Video Surfaces of Marshawn Lynch Delivering Anti-Violence Speech at Concert

Marshawn Lynch—the subject of 1,001 think pieces due to his unwillingness to dispense stock responses during media interviews—gave a speech last summer.

TMZ dug up video of the speech. The website reports that the footage is from a 2014 rap show at Oakland music venue The New Parish. Lynch, the Oakland native who knows "little of the real world and its gravity," as Philadelphia Daily News columnist Marcus Hayes wrote, took the stage and delivered an emotional message to the people of his hometown: Stop hurting each other.

The Seattle Seahawks running back speaks earnestly, saying that he plays for Oakland on the football field, but he can't do it if there's no one left to represent. Here's the footage.

Warning: Video contains NSFW language.

Lynch tells the crowd:

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While I'm doing my thing, representing y'all, I remember you m-----------s. ... I've been losing too many of y'all, but I love representing where I'm from on the national m------------g stage, to be able to give y'all something to represent....let y'all young n-----s who really out mobbing, doing what the f---k they doing, let them know that we need to be here for each other. So when we got somebody from here reppin' for this m----------r, we still here for this m----------r.

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Yup. That's Marshawn Lynch, the non-adult who has nothing to say, telling people from the third-most dangerous city in California to stop the violence. Maybe he does have a moral compass and the faculties to express himself after all.

Now, if only he'd start taking media days more seriously, we might get to discuss some of the real issues, like footballs that aren't pumped up as much as other footballs.

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