WEBVTT - #446 - Ken Flores 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.000 It's your boy. Ken Floor is check me out on 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:03.600 the Bootleg keV podcast. 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:09.480 Yo, Bootleg cav podcast. Man, we got a special guest 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:12.080 in here, the very funny Ken Floor is welcome, sir. 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:13.960 What up? Man, appreciate you having me, man, Thank you, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:14.400 thank you. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.160 Yere. You know I've noticed about you. You have a pretty 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.760 stellar fitted hat collection. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.160 Hell yeah, I know. I've loved hats ever since I 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.279 was growing up. I worked at Lids for a good minute. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:25.800 You got the Lids discount? 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.960 Nah, No, I mean I got yeah, well, I got yeah. Well, 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.040 I mean I used to steal from that motherfucker so 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.160 they fired my eyes. But I was working there during 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.040 high school and ship that my coworker started sucking the manager, 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.200 so we started stealing because we was blackmailing her. Nice 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.479 all all kinds of shit. But anyways, all that to 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.640 say that, yeah, I got into hats around that time. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.240 And now when people see it on the videos online, 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.040 every time I go to their city, they got one 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.600 ready for me. Gott to get it for you. Yeah, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:52.360 this is the best. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.040 What's uh the most you pay for a fitting? 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.720 Man? I mean usually the nice ones that I got 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.400 are are the ones that are gifts. I was just 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.120 in San Diego and I went into like just the 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.280 lids and bought like a regular I think it was 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.800 maybe like a spring training in San Diego Padres had 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.240 and that was sixty dollars, and I don't kind of hurt. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.080 I was like, damn, nah, they're fucking dude, They're they're 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:15.640 up there. Especially if you go to like you know, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.200 like shots to Cap City. You go over there, they 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.280 got like the variants, Like shit, you might spend like 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.560 seventy dollars on the fitting. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.800 Yeah, it's crazy. And then like when me when I 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.280 went on to perform, so usually I'm sweating on stage, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.559 so I could only usually wear it once and after 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.520 that has got like a yellow stain on it or 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:31.000 like ass. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.840 That shit is crazy. Ah. So you said you were 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:36.640 just in Reno this past weekend and you flooded your 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:37.200 hotel room. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.039 Hell yeah, yeah, I was in Reno. It was my 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.920 first time there. I heard about it, but I ain't 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.399 a real methy town, real mad you know, it's crazy 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.600 because it's like it's a weird combo. It's like some 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.160 of the richest, wealthy as nice as white people, and 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.560 then just some of like the most trashiest fucking. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.800 People's kind of like Vegas. Yeah, it's just like much 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.400 smaller and much more rednecky. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.720 Yeah yeah, but but it was fun. Man. It was 0:01:58.720 --> 0:01:59.880 my first time there. But they put me in like 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:02.720 a nice, a nice suite at the at the comedy 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.960 club was inside the casino and they put me in 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.800 a suite up there and they had a nice like 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.080 dracuzie with a big view. And usually I've got jacuzzies before, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:12.440 but like at the Super eight, so I don't even 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:13.920 think about getting them, because. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.120 They got jacuzzies at the Super eight. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:16.560 Yeah, you get like the they give you like the 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.840 deluxe sweet. Oh yeah, I mean I wouldn't get in. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.040 They probably get something like STD or some shit. But 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.720 uh yeah, this this hotel was a little bit nicer. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.080 So I ran the water. I let it fill up 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.520 all the way. I was drunk as hell, was me 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.720 and my girl. It's like five in the morning. We 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.320 had already we were down like fifteen hundred at the casino. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.280 So I was like, you know, what's in the night, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.360 the nice like jacuzzie, you know, So I filled it 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.440 up all away. I ain't realize that, you know, I 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.600 ain't never took this nice class or science class when 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.840 you put they talking about it was water distribution or 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.440 something like that. When you jump in that motherfucker the 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.960 water elevator. So me and my girl both got in 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.040 that motherfucker. And I'm a big motherfucker already, so that shit, 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.800 it was just like a tsunami. Bro Like, I just 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.760 looked at the water like flood the whole apartment. And 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.000 crazy thing is that we I had just traveled from 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.480 Chicago to Reno, and I was doing laundry because I 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.480 stopped to visit my parents and my I was gonna 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.519 miss my flight, so I didn't let my clothes dry 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.000 all the way. So as soon as I got to 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.560 the suite, I laid everything out on the floor air dry, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.760 and now everything's on the floor. So it's the fucking 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.760 sweetest flood and everything's just getting soaked all over again. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.520 So we're it's just me and my girl. We're literally 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.639 fighting to get out this dracuzie. But of course the 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.200 dracuzie is like like he's got like a little slant, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.480 so we're slipping. It's like some cartoon shit flint Stone ship, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.840 like we're running and play Scooby Douch shit. You know, 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.320 finally we get to jump out the goddamn uh CHACUZI 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.480 we put everything away, But I mean at this point, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.560 like we're walking around the whole weekend, uh, and here's 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.040 all the water and the goddamn fucking carpet. It's just 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:49.920 by the third day, it just smelled like it. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:50.840 Was like mold. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:52.640 It was mold. I was like, we either gonna go 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.800 through this motherfucking ceiling down to the next floor or 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:00.640 the next motherfucker will no deposit. No, not the bozigone. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.480 We just started smoking in that moment. At that point, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:03.160 we just started. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.080 Yeah, once you fled the room, you just got to 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.120 kind of like, I don't know, just do whatever you 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.560 want in there. At that point, for real, You're like, 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:11.560 I'm gonna smoke weed. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.280 Might as well sub least demo for Yeah, my Airbnb's 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.600 bitch out for a day, you know, shit shot. 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.160 What's it? So you're originally from Chicago, right, Yeah. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.520 I grew up in the North side of Chicago, Hombo 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.200 Park neighborhood, and then I moved out right around like 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.160 middle school, middle school, high school. I moved moved out 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.560 to Aurora, which is a suburb of Chicago about forty 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.960 miles west of downtown. Wayne's World was actually shot there. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.640 Waynswood was shot in your hometown. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.000 Yep, a ruraland north fire. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.920 I'm curious because, like, I don't think a lot of 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.719 people give like the city of Chicago, like like enough 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.479 credit as it being like a real Mexican city. Oh yeah, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.760 because like when we think of Mexicans, we think of 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:56.080 like Texas the West Coast, like, but Chicago's like I 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.680 would always say the furthest East. You can get real 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.520 dope Mexican food is Chicago. Anything after that, shit's fucked up. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.160 No, man, man, there's actually an argument going on online. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.000 I've actually gotten gone viral a few times. Bread is 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.800 argument of saying that just Chicago has got better in 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:17.839 Mexican food than the whole country, even California. Yeah, some people. Yeah, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.160 I've lived here a little bit longer now in l A, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.640 and I've i come to realize that it's just that 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:25.960 you guys got a lot of options. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.039 What's also a home for you? 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.400 So like I get it, Yeah, but but we do 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:30.479 got good food though. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.120 For sure, I heard it. I heard it's amazing. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.400 But yeah, I mean yeah, but when I started touring 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.440 and traveling. I tell people I'm from Chicago, and the 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.960 first reaction is there's Mexicans there, which to me is 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.640 like insane, because I mean I'm from there, so I'm like, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.240 what the fuck, Like everybody, we're all Mexican up there. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.880 What are you talking about? But but yeah, it was crazy, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.800 but it's also a culture shock to go to New 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.880 York or like my first time I was ever on 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.160 the road, I went to DC and I realized that 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:57.440 there's their majority of Latino was Salvadorian. It wasn't Mexican. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.960 So that was kind of weird to me. I was like, whoa, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:01.159 That's like when I moved. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.159 I lived in Florida for three years, and you know, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.640 if I met a Mexican, I was excited. All from 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.080 the West Coast. Where can I get good food? And 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:09.560 they're like. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:15.159 They're not, say yeah, yeah, it is a culture, especially 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.920 if you frequent only the West coast, you know, Texas 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.880 or Chicago, and then you go out easier like oh yeah. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.240 You go to Florida. It's that cool Cubano food man, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.680 which is fire. It's fire, for sure, but it's different. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:28.239 It's it's totally different. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.160 In Chicago, we actually got a we actually got. We 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.039 got Puerto Ricans in Hombo Parking neighborhood, and we got 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.839 Puerto Rican Chicago food that's not even available in Puerto Rico. 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.279 It's only in Chicago. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.080 Puerto Rican Chicago, a style of Puerto Rican food in Chicago. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:47.120 Only specific specifically, they created this like text mes yeah, yeah, 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:48.680 like text mex but they got this thing. It's called 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.280 the head Etho. I always found it out. It's it's 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.360 it's basically like a state sandwich when instead of bread 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.880 they use planteens. And it's just I mean a one 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.400 shout out to Heids and Mons in Chicago and Humble Park. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.120 It's gas bro. I recommend you guys to go there. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.080 But that's why Chicago is different, Like the food is 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.000 just I think we got the best food in the world. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:06.719 Ain't gonna lie. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.240 I've heard. I've heard it's amazing. My friend is radio 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.160 out there. Uh so, north side of Chicago's Cubs yep, 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.000 south side obviously white sox So did you grow up 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:18.560 a Cubs fin? You know what? 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.920 The people we used to live in a basement, me 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.920 and my family and the people that the landlord that 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.080 lived above us, which is kind of like our family 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.520 now that we consider them. But they were like huge 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.360 coach fans, so I just I just remember like Sammy 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.280 Sosa during his prime and all that, and they were 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.120 They never took me to a game, and I still 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:36.880 to this day have never been to a Cubs game. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.600 But they grew up liking the Cubs. You know, as 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.880 I got older, I kind of fell off of baseball 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.360 and I started wearing a lot of black. So I'll 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:44.680 just buy a whole bunch of socks gear. 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.240 I mean, white Sox, the cleanest hat in all sports. Yeah, definitely, 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.160 Like I think I probably owned three hundred white Sox 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.480 fitted in the last ten weeks. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:53.400 They go with everything. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.680 You can wear white Sox fitted with anything, yep. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.200 And then but I've been to white Sox games, but 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.440 I've actually been to more Dodgers games and then anything. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.160 So I guess I consider myself with Dodgers right now. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.240 But but yeah, yeah, I grew up a Cubs fan. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.440 Uh when you were growing up, because obviously, you know, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.520 when we think of Chicago from like the hip hop perspective, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.560 at least in the last decade, we think like the 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.120 shy Iraq quote unquote, the drill scene. Obviously the North 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.360 Side is a lot not near that where you were 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.120 at and obviously moved out, But did you did you like, 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:31.120 were you like being in your hometown during that era 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.280 of like drill and everything that was happening out of Chicago, 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.000 Like what would like? Was that like dope just to 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:37.120 kind of be around for Bro? 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.280 I'm like, Bro, it's it's like, you know what this is? 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.200 How inspiring that shit is. This weekend, Chief Keith was 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:44.520 back in. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.280 Chicago first time in twelve years for Summer Smash. 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.360 I was like, I was literally considering canceling my show 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.760 to fly back to Chicago because I got I'm friends 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.800 with the people that own speaker Box, So I was 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.160 shout out my homie, even Caronza so he always looks 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:58.800 me up with tickets and like it was such a 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.480 monumental movement for s like I'm watching the goddamn tiktoks. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.880 My eyes are watery and shit, my fucking I'm getting goosebumps. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.160 If you follow me on Instagram, it's Ken Flores's three 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.600 zero zero, It's three hundred because we were so like 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.600 it just inspired Chief keefs just I'm not a beady 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.320 I'm not a black disciple, right, but but we all, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.600 like all he had the Mexicans, the Blacks, the white 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.440 everybody was beaty around that time twenty twelve when like 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.200 Back from the Dead came out Fredo Santana and me 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.400 one time. One time, me and Fredo Santana. He had 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.240 a concert and I was up there just game banging. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:32.480 I'm not evenna say what I was saying, but I 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.920 was game banging and he saw me, so we started 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.920 game banging on each other. It was it was like 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.600 like I was a huge fan of the whole glow, 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.280 like the Glory Boys and all that little dirt when 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.079 he came up, I mean, and then like following g 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.680 Herbel Baby right after all that, Like that whole time 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.800 was like they made it seem like even me as 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.720 a comedian because like Kanye made it out of Chicago, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.720 you know. But I was too young at the time. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.640 I was born ninety six for sure, Like I wasn't 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.920 even like into hip hop around that time, like because 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.200 you know, my parents Mexican, I didn't even know hip 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.400 hop was a thing or whatever. So when I got 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.319 into hip hop it was a little bit later. But 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.840 just being able to witness that whole era of love foe, 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.400 you know, like these guys like for a long time, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:16.000 they made their whole their friends famous, like like Fredo 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.000 Santana had like the Savage Squad, Little Dirt and his 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.199 OTF crew. You know, it's sad. Obviously, they also ignited 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.079 a war in Chicago, and you know a lot of 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.400 people lost their life. Yeah, but I mean just like 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.560 the as far as the motivation too, Like it made 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.840 me feel like, oh shit, this dude is from here, 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.840 like the same place I'm from. Not necessarily the same place, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.360 right because it's a completely different world the South Side 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.839 compared to the North Side or the suburbs, but just 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.160 just like him, Like damn, he lived like out here, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.800 he walked these streets and he fucking made it. He 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.360 blew up. He's a multi millionaire, huge innerscope deal. Sixteen 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.719 years old. I'm sixteen years old, you know, like at 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.400 the time, and it just motivated me to be like, oh, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.439 I could make it, and what I want to do 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.000 if he can do it, you know, and then I 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.640 ain't gonna lie. Like it was really inspirational, like and 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.880 a lot of people started rapping. Has a lot of 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:07.400 rappers from Chicago came up. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.160 He's probably I mean, I mean, look when you break 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:14.240 it down, like the last you know, ten to fifteen years, 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:15.440 it's like him future. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:16.640 Yeah. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.200 As far as the most influential influencing other artists, sound like, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.360 it's probably those two, like you know, because. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.480 It was I mean, it was just completely like yeah, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.240 I mean, I don't know, man to. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.240 Me, it was I was dope. It was dope. I 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.520 was at I was at Rolling Loud, uh and I 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.559 was on stage while he was performing because Sexy Red 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.200 cave out. We were up there were that ship was 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.000 a free for all on stage. They had the whole 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:46.400 goddamn everybody from Rolling Loud was was just wanted to 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.120 come and see him perform because like he don't perform 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.560 like like that, you know, like for for and you know, 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.720 like to see him go back to Chicago was dope. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.640 I didn't even realize that they're like your first time 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:57.640 in twelve years somebody. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.400 Yeah. And so there are songs like, for example, like 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.360 like Fernido who you know you put it at a 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.880 club at any concert, it's gonna play and people crazy. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.000 So it's the first time he gets to perform that, 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.120 which is crazy. I mean, it's insane, Like I mean, 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.160 I mean, like I said, I just wish I was there. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:15.880 It's definitely a crazy moment. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.280 So how did you kind of break it down? 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:19.480 Man? 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.040 Like? Obviously you know you're you're obviously killing it, You're 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.240 you're torn, you've you've been killing it as a comedian, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.120 But how did all all this start for you? 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.000 I mean, shout out to the internet. You know, Internet 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.400 definitely changing a lot of people's eyes right now if 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.080 you're a content creator. But as far as I put 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:36.760 me in the game, you actually just had my big one, 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.640 Rene Baka here not too long ago. The way the 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.000 way I kind of started getting on the road was 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.480 I I came across some of his videos. He was 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.800 actually one of the first people to start like with 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.080 those with those viral stand up clips. Now I know 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.880 that they're all over the internet. You know, most of 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.640 them are trashed, but he was like, everybody's doing them, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.880 everybody's doing them, but they don't. Everybody don't. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.280 And also they're forcing crowd work to try to get 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.440 one of those moments as opposed to just focusing on 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:02.880 the comedy. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.160 Yeah, it sucks to see a comedian performed looking for 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.559 a clip or chasing the clip. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.720 Yes, Like it's like, dude, just do do as it 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:09.600 gets set, that'll happen. 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.320 Yeah, yeah, it happens. It happens. If it don't, it 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.840 don't is way more organic, you feel me. But Renee 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.559 was one of those guys that like he was never 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.280 looking for the clip. He's just a fucking crazy motherfucker 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.280 on stage. His energy is insane, so his videos would 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.760 automatically go viral, you know. And I remember me and 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.640 my homeboy Chin's at the time were watching them and 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.439 we're like, dude, whenever this kid, I don't know who 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.120 this kid is, but we need to go see him 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.559 whenever it comes to Chicago, And he had booked a 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.520 show at the Laugh Factory out there. At this point, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.240 Rene only had like forty thousand followers, So I messaged him. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:39.440 I was like, hey man, you know, I'm a comedian 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.480 in Chicago. At that point, I was had like a 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.719 thousand followers or something. I was I would love to 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.000 open for you, We would love to work with you. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.120 You know, you're from San Fernando Valley, I got families, 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.000 you know. I was trying to like relate to hev 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.040 you feeling like so he give me a spot, but 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.400 he was like, bro, I already got people coming with me. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.200 You know, I'm sorry, I can't really give you a spot. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:56.720 And I understand him because now I get people that 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.240 message me that, and you're like, what, I put you 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.400 up everybody? You know, So I get him now. But 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.599 at that time, and I was like, damn, Luckily I 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.160 had a relationship with the club. So then the club 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.040 ended up hitting me up there like you know what, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.200 somebody dropped out so he'd come through five minutes open 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.840 for him. I was like, all right, fuck it. So 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.760 I went up first before all his openers, and I look, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.079 he killed that shit. And it was only like forty 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.880 people there. Like he wasn't that big at the time, 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.520 so we could. We didn't really sell tickets. It was 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.440 kind of empty, but we rocked the show that night. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.640 We drank and then and then he started telling me like, bro, 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.160 put your content out. Put your content out, like it's 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:31.960 gonna start to blow up. People follow you, you know. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.640 I was like, all right, fucking I'm gonna do it. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.680 So we started me in my roommate at the time. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.240 I told him, I was like, I'm gonna pay for 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.560 your half of the rent. Just do me a favor, like, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.800 just cut out clips for me, and that's all I 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.560 needed to do. He was my video guy at the time. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.400 He was like, all right, fuck it, I'll do it. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.080 So we started putting out clips every week and I 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.840 started growing when they started blowing up like Max, like 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.320 to the Max. Then he was gonna come back to Chicago. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.520 The time he came back to Chicago, he actually hit 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.200 me up. He's like, hey, man, I see you've been 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.360 doing your thing. I'm about to go back. Help me 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.440 promote the show. Let's sell it out. I'll let your 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.960 feature for me and you'll give you twenty minutes instead 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:06.920 of fine. I was like, all right, fucking we announced 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.000 the show. It sold out like in two days. There's 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.400 like three hundred people. So I was like, oh shit, 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.760 like we got something going here. So then we did 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:17.480 the show, rocked that well. He actually his feature. Something 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.800 had happened. We had overbooked the show, so they had 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.480 to have me host instead, which hosting kind of sucks 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:23.960 because then you got to go first. 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.320 And in the middle of everybody, in the middle of everybody. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.280 But I was like, you know what, I'm instead of 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.200 looking at it like fuck you know, I got the mooted. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.240 I'm gonna look at it like opportunity. I get to 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.480 go up there multiple times, so I'm gonna make them 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.720 love me. So I went up there. I fucking rocked 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.600 that shit, and they got to a point where the 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.400 people were waiting for the comedians to hurry up and 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.880 finish just so they can see me again. So then 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.360 Renee obviously went up there and rocked that shit. And 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.040 then from there he told me, he's like, hey, bro, 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.560 call off work tomorrow and let's go to Detroit. I 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.920 got another tour stuff up there. Shit. I was like, shit, 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:53.440 say lez I call working. 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:53.760 I was. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.920 I was doing leasing for an apartment complex that over 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.800 there and back home, and I was like fuck it. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.280 So I called off work and we went up to Detroit. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.200 We drove all the way up to Detroit. We did 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.440 the show, and from there we went out to drink 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.280 to a buffalo Wowings. I remember, this is the relationship 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.680 somebody ever did for me in comedy. We were drinking 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.800 at the be Doves and he's like, bro, you need 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.920 to come to La. Have you ever performed in La? 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.560 And at that time, I already was kind of building 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.680 a following and people would tell me like, are you 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.200 from La, You need to come to La. I was like, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.160 I don't know nobody in Labor, so I've never performed 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:23.680