1
00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:06,160
Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning Breakfast Club. Morning,

2
00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,240
Speaker 1: everybody is DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy. We

3
00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,440
Speaker 1: all the breakfast club. We got a special guest in

4
00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,599
Speaker 1: the building. Yes, indeed from bell and we have Jabari Banks.

5
00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,079
Speaker 1: Well you're what's going on? How are you feeling, my brother?

6
00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,439
Speaker 1: I'm great man, how y'all? Man, blessed black and highly

7
00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,439
Speaker 1: favor Yeah, exactly, blessed to be here, blessed to be

8
00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:25,720
Speaker 1: with y'all. This is incredible, that's right. Congratula on the

9
00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,760
Speaker 1: success of bell A thus far. Did you feel a

10
00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:33,200
Speaker 1: lot of pressure having to play such an iconic, iconic role, Yeah, definitely,

11
00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,600
Speaker 1: definitely the pressure. But you know, um many talks with Will,

12
00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,440
Speaker 1: many talks with Morgan Cooper, our creator, and you know,

13
00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:39,479
Speaker 1: they just reminded me to just be me, be me,

14
00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,240
Speaker 1: you know, bring myself to the role. And you know,

15
00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:42,800
Speaker 1: it's exactly what Will was doing. He was being the

16
00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,120
Speaker 1: fresh friends in the nineties, you know what I mean.

17
00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:45,839
Speaker 1: He wasn't trying to be nobody else. So that's what

18
00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:47,400
Speaker 1: I had to do. How did you get into acting?

19
00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,120
Speaker 1: I got into acting in high school and I sort

20
00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,240
Speaker 1: of you know, it's just like dollying around and then

21
00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:55,960
Speaker 1: I went to college for it because my mom needed

22
00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,520
Speaker 1: me to go to college, and I was like, I'll

23
00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,520
Speaker 1: go to college for acting. And then I'm from Philly

24
00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,000
Speaker 1: and I from Maryland. Yeah, and uh West Philadelphia born

25
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,040
Speaker 1: and race. Yeah yeah, actually crazy because I live I

26
00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,319
Speaker 1: lived in West Philly with my uncle philow his name

27
00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:13,840
Speaker 1: is James. Listen, listen. His name is James James Brogan right, Okay,

28
00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,240
Speaker 1: but we called him Phil because he lived in Philly

29
00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,080
Speaker 1: and I lived with him for a long time, and

30
00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,520
Speaker 1: so that's why you know, Uncle Phil's real name was

31
00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,520
Speaker 1: James James within the show, not just me, with everybody

32
00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,000
Speaker 1: in the cast, you know what I mean, That kind

33
00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,360
Speaker 1: of like intertwined them with the story. But yeah, yeah,

34
00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,280
Speaker 1: I went to school in Philly, a University of the Arts,

35
00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:34,880
Speaker 1: and then I fell in love with it. Then, So

36
00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,280
Speaker 1: did you tell people that story, like growing up being

37
00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,080
Speaker 1: from Philly and having an uncle named Phil. No, I didn't.

38
00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,960
Speaker 1: It didn't make sense. I mean, it didn't really register,

39
00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:43,959
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like I wasn't really tripping

40
00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,400
Speaker 1: off of it until everything clicked and then it was like,

41
00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,240
Speaker 1: oh wow, like every part of my life has sort

42
00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,520
Speaker 1: of led up to this. Wow, you know you were

43
00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,120
Speaker 1: a fresh Prince fan. I'm assuming yeah, okay, all right now.

44
00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,520
Speaker 1: According to the Philly Voice dot com, the director Morgan

45
00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,920
Speaker 1: Cooper Heat had a twenty five thousand dollars budget to

46
00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,720
Speaker 1: do a feature film teaser for bel Air with with

47
00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,120
Speaker 1: different actors. So how did that turn into this is

48
00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,799
Speaker 1: gonna be a show. Well, so basically, you know, Morgan

49
00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,880
Speaker 1: put the trailer out, you know, just out of love

50
00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:13,720
Speaker 1: and out of a pure place, you know what I mean.

51
00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,239
Speaker 1: He was just like, I love the Fresh Friends, I

52
00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:16,600
Speaker 1: want to see this, I want to tell the story

53
00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:18,639
Speaker 1: that I want to tell, you know. Uh, and he

54
00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,920
Speaker 1: just he took that and he put it on YouTube.

55
00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,280
Speaker 1: And I think within the first day Will's company, Westbrook,

56
00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,079
Speaker 1: they hit him up, and you know, they were like,

57
00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,400
Speaker 1: we want to, you know, talk with you and develop

58
00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,480
Speaker 1: this thing. And you know, I think a couple of

59
00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:33,160
Speaker 1: weeks after that, he was sitting with Will and he

60
00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,040
Speaker 1: was talking about, you know where we want to take

61
00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,200
Speaker 1: this story and uh, you know, years down the line

62
00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,919
Speaker 1: here we are totally different tone though totally different tones.

63
00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,760
Speaker 1: Break that down. Break down if people haven't seen this show,

64
00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,200
Speaker 1: the differences between what we've seen as a kid Fresh

65
00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,440
Speaker 1: Prince of Bela Yeah, well you know Bellair, Uh, twenty

66
00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,400
Speaker 1: twenty two version is a dramatic retelling of the Fresh

67
00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,280
Speaker 1: Prince of bel Lair, the quintessential nineties sitcom, and uh,

68
00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,119
Speaker 1: you know, it's all the characters that we know and love,

69
00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,440
Speaker 1: but basically we get to dive deep into who they

70
00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,320
Speaker 1: are and the actual stories that are going on in

71
00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,240
Speaker 1: their lives and uh, you know, it's a it's a

72
00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,040
Speaker 1: modern day retelling of the Fresh Prince of bel Air basically,

73
00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,000
Speaker 1: and um, and when you think of the story, you

74
00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000
Speaker 1: know are our showrunner TJ. Brady He said it perfectly.

75
00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,959
Speaker 1: He was like, we all know the story of the Joker,

76
00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,400
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But when we see jan

77
00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,280
Speaker 1: Kie Phoenix do what he was doing, it was like,

78
00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:19,480
Speaker 1: did you really think about it? You know what I mean?

79
00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,680
Speaker 1: And so like we get to see the story, we

80
00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,560
Speaker 1: get to see how Will ends up in bell Lair,

81
00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,680
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be super exciting for like old fans

82
00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,600
Speaker 1: and new fans and man, it's it's been crazy to

83
00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,360
Speaker 1: love around the project. Did you were you afraid to

84
00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,760
Speaker 1: turn something that I guess what's so happy? So I

85
00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,360
Speaker 1: would call it bright I'll call Fred Prince of bel

86
00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,240
Speaker 1: Air Bright. Would you were you afraid to turn something

87
00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,960
Speaker 1: like that dark? Nah? I wasn't afraid of it, um

88
00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,400
Speaker 1: because when I had seen Morgan's trailer, I was like, oh,

89
00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,600
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it, and I'm like, I

90
00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,280
Speaker 1: was like shout, I'd watch that, you know what I mean.

91
00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,839
Speaker 1: And so I think it's I think it's important because

92
00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,040
Speaker 1: it's a reflection of our world, you know what I mean?

93
00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:53,760
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, it's it's it's important to

94
00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,720
Speaker 1: see that. How hands on was Will Smith during the

95
00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,120
Speaker 1: taping and all that man he was? You know what,

96
00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,240
Speaker 1: I always say that it was it was great that

97
00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,280
Speaker 1: he wasn't because he really gave us. He really left

98
00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,160
Speaker 1: the our retelling and our creation of these characters to

99
00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,000
Speaker 1: our own volition, you know what I mean, And so

100
00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:11,720
Speaker 1: that allowed us to create these, you know, characters that

101
00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,480
Speaker 1: ourselves are in, you know what I mean. He didn't

102
00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,160
Speaker 1: have his thumb on it, hella, you know what I mean,

103
00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,400
Speaker 1: And so I feel like that's what I appreciated about him.

104
00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:18,760
Speaker 1: But you know, he definitely gave us a lot of tips.

105
00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,680
Speaker 1: What about the other characters, Carlton and all of any

106
00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,599
Speaker 1: of them coming and said or did, yeah, we have to,

107
00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:24,719
Speaker 1: we have to. We had a few talks with the

108
00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,919
Speaker 1: original cast, so it was definitely a blessing to to

109
00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,839
Speaker 1: get their blessing. Then to see that that torch passed,

110
00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:30,600
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I always wonder to you know,

111
00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:32,880
Speaker 1: if and I would love to add world is but

112
00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,600
Speaker 1: maybe he told you. I wonder what he had played

113
00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,600
Speaker 1: that character differently now because you know, oh he's older now,

114
00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,440
Speaker 1: and he always said that back then he was he

115
00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,320
Speaker 1: would pretending to be somebody he wasn't, right. I wonder

116
00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,080
Speaker 1: what he played at approach that character different now? Definitely.

117
00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,720
Speaker 1: I feel, you know, like when he when he was,

118
00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,960
Speaker 1: you know, doing the Fresh Friends thing, he had no

119
00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,720
Speaker 1: acting chops at all. Yeah, you know what I mean,

120
00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,320
Speaker 1: and so he was just kind of up there just

121
00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,080
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. And I definitely think, knowing

122
00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,200
Speaker 1: what he knows now, it definitely would have been different,

123
00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,920
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't have been as raw. So you got

124
00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,000
Speaker 1: you got an acting shops, so you weren't doing what willcams.

125
00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,360
Speaker 1: But he said Will used to be saying everybody. It

126
00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:10,719
Speaker 1: was a little different for me. It was a little

127
00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,719
Speaker 1: different for me because I was a theater actor and

128
00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,000
Speaker 1: so this is my first time being in front of

129
00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,160
Speaker 1: a camera, in front of a forty person you know,

130
00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,320
Speaker 1: camera crew, and uh and so that was definitely a

131
00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,159
Speaker 1: learning curve for sure. How did you dis go to? You?

132
00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,880
Speaker 1: Just you know, I just sent him my audition, you know,

133
00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,640
Speaker 1: with I had. I had a manager, had an agent

134
00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,760
Speaker 1: that I got through a showcase, and uh, you know,

135
00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:32,839
Speaker 1: they sent me the call. They were like, yo, there's

136
00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,120
Speaker 1: this show called bell Air and for this character Will.

137
00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,800
Speaker 1: And I was like, hold on Bellaire, Will. And I

138
00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:39,520
Speaker 1: saw the call and I was like, okay, okay, I

139
00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,080
Speaker 1: could do this. I knew it was me. I just

140
00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,919
Speaker 1: had to prove to everybody else. But I thought that

141
00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:44,880
Speaker 1: they wanted like a big name, you know what I mean.

142
00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,919
Speaker 1: I thought that they wanted somebody who was recognizable to

143
00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,880
Speaker 1: everybody else. And so I was like, I don't know

144
00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,040
Speaker 1: how I'm gonna get this role, but you know what

145
00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I just had to surrender to the whole process.

146
00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,440
Speaker 1: And uh. And so I sent him my call and

147
00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,440
Speaker 1: uh and a couple a couple of weeks down the line,

148
00:05:58,520 --> 00:05:59,760
Speaker 1: what did you have to do on that first tape

149
00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:01,520
Speaker 1: to your Yeah, it was a couple It was a

150
00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,960
Speaker 1: couple of scenes. No I have to wrap no, no,

151
00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,960
Speaker 1: I just uh, I just uh it was it was

152
00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:07,360
Speaker 1: a couple of scenes. It was actually a scene with

153
00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,240
Speaker 1: Lebron in it. Lebron was supposed to be in the

154
00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,719
Speaker 1: first episode, but you know it was you know, budgeting.

155
00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,040
Speaker 1: You know, well he was supposed to be playing when

156
00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,520
Speaker 1: the people you're playing ball against. No, no, no, no,

157
00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,120
Speaker 1: he was just supposed to be at a bell lay party.

158
00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,920
Speaker 1: Was like like, yo, that's Lebron, you know what I mean.

159
00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,480
Speaker 1: So I did a seeing Lebron was in it. Um

160
00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,560
Speaker 1: and I mean as as soon as I read the scenes,

161
00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,880
Speaker 1: when I first got the script, I was like, oh,

162
00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,760
Speaker 1: this show has something to say. It's the surrendering to

163
00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:35,360
Speaker 1: the process. Yeah. For me, it was like as an artist,

164
00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,520
Speaker 1: we're always fighting against something. When you're like an upcoming artist,

165
00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:39,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it's either like time, money,

166
00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,320
Speaker 1: or resources, you understand. And so it was it always

167
00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:44,800
Speaker 1: felt like there was a push and pull with me.

168
00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:46,080
Speaker 1: I was like, I wish I could do this, but

169
00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,280
Speaker 1: I need this. So I wish I could do this,

170
00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,280
Speaker 1: but I need that. And I was like, I don't

171
00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,279
Speaker 1: know how I'm gonna get where I'm gonna get but

172
00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,560
Speaker 1: I felt myself getting there, you know what I mean?

173
00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,040
Speaker 1: Um and uh, And you know, because when it when

174
00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,279
Speaker 1: it comes to like opportunity, like it really just like

175
00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,040
Speaker 1: a lot of the times like I feel that, you know,

176
00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,279
Speaker 1: it's it's about like someone like reaching down sometimes and

177
00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,040
Speaker 1: like being like giving this person like Okay, I see you.

178
00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,640
Speaker 1: When I see your talent, I'm gonna take a chance

179
00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:10,680
Speaker 1: on you. And I didn't know how I was gonna

180
00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,120
Speaker 1: get to that point. So I remember there was a

181
00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,280
Speaker 1: point in time where I was walking around this track

182
00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,200
Speaker 1: in North Philly at Temples Campus that I found and

183
00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,280
Speaker 1: and I was studying my lines for the script, right

184
00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,520
Speaker 1: and there was a bee that flew across my face.

185
00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:27,600
Speaker 1: And a lot of the times when bugs like fly

186
00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,440
Speaker 1: across me or like get close to me, I'm like, damn,

187
00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,240
Speaker 1: I swat, you know, I tense up. When there's cold water,

188
00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:33,320
Speaker 1: I tense you know what I mean. I want to

189
00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,360
Speaker 1: stick a toe him. And I was like, I'm gonna

190
00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,640
Speaker 1: surrender to the universe, to the nature, and I'm just

191
00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,320
Speaker 1: gonna And that was like a big learning lesson for

192
00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:43,520
Speaker 1: me throughout the whole process was like I don't know

193
00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,120
Speaker 1: how I'm gonna do it, like, you know what I mean,

194
00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:46,920
Speaker 1: that's okay. I'm okay with not knowing, you know what

195
00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,040
Speaker 1: I mean, because like now, like it's not in my hands,

196
00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,280
Speaker 1: it's it's in the universe's hands, tends whatever you believe,

197
00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And and just knowing that

198
00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,320
Speaker 1: gives you peace. And so through that I was able

199
00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,480
Speaker 1: to just focus on me because I feel like a

200
00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,960
Speaker 1: lot of times as artists, you know, like you know,

201
00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,760
Speaker 1: the comparison is the thief of joy basically, you know

202
00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,920
Speaker 1: what I mean. And so when you see yourself audition

203
00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,600
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, nah, he got more to look,

204
00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:09,320
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, he got more active shops,

205
00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:10,880
Speaker 1: so he's done more things than me, you know what

206
00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,920
Speaker 1: I mean. And so you sort of just start tearing

207
00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,520
Speaker 1: yourself down in that way, which was I was blessed

208
00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,440
Speaker 1: enough because it was over zoom that I didn't have

209
00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,480
Speaker 1: to see the competition, so it was just me versus me,

210
00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,480
Speaker 1: and so I just surrendered to the whole process and

211
00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:25,680
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, I don't know, I

212
00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:27,600
Speaker 1: was okay, but not knowing how long did you like

213
00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,400
Speaker 1: to be sit there? Nah? It was just it was

214
00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,120
Speaker 1: just flying. It was just buzzing. It was no, I

215
00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,000
Speaker 1: did'stide my face flew by. It flew by, but it

216
00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,440
Speaker 1: was it was hovering, you know, beesby. Yeah. I wasn't scared.

217
00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:40,840
Speaker 1: I was just like I'm just keep walking doing me,

218
00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:42,400
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And um, that was just

219
00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,240
Speaker 1: a big learning lesson for me, Like I'll never forget

220
00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:47,760
Speaker 1: that that bellet. Are they recreating episodes that were done

221
00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,480
Speaker 1: because there's so many iconic episodes like you know, the fall,

222
00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:54,800
Speaker 1: the episode, the pool Hall episode, the drugs episode. Like,

223
00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,839
Speaker 1: are they recreating or they're doing new episodes. They're doing

224
00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,840
Speaker 1: new episodes, but they're recreating moments. I would say, you know,

225
00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,560
Speaker 1: moments that are recognizable. They're gonna be like, oh okay.

226
00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,800
Speaker 1: So if you've seen the pilot episode, there's a moment

227
00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,679
Speaker 1: where Will is on the plane and there's a glass

228
00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:12,679
Speaker 1: full of OJ, you know, champagne glass full of OJ

229
00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:14,960
Speaker 1: and that's just a you know, a call back to

230
00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,640
Speaker 1: the original song, you know. And there's just moments, a

231
00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,120
Speaker 1: little small moments like that that are that are gonna

232
00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,160
Speaker 1: get the audience hype, I mean the og fans. You mean,

233
00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:23,400
Speaker 1: because you have to learn how to rap or did

234
00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,120
Speaker 1: you know how to wrap. Did you have that part? Now?

235
00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,200
Speaker 1: I was a rapper before I was actor rapp. Okay,

236
00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,719
Speaker 1: so you rap? What was your rap name? Uh? I've

237
00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,280
Speaker 1: been big back now now I've been through many rap names.

238
00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,280
Speaker 1: I used to call myself an indie. The philosopher actually

239
00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,480
Speaker 1: Jabari Banks in my rap name that fast, We want

240
00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:41,000
Speaker 1: to slow that down. Indeed, the philosopher anybody indeed a philosopher.

241
00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,199
Speaker 1: And I was in middle school. What was your rap name?

242
00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:51,000
Speaker 1: Dizzey van Winkle like Dick Van Dyke. No, like Dizzy

243
00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,320
Speaker 1: like Rip van Winkle. Uh, mixed with a dizzy Dizzey Devil.

244
00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,599
Speaker 1: Remember Disney Devil it with Tasmania Devil with it. I

245
00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,120
Speaker 1: think he had a son up Dizzy van Winkle. Yeah,

246
00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,560
Speaker 1: Dizzy van Winkle. It was wild, like you know, Rip

247
00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,400
Speaker 1: Van Winkle was sleep for man long, and so I

248
00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,240
Speaker 1: always felt like, you know, I was sleep for man

249
00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,400
Speaker 1: long and then I woke up like mentally confused. So

250
00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,839
Speaker 1: I was dizzy, Okay, got you because they were looking

251
00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:17,920
Speaker 1: on you? No, I got yeah, yeah, yeah, you know

252
00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,280
Speaker 1: what I mean. I was like, Okay, they're sleeping on you.

253
00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,400
Speaker 1: So I was in middle school. It was in middle

254
00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,400
Speaker 1: Now you said that you learned so much from will

255
00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,560
Speaker 1: in five months. What are some of the things that

256
00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:36,040
Speaker 1: Willy Lahma taught you Willie Lama? Right, Nah, Yo, it's

257
00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,760
Speaker 1: it's been, it's been. It's been super enlightening for sure. Um.

258
00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,680
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like one of the bigger lessons

259
00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,400
Speaker 1: that I always that I've been taken with me. You know,

260
00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,040
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about that a lot. It's like he says,

261
00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, don't let the success get to your head,

262
00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,280
Speaker 1: don't let the figures get to your heart, you know

263
00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,719
Speaker 1: what I mean? And uh, and I've taken that with me.

264
00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,680
Speaker 1: I'm just like, man like, there's a lot of noise,

265
00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,920
Speaker 1: a lot of noise, and there's a lot of things

266
00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,200
Speaker 1: that come into this business that aren't about the work,

267
00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,480
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And to just stay about

268
00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,079
Speaker 1: the word, because that's that's how you elevate, you know

269
00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,040
Speaker 1: what I mean, that's how you that's how you you

270
00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:08,480
Speaker 1: know what I mean inspired, That's that's what we do.

271
00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:10,000
Speaker 1: That's why we do what we do, you know, I mean,

272
00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,840
Speaker 1: everything else around is kind of surrounding it, and it's like, okay, cool,

273
00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,680
Speaker 1: that comes with the with the with the territory. It's interacting, right,

274
00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,200
Speaker 1: because you want accolades, but those same accolades can make

275
00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,880
Speaker 1: you a prisoner to the opinions of other people. Yeah,

276
00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,000
Speaker 1: you don't really want that. Yeah, no, no, no no, you're

277
00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,640
Speaker 1: staying here. Yeah right, yeah, I mean, accolades are just

278
00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,720
Speaker 1: they're nice, you know what I mean when they come around.

279
00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,000
Speaker 1: But it's definitely all about the work for me, for me,

280
00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:32,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because that's why I find

281
00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,480
Speaker 1: my joy yet, like like you know what I mean,

282
00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,480
Speaker 1: I find joy being here, you know what i mean,

283
00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,240
Speaker 1: just talking, but you know what I mean, when I'm

284
00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:39,640
Speaker 1: doing my work, when i'm when I'm when I do

285
00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,280
Speaker 1: doing something that makes me happy, that's that's that's what

286
00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,160
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about for me. But you know

287
00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,000
Speaker 1: what i mean, the wards that come with it, you

288
00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,319
Speaker 1: know what i mean, Yeah, come with it. So when

289
00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,120
Speaker 1: you do, when you through it about taking this or

290
00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:50,880
Speaker 1: trying out for this, did you ever get nervous that

291
00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:53,640
Speaker 1: you'd be always stuck as that character like you look

292
00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,720
Speaker 1: at Julia White. No, no, no, no, no, I'm never

293
00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,360
Speaker 1: I'm too dynamic for that. I knew that about myself,

294
00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,400
Speaker 1: Like I'm I I I am an artist that that

295
00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,280
Speaker 1: is transformative. You know what I mean like I think,

296
00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,520
Speaker 1: I think you'll see that through throughout the throughout the years,

297
00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,800
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I I can transform, and

298
00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,000
Speaker 1: I always knew that about myself, Like I was a

299
00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,680
Speaker 1: totally different person a year ago, two years ago, you

300
00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:15,800
Speaker 1: know what I mean. You look at that prison like,

301
00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:17,280
Speaker 1: who the hell is that? You know what I mean?

302
00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,920
Speaker 1: And like and so I feel like down the line, um,

303
00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,640
Speaker 1: I want to take on roles that are going to

304
00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:28,200
Speaker 1: give people a different perspective of about how a black

305
00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,800
Speaker 1: person can be, you know what I mean. Like I'm

306
00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,360
Speaker 1: super interested in being like in fantasy movies, you know

307
00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,520
Speaker 1: what I mean, and and seeing fantasy, sciences, science fiction,

308
00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,360
Speaker 1: and you're just like, like, show you ever seen a

309
00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,920
Speaker 1: Lovecraft country fire? You know what I'm saying. And like

310
00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,880
Speaker 1: it was it was a moment where it was like, oh,

311
00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,360
Speaker 1: like we can be you know what I mean, we

312
00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,640
Speaker 1: can exist in this type of And it was like

313
00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,480
Speaker 1: this was a period piece but it was also fantasy,

314
00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,560
Speaker 1: but it was also drama, and it was also you know,

315
00:12:54,600 --> 00:13:00,160
Speaker 1: sci fi. And I also season I could not imagine

316
00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,160
Speaker 1: all these black people doing this science fictional stuff. That's

317
00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:04,440
Speaker 1: what it seemed like. We had a yeah, you know

318
00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:05,760
Speaker 1: I think that came down the budget, you know what

319
00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:10,839
Speaker 1: I mean, And she says, she says, she feels like

320
00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:15,760
Speaker 1: HBO couldn't see black people in that space for a

321
00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,480
Speaker 1: long period of time. I'm interested in opening up that role.

322
00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:20,599
Speaker 1: I'm interested in opening up that story, you know what

323
00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,600
Speaker 1: I mean. And I feel like I don't ever want

324
00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,840
Speaker 1: to get stuck in just the box of he's fresh friends,

325
00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,960
Speaker 1: so's he's done this, you know what I mean. That's

326
00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,760
Speaker 1: not me and I don't think I'll ever be that person.

327
00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,520
Speaker 1: You know. It's so interesting, that's such a great question, NVS.

328
00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,319
Speaker 1: Because it's like that role is so iconic, right, not

329
00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,760
Speaker 1: just the role, because we're talking about there's a lot

330
00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,720
Speaker 1: of iconic roles, but the person who played the role

331
00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:44,160
Speaker 1: became an icon with finness self. So could you ever

332
00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,480
Speaker 1: truly fill those shoes? I don't know if anybody would

333
00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,080
Speaker 1: ever And that's not of you. I don't know if

334
00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,640
Speaker 1: anybody would ever see you as the fresh print. Yeah. No,

335
00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:53,520
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in like

336
00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:55,480
Speaker 1: actually feeling like, you know what I mean, I'm telling

337
00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,400
Speaker 1: the story that I'm telling for a new generation at

338
00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,280
Speaker 1: the end of the day, and this is opening up

339
00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,640
Speaker 1: opportunity for me, you know what I mean. And this

340
00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,960
Speaker 1: is like giving me access for me to open up

341
00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000
Speaker 1: opportunity for the next person, you know what I mean.

342
00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,160
Speaker 1: And so my story is my story, wild story is

343
00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,280
Speaker 1: his story. Yeah, we're not the same, you know what

344
00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,880
Speaker 1: I mean. And like I'm telling this story of the

345
00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,600
Speaker 1: Fresh Prince, but like you know, I'm telling this story

346
00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,360
Speaker 1: of of a sixteen year old young man from Philly,

347
00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,840
Speaker 1: you know, gets sent to la But at the end

348
00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:21,720
Speaker 1: of the day, like our stories aren't the same, and

349
00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:23,960
Speaker 1: you know, nobody will ever be Will Smith. He's one

350
00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,000
Speaker 1: on one, one on one, and Jabari Banks is one

351
00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,800
Speaker 1: on one, you know what I mean. So I wonder

352
00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:30,640
Speaker 1: if you could even tell this story if it wasn't

353
00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,240
Speaker 1: for like the reruns of Fresh Prince playing all the time. Now,

354
00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,120
Speaker 1: yeah you know what I'm saying. Yeah, no, I know,

355
00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,600
Speaker 1: Yeah I wonder, Yeah, I wonder how much do you

356
00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,840
Speaker 1: relate to the character? Well a lot, man, it's it's

357
00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,520
Speaker 1: been it's been a really meta experience, Bromm. You know

358
00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,280
Speaker 1: what I mean, In a way that it's like when

359
00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,880
Speaker 1: you see Will you know on Mulholland Drive with Jazz

360
00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,120
Speaker 1: for the first time He's like, damn, this ship is

361
00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,040
Speaker 1: fucking crazy. It's crazy. That's Jabari too, you know what

362
00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,800
Speaker 1: I mean. And so there's moments in the show where

363
00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,520
Speaker 1: it's like will the characters having an experience in Jabari

364
00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,280
Speaker 1: is having the same experience. And so it didn't feel

365
00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,800
Speaker 1: like I was like, you know what I mean, were

366
00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:11,280
Speaker 1: you having in a real life I'm having it in

367
00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,720
Speaker 1: a real life, real life. But it didn't feel like

368
00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:15,680
Speaker 1: it was like I had to act. It's just like

369
00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:17,400
Speaker 1: I had to exist, you know what I mean. I

370
00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,320
Speaker 1: had to be you know what I mean. And so

371
00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,680
Speaker 1: there's this it makes sense crazy yeah, So you mean

372
00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,440
Speaker 1: like coming from Maryland and coming from Philly, Philly and

373
00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:29,120
Speaker 1: then having the tape out there, you like like like whoa, yeah, yeah,

374
00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,560
Speaker 1: definitely life change. I seen you at the All Star Game.

375
00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,800
Speaker 1: You're ringing the bell in Philly in La now. So

376
00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,320
Speaker 1: it's just a whole new life and how you how

377
00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,600
Speaker 1: are you adapting to that new world, that new life

378
00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,320
Speaker 1: and new friends, new people in your life, bele asking

379
00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,680
Speaker 1: you for money. How this ship definitely making me dizzy,

380
00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,600
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's definitely making me like

381
00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,360
Speaker 1: you Van Winkle exactly, like you know, it's just um,

382
00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,560
Speaker 1: you know, I'm definitely grateful always, that's what I move.

383
00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,400
Speaker 1: I'm moving grateful this but like you know what I'm

384
00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,560
Speaker 1: saying that it's a lot of it's a lot of smoke,

385
00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,160
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it's hazy right now, you know

386
00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:00,880
Speaker 1: what i mean. There's a lot of noise, you know

387
00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,960
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And like, I'm just grateful that I

388
00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,440
Speaker 1: met the people that I met have a great support system,

389
00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,560
Speaker 1: and I feel like that's what's the most important. When

390
00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,040
Speaker 1: you out in LA and you knew and everybody wants

391
00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:11,720
Speaker 1: a piece of you, you know what I mean, It's

392
00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,720
Speaker 1: like you gotta you gotta have people around you that

393
00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,320
Speaker 1: remind you to stay grounded, you know what I'm saying,

394
00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,000
Speaker 1: because everybody's pulling you in three different rections, Like you

395
00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,520
Speaker 1: know what I mean, like uh and so and so. Yeah,

396
00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:24,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just I'm just happy. I'm happy. I'm happy,

397
00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,320
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I can't I can't say that, Um,

398
00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:30,720
Speaker 1: I'm I'm you know what I mean, tired or I

399
00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:32,720
Speaker 1: can't say that like that. That's our duality, you know

400
00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,840
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like that's that just comes with the territory.

401
00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,040
Speaker 1: You get tired sometimes, but I'm always happy to be here,

402
00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,680
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like I never I would

403
00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,280
Speaker 1: never want to be in another position, you know what

404
00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,520
Speaker 1: I mean. At being a Filly native helped you with

405
00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,800
Speaker 1: the role for sure? For sure? Definitely definitely And what

406
00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,840
Speaker 1: way do you think we I mean just when it

407
00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,680
Speaker 1: when it comes to slang ringo, just the energy, you

408
00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,560
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's it's it's it's very specific

409
00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,080
Speaker 1: and so you know, um being there and knowing the culture.

410
00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,480
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, it is it was huge.

411
00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,560
Speaker 1: It was It wasn't It wasn't. M That's a hill

412
00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,320
Speaker 1: too that you have to climb as an actor too.

413
00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,879
Speaker 1: And it's like, man, I'm not really from Jamaica, but

414
00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I gotta put on the

415
00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,080
Speaker 1: Jamaican accent, you know what I mean. It's like I'm

416
00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:13,879
Speaker 1: not really from this that I didn't have to do that,

417
00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:16,520
Speaker 1: but I'm interested in doing that as acting, you know

418
00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:25,879
Speaker 1: what i mean? Well take your dinhim off a sweater

419
00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,800
Speaker 1: on it was in New York. Now on social media,

420
00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,560
Speaker 1: there's been a conversation on if Will is wrong for

421
00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:37,399
Speaker 1: dating Carlton's ex. What are your thoughts on that, you

422
00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,360
Speaker 1: know what I mean, not from a character perspective, either

423
00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,800
Speaker 1: from a real life, real life like happens. Bro, that's

424
00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:45,920
Speaker 1: like your brother. That's not my brother, you know what

425
00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,720
Speaker 1: I mean. That's not my brother brother. Bro, No, it's

426
00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,320
Speaker 1: my cousin. I don't know him, you know what I mean?

427
00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,760
Speaker 1: Like I don't know him. And like, when you have

428
00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,119
Speaker 1: a connection with somebody, you can't run away from that.

429
00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,000
Speaker 1: It's like, damn, brush your family though he's already wracked

430
00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,280
Speaker 1: his brain. It's like, Dad, I see the history. I

431
00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,440
Speaker 1: know the history, you know what I mean. But when

432
00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,439
Speaker 1: you have that connection with somebody, it's like, like, what

433
00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,520
Speaker 1: can we do? You felt that? You felt that, Bro,

434
00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,240
Speaker 1: It's like I shouldn't be doing this right now, but

435
00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,320
Speaker 1: don't you know a girl around your bar? Yeah? You

436
00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,920
Speaker 1: come on, come on, you know this. You know this though,

437
00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,600
Speaker 1: be honest with yourself. But that lets that also, there's

438
00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,399
Speaker 1: always been that person in your life where you're like,

439
00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:26,240
Speaker 1: I haven't married twenty one years, bro? Yeah, married years? Okay, definitely,

440
00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,159
Speaker 1: I'm married her. I've my wife for twenty I've been

441
00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,160
Speaker 1: we've been married for since twenty fourteen. We've been together

442
00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,920
Speaker 1: for like twenty four. But when you were sixteen, I

443
00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,760
Speaker 1: was with my wife. I was sixteen, she was fifteen.

444
00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:42,239
Speaker 1: Tracking holy shit, Yeah yeah, I don't know who I'm

445
00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:43,720
Speaker 1: talking about. You're trying to say, though, you're trying to

446
00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,399
Speaker 1: You're trying to say, like there's a one when you

447
00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,000
Speaker 1: meet certain women just like you know what I mean,

448
00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,080
Speaker 1: it's just like a you. It's not like it just

449
00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,880
Speaker 1: surpasses all you know what I mean understanding. It's like, yeah,

450
00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,200
Speaker 1: I understand that there's this history there, but you don't

451
00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,320
Speaker 1: have these feelings. That's a good perspective. I didn't look

452
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:02,800
Speaker 1: at it like that. I looked at it like yo yo,

453
00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,119
Speaker 1: because that ain't the one you should wife because I

454
00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,960
Speaker 1: smashed no. Yeah, yeah, I mean I feel I feel you.

455
00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,480
Speaker 1: But you know, when Will first met Lisa, like he was,

456
00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,399
Speaker 1: he wasn't like, oh, this is Carlton's exit was like it,

457
00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,240
Speaker 1: who was this girl? You know what I'm saying? And

458
00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,919
Speaker 1: like that initial thought is what's been driving him throughout

459
00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,679
Speaker 1: the season? Got you got? You know? You know, I

460
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,840
Speaker 1: just I thought about ironic. That's your name? Your last

461
00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,080
Speaker 1: name is really big ya. Wow, Yeah you might have

462
00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:29,840
Speaker 1: been really meant to play this role. You know what

463
00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:31,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel I feel that way it was.

464
00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,919
Speaker 1: It's it's definitely been an experience that has been a

465
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,000
Speaker 1: spiritual one from us, you know what I mean. Like

466
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,440
Speaker 1: there's each player in our ensemble has something in our

467
00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,640
Speaker 1: lives that has twisted us and intertwined us with this

468
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,560
Speaker 1: project and aligned us with this project, you know what

469
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,600
Speaker 1: I mean. So it's it's divine. What about the scene

470
00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,879
Speaker 1: when Carton's rapping with his white friends and allowing him

471
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,800
Speaker 1: to say the N word? You ever you ever been

472
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,320
Speaker 1: in that situation? No? Okay, how would you have handled it? U?

473
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,000
Speaker 1: Probably the same way that Will did, you know what

474
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never been in that situation. I really

475
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,080
Speaker 1: resonate with Will in that situation. I think it's amazing

476
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,680
Speaker 1: that when I first read that scene, I was like, Oh,

477
00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,359
Speaker 1: this show has something to say. Yeah, you know what

478
00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,080
Speaker 1: I mean. I feel like that's going to start conversation.

479
00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 1: And I think that's how we grow as a community.

480
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:18,560
Speaker 1: That's how we grow as a people. It's like we

481
00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,160
Speaker 1: have these type of conversations, you know what I mean.

482
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,439
Speaker 1: And that's unique because I know that probably happened at

483
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,200
Speaker 1: that school. Oh yeah, for remember when all the white

484
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,040
Speaker 1: kids wanted to be like Will, Yeah, yeah, you know

485
00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:31,639
Speaker 1: what I meant, turning their cks. Yeah, exactly right. With

486
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,640
Speaker 1: your bar We appreciate you with join us. What's next

487
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 1: with your bari? What's next with your barium? Clothing coming soon?

488
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 1: Music coming soon? And uh what kind of music? Because

489
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,199
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna be expecting fresh Prince parents just

490
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,200
Speaker 1: don't understand. Mama said, oh no, no, no no, it's totally

491
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,080
Speaker 1: different than that, you know what I mean? Said Will

492
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 1: is one on one, Jabar is on one, you know

493
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,480
Speaker 1: what I mean. So, yeah, I'm doing my own stuff,

494
00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I feel like I'm marrying

495
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,000
Speaker 1: R and B and hip hop in a way that

496
00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,680
Speaker 1: hasn't been done before. You know, I'm still trying to

497
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,320
Speaker 1: figure that out, you know what I mean. You're trying

498
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:01,639
Speaker 1: to find my voice in that. You know what I mean.

499
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 1: It's like I always say, like, I feel like Drake

500
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 1: and Don Tolliver are like, are like marrying hip R

501
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 1: and B and hip hop in a specific way, but

502
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,520
Speaker 1: totally different ways, you know what I mean, totally different voices,

503
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to find my voice in that. You know,

504
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,360
Speaker 1: pay hommas did an og Ja rule too? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

505
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,440
Speaker 1: Now they're keeping you in the family like it's Charlie

506
00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 1: Mac trying to manage you or is he manage Yah?

507
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy. I auditioned for Charlie Matt. He

508
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 1: was he was making a boy band called Brotherly Love,

509
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 1: and he was he was like developing this this band.

510
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 1: And I auditioned from like years ago and I didn't

511
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 1: make it. And I see him on the red carpet

512
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 1: and I was like, yo, Charlie, you remember me. He

513
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,480
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I remember you. You know what I mean?

514
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 1: And uh, you know he was trying to hit him

515
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 1: my mom and shit. But yeah, you know what Charlie, Yeah,

516
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: you know Charlie. You know, you know, Charlie's the guy though,

517
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, Okaye, shout out to Charlie. Man,

518
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:56,160
Speaker 1: it's Jabari Banks. It's the breakfast local Motive. So Jabari

519
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,159
Speaker 1: is still here, ladies and gentlemen. And the last thing

520
00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: he said, ya ain't gonna have me rap. We were

521
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 1: trying to save you to bar, sit your ass back down.

522
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:08,160
Speaker 1: Oh shit, Now now you know Charlomagne will give you.

523
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 1: We'll fart on your bars if they trash. So Charlomagne

524
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:20,880
Speaker 1: far on shit, okay here like, turn me up, turn

525
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 1: me up? Um uh uh uh uh uh uh yeah,

526
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 1: hold on, they go, okay, yeah, have you adjusted? They

527
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 1: ass how you've been coping the past six months with

528
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,480
Speaker 1: everything that's been happening. Now? Uh yeah, now I'm back

529
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: on their ass. Hold on them all right, got you

530
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 1: h Have you adjusted? They ass how you've been coping

531
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 1: the past six months with everything that's been happening. Now

532
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,160
Speaker 1: Barry's been back on their ass, bill board hurting their

533
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: next looking up like how the fish happened so fast?

534
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,159
Speaker 1: Now I'm more foulin doing dances I did in my room.

535
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: M J sparkle the suit. Huh, let's go, hold on,

536
00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 1: hold on all right, let's go. You get some camera man,

537
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 1: turn that short. We free stylin up. Now, what's up?

538
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna turn this board upside down? Yeah,

539
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,160
Speaker 1: told bitch fuck with me? Yeah? I love that bitch.

540
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: She lovely and she in love with me? She noticed?

541
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: Maybe I know you notice, baby, I keep you focused,

542
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 1: maybe I'll keep you loving me. Hold on all right, better? Um,

543
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: I need some water. I'm knodding my head to the beat. Now,

544
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 1: not your ass. Hold on my fat, Michael