Arsenio Hall

And it's a beautiful line of men performing the old, the new.

Yeah.

Boyz II Men's idol, my idols and stuff like that.

Paramount was like, you're not going to get Johnny's audience doing this.

Right.

You know, and so they wanted me to change my persona.

I remember one time them saying, could you get rid of the earrings?

You know, but that happened.

And by the way, that's not a black thing.

I've seen producers tell Howie Mandel to take off his earrings, you know, or make them smaller or whatever.

That's just what they think the culture in America wants to see.

And I would have like a nice jacket, but my jeans would be ripped, you know.

Yeah.

And they were like, there's no reason to have your jeans ripped.

You know, one time I carved Adidas stripes in the side of my head because that was happening then.

Not for y'all, but.

But you can imagine when you do something like that, they're like, yo.

And that's massive.

Yeah, I get enough love in the streets that I never have to work again, man.

And you forget, you forget.