'Bust Down' stars Sam Jay and Jak Knight talk Freddie Gibbs, new Peacock series and more (Exclusive)
We’re just 48 hours away from Peacock’s must-see ‘Bust Down’ series premiering to the masses. In celebration of the highly-anticipated show preparing to unload endless laughs and slaps, Attack The Culture had to chop it up with stars Sam Jay and Jak Knight about what to expect.
We’re just 48 hours away from Peacock’s must-see ‘Bust Down’ series premiering to the masses. In celebration of the highly-anticipated show preparing to unload endless laughs and slaps, Attack The Culture had to chop it up with stars Sam Jay and Jak Knight about what to expect.
From pumping up Freddie Gibbs’ insane performance as a series regular to narrowing down the biggest moment and episode they can’t wait for the world to see once March 10 hits, Sam and Jak don’t hold back.
Check out some of the conversation highlights and keep scrolling to check out the full chop up session.
How funny is Freddie Gibbs and how in the world did he get attached to this project? Obviously his home base is Gary, Indiana but it just seemed like an amazing fit. Plus the comedy he delivered alongside the both of you. Please talk about Freddie Gibbs’ greatness.
Sam: I feel like Freddie came into the fold because of Jak. Jak was very much like, ‘We need to have someone in it from Gary, Indiana because we’re basing this out of Gary,’ and he was like, ‘I think I can get Freddie to do it.’ We were like, ‘Yo, if you can get Freddie, that would be phenomenal.’ From the first day he came on set, we were like, ‘Holy crap. This is amazing.’
Jak: Freddie is just hilarious. He’s just a really genuine dude and the Internet is for shits and giggles but he’s an awesome good dude but he’s a really good actor. We didn’t know that. I took him to come on there and bomb but he kicked ass the whole way through.
Let’s just talk about that raw, unapologetic humor that’s in this series. I know getting a chance to binge it all weekend long, I did not have any idea what I was getting from the first episode and then as the second, third and fourth come together, you get to the point of realizing, this is raw, crazy humor. The punchlines, the references, I can never listen to Master P’s ‘Ugh’ the same again. Let’s talk about this rawness.
Jak: It’s just our friendship. It’s just the way the four of us talk to each other. That’s the funniest thing we find in each other and that’s what we tried to bring to the screen and you don’t see that type of funny on the TV anymore or anywhere except for in rap music so we just wanted to bring back that ‘Martin’ level funny, hopefully.
Sam: To piggyback off what Jak just said, I feel like we were just exaggerating the things we hate about each other’s personalities. [laughs] I think that’s kind of how we built every character. That’s the thing that drives us crazy about this person and then it’s how do we blow it up and make it as silly as possible. I think it works because we really are friends and we really know each other inside and out. I think that’s where you get a lot of that funniness and how we poke fun at each other because we know it’s coming from a genuine place of love.
Check out Sam and Jak dig into what episode and moment they’re most excited for the world to see in the full chop up session below.
'Bust Down' stars Langston Kerman and Chris Redd talk Freddie Gibbs, new series and more (Exclusive)
We’re officially 48 hours away from ‘Bust Down’ premiering to the masses on Peacock and with as much appreciation as I personally have for humor here both in my real life and here on Attack The Culture, it was only right to connect with legendary funnymen Langston Kerman and Chris Redd to dish on their new series.
We’re officially 48 hours away from ‘Bust Down’ premiering to the masses on Peacock and with as much appreciation as I personally have for humor here both in my real life and here on Attack The Culture, it was only right to connect with legendary funnymen Langston Kerman and Chris Redd to dish on their new series.
From talking about having hip-hop heavyweight Freddie Gibbs co-star on the series with them to how the show evolved from its initial creation to reach the masses this Thursday, March 10 - the conversation hits hard.
Check out a few key moments from the discussion and keep scrolling to check out the full chop up session.
Did you have any idea Freddie Gibbs would deliver the way he delivered - granted the casino is based in Gary, Indiana, his home base, but what he brought to the show especially with the pressure of being around four, legendary comic stand-up legends like yourself, how crazy?
Langston: I would say Freddie showed up in a way that nobody could have anticipated. Maybe even Freddie, I think he destroyed the role. I think he embodied Chauncey better than anyone could have. So we’re super grateful that he took the time to do it.
Chris: 100 percent. He was just like a ball to play off of. We have a bunch of moments where we go head to head. I think everybody kind of does, especially him and Langston. But just going head to head on some improv shit, effortless. The man is hilarious and some of the things he does, throughout the series, it’s just mad funny. You kind of forget you’re watching one of the best rappers and you’re just watching Freddie Gibbs kill it.
I saw some interviews with you guys obviously breaking down what ‘Bust Down’ is all about and I know there was an original, before it was ‘Bust Down’ it was ‘All 4 One’ - and then scrap that and it turns into ‘Bust Down.’ We’ll start with you Chris, what was the evolution like? What did you maybe take away to turn it into ‘Bust Down’ or did everything get scrapped from what ‘Bust Down’ is today?
Chris: It’s been an evolution. This all started from an idea that was actually really bad. [laughs] It was me getting my three very talented friends behind the idea that we should remake this horrid idea and in the journey of it all, we found ‘Bust Down’ and what ‘Bust Down’ is. I think we were all creativity circling around what it ended up being but it just took the journey. If you had asked us in the middle of it, it would have been like, ‘They’re fucking with us, man.’ But when it comes down to it, we needed all that time for it to become what it is.
It’s just a perfect version. It’s very rare you write something and it comes out as good or even better than what you created it being and it’s just a blessing.
Langston: I think that’s absolutely correct. This project has had about four or five different homes at this point which meant that at some point ‘All 4 One’ seemed like the correct thing and thank God whoever was responsible for it turned it down because it was a very bad show that we were just trying to make and now I’m proud of what we landed on.
Chris: And I’m really glad we ditched the UPN name.
Langston: ‘All 4 One’ is a UPN show. [laughs] Our original name was going to be called ‘Eve.’ [laughs]
Chris: [laughs]