10 Things Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin Can't Live Without

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There are a few things Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin can't live without. From his Chasing Millions' clothing line that he started in college to endless snacks and his custom Beats headphones, here are the NFL player's essentials.  Director: Chris Smith  Director of Photography: Dan Richardson  Editor: Graham Mooney Creative Producer: Arielle Neblett  Line Producer: Jen Santos  Production Manager: James Pipitone  Production Coordinator: Tania Jones  Talent Booker: Paige Keffer, Meredith Judkins  Camera Operator: Joe Saccomanno  Audio Engineer: Morgan Owczarczak Production Assistant: Sean Caputi  Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch; Rachael Knight Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant Supervising Editor: Rob Lombardi Assistant Editor: Lauren Worona

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00:00 What's up GQ?

00:01 I'm Demar Hamlin and these are my essentials.

00:04 Okay, so for this essential right here,

00:16 it's gonna be my snack.

00:17 Them honey buns.

00:20 And me and these honey buns, we go way back.

00:22 These honey buns is definitely number one.

00:25 If you know me, you know.

00:26 Reishi cups, top of the line.

00:28 Been with me since day one, as my mother.

00:32 I call all these right here, my trench chips.

00:35 If you was there, you would know.

00:36 All them corner store runs where mom Dukes

00:39 wants you to go get whatever she want off the menu

00:42 and you come back with no change.

00:44 This is what you spent it on.

00:46 Yes, I love to take care of my body

00:48 and I have a healthy routine of everything I'm doing

00:51 to make sure my body's where I need to be.

00:53 But these snacks have been with me for the longest time.

00:56 (chill music)

00:59 Okay, so this next essential,

01:05 one of the most essential to me,

01:07 is for surely my family.

01:08 In particular, my little brother.

01:10 Actually, let me hit him up right now,

01:12 see if that answer.

01:13 He on his way to football practice,

01:14 so I gotta try to catch up quick.

01:16 - What's up?

01:18 - What's up, bro?

01:19 - What's up?

01:20 - Say what's up.

01:21 - What's up?

01:22 - Let me hit you later after practice.

01:25 Always wanted a little brother in the crib.

01:26 I hated being the only child.

01:28 All the attention, all the pressure,

01:30 all the stress was always on me.

01:32 So I prayed for another sibling.

01:34 He was a big part of my decisions early on in his life

01:36 and he still is.

01:37 And I can't wait till, you know,

01:39 10 years from now when I'm done playing

01:41 and I'm at his games, watching him play,

01:44 just as a fan.

01:45 I can't wait to enjoy that part of my life.

01:46 So I got a lot to look forward to.

01:48 (chill music)

01:54 Self-care is like super big into, you know,

01:57 having my mind in the right place.

01:59 You know what I mean?

02:00 We live a high stress level life at this point, you know,

02:02 as an athlete, as an entrepreneur,

02:04 just having those key moments with yourself, you know,

02:07 just getting manicures, getting pedicures,

02:09 whatever it may be.

02:11 It's just small things to take those stress levels down

02:13 within yourself without you even knowing it.

02:16 But on top of that, you know, like daily routine stuff.

02:18 One thing that I do daily is I take my vitamins.

02:21 On top of that, I got my eye patches.

02:23 So kind of, you can see a little bit,

02:25 I got little bags under my eyes.

02:27 That ain't because I'm not getting sleep.

02:29 It's just kind of something that's like hereditary

02:31 in my family.

02:32 The impression I want to give off is, you know,

02:33 I'm alert and I'm ready all the time.

02:35 I don't want nobody thinking I'm slipping or I'm tired

02:37 and I'm, you know, whatever the morning may bring.

02:40 I start my day off 10 minutes a day

02:42 with these things right here.

02:43 (chill music)

02:46 All right, yeah, I think that's about 10 minutes.

02:54 Them things be gone.

02:55 It might be the smallest one of them all,

03:06 but it could be one of the most important, a hair tie.

03:09 Man, one thing about me is it's rare

03:13 when I have my hair down and in my face like this.

03:16 So all day long, I'm like this.

03:19 (chill music)

03:21 On top of that, you know,

03:26 you can style it some different ways.

03:29 You can pick it up.

03:30 You can go here.

03:31 If you're trying to get in that shower or something,

03:34 you want it all off of you, put it up like this.

03:37 Just want a little different look

03:38 for a little time to time.

03:40 Bring them down.

03:42 You switch it up, you know what I mean?

03:44 A hair tie, it'll take you some places

03:47 that you can't go on your own.

03:48 So.

03:49 (chill music)

03:52 So this right here is my clothing line.

04:01 This is Chasing Millions, LLC.

04:03 This is me.

04:04 I started my clothing line in 2017,

04:07 my sophomore year of college.

04:09 This is a piece that I did over the summertime,

04:11 the Chasing Them Scatter hoodie.

04:12 And it just got a bunch of different quotes

04:14 and different logos of mine.

04:16 Some that we scrapped a while ago that we never did

04:19 and some that are our main force.

04:21 One of my favorite lines, man, on here is,

04:23 "You passed me up, now I'm a superstar."

04:25 This is my kind of for-profit,

04:27 but alongside this, I have a nonprofit

04:31 that I started as well, the Chasing Them Foundation.

04:33 This past year, we started our CPR tour

04:35 where we went to Buffalo twice,

04:38 Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, you know, all in one year.

04:41 Short year, very little time to, you know,

04:43 really truly make a difference,

04:44 but we're already planning for 2024

04:47 and just trying to make it an epic year

04:49 as far as just making the CPR awareness so big.

04:54 You know, not everybody will be in a situation

04:56 that I was in, protected with a thousand,

04:59 you know, professionals around, you know,

05:02 so many people that's well-equipped for a moment like that.

05:05 The clothing means a lot to me,

05:06 but the foundation is truly a special place in my heart.

05:09 No pun intended.

05:10 [upbeat music]

05:13 And you know I can't go too far without my JGs, man.

05:20 My John Geigers.

05:21 These right here, something special to me, man.

05:24 This is not only a designer,

05:26 this is a brother of mine, a truly close friend,

05:30 someone that's from the same neighborhood I am,

05:32 so, you know, he truly understand what it takes

05:35 to make it out of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

05:37 These are a shoe that I wear anywhere

05:39 and I get compliments on.

05:40 If they don't know, they wanna know like, "What's that?"

05:43 [upbeat music]

05:45 My collab with Beats that I gave my teammates,

05:52 they got the three on the side,

05:53 with love from D-Ham, three on the side,

05:55 all white period, that's, you know,

05:57 we just rocking all white, you know.

05:59 Music is just a way that you can express yourself

06:01 without even saying much.

06:03 I kinda always been like a more so quiet kid growing up,

06:07 like I was just more so reserved and to myself,

06:09 but, you know, I would post music on my story

06:11 and that's how I would like express

06:13 what I was feeling in the moment

06:14 or what I was going through at the time.

06:16 To fast forward to now, you know,

06:18 having my own Apple Music playlist,

06:19 you could truly get my vibe off of listening

06:22 to that playlist and things that,

06:25 that means something to me from there.

06:27 [upbeat music]

06:35 My most important essential,

06:37 my daily devotionals and the man above.

06:41 I have this one, this is Jesus Listens.

06:43 It has a, you know, a verse,

06:46 a nice little short reading for each day,

06:50 you know, and it has some small verses with it.

06:53 This is something that when I came across it,

06:55 you know, it changed my life.

06:57 It's a book called "Move"

06:59 and it says, "A guide to get up and go forward."

07:02 And that's pretty much really what it does, you know,

07:05 it just, it gives you different ways to operate

07:07 and it gives you action plans

07:09 of how to go about your business.

07:11 [upbeat music]

07:14 Q-tips, man, I can't make it through it

07:20 like a day without these.

07:22 Like, if you know me, like I'm always itching my,

07:25 like throat, I'm scratching my ear.

07:28 I don't know what it is, I got bad allergies or something,

07:31 but it might be hereditary from my mom.

07:34 I'm blaming her.

07:35 Nothing gets that spot like a Q-tip,

07:37 you know what I'm saying?

07:38 So all my friends, they clown me for it,

07:40 they laugh at me about it.

07:42 They'll hear me making noises,

07:45 trying to get that spot 'cause I'm going through it.

07:47 I'm stressing, like, I'm stressing.

07:50 But like my closest friends know,

07:52 they know like this is one thing that,

07:54 this is like my weird essential.

07:57 This is my weird essential 'cause I need it.

08:00 [upbeat music]

08:03 [upbeat music]

08:05 My next essential,

08:06 man, these things, these two things right here

08:11 are like my life.

08:13 So this is my personal number.

08:14 This here is like kind of more so business-y.

08:17 Just having two phones,

08:18 it kind of helps me separate the worlds a little bit

08:20 and you know, to where, you know,

08:22 business can be business and personal can be personal.

08:25 You won't catch me nowhere without these.

08:26 If I don't got my phones on me, something wrong.

08:28 But my last essential, my wallet,

08:31 Louis V, blue crocodile joint.

08:34 It was a gift from a very special person.

08:37 I ain't got no cash in here.

08:38 I got them cars though.

08:40 I got my mom's credit card on me.

08:43 I think I've had it for a very long time.

08:45 I don't know why, but I still got my mom's credit card.

08:48 So I might have to run her a little tab up.

08:51 Thanks for watching.

08:52 I really appreciate it.

08:54 I hope through my essentials,

08:55 you learned a little bit more about me.

08:58 And forever keep chasing them, man.

09:00 Keep chasing the millions.

09:01 Let's go.

09:02 (upbeat music)

09:04 (electronic music)

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