I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of Bakari Self's podcast.

Today we're going to have a real interesting and dope conversation about some brothers who are doing stuff in parts of the world that sometimes we don't pay attention to but we want to peel back the onion and get to it.

I got two amazing dope brothers Larry Yorell and Lincoln Stevens. What's going on man? How you

feeling good? Feeling great. Lincoln you got that sweater looking double there as

they say how you feeling man? Yeah it's but it's good because it's starting to get cool and so I always like you know

getting the layers on. So look we usually start our episodes and the unique thing about our

show on the ringer that people kind of tune into is at least the first part because we have our guest walk us through the arc of their career.

Larry and Lincoln, you're both co-founder of the Marcus Graham Project.

First, tell us what is the Marcus Grand Project and second, how did you end up here,

the arc of your career? What was the inspiration that led you all to be where you are?

Larry, I start with you.

I'll say, well, what is the Marcus Graham Project?

We're a non-profit organization that was born out of necessity.

For Lincoln and I both started our careers early in the 2000s,

kind of the feeling of dream of ours

to become the next Marcus Graham if you will if you're familiar with the movie

Boomerang Eddie Murphy's character in that movie his name was Marcus Graham and

for a lot of us particularly those of us who are kind of in our age bracket.

That was our introduction into the world of marketing and advertising and while Eddie Murphy's character from a personal standpoint might be a little outdated for our culture,

I think what he represented and what we saw in that time was something that was very different from what we had seen on screen anywhere else right it was a black owned agency

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