Episode 241 | The Godfather of Harlem’s Markuann Smith on Working With Tupac & Making It in Hollywood

In The Moement

Moe Mitch

Comedy, Pionaire, Bert Show, Comedian, Radio, Improv, Moe Mitchell, Stand-up

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

From Harlem streets to Hollywood sets, actor and executive producer Markuann Smith (Godfather of Harlem) shares his journey of grind, growth, and generational impact. He breaks down the real work behind the spotlight, and why betting on yourself is the ultimate power move.

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0:00.0	Hey, look, episode. Episode 2.41. It's a special edition of In the
0:19.1	building. It's our first celebrity guest. And we're not playing with the first guests we bring in the building because we don't
0:24.5	play about much. Mark Juan Smith is with us. What up, fam? How you doing? What up? What up?
0:29.8	What I'm doing? It's good, bro. My guy. If you're not familiar, executive producer and actor
0:35.4	on a very successful, very successful godfather of
0:39.3	Harlem welcome we happy to have you here i'm looking forward to the whole here no doubt would you
0:44.7	always say bosses talk to bosses oh man so we bossed up got now bossed up yeah bossed up right yeah
0:51.9	no doubt man welcome to the podcast my brother appreciate it Appreciate it, Moe, for having me. Absolutely. Thank you, Keion. Yeah. Now, before we get into all of your success and everything that you got going on right now, man, let's get to know you a little more. Take us back to the beginning, your upbringing, and just some of the things that got you to where you are in life right now. Oh, man.
1:11.2	So I grew up in Harlem, 128th in St. Nicholas, and I moved out to Queens, like, later on in my teenage years.
1:21.2	And where I moved, it's like the desert out there.
1:25.2	It's one of the worst places in Queens, but I have fun. It was called Far Rockaway. So if you know about Far Rockway, that's the last stop on the A train. If you fall asleep on the train, you might miss it and have to take it back to the Bronx. So we call that the Round Robin. But in Far Rockaway, it's like a little inlet. They used to call it like the Hamptons for Irish folks.
1:46.9	So you got Rockaway Beach and you got Far Rockway.
1:50.0	Rockway beaches where all the white folks go to.
1:52.0	They go surfing, drink their beers.
1:54.2	Nice beach.
1:55.0	Take their McCallin back, you know what I'm saying?
1:58.7	And we, Far Rockway, we drink a Cisco in 40s. Yeah. We're pouring it out to the homies that ain't here right now. And it was real because in Far Rockways, nothing but Nitech homes, New York City Housing Authority, right? So you might have Hamils up the beach. You got Edgeman, you got Arvern, Nordak, Ocean Village,
2:19.3	Beach 40th Houses,
2:21.8	Redfern, so it was a community of just black folks living on top of each other.
2:24.9	We all have to share the same McDonald's,
2:27.1	so if I have problems with somebody from Edgeman,
2:29.5	I might get a Big Mac and get into it with somebody.
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