0:00 From 5 to 12, I was tied up to a pole in the basement hours at a time. Yeah. My parents thought you could beat a child half to death on a weekly basis to the point where they're unconscious in a bathtub before school. Because in order for me to live this religious life that I was set up to live, it meant that I had to be 100% invested. [music] And early on, I had decided I'm just not
0:31 going to do it. >> Katt Williams, [screaming] >> you left home at 13 years old. This is where you slept in the city of Miami. You end up being a salesman and you became a pimp. >> Yes. I knocked on a door where some ladies of the night resided and their pimp had been killed. And they would have conversations on a nightly basis that I know for a [music] fact are responsible for me becoming a better man. And then your first standup comedy event was you lying to a bouncer to get in because you're 16 years old and you win the competition.
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