Kai Wright

Sometimes you get to a point where you can't take anymore and you don't know how to get a way out of it or, you know, you don't see a way out.

And a lot of times you take matters into your own hands and this is the only option I have.

Yeah, yeah.

But at the time, who knew, you know?

It was, like, also just the act of a deranged drug addict, right?

Right, right.

But you think about, like, this balancing act he had been doing with himself, right, of, like, chasing fame in this white space, you know, really wanting to be in these black spaces.

Yeah.

And I can imagine Mama, you know, his grandmother, who raised him in a brothel, was probably a lot of, like, what...

made the balance right.

Yeah.

You know.

So it's a horrible event.

But...

Classic Richard Pryor.

He turns this into comedy.

When he comes back from this in 1982, he makes a comedy film, Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip.

It's his next concert film.

And I would say it was my introduction to Richard Pryor.

I remember watching that with my family, you know.