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Maverick:
Jon, let me ask
you a questio.

Have you ever been in
a black barbershop?

-Me?
-Maverick: Yes.

Uh, only to collect rent.

(laughter)

♪ Had to go
and hit reset,
now we here ♪

♪ I been on top
of three sets
in three years ♪

♪ I can't be around
the niggas you minglin' with ♪

♪ I can't fly if I can sit
on the wing of that shit ♪

♪ Try to pay it less mind ♪

♪ They been keepin' tabs on me
like I'm payin' next time ♪

♪ I think I sense a little
fear from the other side ♪

♪ White vans parked
across the street,
real subtle, guys ♪

♪♪

Jon:
Here's what I notice about this.

The magazines are not central

to the black barbershop.

The white barbershop,

it's all about
the magazines.

-The conversation is central--
-So, the-- we have
no conversations!

Everything happens
in the black barbershop.

The critics of the movies.

-"Did you see that movie?"
-Yeah!

-Last Sunday's football games.
-Yep.

If you walk into the barbershop
and everybody's like,

"Yo, that movie is the shit,"
you go see it.

In the barbershop,
you can't lie.

-You cannot lie.
-LeBron: Somebody's gonna
call your ass out.

You can't walk
in the barbershop,

like, "Yo, these clothes are..."
A nigga will be like,

"Yo, them your
cousin's clothes.
Shut the fuck up."

There's gonna be
one guy in the barbershop

that's not even gonna
get a fucking haircut.

He's just in there
chilling!

-Oh, yeah, yeah!
-LeBron: He's only there
to roast your ass,

and make an argument.
He's not even getting
a fucking haircut.

You're like, "Damn, nigga,
you've been here since 8:00 AM.

It's 6:00 in the afternoon.
You still ain't got
your hair cut?"

He's only there to start shit.

He's sitting on the couch,
and he's like,

he like, "You next?"
"Nah, I'm good.

So your shoes
busted as fuck." Like...

Damn, nigga!!

You need to get a haircut
or get the fuck outta here.

The comfort that you can
feel in the barbershop,

is that comfort...

amplified, because
you spend so much time

in spaces that don't
feel that way to you?

Maverick:
That's a great question.

LeBron, you can speak
to that cause you,

first time you were around
all white people when you
came to high school.

LeBron: Yeah, yeah. I went
to an all white high school,
Catholic high school.

So...

like, when I first went
to the ninth grade
in high school,

I was on some, like,

-"I'm not fucking
with white people."
-Jon: Right.

Like, cause my whole,
I was so institutionalized
growing up in the hood,

it's like,
"They don't fuck with us.

They don't want us to succeed."

The hierarchy,
and then we're here.

Like, matter of fact,
we're underneath this chair.

So I'm like,
"I'm going to this school
to play ball and that's it."

I don't want nothing
to do with white people.

-I don't believe
that they want--
-You don't want no friends.

It's me and my boys.

We're going to
high school together
and we here to hoop.

So that was,
like, my initial,

like, thoughts
and my initial shock
to, like, white America,

when I was 14 years old
for the first time in my life.

And that's Catholic school.

-LeBron: Yeah.
-Which is even
whiter America.

(laughter)

Levels to white America.

LeBron:
It took me a little while.

To-- to kinda adjust to it.

It's hard to balance
because I'm a kid that,

that plays this game
at such a high level.

You're in your mind, like,
"Are they happy that I'm here

-because of who I am?"
-Jon: Right.

"Or because of my conversation
that I can have with them."

Sport and basketball,
it's the most unifying thing.

By the end of the year,
all of us were best friends.

Our black friends
from the hood was coming.

-Yeah.
-His white friends,
and we were just all

-having a fucking great time.
-And like I told you before,

the first time I ever
found out about a pantry
is when I went to high school.

-(laughter)
-Jon: Wow.

-Bread, cereal, chips.
-Right.

-Donuts.
-Donuts, all that shit is
on the top of the refrigerator.

When I got to high school
is the first time
I knew about a pantry.

First time you
open a pantry is

like the briefcase
in "Pulp Fiction."

It's just, like, a light
comes out, you know?

Oh, my God, this is--
I've never seen this before.

-Yeah, yeah.
-All the snacks in the world
are right here in front of me.

-Yeah, dear God. (laughs)
-Jon: LeBron brought it up
earlier, he's like,

"Am I here cause
I can play basketball?

And would these kids
accept me if not?"

And does that ever go away?

Cause that's stress.

Like, if you feel like
even in your success,

you can never escape
that level of scrutiny...

I could see that

-making you
crazy and angry.
-Maverick: 100%.

Absolutely. Because
I think the difference

between us as African Americans

and us growing up
in the hood is that,

there's not many people
that make it.

When you're finally
in a position
where you're like,

"Oh, I can do this shit?"

You want to bring
the whole community with you.

Jon:
We are entertainers.

And there is something
to being an entertainer

that coming out
of communities

that are not
majority communities
that are not represented,

that is a little bit of,
"Please let me stay."

That's something
they have to unlearn,

just like we have to
unlearn the fact of,

"Please let me stay."

It should not be
"Please let me stay."

It should be
that you need me.

When an entertainer
begins to move to that,

look at how angry
it makes them.

"Shut up and dribble."

"Formation? No, you go back
to entertaining us."

-You are entertainers!
-Jon: With no sense of...

how your community really feels

about its place
in our country.

-Yeah.
-They don't want to hear that.

Vince:
What they have to understand is
it's not their country,

and you know that
from the numbers.

So, if it's really
"shut up and dribble,"

then the shoes don't sell,
then the jerseys don't sell.

-Vince: And the games
don't keep running.
-Right, but isn't that Trump?

Isn't Trump saying to them,
"No, no, no, no, no.
It's our country."

-Maverick:
Well, I think--
-It's gotta be!

Well, what it is it's like,
it's that last swing
before you get knocked out.

-And...
-(laughter)

If it connects,
then you might be okay,
but most of the time it don't,

and you're on the ground
with the noodle arms.

So, the noodle arms are coming.

♪♪

Maverick:
To be great you have
to give up a lot of shit.

You have to sacrifice shit.
Time with family.

-Privacy.
-Privacy.

-That's the biggest one.
-Kids! Time with your kids.

Maverick:
Certain foods, things.

But from the
female perspective,
a female athlete,

are there certain things
that you had to sacrifice

that you look back and go...

"I wish I didn't have to
sacrifice those things?"

I think it really started
when I became a mom.

My image of my mom,
she was there every day.

She dropped me off.
She cooked dinner.

She did all these things.

So my image of what a mother
was supposed to be and act

was a lot different than what
I'm able to give my daughter.

Like, I'm not able to
be there every second,

and fix every meal
and help her with
every homework.

And for me,
it was hard for me,

because I struggled,
you know,

to balance the work and mom

because you have
these expectations that you're
supposed to be at, you know,

at home for your kid
and take care and drop 'em off.

But then I'm trying to work

and make a better life
for her as well.

You know, you talk
about sacrifices,

when I got pregnant
with my daughter,

people shouldn't be
looking at me crazy.

You gave up a year
of your career.

I gave a year up of my career.

LeBron:
For us, as athletes,

it is the longest shortest thing
that we can do in our life

to get the maximum out of it.

If you lose the joy
of the craft that you're in,

then you're gonna cheat the game
and you're gonna cheat yourself.

And then ultimately
you're gonna cheat
your loved ones.

And that's why I'm still
doing what I'm doing

because I want to
continue to inspire,

not only the people
in my household,

but everybody
that I can while I can.

Like this motherfucker
is the greatest

I've ever seen do
what he's doing.

To be able to age and
continue to reinvent himself

year after year,
decade after decade,

and still be relevant
and still be able to have
people follow him,

that shit is hard as hell.

Is it shit that
come along in the game
that reinvigorates you?

I never was cool
with being second.

I don't know what
second place felt like.

And you can call it cocky
or whatever the fuck you want,

but I just don't like
being in second place.

And sometimes I feel like
I have to reinvent myself

because I done
fell back to second place.

And it's not because
it is what it is.
It is what it ain't.

It's like you're not that
young rapper no more.

You're not that
young fly MC.

But I still can pull a move
on you motherfuckers real quick.

-Sh-bop, bop, bop.
-(snaps)

(laughing)

But what I appreciate
about Snoop is

he doesn't follow the wind.

-Maverick: No.
-And that's when you
know you have an artist

and not just a performer.

Is, if you follow the wind,
you see guys that
do that all the time.

Like, "What's in now, disco?"

Alright, I'm gonna
put on a shiny suit

and I'm gonna go out there
and do that.

-He is-- Always.
-Maverick: He's himself!

It's not easy
to age gracefully.

-I left.
-You left!

Because at a certain point,

you cannot perform

to the same level
that you perform.

-I evolved it in the best--
-How did you know though?

I began to make decisions
based on laziness.

They'd pitch me an idea,
and they'd say, you know,
"We'll go down at noon,

"you put on your suit,

we'll go out and
we'll do a bit." And I'll go...

"What if we did
that at rehearsal

"and I didn't wear a suit,

I just wore the shit
I'm wearing right now."

(laughter)

Jon:
And at that point I was like,
"Oh! I'm lazy about this."

When I got the show that I got
I was 35 years old.

Like I'd been through it.

I'd done shows
that had gotten cancelled.

I'd written for other people.

I'd done, you know,
lived out of my car
doing standup shows.

Like I had been through it.

And I gave everything that
I could to this last chance.

And it worked.

But after evolving it
after 16 or 17 years,

I realized,

it was time for someone else
to have that chance.

Most people don't do that, Jon.

I was satisfied.

So you want
LeBron to retire?

No, but he also said,
he started to cheat the game.

-That's exactly right.
-When I don't want
to go to practice,

-I don't want to wake up
and work out...
-Jon: That's right.

-I'm not giving what
I can to this game...
-Jon: That's right.

Then it's somebody else
that needs to be
in this position.

-And that's why said
he gave it up.
-LeBron, let me ask you this.

After 15 years,
eight straight Finals,

you still feel you want
to get up and work?

It's not burning
like that 10 years ago.

Here, but right here it is.

I know exactly what
the fuck I need to do.

I know how to do it.

And I know how I'ma
get the best out of myself.

I don't need you to push me.

Right.

Once it get
to a point where

you still need people
to push you at a certain age,

then you don't need
to be doing it no more.

And what helps
is my fucking kids playing.

-Snoop: Mmm!
-Maverick: That's interesting.

Watching my boys play ball,

like last year
was the first, like,

I really had some time
to go watch them play
in the summer.

Like really sat down,

went to, like, four
or five tournaments.

And I'm sitting there,

and I'm watching the game,

and I feel my
motherfucking hands
just start sweating.

I feel, like,
my chest start sweating.

And I'm like, man,
"These is 13, or ten year olds
out here hooping.

-(laughter)
-LeBron: Why are you
feeling like this?"

Then it went from,
like, just sitting there.

And then it went
from, like, to this.

Like, "Let's go!"

And then it went from
me sitting on the bench

-to me getting in an argument.
I got in an argument--
-(laughter)

Maverick:
You turned into
the crazy AAU dad?

Yo, you turned into
the crazy AAU dad.

First of all,
I didn't get into an argument
with a AAU dad.

I got in an argument
with a AAU mom.

-Snoop: What?!
-What?

-A mother?!
-With a mother.

Jerrod:
(indistinct)
you did do something.

I did. I did.

I did, and you want to know
who the first person
I apologized to?

It was my mom that
was sitting right here.

And the reason
I apologized to my mom,

because I used to get
on my mom so much.

-Odell: For doing the same shit.
-LeBron: When I was a kid,

and she used to go crazy
at my AAU games,

I used to be like,
"Mom, chill out, Mom.
I don't want this."

And I went crazy
about my kids.

-And I was like,
I was like, "Mom, I'm sorry."
-You felt her pain.

Snoop:
You did the same thing.
The cycle.

"I'm sorry."
But that shit, like,

it, like, gave me, like,
it gave me some
motherfuckin'--

I was like,
"I'm ready to hoop again."

Jon:
What do you say
to your kid though?

Like, living up to you
being their dad.

So you're--
you're their dad
and they're coming up

and they're playing
the same sport
that you played

better than anyone
else in the world
has ever played it.

How do you...

how do you give
them a peace of mind

that they don't
have to be you?

How can their excellence
be their own?

I still regret giving
my 14 year old my name
because of that.

Right.

LeBron:
Like when I was younger,
didn't have a dad.

So, my whole thing was like,

"Whenever I have a kid,

"not only is he
gonna be a junior,

I'm gonna do everything
that this man didn't do."

I don't even know
what the situation was
that was going on with him

but I knew I would
be there for my son.

Like, I'm gonna lay it down,
I'm gonna be the best father
I can be.

With the time
that I can give,

but I'm gonna give
even more time
than I can give.

And now I sit back
and I'm like...

"Fuck, I've actually
kind of set him up."

And I should have known

that him just being
around the game,

he was gonna
want to play the game.

They're gonna experience things
that I didn't experience.

Only thing I could do
is give 'em the blueprint

and it's up to them
to take their own course.

I hear my daughter
sometimes say, "I can't."

Yes, you can.
You absolutely can.

I don't want to hear
that "you can't" stuff.

Try it, fail,

and then try
that shit again.

And continue to
do it over and over.

Don't ever say
you can't do something.

-Yes!
-LeBron: Because then
you shelter your mind,

to where something
could happen at three years old,

if you say
you can't do something,

then they carry it
all the way to 25 years old.

To hear you say that
to your daughter,

there's so many people
that say that to their sons,

and they don't say that
to their daughters.

-They do it for them.
-That's interesting.

And I was brought up
in a household

where I had the same curfew
as my brothers.

I was told I can do
the same thing.

I didn't have rules
that were different.

And I think that that's--

That means a lot to me

because I'm bringing up
my daughter that way.

Can LeBron ever
come out and say,

"I'm the best
basketball player
playin'?"

I think you should say that.

I think you should believe that.

And you should definitely
let the world know that.

I think Bron
over the last four years

became LeBron James.

And it wasn't nothing
to do with winning

it wasn't nothing
to do with stats.
He found himself.

People didn't start
to view him

as they view him now,

until he became that force,

that man to say "I'm here."

I feel like for years,
he shied away
from saying I'm here.

And when he started to say,

"Fuck y'all, I'm here."

That's when
he became who he is,

and no one would have
ever said that
until he did it himself.

Motherfuckers fucked with Mike

because Mike was like,
"I'm Mike with my hooping ring.

Fuck all y'all, I'm here."

And until he did that,

that's when he became
the figurehead that he is.

So many people
shy away from that

and that's why they never
reach their full potential.

When you're growing up
in sports or hip-hop,

whatever the case may be,

all you hear is, like,

"I want to be the best."

Whoever's the best,
they do it their way,

whatever the case may be.

And then, when
you do it your way,

and you win...

it still ain't enough.

It still ain't enough.

And that's for-- for us
as African Americans,

because I believe
if the greatest quarterback
in the world,

he's a white quarterback,

if it's Brady,
if it's Rodgers,
if it's Manning,

and we're doing
the same shit,
the same exact shit,

I'm talking about the phone
is on. We're like, yo,

"Get that fucking phone
out of my face.

I'm with my family."

If we're out
with our family,

and we say that shit,
and somebody posts it,

and if Aaron Rodgers
or one of those guys

say that shit,
and they post it,

somebody's gonna be like,

"Hey, you guys should--
you guys should respect
Aaron Rodgers."

They're gonna say to us,
"Oh, you guys are
fucking dickheads."

I had it happen the other day.
I didn't want to take a picture.

I'm like,
"I'm really in a rush,
I gotta go."

I get on Twitter, it's like,

"Oh, yeah, I'm a Giants
season ticket holder
for 30 years."

I'm like, "First of all,
you're 20-something."

(laughter)

And then it's like,
"Oh, he's an asshole,

he didn't want to
take a picture." It's like...

To me, I be feeling like,
I tell people this all the time

I really feel
like a zoo animal.

Like that's where
life's gone for me.

You know, you used
to take your kids to the zoo

and we used
to be like, you know,

"I wannna--
I wanna see the lions

or let's go see the lions."

And you go out there,

and the lions are laid out.
You know what I mean?

It's like, why
aren't they doing lion stuff,
you know what I mean?

Like I've got people
who call, "Odell! Dance!"

(stammering)
Like-- like I'm a show punk,

a show monkey
or something.

Like I'm a puppet,
you know what I mean?

And it's like to me,
that doesn't feel good,

but it's like, damn,
that's what life became, but...

can you ever really
detach from that?

♪♪

Jerrod:
I think the frustration
comes from me having to

watch people pretend
"Hamilton" was good.

Oh!

People from the
upper west side

telling me
what good rap is.

"Hamilton" was, at best,

the best community
center performance

that I've ever seen.

It was a piece of shit.

It was terrible.
We had to pretend,

and that was part
of the wave of life.

But that rapping,
fuck you.
It was terrible.

It'd be like Jews going,
"'Fiddler On The Roof'
was bullshit!"

-(laughter)
-This is not--
it can't be happening.

The way black people,

the way we view hip-hop,

the bars aren't there,
the beats aren't there.

But all the white people
fucked with it

and it was this big thing.

"Hamilton," first of all,
you shouldn't look at it

and compare it to, you know,

-to Kendrick Lamar.
-Maverick: To Snoop Dogg, Jon.

Jon:
Or to Snoop Dogg,
cause it's not within that.

You should
compare it to "Cats."

-So the reason why--
-We don't even
know what "Cats" is.

-Exactly.
-Snoop: It's a play.

It's a play,
a Broadway play.

-People dress in
leotards on Broadway.
-Snoop: People dressed as cats.

Shit in the '80s.
Y'all niggas was little kids
when it came out.

Jon:
You're talking
about Broadway.

To me, it just sounded like
when they sent people,

uh, to rap
multiplication to me

when I was an
inner city youth.

Cause they're like,
"That's the way we're
gonna get through to him."

(laughter)

I normally wouldn't support
bullshit that I don't like,

but at this moment

for the-- for the team,

I'll take one for the team.

We move everything.

We move the way
people dress.

We move the way
people think.

We move the way
people dance.

Music people listen to.

We move the way
people play sports.

Snoop:
And the way they talk.

When I first went to, uh,
London for the first time,

me and Dre hit the stage.

There was like 75,000
motherfuckers in the audience

and they just
was rocking, right?

I kept going back overseas,

and every country
I went to,

my shit was getting
bigger and bigger.

And then the cool part was,

the way you say
I raised y'all,

I raised a lot
of people overseas

and taught them how
to speak fuckin' English
through my music.

Because we globally
effect the whole world,

black people are more
respected outside of America

than they are in America.

-Maverick: That's a good point.
-That's-- that's interesting.

Oh, that's a fact!

That's a fact!

It's more so of black people
not knowing who they are.

The reason we struggle
as black people is because

we don't know who we are.

-Say that.
-And so,

I mean, if you want
to be quite frank about it,

white people
know who we are.

That's why they keep
fucking kicking us.

Why don't we get down
with each other

when we're in
the same lane?

-100%.
-It would make
more sense.

It makes much more sense,

and you actually can become

in control of our thing.

Because we're
really creating it.

The reason
other cultures are so strong,

like a Jew is gonna
look out for a Jew.

A Chinese man
is gonna look out

-for a Chinese man.
-Jon: Eh...

Draymond:
You can "Ah, ah"
all you want.

Jews look out
for Jews, period.

(voices overlapping)

But you know why, though,
is cause they realize that
they been through something

they never want it
to happen again.

-Right.
-Humankind is tribal in nature.

100%. Take care of each other.

We are born to join
and be with groups
where we find identity.

It's why team fanship
is so strong.

You know, if we
didn't have religion,

we'd find other ways
to go to war with each other.

Cause we are
tribal in nature

and we fight
over resources.

And when you start to believe
that your resources are finite,

you begin to treat others

as foes and rivals
and enemies.

-Right.
-Jon: What would
unite us as people?

If fuckin' aliens came.

And then we'd all be like,
"Humans are in trouble."

Humans are--
That's a good point!

That was a good point.

Did you fear when--
when you began

to talk about your experience,

did you fear the loss
of that shine?

That's like going to, uh,
an amusement park

and you've never rode
that rollercoaster.

There's a fear of that,

but there's a joy
of saying that I did that.

I want the satisfaction.

Not for myself,
but for everybody else.

I was raised off,
you know, Snoop and Pac

and Jay and Biggie.

And now I get
an opportunity to...

to be the inspiration

around where
all these kids
are looking up to.

And for me to just sit back
and not say shit,

when a lot of my peers
didn't say shit.

It didn't feel right.

Athletes don't have
a responsibility to
speak up for nothin'.

You have a responsibility
to speak up for what
you believe in.

Just because you're an athlete,

and you have
a certain platform,

that does not mean
you have the responsibility
to speak up for anything.

But I feel like
at some point in time,

it's like you have to be able
to stand up on your morals

simply because you are
representing people
who look like you

and they're looking
up to you for a--

But what if that ain't
your moral though?

What if I don't believe
the same thing you believe
as a black man?

But we both believe
that black kids
shouldn't be shot.

I mean, yeah, like,
obviously shit like that.

I'm just saying
the real social issues
of people of color,

every athlete
is effected by 'em

because we're the same people
that used to be in
those neighborhoods,

dribbling, walking up
and down the street,
that used to wear those clothes.

So, when I was growing up,

I was looking for
Michael Jordan
to say something.

He never did,
but now kids can look up
and be like,

"What LeBron saying?"

Jon:
I liken you to Ali.

Like Ali was, at the time,
the Greatest.

-Right.
-Jon: But when he spoke out,

he went to jail, man.

-Absolutely.
-Even his greatness
couldn't insulate him

from those rules
that they had set up.

And did you think
to yourself like,

"As good as I am,
it's not going to matter?"

Yeah, because it's not--
at the end of the day,

when I decided I was
gonna start speaking up

and not giving a fuck
about the backlash

or if it affects me,

my whole mindset,
"Well, it's not about me."

I think Ali already knew,

he knew that it
wasn't about him.

"I'ma get the backlash.

"I'ma go to jail.

"But what this is gonna do
for the next group,

"what this is gonna do
for the next athlete,

"what this is gonna
do for the next minority
who wants to speak up,

whenever that happens,"

Ali's whole mindset was like,

"At some point
somebody is gonna
take what I did,"

and I sensed that.

I sensed that on, you know,

losing this or losing that
or losing popularity.

My popularity went down.

But at the end of the day,

my truth to
so many different kids

and so many different people

was broader than me personally.

What gave you the--
the confidence
and the courage?

I mean, certain things happen.

Things change in your life.

Me having my own kids,

and then seeing
the Trayvon Martin thing.

It hit home.

And I don't even know,
if I didn't have any
kids at the time

who knows if I would have
even been able to speak up on it

because it probably
wouldn't have hit home for me.

It wouldn't have
made me feel the same way.

At the time, I think
my oldest son was nine

and my youngest son was six.

I can't imagine...

if I sent my kid out,
and he didn't return home.

-Maverick: Like that, exactly.
-Like that.

I couldn't imagine that.

Like that happened.

So that's why
I started thinking,
and I was like, okay,

"If I can get 25,000 people
to show up to a basketball game,

I can reach so many more
platforms when I talk."

Because if you look at
what Maya Angelou said,

she talks about
how words stick to things

and words create situations.

Do you think the N-word
creates a type of environment
for young people?

As leaders,
should we not say it
or should we say it?

-Because it--
-I'm gonna speak on it
from the rap perspective.

That shit was here
before we got here,

it's gonna be here
after we got here.

But the point is that we are
becoming more positive,

we're becoming
more productive.

And that word doesn't affect us
from becoming productive.

And that's our lingo,
that's the way
we communicate.

When I see,
"What's up, my nigga?"

That's just how I get down.

I hate the fact that
it's my brainwashed situation,

but that's all
the fuck I know.

I'll say, I went to Africa
and I loved those niggas.

-They were amazing.
-(laughter)

Very important,
I-- I think is,

don't have any buttons
that people could just press.

Because what I have seen
is people snap

and, like, just, like, drag
white dudes for saying it

and get expelled from school.

And like their lives ruined
because they had a button.

I'm saying it for any word.

Be, you know, cautious

that you're not just
triggered so easily

that you disrupt
your own life and well-being.

I think any communication
between two human beings

should be full of respect.

Like and-- and your intentions
should be checked.

Uh, are there
bigger fish to fry?

Yeah, I'm much
more concerned

with the wording of a contract

than that word being used.

(laughing)

Michael:
I think about what
happened to LeBron

and I think about
the word, the N Word.

I was sayin' the N word,
but it was on his house

and he had to make a choice.

"Do I just wipe it off
and just say it didn't happen?"

How did you--
LeBron, how did you
explain that to your kids?

Um, I mean, shit,

the same way I explained it
to everybody in the world.

You're still black in America.

And there's gonna be shit
that they always try

to reset you to a point
where it was the beginning.

Now, at that point,
do you accept that

and-- and reset the button

and start all the way
from scratch?

Or do you use that
and push forward?

And-- and I told them that you,

now y'all have to
make your own choice

if something like this
happens to y'all.

Do you think
they were old enough yet

-to understand that
and feel it?
-No, they're not old enough.

Because they're growing up
as kids who got money, right?

Yeah, yeah,
but they understood it

because they seen
the passion in my eyes

and the way I was saying it.

So the way I talked to 'em
when they knew
I was talking about it,

"Listen, this is the situation
that's going on in our house.

We wasn't there."

But somebody
spray painted the N-word
on our-- on our gate--

Yeah, but they know
what that word means.

Yeah, and this is
what it means.

And this is--
was the intention.

It wasn't like,

"Hey, what's up, nigga,
we going to hoop?"

No, it was like,

"Nigger, get the fuck
out of here."

No matter how big
you can become in America,

no matter how much influence
you think you've got

or do have,

when you're African American,
it doesn't matter.

You're still black.

You're still black in America.

♪♪

At a certain point,
the haircutting stops,

-and people just
sit around and bullshit.
-People just sit around.

I love that.

-Here's what I'm worried about.
-No filter.

This shit gets out,

and white people start
coming to your barbershops.

(laughter)

♪♪

Maverick:
When LeBron came into
high school as a freshman,

at the beginning
of his freshman year,

he was about
5'11" or six foot.

It gets cold in Ohio,
so he had a winter coat.

But dog, by the time
we get to March,

nigga's 6'4",

but his-- but his mom hadn't
bought him no new winter coat.

So it fits like this.

-(laughter)
-Can he do this?

-Maverick:
He can't! (laughs)
-He can't do that?

That's a fact.

-So I was like,
"But he can hoop." So...
-LeBron: I can hoop.

♪ White vans parked across
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♪ Yeah, never a matter
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♪ Then kiss
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♪ As luck would have it ♪

♪ I've settled into my role
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♪ I guess luck
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♪ All sevens, no sixes,
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