Mike Epps recently appeared on the All The Smoke podcast where he spoke on many different topics including the past beef with Shannon Sharpe, the Richard Pryor biopic situation and his relationship with Ice Cube.
When asked how asked how did everything come about with Epps and Shannon Sharpe hashing things out he said:
“Well you know at the end of the day, this is all entertainment. That’s what this is, we not selling drugs, were not in the underworld so there’s some guidelines and rules to the business that were in. At the end of the day we got family, we got kids and stuff like that so sometimes we just can get out of line, and me personally, I can get out of line a little bit.” He details. “I said some stuff that I shouldn’t have said. Some of the stuff was good, it was funny and everybody was laughing but then when I went back and looked at it, I said ‘Yeah I kinda crossed the line a little bit’ but when you go across the line you already there. I just didn’t expect the brother [Shannon Sharpe] to get so mad about it.”
He continued explaining why their beef went the way it did, was because Sharpe explained that it was Epps and also why he had to meet in person with him. “Like I said on the podcast I said a lot of people had been talking him. I was just wondering why I gotten singled out. He said ‘Mike I’ma be honest with you, it was because it was you, because guess what? I these people out here will damn near do what you tell em to do.’ I said ‘Damn you right man.’ I felt bad about it. I wanted to personally meet in person to tell him I was sorry.”
When speaking on Katt Williams, he mentioned that he “prays for him” despite the drama between them.
“Katt Williams, bless him. I pray for that brother man. I pray for that brother because that’s some serious s–t. The s– he did on that podcast, man we better hope that all the people that he said ain’t no killers, cause he won’t know who hit him. They got money, they know n—as, it just takes one of them to wake up in the morning to say ‘that’s it.'”
In talking about the state of comedy, Epps shared that everything you do “has to make sense” and how he is in agreeance with the “genre suffering” because of sensitivity. When speaking on the Richard Pryor biopic that he was chosen for to lead, he shared:
“Yeah I was gonna play Richard Pryor, and then I didn’t screw his wife and his ex-wife got mad ‘You’re not gonna play Richard, you didn’t spank this ass,'” He says. “I said ‘Nope, I ain’t playing Richard Pryor then.'”
When speaking of Ice Cube, he says that Cube is “his dog for life.”
“Man that’s my dawg for life. I love Ice Cube. Ice Cube gave me my first job. He gave me $5000 soon as I seen him knew I was broke so he said ‘you and your girl go to Magic Mountain’ and me and my girl went and got dressed with the airbrushed t-shirts and went to Magic Mountain,” he laughed.
