- These are some of my favorite sunglasses.
I don't know why but they
just look good on me.
I don't know what it is.
Really, I might wear them the whole interview
from here on out.
What's up GQ, this is JaVale McGee
and these are my essentials from home.
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Beyond Burger, it's completely
delicious.
The best vegan burger out there in my opinion.
And I'm vegan, of course, so this is a
key component in staying healthy and
getting a nice, hearty meal.
No, I really don't crave,
me, personally,
I'm the type of person that just does it,
I'm a cold turkey person.
I'm not a person who like,
"Oh I'm just going to be vegan
"on Monday and then the next week, two days a week."
When I do it, I just do it.
So, that's really how I roll.
I'll see other people eating a chicken sandwich,
they'll feel guilty eating it around me.
I'm like, "I'm not that person.
"Have fun. Enjoy it. But I'm going to go ahead
"and get some of this vegan chicken instead."
- [Interviewer] How has been your healthy eating
while on quarantine?
- I'm not going to lie, it's very hard.
Just because I'm not working out as much
so I'm not burning as much energy and
I got a lot more time to just sit in the house
and look at the refrigerator.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
with strawberry jam has been
a lifesaver for me. Not crunchy peanut butter, either,
creamy for sure.
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- [JaVale] My next essential is
[groaning]
a complete mini keyboard.
I produce music.
This is a key essential in producing music,
without this, I wouldn't be anywhere.
This is very necessary
when you're making music and just trying to
get the vibe right.
This key board, specifically, it has
everything on it. Tempo, record, play, stop,
you can connect it to
your Logic or your FL or whatever you're using
and it'll sync in with the program.
It'll light up, it'll tell you the keys.
No, this is the one. This is mainly the one.
If I'm on a airplane or anything,
I'll probably, I have a mini one.
But, at the crib, for sure this one.
This is all I really need. You
don't really need more than 49 keys,
you can change octaves and everything so
it's really not that important to have 104 keys.
But this is the key component
that really gets me through my
musical endeavors.
- [Interviewer] So is that the one that you
recorded the beat for the Justin Bieber song on?
- For sure.
With a couple of keys, play a couple of these right here,
and the magic happened.
That's where the magic happened, for sure.
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[JaVale] Bond No. 9 cologne,
this is one of my favorite colognes.
It's sort of essential, when I want to walk around the house
and smell good. Because I have nowhere to go.
And it has bow tie on the bottle,
only on the bottle.
So maybe the bottle has somewhere to go.
But yeah, I really like it,
it smells good.
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[sniffing]
It's more of a--
oh yeah,
real
real strong
scent.
Yeah, there it is.
Real strong scent. It's amazing.
And it's called the scent of peace for him.
You know what I'm saying?
It smells like peace, that's what it smells like.
If peace had a smell, that's what it would be.
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[JaVale] My Sony A73 camera.
I really like to shoot a lot of content.
And when it comes to just
Instagram, YouTube
music, anything, I just really like shooting stuff so
this is extremely important to me.
Because I like to do stuff, I'm a real creative
when it comes to certain things.
I feel like I film everything.
Basketball is the main thing that I get to film.
But I also get to film music,
and I also get to film just
day-to-day, I get to film my daughter.
I didn't have a lot of video
of myself as a child, when I was a kid
so I always tell myself, if I ever get the opportunity to
have a child, which I did, and I want to have so much
video and the photos of her. To where she's like,
"Let me see the archives."
And you can just say, "This is when you were three,
"this is when you were four, this is when you were nine."
So, it'll be dope.
Definitely doing more creative things.
For example, making music,
which I already was doing but I have a lot
more free time to do it, so.
If you do anything everyday,
you will get better at it.
So I'm definitely getting better
in my quarantine times. And also,
playing video games, I just became a streamer.
It's just something new that I'm really into
and I've always played video games,
I've just never let people watch me play video games.
So now, it's a different thing, but I really enjoy it.
It's a screen recording, but it's also a camera facing me
and it's watching me play the game
as it's being recorded.
It's kind of a "Inception" type vibe.
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[JaVale] The next item is
my daughter's backpack.
This is extremely necessary,
just keeps all her snacks in it,
all her--
Whenever--
if we go to the park
because that's really the only place we really can go.
So if we go to the park or anything,
I can put some snacks in here,
put some waters in here, couple of her toys,
her iPad if we go to the park and use the iPad.
Which is really contradicting why going to the park,
but sometimes it's necessary with a child.
Oh, her sunglasses. Don't forget those.
She also has a
a monkey purse but I don't think it's in here.
Oh, it is!
Her monkey purse, yes.
Definitely, the monkey purse is very necessary.
Let's see how much money she has in her monkey purse.
That'd be funny.
Okay, big balling. She got about seven dollars in here.
Hey, don't spend it all in one place, young lady.
There's a lot of stuff in here,
all her stuff though; socks, hairbrush, Mentos.
Not saying she has bad breath or anything, but.
And some more sunglasses, too.
She's a cool kid, can't really stop her.
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Definitely, the work out ball.
Sometimes I replace my computer seat with this,
just because it's really good for your back
and your core, stabilizing your core and everything.
So this is definitely a key essential.
It's good on your abs if you're not trying to work out
and you're just sitting at the desk,
it's definitely good for your core
because you definitely have to balance a little bit.
But it's a lot of stuff you can do on a ball,
abs, arms, legs, it's just a lot of things
that you really can do with this.
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[JaVale] My sunglasses.
These extremely comfortable, I love these sunglasses.
- [Interviewer] How long have you had those?
- Probably four years, now.
And they're holding up pretty good.
I'm not going to lie,
I'm not really good
with keeping up with sunglasses,
but I've kept up with these.
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[JaVale] The next one is
a JUGLIFE
water jug,
half a gallon water jug.
You can put as much water as you want in here,
it goes up to half a gallon, stay hydrated.
JUGLIFE is my foundation, we build water wells in Uganda
and we also teach kids all around the world
the importance of living a healthy and active lifestyle
and drinking water.
So that's what that's about.
Reusable water bottle, biodegradable,
you can get it at Juglifewater.com if you want one.
It's just a great product.
Looks like whole gallon,
I mean, in my hands, it looks like a quarter of a gallon,
but it's about a half a gallon a water.
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[JaVale] So my next essential is
I definitely have to have the three pictures.
My daughter's three years old, I have three pictures,
Christmas photos of her taking a picture with Santa.
The funny part is,
in every one she's hysterically
pissed that Santa Clause is touching her.
So I'll slowly show you each one,
each year after another.
You got year one,
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which is her crying hysterically.
Year two,
where it is completely the same.
And
year three.
I can't wait for this year to get another one.
Hopefully, we'll be able to go outside and do it.
Strangers are not her thing,
so just Santa alone is like, "I don't want to do this."
Verbally, she'll tell you like, "No.
"No Santa. No Santa."
And of course, we got to do it
for the picture and it's just hilarious
because every year, it's the same thing.
She's pissed and then the Santa is
sitting there with his jolly smile,
just trying to act normal
while she's literally throwing a fit.
And she's not a little child, she's like 40 pounds
so Santa really has to-- it's hilarious.
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[JaVale] My next essential is
Vega Protein Powder.
When it comes to working out,
so I'm still working out, I have a little gym in my garage,
and I get it in, sometimes you're just
running out of your food in the refrigerator and everything.
So you just do ahead and make you a shake,
it'll hold you over until
you can get back to the supermarket.
Vanilla is my favorite, not really a chocolate person.
But definitely vanilla.
Completely vegan, also and
I literally just have to put water in it
and it'll be good. But sometimes
I like to spice it up and put almond milk in it,
get real risky with it.
You can get some vegan ice cream, maybe, right?
Take some vegan ice cream, put it in a blender,
take some almond milk, pour that in there,
a scoop and a half of the Vega Protein Powder
and then, go ahead and blend that up.
You got you a nice little vegan milkshake.
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[JaVale] Hand sanitizer
for sure. Gotta keep the hands clean,
especially in this pandemic that we're goin through.
So, it's really important to do that.
It has aloe in it so it's pretty good for your skin.
I've never really been super OD about germs,
I'm always washing my hands, of course, and all that.
But I've never been the hand sanitizer
every time I shake someone's hand type of person.
I'm going to the supermarket.
I probably go to the supermarket
once every two weeks, and when I go,
people come up to me and want to take a picture,
so we have this new six feet of distancing picture.
So there's definitely some pictures out there of me
standing six feet behind someone like this.
So, it's whatever, it's no biggie.
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Thank you guys for joining me, thank you GQ
for having me.
You guys stay safe out there,
especially in the quarantine and this pandemic
that we're going through and stay blessed.
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