Marlon Wayans sat down with The Breakfast Club, where he addressed his ongoing beef with fellow comedian Aries Spears.
Wayans addressed Spears’ repeated complaints about him and his family during a recent interview, in which he slammed Wayans for asking to be paid for interviews and appearances.
“I ain’t never had a problem with Aries,” Wayans said. “I wish the brother nothing but love. Why is my name in your mouth?”
The Scary Movie star then turned to Spears’ comments on DJ Vlad’s platform, where Spears questioned whether Marlon’s reported asking price was worth it.
“If I say on your platform you gotta pay me this, then that’s what you’re gonna pay me because that’s what I feel my value is worth,” Wayans told the radio cohosts. “But it’s not for you as a Black man to go on a white man’s platform and discuss my value.”
He added, “First of all, why are you talking about my money? Why do you have an opinion?”
Wayans also mocked the language Spears used while discussing his fee, especially the phrase “is the juice worth the squeeze.” He compared Spears’ remarks to Samuel L. Jackson’s character in Django Unchained.
“You sound like that character Samuel L. Jackson played in Django,” he said.
“Shawn be minding his business,” he went on, calling Spears out for mentioning his family. “Shawn is not that dude.”
He later joked that he would be the one trying to keep Shawn from taking it further.
“Before Shawn beats that n—a’s a–, I’mma hold my brother back,” Marlon said. “I’m gonna say, ‘Shawn, Shawn, Shawn… is the juice worth the squeeze?’”
Wayans rose as part of the famous Wayans family dynasty, breaking out on In Living Color before starring in The Wayans Bros., White Chicks, Scary Movie, Little Man, and A Haunted House, while also taking on dramatic work in projects like Requiem for a Dream and Air.
Spears became widely known for his years on MADtv, where his impressions of celebrities like Eddie Murphy, Shaquille O’Neal, Denzel Washington, and Jay-Z helped make him one of the show’s standout performers. He has also appeared in Jerry Maguire and The Proud Family.
Wayans warned Spears to leave him “the f–k alone.”
