00:00Joining us now in studio is a man we've loved since the 90s, Lorenz Tate.
00:08Hey, Lorenz.
00:09What's up?
00:09I got to give you some love.
00:10Ah, yes.
00:11Lorenz Tate just gave me a hug, y'all.
00:13He just gave me a hug.
00:14Okay, okay.
00:15So we want to have some fun and see if you remember your classic films as well as we
00:19do in a little game we call Remember the Lines.
00:22Oh, man.
00:23Here's how it works.
00:23We'll play the clip, and then you have to see if you can finish the line.
00:27Got it?
00:28Okay.
00:28Okay.
00:29Okay, the first one is from 1995's Dead President.
00:34Okay.
00:35I know about pride, but you got mouths to feed.
00:40Now I laid a little cash on one.
00:42Hey, man, stay the f*** away from my family.
00:44What did you say?
00:47Okay, Lorenz, what was your next line?
00:49I have to say, I'm going to lose this game.
00:54Don't disappoint me right now.
00:55Don't embarrass us.
00:56Come on, come on.
00:56I'm going to have to pass on this one.
01:00I don't know.
01:00What's the next line?
01:01Okay.
01:01Well, let's see what it was.
01:03What?
01:04You heard me, damn it.
01:06I said, stay the f*** away from my family.
01:08Listen, I wouldn't have been able to say, I'm cuffing on this, man.
01:15I can't.
01:15It's okay.
01:16We got the bleeps.
01:16Okay.
01:17Okay.
01:17We can hit you with a bleep.
01:18This is live.
01:19Y'all would have to keep on seeing me fall down the stairs as well.
01:27Listen, that was a moment.
01:28I remember that part very well.
01:30Okay.
01:31Let's see what I can do.
01:32Okay.
01:32Next, you play Frankie Lyman in the classic, Why Do Fools Fall in Love?
01:35So let's see how well you remember the rest of this scene.
01:38Roll clip.
01:38What was your next line?
01:51Listen, y'all making this very difficult.
01:54Why y'all doing this to me?
01:55Is this too hard?
01:56Yeah, that scene, because I don't know what happens next in that scene.
02:00I don't.
02:01Okay.
02:02Let's see what the correct answer is.
02:05Wait a minute.
02:05Wait a minute.
02:06I wrote the song with Herman, and I know the high part.
02:08I can sing.
02:09I can do it.
02:10I can't.
02:10I promise.
02:11I can do it.
02:11I can't.
02:11I promise.
02:12I know the high part.
02:13I wrote this song with Herman.
02:14I know the high part.
02:14You remember that.
02:15Oh, my gosh.
02:16Now I do.
02:19Okay.
02:19So it might get a little easier.
02:21The next one gave us some trouble, though.
02:23Okay?
02:23Okay.
02:23It was hard finding a scene where you weren't cursing up a storm.
02:27Oh, it must be Menace.
02:28But, yep, it's a movie we love.
02:30Menace is a society.
02:31So let's roll the clip and see what happens.
02:33Dog, dog, dog.
02:34Yo, dog, let me get a dump of this motherfucker, man.
02:37This is bad, man.
02:38Oh, shh.
02:41What is the line?
02:44All my Menace to Society old dog fans are going to be so upset with me because they know the lines.
02:50And, you know, I need some help.
02:52I need some help.
02:53I need some help.
02:54What was that next line?
02:57We can't give him any help, can we?
02:59Oh, my God.
02:59Okay.
03:00So we just have to see, you know, what the line was.
03:02Okay.
03:02Come on.
03:02I'm selling these motherfuckers for $59.95.
03:09Yes, of course.
03:10How do you not remember?
03:11Come on.
03:12Okay.
03:13Yes.
03:13I remember.
03:14Old Dog was selling the tape.
03:15He was out there.
03:16He was selling the tape.
03:16He was trying to get that money.
03:17He was trying to get his money up.
03:19Remember when he tried to sell the cheeseburger?
03:20He was always about to get his money.
03:21He wasn't trying to sell the cheeseburger.
03:23He just wanted to give it away.
03:24He just wanted to give it away.
03:24Anybody want a cheeseburger?
03:26Okay.
03:27And the last one is a classic romance.
03:29So, listen.
03:31Love, Jones.
03:32We just celebrated the 20th anniversary.
03:33The pressure.
03:34So, let's roll the clip.
03:35Okay.
03:36Okay.
03:36And do they call you daughter to the spinning pulsar?
03:39Or maybe queen of 10,000 moons?
03:43Sister to the distant yet rising star?
03:47Is your name Yemiya?
03:49Oh, hell no.
03:50It's got to be Oshun.
03:51Yes!
03:54Of course.
03:54I got it.
03:55Okay.
03:55Let's roll the clip and see if we all right because Corey's even over there talking about it.
03:59So, come on.
04:00Let's roll it.
04:00Distant yet rising star?
04:03Is your name Yemiya?
04:08Oh, hell no.
04:09It's got to be Oshun.
04:12Mm.
04:12Mm-mm-mm.
04:13Ah, yeah.
04:14That was a moment.
04:15That's a smile that you put on your face, child.
04:16Okay.
04:17So, just for fun.
04:18Do you remember any other lines from the poem?
04:19You have to.
04:20It's such a classic.
04:21Um, some of them.
04:23You know, it's been a minute since I've done the poem.
04:25Can you just spit a little bit for us right now?
04:28Ah, say baby.
04:30Can I be your slave?
04:32I've got to admit, girl, you're the girl.
04:35And I'm digging you like a grave.
04:37Mm.
04:38Just a little bit.
04:38Just a little bit.
04:39Just got my whole life.
04:40Just got my whole life.
04:41Wait.
04:42We gotta...
04:42I gotta snap it up.
04:43We gotta snap it up.
04:44Darius Love Hall.
04:45Okay, and so why do you think Love Jones still resonates with people 20 years later?
04:49You know, it was a universal story, really, about love and romance.
04:54And I think that at the time that it had come out, you know, a lot of people weren't used
04:58to seeing black people in love and black people vulnerable.
05:02And there was a certain sort of, you know, way that they spoke and how they lived and
05:07how they, you know, how they saw life and what the prism that they looked through was
05:14a lot different than what you've probably seen with movies like Menace to Society or
05:19Dead Presidents.
05:20And so it was really nice for us to do that movie.
05:23And when you have just like a great song, it can stand the test of time.
05:27And that was so well crafted and people still love the movie.
05:33I can't believe it's been 20 years.
05:3520 years.
05:35Why do you look the same?
05:38That's the real question.
05:39I give that to my mother and father, the genetics.
05:41My mom and pop still look very young.
05:43But, you know, just trying to do my best to stay young at heart.
05:46Yeah.
05:46And that always helped.
05:47But, you know, listen, I appreciate all of the Love Jones fans and all of the support
05:53that we've had over the years, myself, Mia, and the rest of the cast and the director.
05:58We were very proud of that movie.
06:00Yeah.
06:00And we love it, too.
06:01But we do want to know, is there any behind the scenes tea or like some like moments that
06:06you can share that we don't know?
06:08I mean, we just always we just had a great time.
06:11We did the movie in Chicago, my hometown.
06:14And it was just like surreal to go back to go back to Chicago to do a movie like this.
06:21You know, it was an underworld of these poets and intellects that I wasn't even aware of
06:31until we started doing the movie.
06:32But there's no there's no tea.
06:34Everybody got along very well.
06:36We had a great time.
06:38Bill Bellamy is a close friend of mine.
06:40Isaiah Washington and Nia.
06:43Everybody.
06:44Ted Witcher, who crafted, like I said, an amazing script.
06:48And his direction was just beautiful.
06:50It actually has become a classic.
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