Omari Hardwick on Ghost’s Future & Untold POWER Stories | ALL THE SMOKE
All The Smoke
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
From the hardwood to Hollywood, ALL THE SMOKE has you covered with the biggest guests. This week, Matt and Stak are joined by the multi-talented actor, Omari Hardwick. Best known for his role as Ghost in POWER, Omari lets loose on his journey playing the iconic character and reveals if we will ever see Ghost again. Hardwick also dives deep into his upbringing in Georgia, from being a 3-sport athlete to becoming an actor. He speaks on the impact of his family and his experience as a father.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, All the Smoke. |
| 0:26.1 | We are coming to you from Dallas. |
| 0:28.3 | Back home in the Long Star State. |
| 0:30.1 | We got a good one. |
| 0:30.9 | This wouldn't have been a long time coming. |
| 0:32.1 | We've been trying to connect the dots with this dude for a long time, man. |
| 0:34.6 | One of my favorite actors and just one of the genuine, real good |
| 0:38.2 | people in this space. And there's not too many of those, man. Welcome to the show of Marie |
| 0:41.3 | hardwits. Yes, sir. Thank you, my brother, sir. Thank you, sir. My brother. |
| 0:45.8 | How's Life? Recently nominated for a Grammy. |
| 0:49.5 | Your name Ghost. That's crazy, bro. I'm a... For you're rolling Star Trek, man in many hats. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm trying, bro. |
| 0:58.0 | And by the way, Stax, I don't know if you remember this, but when I started in the music thing, |
| 1:04.0 | it was spoken word, poetry. |
| 1:06.0 | I had a show called Versus and Flow, and I would get up, neo-soul artist, the likes, young poets, |
| 1:11.8 | which is the best part of it to me is like giving the stage to young people to figure out |
| 1:15.2 | their voice. And bro, in the audience, right in the epicenter, right in the middle, dead smack |
| 1:20.9 | in the middle. One night, man, I get up and there is the Laker at the time, the Laker great |
| 1:27.2 | Matt Barnes. |
| 1:29.2 | And I remember thinking to myself, |
| 1:31.9 | we might be hired in the next 20 years. |
| 1:34.3 | And by we, what I meant was people who look like me, |
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