Queen Latifah Has the Patti's Pies Hookup

-Did I tell you I love you today?
-No. -I love you today, Jimmy.
-Aw, thank you for that.
-I love you, too. -I love me some Jimmy.
-I love ya too.
Last time you were here... -I'm making a mess.
-Last time you were here, we were talking about
"Girls Trip."
And we were like, "Oh, we gotta show the clip."
And it was, like, great. It went on to be, like,
a crusher. I think it made, like,
$140 million.
Congratulations, pal. [ Cheers and applause ]
That's the way you do it. -I know.
-You know good things happen to good people.
I'm so happy. -Man, I'm trying to tell you.
-And it's such a funny movie. You was so great in it.
But then you told me, you said, "Do you know Tiffany Haddish?"
-Yeah. -And I go, "I don't know her."
-Yes. -You said, "Watch.
Watch that star rise." I'm like, "Watch her,
because she is about to blow up.
And now, you know who she is."
-She's fantastic!
I'm like -- -Y'all saw "Girls Trip," right?
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
Dina, of course. Tiffany Haddish.
-Now, I act like I -- I started her.
I'm like, "Oh, yeah. Of course, I knew Tiffany..."
-She got a book coming out in a couple days, too.
She has a book coming out, so check it out.
-Ah, she's just -- -Yeah.
-You called it on that one.
Congrats on "Star," speaking of stars...
-Thank you. -...on Fox.
There's a rumor that I heard about
someone playing your mom. Is this -- Can I say it?
I think so. [ Light laughter ]
Am I allowed to?
-I won't tell.
-Patti LaBelle? -Patti LaBelle.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-How cool is that! -I know.
-I love -- Dude, I love stuff like that.
In any good cameo, I'm a fan of.
-Let me tell you something, I love Patti LaBelle.
Have for many, many, many years.
She's like one of my godmothers in this business,
since I was a teenager, practically.
-Yeah. -But you know what this means,
right? -No.
-I got the Patti Pie hook-up!
What! [ Band plays ]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Pattie Pies, Pattie Pies,
Pattie Pies, Pattie Pies.
-Patti Pie, is that -- Really? -I'm telling you, that's how
Patti comes on set, "Patti Pies, Patti Pie."
I mean, she gave me Patti Pie sweet potato and peach cobbler,
and cherry cobbler with something else in it,
like cherry rhubarb or some craziness.
-Really? -These things don't fight fair,
let me just tell you. [ Laughter ]
I'm like -- [ Laughs ]
Pillsbury Dough -- [ Laughs ]
-Yeah, the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
Questlove introduced me to those Patty Pies.
-Yeah. -You brought them that one year?
-Yeah. -I was like, "Oh, my gosh."
Yeah. -But that Patti peach cobbler?
-Really? Haven't done that.
Oh, my gosh. -Patti, I love her so much.
-She's so dope. -[ As LaBelle ] ♪♪ On my own ♪♪
-I know. [ Laughter ]
I'm working with the woman. -[ Singing indistinctly ]
-[ Normal voice ] Yeah. I love --
I used to listen to her all the time.
Patti LaBelle. -I just like, look at her
sometimes and she'll just smile.
She'll sing a little note, and I'm like, "Oh, my God.
That's Patti." And then my sister
is played by Brandy. -No!
-So I got Brandy... [ Cheers and applause ]
...and Patti.
-How fun? -And it's just like music
everywhere. It's just constant music.
-Do you remember your first time on TV acting?
-[ Laughing ] Yeah, I do.
[ Light laughter ]
I wasn't that good, so. [ Laughs ]
I played on -- Will gave me my first job.
Thank God, bless you, Will Smith.
Gave me my first TV job.
Right. -Let me come on his show,
"Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
Yep. -And I didn't know --
-This is season one. -Yeah.
-That's you there.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, my God, it was so hard.
-Really? -'Cause I had to play
this mean boss and I'm like, that wasn't me.
I'm like, I've got to act and try to be mean to this girl
and I'm a fan of hers and all this stuff.
And then I broke my toe that week.
[ Audience ohs ] I come to shoot the show,
run into the bathroom in the hotel, bam!
Hit it on the table and broke it.
So I'm, like, on crutches and I gotta go on TV.
And they had to re-block -- I was sitting a lot,
and then standing in one place, because I couldn't put
any weight on my foot.
It was terrible. -So, you're, like, leaning --
But maybe you could use it for your anger for your character.
-I tried to. -But then you came back
to the show, but as a different character.
-Totally different character. And I loved that one.
My foot wasn't broke on that one.
-Season two, you were like a love interest for Will.
-Yes.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-And now it's a different story?
-I think he shut that down, 'cause it was like --
'cause originally, I think we were supposed to kiss
in that scene, he was like, "I can't kiss my sister."
And that's -- I mean, we had toured so much.
It was, like, would have been like kissing my brother.
Is that right? Really, because you knew,
well I mean -- -I knew Will because
we all toured. You know, we were all out there
as young rappers and he would headline shows with,
like, Heavy D, and we were just these
young rappers on their big tour, you know.
But still, we spent months at a time together on the road.
So, we're all kind of around the same age.
We grew up out there. So when he got on,
he helped us out.
-But didn't -- when did you start
your management, the Flavor Unit?
-We started Flavor Unit in 1991.
-Yeah. I mean, how old were you --
-Well, actually, it was like '90.
I was 20-years-old.
-Wow, you started your own management company.
What -- what made you -- How did you know
about management? -Well, my partner, Shy, and I,
we were in the same crew, the Flavor Unit.
And you know, we just kind of felt like we could do it
ourselves. He would say, "Come on,
we can do this." I'm like, "We can?
Okay, let's give it a try." So we decided to open up
a management company to manage me,
'cause I didn't really want to be managed by anyone else.
And I met with all the top managers.
But we felt like we could do it on our own.
And then, once I started -- Once we managed me,
then all my boys had these contracts -- Apache,
Latee, Lakim. Everybody had these contracts,
and they were terrible contracts.
So our next mission was to get all of our homeboys out of
these bad contracts, which we did, and we wound up
managing our whole crew.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I love that you did that. -Yeah.
-Here's you with your mom.
Sorry, look at that.
[ Light laughter ]
On the phone, all business.
-I was so young, my mom worked in my office.
[ Laughter ]
-Isn't that great? You have Mom working --
Yeah, Mom was there from the beginning.
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