Da’Vinchi Talks 'Mary J. Blige's Family Affair,' GloRilla Pregnancy Rumors, BMF Vs. Power More

Wake that ass up in the morning The Breakfast Club morning everybody it's DJ EnV just salarius shalag the guy we are The Breakfast Club LA l r Ro is filling in for Jess and we got a special guest in the building yes indeed we got the brother Da Vinci welcome appreciate you guys for having me how you feeling man I'm feeling great man feeling good good to be here with it's crazy just not even Here she been saying we need to get Da Vinci up here for forever for like and she not even hereit a

damn that's my dog I love Jess how you know Jess just from Instagram yeah Instagram and running into her like I went to a few of her comedy shows I started doing comedy so it's like I I watch a bunch of comedians every time I go watch her live I'm like bro she's good yeah she's actually great she understands the art of it absolutely yeah how do you just start doing comedy Like what made you not easy who told you you're funny a [ __ ] no U no I started doing a lot of speaking

right uh because mental health stuff and different type of keynote speaking and moderating here and there and what I was doing doing that like you know the audience they laugh a lot and in my family like you know I joke around a lot I [ __ ] a lot with my friends and stuff like that so someone was like yo I think you should Start doing comedy because it's going to build a different type of confidence for speaking and I was just like all right bet let me just you know give it a try so

I just started hosting it and I started developing a love for it oh and I started developing a love for it and um with that I just you know last year I did like 15 cities this year I started off with one I'm probably going to do like 12 more and I mean it's fun I feel like I'm already an anomaly by the grace Of God you know I made it out my situation is like why not just try like whatever at this point you know so when you were on stage like uh you know

doing your mental health advocacy you was telling like your story yeah about things that you're going through right and people thought it was funny n no no the the way I would break it down the analogies that I use to have people especially our community grasp the concept of mental health is so I I Make it in a way that is just digestible you know what I'm saying and then in doing that you know people are laughing and I'm like you know what what if I like try to like hit the stage and like just

even drag it out some more that makes sense I mean you know they always say Comm what they say Tears of a Clown right so it's like one thing about black people we know how to turn our trauma into something that either people can learn from or people can be Entertainable absolutely yeah absolutely let's let's go back for most people that don't know who da Vinci is or or probably seen you but don't know the name how did you get into the acting business they I'm sure people know you from power or from BMF how

did you crazy how did you get into the I know it's the same different set same Block Set same block though but how did Y'all get how did you get into acting I know you started off as a rapper so break to people down where you from how you started in and your journey bet that bet that uh so I'm from Brooklyn um and I was in Brooklyn then my mom moved to Jersey my parents split up and then so I was like AR like nor orange and nor area and I'm back and forth between

Brooklyn and nor I was getting in trouble a lot then I moved to Florida and then um I got arrested and my dad was like yo I Got to keep him I was just a badass kid just following the people in my environment the people around me and um when I was in Florida I went to all white high school and that that kind of changed my life that changed my perspective on life I was seeing things that I've never really saw before so it really just started developing my brain in a different way and

then afterwards when I went to college at one point my brother was like bro like you should we Should really like try just like rap and [ __ ] and this entertainment [ __ ] I'm like bro that's impossible it's not what school you went to what college I went to college Central Florida Central Florida okay yeah and I was like bro this is [ __ ] this is not going to like be a real thing or whatever and I was like you know what whatever I'm going to try it and I moved back up

north my mom's and Gloria Carter shout out to her Jay-Z's mother she had this Um Diamonds in the Rough I don't know if you guys ever heard that yeah no the foundation yeah yeah and it's like a little restaurant thing foundation in newk in newk Jamaican spot yeah yeah yeah yeah it was uh yep exactly it was Caribbean food y yeah so mad people would come there and every Thursday she had this Open Mic thing so I got discovered from there so I was like rapping doing music there and then I was in the studio

I was recording a lot but Then after a certain point I was like starting to lose love from it for it cuz you know it's one thing when you're on the outside looking in but then when you really start getting into business and you see what they're promoting what they're pushing you the direction that they're pushing you towards I'm like bro I'm not trying to perpetuate this like like this is really like people take this serious you know so I was like they I don't like this at the same time I was Told like you

should start acting too cuz it's going to help with Stage presence so I started acting shout out to Mark John Jeff he was the one the boy from Losing Isaiah and he played 50 and get rich to die TR yeah and Lil C's and he was teaching his acting class in New York and I was like yo let me take it and I started taking it and then I started meeting people shout out to l Mama cuz she was the one like yo she was like yo come to La like you should beat My manager

then the rest was just history and then by the grace of God I just started booking consistently you little mama wanted you to be her maner no no no she was like yeah she was like no come to yeah she was like come to LA and meet my manager she was like you talented you speak different languages you rap you do this and that and I was just like bro she ain't going to want to sign me and she was like bro just go and I went and you know I just started Booking consistently how

was the allwhite high school what did that do for you other than caus you to lose your virginity Jesus n it n it it was it was crazy cuz you started realizing like how broken the environment and the community that I wasn't was you know what I'm saying and then when I went there you know people was judging me based off like they was judging my intellect based off how I spoke English like you know I remember One time I was talking to this one other black dude in my class and I was like yo

[ __ ] you weak and she was like you weak is your y you apos I was like damn and like she made this big scene in front of the class and I was like I corrected you on that but not calling her [ __ ] right right exactly exactly exactly right that was crazy but anyway I was like bro like that's our vernacular like we choose to speak like this cuz you know cuz our environment But like I could speak properly if I want to but then I started realize I'm like yo around these

white folks like I got to change how I speak and I just started educating myself and I started reading books and I just started changing a lot cuz I was like in this environment like my upbringing it ain't conducive here it ain't serving me here like I'm just like a criminal you know so it it changed me a lot and then I had teachers that believed in me more like Up north one of my teachers they told me literally I swear she was like most of y'all going to end up dead in jail at Dwight

yeah up north yep in Jersey actually and I should shout out to school but I ain't even do it but uh she was shout out to teacher the teacher yeah her name was actually Miss Dixon but uh she was like yeah most of yall going to end up or the on the army or like at a dead end job and I mean she Wasn't lying cuz that is what happened happened that day that what got her to that spech cuz we was just we was acting up in class yeah we was like I was bad

as hell I'm you ain't say that now you got to get some Contex but but but the thing is but the thing is though it's like she still could have been more positive cuz we was just we don't know we just kids you know what I'm saying but when I was in Florida like I remember I had this teacher like I was in a like a slower math class when I first got there and then she was just like yo you're so smart like you could really like like pass all this [ __ ] and

I passed all my test and she was like you need to be an algebra honest I was like what I was like bro I'm not going to do that and I went from having D's and Fs to graduating high school with a 4.1 GPA wow so your point about the teacher the teacher could have said hey if y'all don't change your lifestyle If you don't change the way you're acting then you're going to end up that's how I was always talk did she say that and because sometimes you only hear what you want to hear

all you hear is y'all ain't gonna be [ __ ] but you ain't missed the first part which like if y'all don't change y'all ain't gonna be [ __ ] yeah n you're probably right she probably did say that but I just heard like something I was like damn I was like all right bet I hope she have a TV Now what you said about the school I hope she got a TV now you know Steve Harvey allegedly sends um one his I think it's a old teacher somebody that told he would never make it

in TV so he sends them a TV every year every year sends a new TV allegedly I don't know if that's true do that that's hard a lot of money though but what you said about the cold twitching is real because a lot of times they try to get people Flack for cold twitching but it's not that you Cold twitching sometimes you just don't want to reinforce negative stereotypes exactly black people exactly exactly and I feel like we perpetuate that enough with the media like we got to some some of us got to be a

good representation of us cuz we we not looking too good H identity wise though like going from your neighborhood and what you were used to then to this new school and and feeling that way like yo I got to kind of switch it up a little bit how did cuz You still growing up at the same time who were you talking to about like what's your identity as a man should be because that's such a hard place to be in where you're trying to you're over here but you come from this you got family that's

still you know back in your old neighborhood like what was that Journey like I think honestly I was just by the grace I was just going through the emotions you know what I'm saying so I really didn't have like a Figure to look towards as like an identity for a man I was just I mean my older brothers like I'm the baby so my oldest brother like shout out to him damn like he basically like raised us you know until I went to my pops but you know I guess that was my idea of a

man and he was like this High School Phenom basketball player so he was he really was that Father Figure so I looked up to him for real like as much as like what what what a man should be but the rest Is honestly is by the grace of God like I'm I'm super fortunate like I I'm well aware that I'm not supposed to be yeah or really like able to express myself be disarticulate because the amount of feedback that I receive from people I'm like damn why are you so shocked I'm like oh that's cuz

they looking at the numbers like this shouldn't happen you know so it's it's just God well that's God that's what I'm saying like you know I don't I don't care about no statistics You know what I'm saying I don't care what you tell me you can tell me I'm one of 40 million or this many people from my hood ended up like this what they got to do with me right you know no that's facts you're product of Grace mhm okay now I was going to say do you remember the first show you booked yeah

Marvel Jessica Jones how was that tell us tell us that story scar yeah I was scared as hell I was just like it was two weeks after I signed with an agency and I Remember like my manager calling me at the time and she was like hey she was like Hey you booked it and I was just like what and she was like yo you actually booked it you actually booked I was like stop playing and I was like and I just remember being shocked and I just felt like Will Smith and that Pursuit happy

this moment at the end I was just in a bronx walking from the gym the the Crunch Gym and I was just like bro this is crazy I'm like BR I ain't telling no One this right now refresh my memory what part did you play I I used to watch all those Marvel show so I I was this um this this guest star basically this scientist she uh my dad was like a scientist and when I was born my face was like disfigured and [ __ ] like that and then he took me to some

lab and then fixed it and then Jessica Jones was trying to find out how did that happen and she was trying to get to my dad so she got to me okay and then yeah so then She had to like she used her super strength and [ __ ] and I was like acting like she was strong I was like bro this sh is crazy and the scene took like eight hours I was like bro this [ __ ] is long no I used to watch I used to watch Jessica Jones Luke Cage Iran fist

dead devil I watched all damn oh he was hit now now you on uh the Mary J BL family Affairs series the third installment of the series is uh what is it called Family Affair yeah how's it been doing that that's been great honestly it's it was that's probably one of my most favorite projects only because it was a role that had nothing to do with being black we just existing you know what I'm saying and and it promotes the family nucleus you know in the black community specifically I feel like a lot of us

you know we promote things that is to our demise and to our destruction so to be a part of a project so early in my career You know that is promoting you know what what happens when having a family the sacrifices that's being made and stuff like that I'm like bro that's fire bro CU it it's it's done in a way that I feel like you know some kids watching this at home probably like yo I want that one day you know cuz we got so much content and material that is doing the complete opposite

so to play something like this it's like bro I feel like God is like smiling down like yeah good job Bro and when I watched it all I kept thinking to myself is like man he loves her so much like your um Ben yeah Ben not me well you know what I mean um in the movie people for real that happens where people like H yeah people be watching him like yo bro I feel like you like her really I'm like no bro like I'm doing my job man like yeah well as an actor in

the in the family affairs watching it I was like wow he loves her So much um but there were times I mean y'all had there was a lot that y had to deal with like I don't want to give it away but as a EP on the project cuz you're EP right on the project are you an involved EP where you're making those decisions to show like it was like subtle moments like one time I think y'all went to a restaurant and she didn't order something and you noticed it you're like what's wrong cuz you

didn't order blah blah blah little stuff Like that are you being like Oh we should do that as an EP or is that coming from somewhere else like that that that adjustment no but a lot lot of things like yeah I'm definitely like behind the scen I'm like guys we can't put this out like I'm like bro this is not this don't really happen you know and a lot of times it was dope because they gave us the creative freedom to say certain things because often times stories like this A different race is Heavily involved

like there's Caucasian producers that really don't really know some of the intricate details what happened in black community so so they really like sat back a lot of times it was very like collaborative you know shout out to the producers John Jordan Davis Jeremy and and everyone Bruce and everyone Mary of course like all of them so it was fire cuz I was really able to be like n guys like nah this is going to send the wrong message and like they They listened I was like yo this is crazy like what like people don't

even know like I really influenced that before you was in the business did you pay attention to the images of black people on television because I've heard you mention that a few times absolutely okay and uh and I I thought it was very disrespectful personally like you know a lot of times when you meet Europeans or white people that's really not exposed to black people in this country they Have this preconceived notion that we're like very ignorant like the amount of times that people like oh man you're so young and you speak so well in

particularly I'm like as opposed to what I'm like I'm like yeah I'm like bro like it's like because it's that many people that is like you because often times what we do and I've been watching because I've been watching out for a while and different things I be like bro it's like they be asking the right Questions to the wrong people sometimes and they say something like oh my God now the world think that's how we all think and I'm like no give me an example hell n hell that was a good that was a

good one but it's just like I'm like bro you having people answer certain questions about politics and they don't know [ __ ] about it or certain things about I'm just like important things I'm like bro and I'm not trying to sit here and say I Know everything I would it's okay to say I don't know right I'll be like bro I don't have enough information on this so I'm not about to just give the wrong information but you know and when that happens a lot or or the content like I mean we're looked at

as violent as [ __ ] like people are scared of us boy like I bro the our stereotypes is just is crazy and we're perpetuating the hell out of it yeah this go you're absolutely right but that this that's something that was Designed since the beginning of time that's true yeah it's it's not even about this modern day era of media that we're in like literally the big black man has been the villain in history forever right right and to to justify slavery and and and and racism and all this stuff towards black people but

I just feel like we don't have to perpetuate it you know what I'm saying but a lot of times it's like cuz During the Reconstruction Era that little short 12 years like we were outpacing white people really like like fast in this country and then that's when you know the whole concept of black people are got and they started just tarnishing our image and making us look like the most fear thing on planet Earth right but then it's just like and now the only ways we get famous I mean the only way we get successful

is usually in like a situation that's just such an anomaly you know like for every like I love 50 I Love H I love but like for every 150 for every one ho you know how many millions is getting locked up yeah yeah you know what I'm saying like I'm that [ __ ] A you that's crazy like or for every one LeBron like to be a LeBron bro that's 0 Z God only make a handful of big [ __ ] that can move like that you know and so many people like really think they

can be that I'm like bro like you got your priorities [ __ ] up like you're going after something that is far from the Majority like you're going after something that is pure favor and Grace and that's and favor that's a supernatural advantage that God gave you to really fulfill his will and his job so it's was like that's not something that you could really Bank on bro you know and it's like but you got like we're banking on these things which is like crazy you're not wrong though it is intentional you ever seen that

old movie it's old though like Dumbo called Birth Of a Nation and it showed all of the uh black people and basically they were elected officials and they were like you know eating chicken with their feet and licking their fingers like it was just that's where actually the negative stereotype of chicken came from but they did that because they wanted to show this is what happens if you put black people in politics and this was like in the dam 40s I think it was so it's abs intentional and I always think about Like after the

9s cuz we didn't we grew up on in a very positive era we had great representation of had great music too on TV and music right so you had The Cosby Show and the different world and the Martins and the living singles and the girlfriend like all of these shows showed black people just being great working class right Americans and it was like it was like it was like an intentional shift to reality television right why do you think that is charl I Don't I ask everybody from the 90s that question like I asked like

Michael my wers up here Eric Alexander I asked him that cuz it wasn't like it wasn't successful it was super successful Cosby Show was the number one show on television different world was number two so it's like how dides that happen it was intentional and I you know I think y'all know something y just not saying I just got here I don't know nothing tell me what you think I I just Started this business man I'm trying to make my money I'm trying to make my co if I if I start really do if I

start really doing comedy on like a whole another level start touring you know what I'm saying making some M like from tour 20 million in the bank yeah I'll I'll start I'll start that I'll I think I know exactly what's going no I'm playing I don't I don't well congratulations to appreciate you you went uh glorilla I heard you got a Pregnant and you know did the no nice cute photo shoot and all that that was pretty dope yeah yeah glow is funny as though y she is so famous you deny that one you denied

when Lauren bought up whoever she bought up you you a say that was just huh you say her name aana a aana no aana that's my daughter that's my but the glow thing I mean it was for the video right yeah yeah of course it was for the video glow Is so famous bro it's crazy people was coming up to me in the street saying oh that's Glow's baby daddy I'm like first of all Jesus like I've been in this [ __ ] longer than Glow's been around and then second of all like other people

was coming up to me saying oh my God you done trap my girl you didn't want to leave it's not real yeah and it was like yeah and they was thinking I trapped glow I'm like yo I make like a good like salary like I've been making good money Like before glow even came into this I'm like hey you're saying I trapped her that's crazy her following is like legit bro are you going to put a ring on her or you just going to keep are you going to have more kids nah that's that's my

that's I don't think glow want kids glow is focused on career right now that's priority who um introduced you to just you know therapy and and and mental health like like who told you like you Know you need to go out there and do some work on yourself or did you have people around you that was doing it you decided to do it that's I think I think it's my boys like that you know um I got some friends that you know are strong Believers in the Bible like whether it's their conservative Christan they Pentecostal

Jehovah Witness things like that and in the conversations that we have often times when I'm talking to them it's like they hold up a reflection In my face and it's really good because a lot of times with certain spiritual things it's like you can only see yourself spiritually just like you can only see yourself physically through a mirror or if somebody's telling you there something way for it if I'm telling you there something on your forehead with and there's no mirrors ever around you got to trust what I say so there's certain things that only

another person can see that's in your Soul so I I think I've been fortunate enough to be around people that you know they hold me accountable you know what I'm saying if if if I'm acting a certain way or if I'm just not if I'm just being too fleshly you know they they they bring that to the Forefront so which forced me to go to therapy at one point I was like bro you know you could just do it and I was like man n cuz I grew up with like OG's where just like they

call that [ __ ] all type of soft weak names That all them [ __ ] need yeah exactly single they needed the most right and then uh I went I went there and then you know just thinking about certain things in my childhood and that the way they was breaking that down and bringing that up I was like yo I'm like bro we all need this and it's like a superp power it's like the first time I feel like you ever just look at yourself in the mirror get a haircut and brush your teeth

like that's what it do spiritually to you Like a lot of people are walking around like bro they like they're so unaware of what's going on and then and the ironic thing is like they think they know so much it's like the people that's just so far from themselves and from reality they got the biggest opinions and know so much but you know I feel like when you go there it kind of humbles you and it allows you to see yourself from like a third party perspective and and it's healing man we need that in

the in the Family Affair you deal with your brother who has mental like health issues himself and he trying to help him through that he stops taking his meds it's a bunch of stuff that happens but then also you start having your own like struggles because you have a lot of pressure in the f I remember the first scene when you're um in your office and it's like an anxiety attack and I recognize it as an attack because we talk about it a lot but did do you have People reaching out to you I guess

it didn't air yet never mind scratch that question um in you doing that does it trigger anything for you because you had to go through therapy yourself I'm assuming you dealt with some stuff that was Heavy kind of like what the with your character B dealt with like did any of that trigger you definitely definitely like I I my life at home is like it's a tough one like um you know my brothers my brothers go through it And they're going through it um my family have gone like they're going through it currently you know

so it's definitely a lot of pressure you know that that movie you a way was kind of mirroring like some real stuff in life but um yeah I just I just try to keep good people around to just help carry me and lift me up but yeah it's a lot going on back home and usually when you're the one that like you know you you make it out so to speak it's like it is a Blessing and a curse you know cuz then you start speaking a language that nobody around you understand anymore and it's

like it it's you're speaking everything but English and it's the most frustrating thing cuz it's like you watch the way you could help somebody they're asking you for advice but then the things that you're saying they're not even taking it and then you're just like it's almost going to drive you into Insanity when you're the only one that Makes up and you're forced to create an extended family thank God that we could meet people and and have this family but at the same time you're just receiving so much [ __ ] M from back home

that it's like it's it's such a [ __ ] up thing like it's like it's not what it's all cracked out to be it's it's a blessing cuz yeah you're financially free but like you've been tasting this Financial Freedom but you've been also building yourself in a prison simultaneously and You're like damn when do you separate though when do you say you know what sometimes I got to step away so I can be free mentally that's why I got a lot of dogs and I go into I go into nature and most of my friends

is not entertainers like I love the business Hollywood but that's not like that's not a real place I had I had a real life you know M so I'm so aware that that's not a real place and that's the way I try to separate out of that and I just I ride Horses I just do madit in nature bro like that's the only and that's when I communicate with God and I read scripture like God is the real reason why I'm like Saye like the reason why and I was talking to the Surgeon General about

this in the US Dr for mury so he hit me up last year to hop on his last leg of his tour um we are made to connect because of the national crisis right now the mental health situation and um we was having these conversations Man he was just like it's literally because we're not connecting to higher power anymore you know and and it's like we literally have I believe it's like a worship chromosome and like every human being to praise the deity to do this but what we're doing we're taking on these burning these

burdens in a narcissistic way and like we're carrying a weight that we were never meant to carry like we're trying to fight this battle that's way bigger than us and when you just put All your worries you cast all that onto the Lord like it's like it seems like a lot but you're like no I'm good like I know I'm just fighting a good fight bro like this is really is Battle I'm just a soldier so it just it alleviates that and that's how I'm able to just go about my day like by the grace

of God I'm not on any type of you know certain stabilizers mentally or whatever because God is that for me you let a lot of people let ego lead instead of letting God lead absolutely you know absolutely that's why I always tell folks man I believe in God and therapy yeah if you're a religious person like I'm not going to sit down and talk to nobody well I respect you for being religious because I'm I'm a spiritual person not religious but I believe in God and going to therapy at the same time and I appreciate

that man what you preach and because you talk about therapy a lot in your book and interviews and certain Things I was like yo like he's not just like he just don't talk mad [ __ ] like you really you I used to talk mad [ __ ] until I thoughted going to therapy oh that's what's up man yeah 2016 I started I started going to therapy and I think whether you want to or not if you're doing it for real it's going to change you absolutely you can't you can't hide it absolutely it's like

DM X and belly when he was undercover you know uh in The nation yeah yeah yeah he he was undercover but it it got to him it's like oh shoot so once you start doing it like it's going to change if you're doing it for real it's inevitable no you're right that's 100% right absolutely now I want to go to uh BMF how did you get BMF how was that that situation ah that was man that was fire that was actually doing the pandemic M so like I was fortunate enough again man I hate to

keep saying God but bro no Don't ever hate to I just I don't I don't want to be that person but like God's timing is crazy so like right before the pandemic we was blown up on allamerican and then all when the pandemic hit All-American got way bigger like it was like the biggest show in the world cuz everyone sting their ass at home so we was like we got so famous that it was it was unprecedented like it was like they was going to cancel the show on CW and Netflix made this show Like

just a household name and in doing that I had like three different offers for different shows and I saw BMF coming I was like 50 Cent I was like oh snap this is fire but I was like for second I thought it was one of the power things cuz I'm not going to lie I never wanted to do power I never only because it's like I feel like I wanted my first drug thing story to be a true story I I didn't want to just do it just to do it because when you're doing it

and no Shade to anybody that do it a little power boys Michael and GI I love power I love them they cool they cool they cool as hell like I really they yeah they little in stature and and just everything Jesus but but n not just that not just that but I was just like if I'm going to do that like I would it would be fire if it's like a true story you know and I was like yo this is two brothers that ran one of the largest domestic drug distributions in the History of

this country and I was like bro this is crazy and then I did an audition and they knew who I was and I 50 watched the show allamerican the showrunner lot of producers and there was like one audition that I like tested and I was reading alongside meech Lil meech um and it was like bro like you know you you you bring something out of him that's whatever whatever and I booked it and I was like bro and I actually went out for B Mickey and Tay Wow yeah so I really yeah yeah did you

ever sit with t yeah absolutely yeah no that's that's a real that's a real dude man he's a solid guy you know and U he's like he's like an oracle he's just like this wise OG that just sit back you know and then just he narrate from his perspective but he Tred not to get in the way and honestly one of the greatest compliments he gave me was when he was just like bro the way he portraying his character is it's fire and even Offscreen it's when people see you they see me and everything that

you're doing is such a great representation of me and I just want to say thank you and I'm like to me that was like an Emmy you know like forget what the critics got to say like the man that I'm portraying is like saying thank you and you're doing a hell of a job I'm like bro that's crazy let me ask a question because you know it is based on a true story but you talk about the negative images of of black People BMF was you know huge drug dealer so how do you you know

justify playing that role right no which is a great question because I I've I've been asked that before this uh interview said the same thing and I was like okay and it was like how do you feel that you're promoting that and you're perpetuating this image I was like well if you watch a 824 Blum House film or anything like that or like a scream and somebody's like stabbing someone 57,000 times do You think that I'm going to go stab someone 57,000 times no and if that's what you're thinking you probably shouldn't watch TV right

so so what I'm doing is like I feel like one you should receive it in the same manner that it's art but two is a true story and it's a true story about black people that was part of one of the most success uccessful human trafficking in the history of the world the transatlantic slave trade was one of the most Successful human traffic actually it probably is actually yeah the so you got these two brothers then when slavery was abolished and all this stuff was happening now you got these brothers in the middle of nowhere

everybody know poverty is the mother of all crime they know statistics show it Benjamin Franklin said it all the founding fathers know that's why systemically they put these position they put these things in a certain position just for You to fell right and you got these brothers that rose out of that that created this organization and ran this organization that they ran and I just ask people I challenge them to be like imagine if they had a better environment that would have been Steve Jobs that could have been the wri brothers that could have been

Elon Musk and then that could have been you know to to have that courage and to lead that many men to really listen to you and follow you and Salute to you in what you're doing especially [ __ ] and yeah right exactly exactly and something illegal CU you know if we doing something illegal together I don't really got listen to you cuz I can tell the cops on you at any moment but they had you know what I'm saying they had a c bro that's crazy so I just challenge people to look at it

from that perspective and be like damn like we're a product of you know I still think we live in a great country but you Know the founding fathers of this country building on a certain playing field and you got brothers that Rose out at a at a time that there wasn't positive influences at all so I think if they were born in different times of better influences they would have been scientist they would have been anything else 100% right you ever read uh the book outliers no by Malcolm Gladwell and he he talks about that

in the book and he just talks about how like all of These different people at different points in time were like they were at basically being at the right place the right time with the right circumstances so that's how you become a Steve Jobs or Jeff basos it was somebody else but they all came up around the same time they're all around the same age but it was just the the the right place right time right circumstances when you got that kind of mind yeah to your point meet yall T could have led any Fortune

500 exactly Exactly and and that's the beauty in the story and that's how I look at it so I mean people could say yeah you just choosing to see what you want to see but I feel like I'm seeing it objectively in in the correct way did you get a chance to um Talk to Big Meech since big I used I used to actually talk to Big me a lot like FaceTime because little Mee would be FaceTiming him on set while he was locked up and you know and talking to him and he was like

yo bro they be Playing that all American [ __ ] all the time like and this [ __ ] like we watch all y [ __ ] and he's he's cool as hell like those guys honestly they like that's like Bigfoot you know those are like it's it's like foreign creatures that it's like yo what like every rapper mention these people and I'm like by the grace of God I'm around these juggernauts like real Street Legends and then the hip-hop Legends I'm just like bro sometimes it feel like a dream and I'm GNA wake up

and be like bro I had the wildest dream last night you know what's funny I remember the first time I saw the BMF documentary I said to myself this [ __ ] ain't real I'm like if this was real all of these dudes would be in jail and then that's what ended up happening so I hope that I hope that but no so I hope that the show continues on so people can actually see the consequences to the lifestyle as well I think that's a good teachable moment too Absolutely absolutely and I think that's going

to happen I think people's going to see the ending and when what happens so so that way when people are considering this they know that they could really lose a great portion of their life mhm absolutely well definitely check out family Affairs ask are you are you in me cool like in real life how's y b little Mee we we we cool like it's it's all love I think we just you know he be so busy and can tell you Rides horses man and be in nature be in a club groceries he can ride a

horse no that's czy so he rolled the horse after he got the groceries or he put the groceries on the horse n me me me a different world he be in his own little world I got love for him but you know we we just we be on this side of the planet I'll be on that side of the planet come together we work and we do our thing and laen what was that thing about um uh I was going there what's Your so first of all funny Marco trying to take your girl who's my

girl laa oh my god do you get tired of people bringing that up to you like just that because on screen y'all interaction is is very complicated and then off screen there's like moments too it's like y'all was holding hands N I was just being a gentleman you know I was just she was just she was I think she was a little tipsy and she was like can you help me walk and I was like yeah I got you and I Was doing what how my mama raised me to be like yeah you'll be turned

up you'll be tell sending all your checks to La La play with OG la la if you want been getting before GL was famous he got a couple checks to spare that's what I'm saying facts facts okay okay I'm trying to be like yeah made him blush now he Ain bless the whole time talk about exactly that's crazy how they it's a little bit harder now though the smile's a little bit bigger I'm messing With you but yeah I mean I guess so nothing cuz y'all always say it's nothing there but when y'all was on

Jason Lee's sit down show it was a minute ago oh yeah yeah even there I was like they kind of cute though like there's like a littley that that's my dog like I think Li is one of the most genuine absolutely humans in this business like and she got a spirit that is like you almost feel like you knew her forever so like when you're around Her she brings like out like this kid in you you know what I'm saying so that's probably why when you mention her name I was smiling and [ __ ]

but and then she gave me great advice like that's my dog what's the best piece of advice she's giving you personal advice advice or work advice whatever I think she she she helped me see situations for what it is and like vetting [ __ ] you know what I'm saying and all like see the other side and like Looking at it from an objective point of view you know what I'm saying getting my emotions out of this [ __ ] and then like she'll and then or if I'm like yo I'm having a conversation with

this person like what do you think and then she'll really call me and like give me the inside school board if she don't know him she'll like wait let me find out and at one time I was I mean like from the littlest things to like sometimes someone try they stole my social media And they was trying to like sell it back to me for like 200k and I'm like bro ain't no way yeah and I was like yo li like what the hell and she hit up Kim's people and they gave me a social

media person and then got my [ __ ] back in 48 hours I was like peopleim wrong I didn't know which Kim he was talking about she said I didn't know I went you know the Kardashian on that social media over there yeah you're Right and that is her like like the feds anything is happening how fast did it turn over happened when Kim when Kim bro like 48 hours oh wow like I thought I was done I was like oh my God like I'm G to have to pay this or something like yo 48

hours I don't know what they did it was like bro it was czy they posted crazy stuff n they didn't post they was just trying to sell it back first and then I was than God they didn't post craziness they didn't I and I don't know How they did that how did you feel when uh Power got I don't want say canceled but they ended power I felt good about it I was like n no I was like damn that suck they out of a job like I know that feeling but I know they about

to have another spin-off like it's got to be right yeah 50 is like it's like the Avengers bro like you know what I'm saying like just like Chris Evans and the rest just resigned the Marvel there obviously About to be another Avengers so you know there's about to be something else it' be like power book three I know they already did three they already did four to they did four to yeah yeah probably yeah it's probably it's probably going like a new Force yeah the last episode of y'all last season y'all were like in the

middle of like the desert it was like Mexico or something oh yeah right so y' y'all have another season right yeah yeah yeah should be I don't know When it's coming out but I'm sure like the first quarter of this year got you how do you feel and I don't even know if you see this but like for that last season a lot of what I was seeing online was people being like all right now the story line is getting unbelievable I mean it's it's TV in film you know like I think I think they

got to over exaggerate and do certain things I mean personally some of the creative decisions I just be sitting back like ah Damn but I mean there's only so much I can do it's almost like when you player on the field you playing football basketball whatever sometimes you just got to run with the route that the coach tell you to and it's like it's it's bigger than you you know and and yeah but I I I I shut up I humble myself it's like bro I just got in the game I'm not trying to piss

people off but the BMF story is unbelievable it just is if you watch the documentary I'm I watched it Back in the day and I'm like this is not real like there's no way this [ __ ] is really going on in Atlanta like no yeah and he brought zoo animals in the club party to Hannah K Hanah K that's my that's the homie Hannah she did that party and she still does amazing parties now she did that party you people are still finding cars with money in it like cars that they own limousines they

they find a panel and they have like money in it I believe yeah that's she's like I'm About to go buy go bu some happening at um and so in this the upcoming season do you figure out lovewise like where you what you doing cuz you're all over the place you got it's like two families at this point yeah I think he's I think he's more focused on the money like I think I don't think he's ever going to figure it out I think it's still not figured out honestly that's me like it's not figured

out to the point that the real mares is getting pissed you know Like how that story is being portrayed so I don't think I think it they yeah like they not they wasn't really thinking about family for real like that they were just like I mean of course like they were to a certain extent but it was like y let's figure this situation out you know so I don't even think they really like had the capacity to be like yo we want to like I'm going to think about really just sitting here building family with

this one or that One you know but maybe that happens I don't know do people come up to you in real life upset about how you doing the girls on the show because you mentioned that with Adriana AB absolutely people really just be like bro why you doing my girl Sydney like that Sydney Mitch I'm like bro first what when you're talking about the show you use my real name and then when you're see me outside you use the character name I'm like bro that's kind of crazy like when you're saying Like yo Da Vinci

was doing this for La La that's on the show but when you see me in real life you're like yo Terry yo you maresa that's my and I'm like yo bro like you got to stick to to the you know what I'm saying cuz it sound crazy but yeah people all the time man like mad gangsters be coming up to me they mad about how you be with laa yeah absolutely and then the gangsters be coming up to me like yo bro like first of all they be like yo what is it like To [

__ ] laa I'm like bro that's not real and I'm like bro there ain't no way bro I'm like bro they bro tell me I'm like bro that's not real and then they start going into their meet and tea stories I'm like bro like if you tell me this [ __ ] now I'm an accomplice kind of you know I'm like I'll tell on your ass and they just they just shut up and they just keep it pushing but like the amount of gangster stories that I have to run away from bro I'm like bro

please like What's your dream role my probably to play t Le or duin um they were like two characters that was very influential in the Haitian revolution the Haitian revolution was one of the most profound Revolutions in the history of the world only because it was the first time black people gained their independence on paper you know and it was a small little army that destroyed Napoleon bonapart Army who was known to be like the best War General at The time so I think it'll be fire to like be a character in that story like

that's like a real Marvel Superhero to black people you know like they created their own language which is the language that I speak fluently which is creole which is 75% French and like different languages and they switched it up just so when they're fighting when it was in the war like the French people can't really understand but we can understand Frenchie you know so it's kind of fire And I think that story is like dope as hell and that's one of the things that don't ever get talked about I would love to play a character

like that I mean that's why they punishing Haiti to this day oh damn charlam man you said it brother I did not say that yeah yeah no for real and you Dominican right y yes he is yeah what up man you're my neighbor I am not Dominican I am not Dominican he just say that he lying I'm not I'm fully black 100,000% oh what oh You oh I thought you were joking you really thought that see you can't be mad that people think you doing la la wrong you date la la and you think he

Dominican Dominican I'm not Dominican I have no Spanish me my parents are black black like black yo show picture I don't speak no Spanish nothing he just he I don't know why he don't claim it but it's crazy I am why you get nominated for a Dominican DJ award I am black why did you get nominated for because you Say it every morning on The Breakfast Club and people really think that he really got nominated for that where your daddy from my daddy's black where's he from he's black where's he from he's black see what

I'm saying oh [ __ ] y That's crazy where your dad from Dominica oh it's a Caribbean Island Dominica is a Caribbean Island is Dom man cut it out my dad is half black and his father's from the island of Domin a Caribbean is and my mother is 100% black I don't I don't I don't really know why you like that claim his that's actually hilarious n it's okay DJ M like it's okay man good to meet you brother like watch brother it's a pleasure to be here with absolutely make sure you check out uh

Family Affair Premier in January 25th at 800 p.m. Eastern onl lifetime while mvy looks up his birth certificate I'm looking up my picture so you can see my pant and he he can't find No picture where you don't look Dominican white jeans curly hair Giants jerseys knock it off it's the breakfast did you play baseball no I actually play football oh oh he said football I'm from Queens Village so Queen Village is nothing but Haitian so that's your cousins Dominicans and Haitians are the same thing what Dominicans haian exactly same thing oh my God I'm

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