10 Things Las Vegas Raiders’ Davante Adams Can’t Live Without

[bags crinkling]

I thought those were gonna stay

together a little bit better than that.

[Production laughing]

[Production] She can just do two.

Is that better?

No, if we doing four, it's on me.

I'm a receiver, right?

[Davante sighing]

Here we go.

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What's up GQ?

I'm Davante Adams and these are my essentials.

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These are one of my prized possessions here.

These ones in particular are one of my favorites

that I've ever designed and I've designed quite a few shoes,

aka cleats that get turned into turf.

So first we'll look at the back.

This is the most important piece right here.

You'll see that on there, TOP2 NOT2.

That's just to let everybody know in case they do forget.

You got some snake skin, some croc skin,

a little bit of everything on here.

Got a little shiny silver on here,

it's supposed to be Raiders colors.

Mixing it in with a little red for Fresno in there as well.

I try to get sneaky with a few things just to

add a little bit of my flare

and some of my past into 'em as well.

But as a lifelong Jordan fan, Michael Jordan fan

and the the brand of Jordan, you're never guaranteed

to be on that brand.

So to be a part of a league company, it means a lot to me.

But to be stamped by Michael himself means a lot as well.

So I try to do the best that I can on the field

to be a good reflection of the brand.

I think I'm the most competitive active athlete.

I think Michael Jordan is the most competitive

human being who ever lived.

Whether he is golfing, he's out there,

they're paying up bets after every hole.

To hear that he's still playing 36 holes of golf a day,

that's a different level of competitive edge

and I admire that about him

and try to put a little bit of

that into my secret sauce as well.

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This right here is old trusty for the last 10 years.

This exact guy right here, every single day

because I would not go to sleep

without a durag on my head.

Show everybody how we do this, we throw it on like that.

I don't have a mirror so it may be a little messed up.

Throw it like that behind the ears.

And then we do one more.

Boom.

This is how I usually rock this every single night.

And I probably look stupid with it right now,

so I'm gonna take it back off.

But this is what keeps the hair clean, keeps it laid down.

10 years right here, same one.

Somebody tried to steal this on a bachelor's trip.

They tried to claim it was theirs

and frankly they almost lost their lives

trying to take my my durag.

It got to a point where I thought things may get physical

'cause you ain't going nowhere with this.

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I love my vehicles.

I have a Rolls-Royce Cullinan,

a Lamborghini Urus, Bentley Continental Spur, the four door,

and I have a Ferrari F8 Spider.

Here she is.

They took the 458, which was the predecessor,

amped it up with everything, fixed the inside,

all the little bugs and turned it into weapon X.

So now it's one of the best Ferraris on the street.

The way I choose a car in general is it has to be beautiful.

If it's a sports car, it's gotta be loud,

it's gotta sound amazing.

It's gotta sound amazing even in idle, not just driving

'cause I don't drive super fast all the time,

and it's gotta have a good sound system no matter what.

Race car or not, it's gotta have a good sound system.

Otherwise I would not be buying that car.

My very first car, it was not a Ferrari, it was even better.

It was a '94 stick shift Honda Accord.

What looks like bullet holes, but they're not.

That is just paint peeling aka character.

But I love this car.

Love that the window on my side didn't work.

You had to punch the side of it

to make the window be able to drop down.

And when my mom would drive me around this in car

when I was a kid, I would get bored in there.

So I would grab a pen out of the glove box or whatever

and for some reason I just started poking

holes in the top of the car.

So there's still holes in the top of this vehicle

and I think that's why she made me drive it

throughout college and when I first got in the league.

And then from there we went

and hopped in a Porsche to make sure

we didn't have to deal with that anymore.

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Really all of my time pieces are essential,

but this one right here means a lot to me.

It was like my first premium, premium,

premium watch that I got.

Patek Philippe Aquanaut.

I wore it when I met Bruno Mars in Vegas.

I think I had a few too many drinks

and somehow scratched the face a little bit right here

and I want to get it fixed, but part of me likes

that there's a little bit more character to it on the face.

In the rapper game they call those moons,

the chrono in there.

People that really know watches,

my friend Mark Wahlberg, he's got probably one

of the most ridiculous watch collections ever,

but he observed that and knew exactly what was going on.

So it's kind of one of those,

if you know, you know type watches.

And I think John Mayer actually said something about this.

If you have a watch like this, this lets everybody else know

that you have a lot of watches like this.

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Right here, we got the Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille.

This is one of the most essential things for me.

If I had to jog past somebody for whatever reason,

you're probably gonna be smelling Tom.

I use this usually on game days

because we obviously play more games

during the day than we do at nighttime.

So, smells amazing.

Let's get a little.

[Davante sighing]

Smells like me.

It's good stuff.

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I mean this is up at the top.

I own I think four pair of these exact ones right here

because these are my favorite shades all time.

These are kind of like my invisible shades.

When I put these on,

I feel like my social anxiety decreases.

Like I'm looking at her right now.

You think I'm looking at the camera

and I'm just scoping her out,

making sure she's not preying on my family

or gonna steal my cologne.

I don't know, anything.

So it's good to be able to wear 'em

just so I can kind of feel like

I'm kind of invisible for the moment.

So it's partially that, partially the look.

But everything that I wear, I want you to know

that it's not necessarily expensive but it's premium.

But I don't necessarily want you to know exactly

what the brand is unless you're a connoisseur yourself.

When you look at these shades from here,

they could be Ray Bans, they could be whatever,

but they just so happen to not be Ray Bans

and be Prada because I'm the Prada don dada.

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This is an essential for me because

seeing me game days, usually I either got the bun up.

If not you'll see me walk in like this.

And I've actually noticed that I get recognized more by fans

and people on the outside in my hat

with my hair down like this.

I kind of partially wear my hair like this a little bit

because it protects 'em.

And some of this accidentally kind of

turned into just my look.

They'll come to the signing with the fake dreads

and then a snapback hat on.

So when I see stuff like that, in a way,

I kind of do it to show them that I appreciate

the fact that they're doing that.

So just win baby.

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[Davante sighing]

So since a kid, these right here,

these been one of the most essential pieces

before I even knew what essentials were.

Skittles are my favorite candy hands down.

But the sour Skittles,

these take up a whole special block in my heart.

These are what led to me ultimately getting

two root canals in high school.

So thank you Skittles for that.

I don't always keep a bag with me

'cause I try to be better.

And my kids, I mean they can eat a whole cow

and then turn around and say they're starving

if they see you with whatever.

I gotta keep it away to prevent having to deal with

future root canals at a young age for those two.

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Boom.

This is part of my skincare routine.

Very essential piece for me.

It's my gel wash, aka face wash.

My wife is an aesthetician so she actually put me onto this.

And when you see me out there on the TV screen

and just absolutely blemishless, it's partially due

to the Stone Crop Gel Wash right here.

The smell, it honestly reminds me of my wife

because the Stone Crop Lotion from Eminence

is the one that she uses.

So if I'm away, it kind of helps me think about my wife

a little bit more.

That was a little bit of a joke, but it's true.

Indirectly I think about her.

I'm not sitting there crying

and like, oh, let me go put my face wash on

so I can think about my wife.

It kind of happens just by chance, I guess you could say.

Now we also have the blue ChapStick brand right here.

This guy, you see these lips?

I have to mainly attribute it to this guy right here.

So I keep this on me, especially in Vegas,

12 to 15 times a day.

Get some of this action going on.

Get 'em nice and.

[lips smacking]

Yep, it's my guy.

What does this even smell like?

It kind of smells like cocoa butter a little bit almost.

And I used to use a lot of cocoa butter

as most African American kids did.

I guess in a way it takes me back to my childhood.

I didn't even know that 'til now, so that's good to know.

The most important thing on the planet

to me more than a durag, shoes, hat, glasses,

Skittles, even more important than Skittles, my family.

They mean the world to me

because they basically give me purpose.

It's to the point where I don't even remember

what I used to do with my life before I had kids.

I feel like I was just wasting time everything that I did.

Once Daija joined us in 2019,

I feel like that's where I really started

to figure out life in general.

And my wife has helped me all along with everything,

that played a huge role in the player

that I am on the field,

the man that I am in this world today.

So it's a blessing being able to be surrounded by

my great family that we've created.

And having met my wife so early, that's also a blessing.

I don't know where I'll be without 'em,

but I don't have to be without 'em.

So we won't have to figure that out.

Thanks for watching, guys.

Make sure you check out Receiver on Netflix.

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