- all right, just checking. - stupid asshole. captioning by captionmax www.captionmax.com >> this is amazing, i can't believe we get to hang out with t-pain. >> we get to go to his studio and listen to some you music, that means lesson. >> i get to ask t-pain to check out my new jam or something. come on. >> what up? what up? >> how are you doing? >> mr. payne, i am michael, you got to check out my new track. artistic track figure i don't

know people say it is fire but . >> fire is still an acceptable word. >> i'm sorry. i don't know you. >> no, no, it's totally fine. i'm not a crusher of dreams. this could be a great thing. you to be eminmen the next. >> because i am white? that is a little problematic. i'm going to go spit fire in the booth. >> mostly because he's got on eminem's uniform. ♪ give me some sugar ♪ ♪ the sugar in this case ♪ ♪ i got some lady with a thick ass knees mobile i don't know why that is why i am into ♪ ♪ but the knees made me super horny ♪ >> i'm sorry, man. he's not even my friend. we just share an office tog together. >> this is the future of music! ♪

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♪ ♪ >> trevor: what's going on, everybody? how are you doing, everybody? how are you doing? welcome to the show! night two! we are still here! take a seat, let's do this thing! let us do it! what is going on, everybody? i'm trevor noah. welcome to "the daily show," coming to you from atlanta! we are here in the flesh! oh, i'm loving it! cannot tell you how much i'm loving it here. [cheers and applause] last night, i celebrated my first atlanta halloween. [cheers and applause] i feel like i learned so much about this place, yeah. first stop, we went to a place called virginia highlands. [cheers and applause] and i don't know if i am right or not but those people must be rich.

yet, because forget full-size candy, they were giving out king-sized bars. it was just like i was like, damn, even with inflation? they were like, yeah. we had a hipster halloween, went to little five points, it was cool, it was quaint. we stopped at a little party at georgia tech, that was cool as well. i think we got there late, though, because there was no women, i don't know what happened. oh, then we went to a place called decatur. that was really interesting. [cheers and applause] decatur. i could tell that is where a lot of the white people live because of all of the black lives matter signs on the lawns. oh, my favorite party of the night, my friend took me to a halloween party in bankhead. that was interesting. yeah. i learned a valuable lesson in bankhead. do not assume that the people are dressed up just because it is halloween. yes. that just might be how they

dress. i walked up to a gentleman and i was like, well, you looked up, are you shakespeare? he was like, no, i am a pimp. i was like here is your king-sized nicobar, you did well. pleasure meeting you. we are back. everything is going right. midterms are happening, the world is still happening, you know, the newest. what's happening in the news? let's kick things off with the big news of the day, starting with elon musk, the guy who always looks like a ghost whether it is halloween or not. for months now, he has said that he wanted to own twitter. the reason he wanted to own twitter was because he wanted to make sure that it became a haven for free speech. he wanted to change it because let's be honest, up until now, people have really held back on twitter. i always find myself scrolling and thinking, but what do you really think? why are you so reserved, sir? so anyway, on thursday, the day elon officially took over, we got a taste of this extra

free speech, right? because in the first 12 hours under elon's ownership, the use of the letter and word on twitter shot up 500%. [boos] 500%. you don't know. who knows what it is, it could be racists, yeah, could become a feel free and emboldened to say. or it could be black people watching elon take over and be like, this [bleep]. you don't know which one it is. you are not sure. you are not sure. because he is going crazy. here's my question, here's my question, i really want to know this. why is it always, when the free speech people, all those people who are like "we want free speech," why do they never want to use their free speech to say words like program you late or it's never stuff like that. "we want free speech, we want free speech," "what do you want say?"

[bleep]. all the things you could have said in the world, every word come everything you could have spoke about, what you want to say, any other word? leap it's like you just don't want free speech, you want to hate on people. he is scrambling to figure out how to make this whole thing work. because remember, he spent $44 billion, he was forced to spend $44 billion because it was a troll that turned into using his free speech and he paid a big price and it will be hard to make money from this thing. twitter has a lot of debt. they are not profitable as a company. and so today, to try to mitigate this, elon musk came out and he said he will start charging people $8 a month to be verified with a blue check mark next to their name. yeah. $8 a month for a blue check mark. because i guess he is hoping that everyone else on twitter will also make terrible financial decisions like he *heated.

i'm sorry, $8? what are you spending $8 a month for? like some of the blue checked cook? you realize with $8 a month, you can get netflix, paramount+, hulu, or you can pay so that people verify that they actually are shitting on you. this is the real trevor noah? i hate this guy, yeah. what was even funnier, this is the reason elon musk gave. the reason he is doing this, the reason he is doing it is because he is sick of twitter's current lords and peasants system, for who has and who doesn't have a blue check mark. to the people." blues for $8 a month. so here is my question. if you are trying to create equality on twitter, why charge any want be verified? yeah, just give everyone a blue check mark. why are you charging the people?

[cheers and applause] give it to everyone for free. or give it to no one, give it to no one. but it is to make sense to offer it as equality and then put a pt i'm saying? can you imagine if mlk was out there like, "i have a dream, i have a dream, and i will tell you all about it for $8.99 a month." it wouldn't be the same thing. it's all about equality. no, you're trying to make money, i get that. that's why i think is a dollars a month thing is ridiculous. if you ask me, if elon musk wants to make money from twitter, what he should do, don't charge people for blue checkmarks, no. charge white people to say the n-word. twitter will be the most profitable company in history. braces will be taking out loans. "i need a bit of extra cash, my neighbors are so god damn out, i

could use this." what else is going on? the story of the crazy dude, i'm sure you have all seen this, the crazy guy who broke into nancy pelosi's house and then attacked her 82-year-old husband with a hammer. now you would assume -- i would assume, probably all of you would assume that everyone, regardless of their politics, would be against hammering the elderly. you would assume that. but apparently things have changed. [applause] because it turns out there are many republicans who find this whole thing really funny. >> a lot of republicans have publicly condemned the violence but some are actually making jokes about it. >> yeah, that's exactly right. instead at this moment of unity, what we have seen is republicans actually mocking paul pelosi and the attack, in fact, donald trump jr. tweeted out some really crude memes making fun of paul pelosi and the incident that happened and then you have kari lake, the

republican nominee for governor of arizona. >> it is not impossible to protect our kids at school. they act like it is. nancy pelosi -- well, she's got protection when she's in d.c. -- apparently her house doesn't have a lot of protection. [laughter] [boos] >> trevor: i'm not going to live, maga comedy is weird. "you hear about this old man who was almost killed? that's it, that's the whole joke." this is what's crazy to me. was crazy to me is -- devastated and appalled because somebody was rude to ted cruz at a restaurant. these are the same people, they will be like, "this was at a restaurant. they were rude to ted cruz at a

restaurant!" [cheers and applause] "where people go to eat!" and ted cruz goes to lick the napkins! they were rude to him! this is america!" and look, i get it, it is not all republicans, i'm not saying it's all. some republicans think it's a joke. many other republicans are not laughing but not because they are being civil about it. no, they've chosen to turn it into a giant conspiracy theory. they've said there is a whole bunch of crazy conspiracies they have come up with her why this has happened. than some of them have chosen to just dismiss it, they go, this is not a big deal, this is a random kind of crime that happens if you live in a democrat-run city, that is what they say. which is weird. because you are talking about this is random? like, completely random, every day crime? you are telling me some right-wing conspiracy theorist broke into nancy pelosi's house screaming "where's nancy?"

and you think that was a random crime? because we have all experienced this, right? you're walking down the street, some random guy jumps out with a weapon dan says, "where's your wife, nancy pelosi?" "i'm not even married." "if you do get married, look me up and tell me where you live." "how would i find you?" "look me up on twitter, i will be verified." >> trevor: that's all the time we have for the headlines. after the break, we will get to the big question, is atlanta the real life wakanda? we are having fun, we are on the road, people! we will be right back! you guys are amazing! thank you so much! [cheers and applause]

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[cheers and applause] >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show," coming to you all the way from atlanta. this city is known for its history and culture of black excellence, and sometimes it raises the question: is atlanta the real-life wakanda? well, atlanta's very own dulce sloan went to find out. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> hello, friends, i am atlanta

raised celebrity dulce sloan. now atlanta has been called many things. black mecca, wakanda, black utopia, basically the opposite of portland, oregon. but does the a live up to the hype? i am here to talk to the cultural curator and joyner of atlanta includes everything to find out. >> i am cofounder of atlanta influences everything, which is a civic minded creative consultancy known for the popular phrase and shirt. >> you it sounded like a very atlanta thing, sounds like a lot of -- a bunch of slashes and your business. to you also d.j.? >> no, but there was a d.j. in the store. >> there is always a d.j. there is always a d.j. okay. we've been talking about this question for decades, as black people who live in atlanta or who are from atlanta, is atlanta a black utopia? >> i don't know if i would say utopia. we still in america. black mecca, black utopia, wakanda, it is a place where

black people are comfortable. >> right. >> utopia makes it seem like you know, it needs no crime, ain't no problems, you understand? >> it is interesting because where your store is, we are at city market, but you know and i know for a long time, on this backstreet come of the street used to be very sketchy. >> it's crazy you say that because the other piece of that, the name of the kroger that was right here. >> yeah, i know y'all call it. it is murder kroger. we don't care. and when they tried to change it, we called it murder kroger. >> so this is a multilayered thing. there are the perceived streets paved with gold for black people to achieve whatever they are trying to achieve without a barrier, but there is also multilayered classes in here

too. >> mm-hmm. >> that is just how black it is. >> right. >> it's aggressively black, where it is tribal like wakanda, a safe place to be black, if you have a fair shot to make it what you want it to be. >> do you think that black people have a different experience here from other places because we have seen generations of black wealth and black higher education and just upper mobility for black people? >> it is rooted in the black narrative, going back to w.e.b. dubois and booker t. washington's debate, on blackness that took place on atlanta university's campus. and so yeah, we want to tell but if you look, none of these other black cities have like the atlanta university center. >> four hbcus, historically black college university, mo morris, spellman, morehouse, so people who grew up here, to see

not only one black school, but four black universities. >> yeah, so it is a post secondary education that, okay, chicago, detroit, they don't have the morehouse, spelman thing and i think along with the consistent black mayors, that became the attraction. >> the fact that atlanta has had black mayors for 40 some odd years, has that made a significant impact on the city? >> most definitely. the mayor that set everything off, mayor jackson, he put forth those policies and took that risk, he understand that the police chief, the police force, superintendent, teachers, everything that the public sector could touch, that that also had to be our mission, like what he saw, he couldn't get buy in from the working class people in those sectors, that this was the mission. >> everybody had to get along,

so we have to understand. that is a very interesting thing, for someone to come -- especially a black man to come in and go -- okay, we've got a chance. so -- because the parents are the rest of the country, is it easy to be black and atlanta? >> of the way we have engaged with blackness, the way we engage with white people, we did not know that it was odd until you start traveling or you get these other stories, like, you are talking to white people like that? like, you just have more confidence, whether it is loud or quiet confidence, the average black person, and we don't know that that is odd until people start exposing us to the rest of the world. like, you don't move like that where you are from? i think white atlantans are unique in their experience with blackness. better or worse, atlanta seems to have become a safe place for that. >> as someone who grew up here, it's from here, what do you love

about atlanta? >> the ability just to be my black self, whatever i see that is. >> there you have. atlanta might not be wakanda, but it is a city where you can be your black self. [cheers and applause] >> trevor: thank you so much for that, dulce sloan, everybody. stay tuned. will make him back, atlanta has very own t-pain will be joining us on the show. you don't want to message. [cheers and applause] heart-pounding design. intelligent technology.

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[cheers and applause] >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." my guest tonight is a grammy award-winning artist who is also a pro gamer and the ceo of nappy boy entertainment. please welcome t-pain! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ what up, brother? ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> oh, yeah! >> trevor: t-pain himself. >> yeah, man! >> trevor: welcome, welcome to "the daily show"! welcome, first of all, second of all, thank you for welcoming us. we know you started your career in florida but you made a plan to your home and it feels like atlanta has fully adopted you. >> absolutely come on man, absolutely.

>> trevor: there was no denying that music today cannot say -- especially hip-hop, cannot say that it has not been shaped by t-pain. >> i appreciate it. >> trevor: the sound, everything from how you use autotune to the way you do find that music, you have also been really vocal about the journey that you have been on. you know, i found it interesting -- i mean, it was terrible for you, but people started blaming you for music. like, you came up with the style of using autotune that no one had ever seen before. in my humble opinion -- i'm not a musician -- but i felt like i used it properly, then everyone came out and everything was -- you know what i mean? [laughter] people started saying that t-pain spoiled music, and you went into a depression and you spoke about how you'd had to work on your mental health to come out of this. >> i love being vocal about things like that because it was not set in the blueprint before me. everybody was always, you know -- it's all about playing, all about having a bunch of money, and this come and nothing intangible about the down. everyone just talks about up and i always look back at the people

that came before me and i am like, why did ngl tell me about this? [laughs] like, you know, according to them, it is money, girls, big house, somehow your wife don't find out about any of that. [laughs] you know? the fantasy world. [laughter] but you know, no one told us about the down. so i tried to stay vocal about that to let people know, these things are going to happen come as as much as you try to create this perfect world around you, no matter what you do, you can have charity, you can do all these great things, you're still going to have these downs because there is no magical world and the multiverse that everyone is having all the time. [laughs] >> trevor: i feel like you had to -- you have also had to do what few people ever think they will have to do, which is ride a wave of immense success, go through a period back where your mental is challenged, as you

said, you struggled with depression, and then financially, you have shared the story, all of a sudden, your money is not where it is supposed to be, then you build yourself back up and now, nappy boy entertainment is back in the game, you are mentoring artists, you are creating music that is moving the culture forward. where is t-pain going? very few people have been in the second peak of their life where they rebuild everything and have the opportunity to do it all again. what would you do differently and why? >> condoms. that would probably be good. [laughter] [cheers and applause] [laughs] that's probably -- i would be using them. no, man, i don't think i would change anything. i think the most important thing that came out of how i have done everything as a lessons i have acquired while doing it. >> trevor: right.

>> knowing each end of the spectrum is always better than going in it blindly and going off of faith, you know, as i said, having that information, if i would have came into the game, i would've stayed successful for this long, the downfall would have been from a higher height, you know what i'm saying? i've kind of embrace the fact that i was able to go jump in the kiddie pool real quick and then move to the high, you know? i just wanted to have that experience in my life and i don't regret any part of it. i love every bit of it. >> trevor: that's a good way to live life. [cheers and applause] >> absolutely. >> trevor: i appreciate you so much. all the best. everybody, stay tuned. we will take a quick break. we will be right back after this. [cheers and applause]

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that isn't listed in the job description. even though it should be. ♪♪ >> trevor: well, that's our show for tonight. stay tuned. jordan klepper's brand-new special is coming up next. now here it is. your "moment of zen." ♪ ♪ i'm telling you right now, if the republicans come back losers on election day, there's gonna be a problem. this country's in so much trouble. it can get ugly. january 6 will look like a parade. mass, mass carnage. this country will be a powder keg! [jordan] and we're off! by all accounts, these midterms are going to be messy. almost 60 percent of the country will have a candidate on their ballot who denies the results of the last presidential election, raising the questions, are we ready to scrap the quaint notion