Joe took to the podium to share the secrets of success with the graduates -- the key is not to let age be a deterrent, he says.
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00:02 - All over the world, to America,
00:05 to achieve the dream.
00:10 I still believe that America is the land of the dreams.
00:16 I have a friend whose father started out selling fish
00:22 on the side of the highway.
00:24 He eventually bought the building behind him
00:27 and opened the biggest fish market in the Bronx.
00:31 You may be the first generation,
00:40 but now is the time to stop the vicious cycle
00:43 of poverty in your family.
00:46 Now is the time.
00:47 You're just beginning your lives,
00:54 some of you have been around,
00:56 but I'm telling you, success never stops.
00:58 There is no age limit to being successful.
01:02 When I first started, they used to tell me,
01:05 "Yo, save all your money,
01:08 "rap is the way to get this far."
01:10 Now I'm more successful than I've ever been in my life.
01:15 You have to stay determined.
01:18 You have to stay willing to fight for your dream.
01:23 You have to stay hungry.
01:25 Never let the hunger die.
01:30 Coming from the Bronx, this is what pushes me
01:34 and motivates me every day to never stop.
01:37 It's my breed.
01:38 They ask me all the time, "Yo, why'd you lie?"
01:43 Of course I say it's my family first.
01:47 Second, it's my community.
01:49 See, you can't end your living lives.
01:52 I'm still the king of the Barber's Projects
01:55 and the Southern Bronx.
01:57 (crowd cheering)
02:00 (explosion)