Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1381 - Donnell Rawlings
Uploaded: 2019-11-12T20:00:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1381 - Donnell Rawlings' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-11-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1381 - Donnell Rawlings' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-11-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1381 - Donnell Rawlings

why is that i don't know it just feels when you it's when you say turn my up
the engineers and the producers feel like oh this just turned this up he's
about to go in
it gives you the impression that you're about to spit the hottest 16 of your
life
16 what is 16 16 bars in a song like a like you don't know this no so nobody's
ever come up to
you say um uh nobody's ever come up to you say um let me get your 16 spit uh a
hot 16. nobody's
ever said that never in my life have i heard that expression you need to change
the places you hang
out for real man i mean i mean i don't know i'm not trying i'm just saying
because i'm pretty sure
there are places you would have all the people all the black people you know
all the rappers and nobody
nobody's asked nobody ever asked you to spit no no never i've never spit have
you ever practiced
never come on joe don't never i'm not lying no you don't have any time you don't
is that time for
black people or time for rap i'm just trying to figure out what for me to rap i
like listening
i've done zero rap you like you like you like i don't know people got a little
slick ways of saying
stuff man no i don't have any time to so there's a limit my my what i try to do
okay you don't have
time for rap i don't have time to do it i like listening okay this is the point
i'm making about
spitting if you listen to it there's probably a song that you like and there's
never been a
time in your life you've been in the mirror out of the shower that it felt good
to you and you tried to
spitting is the same as repeating the everything that the person said right so
not one to not one
song that you like you've never tried to sing a verse or or or hook from that
song i've definitely
done that but no one's ever asked me to spit so if i asked you what's your
favorite rap song
could you spit it would you be able to spit it i would have to think about it
my favorite what would my
favorite p i like old school like i like a lot of like cool g rap oh i like old
yeah so you take
oh you're going back almost to sugar hill days you remember that for sure hip
hop hippie to the hip
but if you remember that song you remember when that song first came out and i
know i'm dating myself
you literally could get if you knew every word to um rapper's delight i
remember i was in junior high
school and people were playing it in the lunch room and on a record play not
record players but
boombox yeah cassettes i remember thinking wow this is like a new kind of music
it's a new kind
of music not only the way you had to learn it like it wasn't like now you could
skip through the
timeline to a song whatever you it was a cassette so it would play then you
have to rewind it right
back to that same spot and keep doing it you had to keep doing it until you
learned all the words but
cassette players were fairly recent back then so that was like when sugar hill
came out was around the
time cassette players were out well you could walk around and play the music
you didn't need a record
player you didn't have a record player and what people would do with those boombox
you would record
your favorite music from the radio from yes from your boombox yep yep so you
would have a nice little
tape you have a nice tape and you think it's like oh this is clear did you hear
somebody say
tisha get the off the stove because it was right it was it was recording right
in in in actual time
remember a lot of them had two decks so you could record other people's too
yeah a lot of black
people that had the white dudes in the suburbs had the double deck double deckers
yeah we had to sing
double decks were nice because you could get a friend and he had a cassette and
you could copy that
cassette and you and then we would copy them we had go in dc that was really
big with go-go music
go you know what go-go music is go-go music it's like uh african funk uh uh uh
jazz beat it's like
it's a lot of percussions what's a good go-go music artist um rare essence that's
a band a trouble
funk is a band eu i'm old school so these were the biggest bands back then then
he had this band called
the junkyard band you know junkyard band the way they started was they was
really they kind of like
copied the cosby you know cosby cosby show we had that the backyard band it was
on um radiators and
stuff and these were guys would just take buckets and cardboard and card and uh
and cowbells and wood
blocks and just basically get a beat but you didn't good sorry did you ever
listen to when the brand new
heavies got together with uh a bunch of different rappers and produced it's a
very interesting album
um there there's like i think there's only one that they put out but you could
get it off of itunes i
think but like cool g rap did one um a bunch of other a bunch of other guys did
one but they did
like they rapped over like different kind of music oh yeah yeah and did it get
popular it was pretty
popular back in the 90s i think what was it was it aerosmith and um run dmc run
dmc yeah that was
a big moment that was some crazy yeah yeah i mean you knew for black being a
black person we knew
rappers going to next level we was like this yo they with the white boys now
once you put that white
boy vibe in there man it was like it was out and that was the first time that
had ever been done one
of the things that we talked about recently i was saying like think about the
the number the sheer
number of white rappers who have actually made it it's a tiny it's a tiny bit
tiny number like if you
were a white rapper it was kid like if your kid was a white rapper and he's
like dad i want to be
a rapper you're like oh good first you got to get them yeah but you got to give
them a lot of black
friends first a lot of because they're gonna beat his ass down not physically
but mentally mentally
and that's the same thing the black community did with um eminem right right
when eminem first came out
every black person that appreciated rap or lyrics or flow knew he was good but
they was just wasn't
going to give him a pass it's like when you go in the military you know they
treat the the new green
person the jeep person they treat them like and that's what they did with eminem
and eminem just
kept coming coming with fire kept coming with fire to the point where um he he's
respected as one of
the best to ever do it by the way happy veterans day thank you i appreciate you
are a veteran this is the
funniest veteran probably on the planet earth right across i appreciate it i
appreciate that um uh
probably reason why i got out of the military was my sense of humor really yeah
i kept getting in
trouble i kept getting in trouble i kept getting in trouble to the point where
this was what i used
to hear uh almost every monday airman and i was in a position of attention airman
rawlins your blatant
disregard for established military policy shows a lack of military burn and
integrity wow every day
that's what they do when they give they give you a lor a letter of reprimand
and it's like a thing that
you put in your file eventually going to stack all those things up and try to
kick you out but when
i was in the military i i got out i didn't get out dishonorably the only way
you get out dishonorably
if it's like doing wartime or something like that but i gotta um i i got an
honorable discharge
but i was that close to my whole life up if i would have stayed yeah yeah they
was gonna to kick me out i
just was i just was on joke time all the time i was on joke time when i when i
left i was stationed in
kunsan korea i left kunsan korea and i went to bowling air first base washington
dc and i'm from dc
so i was they knew i was close to home and every monday they would give me a
random drug test every
monday like every monday at 11 o'clock i would get randomly tested for drugs i
always passed but i knew
that they thought something different to me and i knew it was time i did my
four-year commitment
my for me four-year enlistment and then i broke out what was it like being in korea
for me i just
i was when i went in i went in the air force i was 17. you know you when you're
underage your parents
have to sign give you permission for you to go why did you go in so early
because the way my birthday
felt fell some kind of way when i graduated from high school because i was only
17. and i didn't
plan on that i wasn't going to go to college um i didn't really have a trade
and then for a lot of
black people um that's the alternative that's how you uh explore the world it's
probably for some black
people the first time you ever got on the airplane first time you've been off
your block so it was a
good it was a good transition from going to high school not not doing anything
but i was just i was
a little kid like when i went to kunsan korea like they didn't i didn't know
that there was no drinking
age over there when you're in the military over like a remote base they do what
they they give you
rations for alcohol you can get four cases of beer or one case of beer is
equivalent to a fifth of
liquor so you get four bottles of liquor or two bottles of liquor two cases of
beer but um when they
told me how many how do you want to separate your rations i said i'm too young
to drink this ain't
no drinking age over here first time i ever went to a liquor store and on base
i ordered i got like
four fifths of tequila mix wow and you were 17. i was 17. i got four because i
thought i didn't know
what the liquor was in i had four they was like you want to get any alcohol
this i was like oh i'm
sorry it was just the fruit flavor that you um add to it to mix mix it with
that's how young i was
now when you when you get this ration of a case of beer or a month a month oh
it's a month yeah that's
what it is so 24 beers a month you get yep but then people will hustle it'll be
like this time all
right i'll give you a case of beer it was almost like being in jail i'll give
you a case of beer for
carton of cigarettes you know and then people that didn't drink they were
selling rations so it was a
way if you really had a problem there was a way to get around it i was scared
of the military when i was a
kid why because i thought well first of all i was thinking about joining
because i didn't know what
the i was going to do but you were thinking about joining to actually um uh
fight for your country
or just no there was no war right back then right but there was uh they had a
taekwondo team
and uh you was going to join just to be on talk window team yeah yeah well i
needed to figure out a
way to make a living while i was competing right you know when i was a kid when
i'm throughout high
school and into my 20s that's all i did was do fight in taekwondo tournaments
it was my like
that makes sense there was a dude named clay barber he was a national high
level highly ranked guy he
was like two or three in the world uh two or three in the country and he uh was
an army guy he had a
job in the army and he was on the army taekwondo team the army had a team and i
remember thinking oh well
maybe that's the move like to join yeah especially if they knew you were you
were nice because that's
what they did with i mean that was the case with some um guys that couldn't um
pursue an nba career
you know they knew you were like extra talent in a certain field they would
they would put you in
and just like you wouldn't have to do the normal stuff you would just been
traveling the world just
beating the out of people yeah well you remember ray mercer yeah ray mercer
started in the army he
did yeah that's that's when he won a gold medal he i believe he was in the army
just before that before he won the gold medal which heavyweight fighter joined
the army after
he um was it riddick bowe riddick bowe joined the marines because he was trying
to get some discipline
man that was the dumbest he was struggling look man there's a reality about
getting hit in the head
right and nobody wants to talk about it until it's too late most of the time
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