2017 Baccalaureate Speaker: Daveed Diggs
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- Daveed Diggs, performer, rapper and writer and Honorary Degree Candidate delivered the Baccalaureate address to the Class of 2017 on Saturday afternoon, May 27, in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America.
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Saturday, May 27, 2017
First Baptist Church
Providence
You can tell he's kinda nervous but his personality is so charismatic and cute it doesn't matter.
I have watched many videos of him lately, and he talks about being shy. He really is charismatic and cute. And BRILLIANT. 💚
@@YellowRubberDuckie Rt
"Faculty squad, thank you for having me"
Perfect senior quote
I will have that as my senior quote now
And the squad took it good-humouredly too!
2000th like
@@Juliak0410 Smooth
I'll take this lmaoo
The way his normal talking slips into poetry and rap is so seamless and beautiful I could honestly listen to this man for hours
i swear to God its so silky smooth and HAWT MSMWNENNQNS
@@proudlyachildofGOD And I'm a little nervous but I can't show it-
Go listen to clipping, he did a terrific job 👏
this man is just... I love him.
Jonathan Joseph me too
Who doesn't
Ayoo?
I mean at this point who doesn’t
It's official. His language is rap
This man is a miracle.
And a blessing.
A force of the nature, as Lin has described him 💖
So is his hair
"That would be enough"
"I wrote that just to stunt, theres no reason"
The reason he did that is because he knew I would die 😔🥴😍
HE'S 38? HELLO HE COULD BE MY DAD AND I'M OVER HERE CRUSHING
actually he was 33 in 2015 which makes him 38 now and same :)
Glad somebody said it😭😭
Age is but a number 🥺
Does that mean I could be your mom? Jesus Christ, I feel like if I got pregnant _today_ people would be like "poor girl, so young, where are her parents?" 😅
ari halen yep 😭
I love how he references himself as two different people
😂 that confused me for a bit
Daveed diggs post Hamilton and daveed diggs pre Hamilton.
“I asked if it could be in engineering”
I died of laughter after that
Omg hahahha I’m studying engineering
@@tsthinker1318 Me too lol
I was there 👁👄👁 but I was too young to understand what a legend he was
omg knsjsjgswjkjas
Like what?
How does it feel to be blessed by the gods
Oh. My. God
W h a t.
This was one of the DOPEST speeches I’ve ever heard... man, he was so transparent. Much respect.
Dear daveed diggs parents:
I love you and thank you for bringing this wonderful person into the world. I appreciate it. Very much. i love you
Let's thank'em for Malcolm, Daveed not so lil bro, cool guy as well
Amen ❤️❤️❤️❤️
'Singing a song his friend had written for him to sing playing a man who would have beat him savagely for singing it had he been born in similar circumstances roughly 224 years prior' - Daveed Diggs
🤣
Except Jefferson wouldn't have done the beating. He would get a lackey to do it and later claim he had nothing to do with it. That's the way Jefferson got distasteful stuff done. He ordered it done, then kept his own slave holding hands clean.
Wrong emoji there dude
"Dope, do that"
i live by this now.
How is it going?
@@_the_ still telling myself that phrase when i have doubts about doing something that sounds fun but risky/hard hahaha thank u for asking
@@latosing Dope, do that
I'm literally in love with him, it's unreal.
me too!!!
Nasiah Dejae same aah!
Same 😍😍
the fact that he raps in his speech i loved it.
Daveed: **pauses**
if i was there: *LAFAYETTE!!!*
also, can we talk about his smile and laugh? he's such a pure bean.
Protect this man
Please
SAME! I would join your scream whenever he pauses lmao
We will protect him at all costs
2:27
ur larry pfp 🥺🥺
This was powerful in ways that words fail to express. It was raw, real, honest... He’s been through some things in his life and yet here he is.. still feeling like he has no idea wth he’s doing, meanwhile the rest of us are looking up to him. Absolutely incredible. Also this mans flow is hotter than fire holy cow.
8:24 “yeah, lit. section i heard you” LMAO
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Daveed Diggs' Commencement speeches are just too good and LIT!!!
I love this!!!
i love how when he gets emotional his voice cracks uncontrollably i love him so much.
Daveed has an old-age wisdom about him that he wraps up in an unchanging youthfulness.
The way this man talks, maaaaaaan the man is _non-stop_
Also the speech is honestly amazing
Or you could clap and cheer like a normal person ~daveed diggs
nobody:
not a soul:
me: **breathes**
daveed:
*fAcuLtY sQUad*
That laugh. There is 1,010,300 words in the english language, but I couldn’t string enough words to describe how much this man makes me swoon.
Btw i knew about hamilton in 2016, but only had the soundtrack cuz I’m from the Philippines.
Same
Pretty nice amount of likes rn
Kaden Brunner 😂 i was loading . Was like what u mean hhahahaha
collection of laughs (even little ones)
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enjoy happy Daveed
Thank you for your service.
Myrin you are a freaking goddess
T H A N K Y O U
May you be blessed with a million miracles. (Thank you!!!!!!!!)😂
Thanks
Thank you 😂
"Another part dies in politeness. At least not the part that can write this."
He's such a precious cinnamon roll!! I wanna give him a hug and buy him ice cream ♥
I'd just like to hug him. Big crush.
Diana Holdsworth same lol.
@Leave me Alone ???
@Leave me Alone its a hamilton thing 😀
This speech made me laugh, gave me chills and almost made me cry - at the same time. This man is amazing, his words are so powerful.
Ik more people are focused on his rapping and comedy but the amount this dude has gone thru and is still so humbled and able to be charismatic, I respect him so so much
Sorry I had to watch this twice the first time I watched it, I was swooning too much to actually listen to him...
What a powerful speech.
i love him too much oh my god he’s a bean his laugh, his smile, his eyes, also like wait up his nOSE is gorgeous, his poetry, his voice, i love him. some of my favourite quotes “faCULTY SQUAD” “daveed diggs parents are gangsters” “daveed diggs is a liar” “daveed diggs mom is also a liar” “i was on *BOAT*” “clothes from zara,,,,,“ the whole speech basically i love him.
I would have been that kid who every time he paused during his speech would have yelled "LAFAYETTE!!!"
the_viper_ queen or “JEFFERSON”
same
Same man same
Omg yasssssss
And it’s likely that he would’ve been very annoyed
Were any of the graduates Hamilton fans😍👌
Clipping>Hamilton
Chris Williams clipping. is straight up amazing i love it so much😌✌️
we don't deserve him 😭
I could listen to this man talk non stop 24/7
I was into it from the very first sentence he spoke. The man known as Daveed Diggs is awesome.
can i just say that his laugh is contagious
I'm crying, I've gotta do so much more than what I've been doing.
12:45 is where i started crying.
I'm only one minute in, but as a spoken word poet, TWO THUMBS UP.
Truly one of my life crushes! I could listen to him for hours!
8:12-8:40 killed me omg why is he so precious
I love how at 3:52 he goes
*serious* HA HA. *back to serious* in like two seconds
Edit: I just rewatched it and I caught the part where he said "started a group called Clipping. that nobody liked" BOY UR KIDDING RIGHT! CLIPPING IS FUCKING DOPE! i'm no where near a hip-hop/rap fan, but there's something about Clipping that i dig so much.
Wow, they really got their Daveed Diggs guesting for what it's worth.
This man spoke more words than most commencement speakers within the same time frame. Or roughly the same number of words as with a speaker that spoke for an hour or more.
After finishing the video:
Wow, he gave a real and powerful speech. I appreciated his honesty and the fact that this wasn't a pretentious talk.
I don’t love anyone more on this earth then Daveed Diggs.
this man is a treasure and you can fight me on that
I loved everything about this.
Daveed Diggs, you give me hope.
I have adored Daveed Diggs for sometime but it only today occurred to me that he could one day be named America's Poet Laureate. When he raps a story like the one where he was handcuffed for absolutely no reason, he evokes in the listener multiple powerful emotions. The listener feels what he (Daveed) felt: astonishment, fear, anger, and shame. Like so many other white Americans pre-Hamilton, I did not think that I could ever see any value in rap music. Now I find myself listening intently to Daveed, and I am moved.
I love this man beyond belief it's hard to think he's even real, I didnt know angels were on earth. Who knew.
the fact that hes been walking around already in 2004 while i was just born makes me feel skjdfbdjk idk the word
A bullet train of brilliance. The honesty. This corner of the Hamilton people rabbit hole on TH-cam does not disappoint.
I say this over and over but I'm so proud of him Jesus he's great
He is so real. So honest. Hope I get a chance to meet him to thank him.
I want to hug him.
He seemed really nervous but good job loml!!!!!❤️❤️😂😂😂
People don’t get asked to do this things, lists of accomplishments do.
This is a really remarkable speech.
Mrs. Diggs thank you so much for creating this amazing human.
Caitlyn Cardenas give the assist to Mr. Diggs!
Sounded like most of the speech was literally rapped to us. Dude is insane. He's in my top 5 for sure after only knowing about him after Hamilton on Disney+ 😣😣 And he's in my top 5 for clipping. alone, which I've been violently addicted to for the last couple months. Also love that he's so modest. He's so in-tune with his rap ability and story telling that he sees it as trivial, while we sit there with are jaws stuck open with how he STILL CONTINUES RAPPING AND GIVING A+ STORY TELLING. People talk about underrated and undervalued musical artists, but this dude is FOR SURE one of the biggest ones in my opinion.
Also his movie Blindspotting was so incredible. Everyone needs to know about the brilliant things this man does and works on. Bless Daveed to the highest ability.
DITTO!
My, god! That man is soooo talented. Glad I took the time to watch this. I’m sure I’ll watch it again. Those kids were truly given a treat to have Daveed Diggs give their commencement speech. So honest, so raw, sooo full of truths. I hope they paid attention.
OK so I know that I haven't had to climb nearly as far as Daveed had but "cramming too much into a life that feels too short because it didn't start until he had already lived 33 years" and "old enough to know all that experience don't show he know a goddamn thing" hit me right in the gut. I feel that way all the time.
You’ve never been satisfied. And neither have I. Thank you for not telling lies to compromise the truth in your eyes.
No matter what is accomplished, the question is always there: was it enough? Am I enough?
Was it just luck? Because I really did f*** up.
But you just put me on the up and up again, reaching me with your unimpeachable power of speech.
Jokes aside: thank you for showing your other side. I can’t say why, but you made me cry.
Is it possible that a written transcript (formatted in non-CC sequence) could be published? Or if a transcript has been written, I'd love to see the link in the description!
@Definitely Alec oh my god
@Definitely Alec ikr
I made a transcript, if you want it
@@Charlie-tc8sr I would love it please!
Knees on the Ground was released 3 years after this.
I just listened to that song and was like "wait that sounds familiar" so I came back to this video and yep here it is
I LOVE HIM SO MUCH
I'm trying not to cry at the adaptation of cane. I know he said it was bad but I thought it was really beautiful.
dont you just love it when daveed diggs
Every now and again I gotta come back to this video
B High's finest. Daveed always had talent. Happy to see him shining.
He’s such a good person I love him so much he’s so sweet and kind and can do a French accent that will make you *melt* 😍😍😍😍
That poem after the Sonia Sanchez-everyone needs to hear it
We don’t deserve Daveed Diggs
It's always that one video in the suggestions that I've skipped over a few times...that ends up moving me the most.
We need to protect him at all costs
it's also funny how he talks in a flow sometimes as if he's rapping when he's really just speaking. 😂
This was brilliant. I was meant to graduate this year. Thanks to pandemic, that was not possible. I'm in a period of uncertainty - I am sure many people can relate. I watched moments of different online "Class of 2020" graduation videos, but this truly gave me a bit of clarity and a bit of hope and a bit of determination to grow and face challenges. I'll remember this moment of rebirth. May it be one of many.
I know it feels surreal and a bit unfair, but CONGRATULATIONS on all your hard work and sacrifice, the labor before your birth!!
@@nighteowl Thank you very much! You're reply made my day! I hope you have a lovely weekend.
I'm so sorry that Covid messed up your graduation!! 😔🥺
His little nervous laugh is so precious OMGGG
The way he transitions from normal speaking into poetry is incredible. This man is an amazing poet
I love this so much. I watch it when I get anxious about the future. This inspires. This hits home.
I’ve watched this 1000 times and have cried every single time. the amount of love I have for this man is overwhelming
Wow! Just wow. I love this man.
Anyone here that used to watch this video when it came out that was in college and didn’t know what to do with their life? I hope you’re well. Hope you enjoying life. I hope your dreams come true and you’re happy inside and out. Proud of all of you.
He is brilliant. Wow. Just wow.
“I’ll speak for him” GENIUS
His voice is ✨soothing✨
He's a national treasure 🏆
what a guy.
I can't stop smiling looking at this man
13:57 If this had happened after Hamilton and I'd recognised Daveed. I swear I would have started crying and called the cops on that cop.
Kawalabearcheese Shrubb w
Sandamala Abeykoon still wouldn't do any good.
No. You help regardless of it you recognize the person or not.
This did happen after Hamilton.
Keep this energy towards everyone facing police brutality and injustice. No matter the fame behind the person, innocent until proven guilty is what we all deserve.
2:18 so im convinced daveed was the first to use the phrase ‘sus’
I just love him.
OMG HIS LAUGH IS AMAZING IT MAKES MY HEART MELT AHHH
I found this video from a video all about all of Daveed Diggs in Hamilton which had a few clips at the end of him outside of the show; On Jimmy Fallon, with his kid on his shoulder, one of the raps in this, dressed as a llama. Those 'everyday moments' while planted in front of an audience, gave a glimpse into just how genuine and amazing Daveed Diggs is. A comment mentioned how he rapped this whole speech and I knew I needed to see it.
While this video was not constant rapping I feel even more amazed and enamoured by his personality and conviction to encourage the progress of a brighter more accepting future. Perhaps everyone need to see this, everyone needs to hear his words both lyrical and not to understand how to look forward to that future, how to appreciate others with empathy and how to bring joy and a smile to our own lives.
Much like his confessions I am not a perfect human, but 'perfect human' doesn't exist. All we can be and what this speech inspires is to be human. I will do my best to be just that, as human as I can.
thank you hamilton for bringing this perfect man into my life
Fr tho
This man is so underrated......
he's so amazing oh my god
Daveed is the best...