Welcome to Higher Learning. You guys welcome thought warriors as promised. We got a special episode for you. Remember we're giving them to you every Wednesday for Black History Month and this week is just even better than last week. This week we're doing a theme podcast for Judas and the Black Messiah. We've got LaKita stand filled on the podcast. We've got Daniel, Caluya. You guys these are some of the best interviews that we have done on higher learning. I promise you will be enriched. You will learn something.

Just from them as human beings, as for their characters that they played the roles, the real life roles that they played in Judas and the Black Messiah. And this is a movie if you haven't seen it already, you need to go out and see. Please enjoy this as much as we did.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me, guys. Of course, man. Of course. Now I started an intro by saying that you're one of the best damn actors in the world. Do you think that over the these past couple of years, the kind of run you're on that you're in your sort of creative.

I'm not a renaissance or special place. Do you think that you've set yourself apart as one of the best actors working right now because I think man between get out between queen and slim, all of the other work. You have kind of pulled to yourself to the top of the industry. Would you say the same thing?

I loved your background. Is that a Bons the P? That's a Bons the P. Yeah. That's incredible. I was just just nitching the lost interview.

I don't compare myself to anyone. I don't watch anyone. Watch me, bro. I can inspire by people. You understand? But it could be people that are doing stuff in the game now.

Could be someone in from the semi-use of the 60s. I don't watch anyone. There's no piece that comes with that.

I'm going to become what I am. People say that about me. I say that I mean, like, blessings. I appreciate you.

But I feel in the creative, in the creative field. I think it's kind of way of thinking, I can restrict you from telling the truth.

I'm going to be good. I'm here to be honest. You understand? So I just act according.

Yeah. Can I ask you, who is it that inspires you?

Wow. Interesting. What in this current moment or in general? You want to answer the question.

I give it. Hey, so it's an ex that inspires me. I'm real. I could swear, right?

Of course. I appreciate you. My mom inspires me to seeing her determination, seeing what she's kind of gone through and what she's overcome and the positive attitude that she's instilled within herself and within me.

Don't love inspires me. I see how he moves. It's just like, I think it's incredible. Like what he's what he's been doing.

And I get inspired by like, I don't know. I just feel I can see when people get it.

When they understand, just like the WizKids lost album inspired me. Like, Maiden Legos, that inspired me.

The gentleman saying and just going, oh, he's he's himself. He's found himself. He's found he's always knows himself. He's just in the pocket.

You know, it's so many so many. I would add Rachel. I'd love to answer that question more deep and more specifically.

But I think I would have to need to be streamlined to kind of the kind of the universe of people in order to for inspirations.

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