Sencere — See Me Because

Description: A young man wearing business attire speaks on a phone outside of a basketball court. A player in a basketball uniform sits behind him.

“Everybody, no matter what skin you - everybody going to need help. Can’t nobody do something on their own. Everybody going to need a helping hand to lean on. It’s impossible for somebody just to do everything on their own. They got to have some type of assist or somebody got to help him out. If it wasn’t for Shaq [Shaquille R. O’Neal,] I don’t think Kobe would have had his rings. That’s how the world basically goes around. You help this person to help this person to help that person out. Having a support system is always good for anybody.

I got to go get it. Because I got to eat. I got to live. I’m going to be a man. I got to be a man. I got to start paying bills in a little while. It’s just - right now, I’m learning right now. I’m just writing notes down and learning everything I need to know for me to be more successful in life. I don’t want to be on the streets - that’s the motivation: of me to not be on the streets. So I just feel like I got to take off, so - is all it is. I made my decision. It was Fisk University in Memphis, TN. So that’s where I’ll be headed to after I graduate to study sports marketing. I like counting money, and I like the game. So, it’s just two combination into one. I’m pretty much behind the scenes. You see the athlete; I’m behind the scene. I’m handling they money. I’m making sure they’re all right before they step on the court. So that’s all.

I got a family. I got sisters and brothers looking up to me. So they see me doing it, it’s going to run in their bloodline to do the same thing, because it’s - that’s how I was raised: off of just helping everybody else and make sure not myself is good, but make sure they’re good too. But if it take off like I want to, I’m going to get into something else. Like, I love fashion. I love to dress people. I think I’m kind of good at it. It go far - it go pretty far for me .I don’t know if I want to change my - I was just thinking about that. I don’t know. But I still - because fashion, to me - I could dress anybody. You show me how you dress, we can just go pick out some things. We’ll put it together. We’ll make some magic. That’s just how I am. I don’t like seeing people uncoordinated, you know? I’ll always put my two cents into something, especially when it comes down to dressing. That’s just how I am. That just another talent that was just blessed down upon me. And I thank The Man Upstairs for doing that. Because I’ll be dripping sauce sometime as they tell me - I drip sauce.”

Milwaukee, 2018