Welcome to another. that it's going to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. Today we got my brother man, one of the smartest people I know none other than

D. Watkins, what's happening, how you?

What's happening? How are you? What's happy? How you feel? Man man I'm more blessed than I deserve man I truly am I'm just I'm happy to be here with you man you know we start each one of our episodes out by having our guests walk us through the

arc of their careers. You're an artist, a lecturer, a writer, a modern day

renaissance man. So talk to us about the arc of your career and your various career

stops since finishing college and at what point did you realize that you could be a the arc of your career in your various career stops

since finishing college.

And at what point did you realize

that you could be a writer and an artist?

And did you always know that this is what you wanted to do?

You know, it's funny, you know, when I get that question because I think I always wanted to be a

storyteller, but I never knew being a storyteller was a profession. I was in love with storytelling since I was a small child. I was that kid that was just set out on the block all night falling asleep and people will be telling me to go in the house, but I just was so scared that I was going to miss something.

But it didn't really all come together for me until I was in my late 20s.

I've been through the streets for the bulk of my life and what that means people always be like they've been in the street I mean I'm not asked because

I saw an interview I asked Bobby Schmerter.

That was like man, I so crap.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm Bobby Schmerter essentially.

I came up, I came up from a family of hustlers and drug dealers

and sold my fair share.

And things like what I do now now like we're gonna television and

writing and these things they weren't really options um everybody was even

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