 Like cuz y'all get into profession then it ain't gonna happen no more But the nigga had it out for me though since I was a background bro Like man, you you start acting right so like what inspired you to start acting man low-key I Had I was going to school ISU and Bloomington, Illinois, and I met I met some cats man in the fraternities and stuff And I'm gonna keep it a buck with you man. That's when I first started seeing brothers like dress Like dress. Yeah They carry themselves for certain way and if I'm from Springfield, so I was like man goatee. Yeah, I had goatee Yeah rims on my car on campus. I'm I'm in the shit. I'm from the hood. I'm in it. You feel me? Yeah, that's it and so uh I get on campus and I meet this brother named Loris Hawkins and he's on the show of Chicago PD He's a man. He's a black cop on that show. He's a main character. He's been on there 10 plus season incredible But anyway, I mean him on campus and we start doing like You know pageants and plays and stuff and talent shows, you know earn some extra bread on the side man And he got me into acting, you know watching him do plays and stuff So I went back to the hood and I started doing like local films and stuff, you know really getting into it You know, I mean and then eventually man, I started going up to Chicago and you know being a background or extra Wow, so I got me an agent. I used to sleep in my car. That's good. That's good. I was go crazy Yeah, get up at 12 in the morning one in the morning. I see even have relationships with like with the local Police like let them know like bro. Look, I was living in a small town and they're like, you know, they I'm black You know, I got you gotta definitely let them know. Hey, man Hey, but they think so I mess with me. I had a little background, you know Yeah, and so I'm just like look I'm trying to play like I'm leaving at one in the morning man I know y'all see me out here. I'm gonna drive to Chicago go sleep in my damn car. I think on this I'm gonna go on the show man. I'm gonna make my $80 real quick. That's real It's about building I'm building bro. It built character man. It was cool man name crafty. It was good You know man, so what was it? What that was the first time you get into a role So the first the first role I got was it was like local in the hood. Yeah, I was actually it was crazy There's this movie called seriously tripping and this dude Homie my name Osling cool cool dude. He shot a film and I'm bigger So I'm playing this dude to get punk I get punked out, but I'm bigger than the nigga that's punking me It was weird man. It didn't make sense eyes. All right, you hear me talk shit right now You my boy. I'm giving you pub right now on boss talk But why was why was I get him dumb and I'm bigger than the nigga that was him That don't make sense no man Man, so like like you you get you definitely was a part of empire like you play like Terrence Howard as a younger dude Yeah, yeah, yeah, like so how do you even get that part right? yo crazy man, so I Was a stand-in for Trey Byers, okay for Dre Phenomenal dude man like incredible incredible guy Smart I think he graduated from Harvard, bro. But anyways, I'm standing from standing for Trey Byers and I Get fired one day right from being a stand. I didn't know I was fired How do you not know you're fine? They don't tell you you just don't call you don't hit you wouldn't don't hit your back So, what did you do? So? It's been to get messy All right, so check it out, so I was standing everybody loved me on set man. I had a great relationship You know I was cool dude funny, you know all the all the main cast members like me, but um What'd you do man? Yo, so We were feminine dimension and everybody could they schedules, you know for to come to all the stand-ins You know they get to eat with the actors, you know standing right next to the star I'm standing around like what am I not, you know something because I'll go ask for the older homies cuz I'm still new I said hey, man, you I ain't got no schedule I got talk to you man. Damn. So you got talk to me man. What's going on? They get like everybody love me So yeah, man Somebody was complaining about you, bro He didn't just say that it was one fill your vibe man or something I was like, bro, everybody in the cast like me for the most part for the most part Yeah, it's that one person that did so so you know I'm saying so I got fired it that's that my car I had a little twinkle of my I ain't crying You you shouldn't cry cuz you know you already had got you had got to let go from AT&T. So You already done been through the fire, I'm in a G so I'm sitting in the car like you know I'm saying and then So he told me he said yeah If he it'd be like that sometimes with that particular person really Hey, man, you know the energy, you know, let's put out there. I don't even want it. I don't even want to start nothing It's a big it's a big name. Yeah. Wow and it's bogus because um, I'm just a young brother trying to You know get to I looked up to them Yeah, so do you feel like they were intimidated by you because here's the thing When I was told was this is what he does He do it all the time. Yeah This which which movie again, it's an empire. That's the tears how Cuz he fly the nigga really flying his fly this is floating around this nigga fly this getting bumped over a little bit Nick is very obvious. You can't get that So you basically you gotta understand that's something that comedians come in here and say as well like They'll go and be a comedian on the stage with certain guys and if it takes away from their essence They don't want them guys around because it takes away from their Star power but then I'm sorry, but then to me in acting I would think you'd correct me from wrong, but I would think it would be different because He's older. You're younger. So you can only play that you love that younger Okay, you can't play his role Play your role because he's older Terrence how cutting up he did this Jamie Foxx gave a story like this where he was a little off He was in character all the time and all they had they issue This is something that happens in entertainment y'all are mean bravado all that stuff kicks in It don't matter where you at you be on a set you can be in a car We don't got into it just being going to the casino together niggas get into it y'all I like cuz y'all get in the profession that it ain't gonna happen no more But the nigga had it out for me though since I was a background bro You kind of save it a nigga bro. So look Check it out check it out the damn The directors and the dudes shooting all of these always come up to me say you look like cash is clear You look like this these are always mess with me and they always want to put me in front of the camera So one time I was sitting next to this little honey or whatever. She cool my home girl She looked good and everything, you know and bro walked up and try to like stunt on me in front of her like this Ain't my girl bro. It's cool. Like I don't know how to bump you try to bump me man I was just a background 80 dollars a day No, but that's a part of it though I think really you gonna get that man because at the end of the day and he'm about the money, bro It's about the fact of the energy and the way you bring in it, bro I haven't been in the room with niggas man, and I ignored big niggas man. I never forget it I didn't know who French Montana was but it was I didn't give a damn Me niggas when I walk in Who is you? I you know that day it's been time when a lot of people be around. It's the way you carry yourself So you got that effect a nigga like me I mean try to be cool man be level-headed man But you know I do be dealing with a lot of shit man And but I just be trying to stay you know stay grounded man And be thankful that God even put me in a position to be where I was that even to be interacting with that You know I'm saying it's another thing you just said about annoying it You know are you anointed bro about God you said God that's anointing really a lot of time You're the God in you is what really moves things out the way Yeah Have you shining in a way to where people can't understand why they might not feel you on certain perspective But it's because of the God in you so you won't even understand it So that light that shining in you is beaming and you don't even know that it's beaming like it's beaming next thing You know niggas gonna fire you man. Yeah