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Speaker 1: What's epis way up with Angela Yee. I'm angel La Yee.

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Speaker 1: And Jasmine from the Jasmine brand dot com is here

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Speaker 1: also okay, Jasmine from the Jasmine brand. Oh and Jabari

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Speaker 1: can we introduce you first? And Jabari Banks is here?

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Speaker 1: You know him as Will on bel Air. But go

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Speaker 1: ahead now, I say no. I feel like I feel

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Speaker 1: like I have seen your face somewhere before and the

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Speaker 1: right you have a different color here, I think, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what was it pink? I don't know, it's different. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Are you trying to do the Jasmine

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Speaker 1: brand pink? Yeah? I did have think here like last year. Well, Jabari,

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Speaker 1: first of all, I just want to say congratulations to

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Speaker 1: you a successful series, which is not an easy thing

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Speaker 1: to do bel Air on Peacock and you guys have

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Speaker 1: been renewed for a season three. So congratulations. Yeah, season three.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's huge, that's huge. I'm super excited for

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Speaker 1: season three. And so how has life changed for you now?

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Speaker 1: Because I can just imagine that when you go places,

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Speaker 1: everybody knows who you are. No, I'm like a little

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Speaker 1: undercover right now because my hair is a little different. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but some people are like, oh, do you are you

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Speaker 1: that guy from Bellar? Noah, he doesn't have that. His

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Speaker 1: hair isn't that long. So I like to switch it up,

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Speaker 1: you know, change it up on people. But uh, but

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Speaker 1: it is my life is a lot different. But what's

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Speaker 1: the biggest difference? Who? Um, Yeah, just you know there's yeah,

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Speaker 1: just being recognized public and stuff like that. Like I

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Speaker 1: can't really you know, I could do the things that

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Speaker 1: I used to do, but it's a little different. It's

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Speaker 1: a little different now, you know. And free stuff, free stuff,

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that's crazy. People don't talk about that.

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Speaker 1: You know what I meant, the best you got, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I came so I came here, uh New York.

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Speaker 1: The first day or the second day I came here,

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Speaker 1: I went to JD Sports because that I have to

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Speaker 1: deal with them, and we did. We did a segment

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Speaker 1: over there and then they were like just shop to

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Speaker 1: shop all over the story. Just how did you yet?

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Speaker 1: Did did you feel like I gotta take it easy?

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Speaker 1: Or did you go in? Noah, I went in. I

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Speaker 1: went in. I went in. I bought my moms some

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Speaker 1: stuff too, though, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like if somebody telling me that asked, it would be like, well,

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Speaker 1: I want to go to crazy. I'm like, yeah, all

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Speaker 1: right that yeah, free stuff is one of the perks.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm sure like when you go to restaurants

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Speaker 1: and things, the best table in the house. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a blessing too. You know, actually I was. I

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Speaker 1: was actually out of restaurant. I think like last year

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Speaker 1: around this time, the show had come out, and like

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Speaker 1: this kid ran up to me. He was like, I

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Speaker 1: love your show. When his mom followed him and she

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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, he got his hair cut just like you.

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Speaker 1: So like things like that. It's like, were you broke

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Speaker 1: before or you did okay financially before? I mean I wasn't.

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Speaker 1: I was broke. My family's not broken. Okay I didn't.

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Speaker 1: So you weren't poor growing up? Okay? Got it? Broke

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Speaker 1: his heart like, no, I was broke growing up, like

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Speaker 1: I was rich and many other things. I got it.

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Speaker 1: Well you were you were? How were you raised? Like

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Speaker 1: with your family? Just talk about that a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You know, where they or any of them in the

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Speaker 1: arts or what did they think about this path that

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Speaker 1: you're going down. No, none of them are in the arts.

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Speaker 1: I have four brothers, four older brothers. Um, so it

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Speaker 1: was living with my mom, my dad and U you know,

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Speaker 1: we made it happen. Um. But um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: figured that we noticed my path. Yeah, I figured that

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Speaker 1: my brothers played sports too, so that was like our thing.

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Speaker 1: And then in high school, uh, it kind of just

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Speaker 1: like like that kind of just left the building and

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Speaker 1: and I started doing arts and then it really blossom

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Speaker 1: in college. I went to the University of the Arts

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Speaker 1: agents and then one thing led to another and I'm here.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, the baby of the family, the baby of

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Speaker 1: the family. Ye, so how does that affect you? Because

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Speaker 1: I always wondered, like you said, you're the youngest of

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Speaker 1: how many boys for five of us? Five of us

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Speaker 1: how much fighting must have went on in that house?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh big fights. A lot of fights, but

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Speaker 1: the fight, yeah, but a lot of testosterone. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: of like I can't get off me. Yeah, I got

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Speaker 1: it the worst too. Growing up. Actually, I thought it

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Speaker 1: you you bro ugly cute people. No, because my brothers

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Speaker 1: were like, I have like my eyes are like far

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Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, but I feel like when you

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Speaker 1: what I mean. So like I was never one of

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I developed a personality

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Speaker 1: been helping me. Did the girls like you though, No? No,

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Speaker 1: I mean I was. I was. I kind of floated around.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't never like the like most popular kid, but

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Speaker 1: I was kind of cool with everybody because I played

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Speaker 1: sports and stuff. Like how many people double back that

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Speaker 1: maybe you try to highlight crazy those like crazy you know.

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Speaker 1: I always had kind of lightweight that Yeah, I gotta

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Speaker 1: you gotta respect it, though, what do you what do

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Speaker 1: she's the only one in the arts. Some of them

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Speaker 1: are in tech. Okay, Um, I don't even really know. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't even really know, to be honest, such a brother. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you go to work. I just

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Speaker 1: DJ's he's like, you're in Jazzy Jeff. Yeah, exactly exactly.

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Speaker 1: He does little DJ gigs on the side, but he's

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Speaker 1: like in tech and stuff like that. Yeah, I know

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Speaker 1: you have some other roles coming up to I saw

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Speaker 1: that you're so tell us about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I um. I'm working on this new project. It's called

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Speaker 1: a Bad Genius. We start in Vancouver filming in April,

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Speaker 1: and I'm super excited about that. That's good because sometimes

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Speaker 1: timing and everything. But the timing was right for you, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Timing is everything. Uh and and and my team was like,

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Speaker 1: to star. What's that project about? Um, it's a I

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Speaker 1: don't want to story, no, no, no, it's actual remake. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's a thriller heist situation about these two

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Speaker 1: to audition for that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I'm not there

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Speaker 1: of all, you already love basketball and imagine it because

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Speaker 1: I don't think you could have gotten this role if

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Speaker 1: you couldn't play basketball. No, that was a requirement. Okay, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: It does happen. And then I was very concerned, I'm

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Speaker 1: then I know your uncle Phil came and I don't

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Speaker 1: He's like, I don't want to say too Marge, right

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Speaker 1: when I tell you that went viral. People were so impressed.

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Speaker 1: and um and he missed his flight and so they

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Speaker 1: please sir. And I was mad. Yeah, no, I bet

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Speaker 1: that's dope though. And then but you know it's even

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Speaker 1: doper now Travis Scott thinks you said Will Smith's a voicemail.

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Speaker 1: Yeah about that, who's the most famous person that you've

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Speaker 1: a lot of Smith. Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, Well

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Speaker 1: door for you. That would be really I can see

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Speaker 1: that right. And congratulations on everything you said. You leave

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Speaker 1: to Vancouver when um, beginning of May, beginning of May

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Speaker 1: to start feeling and you've got two singles coming out

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Speaker 1: in May. Yeah, exactly, all right, May's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: good moth, all right. Well, buked in busy well, Jabari,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming through. It was a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to have you. Wow, thank you for having me up.

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Speaker 1: Glad we're doing it well. Bless