10 Things Malik Nabers Can’t Live Without

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American football wide receiver Malik Nabers joins GQ to reveal his 10 Essentials. The New York Giants WR breaks down his daily essentials: from his jewelry (“I always keep my watches on me”) to a picture of Malik and his Mom (“this is my why… I don’t know how, but she made it happen”). Watch the full episode of GQ’s 10 Essentials, as Malik Nabers reveals 10 things he can’t live without.  ----------  Director: Sam Balaban Director of Photography: Brad Wickham Talent: Malik Nabers Producer: Camille Ramos Creative Producer: Michael Beckert Line Producer: Jen Santos Production Manager: James Pipitone; Elizabeth Hymes Talent Booker: Paige Keffer Camera Operator: Chloe Ramos Gaffer: Niklas Moller Sound Mixer: Rebecca O'Neill Production Assistant: Shanti Cuizon-Burden

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00:00What's up GQ?

00:01I'm Elite Neighbors and these are my 10 essentials.

00:17First off on the list, I got my jewelry.

00:19I can't go nowhere without my jewelry.

00:21We got the league chain, league pennant.

00:23Everybody go buy me by league.

00:25So I always gotta have this on standby just in case

00:29I gotta be at a game or something.

00:31Everybody gotta see diamond chain blinging.

00:34I always got my teeth on me no matter where I go.

00:36I gotta have my grills on me.

00:38I love the look.

00:39I love the little flashing lights going on.

00:42Always keep my watches on me.

00:45This is a Daytona.

00:46I got this watch when I got the key to the city.

00:48I know everybody when they gonna find this type of watch

00:51they gonna look at the face and they gonna be like yeah.

00:53But yeah, I had to get that.

00:54This is my rose gold Day-Date.

00:57I got this timepiece when I got my thousand yards this past season for the New York Giants.

01:02You know I had got this watch when I got drafted.

01:05I got this made recently.

01:06I play with this in the game.

01:08It's another one of my jewelry pieces.

01:10I like playing with jewelry in the game.

01:11This is one of my little ones.

01:12It's not too big.

01:13It's not too flashy.

01:14You know I got a great relationship with my jeweler.

01:16I'm out of New Orleans.

01:17Jacob Mark Jewelers.

01:18And you know I've been with him since college.

01:20So I continue to go to the same jeweler.

01:23He does everything I want.

01:24You know with my chains and stuff like that.

01:26You know with custom pieces.

01:27And when you build a relationship with your jeweler.

01:29They always get you to find you know diamonds and stuff like that.

01:32They always get you the best deals.

01:33So you know relationships matter when you're dealing with jewelry for sure.

01:41Number two on the list.

01:43The football.

01:44The Duke.

01:45Second on the list because you know I always got to keep me in football.

01:48I'm a professional athlete.

01:49You know I catch the ball.

01:50So you're going to see me running around.

01:52I might just be tossing the ball around.

01:54Just trying to get a good feel on the ball.

01:56You know it's always just to make sure you know your hands is on point.

01:58You know dealing with your profession.

02:00So you know I picked the football.

02:02It kind of saved my life.

02:03Without football I don't know what I would be doing with my life.

02:05I got like 16 probably laying around the crib right now.

02:08A lot of them is actually like accomplishments.

02:11So it might be like my first touchdown.

02:13When I made like a record with a football.

02:15It's been the love.

02:17The love of my life so far.

02:18So you know I always got to put this on the list.

02:20So yeah.

02:20My next essential is my smell goods.

02:26I'm going to start off with this one first.

02:27I use deodorant marketed towards women.

02:30I believe it lasts longer.

02:31I believe it smells better.

02:32And when I'm working out I used to use men's deodorant.

02:35And I used to sweat a lot.

02:36I used to just drip down.

02:37So I started using this and I don't have that anymore.

02:41So my cologne is probably the main thing I love about you know my essentials.

02:48Because my worst fear in life is for somebody to say I don't smell good.

02:52Well these my top three that I always use.

02:55You know I might bounce around between one of these or match it with another.

03:00I know I personally smell good because my mama always tell me when I'm leaving the house.

03:03She be like boy you smell good.

03:04Ain't that right ma?

03:05Yeah.

03:05So this is atomic rose.

03:07I like fresh smells.

03:09I'm not like the loud type of person where it's too strong.

03:12Because like if I'm sitting down and I can smell the cologne and it's strong it makes my head hurt.

03:17So I always like to put a cologne on that makes people's nose smell just like refreshing.

03:22And like when I pass up somebody I want it to leave like a great smell when I leave.

03:27So I always like to use atomic rose because they leave a great smell when you passing by somebody.

03:32They might they might I might pass them by and they might be boy who is that smelling that good.

03:37That's me.

03:37I've been knowing about this for about two years now.

03:40And when I started really getting into the cologne you know I used to have a lot of just like

03:44Bond number nine, Creed, Louis V but a lot of people start having the same smell.

03:49You don't want to smell like other people.

03:51You want to you want to take your smell to a different chart.

03:53When somebody smell you they be like I know that I know why I found that that was Malik that was wearing that.

03:59My next essential is toothbrush sticks.

04:02That's what I call them.

04:03They call them wisps I believe.

04:05But I use these when I'm on the road or I'm gonna be gone from the house for a long time.

04:11I might wear my grills out to eat.

04:13So when I go eat I got to take my grills out.

04:16You know and you know you got to put your grills back in.

04:18You might go to you know the after parties or stuff like that.

04:20And you might talk to a female.

04:22You know your mouth gotta be you feel me you gotta be smelling good.

04:25It can't be that bad review.

04:26So I might take these.

04:29I might brush my teeth a little bit.

04:30It's very unique and it's very useful fellas.

04:32There's no lie.

04:34I use it every time I'm out the house.

04:36I've been out the house for so long.

04:37I mean I use these on the go.

04:38So it makes my mouth you know smell good.

04:41It already comes with like a little bit of toothpaste in there.

04:45So it just you know you're good.

04:51You just pop out.

04:52You're good now.

04:53You're smelling great.

04:54That's all you need is one of these.

04:55Another one of my essentials is white nike socks.

05:01I love nike socks.

05:02I love low top socks actually.

05:04I won't wear black socks.

05:05You've never seen me wearing black socks ever.

05:07Muscle shirts is one of the key factors of my life.

05:13I always need muscle shirts because it keeps everything like in line.

05:19I mean you might get hot but it always when you got like a nice shirt underneath like your other shirt

05:26it always you always just feel put together.

05:28You know I was taught this from when I was younger from my older fella.

05:32I always keep some.

05:33I call them muscle shirts.

05:34Every time I always say it everybody be like with some other shirt.

05:37I call them muscle shirts.

05:38Next essential is my bible.

05:43You know one of the key factors is you know about my life is you know I love you know learning new

05:49things about you know the bible what you know when Christ was on the earth what he did you know

05:54a lot of stuff like that.

05:56It also has my name on it.

05:57It's for my mom.

05:58She got me this one.

05:58So you know I always keep you know a bible with me.

06:02I always like reading the bible just because you know it's one of the things that I thrive

06:07myself on is my you know believing in Christ and um you know having having a relationship with God

06:14because you know God is real he has got me through a lot of different obstacles in my life

06:19and without him you know I wouldn't be here today praying when I wake up praying at night I

06:23you know I didn't pray to God for some things and he had blessed me with a lot of different

06:29accomplishments a lot of different things in my life so you know it's one of the main things I

06:33keep in my life but I was taught as a you know a little boy that you know you always keep God

06:38first you know anything that you ask God it's not gonna always come right then and there but it's

06:42gonna it's gonna come eventually just keep on believing.

06:45I know a lot of you know kids gonna remember when I say this it's a Saturday night you play the game

06:50all night you wake up in the morning and you hear your mama got that loud Sunday church music on

06:58and that's to clean up my next essential is my bags I know y'all see a lot of pictures I always

07:05got a bag on me because I might keep my wallet in there I might keep my chargers my cologne my deodorant

07:12my whisk I'm not sure the brand I got it in when I was in Miami but I know it's fox fur um it feels great

07:19and it was very expensive actually yeah so we're gonna be wearing this baby for a long time it's not one of the main

07:26bags but I always got different bags to just keep all my goods in there when I'm out you know I might

07:31be out for a long time you never know so it's always good to have everything that you need when

07:35you're on the road or when you're just out for a long time. My next essential is my fan I always

07:42need to sleep with a fan like oh I sleep with the AC on 66 with the ceiling fan with the fan yeah you

07:49feel me I gotta be Jack Frost in there I will not go to sleep if I don't got a fan like I might be at a

07:55gas house I might be like bro you got a fan like I need a fan like I need I need the fan like exactly

08:00in my face all the time like the whole night because I get hot fast like I sweat a lot when

08:06I sleep so a fan always keeps my body at level to where like I don't sweat so I always need a fan but

08:11I'm about to start keeping one of these because like it just be hot like you just be hot nowadays and

08:18you always can have a nice fan just to keep you cool though.

08:20My next essential is my controller you know I play PS5 this is not my regular controller my other

08:28controller got buttons on the back joystick crazy but I play the game every day like it's not a day

08:34I don't play the game I kind of think it's like my little mental piece of my day you know after a long

08:40day I always just like to sit on the game I'm gonna go play Warzone play Madden play college football

08:46MLB so I always gotta you know level out when I come home I play with a couple players you know

08:53Jonathan Brooks he be cheating I play with Xavier Worthy I play with Isaiah Simmons I play with a lot

08:58of guys in the league but mainly I always try to focus on playing with the guys back home you know

09:03my friends back home you know I don't see them all the time so we get in the party we always

09:07you know laugh you know have a great time so it's always good to connect back with your people at home

09:12you know the ones that you grew up with so that's just another reason why I play the game

09:18last one on the list okay

09:23it's a picture of me and my mom right here my queen the one that make it happen the reason I'm here today

09:32this was the photo um the day after I got drafted we took this picture by the river just to um have the

09:40city in the back of it this wasn't the finish line but this was the start of you know the start of

09:46something different a sort of a transition in our lives this was the proudest moment I'll probably say

09:52I'm not gonna say for her but I would say that I felt that this was the proudest moment of you know

09:57her son's life is finally doing what he wanted to do making his dream come true and this was just one

10:02of the most impactful moments of my life for sure it's something that I look at before the game just to

10:07make sure this is what I'm going out there for this is my why this is my reason I'm doing this

10:11she made a lot of things happen when I was you know younger don't know how she did it um but she

10:16made it happen I always asked for a lot I didn't get everything but I got everything that I needed it

10:22to go to school you know whether I want to go to parties you know where I need to go to baseball

10:26games and stuff like that she made it happen I don't know how but I'm so glad that you know she's in

10:31my life I'm so glad God blessed me with you know a mother like her I think she's one of a kind

10:36she's my number one supporter so and I always keep this picture on that just to remind me you

10:41know this is this is why I do what I do and you know I always keep this this is my this is my most

10:48important essential of my life is my mom thank you for watching hope you learned something just don't take

10:58my cologne

11:03you

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