Actor Omar Gooding talks about his journey to success on Sway In The Morning | SWAY’S UNIVERSE

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[Applause]
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wow man that voice right there the
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character is Kyle Johnson but the actor
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the producer
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the rider
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the iconic thespian and I say that
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because of the various platforms that we
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got the chance to witness is witness him
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on whether it was Touched by an Angel it
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had to be people who could walk in any
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genre who could exist in any space be
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themselves and not compromise their
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integrity in this business or people I
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think deserve to be saluted 100 wild and
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crazy kids Hanging with Mr Cooper you
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know marker you know where he's from
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Hello play it say it hello Oakland
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Oakland playmaker smart guy I mean it
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goes on and on and on and with my
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brother Tyrese uh Taraji
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um Snoop Dogg all of these legendary
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people
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come on come on man and he was one of
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the most outstanding characters in the
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movie Baby Boy and he continues to
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succeed that right there was from a clip
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from the pro the series called Saturdays
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which is airing Fridays 9 p.m on the
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Disney Channel you cannot work on the
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Disney Channel at this stage of his
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career and be broke you know he's
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getting paid
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[Applause]
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when I see you on the screen it makes me
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happy
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me too me too and my kids and my wife
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make them excited everybody happy on the
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screen yeah he's on the screen your
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energy and I always felt like this a
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certain people Jamie Foxx has that if I
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see Jamie um on on the screen uh on any
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capacity it makes me happy to see him
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Chris Tucker has that obviously you know
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what I mean there's people who have that
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and I believe that you have that and I
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commend you because you come from a
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entertainment family we play as a main
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ingredient
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but they know they love it they know
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they love it your father was the uh the
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lead singer
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Cuba Gooding senior your brothers
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Academy award-winning actor you know and
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so it could be hard to find your lane
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yeah and you found your land I
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definitely found my Lane man and it's
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you know it's it's a pleasure one I just
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have to say it's a pleasure to be here
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brother thank you man thank you so much
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you've done for the culture I mean I
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appreciate it I've called you my brother
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thank you um you know and I it ain't
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lost on me that you brought the
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Christian in after the Muslim the
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brother was he just got the black on
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black on black on black the water bottle
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was black the Hat was black I almost
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took my white hat off I didn't want to
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offender brother I was like damn this
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brother is black on black on black you
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know I mean them high level
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conversations he was having there's
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gonna be some low level conversations
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going for the next 30 minutes I want
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y'all to lower your expectations right
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now
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for a little bit all I'm saying
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we've been like a plum fool up it is all
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I'm trying to say is what I'm saying and
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I'll you know I'm drinking all this
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coffee let my coffee black though
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I don't know if he put ice in here
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coffee got a fist
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um
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but no I'm excited man I'm excited you
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you know you brought up Pops man you
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played the song and it got me leaning to
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the side here you know uh don't want to
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start too heavy but you know he passed
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in 2017 a week before his birthday uh we
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he passed on 420. so that messed up you
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know I used to smoke before I was a
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Disney dad anyway
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that messed it all the way up go back in
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the day back in the day man you know I
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do hip-hop twos I used to you know I
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used to do what I got to do to get get
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in the zone or whatnot but you know what
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I mean but it it's dope because uh you
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know I still I've actually I'm still
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doing music man we all know we gotta do
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that on another interview because we
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came to talk about Saturday
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if you got him ready too I mean whatever
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we got to do we could do whatever we got
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to do man you know I come prepared okay
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um but uh yeah I'm 46 though
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right here
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bars is in the phone bars in the phone
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uh yeah no I got I got a new uh a song
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that I dedicated to my father and it
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releases two days or one day after his
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birthday right yeah his birthday is the
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27th which is uh tomorrow okay so this
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song releases uh in two days and it's
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called Legacy and it actually starts
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with Everybody Plays the Fool wow right
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it starts with that and what my you know
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what's funny is him as an Entertainer if
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y'all knew him you know especially when
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you're when you are an artist right you
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don't know what song's gonna be the hit
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right so he could sing sing yeah you
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know what I mean his voice his lyrics
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were just insane lyrics his voice what
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he can do with his throat was just just
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amazing uh pause uh so but what I'm what
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I'm saying is what he would do nobody
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come on I'm trying to keep it Disney I'm
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trying to keep it dizzy we're talking
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about Saturdays I'm trying to keep
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Disney
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um so you know his hit was Everybody
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Plays the Fool so at the end every time
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he performed it he would feel like he
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had to show them his real vocal range
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other than just this hit that took off
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yeah you know so he would do this solo
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at the end of every live performance so
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I took that solo and put it in the
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middle of my song so that he can
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represent himself I mean I met a brother
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named Steven Ellis uh it goes by keys to
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Mogul right and he was like yo man I got
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some beats for you send me the bees we
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started working on a couple songs and he
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was like but this one here is something
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special I want to send to you when he
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sent it I was driving I had to pull over
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I had to get emotion I was like yo bro I
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can't believe that you somebody finally
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did something with my father's voice
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that I can represent you know what I'm
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saying that I can I could see him
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because I know him anything that we try
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to do try to remake try the remix he's
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going stop it stop it that ain't it like
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you know it works right that ain't it
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that ain't it so I said well how about
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you represent yourself and that's the
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song Legacy so we're excited about that
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man it comes out well you got it okay
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give me the song I'm Gonna email it to
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our producer right now so we can play it
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at the end of the interview okay
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do it like that okay a lot of people
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um have tapped into the Main Ingredients
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music for sampling purposes so on and so
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forth or yes Alicia Keys a lot of people
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a lot of people right do you have do you
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all have right yes I do yes we do the
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check comes right back to us yes okay
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everybody like yo can we use your
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daddy's music I guess you can yes you
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absolutely can we call moms real quick
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yes yes do we need to sign off or
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anything like no we'll get ours just
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tell them go ahead and have fun yeah oh
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Steve Harvey playing on this new thing
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we like this we like ching ching go
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ahead now go ahead
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stay on my pockets now how many people
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have used your sampled your ass man I
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don't know the exact number but I mean
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like name some names it's like I said
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Alicia Keys using it we got uh Steve
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Harvey who's who's got the new judge
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show what's playing at the beginning of
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that it was in The Joker movie you know
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what I mean right after he passed and we
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saw Joker we sitting there watching us
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wait a minute they didn't just play a
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piece they played the whole song just
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like you did right when I got in here
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and almost started crying yeah they
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played the whole song Through the movie
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so if you watch Joker again like what's
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he talking about oh that's his pops
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music in the back yeah that's him and
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that's kind of the point of the song
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that I released because a lot of people
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don't know that's my father that's your
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dad when I was cutting the record the
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engineer turned to me he's like wait
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that's your daddy
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uh you know an Instagram post with my
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brother listening to it that Joe went
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viral they were like oh that's his
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brother dang I was today years old when
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I realized Cuba Junior was your brother
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and then the people that do know call me
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Omar gun Junior and I just want to grab
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him and Shake him a little bit like come
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on man why would a brother be named
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Junior can be two Juniors he can't be
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two Juniors but yeah you won't be
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surprised how much it happens but listen
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so what was it like because me and your
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brother didn't party you know okay over
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the years many of times his energy both
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of you have this amazing energy about
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you you know you want to be around y'all
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hey you ain't gotta even interact I just
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want to watch y'all you know but what
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was it like growing up in that household
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it was dope man I mean you know the
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difference is there's a nine-year gap
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between the two of us so I would always
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be his baby brother okay you understand
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what I'm saying and it was just it was a
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generation
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he looks good dude nine years let me
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take these glasses off okay okay
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it's just early that's why I got these
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on he ain't got Hollywood okay that's
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what the coffee in the water is for man
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it's eight o'clock it's really the
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wake-up show
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hello okay I said what time is the car
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coming oh snap okay um but you Yeah man
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so he's always had that energy but he's
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always been my big bro so you know if I
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get into fights like real street fight
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I'd go running home to a bro these dudes
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just jump me out there or what you know
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I mean he's always been that dude and we
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have always had that energy and people
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like what are you on man coffee water
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and life that's it that's it that's it
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you know what I mean you ain't got to be
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on something just to be on something you
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don't know why you're trying to grow up
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what neighborhood uh so my brother and
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my sister were born in the Bronx okay my
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mother and father from Harlem they
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harlemites born right around the corner
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from uh the Apollo yes indeedy right but
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five years after
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um my sister was born uh April shout out
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to April shout out to Evo uh she uh they
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we all moved to California okay so I was
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born in uh I laughed when I say this
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every time people ask me it's a
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different answer but it's Lakeview
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Terrace right it's always like oh yeah I
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was born in Lakeview Terrace then I
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looked at my my birth certificate said
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Pacoima so you know depending on who
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asks I was like yeah homie from Lakeview
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Terrace it just depends on who's asking
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but uh that that's where we came uh when
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I was uh well when they was when they
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went she was around five years old and
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five years later I was born you know I
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mean so I went to like North Hollywood
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High School you know okay we lived in
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Victorville for a while you know there
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was a period where we were homeless you
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know was when Pop's music took off was
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in the 70s then he went to Africa during
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apartheid all that and that was a big
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No-No for uh artists out here to perform
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but he did he couldn't tell people
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continue nothing yeah but when he came
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back and told them checks weren't coming
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in no more because he went out there and
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he had he was blacklisted the music came
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off the radio he had to start over again
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so when he started overall he knew was I
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got to go chase the money so he went
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back to New York we had to make our own
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way so you know moms my brother my
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sister and a large Great Dane all got
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into one of them Bobcat uh SUV and we
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went one called SUVs back then but it
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was station wagon and we traveled around
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you know we we went to we started in the
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high desert where her parents were and
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then we migrated basically down to uh
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the valley that's where we landed we
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stopped at a few shelters and wasn't
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along the way but my brother knew he
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wanted to be an actor but y'all lived in
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shelters along the way shelters bro we
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stayed in the car it was yeah after the
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hits after the yeah his hits yeah yeah
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yeah
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I was living in shelters shelters bro
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shelters bro shelters bro yeah this
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these These are facts man you find a
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little bit something new every morning
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don't you
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um but yeah so then once we landed there
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my brother chased his dream right so he
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would audition he would do his things
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one day I'm like nine years old I walk
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into his agent's office and pick up a
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script for him and his agent sees me I
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we never did baby talk in our house we
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always talked clear we had good diction
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that's my I never had braces but my
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teeth were straight imagine that West
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Indian blood okay so uh she was like
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okay uh how about I send you out on an
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audition ever think about being an actor
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I'm like I'm nine no I have no you know
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that wasn't on my radar but I went out
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on on a call I had two auditions in one
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day and booked one so for me the rest
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was history three years later I was able
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to get my mom to quit her two jobs you
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know and become full-time manager and
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was able to support the family what was
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that you booked that's amazing get that
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around yeah man yeah man I booked uh it
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was a show it was actually a McGruff the
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crime dog
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um
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that was the first job I ever booked and
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then uh like the first big day I was on
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Webster remember Webster I remember
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speaking role on Webster and then a
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couple of years later I booked wild and
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crazy kids on Nickelodeon and then that
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just rolled man I took hang with Mr
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Cooper the next five years and then uh
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right after that smart guy you know what
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I mean he's being all 24 years old you
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don't talk about and the dope thing
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about smart guy and watch me Segway this
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watch this here so don't think about
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smart guy is it was on WB right we did
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75 episodes on WB and then after the
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show got canceled it got picked up by
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Disney right so I was on Disney and
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that's when really you know I got most
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of my fan base they were like oh man we
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used this show on smart guy is great
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it's like oh you just now hip to it
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right so then Flash Forward that's what
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I'm saying years later I'm back on
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Disney as a Disney dad come on Saturday
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Saturday
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let's do this I want to go into a song
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towards pick something great
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um and then I want to come back and
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let's talk about Saturday let's do that
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and let's talk more about Omar Gooding
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this story is amazing all right have to
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be I know you got to go to Urban view
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yeah I do but thank you for sharing that
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we will We swaying out before we got
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live on and we're having a conversation
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this morning about alignment and just
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thank you thank you for sharing that you
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know oh God has been working well for 46
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years for me I mean that's my age oops
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uh yeah he's he's good he's good he
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continues to show his his miracles in
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our life I had a Praying Mama yeah I
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mean so she prayed things into existence
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just like literally like we saw him work
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so that's just you know that's all I
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know that's all you know hey man Big O
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Is Here Yeah Omar Gooding have the beat
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how can they reach you hit me up um
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canvascolors.com
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get that Billy talk okay we're gonna
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have more with um Omar Gooding
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888-74233 three four five towards take
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us to song any song
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it's Sway in the Morning broadcasting
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live from Hollywood league
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on shade 45. one of the most talented
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people uh we watch navigate through
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Hollywood Hollywood oh my goodie man
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somebody I just feel great I said it
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earlier Tracy G DB um I know you a movie
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fanatic um I just feel great when I see
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you playing roles man I'm not even
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gassing you so when your name came
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across the list I was like we gotta get
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him
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yeah absolutely Omar I wish I could be
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in the studio with you bro because you
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are just so fun and animated and
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Charming I appreciate you
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um I wish you were seeing that yeah but
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we got I feel like you're here I can
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feel your presence you can feel my
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presence you know we was kind of just
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pedaling backwards and going through
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your entire career and I'm like dang I
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like grew up side by side with Omar this
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is crazy it made me think of earlier in
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the show we were talking about Raven
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Simone who is someone else we also grew
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up with right yeah and um
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baby Raven yeah baby Raven yeah after
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she finished Cosby we we uh signed her
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in uh what year was that it was in the
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90s obviously uh but yeah she came on I
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think third season did you know like did
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she have that gift
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yes absolutely absolutely no she was
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awesome she was awesome everybody in
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that cast was great
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um you know I've been blessed to work
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with uh very talented cast members
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um and some not uh you know when no not
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don't know shade but it's just like you
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know sometimes I know I have to do more
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yeah you know what I mean it's like if
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they in the scene with me I know I got
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to turn it up or something I can kind of
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lay back you know I mean like I've got
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all that for Mark Curry Mark Curry was a
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bad boy and I remember I did his podcast
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and he was like man you had great timing
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when you were young man I don't know how
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you had such a good time and I was like
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brother I learned it from you I was I
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was soaked up like a sponge I would
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watch how you would handle every single
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situation and Mark that's another long
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interview we told that brother there man
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I owe him a lot man like seriously
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like give me an example yeah no I got
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into some trouble
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um uh you know my regular life just
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being me and hanging around with dudes
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that had my back so to speak you know
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just in the sense of you know people say
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oh man you know this celebrity you hang
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out with that celebrity don't hang out
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with celebrities what I can do a street
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fight I don't know if uh you know
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Leonardo DiCaprio got hands I don't know
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I need somebody that I know got my back
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like real you know so things happen you
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know and um you know I was all over the
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news for like 24 hours and Mark called
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me immediately was like look brother
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that's what you're gonna need to do
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first of all you got to get out in front
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you got to apologize everybody you gotta
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own it you gotta man up don't go in
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there with your head down and consult no
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just say I'm I was I made a mistake
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apologize and well and as soon as I did
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that I mean everybody stood up the
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relief on everybody and they huddled
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around me and you know it was it was
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that type of guidance that he gave me
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early other than leading by example that
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led to uh you know I mean who who knows
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they could have kicked me off the show
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and then who knows what I'd be is that
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rare I know Tracy I don't mean to
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hijacking question we're going to come
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back to it but was that rare to get that
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kind of guidance absolutely a lot of
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people they just you know if they're on
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top or if they're doing their thing it's
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just they're not worried about everybody
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else that's not how things work you know
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you're like oh you work with such and
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such and you do music did you give me
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music did he put you on no that he's got
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his thing you know he's they want you to
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kind of work for it they'll let you so
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you got a song called Swim that kind of
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talks about they let you they'd rather
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see you drown you know what I mean you
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sink a swim mentality type of thing it's
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rather than help you out or throw your
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life after you know what I'm saying so
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him he was the type of brother that was
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like nah I see something in you man we
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ain't losing you let me talk to you you
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know and I've worked with other cats
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that just kind of you know you're
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rubbing the wrong way and then again
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also another interview yeah that's it
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man okay well you got to come back Tracy
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go ahead yeah well oh I was thinking um
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because one of Raven's co-stars says
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that she was pretty much from
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um from uh um That's So Raven said that
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she believed Raven was underestimated uh
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when she first came on the show and she
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was initially
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um High to be the sidekick but then
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showed how she had such you know star
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power and they switched roles exactly
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yeah I'm wondering if you've ever had I
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mean you've been in so many different
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Lanes of this entertainment industry
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have you ever felt underestimated and
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then you showed improved and they ended
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up upgrading the role that you have that
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is my career my love and it's aggressive
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excellent question because no one asked
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that but yes I I became
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the king of the one-liners the the scene
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stealer like I started from the bottom
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literally you know I was an extra you
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know I was a featured extra then I'd
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have one line you know that when I
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talked about being on Webster I was uh
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an announcer I had one scene and it was
17:32
you have this one speech let's go you
17:34
know in the audition room I used to be
17:36
the king in the audition rooms I said
17:37
okay this is what I'm gonna do here I'm
17:38
gonna put a I don't think my mom thought
17:39
about it maybe my mom and my sister if
17:41
they said you know what you should do
17:41
she put a microphone in your jacket with
17:43
the cord and everything just tuck it in
17:45
your pocket sleep and then just when you
17:46
walk in to start yank that bad boy out
17:48
and just see what happens and it worked
17:50
I walked in there and then I'm watching
17:51
all the other kids in the room they say
17:53
okay nobody brought props but me watch
17:54
this you know it's hi oh yeah hi Omar
17:56
good thing I should be okay you ready
17:57
yeah sure he said and Now ladies and
17:59
gentlemen the court hit the floor and
18:00
they all fell off the plane they were
18:01
laughing everything you know you always
18:02
got to bring something you know and it
18:04
landed me to roll but you know when I
18:06
started on Hanging with Mr Cooper I was
18:08
uh seven out of 13. you know what I mean
18:10
which means I wasn't in every single
18:12
episode I was a series regular by the
18:14
third season you know what I'm saying I
18:16
was just Irving Rodman in the chair and
18:18
then I had to work my way I'm watching
18:20
Mark I'm watching how he does I'm
18:22
feeding off the crowd I'm learning to
18:23
improv and improvise and kind of add my
18:25
own thing to every single line and you
18:28
know I Rose to the top you know what I'm
18:29
saying and then when they did smart guy
18:31
when they brought me on I was just
18:33
supposed to be the bully yeah you know
18:34
what I mean which evolved to the best
18:36
friend of Jason Weaver and now he's now
18:39
it's Marcus and Moe now whose show is it
18:40
who's the funniest and so forth in the
18:42
writing and so forth
18:43
um you know and then it goes on and on I
18:45
mean the way I I actually made that I
18:49
landed baby boys if I try to tell this
18:51
quickly this the story was this
18:56
intriguing so
18:58
um ah this is funny so I auditioned for
19:00
a movie called freedom song right now
19:03
freedom song was about the first sit-ins
19:05
of Mississippi it was a TNT film right
19:07
so I auditioned I did great because the
19:10
room loved me it's great man we love you
19:12
we'll see you on set type of thing you
19:13
know I walk out of there like all right
19:15
I didn't get the part they start filming
19:16
they hired someone else due to politics
19:20
yeah you know someone else got the role
19:22
that person went out to a nightclub got
19:24
punched in the eye went back to work the
19:26
next day somebody did a drive-by-hand
19:29
signal to him shook him up so bad he
19:31
jumped on the plane and flew back on
19:32
then they called up on marketing said
19:34
hey man yeah remember that role you yeah
19:35
yeah they need you to come out there to
19:36
fly out to Wilmington North Carolina I
19:38
said I thought they was already filming
19:39
getting no no they one of the actors
19:40
quit I was like they do that black
19:42
actors
19:45
so I
19:46
pulled up you know what I mean and I'm
19:48
you know I'm doing my thing and you know
19:50
and um we had one you know it wasn't a
19:52
huge role it was just I was one of the
19:53
kids that were uh sitting at the lunch
19:55
counter for the sit-ins to get arrested
19:57
so I showed some intensity on my face
19:59
and um Flash Forward a few years later
20:02
my mother gives me a call she was
20:04
managed me and she said y'all got a call
20:06
from John Singleton I said wow that's
20:07
great she said yeah yeah yeah he said uh
20:10
Mrs Gooding listen I made one of your
20:11
sons a movie star I would like to make
20:13
your other son a movie stars yeah I have
20:15
a script for him and I will send it to
20:17
you and um and give me his phone number
20:19
and so forth and then I was like uh yeah
20:20
give him a number Mama go ahead and you
20:22
can do that so he calls me says I got a
20:24
script for you brother hit the gym and I
20:26
see you in about three months and I read
20:28
this script and it was another thing
20:30
that they just floored me you know and I
20:31
was like bro how did you even consider
20:33
me for he said man I saw you in this
20:34
this movie called uh freedom song wow
20:38
I was in there that long and you saw
20:41
that boy that man was such a Visionary
20:42
man that for him to see that role in Me
20:46
by me sitting at this Lunch Counter you
20:48
know what I mean yeah that long was just
20:50
amazing and then I just you know then
20:52
the role itself was it it it it was
20:55
therapy for me because being an actor
20:57
being a child actor I touched on you
20:58
know my friends and being in the streets
21:00
and so forth and so on you know people
21:01
would say oh man that's that guy from
21:03
that show blah blah blah so yeah that's
21:04
my job you don't know me as a person so
21:07
I would have to defend myself I did
21:08
music I did you know what I'm saying all
21:10
I had was in groups you know my father
21:11
mother divorce got back together my
21:13
brother got back together he said yo
21:15
let's do a group you know I did it was a
21:16
lot it was a lot you know a lot going on
21:18
right there's a lot going on but we got
21:19
into situations you know what I'm saying
21:21
but always knowing what I have to lose
21:24
was a gift that I had at a young age so
21:27
I all you know a lot of cash they make
21:28
rash decisions that change their entire
21:30
life right and I had people around me
21:31
that knew come on bro no no Let It Go or
21:34
well hey that happened but hey things
21:36
let God handle it like that you know
21:37
what I mean without even saying it
21:38
that's how it moved so there was a
21:40
direct incident that happened was very
21:42
traumatic and God took care of it before
21:45
I could even have a chance to you know
21:47
one cat got arrested the other one's no
21:48
longer with it it was it was done
21:51
then I get this script and I read this
21:52
script and I'm like wait a minute you
21:54
mean I can Channel all this aggression
21:55
all this anger everything that I've you
21:57
know experienced as a young black man
21:59
out here in these streets trying to sort
22:01
of prove himself and show that I'm just
22:03
a man like don't just say oh you that
22:05
funny dude like knock it off like you
22:07
know what I'm saying there's another
22:08
side that hopefully I don't have to show
22:10
wait I can just Channel all of that and
22:12
aim and point okay Bet let's go you know
22:15
I'm like how does he know that that's
22:16
even in me because these are things that
22:17
I keep they don't make TMZ they do with
22:19
no social media they wouldn't like that
22:20
they know so people don't know what I go
22:22
through or what I went through you know
22:23
as a as a young adult but even when I
22:26
when I auditioned for him and three
22:27
months later he was like
22:28
all right you look good man all right
22:30
you lost some weight 20 years old you
22:31
can drop 20 pounds in the weekend you
22:33
know so so you know he's like you look
22:36
good sound good that's cool all right
22:37
all right we'll be in touch right a
22:38
whole month goes by I didn't hear
22:39
nothing a month and then I got a phone
22:41
call and said you got the role I said
22:43
what but even then there was still a
22:45
process yeah I still had to get that
22:47
kind of that eye of the tiger like you
22:49
know uh you know I had to had to lock in
22:51
to Sweet Pea yeah you know because I was
22:54
raw I had all this rage and they had a
22:56
couple cases yelling no you're doing
22:58
that's not it that's not it bro bring it
23:00
in you got to internalize it and that's
23:02
where Sweet Pea came out because I was
23:03
almost like talking through my teeth I
23:04
was so I had so much so I had to like
23:07
yeah you got to let raise find me a job
23:08
Jody like I had to be able to get that
23:10
without yelling find me a job no that's
23:12
ridiculous no but he's gonna be angered
23:14
but no I'm trying trying to control it
23:16
they're trying to temper that rage and
23:17
uh but once I got it locked in yo you
23:20
killed Sweet Pea so great man like uh
23:23
after watching you a sweet pea because
23:25
it's true people didn't really know who
23:27
you were right but when I watched you
23:29
portray sweet pea
23:31
oh I said oh there's something else
23:32
going on in his life yeah because it was
23:34
so authentic at that time to who sweep
23:38
he was and what the environment was bro
23:40
it was so important
23:43
um you know for John Singleton to write
23:45
these type of roles in these type of
23:47
movies I did the screening for the film
23:48
out in Flint Michigan uh about a few
23:50
weeks ago and it's funny because I was
23:51
sitting in the front where I was kind of
23:52
narrating it through those cracking
23:54
jokes because that's you know that's my
23:55
personality and whatnot I remember a
23:56
couple women next to me and they were
23:57
just like oh man they were like yeah
23:59
that's right he was a little punk but
24:00
she was the man you shot him and I said
24:02
but baby girl that's the point of the
24:03
movie he was the baby boy John is
24:06
writing
24:07
um movies that make you look a little
24:10
bit deeper into what the black man is
24:12
going through he he saw himself on the
24:13
floor that's why he didn't shoot him
24:14
yeah my character was like man forget
24:16
all that we got to shoot this dude look
24:17
around get us up out of here right boys
24:19
in the hood Trey got out the car how
24:22
many brothers you wish got out the car
24:23
you understand what I'm saying these are
24:24
the type of roles that he's writing and
24:25
these are the points that some people
24:27
are missing they're just enjoying the
24:28
entertainment value of it all you know
24:30
what I'm saying so so um with this
24:32
opportunity man it was it was great for
24:34
me because I was able to show that side
24:36
to people that doubted it it's a
24:38
long-windedly get back to her question
24:39
yes that that role itself helped open
24:42
many doors for me wow man oh my goodness
24:45
here man and John Singleton said I made
24:48
one song Cuba Gooding Jr
24:52
star on boys in the hood yeah a movie
24:55
star a movie I like to make the other
24:57
one a movie because I did a lot of
24:58
Television I did so much television back
25:00
in that day those 90 sitcoms and all
25:02
that you weren't taken seriously in an
25:03
audition room or you know on paper you
25:06
know I'm saying to play this role of a
25:08
dramatic such and such and so on and so
25:10
forth until they see it you know until
25:12
it's proven so everyone says yup that
25:13
movie was dope okay great let's bring
25:15
Omar in for this this dramatic role
25:16
let's keep this thing popular y'all
25:17
should have a picture of John Singleton
25:19
on the wall in your living room you
25:20
ain't lying yeah no there's several
25:22
there's several they really are that was
25:24
Tyrese is my little brother that was his
25:25
debut oh man what do you remember about
25:27
Tyrese on setback Tyrese was dope man I
25:30
mean we we bumped him it's because you
25:32
know for me I had to prove myself just
25:35
like he had to prove himself John was
25:37
very very deliberate he said look bro
25:38
you know you you gonna anchor this thing
25:40
you know what I'm saying I'm have you
25:42
with him boom boom boom do what you can
25:44
show him you know what I'm saying how to
25:45
get down as an actor right and I'm like
25:47
all right cool we're gonna act
25:49
now Tyrese's thing was he wanted to be
25:51
friends and he wanted to hang out want
25:52
to do this I got no problem come to my
25:54
house let's go you know and he show up
25:55
what you're talking about offset offset
25:56
like hey let's let's really buddy buddy
25:58
come stay at my house come stay at my
25:59
house like bro I see you on set like
26:01
that's just I was just so locked in that
26:03
that kind of rubbed in the wrong way so
26:05
on set on camera you couldn't tell yeah
26:07
brother did a phenomenal job that y'all
26:08
must be best friends in real life I was
26:09
like no because you know that's just not
26:12
how I was at the time I've learned since
26:15
then I've grown to know that you have to
26:17
be likable if you want to book a part
26:19
people listening that want to inspire an
26:21
actions to look if you got to sell
26:22
yourself there's a lot of people that
26:24
are that can sell themselves really good
26:26
they get the part but they're not that
26:27
good but people just like to be around
26:28
them I like to be around them so I'm
26:30
gonna book him for this role book her
26:31
for this role she's not that good
26:33
whatever but I love being around her you
26:34
know what I mean so sometimes you have
26:35
to sell yourself you have to show that
26:37
you're likable that you're somebody that
26:38
people want to work with over long
26:39
periods of time so I had to learn that
26:41
back then I was like look I do my job I
26:42
see you tomorrow the job Bumpass for
26:44
real we got close we we really you know
26:47
we pulled out as men we had a real man
26:49
standoff conversation he said is there
26:51
someone we could talk let's even go to
26:52
the park ain't gonna be nobody around
26:53
anybody talk about boom and we got it
26:54
all out and said all right cool all
26:56
right all right I'll see you on set you
26:58
know what I mean and that was it but it
26:59
wasn't it was like all right we're
27:00
fighting and falling around me and being
27:01
rames did but in real life in well in
27:05
the rehearsal room you didn't hear the
27:06
story about the reversal rules I don't
27:07
even know if I can say can we curse on
27:08
here
27:12
John Singleton was a master at uh
27:16
motivation okay right so we had these
27:19
rehearsals every single day we had
27:20
rehearsals right for like two weeks
27:22
before we actually filmed everyone
27:23
always asked about you know were you
27:25
improving on this in the movie I know
27:27
that prayer was you John wrote every
27:28
single word when he says writer director
27:30
he's a writer right but he lets us play
27:31
in these little two weeks before we film
27:33
so in that playing period you know I'm
27:35
thinking I'm the man and I'm doing this
27:36
and that in the third and at the end of
27:38
one of rehearsals John looks at me dead
27:40
in the face and says yeah tomorrow I
27:41
think um you know everybody needs to
27:43
lock in and he looked me dead and I said
27:44
but some of us need to step it up and he
27:46
walked out the room I said no he just
27:48
did not what I'm 24 years old I know you
27:50
ain't the war watch this so the next day
27:52
I was fired up I was fired up as soon as
27:54
we walked in you know I'm looking at
27:56
everybody crazy they could already feel
27:57
the energy is different right and he's
27:59
like first first thing we're gonna do
28:00
you sit in the middle whoever wants to
28:01
sit in the middle uh you sit in the
28:03
chair and everybody's gonna gather
28:04
around them in the cast and ask you
28:05
questions you just remember stay in
28:07
character who wants to go first he
28:08
couldn't even get first out of his mouth
28:09
before I just was in the chair and I was
28:11
like let's go and every time somebody
28:12
asked me so I was fired what yeah but
28:14
yeah you remember last week when I came
28:15
to your house you owe me that money what
28:17
is he talking about that it's not in the
28:18
script I was just going I was on right
28:19
and everybody was like okay this next
28:20
combination is uh let's just okay Omar
28:23
and Ty you guys get up there now you do
28:25
word word play when you say one word and
28:27
you respond to one word you know we're
28:28
doing that I'm just just aggressive all
28:30
the way every time uh Ving stood up I
28:33
jumped in his face grabbed him when we
28:34
fell on the bed was wrestling around and
28:36
whatnot and I was you know like I said
28:37
young working out what what you ain't
28:38
even that strong I'm fake muscle I'm
28:40
just going off on him right right so uh
28:42
it's amazing as this walks in this all
28:44
falls in line right because I tell you
28:46
where I'm from I was born in in the
28:47
valley yeah of California right which is
28:51
not La the city like all my friends were
28:53
Affiliated in the rain in Compton and in
28:55
South Central and so forth and so on but
28:57
I was born and raised in the valley so a
28:58
lot of people know that so anyway so we
29:00
keep going and I'm super fired up old
29:02
moment and we get to a point you know
29:03
because John the great thing about John
29:05
is Hill he had the old school video
29:06
camera he would just follow you around
29:07
like action just go you know and he
29:09
never said cut he just let us do us for
29:12
like two hours straight so we get
29:13
towards the end of this two-hour session
29:14
and um
29:17
I'm back in bingham's face again I'm
29:19
like what you gonna do he said boy if
29:21
you don't shut up where are you from
29:22
that's where am I from you know I said
29:24
I'm from 60 [ __ ] you know the first
29:27
thing popped my head you know six so
29:28
crazy like six oh [ __ ] he said shut your
29:30
ass up you're from the valley
29:32
right and the room kind of went oh and I
29:34
remember I looked down at Johnson and AJ
29:37
she got to hit me with it I think of the
29:38
barber chair and they look at it what
29:40
you gonna do with him and all the nights
29:41
when they were like hey what you gonna
29:42
do brother and I looked up and I said I
29:44
got in his face I said bang bang you
29:46
dead he said that ain't no guns [ __ ]
29:47
slap my hand pick me up and drop me off
29:49
bam we rolling around and for like three
29:51
seconds I had him ready
29:54
right we got the four second five
29:57
seconds first of all I can't use my arms
29:59
matter of fact now I'm pinned to the
30:00
floor man it's on top of me right and I
30:02
was able to squeeze my hands up to his
30:04
forehead and I grabbed it I said cut
30:06
[ __ ]
30:10
and we stood up and I know that's what
30:12
Disney just jumped offline they're like
30:15
but that that was the end of the the
30:18
whole rehearsals we gotta remember if he
30:20
walked over he said damn brother what
30:21
happened to you you go to acting class
30:22
overnight or something I was like yo man
30:23
I just had to bring it today you know we
30:25
good oh yeah we good man you bad mama
30:26
Johnson all right man I see you on set
30:28
and that was how John was as a motivator
30:31
and that was like my process of getting
30:33
there you know what I'm saying so so
30:36
yeah but everybody everybody there the
30:37
weekend the round of applause man that
30:39
was a man made for that story but I got
30:41
nervous
30:44
and y'all been faking
30:46
we did another movie called percentage
30:48
man you know I worked with Taraji I
30:50
played her uh um the love interest in
30:52
the film that she did called District
30:53
like you know AJ what about that AJ I
30:55
love her oh man beautiful see her I love
30:58
her every time you everybody knows and
30:59
me and Tyree school is fan fan now you
31:01
know we chopped it up about a couple of
31:03
things you know he had some ideas about
31:04
doing a reboot for the movie it was you
31:06
know It's just tough to do everybody
31:07
keeps saying Sequel and how you gonna
31:08
fix it how you gonna you know how you
31:10
gonna do that John's gone you know yeah
31:11
you know he has a really really good
31:13
idea on how to bring everything together
31:15
yeah yeah just kind of hard too like yes
31:21
what's the sequel I was like everyone
31:23
dude shot the other one everybody okay
31:25
but um but anyway so that that
31:27
experience led to you know projects like
31:29
Saturdays yes
31:31
there you go
31:33
who's Cal Johnson so let me let me tell
31:37
you about this is the exciting thing
31:38
about Saturdays man I wanna I wanna
31:40
celebrate uh Eminem My I call it Eminem
31:43
Marseille Martin I know everybody
31:49
Martin she came up with this concept
31:52
when she was probably 14 15 years old
31:55
but she sold the idea to Disney for a
31:58
pilot of a show about a black girl with
32:00
sickle cell that's a roller skater that
32:02
goes to
32:04
um this roller skating rink every
32:06
Saturday this the rink is called
32:08
Saturdays right she teams up with Norman
32:12
Vance Jr now Norman Vance Jr is the
32:14
showrunner I found out what a showrunner
32:17
means after working with Norman Vance Jr
32:19
you know what I'm talking about so
32:20
Disney said to Norman okay we've got all
32:23
these other shows on Disney with various
32:25
stuff with Disney but we would like you
32:26
to create something a little bit
32:28
different we would like you to take it
32:30
to another level when people say Disney
32:31
Channel show they don't want to just
32:33
think brightness and that over animated
32:35
parents that type of stuff I want you to
32:36
really make something grounded he's like
32:37
say less so his process throughout
32:40
filming was him talking to Disney and
32:42
saying okay here's what I got here's
32:44
what I want to do and they're like well
32:45
that's not how we Do It on Disney he's
32:46
like well that's not what you hired me
32:47
for correct he said you right carry on
32:49
right so then he had to build this cast
32:52
so the the audition process was fun
32:55
because we're in the middle of this
32:56
pandemic now we're in the pandemic so
32:58
we're we're reading and meeting people
33:01
through Zoom so I'm used to working a
33:03
room I'm used to being this comedian
33:05
walk in I see somebody I'm talking about
33:06
they had to go I always swag you know
33:08
this and that type of thing we're in
33:09
Zoom so I'm in a room with a drapes
33:11
behind me which all I see is my face in
33:13
this box so as I'm doing my scene
33:16
everyone goes on mute so I get no
33:19
feedback during the season you know what
33:20
I mean I do a joke no one's laughing
33:21
okay I just got all I see is myself this
33:23
is crazy this is you know after we
33:25
finish the scene they all pop back on
33:26
man that was hilarious I was like oh
33:28
thank God I didn't know I couldn't tell
33:29
because I couldn't hear nobody laughing
33:30
they're like well we didn't want to
33:30
interrupt you I'm like no interrupt me I
33:32
need that feedback I need that you know
33:33
I need all the feedback yeah exactly you
33:35
know what I mean so keep the keep the
33:36
lines lines up so anyways we get through
33:38
that then um they're like you're moving
33:40
on we're gonna do a
33:41
uh uh what they call
33:43
um well they piece you together and
33:45
match you up with with people to see
33:46
chemistry chemistry there you go thank
33:48
you bro thank you I need more coffee
33:49
there you go it's black
33:54
um so so uh the first person that I read
33:57
with uh that they matched me up was
34:00
um our lead Danielle day and the first
34:02
time I heard her read I was like oh
34:04
that's her she's that's that's that's
34:05
definitely her black girl magic she's
34:07
got to hear the afro puffs you get the
34:09
court every time we read with her she
34:10
had a different hairstyle I was like go
34:11
ahead girl and she you can see her
34:14
um really working on it you know what I
34:16
mean like every read it wasn't just the
34:17
same read it was like oh it's a
34:18
different scene but she's throwing in
34:19
different things okay go ahead girl
34:20
right then we wanted to match up with
34:22
the different parents first woman that I
34:24
read with was Miss Golden Brooks Golden
34:26
Brooks come on now girlfriend I'm glad
34:29
you sung it my boy my boy saying woke up
34:31
yeah okay but yeah so and when I met her
34:34
she come Pops in the room and it's hey
34:36
OG I'm like oh what up dog go ahead girl
34:38
look at that blue you got on YouTube man
34:39
oh we coordinated we didn't like we're
34:40
just bantering back and forth before
34:42
they're all just watching us go like how
34:43
long y'all know each other like we are
34:44
just now meeting wow our chemistry
34:46
clicked like that and we get through our
34:48
read you know I find out that Danielle
34:51
had booked it and I'm like God is good
34:52
because I always I'm just like that's
34:54
she's it she's going to be the face of
34:55
this show and it's it's a beautiful
34:57
thing and and then you know we get on
34:59
Set uh the next person I meet is
35:01
Jermaine Harris that plays my son on the
35:03
show and he reminded me take this
35:05
compliment my brother he reminded me of
35:07
myself on smart guy he was the guy that
35:11
was a scene stealer when he opened he
35:13
walks into the room he doesn't have to
35:15
be he don't need no coffee this kid
35:16
turned it on and everyone's smiling and
35:18
I'm just like boy he says okay this is
35:20
what I'm talking about I'm not gonna
35:21
have to do much work on this show at all
35:23
these guys you know what I'm saying and
35:25
then they cast uh Daria Johns and um
35:28
Peyton basnight as the other two girls
35:30
that are beside Paris Johnson which is
35:33
Daniel jaladay who plays our daughter on
35:35
the show right so they form a skating
35:38
group called we be girls right so the
35:41
show is is is is it is bright it's got
35:43
the black girl Magic's got the hair
35:45
different hairstyles I mean you're
35:46
showing a representation of a black girl
35:49
that every black girl can be proud of
35:50
okay right every black girl like I've
35:53
seen on Disney Channel you know what I'm
35:55
saying yeah and if you ain't got Disney
35:57
Channel it's not a must you can also
35:59
watch it on Disney plus
36:02
uh so uh the dope thing about that
36:05
is that you know again we're sitting
36:07
there going oh man just Disney with
36:08
Disney like what's on Disney plus
36:10
Disney's moving into a new era they
36:12
would like it to be new and edgy so we
36:14
bring in uh two of the baddest uh roller
36:17
skaters in Chicago okay where we filmed
36:20
this bad boy you know shout out to um
36:22
hymeria who's actually uh uh she's a um
36:25
a choreographer right that learned how
36:28
to skate so we already know she got
36:29
moves now right and then uh Josh Smith
36:32
which we call bat smoke which is one of
36:34
the best skating teachers you will ever
36:36
meet in your entire life like he don't
36:37
matter what level you're at you think
36:39
you can you skate yeah I'm good bro you
36:42
can turn around backwards all that Jazzy
36:43
I'm not I'm no Usher right okay yeah
36:45
yeah you know that's funny you say that
36:46
I was studying them all week like that
36:48
Usher is getting it now that kept saying
36:50
Josh can you give me like this he's like
36:51
we'll get you close we'll get you close
36:53
yeah but um but he was a bad man I mean
36:55
he'll tell you take off one skate just
36:57
push across the room this is how you
36:59
hold your foot in the boot you know any
37:00
straight Miyagi me right I was like bro
37:02
how do I turn backwards he's like okay
37:03
look stare at the wall right there and
37:05
I'll punch foot this way and I lean this
37:06
way now not just spun I said what the
37:08
hell just happened he's like you just
37:09
skated backwards brother I was like
37:10
since like this man you know really got
37:13
us right you know what I mean and they
37:15
let him Corey uh choreographed these
37:18
scenes that you will see every episode
37:20
it's such an exciting fun show to watch
37:22
we also throw some animation up in there
37:24
we'll do it stylized like blackish you
37:26
know what I mean to where they'll do
37:27
cutaways you know this is things she
37:28
says every week like oh you know what
37:30
when do I do too much and then we say
37:31
girl what about that time you had to
37:32
such and such and then they'll have an
37:34
animated scene of her doing too much so
37:36
we ain't got to film it you know what I
37:37
mean it could be as exciting as you want
37:39
because it's going to be animated but
37:40
then you got some for the kids for that
37:41
and then you bring parents in like
37:43
myself and golden who have been doing
37:45
this for a while you know what I mean so
37:47
once you cut to us you already know that
37:49
the the level of funny is going to
37:50
change a bit but that don't take nothing
37:51
away from these kids who are just so
37:53
awesome man yeah you'll just describe
37:55
Saturdays man that was give him a round
37:57
of applause that's how you sell a series
38:00
but but considering all your experiences
38:03
and all the great work you've done you
38:05
look you you you look so passionate and
38:08
excited about Saturdays uh that I'm
38:10
happy for you man I can't wait to watch
38:12
it Fridays 9 p.m on the Disney Channel
38:14
or Disney plus it'll be available the
38:16
next day yes sir
38:18
um you have to come back to the show yes
38:20
sir okay
38:32
the trials and tribulations you face to
38:34
get to where you are right now and still
38:36
to have this energy man I command you
38:38
brother tell your brother send my love
38:40
to your brother tell him I said salute
38:42
to him I am I'm gonna tell when I hang
38:43
up I'm gonna say uh he was playing uh
38:45
Daddy song as soon as I sat down and he
38:47
said salute and he'll be like what
38:49
because he's on a boat he's always on
38:50
the boat that's all right that's what
38:51
he's gonna say to me what he did that's
38:52
what he's gonna say cause he's horse too
38:53
he lost his voice what okay
39:03
let's do it it's called Legacy man it
39:06
drops on uh in two days the day after my
39:08
father's uh father's birthday man so I'm
39:10
really excited about all streaming
39:11
platforms man shout out to Keys the
39:13
Mogul came with me with the beat shout
39:14
out Cuzo and uh and his wife the Butlers
39:16
that introduced this man we're really
39:18
excited uh about this man hope y'all
39:19
enjoy
39:21
thank you
39:25
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