0:00
yes let that let me tell you
0:03
something HB that was a trailer from
0:06
Star Trek section 31 right I want to say
0:09
it's a spin-off of Discovery if I'm not
0:12
mistaken it's a reason why I know
0:15
this what's the reason sway I know I
0:18
just set myself up but go ahead what's
0:19
the reason ohuru was my first My First
0:22
Crush Was Lieutenant auru oh ah yeah yes
0:26
that was the first crush wait the first
0:28
that was your first crush Crush I ever
0:30
had first generation Star Trek viewer
0:34
right here Leonard nemoy was somebody
0:36
was a distant Uncle to me got this come
0:39
on we had William Shatner has been on
0:41
this show how many times Captain KK
0:45
every iteration of Star Trek that made
0:47
it to the big screen there's been an
0:49
actor here to represent oh that's hard
0:51
bro because Star Trek to me was a look
0:54
into the future before there was the
0:56
United Nations right they had the
0:58
Federation I believe usss Federation
1:01
usss Federation this was before the
1:04
United Nations was ever a thing in real
1:08
life these people who wrote These
1:10
amazing stories about the future right
1:13
rotenberry who wrote this amazing vision
1:16
of the future re reason why I like the
1:18
vision of the future because it wasn't a
1:20
lot of sci-fi movies that included black
1:23
people in it and they definitely didn't
1:26
include him with a lieutenant
1:28
status right and Star Trek did that and
1:32
it made me believe that black people
1:35
future when I grew up watching this
1:37
thing in the 70s and now it's
1:40
2025 and playing the character aloc I
1:43
believe that's it that's it is our
1:45
brother yes yes our brother the fian you
1:49
know him from a town a te a town to a
1:53
town too eight town in the 18 Army of
1:56
the Dead saved Being Mary Jane Dark clue
2:00
power pieces of her ladies and gentlemen
2:03
the one and only fpan of Our Generation
2:06
yes give it up for the one and only
2:10
here come on man Omari family family
2:15
family and he's walking into the
2:18
future this man been rocking with us
2:21
before y'all knew it was popular to do
2:25
ital media pre- social media PR man how
2:28
you been oh I've been good brother You'
2:29
been good I've been good the setup the
2:31
setup was interesting because I I leaned
2:33
over before you gave that amazing
2:39
HB yes world the citizens listening they
2:41
listening right now yes citizens yeah
2:43
this is live this is live this yeah so I
2:45
lean over HB who's equally been a sister
2:47
now for 15 years I known sway for about
2:51
20 plus yeah man it's been a minute off
2:53
crazy yeah and I said to HP I said
2:55
what's been difficult we had two strikes
2:58
as you know so way we had we had covid
3:01
and then we had the actual strikes yeah
3:03
plural from producer to director actor
3:06
writer uh all of those strikes and so
3:08
what's been hard bro is as the stature
3:10
increases and as I as you stated walk
3:13
into the future more your nose have to
3:15
increase not your yeses but what you say
3:17
no to and so I said to HB I said HB
3:20
what's been difficult is being on the
3:22
set called home and just kind of not
3:25
knowing my place yeah you trying to do
3:27
your best as a leading man at the crib
3:29
but you know you got nine and 12 year
3:31
olds like Papa that ain't how you do it
3:33
let me show you how you do it wow and so
3:36
what's what's a what's a beautiful
3:38
reality of of our friendship and and I
3:41
don't and I don't differentiate it
3:43
between me and your friendship as as as
3:45
well HB but what Sway and I have always
3:47
given each other permission to do is
3:50
while being from the black cafeteria
3:53
table and knowing most importantly where
3:55
we're from we don't mind roaming around
3:57
the rest of the cafeteria that's right
3:59
what Star Trek did so well which is why
4:02
I think it's a perfect fit for me Star
4:04
Trek allowed Avery Brooks Lavar Burton
4:07
your first crush and many others of
4:10
color to roam around the whole cafeteria
4:13
and if you can make our people our
4:15
community our culture believe yo if I
4:17
can do it you can do it that's a
4:19
different space pun PRS intended it's a
4:23
different space for us to live in and so
4:25
you know sway was whispering to me was
4:27
like oh I really don't claim I'm from a
4:29
particular place I'm just from Earth I
4:31
said or not you're from another galaxy
4:33
way which is the greatest of compliment
4:35
you can get so it's amazing that from
4:37
rotenberry to Alex kirchman to olun they
4:40
are incredible director Paramount plus
4:42
CBS over the whole thing sky dance now
4:45
that they all said here's a Kio and do
4:49
what do with the key what we know you
4:51
can do with the key and so it's beyond
4:53
humbly bro to be asked to Aid a 60 plus
4:57
yeah year franchise and Aid in taking it
5:00
to that other level level or or
5:03
Stratosphere as as as you and I would
5:05
say it's just amazing to be able to go
5:09
dealing character yeah bro illegal
5:13
distribution of narcotics through the
5:15
greater parts of New York and not now be
5:18
doing that in a other Galaxy but be
5:21
dealing different kind of lessons and
5:22
that's what rotenberry did so well are
5:24
you on this side of the line or you on
5:26
this side of the line and so I'm still
5:27
dealing I'm still willing M but it's
5:30
lessons now it's it's it's gems of
5:32
wisdom it's ways to get not only people
5:35
who don't feel necessarily like they are
5:37
be fitting of uh being in a particular
5:39
room which is why I think trekers and
5:41
trekkies are so special yeah man Star
5:44
Wars people includeed because they go to
5:46
ComicCon feeling finally a part of
5:47
something right they go back home after
5:49
Comic Con and they feel like perhaps
5:51
parias are Outcast again it's cool to be
5:55
to be in their huddle and I I equally
5:57
feel like an outcast sometimes so it's
5:58
cool to be a part of it and you a treky
6:00
and I want all trekkies to call up right
6:02
now 888 742 3345 you grew up watching
6:06
Star Trek if you a treky if you're into
6:09
sci-fi cuz I didn't know you did bro
6:12
come on man I've been too I know you
6:14
bright as [Â __Â ] but I didn't know you
6:15
grew up in that I grew up I grew up in
6:17
watching first generation Star Trek um
6:20
which didn't run that many seasons it
6:23
was quick people didn't realize that but
6:25
I was fascinated with sci-fi and so all
6:28
of the things Star Wars and track Star
6:32
Encounters um Battle Star Galactica I
6:36
was all of those Rogers but Buck Rogers
6:40
I talking that's why I draw the line
6:50
Android little scary Android I got
6:54
that little Android you know man but
6:58
what what for you for you
7:00
if if if if you would like this
7:02
character how how is this character um
7:06
differ um than other powerful characters
7:09
that you played in other movies because
7:11
it seem like you have a relationship
7:13
with your characters um that rather you
7:15
want to or not people always going to
7:18
affiliate you with your characters right
7:21
uh absolutely man you know I could magic
7:23
could be a LoveHate Thing with the
7:25
characters right talk to us about this
7:27
character how does it differ for you I'm
7:29
going to say this first I'll set it up
7:31
with I I'll set that the answer to that
7:34
question up sway that you it's perfect
7:36
the way you set it up because I want to
7:37
go backwards first the character that I
7:40
put on as closed that has become most I
7:49
off I said recently as in probably the
7:53
last 96 hours last four
7:56
days thinking about Muhammad Ali you
7:59
know thinking about Dr King and and just
8:03
all the things that and Dr King included
8:05
uh the the the first interracial kiss as
8:08
you know Star Trek that we ever saw yeah
8:11
yeah that was William sh William sh yeah
8:14
but the actress went to Dr King one day
8:16
and they had a conversation and she said
8:17
I just I think my time is up here he
8:19
said no no no you can't do that we need
8:21
you in that position that's a position
8:22
that we need after that then the first
8:25
kiss of of in racial proportion or would
8:27
not happen so after Dr King said that no
8:30
no no you stay wearing those those
8:31
clothes that's your position to your
8:34
point he to be about what God will make
8:35
you do you go no God I'm still running
8:37
I'm good no sit your ass down so some
8:40
people who care about you will say no
8:41
sit down stay in that position don't
8:43
move our fan base yours included sway
8:47
citizens included our fan base being
8:51
able to have an opinion and a microphone
8:54
there's seven microphones set up in here
8:56
right now six or seven our fan base
8:59
being being allowed to have a microphone
9:01
almost as loud as the microphone that a
9:03
legend sway you are a legend at this
9:05
you're one of the biggest people to ever
9:08
journalism not opinion based grab a
9:11
microphone I want to say what the f I
9:13
want to say no bro you're a journalist I
9:16
love Tom brool I love sway those two
9:19
shouldn't be next to each other on a bus
9:20
let paper tell it but I put you right
9:23
there next to those people I appreciate
9:24
that so when you say or ask what you ask
9:29
I'mma do a better job and I vow this to
9:31
all the fans particularly the power fans
9:34
I'm going to do a better job first and
9:36
foremost by starting with going back and
9:39
after never having watched it since they
9:41
played I'mma watch all episodes from all
9:44
the seasons I did okay because I need to
9:47
understand their addiction to that
9:51
okay I have to right because my my my G
9:55
my gig in life is to play a character
9:59
and then move on right that is my gig I
10:03
put food on noan Brave and Jay's table
10:05
doing that play the character I'm out
10:09
you can't relegate Michael Jeffrey
10:11
Jordan to a dunk he had a fadea away he
10:15
drove to the hole he passed he was a top
10:18
seven defender of all
10:20
time that's sport so that's still the
10:22
package of who he was as a totality yeah
10:25
but who we are as totality as actors or
10:27
who we're supposed to be is so many
10:30
different characters that you're left to
10:31
look at each of them like you're
10:33
watching a tennis match I'm on the left
10:35
now now the ball's on the right no stay
10:37
in the middle bro I like ghosts I Gotta
10:39
Love on that fan base by going on that
10:42
fan base excuse me I Gotta Love on them
10:43
by going let me go back and watch it
10:46
from the perspective of you guys
10:47
watching it let me forget I was in it
10:49
okay let me watch Joseph let me watch
10:51
nuturi let me watch Leela let me watch
10:52
Curtis let me look at at Courtney's
10:55
writing let me look at Enrique having
10:57
play Lobos let me all the way down the
10:59
Timmy playing you know what he played
11:00
and Dre and all the characters in
11:02
between my my children Don Shay playing
11:05
Raina Michael Rainey Jr playing what he
11:07
played as in Tariq I got to go back so
11:09
that I can see not only the addiction to
11:11
the specificity of omari's character to
11:14
your point but also all the characters
11:15
way yeah I do why so that to answer your
11:20
better I can do a better job at going
11:23
forward in embracing that trekkies might
11:25
all of a sudden get addicted to a lock
11:28
the addiction to the work I've done is
11:30
hard for the humble boy drag to church M
11:33
who absolutely has a lot of Street in me
11:35
but I like God that's hard for me to sit
11:38
and go you only want me to play Ghost M
11:41
so sway I did a solid bro I so embraced
11:43
a fan base I wore a shirt that says holy
11:45
ghost oh my gosh is that what that is
11:49
go there you go let me see that shirt
11:51
man look at it holy ghost what does that
11:55
say in the back rest what does that say
11:57
need to say it come to Jesus and
12:03
soul wow and so I just I just decided
12:07
bro that the fans aren't wrong yeah I
12:10
hadn't been making them necessarily
12:13
wrong but I had I had been frustrated
12:16
that that they're not granting
12:18
themselves permission to move along with
12:20
me to me sway if you and Heather
12:24
be decide to not jump ship but if you
12:29
decide that the next time I speak to you
12:31
for example it's not in this room per se
12:34
I can't go s I can't do it HP I can't do
12:36
it wow I the other room my [Â __Â ] I'm
12:39
only doing this room so don't go to
12:41
another room this the room I'm doing
12:42
y'all would go oh it's the same thing
12:44
baby the core is the same we we we we're
12:46
going to ask similar questions we're
12:48
going to stay on brand the brand you
12:50
have you you associate us with remaining
12:52
on brand with we're going to do that
12:54
you're going to be made the wiser you're
12:55
going to sound good as usual nah sway HB
12:59
good they feel like they're saying that
13:02
to me yeah so that's sometimes as an
13:04
actor what we got to get past they're
13:05
not saying that they're going you're so
13:06
[Â __Â ] good uh sorry you're so bleeping
13:10
good at this thing with Curtis and
13:13
Courtney as an amalgamation of effort
13:15
with you and Joseph and Leela Andor
13:18
y'all just did it my dogs I just want
13:20
you to rock with that I just want the
13:22
fans if I'm going to do that I just want
13:24
the fans to go okay so if o goes back
13:26
and watches every episode so that I can
13:29
DM everybody and go yo I might literally
13:32
DM people and go you right I did some
13:35
things in this with the help of some
13:37
people and we really did it now can we
13:40
together go forward into a place that no
13:43
man has gone before can we do that can
13:45
Omari become the first Omari Hardwick in
13:47
the business I don't want to be nobody's
13:49
next oh he's the no no no no I want to
13:51
be the first Omari Hardwick and if I can
13:53
do that having had a character like
13:56
ghost and now wearing a a coat of heavy
13:59
armor that a lock absolutely is and I
14:03
get to call you sway in HB and say meet
14:05
me at this Comic Con or that we there
14:07
bro bro we are there you ain't yeah I I
14:10
I get that man um give him a round of
14:12
applause for that too for that
14:15
explanation yeah because I be concerned
14:18
about that I know you do for you you
14:21
always been a great brother in that way
14:22
yeah cuz you walk around the cafeteria
14:24
so sway those of you who do I feel your
14:26
eyes when you land on me going oh don't
14:29
let bitterness creep in I I see you
14:31
praying for me I always see you praying
14:34
for me because you do have you have
14:36
something that I always see this man
14:38
looking at me like oh just stay the
14:41
dog so I do not a lot though man you'll
14:47
too yeah but but but but but but my but
14:50
my talking a lot is ironically embracing
14:54
without a bitterness thrown onto the
14:56
citizens there you go it is an embracing
14:58
of what the citizens are equally talking
15:00
a lot about you can't say they're not
15:01
talking a lot no no they're definitely
15:03
talking I just know that you're more
15:05
than just ghost absolutely and but you
15:08
you played them so well man they never
15:11
going to forget that field goal in the
15:13
final two seconds you know what I mean
15:15
you played him so well but I'm here to
15:17
say he he got you got so many talents
15:20
that's why um when I look like you
15:23
walking into a franchise man that that
15:25
don't need you yeah they don't that's
15:28
well said bro they do not need me they
15:30
don't need you that's so well and I like
15:32
that yeah I always like getting the
15:34
number of a girl who didn't really need
15:36
to give me her number yeah that's just
15:39
what what is what what is the mindset be
15:41
why is that though do are you the same
15:43
way yeah yeah well I used to
15:49
same I that I done M it he wasn't an
15:53
athlete HB oh my on he blew it you blew
15:57
it you blew it BW it yeah
16:00
what is that mindset that mindset is
16:03
everybody in life absolutely we
16:05
appreciate those who love themselves
16:07
just a little bit more than they would
16:08
love anybody else that if you can find
16:11
love for yourself a little bit more than
16:13
you love somebody else it's amazing to
16:16
put how you love yourself with how they
16:17
love themselves together so I think
16:19
that's the mindset if I if I'm cool with
16:21
what I can bring to Star Trek and
16:23
they're going my homie I don't really
16:25
need you I'm like yes that's cool yeah
16:27
yeah it's really cool that's really cool
16:29
I love this man give this man a round of
16:31
applause from Mari harw Tracy go ahead I
16:33
know you seen smiling and looking yeah
16:36
well I appreciate you Omar thanks Tracy
16:38
G you're very very welcome and I know
16:40
you recently had a birthday January 9th
16:44
I did happy happy belated birthday thank
16:46
you all you Capricorns are we done today
16:48
is this the last day for Cappy maybe
16:49
tomorrow what the whole year be a
16:52
mindset yeah it could just be the
16:53
Capricorn mindset Scorpios go all month
16:56
look at you oh yeah that was that was
17:01
go but here we do talk about how you're
17:04
going to sit down and watch every single
17:07
episode of power but also speaking
17:10
talking speak hearing you speak about
17:12
the art of Detachment and then thinking
17:14
about your birthday because you're Now
17:16
51 51 I would love Omar if you can share
17:19
with us kind of looking at the episodes
17:22
of your life at 21 if that were a show
17:27
what are some things around your
17:29
masculinity that you said yes to then
17:31
that you say no to now at 51 maybe
17:34
things when you were at 21 that you said
17:36
no to that you now say yes to at 21
17:39
because you have always been great I
17:41
think as a voice for modern-day
17:44
masculinity in allowing men to receive
17:49
all their layers you know to be
17:51
recipients of all the parts of
17:53
themselves not just the machismo not
17:55
just the strength but all of it so yeah
17:58
that's a great yeah TG you something
18:00
girl give her a round of applause forn
18:03
[Â __Â ] the hell so tra for me I I struggle
18:08
with um I struggle with embracing the
18:11
ferocity that can come from men of color
18:16
included um I struggle I don't ever
18:19
struggle with the ferocity in and of
18:22
itself perhaps the greatest part of us
18:24
if you say next door neighbor to what
18:26
word oh that could be a better word use
18:29
because of the propagation of how
18:31
ferocious we are in a negative way I'd
18:33
say passion so the passion and ferocity
18:36
that comes with brown and black men I
18:38
only struggle in embracing it if they're
18:42
limiting or handcuffing ourselves and
18:46
each other to the same thing that they
18:49
would then go March at the White House
18:52
releasing Star Trek how dare you not
18:54
give oh a shot to be the
18:56
one James Bond franchise how dare you
18:59
not allow adri London African Omari
19:02
africanamerican at not being the next
19:06
Bond but you can't ferociously and
19:09
passionately scream that if you
19:11
ferociously and passionately
19:13
scream just stay in that corner right
19:15
there bro don't try to get on second
19:17
base wait weren't you the same one
19:19
marching that you wanted me to get all
19:20
the way around the home plate you can't
19:23
want me to get all the way around all
19:24
the bases but then want me to remain in
19:26
our community relegated to one base MH
19:28
so the masculinity question is
19:30
interesting because when I was a kid 11
19:35
21 I didn't know that I was giving
19:37
myself permission to do so many
19:39
different things you realize you don't
19:41
know you're just doing so many different
19:42
things natur yeah when you hit 21
19:46
self-consciousness that you start to
19:48
realize like why are the the dormatory
19:52
Brethren fellow football players saying
19:57
me yo oh all of us stay around the
19:59
athletic dorm why you be roaming around
20:01
to the other side of the campus then you
20:03
start to go oh [Â __Â ] should I stay with
20:05
the rest of the athletes your brain
20:07
starts to actually think about what
20:10
doing between the moments of still
20:13
sticking to whatever that stick tutiven
20:16
is that I have of unapology uh of
20:18
unapologetic nature and going no I'm
20:20
going go across the campus Because it's
20:22
more interesting things than being
20:23
around this homogeneous all of us are
20:26
athletes in the same freaking dormatory
20:27
by the way there's girls on other side
20:28
of Campus dog y'all around a bunch of 75
20:32
to 100 in number dudes that all think
20:35
and look the same dude it's women on the
20:37
other side of Campus what are we doing
20:39
after a while Trace I realized that they
20:41
were like oh he might be on to something
20:42
they don't only have to come visit us as
20:44
in women coming to visit we could go
20:46
there right aren't we supposed to be
20:48
opening doors for women yeah so why must
20:50
we wait for them we should go there the
20:53
masculinity that has kicked in between
20:56
51 I am back at 11 not
21:01
all I picked up sway before we walked in
21:05
here I tried to get him off the ground
21:06
he was picking me up
21:08
literally the masculinity and I see
21:11
Denzel do it all the time and I'm like
21:12
it's a different kind of thing when
21:14
Denzel in a scene in Malcolm X while
21:16
incarcerated as Malcolm little right
21:20
when he kisses the man who ended up
21:22
being the mentor while he was
21:24
incarcerated the actor who plays him
21:27
Denzel is not scri by [Â __Â ] Le to do that
21:30
I'm aware of that that doesn't say
21:32
Denzel now K car Malcolm no no no no
21:35
Denzel just chose to do
21:38
that the movement of me in terms of
21:41
whatever you might deem as me being cool
21:44
with the vulnerability that should come
21:45
with masculinity with the eradication of
21:48
hyper masculinity toxic masculinity at
21:52
11 years old I didn't know what it was
21:54
at 21 years old I was trying to figure
21:56
it out at 51 Trace I'm like
22:00
when the dudes at airports be telling me
22:02
yo man my girl love you can I get a snap
22:04
I can't get that dude a picture till I
22:06
say wait you don't love
22:08
me why why you telling me your girl why
22:10
why no slights to your girl she probably
22:13
incredible yeah but why you bringing her
22:15
right now between me and you you a cat
22:17
in front of another cat why can't we do
22:20
this to each other on the streets with
22:21
no words but when you in front of me
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what words you going to leave with the
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words about your L's words come on homie
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so at 51 I'm a lot more like bro you
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don't love me and most Brothers n out of
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10 go I do bro yeah come on that so it's
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more of an an Unapologetic at a high
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steroid level yes meets maybe more than
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ever I was having conversations with the
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rest of y'all's team out before sway
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walked out as well to greet me and some
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of these are sub 25y old black men you
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know this is sub 24 years old and in my
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mind I'm like we might be all right
22:56
because you still got brothers who are
22:58
like where if I put my arm around and
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want a hug from them the next time I see
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them the same way I try to pick sway up
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he going to be trying to pick me up
23:06
Lonnie light you talking about Lonnie
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light Lonnie yo I was very impressed too
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oh you pretty strong dude I didn't think
23:12
you was your feet got off the ground
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yeah he got me one time he didn't know I
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was 200 lb of straight
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citizenship [Â __Â ] right he tried
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to pick me up he didn't know what Happ
23:31
listen um give him a round of applause
23:33
Amari har Star Trek section 31 is uh
23:38
Grammy we get to that come on man but
23:43
but hold up this hold
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upop let's get the business streaming on
23:47
paramont plus yesam plus is it Friday
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Friday Friday paramont plus I got 31 we
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coming Michelle yo shout outs to another
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woman of color Legend in this business
23:58
man she Champion all of us so we all
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going to be liveing in col on Friday and
24:03
then also the Grammy nomination
24:05
congratulations thank you brother that's
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dope concrete and whiskey concrete and
24:09
whiskey you got it act two act two a
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series I've been with this man we've
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been with this man since he start
24:19
putting out facts this music sway was
24:22
y'all the first the first to put it and
24:26
now bro from them early days them early
24:30
days to now early days sending me
24:32
texting me songs when we say early days
24:35
just so that y'all know the citizens all
24:36
out there who listening how far how far
24:38
and wide are we were you where worldwide
24:41
it's Canada the different countries and
24:44
going to be on the internet so it's
24:45
really so I want yall to know something
24:47
sway like a perfectly orchestrated big
24:50
brother who doesn't mind challenging you
24:53
to get better doesn't mind it I
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shouldn't say that who will challenge
24:56
you to get better but equally give you a
24:58
at getting better sway is even put a
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microphone in front of my face and going
25:02
go oh now DK I say with a smile cuz he's
25:06
knowing like you going to be better the
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next time I rock with you than you are
25:10
right now that level of championing me
25:13
that level of confidence and the gifts
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that God gave me and then your belief
25:17
that I would craft like oh is an athlete
25:20
he's always an athlete he's in the
25:21
locker room he ain't going to ever
25:23
embarrass himself for that to result or
25:25
conclude in the academy bro yo bro my
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saying you got some stuff so I thank you
25:32
bro you so man thank you brother come on
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man your words are powerful and
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necessary it's beyond you yes you're
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just a conduit thank you that's it
25:41
that's it that's all we are you're just
25:42
conduit man it's it's flowing through
25:44
you yeah but you got to say yes yes
25:46
indeed man give it up for Amari Hardwick
25:48
I know you got to go brother we love you
25:49
love back uh nap image Awards Nom black
25:56
player see we got well and we got where
25:59
space is would you prefer you got to do
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where space is bro cuz we Star Trek okay
26:04
and we'll be back tomorrow same time God
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will and Omari Hardwick we love you keep
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supporting this man in everything he
26:10
does thank you brother and there's more
26:12
to come all right sir right man anything
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we want to send closeing have the be we
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love y'all yes we do love you too and on
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that note we have nothing yo and seeing