Video summary
The video announces the tragic passing of actor Michael Wright, best known for his iconic role as Eddie Kane in the 1991 film *Five Heartbeats*. The host shares news that Wright died at the age of 70 in Los Angeles following a heart attack and complications from a rare degenerative neurological condition. Despite his advanced age, Wright was celebrated as a legendary figure who brought immense talent to the screen, with the host emphasizing that his performance in *Five Heartbeats* was so pivotal that the movie would not be the same without him. The discussion highlights how Wright's character, Eddie Kane, was a talented yet troubled lead singer whose journey resonated deeply with audiences, marking him as a true legend in the film industry.
Beyond his acting career, the video reflects on Wright's personal life and family, noting that he is survived by his wife Susan, his daughter, and stepchildren. The host uses this news to deliver a powerful message about cherishing every moment of life and prioritizing relationships with loved ones before it is too late. He urges viewers to appreciate their health, spend time with family, and express love daily, as mortality is inevitable for everyone regardless of age or lifestyle. This sentiment is reinforced by the host's own reflections on aging and the importance of treating one's body well, drawing parallels between caring for a vehicle and maintaining physical health.
The conversation also takes a humorous yet philosophical turn regarding diet, health, and fate, with the host debating the effects of eating pork versus other foods while referencing religious texts about longevity. While the host jokes about bacon and turkey bacon, he ultimately acknowledges that intent matters more than specific dietary choices and that life's path is often unpredictable. He shares anecdotes about people who lived long lives despite unhealthy habits and others who died young despite being careful, concluding that there is no guaranteed formula for immortality. This lighthearted banter serves to lighten the mood while still underscoring the serious reality of Wright's death and the need to live fully in the present.
In closing, the video pays tribute to Michael Wright by celebrating his life and legacy rather than focusing solely on the sadness of his loss. The host extends condolences to Wright's family and encourages viewers to honor his memory by living meaningful lives and supporting one another. He thanks the audience for listening and ends with a blessing for Wright's loved ones, reinforcing the theme that while we cannot control when our time comes, we can choose how to spend it lovingly and purposefully. The message leaves listeners with a call to action: embrace each day, care for your body, and never take your family for granted, as every person has an expiration date and time is precious.
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>> guys. Um, listen guys, I don't know if
you guys aware of it, but rest in peace,
Michael Wright. Michael Wright has
passed away. You know, he played in the
the the movie. I believe it was the uh
uh five, was it the five heartbeats? Uh,
he played in the movie. And um um he was
the one to say, "Man, y'all Eddie Kane."
Wasn't he Eddie Kane? I think he was
Eddie Kane in the movie, man. Michael
Wright.
>> Was that Was that Eddie?
>> Yeah, Michael Wright.
>> He died.
>> Yeah. I'm going to send you a picture of
him. So you I want to make sure we got
the right per you. You know, Michael
Wright, he he done passed away. God dang
it, man. At 70 years old, man. Just 70,
man. God dang. Send. I'm sending it. I'm
sending it to you now.
>> It's amazing it lasted that long.
>> Oh, gee. See, now this this is what I'm
talking about. OG, you and and that's
why I'm recording this thing right now.
And you going to say that we recording?
Did you realize we recording? You
probably didn't realize we were
recording.
>> I I knew exactly except you just told me
about a man that just had a heart attack
at 48.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This guy. There
you go. There you go. OG. Look in your
Look in your uh That's him right there.
Old Michael Wright. You remember him? He
he was old Eddie Kane. Y'all Y'all got
in the room for Eddie Kane? That's old
Michael Wright, man. He was How old was
he? 70 year. Woo! My goodness. And
Michael Wright, I'm going to read an
article on him, y'all. Man, uh, good. I
love that movie. I watch that movie all
the time. You see it there, OG,
I sent in your WhatsApp. I sent in your
WhatsApp. Listen right here. Let me let
me go ahead and read about old Michael
Wright cuz he was a he truly be missed.
Y'all don't know nothing about Michael
Wright. Michael Wright was on Five
Heartbe. Michael Wright was in a lot of
movies. There he is.
>> He did. That's that's that's he he
passed today. Yeah, he passed it 3 hours
ago. Here we go. 3 hours ago, it came
out on TMZ. Sugar Hill star Michael
Wright dead at 70. The actor Michael
Wright, best known for his roles in
Sugar Hill and the Five Heartbeats, have
died in California. According to his
family, his family issues a statement of
TMZ saying that Wright died uh Wednesday
in Los Angeles. Uh it says this is
Wednesday after the suffering of a heart
failure coupled with a uh complications
of a rare uh
degenerative nuclearology disease called
oh my god uh big big nomia b i g n a m
i. What is big nomia? What is that og?
Have you heard of that?
>> Yeah, that's mariva big nomia.
>> It's a foot condition. Oh, it's a foot
condition.
>> A big Namia up.
>> Yeah, big Nami up. I was like, what? I
Why would he leave when he take care of
his feet? Come on, OG.
>> That's See you starting room.
>> No, I'm just Man, god damn, you got to
take care of your feet.
>> The man rest in peace, y'all.
>> He was born in 1956.
Rice spent his life devoted to acting
and breaking roles in 1979 movie The
Wandery Wanderers. And in uh the 1983
Robert Atman film uh it says this man
here stream streamers. He like he was in
that movie. Wright also played Victoria
Victor uh Duncan in a 1986 comedy flick
the principal with Jim Belalushi and
Lewis Gossip Jr. You know you in a movie
with Louiswis Gossit.
Boy that's serious.
>> He going to heaven with all of them.
>> Oh man. It said, "Og stop it,
>> man. That that was the pivot." A love is
just a love is a house. Love is a house.
Y'all say a saying that
the five heartbeats had a song. He used
he jump up there. He He came late and he
wouldn't he didn't want to act like he
was the lead. They got another guy to
lead. He got hurt by that. He got he he
got beside himself and got wasn't coming
to to to rehearsals and he just acted
ass and got on drugs.
>> Damn good actor.
>> You know, at the end of that movie, I'll
never forget he said, "Y'all got y'all
got room for Eddie Kane, man."
>> You got in room for Eddie Kane.
>> You know, he sung that church song in
that church with that woman when he got
off that dope, too. You got to remember
all the part. He had a hell of a song at
that church when they went to see him,
man.
They got they got room for him in
Paradise right now. So he's singing up
there. Uh he he background singing for
Tupac and Biggie.
>> Listen to this man. Then Rice started in
perhaps the most memorable role is Eddie
Kaine Jr. The talented yet troubled lead
singer. In 1991 drama The Five
Heartbeats. In 1994, Rice scored another
major role in Rhythm Skugs in Sugar Hill
opposite of Wesley Snipes. It says he
also appeared in other honorable notable
uh films including Money Talks with
Chris Tucker, Point Blank with Mickey
Rookie and the Interday Interpreter for
the Nicole Kitman and Sean Pin movie.
During his early nearly five decade
career, Wright also landed part several
popular TV series such as Oz and Be the
series. He say he survived his wife
Susan Wright along with his daughter and
stepchildren. Um so he hey he'll truly
be missed man. A real legend when it
comes down to films man and acting. One
of the coldest to do it on the five
heartbeats. If you take him off five
heartbeats it won't even be the same
movie. He played his part to the fullest
and he will truly be missed. Uh he had a
wife, he had a daughter, he had stepids.
Um and and just just all around, man,
how important is it, OG, to really
really really enjoy every single day
that you live on this earth?
>> Not that important,
>> OG. How important is it to get up this
morning and look up
and say, "Man, I'm still here."
>> It's not that important. How important
is it to hug your children, your
grandchildren today on this day
to make sure that you look them in the
face and tell them, "I love you. You my
grandbaby. You my baby. You my daughter.
You'll always be my child." How
important is it to get up this morning
and say, "You know what, man? Let's go
out here and do something. Hang out at a
restaurant. Do with family. These are
the things that matter when it's all
said and done." See, Mr. right won't be
able to hang out with his family no
more. He's he's gone. Michael Wright is
gone. Oh G, I don't need you to
Hallelujah. I don't need a amen Coner.
But I need y'all to know the importance
of getting up today.
>> Getting up today and going and seeing
your family members and doing something
special with this is your
>> Let me just be real with you. OG don't
want to be real in the situation, but
that man is dead. He died Wednesday. His
family are truly miss him. He was a man
that they looked up to as an actor and
he was a pivotal thing in that family.
And I'm telling you right now, man, when
you got people like OG, when you got
people like me, when you got men in your
family that you love, man, do something
to show them you love them cuz they
won't be here forever.
That's what I'm telling you.
>> Everybody do have an expiration date. So
yeah, just get it when you can get it.
Everybody, everybody not gonna be
walking around here like they 35 or 25
when they in their 70s like OG Py
Michael
>> the hell
>> OG
I gets very very very uh sentimental
when it come down to people lives man
and you know on a serious note Oh, man.
I really, really love seeing you get
around and do the things you do and move
around and drive around in these big old
vehicles. These big old I mean foreign
vehicles.
>> What are you talking about? I take Uber.
>> Whatever. I'm telling you, man. To see
how you do it, man. You give me hope,
bro. You give me a lot of hope, man. I
thank you for it, man. I really do. and
and and you know to see and you know
what messes with me OG and I don't know
if you can relate is when you walk
around and somebody that's younger than
you just up and leave here. It messes
with me. I go to the gym. I start
working different, eating different,
trying to figure out ways to to take
care of this temple cuz you only get one
body.
>> That's all.
>> And if you and you if you treat it
right, then you you definitely get a
little bit more out of it. That's right.
>> I've learned that from you watching how
you move, how you eat. Man, you've been
a blessing to me to see the things that
you've done. And I just want to tell
you, thank you, bro, cuz you're a prime
example of, hey, man, you can do this if
you treat yourself right.
So, I appreciate that, OG. And and Mr.
Wright, I don't know how he was eating,
but he wasn't even no big guy, you know.
He was slender guy.
>> Yeah, he's slender. He was slender. uh
you know but uh hey every I we was just
discussing that yesterday. I was talking
to a guy and uh I was just explaining
that what God have for you is for you.
You have you have a path. Whatever that
path is, you have to I I know some
people that's been clean all of their
life, ate right, vegetarians,
never drank, never smoke, and die at 60
and 70.
>> Wow.
>> And then they got some people that eat a
gang of pork, eat drank wine, have sex
with dirty women, and 105 years old. So,
you never know what your lineage is.
>> Y'all, you heard that. That's the OG
talking here. He's the one that you can
listen to on it. You never know, man.
>> So that's it's it's just it's it it it
pays to not put yourself in a position
to be old and have a gang of worries.
Whatever. Most of us do more for our
cars than we do for our body. You go get
a oil change. You put the proper gas in
your car, but you never fast. You never
stop eating stuff. You eat seven, eight
meals a day. you just congest yourself
with with pollutants and you expect your
body to to carry on at 50, 60, 70 years
old. They, you know, the Bible say when
God God's son took man's daughter
because they were fair, because they
were beautiful, but you actually because
they were pale. And God seen that man
man his his spirit could no longer dwell
in man and he cut man's life expectancy
to 120 years. So if you have sex with
the devil, you're guaranteed to live 120
years. Why are we dying at 70? Why are
we dying at 60? It's something something
that you're doing that's violating you.
You got a pass to live 120 years.
>> Wow.
>> That's and we're dying. But you got to
go to Leviticus.
>> It says, "Do not eat of the swine. Do
not even touch his carcass for you will
surely die." Not you'll die later on. If
do not even touch his carcass.
And now we eat everything. The devil got
you so elude. Now you go to the every
restaurant you go to, they got pork in
it. Uh uh hamburger with with bacon.
When did hamburgers and bacon ever been
a combination?
>> I go to go to the restaurant. I got I
asked for a a cream spinach and I see
these little particles in this cream.
Say, "Wait a minute. What is that?" "Oh,
it's bacon." I ain't asked for no damn
Why is you slipping bacon in some
spinach?
Oh, yeah. I ain't gonna lie to you, man.
Then I don't want you to be mad at me,
but I probably would have ate that
spinach cuz I I'm not
>> You probably They say the devil make it
look fair. You look like it's good.
>> And hey, OG, that bacon ain't right. But
boy, when you put it on that burger, it
do it bring it out, man. I don't know
what it does.
>> Yeah. Yeah. the illusion that it's good.
But when you go to judgment and they ask
you, "Did you eat that?" Well, yeah.
When you say all thing, I ain't never
told you that bacon. I never told you.
>> Oh, g you. That That's the Muslim.
That's the way they think. I don't think
like that. So, I'm eating bacon.
>> Women,
>> bro. I like my bacon crispy. I'm not
going to argue with you about that.
>> So, so you you your man Jesus. OG, I'm
not worried. I'm I'm not trying to do
this with you today, man. I'm I I like
crispy bacon. You going to try to hold
that against me?
>> Okay. Well, well, you'll be eating it
for eternity in hell.
>> Oh, whatever. I'm not Oh, gee. I like a
little crispy bacon. I don't eat it all
the time. I don't eat that all the time.
I fast on on Mondays. You already know
that.
>> But I don't eat it all the time.
>> That's okay. Okay. But
>> you always trying to get on somebody,
man. I don't got time for that this
morning. It's morning time now.
need some bacon, man. What? And you you
live to be 105 eating bacon. You get to
eternity, you'll have a gang of bacon
lined up for you every day. Just stuff
you
>> stop messing with me, man. You know what
I'm saying, babe? Don't try to make me
feel bad cuz I get Is turkey bacon all
right? God dang, is turkey bacon all
right?
>> And and and and that's the illusion that
people I show you how uh
sly the devil is. Right. Right
>> now, a lot of times it's not what you
do, it's your intent. Right.
>> Right.
>> Your intent. Turkey is not bacon. So
people want to eat. So the devil gave
you a alternative. Turkey chops. A
turkey is not a pork chop. It's
so m you can eat that. It's turkey chop.
Just by the name. I'm not even I got you
some I got you some some turkey bacon.
Turkey is not a bacon. No.
>> OG, I'm getting off here, man. Mike
Michael right wasn't even eating no
turkey. I think he was a Muslim like
you. He didn't eat bacon or nothing
probably.
>> No,
he was a slender guy, man. But any rate
y'all getting back to it, man.
Appreciate it, OG. But Sugar Hill star
Michael Wright died dead at 70, man. And
we we we he'll truly be missed, man. Our
condolence to his family. We smile. We
have a good time. This is a celebration
for Michael, right? This ain't this
ain't that's why I we always everybody
head it that way, guys. We don't have We
have to celebrate the life and not focus
on uh being sad because we don't
understand something. We just have to
celebrate the life he live and the
legacy that he built. Guys, I want to
say that. Thank you guys for listening,
man. And God bless the right family,
man. And God bless the daughter and the
mother and the and the wife that's still
here, guys. Boss Talk 101, guys.
Appreciate your OG reviews.
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