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What's up GQ I'm Serge Gnarby.
And these are the 10 things I can't do without.
First essential is this notebook right here,
just to write everything down
that I'm thinking about, goals that I'm setting myself,
things I've discussed with friends, business things
everything just to like clear off my mind,
have it written down and look through it.
And I think it's always best if you have it on paper
and you know, what you was talking about,
at the end of the season
I wanna to look back at what I was saying
what I was writing down, have I achieved it, have I not?
Things like that.
But it's not really a regular thing
that I have to write every day,
but just whenever I feel like it.
My next essential is very unexpected.
A football, soccer ball.
Can't live without soccer.
Been playing since I was four years old.
We've had a holiday right now, but at the end of the time
like after a couple of weeks, you really miss football.
You miss touching the ball, you miss kicking it around.
So step for something I can't live without.
And as I said, it's like really my passion
and I'm very grateful to be doing it as my job also.
Yeah, football's love.
Very, very big essential, durag to keep the braids nice
and fresh, wants to sleep.
I started, I grow my hair I think a year and a half ago
and yeah, it's kind of gotten along right now.
So walking around with the durag also I think is amazing.
And yeah, kind of brings the culture out that we have.
And this is very important.
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How do I tie it?
It's normal.
How do you tie it?
I'm just very, very simple man.
Just so that it holds, it's a quick thing. Get me?
It's not even bad if it's clean here at the front
just to make sure that they're good.
Okay, let's compare them.
Let's compare 'em, the silk one
- When you feel, how heavy is it? [indistinct]
- Okay. Okay.
I'm getting the silk on Amazon tomorrow.
- Silk one. Come on, man.
- Thank you.
My next essential is the disposable camera.
Literally a month ago or a couple months ago
a friend of mine put me onto this.
It was my birthday recently.
So a lot of the pictures made with this one,
they put into an album and I love the idea of it.
So I had to take one with me.
I actually wanted to buy some new ones this morning
but it was, there was none left in the shop.
It was definitely something amazing for memories.
You know, when you go on holidays with friends, trips,
just take a quick picture and you know, it's amazing.
My next essential is this card holder here, Goyard.
I used to have a yellow one actually
but I prefer this color right now.
And yeah, it's a everyday thing.
Wherever we go, you need your cards, you need money.
So it's definitely a thing that I can't live without.
I've got a credit card, I've got some cash and my ID.
- [Interviewer] Why go Goyard?
- Why Goyard? Back in the day with something
not everyone used to have.
Not everyone has it, but at the end of the day I like it.
So gotta have it.
You're my next essential, is this Louis Vuitton travel case.
It's got some jewelry in it.
I have a Goyard one matching my card holder at home.
But for travelers I like to use this,
just switching up the jewelry,
depending on where I am, how I feel.
It's definitely always on the road with me.
I said there's some chains.
I'm really a big fan of Chrome Heart,
so I keep these one in there.
Earrings, not really many
and then there's some more stuff in there
I don't even know.
Big next essential are these Oak Claire sunglasses.
I got inspired by watching the last dance, Michael Jordan
when he was winning the trophy and having his parade.
I saw that and I was like, "Yo, this is sick look."
And I kind of like the vintage style
so I just got them in London when I was at Oakley.
I got a lot of hate, but also a lot of love.
At the end of the day
I think they're looking sick, so I just wear them.
Next essential
or next two essentials is my phone and my laptop.
Obviously always we're on the road, so watching movies,
surfing on the internet in a hotel room,
'cause we have a lot of time to pass.
Currently I'm watching Formula One on Netflix
Drive to Survive, I think it's called.
It's really amazing.
Never really was a big fan of Formula One
but now really got into it.
And the phone I think can speak for everyone.
It's just a must have on you.
You know, it's got everything of you
like your details, whatever, but also your contact.
So speaking to friends
being on the phone, listening to music, all those things.
So I think phones therefore,
something nowadays is hard to live without.
Sometimes I listen to rap music, sometimes reggeaton
sometimes African music.
Really depends on the mood that I'm in.
Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, J Cole
then you got reggeaton, you got Rauw Alejandro,
if I pronounce that right.
My next censor is these Adidas slippers,
you call them Adiletten in Germany.
I didn't wanna get the plane ones.
And I just think it's so funny
that the Japanese flags on it.
I'm a big fan of their culture.
I'm very, very desperate to go to Tokyo and experience it.
Also places like Kyoto and yeah
these ones are literally my favorite.
Take them everywhere with me.
They're so comfortable.
They're worn in right now.
Everywhere that I can be in slides,
it's these slides for sure.
This is not the only pair that I have
but I love them to death.
My next essential is a book.
This is just the one that I'm reading right now.
It's for my favorite writer, Harlan Cobin.
Just representing, because we're always on the road,
in hotels, traveling a lot by bus, by plane.
So I like to read sometimes also my downtime at home
and yeah, just representing that.
I like to read a good book.
Yeah, I really like Thrillers by Harlem Cobin.
I think they're really amazing, quite exciting.
So yeah, I'm not the guy that says I'm gonna read a book
within three days or a week.
That would be lying, but I'd say a month.
Thank you GQ for checking out my ten essentials.
Peace.