At a special screening of Dolemite Is My Name in New York City, Ice-T, Tracy Morgan, and Jeff Ross came out to celebrate Murphy’s comeback
said from a corner booth, where he was eager to run down all the moments where “Eddie nailed it.” He continued, “My father loved Rudy Ray Moore, he had all those albums. Same with Redd Foxx and Leroy and Skillet. This movie really brought back the era of old black men talking shit and being hilarious. You’ve got to remember this was a time when, for some of them, doing that wasThe film shows Moore’s origin story compared, at one point, to a superhero’s.
“It’s funny, but there’s a lot of truth to that,” Ice-T said, explaining one theory for the origin of the term “the Dozens.” “Black kids making jokes about ‘yo mama' and calling it ‘the Dozens’ stems from slavery, when slaves were sold in blocks of 12, even when it broke up families. So making jokes like that, it isn’t just to be crude or shocking, it goes back to this painful memory that you may not even know your own mama.
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