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[Kalup Linzy--Artist]

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Do you think there’s a difference between art and entertainment?

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Yeah, for me, I mean art feels more personal.

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So art can be entertaining, but they’re not...I don’t think they’re the same machine.

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I think in terms of Hollywood, I think that’s a big piece of performance art itself.

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["Kalup Linzy & James Franco That's Entertainment!"]

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[APPLAUSE]

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[Tonight At Rob Pruitt's 2010 Art Awards]

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[The New York Art World Is Celebrating At A Hollywood Style Awards Show]

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[And A New Artist Duo Has Been Invited To Perform]

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[New York Close Up]

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Hey Kalup, can you tell me a little bit about the outfit that you’re going to wear during the performance tonight?

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I’m wearing this gold wig...it’s a look I’ve had before.

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I’m wearing this jacket, a Tim Hamilton jacket.

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Do you know what James is going to wear tonight?

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Yeah, he’s supposed to wear...if he do what he say he’s going to do...

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So he’s supposed to wear like a suit with no arms and he’s going to have his hair slicked…slicked back or slicked down with a moustache.

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So he may be...I may appear to be more the masculine figure tonight and he may look more feminine.

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That may not...and tonight is our first night performing officially as Kalup & Franco.

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So in the...the look is probably going to change.

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Should I tuck this shirt in or should I leave it?

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♪

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James gets into the city I think at 6:55 if he’s not already here.

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I hope the scene isn’t chaotic.

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I kind of want to just be calm.

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Cause he tends to cause a frenzy these days so...

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I don't know what that's going to be like.

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[CROWD]

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[James Franco--Actor]

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The celebrity thing isn’t difficult, I mean that helps but you don’t want to be so high up on celebrity and then the performance doesn’t go well because then...

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I mean the bigger the celebrity is, the bigger the crash will be if it doesn’t come off well.

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Kalup & Franco Are The Closing Act

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Last year James Franco invited Kalup Linzy to join him on General Hospital where Franco plays Franco, a psychotic serial killer obsessed with a mobster.

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Linzy plays his musical collaborator, Kalup Ishmael.

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Linzy and Franco have decided to continue their collaboration by forming a performance art music based duo...

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Where dreams, art, music, film, soap opera, real life, and performance art collide.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Kalup & Franco.

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[APPLAUSE]

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♪

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♪ They met at the club, dancing real strong. ♪

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♪ He wanted her stuff, she said you can’t have none. ♪

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♪ He looked her in the eyes, he was super fine. ♪

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♪ She say okay cute boy, my stuff is your toy. ♪

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♪ She took him home for some. ♪

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♪ They was real drunk. ♪

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♪ He sniffed some coke. ♪

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♪ That’s why he’s real broke. ♪

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♪ He could not get it up, so he ate his stuff. ♪

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♪ Made it in the bed, she looked at him and said. ♪

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♪ This ain’t no chewing gum, ♪

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♪ This ain’t no chewing gum, ♪

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♪ This ain’t no chewing gum, ♪

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♪ This ain’t no chewing gum, ♪

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♪ This ain’t no chewing gum, ♪

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♪ This ain’t no chewing gum, ♪

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♪ This ain’t no chewing gum, ♪

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♪ This ain’t no chewing gum, ♪

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♪ He couldn’t concentrate... ♪

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When Kalup came to talk at Columbia, you brought in some of your videos, and that was the first time I was exposed to most of those videos.

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And I had just...I think I had just shot General...the first...

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The first half, the first part. Yeah you did, yeah...

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But then a lot of people went up to talk to you after so I felt like oh, I shouldn’t bother him.

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♪ I thought you found love, I thought you were love. ♪

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♪ You are not love. You’re just a good fuck. ♪

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♪ You’re just a hot mess. ♪

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♪ You used to feel blessed. ♪

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♪ You want a love nest. Child, confess! ♪

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♪

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KALUP: ♪ I want to know why. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ I want to know why. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ Please tell me why. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ Please tell me why. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ Please tell me. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ Please tell me. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ Pretty please. ♪ JAMES: ♪ Pretty please. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ With ice cream. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ With ice cream. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ And cherries. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ And cherries. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ Ooh, and nuts. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ And nuts. ♪ KALUP: ♪ Lots of nuts. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ Lots of nuts. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ Big nuts. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ Big nuts. ♪ KALUP: ♪ Chunky nuts. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ Chunky nuts. ♪ JAMES: ♪ Bad nuts. ♪

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FRANCO: ♪ Bad nuts.♪ KALUP: ♪ No more nuts. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ No more nuts. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ I am nuts. That motherfucker. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ Motherfucker. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ That son of a bitch. ♪

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JAMES: ♪ Son of a bitch. ♪

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KALUP: ♪ He did this to me. ♪

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Now we just thought because all this, this is one of the core audience to support our projects, our music and stuff.

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So we just...I’m really excited. I’m really excited. I’m really excited.

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Me too.

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So we got a lot, everything we can’t talk about in terms of like, so I said everything we can’t talk about like the…[WHISPERS] This comes out in June though. [WHISPERS]

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Oh.

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But it’s fine. This doesn’t come out until June. But no, we don’t have to...

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But like a movie... movie soundtrack.

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We got a lot of big plans!

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We got a lot…so it’s going to be like...it’s going to be great.