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Hanging With an Oscar Winner
And if you don't know Jamie Foxx, he's in Django Unchained. He's— I mean, he's huge, but he's also a singer. Sure, he's in Gold Digger with Kanye.
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That was the craziest thing.
The story was— you want to say it?
Yeah, he was saying that back in the day when he was like— and he first started out in stand-up. I didn't know that either. I thought he started in acting, but he started up as like a stand-up.
And if you don't know Jamie Foxx, he's in Django Unchained. He's— I mean, he's huge, but he's also a singer. Sure, he's in Gold Digger with Kanye.
He's like the Ray Charles, one of Oscar?
Yeah, he's Oscar Award-winning, Grammy Award-winning. He's fucking incredible. Yeah.
But when he first started, he couldn't get booked. Like, he would go wait in line at the comedy stores or whatever comedy places, and he was the Black guy in a room of a lot of white people, and they were just like, no, you're not getting— you're not getting…