Story By Dave Chappelle

There's never been a single time, not a-one, that I've ever been to Detroit where it wasn't some kind of adventure, city is fucking crazy. It's like, it's palpably alive, it's an entity, it's not like just a place you go, it's Detroit And one reasons that Detroit is my favourite market is because the audiences from Detroit for comedian, I find them to be particularly challenging. So when I go there, in this particular story it seemed like a prеtty benign night, and I'm sittin' at the dressing room at thе Fillmore, and there's an older gentleman in there, and I don't really talk to the guy much, but he was a nice guy, cool energy, shit like that And then, a faint Detroit rapper Danny Brown came in, now this time, I wasn't there familiar with Danny Brown's music You know what I mean? So when he asked me to smoke wit' them I just smoke wit' them! I ain't hearing all that "Anderol! Anderol!" I don't all that shit about damn life (Hahaha) I' assuming it's weed but I don't know what the fuck it was, but boy I mean, I smoked weed a million times in my life Never, ever I feel this way any before, and as I was walking on stage, I told my road manager "You know, my number's up tonight." He said, "What does that mean?" I'm going to bomb; and true to my professional prescription, I did But, there's bombing in there and there's shit that happens in Detroit, there's like, the crowd was with me! But the way the crowd responded to me widely, was one of my favourite crowd interactions ever, and as the set is going terribly - when it's clear I'm not gonna be able to pull the nose up and gonna be able to crash this thing, I saw Danny Brown slipping out the room which made me laugh really hard, you know, go back in dressing room and everyone, you know there's a stink on ya where you have to get bomb and everyone looks at you like, you know what I mean? Like Headwound Harry, like "Nigga, you okay?" But really, I can't explained it to ya, I really didn't care And then, and then it turns out, that this kind older gentleman, is Big Sean's father. And my goodness what the...the...he gave me a pep talk that only a dad could give, and that made me feel wonderful, man. (Wow) So shoutout to you Big Sean, shout out to Detroit, I'll never stop loving your city, and I'll never stop loving you, bro You guys are the truth, much love to Motor city