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Speaker 1: It's one or two point seven Kiss f M. They

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Speaker 1: are performing tonight at the East l A Classic, the

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Speaker 1: halftime show. Will I am in the Black Eyed Peas

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Speaker 1: will Boil Heights? When I say ball Heights, What do

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Speaker 1: you think when I when I hear boil Heights. I

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Speaker 1: think of my childhood. I think of my family. I

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Speaker 1: think of, you know, my how I was raised. I

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Speaker 1: think of beautiful memories. I think of Mexican culture fusing

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Speaker 1: with Black culture, and in the past it was Jewish culture.

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Speaker 1: I think of a milting pot. I think of love.

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Speaker 1: I think of Native of Angelino's. I think of in

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Speaker 1: one word from Melia. Do you know when you say that,

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Speaker 1: when you say all of that, you know what that is?

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Boil Heights is l A. You know, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: you know um l A is a beautiful place. You know.

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Speaker 1: I'm right here the USC Colosseum. So you're there, You're

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Speaker 1: at You're at the college team preparing for the performance.

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Speaker 1: What makes you be there for the East l A

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Speaker 1: Classic at halftime? You and the Black Eyed Peas. You

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Speaker 1: know we played the super Bowl, we played the World Cup,

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Speaker 1: we played the Grammys, we played the American Music Awards,

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Speaker 1: But this one is purpose. This one is like, you know,

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Speaker 1: not forgetting where you come from. And the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: is a great rivalry between teams that have been competing

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Speaker 1: throughout the year, the World Cups, countries that have been

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Speaker 1: competing throughout the year. This is throughout the year. Two

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Speaker 1: schools that are from the same area that I was,

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Speaker 1: the area that I was that grew up with where

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Speaker 1: my foundation is it that you know my foundation is

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Speaker 1: right there and Royal High School. We we have a

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Speaker 1: program where we teach kids robotics, computer science allege prep.

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Speaker 1: And we've sent kids to Dartmouth, to Brown, to Stanford,

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Speaker 1: to USC to u c. L A. And we have

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Speaker 1: some great scholars over the past twelve years. And we

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Speaker 1: serve just a little under twelve thousand students with my foundation.

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Speaker 1: And this is like a halftime show because our community needs.

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Speaker 1: Why can't be the halftime for a robbery that's been

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Speaker 1: happening since my mom went to Roosevelt, my owners went

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Speaker 1: to Roosevelt. You know, after playing all these big, grandiose performances,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to bring that same level of like, you know,

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Speaker 1: attention to and love and detail and production value at

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Speaker 1: least come close to the kids could see, like, Yo,

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Speaker 1: our community is just as important as f one as

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Speaker 1: you know the Super Bowl as and here's a treat Will.

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Speaker 1: I am coming from a family of rough riders. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we were just talking to both coaches. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've seen the coaches yet, but they are really

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Speaker 1: fired up for tonight and so excited about the profile

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Speaker 1: of this game, which you guys have really helped elevate.

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Speaker 1: And you should look up Will's foundation, look at up

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Speaker 1: look what he's doing, just some really great things for

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Speaker 1: young people. I am Angel the Eye an Angel Foundation. Well,

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Speaker 1: I am there, and what and what beautiful is My

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Speaker 1: uncle Lynny came. He's doing the coin talk And my

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Speaker 1: uncle Linn came, went to Roosevelt. He graduated Roosevelt, went

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Speaker 1: to easter Lake College, which is a junior college, and

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Speaker 1: then from there got recruited to go to USC, and

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Speaker 1: then from USC played for the Falcons, and then from

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Speaker 1: the Falcons played for the L. A. Ram While in

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Speaker 1: the eighties and growing up in East l A. My

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Speaker 1: uncle was like a local hero, like a Willie Fool

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Speaker 1: Like your uncle play football for the l A Rams.

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Speaker 1: Dog my dad bro love you love your uncle dog

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Speaker 1: and that love an appreciation for you know, where my

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Speaker 1: uncle came from, how we were raised and took it

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Speaker 1: to go all the way pro in the NFL. You know,

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Speaker 1: our community, they they looked after our our our family.

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Speaker 1: And because black and brown feuding was was at the

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Speaker 1: height in the eighties in the nineties, but my family

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Speaker 1: and other families didn't really experience that because they because

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Speaker 1: of you know, they knew my uncle. They're they're the teas.

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Speaker 1: They uncle's and nephew their uncle's. They knew my uncle

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Speaker 1: and my aunt and they grew up together and it

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Speaker 1: was a beautiful black and brown family growing up. And

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Speaker 1: so during the halftime show here at the at the

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Speaker 1: U S and the coliseum where my uncle went to school,

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Speaker 1: bringing my students from my from my foundation and highlighting

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Speaker 1: them as they walked to center field show and and

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Speaker 1: telling everybody in the audience and the and the and

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Speaker 1: the attendees what college are going to. This is a

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Speaker 1: celebration of discipline, dedication, This is the celebration of love

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Speaker 1: for our community, and uh yeah, and producing this halftime

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Speaker 1: show myself is like, this is a proud moment for

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Speaker 1: tell you get a chance to do and be at everything.

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Speaker 1: This is in your blood, this is personal. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Will I Am the Black Eyed Peace check them out. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I have fun and uh, I guess for you go

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Speaker 1: rough riders, right, you know it. I'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: soon and thanks for calling in. Well, I am at

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Speaker 1: the Colosseum hours before he performs. It sounded like he

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Speaker 1: had a hype team, right, I mean it looks they're

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Speaker 1: getting everything ready there. I don't know if that was

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Speaker 1: like the bleachers being drying, if it was like people cheering.

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Speaker 1: They're prepping the Colosseum, right. Ah, that's great. It is

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Speaker 1: so personal to Will I Am. Yeah, you can hear it.

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Speaker 1: He is local. He is local fame all right, coming

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Speaker 1: up next, if you want to go to the East

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Speaker 1: l A Classic. Actually, I have tickets calling out eight

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Speaker 1: hundred five to one two seven