WEBVTT - AJ CRIMSON - Broke but Boujee Spaghetti 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.200 This is my ghetto celebrity O, my ghetto spaghetti. Hey, 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.560 I'm Colleen with and we are on another episode of 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.160 Eating wall Broke. Today, I have the lovely AJ Crimson 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.440 from a J Crimson Beauty and he is whipping us. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.680 Uh lovely. It looks like a gore Mate eating Wall 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:20.840 Broke dish. So tell us what you're making for us. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.880 So today I'm gonna make an amazing spaghetti that I 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.720 just absolutely love. And yeah, you're gonna love it, ya excited? Okay, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.200 well this doesn't look like a traditional Eating Wall Broke dish, 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.840 so um, one feed me. I'm definitely going to. Yeah, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.640 I'm definitely going to. So it's gonna be great. So 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.159 I mean yeah, and I guess when what I heard 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:43.480 about it and you're like, hey, like, what's the dish 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.800 that you were that you ate while you were broke? 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.440 And I was like, Okay, I had to think about 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:48.800 it for a little while because it was either going 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.199 to be like rice, you know, because I kind of 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.800 getting like eggs and rice. But then also too, I 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:55.400 eat a lot of noodles and need a lot of 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.680 spaghetti noodles. So um, so this is gonna be my 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:00.840 version of that. So yeah, night, I mean we have 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.200 we have the water boiling over here, which is really great. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.600 You just rest that right over there. We'll do that 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:11.280 right here. So take something, should just do the whole thing, 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.800 do the whole thing. Let's just do it. Why not 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.039 live a large exactly and actually can eat all of 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.520 these but myself like in one sitting, So I really 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:25.080 love spaghetti. I do. Actually I did a little switch 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.040 up that A J does not know about today. Um, 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.720 I just found out that they have protein noodles. Really, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.440 what is that what we're about to eat today? Protein noodles? 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.840 Because I wanted to watch the carbs. What that's a 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.200 lot of salt. It's for the water, so it's really 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.120 for the water. You really won't taste it than the noodles. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.200 But also this is Himalayan sea salt, so you don't 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.920 want to use too much because Himalayan sea salt tends 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.000 to be a lot saltier than regular table salt, and 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.400 but it's also healthier too. So oh was that one? 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.280 I was? I was actually wondering what the difference between 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.559 the Himalayan and that's when I start did a question 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.600 your brokeness right there? So I'm definitely a little bougie. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:08.480 I'm I'm bougie broke for sure. Um, I think that. Uh. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.680 My dad used to tell me, I can tell this 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.520 that was a great story. Actually. So I had to 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.040 be about maybe twelve or thirteen, and we were picking 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:19.720 out um silverware for the house and I just was 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.760 thumbing through. It's like, oh, what do you think? And 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.280 whatever I picked, I guess it was like super expensive. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.880 And he said, boy, you've got rich taste in poor pockets. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.600 And I just I've always remembered that, but I was like, oh, 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.320 like I have to I love that I have rich taste, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.720 but now I can't have poor pockets, you know, so 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.800 I have to I have to catch up to myself. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.240 So I think it's just kind of always been in 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:46.320 me too, like nice things. Yeah, and you know what 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.320 I like about. My mom used to always say, uh, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.359 and I'm gonna sit because because you're doing all the cookie, 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:58.760 you don't want to help. Uh uh, I'll help with 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:04.200 the party. This is good. This is just how you 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.160 do it at home too, like when everything is like 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:12.320 bubbling over, messing up the stove. Um. But but yeah, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.840 my mom used to always say that, uh, poor is 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:21.079 more long term and broke is temporary. So even when 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.320 we were doing Eating Well Broke, It's awesome to have 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:29.280 entrepreneurs like yourself, self made individuals like yourself on the show, because, honestly, 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.120 I think sometimes when you're in the situation of being 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.760 brokeer you don't have enough money to get whatever project 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.880 off the ground. It's like you can sometimes think it's 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.840 a forever plan, but you and other self made individuals 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:49.120 are living proof that it's possible. So with that being said, 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.000 I'm curious, how did you get a J. Crimson Beauty 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.360 off the ground. So Crimson Beauty was actually founded in 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.400 two thousand and thirteen. This is my second brand. My 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.000 first brand was called Kisspical Tour, which I launched in 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.040 two thousand and seven. But I learned a lot when 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.360 I was building that brand, so that by the time 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.560 Agan Crimson Beauty came along. Um I knew that I 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.680 wasn't gonna spend as much money, you know, as I 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.480 did with the first brand. I knew that I was 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.200 gonna utilize social media a little bit more. Um So 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.200 I started this brand with about five thousand dollars and 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.839 it was but to basically level that out, I had 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.920 already started some of the formulation in the old brand. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:30.919 You know, while doing the old brand, I was just 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.600 like I knew what I wanted to do. So by 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.120 the time this idea and this concept had come along, 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.039 it was just more of a about implementation and I 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.479 started really small. I started really small. I think that 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.240 people often think that they have to go big and 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.640 you know, have forty five colors. I started with eight 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.320 shades that I had already kind of developed, and I 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.880 needed to get a concept around. I took it to 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:57.400 a trade show. People seem to resonate with it, and 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.480 uh and I sold out that first day, which was 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:04.119 really amaz zing. I'll use this And you said, two thousand, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.320 two thousand twelve is kind of when I started like 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.560 actually developing. But two it came out in two thousand 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.240 and thirteen year, so this is all before the fancies 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.680 of the world all that came out. So we've been inclusive. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.640 We were inclusive before inclusive became like a buzzword. Oh 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.160 can you for the people like myself, what does that mean? Inclusive? 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.920 So right now you know, everybody's like, oh, diversity, and 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.280 everybody wants to get in diversity training and making sure 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.120 that everybody is included in their voice matters. When I 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.040 started Age of Crimson Beauty, it was really I've been 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.120 traveling and touring with like Hillary Duff and Fergie and 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.760 Estelle and the Stell for like three years. So Christina, Million, 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.760 Faith Evans, all these girls. I have been working with 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.120 Amory and there are a myriad of shades, and I 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.040 always had to kind of come to the table and 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.280 figure out like how I was going to match their 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.320 foundation or matt do the things that I needed to 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.520 do for them, you know, so they look and feel 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.440 their best as a compartist, right And there weren't a 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.000 lot of colors on the market. There weren't a lot 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.839 of It just wasn't a lot of everything, you know, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.880 in a in a way that spoke black women or 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.240 women of color directly. And I think that's what we're 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.479 dealing with now. That's what we're seeing more of. Now 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.800 Black women are standing up and saying, hey, you know, 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.480 I have a voice. I would like to see myself 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.000 in the ad campaigns that kind of thing. So Adrian 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.840 comes in beauty from the start was always about not 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.320 leaving that girl out. You know. We started with the 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.599 darkest color first and worked our way, worked our way backwards, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:38.000 um to make sure that you know she was seeing Yeah, 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.880 you know, And it sounds like you had a lot 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.560 of experience because you were working with it sounds like 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.040 you were working with white girls and black girls. Sure. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.680 When I was a kid, and I joke about this, 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.800 it's not really a jokematic, but I came from a 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.120 little bit of child abuse. And I remember when you 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.200 try to cover up bruises and I'm mixed. You know, 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:03.280 you couldn't find a palette that would cover And this 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.719 sounds completely ridiculous, but you couldn't find a color to 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.960 cover my face because at that time, there was no like, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.680 you know, the sixth grades in between of shades. It 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.240 was just either white or black. And it was like, oh, 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.680 you know, so many things are like that. You're right, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.360 and I think that was that was what I was 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.960 up against, you know, it really was again, like I 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.120 started with, I felt like the lighter shades were easier 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.440 to make. Um. It was the deeper colors that you 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.720 just didn't see. Like I started with a girl who's 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.640 South Sudanese, and I was like, hey, if I can 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.760 match her on my first round was terrible. It was horrible. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.520 Like I literally I thought I had the darkest color. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.280 I was testing it a trade show. I put it on. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:42.720 This girl was like, hey, I got the perfect color 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.280 for you. She came up. I was like, give me 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.000 your hand and I went to swatch it and uh. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.040 We literally looked at it. All I can see was 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.280 green in it. She looked at it, she looked at me, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.720 and I was just like, okay, it was no way 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.440 to spin it, spin it to make it feel better work. 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:01.600 And I was like, all right, I gotta go back 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.560 to the drawing board. But that's how it happens, you 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.120 know what I mean. I didn't stress out about it, 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.680 but I knew it had to happen there first because 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.440 no one talks to her, you know. And once we 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.520 got it right, then I was able to really mix 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.040 and blend all the other colors backwards nice. So that 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.160 was cool. So now you do have a shade that 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.040 can work for you in my brand, so I would 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.680 definitely make sure you get that. Thank you. And I 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:29.160 love this of color. By the way, I'm superde so 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:34.120 good this col um actually made that for Cassie. I'm 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.199 really okay, Well, I'm wearing Okay, okay, I feel even 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.079 more special. Custom how does someone from Detroit and I 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.760 and I say that with endearment? Detroit? I feel like 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.360 is uh has been the underdog for a long time. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.400 When I hear you say names like Hillary Duff or 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:57.040 or a Stell, I'm just like, how do you how? 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.320 How do you make your way from Detroit to Hollywood? UM, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.760 I was very ambitious. I've always been very ambitious. I 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.720 think that, UM, since I was a little kid, I've 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.960 never I didn't know how it was going to be successful. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.360 I just knew I was going to be successful. And 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.280 there weren't a lot of people that necessarily believed in 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.200 that dream or maybe even I wouldn't say but didn't 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.760 believe in it. They just didn't know how to believe 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.720 in it. And UM, but I knew I had to Uh, 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.839 I had to figure that out. And uh, I just 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:26.599 had made connections. So I used to work at a 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.719 radio station called w j LB. UM. It was the 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.520 number one station in the city, and I produced the 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.840 music the six to ten show from with Bushman at 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.400 the time. And UM, I end up meeting a woman 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.839 named Peggy Body, who was the arts development coordinator for 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.480 Bilten Records and Michael Bivns decided to do an album 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.680 project with a couple of kids in Detroit. So I 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.120 helped to kind of find those groups. I went to 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.880 intern for her. Then it turned into me actually styling 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:56.240 one of the groups. And I was like, oh, this 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.320 is dope, and you know, like, okay, so I'm starting 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.559 to put the words together for the things that I 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.520 had interest in, but I didn't know what they were, 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.120 you know, so find like, oh, fashion stylist, okay, cool, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:12.439 like makeup artist, how you like maybe seventeen or eighteen 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:17.080 around this time, and uh, and it was it was 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:18.720 just a good It was just a good time, you 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.360 know what I mean, like just figuring all of that 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.600 stuff out. So um, having worked on that, I styled 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.600 my first video and all that stuff, and fast forward. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.000 I had a friend who was a director, a local director. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.360 She ended up getting a job as an art department 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.400 coordinator on UM on eight Mile, a movie eight Mile 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.040 with eminem and Brittany Murphy. And she was an age 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:44.680 you don't even need to show and you don't know 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.760 a mile? Then what are you doing? I don't know? 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.760 But yeah, so so she was like a j like 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.280 I'm working on this movie. You need to give me 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.160 your resume. And at that time I had got a 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:56.839 job at a max store to just kind of learn 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.880 makeup and everything. I was just trying to learn everything 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:03.079 I could, you know, And um, I gave him my 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.400 resume for a wardrobe and for makeup, and the wardrobe 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.440 department actually got back to me first. Um. So with 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.560 eight Mile, I was actually walking into my job, my 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.319 part time job at mac and uh. And I only 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.280 took this job because I really wanted to just learn 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.840 skin and foundation, because I, you know, I worked with 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.240 an artist prior to that, and the makeup partis that 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.640 we had hired could not get the references. And I'm 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.360 really big on reference, Like I just you know, that's 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.480 what I was taught, you know. So when the makeup 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.960 artists did her own thing outside of the book of 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.439 reference that we had created, I was like what. I 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.480 was like, can you show me this in the book? 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.920 And she was like, oh, I just decided to do this, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:40.280 and I was like, I was like, no, I'm pretty 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.240 literal about my references. I wish I had your stuff 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.280 because I would do it myself, you know. And I 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.360 think it sounded kind of rude when it came out, 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.560 but there's a lot of money on the line, right 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.440 and we're doing an album cover shoot, so um, I 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.440 took the girl to a Mac, to that Mac store 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.600 and I was like, hey, like, can you guys recreate 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.520 one of these looks? And because I thought about what 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.480 I said, I was I'm gonna learn how to do 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.360 the makeup that I want to see, um, just to 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.320 see if I could do it. They end up hiring 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.719 me because I went back for a job on this 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:13.640 particular day that that's costume supervisor called. I was walking 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.920 into that job and they're like, hey, like, we'd love 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.120 to interview you. We have your resume, like what can 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:20.520 you know? Can you come down and meet us? And 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:21.800 I was like, oh, like, you know, I'm getting ready 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.640 to walk into work, like can we you know, can 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:29.240 we do it like another day? And uh, I feel 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:37.120 like I'm talking. We have a I've never been on 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:42.880 this side of the table. Feel sure. I'm sure I'm 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.800 piste off all the video guys in the room, but 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:50.920 oh no, I'm so sorry. It looks great, So go 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.520 on continue with this. You and I can talk for days, 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.200 just so you know, I feel like we can future. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.440 Let's do it, let's do that, let's let's not stop this. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.400 So um so John Casey called me. He was like, hey, 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:03.880 like can you come down for an interview? And I 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.199 was just like uh. I was like, I'm walking into 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:08.880 work right now. Can we do it like another day? 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.240 Like no, Like we're actually trying to look for this 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.960 right now, so you know, if something else comes up, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.520 we'll give you a call back. And in that moment, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.320 like I was devastated, like my heart literally dropped because 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.320 it was just like hold on, like what just happened here? 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.720 Like I'm walking into a job that is not my 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:33.040 career at all, to not go an interview for the 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:37.400 job that absolutely my career go you know what I mean? 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.280 And I was like no. I just couldn't believe it 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.679 was happening to me. And I was heartbroken, you know, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.520 to be honest, So you you actually showed up to work, Well, 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:46.839 I was right there. I was in front of it. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.880 I was in front of the door. I couldn't I 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:50.800 couldn't have. I didn't, you know. But I'm very loyal 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.200 and I'm also committed. Like when I make commitments like 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.920 I you know, it's like you keep your commitments, right, 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.679 You don't just you don't just bail on people like 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.320 they were depending. Um, I don't think I did, Like 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.240 I literally thought. That's when I was like, I'll never 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.520 let I'll never let something like that happened to me again, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.760 you know, like this is my this is my life 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.160 on the line. You know. So I was actually on 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.680 eight Mile with a photographer looking at the photographs that 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.760 we had worked on and I'm gonna turn this up 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.040 just a little bit. And what was he doing here? 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:23.440 We were looking at the pictures and I got another 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:24.760 phone call and I was like, yeah, like where are 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.120 you guys at, Like I'll come and meet you. I'm 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.040 actually on eight Mile, like right now. And they were 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.920 like okay, cool, like come down and meet us. I 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.840 did have to work that day at the Max door um, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.680 and when I got down there, they were like hey, 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.600 like you know, so this is the job. It is 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.600 doing laundry overnight. And I was like okay, sounds good 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.160 and they were like are you concerned? I was like no, 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.360 Like can you do laundry? Was like yeah, like I can. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:46.560 I can figure it out. If you show me what 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.080 you need, I'll do. And it's like it was like, well, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:49.600 you're probably thinking like why do we need you to 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.160 do laundry? And I was like, yeah, like why do 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:53.680 you need me to do laundry? And they're like, well 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.640 because in Hollywood, like we have you know, overnight laundry 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.600 services that send the costumes out and they come back 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.920 the next morning fresh for the actors. Are cool like, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.280 obviously we're in Detroit, we don't have that cleaners, so 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.240 you're going to be the twenty four cleaner. I was like, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.880 all right, sounds good. Like this job doesn't pay very well, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.600 it's not. I was hoping you're going to stay it 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.960 paid well. They're like, it doesn't pay a lot, doesn't 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.320 pay a lot, Like, well, how much does it pay? 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.360 It's like, well it pays. Um it pays a hundred 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.720 dollars a day. Is it's the right one? Yeah? Um, 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:23.680 since it pays a hundred dollars a day. And I 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.160 was like, okay, well that sounds good. I'll take that 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.800 and um like you're sure? I was like yeah, And 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.200 then I was like when do you need me to start? 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.640 Like can you start right now? I was like I sure, can. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:40.520 Let me make a phone call. So it sounds like 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:45.400 you went from you were doing makeup. You temporarily was 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.520 the laundry man, which is amazing because I think a 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.440 lot of people, well some people probably would have taken it, 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.560 but a lot of people maybe what a half. I 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.800 think that was a good judgment call on your part, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.680 for sure. I mean it's not always about the money, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.240 and I think that's where a lot of people out 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.480 on opportunities these days, because they're thinking about the money, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.560 especially when you don't have experience. Now, yes I had 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.640 some experience, but I had never worked on a movie, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.680 like a major motion picture before, not not enough to 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.440 where I could demand anything. And you and again, there 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.720 was a bigger picture, and the bigger picture was for 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:19.960 someone to want to take me out of Detroit, to 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:21.840 like take me out of their wing and say, hey, 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.720 you're coming with us, Like when this when this movie 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.320 leaves here, I want to go with it. So that 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.560 week that I ended up in the hospital and not 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.400 being able to go, I told the doctor I was like, hey, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:32.840 like when do we start, Like how do we get 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.720 this going? He's like, what are you? Like? Where are 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.120 you in such a rush? I was like, I said, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.000 I have a flight on Friday. I said, He's like, 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.320 where are you going? So I'm going to l A. 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.720 I'm going to start a new life, Like I literally 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.040 those are my words. I was like, I'm going to 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.000 start my new life on Friday, I'll be I'm moving 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.600 to l A. My dad end up telling me that 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.760 it wasn't gonna happen that way, And it took about 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.360 two months from my face to go back down. But 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.880 I started watching behind the music, and I want to say, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.320 on the last day of my appointment, where everything was 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.840 clear and I was good to go, my car blew 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.360 up up, Like the engine in my car had blown up. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.639 It's like car like one of my my home girls 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:08.760 like given me, you know. So um, I was just 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.359 like I just started laughing because I was like, what 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.199 am I gonna do? Like what like I don't have 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.600 I don't have ship else, you know what I mean? 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.159 Like my I had burnt my hand. I had a 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.439 third degree burn on my hand, you know, which had 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.040 happened like a couple of weeks before that. I was 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.920 just like, what is happening with this city? Like why 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.359 is it trying to hold me back like this? And 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.480 did you feel like it was holding you back or 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.000 do you feel like and I and I sometimes feel 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.520 this way, like sometimes when you're so focused, I feel like, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.880 for lack of better words, I'm not trying to object 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.480 to anyone spiritually, but I always feel like the devil 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.800 comes to mess with you right when you're either like 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.639 so close to the goal. It's like I'm gonna distract 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.680 you with a whole bunch of drift. Brath, do you 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.399 feel like it was that or do you feel like 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.280 it was just Detroit was like I'm determined to keep 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:52.600 you here. I don't think it was. I think it 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:53.960 was the people, Like I mean, you know, I felt 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.280 like my brother was like, really, you know, sad that 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.000 I was gonna leave because he felt like maybe I 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.720 was leaving him behind. Um. And I think that it 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.119 was just a lot of I think it was a 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:08.560 lot of sad energy more than anything. UM. Moreover, I 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.720 was like, I don't want us to go out of 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.719 business over here. Um. I think it was a lot 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.960 of that. So this next round, it was really just 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.560 more or less keeping it to myself and like keeping 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.879 it locked inside, but also not allowing whatever that energy 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.240 was too overpower my dream. You know, like I knew 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.879 I still had to accomplish the stream and um, and 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.040 I just found myself like watching behind the music, and 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.359 and uh I watched one on Ditty and he was 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.000 going back and forth from like d C to UH, 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:43.200 from DC to UH New York and is this one 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.560 for this one? Yes? And he use our sauce. This 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.159 is our sauce. So this is this is store bought sauce. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.920 Just so you know, stot sauce progress with the meat, 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:59.080 well the meat flavor flavor. Yeah, there's an interesting meat flavor, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:05.160 but it's really good. So uh, I was watching behind 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.399 the music. So I watched Jlo, I watched Diddy, and 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.280 I watched Left Eye and each of them had like 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.320 seven hundred and fifty bucks or like one was on 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:12.560 the bus, like Diddy was on the bus back and 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.520