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the the thing would would you have been
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continuing the sports if it wasn't
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Um, I would have tried. Um, what
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hindered me from sports is I didn't want
0:08
to work out. So, those guys were super
0:11
athletic and things like that. I just
0:14
was talented and I was naturally good at
0:16
sports. I always been the best on my
0:18
team, but once you get to a certain
0:20
level, it's like, plus life hit me and I
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I wanted to get some money and stuff
0:24
like that and I started doing other
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once you get to a certain level, it's
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like hard work beats talent, you know?
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Yeah. like every time, every single
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time. You can be talented, but you can
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go to the club and doing all this other
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stuff that's distracting you from your
0:40
craft and there's somebody in the gym 24
0:43
hours a day, 23 hours a day, 22 hours a
0:47
day, and he's working and he wants your
0:50
if you keep knocking at the same door,
0:52
you going to get it's going to open.
0:55
talent is just only one thing. you gotta
0:58
be you gotta like with that type of
1:00
stuff. They watching film, they working
1:04
out, they um working on their craft and
1:07
stuff like that. So that's the I had all
1:10
like the intangibles, but I didn't have
1:12
that. Like I didn't have the I didn't
1:15
want to work out. I just wanted to play.
1:17
So that's what really hindered me.
1:19
Yeah. And I would do it like you said
1:20
when you ain't working out like and if
1:22
you don't like working out like you said
1:24
at certain point and I tell a lot of
1:25
people like their kids are good on Pop
1:26
Warner and then they get to high school
1:28
they realize a different beat because of
1:31
cuz it's somebody that just that just
1:34
started playing football in the ninth
1:35
grade and he he's in there and he want
1:37
it so bad. He's in the gym every day and
1:40
you've been playing your whole life. you
1:41
just talented. So, you feel like that's
1:43
going to get you by, but he's going to
1:45
he's going to surpass you. It's a never.
1:48
Do you ever get like survivors remorse a
1:50
little bit coming from Detroit? Um,
1:52
understanding what's left behind and
1:54
you're able to financially do things
1:56
that a lot of people from that you grew
1:58
up with or are even in the city of
2:00
Detroit um are are able to do. Does that
2:03
ever make you like, damn, cuz I already
2:05
know you do a lot of stuff for the
2:06
community. you go back, you do things to
2:08
help clean up the streets with the guns
2:10
or helping people go to prom or whatever
2:12
that may be. But do you feel when you go
2:14
back like, damn, I'm one of the ones who
2:15
made it and feel away a little bit?
2:17
I always fell away. I feel bad. Um, but
2:21
I had to learn. Like when I first got a
2:25
little success, it was harder on me, but
2:27
I had to learn. um like it's a sad
2:34
certain people to be rich, certain
2:36
people have to have less for certain
2:37
people to have more. So, um
2:41
I come to grips with it. I don't really
2:44
agree with having more than a lot of
2:46
people. like I like I that's why I give
2:49
back so much because I feel like I'm I
2:51
don't want to um just take so much from
2:54
my community and not give it back
2:56
because they they pour they like
2:59
they they pour into me like whenever I'm
3:03
home I'm welcome whenever I'm in the
3:04
community um they show me love. They
3:07
make sure I'm okay um mentally,
3:10
spiritually and everything like even the
3:13
like people less than with less than me.
3:16
They give me free stuff and like and
3:18
stuff like that. Like
3:20
my community love me and I try to show
3:22
my community that I love like I love it.
3:25
Like I love Detroit. I really that's me
