, that says something. 564 00:21:14,547 --> 00:21:15,448 Right, right. 565 00:21:15,548 --> 00:21:16,449 And-- 566 00:21:16,549 --> 00:21:17,683 [applause, cheering] 567 00:21:17,850 --> 00:21:22,288 And, DL, honestly, just being here 568 00:21:22,388 --> 00:21:25,157 is a reflection of that hope that I kept the whole time-- 569 00:21:25,257 --> 00:21:26,158 DL HUGHLEY: Sure. 570 00:21:26,258 --> 00:21:27,994 --I was there for 21 years. 571 00:21:28,094 --> 00:21:29,395 I made a promise to myself. 572 00:21:29,495 --> 00:21:31,530 I said I was never going to let this situation 573 00:21:31,631 --> 00:21:33,766 turn me black-hearted. 574 00:21:33,866 --> 00:21:36,035 I never wanted to be bitter or mad about it, so-- 575 00:21:36,135 --> 00:21:37,269 DL HUGHLEY: You didn't want them-- 576 00:21:37,370 --> 00:21:39,038 the situation, the terms which you were convicted of. 577 00:21:39,138 --> 00:21:40,039 - Yeah. - That's amazing. 578 00:21:40,139 --> 00:21:41,507 I wasn't-- I like to win. 579 00:21:41,607 --> 00:21:42,975 I like to win, y'all, and you wasn't going 580 00:21:43,075 --> 00:21:48,214 to turn me into a miserable, bitter person, you know? 581 00:21:48,314 --> 00:21:49,649 So when I came out, I said, well, 582 00:21:49,749 --> 00:21:51,183 I got to get to work because there's 583 00:21:51,283 --> 00:21:53,185 other guys who I left behind that 584 00:21:53,285 --> 00:21:54,520 are in similar situations. 585 00:21:54,620 --> 00:21:56,589 Master P's brother, C-Murder, is in a similar situation. 586 00:21:56,689 --> 00:21:57,590 DL HUGHLEY: Sure, sure. 587 00:21:57,690 --> 00:21:59,992 His image was used against him and-- 588 00:22:00,092 --> 00:22:01,594 DL HUGHLEY: C-Murder? - Right, right. 589 00:22:01,694 --> 00:22:03,029 Yeah, so you know what's interesting? 590 00:22:03,129 --> 00:22:04,997 You have a new album now. It's called Son of the City. 591 00:22:05,097 --> 00:22:06,065 Son of the City. 592 00:22:06,165 --> 00:22:08,200 DL HUGHLEY: Now, did you use any of them 593 00:22:08,301 --> 00:22:09,402 "murder, murder, kill, kill?" 594 00:22:09,502 --> 00:22:11,203 Y'all didn't use none of that? - No. 595 00:22:11,304 --> 00:22:12,338 I bet that ain't an album. 596 00:22:12,438 --> 00:22:13,739 No, no. 597 00:22:13,839 --> 00:22:15,107 No. 598 00:22:15,207 --> 00:22:16,976 And I think much of that has to do with just maturity and-- 599 00:22:17,076 --> 00:22:18,844 DL HUGHLEY: Just growing up. - I'm a grandfather. 600 00:22:18,944 --> 00:22:20,046 DL HUGHLEY: Right. - You know what I mean? 601 00:22:20,146 --> 00:22:22,982 So I mean, ultimately, I was going to mature as a 602 00:22:23,082 --> 00:22:24,517 musician anyway. 603 00:22:24,617 --> 00:22:26,285 A lot of these young men that's rapping about what they're 604 00:22:26,385 --> 00:22:27,853 rapping about today, they won't be talking 605 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,488 about that in 10, 15 years. 606 00:22:29,588 --> 00:22:32,325 I mean, this album is a reflection 607 00:22:32,425 --> 00:22:33,926 of a more mature, grown man. 608 00:22:34,026 --> 00:22:35,628 DL HUGHLEY: How many tracks you have on this album? 609 00:22:35,728 --> 00:22:36,862 It's 10 tracks on it. 610 00:22:36,962 --> 00:22:37,964 DL HUGHLEY: What's your favorite? 611 00:22:38,064 --> 00:22:39,732 My favorite track is "Proverbs" because it's 612 00:22:39,865 --> 00:22:40,900 what I would tell the world. 613 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,869 If I had the world's attention for four minutes, 614 00:22:43,970 --> 00:22:45,438 those words are what I would say to them. 615 00:22:45,538 --> 00:22:46,439 DL HUGHLEY: Well, I ain't got four minutes. 616 00:22:46,539 --> 00:22:47,740 Give me 30 seconds. - 30 seconds? 617 00:22:47,873 --> 00:22:48,741 Yeah. 618 00:22:48,874 --> 00:22:50,109 All right. 619 00:22:50,209 --> 00:22:53,145 May your tomorrows be filled with promise and the opposite 620 00:22:53,245 --> 00:22:55,448 of sorrow, amongst other things, 621 00:22:55,548 --> 00:22:58,451 for I know that it's a struggle just to go with the flow, 622 00:22:58,551 --> 00:23:00,252 when feet will take your many places 623 00:23:00,353 --> 00:23:01,620 you would rather not go. 624 00:23:01,721 --> 00:23:04,390 But fret not your soul and now the fear of the things that 625 00:23:04,490 --> 00:23:08,027 you just might behold, but cannot control, for in time, 626 00:23:08,127 --> 00:23:09,028 you'll know the reason. 627 00:23:09,128 --> 00:23:10,463 Everything has a season. 628 00:23:10,563 --> 00:23:12,632 I swear that not until it's cooked do we start eating. 629 00:23:12,732 --> 00:23:13,833 DL HUGHLEY: Ah! 630 00:23:13,933 --> 00:23:16,902 I believe in the power of us made in their image 631 00:23:17,003 --> 00:23:18,237 and in their likeness. 632 00:23:18,337 --> 00:23:20,906 The reason we write this is what hopes it will inspire, 633 00:23:21,007 --> 00:23:23,876 others to take it higher and further than those before us, 634 00:23:23,976 --> 00:23:25,077 because they're waiting for us. 635 00:23:25,177 --> 00:23:27,079 So your thoughts make your reality, 636 00:23:27,179 --> 00:23:28,481 and I wish that I can share with 637 00:23:28,581 --> 00:23:30,049 y'all all the formalities. 638 00:23:30,149 --> 00:23:32,451 But if I had to sum it up in just a few words, 639 00:23:32,551 --> 00:23:34,220 it will only take seven. 640 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:35,621 On Earth as it is in Heaven. 641 00:23:35,721 --> 00:23:36,622 DL HUGHLEY: Ah! 642 00:23:36,722 --> 00:23:38,858 [applause, cheering] 643 00:23:38,924 --> 00:23:40,226 [laughs] 644 00:23:40,326 --> 00:23:41,560 Thank you. 645 00:23:41,661 --> 00:23:42,561 Now-- 646 00:23:42,662 --> 00:23:43,562 Yes, sir. 647 00:23:43,663 --> 00:23:45,998 --I'mma tell you what. 648 00:23:46,098 --> 00:23:47,466 I'm just saying-- - Thank y'all. 649 00:23:47,566 --> 00:23:48,901 Thank y'all. 650 00:23:49,001 --> 00:23:53,339 Look, I'm no composer, but that's 651 00:23:53,439 --> 00:23:55,374 a damn sure a lot better than "murder, murder, kill, kill, 652 00:23:55,474 --> 00:23:57,176 I'll put a bullet." I'm just saying. 653 00:23:57,276 --> 00:23:58,177 I was 21. 654 00:23:58,277 --> 00:23:59,378 Mac Phipps, everybody! 655 00:23:59,478 --> 00:24:01,013 Thank y'all, New York! 656 00:24:01,113 --> 00:24:03,149 His album, Son of the City, is available now. 657 00:24:03,249 --> 00:24:04,450 OK, we got to take a break. 658 00:24:04,550 --> 00:24:06,452 We're going to be right back after this. 659 00:24:06,552 --> 00:24:07,453 Let's go. 660 00:24:07,553 --> 00:24:10,890 [applause] 661 00:24:14,969 --> 00:24:15,870 Well, that's it. 662 00:24:15,970 --> 00:24:16,871 That's going to hold me. 663 00:24:16,971 --> 00:24:17,939 That is my week. 664 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:20,207 I've had a lot of fun hosting this week. 665 00:24:20,308 --> 00:24:21,242 Thank you all for watching. 666 00:24:21,342 --> 00:24:22,643 Make sure you tune in next week, 667 00:24:22,743 --> 00:24:26,013 when your new guest host is going to be Chelsea Handler. 668 00:24:26,113 --> 00:24:28,883 Now, here is your Moment of Zen. 669 00:24:28,983 --> 00:24:31,886 Knocking off your big homie bitch. 670 00:24:31,986 --> 00:24:33,754 [bleep] [bleep] the police. 671 00:24:33,854 --> 00:24:37,124 [bleep] 'em in a high speed. 672 00:24:37,224 --> 00:24:39,260 Hundred rounds in a Tahoe. 673 00:24:39,360 --> 00:24:40,928 This that slime shit. 674 00:24:41,028 --> 00:24:42,496 This that mob shit. 675 00:24:42,597 --> 00:24:43,731 [bleep] the judge. 676 00:24:43,831 --> 00:24:45,299 YSL. 677 00:24:45,399 --> 00:24:47,068 This that mob life. 678 00:24:47,168 --> 00:24:49,303 (SINGING) MTV.