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Oct 3, 2021
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Comedian Sharief Johnson Talks About His Role on Power Book III: Raising Kanan | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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I just feel like you shouldn't have a
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kid if your dad still pay child support
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for
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you I'm for
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real I'm I'm dead yo you don't know the
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struggle of being on child support and
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receiving
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it yo I used to have to wait for my dad
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to make a
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payment so I can make a
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payment I'm in the house
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stressing texting him like hurry up
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before they lock us up
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yo man hey you got to yeah man you got
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to love it that's back in 2018 the Sway
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in the Morning comedy search we do at
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Carolines which is coming back really
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soon and this man has since going on to
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do exceptionally well man you can find
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this guy he made his acting debut
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Landing a recurrent role as Damon in on
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on a 50 cents power book three raising
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Kanan man we we had them back in 2018
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making y'all laugh and keeping you in
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stitches and look how his shine look how
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his shine has blown up he the be look
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how how much he's R he took the energy
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and made it into something better give
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it up for the one and only share
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Johnson hey yo you to bring me off the
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stage like that I'm ready share I've
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been practicing since you
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[Applause]
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won that's love man I appreciate y'all
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for having me on man thank y'all so much
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we we we have to because we're all we're
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all part of the shared Legacy now you
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know and you've been headlining major
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clubs from the stress Factory to Gotham
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here in New York City you've done a lot
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man with with the momentum and I know
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how hard it is to be a comedian but you
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shining man so salute we wanted to have
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you on the show so the Citi citizens can
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hear what's happening man you got to
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show a come on man you got to show a
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carlines right first first yes I do
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September 30th at 7:00 p.m. and first
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off I want to thank you and all the
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citizens because without y'all I
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wouldn't have even been in comedy clubs
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man that's a fact wow yeah before let me
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tell you man before before I did that
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comedy competition it was hard for me
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personally to get in comedy clubs I was
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you know I was going around trying to
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get in do the whole thing but it was
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super hard but after that you know it
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opened so many doors and I just I really
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really personally want to thank y'all
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man I appreciate it
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come on Tracy go ahead and cry you say
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that it open a lot of oh go no go ahead
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Tracy what's up my girl Tracy what up
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girl hey Bo so good to hear
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you and let me tell you this too let me
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say this real quick too so check this
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out even with like Landon the uh Power
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book three Damon roll as a recurring
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character if if I would have did that
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that competition actually led me to land
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in that role so what happened yeah so
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what happened was you know I won I won a
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competition in 2018 and then 2019 you
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guys had another competition I don't
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know well you you remember so I came
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back do you remember when I came back
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and I went in there and I you know I
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show y'all showed me a lot of love y'all
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was like this is Shar Johnson from last
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year he won who all that stuff and uh
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right after I walked out that door I kid
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you not it's like God man I'm telling
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you that's why like listen my success is
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great somehow along the line is parallel
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with you guys because I walked out that
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door and I'm walking on Broad uh
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Broadway right out of Carolines and some
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lady some lady pulls me over and she
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goes you ever thought about acting and
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at first I thought she was like flirting
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with me because you know I've been
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wearing my do-rag got my waves on so I'm
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like I'm like I'm like this lady trying
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to flirt with me what's going on and
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then she said you know but she got
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really serious and she was like have you
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ever thought about acting so I'm like
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you know what's funny I said I just
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literally left you know this competition
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I won the year before and I've been
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thinking about acting crazy so me this
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lady her name is s Hannibal that's my
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lady right there shout out to S sat and
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talk yeah we sat and talked two hours on
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Broadway complete stranger it was crazy
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two hours on right in front of Carolin
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and I remember her saying like you know
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I can help you with acting and I could
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you know send you these audition all
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this other stuff and and you know we in
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the business where everybody say they
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could you meet strangers all the time W
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I'm connected to this person who could
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put you on and they can take you you so
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I was kind of taking it light and I was
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like oh this is just a good conversation
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but I kid you not man I you know I went
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home that day and two days later she
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sent me on auditions and a year after
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like her s because I got a lot of nose
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I'm G let you know now that didn't
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happen overnight I got a lot of lot of
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NOS but a year after meeting her and
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going on auditions I landed the power
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book 3 raising Kanan but that was that
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was from leaving that competition crazy
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right and that's that was what I was
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going to ask you Shar what's up it's
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Heather thank you for all of the
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messages that you be sending me and you
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DM me I tell you that it make me smile
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when when you kind of just slip me a DM
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every now and then and like this is
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happening that's happening and I know
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that it's been a process for you but I
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would my question was what was the day
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that you really decided to take that
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leap because I think artists flipflop
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and go back and forth a lot but it has
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to be a day where you just say I'm going
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for broke this is going to be the day
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and it sounds like you met your angel on
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the street well God sent you an angel
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that day on the street and and that was
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the day huh okay yes that was it was God
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it was definitely God man because you
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know and what's funny is I like that day
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I wasn't even going to come to the
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competition honestly because I was going
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through my own thing personally where I
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was like thinking about this you know it
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was going through my head where I was
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like you know I really really want this
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I want to take this leap but I don't
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know my angle you know like like that's
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that's the hard part like a lot of times
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you could you know you could want it as
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much as you want but if you don't have
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an angle at it you just feel lost and I
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I felt like really lost about it I'll
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never forget I saw the Will Smith
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interview that day right and Will Smith
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was saying how he uh how he got the
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Fresh Prince how he you know he was
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going through his own thing from going
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from a platinum artist to being broke
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yes I'll never forget this he was like
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he was like um his girlfriend at the
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time was telling him to go hang out at
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this area but he was like no I really
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don't want to go and she was like I'm
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telling you just go hang out down there
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and ironically my girl was telling me
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the same thing that day she was like
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just go to the competition and I was
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like I won last year I don't really want
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to go back and be that guy like you know
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people who graduate high school and then
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they go hang out like it don't look
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right so I was like I don't really want
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to do
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that it doesn't look right though yeah I
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I was like you know what I'm saying like
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I don't want to be that guy hanging
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around like so but she my girl took my
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girl my fiance now by the way
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congratulations man this this your life
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is a story book and you decided to go
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and and it so yes I went there I went to
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the competition I went out there I hung
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out with you guys again let me tell what
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you guys do is amazing man like the the
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giving back that you guys do on that
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stage to all type of artists is like
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it's inspirational honestly because like
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you just give give give you really don't
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take you're just giving to everybody a
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platform so I went down there and uh you
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know nothing person like it was love I
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felt love but nothing happened in that
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moment but as soon as I walked out the
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door this lady calls me over and she's
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you know and and boom it's like an angel
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it was like God and it happened like
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that after seeing that Will Smith
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interview because he was saying like
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yeah because he said he went down there
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and he met Quincy Jones and Quincy was
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like I know who you are you know what
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I'm saying and he was like he was like
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why don't you just audition for this
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role and Will Smith at the time was kind
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of like you know he was like oh I'll do
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it later and Quincy said look you could
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either do it now and change your life or
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you could do this and think about how it
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could have changed your life and I kid
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you not when I saw that interview like
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I'm going go hang
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out look Will Smith too Will Smith
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changed your life
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brother join the sway in the morning you
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know CU we all Heather Tracy the whole
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crew we changed your life man are been a
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part of your life change let me say that
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Shar cuz you you got you got to put the
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energy in man I just want to say
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congratulations and Carolines is back
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open so C is if you want to check check
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him out September when is September
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that's tomorrow tomorrow 7or tomorrow
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night 7 P.M it's gonna be crazy man I
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got I have my my my friend uh one of my
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good friends ran Reese he was on BET
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Comic View he's hosting I got two of my
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friends who've been with me since the
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beginning Terence Parker Tony La and I
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have one of my good friend she's a beast
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her name is stiletto from Baltimore
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super funny and me headlining so yeah
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definitely get the tickets man tomorrow
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night there it is man I'm proud of you
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Shar come on brother and and y'all can
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see me on season two coming up at Power
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book three razing
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Kanan look at that boy he got he got
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star tracks he got Stars tracks yo hey
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man y'all follow him at Reef comedy r i
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e f comedy on Instagram all right um yo
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Reef keep shining baby and we going hey
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when we do our uh when we bring this the
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comedy search back to um Carolines man
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you want to rock with us come do a set
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absolutely Absol my man there you go my
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man Shar Johnson we love you
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congratulations
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engagement and everything everything man
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tomorrow check them out at Carolines
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have a beautiful day Shar bye re man
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thank y'all bye love y'all man
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appreciate it love you too love you too
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man another guy we love yeah that's
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beautiful who's doing a lot of beautiful
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things wow yeah let's let that breathe
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for a second man that story was amazing
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mhm that's just that's a case of just
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making an effort making the effort you
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know getting up and being in the right
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place at the right time you know but you
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got to make the effort had he not got up
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that morning and came by that show he
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wouldn't have met that agent that got
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him on Power Three raising Canan got to
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make the effort citizens it ain't going
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to just come to you cuz you you know you
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know you just think you deserve it but
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you got to go out and get it sometimes
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and I'm I'm proud of that man
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oh
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