Transcript
A (0:04)
All right, now, I hope y' all ready for this. All right, My next guest, like me, started off in music, and then he transitioned into acting. You might know him as, I don't know, Darnell Hayes from All American. So y' all already know being in Mary J. Blige's Lifetime movies or my all time fave, Terry and bmf. Ladies and gentlemen, Da Vinci.
B (0:42)
Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. It's hard to yell when the barrel's in your mouth. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out. Bring them out.
A (0:59)
Hey, Da Vinci, how you feeling?
C (1:04)
I'm feeling great. I'm feeling great. How y' all feeling? Wow, this is a great crowd. It's a beautiful crowd.
A (1:11)
Listen, they have the best energy. Thank you so much.
C (1:15)
Thanks.
A (1:16)
It is an honor to have you amongst the kids, family, and we're gonna jump right into it. All right, so you are from Brooklyn, New York.
C (1:24)
Yes, ma'.
A (1:24)
Am. And my castmate Deval is also from Brooklyn. I've heard some wild stories. What was it like growing up in Brooklyn for you?
C (1:34)
I mean, growing up in. Do we got any Brooklyn in the house? Brooklyn. That's what's up. That's what's up. What up? What up? Nah, the dopest part about growing up in Brooklyn, in a fast city like that and just up north in areas with trains and bus, buses and all that stuff, you grow up fast, or I wouldn't even say fast. I think you grow up at the rate that you were supposed to grow up at. I think a lot of people are just a little, like, they get coddled a little longer. But the way we grew up, it's like we became men, like, kind of quicker and women earlier.
A (2:08)
That's amazing. So, like me, you started with music and then you transitioned to acting. For me, music, I just. I didn't fall out of love with it, but I felt I didn't like the politics of the music industry. What was it with you that made you decide, hey, I don't want to do this?
C (2:24)
It was definitely the politics. Like, it's like growing up, I loved music, right? I was like the Chris Browns, the Trey songs, the Ushers, like, everyone, right? I was like, yo, this is. This is like what I want to be in. All the great rappers, the hoes. 50. I love 50. I know his verse is better than him. I know 50 songs way better than him. He don't even know it. But. But, nah, like, I was really inspired by it. But then when you get there and it's not a figment of your imagination no more, you're like, nah. Like, they really want like a certain thing there. And I was just like, all right, I don't know. And I didn't know enough about gospel singers or gospel rappers. They'd be like, oh, maybe I'm gonna take that route. So I was just like, you know what? I'm cool off this. It's like they. Sometimes they just really want some real killers. People that's just killing left and right.
