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Papa Jay On 'Creed 3', New Music & Pays Homage To Bruno Mars, Chris Brown @Usher @MichaelJackson
Dec 11, 2022
14-year-old star Papa Jay stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about his career and the legends that he looks to for inspiration. He also spoke a little about his appearance in Creed 3 alongside Michael B Jordan and Jonathan Majors.
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yo I had to play a clip from that
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Heather because I'm a Hulu guy right one
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of the reasons why I'm a Hulu guy
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because my partner can't got a contract
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with Hulu
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and you like the content that's all Hulu
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and I like the content but they hire
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Tech so yeah plus one you know that so
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you know he's a music supervisor for uh
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the Wu-Tang Clan Saga absolutely you
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know he's done that all season salute to
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him and Rizza and and because of that I
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start watching Hulu more and there was
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this series that came out called
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Reasonable Doubt Tracy you when you
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think Reasonable Doubt what do you think
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Tracy G Hove Sean Corey Carter Jay-Z one
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of the greatest albums of all time
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especially when it comes to debuts
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she's in Brooklyn she didn't want to
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come to La she's like I'm here you know
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she dropping it um but this young man we
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see it a lot man we see a lot of young
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folks that come into the game and you
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can see the Promise in them right you
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can see the energy that they have it
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radiates on the screen when I saw him in
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the movie uh some safety which was about
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a uh uh Clemson Tiger football player
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who was raising his brother
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um as he went through football I noticed
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this young man that's like yo that dude
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got a light on him absolutely
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um and and then I start watching this
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Reasonable Doubt then I read up on them
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because he works with my good friend
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Troy Marshall shout out
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right now he's going to be a member a
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cast member of Creed Three okay I'm like
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man yeah this dude just so I could I
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could feel comfortable at sending them
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my cash app you know what I mean
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when people asking for money he don't
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got that [ __ ] to get money he got it
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bro
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this young man is ahead of the game
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Tracy G please welcome him to the show
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he's an actor he's a songwriter he's a
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choreographer he's a singer he's just an
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all-around great guy give it up for the
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one and only Papa Jays
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is
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[Applause]
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done thank you so who's your stylist
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um me and my dad for real yeah my dad he
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helped me like pay certain outfits out
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I'll be putting them on some of the
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jeans I Rockies and stuff like that they
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real comfortable easy to dance in uh-huh
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uh varsity jackets yeah that's that's my
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type of stuff polos all that yo do you
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got to keep your dad up on it though
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cause I got a daughter and I can't I
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can't I don't know
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uh sometimes but I don't know he just he
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know how to put stuff together like I'd
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be wondering like how you know about
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this and I know about this how old is
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your dad if you don't mind us asking you
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know 43. oh he's a hip-hop
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we teach the world everything you
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realize that about our culture life we
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drive the global Community yeah sure
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yeah what kind of uh so you like dancing
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in your jeans what's like what's I don't
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know to help me make me help what's the
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popular dances right popular dances
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um man well me personally I really watch
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and study a lot of old dances okay like
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Fred Astaire
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um the Nicholas Brothers James Brown
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Michael Jackson yeah of course don't let
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that go on one rewarded oh yeah history
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the history of it yeah yeah mainly you
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know wow why was that important to you
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um let me tell you this that young lady
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on the screen is in Brooklyn so you'll
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hear her voice from time to time that's
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why I know you're looking at Heather
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yeah
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you don't hear a lot of young folks that
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want to go back in the past in fact they
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typically might want to disregard the
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past it's about the noun but why was
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that important what'd you learn from
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that no because I feel like we can learn
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so much from the past like for real
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that's that's really what it is for me
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and me and my dad I just like he just
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put me in front of in front of the
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computer and just play all these like
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OG's in the game and like it just taught
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me so much and I was like I could really
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bring this to the new style and and and
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and and do something different that
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nobody has seen before I love what
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you're saying and salute to your dad for
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doing that because if you study the
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Michael Jackson's he will tell you it
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was James Brown it was Fred Astaire it
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was the Nicholas Brothers sometimes you
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can compare some of the videos that
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Michael Jackson has done and you'll see
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very similar moves but updated you know
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to your point and what you're saying I
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love that your dad has done that with
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you and you you'll carry yourself a lot
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further in this industry because I see
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you as an artist like everything that
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sway started to listen your resume
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you're just an all-around artist so the
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future is ahead of you congratulations
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thank you thank you very much for
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something man I just I just I'm just
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appreciating this because a lot of times
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when I talk to the youth you know like
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you said they disregard the past they
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don't want to do with it and so I'm just
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very intrigued by that but then also as
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far as now like um as far as dancing and
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stuff like that do you look at people
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like because I mean we got we were we
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were robbed into Chris Brown
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um dance performance and I really want
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to see that is there anything like that
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that you look forward to doing
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um yeah for sure like because you say
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you listed all these ogs in the game but
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is there anybody that you will see you
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could see yourself doing a tribute to
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one day yeah definitely Chris Brown
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um shout out to Chris Brown yeah come on
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man yes sir
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um even like for me Bruno Mars like I
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really don't know yeah I watch Bruno and
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why he he cold man you just see his
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shows and everything like he different
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like really built different and he's
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have he's
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like he's been in the game for a minute
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too so I respect all of them is there a
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regiment that you have because it takes
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a lot of work to like dance and sing and
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at the same time is there is there a
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regimen you got you do like a thousand
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burpees a day or like this well I mean
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yeah I do Burpee sometimes but um mainly
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I run and I sing Oh while you're jogging
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yeah so I run and I sing uh if I'm on
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the treadmill I've seen then I just
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always when I'm dancing and stuff I make
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sure I sing so I get used to doing the
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breath control of it it helps him with
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his breath control that's that's a dope
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technique that I don't know if somebody
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taught you that but that's dope where
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does Usher falling all of this for you
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um
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he's there for sure because that's a
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goat like that's yeah that's a real goat
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like honestly I feel like even even
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using my dad has put me in front of
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Usher like just put me on the Usher and
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stuff and like here you go yeah that's
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how I feel yeah Papa J is here well you
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get this name Papa
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who Papa are you he was like 17. most
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people say like I'm young with an old
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soul so that's why you know my dad he
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called me Papa and
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it was like I was able to hold
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conversations with you know older people
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at such a young age so people like man
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there's no way he three years old having
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a conversation about this you know what
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he's six years old doing this and doing
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this it's like pop on young but also
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Papa Jack your dad knew that one day
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you'll be with some women sometime and
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she gonna be calling out your name
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so you told me imma grow into it so I
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was like all right
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because like you know a lot of people
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who come out maybe when they're younger
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and especially when they have a wide
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variety of talents they might have the
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word Lil in front of their name you know
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I'm thinking about what little bow wow
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came out at a very young age the little
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Romeo so I like that one you embody the
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maturity of a papa and then your father
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was able to like forecast you know the
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future and be like nah you're gonna grow
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into it
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um
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and it also makes me think too like Papa
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I don't know if you want to join this
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combo that we have with um head as well
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earlier this morning but because you are
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an older so I want I wonder
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would you feel comfortable then dating
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older women as well since you already
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feel comfortable engagement
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listens like it ain't got me right now
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because I think oh this is what we doing
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on Monday yeah I'm 14. so you know
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18 year old version 14 18 14. it is a
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papa
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so you would date somebody what 54 it
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was sure
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okay
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do they do the hand thing hand dated
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somebody
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I was 19 and I was with somebody that
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was 31. that's why you were smiling I
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was like
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like if a 24 year old came up to you
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it's like you know Papa I mean look I'm
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gonna talk to her for sure but you know
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guys
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at the end of the day it's still you
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know you can catch a case baby it's
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that's you know I mean yeah yeah you
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don't want to do that yeah I like that
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man this dude man y'all got to see his
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jeans can you stand up on the chair a
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little bit I got you yeah yeah he fit it
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out hey look as soon we need to sponsor
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me man yeah who is this
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yeah
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you could you could do but how they
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gonna you can't wait thank you Tracy
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I'm gonna give him my cash out too
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cash
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Papa J got older women yeah it's too
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about to be a Creed Three yeah bro right
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yeah that's that's man that's a blessing
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for real like especially meeting
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everybody on a cruise set like yeah it
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was wow what was that life
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so like
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when I got the audition I was so like I
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was so happy and I was like this can't
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be real like my dad he was putting in
9:59
the air when I was shooting safety like
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my son got to be in Creed like he was
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just saying that to Reggie Helen who
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actually directed safety shout out to
10:06
Reggie shout out to Reggie yeah man he
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helped build bet back in the day and
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yeah he's a true goat yeah amazing to
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work with too he just kept saying he was
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I don't know how it's gonna happen if he
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got to be a son or something like that
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and I get the audition in uh 2022 yeah
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this year and um I was just like I gotta
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I gotta kill this I gotta I gotta like I
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gotta book this I was like I don't know
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I don't care about anything else right
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now I gotta book this I'm going to
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school and like you know I'm in class
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and it's hard it's hard for me to focus
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because I'm just saying the lines while
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I'm in class and my teacher's like what
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are you doing like what are you doing
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right now I'm like look my bad I'm just
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I'm going over this audition and then
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um every time I got in the car my dad
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would just start he would start the
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audition and then start reading like his
10:54
lines which was the other person's line
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that I was reading with and I would go
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over the script and then I met Michael B
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Jordan
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um when I got the second when I got the
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second uh call back yeah and I was like
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it didn't even hit me that I was with
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Michael B Jordan I was just talking to
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Michael B Jordan at first because I was
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so locked in but when I got on set the
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first day that I booked it oh my God I
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was like Rejoice
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bro look like bro like I'm like yo like
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I'm playing younger him so the first
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thing I told him I was like look since I
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look like a younger you you know you
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should put me on some ladies dog but you
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know
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I mean there's no helping brother out
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you know what I mean so but um but yeah
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man it was so congratulations yeah I bet
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he saw himself in you a little bit
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because that's the first thing I thought
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I was like you could be his son like
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that's incredible yeah but they all look
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alike though like it's weird if you see
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a picture my dad showed a picture of him
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me and Michael B Jordan because
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everybody used to say my dad look like
11:54
Michael B Jordan cut his beard off and
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everything we look like a family like
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it's weird like we even saw Mike he was
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like it ain't no way bro like this crazy
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relations bro uh ancestry.com yeah but
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let's talk about that power of
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manifestation too we've been talking
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about that a lot this year we're just
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having faith even through your
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frustrations in life and because you
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don't book everything that you go you go
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out for some things you may really
12:18
really want but the fact that your dad
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said that and put into the universe and
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that power a manifestation how you
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shouted Out Mr hutland and everything I
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think it's great great great
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congratulations I can't wait to see it
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for that because manifestation is part
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of this too you just absolutely have to
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believe thank you very much and I'm glad
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you talked about uh had actually about
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your regimen earlier and part of that
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practicing that y'all did you know being
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in class and having lines flow through
12:45
your head rewind as soon as you get in
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the car that's the part of the work that
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people don't hear enough or see or see
12:52
they just see the end result they'll see
12:54
you on the screen they'll see you post
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something on social you're probably
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doing some dances on Tick Tock or
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something but they didn't see the
13:00
rehearsal yeah they didn't see none of
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that and like you said like you don't
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book everything like when I did my first
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movie
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um I booked another movie like literally
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right when I was done shooting that
13:10
movie and it was called South to heaven
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right and after I filmed that
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um this was like we were about to go
13:17
straight into covet but I like stopped
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booking for like a whole like six seven
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months and like
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I thought about and I was like I know
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I'm not cocky nothing like that but I
13:27
got too confident I was slacking on
13:29
doing my auditions and stuff I was like
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uh maybe I'll wait I'll wait till you
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know the day before yeah then I was like
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I'm noticed I'm not booking right now
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and I was like I gotta really put that
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work in that same hunger and I and I got
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it back and I just Creed came and that's
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when I was like I gotta get this I gotta
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do it like you know and so yeah man Papa
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J here man get his young man he giving
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me chills right now damn Troy is that
13:53
your pop shoulder what's that that's the
13:54
picture I actually thought it was two
13:56
pictures of Michael B Jordan that's
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really crazy oh my God Tracy No Cap
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that's his father
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I know you never wanted to be on camera
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I know but if you're ever gonna do it
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you might as well do it here right that
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is nuts wow wow
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oh my gosh you gotta hold that to the
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camera
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yo this that's crazy Tracy
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that is crazy wow wow
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let me see your pops hold your hands up
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let me see Yo
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oh yeah I want to see this let me see
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the shadow
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boxes
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got stuff to do tomorrow
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oh wow
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wow
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wow wow you're like all right all right
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all right
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go to a song
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hey I'm glad you got out of that bro yo
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man was like no don't do it
15:26
citizens call up
15:29
888-742-3345 which you're witnessing
15:31
right now Denzel had to be 14. no at one
15:35
point right Michael Ealy was 14 at one
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point you co-star with him in reasonable
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doubt that's a good friend of ours you
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know yeah and parents listen if you have
15:44
some questions for Papa J's Dad I know a
15:47
lot of y'all trying to get y'all kitchen
15:48
to the industry it takes work though and
15:50
commitment ask questions you got
15:52
questions you want to get your kid in an
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industry
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888-742-3345 this is I ain't playing
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Papa J is out right now four five Papa J
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is here that's his new single I ain't
16:04
playing that's good 14 years old you
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already saw him in the movie safety and
16:09
um you can see them in the Hulu series
16:10
reusable doubt and you'll see them in
16:12
the upcoming Creed Three and um I ain't
16:15
playing yeah what I like about your
16:17
music what I find interesting has I've
16:19
heard a few of his songs is even you
16:21
wouldn't like Papa J is an appropriate
16:23
name because your songs
16:25
are youthful but mature yeah at the same
16:29
is that there's how much say so do you
16:31
have in your creativity oh I have a lot
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to say so like I write I write my own
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records with my dad
16:36
um Melodies
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um like I do my own Melodies like my
16:40
writing present process is like that I
16:42
do my Melodies then me and my pops start
16:44
writing and uh yeah I have a lot to say
16:46
so though yeah wow that's cool um I
16:49
don't have any children but I have
16:50
nieces and nephews and my nephew is
16:53
actually out here on this trip with me
16:55
just to get experiences and and learn a
16:57
little more and he had a conversation
16:59
with me last night a fact about jealousy
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you know
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um and how do you deal with it like you
17:05
know being around certain friends and he
17:08
said he's he's kind of like not into
17:10
some of the things that people are
17:12
getting into he said sometimes I feel
17:13
like the Oddball you know he's just like
17:15
I go back to my dorm or I go chill
17:17
someplace else how do you deal with it
17:20
because I mean music is one thing but
17:23
then when you start going into
17:24
television in film it's gigantic that's
17:27
like immediate name and face recognition
17:30
how is your circle of friends or do you
17:33
deal with any type of jealousy or Envy
17:35
just out of curiosity well I mean you
17:38
know it's going to be haters all over
17:39
but I just say God bless you to the
17:41
haters till you go you know what I mean
17:42
but um
17:44
when I started High School it was like
17:46
that's when I started noticing like
17:47
jealousy but I spread a lot of
17:49
positivity and love so I don't get too
17:51
much jealousy from people
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um but I got this little crew that I
17:54
call PBC in it it stands for positivity
17:56
Brotherhood and community and we love
17:59
that yeah we all stand together
18:03
I love that PBC positivity brother
18:07
Brotherhood Community yeah and um
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basically it's just
18:12
bringing Unity with all of us and just
18:15
coming together and making sure like we
18:16
got the basketball players you got even
18:18
football players you got you know what I
18:19
mean uh restless so many people that
18:22
just like
18:23
go under PBC because we just all want to
18:26
be together and not have any beefs at
18:28
school and not have any problems no
18:30
fights it's it's been no fights at
18:32
school like it like it's been no fights
18:35
from anybody for real especially on the
18:37
boys Side Girls there's been some fights
18:39
with them I don't know why they was
18:40
fighting but you know over the boys yeah
18:43
I guess so it was a lot of fights
18:48
it was a lot of fights but yeah that's
18:51
that's what it is I played in the way
18:52
man I love that how long how long you
18:54
been singing bro
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um I started in like at the end of 2019.
18:58
okay yeah I was um 11. yeah and then I
19:02
sang to this girl at school and I was
19:05
like I want to sing that I was like I
19:07
was like what you saying different from
19:09
all the rash
19:11
real close since we first met
19:14
I like you girl I confess yeah yeah
19:18
something my boys don't get no
19:24
and then after that she like oh [ __ ]
19:27
yeah
19:36
she was on me after that you ain't even
19:39
playing Fair Papa Jake yeah
19:44
go be able to handle that did you deal
19:47
with anything when your voice started to
19:49
change singing Once okay that's where I
19:51
was asking okay I woke up one morning
19:54
yeah
20:02
and I couldn't speak for like a whole
20:04
like like
20:05
two weeks for her like my voice was like
20:07
messed up for like a whole two weeks I
20:09
was in class like I don't know it was in
20:11
like an awkward stage for a minute yeah
20:13
I mean later on it just changed and I
20:15
was like ew it was cool talking to the
20:18
ladies because it was like oh you know
20:19
14. I'm putting on my little D voice and
20:21
everything and she like uh you gotta be
20:23
like 16 17. I'm like yep
20:26
wow baby PBC puberty proof
20:32
yo uh we got people up oh go ahead Tracy
20:36
yeah I wanted to know how important is
20:38
it for you that your friends be just as
20:40
ambitious because you know the average
20:42
14 year old isn't pursuing these Mighty
20:45
goals that also adults are pursuing as
20:48
well and oftentimes like when you get
20:50
older you'll hear people who have
20:51
mindset that's like okay you're the
20:54
average of the five closest people
20:55
everybody that's on my team got to be
20:57
striving for like greatness but I
20:59
average 14 year old just might be
21:01
focused on like getting good grades in
21:02
school if you want people around you who
21:05
have similar our aspirations or are you
21:07
okay with people who have maybe
21:09
perceived to be like smaller dreams
21:13
um
21:14
you know I I really strongly believe in
21:16
like if you surround yourself around
21:18
five millionaires you'll end up being
21:19
the six so it's like a lot of people
21:21
look up to me at school you know and
21:23
even in my friends they look up to me
21:25
like okay you you doing these things
21:27
that I haven't done I don't know exactly
21:29
what I want to do in life yet but I see
21:31
you and I have you know me personally I
21:33
feel like I got enough connections where
21:34
even my friends if they need help
21:35
figuring out what they want to do in
21:37
life and get a jump start on what they
21:39
want to do in life I can go help them
21:40
and also tell my dad you know my homie
21:43
wants he needs some help with this and
21:45
and you know he needs some help with
21:46
that do you have anything that can help
21:47
him so I feel like they all just you
21:49
know everybody pretty much has Ambitions
21:53
around me because it's just I'm like
21:55
that and like
21:56
it just I guess it attracts to everybody
21:58
else absolutely energy
22:00
that's all energy that's what energy is
22:03
all about Papa J is here uh we just
22:06
heard a single I ain't playing
22:07
I promise I'll take a call or two we got
22:10
pale on the line from Georgia go ahead
22:12
pal pal what up hey pal what up what up
22:14
family how y'all doing how y'all doing
22:16
what's up what's up
22:19
what's up hey this is for the father so
22:21
I have a daughter who's pretty talented
22:24
in a lot of ways and she wanted to
22:26
active wait hold on one second I want to
22:28
make sure you're here since can you
22:29
stand in between your son and Heather so
22:31
I want to make sure you're on the camera
22:42
all right
22:45
so like I said I have a daughter who's
22:48
pretty talented very talented to be
22:50
exact and she wanted to get into the
22:52
acting business and things of that
22:54
nature but it's very hard to really get
22:57
into it because you don't know who's
22:58
scamming or the darker side of it who's
23:00
who got here trying to sell children
23:03
how do you screen
23:05
woodstorm agencies to deal with and make
23:08
sure you don't get scammed or
23:10
you know have your childless
23:13
um well the the if any agency tries to
23:17
charge you then they full of it that's
23:20
for one
23:21
um like when my son I didn't wait until
23:24
he booked something to create a reel we
23:26
would take like scenes from movies and
23:29
write the script out and we would shoot
23:30
it ourselves and that's how I created
23:32
his reel and then when I sent it to all
23:34
the agencies everybody went crazy and
23:36
called me back so it's just being
23:38
proactive
23:39
right now for kids
23:42
this is the best time to be into the
23:44
acting world because of the SAG rules
23:46
and the minor rules he can only be on
23:49
set for a certain amount of time sagler
23:51
literally walks on set they they try to
23:53
jump Michael B Jordan because something
23:55
he wanted to do oh you know it was all
23:57
positive but he's like I want the smoke
23:58
machine Shack like nope he's a minor he
24:00
can so they're very protective
24:03
um
24:04
and and it's just when you say your
24:07
daughter wants to be in the business
24:08
because because I actually I am his
24:10
acting coach I actually teach it
24:13
I always ask parents and kids like how
24:16
much studying is your daughter doing you
24:18
know I mean like my son literally like
24:20
he just said earlier he studies Fred
24:22
Astaire he said he was watching the
24:23
movie last night and just studying the
24:25
actor that's the main thing when you
24:27
with him I never pushed him it was
24:28
always if he didn't ask me to go to the
24:30
studio we don't go to the studio if he
24:32
doesn't ask me to work on acting we
24:34
don't this is his life this is his
24:36
career so
24:38
um just to tell all that bring all that
24:39
back together for one they charge you
24:42
they full of it
24:44
um you can create your own destiny
24:45
that's what we got YouTube we got all
24:47
these outlets for social media she can
24:49
watch scripts y'all can write them out
24:51
create a real
24:52
and if you need help I can help you I
24:55
was going to say could you tell them
24:56
about your company yeah and this is
24:58
Grand Papa Jay by the way don't put the
25:01
brand on it
25:03
okay
25:07
but yeah I I teach and it's funny
25:10
because Heather brought it up
25:11
organically but it's called get your
25:14
kids in the biz which I teach the parent
25:16
and the child because you are even more
25:19
important because as soon as the agent
25:20
job is done they don't know what's going
25:23
on you're on set with your child you're
25:25
handling the business you're filling out
25:27
the paperwork you're doing a day to day
25:28
you're setting up the schools you're
25:30
setting up the the S Corp you're getting
25:32
the work permit you're doing all the
25:34
work and then you have to leave your job
25:36
so they can have one so that's the only
25:38
thing I have experience like literally
25:40
if your child books on Monday
25:42
you may think oh I got a month or two to
25:44
go no you're leaving Wednesday for five
25:46
to six months yo that's crazy that
25:48
happens wow oh yeah it's just like he
25:51
booked one of the years we left two days
25:52
later
25:53
um safety and without that we were gone
25:56
nine months out of the Year Tyler Perry
25:58
call Heather on a Tuesday she was in
26:00
Atlanta by Thursday yeah it was great
26:03
what is your Instagram oh mine is mix
26:06
management
26:07
or you can hit me on Big T big
26:09
b-i-g-t-e-e 2008. it's in it's in Papa J
26:13
show uh bio so yeah okay go to Papa J
26:16
show and then go to the bottom that's
26:18
the Papa J show is is Papa J's um social
26:21
media make sure you do that yo get his
26:23
family around absolutely absolutely
26:28
man beautiful father brother and sway
26:30
that's why I said I was going to say to
26:32
you sway I told him I said if you don't
26:34
mind I'll tell sway we put you on but
26:36
that's why I want more I'm always saying
26:38
to you about your daughter I don't think
26:40
it's being overprotective I don't think
26:42
it's being overbearing it's beautiful to
26:45
see fathers active in their children's
26:47
lives it's necessary and I personally
26:50
believe that people treat you
26:52
differently when they see your father
26:54
around word it's not a knock on any
26:57
Mothers
26:58
the mother gave birth she broke her skin
27:01
to bring the child here but his birthday
27:03
is perfect to see the the father here
27:08
like it's it's just beautiful pale a
27:11
Reach Out pal you got the game right
27:13
there okay word I just sent them a
27:15
requests he's private right now which I
27:17
understand
27:19
he hot he hot he's hot babe hot dad in
27:22
Hollywood he can't just be taking any
27:23
requests
27:25
hey especially being on set too like a
27:28
lot of like the teachers you know and I
27:30
had amazing teachers and like people on
27:32
the set you know they're always like
27:33
like where's your mom where's your mom
27:35
you know I have my mama for show but my
27:37
dad he he comes on set with me it's so
27:39
like unexpected for a black father to be
27:41
with his son and so you know so it's
27:45
like I want to change that narrative so
27:47
actually me and my father we gonna do
27:49
y'all such a show off oh I got my dad in
27:51
my life
27:54
we triggering trauma for him
27:57
I got my dad in my life so what look at
28:00
that Daddy's fatty oh I have a dad no
28:03
I'm joking I'm joking
28:05
maybe he could be
28:06
a bonus kid
28:08
yeah you could be
28:11
you know you talk about his purchasing
28:13
power you need to talk about assets
28:15
liabilities Rich Dad Poor I didn't read
28:17
children's books yeah I read real estate
28:19
books I read real estate books I read
28:21
Rich Dad and Poor Dad to him we used to
28:23
listen to it in the car also so he had
28:25
been his teachers like okay well I'm
28:27
doing this now how do I where do I
28:30
invest this invest that and if I save my
28:32
money when I get 18 my purchasing power
28:34
is going to be lower should I invest
28:37
where so the teacher would call me and
28:39
I'm like yes that's why I want you to
28:40
focus on teach them that right oh yeah
28:43
because we don't have that in school
28:43
absolutely we don't teach about
28:45
financial literacy and he making money
28:47
now look at him at 14. yes sir [ __ ] I
28:49
was cutting lines at 14. I was washing
28:52
cars
28:53
where's your dad
28:57
I don't know I need the citizens to help
29:01
me find it why you don't do the ancestry
29:03
thing I know where yet I
29:08
just ain't pulling up
29:17
is still there I'm sure um parents are
29:20
also wondering too okay good good what's
29:23
your proper game man yes
29:27
TT is here real quick Tracy okay T from
29:30
T okay so what is it an awkward
29:33
conversation when you have to discuss
29:35
payments because you guys technically
29:37
work with each other and when a child is
29:40
really young like I'm not sure if you
29:43
ask your child hey are you cool with
29:45
these percentages or is it something
29:47
that a conversation that's on tell your
29:49
car you tell your child what are you
29:51
gonna get that's my answer
29:53
[Music]
29:55
well I taught him business before all
29:57
the talent and the the Artistry
30:01
um so I always teach them too when
30:03
people work you pay yeah your people but
30:06
the benefit that he gets okay if sway is
30:08
managing him sway takes his percentage
30:10
and goes back to his family my
30:12
percentage stays and goes right back to
30:14
him yeah you know what I'm saying so
30:16
like amazing we've shared like with
30:19
safety our produced the trailer of the
30:22
movie so everything that we we kind of
30:24
been rocking the road like you said this
30:25
this didn't start with uh develop my son
30:28
to be in the industry this was if you
30:30
took your child to go fishing that was
30:32
your thing well he just wanted to be
30:33
wherever I was so I'm in the studio he
30:35
wanted to be in the studio and I was in
30:37
the gym he wanted to be in the gym so it
30:39
was never like I'm preparing you for the
30:41
industry I'm just preparing you for life
30:42
and it's just the platform that you get
30:44
to use you know what I mean I love it
30:46
man T thank you brother for your
30:48
presence I know you wasn't anticipating
30:49
being on the bike today everybody
30:52
Chicago You're a shy Town boy right yes
30:56
sir Chicago you grew up on old block no
31:00
just because I'm from Chicago don't mean
31:02
I'm from oh block which you know
31:05
PBC is the only thing I'm about and
31:07
that's positivity Brotherhood in the
31:09
community so you know what I mean say
31:11
less what about them but I thought the B
31:13
could stand for bars too
31:15
hey positive bars I used to rap when I
31:17
was three until around like nine so you
31:20
used to rap when you was three so what
31:22
kind of bars you had at three man
31:24
talking about my dad was helping me with
31:26
my bars you feel me but I wrote a little
31:28
something though you wrote a little
31:29
something I wrote a little something
31:30
John throw that beat on
31:32
we're gonna see what you got here let's
31:34
see what's happening Papa J's here
31:36
[Music]
31:45
I think my dad for the seed plant looks
31:49
in the sweat pardon if I see Menace and
31:51
Mama bless me with a vocal talent that
31:53
sent me like years apart from all the
31:55
local talent imagine me Karen what a
31:57
goofy feel my first time in front of
31:59
cameras and I booked the three movie
32:01
deal the most high living breathe in me
32:03
go see the movie creep three it's a cut
32:06
of the Creed in me future in me Oscars
32:09
it's too many imposters ain't too many
32:10
can pop out with Papa Reasonable Doubt
32:13
hot drama hot mama what streams looking
32:16
like on Hulu
32:17
dad took his son embedded on him my face
32:20
on billboards L.A sun set sun setting on
32:23
them she like OMG safety on Disney uh
32:27
how you doing baby yeah it is me there's
32:29
so much I've been dead and I've been
32:31
here sold out so 40K up in Trinidad and
32:35
that's before the age of seven a lot of
32:37
girls Mama wanna go and buy me with a
32:39
rabbit but it ain't gonna be no broom
32:42
jumping at least no time soon
32:45
[Laughter]
32:50
I love it
32:57
yeah that's me baby
33:01
on safety sway's my uncle that's true
33:06
he's my dad here's my DJ head wanna go
33:10
on tour with you bro
33:12
yeah we can share all this you know the
33:14
revenues like like his dad was saying
33:16
like he was saying it's all going to the
33:18
pot it's all going to the pot five years
33:21
from now if you if you had a chance to
33:23
paint your picture what would it look
33:25
like man um more movies
33:28
um number one records more number one
33:31
records I I I put in manifest that I'm
33:34
gonna have a number one record yeah so
33:35
more number one records
33:38
um just to be on stage and actually just
33:40
have a positive impact on my community
33:42
and my generation and change the way
33:45
that my generation listens to music you
33:47
know and just bring r b and that love
33:50
back I don't think it's dead to me but I
33:52
personally I don't think it's dead like
33:54
if you all my friends they listen to Old
33:56
R B new r b like they love it because
33:59
you know especially me being a boy like
34:01
we like to listen to dudes talk about
34:04
how much we how much they love a girl
34:05
what they doing for a girl you know what
34:07
I mean that's that's important because
34:09
then I learn stuff from you know
34:11
listening to how to treat a girl in the
34:13
song If It Isn't for my dad then I'll
34:15
put it in my song So dudes can learn how
34:17
to treat a girl from Nation from my
34:18
songs so it's just you know it's like
34:20
that you make me want to have a son dog
34:28
[Laughter]
34:31
[Music]
34:36
yo man everything you say is already in
34:39
the mix amen everything you say is
34:42
already happened
34:43
trust me when I tell you that you're an
34:45
amazing young man and I appreciate your
34:48
spirit thank you your focus and your
34:50
example okay and you give us all hope
34:52
you you a bridge too because you we we
34:55
want to hang out with we grown ass men
34:57
I'm trying to hang out with you head to
34:59
head he like the father familiarity he
35:02
like you know um but um thank you for
35:04
coming through yeah I appreciate that
35:06
man shout out to Troy
35:08
Marshall
35:11
appreciate you even the cameraman right
35:13
here
35:14
appreciate you you on screen right now
35:17
so much appreciate y'all okay hey and
35:20
we're gonna play
35:21
yeah
35:24
appreciate everybody I want to play this
35:27
song I Saw what's it called I'm sorry or
35:29
just sorry uh sorry how old is that song
35:33
um I actually recorded in my bedroom
35:34
like almost two years ago I just put it
35:38
out like I forgot the date but it was a
35:40
little like a couple months back what is
35:42
that song about
35:44
all right man now you now you're getting
35:45
personal with it man oh snap man it was
35:48
this girl man it's always a girl
35:52
I was
35:53
I was not trying to oh man I
35:56
Girl I liked and stuff and like I did
35:58
her wrong but she did me wrong so we did
36:01
each other wrong but you know I wrote
36:04
that because I was like I'm just saying
36:06
what's her name I'm not saying no names
36:11
I can't do that because then if I do
36:13
that she gonna call me that was about me
36:15
I knew it was about me and then if a lot
36:17
of girls
36:23
you know what you do with all the old
36:25
school r b guys who say you know who you
36:27
are
36:29
I love all y'all she know who she is
36:33
is I ain't gonna ask you how you did her
36:35
wrong and she did you they were 12.
36:38
you took my candy I mean what happened
36:44
took his Dorito all right man well
36:48
listen we're gonna end on this good no I
36:49
want to play this song sorry
36:51
um by Papa J and you guys follow him
36:54
tell him where they could follow you hey
36:55
y'all could follow me on Instagram at
36:57
Papa J show that's
36:59
p-a-p-a-j-a-y-s-h-o-w and then also on
37:02
Papa J show on YouTube Papa J show
37:04
everywhere all right all right and then
37:06
this was live and we'll be posted on
37:08
sway's universe as well uh head I want
37:11
to thank you for making this La trip man
37:13
thank you I know we did some therapy
37:15
today man he was some therapy I
37:18
appreciate y'all for having me always
37:20
you know what I'm saying and I got to
37:21
meet Papa J man thank you Tracy
37:25
sways Universe appreciate y'all West
37:27
Coast okay congratulations on everything
37:28
you're doing if they want to see some
37:30
more of what you're doing where can they
37:31
go DJ h-e-d on all platforms there you
37:34
go man this is I'm Sorry by my man Papa
37:36
J Papa J thank you T thank you respect
37:39
brother respect okay all right yeah same
37:41
to you Troy all right and here it is
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