Kevin Hart's PLASTIC CUP BOYZ

Remember back in the day whenever a rapper got famous, that rapper’s crew of fellow MCs would eventually get their chance to shine, too? Tupac had Thug Life. The Notorious B.I.G. had Junior M.A.F.I.A. Eminem has D12. 50 Cent has G-Unit.

Kevin Hart may not be a rapper (though he does have a fake-rap persona, Chocolate Droppa), but he does have a posse of comics he rolls with every time he’s on tour. This crew includes comedians Na’im Lynn, Will “Spank” Horton and Joey Wells, who also writes some of Hart’s material. They even filmed their own stand-up special (presented by Hart, of course) in 2014. The crew’s name: the Plastic Cup Boyz.

“What happened was we were on tour, and we always had red plastic cups in our greenroom,” says the New Jersey-born Lynn, 39, on the phone from his LA home. “And we would go to after-parties after our shows, and we started taking the cups with us, so we didn’t have to drink out of the glasses at the club. And we just started calling ourselves that, and the name stuck. Now we don’t have to bring them – they just know to have them for us. If we ever have an after-party, we gotta have the cups.”