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Tonight, another crypto collapse,
Dems take control of the Senate, and Nas.
This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
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What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Trevor Noah.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you for coming out in person.
Thank you so much for being here, everybody.
Wow, this feels amazing.
Take a seat. Take a seat.
Let's get into it.
We have got a great show for you tonight.
The Democrats are as surprised as you are about winning.
Donald Trump goes to war with everyone.
And if you were hoping to lose all your money in crypto,
well, then I've got some good news.
Plus, hip hop legend and New York's very own,
Nas is our guest tonight, talking
about a brand new album.
So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
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All right, before we get into the big stories,
let's catch up on a few other things going on in the world,
starting in the United Kingdom, where a protester who threw
eggs at King Charles has now been
banned from carrying eggs in public
as a condition of his bail.
I mean, that just really shows you how much
England has lost its edge.
In the old days, if you came at the king,
they would torture you in the Tower of London
for the rest of your life.
Now it's like, you attacked our king, well, good luck
making an omelet now.
And some news from the world of philanthropy, Jeff Bezos
announced that he will be giving
Dolly Parton $100 million to celebrate
her good deeds in the world.
Yeah, and that's how rich Jeff Bezos is.
Imagine being so rich that you think it's charity when you
give money to millionaires.
He's like, oh, you poor thing, you don't
even have a spaceship, do you?
Oh, here, let me break you off some.
Oh, in major geopolitical news, President Biden
met for the first time with his Chinese counterpart,
Xi Jinping.
And after the three-hour meeting,
Biden declared that an invasion of Taiwan is not imminent.
And I know what probably happened here.
Xi Jinping went into that meeting
planning to stick it to Joe.
But first, Biden told him about that one time
we had that friend who was a Negro baseball player,
and he used to work at the pool with all the kids,
and he rode the Amtrak all the way to Scranton.
Man, it's not the Scranton of today.
Man, Scranton was so different back then.
My pop always used to tell me, on my word
as a Biden, an ice cream man.
Come on.
Come on, Jack.
And Xi Jinping was like, you know what?
You can have Taiwan, just stop talking.
I don't-- I don't know what any of this.
Just-- just leave me alone.
All right, but let's move on to some of the biggest stories
of the day, starting with the midterms, that magical time
of the year when the most exciting thing on TV
is Steve Kornacki doing math.
Now, votes are still being counted across the country.
But a few things are clear.
One, you can take off your I voted sticker now.
We get it.
And two, Senate Democrats are about to get two more
years in the driver's seat.
Let's begin with Democrats shocking the political world
by retaining control of the United States Senate,
thanks to a win overnight in Nevada.
REPORTER: Democrats now taking a victory lap,
defying history and expectations, on track
to their best midterm performance
since John F. Kennedy was president.
This is a very happy day.
REPORTER: With at least 50 seats and Vice President
Kamala Harris's tie-breaking vote,
Democrats now keep control of the upper chamber, regardless
of the outcome of Georgia's Senate runoff
slated for December 6.
Holding the Senate gives President Biden and his party
control over the legislative agenda
there and, critically, judicial confirmations,
including the Supreme Court if another seat opens up.
That's right.
Now that Nevada and Arizona have been called,
the Democrats have officially kept control of the Senate
for another two years, which is a huge surprise.
I mean, when Chuck Schumer heard that happened,
his glasses nearly fell right off his face.
I mean, at least I'm assuming that's why
they're down there, right?
And remember-- remember, the reason this is so important
is because keeping the Senate means that Democrats can keep
confirming judges, including Supreme Court
Justices, like if any of them retire, or let's say,
I don't know, gets like a DUI, you know?
I still like beer.
My man.
But-- but remember, if Republicans take control
of the House, then every dream the Democrats have
of codifying Roe v. Wade, or taxing the rich,
or turning Pete Buttigieg into a real boy, they can't do it.
I mean, they probably weren't going to do it anyway,
but now they have someone to blame.
Those pesky Republicans!
Now, of course, there's still the Georgia runoff in December
between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker,
which the Democrats don't need anymore.
They don't need to win in order to control the Senate.
But it would give them extra cushion for when Joe Manchin
tries to cock block them, or Kyrsten Sinema goes rogue,
or Bernie Sanders misses a vote because he's arguing
with a grocery store manager.
It's just-- shove that apple pie up your ass.
I want to pay with a check.
Wait, hold on.
I wrote the wrong date.
Give me another chance.
So we're going to have to wait until December
to see what the final count in the Senate is.
And really, that race can go either way.
But can we just admit, now that the stakes are a little lower,
you kind of want to see what Herschel Walker
would be like as a senator?
I'm not saying they should.
And I'm not saying it would be good for Georgia
or for the country.
But-- but when he gets Mitch McConnell
pregnant with another secret baby, it'll be all worth it.
It'll be all worth it.
[cheers and applause]
He sent me a card and $500.
But while the Democrats are celebrating their success
in the midterms, Republicans are being forced to look ahead
to 2024 and the question of who will
take on the animated corpse of Joe Biden for the presidency.
So obviously-- obviously, all eyes on Donald Trump,
you know, because he's the person
who has promised a big announcement
from Mar-a-Lago tomorrow.
Yeah, and no one knows what the big announcement could be.
It could just be that he successfully walked down
a ramp or that he finally memorized
all the words to the McDonald's Big Mac song.
But-- but everyone is expecting that it's
going to be his entry into the presidential race.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: No!
Yeah.
Oh, oh.
And there are a lot of reasons people think that Trump
is going to run again.
They think he wants to avoid an indictment.
They think he thinks he's already won last time.
It could be the fact that he has a Cinemax
movie in the White House DVR that he
wants to finish watching.
Will Emanuel get back from space?
I don't know!
But the biggest hint that he's running again
is that he spent a lot of time recently
making fun of other Republicans who might think of
running, right?
You remember, he called Ron DeSantis Ron DeSanctimonious.
He mocked Mike Pence's polling numbers.
And then last week, he found something
to say about a new target, Virginia
Governor Glenn Youngkin.
On Friday, the former president
posted on his social media platform, Truth Social,
that Youngkin's last name, quote, "sounds Chinese."
ANNOUNCER: The post read, in part, "Young Kin, now
that's an interesting take.
Sounds Chinese, doesn't it?
Couldn't have won without me."
You know, just when I think Trump has hit peak strange,
he finds a way to take it to another level.
He's like super saying I'm strange because first of all,
first of all, how are you so racist
that you can make an anti-Asian remark about a white guy?
I don't even understand that.
And secondly, how are you so weird that you can surprise
yourself in your own texts.
He's the one typing, then he's like, now,
that's an interesting take.
You wrote it!
Are you guys seeing what just happened?
You typed it.
Like, who are you?
How does your brain work?
The only explanation that makes sense in my head
is that he typed the guy's name in,
and then it autocorrected to Young Kin.
And now Trump is having a conversation
with his autocorrect like, wow, I never thought
of it that way, keyboard.
You should be my running mate.
So smart, so strong, so clever.
And this moment here is just another one where you realize
that the tide is turning against Trump ever
since the midterms because this time,
Republicans are pushing back against him.
Yeah, they've come out, they're like, this is not cool.
Why are you saying this?
They're fighting him.
You realize if this happened before the midterms,
Youngkin would have come out, like, why, yes, in fact,
I am a Chinese man.
Ni hao, y'all, and [chinese],, Mr. Trump.
But let's move on to some financial news.
After being hailed as the future of money,
2022 has been cryptocurrency's worst year yet.
The crypto market has lost $1.3 trillion worldwide.
Hundreds of cryptocurrencies have completely disappeared.
And Matt Damon has moved on to selling Herbalife.
And now, just when we thought the crypto world couldn't
fall any lower, this happened.
One popular cryptocurrency exchange is on the brink
of collapse this morning.
FTX filed for bankruptcy Friday,
leaving investors scrambling and destabilizing
the entire industry.
REPORTER: The company's 30-year-old CEO
Sam Bankman-Fried resigned and his $16 billion
fortune erased.
Bloomberg has called his meteoric fall from
grace one of history's "greatest-ever
destructions of wealth."
At its peak, the crypto exchange was worth $32 billion
and benefited from superstar endorsements
from Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen,
Naomi Osaka, and Steph Curry.
The NBA's Miami Heat had its venue renamed as FTX Arena
just last year.
But now that name is coming off the building.
The downfall of FTX began earlier this month,
when reports raised serious questions
about its financial health.
Those questions triggered a bank run on the exchange
as too many customers try to withdraw their assets.
By Thursday, Bankman-Fried was apologizing on Twitter,
saying, quote, "I'm sorry.
I [bleep] up and should have done better.
Yeah, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges
has filed for bankruptcy, going from being worth $30 billion
to being $8 billion in the hole.
And do you know how hard it is to lose
that much money overnight without buying Twitter?
This wasn't easy.
[applause]
And look-- I will say, I am glad that he apologized.
But a tweet saying, "I [bleep] up"
doesn't capture the enormity of what you've done.
You know, I [bleep] is the wrong address.
I [bleep] up is like the wrong Uber or something.
At the very least, you've got to add like 10 more
U's because you [bleep] up.
And this crypto collapse is sending shockwaves everywhere,
everywhere, from people losing billions of dollars
to the Miami Heat being forced to change
the name of their arena, right, now that FTX is broke.
You saw that.
And I'll be honest with you, I feel
like this one is on the Heat.
If you're going to let a company buy the naming rights
to your arena, at least make sure it's
an established company.
Don't commit to some crypto startup that's
been around for two years.
It's like going on a first date,
and then when the person goes to the bathroom,
you get a lower back tattoo of their name, you know.
He's like, yeah, there's no way this could backfire, yeah.
Wait, it's Janice?
I thought it was Jenny.
And you have to admit-- you have to admit,
it is crazy that a crypto collapse can take
so much real money with it.
Think about it.
It's fake money, but people lost real savings.
It's like finding out someone's imaginary friend died by
driving your car off a cliff.
You're like, how?
Your friend wasn't real.
They were real to me.
And personally, I hope Tom Brady didn't invest too much
of his money in this company because otherwise,
he'll never be able to retire.
He's going to be like 90 years old in a huddle,
just like, you're going to run a post out left.
And you block the blitz.
And did I ever tell you about that time
I had a friend who was a Negro baseball player, used to work
at the pool with the kids at Amtrak,
and the stair with the blah blah.
My word as Joe Biden--
hey, come on, Jack.
Come on.
Let's do it.
All right, that's it for the headlines.
But before we go to a quick break,
let's check in on the stock market
with our finance expert, Michael Costa, everybody.
Michael, absolute insanity.
What is happening in the market today?
Trevor, I am crushing it.
I mean, I'm crushing it so hard that I too
should be banned from carrying eggs because I
would crush them, OK?
I got a hot tip for you too, so pay attention.
I got a hot tip for you.
But obviously, Trevor, today, it's all about crypto and FTX,
which collapsed last week.
Now, this is really important.
People are losing their third houses
because of this, all right?
Now, obviously, I didn't invest in FTX.
I didn't like that Tom Brady was promoting it.
I have a very simple investing rule.
Don't take financial advice from people who get
hit in the head all day, OK?
That's why the only athletes I listen to are swimmers, OK?
They don't get hit in the head.
Now, this is important.
Wait until they're out of the pool
to hear what they have to say.
Otherwise, you'd put all your money into [muffled speech]
Wall Street.
Pay attention to this right here.
This 52-week low, 1.2, that's low.
Now, I'm an expert.
I don't expect you to understand numbers,
but let me explain it to you, OK?
Zero is the bottom.
You can't get lower than zero unless there's a wind chill.
So look, I know this looks like the price of FTX Token.
But what this chart actually represents
is the age of people who trust crypto, OK?
In November, it's like 20, 25.
Maybe at one point it reached 30 years old.
But now, the only group that trusts crypto, 2
and 1/2 year olds, Trevor, OK.
Yeah, look.
2 and 1/2 year olds believe in crypto because they'll
believe in anything, you know?
They believe in Santa Claus.
They believe in the tooth fairy.
They believe I actually got your nose.
Trevor, this one kid paid me 20 bucks to give it back to him.
I'm crushing it.
I am crushing.
OK, now, it's gotten so bad, if you
ask a four-year-old about crypto,
they'll be like, no, no, no, absolutely not.
I'm not an idiot.
Now, will you take me to the potty,
so I can make a doo doo?
All right, Trevor, why?
Why did this happen?
The founder.
One man, three names.
Sam Bankman-Fried.
All right, look, the writing is on the wall, everybody.
No, no, no, specifically, this wall.
Bank-- man-- fried?
If that's not a warning--
yeah.
You see I'm an expert?
If that's not a warning, I don't know what is.
Would you eat at a restaurant where the chef was named
Brian Undercooked-Chicken?
OK?
TREVOR NOAH: [laughs]
You know, he did try to save his company
by going to his chief rival for a bailout.
That's got to be tough, right?
That's like asking your wife's tennis coach for sex tips,
you know, which reminds me, Jake,
you got to call me back, dude.
I mean-- OK, lastly, this is yet another reminder
that we shouldn't automatically assume
that nerdy, quirky-looking people are geniuses, right?
The same way you've got to be careful
with these handsome guys on TV in their suits,
giving you these financial tips.
And just because they're standing in front
of a stock chart, people will trust
them with their life savings.
It's disgusting.
By the way, I got a hot tip for you.
If you're still in on crypto, I got your nose.
And if you want it back, you got to give me some money.
Come on, come get it.
Come get it.
Michael Costa, everybody.
Thank you so much for those, I think they're tips.
All right, when we come back, Roy Wood Jr. is going to visit
Wakanda, so don't go away.
Hey, everyone.
I'm Twitter's new head of communications.
There's a lot going on right now,
but I just want to assure you that everything's
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Comedy is legal on Twitter again.
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Please stop impersonating our advertisers.
And please stop impersonating me.
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If you see a verified account, please assume that it's fake.
All right, fake tweet alert, everyone.
John Kerry is not, quote, "so horny
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Comedy is now illegal on Twitter.
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It's been fun.
I'm back.
From now on, if you want to imitate someone,
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Not your bio, your account name.
Your account name and your bio have to say--
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[cheering]
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
This weekend was the premiere of the new Black Panther
movie, Wakanda Forever.
But did you know that T'Challa is
not the first Black superhero?
Well, for more, we turn to Roy Wood, Jr.
in another episode of CP Time.
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Ah, good whiskey.
Welcome to CP Time, the only show that's full of culture.
Today, we'll be discussing Black superheroes.
Iconic characters like Falcon, War Machine, Cyborg,
and the dude at Church's Chicken who puts onion
rings in your bag of fries.
That brother uses his powers for good.
Black superheroes or not new.
In fact, they've been squeezing into Spandex for decades.
They did it as far back as 1936 when cartoonist Jay
Jackson created Speed Jackson in the Chicago
Defender newspaper.
Speed Jackson was a former track star
at Howard University who was an excellent fist fighter, which
may not sound powerful compared to today's
superheroes with their laser eyes and sticky spider hands.
But you have to think about it like sports.
Today's best athletes at the pinnacle of human physicality,
while the best athletes from the 1930s
were just the ones with the least polio.
Times change.
Jackson used his abilities to fight against fascists
during the war and right the wrongs of a racist society,
which is tough, because superpowers
don't help when you're fighting systemic racism.
Doesn't matter if you have the strength of 10 men
if none of those men can get a mortgage.
In 1947, Black superheroes made the leap from comic strip
to comic book.
With Lion Man, a cat-themed superhero
who protected the world's largest uranium deposit
in Africa's Gold Coast, although a cat may not
have been the best animal to defend a valuable resource.
Sure, cats are fast and agile.
But you're getting there during one of those 22 hours
that they're asleep, that uranium is yours.
Lion Man was created by Orrin Evans, who intended
his comic to counter the racial distortions seen
in other comics.
Although, if he was trying to avoid racial stereotypes,
I think it's fair to say the results were mixed.
Look at Lion Man right there.
Shirtless, with a loincloth, and an arrow through his butt.
Somehow, that is still the least problematic
character on the cover.
Despite how it looks today, Lion Man
was still groundbreaking as an all-Black written
and illustrated comic, even if now
the cover looks like Tucker Carlson tried to draw Africa.
In the 1970s, there was an explosion
of Black superheroes.
Characters like Black Lightning, Black
Vulcan, and Black Goliath.
Basically, if you were trying to create
an African-American hero in the '70s,
you put the word Black in front of whatever was lying
around you in the apartment.
This week, Black Chandelier battles it out
against his arch nemesis Black Candy Wrapper.
But the most popular of these superheroes
was the newest member of the X-Men, Storm,
an African priestess who could control
the weather to keep the rain from messing up her hair.
Storm was a landmark character for both Black and female
representation in comics.
And on top of that, she's definitely the best X-Man.
You know I'm right.
Who's better than Storm?
Rogue?
What's her power?
If I hold my boyfriend's hand too long, he'll die.
Wolverine is indeed strong, except for when
he has to go through TSA.
Professor X can read minds, but that
means he also sees all the kinky sex stuff
his enemies are thinking.
Good luck defeating Magneto when you
know how much he loves feet.
By the 1990s, Black superheroes were
making it to the big screen.
In 1993, Robert Townsend directed The Media Man, a film
about a mild-mannered teacher who
was hit by a radioactive meteor and got superpowers.
I must say, it's bold to name yourself after the worst thing
that's ever happened to you.
My superhero name would be Sheila Left Him
Man, with the power to eat one whole can of tuna
over the sink.
You were right, Sheila.
I can't do better.
In 1998, Marvel bet on Black with the Blade franchise.
Wesley Snipes starred as a vampire hunter
to great box office success.
And Blade was a powerful mama jama.
He managed to be that cool, while wearing the
same sunglasses as Guy Fieri.
It's also why there's no vampires in Flavortown.
Blade became a household name and the first major theatrical
success for Marvel, setting off a wave of Marvel films
to come in the next two decades.
Because Wesley Snipes proved that no one's
powerful enough to defeat Marvel heroes,
except for the IRS.
Please don't punch me, Wesley Snipes.
Big fan.
Now Black superheroes are everywhere,
even taking over the mantle of formerly white heroes.
We have an African-American Green
Lantern, Iron Man, Captain America, and Spider-Man.
No Black Bruce Wayne though.
That requires too much generational wealth.
Well, that's it for CP Time.
And remember, before the co--
What's that?
It's the CP signal.
Someone needs a folksy man to come and tell
them about Black history!
I'm on my way, Florida.
To the CP mobile!
I need some gas money for the CP mobile.
It take leaded.
I can't afford it.
Thank you so much for that, Roy.
All right, stay tuned, because when we come back,
the legendary Nas will be joining
me right here on the show.
You don't want to miss it.
[cheering]
[applause]
[cheering]
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is a Grammy award-winning rap legend.
He's here to talk about his new album, King's
Disease III, which is out now.
Please welcome the one and only Nas.
[applause]
[cheering]
Yo.
Yo!
Welcome back to the show.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah, man, welcome back, congratulations
on the new album.
You know, I was thinking about this today when we were
talking about you coming on.
I was like, you are a living hip hop legend.
[cheering]
And I think the significance of that
for me lies in the meaning both ways.
One, you are still in the game, you're still doing it,
you're still contributing, you're
still making great music.
But also, you are a living hip hop legend.
We take for granted how many legends we've lost in hip hop.
We take for granted how many people aren't
around who are part of that.
Do you ever wake up in the morning
and think to yourself, damn, so many of the people I started
with in this game aren't here anymore,
and I'm still here getting to be a part of it?
All the time, all the time.
Somebody, a friend of mine today called me and told me,
he said, yo, you realize how long you've been around
and how much you survived and things you've been through?
We just lost a hip hop artist the other week, man.
Yeah.
Takeoff.
And may he rest in peace.
And you know, I lost so many friends
even before I got into music.
I didn't think I would get into music
and then still see it going on.
Yeah, you've done that.
You've done more than just survive it,
you've succeeded in it, you've thrived in it.
And I think what I love about this album is how it feels
like you almost reminiscing whilst also
writing a piece of the future.
Yeah.
You know, you've always been to this day,
everyone will say one of the greatest
lyricists that's ever lived.
But the stories that you tell, the way you weave.
I mean, for instance, everyone who was in hip hop
was familiar with like your beef with Jay-Z, what it was.
And I loved how I'd here you talk about that beef, what
it was, how it disappeared.
But how you'll still text him saying,
you know this isn't over, right?
Well, when I released the tracklist
for the album the other day, he released a picture
with all his Grammys.
[laughs]
Yeah.
Shout out to him.
And a shout out to Hit-Boy, who produced
this album, the entire album.
He produced the other two albums,
and also the album, Magic.
Yeah.
We slipped in four albums in two years.
And you've been proof--
And the reason, yeah.
Thanks, man.
Thanks.
And the reason I think it happened,
is because we started the first one
in 2020 when the pandemic hit.
Yeah.
So at first I was scared to come outside.
And then Hit-Boy was in the studio like, come on, man,
it's like a month you didn't leave your house.
And he got me to come outside and had nothing else to do.
Right.
And we finished the first one really quick,
and we said, we should do this again.
And here we are with the third one on my label, Mass Appeal.
I would love to know, yeah, I'd love to know that when you
look at hip hop as a whole, you were there
when it was only seen as gangsta rap.
You were there when it was completely
ostracized from society.
Now it's at the Super Bowl.
Now it is at a hockey game.
I remember that's when I was like, wow,
OK, hip hop has done it.
No, for real.
I'd love to know where you would like
to see the game progressing to now
that it's not in the exact same place it was before.
I think it evolved, and I think
people can realize that you don't have to be scared of it.
We learn from our mistakes, and then we can grow in it.
We don't have to stay doing one thing.
The ones who stay doing one thing,
unfortunately they fall off.
And we have to understand that like hip hop is now is going
on 50 years and we've been behind this whole 50
years will be next year hip hop has been alive.
So we've been behind trying to create
this museum that's coming up in the Bronx right now.
It's amazing.
And the mayor has even gotten involved.
That's amazing.
Mayor Adams, and you know, and I noticed yeah,
I noticed one thing, the culture is like,
artists don't think they can go pass one way,
or we have to be all in one like area
trying to fight for crumbs.
And it's like, hip hop's a multi sound genre.
So like in rock, you don't have,
you don't compare Kiss to the Rolling Stones.
But in hip hop for some reason, we're fighting it
for the same thing and you feel like you have to be the number
one guy all the time.
So hip hop is a multi sound genre.
You can have multiple things going on at once.
Doesn't matter how if you're 20 years old or 40 years
old or whatever, it's a beautiful culture
and I love all of it.
So I think that we should all as writers
get out of your comfort zone and spread your wings
and expand with your sound.
Yeah, I really like that.
Before I let you go, I want to talk
about that idea of being more.
We know you for the music.
We know you for being in the restaurant business
and doing extremely well, being successful with that.
We also getting in--
Somebody said it, Sweet Chick.
Yeah, you've been there? - Yeah.
All right.
It's phenomenal, people love it.
And you know, I remember eating and someone was like, you
know Nas owns this chicken.
I was like, this chicken that I'm holding right now?
It was a weird way that someone said it to me.
But you're also getting involved
in a different type of storytelling,
which is in film.
You know, I know that you directed a documentary.
Yeah.
You know, that talks about the Supreme world of like,
it was this underworld in Queens,
and I know you're also involved in a really fascinating story
about the Civil Rights icons.
Everybody, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., et cetera.
Yeah, yeah.
What is it about that world that entices you?
Why are you stepping into documentaries,
filmmaking, et cetera, and doing well at it?
I'm a movie buff. I love films.
For real?
And, yeah, I love films, I love 'em, love 'em, love 'em.
I was, Halloween I was going Friday the 13th crazy.
I was doing Halloween crazy.
I went to see Halloween Ends and all of that.
It was a whole thing.
What's your favorite film?
What is like the movie that you can never get enough of,
you watch it over and over and over?
Beat Street, the old school hip hop film.
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OK.
That's my favorite.
Then it comes The Godfathers and all of that stuff.
OK, OK.
You know, Godfather's a family movie, you know?
It's a beautiful thing, you know?
But yeah, I love films, I love Steven Spielberg.
I rapped about him on one of my first raps.
And I always wanted to get into it.
So the Supreme Team was one about an underworld
organization in Queens long ago.
We hear about the Gottis and all
of those, John Gotti and stuff, but we
never really hear about this.
So I like to uncover things, the good,
the bad, the ugly in America.
And this story was some innocent people
and some people are guilty.
Some are innocent probably.
But the new one, The Invaders that just came out,
you can catch it on Apple, Amazon Prime,
it's about this organization of musicians, intellectuals,
Vietnam vets who got together who
were trying to strike against a garbage truck company--
Yeah.
--Where someone was killed in this faulty truck.
And there was no pensions, the money was bad.
And Martin Luther King came down there
and he stood with the Memphis people,
the people that were striking and he found
out who the Invaders were.
And they wanted to protect the march,
because the first March was bad.
Yeah, yeah.
Of course, we know the end, how Martin Luther
King you know, what happens.
But there's another look into that story
through the eyes of the Invaders.
Right.
And most of them are still alive.
And it's a really good picture.
And 1967, and it's amazing.
So there's so many stories to uncover all over the world.
And here's my world.
I want to talk about it.
Another one besides Sweet Chick, I got to tag
is COTE, Michelin star restaurant, COTE.
You got to go.
- That's you?
Yeah.
I'm, it's not me, but I'm a part of it.
Yeah, but still, that's you.
Yeah, that's me.
- Wow! - Yeah.
- Man of many talents. - Thank you, man.
I appreciate you. Congratulations again.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for coming on the show.
Kings Disease 3 is out now.
Nas, everybody.
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We'll be right back after this.
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