Katt Williams: Live

Thank you. 100.9 the Wiz. Blazing hip hop and R and B.

Jamming in the building right now.

Man, it's just an honor

to have this guy just stop by just to say hi and say what's up to Cincinnati.

My man Katt Williams in the house.

Say, Katt, you doing some big things there, man.

What's actually going on? What's bringing you back to Cincinnati?

You know, this is my place of origination,

so the first thing you want to do if you make any success,

is you want to go back to where it started,

and you want to try to put something back there.

And I'm not really interested in whatever political issues are involved with that.

My concern is, you know... First of all, let me say

that I do want to respect other people's opinion

and what they're doing in a very serious situation.

So I don't take the boycotters lightly at all.

On the other hand, I am a public official.

I am beholden to the public,

and I view my job as seriously as a fireman does his job.

So a fireman goes where the fire is and tries to put out the fires. That's what he does.

I'm a comedian. I make people laugh,

and the best people to make laugh are the people that are hurting.

So I go where people are hurting, and I stand on the stage,

and I make people laugh for an hour and a half, two hours.

Now, if you think that that's so serious,

you feel like that's something that shouldn't be done by me,

then I'm sorry. We just have a difference of opinion.

That's good. That's a good thing, and, you know, I applaud you for that,

especially remembering home.

A lot of people don't.

They kind of leave where they say they're from,

and then they never want to come back and give back,

which is good 'cause you bringing in some healing, 'cause l...

Comedy is healing to me.

You know, when I want to go get something off my mind, I go to a comedy show.

-Right. -You know, 'cause it makes you laugh.

For you to come here and bring some healing, that's, like, wow.

-You should be applauded for that. -I appreciate that.

Yeah, I mean, I can't fix the problems.

I just got some Bactine and some Band-Aids. That's my job.

I can't heal you,

but I can put a little... I can put a little salve on it for a second.

I just want to let everybody know exactly what is going down.

What can they expect on the 25th at the Taft Theatre?

Yeah, exactly. I wanted to, you know, come take the temperature of the town real quick.

You know what I mean?

I had to hit the streets.

Yesterday, I went to a couple of schools,

hit a couple of streets in Avondale,

turned a couple of corners. You know, just trying to talk to some folks

out there on the street and see what they think about me coming.

-'Cause that's really my concern. -Okay, the people.

-Yeah, exactly. -It's all about them anyway.

Hey, please don't forget the hood.

If you forget the hood, the hood will forget you.

CHRlS: You know that's right.

That's how you end up real, real light-skinned in court

with the Moslems around you.

Beat it!

Too late now!

We need you to be a Negro in your time of goodness.

There you go. There you go, man.

I want to thank you for coming out here, man, and just spending time with us here.

You're always welcome.

You know the doors are always wide open for you.

I appreciate you, dawg. For real.

No problem, Katt. No problem, man. Thanks a lot for having us.

And thanks a lot for doing this in Cincinnati.

Lord knows we need it.

Well, you know, this is where the pimping came from.

You got to bring pimping to the birthplace.

-You gotta come... You're right. You're right. -Yes, this is the real Ohio players' society.

This is a secret pimp society.

I got to show America

how a pimp like this was created.

From Cincinnati. You know him as Money Mike.

Give it up and welcome the very funny Mr. Katt Williams!

Um,

before we get cracking,

I do have some complaints about Cincinnati.

Let's get this out the way

before a nigga gets started.

I been here three days. It's been all...

How the fuck is you niggas gonna have all the weather?

This is bullshit!

Seventy-two hours. It's been hot and mild, rainy, cloudy, sleety, cold.

This is bullshit.

A pimp don't know what to wear in this motherfucker.

I'm in the hotel lobby with a fur coat on, some swim trunks, some Timberlands

and an umbrella,

because I don't know what may happen in this raggedy bitch this evening.

Shit!

Yesterday it was 181 degrees.

Today it was 36. What the fuck?

You can't pimp nobody when it's 136 degrees.

As soon as you walk out, "Bitch, where's my money?"

Pimp down! 10-32, bitch! Get the trunk!

I am a boy, Damon!

Got to love Cincinnati.

This is the ugliest,

nastiest,

dirtiest,

most beautiful place in all of the United States of America.

Shit.

You can just be driving

in a nice neighborhood, just driving, just look at the architecture,

and look at the clocks and the fountain and...

Oh, my God. And then three seconds later, what the fuck, nigga, is that?

Is that two crackheads and a pit bull, nigga? What?

We didn't even turn a corner! Nigga, why?

Crackheads in Cincinnati be working hard.

See, people with a day job think a crack salesman has an easy job.

They don't know this nigga got to do five jobs.

This nigga got to be a salesman,

security, lookout,

gunman, all of that.

That's all his job. Nigga just own the corner, just...

This is bullshit.

Got to love Cincinnati.

I hadn't been here in a minute. I needed some clothes.

I asked the lady at the front desk,

"Which mall should I go to?"

She said, "Sir, there is a mall damn near attached to the hotel."

If this ain't the most rinky-dink mall in all of the United States.

I almost went back and smacked the shit out of her.

"Now, ma'am, you know it wasn't nothing for niggas in there!"

Paintings and incense burners and shit.

Mall looked big from the outside, looked big like it's five blocks long.

You get in that motherfucker and find out it's built in a circle.

We just in the mall... "Oh, nigga, this is nice. This is nice.

"l like this, nigga. This is nice.

"l like this, nigga. Is that a Foot Locker, nigga?

"They got a Foot Locker? That's nice, nigga!

"They got two motherfucking Foot Lockers?

"This is the shit, nigga!

"They got three goddamn Foot Lockers!"

I fucked around and bought the same pair of shoes twice.

Y'all forgive me while a nigga takes a drink and adjusts his electronic technicians.

You got haters here, too, though.

Oh...

Oh, you got some haters in Cincinnati, now.

All over the world there's haters.

You got to be careful, 'cause it's easy to become a hater.

See, most real niggas think that haters are born.

Haters are made.

They start out just like us,

real niggas.

They want to do good so bad

that niggas no longer respect the grind,

the journey,

the struggle, the shit you gotta do in between.

These niggas want to be ballers overnight.

I saw some shit in Cincinnati today

that hurt my spirit as a nigga.

And I hope that the nigga I'm gonna talk about

is in this motherfucker tonight

so I can talk about his ass personally.

Y'all not gonna believe this shit.

I'm in the limo,

and in my peripheral...

I see some niggas looking confused.

That means out of a nigga's side vision, out his side vision.

Nigga in the back thought it was a car.

"That nigga got a Peripheral?

"Fuck a Phantom, that nigga got a Peripheral.

"That ain't even supposed to come out till 2006."

In my peripheral today...

That nigga still think it's a car.

"l don't believe him. It's a car.

"He don't want nobody to have it."

I saw a nigga today...

I know y'all want to know. I'm going to tell you.

I saw a nigga with spinner hubcaps.

What part of the game is this?

Them motherfuckers didn't even spin on they own.

That nigga had to get out of the car and spin them bitches manually.

This is bullshit.

So,

I come to Cincinnati and I hear

that the Cincinnati government want to honor a nigga.

Now, automatically, I am caught off guard,

for I know this must be some sort of a government type of setup.

I know a nigga must have a warrant he overlooked or something.

I'm expecting, at any moment,

for this to be a setup, and I find out

they have declared it

Katt Williams Day.

Now, that sounds beautiful,

but niggas were very vague.

They were very vague.

They didn't tell me what the fuck that means.

That mean a nigga can jaywalk? What that mean?

That mean that weed is legal in my vehicle?

Have the laws on prostitution been slightly relaxed for poor nigga?

Could that be the case?

They gave me the proclamation, and let me just tell you something.

I know, y'all, this is Cincinnati.

I wasn't even supposed to do it here because I know

that there is a boycott in Cincinnati,

but let me tell you something.