Growing up in the hood does not bequeath you thuggery. So Kiry Shabazz joked in his debut Friday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Shabazz did wind up living “home alone” too often as a kid, often enough to end up growing up with his grandparents. Shabazz won the 2017 NBC Stand-Up For Diversity competition, so it would behoove you to pay attention. Just don’t correct his grammar or bug him at the duck pond.
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