Donnell Rawlings' Ludacris Story | Joe Rogan

And no matter what anybody wanted to say about how good the movie was, what the critics say, anybody in this business, if you can do something where it goes from a thought and it goes to the paper and you can execute it, how many motherfuckers can do that? They don't do that. People talk shit all the motherfucking time. But then you say, how many of you got in the can? Yo, I write movies. Give me a script. Oh, hold on, hold on. I'm almost, I'm 30 pages in. You know what I'm saying? How many times you hear that story? Yeah, well, there's a lot of that going on. I got a great idea. All right. What is it? I remember I was, this was Chappelle's show was popping and Ludacris gave me a lesson out of nowhere. I saw him in the airport and I was on Ashley, Larry, hard. I was like, bitch, man. So I'm like, those rappers like we're even, right? So Ludacris comes to the airport. I was like, yo, Ludac! Right. You say, what's up, Ashley? I said, I said, yo, can the motherfucker get in the movie or something? Because I just thought that's what you do. You just asked the motherfucker to get in the movie. I'm like, can a motherfucker get a movie or something? And he looked at me, Joe, it was so cold. He looked at me right in my face. He said, we looking for people with ideas. And I looked at him like, well, I have none. Right. So I guess this is this conversation. And it did. And when I'm telling you it was a lesson. How the fuck you want to ask somebody for something and you don't got shit to give them? Well, there's a lot of guys in the beginning think that's how you do it. That's how you do it. When I was on HBO's The Wire, this motherfucker told me one time, he said, yo, Dee, can you give me the number to The Wire? I think I could do that shit. This motherfucker thought that there was like a hotline from anybody from the streets. You ever thought about being an actor? You don't want to put those 10 years of getting rejected. Just call this number and we'll put you on The Wire. You know what gets me about acting, though, is when someone who's never acted before goes in there and kills it. You know, like people who are like athletes in particular, like rappers have done it. Like a lot of people have done it. But some people singers. But some people believe that you have natural talents. Yeah.