R. Marcus Taylor - Iron Sharpens Iron

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The warrior's mindset is about conditioning the
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mind, body, and spirit. It takes practice, commitment,
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vision, goal setting, determination, sharp focus,
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respect, and discipline. Once you learn it, you
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can apply it to all aspects of your life. The
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warrior's mindset prepares you for the largest
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competition ever, the competition against self.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to the warrior's mindset,
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where it's all about mind, body, and spirit,
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tapping into the inside and bringing it to the
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outside. You know, when we look around today,
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when we see so many crazy things happening, you
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know, and everybody moving from the outside in,
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we know that we were put on this planet and on
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this earth, man, just to really move from the
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inside. Everything that we know and we need to
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be successful in this world, it comes from the
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inside out. And that's our motto in the dojo.
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That's our motto through the warrior's mindset.
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And I'm like, we always do with the warrior mindset.
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We want to bless you. We want to bless the world.
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So we always want to start with a prayer. So
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we're going to open up with the prayer, the serenity
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prayer. God grant us the serenity to accept the
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things we cannot change, the character change,
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the things we can, and the wisdom to know the
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difference. Always like to give credit back to
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the person that really inspired the warrior's
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mindset for us. Champ Nichols, Damian John speaking
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manager. Once again, if you hear this champ.
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I will never forget you taking so much time to
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mentor me and guide me and look at my story and
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say, no, man, this is the warrior's mindset.
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So all because of your inspiration and your example,
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it allowed us to move forward to this and have
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this podcast. And what I want to once again do
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is say thank you to the wife. Thank you to the
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team. Thank you to everybody out there, Mr. Meat,
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everybody that makes this stuff happen behind
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the scenes. We have another great guest, man,
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an inspiration for many of us. inspiration for
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me even when i didn't know he was an inspiration
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for me and i was an inspiration for him but that's
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that getting the yang we here to help one another
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and iron sharpens iron uh mr marcus taylor guys
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i mean i don't want to introduce him or what
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i recognize him in his most outstanding performance
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what i want him to do is introduce himself so
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you can just see a broad spectrum of things that
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he's he has done and then of course i will tell
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you He is in our next movies coming up now on
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the Urban Action Showcase. Heroes, man. And the
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little fight scene that we had where it's just
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like leaving people in awe of what's coming next.
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I give you Mr. Marcus Taylor. What's up, my brother?
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Hello, sir. Always a pleasure and honor to see
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you, sir. Same here. Same here. Well, talk to
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the audience. Give them an introduction. The
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floor is yours. Tell them about yourself, my
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brother. Well, I'm... I'm an actor. I started
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as a stuntman. Well, actually, I started as an
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extra on Oz, on HBO Oz. And I just, you know,
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I didn't know what I was doing. I just I just
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kept coming back. I just kept just kept trying
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to make my presence known in Hollywood. And then
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I became a stuntman and I did that for for like
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five years. And then I got my. big opportunity
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to be an actor. And I got my big break from being
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Suge Knight in Straight Outta Compton. And after
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that, everything changed. And I'm here now talking
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to, you know, one of the greatest martial artists
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who ever lived. So I'm blessed. No, no, no. You
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always said it, brother. I'm just a small fry
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in a big world. Ain't nothing small about you.
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Ain't nothing small about your fries. No, that's
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your truth. Literally. Thank you, sir. You know,
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before we get into the warrior mindset, you said
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something interesting. You said Oz. You know,
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this is what's funny, brother. When I first started
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with my career while I was competing, they were
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shooting Oz in Baltimore. Yeah. I was scheduled
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to be the guy who was the Muslim guy in prison.
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And they were so crazy about that. I was so honored
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because I had just came out of prison. So for
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me to have an opportunity to play a guy in prison,
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man, it was awesome, man. I mean, but then, of
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course, they moved it to New York. New York,
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yes. Shout out to that opportunity. But that's
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just amazing, man. I mean, what was that like?
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I mean, because you got me on that. That's a
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powerful show. What was that like, brother? It
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was some of the best times that I ever had because
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at first I was just an extra. Then I became like
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a feature extra. And then I started doing stunts
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on that show. I kept bothering, you know, the
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stunt coordinators. And, you know, they could
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have fired me, but now they was like, okay, if
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we can't set them up, we'll give them some jobs.
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So, you know, that's what it was. And I got a
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chance to talk to Charles S. Dutton. He was a
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supreme influence. He was just telling me things.
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all the other actors that were on the show, and
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I would play basketball with the actors on lunch
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breaks. I dunked on a couple of those. I dunked
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on a couple of those guys. Not that they were
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trying to play me out because I wanted to be
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the prisoner, but they made me the CO. I was
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like, you're too pretty. You're too pretty. I
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was like, no, I won't be a thug. I won't be a
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prisoner. But no, they made me a CO. So, yeah,
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it was great. It was great. That's awesome. That's
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old school. You bring that up, man. I'm old school.
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I'm old school. I love being old school. So tell
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me, I mean, we talk about the warrior's mindset,
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brother, for you to get into the career. Also
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to play a role like Shirk Knight, but to be in
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the wire and to do all these things. What does
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the warrior mindset mean to you as a man, as
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a martial artist, as an entertainer? For me,
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it's mind over matter. The spirit is stronger
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than the body. The spirit controls the body.
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And sometimes when the body is feeling a certain
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way, the spirit comes through when you ask for
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help. Remember, I'm going to tell you, I'm going
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to tell this story. I ain't going to say no names.
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There was that one person I wanted to hurt real
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bad. And I talked to you about it. And you blessed
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me. And you were telling me, like, no, no, no,
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it's not worth it. You come too far. You got
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people looking at you. You got to be an example
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for these young brothers and sisters. And I took
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that to heart. And I got therapy, bro. And I
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started training more. I started training twice
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a day. And I was like, I'll let it go. So, yeah,
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it's like, for me, I want to be an example. I
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want to be. I always want to live a righteous
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life. I don't want to be just a movie star. I
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want to be an actor that can create things. I
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just want to create. I want to be around like
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-minded people. That's why it's a blessing that
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I'm on this show and talking to you. I really
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feel that. That's what I'm trying to be. I'm
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just trying to be righteous. Since you brought
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that up, we're not going to say any names. We're
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not going to... Talk about AIDS and that. And
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I'm blessed that that even helped you like that.
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But brother, as the emotions pour in me right
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now, I think coming up on the street, when there's
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a middle person that create wars between two
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communities, the person that's at the heart of
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it is the person that set that conversation in
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motion. Not the person on the right, not the
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person on the left. And when I seen all that
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stuff happening, and once again, everybody, I'm
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not speaking on anything. I'm speaking on energies.
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I'm speaking on the streets. The last thing you
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do is escalate a situation of two rival gangs
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or people that, especially publicly, that's going
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to accelerate frustration. People lose lives.
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People get hurt. You know what I'm saying? People
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come up missing. So when you come from that street,
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it's like, yo, leave that alone. Let that go.
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That ain't... And I believe the person and the
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people that do stuff like that... They did it,
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and their career has accelerated because they
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created that controversy. Am I correct? Oh, you're
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absolutely correct, sir. So once again, you created
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war between two brothers. Yeah. It don't matter.
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I'm speaking from a brother's perspective. You
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feel me, brother? Yes, sir. So when I've seen
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that, and that happened to two people that I
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admire and I look up to and I respect. I had
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to be neutral with that. And I think, you know,
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once again, when you come from the street, we
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don't want no war. Can't nobody eat. Can't nobody
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make no money if we at war fighting, police coming,
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all that stuff. I mean, when you really think
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of, like, when you had that moment to, what did
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you feel within yourself that you could have
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did differently when somebody tried to trap you?
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Because that was a trap, brother. I'm going to
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say it. Yeah, it was a trap. It was a trap. It
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was an absolute trap. It was like I was so consumed
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by anger. And not just anger, like betrayal,
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hurt type of thing. And for me, I thought doing
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it in a warrior way, a fighter's way would help
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me feel better. But no, that's a lot of enemy
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tells us. I had to look within myself and say,
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let it go. It wasn't like, let it go. It was
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just like, let it go. With a smile. The presence
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of the spirit was there and it was just like,
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let it go. That's it. Just let it go. When I
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let it go, things started to happen more for
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me. I'm doing movies again. um you know it was
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just like be like hating people or hating is
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it's just a waste of energy it's like i thought
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it was something based on things that i went
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through growing up i thought that it would help
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me but no it's just older you get it's like it's
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just it's just more pain in your side you know
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and so you just let you gotta let it go so you
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can feel better and i do i feel better I can
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see it in your eyes and I can see it in you smile.
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And I am so proud that you have come to this,
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this point. And we're so funny, whatever we did
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on the set and as brothers, that was God. That
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wasn't me, man. You know, and the thing I think
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about when you think about anger, I remember
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when I was locked up, man. And, um, when we was
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rocking on the street, we was making all this
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money. And then when, when, when everything was
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done, you know, My crew couldn't handle that
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now our time has passed and the young boys was
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coming up making money. So they plotted this
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moment to go and stick up the guys. And I said,
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no. They went and they stuck them up and they
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got shot and somebody else got whatever. So when
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I got incarcerated, I had to go get my hair cut.
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And when I went to get my hair cut, the guy that
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was cutting hair with the razor blade like this.
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Yeah. Yeah. The young guy that they stuck up
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and got shot. Oh, wow. So, brother, you talk
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about trying to come face to face with the resentment
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go and still trying to show up and knowing that
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hold up this fear. Man, this cat can have me
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in a chair and cut my throat. True. Yes. So when
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you talk about surrendering the anger to go on
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faith. When I went to that barber shop and that
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brother, I mean, you could imagine. Yeah, I can't
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imagine. I can't. I can't imagine that. You know,
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a lot of people, we can't fight. I'm a Negro.
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You know, I can't remember. I mean, but even
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in a sense of when you've been in those places
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with the people that we're talking about, and
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you ain't have presence. Yeah, I know. Yes, I've
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been there. You know what I'm saying? And everything
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is like, hold up, man. You hoping that you don't
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do something to them. You hoping that they don't
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try something to you. So I'm sitting in this
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chair, and I got to go. You talking about courageous
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warrior's mindset. You can't let the prisoners
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know that you a sucker or you scared or you fearful.
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So you got to truly what it called, fake it till
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you make it. But here's the beauty in what you
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said, Marcus, where I can understand. So much.
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Your brother said, forget it, man. Yeah. Let's
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just cut each other. I'm going to cut your hair.
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And it was a moment of peace. Because I had let
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it go and wasn't about this ego or whatever it
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is, this anger or revenge. And he wasn't about
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it. Two brothers was able to let bygones be bygones.
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And I got a chance to come home. And he got a
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chance to do what he's doing. So for you to come
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to that conclusion, that's what the warrior is.
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Warriors are people of peace. It ain't about
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all the weak person is that would even bring
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that together between two brothers. So that's
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who I'm mad at. I got to let it go. But when
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I see it, I'm like, bro, you'll be doing that
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to my brothers. You know, so for you to be able
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like. To come to this level, what do you think
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how your presence and your example has accelerated
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for the next generation as a man today? Wow,
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that's a good question. You know, I'll tell you.
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Like, I've been training, you know, and now my
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role, they call me the OG. And I'm like... They
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said, hey, OG, what you doing? We're like, how
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can you help me? And I'm like, am I there yet?
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I'm like, I am. And it was like a surprise to
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me. I guess I am. So instead of being like, I
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don't know, OG, I embraced that title because
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they're giving it to me. They're placing it right
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to me. So I'm going to rule now. I'm not that.
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that that fighter guy that young fighter that's
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fighting again i'm now i'm the i'm the og i'm
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i'm the teacher i'm even a guardian so i want
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these guys not just to know how to fight but
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how not to fight and how to live and live well
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without you know that that uh you know like keep
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like how how to let it go and to turn on and
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turn it off you know when you do fight and compete
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and then when you don't And I was like, I was
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talking to my wife. I was like, you know what?
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I guess I am. And I take it seriously. So now,
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like I said, I want to be that person that teaches.
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And I'm good with that. I feel good about it.
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Well, I can see it, brother. Once again, I'm
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saying it to you. As a brother, I can see it
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in your eyes, and I can see it in your smile,
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and I can feel it. You know, the happiness that
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you have now as we talk, brother, and I'm just
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honored to just know that you have gone, because
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that's what this is about. Warriors is about,
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and I'm going to say it, because I'm going to
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take it back to the street. Don't nobody want
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to kill nobody. Don't know this false, like,
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persona that the press puts out, anybody at war.
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Maybe the younger generation that got a little
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lost and caught up into the media consumption
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of what it's supposed to be. But real OGs is
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like, yo, you take your yours, I take your mine,
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and out of respect, I ain't going to come to
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yours. We all just want to eat and feed our families.
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That's it, yeah. When I'm looking at you or anybody
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that you're dealing with, even when you're trying
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to succeed, you're just trying to feed your family.
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and build a legacy that can be sustainable for
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your wife, your kids, and your community. Am
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I correct, Marcus? Yes, sir. Absolutely correct.
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Yes, sir. And why is that so important to you
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now? Why, brother? I think it's just important
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because I could have lost it all. And I was like,
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I wasn't thinking about it. But then... I think
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after I talked to you, I really thought about
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what could have happened if I had done it the
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other way. I was like, nah, that's not cool.
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Now I'm like, I'm cool. I'm good now. I'm like,
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whatever. When it got off me, it was like, wow.
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could have done something stupid. And that room,
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and you said it. So God was using you to help
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me. And when I received it, it was like everything
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just lifted off me. All the hurt, I started to
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cry, but it was like tears of joy. I was like,
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I'm good. I'm good. Let it go. And with the other
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dude, he'd be surprised because I'll be happy
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when I see him. And he'd be like, It's just an
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act. No, it's not an act. I'm good. You know
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what I'm saying? I'm good with it. And I'm helping
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people because I know people are watching me.
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I didn't think about it before. But people are
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watching me. And people want to see me do good
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more than people want me to do bad. So I know
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that too. And I got all these fans I never thought
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about. I'm like, I got people coming up to me.
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It's like, man, I... man, you've been married
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21 years. It's my anniversary. You've been married
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21 years. How did you do it? Thank you, sir.
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Thank you, sir. My wife says hi. I asked her,
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I was like, can I do this? Can I do this? Even
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with the anniversary? She's like, yes, baby,
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you can do it. So I was like, oh, thank you.
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But yeah, man, I'm in a new role. I am. I'm in
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a new role. And I have to take this role seriously.
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And I do. And I'm blessed to have this role I'm
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in now. Yeah. You know, one, I would say, once
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again, I seen, I said, hold up, this is anniversary.
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You know, I don't know. Right. You, you, you
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over there, you can sneak it right. I'm glad
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we did it at eight a year. You know what I'm
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saying? Yeah. Ready to go somewhere. You know
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what I'm saying? Yeah, we are too. Yeah. So I
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thank her for giving us a chance to have this
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moment, man, because it is precious. But, brother,
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you got me over here crying. You know why you
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got me over here crying? Why? Because when I
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ask God to save my life so I can be an example
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for other people, I know what that's like. I
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know what that anger and I know what that hate.
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And when I see brothers trying to kill each other
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and trying to hurt each other, I know what the
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other side is like with the shootouts and the
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beat -ups and the beat. And people that falsify
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this, man, have they ever been through that hell?
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They wouldn't be doing it, man. The instigator
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that was in the middle of this. The instigator
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that created this between two black men. If he
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really cared about the repercussions of these
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two black men, he'd have never asked that question
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to accelerate that anger. Because I love the
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both of y 'all, man. The young black kids need
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to see this. They need to see us as working together.
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The reason why our communities are destroyed
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and the reason why the kids are so lost is because
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they create that division. These little boys
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need to see us working together. That's the only
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way we can rebuild them. We don't want them ending
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up in jail or out there doing what I did that
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got me in jail. We want them like my little son,
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like I was talking to my son yesterday. His hell
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is nothing compared to my hell. Yeah. And I'm
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thankful that for whatever reason, God asked
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me to ask you to be a part of the movie. And
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you said, yes, brother, I'm honored. Honor is
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mine. Honor is mine. You're a legend. You're
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a true legend in every aspect of what we do.
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And just like I said, like. I remember watching
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Bam Johnson compete and doing, you know, the
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show that we love, WMC Massives. And I'm like,
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man, he looks like us. And it's like, you know,
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like, this is awesome. A black bald man kicking
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tail. Looking like you now, right? You're just
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a light -skinned version. You feel what I'm saying?
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No, because it was like, you look like you and
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my dad look just alike. You know what I'm saying?
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So I was like, wow. I showed my dad. He was like,
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let me see this. There's a brother. Oh, snap,
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there's a brother. You know, it was like, oh,
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snap. You know, because my father was old school.
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He was old school. Like, I wanted to learn, when
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I first started martial arts, I wanted to learn
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from an Asian guy. And then my father said, oh,
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no. Oh, no, you're going to learn by us, the
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fighting black kings. We're going to teach you
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how to do it. And that's where I come from. I
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come from those guys. When there was no mats,
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there was no protection. I got my butt, you know,
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before a typhus. You know what I'm saying? So
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I treasure that. It made me who I am. Like, when
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it comes to everything I do, martial arts and
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spirit, you know, is with me when I do these
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things. Without martial arts, I mean, I don't
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know where I'd be. I really don't. So I'm blessed.
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I agree with that, brother. That's how I feel.
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Martial arts never abandoned me. And that's why
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we can't be at war as martial artists. You know
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what I'm saying? Martial artists, we are even
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in the hood. A dancer come in the dojo, I mean,
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and you can correct me, an OG making millions,
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he come to the dojo door, he like, yo, hold up,
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don't I gotta take my shoes off? I'm like, ooh,
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you know what I'm saying? Respect to the dojo,
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yo. You know what I'm saying? Am I correct, bro?
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Is that how it is? Yeah, you're absolutely correct.
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That's how it is. That's how it is. My name is
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Willie the Bam Johnson. I survived the streets
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of Baltimore to become a seven -time world champion
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and a martial arts action star. Together with
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my wife, Kimber Master K. Johnson, a five -time
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world champion, we run our dojo, the Bams, teaching
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kids the warrior's mindset they'll need to win
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in fighting, but more importantly, to succeed
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in life. You're never going to have a clear path
00:24:27.619 --> 00:24:30.160
towards success. There's going to always be something
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coming towards you. And it's like, I know some
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dudes, you know what I'm saying? That's that's
00:24:48.940 --> 00:24:50.859
that do that life. But when they come to the
00:24:50.859 --> 00:24:54.319
dojo. They take their shoes off. And they're
00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:57.140
very respectful. They're very respectful. Like,
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can I talk to you, sir? And I was like, wow,
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they have integrity. I hate to say it, but the
00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:08.480
old gangsters and the old dudes, they were polite
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to women. You know what I'm saying? They knew
00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:14.240
how to treat like, oh, yes, ma 'am, I'm sorry
00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:17.680
for cursing. I'm sorry for cursing. My bad. Like,
00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:21.180
my mother was in the school system. So, like,
00:25:21.259 --> 00:25:25.799
she commanded respect. So, like, even all the
00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:29.700
thugs, they loved my mother. They was like, yes,
00:25:29.700 --> 00:25:32.000
Ms. Taylor. Yes, Mrs. Taylor. I'm sorry. I didn't
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mean to do this. You know, so that's what, like
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I said, that's where I come from. Without my
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surroundings, like, I always still believe that,
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like, the family is the city, you know, our village.
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I come from a great village. And because of my
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village, I became a man. And how I became a man
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was, you know, with my village. You know, I'm
00:25:58.319 --> 00:26:01.519
blessed for that. Like, I wish kids today can
00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:05.420
experience what we experienced. Like, I had a
00:26:05.420 --> 00:26:09.079
great childhood. I mean, even though it was scary
00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:12.319
at times, but I had a great childhood because
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I had a village looking after me. And it was
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great. Yeah. But you finished. I'm finished.
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I'm finished. I'm finished. But I think I know
00:26:24.230 --> 00:26:26.390
that that's why God brought us together because
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we have to rebuild that village. You know what
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I'm saying? Remember, that's why I'm glad that
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whatever it didn't come from me. It came through
00:26:34.109 --> 00:26:37.490
me because I ain't going to take ownership. Eagle
00:26:37.490 --> 00:26:40.789
is in that egotistic. You know that. Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:40.829 --> 00:26:42.890
You know, I did this yet. No, I ain't do that.
00:26:43.210 --> 00:26:45.710
I ain't that intelligent to understand it. All
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my duty was. When I came home from jail, the
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one thing that Brother D told me, he said, brother,
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you owe me nothing. Just return the favor to
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another brother. Just give it to another brother.
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That's what the movie One Out of 100 is. Only
00:27:00.630 --> 00:27:03.829
one of us going to make it. But guess what? If
00:27:03.829 --> 00:27:06.470
everybody we touch, we can make sure that one
00:27:06.470 --> 00:27:08.890
make it. Brother, how many people going to make
00:27:08.890 --> 00:27:13.309
it? A lot. A lot. Right. We ain't got no time.
00:27:13.569 --> 00:27:17.339
We got no time for this other stuff, man. So
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for us to be able to come together as brothers
00:27:19.619 --> 00:27:22.539
and share this knowledge and share this strength,
00:27:22.660 --> 00:27:26.079
you know, and share the successes. That's what
00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:28.519
the kid need to know. He need to know that somebody
00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:32.259
like you, somebody like me, somebody like many
00:27:32.259 --> 00:27:35.279
other people, you know, that's out there, you
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.099
know, that we can identify with. And it's not
00:27:38.099 --> 00:27:40.359
about it. I need to say this to the audience.
00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:43.940
This is not a black thing about just blackness.
00:27:44.059 --> 00:27:47.099
What this is, is about. until the guy told me
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in jail until you can love yourself you can't
00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:53.220
be nothing to nobody else through that yes sir
00:27:53.220 --> 00:27:56.519
we as black men tend to hate ourselves so much
00:27:56.519 --> 00:27:59.400
yeah that we just start to learn how to love
00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:03.180
ourselves talk to me marcus oh man that's what
00:28:03.180 --> 00:28:05.079
you said hit the nail right on the head it's
00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:11.539
like our our people i'll say this our our people
00:28:11.539 --> 00:28:14.539
we don't like our we don't like ourselves but
00:28:14.779 --> 00:28:21.200
It comes from slavery. It comes from hundreds
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.920
of years of slavery. And today, you know, like
00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:30.319
where things are going, you know, we're taught
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:32.380
to hate ourselves rather than to love ourselves.
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:39.420
And for Black women, like as a Black man, I'll
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tell another brother, dude, when you start protecting
00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:45.630
Black women, you'll start loving yourself. When
00:28:45.630 --> 00:28:47.690
you start protecting women, period, you'll start
00:28:47.690 --> 00:28:50.710
loving yourself. When you start helping another
00:28:50.710 --> 00:28:54.210
brother, you know, it don't have to be crazy.
00:28:54.289 --> 00:28:57.430
Just a little thing. Like, yo, bro, you're doing
00:28:57.430 --> 00:29:01.750
a good job. I'm praying for you. If someone told
00:29:01.750 --> 00:29:03.970
that to me, that hits me. I'm like, oh my God,
00:29:04.029 --> 00:29:06.309
thank you. Because you don't know what that brother
00:29:06.309 --> 00:29:09.849
or sister is going through. And that's why people
00:29:09.849 --> 00:29:12.869
act crazy. Because it's like, You know, like
00:29:12.869 --> 00:29:15.470
a guy that's that's like, you know, they say
00:29:15.470 --> 00:29:17.789
at church, you know, tap your neighbor on your
00:29:17.789 --> 00:29:19.210
shoulder and say, how are you doing? And stuff
00:29:19.210 --> 00:29:21.089
like that. It's like you don't know what he's
00:29:21.089 --> 00:29:23.349
going through. He might be going through stuff
00:29:23.349 --> 00:29:26.450
and he might need that. You know, and I believe
00:29:26.450 --> 00:29:31.990
in that. And I lived in Moscow for a while. I
00:29:31.990 --> 00:29:34.430
was teaching martial arts in Moscow, Russia.
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I got I got a lot of brothers in Russia that
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that that got my back for life. And I'm the same
00:29:42.470 --> 00:29:46.970
way for them. So we just got to show love. That's
00:29:46.970 --> 00:29:48.950
it. It's just like showing love. It don't have
00:29:48.950 --> 00:29:53.390
to be crazy. It can be like, yo, bro, how you
00:29:53.390 --> 00:29:56.890
doing? I'm such and such. Yo, maybe we can, you
00:29:56.890 --> 00:29:59.390
know, chop it up. You know, just anything from
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the smallest to the biggest. I believe in that.
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And that's how we get stronger. But I think about
00:30:05.730 --> 00:30:09.069
that. And as you said, I think about when you
00:30:09.069 --> 00:30:11.640
were on the set. And me, you, and Robert playing
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:13.339
around. You know what I'm saying? That was nothing
00:30:13.339 --> 00:30:16.339
but bloodly love. You know what I'm saying? I
00:30:16.339 --> 00:30:21.160
got two legends. I say this, too. I said this
00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:25.079
on Facebook and Twitter, too. And I was like,
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:30.140
yo, I'm with Willie Bam Johnson and five -time
00:30:30.140 --> 00:30:34.940
kickboxer Robert Parham. This is big. Like, y
00:30:34.940 --> 00:30:38.539
'all don't see the thing. This is the part. Y
00:30:38.539 --> 00:30:40.390
'all don't even see that. Y 'all don't see who
00:30:40.390 --> 00:30:43.569
you are. Y 'all just, it's just brotherly love.
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Like, I'm just happy to be him. Like, wow, for
00:30:46.109 --> 00:30:48.529
them to be so humble, for you to be so humble
00:30:48.529 --> 00:30:51.250
for the things you've accomplished. Like, you're
00:30:51.250 --> 00:30:53.750
a warrior and a conqueror, but you don't see
00:30:53.750 --> 00:30:56.470
yourself as that. Like, dude, you can go anywhere
00:30:56.470 --> 00:31:03.829
and get love from any walks of life. A lot of
00:31:03.829 --> 00:31:05.849
people can't do it. The president can't do that.
00:31:06.490 --> 00:31:09.630
You can do what the president can't. That's why
00:31:09.630 --> 00:31:12.950
what we're doing here is so important. We're
00:31:12.950 --> 00:31:17.470
showing people there's another way. And it's
00:31:17.470 --> 00:31:21.450
a warrior way. Like, that's the part people don't
00:31:21.450 --> 00:31:26.089
get. Like, dude, a warrior doesn't attack. He
00:31:26.089 --> 00:31:30.910
reacts. And it's like, he can react any way he
00:31:30.910 --> 00:31:34.769
wants, but he chooses a modest life. Because
00:31:34.769 --> 00:31:39.079
real, like, listen, drama... Man, we got too
00:31:39.079 --> 00:31:42.440
much to do for drama. Like, we too busy working.
00:31:43.220 --> 00:31:46.119
You know? Like, come on, man. I got time for
00:31:46.119 --> 00:31:48.940
this. I got to go to work. I'm really too busy.
00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:52.640
But like you said, when we learn, first of all,
00:31:52.660 --> 00:31:55.039
when we learn, and I got to go back to jail.
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:57.660
I had an interview with Shaheen. Hopefully you've
00:31:57.660 --> 00:32:00.779
seen it. I didn't see it. I didn't see it, though.
00:32:00.819 --> 00:32:03.920
Yeah. Man, the love. It's like what I'm getting
00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:06.240
from you right now, man. And one of the things.
00:32:06.829 --> 00:32:08.970
I can say that jail was the greatest thing that
00:32:08.970 --> 00:32:12.869
happened to me. It was my Shaolin temple because
00:32:12.869 --> 00:32:16.809
it allowed me to come face to face with me. And
00:32:16.809 --> 00:32:19.970
when I learned to love me and respect me and
00:32:19.970 --> 00:32:23.769
stop assuring me, I was able to appreciate me
00:32:23.769 --> 00:32:26.369
as a black man. And it's going back to what I
00:32:26.369 --> 00:32:29.730
was saying. This ain't a black thing. But, you
00:32:29.730 --> 00:32:32.369
know, before I got locked up, all I was taught
00:32:32.369 --> 00:32:36.059
was that I came from slavery. I didn't know about
00:32:36.059 --> 00:32:39.339
being kings and queens in Africa. You know, I
00:32:39.339 --> 00:32:41.779
didn't know about any of that. I was afraid of,
00:32:41.859 --> 00:32:44.099
look, I talked about it in the documentary. I
00:32:44.099 --> 00:32:46.380
didn't like how I look. I didn't like my hair
00:32:46.380 --> 00:32:48.180
when I had hair back then. You know what I'm
00:32:48.180 --> 00:32:51.480
saying? But Dale, a brother, told me, said, love
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:54.339
yourself, brother. Respect yourself, brother.
00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:57.579
All these things that every, I don't care what
00:32:57.579 --> 00:33:00.660
race you are. Until you learn to respect your
00:33:00.660 --> 00:33:03.430
culture and love your culture. You can't be nothing
00:33:03.430 --> 00:33:07.410
to nobody else. And then you said about the women.
00:33:07.589 --> 00:33:10.190
Then once, when it brought this... Hold up. The
00:33:10.190 --> 00:33:12.569
way you treat women, if that was your daughter
00:33:12.569 --> 00:33:14.450
and your mother, what would you do? That's it.
00:33:14.849 --> 00:33:17.349
That's it. Talk to me. Talk to me, brother. That's
00:33:17.349 --> 00:33:20.490
it. No, that's it. No, that's the whole point.
00:33:20.569 --> 00:33:23.829
Like, the thing is, like, if you go call a woman
00:33:23.829 --> 00:33:27.049
B -word, you talking... Or your mother B -word,
00:33:27.150 --> 00:33:30.559
or your daughter, or your wife. I'm like... Once
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:35.140
I heard it like that, I was like, wow. I've never
00:33:35.140 --> 00:33:37.220
really been that type of guy. I don't argue with
00:33:37.220 --> 00:33:40.720
women. I'm not that dude. I don't want to argue
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:46.960
with women. That makes me funny. It makes you
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:49.880
less than a man. Any man is trusted with a woman.
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.940
I'm going to say it. It makes you less than a
00:33:52.940 --> 00:33:58.900
man. For real. It's real talk. For me, it's like...
00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:02.720
man i'm arguing with my wife no i'm done like
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:06.019
like you know like seriously i was like i'm arguing
00:34:06.019 --> 00:34:09.280
with my wife it made no it just i was just like
00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:12.320
why why did i argue but you know like because
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.900
i always say like your wife knows all your secrets
00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:20.260
so she knows how to hurt you but then but then
00:34:20.260 --> 00:34:24.320
talk to her and that's what i did i talked to
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:27.469
my wife was like why are we arguing And we had
00:34:27.469 --> 00:34:30.190
a great conversation after that. Like, you know,
00:34:30.210 --> 00:34:34.030
it's just like, it all meant warriors. We don't
00:34:34.030 --> 00:34:38.710
argue. We got too much stuff to do. We as men
00:34:38.710 --> 00:34:41.809
have too much stuff to do to worry about the
00:34:41.809 --> 00:34:45.849
little things. That means the little disagreements.
00:34:46.030 --> 00:34:50.550
We got so much to do. Like, the Black family
00:34:50.550 --> 00:34:54.829
is the blueprint of civilization. It started
00:34:54.829 --> 00:34:58.019
with the Black man. the black woman and the seeds.
00:34:58.820 --> 00:35:02.239
We black people, like, like the mothers, the
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:04.440
mother, the black white, the black mother is
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:08.280
the, the, the start of civilization. And we have
00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:11.300
to think of that and then realize like, you know
00:35:11.300 --> 00:35:15.159
what? The, the, the black would have been, they've
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:17.360
been trying to do for hundreds of years. I know,
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:19.860
I know I'm going with, I'm not trying to be racial
00:35:19.860 --> 00:35:23.079
with it. I'm just saying like, they're trying
00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:25.139
to, they've been attacking the black fathers.
00:35:25.670 --> 00:35:30.289
for the last hundreds of years. And it's like,
00:35:30.409 --> 00:35:35.610
no, we need the black man to step up and reclaim
00:35:35.610 --> 00:35:41.309
what we've allowed ourselves to lose. And doing
00:35:41.309 --> 00:35:44.929
that, we help civilization. And then we help
00:35:44.929 --> 00:35:50.030
everybody. I want to help everybody, not just
00:35:50.030 --> 00:35:52.130
black. I want to help everybody who needs it.
00:35:52.889 --> 00:35:56.360
That's how I feel in my heart. you know so that's
00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:59.300
how i feel you know it was special when you say
00:35:59.300 --> 00:36:02.860
that um when i was incarcerated and i studied
00:36:02.860 --> 00:36:05.039
malcolm i did everything malcolm did man i read
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:07.619
every book in the library i did all this and
00:36:07.619 --> 00:36:09.739
i was so attracted to malcolm i think what was
00:36:09.739 --> 00:36:12.579
even more attractive was how this man had took
00:36:12.579 --> 00:36:14.980
himself and rebuilt himself through the help
00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:17.360
of the help of the nation to become a better
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:20.280
man and a powerful man and a lot of times we
00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:24.829
get caught up into he had to go through are calling
00:36:24.829 --> 00:36:28.710
another person a bad term and looking at another
00:36:28.710 --> 00:36:31.590
person as a good term until he matured to realize
00:36:31.590 --> 00:36:34.349
that before his last days, he was about helping
00:36:34.349 --> 00:36:37.269
everybody. He didn't go long, it was just about
00:36:37.269 --> 00:36:41.690
me. And what that did for me, and this was so
00:36:41.690 --> 00:36:44.349
crazy, brother, before I got locked up, I was
00:36:44.349 --> 00:36:46.190
one of the first Blacks to train in mainland
00:36:46.190 --> 00:36:48.829
China and get certified at the Beijing Physical
00:36:48.829 --> 00:36:51.909
Culture Institute. And when I went to China,
00:36:52.050 --> 00:36:54.269
they treated me like royalty. They were calling
00:36:54.269 --> 00:36:57.170
me Shaolin Sir, what makes black Shaolin monk.
00:36:57.269 --> 00:36:59.210
Cause they never seen a black man with a ball
00:36:59.210 --> 00:37:02.230
head and flip it and do it all this, you know?
00:37:02.670 --> 00:37:05.690
And I didn't get it until Master Brown told me,
00:37:05.710 --> 00:37:09.090
but when I got locked up and I went in the nation
00:37:09.090 --> 00:37:11.230
and I became a captain of the nation of Islam.
00:37:12.170 --> 00:37:15.730
Oh, wow. They allowed me. I said, nah, I can't
00:37:15.730 --> 00:37:18.449
speak in terms of one being better than the other.
00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:22.400
I got to speak in terms of what I know. And this
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:25.679
is the truth. When I went to China, I was treated
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:28.199
better than I was treated in my own community.
00:37:29.059 --> 00:37:30.960
That's how I thought about Russia. That's how
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:33.719
I thought about Russia. They treated me like
00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:38.639
a king. Like a king. I'm like, wow. I was teaching.
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:41.239
I didn't mean to cut you off, sir. But I was
00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:44.960
like, I was teaching. Listen, I was teaching
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:48.449
the Barfa. That's the Russian mafia. I was teaching
00:37:48.449 --> 00:37:54.130
the army. A black kid from Jersey. I was teaching
00:37:54.130 --> 00:37:58.070
rich people how to fight. Millionaires. I was
00:37:58.070 --> 00:38:01.050
teaching all these people how to fight. I was
00:38:01.050 --> 00:38:05.730
like, what type of world is this? It was like
00:38:05.730 --> 00:38:09.610
a new world where when I'm here, it was like,
00:38:09.750 --> 00:38:12.369
this was before Straight Outta Compton, but it
00:38:12.369 --> 00:38:15.429
was like, I was being treated like a king here.
00:38:15.829 --> 00:38:19.659
I was like, all these white folks like me and
00:38:19.659 --> 00:38:21.880
they want to learn from me and i was just like
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:25.039
wow i was teaching world champions all these
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:27.820
things and when i was living in russia they held
00:38:27.820 --> 00:38:31.739
me more higher standard than here in my own my
00:38:31.739 --> 00:38:36.400
own home it was it was a culture it confused
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:41.179
me it really did at first but that's what it
00:38:41.179 --> 00:38:43.559
did for me i mean brother before hip -hop was
00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:47.070
in china we were teaching hip -hop They were
00:38:47.070 --> 00:38:50.010
teaching about our culture. They were so infatuated
00:38:50.010 --> 00:38:53.670
with all that. So when I was in a nation, this
00:38:53.670 --> 00:38:56.369
was totally unheard of. They allowed me to speak
00:38:56.369 --> 00:39:00.670
on those universal terms. And this is crazy.
00:39:00.949 --> 00:39:04.869
When I was locked up, I said, hold up. If I didn't
00:39:04.869 --> 00:39:07.349
kill myself and I'm not getting in any fights,
00:39:07.650 --> 00:39:12.369
I must be in tune to the universe. God is saving
00:39:12.369 --> 00:39:15.210
me up to this point. And I'm moving in peace.
00:39:15.849 --> 00:39:17.789
And I'm doing things that ain't even supposed
00:39:17.789 --> 00:39:20.730
to be happening, practicing martial arts. And
00:39:20.730 --> 00:39:24.909
I said, hold up, man. When I go home, my dojo
00:39:24.909 --> 00:39:27.469
has to become the universal martial arts concepts.
00:39:28.369 --> 00:39:32.070
Yeah. Marcus, check this out, Marcus. When I
00:39:32.070 --> 00:39:35.670
came home and I opened up our dojo with $20,
00:39:35.670 --> 00:39:39.630
I had more people of other races coming to our
00:39:39.630 --> 00:39:42.550
dojo. People was like, brother, how you getting
00:39:42.550 --> 00:39:46.309
all these other races to come to your dojo? Because
00:39:46.309 --> 00:39:50.949
I believe once we know ourselves, once we speak
00:39:50.949 --> 00:39:55.190
truth from God, all the God children come together
00:39:55.190 --> 00:39:58.590
for what? Truth. Hope you're enjoying the show.
00:39:58.809 --> 00:40:00.449
Want to tell you about something that's dear
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Remember, if your principles are negotiable,
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you don't have principles. Be the warrior from
00:40:13.150 --> 00:40:17.210
the inside out. Give me your take on that, brother.
00:40:18.349 --> 00:40:25.329
Wow. It's a beautiful concept. Even in my career,
00:40:25.789 --> 00:40:30.210
for some reason, I don't know. White folks hired
00:40:30.210 --> 00:40:34.730
me. I didn't do no Tyler Perry stuff yet. You
00:40:34.730 --> 00:40:38.070
know what I'm saying? I'm getting stuff from
00:40:38.070 --> 00:40:43.909
white folks. I was like, wow. Wow. They don't
00:40:43.909 --> 00:40:47.550
see me. It's like, In a sense, some of them don't
00:40:47.550 --> 00:40:50.570
see me as just a black person, a black actor.
00:40:50.630 --> 00:40:53.150
They see me as an actor that can do many different
00:40:53.150 --> 00:40:56.429
roles. And I wish we could just apply that to
00:40:56.429 --> 00:41:01.010
our own, our situation. Like, we don't have to
00:41:01.010 --> 00:41:06.670
be just, it's enough for everybody. Like, I would
00:41:06.670 --> 00:41:10.590
tell somebody that's, people ask me, like, how
00:41:10.590 --> 00:41:13.289
do you get your roles? Because your roles are
00:41:13.289 --> 00:41:15.989
always different. And I was like, well, you have
00:41:15.989 --> 00:41:17.949
to look inside yourself and say what you want
00:41:17.949 --> 00:41:21.349
to project. You know, and it's like, just tell
00:41:21.349 --> 00:41:24.230
them the truth. I want to do so many things.
00:41:24.409 --> 00:41:27.250
I want to play a knight. I want to play a bartender.
00:41:27.409 --> 00:41:31.269
I want to play a CEO. I want to be, I want to
00:41:31.269 --> 00:41:35.909
play a priest. I want to play, like, and at first
00:41:35.909 --> 00:41:37.889
when I was telling these things to other people,
00:41:37.949 --> 00:41:40.510
they were just like, they were so in their own
00:41:40.510 --> 00:41:43.030
shell. They were in their own thing. They didn't
00:41:43.030 --> 00:41:46.219
see, like, Like, they didn't see what I saw.
00:41:46.920 --> 00:41:49.699
But once they started listening to me, they're
00:41:49.699 --> 00:41:52.019
like, listen, can you help me? I was like, sure,
00:41:52.019 --> 00:41:54.599
I'll help you. Like, my thing with people, just
00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:58.860
ask what you want. Ask what you want. Tell me
00:41:58.860 --> 00:42:02.699
what you want and ask for help. There's nothing,
00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:05.880
everybody asks for help. And if they don't, they
00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:08.400
don't like themselves and they need to get out
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.420
of it. You have to be honest with yourself and
00:42:10.420 --> 00:42:14.090
say, I want more. I don't want to be in the same
00:42:14.090 --> 00:42:20.769
cage. I want to expand. I told a well -known
00:42:20.769 --> 00:42:24.329
actor, a very well -known actor, I said, I want
00:42:24.329 --> 00:42:26.690
to be on Game of Thrones. He's like, Game of
00:42:26.690 --> 00:42:30.289
Thrones? Nah, you'll hate it. I'm like, that's
00:42:30.289 --> 00:42:33.250
him trying to tell me what I like. I'm like,
00:42:33.289 --> 00:42:37.449
no. I don't care about the weather. I lived in
00:42:37.449 --> 00:42:39.690
Moscow. I lived in all these other places in
00:42:39.690 --> 00:42:43.000
Europe. I'm like, please. And we had to take
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:46.739
cold showers. So I'm like, man, please. I want
00:42:46.739 --> 00:42:50.119
to do what I want prospectually, and I do it
00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:54.619
with a smile now. Because I'm 6 '3", 280 pounds.
00:42:55.219 --> 00:42:58.219
I got a bald head with a whole bunch of big beard
00:42:58.219 --> 00:43:02.300
and tattoos. You look scary, man. You look scary.
00:43:02.980 --> 00:43:06.960
Master Johnson, sir, it's like the last 10 years,
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:09.360
in a sense, it's been crazy, but it's also been
00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:12.219
kind of hard because... People don't understand,
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:16.300
I put on 80 pounds to play Shirk Knight. You
00:43:16.300 --> 00:43:18.820
know what I'm saying? I grew my beard. You know,
00:43:18.860 --> 00:43:21.599
I started, I don't smoke, but I had to start
00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:25.019
smoking cigars. I'm not a smoker. I did that
00:43:25.019 --> 00:43:28.539
because I wanted that role. It was just, it was
00:43:28.539 --> 00:43:32.039
one role compared to so many other things. But
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:35.199
when you do something really well in this business,
00:43:35.380 --> 00:43:40.829
the fans and the casting, They see you as that
00:43:40.829 --> 00:43:44.989
same person. And that's something I had to get...
00:43:44.989 --> 00:43:49.329
It took me a long time to get out of that. So
00:43:49.329 --> 00:43:51.949
I started doing different things. I said, I'm
00:43:51.949 --> 00:43:56.530
going to do a play. I'm going to do Shakespeare.
00:43:57.730 --> 00:44:00.909
I'm going to do Three Musketeers. I want to show
00:44:00.909 --> 00:44:06.769
these people my broadness of acting. And martial
00:44:06.769 --> 00:44:10.530
arts helped me because... I started in karate
00:44:10.530 --> 00:44:14.369
first, but I studied Kung Fu, Wushu, Wing Chun,
00:44:14.690 --> 00:44:21.289
Bando, Taekwondo. I love so many martial arts
00:44:21.289 --> 00:44:23.449
because it's like there's never enough martial
00:44:23.449 --> 00:44:27.090
arts I can learn. I want to learn it. So it's
00:44:27.090 --> 00:44:30.510
like I tell people to think broadly, think bigger,
00:44:30.809 --> 00:44:35.090
you know, because like I grew up watching television.
00:44:35.090 --> 00:44:39.380
Like I watched the British movies. You know what
00:44:39.380 --> 00:44:41.440
I'm saying? I started watching those. My father
00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:45.500
taught me, like, I should read Shakespeare. And
00:44:45.500 --> 00:44:47.619
I was like, really, David? I was like, yeah,
00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:52.659
why not? You know, like, I had a richness. You
00:44:52.659 --> 00:44:55.099
know, like, I wanted to learn everything. So
00:44:55.099 --> 00:44:57.539
I tell people, man, learn everything. It'll broaden
00:44:57.539 --> 00:45:00.300
you. So that's what I'm trying to say. So, yeah.
00:45:00.460 --> 00:45:04.760
So to me, as we're about ready to bring this
00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:07.559
to the close, what you just did for the world
00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:10.739
and for me, you done revealed the man, Marcus
00:45:10.739 --> 00:45:14.760
Taylor. This whole interview revealed that the
00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:18.380
man, the peaceful man, the humble man that came
00:45:18.380 --> 00:45:22.420
to a movie set and was so humble. We are honored
00:45:22.420 --> 00:45:25.019
for the presence that you brought. But now what
00:45:25.019 --> 00:45:28.059
you have become now, brother, what I see and
00:45:28.059 --> 00:45:31.940
I heard right now is remarkable. And I say this,
00:45:31.940 --> 00:45:35.880
and this is when I came home from, when I was
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:41.039
locked up and I found. a way to love me, I then
00:45:41.039 --> 00:45:44.460
got the strength to go back and correct the wrongs
00:45:44.460 --> 00:45:47.500
that I made to all the stuff I did in my community.
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:50.539
I always tell people I contribute to the destruction
00:45:50.539 --> 00:45:53.960
and like what real warriors do. And when you
00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:56.059
think of every war, we have to go back and rebuild
00:45:56.059 --> 00:45:59.280
the destructive things that we did to the community
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:02.380
and to the people and to the places and the things.
00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:06.380
If you had a moment, and that's what I'm about.
00:46:06.889 --> 00:46:09.789
I probably get it from my mom, man. I'm always
00:46:09.789 --> 00:46:12.530
about peace, bro. I love peace. I just want everybody
00:46:12.530 --> 00:46:15.570
to get along. Can we just party? No shootouts,
00:46:15.590 --> 00:46:18.909
no fighting. Let's just have a good time. You
00:46:18.909 --> 00:46:24.869
feel me? Yeah, man. Yeah. So if you had a moment
00:46:24.869 --> 00:46:29.510
to say something to a brother that you had odds
00:46:29.510 --> 00:46:33.610
with, and you can say something right now to
00:46:33.610 --> 00:46:37.639
say, brother, let's be brothers and let's be
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:40.820
that for the next generation. Even if it's not
00:46:40.820 --> 00:46:44.139
for you too, but for the next young kids is looking
00:46:44.139 --> 00:46:49.280
up to you. What would you say to them? Let's
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:51.719
let it go, brother. And have a, have a drink.
00:46:52.579 --> 00:46:55.579
I don't drink, but I was like, let's, let's,
00:46:55.579 --> 00:47:00.260
let's, let's have some fun. Let's, let's, let's
00:47:00.260 --> 00:47:03.639
show, let's show the world. I got like us two
00:47:03.639 --> 00:47:10.269
guys. that can do great things together. Like,
00:47:10.269 --> 00:47:14.409
let's, let's, like, I would say, like, for what
00:47:14.409 --> 00:47:23.150
I did, I apologize. And I want us to be brothers
00:47:23.150 --> 00:47:28.570
because the world don't, the thing the enemy
00:47:28.570 --> 00:47:32.909
loves is when two warriors go together, you know,
00:47:32.929 --> 00:47:36.559
two good guys. go at it each other. That's what
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:41.420
the enemy wants. Let's put our foot on the devil's
00:47:41.420 --> 00:47:44.699
neck and show the world that we can do great
00:47:44.699 --> 00:47:49.380
things together. And I'll be like, yeah, that's
00:47:49.380 --> 00:47:53.900
it. You see that picture back there? That's my
00:47:53.900 --> 00:47:57.599
mom. Yeah, I see her. Yeah, and that's all she
00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:00.219
ever wanted me to do. You know, before our last
00:48:00.219 --> 00:48:02.360
days, when she died in my arms, she said, be
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:06.940
good, Bam Bam. And my goodness is knowing a brother
00:48:06.940 --> 00:48:10.420
like you and knowing who you have become and
00:48:10.420 --> 00:48:12.840
who you still becoming. And thanks for being
00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:15.860
a great example for my sons, for me, for my students.
00:48:16.340 --> 00:48:19.320
And we're honored to know Marcus Taylor and know
00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:21.460
what you can do, brother. To know that you're
00:48:21.460 --> 00:48:25.940
bigger than a Suge Knight or bigger than a controversy.
00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:29.659
You are a man like every other man is just trying
00:48:29.659 --> 00:48:32.449
to do the best things. that God has in store
00:48:32.449 --> 00:48:35.949
for you with those gifts. Am I correct? Absolutely,
00:48:36.070 --> 00:48:39.269
sir. Yes. So tell the fans how they can get in
00:48:39.269 --> 00:48:43.449
contact with the, the, the great, awesome Marcus
00:48:43.449 --> 00:48:46.750
Taylor. They wanted to do that, sir. Um, you
00:48:46.750 --> 00:48:51.090
can hit me up on Facebook. Um, R Marcos Taylor,
00:48:51.210 --> 00:48:56.030
and you can hit me up on Instagram. I am R Marcus
00:48:56.030 --> 00:49:00.469
Taylor with you. I'm always on Facebook. It's
00:49:00.469 --> 00:49:03.369
just I'm always on Facebook. You can message
00:49:03.369 --> 00:49:07.389
me and I'll hit you back. I do. I do. All my
00:49:07.389 --> 00:49:10.789
fans, they'd be surprised. Like, you really hit
00:49:10.789 --> 00:49:16.289
me back? I'm like, yeah. I hit people back. I'm
00:49:16.289 --> 00:49:20.130
better now. Before, I would say, you know, like,
00:49:20.190 --> 00:49:24.570
one thing about this business is, like, I thought
00:49:24.570 --> 00:49:28.489
I could do it all by myself. I couldn't. So I
00:49:28.489 --> 00:49:31.170
had to rely on other people to help me. And because
00:49:31.170 --> 00:49:34.449
of that, I am better now. So hit me back once
00:49:34.449 --> 00:49:37.110
or twice. I promise you, I'll get back to you.
00:49:37.730 --> 00:49:41.650
If anybody DMs me, I'll get back to you. I promise.
00:49:41.809 --> 00:49:44.409
It might not be one day. It might be two days,
00:49:44.489 --> 00:49:46.429
maybe even a week. But the week, I definitely
00:49:46.429 --> 00:49:49.550
will hit you back. You can have a great conversation,
00:49:49.750 --> 00:49:51.929
and we can have a great conversation. I have
00:49:51.929 --> 00:49:54.449
great conversations with Grandmaster Bam. We
00:49:54.449 --> 00:49:57.550
be bugging out, man. We be bugging. I look at
00:49:57.550 --> 00:49:59.969
all the stuff you send me. I be like, wow, this
00:49:59.969 --> 00:50:02.809
is real. This is serious. It's like stuff that
00:50:02.809 --> 00:50:06.070
just touches your heart. Thank you for taking
00:50:06.070 --> 00:50:08.610
me under your wing that you did. You didn't have
00:50:08.610 --> 00:50:10.949
to. You could have been, you know, you really
00:50:10.949 --> 00:50:13.150
couldn't. You didn't have to, but you wanted,
00:50:13.269 --> 00:50:17.929
like, you scooped me up. Like, thank you. I receive
00:50:17.929 --> 00:50:22.590
it. Like, a lot of people, like, I'll say this.
00:50:22.750 --> 00:50:26.710
I'll say this. People that I looked up to, they
00:50:26.710 --> 00:50:29.710
didn't treat me good. And you're better than
00:50:29.710 --> 00:50:33.550
all of them. And you received me. And thank you,
00:50:33.570 --> 00:50:36.510
Grandmaster. I mean, I really received you. You've
00:50:36.510 --> 00:50:39.849
been a big brother to me. And I'm so thankful.
00:50:40.130 --> 00:50:42.050
Like, more like the uncle. You know what I'm
00:50:42.050 --> 00:50:44.650
saying? Like, thanks. Like, thank you for doing
00:50:44.650 --> 00:50:48.829
that. You know, it's awesome. You're one of my
00:50:48.829 --> 00:50:52.150
heroes. And we're talking. I get goosebumps.
00:50:52.610 --> 00:50:55.699
It's amazing. I love it. I'm corny. I don't care.
00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:59.960
I'm corny. That's how I feel about you, brother.
00:51:00.099 --> 00:51:02.820
And the one thing I learned from Brother D, you
00:51:02.820 --> 00:51:05.239
know, in a program of recovery, he said, we help
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:07.639
one another. Iron sharpens iron. We can look
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:11.159
up to each other. It's not a one -sided relationship.
00:51:11.719 --> 00:51:14.199
And I end with this one thing that Shaheem said,
00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:16.840
and I love his brother, man, one of my heroes,
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:20.340
man. He said, when I was falling off the cliff,
00:51:20.750 --> 00:51:23.050
I wish that the people looked up to me that I
00:51:23.050 --> 00:51:25.429
looked up to where they gave me the rope to pull
00:51:25.429 --> 00:51:28.590
me back up. And then they let me fall and they
00:51:28.590 --> 00:51:31.510
let me fall on my face. And when I came back,
00:51:31.570 --> 00:51:33.969
they act like they didn't know what to do. And
00:51:33.969 --> 00:51:37.449
it's our duty to see those kids or those people
00:51:37.449 --> 00:51:40.269
that are falling and at least just throw the
00:51:40.269 --> 00:51:42.909
rope. Because you can't hurt a person that don't
00:51:42.909 --> 00:51:45.650
want to help. But if you did put forth a rope
00:51:45.650 --> 00:51:49.010
to say it's there, brah, you know, I'm just giving
00:51:49.010 --> 00:51:52.159
it. Whatever you want to do is you. And I think
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.300
that's what we have to do as leaders today. We
00:51:54.300 --> 00:51:57.719
got to throw the rope, man, and lead the rest
00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:00.539
of the guard. Right? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:04.019
I didn't want to be... I'll say this real quick.
00:52:04.179 --> 00:52:07.900
I didn't want to be a leader. I didn't. I just
00:52:07.900 --> 00:52:11.920
wanted to show the world I could do it on my
00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:14.980
own. But that's like the devil. Like, no, no.
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:18.739
Ask for help from the right people. And like
00:52:18.739 --> 00:52:22.079
I said, You're one of my shining stars. When
00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:24.980
I was real mad, when I wanted to really do, like,
00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:30.019
I was in a dark place. Like, I was in a dark,
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:33.539
I ain't gonna say nothing to say I'm gonna do,
00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:36.760
I'm like, I was in a, I was in a, the devil was
00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:40.539
holding me, bro. And you put words into me, you
00:52:40.539 --> 00:52:45.039
put words into me, and it literally, like, damn,
00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:50.260
damn. If Grandmaster Bam, said I should forgive,
00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:55.059
I got to think about it. And I really did. No,
00:52:55.139 --> 00:52:58.019
I really did. Like, it made me go see a therapist.
00:52:58.199 --> 00:53:00.380
And I told my therapist what you had said to
00:53:00.380 --> 00:53:02.920
me. And I was like, and you know what he said?
00:53:03.079 --> 00:53:04.980
He said, thank God for that brother that told
00:53:04.980 --> 00:53:08.579
you. Because he's right. And he was right. And
00:53:08.579 --> 00:53:11.380
you were right. And that's why I'm doing so much
00:53:11.380 --> 00:53:15.199
better. Because then you were right. God was
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:20.289
right. But he also said, but God also says, honor
00:53:20.289 --> 00:53:24.610
the men and women that speak, that breathe life.
00:53:24.630 --> 00:53:27.210
You breathe life into me. I was really, dude,
00:53:27.610 --> 00:53:31.409
I'm not gangster, but I was that dude. Like,
00:53:31.409 --> 00:53:33.849
I never walk away from a fight. I was that type
00:53:33.849 --> 00:53:36.650
of guy. And you like, like, and people, the people
00:53:36.650 --> 00:53:39.349
who know me, they know how I used to be. You,
00:53:39.429 --> 00:53:41.969
you, you really, you don't get what you did for
00:53:41.969 --> 00:53:45.920
me. It's big. Look, brother, if you see yourself
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:48.519
on a movie set, you was like Suge Knight. He
00:53:48.519 --> 00:53:53.679
was like... Yeah, everybody was a little intimidated.
00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:56.840
You was hitting the pads. You was hurting people
00:53:56.840 --> 00:54:00.079
and stuff. Whoa, I mean, even Antoine, that wasn't
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:02.840
a fake fall. That was like a real fall. So, I
00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:05.260
mean, for you to be this version now compared
00:54:05.260 --> 00:54:08.340
to that, yeah, you was a little hyped up, man,
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:13.139
a little intensified or the same. That is so
00:54:13.139 --> 00:54:18.619
good, brother. If it took that level of comfort
00:54:18.619 --> 00:54:21.219
from brothers to get a brother to this point,
00:54:21.300 --> 00:54:23.179
that's what everybody did for me, brother. So
00:54:23.179 --> 00:54:25.400
in order to keep what you have, we just got to
00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:28.099
give it away. That's it, brother. Absolutely.
00:54:28.820 --> 00:54:31.599
Absolutely. I want to say once again, thank your
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:34.980
wife. Yes, I will. And I got to say thanks to
00:54:34.980 --> 00:54:38.139
my wife who's allowed me to do this. Yes. Tell
00:54:38.139 --> 00:54:41.599
her I said hi, too, please. And I will. And happy
00:54:41.599 --> 00:54:44.119
anniversary. Great day, brother. And thank you
00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:48.139
so much for such a wonderful moment like this
00:54:48.139 --> 00:54:51.000
because this is one of our best podcasts. Awesome.
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:53.639
Thank you. You honor me so much. Thank you, sir.
00:54:53.820 --> 00:54:55.940
All right. Don't forget to return on the next
00:54:55.940 --> 00:54:59.940
movie, brother. Oh, no. Dude, I'm here. I'm here.
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:04.360
I'm here. I'm ready. If you tell me, I'm coming.
00:55:05.579 --> 00:55:08.500
That's a no -brainer. All right. We good. Well,
00:55:08.539 --> 00:55:11.199
great day. Much love. Thank you. All right, sir.
00:55:11.360 --> 00:55:12.059
Take it easy.