![]() The night before he had taken the stage to do an hour of new stand-up comedy at the famed Chicago Theater with a king’s entrance, backed by pre-recorded chants of “Rel” that crescendoed to a deafening buzz, a reference to the rapper Lil Flip’s classic track “Game Over.” It didn’t take long for the audience to start chanting in unison at the bespectacled, 42-year-old returning hometown hero standing before them, clad in a red and black suit-an homage to his comedy GOAT Eddie Murphy as well as Bobby Brown, who he considers the king to “dark-skinned brothers” of a certain age: “I'm not even lying to you,” he says. ![]() “I felt like a king,” Lil Rel says, still half-groggy in a suite at the Royal Sonesta on an unseasonably nippy August morning in his native Chicago. ![]()
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