Name: Pharrell Williams on Race and Misconceptions About COVID-19
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T03:27:18.000Z
Duration: 9 min 9 s
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Gerund

A lot of stuff has changed since I last saw you.

-How are you doing? How are you holding up?

-But it's hard to be complacent with that, you know?

Just because you're okay, you know what I mean?

Or the people that you know and love are okay.

It's, like, man, it's tough because people are

Companies are having a tough time, if not folding.

And also, you know, there's a lot of loss of life, you know?

And a lot of misinformation out there, too.

-What's the message behind that, and how did you get

-Well, Something in the Water started because

So when they told us that there was a problem,

These are kids that are not on the street.

causing problems as much as they're just like,

trying to celebrate getting ready to take their next exams.

And then we found out it wasn't necessarily them.

It was just, like, people that were showing up

I just thought, man, why don't we just have ourselves

that does more than just bring people together

and do some of the things just to show that, like,

man, while these people contribute to your bottom line

every quarter, like, you care about them, too.

You know, it's crazy, we raised like $14 million directly,

we could be a beehive, you know, in the 757.

-So then when this thing started happening,

we decided, well, while we're not going to entertain,

we're going to get out there in the thick of it all

and, like, continue to look after the 757,

continue to try to be a catalyst for change.

And so we hooked up with the World Central Kitchen, and --

I mean, José Andrés -- that World Central Kitchen,

-I mean, this past month, they fed 1.3 million people.

We want to continue to do the same thing.

So we're going to do it in a huge way in the 757,

And it's also awesome because we get to, like,

have our local restaurants with amazing, you know,

food in the 757, they get to stay afloat.

You know, their restaurants are able to stay open,

and they're able to cook for these people as well.

-You were saying earlier about there's some

-Well, I just think that, like, there's this narrative

that, you know, people who look like me --

that we don't know how to take care of ourselves.

You know, we're twice as likely to get asthma

and all these other crazy things that's been going around.

It's just that the health care is disproportionate,

and you're seeing the effects of that right now,

which, in the way that this thing is spreading

and who's getting the help and how are they getting the help.

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Pharrell Williams on Race and Misconceptions About COVID-19

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