So, Kola, you gave a talk at a high school assembly pretty recently.

What happened at that talk?

So, yeah, I was talking to some high school kids, kind of each witties kids kind of thing, you know, giving them that good pep talk of getting all their potential out of themselves.

And so I began by talking a little bit about myself, my own story and kind of how I came from my own situation without, you know, being a product of a single parent home and, you know, below the poverty line as we were growing up, all those kind of things.

And so as I was sharing with them, I also talked about how I worked really hard and built my craft and worked in the music industry and became a recording artist.

And I was able to achieve some of the goals that I had set for myself and really had kind of succeeded beyond what I ever thought was possible.

I began to share about some of my celebrity friends that I kind of know, you know, a lot of the local celebrities, athletes and entertainers that are from, you know, the Seattle area.

So I put up pictures of myself and Bobby Wagner from the Seahawks.

Myself in Sean Kemp, The Rain Man, you know, played for the Supersonics.

The Rain Man leads them howling into the Seattle night. So it makes a lot, you know, play for the Supersonic. The Rain Man leaves them howling into the Seattle night.

It makes a lot, you know, Grammy winning recording artists who I was friends with in his group, all those kind of things.

So, you know, I'm putting up all these pictures, but then I get to the picture of myself and Ken Griffey Jr.

And it was just total blank stares in silence. And the teachers were like, oh my gosh, this is awesome. And then the students were like, huh? Doesn't ring a bell. No idea. You know, so it's like kind of disappointed. I'm like, man, this dude is like he was it. He's got a statue in front of the baseball stadium for crying out loud. How do you not know who this dude is?

They just could not connect because for some reason, and I can't explain what that reason is.

They didn't really know, and that legacy of his wasn't kind of passed down to this generation. And I couldn't figure out why.

In season one of American Prodigy, we went looking for Freddie Adieu because it felt like

Freddie had gone missing after becoming a star. This season, we turned towards Ken Griffey Jr.

Not because he's missing, but because it seems in a way that his legacy has gone missing.

Griffey is remembered as one of the biggest baseball stars in America, at least in the 90s.

But not much else.

When you examine his story closer,

there's a lot more that he had to offer.

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