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Speaker 1: it's d J Envy.

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Speaker 2: Just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed,

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Speaker 2: we have Jabril Films in the building.

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Speaker 1: Theod morning morning. What's going on.

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Speaker 3: That's a feeling. Hey, I feel amazing, man, it's a

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Speaker 3: blessing to be here. I've been a fan of the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what's up man.

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Speaker 5: So he was always Charlotte, always make fun of like

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Speaker 5: my roles and movies.

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Speaker 1: I love her.

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Speaker 4: He thinks I belonged to b and that's all I need.

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Speaker 4: That's what I need to stay. That's my home and everything.

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Speaker 5: And he was shocked to know that I was in

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Speaker 5: a movie that was on that's on Peacock and not

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Speaker 5: executive produced it.

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Speaker 6: By the way, I love to have no problem.

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Speaker 3: With Yeah, okay, nah, but I mean, yeah, we're on

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Speaker 3: the Peacock Now. I hate I love you just dropped.

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Speaker 3: It's my directorial debut. Just hilarious. One of the co stars.

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Speaker 3: We got Kiaria Schroeder, Rhetoric Williams. We got Ernesty Morrison,

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Speaker 3: Javier McIntosh, Sean Freeman, scrappy, little scrappy, little scrappy body good.

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Speaker 6: He didn't really well, I love that sounds like cast,

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Speaker 6: but it's not.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna see some of these people in major roles.

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Speaker 4: How did you get into film?

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Speaker 3: I got my start actually through my brothers, Javier and Shaq.

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Speaker 3: Since we've been kids, we've been filming like at home videos,

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Speaker 3: and uh that transition into when I was about eighteen,

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Speaker 3: I just was running around Atlanta with a camera, going

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Speaker 3: up and started to go on tour. So I was, uh,

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Speaker 3: big baby drama. So I was his day to day

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Speaker 3: and so we did his first tour with Orie Lennox

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Speaker 3: and then that led to touring with Kendrick Lamar. So

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Speaker 3: I did the Damn Tour with Travis Scott and them,

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Speaker 3: and from there, like my name really started the buzz,

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Speaker 3: and so I took, you know, my expertise in that

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Speaker 1: Some of my favorites.

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Speaker 3: I used to direct campaign videos for Stacey Abrams sorry,

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Speaker 3: Leader Abrams. And then you know, from there, I just

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Speaker 3: started shooting movies as a cinematographer, doing like Keisha Cole's biopic.

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Speaker 1: And never would have made it.

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Speaker 3: But now transitioning into my directorial debut, which is I

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Speaker 3: Hate I Love You.

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Speaker 6: So for I Hate I Love You?

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Speaker 7: Did you film it yourself, produce yourself and didn't sell

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Speaker 7: it to Peacock or did you so?

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Speaker 3: Maverick and Freely Films they kind of put together that play,

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Speaker 3: but I was one of the producers and directors and

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Speaker 3: my team with BP forty, we pretty much just use

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Speaker 3: all of our resources to film it, like it's all

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Speaker 3: of our own equipment. We brought everything to the table

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Speaker 3: and I directed, edited, and built the score.

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Speaker 7: The reason I asked cause you know, all of these

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Speaker 3: Facts facts, Yeah, And I think it's like it's just

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Speaker 3: important like what we did, which is we just used

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Speaker 3: all of our friends, family, We brought everybody to make

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Speaker 3: we filmed it last December, which of course is like

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Speaker 3: right after the film strike, so everybody was hungry, like

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Speaker 1: Why did you cast Jess?

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 3: Actually, to be honest, I didn't cast Jess, but when

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Speaker 3: So it's like people asleep on that side of Jess,

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Speaker 1: So I mean I forever want to put her in

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Speaker 5: And then a lot of people was talking about my role.

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Speaker 5: Why did y'all have me play that role? Now it's

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Speaker 4: I played him. The issue.

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Speaker 3: The issue is a little spoiler alert.

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Speaker 5: Man, I just got a role when I was the

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Speaker 4: I slept with my best friend's man too there.

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Speaker 1: And everybody is.

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Speaker 4: Just right, everybody like justice, this is what you did.

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Speaker 1: We go switch to them next time, We go switch

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Speaker 1: them next time. But you did body that role? Yeah

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Speaker 1: you killed it?

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 5: Did you have is it? Was it like a whole

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Speaker 3: Actually no, So it was Jay Carter the executive producer. Yep,

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Speaker 3: he wrote the whole film.

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Speaker 5: And then and the I seen, like, you know, I

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Speaker 4: About like everybody's rolling stuff they were.

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Speaker 5: I seen a lot of people were saying, like, so,

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Speaker 5: what exactly was the plot? Like what was the plot?

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Speaker 5: I want to call them by their name, their character

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they owned the agency art Life.

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Speaker 5: And I want to know how does Scrappy come into play?

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Speaker 5: How did he come into play with Like how he

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Speaker 3: So essentially little Scrappy's character bones in the movie. He

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Speaker 6: Is Scrappy Zagon roll.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: So he's been in a couple other roles, but this

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Speaker 7: So is it hard taking notes from networks nowadays all

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I can't really speak.

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Speaker 3: To it because they really let us cook. So they

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Speaker 3: and I think they just trusted the cast, they trusted

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Speaker 7: And I feel like that's what they should do, like

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Speaker 7: get out the way the creatives. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 7: even if you're putting money up, get out the way

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, because this is our full vision, Like

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Speaker 3: we put our heart into this. You know, we spent

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Speaker 3: So I'm glad, you know, they just let us do

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Speaker 1: How long did it take the shoot?

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Speaker 1: We shot it in ten days, the whole movie in

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Speaker 3: maybe six months editing and building up the score.

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Speaker 5: How did the writers strike? I heard you make earlier.

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Speaker 5: How did the writer strike affect this film? Was this

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was in the works.

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Speaker 3: But the tough thing, I would say, the way it

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Speaker 3: sure when we could film it. But also it was

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Speaker 1: That was a really hard thing with the Writer's Strike.

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Speaker 3: But luckily we filmed it in December, you know, like

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Speaker 6: Who is Jabrull?

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Speaker 3: I would say definitely my family, my parents, my brothers.

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Speaker 3: But in the film world, it's definitely Spike Lee. That's

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Speaker 1: And why why is it your favorite? It's just the

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Speaker 3: Just you know, being able, that's my favorite movie of

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Speaker 3: made me want to become a filmmaker is Missy Elliott kid. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: So I see, I wonder what's more important for a

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Speaker 3: I think it's a mixture of both, but you know,

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Speaker 3: like neither one can be failing. But if you have

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Speaker 3: be all right.

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Speaker 1: But if you have amazing visuals, stories just all right.

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Speaker 3: You know, as long as something's good, you know so,

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Speaker 3: but you strive to have both be great.

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Speaker 7: So what's your favorite film of all time that you

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Speaker 7: feel like you have the perfect balance of both those things.

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Speaker 1: I would say, do the right thing right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah to me because it's like so many iconic

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Speaker 3: but also you know, the deep messages that the film

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's to me the perfect balance.

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Speaker 6: What about Belly?

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Speaker 7: I love bellby so slept people be acting like Belly,

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Speaker 7: but they say visually they didn't like how dark it looked.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the most creative movies ever made.

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Speaker 3: I think Belly deserved you know oscars absolutely like Belly

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Speaker 7: Magnified, right, Like you know, so a lot of these

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Speaker 4: Like I don't have a greasy duck, I got dishes.

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Speaker 5: So you went to Georgia State, and I know you

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Speaker 3: Both think so because it's like for me, you know,

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Speaker 6: You don't worry about facts business.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 2: Tell him how they can see I Hate I Love

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Speaker 2: you can see I Hate I Love You right now

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Speaker 2: out on Peacock please go stream it everywhere. We put

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Speaker 5: I just but I was like, oh okay, all right,

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Speaker 5: Yeah I didn't want nobody to know because you know,

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Speaker 1: See all right.

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Speaker 2: Well, Jabil Films, we appreciate you for joining us and

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Speaker 2: show you'll be back the next movie that comes.

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Speaker 1: Out at Definitely I appreciate it. Too. It's the breakfast

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