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you've come a long way to me as a
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thespian you know and and I would
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imagine coming into the game um it it
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might be a little harder for somebody
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who's the son of someone famous right
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and then someone who actually U started
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off in hip-hop and then he ventured off
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into Hollywood the whole n but I feel
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like the kids always got to extra prove
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themselves right did you did you feel
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that uh absolutely um there's already an
0:26
an a concept and an ideology of what
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type of person I'm going to be before
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people even meet me because of how they
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might have views of my father this that
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and the third you feeling entitled not
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ready to work but I come from a family
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that Prides themselves on being ready to
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work and yeah I mean as a as a second
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generation in any sense or form you have
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to you have to mentally work harder for
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sure you are giv blessings that put you
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in positions that people don't get as
1:00
certain points the same way you did but
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it is a a mental battle that you have to
1:04
have with when it comes to my father and
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fire his fire is external he would see
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the environment that he's in and want to
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get out and so that that helps his
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eternal flame to push him to work and
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get out of what he sees when you are
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generation your external is great you
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know there's nothing that I see that
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like makes me feel like man I got to get
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out of here so it's much more of an
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internal Battle of wanting more for
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yourself and when it came to Straight
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Out of Compton I was going to USC
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because I'm a writer that's what I want
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to do that's what I I continue to do to
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this day and in the middle of my second
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year pops was like you know they're
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taking this NWA movie serious and I was
1:57
like oh man that's good and then he was
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no it's not what this conversation is
2:03
about um in a perfect world I would want
2:06
you to play me so I'm like okay uh
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that's uh that's different he was like
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you have to audition I'm like please
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make me audition because if I audition
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and I don't get it that's not my fault
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I'm just bad you know I'm not looked at
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it as any certain way but then I didn't
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know this at the time but when they when
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he suggested it they they you know sorry
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Gary but like Gary gray was like cube is
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this a joke Gary gray said that he was
2:35
like damn all right he didn't tell me
2:38
during that cuz he knew that would have
2:39
just pissed me off but it's just little
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things that I had to use to build my
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fire I left school so you know it it
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took me two years to get the part for a
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Straight Out of Compton I left in the
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middle of my second year I'm watching
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all my friends graduate without meow on
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Instagram they're moving on doing their
3:00
own things and they're still asking me
3:02
what's going on with the movie so now
3:04
that fear of not knowing what to do now
3:07
that's building my fire I got my my
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family depending on me my my brothers
3:11
and my sister like man you got to get
3:13
this for us now that fire is is building
3:16
in me so now on top of that I get the
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movie the movie crushes for a year I
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didn't get a phone call not a script out
3:25
after that so I'm like I'm looking
3:27
online and they're saying of course he
3:29
can play dad like of course he could do
3:31
it like like my accomplishment didn't
3:34
mean so now that fire is burning in
3:37
me and so it's these little things that
3:38
you got to like fake make yourself mad
3:41
about to push you to get people to to be
3:45
wrong you know so I had a meeting with
3:47
my team of just like every movie we take
3:50
has to be completely different from the
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last one we did okay yeah so Straight
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Out of Compton and then I did ingry Goes
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West which is a dark Indie completely
3:59
different I got denner thieves which is
4:01
action then we did Godzilla which is
4:03
sci-fi then we did long shot which is
4:05
comedy so it was just like constantly
4:07
showing versatility so they couldn't put
4:09
me in the Box because it it is that is
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my fire is to just show everybody and
