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Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker, August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and actor.
Hackett was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, the son of a Jewish upholsterer. He grew up on 54th and 14th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn, across from Public School 103 (now a yeshiva). Living next door was a yet-to-be-famous aspiring baseball player named Sandy Koufax. He graduated from New Utrecht High School in 1942. While still a student, he began performing in nightclubs in the Catskills Borscht Belt resorts. He appeared first at the Golden Hotel in Hurleyville, New York, and he claimed he did not get one single laugh.
Hackett enlisted in the United States Army during World War II and served in an anti-aircraft battery.
Hackett's first job after the war was at the Pink Elephant, a Brooklyn club. It was here that he changed his name from Leonard Hacker to Buddy Hackett. He made appearances in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and continued to perform in the Catskills. He acted on Broadway, in Lunatics and Lovers, where Max Liebman saw him and put him in two television specials.
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Johnny Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.
Although his show was already successful by the end of the 1960s, during the 1970s Carson became an American icon and remained so until his retirement in 1992. He adopted a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with guests, an approach pioneered by Arthur Godfrey and previous Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen and Jack Paar. Late night hosts David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, and Jimmy Fallon have all cited Carson's influence on their late-night talk shows, which resemble his in format and tone.
Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, in the year 1925, to Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth Hook Carson, who was of Irish descent. He grew up in the nearby towns of Avoca, Clarinda, and Red Oak in southwest Iowa before moving to Norfolk, Nebraska, at the age of eight. At the age of twelve, Carson found a book on magic at a friend's house and immediately purchased a mail-order magician's kit. He debuted as "The Great Carsoni" at fourteen and was paid $3; many other performances at local picnics and country fairs followed.
[Intro:]
Shit!
Sound like Flex touched that joint, alright!
Hey yo!
Some acting like I'm nice too, Shawty!
War, war, war, war!
Gates, gates, war, war
I'm just rapping up, niggas!
Frat boy, mother fucker!
Yeah, aha! Harlem, yeah!
Uh, uh, uh!
Murder, death, kill for the peso
Fuck a plea, cut this boy if I say so
Another nigga talk talk, it's OK, though
Till I send that ass to... with a halo
I'm trying hard not to kill niggas
It's like a full time job not to kill niggas
No fake friends loyal to my real niggas, yeah
No apologies, fuck! how you feel niggas? yeah
And I'm smiling at your bitch though
Whole clique though, cause she feeling niggas
Cut from my cloth no hell figure
I'm from thirty, thirty aims, I'm a villain nigga
Paper touch, let's bill, nigga
I need a vow, though he might be a.. nigga
It's crazy when you love them like your own son
And like Marvin Gaye's pops let 'em whole won!
Hook:
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
Death gotta be easy, death gotta be easy!
Death gotta be easy, death gotta be easy!
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
Even your sling crack rock, we got it, we can... shot
Father save me, this is what they gave me, yeah!
I never snitched, just turn shit the gravy
Yeah! Crazy! Give it all just to live and ball
Nigga, get a bigger small to your digit car!
Da, I recall every minute sure
But it's fall whoever fall, my vision fall!
Case is unsolved, do the every in the stove
As a... just revolve to another more!
God, a mother's pain, turn it to the base
Throw it, holler, get it nice and leaves a bitter taste!
Uh, she asked God just to give her grace
Preacher man told her once, gotta give it faith!
But the lifestyle we live, be a nigga's faith
For my son, all I ask, “keep a nigga safe!”
To my future's present, bought a new weapon
In case God hear a nigga late!
Hook:
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard
Death gotta be easy, death gotta be easy!
Death gotta be easy, death gotta be easy!
Death gotta be easy cause life is hard