 I deal with, it's about that time. We've done enough reminiscence. This shit's nasty. You just eat them, because you want to be appreciated. The salt taste is good, you know what I'm saying? The salt got a little tangy. We'll be ready here in just a second. Uh-oh, turn it down. Find my level. Find my level. Okay. Okay. Level it up. Go get real guys for my name. Yes, sir. It's cool here. Sure. Yup. Look at this. What are you talking about? You know. The rate for killing the shit on the list. No more, uh-oh. Got the gas. In the cold, I don't sell it. And that my days. I never sold no drugs, because that ain't what it is. I know the drugs. And smoke up blood. I know the drugs. They know the drugs. And smoke up blood. Nah, nah. Hell nah. You had dope. What was your wife doing? Hey, he had the best price in the city. He had the best price in the city. Hey, he had the best price in the city. He had the best price in the city. Hey, he had the best price in the city. Oh, no. He had the best price in the city. No cocaine. Like it's liquor. No. Your ass on my cocaine. What was your window? I was in front of my mama's house. Hey, what was you at, though? I was in front of my mama's house. Hey, hey, what was you at? I was in front of my mama's house. What was you at, though? Tell me one more time, what was you at, though? Nah, just a minute ago, you was. You got to. Because somebody got to do it. Somebody got to do it. You want to hear that sugar game, though? D.C., hit that shit, man. Get away. Like, hit that shit one time. How's this bitch? What was y'all at, though? All right, listen up. Get up and get up. This bitch. I didn't like that shit. Oh, shit, man. We done got the sad track, man. Oh, that's hard. See, that's what you do when you come to the track. Oh, my God, come on. Let's do side guests, man. Coach, your nigga's in Hollywood, man. All my favorite show, man. He is the only B.M. that you could be in. Now, all he is, he's going crazy. He's a phenomenal actor. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. I think that's a big word coming in. They beautiful, really. He called it. Hey, man. We appreciate you stopping through here, man. Nothing other than Miles Truett. What a son. How you living? Get money. You got suede jumpsuits and shit. Damn. He's in character. I'm a huge, huge, huge fan. I've been watching this since the live shows. You know what I'm saying? And I'm glad I'm here. It's full circle for me, so. Shout out to the real 85%ers. That's what's up. This is long way, man. What do you feel like to be on one of the dopest shows on TV right now? Dope is crazy. Come along. Who's going to get to it? All right, all right. We're being left, you know. It's crazy because every day I come on set, it's like a family reunion. You kind of got a taste of it, too, coming on set. Working with Tasha, what have you. First season. Shout out to Tasha. It really reflected how much relationships and chemistry we had on set. The audience was able to watch that and actually see it. It was real authentic and real. And we were able to illustrate a story that wasn't, you know what I'm saying? It hasn't been told yet. You know what I'm saying? And it's different because this man is in jail, calling his son, calling the directors, the writers, the producers and actually telling his story. You know what I'm saying? This isn't no Italian mob, you know, a story that's long and gone. This man is actually living his day telling his story and trying to fight his battle. And we are trying to help that, you know, to illustrate this story and this trial that Tribal H said he went through. So it was cool. It was fun. It was fun, man. I'm glad I'm a part of them, man. I got some new cast mates, let's do drums. You know, I got Monique. You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. She's been coming in and going crazy. I know she's been coming in and going crazy. She's playing Atlanta Sturt Club owner. Oh, shit. She's going to kill that. She's going to be the head honcho in Atlanta. They're coming to Atlanta the second season. Yeah. I ain't know if it was a spoiler or no shit. I ain't going to spoil it too much, but yeah. That's when people was asking. But I was liking to see the whole shit from the beginning how it started. Now we're going deeper into the story. It's great, but you know what? We kind of clicked right off the back when we got on there. I didn't know he was one of the main characters. We were just kicking into the Palais and da-da-da-da. But once it was like action, just to see what was going on. But when he was out there, I was like, oh, shit. That's what I'm going to feed off of. That's what I'm going to get angry with. When I talk to my shit, I'm going to talk to him. Because I see he's going to give me that nitty-gritty that I like. And that would be damn if he didn't do the exact the fuck with it. I ain't even know a part of it. He was the one that had his pills. I'm like, nigga, you got your pistol. You remember? But he gave me that energy so I can you feel me? Being a part of that story, like you said, I ain't, I'm not, I don't know about what they was allegedly known for. You feel what I'm saying? But to actually be a part of the history in that culture, bro, is beautiful. And just to have that BMM chain around your neck for like playing one of the niggas, it was like, eee, we did it. It's kind of different, too. I can speak for me. I never lived in the 80s. You know what I'm saying? I did. I'll tell you about it. Oh, nigga, the 80s was a difficult time. Man, to get to 80s, that's when you would get all your favorite electronics for Christmas. And nobody bought no batteries. You just had to look at this shit for about two weeks. Batteries was high as fuck. Yeah, man, the 80s was crazy. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Because there was a lot of technology, but it was new technology. Everything was new. But they was trying like a motherfucker. What phones did you all have? Tell the house phones, man. Rotary phones were still activated. Exactly. So I had to do a scene recently with a rotary phone and I fucked up because I came to Randy. This motherfucker did it one time. No, no, no, no. Listen, listen, listen. Going off on my man said, I'm a real method actor. You know what I'm saying? I am a... Yeah, that's good. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I like the one and two. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when I came down to that scene and I came to the producers and writers, I said, hey, how many digits? You know what I'm saying? Is it? I know it ain't four, four, seven, eight, you know what I'm saying? What is it? It's seven digits. Because all the cars was local. So when I walked up to the rotary phone, I did the scene. I typed in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And after they came back to me, I said, you really dialed seven digits? Yeah. So that was really kind of confusing. It took forever, didn't it? I forgot I was acting for a minute. Just imagine if the phone was actually on and every time you spend that bitch, you go click, click, click, click, click, click. You got to wait till that shit stop. You got to wait till that shit stop. You got to wait till that shit come all the way back. You got to earn them. And that's the house phone. But also real shit that shit was kind of gangsta when you look back on it. Let me call this bitch, hold on. That's when the phone used to go bloop, bloop, bloop. Then you got to start over. No, but it was fun though. We lived in that, you know, because I never, I never lived it, so. But what made you want to get into acting though? What I want, what made me? Yeah. I wanted to play basketball, there was no more basketball slots left at the summer camp, so my mom was like either you gonna go to Emory Hospital with your grandmother for the rest of the summer, or go to this theater camp. This is hell of an alternative. This on the West End, like right down the street from the West End Mall. It's the Crock Center. I went there and I was like, alright, I'll go to the theater camp. I went to the theater camp for probably like two, three years plus. And I was like, I enjoyed the acting. I learned the basics and logistics of standing still, not having my hands in my pockets, being comfortable in front of large audiences. Went from there to a theater program. Y.E.A. Youth on Song of Living Atlanta. Kea Burst came out of there. Who? Candy Burst came out of there. Keenan, you know what I'm saying? So a lot of people did a Keenan Burst. Did you just get both of their names together? I sure did. You said Keenan Burst, Candy Thompson. I mean shit. But a lot of people came out of the theater program and I went from there and Robbie Reed has had open casting costs for a new addition story. Huge black casting director. And she had my director of the directing program that I was in. She had hit up Robbie Reed and it was like hey, I have two boys. Two black boys that can audition for these roles. Damn, that's how they sold you? Two black boys. Two Negro boys. Two Negro and Bobby Brown. And that's when my journey began. Booked it and never looked back. Was it a new addition too? Yeah, I played Young Bobby Brown. That was my first thing. That was amazing. Booked it off top. So here's the thing. Here's the process with that. Went to the open casting cost. This is in Atlanta. It was like in this loft room. Robbie Reed had her son with her. It was me and my boy, Tyler Marcel Williams. She played Bobby Brown in the Bobby Brown story as well. Young Bobby Brown. We sang Candy Girl in front of her. Sing two other songs. And then we auditioned in our roles. And she was like, all right, cool. You guys did good. About three months later, we got a callback saying, hey, we want you guys to come out with Chris Robinson for a chemistry for a week. And they sent 10 boys two of each role. Two Ricky's. Two Ronnie's. Two Rouse. Two Bobby's. You know what I'm saying? So this is a chemistry. I think you know what a chemistry is is to test the chemistry you have with the castmates before they actually cast you guys. So this was a whole new different experience from me because, A, I've never been in the casting room. A, I've never been in front of a casting director or a director. Period. I've never been in front of my lens. Go out there to LA for a week and get in front of all these casting directors and Chris Robinson, Robbie Reed, and Robbie with these boys and we're just battling it out. They're switching us out. Hey, you play Ricky. You play Ralph. You play Ronnie. You play Bobby. You sing this. You sing that. Then we go home after that week. About five months later, I get a call saying, hey, you got it. And my life changed. It was probably like 8.30 at night. My mom got home from work and I got the call and I literally just like bust down crying because it was something that I wasn't expected but I wasn't prepared for. You know what I'm saying? Like me coming from East Atlanta, moving to Dunwoody for a better you know what I'm saying? Education and not knowing what my future wants to uphold and just getting that call like, hey, we need you to come back to film something. And I've been watching film my whole life Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon. You know what I'm saying? As a kid, you 12, 13, you get that call. So it was just amazing. The acting camp. Come on, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I got to go rewatch it now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was probably out of my whole like how was that experience? Me helping him. First of all, I walked in I had to brace myself. They liked babyface because I actually had to play that um, I had to sing the song with family um, Slanta- If you want me to stay. Right, you want me to stay. So I knew him, man. His Asa's in there. He's like, Who the fuck who you with? The babyface. I know y'all. You in your space now. Right, right, right. I don't give a damn. Once you in the studio, you talking to me. Exactly. So I come in, he like, all right, you ready? I'm like, I ain't do a babyface, yes I am, sir. I'm like, I'm like, I'm nervous in the bitch. I'm like, yes sir, yes sir, I am, I'm ready. He like, all right, we gonna go up the song, we gonna go up, listen to it, listen to it, all right. So they got the one line, one line. He like, all right, we gonna cut this line up, we gonna say this part, we gonna say this part, all right, hit the note. He's perfect with the voice. Niko. He's perfect, go ahead. But he, but this is what he's going, he like, do this one, we gonna do this. So I'm just sitting there and I'm like, go on, he's like, all right, now go, lower the tone, all right, go in. Now go in and record. It was literally just like that, in one, every direction, I was in that, on it, on it. And get what he told his people. He said that he was like, he actually, he could sing and he actually takes great direction and I was impressed by working with him. And I was like, nigga, from babyface nigga. That's hard. Say something about your point. That's it, babyface was hard. If babyface say something like that about you, somebody's supposed to bring you some koochie right then. It's supposed to be some koochie, right? They supposed to like, I'm telling you. You're stupid. No, no, I don't care. Like what's your favorite, like what's your favorite? Like I heard you say like period piece, time piece. Those are the best pieces to me. I don't really like doing nothing past 2015, with no phone, no nothing. Right, yeah. Bullshit, real talk. I like to act. I like to get into the character, study, dissect it, find out what's they work around. Who they closest friends? Why is he like this? Why? Why? What's your favorite or role that you wanna go accomplish is you like, I wanna do that. That's a dream role. You know, there's one role that I know for a fact that will change my life. And me and my manager be talking about this, but that's Miles Morales. And the main reason why God has been, God has been having a heavy on my mind for the past seven years I've been in this game. And the main reason why Disney and Marvel has been posting, like the fan pages have been posting in the running for me, Caleb McLaughlin, my boy from the shy, and Miles Brown. They just been posting and posting and posting. I just been seeing it, seeing it, seeing it. And I'm like thinking like, why not, you know? And even if it ain't destined for me, I for sure will be grateful if one of them get it. Anybody else? But them, you know what I'm saying? But Miles Morales. Spider-Man. Spider-Man. Spider-Man. I'm a real street nigga, my boy. Damn! This nigga looking at me like, oh, okay. No, I'm like, I'm here with this nigga on the road, I'm like, I just wanna know the road. Me and my manager. Damn, man, I'm talking about all that shit. It's gonna be anything, no, no, no. I respect it, no, I respect the story. You should have told me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I wonder what he would have said. So what do you want to play, an old Spanish dude? Make it like a Spanish kingpin. All right, we're like, Marellis, Marellis, Marellis. Okay, so you speak Spanish. Marellis. Hold on a minute, let's go to America. Miles Morales, he's Latino, though. He is, he's black and Latino, right? He's Latino, he's Latino. Yeah, that's the Spider-Man they created. So they can let some minorities play a superhero. They did the cartoon, he was black. He was black. Then in the comics, he was black. If anybody from the Marvel Universe is watching this, you're trying to change it. I hope y'all know. We are totally fine with y'all creating fake fictional characters for black people to play, too. Y'all don't want us to play your superheroes. Make us some shit up, too. We will come with original roles. It don't have to be nothing recreated. You already got an Iron Man, what I look like taking their white man's job. Hey, come on. They need a nice, there's so many precious metals in there. Illuminal man, titanium man, cobalt man. Top of man. Radium? You know how many animals in the Animal Kingdom that we just throw black in front of? We already got Ryan Coogler. Come on. Ryan Coogler, come on. I'm just saying, if anybody from Marvel or the X-Men people watching this shit, they can make us some characters, too. No one has a power. We want to be in power. Nick got kicked by Rod Nasser. He's not as strong as fuck. Nick is stronger than the Hulk, regular size, though. I don't think he'll be in a war. He got a bloodbreath, though. He got a rhinoceros man in his chest. He got a hip replacement. That's a Nick hip. The Nick got his mama's intuition. He just know what some shit about to happen. Oh, shit, my chest hurt. Man, we might want to get the fuck out of here, man. Magneto just woke up and scratched his nuts, man. You don't see all this shit playing through here? This is how I woke up and scratched his dick. They got all the white people who could disappear and float and change into other motherfuckers. You mean to tell them they ain't got one nigga that disappeared before all the shit happened and they didn't pop back up? Where were you? Teleportation. Man, look, I can't be everywhere. That would be hard. That's you, though? I don't know if that's me. I don't want teleportation. Hey, they definitely gonna let you play stretch arms. It might come with some dumb ass rules. Like, you got to know where you're going. You can play stretch arms. I don't even know. You might black out and be like, come on. No, I'm saying, like, I want to teleport wherever the fuck I want to go, but, like... Man, that's how the power works. If you know where you're going, then it's your power. But if you ain't never been? Shit. So I can only teleport to places I've been? What the fuck would you go to, then? Hell no. I don't want that. I'm not gonna. I'm flying. No, because whatever your power is, you got to be able to learn this shit and then, like, control it. So you can be able to go where the fuck you want to go. No, I'm not. Mr. X is gonna tell you how to use this shit, they power to get the straight fly and the punch. I ain't had no nigga live to a TV out of you, my power. I'm like, get up and walk, nigga. No, he's... Get your ass up. The thing is, he can. He can, but he, he used his brain power before, he don't have to walk, because he know that that shit is... Man, I ain't hearin' that shit, so he take me at night, he like... When nigga sleep? All right. Time to teach no more, fucker, man. Hey, some niggas in the skin. He don't even understand that he powered with the real shit with his mind. Yeah. Yeah. That nigga walkin' at night. Man, get your ass up, man. No, that's how dangerous he is. If he stand up... Oh, shit. Fuck you, go to sleep. You snore, man. He too dangerous, if he stand up, if he stand up, he gon' fuck something up. Half the world gon' split off with some shit. And he gon' get caught, now. Yeah, Professor X, the bad motherfucker, man. He and everybody hate him. And he gon' get caught, now, yeah. Yeah, he and everybody hate him, now. Hey, what if that's just one of the things that he got done? But what if that's one of the shits that he found that when he read everybody mind? And everybody be like, why does nigga don't walk? And he just do that and not the fuck with people. Right. Hey, man. Who was the nigga that always pushed him, though? Nobody. No, he developed it with his mind. Oh, so he was just sitting there in the back. He could use his arm. That was a trick. It wasn't real. No, it wasn't. It was a trick. That nigga could walk, man. No, it wasn't no trick. If you knew everything in the world, you probably wouldn't walk easy. Hey, wait, do you know he died? Oh, I shouldn't have said that. Y'all seen that? Yeah, yeah. Oh, look, I seen Dr. Strange. Oh, Dr. Strange, yeah. What's the disclaimer on this, man? Don't be on his sport and moves for people, man. I seen all that shit. The nigga died, man. The fuck nigga died, man. Relax, man. Relax, man. Relax. He wasn't even watching. He wasn't even watching, man. Relax. He's been out, though. He's not fucking this boy after me, man. Everybody know he died. The nigga's been out all the way. Man, the nigga's in jail of watching this. They're going to be like, fuck! Hey, my boy, get the J-Pain. Yo, get the cookie. I'm saying, boy, die. Man, you got some new shit about to drop out, all right? Yeah, man. And he got caught. He failed. Hey, that didn't even hurt, man. Hold up. Hold up. I don't know if they heard this. You guys, what's the new shit? You still don't know. Yeah, we got to start over. It was loud. What's the new shit? Stranger things, man. Try to talk. Yeah. Yeah, start over. Yeah, try to bring more of the culture to, you know what I'm saying, to the sci-fi world. How are you? What's up, man? 20, what's some of the strangest shit you've seen in your life? Oh, one of the two dresses, though. Nah, it's just some strange shit. Some strange shit? Some shit that wasn't supposed to be there. Oh. And my mom and I are really heavy on spirit. It's to me, my grandmother. I was in my grandmother's house, right? I haven't even told my mom this. This is the first time I'm talking about this. Oh, shit. Couldn't be bad jail. This is. I'm in my grandmother's house, right? She has, like, three rooms. I'm in the guest room, right, when I come over there. And I'm sitting, I'm watching TV. And there's a shelf on both sides. And there's a picture frame on both sides. And I have a cup of water. Oh, this shit's sick. I might need more. I'm talking about this shit. Oh, man. She's like, hey, what the hell do you love? The spirit that showed up. What'd he say about me? So you know those red, you know those red? Keep my name out, you little fucking interview. You know those red cups? You know those red cups of water? Yeah, like Dixie Cups. All right, so there's this. This is Dixie Cup on the frame, you know what I'm saying? On the desk, that's sitting next to me. This is real scary. I turn the TV off or I'm going to sleep. Why the picture frame fall and lean on the cup? Why? And I don't realize it until I pick up the cup. It's just leaning on the cup. That's probably the strangest thing, honestly. That shit was on set in real life. In real life. What was the picture frame of? Me and my grandfather, he passed away. He passed away though. So like it was just... Yeah, it was some real, yeah, deep shit. It was tilted. It was tilted. And it wasn't tilted back, it was tilted forward. That's why I be trying to stay away. Even if I hear something, I can cut the TV even loud. Droom, let me go ahead and cut the TV. Yup, that was the TV show. I want to see you get louder than that. If that's who you is, you get louder than that. I'm getting the hell out of this house. Man, you know black people don't fuck with spirits and shit. We hear noise in the house, we just do that. Hey! All right now. Bro, better get your ass out of here. Nick, I got a real story. Go on with that fuck shit. I got a real story, bro. I was suspended from school, bro. I'm like 12 years old and I had this little fake shotgun. But if I cock it back, that bitch sound real. I'm like, clacka! That bitch got a real clacka on it. Nick, I'm in the, I'm in the, I'm in the shower. I just hit a white noise. Clink it. Clink, clink, clink, clink. Woo, bottles. It's just bottles. I don't know. They clink it. They clink it. They ain't supposed to be clinking. I'm in the house by myself. No bottles should be clinking. You hear me? Nick, I'm naked. Nick, I get eyed. They shout. I hit a bitch and clink again. Clink, clink. Clink, clink, clink. And Nick, I pooped it. But I had to put it down. Now I know it's key. Nick, I grabbed my little shotgun, right? Nick, I grabbed it. We about DVD. I'm like, oh, if you in it. I'm some scary old shit. Nick, it was the trash man, I said. It's trash. I'm too young for this shit. But I was naked in the middle of the hallway. It was a gun that made like the sound. Yeah, you were like, clacka! And then I heard the beep, beep. I said, oh, that's a trash man. Trip. Trip it, bruh. Oh, soap. Trip it, bruh. We used to hear shit at night, old house, all the time. The house I grew up in, it always sounded like somebody was turning the fucking water on in the bathroom. And it always sounded like somebody was walking up and down the hall. No. Like, who house? In my house that I grew up in. It was the strangest house, but it was like an old house. Man, like, crazy shit, usually. Like movie shit, like the cabinet used to close. Like, if you open that shit, it'll like, like safe as you open the cabinet and then close. That shit'll like, sometimes that bitch will just like creep all the way back open. Like, how the fuck did this shit happen? Yeah, that was just a loose screw. I don't know. Man. Because it wasn't just, man. Spring, spring, we got there, I'm getting loose. We used to just hear shit all the time. No, it wasn't like, what's that? Where are you from? Where are you from? Mississippi, Mississippi. Hell yeah. I don't know, that's a heavy spirited state too. It's a lot of shit that's- That's a heavy spirited state. You're stupid. Mississippi. This nigga crazy, bro. You can know you can't talk to him. The fuck would you be scared of a ghost for anyway, bro? What the fuck they gonna do? Scared? They did. Next time you see my brother ask him, that's the truest fuck, that shit will, you can close this shit, that bitch will be like, that was an old wooden cabinet. And no way that this, it ain't like these modern chits with the spring. So we watch scary movies, you don't be scared of them. Hell no. You don't be scared at all. None of that shit. I watch scary movies, I dissect it. That's the main thing. I went in the house and there was somebody in the house, in my grandma's house. That you didn't know? They was in the house. My fucking, that was Rob in the house. I went in the house, I was a little kid. I went in at first, you know, I moved fast. I got, I see everything. I see shit drawn everywhere. Like the pictures, like the VCRs were. You know why they're still in there. Yeah, the VCRs were the pictures at and shit. On that shit. What you was doing with everybody and son? You was there by your son? No, my grandma, it's my grandma house, but I'm just quicker than her. I went open the door, you know what I'm saying? I'm in there and I'm looking and I'm like, damn, where this shit at? Damn, where the stereo? I'm thinking the repairman came and got it. But I'm just looking at shit. I'm like, damn, where, damn, where the shit? Who do the shit around like this? So I go, like, I don't went through this part of the house and then I go back around this way. Now I just niggin' a leather coat with a jerk here, ran past me, nigga. He ran back? He ran back and he like, I saw this shit around. He said he was playing shit. He was out the back there because we always go through the back door. He kicked it in the front door, like my grandma house, we always go through the back door. Also you came to the front door, it was already open. We didn't go, I didn't go through the front door. We go through the back door at her house, like the way her house set up, the driveway go around the back and that's just how we get in. The front of the house, nobody, like company come over here, they come through the front, but we go around the back. So we go around the back, I don't like that shit goin' in. By the time I go around that way, buddy, he's like, eh. And they cryin' out. Try to shake your head. Oh man. I ran out hollerin', my grandma was hollerin'. I ain't never got robbed. I ain't, like, in my house. Don't speak that up. I ain't never came in and somebody was in my shit, like. That's the one shit out of it. That ain't normal, nigga. That's all right. That's the one shit I don't miss about living in the projects and shit. Come on, man. Like when you be landin' in the bed and shit, you can hear my fuckin' talkin'. That is the strangest shit ever. You should never hear no shit like that. Nigga, I remember I thought it was something in my house, but it was just a termite's in the wall. Oh. Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's a terrible one. Sure, I'm talkin' about it. Man, plenty nights and then I find out. I'm like, oh, that's what they did, nigga. Come on, man. That's right. No one in the world was shit. It was no one. It was wood shit. When you left them nights in their mouth, but when they were like, why is something like that in the wood? She haven't done that in a long time. There's a whole lot of these wood chips. Yeah. Termite going, great. Strange. Dude. See how we got to talkin' about some strange shit? Got two termites. Hey. So how did you prepare for this shit? How you landin' this? No, no, the strangest things. Oh. Well, I knew about the show before he even came out, workin' with Caleb, you know. Caleb McLaughlin, he's in the show. He plays Lucas. He played Ricky Bell in a new edition story, a young Ricky. So I was workin' with him. I was like, yo, what you got next? You know, I miss your next project. He was like, well, strange of things. I was like, what's that? You explained it to me, explained the old log line, the story to me, and it was basically a sci-fi thriller. I was like, OK, word. Came out season one, watched it. Crazy, stupid. Season two came out. I was like, that's when I was hooked. And season two, I was a big fan. I congratulated him. And I was like, bro, like, I would love to be in this shit, man. He was like, why not? You know what I'm sayin'? He was like, I'm tellin' him. I would love to see more of us in it. More people that look like us. You know, God, see if it is me, you know what I'm sayin', or anybody else. But now, fast forward, we hear a minute, you know. So how I got here is just mainly just tellin' my agents. And I've been, was keepin' it heavy on my agents mind about what I wanted to do and the type of roles that I wanted to do and the stage things was comin' up. You gotta do, yeah. You know what I'm sayin'? You know, they gave me that blessing. You know, and it was crazy as Sean Levy and some of the producers on Stranger Things actually worked on my first feature film, Ken. Ken was a feature film with Dennis Quaid, James Franco, Michael B. Jordan, Zoe Cravis. So they worked on me on that. So now it's just real full circle workin' with them, Caleb, and you know what I'm sayin'? So, yeah, so, it was just a preparation process, just always just talkin' to them, my team, sayin' that I wanna be a part of this. And them knowin' that there's only one black boy, you know, and it's like, why is that? Why? You know what I'm sayin'? And it's like, it's 22, this season was 22 million an episode. Dang. And it's two black kids? Right. You know what I'm sayin'? Y'all always wanna talk about Black Lives Matter and know we support this day and the third. And I'm not downplaying it. I'm grateful for my blessing. And that's why I am where I am today. You know what I'm sayin'? In Stranger Things, because that was my main goal and my strive and my purpose of more. You can't. That I can do it. And not only that I can do it, that other boys that look like me can. 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If you good with that, then cool. Know that you good with that. Just gonna be like, I'm good with you. You don't even know what you're good with. What you good with? What you good with? You just doing it because. Just doing it. Because you gotta do something. You just got to do something. You need to know what you're doing. You see what I'm saying? So everything, you just got to know. For the going and killing this world. All right. Maybe, this may be the breakout role. If it's not cool. It's okay. It's okay. You gotta be prepared. I'm going to go in here and do what I need to do. You're right. Because I'm, it's a blessing to be here. So this is just part of the resume. And we are both examples though. You know what I'm saying? Coming from Atlanta and we are both the same skin color. No care. That's proven off the same point that I said that there's other boys and other men that look like us that can do the shit that we're doing. You know? But they always got the various distractions and the outliers that are going to influence them to doing something that I want to be a rapper. I want to be a basketball player. That's what I wanted to do. No, I want to. You feel what I'm saying? I want it. Boy, what? But wasn't good. That's the thing. A lot of people want to play here. Everybody wants to. But at certain point the reality got kicked in. A lot of people are good. A lot of people are good. Even niggas right now you're like, damn nigga, nice. Would you want to be a nice nigga? Right, you gotta be great. So tell us. You gotta be great. You gotta be great. You gotta be great. Nah, you gotta be another level, bro. It's another level. You gotta be recreationally great. Any time you play weed, you gotta be great. You gotta be a man. Or just born to do certain shit. Right. Like, the rock can't do shit else. He is the rock. Well, he can do everything. He is. Batista can't be shit else but Batista. But these motherfuckers are abnormally large human beings. Yeah. Niggas. What else was Shaq going to do? What else was Shaq going to do? Yeah, break off. He didn't have to pick this shit. He was like, oh, I want to go to the league until you go see these niggas who in the league the shortest nigga in the league is the tallest motherfucker you ever stood next to. They six feet. They make them look small, yeah. Six feet. I thought I was six feet. They six feet? You like six seven. Right. I'm six two. Out. I'm six four. You're not six. You use a different chart than the doctor. You're not doing it. 12 inches, 12 inches. The doctor did this. How y'all do y'all? Man. You must jump up to your shit. That probably would have humbled me, though. You saw all the motherfuckers walking around. If you went somewhere and it was a bunch of NBA players, you would freak the fuck out and run out of that. A room full of seven feet tall motherfuckers? That's the shit that nightmares are made of. You walking there, you a smallish motherfucker. People just grabbing you by the top of the head. Move to the ground. Fuck this shit. Who the fuck is that? It's in genetics, though. It's genetics. You ever seen a professional football player thing? And what sports do you used to play? I used to play football. What do you do? Niggas, most of them. You know he's not talking to shit, so I said to him, I ain't no fucking, you can tell you didn't play football. You ain't shit. They don't give you but one position. You didn't play. You crazy him. Shit. I was the only seven grade, only.