Eddie Griffin Shares Personal Experiences with Racism In Hollywood

For nearly four years, four seasons and 89 episodes, television viewers all over America tuned in to Malcolm & Eddie on United Paramount Network (UPN). Eddie Griffin and MalcolmJamal Warner became apart of the raving lineup of comics watched on a nightly basis in the 90's. "When we all came out this goes from Martin's show to me and Malcolm's show to Jamie Foxx's show they put us on these new networks. Remember they had UPN? I used to called it 'U Pick a N***a,'" Eddie Griffin recalled during his conversation with DJ Vlad. "Every Black show creates this network. Once this motherf***ker is built on our backs, they sell the motherf***ker. Where's UPN at? Alright."

Over the course of their talk Griffin also described what it was like to work with the writers on the show whilst admitting to being a part of the process. "The show was about two young, Black, talented individuals and we owned our own bar and s**t like that. We had two Black writers. One was my cousin Moe," said Griffin. The rest of Malcolm & Eddie's writing team? "12 White writers that have no motherf**king idea what it is to be a young, Black male," he added.

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