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Channing Crowder asked how Young went from football to acting. He took a theater class after a hamstring injury and kept at it; fear of the unfamiliar was what pushed him to commit.
…And it's really a privilege to just be here, first and foremost. But yeah, man, it's all God, brother. I'm just grateful and I'm present every day. And I just want to continue to do my part at giving back and using my passion and my purpose and putting them together, brother. So I'm just grateful.
…always there, the arts? Because you say about you and your brother and y'all art stuff. But you can't put all into the art of acting while you put them all into the game of football. We can't do it. So where was the levels growing up to get where you are? In acting because football didn't work out,
yeah, man. So, I started playing ball. I was six. That's just what it was. Y'all know how it is. And play with my brothers growing up. My pops coached. So it was a thing where that was my life. And I'm from St. Louis. So thinking about leaving St. Louis, it was like, oh, you're going to go to college? Like, that's going to get you out of the city. It wasn't no acting classes. It wasn't like how LA, I grew up friends. They were like, yeah, I knew so-and-so. After school, we used to go audition together. I'm like, we ain't had that. You know what I mean? That's something of the luxury of living in LA. But for us, it was just ball was sports. You know, we played a lot of sports. Growing up, me and my brother, my brother, really, he started music. He started rapping at an early age. I'm talking about seven, eight. He was like, I'm talking about real life lyricists at a young age. And so we was just like, yo, let's, let's, hey, yo, let's get a group together. So we just started rapping and doing stuff creatively, shooting music videos. We were doing the whole nine, and it was just always had…
We remember the days when the Rams were trash. The St. Louis Rams.
Yeah, yeah. When they
weren't that good. Then when they became the greatest show on turf, they were great. I think their last Super Bowl was in 99, the year before you were born. And then