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Chicago PD's LaRoyce Hawkins Gets Real on Rejection & Success! | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
May 6, 2024
Dive into the captivating world of LaRoyce Hawkins on SWAY'S UNIVERSE as he shares his untold stories and reflects on his NAACP nomination. Known for his dynamic role as Officer Kevin Atwater in NBC’s hit drama "Chicago P.D.," Hawkins reveals the depths of his multi-faceted career—from acting to music and beyond. Discover how this NAACP Award-nominated actor navigates the challenges and triumphs of the entertainment industry, and how his roots from Harvey, right outside Chicago, shaped his impressive career.
In this exclusive interview, Hawkins doesn’t just talk shop. He gets personal, sharing a heartwarming and humorous tale of his childhood pet, Duke the duck, proving that even the most unexpected stories can leave a lasting impact. Plus, don’t miss his insightful discussions on rejection, resilience, and the power of saying 'no'—valuable lessons for anyone chasing their dreams.
Whether you’re a long-time fan of "Chicago P.D." or new to the world of LaRoyce Hawkins, this episode of SWAY'S UNIVERSE is an absolute must-watch! Hit subscribe for more powerful interviews and stories that touch on not just the glamor but the real struggles and successes of those we admire. Join us in the fascinating journey of LaRoyce Hawkins—tap play now!
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Guest Introduction: LaRoyce Hawkins
1:36 - Childhood in Harvey, Illinois
6:36 - Audition Tips & Dealing with Rejection
9:24 - Influence of Language in Acting
12:28 - Call from Gina, Charlotte
16:36 - Jay's Question from Mississippi
18:02 - Celebrating Success in Entertainment
22:48 - Introduction to Winston Duke
23:21 - Exploring Lyricism in Performance
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[Applause]
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those are
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his and how about this even those NOS
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have value come on yeah even those NOS
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represented
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progress what is a no I don't see a no
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as something derogatory I see it as a CH
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a chance to learn um this man that's on
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our show right now Heather he been
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supporting us for quite some time they
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was all right he's an official citizen
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right here he's not only just an actor
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he's a standup comedian he doesn't just
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do that he's also a spoken word artist
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and not only does he do that he's also a
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musician citizens give him a big round
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of applause he was nominated for NAACP
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award for outstanding supporting actor
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in the drama series I want to welcome
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him to the show we had him on the show
0:44
during Co too I don't know if you
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remember
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this yo did you come on Co that was
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calls it would have been a phone call
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that was a phone that would have been a
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phone call no no no okay no he came to
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our party it was the party he came to
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the party uhhuh in Chicago you talking
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about you and your nights yeah yeah the
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one at Hooters man please that wasn't
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that wasn't a interview [ __ ] that was a
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crazy party man I'm sorry man we was
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talking I thought we had a camera we was
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talking it up though we SP we SP bars
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the camera wasn't rolling no okay but I
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want to welcome him to the show um to
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anybody um who's a Chicago PD fan which
1:20
is on NBC on Wednesdays you're going to
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love this we got the one and only L
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Hawkins is with us today L welcome to
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the show brother thanks for me man OG OG
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Queen come on man y'all don't understand
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how powerful this is man I'm just
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grateful to be here word no for real
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what what what's the connection man is
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it just from hip-hop or or just
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listening to the show watching the work
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obviously listening to the show and
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watching the work I've seen so many um
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iconic people pull up and just give bars
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I've I've watched you um have
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conversations that have touched the
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culture yeah you know what I'm saying we
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we've learned from from both of y'all
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wow in so many ways and so as a little
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homie coming up you know what I'm saying
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I just pull up with that energy just
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saying thank
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you to be here is pretty surreal and
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carried away I ain't going to hold you
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the whole hood and Harvey they going
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they going to be proud where's Harvey
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Harvey is right outside of Chicago okay
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that's where you from that's where you
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up is that is that considered a suburb
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of Chicago it cons yeah south suburb
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South subb so you GD what you what you
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grow up as man you know I'm going leave
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my
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affiliations always being an o that op
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[ __ ] got to cut out for 24 we only 5
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months in and you opted
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try to see where we at
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L going be good though trust me okay I'm
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going be good when I go out there you
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good when you with me trust me but what
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was it like growing up in Harvey for you
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like what what made you think you can
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act growing up in Harvey man you know
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Harvey despite how dark it was you know
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we didn't have that many resources I'm
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grateful for the way I was brought up I
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I had a unique unique upbringing um you
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know I went to a private Christian
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Academy okay um and so I was able to
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avoid the feeder schools that led to my
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high school um and so just having that
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Foundation under me I think uh made me a
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soft exception to the rule you know what
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I mean um and my imagination was
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cultivated differently because my
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parents just kind of allowed me to cook
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it was a very very interesting story and
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you believe it or not it was one Easter
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Sunday I had to be 10 years old uhhuh my
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pops got me a duck a like a malard a
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duck yeah duck a white duck the bird a
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duck yeah he had a duck in the box and
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just told me the name and it was my
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I named him Duke cuz even he have to be
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I had a thing for alliteration come on
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Duke the duck was du duck it was my dog
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basically Duke the duck was your dog
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Duke the duck was my dog and everybody
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had pit bulls and rock Wilders in my
3:43
neighborhood but you know I would walk
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Duke like a real dog and he would quack
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back everybody was barking at him and I
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raised him for at least two years my
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grandma didn't want the house to smell
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like Duck so I had to keep him in the
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garage next to my Granddaddy's building
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during the winter in the summer we had a
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a farm style type entament that we kept
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a duck in but it got hard cuz you know
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in the hood during the summer times
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that's when the haters come out uhhuh
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uhhuh and naturally the squirrels the
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rats raccoons start hating on start
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hating on the duck and so I would come
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out sometimes and I would see like white
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feathers all over the yard about the
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duck had been fighting for his life but
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he was strong every time he got merked
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or beat up a little bit he always came
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back quack back he would be at the door
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every time I came back from school he
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would wake me up at the same time every
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morning how would he wake you up g g g
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just get me up
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he would just get me up so this so
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satest day of my childhood s and this is
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in Harvey right I'm the only little boy
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in the hood that got a duck oh my God
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but the squirrels and the raccoons
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hating on him my pops found this pond in
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another neighborhood and he was like yo
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whoever taking care of those ducks to
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take care Duke cuz Duke he he was
4:47
getting banged up my little brother was
4:48
trying to teach him how to fly but he
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didn't understand he was a domestic
4:52
duck you know say your brother didn't
4:54
know that he didn't understand that at
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his age so he was just throwing him in
4:57
the air trying to see if he was going to
4:58
float and he was just he kept on falling
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on the back of his neck he was getting
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real neck problems so we took him to
5:04
this Pond that I had other ducks have to
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be and I left from there and he kept on
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following me back to the car he didn't
5:10
want to leave I was like dude it's not
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sweet for you at home you know if you
5:14
come back somebody going to get hurt I
5:16
don't want it to be you yeah so I left
5:18
him there I would come back and check on
5:19
him every now and then my pops one lying
5:22
I came back he had the cast and some
5:23
crutches like somebody was looking out
5:25
for him for Duke for Duke yeah he was
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the only white duck amongst like all
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other Mard you know what I'm saying we
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TR a darker color so it was easy to
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identify him and he was he was smooth
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yeah except for that one time I came
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back and it was like the winter time and
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natural y'all the ducks have flown South
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yeah Duke was there by itself a yeah I
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should have let a little bro teach him
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how to fly yeah yeah that's on me I all
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right so I I promise I don't have a dark
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side but I thought he was going to be
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Easter dinner I thought so too I thought
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I no I thought hell no I couldn't eat
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duck for a long time honestly just
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started really yeah in honor of my duck
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now I I enjoy a little duck okay I
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thought Duke was done no no yo so you
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had a pet duck I had a pet duck growing
6:12
up that's Gangsta get that man a round
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of applause story that'll make you tough
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man I I couldn't wait to hear the ending
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yeah woo I'm glad Duke didn't die so
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Duke didn't die no Duke didn't die we
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defitely had to give him a ride to
6:24
Orlando every summer I feel like
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it's you couldn't fly he couldn't fly we
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you had to take them sou you had to
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drive them it was wild right they had to
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drive them
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sou yo I want to go back though to um L
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ly's Hawkins by the way ladies and
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gentlemen he's here I want to go back to
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how we intro you and in the conversation
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about these NOS because I find it so
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fascinating and U actually I had to use
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it as a tool of growth spiritually the
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nose cuz it can mess with you they they
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can mess with you SW I had a
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conversation one day years ago about
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auditioning and he said to me I don't
7:03
know how you do it because I like the
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constant nose the nose the no NOS it's a
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lot to deal with and I had to find a
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space for those Nos and not live on them
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too long till I finally get that yes or
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those yeses and you know and then
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understood the NOS when the yeses came
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if that makes sense to you absolutely
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how did how did the process go for you
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cuz I know it didn't we didn't play a
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lot of that clip but what was the
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process because I remember the first
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year I went out auditioned it was
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probably maybe 90 NOS M within um from
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February to December M doing this for
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commercials alone they can rack up can't
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they
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quick no for real they have no problem
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don't even tell you what you did wrong
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it's
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just thanks but n thanks nah n for real
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for real for real for me um one of the
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things and watch this had to be cuz I
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know we got we got more on the way what
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I what one of the first things I had to
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do was take the word audition out my
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vocabulary all
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together it's not even an audition it's
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an opportunity okay every time uhuh and
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if you and if you create the opportunity
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space for yourself then you're not um
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you know the the denial or the or the
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rejection doesn't feel the same because
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you use that moment as an opportunity to
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do a few things you can uh be working on
8:23
something right like sometimes when I
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used to do when I had an audition
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opportunity I'll be like you know what
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for this audition I'm just going to
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focus on um I'm going focus on my own
8:33
imagination I I understand what the
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character description says but my
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imagination is telling me I should go a
8:39
different direction you know and so I'm
8:41
going to use this as an opportunity to
8:42
try something yeah I can use it as an
8:44
opportunity to work on The Voice to
8:46
focus on something specific that way
8:48
whenn Lose or Draw you still improving
8:50
and you're getting better you got that
8:52
work in you got that work in you're
8:53
getting positive shots up even though
8:56
you might be told no you put up a
8:57
positive shot so you just take the
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audition word out of your vocabulary all
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together and it's just an opportunity um
9:03
and then from there you start to trick
9:05
yourself into believing that um you know
9:08
what's yours is yours I don't want to do
9:10
nothing that ain't mine and what God has
9:11
for me is for me most naturally and so
9:14
if you get told no that mean it was
9:15
obviously somebody else's and it makes
9:17
you grateful for whoever that person is
9:19
for the opportunity that they now have I
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like that beautiful L Roy Hawkins is
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here
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AKA officer Kevin Atwater is here the
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language language I've been really
9:29
working on the Power of Words you know
9:33
how my perspective on things if um if
9:37
something falls through I don't say it
9:40
was a failure right you know I I don't
9:42
use those words put that energy on any
9:45
experience or any experience I see
9:47
coming yeah I believe we create fear in
9:49
our own heads right right and so if we
9:52
could create fear we could create
9:54
success right and so what that process
9:56
you're doing I really like because there
9:58
is no
10:00
in that does that apply personal
10:02
relationships personal scenarios as well
10:05
not just professional absolutely
10:07
absolutely um you know on on a social
10:10
level even with uh let's take you know
10:12
when when it comes to talking to young
10:14
ladies for example okay let's talk about
10:15
that what I what I tell them nowadays is
10:17
brother don't get started serious
10:19
conversation serious conversation man
10:21
cuz nose count with that too get out of
10:24
his way beat it that that too they say
10:27
that
10:29
say that I just P the picture of Roy
10:32
okay no but the U the the you just
10:34
simplify the approach right and and you
10:37
try to create something more grounded
10:38
for yourself and so um for yourself for
10:41
for yourself and so sometimes when young
10:43
ladies ask me if I'm dating or what I'm
10:44
interested and I just let them know I'm
10:46
interested more so in just practicing
10:48
good
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habits how can I practice good habits
10:51
with a woman mhm you know what I mean
10:53
and then that way you the the approach
10:55
if you simplify it like I said whenn
10:58
Lose or Draw you're learning you're
10:59
growing you know what I'm saying and if
11:01
as long as everybody involved is
11:04
understand that's really slicky it's
11:06
almost Oakland pimpish but I I know you
11:09
from Chicago so I'mma let you slide I
11:11
know Oakland and Chicago are
11:15
cousin really
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pimpish don't do that other beat I'm
11:19
just speaking the truth I'm here I'm I'm
11:23
interested in simplifying simplifying
11:26
yeah you know cuz sometimes it can get
11:28
way too complicated uhhuh and sometimes
11:30
you it's hard to say and you know I
11:33
can't you know I got a son seven years
11:35
old he's doing a great job his name is
11:37
Roman John you know and um and I'm
11:40
interested in my son watch me work hard
11:43
you know not necessarily convolute um
11:46
things with uh you know extra
11:48
relationships outside of the family like
11:50
I'm trying to build a real Village for
11:52
you know what I'm saying so whoever we
11:54
bring in to those Villages have to
11:56
understand um that good habits is where
11:58
it starts
12:00
you know we start with those love skills
12:01
just trust you know we focus on Love
12:04
Languages a lot hea and I think it's
12:06
hard to sustain Love Languages without
12:08
just the fundamentals trust
12:10
communication reciprocation you know
12:13
what I mean those things um and so
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that's what I focus on like I said I
12:17
think and that simplifies the approach
12:18
and is the same way with audition
12:20
opportunities you just focus on
12:21
something small and then you build up
12:23
and as long as you're putting positive
12:26
energy deposits into the space yeah you
12:29
good yeah it'll pay off Gina's on the
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line from Charlotte say what's up to L
12:33
Hawkins AKA officer Atwater from Chicago
12:37
PD what's up G G live hey hey good
12:40
morning good morning hey hey hey hey L I
12:44
had to call and let me tell you I
12:46
thought I was the only one in the world
12:49
how about I had a pet duck too when I
12:50
was growing up you see
12:53
me what was your duck name her name was
12:56
Cleopatra quack CLE
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[Applause]
13:02
qu lyce you done started something all
13:04
these duck owners about to call up here
13:08
Cleopatra quack that's a fire name
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though y Cleopatra quack she was
13:14
gangster too man she was a PE King duck
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the project got for Easter I got mine
13:20
for Easter too yep I heard you I'm like
13:25
w ducks are perfect pets for Easter but
13:29
perfect gifts yo but they sell PE King
13:31
ducks like right down the street like
13:33
you could get that that is not nice I'm
13:35
just saying she said she had a PE King
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duck I'm seeing the projects I see a
13:40
menu you know what I
13:43
mean duck you one of them mean ones you
13:47
would have been one of them mean ones
13:48
them boys they had their pit bulls and
13:50
German Shepherds I'll be trying to walk
13:52
Cleo right it rain and everything and
13:55
try to let her go get her little worms
13:56
on and everything and they be out there
13:59
down what' you feed your duck I fed mine
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sunflower seeds she like uhh she like
14:04
peas Ted peas and tuna fish okay Smash
14:07
It yep yep I did sunflower seeds most of
14:09
the time and then you know with the
14:11
different flavors I'll would give them
14:12
you know the hot ones sometimes
14:15
really so wait a minute Gina so ly said
14:19
his Grandmama didn't want the duck in
14:21
the house cuz she didn't want the house
14:22
smelling like Duck where'd you keep your
14:24
duck Cleo stayed in my room with me in
14:27
my bedroom with me and she got be big so
14:30
I ended up having to give her away cuz
14:32
her wingspan you know got too long in
14:35
the house and she couldn't stretch out
14:36
like I said we was in a project so we
14:38
was in an apartment wow she stayed in my
14:41
room with me
14:42
and her away she was safe with me wow
14:46
she gave her away what about Duke her
14:49
what happened with
14:52
Duke I will check on him every now and
14:54
then like I said he just kept getting
14:55
left every winter he couldn't fly down
14:57
there so is Duke still with us Duke I
15:01
doubt Duke is still with us I doubt Duke
15:03
is still with us and the memory of Duke
15:05
I do enjoy a good duck meal oh you can't
15:10
Swit up and eat your people n it
15:12
happened by accident once and so ever
15:14
since then I just I just been leading in
15:17
that's on me duck is greasy oh my God is
15:21
greasy Gina I'm glad you found somebody
15:24
you can share that story with I
15:26
appreciate you I feel heard and seen
15:27
this morning thank you so much
15:30
follow follow him at ly Hawkins and then
15:32
you guys can swap duck stories okay for
15:35
a fact Duck Duck Duck Go you're a
15:38
citizen s morning Gina all right cool
15:40
man James Mississippi what up J what up
15:44
J what up I just wanted to say good
15:48
morning to you all and this is my first
15:52
time being on with you all we got a
15:54
first time caller hold up man hold up yo
15:58
hey
15:59
welcome to the tribe all right what's
16:01
your question Jay I just wanted to give
16:04
a shout out to my brother Roy Hawkins
16:08
say shout out to Omega ciity
16:10
Incorporated oh Ru to the good Brothers
16:13
I hear you big dog he just threw up his
16:14
set yes
16:18
sir R to the good brother R to the world
16:21
thank you
16:22
doc keep doing what you all doing and
16:26
the Positive Vibes are being
16:29
that's what's up man thank you from the
16:31
heart friendship is essential hey do the
16:33
noise do the the Frat
16:38
noise I hear you big do wow you a
16:42
citizen brother in the morning what just
16:44
a hell happened right there man yo are
16:48
you famous in the Frat do they know you
16:50
as an actor around the country yeah yeah
16:52
yeah yeah and for the most part yeah but
16:55
I I Tred not not that I'm low-key with
16:57
it it's just that um you know I walk I
17:00
walk I walk differently right like I see
17:03
BR and I always let them know I'm in the
17:05
room you know what I mean but I'm not
17:07
that big on um parry's wasn't that big
17:10
on Brands when I did my thing I knew I
17:12
wanted to be an actor I knew I was going
17:14
to um portray different images right and
17:17
so I didn't want to um you know I just
17:19
didn't want to send messages that didn't
17:22
support the story that I was sending so
17:24
if you know I'm the BR you know I'm the
17:26
BR and we know how to have that
17:27
conversation um but and for the most
17:29
part um like I said it walks with me so
17:33
everything that I do in my community
17:35
everything that we do as far as Hood
17:36
development which is the um which is the
17:39
nonprofit arm of be powerful you know
17:41
what I'm saying and how we how we move
17:42
in my neighborhood I prioritize Harvey
17:45
and make sure that we bring hope and
17:47
resources and opportunity to my old
17:49
neighborhood which um 100% the Frat
17:52
supports and um and brothers that like
17:55
that I went through the process with my
17:57
line Brothers um in my specific chapter
18:00
we do a lot of work we do a lot of work
18:02
how would you
18:04
um when you got the role I mean it's
18:07
Chicago PD it's NBC you know what it
18:11
takes to get that right you you know the
18:13
inside part how do you celebrate that
18:16
moment that blessing um and the success
18:19
of it without getting too carried away
18:22
without getting too caught up you know
18:24
what I mean yeah because it's it's huge
18:27
this is network television
18:29
you know and and it's a lot knowing
18:31
where you came from knowing the process
18:33
of it you you beat out a lot of people
18:35
not that it's about that but the process
18:38
of it is really hard to book a network
18:40
gig like this in a successful show what
18:43
do you tell yourself every day like how
18:45
do you sustain to stay in this space um
18:48
that's a great question I appreciate you
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I think the uh what grounds me is just
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understanding the assignment more than
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anything um when I when when I got this
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opportunity
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it was between and I'll tell the story
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that often it was either Chicago PD or
19:04
Ballers on HBO for me wow okay a lot of
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people don't know that yeah that was
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Washington with with John David
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Washington he actually he he got the
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role yeah um that that I let go because
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I wanted to work at home I wanted to do
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Chicago PD but I was offred Ballers
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first okay and so um imagine being at
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this Junction as a as a young man I
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think I was about 25 at the time where
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it's was like okay do you do Ballers or
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do do Chicago PD and Ballers at the time
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with the rock um and uh just HBO in
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general you know it felt like a very
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flashy shiny opportunity that I was
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grateful to you know anybody would have
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been grateful for that but Chicago PD um
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to work at home and even though playing
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a cop didn't feel as glorious as a
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football player there was something in
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my spirit that just told me straight up
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that you know I had the potential to be
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a bridge and so the assignment to be a
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bridge between um my community and cop
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culture is is what excited me about it
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and I think that's what keeps my head on
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the ground because that's what's most
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important more than anything and so by
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the time and I'm grateful that I've been
20:10
able to be on the show for this long we
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just wrapped up 11 Seasons come on come
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on 11 season so you made the right
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choice Ballers been gone Ballers been
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get
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out get out your own show bro like you
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got to
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go but you know what I'm saying but but
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11 Seasons later yeah um um you know
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because we kept our head down and we
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stuck to the assignment did my best to
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uplift the image of the black man
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especially it went in a role like this
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where it was getting tumultous a few
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times I remember after the pandemic and
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when the social unrest and we were
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watching cops um we we were really
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watching cops uh you know fight against
20:49
the culture in ways that we didn't
20:51
understand and so to just stand on this
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role and do it the way I've been able to
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do it and then to be recognized by the
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NAACP right right um I'm I'm I'm proud
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and grateful and not only do I feel like
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I made the right choice but but like I
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said that's what keeps my head on the
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ground that's beautiful that's beautiful
21:07
apprciate we're proud of you L uh give
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it up for L Hawkins man your story is
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Magnificent come back you know you know
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I feel like we got to continue these
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conversations for a fact yeah man um
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this is just a Prelude to more I hope so
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I see us hanging we come we going to be
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here in Chicago May 18th the 18th oh
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yeah yeah I'll be there I'm not going to
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say where we going to be I can't say
21:29
where we're going to be you
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[Applause]
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can't no you have a lot of friends bro
21:35
and they just show up and say sway said
21:37
and then you it puts it everybody in a
21:39
bad spot right not my
21:43
friends they get to go in the party ly
21:46
you know me you seen how while I am at
21:48
the party I see you we was in there
21:49
kicking it we we was having so much of a
21:51
good time we thought we had an interview
21:54
with he was like we did this before
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right I was like no we was we was
21:59
grooving pic just felt so natural no I
22:02
got you but we can't tell we right come
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on but your your disposition in life
22:07
your philosophies how the blessings your
22:10
your discipline how you conduct yourself
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is admirable and we need to hear more of
22:14
that the fact that even taking a rooll
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on that you thought could be a tool to
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be a bridge between the community and
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law enforcement the way you think about
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U the projects you assign yourself to
22:25
the way you want to be there for your
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for your son you know the way you took
22:30
care of Duke I can tell what kind of man
22:32
what kind of person you are man so I
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salute you brother and I congratulations
22:36
all success you made the right choice
22:38
man come on man come on give it up for
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ly hains man he's one of
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us choosing that flash man that's a a
22:46
gem in that too you know it's hard to
22:48
sway point I mean it is it's going now
22:51
but when it's dangling in your face like
22:53
that and you you know you don't every
22:54
just the hot thing you know but you have
22:56
to do the right thing you know and you
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chose that wisely blessings I feel like
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I think the way I'm feeling who we got
23:03
up next Heather be we got we got Winston
23:05
Dukas coming up yeah he um he was uh he
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we all were in the MCU you know you know
23:11
he him for black panther us for L cage
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you know we're part of the MCU the
23:14
Marvel the Marvel you know the universe
23:17
uhuh I'm familiar with the universe okay
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okay all right yeah yeah yeah I'm tapped
23:20
in a little bit a little bit okay yes
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sir I was hoping man maybe we could end
23:24
this with some spoken word oh man I
23:29
work I I'm announced that he's a spoken
23:31
word artist so I I I need to he needs to
23:33
back that up for me oh okay no problem
23:37
all right cool AR capella no no problem
23:39
AR capella too AR capella copy that
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watch this all right can I tell you a
23:44
story yeah would
23:45
you it's one of my
23:47
favorites you might be familiar Big Dog
23:51
Okay Peter picked a fight with Jesus
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okay on a boat full of Honeys and some
23:56
wavy [ __ ] Luke told him he was
23:59
tripping he a't want to listen Peter
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didn't pay attention on a different
24:01
Rhythm he said good Lord if it's really
24:04
you let me do it too Jesus said [ __ ]
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I'm the truth in the wave and the light
24:10
we can walk on water but don't take me
24:12
out your sight and Peter thought he
24:13
heard him right didn't even grab his
24:15
coat he just jumped up off the boat when
24:17
he landed on his boots Peter finally had
24:18
his proof keep your eyes on the prize
24:20
all Peter had to do but he was zooted
24:22
him Matthew had mushrooms in the
24:24
bathroom told Peter he a want no part of
24:26
it now he's on the water and the winds
24:28
got him wobbling all the fears in his
24:30
mind arrived at the perfect time and the
24:32
Thunder From The Storm threw Peter off
24:34
his form he was afraid beginning to sink
24:38
drowning in nightmares and fear of his
24:40
dreams and he cried for the Lord to save
24:41
his soul from the sea and Jesus called
24:43
him right before we hit the bottom threw
24:45
Peter on the ship asking why he ever
24:46
doubted him have a little faith in your
24:49
friend I told you I had you dog but you
24:51
never locked
24:52
in I'm the one you depend on in the dend
24:55
but to your defense that was pretty lit
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next time you on the wave listen to the
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spirit and respect the water Matthew 14
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there you go my man ly
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Hawkins better than half these rappers
25:11
that came up here so far I said it okay
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hey hey she said it she said it l love
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you brother
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