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  • The Epps lifeline. My uncle Joe started this black owned business more than 50 years ago. Don’t forget where you came from so you will know where you going. Your roots become your map for life.
    Let me know where you came from...
    See you soon!
    Chicago, IL - 2/14,
    Detroit, MI - 2/15, &
    Greensboro, NC - 2/16
    #blackhistorymonth #ontheroadwithmikeepps
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    After appearing in movies like Next Friday, The Hangover, and Sparkle, Mike Epps is ready to take over UA-cam. Be sure to subscribe to MikeEppsTV for parodies, stand-up, tour footage, and more from the man himself! New videos every week! #EPPSIE
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  • @dianaperkins1345
    @dianaperkins1345 4 роки тому +191

    I'm glad that you are still showing Love too your family members. Keep it up!!!! Real Men Do Real Shit!!!

    • @knowitallnyc3241
      @knowitallnyc3241 4 роки тому +1

      Diana Perkins 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
      ua-cam.com/video/2wRgI_ehpp0/v-deo.html

  • @enyin2001
    @enyin2001 4 роки тому +227

    That Cotton!! God Bless Our Ancestors and God Bless Us All! Thanks For Sharing Mike!! Love you man

  • @moegreenback6854
    @moegreenback6854 4 роки тому +58

    Keep that store, we need more black-owned businesses

  • @jscottsr2474
    @jscottsr2474 4 роки тому +77

    I seen "Ray's Place" and the first thing that came to my mind was the BOOM-BOOM Room...

  • @brittdavid8591
    @brittdavid8591 4 роки тому +7

    Mr. Epps we really appreciate you showing our young folks this, because they don't believe the Horrible conditions from which we came, POWER👊🏾

  • @kmbrsaun8
    @kmbrsaun8 4 роки тому +41

    💋💋💋💋💋 Shoutout to our ancestors.. I Love you , Mike

  • @Divineniijigamer
    @Divineniijigamer 4 роки тому +129

    History tell's no lies.

    • @kingrollo8199
      @kingrollo8199 4 роки тому +2

      They used to hang Black's down there

    • @tovarusperkins3955
      @tovarusperkins3955 4 роки тому +1

      Yep

    • @kane62074
      @kane62074 4 роки тому +1

      King ROLLO still do time from time, it hasn’t stopped

    • @ul2242
      @ul2242 3 роки тому

      I AM history. The result and proof of triumph and evolution in even the most unthinkable, unadulterated, horrible testament to ignorance we have known, and witnessed in our blood ON THIS LAND. Let us lead the earth in more future examples and testaments of beauty, creativity, joy, intelligence, ingenuity, kindness, purity, triumphant in all things LIFE. Brown Skinn Beauties and other Intelligent Creatures

  • @kennethwhite2787
    @kennethwhite2787 4 роки тому +5

    Brother to brother that was heart felt. Looking back ,and remembering the past. We have truly overcome...Continue to shine, continue to look down on all" of us dear LORD...

  • @samanthadavis8203
    @samanthadavis8203 4 роки тому +15

    Mike Epps still humble

  • @erikadavis4696
    @erikadavis4696 4 роки тому +99

    My grandma used to take me & my cousins "down the country" in SC. She would always pull over and have us walk through the cotton fields my ancestors picked out of. We'd pick some. I remember being stuck and my fingers and hands were cut from the cotton bushes. She'd tell us stories that had been passed down 3 and 4 generations before her of landmarks: "So and so dropped dead right over there", or "So and so had that baby right here." Such good memories. I miss my grandma. Now I'm a grandma and I'm so looking forward to taking my grandbabies out there. Thank you for sharing this.

    • @knowitallnyc3241
      @knowitallnyc3241 4 роки тому +1

      Erika Davis wow

    • @aaas1t
      @aaas1t 4 роки тому +2

      Erika Davis, I thought us folks in Virginia were the only ones who say " down the country". 😊

    • @erikadavis4696
      @erikadavis4696 4 роки тому

      @@knowitallnyc3241 💪😊

    • @erikadavis4696
      @erikadavis4696 4 роки тому +1

      @@aaas1t Nope... 😄

    • @payydroe5462
      @payydroe5462 4 роки тому +2

      May the most high bless u queen✨

  • @dbowie3515
    @dbowie3515 4 роки тому +27

    Past is all around use, that's why we should never forget it🙏💯😞

  • @mr1noticeable
    @mr1noticeable 4 роки тому +64

    I knew Mike had some Carolina blood 🩸 in’em.

    • @mj-z6660
      @mj-z6660 4 роки тому +3

      MoOn ChiLd he frm indianapolis

    • @tamarastone141
      @tamarastone141 4 роки тому +3

      @@mj-z6660 yes, he has the same accent as my Indy family members......except in this video. He picked up his NC accent from hanging with his people 🤣

  • @Carolinas_SweetTea
    @Carolinas_SweetTea 4 роки тому +8

    This be Dem stores u can get hoop cheese a RC and lunch meat (bologna) and have a bangin ass sammich! O I miss these country stores man!! You know it's real when u got pool tables inside 🤛🤜💪 I'm from Shelby NC n I know all bout dat country life! Ain't nutting like the South! Wsup Mike Epps!!!👩‍🌾 I thought u was gone cry at the end! Wsup uncle Joe Ray.... Dassa real uncle when he go by two first names unka joeRay 🤩NC finest I see u Unk!!!!!

  • @DeaconDman
    @DeaconDman 4 роки тому +97

    A lot of northern blacks forget their ancestors come from the south. They all should come down here see where they came from.

    • @tyeemeraldwilliams3697
      @tyeemeraldwilliams3697 4 роки тому +1

      I didn't my people here Baltimore still hold true to there southern ways even wen they don't realize it I still can tell by the way they talk act an move😊( I call it the Way Back There people 🤔😁 there in there 70's and I find it just simply Amazing wouldn't have them any other way , Conform 4 what or who and why🤔😣

    • @LadellTurner
      @LadellTurner 4 роки тому +2

      True, i'm born and raised in New York but my Peoples from South Carolina. I love it out there.

    • @knowitallnyc3241
      @knowitallnyc3241 4 роки тому

      U right
      ua-cam.com/video/2wRgI_ehpp0/v-deo.html

    • @miyaanderson5836
      @miyaanderson5836 4 роки тому +4

      Yup a lot of black folk from the east coast/Midwest today migrated away from the south to get away from the racists decades ago when slavery was abolished. I have family all over the south. It is amazing and sad. Obviously we all came from Africa but there were stops along the way not too long ago. My great grandparents were southerners from Mississippi and Alabama though my family has been in Chicago since before my grandparents were born

    • @williammckinney9288
      @williammckinney9288 4 роки тому +1

      @YES WE CAN Ain't no such thing as a jungle, but their are rainforest. You don't know where nobody ancestors come from.

  • @AmyThrash
    @AmyThrash 4 роки тому +4

    I think it's funny that he's fascinated over cotton. I saw cotton all the time growing up in AL. My mom picked it when my brother was a baby. She said she would have him out in the fields with her so she could keep an eye on him. I think she would put him on cotton sack and just drag him along as she moved down each row.
    God is good because he's brought my family a long way.

  • @str8spittin
    @str8spittin 4 роки тому +2

    💙Mike, we love u in NORTH CAROLINA fam!!!💙

  • @DoogieMarley
    @DoogieMarley 4 роки тому +30

    This is beautiful and crazy at the sametime. Thanx for sharing. Plz do more of this

  • @demetriusbryson1706
    @demetriusbryson1706 4 роки тому +14

    Uncle Joe Favors “Angry Man” on Martin....Man Sit’cho Ash Down......Epps Thank You for window into your Family Life...!!! Peace and Blessings Big Homie...!!! New Subscriber

    • @texasgradeandmade5929
      @texasgradeandmade5929 4 роки тому +1

      Demetrius Bryson 😂😂😂😂Fr!! We know who watches Martin huh!

  • @mr.bayarea_
    @mr.bayarea_ 4 роки тому +9

    That field hit me 🙏🏾

  • @lmarshell7228
    @lmarshell7228 4 роки тому +3

    💜 Mike Epps 💜

  • @mr.cleanss2646
    @mr.cleanss2646 4 роки тому +3

    Shout Out From the (336)
    They don't know about that Country Life. My Mama still Living in the same house on the Dirt Road!
    I appreciate you Bruh for Reppin the LAC

  • @bo24.u.98
    @bo24.u.98 4 роки тому +2

    OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm with U. CRAZY NEGA BUT I LOVE 💘 U. LOL 😆 😆 LOL LOL!!!!!!

  • @datazndood
    @datazndood 4 роки тому +2

    Mike Epps is mans man, who also happens to be one of the funniest people in the business. Love this guys attitude and energy towards life.

  • @Moneyg73
    @Moneyg73 4 роки тому +43

    Really went and picked cotton? Damn, I'm from Texas so I feel ya, that definitely had to be a trip to reflect on how far you came. The ancestors smiling on you. Just like us.

    • @liltexazboi361
      @liltexazboi361 4 роки тому +3

      Real spit corpus indiz thang fam when we used 2 hit smithville & giddings fa da summa we used to pull ova & grab cotton & bluebonnets!!

  • @lakersin556
    @lakersin556 4 роки тому +80

    Uncle Joe looks like Dave Chappelle's blind character that thought he was white. From the Chappelle show.

  • @KingKosta89
    @KingKosta89 4 роки тому +10

    Seeing that cotton field hit my spirit a lil bit

  • @timothybrooks3981
    @timothybrooks3981 4 роки тому +1

    You done came up a long way Mike! I know your ancestors are Proud!!

  • @victorvictorious8692
    @victorvictorious8692 4 роки тому +2

    From NC and grew up in the Nap from 910 to 317 yes be blessed!!! It’s nothing like it!!! Good Looking Mike Epps!!! It’s nothing like it!!!

  • @SaraBellum777
    @SaraBellum777 4 роки тому +7

    We love you Mike!
    My favorite comedian 💕

  • @cj8803
    @cj8803 4 роки тому +6

    How he was standing and looking in the beginning though lol...I love him, he's just silly as hell.

  • @teleasejohnson2606
    @teleasejohnson2606 4 роки тому +3

    THAT'S WAY TOOO DOPE MIKE!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!

  • @tykeshachambers352
    @tykeshachambers352 4 роки тому

    Awesome Mike Epps Your Such A Inspiration 💝🙏💖

  • @ShermanChris
    @ShermanChris 4 роки тому +2

    Looking at that cotton and the heart wrenching thoughts and that went through my mind I can't explain😢 thanks for sharing.

  • @randybarrientes3724
    @randybarrientes3724 4 роки тому +5

    God bless Mike Epps he is the greatest

  • @samt7341
    @samt7341 4 роки тому +18

    It's great to see you again, Mike.

  • @e.b.8665
    @e.b.8665 4 роки тому +1

    Reminds me of where i grew up in Alabama. Still south in NC. As much as it was our past. We never forget. Thanks for the reminder. Luv ya.👍

  • @nanalewis1635
    @nanalewis1635 4 роки тому +1

    I love the country born and raise ❤️❗️

  • @leecee9528
    @leecee9528 4 роки тому +4

    Mike....Continue to use The Lords gift to by Staying REAL!!! 👍🤛💪🙏

  • @3eyenewsnetwork702
    @3eyenewsnetwork702 4 роки тому +10

    I met Mike Epps in Columbus, GA when I was in the Army at the Mall he's super cool

  • @topshelfsista
    @topshelfsista 4 роки тому +1

    Such a beautiful video. That was heartfelt. Thanks for sharing.

  • @trillion2742
    @trillion2742 3 роки тому

    Right amen hallelujah!! God is good all the time 😇

  • @leevon494
    @leevon494 3 роки тому

    The greatest comedian today hands down!

  • @mindupfit3728
    @mindupfit3728 3 роки тому +1

    Northampton county Roots
    love it I’m from Woodland NC

  • @darren1855
    @darren1855 4 роки тому +1

    Yea Mike farming is still everything! We gotta get back 2 that! One luv my brother

  • @chicosworld
    @chicosworld 4 роки тому +5

    Wow reminds me of that commercial that sang "The touch the feel of cotton, its the fabric of our lives" aint that the truth 💯

  • @willienbeck35
    @willienbeck35 4 роки тому

    Hey Mr Epps, I'm a mailman in Arizona and there a cotton field on my route and I did the same thing you did. Wow. Love your work bro, thank you

  • @trulygreatful5253
    @trulygreatful5253 4 роки тому +2

    " Incredible Mike " 😄 I got plenty Love ♥️ for the 'South' !!!😁

  • @motivationalminds5789
    @motivationalminds5789 4 роки тому +1

    Wow I'm speechless right now!

  • @rollsroyce2627
    @rollsroyce2627 4 роки тому

    You are funny as hell Mike..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you said this is some country shit..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @gualbertomorales9307
    @gualbertomorales9307 4 роки тому

    Bless up Mike for always being real 💯🙏

  • @trillion2742
    @trillion2742 3 роки тому

    God bless you Uncle Joe

  • @kingiribbe
    @kingiribbe 4 роки тому +7

    Cool you have to upload more videos man! ❤❤❤

  • @voodoochile4147
    @voodoochile4147 4 роки тому +5

    Love this kind of content!

  • @misst9610
    @misst9610 4 роки тому

    Love some Mike Epps 😘😘😘😘

  • @MrFree2BeMe1
    @MrFree2BeMe1 4 роки тому +5

    The back of my head look like a 1985 bag of Halloween Candy! good to see you again Mike.

  • @cedmc6711
    @cedmc6711 4 роки тому +2

    Respect

  • @juniasurinphong
    @juniasurinphong 4 роки тому

    This the 1st time I ever seen u serious my guy! I almost teared up! Keep up the work playa!!✔💯👌

  • @AmericanMade1442
    @AmericanMade1442 4 роки тому +4

    For a dollar eighty nine 😂😂😂

  • @laughingconstantly5712
    @laughingconstantly5712 4 роки тому +48

    video started and he looked like he just respawned in gta from a hospital

  • @brianrobinson5275
    @brianrobinson5275 4 роки тому

    Shout out to Jackson NC, All the way from Wilson NC, 252 stand up..... #Carolina is home

  • @caseywilliams7673
    @caseywilliams7673 4 роки тому +1

    Been there with family and shot pool,that's what's up,u the man

  • @davethompson1545
    @davethompson1545 3 роки тому

    This was deep for me!!! Thanks Mike!!

  • @theresax326
    @theresax326 Рік тому

    Jackson North Carolina, where they still have a hanging tree!! Jah BLESS YOU Mike

  • @d.whitehead5346
    @d.whitehead5346 4 роки тому +1

    I was the beer delivery man at that place for years I love that guy....

  • @lorenjohnson464
    @lorenjohnson464 4 роки тому +1

    Mind blowing when you said what are ancestors use to pick i got chills

  • @kierellg
    @kierellg 4 роки тому +6

    He funny as hell

  • @melvino8926
    @melvino8926 4 роки тому +6

    Can you imagine how much of that you’ll have to pick to equal 500 pounds, hours unpond hours my people are 👊🏾👊🏾

  • @jugghead82
    @jugghead82 3 роки тому

    This was real deep much respect from Mississippi

  • @mrsjustinejonesmrsjustinej9224
    @mrsjustinejonesmrsjustinej9224 4 роки тому

    I love you Mike good to see you on UA-cam

  • @fireewheels6.277
    @fireewheels6.277 4 роки тому

    Mike Epps is one the most down to earth comedians. I love the fact he still can laugh and enjoy life in general. My dude!!!

  • @bcaesar80
    @bcaesar80 4 роки тому +12

    Damn I use to stay in seaboard right by jackson!! Northampton county!!

    • @johnjones5657
      @johnjones5657 4 роки тому +7

      Conway, Garysburg, Potecasi, Woodland, and all that 💯.

    • @godsonnewnew2698
      @godsonnewnew2698 4 роки тому +2

      G town baby....

    • @MrRuhi2
      @MrRuhi2 4 роки тому +2

      @@johnjones5657 Murfreesboro; Ahoskie; Winton, Como! Hertford Co.!

  • @keithnewland8160
    @keithnewland8160 4 роки тому +15

    That's not crazy...that's a man...remembering the suffering it took for our ancestors to endure to get to this very point in our existence! A 2 dementional thinker versus a 3 dementional thinker.

  • @shewetdemowez9061
    @shewetdemowez9061 4 роки тому

    Big ups, Mike!

  • @salahudeenmuhammad432
    @salahudeenmuhammad432 3 роки тому

    Epps for president!!!!!

  • @tricktrick8794
    @tricktrick8794 4 роки тому

    Mike Epps always reppin naptown 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💪

  • @ngenzokp7440
    @ngenzokp7440 3 роки тому

    This is great Mike.

  • @jesslove3275
    @jesslove3275 4 роки тому +1

    You always make me smile, love u Mike Epps 🖤🖤 and wooow real cotton, dats pretty cool

  • @woodroblue8332
    @woodroblue8332 4 роки тому

    Wow keep it coming mike you make me laugh alot movies you was in

  • @vincentbrown1872
    @vincentbrown1872 3 роки тому

    Kudos Mike for sharing the " real " far more worthy of celebrating ( our roots and what we've overcome ) than the meaningless bling and excessive wealth bragging we mostly get.

  • @schoolofprophetsandseerssog
    @schoolofprophetsandseerssog 4 роки тому

    Awesome 🙌👍👏

  • @nmax7731
    @nmax7731 4 роки тому

    Awesome Mike,looking good too🥰

  • @antoniogalan2535
    @antoniogalan2535 4 роки тому

    More videos please mike epps we love u bruh u funny asf god bless bro

  • @terraaitken7815
    @terraaitken7815 4 роки тому +1

    Thats a humbling video

  • @yungfaness6074
    @yungfaness6074 4 роки тому +2

    Mike Epps He A Comedain An A Actor

  • @Mic_Flex
    @Mic_Flex 4 роки тому

    So dope.... cool smooth & deep roots #solute

  • @JamesJohnson-mu7zh
    @JamesJohnson-mu7zh Рік тому

    God bless.

  • @kodisummerville5366
    @kodisummerville5366 4 роки тому +11

    I've never actually seen a cotton field and never fully grasped wearing clothes made from shit that grows out the ground... Shit wild fr

    • @rosebudd7170
      @rosebudd7170 4 роки тому +1

      The clothes from cotton, cotton plants and the food we eat grown from the ground - dirt. Yet, folks want organic food which is grown from the ground. I had a Maltese that was white, bought him from my hair stylist 10 years ago; and I name him Cotton, pure breed, white and soft curly hair. My eldest brother asked Why, would you name him Cotton. I wasnt a shame to give him that name. Our Ancestors worked the cotton fields, were abused in the fields, even given birth in those fields. My little cotton passed away this time last year. 💖

  • @lifewithplayboy8682
    @lifewithplayboy8682 4 роки тому +1

    My dawg Mike always been authentic and genuine. I'm definitely pulling up to your show in April in Atlanta

  • @Esmoov317
    @Esmoov317 3 роки тому

    What up Mike Naptown in da building! Keep prepping dat midwest! Howe Hornets/Manual Redskins yessir....

  • @yassinegazal3194
    @yassinegazal3194 4 роки тому

    Real deal !! God bless 😁

  • @ninar.5745
    @ninar.5745 4 роки тому +1

    Wow. I've never seen cotton actually picked up from out the ground like that. I've held a plant like that in my hand and it was prickly and had sharp edges. Lord, what our ancestors went through to make them plantation thieves filthy rich. Bless you Bruh!!!

  • @GuamanianBlood619
    @GuamanianBlood619 4 роки тому

    This was such an amazing video, Mike Epps has always been one of my favorite actors/comedians of all time. Godbless everyone

  • @trachelcumbo6613
    @trachelcumbo6613 2 роки тому

    OMG, My grandparents born and raise in Jackson, NC...Cumbo Road & Bryantown Road

  • @thisislaflaretv5250
    @thisislaflaretv5250 4 роки тому

    Raleigh NC checking in

  • @JewelzFinazzo
    @JewelzFinazzo 4 роки тому

    Man you've been the realest in the game for a long time now Mike. Sure Kevin and Katt have and had their time at number 1 in black comedy. I still say you were at one point. But you have always seemed to be more humble and down to earth then almost all other black comics.

  • @jerryspearman
    @jerryspearman 4 роки тому +2

    I ve been a fan of yours a longtime since the def jam appearance respect ✌🏿🎼💯

  • @coler.s.9735
    @coler.s.9735 4 роки тому +1

    You got all the comedy right there Sir. Movie 🎥 time Ucle Ray's place.

  • @toxicmasculine77
    @toxicmasculine77 4 роки тому

    Back in my home country we had cotton in our backyards that we'd pick to stuff mattresses and pillows with. It stayed cooler during the hot nights than the feathered and foam pillows we had.

  • @rosebudd7170
    @rosebudd7170 4 роки тому

    Uncle Joe got it going on. Black own business still in establishment. Blessed.

  • @yewzart191
    @yewzart191 4 роки тому

    This was a beautiful video