oh that burned my nose hairs the last dab yep the last bite is what it said the last meal the last supper cause you gonna die eating this hot one hey what's going on everybody for first week feast i'm shawn evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot
questions and even hotter wings and today we open up season five with taraji p henson she's a golden globe winner an oscar nominee and best-selling author you know his cookie lion on fox's hit series empire and she stars in proud
mary which is in theaters now taraji welcome to the show thanks for having me how are you think [Music] how are you with hot food i'm about here louisiana right there i'm happy with that i've long waited for somebody to
tap out before dj khaled today might be the day taraji ready to go i'm gonna tap out i'm telling you no surprise here [Music] and you want to start not getting your smells hot that smells like cutting my tongue out that's our donkey kong that's the end of
it i like playing donkey kong not with him and then that's like a chill one oh this is like barbecue sauce can i get six more of these please so i start by digging into the taraji p henson backstory because the road to success is always a winding one between
being a receptionist at the pentagon a substitute teacher and a singing waitress aboard the spirit of washington what's the pre-famed job that you remember most fondly probably the spirit of washington check this out we had to sing and dance
and all of that and we got an option to pick up a um solo to sing guess what mine was what was yours proud mary and they're crazy it all comes full circle oh comes full circle [Music] where's my cocktail i don't want milk
and water throwing a lot at us taraji this is not i don't know if you can talk a drink it's just a drink i don't know if you can tell but we're not this is not a cigarette i know that much okay this is the this is louisiana louisiana hot sauce i can do this
i'm not all right taste anywhere so i know that you've said it in the past that playing cookie lion drains you so it's with a heavy heart that i ask to summon her now what i want to do is show you some up and coming rappers that are
sort of bubbling in the scene and i'm curious from cookie lion's perspective what the first impression might be maybe the first thing you'd ask if they walked in looking for meetings head of a r my guess is that you don't but who knows let's see
so this first one is little xan okay can you rap or do you write your own minds can you produce a song yeah you know this next one takashi's six nights yeah i know this guy i kind of found him on internet interesting look but can you rap
can you give me bars more than 16 and do you write very important can you produce a beat i would ask all these guys that because to me that's important little pump you'd go through the same questions wow lips love the hair colors yeah i see you on
instagram putting the money to your ear but we don't call that money over here last one cardi b oh she signed baby i signed her right away she signed all right you ready to move on how cardi b is oh honey she goes here [Music] oh
god an unknown stratosphere for you you can smell it and see oh no this is this this is gonna be okay we're still gonna chill spot [Music] i dance with chicken i know that you love to cook especially on thanksgiving but it's your reputation for making
amazing chili that precedes you to those of us here at first we feast is it true that mary j blige loves your chili so much that she has you freeze bags whenever you make it if she knows she's coming to where i am so say make that chili and freeze it
and i have nicole come pick it up is that your assistant what makes mary jay such a great go-to sushi partner we have incredible conversations we laugh and we love sushi and then we got us a good little wow shut it down all right you ready to move on taraji
yes [Music] do you don't you hate that person has to smell their food wait how how how that in this area what's going on [Music] we're only one two three four eight a little bit already is that how you do you stick your tongue in here
it's a new that's new to me i have not seen that from this side of the table but it's curious did it work a little bit so i want to stay on the topic of food because hot ones and because i need to know where does winning a lasagna cook-off rank on your list of
professional accomplishments hey at the top it looks beautiful you know how you have that layers you have to have the ricotta cheese you have to have the layer of the green spinach and then the new it was beautiful his pasta sauce and cheese no colors that's
how you don't win cooking exactly what is in mambo sauce because we did a whole documentary about it and everyone from dc seems to have a different opinion it's probably a lot of sugar seems like a lot of sugar is really
sweet i don't know what's in it it's good it is good i get my mambo sauce from um what is it capitol hill capital city capital city i tried to give y'all a plug i i'm i'm drunk off these wings and this milk i don't know [Music] oh that that sounds listen
[Music] okay in my humble opinion yes i think it goes like this oh i don't know i don't know it's waking up in the back whoa come on can you put vodka in this can i get a polar bear you know what movie taught me what a polar bear was talk to me my
character drank polar bears and that's a vodka milk situation damn who does that the russians i think i guess all right taraji so we have a recurring segment on our show called explain that graham we do a deep dive on our guest instagram pull interesting
pictures that need more context so i'll bust out the laptop i'll show you the picture and then you just tell me the bigger story does that sound good i'm getting sick i have to go to the bathroom for real we take those i just
come back seriously around here what did you get first things first okay monster cookie meets cookie that was amazing sesame street was my most favorite show on the planet because they danced and they sang and they they were rapping before rap
and they had the most amazing guests and who didn't love a cookie monster look at the excitement my mouth is bigger than cookie monster i know that you've treaded this before i knew you were bringing that picture it fits our segment so perfectly was this
just another day in the life or did you go extra hard on picture day that's that's taraji i love it you know people calling me hollywood in high school i didn't even know i was ready to act yet and and people was like look at little
hollywood i guess they were right those were my glasses i would those were not shades those were glasses i walked in the classroom just like that with all of that attitude i can't imagine one more for you with the obamas is barack an empire fan
yes didn't you anybody was tweeting about it you know how sometimes you go places and you meet these political figures i'm not a politician ah i don't like the to be quite honest but when i have to vote i do vote i try to
pick the lesser of two evils didn't work this time but let's try again anyway um they knew everything about me they knew i went to howard come back come back help us help us all right trajan you ready to move on yeah did you zoom in that was funny if you
did all day you just brushed my entire eye thanks i'm sorry i love you though no you know crown royal nice you know who has a song about this and i love her jill scott did you know it's too short my finger got numb because i kept hitting replay replay
replay can you do a remix will you just let it play for like 10 minutes until i finish the whole bottle it at least you know anyway back to our regularly scheduled program [Music] oh god karma i have good karma is this
going to kill c i guess [Music] this smells hot and it made the chicken grow hair i don't trust it [Music] [Music] [Laughter] that's not nice what do you mean ow i spit it out and it's still burning this is not fair which one is that
six this is a six the sick sauce coming at you coming at me i don't like staring down the barrel [Music] and it lasts to win the next lifetime well it has a half-life so as bad as you feel is as bad as you're gonna feel you know this is not
i know all of these that smells like death insanity oh that burned my nose hairs the last dab yep the last bite is what it said the last meal last supper because you i don't play these games well you already went with karma so we're already there we're done
hey who's eating this for me where's my stunt double i'm gonna keep reacting i'm not doing that i i and i'm done oh that's really hard i'm gonna tap out i'm telling you no surprise here [Music] tapping someone in my security dave
he represents me right right right sometimes on hot ones you have to bring some muscle as someone who failed pre-calculus in college what was your biggest challenge playing renowned nasa mathematician catherine coleman and hidden figures
that dark secret hanging over my head that i suck in math but i'm a great actress made you believe i knew those those uh equations is it not i know what i was writing mm-hmm you felt like chinese but you believed it god has a great sense of humor because i failed man now
you go through a role it's just all about man you're really funny just like that time when you had me kissing my son brad pitt like really i wanted to work with him i didn't want to play his mother all right you ready to move on more importantly are you
ready are you ready to move on for me i'm ready so this is an interesting situation here it's like yeah just goes first we have uh taraji's security detail taking out wings and i'm sitting here drinking it's really a uh quite the uh
loophole in our system and he's cleaning those wings he represents me so during the 78th annual academy awards you performed it's hard out here for a pimp alongside three six mafia why was it awkward it was awkward i'm singing about pips and in front of
helen murray but you're talking about things coming full circle it made history by winning the best song it did and i didn't see that coming i literally turned around to the phones and i said you guys be glad you made it you know
dolly parton deserves this they owe her one so be happy and then we get up on that stage and that when queen latifah said i knew i knew they won and then dj paul curiously shouted out george clooney during his acceptance speech do you have any idea
why i mean you get crazy when you get up there you have all the people that you love and look up to all in one room it kind of makes you have tourette's all right taraji are you ready to move on are you ready to move on i'm ready stop
so this next one is to bomb beyond insanity that would be this one here and it's a very steep ramp up for you taraji you're very lucky to have this guy in your corner that's hot the ball your mouth is going to blow up no you're not even sweating
i'm finded we like this stuff that's why he's my partner you have anybody from trinidad on your team no it's my biggest problem so i think it's a good time to talk about the new addition to the henson family i'm talking about cabal at french
bulldog so adorable on his throne don't bring him up because i miss him you do this is the first time i've been away from him big boy's like one of my friends i follow him on instagram and he started posting these beautiful pictures
of these dogs i'm a dog person i can't help it i was longing for another babe and so i'm scrolling along and i see the um big boy and i'm like oh my god i just fell in love with those little faces and then he found the perfect one for me
and it was my christmas gift k ball what's the name in reference to k ball i don't know when i saw the dog before i even got him in my hands i said he looks like a k-ball like a football player just like so that's how he got the name
okay this is a dog here's mad dog 357 with number nine plutonium they have a bullet on this thing speaking of assassins everything coming full circle today taraji do you think i would ever put something in my mother has a bullet on the side
i want to be as far away from death as possible i feel you i feel you unless a fat check is coming in and makeup and they put in the cask and i get to get up after right right right and get that check right right away i'll play with
that i feel you i feel you hopefully someday for me until then i guess i'll just scrap it out over here scrap it out all right so uh mad dog 357 with number nine plutonium you do your own stunts in the primary all the fights did you have to do
anything do you have to take uh any self-defense questions did you have to do anything between save by the bell and er which girl baby i should have wanted to shoot a lot of guns on my own time really with the hand cannon so entourage
yeah crabs that could sound really weird and they wanted to keep me over there but then they decided to make the recurring role of their god i'm not giving my recipe but i will give you a sample one day when i come back i knew i could do it i
was just nervous because i didn't have the time to prepare like i'm usually but that seems to be the going thing for me i never have time to prepare for a role anymore all right taraji okay david [Music] taraji so this is the last dab we call
it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last wing you don't have to if you don't want to but it looks like it was ordered can i get some um milk yeah he needs milk i'll keep it there you go who had this ground royal though
on deck i'm locked let me smell it smells like trinity the last dab you kind of want to go that bird my nose it actually smells good but i wouldn't mess with you want more not smell like just smell like trini purple sauce that's what that smells
like all right here we go my man i love that stuff such a such a ride to the top with you [Music] all right taraji here you are at the top of the mountain at least by proxy at least by extension yes so you're clearly fearless in the face of danger i
wouldn't expect less from someone who did most of her own stunts but i'm scared of hot sauce but it is award season and i don't see how we can get away without giving you a hot one's lifetime achievement which in this case is a bottle
of capital city mumbo sauce i think it'll look great on the mantel next to the golden globe who would you like to thank for giving you the strength to battle the wings today i have a feeling i know who's at the top of the list me
i'm amazing i amaze myself like no my security dave is a beast okay and if you see me on the streets i wouldn't mess with me you saw this man take the last dab you saw this man have a 25th anniversary with a bullet and the bomb and it goes on and on don't
mess with us in theaters now go see it keep it alive tell all your friends tell your church uh tell the mosque tell buddha tell gandhi summon them back to life and have everybody come the dead and the living the living if you don't come i'll kill you though
joking all right taraji i was like what are we doing you got me eating chicken i didn't know it's gonna be this fun [Music] hey what's going on hot ones fans it's shawn evans and you know what i'm not going to beg for your subscription if
you're not subscribed turn off the video it's over i want just my subscribers come here come here if you're subscribed to first we feast i just want to say thank you and then i appreciate you that i love you and i hope that you have a great day