WEBVTT - EYL #97 85 South feat. Chico Bean 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.600 An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.480 in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.840 accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.840 filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.680 some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.320 Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:28.120 Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.680 crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.960 one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.920 are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.000 one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.680 never return. But if you register using our CBP home 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.120 app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.240 Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws, 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.840 border and families will be protected. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.000 Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:06.039 All right, guys, welcome back. E y l Atlanta Edition Goroom. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:08.640 Only classics over here. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.399 So this is this is this is gonna be. This 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.760 is gonna be a classic episode. Man shots first and 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.399 foremost shot to my man Chad from eighty five South 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.840 shown he he's a real dude. He reached out to 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.280 us early on on our journey and just like the 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.800 content that he was pointing out, and we connected and 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:27.000 built a solid relationship, and our interview today comes courtesy 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.800 of that. So first and foremost, we gotta acknowledge him. So, 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.319 Chico Bean, yes, one is. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.840 Not messing up the aesthetics with my with my cell phone. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.479 You're good, you know, I know you gotta you gotta, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.319 you gotta get that in mind. I don't want your 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.800 fan base to be like, fuck you think you fucking 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.880 up the aesthetics at the table. It's gonna be a classic. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.720 Just wanted to make sure I'm following protocol. That's no, 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:51.520 You're good man. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.080 So yeah, Chico Bean a legend in his own right, 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:55.960 one of the funniest people on earth. You might have 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.440 seen wilding out, you might have seen him on eighty 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.640 five South Show on tour, you might have seen them 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.800 on the podcast eighty five South Show, The Cold this 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.720 podcast all over many they tend the game down right now. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.519 And you know he's He's one third of the Magnificent Trio. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:11.760 Just talented brothers. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.400 So yeah, but this is gonna be a interesting convo. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.000 You know, we never had a comedian on really yeah yeah, yeah, wow, 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.200 we never had any well, we had an actor on before, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:20.639 but I'm gonna say we never had anybody from the 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.480 entertainment space, but very few people. We got a lot 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.160 of musicians, rappers, stuff like that, but not really. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.320 Do you think that that's more in tune with the 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.520 people who subscribe to what you guys do? Do you 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:32.799 think that that's more Nah? 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.400 I think it has to do with people seeing it 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.400 as just entertainment and if you getting the business part 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:38.040 right right. 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:39.359 So when we. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:40.960 Came to sit down with y'all, was like, yo, it's 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.840 important that these dudes a businessmen, like they smart as hell. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:45.200 People need to see that. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:46.320 So and I don't think it. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.320 I don't think it's even thought about too much as 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.680 far as like people like because obviously we all know comedians, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.240 we all know entertainers. But I don't think people even 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.679 look look at it from that standpoint like we want 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.040 to know the back story at this person, like you 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:02.200 know what I'm saying. And that's the same thing I 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.280 feel with like artists and even athletes a lot of 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.720 times they don't necessarily know, like it's a lot that 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.880 went into Lebron becoming Lebron. Almost definitely, they just want 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.040 to tune into Game seven. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.079 It's just like entertaining. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.560 But like, yo, no, you're a person, you got a 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.040 hell of a story and you grinded your asshole. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.120 Oh yeah, most definitely, most definitely, most definitely, first and foremost, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:22.440 thank you for joining us, apciate man. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.600 Thank you all for having me. Man, this is a pleasure. Like, 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.440 you know, we met in New York. What was it 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:28.000 last year? 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:28.799 Last year? 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.760 Yeah, we met in New York at Angela Yee's live podcast, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.920 Salut Angela Yee. Now, we had a conversation and you 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:37.920 know what I mean, we didn't know, you know, we 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.160 weren't in tune what you guys were doing at that point. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.360 But after we had the conversation, we tuned in and 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.480 was and was really impressed with what we saw, what 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.280 you guys were putting out, because it was something that 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.280 we never seen before, especially with dudes that look like us. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.400 You know, I appreciate that, I mean a little bit more, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:56.800 you know, clean cut to the outfit. This is the 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:03.240 nigga off the post for whatever problem that you've ever 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.760 seen a black man model and like an outlet, mall 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.800 like that nigga there and then him he's slick a 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.320 defensive end, but he tried a trick y'all. You know, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:13.840 we know the back I ain't gonna give it all 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.200 the way up. These dudes are very verse, stick with 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.599 what they do, you know what I mean? Man? 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.000 So yeah, man, but I'm interested in them the backstory 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.680 because I feel like there's really no like set school 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.760 to become a top comedian, Like you gotta kind of 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.320 figure your way out. Some people took the Saturn Night Live. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.279 Some people, you know, go on the corner and tell jokes. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.880 Some people like how is your route coming from DC? 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.800 Growing up in DC? Like how did you? Because I 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.080 look at like every neighborhood got somebody that is a comedian. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:44.800 I could tell jokes like you know what I'm saying, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.680 but it's like, how do you turn that into an 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.240 actual professional feature family? 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:49.960 So like, how was you able to do that? 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.800 Well? Not to go all the way back, but like 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.560 I said, I was born and raised in Washington, DC 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.200 and my background was really different. You know. My father 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.960 was murdered when I was two years old and most 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.960 of the male influences in my family were you know, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:05.960 in the street. So that was a lot of the 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.400 influence that I got growing up, and I thought that 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.279 that was what my aspirations should be, to be like 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.599 the dudes that I looked up to, And for a 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.680 while that was my goal. And I've been blessed to 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.960 always be good at whatever it is I decided to do. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.320 And in two thousand and two, my uncle, who was, 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.479 like I would say, the person who assumed the father role, 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.280 the most consistent male that I had ever had, had 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.119 got murdered in two thousand and two. So that changed 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.000 my perspective a little bit because it scared me real 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:38.680 bad because he was one of those guys that you 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.280 see get all the respect and all the love, and 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.200 you know, he was like a superhero to me. So 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.360 when that happened, it changed my perspective on my you 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.960 know route, because I knew that this dude was a 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.320 thousand times tougher than I ever could be. Everything that 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.880 I know about being stand up and being a man 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.919 I really got from him, especially in the space that 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.880 I was, you know, aspiring to be a part of. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.000 After he died, I realized that, you know, I dis 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.719 ain't the way, so I took some money that I had, 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.480 and I've always I started working when I was nine 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.360 years old. You know, I've been getting my own money 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.800 for a long time. I don't come from a household 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:18.039 where nepotism was prevalent in any way, so I've always 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.680 been able to generate my own income, even if it 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.040 was just you know, I started out working at the 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.479 barbershop brushing people off for dollars as a brush board, 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:26.960 and then I got a job and hold foods as 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.360 a bagger. And then you know, even when I jumped 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.400 out and started doing the shit that we kind of 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.760 all get caught up and when we come from certain environments, 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.600 I still always kept a job because I was taught 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.159 that you should never have more money than you can 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.960 account for if the government come knocking over the door. So, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.760 you know, I worked at DTL and I've just always 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.800 been efficient and making my own money. But at that point, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.880 I knew that I had to take a route that 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.719 was less traveled for where I come from. So I 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.600 took some money and paid for me and my partner 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.880 to go on a college tour for all of HBCUs 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.880 from DC all the way down to Florida, and honestly 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.039 we went to where I ended up going to Winston 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.919 Salem State. And the reason I picked the college I 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.480 went to is because I seen twenty girls before and 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.400 I said, this ain't that bad. I didn't know anything 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.040 about college life up until that point because in DC 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.960 public schools, they don't you know, they didn't really teach 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.040 us about college. They really were just trying to get 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.880 us out of school safely, you know what I mean. Really, 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:29.800 we had a very high drop our rate, you know 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.280 what I mean. The violence was real bad, and you 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.640 know that wasn't you know, I got as counselors weren't 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.120 guiding you towards that they were pretty much gotten you 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.680 through real life issues. So once I went to Winsalem 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.960 State and then I applied to more House, it was 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.120 the only two schools that I applied to. Prior to that, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.960 I was just doing enough to make sure that my 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.880 mama was satisfied with my schooling. But I knew that 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.880 I was always, you know, proficient in whatever I did, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.800 so that when my uncle got killed, I started to 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.000 buckle down to get right with the academics. So I 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.640 went to more House, was supplied there, didn't get in. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:03.560 I mean, well, I got in, but I found out 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.480 it was a dude school, and I was like, that's 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:08.160 work on where I had no idea. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.560 Oh wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, you applied 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.600 for more House and didn't realize it was all. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.640 No because we didn't I didn't know, you know what 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.400 I'm saying. They were on fall break when we went. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.160 That was was a fall year, fall break when we 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.640 went down there, so the school was closed. So but 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.160 I just heard so much prestigious stuff about the school 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.080 that I felt like, well, this is somewhere that I 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.480 should apply to. And I got in. I did, and 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.200 then you know, when I found out it was an 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.160 all male school, I was like, Winston, sell them state 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.640 it is, you know what I'm saying. So I went 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.240 to Winston. You know, I majored in communications radio Television. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.079 I graduated and I went to get a job where 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.000 I did an internship at at a news station in 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.480 Winston Salem, North Carolina. And they told me I was 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.840 gonna be making six dollars and fifty cent an hour 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.600 part time. I was like, no, I'm not, just because 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.080 of my like I said, my background, I've always been 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.400 able to to, you know, get my own in. So 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:01.880 I was like, well, if I'm gonna be I knew 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.720 this was the start of my life. The way the 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.320 world projects life and what a man is supposed to do, 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.360 I knew this was the start of it. So I said, well, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.840 if I'm gonna be pawing, struggling, and then everybody telling 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.679 me you don't really have a choice but to be 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.360 paorn struggling at the beginning, then I'd rather be poor 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.880 and struggling building my own legacy than helping somebody else 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.079 that then took that elite Bill did and continue to 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.199 Bill did. So I decided to you know, figure it 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:25.760 out and that what that was gonna be. I had 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.960 no idea, and my homeboy Jerome saluted my boy Jerome. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.679 He was like, bro, you should do comedy. You should 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.760 do comedy, and mind you, I had never been to 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.120 a comedy show at this point. I've always, you know, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.319 spoke in front of people. I've never had a stage fright. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.360 I've been speaking in front of people my whole life. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:41.880 I used to host all of the stuff for my 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.760 fraternity when I was in school, and you know, I'm 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.360 an outpha. Yeah. So I hosted all of this stuff 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.120 for school, and you know, I was a person that 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:52.920 didn't mind getting on stage and was good at it. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.920 So my boy Jerome was like, man, it's a comedy 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.000 club in Greensboro, which is about thirty minutes away. We 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.800 should go and check it out. They got an open mic. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.400 It was the first and second Thursday of every month. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.199 So that first Thursday we went and watched the show 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.679 and I watched this people bomb over and over again, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:10.719 and I said, well, shit, I can at least give 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.960 it a try, you know what I mean. And I 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:17.000 ended up going home that weekend and had a series 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.920 of events that kind of made me realize that I 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.920 really need to do something that's of value because that 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:24.840 was my first time in one of my father's gravesite 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.360 and he didn't have a headstone, and that was a 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.920 big part of what made me realize, like, yo, I 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.680 can't go out like this. This dude is my father, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.880 but they don't even have a headstone. And luckily for me, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.600 my background has made it to where I could deal 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.640 with the reality of things that that's the way it 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.480 was always given to me. So when the lady showed 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.640 me the grass. My first thought was like, damn, I 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.640 hope I put these flowers on the right nigga, because 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:51.720 this is gonna be confusion. And that's truly my thought process. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.400 But when I went home and showed my mom a 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.760 paper that they gave me at the graveyard, she immediately 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.439 broke down and cried and because they had is information wrong. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.880 And that let me know that even though he didn't 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.760 do enough in his life to get a headstone, and 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.839 nobody around him that did enough to get him one, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.199 he still had enough impact in love that after all 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.360 of these years, it could still make this woman feel 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.080 this way. So that means I got a special type 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.640 of energy. Even though I've never been given the explanation 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.679 of how to manage it, I had to figure out 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.120 on my own. At that moment, I kin kind of 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.400 confirmed that that's what it was for me. So I 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.600 went back down to North Carolina and I went the 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.920 next week to the open mic, got on stage there 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.600 four minutes. And it may sound crazy, but when I 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.240 got off stage, I swear it was like, that's what 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.760 I'm supposed to be doing, and I've been doing it 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:37.400 ever since that day. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.680 That's crazy. So like, at what point was it like comedy? Like, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.120 were you the dude in the school that everybody told 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:42.719 Joe's Like. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.199 Nah, I mean that was you know, you come from 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.720 certain environments where everybody got jokes, you know what I mean. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.680 I'm from DC, Man and where I come from. Everybody 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.200 you had to be able to jone, to be able 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.120 to just be outside. So I wouldn't say that I 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.360 was the biggest class. I was always well known, but 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.440 I don't think I was well known for being funny. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.040 I was just well known for the shit that I 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:05.720 was into, and I was just good at you know. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.760 I was always a dude that had all the new everything, 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.800 and you know, everybody knew me for going to get 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.600 some money. That was pretty much what I was always 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:14.800 known for, being gonna hustle. 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.760 So once you once you decided you wanted to take 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.160 it serious, like I guess the next steps is just 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:19.959 comedy clubs? 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.360 Yeah? No, actually no, not really. At that point, I 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.000 made a decision, another vital decision as to okay, what 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.120 am I gonna do. Am I gonna stay here in 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.839 North Carolina where I don't know anybody and I'm forced 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:32.960 to make it work? Or am I gonna go home 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.719 to DC where I have a support system, and it 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:37.760 might be a little easier now. At that point, I 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.360 had to realize that it was better for me to 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.640 stay down there because I didn't want to have to 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.720 deal with the repercussions of the failures that come with 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.719 entrepreneurship and chasing your own dream like it's one thing 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.800 if a stranger say you ain't shit, but if your 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.520 mama's looking at you like, baby, you ain't ate again today, 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.800 like it may, it affects you a little different. And 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.800 I knew my You know, I'm very big on not 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.760 caring about what people think about me because I care 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:07.920 so much about the people who matter what they think 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.000 of me. So I didn't want to have to deal 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.080 with that influence because I knew at that point I 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.640 didn't have enough understanding of what the game was to 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.360 be able to get through that. I would have probably 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.840 quit nine times out of ten, just because that influence 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.480 would have made me feel like because I know how 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.319 to hustle, so it would have made me feel like, man, 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:23.960 what am I doing? 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:24.160 Man? 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:25.120 I'm broken? 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:26.040 Get it, you know what I mean? 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.360 Just get a job or get out here and start 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.720 doing something different. So I stayed in North Carolina where 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.960 there was no other option. This is what I gotta do. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.160 And I figured, this is not a hot bed of entertainment, 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.480 like not too many people are coming to North Carolina 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.920 looking for new talent. So I figured if I could 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.520 make a name for myself there and make and build 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.960 a following there wherever I go, I would have had 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.760 that leverage, like I want to work with you, but 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.000 I've already shown you what my work is when I 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.400 show up. So that was my plan. So I stayed 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.040 down and started to just do open mics, and then 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.760 I got into a group. It was called NC Comics. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:01.920 It was a bunch of comedians who just were trying 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.920 to They were funny and were trying to figure out 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.240 a way. So it's unlike Atlanta. A lot of the 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.640 guys that are starting Atlanta, LA and New York, which 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.680 are the you know, some of the mechas of comedy, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.240 they already have their infrastructure built. In North Carolina, we 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.160 were kind of responsible for building the infrastructure that exists 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.840 there now in regards to comedy and people understanding that 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.920 there's talent dead. So doing open mics, doing open mics, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.760 and you know, just going to do whatever I can do. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.120 And we ended up starting a group called the Freestyle 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.800 Funny Comedy Show, which I have on my Chaine, myself, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.800 Durren Brand during Big Baby Brand who's also cast Memmon 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.640 wilding Out was a cast Memon wild'n Out, beat Out 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.200 who was a casman Moon wild'n Out, my boy Burpie 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.640 who works radio at Charlotte Now, and my boy Drink 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.240 who also works radio, and beat Out works one or 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.080 two jams too. So we got together in two thousand 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.720 and nine, at end of two thousand and nine, going 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.240 in twenty ten and started this you know, Freestyle Funny 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.200 Comedy troupe. And then and we got to hustling as 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.760 a unit, you know, going to different conventions, getting booked 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.400 for colleges and doing our own show every third Sunday 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.760 of the month, and just hustling, you know, I mean, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:14.880 building a repertoire of understanding the game. Even though it 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.920 wasn't somewhere where it was necessarily respected, we still were 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:19.200 getting our rounds in. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.440 You even from that business standpoint, What was the influence 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.960 right like, because I mean after a certain point, how 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.880 many comedy tools did you see? I remember seeing like 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.960 the Kings of comedy, like and that was the first 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.360 comedy tourl but like, did y'all draw the blueprint from 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.560 that and said, like, yo, we have enough talent to 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:34.240 do that as well? 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.880 Uh No, I think that comes from I think that's 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.000 more on us the just the way you feel about 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.240 yourself side of the game in regards to what you 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.320 feel you possess and what you receive once you present 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.000 that to people. Because I can think I'm shit, but 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.120 when I get up and present it, if I don't 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.680 get that back, it's clear you got some reworking to do. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.320 So I think what came with us is that we 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.680 all got together and saw the response, even though it 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.440 was just couple of people when it first started. We 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.120 saw that people cared about what we were doing enough 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.440 to come back again. So I think that's what made 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.280 us have the motivation to do it there. But as 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.360 far as what gave us the motivation to want to 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.160 be comics, that comes from just all different places. Like 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.000 I look up to so many different guys. I've always 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.440 been a fan of comedy, but I never grew up 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.520 like I'm gonna be a comedian, you know, that was 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.280 never something that I thought that I would do. But 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.040 I've been a student of the game just because you know, 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.640 I was influenced by the people around me, and they 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.200 watched Deaf Comedy jam My mama had all the tapes, 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.560 and you know, my uncles and them used to you know, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.960 the most influential comedian to me is Earthquake, because that's 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.760 who I saw the people who I looked up to 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.680 laughing at all the time. It's Comedy Central days, all 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.320 of that. So I remember we all watched Comedy Central 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.320 and you know, watching Duvall do the remix of the 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.240 and I know, did my seem strange? And all that. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.440 The Chappelle Show and all of these different influences from 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.440 when I was young played in to my influence once 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.640 I started being a comedian, and I realized, oh, I 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.600 already got this bank of information and material that I've 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.840 been influenced by. Now I need to go back and 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.480 watch it and analyze it and see what I can 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.000 learn and see how I can become better, and see 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.680 what I can pick up and the rules of the game. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.280 I read books, I did everything that I can do 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.480 to try to build my wealth of information and wealth 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.440 of knowledge in regards to the game, so I wouldn't 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.640 just be coming in thinking that my talent was just enough. Yeah. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.080 I think a lot of times people just think like 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.359 it's just get up there and starting telling Joe's Bloyd. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.840 There's a method to this, like the timing of it, 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.920