1
00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,040
Speaker 1: I seen all the comments when you got out the

2
00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:05,880
Speaker 1: car with your little orange toad bad got it right

3
00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:06,360
Speaker 1: over there.

4
00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:08,360
Speaker 2: This shep right here, so famous.

5
00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000
Speaker 1: You gave niggas the orange fanny pack over the shoulder,

6
00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,439
Speaker 1: and you walked your ass out like you supposed to

7
00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:16,720
Speaker 1: see a.

8
00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:17,880
Speaker 2: Chra practice that week.

9
00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:24,520
Speaker 3: All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifics, hustle, pet

10
00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,920
Speaker 3: price Want Slice got the bron geist, swap all my life,

11
00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,320
Speaker 3: Poppy grinding all my life, all my life, and grinning

12
00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:37,480
Speaker 3: all my life, sacrifights, hustle, pet Price One. Slice got

13
00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,559
Speaker 3: the bronic geist, swap all my life, Poppy grinding all

14
00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,120
Speaker 3: my life.

15
00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,879
Speaker 4: Hello, Welcome to another episode of Club Shade Shape. I

16
00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,239
Speaker 4: am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the proprie of

17
00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,599
Speaker 4: Club shap Shape. The guy that's stopping by for conversation

18
00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,720
Speaker 4: on a drink today. Is one of the most popular

19
00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,640
Speaker 4: actors in Hollywood. A prominent figure in the billion dollar

20
00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,360
Speaker 4: Fast Infurious franchise, He's a part of two of the

21
00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,800
Speaker 4: highest growth franchises in Hollywood history. His movies have done

22
00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,959
Speaker 4: over ten billion in box office revenue. He's a global

23
00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,560
Speaker 4: superstar and iconic singer, platinum selling songwriter, Award winning R

24
00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,520
Speaker 4: and B veteran, a six time Grammy nominee, accomplished producer,

25
00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:19,600
Speaker 4: successful entrepreneur, multi talented performer, artist, model, rapper, New York

26
00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,720
Speaker 4: Times best selling author with over twenty five years in

27
00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,480
Speaker 4: the industry. Let's put some hands together for mister Tyrese Gibson.

28
00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:34,280
Speaker 1: Wow, sir, I'm on club Shay Shay, you were here.

29
00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,880
Speaker 1: I feel successful. I gotta I gotta take this moment in, man,

30
00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:38,920
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus.

31
00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:39,679
Speaker 5: You know what.

32
00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,600
Speaker 4: I know you don't, Dre, but you know what I

33
00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,800
Speaker 4: want to do, Tyrese. I want to take you back

34
00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,040
Speaker 4: to where it all started from.

35
00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:46,880
Speaker 2: Oh you want it? Okay, I got it.

36
00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,080
Speaker 5: This is this is this is where it all started from.

37
00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:50,680
Speaker 4: Wing gonna lead these are brother, but I want to

38
00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,160
Speaker 4: take you back to where it started from. Wow, this

39
00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,520
Speaker 4: is kind of what got you on the map when

40
00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:58,480
Speaker 4: you did that.

41
00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:00,160
Speaker 5: Did you wait?

42
00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,840
Speaker 2: Come on, man, can I please just have a moment.

43
00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:04,280
Speaker 3: In?

44
00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:05,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I got it.

45
00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,680
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, while you're doing that, I'm gonna

46
00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,520
Speaker 1: take you even further back. You know, black Man or Ashy,

47
00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,320
Speaker 1: come on in here, your arms. We gotta get you

48
00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,920
Speaker 1: right man, it's just rubbed this in real quick because

49
00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,880
Speaker 1: you you're doing all that with the Coca cola. So,

50
00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,960
Speaker 1: but long before there was Coca Cola, there was the

51
00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,639
Speaker 1: black man ash and we got to get you right.

52
00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:24,920
Speaker 2: Baby.

53
00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,760
Speaker 1: You got message out here that's going to get on man,

54
00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:28,280
Speaker 1: get them right.

55
00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,040
Speaker 2: We don't need you to go R and B music

56
00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,919
Speaker 2: video of them. Good. Yeah, you a little ashy out here.

57
00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,440
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. But there you go, Babby, smove

58
00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,000
Speaker 2: it up. I said what I'm saying. Y'all can laugh

59
00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,560
Speaker 2: off camera. I don't mind, Shay Shay.

60
00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,119
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you brother, before we get started, man,

61
00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,680
Speaker 1: I am absolutely honored.

62
00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,000
Speaker 5: To be here. We are honored to have you.

63
00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,080
Speaker 1: I am very grateful there. Yeah, you're good man. I

64
00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:52,600
Speaker 1: appreciate it.

65
00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,400
Speaker 2: There you go. Now we're right now. Don't be flexing

66
00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:55,359
Speaker 2: this ship. You ain't gotta you.

67
00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,520
Speaker 1: Know, you gotta tell you know you rubbing it in

68
00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,960
Speaker 1: and giving niggas that the four.

69
00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,720
Speaker 2: I don't know if all that so if I'm start

70
00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:05,840
Speaker 2: to move that what it is.

71
00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,040
Speaker 1: I just want to say, man, what an honor and

72
00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,640
Speaker 1: a pleasure it is to be on your platform. And uh,

73
00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,960
Speaker 1: I think we live in a world right now, sadly

74
00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,520
Speaker 1: where black culture specifically, if we did a better job

75
00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,000
Speaker 1: in a department of giving the love and the respect

76
00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,880
Speaker 1: where it's due, we could all show up for each

77
00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,200
Speaker 1: other versus losing so much sleep over somebody else's gifts

78
00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:29,720
Speaker 1: and blessings.

79
00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,680
Speaker 2: I want to just say to you, I appreciate that intro.

80
00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,920
Speaker 1: It's a little uncomfortable to listen to my Wikipedia page,

81
00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:41,080
Speaker 1: but my brother, you are. You are doing it, and

82
00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,960
Speaker 1: I am not only proud of what you're doing, but

83
00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:48,080
Speaker 1: I'm proud of the pivots. You see, I came in

84
00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:53,400
Speaker 1: it like this, and I allow God to say this

85
00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,960
Speaker 1: and this and this, and so every time somebody laugh

86
00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,400
Speaker 1: at you when you're making the pivot, when God sends

87
00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,560
Speaker 1: you the vision, the idea to go do something else,

88
00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,840
Speaker 1: you get laughed at. People are making mockery because you know,

89
00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,360
Speaker 1: we love to put each other in the box. From

90
00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,200
Speaker 1: the NFL what you're trying to do, and here you

91
00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,600
Speaker 1: are breaking the internet with every interview. And I know,

92
00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,920
Speaker 1: Kat William is gonna be a tough act to follow.

93
00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,320
Speaker 1: And I'm not here to say nothing crazy or controversial.

94
00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:22,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say some shit, but.

95
00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,839
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you that I'm very proud

96
00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,279
Speaker 1: of you. And I appreciate you considering that moisture because

97
00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,400
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna make it through this interview with ashy arms.

98
00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:39,400
Speaker 2: The whole goddamn interview. But I'm here.

99
00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:40,280
Speaker 5: We are.

100
00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,839
Speaker 1: Listen, We've been in this black skin for a long time. Yeah,

101
00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,159
Speaker 1: light skin and white people they don't understand that the

102
00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,680
Speaker 1: moment you step out the shower, you put the lotion on.

103
00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:50,159
Speaker 2: Damn.

104
00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,920
Speaker 1: An hour later you're ashy. He put some more lotion

105
00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,000
Speaker 1: on your ashy again.

106
00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,400
Speaker 4: So I just need to get some of that what

107
00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,240
Speaker 4: you got, because I knew I feel better right now.

108
00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,839
Speaker 2: This moisture baby got you, man, little little little glistening,

109
00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,400
Speaker 2: not much. Yeah, there, you got to feel good. I'm

110
00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:05,840
Speaker 2: honored to be here, man, thank you.

111
00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,479
Speaker 5: I appreciate that.

112
00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,279
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, all right, well now you got Coca Cola.

113
00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:12,640
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.

114
00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:12,920
Speaker 5: Yeah.

115
00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,440
Speaker 2: I don't drink as much as i'd like to.

116
00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,800
Speaker 5: Uh uh wow.

117
00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:20,200
Speaker 2: That's a real situation right there.

118
00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,560
Speaker 1: But I'm going to do this, and I'm gonna still

119
00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,320
Speaker 1: hear the glass to celebrate. I'm not gonna talk about

120
00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,960
Speaker 1: the greatness of a black man. I'm gonna talk to

121
00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,360
Speaker 1: the greatness of a black man. Cheers to you, sir.

122
00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:32,080
Speaker 5: I appreciate it.

123
00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:32,880
Speaker 2: So proud of you.

124
00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,880
Speaker 1: Man flying and keep killing it, keep using your stage

125
00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,160
Speaker 1: and your platform to bless us all man cheers to you,

126
00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,000
Speaker 1: mo bro. That Coca Cola kind of strong and it

127
00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,480
Speaker 1: is been a while since I had Hey, this is

128
00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,120
Speaker 1: a Coca Cola Product's many made apple juice.

129
00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:49,600
Speaker 2: That's all in the family.

130
00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,560
Speaker 4: Tell us how the Coca Cola commercial came about? Did

131
00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:55,560
Speaker 4: you audition for.

132
00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,200
Speaker 2: It or a flower?

133
00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,560
Speaker 1: So my music teacher rest in peace, name is Reggie Andrews,

134
00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:12,560
Speaker 1: and I was at school that day that week and

135
00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,520
Speaker 1: he got a phone call that they were doing a

136
00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:23,760
Speaker 1: national audition and like five different parts of the states

137
00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:28,679
Speaker 1: like DC, you know, Philly, Atlanta, that they were looking

138
00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,799
Speaker 1: for this face, this fresh face for the co commercial.

139
00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,279
Speaker 1: And they called my school because my school was known

140
00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,039
Speaker 1: for the performing arts. I went to Locke High School,

141
00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,039
Speaker 1: Lock graduated in ninety six.

142
00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:46,040
Speaker 2: I'm old. I'm forty five, but I look seventeen. You

143
00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:46,960
Speaker 2: see what I'm saying.

144
00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:54,120
Speaker 1: I just got off the bus. So so yeah, they

145
00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,000
Speaker 1: called my high school and said that they were looking

146
00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:01,000
Speaker 1: for a male black sixteen through eighteen. My music teacher,

147
00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,760
Speaker 1: who's also a legend, named Reggie Andrews. He wrote all

148
00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,320
Speaker 1: the hits for the dads man Whip It Baby, So

149
00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,480
Speaker 1: you know, the horn section of Earth Winding Fire came

150
00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,080
Speaker 1: from my school, Gerald Albright rest in peace to the

151
00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,520
Speaker 1: drummer Michael Jackson. Drun of his drummer's name, Indogo Chancellor

152
00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,640
Speaker 1: all came from my school, Patrise Rushing, famous piano player.

153
00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:27,240
Speaker 1: So we were kind of on that list of schools

154
00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,320
Speaker 1: that if you want some talented people, call Lock High School.

155
00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,880
Speaker 1: And what a blessing it was, you know, I think

156
00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,120
Speaker 1: my music teacher had to shut down the music department.

157
00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,480
Speaker 1: I mean I was broken and broke. My stomach was

158
00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:45,440
Speaker 1: touching my ribs. I didn't have a car, didn't have

159
00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,160
Speaker 1: a ride. There was no way I was getting on

160
00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,000
Speaker 1: the bus, especially with a transfer, because it was like

161
00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,520
Speaker 1: close to downtown LA and I was living in Watts

162
00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,120
Speaker 1: South central LA. So he literally had to work a

163
00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,119
Speaker 1: full day a school and he ended up taking me

164
00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:06,200
Speaker 1: to this audition and I was three hours late. And

165
00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,400
Speaker 1: the only reason that the woman wasn't gone is because

166
00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,080
Speaker 1: her ride was stuck in traffic, so she had her

167
00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,320
Speaker 1: bags all packed up. Her name is Tony. I'm still

168
00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:18,000
Speaker 1: in touch with her.

169
00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:18,560
Speaker 2: To this day.

170
00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,480
Speaker 1: And she said, I'm so sorry, the auditions are over,

171
00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:28,000
Speaker 1: and I begged her, shay, I beg I said, ma'am,

172
00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,520
Speaker 1: I got here as soon as I can. I'm so sorry,

173
00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm late. Is there any way that I can audition?

174
00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,439
Speaker 1: And she said, I'm sorry, blah blah blah. We kind

175
00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,520
Speaker 1: of went back and forth for like five minutes. I

176
00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:46,679
Speaker 1: charmed her, and then she said, okay, okay, okay, just

177
00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,400
Speaker 1: you know, warm up over there. I started singing. So

178
00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,400
Speaker 1: she started pulling her equipment out faster.

179
00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,000
Speaker 5: Oh okay, okay, you're feeling good.

180
00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,480
Speaker 1: She's feeling good about whatever she's hearing from the little

181
00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:57,680
Speaker 1: black dude with the big teeth.

182
00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:01,920
Speaker 2: So she gave me some headphone.

183
00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,240
Speaker 1: She put the shirt on me that I wore in

184
00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:09,000
Speaker 1: the commercial, and I just went down and sung a

185
00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,880
Speaker 1: bunch of R and B songs and then she said

186
00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:17,560
Speaker 1: to me, you know, start singing anything about Coca cola.

187
00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:23,160
Speaker 1: So I'm just kind of freestyling. And I had no idea.

188
00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,280
Speaker 1: I've never done a commercial or an audition ever in

189
00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,440
Speaker 1: my life. Don't come from a family of entertainers, no agents,

190
00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,000
Speaker 1: no managers. Doesn't matter what kind of singing I was doing.

191
00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,160
Speaker 1: I was just another regular nigga in the hood singing.

192
00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,840
Speaker 1: So when we did the audition and we got the callback,

193
00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:49,080
Speaker 1: didn't even know what it meant. That's how completely green

194
00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,960
Speaker 1: and oblivious I was about the process of trying to

195
00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:58,160
Speaker 1: get on. And so we got the call back. Then

196
00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,560
Speaker 1: they made me kind of audition again, and then we

197
00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:03,960
Speaker 1: got the call back that I booked it.

198
00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,320
Speaker 2: Wow, And so I'll never forget.

199
00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,719
Speaker 1: I was in watts born and raised in WI was

200
00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:14,560
Speaker 1: martin Luther King Hospital, seventy eight. I remember what street

201
00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,080
Speaker 1: I was on, Parmalley Avenue. I ran up and down

202
00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:21,240
Speaker 1: the street, screaming and yelling. Did not know what my

203
00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,760
Speaker 1: life would be, did not know what God was up to,

204
00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:24,679
Speaker 1: what he was gonna do.

205
00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:26,480
Speaker 2: I actually had two.

206
00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,400
Speaker 1: Things in mind. I wanted to know, for the first

207
00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,760
Speaker 1: time ever, what having over one hundred dollars in my

208
00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,560
Speaker 1: pocket would be. And there was this girl who lived

209
00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,760
Speaker 1: at the end of my street. She had a mean

210
00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:42,480
Speaker 1: ass daddy named Steve, and I was flirting with his

211
00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,160
Speaker 1: daughter for months, trying to get her phone number.

212
00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,000
Speaker 2: And that's all I wanted from the audition.

213
00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,000
Speaker 1: From the Kokumer, I was like, i'm'a finally get one

214
00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,559
Speaker 1: hundred dollars and hopefully I'm gonna finally get this girl's number.

215
00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,520
Speaker 2: So, as you can imagine, almost.

216
00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:01,960
Speaker 1: Thirty years later, everything about my life literally feels like

217
00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,560
Speaker 1: Christmas to this day, like I'm sitting there with you, bro,

218
00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,400
Speaker 1: like I'm a huge fan of you as an NFL

219
00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,679
Speaker 1: star and on air personality Club Chay Shay, and so

220
00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,240
Speaker 1: every day I allow myself to enjoy the gifts, the

221
00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:17,319
Speaker 1: unexpected gifts.

222
00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,240
Speaker 2: They're all the stuff that comes with it too. You

223
00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:20,120
Speaker 2: deal with I deal with it.

224
00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,960
Speaker 1: But every day feels like Christmas because when I first

225
00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,960
Speaker 1: got on, I was waiting on the shooter drop. I

226
00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:30,280
Speaker 1: was waiting on someone to say, okay, let me get

227
00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,640
Speaker 1: that glass slipper back. My life felt like the prom.

228
00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,960
Speaker 1: Right you went to the prom, right went to the prom.

229
00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,959
Speaker 2: So we get a limousine for eight hours.

230
00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,240
Speaker 1: We got on our best suit, we got our girl,

231
00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,520
Speaker 1: we got our little you know, and we going big.

232
00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:46,560
Speaker 2: We got the sun roof.

233
00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,480
Speaker 1: But at some point you know that that damn limousine's

234
00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,240
Speaker 1: got to go back. That's what my life felt like

235
00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,880
Speaker 1: when I first got on. So I've been in a

236
00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,079
Speaker 1: limousine for thirty years, Sir, I can't believe it.

237
00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,920
Speaker 4: Was that your aspiration to be a professional singer. What

238
00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:03,840
Speaker 4: did you did you sing in the choir? Did you

239
00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,520
Speaker 4: sing at talent shows? When did you know you could sing?

240
00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:12,920
Speaker 1: I started singing at fourteen, that's late. I'm forty five.

241
00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:19,319
Speaker 1: I did the co commercial when I was sixteen, and

242
00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:25,280
Speaker 1: I wanted two things one hundred dollars that phone.

243
00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,240
Speaker 5: Up and that phone up? Which one did you want worse?

244
00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,240
Speaker 2: I wanted both, but all things being equal.

245
00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,679
Speaker 4: If you could just get that phone numb and not

246
00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,079
Speaker 4: the one hundred dollars, would you have been straight?

247
00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,079
Speaker 2: I wanted both cause I'm being honest with you, man,

248
00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:40,720
Speaker 2: I want them both.

249
00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,680
Speaker 1: I was really like, man, I really hope this girl

250
00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,760
Speaker 1: see this commercial and decide to give me her phone numb.

251
00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:50,520
Speaker 1: I got the phone number occasionally, and then her father

252
00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,920
Speaker 1: called us sneaking on the phone one night, and she

253
00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:54,240
Speaker 1: got She was a punishment.

254
00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,280
Speaker 2: But then by the time you know, we got to

255
00:12:58,320 --> 00:12:59,800
Speaker 2: the other side of that whole, you know, I had

256
00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:00,880
Speaker 2: our at that point.

257
00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:02,959
Speaker 4: So so all of a sudden, you weren't as interested

258
00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:03,840
Speaker 4: as you originally worked.

259
00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:12,240
Speaker 1: Listen, man, the line got along rolling decks, you know

260
00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,719
Speaker 1: what I mean. So it was it was beautiful, and

261
00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,360
Speaker 1: I said to her, man, I gave you all the

262
00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,839
Speaker 1: shot in the world. Man, I was just readily available,

263
00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,920
Speaker 1: all these teeth, all this dark skin. I'm right here,

264
00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,200
Speaker 1: and you ain't give me a shot. And now you

265
00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:25,840
Speaker 1: want to give me some attention. It's too late.

266
00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,400
Speaker 4: After that commercial, you started modeling, ar Talmmy, He'll figure

267
00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,559
Speaker 4: you did. Guess you signed a recording contract. Now all

268
00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:40,640
Speaker 4: of this is starting to happen. Yep, instantaneous life changing.

269
00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,880
Speaker 2: You're not Tyrese Gibson. You're Tyrese one name now I.

270
00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:47,599
Speaker 5: Am How did how did that?

271
00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:48,720
Speaker 2: How did that change?

272
00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,319
Speaker 4: You're from watch South Central and now they see everybody

273
00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,079
Speaker 4: in the hood and neighborhood, they see you on television.

274
00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,480
Speaker 5: That commercial came on in an hour and an hour.

275
00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:00,959
Speaker 4: It came on at least three times, so that's how

276
00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,079
Speaker 4: many times they saw you continuously.

277
00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:05,040
Speaker 5: How different was your life?

278
00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:11,240
Speaker 1: My life changed forever and it's never been the same

279
00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,120
Speaker 1: ever since. I mean we've been talking for longer than

280
00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,840
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. Other people have the luxury of saying you

281
00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,280
Speaker 1: got your five minutes of fame. Five minutes of fame

282
00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,880
Speaker 1: would have been like five hours. In my world, I

283
00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:31,920
Speaker 1: had thirty seconds. And if you don't know the Lord

284
00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,240
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, and you don't understand the power of what

285
00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:42,640
Speaker 1: God has in mind for you versus your small limited

286
00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,000
Speaker 1: scope of thinking.

287
00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:45,920
Speaker 2: There was no visions, There was no idea.

288
00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:50,640
Speaker 1: My mama's not glad As Knight, Anita Baker, my mama's

289
00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:55,680
Speaker 1: not Patty LaBelle where I'm a young singer being raised

290
00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:56,360
Speaker 1: by a singer.

291
00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:58,840
Speaker 2: My daddy is not Marvin.

292
00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,560
Speaker 1: Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass, Luther Vandros. I did not grow up

293
00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,160
Speaker 1: in a household with someone in the business so that

294
00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,040
Speaker 1: they can get get give me a peek into what's

295
00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,600
Speaker 1: possible before I did it. I'm not an NFL legend

296
00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:17,160
Speaker 1: raising an NFL son child star. You know, there was

297
00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,000
Speaker 1: no sign and indication whatsoever that I would be here.

298
00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,600
Speaker 4: Was there anybody in your neighborhood that you could look to,

299
00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,400
Speaker 4: because you know, sometimes you know entertainers, they would come

300
00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,560
Speaker 4: somebody from your school or from your neighborhood would come

301
00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,040
Speaker 4: back and you can see them.

302
00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,000
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, he from here.

303
00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,440
Speaker 4: Well, if he from here and left and went and

304
00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,840
Speaker 4: did that, I can be from here and leave and

305
00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,240
Speaker 4: go do that. Also, was there anybody for you to

306
00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,960
Speaker 4: look to that says, you know what I can be bad?

307
00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:48,880
Speaker 1: No, sir, all I had was the list of people

308
00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,360
Speaker 1: that I mentioned that graduated from my high school, right,

309
00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:57,200
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to think of well, a few of

310
00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,400
Speaker 1: them came back to speak with us at this school,

311
00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,960
Speaker 1: but they didn't take me with them. I didn't go

312
00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,680
Speaker 1: to none of they concerts. They didn't say come to

313
00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:12,320
Speaker 1: the studio. It did not go beyond the scope of

314
00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,720
Speaker 1: an appearance at the school to say we are alumnized,

315
00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,360
Speaker 1: and we graduated, and this is what we are, what

316
00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,480
Speaker 1: we've been. I mean, we're talking about Gerald Albright saxophone,

317
00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:27,800
Speaker 1: but like I mean another legend that you know, some

318
00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,600
Speaker 1: of y'all folks would be like, who is that Ricky

319
00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:34,720
Speaker 1: Minor basica player, the Blase guitar player, all the Grammys,

320
00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,120
Speaker 1: all the award shows, the most famous music director in

321
00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:43,320
Speaker 1: the game. He went to my high school and I

322
00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,720
Speaker 1: run into Ricky Minor. To this day, he'll tell you

323
00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,520
Speaker 1: he'd probably be very embarrassed if I tell this story.

324
00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,960
Speaker 1: But way back in the day, forgot what year it was,

325
00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:55,320
Speaker 1: but we had a massive earthquake. This is when the

326
00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,000
Speaker 1: Golden State Bridge and everything knockdown the Bay.

327
00:16:58,720 --> 00:16:59,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was huge.

328
00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:00,120
Speaker 5: Right.

329
00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:05,240
Speaker 1: So when my house got flooded, Uh, and we was

330
00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:06,679
Speaker 1: out here trying to milk fema.

331
00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,040
Speaker 5: I don't know this statute limitation definitely.

332
00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:13,000
Speaker 3: No.

333
00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,040
Speaker 1: Look, we're gonna go ahead and put some of these

334
00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:18,320
Speaker 1: clothes and it's got their water.

335
00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:27,680
Speaker 2: We're gonna go turn the goddamn water falls on moment. Ship,

336
00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:29,720
Speaker 2: We're gonna flood this out. This house wasn't even flood

337
00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:30,680
Speaker 2: We're gonna flood this guy.

338
00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,080
Speaker 1: They out here handing out free money for people out

339
00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:34,199
Speaker 1: here that's dealing with flooding.

340
00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:36,040
Speaker 2: Ship, We're gonna get this guy.

341
00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:40,159
Speaker 1: There were flooding now got there, goddamn underway on the

342
00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:41,760
Speaker 1: floor and flood them draws.

343
00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:42,200
Speaker 5: Got there.

344
00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,920
Speaker 2: Uh.

345
00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,840
Speaker 5: So you know, we were.

346
00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:48,600
Speaker 2: Out here trying to get this young fema.

347
00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:56,639
Speaker 1: Uh and and uh. I called Ricky Minor literally uh

348
00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:58,600
Speaker 1: at the time, it was the most money I e

349
00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,000
Speaker 1: was seeing in my life. We me and Ricky Minor

350
00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:05,199
Speaker 1: exchange numbers. Please don't be offended by be telling you

351
00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:07,560
Speaker 1: this people, this story. Ricky, I love you. I just

352
00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,159
Speaker 1: want people to know how big your heart is. I

353
00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,840
Speaker 1: called Ricky Minor and I said, look, this is the situation.

354
00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,959
Speaker 1: And it was true. We was messed up. We was

355
00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, the house had damage. You know, we told

356
00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,560
Speaker 1: the FEMA niggas it was flooding, but I couldn't tell,

357
00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,399
Speaker 1: couldn't tell, couldn't tell Ricky, you know, but Ricky is

358
00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:33,359
Speaker 1: a little rough and and you know, I don't know

359
00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,639
Speaker 1: what you can do to help me out. But you know,

360
00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:40,680
Speaker 1: school is starting in three weeks and mama's out here

361
00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,000
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out like everybody else that's dealing

362
00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,560
Speaker 1: with the trauma of this earthquake. And Ricky sent me.

363
00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:53,720
Speaker 1: Ricky sent me seven hundred dollars FedEx. Never forget. I

364
00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,080
Speaker 1: could not believe this is before the co commercial brother.

365
00:18:58,359 --> 00:18:59,399
Speaker 1: He sent me that money.

366
00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:01,680
Speaker 4: When you look at the fed X guy wasn't trying

367
00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,040
Speaker 4: to get some of that feemal money too, because he

368
00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:04,000
Speaker 4: got the cash.

369
00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,320
Speaker 1: Up that fat Ex nigga would have called five piece

370
00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,560
Speaker 1: and a biscuit. Because I knew the money was coming,

371
00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,960
Speaker 1: I was outside waiting on net. That was also my

372
00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:14,240
Speaker 1: first faed Ex delivery.

373
00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:15,120
Speaker 2: He said fair eggs.

374
00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:20,360
Speaker 1: I ain't know what it was, so he said it's

375
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,920
Speaker 1: gonna be at your door by blah blah blah.

376
00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:23,360
Speaker 2: On this date.

377
00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,480
Speaker 1: Shit, I was outside, I think I missed school a

378
00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,800
Speaker 1: couple of days waiting on that fair ex man to

379
00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:28,199
Speaker 1: pull up.

380
00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 2: So I got that package.

381
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,720
Speaker 1: It was it was seven hundred dollars man, and I

382
00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,639
Speaker 1: went and bought all my clothes and school supplies.

383
00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,440
Speaker 2: I even bought stuff from my brothers and sisters.

384
00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:39,640
Speaker 1: Man.

385
00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,760
Speaker 2: I went grocery shopping, put food in the.

386
00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,440
Speaker 1: House, and uh man, when I when I finally made

387
00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,159
Speaker 1: some money, I literally gave Ricky.

388
00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,840
Speaker 2: I gave him ten x that amount.

389
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,760
Speaker 1: Wow, And he was offended again, like, come on, man,

390
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,639
Speaker 1: I didn't do that to try. I said, Ricky, you're

391
00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,879
Speaker 1: gonna take this money and you're gonna understand what you

392
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,800
Speaker 1: did for me, and you're gonna understand how grateful I am.

393
00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,400
Speaker 1: You might not need it, you might feel a way

394
00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,639
Speaker 1: about me trying to give it back, but.

395
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:12,639
Speaker 2: I was very blessed.

396
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,119
Speaker 1: So every time I go to an Oscar party or

397
00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,359
Speaker 1: pre Grammy party or any award show, I see that

398
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,160
Speaker 1: man standing on that stage with that bass guitar, directing

399
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,040
Speaker 1: that band, and we always have a moment where I

400
00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,359
Speaker 1: go because that man showed up for my dreams and

401
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,360
Speaker 1: then showed up for my family in a real way.

402
00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,160
Speaker 2: After that major earthquake.

403
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,520
Speaker 4: Been hungry for some college football, Well we finally get

404
00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,720
Speaker 4: a taste this weekend. Don't miss any of the action.

405
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,680
Speaker 4: Jump in at Draft Kings Sportsbook. This is going to

406
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 4: be Draft Kings biggest college football season today. Joined the

407
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,160
Speaker 4: Rides now all the way through the expanded playoffs, plus

408
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,640
Speaker 4: all movies getting into college football spirit. Here's something special

409
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,600
Speaker 4: new Draft King customers can bet five bucks to get

410
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 4: two hundred instantly in bonus bet. Score big with Draft

411
00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 4: Kings all college football season long. The Draft Kings Sportsbook

412
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 4: app now and use Cold Shannon. That's Cold Shannon for

413
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,520
Speaker 4: new customers to get two hundred and bonus bet when

414
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,399
Speaker 4: you bet just five books only at Draft Kings.

415
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:11,919
Speaker 2: The Crown is yours.

416
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 6: Gambling problem called one eight hundred gambler in New York

417
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 6: called eight seven seven eight open wire, text Hope and

418
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,159
Speaker 6: wy at four six seven three sixty nine In Connecticut.

419
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,680
Speaker 6: Help is available for problem gambling called eight eight eight

420
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,679
Speaker 6: seven eight nine seven seven seven seven or visit CCPG

421
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 6: dot org eighteen and over in most eligible states, but

422
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,240
Speaker 6: age varies by jurisdiction. Eligibility restrictions apply one per customer

423
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,879
Speaker 6: and to the best ball fifteen million dollar contest by

424
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,399
Speaker 6: nine five, twenty four to get one bonus entry twenty

425
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 6: dollars entry fee required. Reward expires at contest lock on

426
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,640
Speaker 6: nine five, twenty four. See terms at DraftKings dot com

427
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,200
Speaker 6: slash dfs.

428
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,400
Speaker 4: What did you want to do prior do you start

429
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:48,360
Speaker 4: singing at fourteen?

430
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 5: What was your dreams? What were your ambitions?

431
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,120
Speaker 4: What did Tyreechs want to do when he was twenty one,

432
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 4: when he was twenty five, when he was thirty.

433
00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 2: Live? That's it. It's all of 'em.

434
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 1: S sh you on watts, crips, bloods, gangsters, police, murder,

435
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: excessive force, prostitution, heroin, crack, the whole list.

436
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,280
Speaker 2: That was my life see in the hood.

437
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: But I want y'all to understand, Uh, for you folks

438
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,920
Speaker 1: that don't know nothing about the hood, you ain't gotta

439
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: be crippling in blood and to get killed me bruh.

440
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 1: You gotta be out here selling dope, selling weeds, selling

441
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,159
Speaker 1: whatever you selling, and you go and try and sell

442
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,159
Speaker 1: in the wrong neighborhood or in the wrong territory, and

443
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 1: niggas come through and lay lay lay you out. No, sir,

444
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,720
Speaker 1: I had to walk through at least twelve hoods to

445
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 1: get from my house to where my school was going

446
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 1: through Black and Mexican gangs, crips, bloods.

447
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to go to school.

448
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody wanna take my shoes, take

449
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,119
Speaker 1: whatever it is I got on. I don't know if

450
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: somebody just want to fuck me up, beat me up

451
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: just because it's a Wednesday. So ain't nobody thinking about

452
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 1: the future. I wasn't no dreamer. I think some of

453
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: y'all niggas is running way too running gamut. I was

454
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: a dreamer. I wasn't no dreamer. I was hoping I

455
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: didn't get killed, broh. I was hoping that these crips

456
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,919
Speaker 1: and bloods didn't decide that today was my day to

457
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 1: see my last birthdate. That's what my life was. And Watts,

458
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 1: So it wasn't no twenty one, wasn't no tomorrow with

459
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:38,199
Speaker 1: me the gold because I'm playing basketball. I'll never forget

460
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 1: one of my homies named Scott Watts, one of the

461
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 1: most talented niggas period in basketball, used to kill niggas

462
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:50,919
Speaker 1: at Rial Rogers Park. Shout out to all my niggas

463
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 1: a watch. I'm being real right now. Sorry, it's club

464
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: Shay Shape, my nigga. Scott Man. Long before we knew

465
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: about a Michael Jordan Man. Scott was out here from

466
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: the half court. Scott ain't had a crip of blood,

467
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: a dope or marijuana, a gang bang Scott. I don't

468
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 1: even I don't even think Scott had a crip walk

469
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 1: in him.

470
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 2: Scott got killed.

471
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 5: Bro.

472
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: So we playing basketball on a Wednesday, and now we're

473
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: washing cars and doing a fundraiser trying to raise money

474
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 1: for Scott. Scott ain't hurt nobody. Scott ain't bothering nobody.

475
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: Why is Scott dead. That's where I come from. That's

476
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: where I'm from.

477
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,360
Speaker 5: This is all this.

478
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: Movie stars shit and everything you just mentioned on their resume.

479
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: When I tell you, it's hard to listen. I'm grateful

480
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,159
Speaker 1: about my life, but when I tell you all of

481
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 1: that still sounds foreign to me. It's because in the

482
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: reality of my life, I feel like that's still fresh.

483
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,919
Speaker 1: So it's been kind of hard to like completely embrace

484
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: all that God has done and still doing, because you know,

485
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 1: every time I get hungry, I'm reminded of where I'm from.

486
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: Every time the credit card declined. If I'm just randomly

487
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: at a restaurant. Now, I'm doing all right, but sometime

488
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: your shit just declined because some shit just happened. You be,

489
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: you go to chick fromlate, then you'd be like, yeah,

490
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: you go ahead, you know, put all the decline and

491
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 1: you like, holy shit, you know, let me call the

492
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 1: bank because I don't know what just happened. They clear

493
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: it all up, and then it goes through. And that

494
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: reminder that broke is very real. It's very here starving

495
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: and living on the edge and not understanding what might

496
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: happen today.

497
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 2: People are still in that right now, Yes, for sure.

498
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 1: Right they ain't got nothing to do with waking up

499
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: every day and saying I am a bad person with

500
00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: ill will and bad intentions.

501
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 2: But bad things still happen, and.

502
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: You go to church, you love Jesus, you ain't doing

503
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: none of that stuff.

504
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: Still can get shot and killed when you're living in

505
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 2: the hood.

506
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 4: Bro I got a two part question for you, Yes, sir,

507
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 4: how did you handle fame as a kid and what

508
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 4: advice would you give now that you've gone through what

509
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 4: maybe some of these young kids are having the fame

510
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 4: that they're starting to come into, say, as a teenager,

511
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 4: how did you handle it? And what advice would you

512
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 4: give them?

513
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 2: Club Shaysha, I'm having a moment his brother right here.

514
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 5: With them, Oily.

515
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 2: All that was deep, that nigga deep right there. But

516
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 2: see you could have you know what's wrong?

517
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: He ain't even send me the questions for the interview.

518
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: He ain't no pre interview. He just don't boom okay.

519
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: So so what I would say is, oh, thank you Jesus,

520
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: give me the words, because somebody is listening and either

521
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: they're about to stay with me God, they're about to

522
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 1: get the breakthrough is about to happen for them. And

523
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: there's other people that's experiencing the breakthrough right now as

524
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: we speak. This is what I would say, Thank you Jesus.

525
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 1: Your family has nothing to do with what God is

526
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: doing and about to do. You will be the first

527
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: millionaire in your family. How does your mama feel about

528
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: that you would be the first one to graduate? How

529
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: does your mama feel about that you will be the

530
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: first or the second or the third in your life

531
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: and your story to get into the NFL or the NBA,

532
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: or go to college and graduate from college. How do

533
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,239
Speaker 1: the people in and around your life feel about what

534
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: God is doing for you? Individually. And I have to

535
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: say to all of the people watching, not just the kids,

536
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: but to everybody, as far is my understanding of DNA,

537
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: as far as my understanding of how this thing works.

538
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: When it comes to fingerprints, would you agree that your

539
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: momma and daddy created Shannon? Would you agree to mommy

540
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: and Daddy made you now? Would you also agree that

541
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: mommy and Daddy's fingerprints are very different than your fingerprints?

542
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 2: Absolutely if you were.

543
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: If mommy and Daddy were to do their fingerprints right now,

544
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,959
Speaker 1: would the mommy and daddy co created Shannon?

545
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 5: Yes?

546
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: Did your fingerprint come out the same as mommy and Daddy?

547
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 2: No?

548
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: Okay, there's a lot of power in recognizing your individuality.

549
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: Your people, your family, your surroundings, your environment will try

550
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: and convince you that you are sheep. You're a pigeon,

551
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: You are like everybody else. Your uncle was a crip.

552
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: It ain't got to be a crypt. Shut up. Your

553
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: mama's a blood, your daddy's a blood. You grew up

554
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: in this. They selling dope, so I gotta sell dope.

555
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: They got the gun, so I gotta get the gun.

556
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: I gotta dressed the way they dress, and I gotta

557
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: look the way I'm sitting there with a whole You

558
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: see what I'm wearing. I'm an alpha male wearing a

559
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: full on outfit. Okay, head to toe that they wear

560
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: the Middle East. Okay, Jesus never wore shoes, He wore sandals.

561
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: You ain't never seen a photo or Jesus wearing a

562
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: pair of pants in your life. Recognize the power of

563
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: individuality and there's a lot of strength that you can find.

564
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: And recognizing the power of visuality, and you get away

565
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: from this is.

566
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 2: What we're all doing, This is what we all.

567
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: Wearing, this is what we all thinking, this is where

568
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: we're all going. Oh the fuck, We're not where I'm going.

569
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to a point where I'm gonna try

570
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: and hold onto as many familiar faces as I can.

571
00:29:55,360 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: Because familiar it's comfortable. But you realize where God is

572
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: about to take you. You ain't gonna be able to

573
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: look to the left, right and see nobody. Now, Shannon,

574
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: I love you. You got a lot of white people out

575
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: here behind these cameras. A lot of these people did

576
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: not grow up in your neighborhood. Correct, They ain't look

577
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: the way you look. So as God continue to elevate

578
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: you and take you to these other places and spaces.

579
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: It's going to continue to become and be more uncomfortable

580
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: and more unfamiliar, because nothing about God is familiar.

581
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 2: We should be on. We should go to the rest

582
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 2: of our life trying to figure out who is God?

583
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: Who is this man?

584
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: Why does God love me so much to have all

585
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: of this in mind for me? And why do I

586
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: feel so bad about embracing all that God is doing?

587
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 2: So you have all of this in mind for me.

588
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 2: But I want to take all the homies.

589
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: We grew up together, We fed each other, that, we

590
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: protected each other, this we that.

591
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 2: Now they gonna make me out to be disloyal.

592
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: Now they gonna make me out to be like, Oh,

593
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: once you got on, you know what I'm saying, You

594
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: turn your back on all your real niggas. Uh No,

595
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: I didn't. Some I can't understand what God is doing

596
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: and where I'm going. But something about oxygen. It's a

597
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: little thin.

598
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: How you go up?

599
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: You know, they say snakes can't snakes can't survive certain altitudes.

600
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 2: That snake.

601
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: You cut that grass lower in your life and the

602
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: snakes will be revealed. See some of y'all y'all are

603
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: keeping it so real. The grass is high. Loyal there's

604
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: an expiration date on loyalty. The grass is high. Soon

605
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,959
Speaker 1: as you cut that grass in your life, the snakes

606
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: will reveal themselves. As soon as God does this and

607
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: start elevating you. Them snakes die, bro And I'm as

608
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,239
Speaker 1: loyal as it gets. Most of the diggers who I

609
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: cut off will never tell you why they got cut

610
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: off because they still in the hood.

611
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 2: They playing victim.

612
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: They gonna tell everybody they mama their version of the story.

613
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: I got people around meeting. I've been rocked like one

614
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: of my homies in here right now. Kenyata, that brother

615
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: right there, that's my best friend since eight years old.

616
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: When I was hung, we broke fucked up. My mama

617
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: always drunk out of her mind. May God rest her soul.

618
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: Drunk out of her mind. Every level of dysfunction was

619
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: in my house, mentally, emotional, physical, psychological abuse.

620
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 2: Drunk.

621
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: That's a drunk drunk. So I love you, but I

622
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: don't even want to sit next to this bottle no more.

623
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: That's for you over there, sir. Alcoholis fucked my life up.

624
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,719
Speaker 1: That's why I drank apple juice. I ain't never had

625
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: a drink in my life. I don't smoke, I don't drink.

626
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: Nothing about what I do every day is connected to

627
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: anything that I grew up in and around. And that

628
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I'm bigger and better.

629
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 2: That's the other thing.

630
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: So as soon as you recognize the power in your individuality,

631
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: you feel bad that you're different, but nothing God will

632
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: never do anything different in your life. Trying to say

633
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: the same as everything that you grew up in and

634
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: around your family has nothing to do with what God

635
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: is about to do for your career. So that's some

636
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: long advice for the sixteen year old, but I wanted

637
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: to get that over to the to the old heads too.

638
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like you ain't too old

639
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: to get that breakthrough.

640
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 5: You said something very interesting.

641
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 4: You said, your parents, your family has nothing to do

642
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 4: with what God has planned for you.

643
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 2: Do you believe that you grew up in a situation.

644
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 2: I didn't quite say that, but go ahead, but you.

645
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 4: Say, okay, different, You said mom, Dad, different. They created

646
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 4: Shannon bringing Prince, but my finger print is nothing like that.

647
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 2: Yes I am I'm speaking to.

648
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: Don't I'm speaking to the power of individuality. And I'm

649
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: saying like, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for

650
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: my mother and father coch create me.

651
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 2: But my mind, my heart, the empathy.

652
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: I'm an alpha EmPATH, big, big, big energy and personality,

653
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 1: but I feel and care for everything. So you say something,

654
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: you do something, you go through something. If you're in

655
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,479
Speaker 1: a coma, likely when you open your eyes, it's gonna

656
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: be me standing over you. So I'm saying something about

657
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: me and where I'm from and the environment that I

658
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: grew up in created me and had me early on

659
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: to recognize the power of my own individuality. And I

660
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: stepped into that and that was very uncomfortable, because why

661
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: do niggas stay in the hood because you don't want

662
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,240
Speaker 1: nobody to think you change? Well, motherfucker, I did.

663
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 2: Change, and you wanted the people to know that you change.

664
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: I changed, but I didn't change with any negativity on it.

665
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 1: I changed because God is in the changing business. God

666
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: don't keep nobody the same. Right that's self sabotaged, self defeat.

667
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 1: You are wearing that, doing that, thinking that your net

668
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: worth is that you living, that you drive, that your

669
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: hair look like that, your baby mama is that because

670
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 1: you have literally became a carbon copy of everything you knew,

671
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,479
Speaker 1: and anything that's beyond the scope of what you grew

672
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: up believing, thinking, or that you were familiar with makes

673
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 1: you and everybody else uncomfortable.

674
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:29,919
Speaker 2: You see, That's what I was saying.

675
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 4: Okay, you also said that you love You like to

676
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 4: carry people, and sometimes things get so heavy.

677
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,240
Speaker 5: That we can no longer carry them anymore.

678
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 4: How difficult was it for you people that you know

679
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 4: that you grew up like you said, you grew up

680
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 4: around You saw these people and they became too hairy

681
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 4: for heavy for tyreth to carry. You have to set

682
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 4: them down.

683
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a version.

684
00:35:54,600 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: Loyalty has an expiration date, Like, hey man, I'm loyal.

685
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: You're gonna die if you hold on to everybody that

686
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: you showed up with. Like we're not talking about death specifically,

687
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 1: that too, everything that God is about to do and

688
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: he has in mind for you trying to hold on

689
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: to everything and everybody that's connected to your family, your friends,

690
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: your environment, it's going to die.

691
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 2: So how does that make you feel?

692
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: And so when I also say loyalty has an expiration day,

693
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: that means agents, managers, lawyers, people in business.

694
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 2: We was good for the first seven.

695
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,959
Speaker 1: Years of us brainstorming and connecting about the vision. Now

696
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: every time I talk to you, buy some shit I see,

697
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: and I want to do and where I want to go.

698
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 1: We ain't really on the same page about where we're going.

699
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 1: So I don't wish any harm on anybody. You see

700
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Now, A lot of us we deal

701
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 1: with the pressure.

702
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 2: Of the hood.

703
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,439
Speaker 1: All of my Let me make sure I'm being clear here,

704
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: all of my real niggas I grew up with from

705
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: day dot. There is nobody in the world more happy

706
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: for me than them. All the niggas running around talking

707
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,919
Speaker 1: about you know, you got history and then you got

708
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 1: his story.

709
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:37,479
Speaker 2: Motherfucker. I didn't know.

710
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 1: You, right, Okay, we take my hat off for a secon.

711
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: You running around showing niggas that picture with your little

712
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: roll up camera, a little flip phone. That is a

713
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 1: fucking lie. We did not grow up together. I don't

714
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: know you. I've never heard of you. And if you

715
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: send one more person to walk up to me like, hey,

716
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: you know a little nug nuck, No, no, sir, I

717
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,720
Speaker 1: don't know a knuck or a knuck. Get your goofy

718
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: assthm in front of mirth man. He told me that

719
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:15,240
Speaker 1: y'all ain't y'all.

720
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 2: Used to be with bus.

721
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: So you gotta sit through seven minutes to that shit

722
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: while you bumping gas because little Knuck Knuck has ran

723
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: through the hood for the last twenty five years, convincing

724
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: niggas that y'all grew up together, all my real niggas

725
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: that I grew up with for real, for real, no jealousy,

726
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: no envy. And if I ever have a problem, they say,

727
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: look here, bro, we love you.

728
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 2: We know what you are.

729
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: Know we told you off top that you different. They

730
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: didn't let here's the thing, gang banging.

731
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 2: It's cool.

732
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: They didn't let me bang. They didn't let me sell nothing.

733
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: They ain't let me get in it. I had a

734
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: big homy named dirt Bike.

735
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 2: Fred.

736
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: I was just on the phone with him three days ago.

737
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: He coming to my movie premiere for nineteen ninety two

738
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: with his wife. They've been together for forty years. Where

739
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: would I be without the big hommy dirt bike. Fred

740
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: I reach, come here, bro.

741
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 2: What's going on? Bend over? He would take his timbling boot.

742
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 2: He ain't just do it to me.

743
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: Anybody who's trying to get into that life and he

744
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: knew you ain't cut from that cloth. He'll literally say,

745
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 1: bend over and not with the not with the tippy toe,

746
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: because I wouldn't be able to have kids if he

747
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: gave a nigga to boot with the print, so he

748
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: would kick a nigga from the side by. Get your

749
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: ass out of here. Put that weed, damn nigga, put

750
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: that drink down. Put anything you doing. The big hummies,

751
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: and that's why all these young niggas out here lost. Now,

752
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:44,760
Speaker 1: the big hummies don't understand.

753
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 5: They roll true, that's real talk.

754
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: You signing up more crips than you are college student,

755
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: that's the fucking problem. How many more young niggas you're

756
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: gonna sign up and teach him the game?

757
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 2: Shit?

758
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: The recruiting woods and quip recruitingness heavy set them up

759
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: for success. Man, use that same og status to set

760
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: us up. Because my big homie set me up for

761
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: success and said, if you thinking about doing this, been

762
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: your ass so boot they could kick my ass into

763
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: a billion dollars in the box office.

764
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 4: Kyri's you spoke a little bit about your mom. You

765
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 4: said your mom was I don't want to put words

766
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 4: in your mouth when you said she was a drunk

767
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 4: I think.

768
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 2: Alcoholic alcoholic sadly, yes.

769
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 4: And your father you haven't spoken about him. What was

770
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 4: the relationship with your parents? What was your relationship like

771
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 4: with your parents?

772
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 2: Well, my mother and father from Saint Louis.

773
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm the last child of four, the baby boy

774
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: for real. All three of my brothers and sisters were

775
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: conceived and born in Saint Louis. My mother and my

776
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: father got pregnant with me. I'm child number four. My

777
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: father says, we moving to la.

778
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 5: You know.

779
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 2: He do a little singing. He can. He get hit another.

780
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 2: So that's where you got it from. He hit a

781
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 2: note or two.

782
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: He been telling the niggas hes gonna get a record

783
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: deal for the last sixty five years.

784
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 2: You sit at your old as that, Hey man, I

785
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 2: love you, Pop, I love you.

786
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: You know, look if that deal is coming, that motherfucker

787
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: being stuck in the iCloud for sixty eight years. But yeah,

788
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: my musical my musical talents come from my pops.

789
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 2: And uh he's sang, he played the piano.

790
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: He's he's a music guy and he's in Saint Louis

791
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: right now. So yeah, man, he basically told my mom's

792
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: with all three of their kids at the time. We

793
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: getting on the greyhound bus and we going to LA.

794
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: So you know, my mom was pregnant with me on

795
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: the greyhound went to LA and we ended up in

796
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: Watch and that's where she that's where I was born

797
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Hospital, Capcorn, December thirtieth, seventy eight. And

798
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: you know, right before my mom passed fast forward. She

799
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: passed two years ago and I'll never forget probably like

800
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: you know, five years before she passed, we had one

801
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: of them, one of them Mommy's son moments, right, and

802
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: she said, my mama was in a coma three different times,

803
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: and the third time she was in a coma was

804
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,959
Speaker 1: when she finally passed because of pneumonia and COVID. And

805
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: when she woke up out of her second coma, I

806
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: just found myself becoming more intentional about spending time with

807
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: her because my childhood was a fucking nightmare. And I

808
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: think everybody know that because I've been very vocal and

809
00:42:54,880 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: I was spoken about it. So she said to me, uh,

810
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: when I gave birth to you, I knew you were special.

811
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 1: And I said, what does that mean? She never told

812
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: me this in her life. My mama was not the

813
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: best support system. She didn't say you can send your

814
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: ass off and you gonna be something. If anything, shut up,

815
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: bring big teeth, they could bring all bringy loud as hell,

816
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: and how it bringing that down? So there was no

817
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: family love and support. My mama didn't come to my

818
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: talent shows and wasn't on the front row chair, and

819
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 1: she wasn't a soccer mom at all the basketball games.

820
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I got this gift in this talent,

821
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: but when it comes to the validation in my house,

822
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 1: it was not there for me to understand I got something.

823
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 2: So I'll never forget. Uh. She said, probably five years

824
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 2: before she was born. She said, you know, I knew

825
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,320
Speaker 2: you were special when you were born.

826
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: And she said, I got my tubes tied after you

827
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: because I knew that you were special.

828
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 2: And I'm crying and shit.

829
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: And and I'm like wow, you know, but I'm like, Mama,

830
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: tell me more, because she never said anything like this.

831
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: And then she says, she says, you know you got

832
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: you got movies in over two hundred countries, and you

833
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: got billions and billions. You have literally changed our family's life.

834
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: We have seen been the places and countries and cities

835
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: and met celebrities and entertainers. We didn't been some of

836
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 1: the best cars, and we didn't. We didn't been around things.

837
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: And nobody in our entire bloodline has ever seen, heard,

838
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: or experienced. And you're gonna live and die and not

839
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,959
Speaker 1: be able to meet every fan of my baby boy

840
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:59,359
Speaker 1: named Tyrese over two hundred languages, my films come out

841
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: and trans the two.

842
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 2: And then she just walked off.

843
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:12,399
Speaker 1: That was whatever, Hello, will walk off? Just just left

844
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: me there. You know, we didn't talk much. But if

845
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 1: you give your mama or your daddy a chance that

846
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: you might dislike, if you give them a chance to talk,

847
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: they can drop drop a couple on you.

848
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 4: How did that make you feel? She's saying this, and

849
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 4: you say this is five years before she passed. Yep,

850
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 4: did a party you wish like? Damn, Mom, if you

851
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 4: felt like this, why did you tell me when I

852
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 4: was five? Why didn't you tell me this when I

853
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 4: was ten, fifteen, twenty? Why are you just telling me?

854
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 4: Do you think she realized that that moment that obviously

855
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 4: she's you know, you'd say this was a second time

856
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 4: being on a call and she wakes up and she

857
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 4: tells you this. Do you think she all of a

858
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 4: sudden she started her mortality and she felt she needed

859
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 4: to get that off her chest. She's like, I need

860
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,439
Speaker 4: to let him know what I actually think about him.

861
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 2: No, I don't, I don't.

862
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: I don't remember my mother ever having that type of

863
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: a time clock in her head. It was actually, and

864
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people can relate to this

865
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: when it comes to our parents or grandparents. There was

866
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: a particular arrogance about I ain't going nowhere right, So

867
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: you got Jesus and and and some people's relationship with

868
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: Jesus is abusive. I can drink what I want, do

869
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: what I want, go about my life in any way.

870
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: I won't rather I take my medicine for my blood

871
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: pressure is up, or I do this, or I do that.

872
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 2: I got Jesus by my side. That's a tumor. You

873
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 2: have to go visit the doctor to get that taken

874
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 2: care of.

875
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: Now, God isn't all knowing. God, You're gonna get you

876
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: through a lot. But we can't get arrogant with the

877
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: relationship with Jesus. Jesus is gonna get you through. And

878
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: Jesus has already decided before you was born. When the

879
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: first breath happens and when the last breath is gonna happen,

880
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: we have a responsibility to do the best we can.

881
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: But this one temple that we were giving, So my

882
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: mama was one of those like, I ain't going nowhere right,

883
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:14,720
Speaker 1: and I ain't gotta stop drinking or go about eating

884
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:18,479
Speaker 1: healthy and working out and doing anything, which is why,

885
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: you know, I'm still trying to shake that devil.

886
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 5: You know.

887
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 1: I praise God that I don't drink and I don't smoke,

888
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: and I don't do all the things that I don't

889
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: do that I mentioned. But yeah, shit, I just finished

890
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: eating the Chick fil A sandwich with double cheese. Okay,

891
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: my mama ate everything in sight. I was that guy

892
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: coming home. House smelled like the bottom of the earth

893
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: with them goddamn chitling's burning in there.

894
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 2: You ain't enough red rooster hot sauce in.

895
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: The world that could make me like these fucking smelly

896
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: ass porks chitlings.

897
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 2: We eating pig guts?

898
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 3: What is this?

899
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 5: You know?

900
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 1: Everything imagineable right, And to this day, man, I'm trying

901
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: to get my food and take together, you know, But.

902
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,959
Speaker 2: It's it's it's it's it's that thing.

903
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: Man.

904
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 2: We don't take care of ourselves.

905
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: We don't really respect what might happen if we don't

906
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: properly visit the doctor, get your prostate, and do all

907
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: the things that we're supposed to do. You got a

908
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: lump in your chest and you just you think you're

909
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: gonna just rub it out.

910
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:30,800
Speaker 2: That's a lump.

911
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: You can't put no goddamn vasilin a baby all on that.

912
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: You can't give niggas no cleavage and think that's gonna

913
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: get rid of breast cancer. Put some baby all on

914
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: your tail. Did that get rid of the cancer? No,

915
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: that's what. That's that's what. So my mama did not

916
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: have that type of urgency. I think something is about

917
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: to happen, So let me go in and drop this

918
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: on my son.

919
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 2: No, sir, that didn't happen. What about your father?

920
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: You know, as much as I knew about him, he's

921
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 1: still with us, God bless him.

922
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 2: But I didn't know him.

923
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 5: He wasn't he was.

924
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 4: So how when you guys, okay, you get on the

925
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 4: great hoound bus. Your mom is pregnant with you.

926
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 2: She's married to my father, married to your father.

927
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 4: So did they separate shortly after you got there was

928
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 4: he in the house.

929
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I knew my father up till I

930
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: was about seven years old, you know, seven, maybe six,

931
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: maybe five, but at least it was early and I

932
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: knew him. I knew of him, and there was a

933
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: reoccurring visitation, but not really. So I was that kid

934
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: looking at other kids at the park like, noam, I

935
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: wish I had my daddy here pushing me on the swing.

936
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,240
Speaker 2: And I wish my daddy would would.

937
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: Show up to the school and curse the teacher out

938
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: when when they, you know, disrespected me or treat me

939
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: wrong in the classroom. You know, all the stuff that

940
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: you want from a dad. You know, I think it's confusing.

941
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: We all love us a mama. We love us and mama.

942
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: Most of us grew up in a single parent household,

943
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 1: and Mama, Mama did it all. She was daddy, mama, uncle, grandfather.

944
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: She was the crypto, blood, the og, she was everything.

945
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: But listen, man, you cut off the head, the rest

946
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: of the body will follow. It's no it's no mistake

947
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 1: that we got four million black men in jail right now,

948
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: no mistake. So all these women out here who did

949
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,439
Speaker 1: not plan on being the mother and the father. That's

950
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: just what it is. And I ain't got nothing to

951
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: do with cripplin blood. It's just a lot of a

952
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: lot of black men that just ain't around. They're dead,

953
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: gone or locked up. And so you got women out

954
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: here having to figure out, like how do I tap

955
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: into more of my masculine energy. When I'm a woman,

956
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,240
Speaker 1: I'm the mama. I gotta be nurturing, caring. I gotta

957
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 1: do all the things that a mama do. But then

958
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: I gotta become a boy. I gotta be. I gotta

959
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: wear the pants, to wear the pants, even though I'm

960
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: sitting here with a.

961
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 2: Islam outfit on and not quite painted.

962
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:13,479
Speaker 1: You mother like man anyway, shit, if a truth be told,

963
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: God damn it.

964
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 2: My luggage got lost.

965
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: All the shit that my publicist sent me to wear

966
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: for my press run.

967
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,959
Speaker 2: I I live in the atl I was like.

968
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 5: Look ahead, man, all that shit.

969
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 2: Luck that shit lost.

970
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: So I'm going to put this together because I ain't canceling, Shannon,

971
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 1: I'm gone shit, ILU appreciate. This was the only thing

972
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: in my closet that I didn't have to iron, And

973
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna.

974
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 2: Put this together now.

975
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: If anybody can smell me, I got dressed so fast

976
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: I forgot to put the odor in on.

977
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,280
Speaker 2: So I do apologize. Keep your distance.

978
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: Let's keep these hugs shortened brief because it's cracking underhill.

979
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 2: I smelled myself got damn.

980
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 4: You mentioned you born in nineteen seventy eight, graduated in

981
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety six, But there was a big event that

982
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 4: happened in ninety two, the riots. You're fourteen, probably fourteen

983
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 4: at that point in time, and it's mac dab.

984
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 2: Where you grew up at Watt, south Central LA.

985
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 4: What do you remember about that situation and how did

986
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,720
Speaker 4: it shape the way Tyres looked at the world.

987
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 2: I was in Watts, I was in the riots. I

988
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 2: was scared.

989
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 1: Everything about that boilerplate that we feel and live in

990
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,800
Speaker 1: every single day that I've been mentioning throughout this interview,

991
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: it went up fifty notches because see, when you're born

992
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:49,280
Speaker 1: in Wats in the year nineteen sixty five, my city

993
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: was only known for the Watts Riots, correct, and everything?

994
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: You know, you grow up in the hood, no matter

995
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: how young old you get, everybody's talking about if you're

996
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, why he's gonna be talking about George Floyd.

997
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: You can move Minneapolis right now. That's gonna be the

998
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: energy of Minneapolis. Forever you go to Memphis, Tennessee, you're

999
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: gonna feel the energy of the assassination of doctor Martin

1000
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: Luther King. I was born into the rebellion. I was

1001
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: born into strife, not just gang affiliation. I'm talking about

1002
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty five riots where they had to send

1003
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: doctor Martin Luther King Junior to Watts to try and

1004
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 1: get use this black man to influence black and brown

1005
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: culture to calm down, because we was burning that motherfucker now.

1006
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: And so now I'm living and reliving what I've been

1007
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 1: hearing about my whole life, from nineteen sixty five, before

1008
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 1: I was born seventy eight, all the way up until

1009
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: ninety two, all we was known for was the riots.

1010
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: I didn't get on career wise until ninety eight. So

1011
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,439
Speaker 1: ninety two, April twenty ninth, it was a bad day.

1012
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: Five six weeks before we seen the sunshine, clear sky,

1013
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: smoke everywhere. It was ashes in every your neighborhood, your streets,

1014
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: your houses, ashes. Because what goes up comes down when

1015
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:14,839
Speaker 1: they come to burning shit and looting.

1016
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 2: And rioting, and you know, I got me some shit, now.

1017
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 4: Man, Terry, you always looking for a come up on

1018
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 4: the on the sneak tip.

1019
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 2: I got miss shit. Shn got me a couple of pieces.

1020
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 2: I'm scared getting it, but I got it.

1021
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 4: You mentioned obviously the date is ingrained because you remember

1022
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 4: April twenty ninth.

1023
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 5: You wake up that day.

1024
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 2: Did you expect it to pop off like it did?

1025
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 4: Could you tell it was starting to brood like, oh,

1026
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 4: by goodness, this somebody, this, this thing is about to

1027
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 4: explode here.

1028
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 2: Did you know that? Could you since that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1029
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 2: we knew. But we also knew that.

1030
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: Uh see, when you're from the hood, all of the

1031
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: non hood niggas was.

1032
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 2: Was was was shocked. None of us was shocked.

1033
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: See y'all, y'all look at y'all, look at all of

1034
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:15,320
Speaker 1: the trauma of police brutality, murder, excessive force, planting drugs

1035
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 1: and guns, and you know, all of that over the

1036
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: top abuse. At ninety two, there was no body cam, sir,

1037
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: There was no There was no cameras on the cars

1038
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: of police dashcams. There was no dash cam. There was

1039
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 1: no there was no Google Maps. It's before MySpace, black

1040
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: planet dot com. You know, This is before the internet.

1041
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: This was before anybody could have any sense of what

1042
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,840
Speaker 1: actually happened because you can pull out your actual camera

1043
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: phone and film it.

1044
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 2: Some of us have been grown for so long.

1045
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: We forgot the brick phone in the hood with the

1046
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: cord attached, with the first cell phone. We forgot the

1047
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: beeper typing out one letter at a time that says

1048
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:06,840
Speaker 1: I love you or fuck you.

1049
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,399
Speaker 2: We forgot about the beat beat, beat, beat beep, beat

1050
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:12,879
Speaker 2: beat beep. We forgot about that.

1051
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: So somebody rolled out of bed and seeing something going on,

1052
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: grabbed a big ass camcorder, put it on their shoulder

1053
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:26,479
Speaker 1: and film the whole thing.

1054
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 2: Then that thing went crazy, set it off.

1055
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: That thing went crazy on the news because there was

1056
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: no Instagram.

1057
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,320
Speaker 4: Because that was the first time that we could actually

1058
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 4: that was really the first time you could see it,

1059
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 4: because for the longest time, no, im sir ahead.

1060
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 2: That wasn't the first time I could see it. I

1061
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 2: see it every day.

1062
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 5: You saw it.

1063
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 2: But the world, the world seen what we see every day.

1064
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 4: And that's felt what they put into report though, ty Reese,

1065
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 4: what they said versus what we were later able to see.

1066
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, hold on, wait a minute, y'all didn't mention

1067
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 2: any of this. That's not no either.

1068
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying this this hood shit, Well, how

1069
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 1: you saying tell me something I don't know about. How

1070
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:18,959
Speaker 1: they that didn't happen that police report? What the fuck

1071
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: is that? That's why when black people get out of

1072
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: jail thirty years later and they try and give a

1073
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: nigga half a million dollars, like a half a million

1074
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: dollars is gonna fix thirty years of me living in

1075
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: that hell hole because you lied on the police report.

1076
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: You documented, You made sure that you looked right in

1077
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: the light of the judge that's going to make a judgment.

1078
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: In front of the jury, you planted that you did that.

1079
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: And so nobody who lives in the hood is shocked

1080
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: about anything that we're seeing play out. And the arrogance

1081
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: of it all is that you would assume, black man,

1082
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: that they gonna clean this shit up. Now that there's

1083
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: so many people filming everything, you can't do nothing without

1084
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: being filmed.

1085
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 5: Nothing.

1086
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 2: You slap the shit out of somebody at the front door.

1087
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 2: They got the ring, can you'll slap is captured?

1088
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:19,919
Speaker 1: Yes, you're steal a package Amazon, thinking that you could

1089
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: just creep your goofy ass in the yard.

1090
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 2: Everybody gonna see you.

1091
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: Yep, you can't do nothing without it being filmed, and

1092
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: they still fucking us up. Now, imagine how much of

1093
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: an open season it was and has.

1094
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 2: Been since ninety two and prior to.

1095
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: Come on, who took a picture of that black man

1096
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: hanging up in that tree?

1097
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 2: Damn, that's fucked up.

1098
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: What if nobody took that picture, nothing would be fucked up.

1099
00:58:55,640 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: Your heart, your mind, your spirit is only affected by

1100
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: the things you see, by the things you hear, the

1101
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: things that.

1102
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 2: You're exposed to. I'm gonna give you all a word.

1103
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: Here's your word of the day, Boys and girls, coin

1104
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: tail pro Let's move on.

1105
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 2: Go ahead.

1106
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 4: Your movie nineteen ninety two. It takes place during the

1107
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 4: La Rise. Why do you feel it was important to

1108
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 4: do this movie?

1109
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: It was important because I'm from there. It was important

1110
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 1: because I lived at and experienced that. It was important

1111
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: because the diversity that's in this film made me say, yes,

1112
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 1: I ain't mak no money from this movie, but they

1113
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: paid me.

1114
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 2: I'm making per diem.

1115
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: The statement was much bigger than the press release, the

1116
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: opportunity or the payment. That's where I'm from This is

1117
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: a story that happened that I live, that I experience,

1118
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: even Snoop Dogg told me he was looting and riding

1119
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: in the right. This is some shit that when you're

1120
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: born and raised in South central LA, we know this.

1121
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:11,959
Speaker 2: It was real.

1122
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: The younger generation, just like I from sixty five. You

1123
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: hear the stories about ninety two because you are two thousand, baby,

1124
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 1: So I experienced that same thing about something dark and

1125
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: fucked up and traumatic that happened prior to me being born.

1126
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 1: But I had to do this movie because we deserve

1127
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 1: for our stories to be told. Now this might be

1128
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 1: a little confusing to you, big hommy, but I'm gonna

1129
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: give it to you. Nobody in Hollywood wanted to make

1130
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: this movie. No streaming platform, no movie studio, nobody wanted

1131
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: to make this movie. So they ended up securing the

1132
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 1: money need to make this movie from a billionaire from overseas.

1133
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 2: We shot the movie in Bulgaria.

1134
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: All the warehouses had to do it at a budget,

1135
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: and then we came and shot the rest of the

1136
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: movie in Watts in South central LA and off of Crenshaw.

1137
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 1: And then after we made the movie, nobody wanted to

1138
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: buy the movie.

1139
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 2: After it was made.

1140
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 1: They ended up selling the movie at a film festival

1141
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: and that's when Lionsgate picked it up.

1142
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,959
Speaker 2: Then they said, the disrespect just kept going.

1143
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: This is long before I was involved, by the way, right,

1144
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: so they couldn't get the movie made without me being attached,

1145
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: or prior to me being attacked. We got Rayliota, a

1146
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: legend who has already worked with our current director named

1147
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: Aero Roman, who was in Israeli from Israel. So when

1148
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm speaking to diversity, I'm talking about find another Israeli

1149
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: who directed us our Central LA film. So Raleiota, Aerial Roman,

1150
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 1: Scott Eastwood, Dylan, it was my brother. He was just

1151
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: in the Christopher Nolan film. Like, this is a heist movie.

1152
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 1: This is not a movie about black people trying to

1153
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: get some free shit, right, So the heist element made

1154
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: me say yes.

1155
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 2: The South Central La made me say yes.

1156
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 1: And everything about the father son dynamic in the movie

1157
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: made me say yes because Raleiota is the father to

1158
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: Scott Eastwood and they toxic and dysfunction or the.

1159
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 2: Motherfucker throughout the movie.

1160
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: I'm dysfunctional and toxic with my son in the movie,

1161
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 1: and so everything about those other elements is what made

1162
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 1: me say, yes.

1163
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 4: How much influence did you have? Because do you believe

1164
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 4: that in order to and people going like, no, that's

1165
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 4: not true. Do you feel that you need to have

1166
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 4: experienced right the riots in ninety two in order to

1167
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 4: fully tell and explain the riots in ninety two?

1168
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: No, which is why we have a British actor who

1169
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 1: played doctor Martin Luther King and Selma. You ain't gotta

1170
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 1: be born and raised in Atlanta to do a movie

1171
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 1: about an Atlanta topic. I'm an actor, so if I

1172
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: don't know anything about this life, this world, this situation,

1173
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 1: I mean, most niggas is out here looking goofy as

1174
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:45,439
Speaker 1: hell fifty years old wearing Marvel comic outfits. You don't

1175
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 1: even wear that shit at home for your son's birthday.

1176
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:50,439
Speaker 1: But you got your goofy ass in that dad damn

1177
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: movie standing there with your fake chest muscles and your

1178
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 1: twelve abs. You ain't got them abs underneath that goddamn

1179
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: cot too. But we we as actors, we have the

1180
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 1: blessing and the gift, And that's no disrespect for Marvel

1181
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: because I definitely want you all niggas to keep helping

1182
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:12,439
Speaker 1: me out love Marvel, which which eye do I wink

1183
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 1: on anyway? So yeah, we as actors we get to

1184
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: oh and I love it. I love it, Thank you Jesus.

1185
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: We get to become. Leave it at that, We get

1186
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 1: to become. That's what we love about Denzel. That's what

1187
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: we love about Viola Davis. That's what we love about Ruby.

1188
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 2: D and.

1189
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: Sidney, Sidney Poitier. You know, this is what we love

1190
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 1: about the giants of our world. We've seen them, Harry Bellaphone,

1191
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: We've seen them reinvent themselves over and over and over again.

1192
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: Then John Singleton's got a spot. Then the Spike Lees

1193
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 1: got a spot. That helped set up the Ava Duvene's

1194
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 1: and the Antoine Fouquas and the f Gary Grays.

1195
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 2: We did that. We become Denzel became Malcolm X and

1196
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 2: killed it. I'm talking about Jesus.

1197
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 1: I became an actor, which Denzel Washington. If you see

1198
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 1: this movie, I don't feel like I've made it and

1199
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: I'm not successful until I do a movie with you, Sir.

1200
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 2: Denzel Washington.

1201
01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: I don't feel successful and I don't feel like I've

1202
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 1: made it as an actor until I do a movie

1203
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 1: with you, because you are the reason I decided to

1204
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 1: become an actor. It wasn't John Singleton. He tried to

1205
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 1: talk me in it seven years. He tried to put

1206
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 1: me in the movie. Shaft told him no. He wrote

1207
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 1: the movie Baby Boy for Tupac, not for me. But

1208
01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: after I seen Denzel Washington's performance in the movie The Hurricane,

1209
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: I was in my living room with my dusty ass

1210
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 1: VCR and I was reenacting all of the scenes from

1211
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:34,520
Speaker 1: that movie in my living room, and that's when I

1212
01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 1: knew I was ready to become an actor.

1213
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 4: You mentioned Snoop Dogg executive produced this movie nineteen ninety two,

1214
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 4: and I don't think anybody has had.

1215
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 5: The guy.

1216
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 2: He can't go anywhere. And I can honestly say this.

1217
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 4: I've known Snoop over thirty years, and I've been around

1218
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:52,360
Speaker 4: a lot of people. I've never heard anbody say anything

1219
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:56,000
Speaker 4: bad about Snoop, but a guy that's been able to

1220
01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 4: change the narrative about himself. There's not a room that

1221
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 4: Snoop can go walk. I mean, from Martha Stewart to

1222
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 4: it like he's on the Olympics and the coverage is

1223
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 4: going crazy because everybody loves Snoop. What's some of the

1224
01:07:09,720 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 4: advice that Snoop is giving usually like the homie he knows.

1225
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 4: I mean, what he went through was on trial and

1226
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 4: to come out of that on the other side with

1227
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 4: flying colors, someone lost their life. Sorry by fact, but

1228
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 4: Snoop the metamorphosis that he's gone through. When you sit

1229
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 4: down and talk to him from a business perspective, what

1230
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 4: a Snoop talk to Tyree's about.

1231
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:43,000
Speaker 1: Stop is a genius, he Snoop is. Can I ask

1232
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: you a question, sure, who's a bigger rapper.

1233
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 2: Globally?

1234
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: The most famous of the two? Jay Z or Snoop

1235
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: Dogg in your opinion.

1236
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:55,880
Speaker 2: Globally around the world?

1237
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: Like if jay Z and Snoop Dogg was in a

1238
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: moll in Moscow, who would shut them all down? Like,

1239
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm mnna have to go Snoop honestly, Okay, biggest rapper

1240
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 1: in the world. We're not talking about Grammys because he

1241
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: ain't won one yet. Biggest fucking superstar in the world.

1242
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 1: That's my big hemy Long Beach West Coast. I wish

1243
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, big onmy man, big Onmie,

1244
01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg man, biggest, biggest in the game. Man shit

1245
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: Snoop might be announcing here a billionaire soon.

1246
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:32,919
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be surprised.

1247
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 2: He shouldn't be. The nigga owned seven hundred and thirty

1248
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 2: two businesses. Fuck you me, that bother FuG a weak up, and.

1249
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:44,360
Speaker 1: His emails and notifications hit different brother. He just hosted

1250
01:08:44,400 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: the Olympics and came home with sixteen million new followers,

1251
01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: sixteen of them.

1252
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 2: He did that in two weeks.

1253
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg being on board with this nineteen ninety two

1254
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 1: movie changed everything about Listen Man. We did one hundred

1255
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:06,160
Speaker 1: million trailer views. Bro Wow, Okay, this is straight to DVD,

1256
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:12,880
Speaker 1: straight to streaming. So they thought nineteen ninety two, Bro February,

1257
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 1: that movie was supposed to drop on the world. I

1258
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 1: asked them, can y'all push this thing back? Can you

1259
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,600
Speaker 1: give me a shot? Can you give me an opportunity

1260
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:24,559
Speaker 1: at trying to create some energy around this film so

1261
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 1: we can get it to the theater, so we can

1262
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 1: get some more pressing energy and get the word out.

1263
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:33,519
Speaker 1: I brought Snoop on board as a producer. We posted

1264
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 1: that trailer. It broke the internet and did over one

1265
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:41,640
Speaker 1: hundred million views. We go from no premiere, no soundtrack,

1266
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 1: no press junket at my own club Sha Sha Right now,

1267
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:48,639
Speaker 1: this club Sha Shae.

1268
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 2: This is club motherfucker Sha Sha.

1269
01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 1: We ain't doing Club shap Shape because shahe wanted to

1270
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: interview me.

1271
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 2: We doing Club schach Shae.

1272
01:09:55,560 --> 01:10:00,160
Speaker 1: Because of nineteen ninety two, there was no budget to

1273
01:10:00,200 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 1: do a press chunk and not one single interview was

1274
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:09,720
Speaker 1: connected to this movie. See I am walking, Leave, I

1275
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 1: am let me get my worries records.

1276
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 2: This is all for God.

1277
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:19,759
Speaker 1: I am the walking, living, breathing manifestation of favor. Because

1278
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: you listen, I can't explain what God is to me.

1279
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 1: Wait in line, I said thirty seconds approaching thirty years.

1280
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 1: You know how many commercials have been famous, even the

1281
01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 1: nigga with the the Deodoran commercial. Okay, where's his ten

1282
01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:44,679
Speaker 1: billion in the box office? Where's his record deal? Where's

1283
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:49,640
Speaker 1: his acting career? If we're winning the popularity contest doing commercials,

1284
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:54,440
Speaker 1: then why it didn't have it? Everybody, don't disrespect my hustle, motherfuckers.

1285
01:10:55,560 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm grinding and hustling. I'm getting that turning over all

1286
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: the rocks. This is not just lazy with favor. This

1287
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:09,720
Speaker 1: is oh my God. Now that God then gave me this,

1288
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to figure out

1289
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:19,160
Speaker 1: what the pivots are. I'm not a dreamer, okay, I'm

1290
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:22,799
Speaker 1: not worried about next week. I got plans, I got visions.

1291
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:24,720
Speaker 1: I dream with my eyes open.

1292
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 2: What's that. Did you come up with the idea to

1293
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:32,280
Speaker 2: open up an alcohol.

1294
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 1: Company before or did you see somebody else do it?

1295
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: And then you said, man, as soon as I can

1296
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:38,639
Speaker 1: do it out. You got your own name, you got

1297
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: your own taste, you got your own look of your bottle.

1298
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 1: But are you the first black man to release a

1299
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:44,160
Speaker 1: brown liquor?

1300
01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 2: No?

1301
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:48,519
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've seen somebody else do it, and so

1302
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: you dream with your eyes open, and you did whatever

1303
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: it takes to hustle your way into that, and then

1304
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:55,719
Speaker 1: you got that. That's why I was sitting on the table,

1305
01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 1: and that's why this motherfucker apple juice is sitting there too.

1306
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 1: So we are technically experiencing every single day.

1307
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:08,880
Speaker 2: Visions and ideas are physical. You mean, if.

1308
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 1: Someone had kept this chair that we're sitting on right now,

1309
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,599
Speaker 1: it's ugly ass. Just chair is ugly, And I'm mad

1310
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: as hell that you didn't invite me to the real club.

1311
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:19,240
Speaker 2: Chase Shade with the leather chairs and all that. Like,

1312
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,919
Speaker 2: am I what am I? Am I less than Cat Williams?

1313
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:24,640
Speaker 5: That's a that's a LA, that's l A.

1314
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:27,360
Speaker 4: And I came to you, they say, Tyrens will do

1315
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 4: he want to sit down the club Chase Shade, But

1316
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 4: you got to come to Atlanta. So I came down

1317
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:31,960
Speaker 4: here just to see you.

1318
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 2: That's bullshit where you located at.

1319
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 5: I'm in LA.

1320
01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 2: I'm in LA, they say, So you're.

1321
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 1: Telling me them leather couches that Cat Williams said on

1322
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 1: and all of your other stars is in l A

1323
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 1: l A.

1324
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 2: And we over here sitting on this.

1325
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 5: In Atlanta, your hometown, your new home.

1326
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 1: Now, okay, Well, the point I was making was The

1327
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 1: point I was making was is that ideas are physical.

1328
01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:03,800
Speaker 1: And uh, if you have visions and ideas and it's

1329
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 1: so clear and it's so specific, and you decide to

1330
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 1: rob the world of getting that idea out, it ain't

1331
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 1: gonna be sitting on the table. And if these chairs

1332
01:13:12,800 --> 01:13:14,680
Speaker 1: that we're sitting on, even though I don't like them,

1333
01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 1: compared to the club Shad Shade chairs, that shit. I

1334
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:20,479
Speaker 1: was looking for it. I put an outfit on together.

1335
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: I was like, shit, nigga, Hey, this this motherfucker black

1336
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:27,760
Speaker 1: outfit right here with that brown couch. Shit, it's gonna

1337
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 1: have a vibe. Nigga, I was shit. You think I'm

1338
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 1: about to wear brown? Sit on the brown couch? No serve,

1339
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: But this chair right here that we sitting on. If

1340
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 1: they had kept this vision and this idea in their minds,

1341
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:40,639
Speaker 1: we fall on the floor.

1342
01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:43,000
Speaker 2: Did you design them glasses you wearing?

1343
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 1: No?

1344
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:45,640
Speaker 2: Did you design the T shirt you got no? Did

1345
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 2: you design the necklace you wear?

1346
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:47,840
Speaker 5: No?

1347
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 2: How about that watch?

1348
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 5: No?

1349
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:52,879
Speaker 2: How about the cards?

1350
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:53,920
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1351
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 2: Somebody printed those out right.

1352
01:13:55,680 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 1: So if they didn't have a that's your logo and

1353
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,160
Speaker 1: all that.

1354
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:01,599
Speaker 2: You should put it. Wait, let me see that again.

1355
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 2: Can we get some lotion in here for sha your

1356
01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 2: motherfucking logo? Ashy? I'm just looking at it. She didn't

1357
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 2: look a little ashy man.

1358
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:22,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to shout.

1359
01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: So the point is, uh, we should go to the

1360
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 1: rest of our life getting that book out, writing that script,

1361
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 1: moving on those visions and ideas, implementing all that God

1362
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:37,719
Speaker 1: has bouncing.

1363
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:40,040
Speaker 2: What's keeping you up at night?

1364
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:43,639
Speaker 1: And if you think you're gonna be able to talk

1365
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:49,519
Speaker 1: to your friends, your broke ass family friends, homies and

1366
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:52,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna share in that same joy and energy that

1367
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 1: you have about what you see and what you want

1368
01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:57,840
Speaker 1: and what you envision for your life. You're gonna be

1369
01:14:57,840 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: fucked up for the rest of your life just like them.

1370
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:00,679
Speaker 2: Wow.

1371
01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:06,840
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta bless somebody from saying, y'all niggas don't

1372
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:09,080
Speaker 1: see what I see with what God is doing and

1373
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,720
Speaker 1: about to do. But I'm gonna show you one day

1374
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:14,720
Speaker 1: because if I talk to you about my visions and

1375
01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:16,720
Speaker 1: my dreams, you're gonna laugh at me. You're gonna try

1376
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: and talk me out of it. And if you talk

1377
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 1: me out of it, then I can't come back to

1378
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:22,719
Speaker 1: that same hood and change the hood.

1379
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:26,479
Speaker 4: This concludes the first half of my conversation. Part two

1380
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:28,799
Speaker 4: is also posted and you can access it to whichever

1381
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 4: podcast platform you just listen to Part one on. Just

1382
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:35,559
Speaker 4: simply go back to club profile and I'll see you there.