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  1. “1000% where it's the opposite. The opposite you actually thought of that you are 100% of your mind and focus into to complete. And then after that, you're able to pick it apart and take the good, the bad, the whatever, and either restart that thing again to improve it or make a decision to do something else, but you finished. I made the choice to stand up comedy was what I was going to finish. I made a choice that becoming a good comic and a good headliner, if I focused and did it well, that would open up the doors for me to do everything else that I want to do. If I don't have that, How do I expect to get in?”

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  2. “Yes, you're never completing anything. You never finish nothing. So the thing that you think you're focusing on, you keep quitting to start something else that you think is the idea and it's just a cycle. It's a cycle.”

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  3. “How to make money, it comes with education, it comes with. Understanding and it comes with a better Of mine that makes you go, No, I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna build this and I'm gonna go here, I'm gonna meet, I'm gonna present, I have an idea, I'm gonna pitch it. Like you're now a much better machine because you understand. Money is no longer the thing that you think it was when you get to it. But getting to it to get that understanding, you lose the pack. You lose the pack because the pack is like, I want it here. Because it didn't show up here, I gotta go figure out a new thing to do that's gonna give it to me here. And they gotta recycle like.”

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  4. “Getting in line. What you'll find is that the line will get smaller and smaller. Because of how many people are dropping out and optioning not to wait and do the hard thing again. Comparison World of understanding is Something that equates to life. Very well, right? Not many people are going to wait through the 13 years of like bullshit, hardship. Most people opt out at year two. Maybe three, no money, whatever. I need to figure something else out. Year six, fuck this, man. Stupid. What am I doing? Why am I doing it? Right? I'm going to go find the quick avenue or the quick return. Because money is the, that's what it boils down to for most people. Where's the money? Where am I making the money? When the money comes, it comes. You find is that it's not hard to make money once you start making money, you learn.”

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  5. “I mean, so scooter Me one time he was like, What makes them different is the work that he's willing to do. Something. And he was like, you know, if they were giving out like a million dollars for somebody that can hit a fastball pitch, you know, from the best pitcher in baseball, right? And this thing would basically require everybody. Everybody's going to go and try to hit this because everybody wants the million dollars. So the first day of the announcement, the line to hit this pitch is going to be... Right, like millions of people who knows how many people would be in this line. And people go up and strike out. And after that, they would go, damn, it's over. Like, I missed. Not many people would like to miss and then go stand back in line. Go hit the ball again. He was like, I'm gonna keep”

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  6. “So Shaq's all start comedy jam, goes, they rush to put it out. It crushes. I then tape my comedy special. Seriously funny was my next special. Seriously funny destroys, but it only destroyed because the shack's all-start comedy jam and the audience that watch that and I was like, oh my God, this guy showed up in droves for seriously funny and then seriously funny was like, oh shit, this big ass special And then the arenas and everything boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom bo”

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  7. “Cat was in the audience. The shack All Star Comedy Jam, and Cat was watching the show. He was just there as a fan, but at this time, everything big is happening. And I had a moment. And that was the moment that then took me and shot me out of the cannon. If I wasn't prepared for the moment. I wouldn't have known all the things to come, okay? But that then set up. I was releasing my special, seriously funny. I was taping in two weeks.”

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  8. “Shaq's all-star comedy jam. The reason why I equated with the story with Kat. I believe it was Tommy Davidson, it was D-Ray, Setter the Entertainer was a host, I headlined it. I end up having one of the best sets that I've ever had. And at the end of the Shack's All-Star Comedy Jam, I say goodnight and they do like a slow motion walk off A slow motion thing, and it's like I'm walking, the crowd stands up. They're going crazy. By the way, I don't know the slow motion walk off is going to happen and the edit of the special, but I remember in real time crowds standing up. Stars were there. Everybody was there, right? And in that moment, Show you how fucking crazy the world is. This is why I hate that me and Kat went through our stuff and we were much better now. I'm going to show you how the world aligns.”

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  9. “If the ball is dropped in that moment, then the moment goes. You don't know when the moment is presenting itself. But I'm staying with the thing because I know that the moment is going to come. And when I'm in the moment, if I knock that fucking moment out the park, All things will change. But you may not know it. You may not know when the moment comes.”

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  10. “Friday after next, you know, I mean, he went on and started to do crazy things in his career, right? But I witnessed the moment. And in that moment, my takeaway was that he was ready for the moment. Material, the jokes, everything, it all hit And I didn't watch it in a manner like jealous or angry. I was like, That's it. Like, he's probably out of here after this. I mean, it's the BT Comedy Awards at the time. I'm like, this is the biggest thing ever, right? This is the comedy awards. By the way, they never did the comedy awards again. I think this was like the last one they did. But that moment.”

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  11. “And I'm in attendance, and this is like, you know, I had a couple of shots at some things, but they just, you know, it wasn't, the things weren't sticking. The pilots that thought were going to hit weren't going to hit. The things that I thought were going to happen, it just didn't seem like it was adding up, right? Like the roles were a little small rolls or little small cameos, but like it wasn't the thing. And I remember Cat Williams said. During the BET Comedy Awards, having like a leper's suit. destroyed the comedy awards, destroyed this moment. And audience goes crazy, stands up. And remember being in the audience and I was like, that's it. Say, like, that's the thing, that thing, that reaction, that roar, that moment. I gotta be patient because my moment is going to come. Witness his moment and he after that moment”

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  12. “Just doing that. I gotta go there. I gotta get close to it. I gotta smell it. I gotta feel it. I gotta find out where the people are that are trying to do it too. I got to get acting classes. I gotta get around the Hollywood. Like, what is I got to get there? And what happens when you're there, it fuels another Another appetite of hunger. I'm there, and in real time, I'm seeing people better. I remember, I tell this Cat Williams story, and I don't even think, I told Kat this. There was a moment where I was opening for Kat Williams. I remember I remember being at the BET Comedy Awards.”

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  13. “You're anchored to. I found the thing that I want to do. And I'm not going to quit it because I love it this much and I strongly believe that the sun is at the end of this dark tunnel, but I got to be willing to get there. And I just don't know how to get there yet. But I'm going to figure it out. That's why I'm going to LA I was in New York, but after New York, they say go to LA. I'm gone. What you gonna do when you get there? I figure it out Always get on the plane and fly where I gotta go for stand up if that's the case. I can always go and make money doing stand up. I have to, but I'm not going to get to the star”

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  14. “The money is never coming fast We're in a time today where this generation has found ways to make money. An entrepreneurial manner That we've never seen before. Like the social media machine and how this generation navigates that machine to find revenue and to own is unbelievable. That didn't exist. We didn't have it. In my time, we didn't have that. Just had the struggle. And the struggle left you with days of literally sitting in the living room going, what the fuck, man?”

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  15. “Nobody believed that I was funny when I said I was going to be a comedian. Like they were like, you funny, but not comedian funny. My friend's word. Yeah, what do you mean you're going to get on stage? What do you mean? I'm going to get on stage. I'm going to be a comed like how like Eddie Murphy like I'm gonna be a comedian yeah but you're never gonna be Eddie Mur I know, but I'm saying I'm going to do it. I'm going to be a star. No. I don't know, man I don't know about the whole star thing. I think you're tripping. I don't think that's it. Nobody has the confidence in the decisions that you're making for yourself like you do. So if you're waiting for that to connect in the beginning stages, it may or may not. If it doesn't, it shouldn't prevent you from following through on whatever the line of go is for you.”

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  16. “Nothing that I'm doing doesn't go hand in hand. And I should be able to embed the products or the partnerships that I'm now operationally attached to into the ecosystem of entertainment. So if I have a C4 can and I'm doing an activation and health and wellness, well, C4 is my partner, I should integrate you in this opportunity. Hey, my movie, we have an opportunity to basically wear product. I should be in fabletics in this scene because this makes my partner feel valued and positioned. Oh, wow, this is what I do. I elevate I basically never navigate my space of ownership in a way like only I can to elevate my partners so that my partners go and say you're different this is different and this is what we need more of That's my”

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  17. “How do I make Netflix secure in knowing that when you get me, you get 100% of me and that I'm never going to quit? I'm going to finish it all. How do I make my other studio affiliates understand and working with Heartbeat? It is in my best interest to bring you great product, great material, so that you understand what we do so that we can continue to drive a business that has the best interests for both of us. How do I sell you on that? So now my business of... Mirrors and matches my business of grow.”

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  18. “When I was not really focusing, not thinking about life, not thinking about. How things connect, I'm now able to tap into the lessons that my mom gave. And I'm like, All good things that happen happen when they're supposed to, but now I'm poised and polished enough with a mindset that understands, well, I don't want to start something that I'm not going to finish. So if I'm going to put myself in position to do these things, how do I make sure that my partners know I'm willing to give my all? How do I show that I'm not going to quit Back here, my mom's biggest lesson was you're not quitting. If you start it, you're going to finish it. So how do I make my partners that I'm now saying you should work with me?”

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  19. “Rancor Mino, wine, spirits. Now wow, I've grabbed this concept of business control ownership and merited it with Kevin's drive in entertainment and visibility leveraged that to get me into the rooms where I may not be as visible or as strong, but once I'm embedded into these environments, I can bring them value. I can help amplify or uplift their brands, their products. So my case study of fabletics DraftKings before I got there versus after I got there. Chase, financial literacy like C4, like these are things where I'm now, well, I'm not just a partner. I'm an owner, I'm an endorser, I'm an ambassador. Oh wow, this Where the real money is made. Ecosystem of life, how do you put yourself in a position to be a part of everyday movement in life? You're looking at things in a much granular scale. And now I go way back here.”

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  20. “To start developing. But now I'm like, I created that. Let's create something else. So then I say, let's go like Heartbeat Ventures and let's do a VC. Oh, man, I'm creating a bunch of stuff. Hey, these entities around me, it's all happening because my likeness. My likeness allows me to get in these rooms and start relationships and put myself in a position to make deals and create long-term revenue. How do I get more of that? Wow. Like NASCAR, people attach themselves to the car that they think is doing the best. I'm a car. She had brand partnerships. Chase, DraftKings, Fabletics. Should have my own brands and businesses that I'm building where more opportunity for long term revenue can present itself.”

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  21. “I think you're funny as hell. I've been tracking you on tour. I want you to be the star. We film it. Think like a man comes out. Think like a man did 90-something million dollars in the box office. And Will says, hey, man, working with you is great. Let's do something else. I got this movie called Ride Along. You on Ice Cube would be great. Boom. Ride along does 140 like the movies just started the bop. Get hard. Central intelligence, me and Iraq. I mean, it just happened so fast. So now, because the movies are working, I'm like, this is so cool. But while this is happening. I should figure out like. To kind of create my own source of opportunity. People keep bringing opportunities to me. How do I create my own source of opportunity? I'm going to start a production company.”

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  22. “No, no. I'm just an active, active comic. The next stage of success, right, was let's go from comedy clubs to theaters. All right. Boom. Go here, then let's go up again. Theater starts selling out real quick. Oh, fuck. Let's go from theaters, right, to like arenas. Oh, shit. We'll pack her. He was like, I got this book that I want to make a movie. It's called Think Like a Man. Steve Harvey wrote”

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  23. “I wanna work the road. I'm gonna be a headliner. I'm gonna do colleges, so I'm gonna get college money and comedy club money, and I'm gonna do it. I work that for a very long time, right? Very, very long time to the point where now I'm selling out comedy clubs. After I started selling out comedy clubs, Person at the time was like, yo, we can probably do theaters. You're adding a lot of shows.”

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  24. “So I start meetings, general meetings, and now I get a holding deal. So let's go up a little bit. I think it was ABC. They gave me like $250 grand. So they're holding you in hopes that they get something. Nothing happens. So we're flattening on the hair. Now I'm just waiting for the phone ring. That's how this works. What if I want to create my own thing? Create a show. Oh my God. Show gets picked up. I create something else. They decide to do it. Oh shit, there's a pattern. I can do that as much as I want. I can't treat that just how I was treating the spots and stuff in New York. I'm out. I'm moving to LA. No playing on nothing. Flatline. Here. I just did it. I just came and moved out. Fuck, man, this is weird. I don't like this. I'm not getting to work, man. This shit is real stagnant. I'm going on the road.”

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  25. “I was driving from Philadelphia to New York every day. But because of that, now you got to get into a comedy festival. All right. So now let's start to go here because we did these spots for a while. But then I got on a comedy festival. Oh shit. I got a comedy festival. But that's when the industry saw me. Who's this new guy? Who's this guy with all this energy? Who's this fucking guy? This guy here, he's got something.”

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  26. “Success in age. Okay. So success for me, knowing what I want to do in life comes here. Now figuring out How to get to like Money, revenue, just supporting yourself through telling a joke, man, let's go here for a second. We flatlining, okay? Like, I mean, I'm making people laugh. I'm getting in some comedy clubs. But you only get paid with food. But then something weird happens where you start figuring out, oh, wait, here's kind of where the spots come in. I can make money on the weekends and I can get 20 to $25 a spot So rather than doing one spot, I would do, let's just say in a weekend, I got to the point where I was doing 25 to 28 sets a weekend. I started making $500 a week, $400 a week.”

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  27. “Just gonna go down to the comedy clubs. And I've been winning the ambush tonight, so I think the Amridge Knights helped me pay for my rent because I was winning the Amoron tonight. I have won a bunch of them in a row. And my mind, it wasn't hard. It wasn't going to be hard because there was no other option. All my eggs were in this basket and I was very happy with that choice. I put every last egg in this thing. Nothing else matters but this. I promise you I will figure it out.”

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  28. “My dad not as much because I didn't really talk to my dad through these years. That's my dad was kind of dealing with his world of issues. My mom, we had an agreement. I had a certain amount of time to make comedy make sense and figure out a way to support myself. If I didn't do it, then I had to go with my mom's idea, which was education and getting a job while getting my education. My plan didn't involve college. I'm out. I'm done. Done. No more community. This is what I want to do. I got it. I've never been more excited about my future. This is it for me. How you gonna make your money, Kevin? I'm gonna figure it out. You're gonna figure it out. I'm gonna figure it out though.”

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  29. “If you could understand the feeling of getting off that stage, having a good set. And then putting the tape in my hand, it was gold. I got it. I got a good tape. I gotta go make copies of my tape, and I just gotta send them to everybody. I just used to. It was value. It was value. Started getting in comedy clubs, started getting auditions, started getting more. Oh my God, Kevin's up for an audition, a movie audition, casting directors. They all got that tape. Everybody got that”

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  30. “Nobody coming up to me after the show saying, we're the funny one now. Yeah. Yeah. That tape. So that was when, you know. Thing I needed was a tape. And the reason why I needed the tape was so that I could send it to the other comedy club so that they could have an example of me, my talent, and then dictator judge if I can get a live audition in person.”

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  31. “Like I'm doing a service of good If I can make people feel better, if I can brighten up your day, The service of good That means I'm like a shepherd of some sort. I am responsible for making people feel better. Oh my God, that means. Success, I can bring people to one destination and everybody can share a moment. Oh my God, this can get global. This can get bigger. This is starting to change now. Oh wow, wait, this has opened up doors for me to do this or that or this or that. It all started with the laugh. It all started with the stage.”

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  32. “Nothing better than laugh. Is nothing better than Being on stage, having the bright light. Only energy of good that you're able to take away from what you're doing is the laugh. Hearing people laugh. I was like, oh, shit. That feels different. This Is energizing. This is like.”

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  33. “No, I think the fire was lit. I never thought about pursuing stand-up comedy prior to. Like, the idea came up. I was always funny, but I wasn't like, man, I got to figure out how to become a comedian. That was never a thought. I knew that I was very funny. I knew that I was entertaining. I knew that I could make people laugh. I love being the center of attention. I love the idea of a stage and a light. But that wasn't the thing. I wasn't like, I got it. And this is what it's going to do. It was presented. And then I went and did the amateur night and that's when I fell in love.”

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  34. “I got the thing that I want to do. I was so excited that I went and got a job, found a job. I'll do this forever. And I'm going to make it to the highest level so I can have a career. So I become the manager and after being the manager, I work for corporate. And this is something that I can build. Like I was already spiraling because I was like, I got to figure out what I'm doing with the rest of my life. My life, and I'm And I was flourishing in the space of sneaker sales. Right? Education and college degree I don't have, but in the space of personality and sale. I was able to maneuver. This is it. This is my calling. That's The real beacon of light presented itself. Through ideas of my friends, you should do stand up because you're funny. You should try stand up”

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  35. “Yeah, well, that was my light bulb moment. My light bulb moment was looking what not applying myself got me. I feel like the dummy that doesn't know what he wants to do in his life, and now I'm at community college, I'm working as a lifeguard. I eventually went to go work for city sports, which is a sneaker store. And I remember when I started working at the sneaker store. Talked about this for years too. I was like, oh man, this is cool. This is what I want to do”

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  36. “My friends have went on to the next stage Let me be the dummy by myself. And that's when it dawned on me that like. Nobody cares about you more than you should care about yourself. Nobody is giving you the roadmap to like the wins. You have to go find that information. You got to go discover it. You gotta want to get it. You got to want to do it. And with the right help, the right world of knowledge, it can better help position you, but ultimately you have to, you got to want to do it. And me and just not wanting to do shit kind of put me in a really fucked up position early on.”

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  37. “When you saw the opportunity, you fucked off. I remember My big dummy moment, and I've had a lot. So I don't know how much time we have to go down, but I got a lot of dummy moments. But my biggest dummy moment. Hookie school to go and have our senior day. We go to great adventure, theme park on the East Coast. And there was a moment where we're done. And we're talking. We're like eating and hanging out. And all my friends were talking about the college that they were going to go to. It had already been accepted there. It already had letters and shit. When did y'all do this? Everybody apply when did everybody Did you guys take the SAT? I just took mine, but I've rushed it because I wanted to get here. I wanted the hookie. Wait. Do you guys know where you're going already? I had no knowledge, no idea”

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  38. “You realize, well, why are you putting time into something in the beginning that you don't want to see through? Why? Or just because you have a rough moment or a rough patch? Why is it so easy for you to quit? Why is the idea of quit so quick to you to come up with and why are you so comfortable with the results of that I shouldn't be And that shouldn't be my motto. So we don't stop. If we start something, we see it the entire way through. At the end of it, even if you don't like it to the highest level, you know that you put your time, energy into something, that you're at least proud. Proud that you did proud that you were able to put a period on that sentence. And now you can start the next thing. But it's not until you complete something that you can honestly sit with yourself and go. That's what life is.”

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  39. “Knowing that I'm lying, first of all, and B, giving me one of the best lessons ever. Somewhere along the lines, the gems that she dropped started to click. The idea of not starting things that I'm not going to finish. That's what really resonated with me the most. So, like, I started a lot of stuff that I didn't complete. The younger years. That was me and my mom's battle. No, you're going to finish it. And she will make me finish it. I want to quit. No, you're going to finish it. So I ended up doing a lot of things with an attitude, which is why I have to ask it. As I got older”

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  40. “Can see checks, man. I couldn't pay my rent. Can I pay my rent? I need help. And she was like, well, I'm not helping you until you start reading the Bible. And I was like, my mom reading the Bible. I was lying. Just lying. I'm reading it. Come on, mom. This is real. Mom, they're going to kick me out. Are you reading your Bible? Yes. When you read your Bible, then talk to me. And she did this for like a while. And one day I was like, you know what, man? I was literally by myself. And I was like, what am I going to do? And he did this Bible. Read the Bible and I open up the Bible. My checks rent like multiple months of rent checks have fell out. And I was like, you know what? Pretty amazing Amazing, and then I had to actually open the Bible and And start reading the Bible. But that was her way of.”

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  41. “I don't think that I was in the space of no. When it comes to role model, like at this time, I didn't have the mindset of what a role model is or should be. I just had good people around me who acted as like parenting aides to my mother to help her because of her schedule. But I never remember at that age looking at other families like, oh, this is what I want and this is what I'm striving. To get or gain, you know? It was shoulder shrug, a lot of shoulder shrugs. It wasn't until I got older than I think the lessons, not a thing I know, the lessons that my mom was kind of laying down started to click in differently.”

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  42. “Had a hallway. We had no goddamn room. We had a hallway. My beds in the hallway. You could always see me. This is where I am. Me and my brother right here in the hall on these bunk beds. My friend had grass. He had a backyard. This is fucking crazy. Yeah, we don't have none of this where we live. So because that is the norm, I never, it never affected me, right? Like I never... I was never taken back by the obstacles of our household. My mom and dad just didn't get along or it didn't work. It is what it is.”

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  43. “All my friends, our dads, like, we see him when we see him and we love him because that's what we thought that it should be. It's not like I'm going over a volume of homes where I'm seeing the father sit with the family and the mom and they're doing dinner and they're having conversations and it's this happy household. I only had a couple of examples like that. I remember when I went over one of my friends' houses from the swim team and I remember he had his own room. Like crazy You get to close the door and shit like this is your space. Yeah, it's my room.”

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  44. “You are coming. Product of your environment and in that environment, that's the norm. So when you say like, how did you understand that? Well, nobody had their dad.”

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  45. “I mean, I think my dad only lived in the house with me like my really younger years. Like, maybe from like... Five to seven Maybe eight, if I can remember, like, I didn't have my dad home. So when my mom was like, fuck that, you're out of here. It was over. My dad, he was weekend dad, or every other weekend dad, or, you know, during the week, stop by. Then he was in and out of jail. Then we got on drugs. We didn't see him at all.”

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  46. “Henry Witherspoon Spoony G's My Guy, you know, a fuck up in the eyes of most, but... My dad, you know, he didn't necessarily do the right things in life. gang crime all of the shit jail and jail out of jail drugs I mean, that environment that we were raised in is not like, you know, the best environment for anyone, but it's an amazing environment for those that live in it because it's all we know. And the normalcy is the low. My mom strive for the higher side of it. My mom was education, degree, trying to get another degree, trying to get a master's. My mom was like always wanting to get better, always wanting to educate herself more because she felt that it was the biggest strength that nobody could control but her.”

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  47. “Very strict with me. My older brother, he had a little more leniency. Freedom. He curved few late at night. But my brother did all of the other stuff. My brother sold the drugs, you know. Did the smaller tiers of crime and stupid shit as a teenager to her mom felt like she wasn't going to let that happen with me. So she was much more protective. Because of the mistakes she saw that she made with my brother. So I got the short end of the stick. So I didn't have the curfew. I wasn't able to go hang out. I wasn't able to do all those things. That's why I wanted that so much. So I rebelled in the spaces where you have to do this. And I was like, well, you don't let me do this. So I don't. I don't want to do this, so I kind of fucked off a lot of those opportunities.”

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  48. “Not even close. Not motivated to do the things that I didn't want to do. Not a good student kind of fucking off school. The opportunities that come with school, the extracurricular activities that I didn't want to do that I was doing that my mom made me do. Hanging out was the thing. Hanging out was the luxury. It was the fun. And it wasn't available. My mom was strict. So I didn't have the luxury of doing all those things, which is why I wanted them more.”

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  49. “Or failure. I mean, like, there is no success without failure. They go hand in hand. And what the failure comes amazing lessons, adjustments. And you get sharper because of the shit that you've done wrong or that you didn't know to approach a certain way that you now know how to approach. So I embrace the concept of failure just as much as I embrace the win of success.”

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  50. “A very driven individual and I'm driven off of ideation. I like the fact that you can have thoughts. And if you're in love with the thoughts that you're having, you can be energized to bring those thoughts into a bigger reality. That's the real fuel to the brain for me.”

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