00:00:03gotta say I gotta say something before
00:00:05we get out of here I gotta say some
00:00:08today is my 25th birthday for those who
00:00:11dog now when I was 17 on this day when I
00:00:19was 17 years old I had a teacher give me
00:00:21a journal for my birthday I used to
00:00:30daydream in class all the time and I had
00:00:33a teacher Rochelle not know if I loved
00:00:35you she gave me a journal and on the
00:00:37cover of that journal it said go
00:00:40confidently in the direction of your
00:00:42dreams and live the life that you’ve
00:00:44imagined now that’s a quote from an
00:00:47American author Henry David Thoreau now
00:00:51I want everybody take a look in the room
00:00:52right now because if you don’t know we
00:00:56don’t under dogs Straight Outta Compton
00:00:59was my first taste of being the underdog
00:01:00I had to audition for over two years to
00:01:02get my role and a lot of people who work
00:01:06on the movie didn’t want me to get it
00:01:08but he wanted me to get it that’s really
00:01:12all that I need and so everybody to all
00:01:15the underdogs
00:01:17to everybody who’s has somebody tell
00:01:19them they can’t do what they want to do
00:01:21family members even tell them they can’t
00:01:23do what they want to do the people who
00:01:27look in the mirror and when you look in
00:01:29the mirror all you got is that one
00:01:31person that believes that you I’m here
00:01:34to tell you that’s all you need baby so
00:01:37to the underdogs I don’t care what it is
00:01:42you do I don’t care if you act I don’t
00:01:44care what job you have you got a boss
00:01:47that’s seen a dozen seeing a hundred
00:01:49seeing yo type a thousand times but let
00:01:52them know they see you yet
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