NFL quarterback Lamar Jackson joins GQ to reveal his 10 Essentials. The Baltimore Ravens’ QB breaks down his daily essentials: from his jewelry (“it’s something I grew up into”) to his children’s book (“it’s letting people know that you can be anything in the world”). Watch the full episode of GQ Sports’ 10 Essentials, as American Football star Lamar Jackson reveals 10 things he can’t live without.
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00:00Oh, man, I don't know.
00:02That's the only thing about you.
00:03Sure, I'm taking it off.
00:05What's up, GQ?
00:06It's Lamar Jackson.
00:07Here's 10 things I can't live without.
00:09My first essential is my Bible.
00:22Can't live without the Bible, can't live without God.
00:24You know, he's the one who wake me up each and every day.
00:26You know, he's the one who has me performing
00:28in my profession or just doing my profession,
00:31something I want to do all my life.
00:32You know, we pray before games
00:34and we pray together after the games.
00:35You know, win, lose, draw, whatever.
00:37You know, we still pray.
00:38Gotta give God the glory no matter what.
00:40I grew up in a church.
00:41I don't be in church a lot
00:42because obviously I play football on Sundays.
00:44But when I can, I'm definitely in church.
00:45Redeeming Rural Christian Center
00:47in Fort Lauderdale Beach.
00:48So my favorite Bible verse is Mark 6 and 4.
00:50Basically explaining a prophet is recognized
00:53outside his own home better, basically.
00:55You know, it's like, I feel like sometimes
00:58that happens in my life.
00:59You know, I go through stuff like that.
01:01So it's my favorite verse.
01:07My cologne.
01:08What made me want to make my own cologne
01:10is me just wanting to smell good.
01:12Okay, people may not know this about me,
01:14but I'd rather prefer like girl perfume or something,
01:18like something real soft.
01:19So that's what made me want to create something unisex,
01:21you know, instead of just all about us men.
01:24You know, I was like, man,
01:25I like to smell like a female sometimes.
01:26So get something that can, you know, be in between.
01:30Can you describe the scent?
01:31Describe?
01:35Wonderful, soft.
01:37For the women, sexy probably.
01:39For the guys, how we be?
01:41You know, like a man.
01:43So you can get this right here on aeratepair.com.
01:46Nightlight.
01:52My business partner and I came up with something
01:54to help you guys out, you know.
01:56Help you guys out on travel expenses, you know,
01:58just we got to go to the gyms and this and that.
02:01You can just do it at home.
02:03Got everything you need right here.
02:04Got the barbell, dumbbell, a mat.
02:07You can even play your music here, you know,
02:09connect your phone, your iPad.
02:10The speaker's already included.
02:12You know, a little family getaway vacation
02:14or anything like that.
02:15You can do your own thing at home in your room.
02:17You can do any workout you want to do.
02:19Over 250 workouts you can do with their tights.
02:23Cookies.
02:24Can't go without my cookies.
02:26This is part of my cheat day.
02:27Like if I'm going to have a cheat day with a meal
02:29or a snack or something,
02:31I'm going to go to cookies and milk.
02:33I feel like Santa Claus, right?
02:35You know, I don't get my milk and cookies.
02:37Right now I have peanut butter and sugar cookies.
02:40I also like macadamia cookies as well.
02:43Those are my top three.
02:49You know, I'm a big fan of macadamia.
02:52You know, I'm not going to try the peanut butter one.
03:00These are some good cookies, right?
03:02For my next essential, my hoodie.
03:05Era 8.
03:09How would I describe my style?
03:11I'm chill.
03:12Like, if I don't have to dress up in a tie, I wouldn't.
03:15Like, I like to be comfortable.
03:17Growing up, I always seen you like polo raffling.
03:21I'm like, when I get to the league,
03:22I might want to start my own brand.
03:23Like sportswear or just, you know, business casual.
03:27Like stuff you can just vibe in.
03:28Comfortable clothing, you know?
03:29And that's pretty much how I started the Era 8 apparel.
03:32We have womenwear, obviously pants, hoodies.
03:35We got slides.
03:35We have it all.
03:36You know, the only thing we don't have is sneakers yet.
03:39Coming soon.
03:40And we also have business attire coming soon.
03:43Stay tuned for that.
03:48Slides.
03:49I can't go nowhere without slides.
03:51I could be playing sports in slides.
03:53I've done it.
03:55Man, I have so many different type of brand of slides.
03:59If it's a slide, then I probably have it.
04:02I prioritize my comfort over everything.
04:05I wish I can go to the games wearing slides,
04:07but you know, coach prefers sneakers.
04:10So I gotta wear my sneakers.
04:11But right after the game,
04:13I probably got some slides in the car.
04:14So if I get out at a gas station or something,
04:17I probably got on slides.
04:18This is what my game day fit.
04:21Shirt.
04:22It's always been a thing of mine to have as a kid.
04:25I got pictures and stuff with bracelets on, chains on.
04:29That's something I grew up into.
04:31You want me to show it off?
04:34I just printed this right here.
04:36Trust.
04:37Something we say down there in Florida.
04:39Trust, like, basically a grin.
04:41Like, trust, okay, okay.
04:42Like, you know, just something we got going on.
04:44And I just love it.
04:45And these right here, I just had an iPhone.
04:48I got eyes right here with rose.
04:51It don't mean anything, it's just something I like.
04:54And these right here are the hearts.
04:55Just kind of fell in love with it.
04:57And this right here was a gift.
04:58I definitely love this one.
04:59Shout out to Snacks Customs at Diamond Talk.
05:01They the ones who did this for me.
05:02Snacks did this one actually for me.
05:04I don't know if y'all can see it or not.
05:07That's the only thing about jersey.
05:09Taking it off.
05:11My initials right here.
05:13I prefer yellow gold.
05:14Like I said, that's something I was accustomed to.
05:16Like, just growing up, having bracelets and chains.
05:20Like, it's always been gold.
05:21I was never into white gold.
05:25My next essential is my children's book.
05:28I thought about writing a book
05:30after I got a five out of six on my FCAT rights.
05:33I was in my English class, you know.
05:35In Florida, we got to go to FCAT rights.
05:37I think I was getting like threes
05:38and I think you need a four to pass.
05:40And I'm like, I don't think I'm gonna ever get this right.
05:43Like this is right and it's not for me.
05:45And eventually I ended up getting a five
05:47and I was like ecstatic.
05:49I was just going crazy.
05:50Like I was hype.
05:51I wish I would have like took a picture
05:53or something back then,
05:54even though I was in 11th grade at the time.
05:56And it's crazy.
05:56I play for Ravens now,
05:57but I was writing about Ray Lewis and got a five.
06:00So that inspired me a little.
06:02My book is called, I Dream, You Dream, We Dream.
06:05And it's basically just letting people know
06:07like you can be anything in the world.
06:08You just don't have to be a football player
06:10or a basketball player or a rapper or a singer
06:13or anything like that.
06:14The youth is so important to me
06:15because I was once a child
06:17and it was plenty of times where I'm looking at people,
06:20icons and stuff like that on TV.
06:22And it's like, why don't they come like,
06:24like just come and show their face and stuff like that.
06:26I was impacted by that.
06:27It's like, man, I want to see some celebrities,
06:29you know, come back and, you know,
06:31just show love to the kids,
06:32not really adults and stuff like that,
06:34but just to the kids.
06:34And I was at this fun day
06:36with that Blanche Ealy High School when I was a kid
06:38and they just had us out there
06:40and just playing football and stuff,
06:41meeting other football players,
06:43Randy Moss and those guys come out and show love to us.
06:46And I was like, man, when I get older,
06:48I'm gonna do the same things.
06:49I always like to give back.
06:50Forever Dream is my foundation.
06:52It's a nonprofit.
06:53I know if I can afford or I can help these kids,
06:55you know, with the organization,
06:58I'm gonna do the best of my ability, you know,
06:59for they can have something to do outside of just football.
07:02When football season over,
07:03people just going home and probably getting into trouble.
07:05I got my foundation.
07:06I got 707 going on.
07:08I can come out and still be playing football,
07:09even during the off season
07:11and just keep y'all out of trouble, really.
07:12I got my second one,
07:13got coming out too as well.
07:15The My Ride, Our Ride,
07:16that's gonna be the second one.
07:17I want to do a children's cartoon.
07:19I want to do like a voiceover or something.
07:21Like, I think I reached out to Samuel L. Jackson
07:23because I seen him doing something like that.
07:24So I'm like, man,
07:25help me get in the door to do a voiceover
07:27for like something like animated,
07:29like, you know, with children or something like that.
07:33All my life, I've been drinking water.
07:34When I was a kid,
07:35like my mama go buy juice or something.
07:37Before we finish our dinner,
07:39we're not drinking no juice.
07:40We're just drinking water, water.
07:41If you don't finish that dinner,
07:42you're gonna just keep drinking water.
07:44So like, that's pretty much just how it was just natural
07:46for us, just water.
07:48Like, don't get me wrong,
07:48I drink my juice and stuff,
07:50but water is it, like water the best.
07:52It doesn't matter the brand of water at all.
07:55I'm going to drink me some water.
07:57Like, I prefer natural spring water though.
08:00Still, still, still, it gotta be still.
08:02Natural spring, still water.
08:04Nothing else, no sparkling,
08:06whatever else that people put in water,
08:09I don't need all that, you know,
08:10just natural spring, still water.
08:13Music.
08:14I gotta listen to music.
08:16Like, every day I'm going to listen
08:17to something music related.
08:19That's just me.
08:20It don't matter the genre,
08:22I'm just a music guy.
08:23I gotta be here for music.
08:24Came to, I don't need music to get me pumped.
08:26Like, I'm hype regardless.
08:28I'm a new schooler, but I'm an old schooler.
08:30Cause I listened to a lot of 90s and early 2000s,
08:33depending on who it is.
08:34I got one who's incarcerated right now,
08:3626 Coupe, I listen to him.
08:38Early birds, one of them, Major Purpose.
08:40He's smooth.
08:41I listen to Kodak, listen to Future Drake.
08:44I listen to everybody, like.
08:48Appreciate you GQ for having me.
08:49I want you guys to go out and get your children's book,
08:52get your slides, get your milk and cookies.
08:55First and foremost, read your Bible.
08:56And drink water.