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I need a time check on the next dancer.

Make sure y'all tip that motherfucking bartender.

Shout out to my New Jerseyans.

Play the goddamn music.

Somebody make some motherfucking noise, right now

Hell, yeah.

Look at your neighbor, say neighbor

I'm ready to see some dick.

That's a sexy motherfucker.

They told me to come lick it this way, that's what they said.

Oh. Oh deep lick it, deep lick it, deep lick it.

Lick it. Lick it.

Lick it. Lick it.

Somebody make some motherfucking noise for Adonis!

Oh, there's turkey in that bag, too.

- This is beautiful. - Yeah.

Let's rock and roll.

Did you see Esey's post?

- No. my boo? He posted something?

- Yeah. - Oh, let me see it. Let me see it.

- No, we're working right now. We working. - Darn.

I'll be rocking, I'll be rocking! Aw! - Don't cut your hand.

This is ridiculous.

She didn't get one sandwich ready yet.

Oooh.

I took her to the... to the strip club.

But she... she... she knew about the strip club

Because she used to go back in the day.

- I used to go back in the day. - Yeah.

Then when I had my son I stopped.

My first son. - Yeah.

I stopped. And then, um, they was going to a show.

Then she asked did I want to go

and I said, "Sure!" And from then on,

- We've been going since then. - We've been going ever since then.

My first dance event

was like seven years ago.

A friend of mine's bachelorette party.

And it was a very traumatic experience for me.

And I did not want anything to do with male dancers

again in my life.

Then 2012,

my goddaughter's mother

wanted to go on Punisher's Fantasy Cruise

for her birthday in July.

So we went. July 12, 2012.

And that was it. Pun hooked me.

I met wonderful Michele last year

at her birthday party that she held.

It was a male strip club birthday party.

It was very, very entertaining.

A lot was going on.

Our family,

they went before us.

Like, mothers, aunts, blah blah blah.

And they used to come home with DVDs.

So when they left and we were home...

We snuck the DVDs in the DVD player. -

And we used to be like, ooh! We can't wait 'til we turn 18.

But yeah, my first experience was a house party.

It was fun.

- Yeah. - I never knew they did all that, pulling their...

- dingalings out on stage. - Their sausages. No, sausages, yeah.

- I've never seen that. - Sausages.

I almost lost my mind. I was scared.

I was like, "Oh!"

- You were scared? - I was scared when I was younger.

Yeah. I was running.

- You was running from the sausage? - Yeah. I don't want no more.

- No, you don't. - Aw, I don't run no more.

- No, you welcome the sausage. - No, I was running.

- Don't run. - I welcome it now.

Yes, you do.

Stanking hoe.

Shout to the freaky girls over here.

Shout out to them.

If you're freaky, make some motherfucking noise.

Oh, shit now.

You got some good pussy, make some motherfucking noise.

Oh, shit. Wait a minute.

If you got that comeback pussy,

let me hear you holla!

Oh, shit.

Hold up. We gotta go to Neicy's section.

This is the super freak section.

You got that type of pussy, when that nigga gonna pay your bills,

make some motherfucking noise.

I think a lot of people come to the club

to get away from some of the things they do every day.

Leave them kids at home.

Leave the men at home

and just have a good time.

- Aww look at her - How cute - Take a picture!

I feel like my baby's going to the prom. - Take a picture!

It's just grown people having a good time.

Good music. Drinking. Eating.

Just to step out of your reality for a few hours.

When women talk together,

you couldn't imagine the things we talk about.

Sexual. Women get horny.

They get hot.

Even though they won't admit to it.

It's like trying to get with a celebrity.

A... or a music artist. Or an actor.

You know. You... you chasing 'em because

they... they seem almost famous to you.

And we tell 'em all the time, they entertain.

And at the same time,

they show females what they're working with, sex-wise.

Smoove.

Smoove.

Smoove.

Hey, yo, this is deep.

That's Smoove, bending you the fuck over.

It's not about having sex with them.

It's making the illusion of having sex with them.

If you can create the illusion,

and make them horny,

you know they're supposed to take it home to their husbands

and stuff like that. I tell most men,

you shouldn't be mad at them going to these clubs,

to see, because it's just helping you along.

My best friend.

We went to a show last year.

And this was the very first show that I went to.

The way how she kept describing to me,

you know, a male show,

I'm thinking she went.

But it was her very first time too.

So she was like, "Oh no, Jess, I'm not nervous,

I'm not nervous." So I was like, "Okay."

Soon as we get there,

the girl is literally running.

I'm like, "Why are you running? It's just penis."

And I'm looking at ladies and they're like...

like they've never seen dick.

I'm like, "How could you be scared of penis?

It's not gonna harm you.

It's not gonna bite you.

It's... they're just dancing."

- Oh! Here they come. Yes.

You got nasty boy number one?

You got nasty boy number two?

The one and only Raw and

Tyyyyygaaaa!

I need some dollar bills in this motherfucker oh!

Yes!

So.

Let me get right down to the point.

I'm Omar. This is Obar.

Better known as Raw Dawg & Tygar.

I am the first Nasty Boy.

Co-founding member.

I'm Nasty Boy number two.

New Jersey Nasty Boyz.

Now, this idea to start the group,

at the time it was me...

it was me, Bandit, SunFire, and Tygar.

It started with us four.

And Fantasy was number five.

Then we went and got Young Rider.

After Young Rider, we went and got 'Duc. Seduction.

And those... and that started off. - What about OG?

No, no, no, that started off the core.

That... oh, yeah. That started off the core.

The core. And then we pulled in OG.

And then, um, you know, we got Brick.

And then we got Black Dragon.

- Then Phyness. - Yeah, Phyness.

You know, Fever's in there somewhere.

Ten.

So, you know.

Stallion, twelve.

And in a lotta ways we was all alike

even though we had grew up in different neighborhoods,

we pretty much was all alike.

In the sense that

we all shared the same family background.

We went to a house party.

And we was dancing.

And they said, "Hey, y'all should... y'all should be dancing."

You took... no, you took your shirt off.

- Okay. - And the... and the girl looked at you

and said, "You should be... y'all should be dancers."

And you started inquiring about where to go, dah dah dah dah dah.

I wasn't paying them no attention.

Me and my brother Abdul said, "Hell, we're gonna go try it."

Only when I went to do audition, Abdul stood me up.

Raw Dawg told me from the rip, "It's gay,

and I don't want to have nothing to do with it."

A... a good night, at that time, was a hundred dollars.

I mean, you're talking about... - '96.

You're talking about a person,

you know, I always had a okay body.

But I had this young face.

So it was like, women at the time

would say to me, like, "You look like my son."

So I'd be going around getting a whole bunch of son dollars.

I didn't really know what I was doing.

I was just young and rambunctious.

And while he was at work,

I'm at Great Adventures,

I'm doing my thing.

It... what was that, the, uh, what'd they used to call that?

A freak meet!

Oh, man. I remember when I first went to my first freak meet.

- How was it? - Anyhoo.

- So then... - Freak meet.

It didn't take long for him to come back to me and say

"Hey, yo, Twin. Um, yo.

I'm gonna go into the club with you."

My name is Tarayyah and Raw Dawg is my father,

and it's okay by me.

I've seen my father in action one time

for my 18th birthday, which was last year.

Walk 'em. Walk 'em. Put your motherfucking hands in the air.

You got two for the price of one. Let's go! Yeah!

Not bad, actually. His moves was pretty sharp,

for a... you know. - For an old man?

For the old man, he's sharp.

Some of those spin moves, pretty fast.

It was looking good.

Round it. Round it. Oh!

Somebody bring them a dollar bill right now. Yes!

Ow! Shit.

Lick it. Lick it. Lick it.

Lick that shit! Oh!

Ain't nothing like that brother love.

You gotta use your tongue in your performance, son.

Use your tongue right there.

- You know, use your tongue. The ladies like that, son.

- Uh-huh. - Say what, Mom?

Yeah. Flash that out a little bit, okay?

- Well, see, because I'm a woman. And I know what women like.

I am Momma Joe.

And I am Ty and Raw's mother.

I'm so proud of them. I really am.

And they coulda went any way.

Either way, they coulda went to the left or to the right.

And they chose the right.

And, you know, I don't like to take credit

for who they are, because

even though I had a lot to do with who they are,

they actually molded the men that they are.

I mean, mostly every dancer that's out right now

try to talk to us.

They call us Double Trouble. - Double Trouble.

- Double Trouble in the club. - Yeah, like the first...

- We come, - Every time they see us,

- everything's shut down. Whoo!

Who the light-skinned, brown-skinned girl, dah dah...

everybody, "Oh. You're talking about Double Trouble.'"

You know, the strippers are fun.

We can go have fun with them.

- And then just leave 'em. - Leave 'em. - Yeah!

- Come back! - They don't have to follow us home.

Or - don't have to deal with them on the regular? Nothing.

See 'em, touch 'em, have that adrenaline rush,

of being pulled on the floor, dancing.

Having fun, and you go home.

No strings attached.

God damm him.

He just sexed us up.

Things that annoy me

are guys slapping their dick on a girl's face.

You're not my man.

I don't know where your dick has been.

I don't know where the person has been

that your dick has been in.

So don't put it on my face.

Um, don't stand in front of me

and tell me I need to tip you

because this is hard work.

I tip who entertains me.

I tip who I enjoy seeing perform.

Don't make it like I have to tip you because I'm there.

I don't have to tip anybody. It's my money,

it's my paycheck.

And I will tip who I feel like tipping.

Those are my two biggest pet peeves.

Oh. Body odor. That... that's another one.

That... that's a big turn-off right there.

Body odor. Yeah.

I like the women, too. Like, Lust, Blaze, they gonna come.

Lust, Blaze... oh, Blaze is my favorite.

Oh my God. Uh. Clutching my pearls.

We be gay for a little while. It's called the "Change your life" crew.

But whenever I'm in Baltimore,

Philly, and where else? - Yes!

And sometimes in New York, I'm gay. Yes.

Ooh. Shout out to all the Blaze lovers in this bitch.

Turning it slow and sexy for ya.

- My parents were thinking... well, they... they said

that it was a phase. And

my mother, she's a Christian woman.

So.

Uh, she was just going by the Bible.

But she said she loved me no matter what, so.

Where them girls that like them girls at? Yes!

Wow. Wow!

My Mom's kind of like, uh, at one point she was like,

"Yeah, you gonna get married.

And to... to a dude, and you gonna have me some babies."

Whoa! Errr!

Wait, hold on. Hold on. Time out.

Okay. So.

You might have a puppy,

or the child might be adopted.

It's not popping outta here.

I don't know, you want to pop the baby out?

Not me.

Shout out to the fucking girls! Yes.

Somebody bring some motherfucking dollar bills.

Drop it. Drop it.

I... I think at the end of the day, it's

it's... it's fine. Because

it's your life, and you have to live it. So.

I'm fine with it. I'm com... I'm comfortable

with who I am. You know, I'm cool. Shoot. What.

No... So.

I was always making cupcakes, and

Poundcakes, and what else I was making, um?

Everything. I was just doing everything.

And one day, Raw was like

"Poundcake." I said,

You talkin' to me? "Yeah. I'm gonna call you Poundcake."

And it just stuck.

I've been Poundcake ever since.

Who calls... who calls you Poundcake?

- Raw. - Raw Dawg. Right.

Yeah. Raw Dawg. That's the...

that's fiancé. That's fiancé of the club.

That's Little Daddy. Big Daddy, Little Daddy.

Yeah. To those who don't know, I'm Big Daddy.

How you all doing? - Big Daddy.

That's Big Daddy. That's...

- That's Big Daddy. - That's what they call me anyway.

What she want?

Yep... I got some, Momma.

Yes, let me call her.

I snuck out the house,

with my cousin.

I was "chuch girl." You know, church girl. You know,

go to church.

And we would go see the dancers.

I was like, "Oh my goodness. I like this.

Then after a while, we fall off, stopped going.

And for my birthday last year,

I was like, "I want to do something different.

Let's... let's go see the dancers."

So I went around looking on Facebook

trying to find, where's the dancers,

and I ran across Yolanda.

She's the promoter and everything.

She was like, "Oh, you should come to the club."

And that's how I met Niecy.

And me and Niecy just clicked.

And I became part of her staff.

And becoming part of her staff,

we got our own name.

So now we're our own entity

inside of an entity. So.

Classy Nasty Ladies.

All depends on the event, what kind of lady you'll get.

If you want classy, we got classy.

You want a little nasty, we got that too.

But we always ladies. So.

The name suits us.

We good, now!

Where're all my nasty girls at make some noise!

In the dance game, a dancer that comes from out of town

can typically be a $300 to a $500 booking.

And a dancer that's right here,

in your home town, could be as low as $50.

Based on their performance and who they are,

their tips can add up to anywhere between

$300 and $400.

And if you add that to your booking fee,

they easily can have made $400

to $1000 a night.

From New Jersey to California,

you'd have no problem finding a dance show. Anywhere in America.

Y'all better go up there and put a dollar bill in that body.

Get the fuck out of those seats

and put a dollar bill in that body.

Oh. Is he looking good?

Somebody... scream!

What do I like about Mr. Capable?

I don't know. I mean, I think it's his personality.

His eyes, his smile. I mean, he's

a genuine person. He has a good heart.

You know. He has a real job.

He's a fireman in real life. So.

He makes everyone feel like they're the most...

the most important person in the world.

Here he is, in his blue.

This is a great life.

It's provided for me, my family.

I've been able to do so much in this game.

Because of this business. - Right.

When I was introduced to this business,

I probably didn't touch a dance floor,

a year after. I carried bags.

I made music.

I made my own costumes.

I had to practice more than enough.

You know, you show the respect for this business.

These guys don't do that.

Rider's in the house.

Rider's in the house.

Rider's in the house. Rider... Rider's in the house.

Where's the charisma at? - Tell 'em!

That's today's lesson.

Teach 'em!

After tonight, I need all you fucking strippers

to come see me.

- Talk that shit! - On your birthday,

and Christmas.

I'm handing out stage presents.

Oh! Rider, Rider, hold it, hold it, yes!

Everything you see everybody out there doing.

The beats.

The slow walks.

The collaboration, the music.

It was all Young Rider. Young Rider started all of that.

My uncle,

he did a lotta entertainment, um,

if you wanna say, uh,

well, in a Ru Paul form, if you wanna say that.

That's how I got turned onto Patti Labelle.

Luther Vandross.

Those were the greats that he performed at his shows.

And, you know, he used to throw balls.

It was the gay ball that they had in Paterson.

And, um,

he was number one at it.

You know, that's how I got into flamboyant outfits, and

just the whole mindset of entertainment,

because I used to watch my uncle, that was my...

one of my favorite uncles.

- Look at the body work. Look at that body work!

Let's go! Where are the dollar bills at?

Where the dollar bills at?

You know, he was born as Alan.

And then he was transformed into Nicole.

Somebody make some motherfuckin' noise right now!

Alright ladies, it is showtime, showtime, showtime.

I tell people I have two sides to me.

You have Tamisha, and you have Sweet Tee.

Sweet Tee is only for the club.

Tamisha is boring and shy. Yeah. - Yeah.

Y'all want to see what Steve's worknig with tonight?

Somebody say, "Hell, yeah."

Y'all want to see some dick? Somebody say, "Hell, yeah."

"Hell yeah."

Y'all want to see some sexy motherfuckers

somebody say, "God damn!"

We was at Irvington Manor.

And at the time, I was part of a group, No Limit.

So I picked up the mic,

and was talking,

and I could see, in

you know, my vision in the back

where the guys, and everybody kept saying, "Keep going. Keep going."

The next day, there's a flyer out.

At the bottom of the flyer,

and it had Emcee Black Magic

and Emcee Sweet Tee.

So I asked the guy Lord West

I said, "Well, who is Sweet Tee?"

He said, "That's you.

That's your name.

You are gonna be our new emcee."

None of the other dance groups had a female emcee.

So, that's where I came to play at.

Ooh, just lick it from the side.

Side lick it. Side lick it. Side lick it.

Put your neck into it. Put your neck into it!

Put your neck into it!

Somebody say, "Goddammit."

At the time, Drill Sergeant was the emcee.

He pulled me to the side and said,

"Whatever come to your mind, just say it."

And then... well, y'all know Young Rider.

He used to write down stuff

for me to say.

And he used to give me the paper,

and go, "Study this.

This is what you say,

'cause I can't say it.

A man can't say this, but a woman can."

So, I took that

and ran with it.

So, did you cum yet?

I just want to know!

He done fucked you good and you had

came and fell to the ground!

That's some good dick right there, girl.

I'm glad she got good dick.

Good dick'll do that to you.

Y'all make some noise for her for getting that good-ass dick.

And she's still throwin' dollars.

Y'all make some motherfucking noise for her.

I got on the same shirt.

I can't wait. I'll see you guys in a few.

Did she point?

Y'all, the party's 'bout to get started.

Somebody say, "Go Fever!"

I love Fever, we... all of Fever... - He put on the best show!

Everybody'd be sitting there like this.

When Fever come out...

Somebody bring some motherfucker dollar bills.

Uh, my first trophy was the Rookie of the Year trophy.

It was a trophy that's still, like, this big.

That's me.

And that's my sister and my cousin and my brother.

And that trophy, you see how tall...

it's just as tall as my sister.

It was a big tie between me and two of the other dancers,

and they left it up to the crowd to choose

who would win. And

after they asked, they're like,

"Who do you guys think should be the winner?"

The crowd. Like, everybody in the audience

was just screaming, "Fever! Fever! Fever!"

I was so taken aback, I think

my eyes watered up a little bit.

I'm the first male in my family

of our generation and the generation before me,

to graduate from high school.

I'm the first male in my generation

to go to college.

I really started doing different things

so that my brothers and sisters

wouldn't turn to being

car thieves and drug dealers.

And that's not the life I wanted for myself.

And that's not what I wanted

my brothers and sisters to become.

We've all grown up to have our own,

and I'm grateful to God.

To say that I... I believe that it was me

that helped them to go forward.

I'm a big brother.

It brings my life joy, and it gives me purpose

as I go forward in my life. So.

You know, it was tough,

but I wouldn't take nothing for that journey.

You know, it is what it is.

Oh, shit.

Oh, they blocked all this down, but...

You... we might have to come back around

and go to the other side.

'Cause we used to live in the other court.

But anyhow, if you wanna...

this is now what they're now doing.

This shit at some point become the OK Corral.

I'm gonna take you to my court.

VIP the Rainbow King, Dom,

the Dom, used to live right there,

second floor. The basketball court,

Grandma wouldn't let VIP come back

past this basketball court. - This basketball court.

So we... all we did was play basketball

with VIP.

My cousin LB, LB used to live right there,

first floor. - Yeah.

And of course, we lived right here on the second floor.

This center court. 111 Center Terrace.

Apartment 2B.

The late '80s, early '90s,

the only thing you're gonna get killed for

at that time was crack.

Most of our friends, and most of the people that we knew

they wouldn't have allowed us to...

to mess around with no drugs like that.

They wouldn't give us drugs to sell. - No.

Twins go to school. Like...

They... they would... they would do that.

Some of my other friends, they would give drugs to sell.

- But us? No. - Like, no.

We had our own company at the time,

called Two of a Kind Cleaning.

So we started that in high school, like,

maybe when we were 15, 16.

We would go to people's houses and clean.

We didn't feel like we was... we was missing something.

We didn't feel like we was in the projects.

Or poor.

You understand what I'm saying?

It... you know, my Mom... - It was times...

It was times we was hungry, though. - You know.

Had to make sure, if we...

if we didn't make it to school... - Hey...

- my mother said... - we wasn't eating breakfast.

My mother spent 15 years on crack.

Okay, so I'm not gonna act like that

it was hunky-dory.

No.

But I wouldn't change my mother, my life,

for nothing in the world. See, because

when everybody else's mother lied to them,

my mother didn't lie to me.

And told us what life was. What we...

- we was prepared. - My mother didn't tell us,

you wanna smoke weed?

Fine.

You know what? We didn't smoke weed.

Y'all wanna know how to hustle, get out there and hustle.

You... you want these...

I'm gonna show you how to hustle.

Y'all want these hundred dollar sneakers.

I got 30... I got more kids. I got $30

for your sneakers. $30 for his sneakers.

- You want those? - You gotta get out there

and make $70 dollars. - Then you gotta go out there

and go make that money, if you want those.

- So being a drug addict... - I'll get you halfway.

- She taught us... - shit.

How to be able to survive.

- Thirteen years old... - taught us how to cook.

We was taking the food stamps going grocery shopping.

- Told us how to cook. - At 13.

Just in case you might meet a girl

that don't know how to cook.

And sure enough, most of the girls that we love

- don't know how to cook. - Don't know how to cook!

We have to teach them how to cook.

Wow. Should... should... all right.

Should I say who's my favorite?

Oh, my favorite is Satan. Oh.

Oh! - Rockin'.

Yes. I'm clutchin' my pearls,

rockin' back and forth.

Nasty thoughts going through my head right now,

wait. Ooh, wait.

I gotta go. I gotta go.

Woo!

Hoo!

Hoo ho hoo!

I was at Marlowe's nightclub.

They had a Tuesday night spot.

Drill Sergeant was the emcee.

He was about to call me out. He stopped the music.

He said, "DJ, turn that off for a minute."

"Ladies, the next man who's coming out to you"...

and he just bust out laughing.

He said, "Y'all gonna laugh when you hear this, too.

And... y'all gonna know why I'm laughing.

And he was like, he said my name

and all you heard was, "What?"

"Who call they damn self Satan?"

"Satan? Oh my God."

"No. Uh-uh. Uh-uh."

"Uh-uh."

I came out there,

I didn't let it shake me. I came out there,

did my thing.

When I left the stage,

one lady jumped up and said,

"If that's Satan, I'm going to hell."

That was it.

That right there started a domino effect.

And then they started just saying, like,

"I'm going to hell, take me to hell,

take me to hell, I wanna go to hell,

I wanna go to hell."

And I was like, I got 'em.

I was like, I got 'em.

I did my job, and I got 'em.

Let me tell you my first experience

when I... when I seen him.

I had just started going back to the Cricket Club.

And it was this little short man...

he had a table up on the stage.

And I said... that's when I would still

call her her real name.

But, "Poundcake, who is that?"

And she said, "That's Satan."

Well, Satan came out at that Cricket Club!

He was gyrating them hips.

He got on top of that deejay booth and did some things.

Oooh.

He snaked across that floor. Hooo.

He did... he did that crawl he do.

Then he got up on the stage and he took his piece out

and I was just in love with him ever since.

Oooh! Wait.

That's memories.

Wait. I gotta go. I gotta go, I gotta go.

The reputation of being a stripper

has never been great.

Taking off your clothes for money

has always been like a taboo.

They feel like because we're in the entertainment world,

we all gotta be prostitutes.

This, that, and a third.

I think it's just a matter of people not knowing.

And them assuming that

it's nasty, it's immoral,

it's... you know, dirty.

It's the same thing as a man going to a strip club.

And, you know, we are beasts when it comes to the booty.

You understand what I'm saying?

We beasts. You know what I'm saying?

You know, you see that girl get that

in your face, man, your money

starts falling out your pocket.

You know what I'm saying.

We're no different from everybody else.

We're people, just like everybody else.

Women enjoy looking at men. - Yes.

And men enjoy looking at women.

It's the same old thing since Adam and Eve.

Some women like to look at women.

- Yeah, well, that too. - Oh, yeah.

And there's men like to look at men.

Well, my thing is,

if the Lord didn't make this profession,

then we wouldn't be enjoying it.

Yeah. I just have fun. I like to have fun.

African men used to dance for their women

before we became slaves.

Women will go out there and do dances

for their men as well.

So this has been something that's been going on

with our... our people for years.

Women want to be entertained.

They want a show. They want to party with you,

They want to laugh. They want to feel pretty.

After you got 'em all hyped up,

now you gotta make them fall in love with you.

They want to feel seduced when you're on stage.

And maybe be made to blush a little bit.

- Fuck it. Make her squirt.

Make her squirt! Make her squirt!

Make her motherfucking squirt!

And of course, they want to see the naked body.

Whatcha doin' Satan? Take your time with 'em boy.

I know he's sexy to ya!

Somebody get your dollar bills ready.

There go the Devil. There he goes!

You all ready, ladies? You all ready, ladies?

Get your dollar bills ready.

Here we go. Satan!

Whooo!

Where's the grip and tip? Grip and tip?

Can I get a dollar bill for that man

and that body right there?

The first time that I ever flashed,

and I remember looking up,

and seeing the lights get black.

The whole crowd was rushing me,

and it was at that moment when I realized that,

'I'm onto something here."

Butt. Butt and butt.

Butt. Butt. Butt. Butt.

It's a little walking out. You know, you rock with it.

So, you got, okay, this is the one hip roll

here, like that.

And then bring it up.

Mine's is like, I'm like, go here with it.

And then, right, go like that.

My signature, my signature,

is the Matrix, though.

Hold on. I gotta stretch. Uh! Okay.

I'm like, go here. Oh, God. Uh!

- Oh, the Matrix. I gotcha. I gotcha.

And do this, and then do this. What.

That motherfucker will not miss a beat!

Male shows are basically, you have

mostly guys. Sometimes it's a mixture,

where you have, like, maybe one or two doms.

Maybe three on the show.

You're performing for a straight crowd.

And then you have some bi women in the crowd.

The curious ones.

And then you have the ones

that just want to be entertained.

Then you have the LGBT shows, where it's just like

you have the doms and the femmes.

I mostly dance for the male crowd.

That's where I make my money at.

It's like, a lotta women understand where

we're coming from, as far as, like,

if we do a theme, or

costumes and stuff.

You know, they... they appreciate the talent.

I am cool with a lotta male dancers. Um...

but too, you have some male dancers

that are like, "We don't like the doms."

Blah blah, like, they're scared of the doms, or

you know, you have some old school guys that

don't believe that we should

be dancing on their circuit,

and, um,

you know, it's a lot of that going on.

And that I've dealt with a lot.

You know, like, sometimes I can't even get on

shows because I'm a girl.

Ladies, put your motherfucking hands together

for Blaze!

Hey, look, hold up for a motherfucking second.

I need to see every motherfucking female

up in this bitch take a dollar bill

and put it up on her.

On some real shit.

We support our motherfucking own.

If we can put money on these dicks,

we can put money on a female.

She is out here doing her motherfucking

thing. Let's go!

That's one of us up there, ladies.

Let's support her like we're supposed to.

That's one of us up there!

- Ah... - Ah... Ah...

- All right. Ready? Okay.

Let's go through our next one so we can move on it.

Haleih, you singing with the choir? Come on.

Ez'jaan, you're just still gonna usher, right?

- Yeah. - Okay. All right.

Come on, Haleih.

Oh, Lord,

how excellent.

How excellent.

How excellent.

How excellent

is Thy name.

Bless His soul. There is none.

There is none like you.

This weekend we have our youth explosion weekend.

And it started last night with a lock in,

when we had the kids spend the night with us,

and we played games, and we did different things,

and now today is Saturday

and we're starting the community outreach with the youth.

Jesus, excellent.

Excellent. Excellent.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Is Thy name.

- All right, very good. - Thank you.

Somebody forgot their bag upstairs.

Who forgot their bag?

This is our first community outreach project

where we're feeding the homeless for lunch.

We're having lunch with the homeless today.

- Don't touch it. Don't touch it!

We want our children to learn that, um,

people are out there that have a disadvantage,

that don't have the privileges that they have.

So we want them to start seeing the other side

of what life is like.

I tell my kids all the time,

them today might be us tomorrow.

You never know. So

I want them to learn to appreciate

the things they have.

Be grateful for a cheese sandwich or a turkey sandwich

because there's somebody that don't have anything.

The same people that been on the street 15 years ago

are still out there on that street. - Yeah.

The same exact people

is out there. I see them.

I see them.

I got somebody right now

that knocks on my door when they're hungry.

And... and I don't care.

I don't care? What you want?

You hungry? They'll smell

either a chicken or whatever I'm cooking.

"I'm hungry."

They'll... they'll be like, they'll be like, "I'm hungry,"

but, you know, they... they try to do it

discreet because they don't want people...

you know what I'm saying, to know that.

So they'll come. I'll be like, "Hey."

And I just play just like I invited them.

Ain't nobody gotta know your Mom ain't got no money right now.

"Hey, baby, you want some? I'm cookin'."

"What you want? You want a ham sandwich right quick?

'Cause the chicken ain't done."

"No, I'm gonna wait for the chicken."

You know they smells that chicken.

I have three sons.

There's three of 'em?

I got four sons.

I have one that's out there on drugs

and I pray for him every day. - Yeah.

You know? Sometimes I go look for him.

To see if he hungry.

You... you know what I'm saying?

And that's the sad part about it.

That's why I feel such a big advocate

of feeding people, because

where my son at in the community

dealing with his situation,

I'm quite sure somebody feeding him.

Sometime I can't always find him,

to give him something to eat.

So I go find somebody else that's homeless

on the street and give them something to eat,

because I'm quite sure

somebody's feeding my child.

All righty. These are your salad dressings.

Spoons and forks over there, sweetie.

That's not nice.

You're welcome. Salad dressing.

Missed you yesterday!

I was coming down, really for my sons.

Because just listening to some of the mothers

on the news, and just seeing what's going on on the news,

I feel their pain.

'Cause I'm a Mom. And I know

could be at work, you could be at home,

and just to get a call to say your child is

gunned down, or beat down by a cop,

that's the worst feeling in the world.

When I got here, it just brought back a lotta memories

from when my brother was killed.

I always have my brother in my heart, but it's like

I haven't thought about that until

I got here today.

My brother! He was just a free... he was a free spirit. So.

He's just... and, um...

and we don't... we... they never really gave us

a full story on it.

They just say he fell.

He fell from the building.

Which we know that's not true.

'Cause my brother, he was very athletic.

So we know he didn't fall from the building.

We know they, you know, beat him and stuff like that.

And... we could just never, you know, really

knew how to fight it.

That was over... almost 20-something years ago.

Yeah.

It was just... cops say it was an accident.

And then people didn't want to step in

and, you know, help my Mom

try to find answers. So.

It's so hard. It's gonna... and I know

it's gonna be hard for my babies.

It's gonna be hard for both of them.

What do you keep saying?

You gotta keep pushing. You gotta keep pushing.

You gotta... you gotta strive, you gotta want to succeed.

But how can you, when there's nothing

offered to them, and every time they

take one step forward, they're getting pushed back?

Because of their skin color.

How does that work? I don't... this...

this world, I don't know what kind of world

this is turning into. I really don't.

Fight back! Fight back! Fight back!

If we don't get it...

Shut it down!

No justice No peace!

No justice No peace!

No justice No peace!

- Wanna see... I don't know what... - Me too.

I'm going to do.

- If I do, I'm gonna need... - Hey little boy...

those sound dead, right there little boy.

All right, Twin.

What we dance to is on him.

What we dance in, what we look like,

when we go in, is on me.

When I'm designing outfits for us,

I'm tryin' to put us in something bright.

Because the two of us, it's just,

some things that we can do, that nobody can do.

See, we can go fucking neon yellow.

And pull it, because it's us.

Oh, shit. Y'all need some motherfucking noise.

I need some dollar bills!

I need some dollar bills right now.

If... if... if we have dancers like it,

that took a style like 69 and Lord West,

and Intrigue, and Obsession,

and Fu Flex and Flash and Drill Sergeant,

12 Gauge, Blaq Magic,

I mean, the list goes on and on. And Lose It.

X-Rated, the list goes on and on about dancers

that we looked up to, and we went to them

to find out what was going on.

Hell, Intrigue and Shogun used to tell me

all kind of crazy shit.

Fu Flex, we spent our...

Intrigue and Shogun had me turn myself

into a fruit cocktail.

You had to see it.

My dumb ass went to the grocery store.

I'm cutting up kiwis

and strawberries and shit.

Good fruit! Oranges and shit!

I had that shit in a bowl, man,

cherries and shit, man.

In this dingy-ass club in Englewood.

Pouring fucking fruit on myself.

All because 'Trigue told me about the time...

Intrigue, told me about the time

he turned himself into a sundae.

I said, "I'm gonna do myself better.

I'm gonna turn myself into a fruit cocktail.

Hey, who doesn't like fruit?

Can you have a relationship with a stripper?

I mean, honestly?

You doin' whatever you wanna do, because them niggas

not faithful for shit.

No matter what, they're never gonna

be faithful. - Yes.

I mean, I guess you could catch 'em

on retirement or something.

If you think you're gonna be with

a man that's surrounded by

a bunch of bitches thirsty females, too!

It ain't like they're coming in there fully hydrated.

Them bitches dehydrated.

You something to drink. I promise you, yes. - Desert dry.

Yes. It's that, ooh, give me a straw.

That's how they are when

you come in the club.

It's never gonna happen.

What the fuck? I guess I'm drinking the wrong shit. That your shoe over there?

You're not guaranteed

a dollar bill.

You're not guaranteed

the applause.

But

in this business,

you're guaranteed a...

a shot of ass.

And that's crazy.

You know what I'm sayin'?

So a lot of the dancers is cool with that.

Like, shit, long as I get a shot of ass, I'm good.

Like I've said plenty of times,

I'm not intimidated by...

by strippers. Lots of guys are,

because they... well, you know,

how... how my woman gonna be around other guys, who...

you know they're gonna be getting naked,

and you know what I'm saying, stuff like that.

But that don't... that doesn't bother me.

Um,

primarily, how... there's no other way I can say it.

But listen. When it comes...

when it comes to that bedroom,

I know I do what I do.

I make it happen.

Okay, I know I... I ain't got no sixpack

body, and none of that kind of stuff.

But

I like your stomach.

- You like my stomach, baby? - Yeah.

I think it depends on the trust factor

in the relationship.

'Cause I always... say, "Daddy, you think I'm

messing with somebody in there?"

And he was like, "No, 'cause you

being who you are." I was like,

"No, it's strictly entertainment."

I say, "I have my favorites."

I tell him, I say, "I have my favorites

You know.

All depends on the show,

I'll be gay in a minute."

And he laughs, he laughs.

"All right." He'll say, "Well,

"Y'all CNL or change your life crew tonight?"

"Babe, we got change your life crew tonight."

He'll be like, "All right. See you when you

come home. Bye."

I'll be honest with you.

Raw had

four or five bitches when I came into play.

And I was what you call a bottom bitch.

I would say

a couple years in,

I would say it turned more serious.

It turned more serious for me

before it turned more serious for him, obviously.

But I'm the type of person,

you know, like, I looked at him,

I wanted to be with him,

so I went after him.

You know. And doing that, that means

I gotta get everybody else out the picture.

This can mess up a lotta things in your life.

When the person with you is not strong,

and they don't have that understanding

of what it is. Because

at the same time, it is a alter ego.

You have Young Rider.

Then you have Tony,

the father and the husband.

When they forget about the person that you are

to the ladies,

like, well damn, that's Young Rider

over there talking.

You have to go home to Tony.

See he just lets me rub him up.

Right now, I'm chilling.

I'm not looking for a mate right now.

You don't have an ideal guy?

- No. - I understand.

I used to,

and that just fell apart.

The... the one I thought was...

that everything was ideal, wasn't ideal.

So. Ain't no I... actually,

there's no ideal... no ideal mates anymore.

My one ideal mate just...

he just... - Fuck that.

- Yeah. He fucked that up. - Uh-huh.

I've had relationships, and

I still... I'm still in communication

with a lot of 'em. But

it's like, they tell me I'm too demanding, so.

So it never really works out, so.

I just said, "I'll stay to myself."

You know what it is?

I didn't... I thought I was until Steve Harvey came out,

and told me I just have standards

and they can't abide by my standards,

then I guess I'm too demanding.

I have standards. You ain't gonna

tell me no lies, and

you're not gonna cheat on me

and think I'm not gonna, you know, retaliate,

like punch you in the neck.

Jessica, did I show you the shirts

when they came in? - No.

- Look. - That's nice.

Did not Rider do a really good job with our lionhead?

Because autism stops speaking now, it's roaring.

So, autism roars.

We sold 39 shirts.

For this event tomorrow night,

it's a fundraiser for Autism Speaks.

We're doing it in conjunction

with The New Jersey Nasty Boyz,

at their weekly spot.

Jello shots,

we're doing two for a dollar.

The vodka gummy bears

are two for a dollar.

I think my father's given up

that I'll bring a white guy home.

He's learned to accept the fact that

a lot of the black men I've dated up here

are not...

they're reputable people.

They have jobs. You know, they're not...

you know, they're looking out for me.

They actually care about me.

I mean something to them.

So, you know, so that's a good thing.

But, yeah. He's... he's kind of given up hope

that I'll bring a white guy home.

Jess, just get the door.

To me,

a white girl show

would be like, Hunkamania, Chippendales,

the Magic Mike type of thing.

And even if there are black guys

dancing with that group,

you can't touch 'em.

They're not gonna whip their dick out,

they're not gonna put their dick on your face.

You know. They're not gonna

flip you upside down, and

hold you up above their head

and act like they're eatin' you out.

That's not gonna happen at a white girls show.

It is like a big family.

Even if I don't watch 'em perform,

I go hang out with the people, and...

you know, it's like

game night at your friend's house,

kinda, to me. You know, like...

Fuck's my grown women at? Somebody make some noise in this motherfucker.

How many licks you gonna take to get to the center of that tootsie roll?

- Is your pussy still fresh? - Yeah!

- Is your pussy still fresh? - Yeah!

E Ya, E Ya! -Woo!

You know, I got a lot of fucking brothers

that have kids with autism.

And this shit 'Chele is doing tonight,

there's no way I was not coming, you know?

She ain't part of the family. 'Chele family.

You know?

We don't go nowhere. She know I got her back

and she always has mine.

We cuss, fight, everything. You know?

And then we come back full circle.

Thats just what family does.

TY became, like, the father of the family.

Father figure, because

I wasn't able to,

with this crack cocaine,

judge, shop, pay rent. None of that.

None of that. That had took over my whole life.

I locked myself up in this room

and that's where I stayed.

Yo, yo, yo, come on now.

Y'all make some more noise for that motherfucker.

Y'all did know niggas was gonna be dancing tonight,

y'all knew that, right?

I actually lost myself.

Almost lost my children.

I lost a lot.

So I learned that

the decisions that I make

affects every part of my life.

I learned that, uh,

I learned to be a better person, actually.

Make better decisions.

I learned that I'm not a bad person.

I just made bad decisions.

Now when I'd seen her,

she looked like she was dead, walking around.

Because she was on drugs.

And I told her,

"Here, take this money.

This is the last time that we're gonna see you

lookin' like this. You... you my mother,

I love you. I respect you.

You gotta live your life... - Get yourself together.

The way you wanna live your life. I can't

tell you how to live your life, because it's your life.

- But get yourself together. - But you can't expect us

to watch you slowly kill yourself.

But if you get yourself together,

- We'll buy you a house. - We'll buy you a house."

With the money I gave her,

instead of you spending it on drugs,

she went, checked herself into a rehab.

Then she checked into a program that was a year.

She mighta stayed with us two days

while we finalized the house.

Boom. - Boom. We bought her a house.

Can you move? You aggravating me.

Having two fathers is not a joke.

Well, I really have, like, three. But.

It was more like six

people on me, like, no.

'Cause you... my uncle, and his girlfriend, my aunt,

and then my father and his girlfriend,

my stepmom. And my mother and

her boyfriend, my stepfather.

It was like, tch.

Can you please get up?

For what?

I want to sit down.

Okay, sit on my lap. - Uh-uh.

That's fresh and that's nasty.

No, it's not. That's loving. That's romantic.

That's how we got all them kids. Excuse me.

You right.

I look up to a lotta people.

But mainly... but mainly my mother.

Listen to the rest of chicken dinner?

Yeah, go ahead.

My mother was... oh, my mother was an all-around person.

She was a very... oh.

You just can't... mmm.

There's no words for that lady right there.

She was the nicest. She was good to everybody.

If you needed something and she had it,

she would give it to you. That's how I am.

I remember when one of my cousins

was in the closet, and

he really wanted to come out,

like, it was killing him that he was in the closet.

I don't know why. I mean,

we still love you. Like,

I don't care what your sexual preference is.

You still my cousin. But,

everybody not like me.

And the first person he came to was my mother.

He was like, "Oh, Auntie, you gotta help me.

I don't know what to do."

And my mother was like, "Baby,

it's your life. You live it."

And that just helped him tell everybody else.

And everybody was like, "We already knew,

we just waiting on you to tell us."

You know. So.

You ever seen The Proud Family?

You ever seen that show?

The grandmother used to walk around with

two big Afro puffs

and a nightgown. Like, a... a...

what was that called, bae. Like a overcoat or something?

- Yeah. Housecoat. - A housecoat.

That was my mother when she was lounging.

As she got, like, older, and she started getting sick,

that... uh-huh.

That was my Momma. Sugar Momma.

That's what her grands called her 'til the day she died.

Sugar Momma.

'Cause she was the sweetest.

Some women think that

I don't know. If you touch them, you're gay.

I feel like it's just so

stupid and ignorant,

how people, like,

act about that. Like,

"Oh, well, you're black," or "You're white,

and blah blah blah." Or,

"You're... you're female, you're male."

And it's like, we're all human.

You know, and it's like,

none of us chooses our gender,

or our color, or whatever, you know

what I'm saying. And it's like,

there's bigger things out here to be worried about

than the color of somebody's skin, or...

Let's just get it straight.

The government was built on inequality.

This country was built not equal.

If you look at schools,

you got a school in the inner city,

and you got a school in an affluent area,

how could you have a institution of learning,

that's public... not private, public,

meaning it's government funding,

and your school don't have books.

But if you go into a white area,

they got books.

Everybody's complaining about, they don't have.

"We don't have no jobs. We don't have this."

But then again, I read one time,

with... what'd they send, about $2 1/2 trillion dollars

over there in Iraq

to build up some more... 2 1/2 trillion?

I can't even spell the word trillion.

For hundreds and thousands of years,

this has been going on.

Those that are haves, and the have-nots.

The haves have privileges.

You know, let's face it.

Money talks. Everybody else get convicted.

Think of all the people that's in jail,

that didn't do absolutely nothing.

And then, but the... only... their only crime

was not having money.

When you're hiring somebody at minimum wage,

which is, I think, $8.35 an hour,

if I just round it down to $8,

you know, you're making 80 hours every two weeks.

That's $640.

And you multiply that by two, that's $1280.

$1280 a month, without tax,

and your rent's $1500.

You're already in the negative.

So you expect our black men

not to go out here and rob,

or sell drugs,

or strip?

Or do whatever it is they need to do

to feed their families,

when they're already under the gun?

And they're working 80 hours

and they can't even bring home

enough money to pay the rent?

If you have any involvement with the law,

you know how hard it is to even get out of that?

So you get locked up,

then you come back out,

you can't get a job, can't get welfare,

can't get anything.

What's left for you to do?

Only what... what put you in that position.

What put you in the fucked up position

in the first place.

A lot of my friends' family members

do get caught up in, like, jail,

incarceration, or death.

Mainly a lotta death.

Like, brothers and cousins and stuff.

It seems like for a lotta kids here that

that's supposed to happen. That it's normal.

Like, I'm gonna lose at least two cousins and a brother.

But that's not... it shouldn't be normal.

They shouldn't look forward to that,

or they shouldn't have to think about that.

I don't condone a lot of things.

I don't condone drug selling,

I don't condone, uh, robbery

and hurting people.

But my thing is, what are you...

why are you out there?

What are you choices?

'Cause sometimes we don't have a choice.

Every choice you make is informative.

Because you gotta know

before you get into it,

what circumstances it's gonna lead up to.

You got to know. You know what I mean,

I mean, we're all, as... as adults,

and as teenagers and as young children,

that have seen enough to know

when we do a certain thing,

certain things happen. - Uh-huh.

They see people getting murdered.

They see people getting shot.

They know that some of that, some of 'em know

the circumstances that this child or this man,

or what he has done, or what he's capable of doing,

you know what I mean? We all learn from this.

We learn from our environment.

There's no such thing as, "Oh, I didn't know."

Go to the court and say that to the judge.

You know what I'm saying?

Judge gonna tell you, there's no excuse for you not to know.

You're afforded the same opportunity as everybody else.

You know, so.

It's all on you.

Like I deal with a lotta emotions.

Different emotions on my own.

Some of the things that I saw.

Some of the things that I was involved in.

I don't know if it's

some type of form of depression.

But when I'm entertaining,

I feel in control.

I'm in control.

What I say go.

What I want to happen happens.

That's my outlet. That's my own

therapy, for myself.

To feel like, when I'm doing this,

there's no wrong.

They was laughing at us when we first became

dancers. They told us we was go-go boys,

we was homos. We gay.

But for me and my brother,

it was our way out.

To be somebody. To be something.

Then, we told... like I told my kids' mother,

and he told his kids' mother, what we wanted.

We wanted to buy a house.

We wanted to be able to raise our kids, and

- Make... make no... - In a different area.

- Make no mistakes about it... - Better than we was.

To be from here,

we've been everywhere.

And it's because, from... from... from here.

Say cheese!

Cheese!

You only live once. I say enjoy it.

A hundred and fifty percent.

Me personally, I don't care what people say.

I don't care what people think.

I'm gonna live my life and enjoy my life.

However I want.

As long as my kids don't want for anything,

I'm good.

Big Daddy happy, I'm enjoying life.

I don't have time for what people say. Think.

I could care less.

If everybody lived their life like that,

we'd be so much better.

Thursday night's event for autism

was a success.

We raised, like, $230

as a donation to Autism Speaks.

When Mr. Capable was talking

about being part of the family, and...

that overwhelmed me.

Because I never expected that from him.

Like, I didn't think he saw me

past just a girl in the club.

You know, I didn't expect that. So.

That meant a lot.

I'm not just an outsider.

I love Raw Dawg.

I love the ground that boy walk on.

I would like to say I went into it

with my eyes fully open.

You know, acceptin', you know, some of the things

that went on, you know.

Which is why today, I don't take no shit.

'Cause I paid my dues.

This is another one here.

- Just hold on, and... - That's it!

And... and just... and just keep it positive.

Because one day, the opportunity gonna

present itself, and you have to be ready to walk through...

- -that door. - You have to be ready to walk through that door.

- You have to see it. - 'Cause once it's closed, it's gonna close.

And that's with... that's with anything.

You got to... once that door open,

you got to be on time.

Alright, everybody has their one thing

that's kind of quirky for them.

For me, it's I'm a Superman fan. I'm a big one.

So I have all his movies, including Superman Returns,

some of the cartoons,

and I have Man of Steel over there

'cause I was watching it.

I had some stickers,

so I got me a red candle and just applied my sticker

to the candles, that's my Superman candle that will never burn.

I got the belt buckle,

the dusty... my little belt buckle.

My little cheap Superman watch.

This cookie has got to be

at least a hundred years old.

Like.

I got my President.

To be honest, this was the first time

I had ever voted in my life,

when I voted for Obama.

And I was very proud.

And I haven't missed an election since.

Family means everything to me.

'Cause I feel like I wouldn't be where I'm at today

without my family.

'Cause if I didn't have those six parents,

like, pushing me and my brothers and sisters

pushing me, and cousins, like, "You can do it.

We all can do it, we all can make it,"

I would probably become a product of my environment

too. Because I feel like there would be no one there

to tell me, like, "This is what you need to do."

"This would be great for you. And

you can be successful. You can become the future."

I would just have the school telling me,

"Well, graduate high school. And after high school,

you know, you got a certain path to choose." No.

A family, like, tells you,

"This is where I messed up."

"This is where you can do better."

Just take full advantages.

So. My family is everything to me.

Y'all wanna party, or y'all want to see dick.

Party dick. Party dick. Party dick. Party dick.

Party dick. Party dick. Party dick!

Dick has won!

It's a experience you'll never forget.

Expect the unexpected. Because, oh!

It just... oh, it's fun.

You'll have the time of your life.

You never know who's gonna show up.

Any out-of-towner might pop up.

Any Nasty Boy might pop up.

You never know.

Some older women are married,

and they come here for fun!

But then you have the ones

that's like, "Ooh, baby." - Baby!

Ooh, yeah. He's showing me attention.

Ooh, I love you, yes. Whatcha gonna do to me tonight.

- Take my money, my money. - Ooh, yeah.

I'm gonna throw my whole rent at you.

Ooh, I'm about to throw my whole electric-cable bill at you...

- Bills. - Ooh, yes.

They feel like they can just buy the guy. So.

Somebody make some motherfuckin' noise!

This is my de-stress to me. Like,

I go hang out, have fun.

Maybe have a shot.

You know. And just relax with each other.

- Oh, no, I don't drink. - She don't drink.

- Oh. - Drink? No.

People think I drink, because I just have good time.

They think I drink, but I don't drink.

You'll see me later on, especially if one of my

favorite dancers comes, you'll hear me.

Should I give them

the call now? - Yeah, you go.

Riiiider! That's one of my favorites.

If you're single, make some motherfucking noise.

Some of y'all lie like a motherfucker. Okay?

If you a birthday girl, stand the fuck up.

Stand up, birthday girls!

If you're with the birthday girls, stand the fuck up!

You with your ride or die bitch, stand the fuck up!

You with your sisters, stand the fuck up!

You with your co-workers, stand the fuck up!

You with your best friend? Stand the fuck up!

Stand the fuck up! Stand the fuck up!

DJ, drop that shit!