Anthony Anderson
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200 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Anthony Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I hear you on that. You know? I'll say that. He's 120 feet away from me. Dude, people are dancing. It's Jamaica. You know how much weed was being smoked in Trinidad and Tobago?
Really? He didn't want to ask Chris Tucker to take him to the piano. He passed him first. He couldn't ask Johnny Gill because Johnny was still singing.
What's the bill? I got it. Don't worry about it. What's the numbers, y'all? It's not bad, Stevie. But there have been sightings, you know, Shaq tells stories, Eddie Murphy tells stories, how they've seen Stevie Wonder driving cars and shit like that. I've seen Stevie walk through landmines and come to me. Yeah, wow. That is wild.
Look, as I tell the story, it's like, yeah, Eddie and Shaq say they've seen him drive cars. He'd be like, yeah, it's crazy. I saw the man walk through landmines and get to me. So I was like, anything's possible.
And then... Stevie, I love you. If you're listening to this, because I know you're not watching the podcast, but if you're listening to the podcast. I think he is watching.
If Stevie could see, he wouldn't have made some of those fashion choices that he's made over the years. Okay, so that's the other.
Oh, it's a combination of all that. You know, I'll start with the latter first. It's not a party or celebrated the way that people were digesting it or enjoying it, but it was my reality.
So the shit that you saw and the things that people were entertained by, the music, the culture, the movies that were in and about Compton, it was also about these places around the country as well, but it was centered here. It was crazy, man. You know, I wasn't affiliated with any gangs, but you're affiliated by association. You're affiliated because it's the block that you live in.
I was going to say your neighborhood probably plays a big role in shit. They were like, I don't give a fuck. You live on Holly or you live in Ludus Park. You live in these places that were what they were. I come from a blood territory, a blood hood. And the other hood surrounding areas were crypts. Whether or not I was a part of the gang culture, it didn't matter. Right.
To the other side, that's where you live. Yeah. So that's what you're about. I had to walk through all of that. I went to the high school for the performing arts. Which was at Hollywood High? No, no, no. That's Hollywood High. That's where I graduated. That's where I did my senior year. Oh, okay. Okay. This is the L.A. County. The L.A. County High School for the Performing Arts.
I was part of the inaugural class in 1985. I'm actually going back to do their 40-year reunion this year. Oh, cool. Somebody reached out to me and asked me to be a part of it. I never wanted to be a part of the school. Why? Because they kicked me out for having weed. I get why you did it, but you let the white boys with cocaine stay in the school.
I know I'm getting off our topic and I'll get back to it, but I had an issue with the administration. So for the longest time, people that I knew there were students there, I had friends who had kids there. You should come back and talk to the school. And I was like, no. And then one day I woke up and I was like, but that's doing a disservice to the students. Exactly.
Who did nothing to me and would love for somebody like me to be there and be a part of that. Absolutely. So years ago, I decided, OK, whenever they ask me again, I'm there. So I had to be ready for school by 530 because I had to walk a mile and a half to a bus stop. 5.30 in the 80s, shit's popping. Oh yeah, especially in the hoods where I'm from.
Well, because people have been smoking crack all night long.
They're still buying. All this shit, drive-bys. Nobody schedules a drive-by 3.30 in the afternoon. It's like, yo, we're going to catch him when we catch him. So walking through my hood was fine. But then I had to walk through other neighborhoods. You hear Tupac and them talk about Long Beach and Rosecrans. You hear people rap about that shit. That's my neighborhood. Yeah.
That's the corner where I had to sit and wait for a bus at 5.50 in the morning. Right across the street are the Santana block crips, diametrically opposed to the Ludus Park Bloods and then the mop. I'm probably speaking French to y'all and all this other shit, but those who know, who are listening, understand. So I had to sit on that bus stop at 5.50 in the morning waiting for a 6 a.m. bus.
That takes me two hours to get to school. And then I had to reverse it at four o'clock when I got out of school and come home.
That's when you get caught. You know, your head is always on a swivel, especially moving alone in areas that are hotspots. I'm always conscious of where I am. That's just the era that I come from and the neighborhoods that I come from.
Yeah, it is. It's like when the baby falls into the gorilla cage or somebody gets into the cage, you want to see the motherfuckers get ripped apart. Yeah. I should say when the baby falls in because that's an accident. But when motherfuckers get in and like want to play with the lions and want to play with the monkeys and you know better. Yes, yes, yes.
It's like, motherfucker, there's a wire cage and there's a brick fence. You climbed all of this. You swam across the moat to get this. You deserve whatever you're about to get right now. And the animal should not be punished. Yeah, exactly. For what is about to happen to you.
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