Ryan Coogler’s Untold Chadwick Memories, Collaborating with Kendrick & Ranking MJ, Kobe & LeBron

All The Smoke

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Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Ryan Coogler opens up about his journey from D1 football to becoming one of Hollywood’s most visionary directors. He shares untold stories about his bond with Michael B. Jordan, working with Chadwick Boseman, and collaborating with Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino. Plus, he reflects on the impact of Fruitvale Station, building all-star casts, and whether a football film is in his future.

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0:00.0	Welcome back. Welcome back, All the Smoke, man.
0:25.6	This one is a long time coming.
0:30.1	All this kind of transpired from sports.
0:33.7	First and foremost, welcome to the show, Ryan Cooleger, man.
0:35.9	Thank you for your time, bro.
0:37.0	Thanks for having me, bro.
0:38.9	But we go back a little deeper than rap, you know what I mean?
0:42.4	You went to junior college with my little brother.
0:45.2	I was in, we was in big boy at college.
0:47.3	He was in the second state.
0:48.0	Excuse me.
0:48.4	He went to college with our brother. And it was funny, I hit him this morning, because he was just at the house yesterday, but he had to bounce. And I ain't she didn't even in a minute.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	How's you doing?
0:58.0	He's good.
0:59.0	He's in DC doing some business stuff out there with his family.
1:01.0	Mike's like, you got any funny stories of Ryan?
1:02.0	Anything I could just pop on him. was the dude that set the bar. He said, if Ryan didn't have the hand injury, you couldn't tell
1:11.4	me that he wasn't going pro. And he's like, you were the one that was always first in the
1:15.4	weight room before practice, after practice, you just did all the right shit. You were locked into
1:20.4	your books. He's like, Ryan didn't really start kicking it until after college. He's like,
1:23.7	Ryan, during college, was really locked in. So it kind of makes sense now.
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