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Cast of Brotherly Love Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody is
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Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomine the guy. We are the
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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We got special guests from the cast of
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Speaker 1: Brotherly Love. Now, Angela, you start us off because you
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Speaker 1: seen the movie. Well, we have Eric Hill Junior. Hey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? Yeah, Corey Hard what's up? Man? Eric
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Speaker 1: was just in here talking all the hood and then
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Speaker 1: all of saying, Hey, what's up y'all? This movie. Eric
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Speaker 1: is probably the young the as far as um. These
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Speaker 1: guys are more veteran and your this is your first
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Speaker 1: like big yeah acting role. Yeah, you know, it's it's
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Speaker 1: nuts because this is like hitting theaters and it's just wow,
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Speaker 1: how the industry is, you know, like it's it's all
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Speaker 1: about perseverance, you know, and it's it's just an honor
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Speaker 1: to be with these guys. It really is. Anybody serious?
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Speaker 1: He ain't never said that. I actually did host this
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Speaker 1: spring the other day, and I was telling y'all that
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Speaker 1: it was a really great movie. Right, so um, because
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Speaker 1: I came up here and I talked about it as well,
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Speaker 1: and the movie does come out on Friday, So let's
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Speaker 1: talk about y'all different roles in this movie. Okay, Corey Harjack,
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Speaker 1: I'm scared of you. I told him that in the movie,
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Speaker 1: So explain who you are. Wow. I played June. I
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Speaker 1: played a father figure who just got to hold it
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Speaker 1: down for my family. You know, my younger sister, Kinkie Palmer,
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Speaker 1: he plays Eric, plays my younger brother, and he's an
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Speaker 1: inspiring basketball star and I just got to make sure
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Speaker 1: that his dreams come to come to life. The same
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Speaker 1: thing with my sister. And then we got an ailing
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Speaker 1: mother's great. You know, he did a great job. She
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Speaker 1: was awesome, and she was a man Macy's. You know,
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Speaker 1: she's a thespian, so it was great working on her.
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Speaker 1: But I just, you know, my father figure, and I
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Speaker 1: gotta get out in the streets and do what I
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Speaker 1: gotta do. How does he playad Because you don't look
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Speaker 1: like no father figure. He's actually the hell he don't
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Speaker 1: look like a dad actual life. But now I had
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Speaker 1: to be the dad. And because we lost our father
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Speaker 1: in the movie. Yeah, everybody, that make sense? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: because men can't be father black man. I'll sleep with
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Speaker 1: my baby every night at home in the house. And
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Speaker 1: once again, yeah, man. I enjoyed playing the bad guy.
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Speaker 1: I think the bad guys in the films have a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun and it's a good time. But I
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Speaker 1: trust me, I'm doing something different this year. At the
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Speaker 1: end of the year, I got I'm playing a good guy,
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Speaker 1: actually playing a social worker. You got a good hand, brother,
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Speaker 1: you can't can't government another man. I sat behind these
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Speaker 1: guys during the screening. I didn't even realize it, and
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Speaker 1: we were talking out loud. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 1: But we were talking like at the screen, you know
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Speaker 1: how you talking at the like my yah, no, don't
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Speaker 1: do it, no, don't be stupid. Yeah, you know that
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Speaker 1: type of movie. Yeah, that's that's what's so ill about it.
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Speaker 1: Like we you know, we've been touring, you know, all around.
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Speaker 1: You know there's like Mississippi, what's ell us that we
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Speaker 1: started it off like hitting the colleges, And that's what
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Speaker 1: was so cool to see the kids have that visceral
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Speaker 1: reaction to this, to what's happening, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: because you know, sometimes I'm not even allow to you,
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Speaker 1: like I'll wait a week to go see a movie
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Speaker 1: because I don't want to hear anything in the back.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you, you know what I'm saying, but this one,
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Speaker 1: it's awesome because you realize that people are really enjoying
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Speaker 1: it and they're losing themselves in it to the point
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Speaker 1: where they forget everything else that's going on around them.
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Speaker 1: They want everybody to succeed in the film, and it's
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Speaker 1: awesome that that's what happened. What's the movie about? Um?
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Speaker 1: The Bilderly Love is really about family and its family
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Speaker 1: that's set in It's set in Philly, and it's you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody's trying to do what's right for their respective families.
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Speaker 1: You know, June, me and our family, crams family, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. That's Holito's character. But the problem
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Speaker 1: is that the neighborhood in which they live is entrenched
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Speaker 1: in violence. So Mabel decision, you know Westfiley at that,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Making that right decision can
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Speaker 1: be a difficult one and that's what you're watching people
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Speaker 1: struggle with in the film. Yet around the bush with
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Speaker 1: that violence because it happens in the real like in
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Speaker 1: our inner cities and communities. So we have to touch
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Speaker 1: that because the movie is really true to that. So
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Speaker 1: I'm interested in seeing because I was just reading I
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Speaker 1: was reading bucked by m K. Ascent and it was
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Speaker 1: he's from Philly and the whole you know it talking
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Speaker 1: about his upbringing in Philly, and I'm like, yea, why
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Speaker 1: ain't nobody ever made a real good Philly movie. I mean,
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Speaker 1: of course you see state property and all that, but
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about his was like, I feel this what
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Speaker 1: caught the essence of Philadelphia. Philly plays a character in
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Speaker 1: the film, and that's what people especially when we screamed
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Speaker 1: out in Philly and just the lango, you know, just
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Speaker 1: the lot of you know, yeah, and Philly appreciated that.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I think that's what makes the film
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Speaker 1: so good because we didn't shy away from giving the real,
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Speaker 1: real Yes, we just went all out that they loved it.
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Speaker 1: That's that's Jamal Hill, the writer and creator of this,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it took him ten
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Speaker 1: years to do this, and he had a vision in mind,
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Speaker 1: shout out between Favor in twenty one days, exact schedule
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Speaker 1: and they and they did that, you know, knowing that
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Speaker 1: Jamal's motive was to get this done in Philly with Charlie,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because it couldn't have been
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Speaker 1: done anywhere else outside of it, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Shout up to Charlie Man, you know, and Queen because
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Speaker 1: she had the foresight to understand why this needed to
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Speaker 1: get done. And the fact that you know you're gonna
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Speaker 1: see that Philly essence. That's because Jamal made sure that
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Speaker 1: it got done in Philly, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: because you couldn't. You can't have a project like this
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Speaker 1: done in the studio. How many go to be I
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Speaker 1: believe I want to check that fifty okay, yeah, nationwide
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna be on time. Screws makes me hype.
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Speaker 1: Believe we're gonna be all Tom Scarves makes me hype.
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Speaker 1: You know the kid from the Bronx. You go to
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Speaker 1: the Dukes all the time, and I'm actually going to
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Speaker 1: see to shout out the kids plays my sister, yeah yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know she plays uh yeah, and my twin sister.
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Speaker 1: You know. She's She's been awesome to work with, you know,
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Speaker 1: just just a smith, professional man, and she's her energy
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Speaker 1: is so contagious, you know, she it permeates throughout the set,
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Speaker 1: so it was beautiful to work with her. They shopped
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Speaker 1: the movie to like studios and stuff. It took Jamal
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Speaker 1: Hill ten years to do this, you know, he shot
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Speaker 1: out to everybody and it's it's like I said, it's
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Speaker 1: it's it's a real example of perseverance. You're popping off.
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Speaker 1: So now they feel comfortable with putting black people tell
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Speaker 1: us we knew exactly, he said. All it takes is
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Speaker 1: one yes and to know the right person, like the
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Speaker 1: right person know everybody and their mama and their sister.
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Speaker 1: So you get one hundred knows for you get that
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Speaker 1: one yes, you know exactly, and that's all it takes.
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Speaker 1: But I'm excited about this movie because I've been acting
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Speaker 1: for like twenty years and this is my first kind
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Speaker 1: of would you say you look twenty three? How you
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Speaker 1: been acting for twenty years? That's what I say. I
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Speaker 1: think it's still be a daddy. Yeah, and you gotta
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Speaker 1: do something. I love the you know, our culture. I
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Speaker 1: won't to do something for our folks, you know, our people,
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Speaker 1: just to show them, you know that how I get down.
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Speaker 1: But this this movie is really hit close to home
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Speaker 1: because I'm from Chicago and I grew up around this environment.
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Speaker 1: So that's why this movie is the most important to me.
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Speaker 1: So definitely the first urban movie, Yeah, the first one
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Speaker 1: to get like at the aster, please, I did some
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Speaker 1: stuff before like that. It's like BT, but I don't
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Speaker 1: count that. You got a lot of white movies, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a lot. I was just American Sniper did like six
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Speaker 1: hundred million, went to the Oscars. No one knows, you know,
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Speaker 1: because yes, because I see the American Snipe. But I'm like,
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Speaker 1: hold on that, black people. It was in American Snapel
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Speaker 1: I played d I didn't die or anything. I've been living.
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Speaker 1: He saved Bradley Cooper in the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: But when it comes to those movies, he was running.
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Speaker 1: They pushed certain folks into the forefront. Got you. It's okay.
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Speaker 1: Did you meet Clean ease with at least? Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: work with was the first one Grand to Areno, don't
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Speaker 1: you know. I don't watch them. I watched the Grand Arena. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I had a pull up on the corner and those
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Speaker 1: guys and I was harassing. I remember that the cigarette.
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Speaker 1: Nobody knows. I'll be working, man, I'd just be working
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Speaker 1: this morning because my mat Corey. I said to him,
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Speaker 1: I was like, bal you know how auditioned for that role?
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Speaker 1: You did? Yeah? Yeah, that and roll about Your characters
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Speaker 1: had names at least right. Oh yeah, like you had
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Speaker 1: you had names on the morning. Yeah, I kill a
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Speaker 1: lot of people in Almo. It definitely do all right now.
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Speaker 1: And there was also some some behind the scenes friction
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Speaker 1: right because Tia got kind of gangster on Kiki Palmer.
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Speaker 1: Now what happened with his wife? That was just one
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Speaker 1: on like media. Yeah, that was crazy. I was reading
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Speaker 1: about sister to all of us many you know, that's
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Speaker 1: why they look like it was crazy. It's funny because
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Speaker 1: we had a discussion about this. No, we had a
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Speaker 1: discussion about Chris Brown making Beyonce his woman crushed Wednesday
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Speaker 1: and then taking it down like is it inappropriate to
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Speaker 1: make somebody else's um, yes, it is wife or husband
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Speaker 1: because she married. I mean she got a she got
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Speaker 1: a husband. You know, I'm not gonna do that. I
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Speaker 1: ain't gonna make no married woman, you know, woman crush ones.
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Speaker 1: But that's on him, you know right now, I don't
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Speaker 1: know what he was saying. I'm not mad at that.
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Speaker 1: Say I'm married to I wouldn't. I mean, I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be somebody. But if somebody makes my wife a woman crush,
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Speaker 1: I'm happy. If Dame Dash make your wife woman crush
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Speaker 1: one right, do it right? My wife gots be confidence
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Speaker 1: at worried about he can't get that which Mary's on
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Speaker 1: the real that's that's the Mary. Okay, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: I really I don't need to see the movie. Can
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Speaker 1: tell you something. I've seen you all right, Okay. I
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Speaker 1: wanted to say that, but I was like, I don't
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Speaker 1: know if that was the same guy a girl about
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Speaker 1: the faces, but I didn't got she was on vacation,
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Speaker 1: got you. There's so many black people that I'm looking like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I knew you one from the island. I was out
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Speaker 1: in my mind like hold up, no, yeah, because I
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Speaker 1: didn't know which twenty was. I didn't know. You know,
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Speaker 1: so good. You had to bucket. You had to bucket. Yeah, yeah, vacation.
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Speaker 1: Now is it hard for you though? Both of you
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Speaker 1: being actors and being married, you I'll get like jealous
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Speaker 1: ever of each other, of each other. We're in two
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Speaker 1: different worlds. I mean, Tilla has like a Sewan Nicki Knight,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, seeing like other people around,
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Speaker 1: like you know, it's your seven year anniversity. The other
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Speaker 1: day you're working. Yeah, but I had to make sure
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Speaker 1: the roses was there, you know, what I'm saying. And
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Speaker 1: when she's coming out here to do some promotion, we
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Speaker 1: don't go out, so we make sure that stays close,
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Speaker 1: you know, and tight, like the foundation is real. So
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Speaker 1: she met me on a bus stop. That is real.
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Speaker 1: You know you was broke when you met it? Said
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Speaker 1: broke at the bus stop? Man, I mean she gave
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Speaker 1: me a ride home. I was on the bus stop.
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Speaker 1: We were in the same movie and I was catching
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Speaker 1: the bus while they was driving home, and they saw
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Speaker 1: me and asked me for a ride. So that's how
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Speaker 1: that relationships damn years ago. Love. That's like pace to
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Speaker 1: catch the bus. You never know what to shoot your shot.
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Speaker 1: You're only gonna You're only gonna miss the shot, you
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Speaker 1: don't I on the Jesus Sandals too, Man, that was
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Speaker 1: lucky at least. I don't know. Man, how did your
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Speaker 1: game work? Was it? Like you said? Hey, you know
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Speaker 1: I loved it. No game. I'm just keeping real, you know,
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Speaker 1: from Chicago. So I just I'm honest. I'll tell the truth.
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Speaker 1: That's it. That's my game. I did read somewhere that
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Speaker 1: your dream roles to play Barack Obama. Is it because
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Speaker 1: of the old Chicago connection or just something else. Well,
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Speaker 1: people always say I kind of favor him a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and then I'm from the South Side, so it's crazy.
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Speaker 1: I just got the script about the movie they shooting
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Speaker 1: the summer, so they shoot the movie on Barack already
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Speaker 1: before he was a president. Him in the First Lady,
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Speaker 1: when he was like a senator. Yeah yet oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: his whole memoirs from before he was a president, the
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Speaker 1: playing on trying to kill Barack and nothing, so they
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Speaker 1: can shoot this damn movie. Man if I wasn't doing
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Speaker 1: a movie on that man. So Early Man is a
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Speaker 1: love story. Love story. Boy, I don't got nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with his president before. Okay, okay, yeah, all right now,
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Speaker 1: one thing I'm gonna say before people go see the
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Speaker 1: movie Brotherly Love, because I know everyone's going to go
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Speaker 1: see it on Friday, yes, um. And the first thing
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Speaker 1: I thought about, and I said this to you guys
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Speaker 1: when I was watching it, was all the athletes that
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Speaker 1: we see all the time making these decisions and we're like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, he had everything. You know, he had
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars, he had these great contracts, all this attention,
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Speaker 1: and why would he go and do something so stupid?
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Speaker 1: And obviously there's decisions that you have to make in
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Speaker 1: this movie. I can't give it away, but um, I
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Speaker 1: felt like this movie really does give a backdrop on
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Speaker 1: what goes on in people's families before they get to
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Speaker 1: a certain point in their life. Before a lot of
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Speaker 1: these NBA stars NFL stars become huge athletes, they have
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Speaker 1: a whole background, and I thought that was really relevant
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Speaker 1: what goes on today in the news to amazing how
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Speaker 1: the universe works, right, you know, I mean I would
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Speaker 1: say that that happened serendipitously, but I don't believe in that.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I mean because you were
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Speaker 1: a high school star and we were just talking about
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Speaker 1: the kid in Patterson fifteen years old. You know, God
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Speaker 1: bless that boy. He was like number one basketball player.
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Speaker 1: It gives voice. The film gives the voice to the
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Speaker 1: voiceless at the end of the day. Um, I think
13:18
Speaker 1: the reason why people shun away from our cultures because
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Speaker 1: they just don't know it. And when you see a
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Speaker 1: film like Brotherly Love You, like you said, you get
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Speaker 1: to see what a college high school star goes through
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Speaker 1: before he gets to that level. But you also get
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Speaker 1: to see why people may shy towards the street life,
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Speaker 1: you know, violence because of what they're going through. Like,
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Speaker 1: sometimes you don't have a lot of options. Man, you
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Speaker 1: gotta take care of your family, so that's all, you know,
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Speaker 1: you just got to go out there. You gotta rob
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Speaker 1: somebody whatever. Unfortunately on table, I mean, it's not we're
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Speaker 1: not glorifying it, but we're just trying to show show
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Speaker 1: what's real out there. Now. I do I agree with
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Speaker 1: what you're saying. Would also disagree because I hate when
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Speaker 1: people say we have no other options. Like it is,
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Speaker 1: though said, this just shows why some people may do it.
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Speaker 1: You know. Here's here's the thing about it is that
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Speaker 1: that's what I love about the film because although what
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Speaker 1: it does is it's not necessarily about the characters in
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Speaker 1: the film, it's about how the people who can relate
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Speaker 1: to the characters in the film can see the other
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Speaker 1: options that are available. Okay, So, like we've been following
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Speaker 1: that Aaron Hernandez story and everybody's like, wow, what a
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Speaker 1: dumb decision, you know, but we don't know what his
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Speaker 1: affiliations were before. What we kind of do. I guess
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Speaker 1: he was in the NFL and became this huge star
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Speaker 1: and made some terrible choices. In his life. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's really difficult to speak on what took
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Speaker 1: place that motivated someone to do what they do. But
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Speaker 1: what's awesome about this project is that it can shed
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Speaker 1: a little bit of light on what happens that way,
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Speaker 1: Maybe people won't be so quick to judge maybe the
14:52
Speaker 1: next time that they're amongst a jury, but have a
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Speaker 1: little bit more insight as to, you know, what happened
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Speaker 1: that way, They're not so quick to react based upon
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Speaker 1: what they think. You know, maybe they've seen the film
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Speaker 1: and they can understand that this is not but this
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Speaker 1: is a person who made a bone head mistake and
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Speaker 1: needs an opportunity to correct it, maybe not necessarily a
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Speaker 1: correctional facility. And then we see Quincy's in this movie.
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Speaker 1: By the way, he did a great job. And because
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Speaker 1: you know, quin Quincy Brown killed that bro? Why name Brown? Papa?
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Speaker 1: His daddy, his mama laughed a Brown? Okay, maybe his
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Speaker 1: father shout out the show. I don't think. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know anything. You don't know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know nothing. He was casting it because he
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Speaker 1: has one of the leads in the movie. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: I like, oh, this is some kind of privileged thing
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Speaker 1: before you. I didn't say that. I'm like many calves, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, everybody's gonna say that, and that's
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Speaker 1: the truth. But when I got on set, the guys
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Speaker 1: far like, he has no ego, He's he removes himself
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Speaker 1: from anything Dylan like come from like a famous family
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Speaker 1: or being you know, involved with that. He he came
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Speaker 1: to work, he did a great he was I was
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Speaker 1: surprised because I was like, okay, and then I'm master
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Speaker 1: piece and Romeo was my best friend. And that shout
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Speaker 1: out the wrong romans overseas right now, getting that putting
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Speaker 1: in that work, you know what I'm saying, so shout
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Speaker 1: out the wrong Yeah. Yeah, well y'all, you know you
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Speaker 1: understand with Romeo and Quincy Man were talking worried about that.
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Speaker 1: That wasn't even the focused brother about that work. You
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Speaker 1: ain't get no holes with them to a round. Women.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I mean no women with them to a well.
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Speaker 1: I'm bringing life skinning back, No, I'm ringing back back. Well,
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Speaker 1: the flip comes out this Friday, brotherly love, make sure
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Speaker 1: you go check it out. Yes, I appreciate you guys
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Speaker 1: with Julia, Thank you appreciate al thank you, Oh no problem. Really,
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Speaker 1: I honestly, seriously would say everybody should go see this movie.
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Speaker 1: It was so it was not what I anticipated, Like
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Speaker 1: I didn't. It wasn't as great as it was. Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much to find us though. Brotherly Love the
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Speaker 1: movie is our hashtag. Please if you tweet it and
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Speaker 1: you like what you see, hashtager just let's let's let's
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Speaker 1: move the culture forward. It's not a black film. It's
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Speaker 1: a film for us, for all of us, because everyone
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Speaker 1: could relate and please just move And just so you know,
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Speaker 1: he really is a nice guy in real life. Here
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Speaker 1: I am. I want to kill you all. It's the
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