Queen Latifah Almost Drifted Out to Sea with Her New Boat

-The best surprise today.
Because I was going down to say hi to you before the show,
and the best surprise ever is, your dad came.
-Yes. -You brought your pops.
-I brought my pops with me.
-Who I love. -I know.
-He was so -- He is a -- He is a badass.
He's a legend. I love this dude.
He's just the coolest guy.
I talked to him all the time on "Taxi"
every time I got a chance.
Because he would tell me crazy stories.
'Cause he was a police officer in Newark?
-Yeah, a police officer in Newark with S.W.A.T.
Officer in Newark.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Tons of fun undercover stuff.
I brought him here. I don't know where he is.
He's around here somewhere.
-Oh, there he is. -Oh, hey, Dad.
-There he is.
-Hey, Daddy! -Ha ha!
He's a stud.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. [ Laughs ]
He's the best. -He's man candy.
-I love you so much.
I'm so happy to see you, and that was such a surprise.
I'm so happy that you're here. I love you.
You're just... [ Cheers and applause ]
I want you to tell me this story.
Could you tell me this story about
the first time you bought a boat?
Remember this?
-Oh, my God. Okay. This is --
This is what young, dumb kids from the hood do with money.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Actually, smart, enterprising, yet not so savvy.
-You had to do it up.
-Okay, yeah.
So we got our first production deal
when Shakim and I were with Flavor Unit.
And, you know, we get this like $200,000 check from Sony.
We about to start putting out artists and stuff.
But what do we do?
We decide we want to buy a boat.
[ Laughter ]
So we buy this boat for like 30 grand.
We go pick it up.
-Where do you live?
-Live in Jersey. We live in Jersey.
Our office is in Jersey City.
[ Cheers and applause ]
You know, we got a boat slip there and everything.
-That's right, yeah.
-So, we're gonna go pick up this boat, you know,
from down by the shore in Jersey, and, um...
We don't know anything about boating.
We ride Jet Skis, right?
But we got a hook-up at DMV.
So we went in there, we hit it off,
and she put it on our license.
You know, got a boat license right quick.
Know nothing about a boat.
-Don't worry about it. I know somebody.
-Yeah, "I know somebody who knows somebody.
You know, we hit it up, got that on your license, right?"
So -- So -- [ Laughing ]
So we go, and we get this boat,
and we call my dad to come with us
because he at least knows how to drive a boat,
you know, pilot a boat, and we don't.
So I'm like, "Daddy, we going to get this boat."
So we go get the boat,
and it's me, him, and my partner Shakim.
Little do we know that it's no good
not to have a full tank of gas.
They gave us the boat with a half a tank of gas.
And we got to bring it up past the Verrazano,
right into Jersey City.
No problem. Beautiful day just like today.
And we're going, and this boat is slow as hell.
No engine power, and we're trudging along,
and this thing -- -[ Sputtering ]
-Yeah, and I'm like, "Oh, my God.
We're gonna run out of gas."
So just after we get past the Verrazano Bridge,
it's tall ships, and coming in town.
The Hudson is loaded with massive ships.
They're creating wakes, and our boat is like this.
And we on our little boat,
and it's like massive things going past us.
We run out of gas.
As this is happening,
this beautiful day turns into rain.
Rain starts pouring down.
It's storming, the water's rocking,
we're out of gas,
we're drifting back out towards sea.
So Shakim is so seasick, he can't even do anything.
He just goes and lays down.
I'm like, "Dad."
My father's on the jack, he's like "Mayday, mayday!
Sea tow, sea tow!"
I'm like, "Oh, snap. What's sea tow?"
-"Mayday, mayday. Sea tow."
-Pops gets on the joint, calls in.
We drop this anchor,
we get this crazy dude who rolls up with a boat
to come rescue us, but he's nuts.
I'm like, "Well, how much crack did this guy do
before he came to get us?" [ Laughter ]
He's like, "I got you! Come on! Wait! Cut the --"
We got our anchor dropped.
"Cut the anchor! Cut the anchor!"
My father sends me to get a knife.
I go on inside the boat, grab a knife, go back up.
Dad gets it, cuts the anchor, throws it in.
We're free.
-[ Laughing ]
♪♪♪♪
[ Cheers and applause ]
-We're free. -Cut the anchor.

Queen Latifah Almost Drifted Out to Sea with Her New Boat

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