WEBVTT - SHWAYZE - Marinara Melodies 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.480 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.160 I'm your host, Coleen Wit and today we have very 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:11.680 special guests, recording artists actor Shays's up in this building? 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.680 What's up? Are you good? 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:14.319 How are you? 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.000 I'm fantastic. Thank you for having me. I love this concept. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.720 Yeah yeah, and I love that I'm going to be 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:20.639 eating lunch with you. 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:21.360 Absolutely. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.720 I have breakfast and now I'm gonna have lunch. Fortunately 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.640 it's a broke dish, but broke dishes on this show 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.760 taste great. And I always have a saying, the broken 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.280 the dish, the sweeter the story. 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:35.040 Wow. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:40.239 This entire day of filming, all the dishes combined came 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.000 to less than twenty dollars. So today's going to be 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.760 a great day for me and you are the highlight 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.880 of my day. So what are you gonna be cooking 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:50.159 for me? 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.880 Well, I'm going to cook my favorite broke dish. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.160 It's just it's just spaghetti and pasta, but I spice 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.000 up a little ground beef on top of it. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.520 Okay, Okay, here we go, here we go. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.800 So you know, you can just do the regular old 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.600 pasta in the water and the sauce, but. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.560 You know, what I'm saying, like cut an onion. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.080 I like how you were specific about the purple onion. 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.600 So he has just so you guys know, Marinara sauce. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.720 He has the beef, the garlic. He specifically asked for 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.640 a purple onion. I actually don't know the difference between onions. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.280 I know one is sweet, and I don't know what 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:48.080 the purple onion is. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:49.440 I'm not going to hold you like I don't know 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.720 all the benefits. But I just grew up knowing that 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:52.920 this was supposed to be a little better than the 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:53.480 white onion. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.480 Oh so you were like a little racist. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.880 So I just kind of like, you know right there, 0:01:58.880 --> 0:01:59.400 Oh your. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.000 I believe you. I actually believe that about you. He 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.280 even brought his own water. Guys, you know what I'm saying. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:06.800 I don't know. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.160 Look, we live in a time where we have a 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.320 lot of information, so I like to, you know, do 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:10.799 what I can. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:11.800 I'm not perfect. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.280 I perfect, no, you know, but where I can be 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.160 on point, I try. So what I'm doing is very easy. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.200 I'm spicing up my sauce a little bit, and I'm 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:22.800 putting a little bit of onions in the sauce. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:24.359 Right now, are. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.680 You gonna find like chop them. Are you gonna be 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:27.480 like chunks in there? 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.800 No? No, no'm an die sec is that is there? 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.120 Is that the reason why you specifically asked for just 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.640 the marinara sauce? Yeah, so you like it like playing, 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.400 so you can work it up exactly and I can 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.040 really judge your spaghetti right now. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.000 Well, look, this is again the broke me. I've evolved. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.079 I can make my own pace. Believe you've evolved, but 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.079 it broke me. Yeah, It's like it started off with 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:51.320 just pasta sauce and spaghetti. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.200 But I was like, this is boring, and then I 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:54.880 was like, okay, well I can actually like put some 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.640 little veggies in here. I forgot to ask for mushrooms. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.160 There's some mushrooms in here. The whole thing and the 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.400 cool thing I like about this dish. This is why 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.200 this is the best broke dish. Ladies and gentlemen, this 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.440 is very versatile. Okay, ground beef, some veggies chopped up. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:12.440 You can do a lot of things. You can make 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.440 that a stir fried. You put rice under it, you 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.880 got add sauce, make a spaghetti. You could turn these. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.320 Into meatballs and make a meatball sandwich. So this is 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.120 just the base of a lot of meal. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.120 I feel like you really do cook. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:26.919 You know what I'm saying. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:34.200 Okay, okay, okay, we see you. Okay, take us back, man, 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.200 take us back to what was going on in the 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.120 time of the spaghetti. And by the way, I was 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.240 thoroughly impressed how you just turned that dish into like 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.960 a quadruple threat. So I know you know what you're 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:45.520 talking about. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.760 I just think it's important for us young people and 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.240 people just in general to get back into cooking for ourselves. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.640 And like I fall victim to it all the time. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:55.400 Uber eats or. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:57.440 Uber eats. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.600 Oh so you have this show, you'll be eating five 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:00.960 times you don't even know you. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.760 I love how you sit here thinking like, oh, she 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.800 is she living on every successful person's broke this for 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.160 the rest of her life. Just thirty days of a week. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:13.720 You think I'll be in broke dishes. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.400 I saw the schedule. You got breakfast and then you 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.080 got lunch. She got dinner dialed in tonight. Look she 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:20.200 bringing left over his home. 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.640 Look, yo, let me tell you something. Let me tell 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.360 you something about this show. Though some of the dishes 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.680 on this show are really good. The last dish I ate, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.840 I'm telling you fire, that was fire. I'm going home 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:32.440 and I'm making it for me and my daughter. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.440 For there is. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.920 Some dishes so good on this show that I have 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.360 literally went home, ordered the dishes and tried to recreate it. 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.400 Never as good as the talent has created it. And 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.840 you and I used to lie to my husband and 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.280 I would tell him like, I came up with the dish, 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:54.400 oh wow, be careful, yes, and then and then he 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.160 eventually caught on. And so now if he sees me 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.200 come home with tupperware after a day of shooting, he'd 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.480 be like, what's that. I'm not eating it. I'm like, what, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:03.560 you don't even know if it's good. He's like, I'm 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.520 not eating it? All right when I get it? Okay, 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:11.200 that's so take me back. What was going on when 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:16.320 you were eating spaghetti? I mean, this was obviously spaghetti's 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.400 a staple dish, but like when you were struggling, when. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.120 I was struggling to doing this, I mean, look, it 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.440 started off probably when I was going to junior college. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:25.120 I was out in junior college. I was going to 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.400 junior college out in San Diego, and I knew. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:29.839 I wanted to be in entertainment. I knew I wanted 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.599 to do music. I knew wanted to be an actor. Actually, 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.920 I really wanted to be an actor as a kid. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.839 But until then, I had some like little weird jobs. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.600 You know. I literally worked everywhere. I was the kind 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.040 of person I was. Just I went at Jamaican, I 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:41.800 had like twenty jobs. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:42.480 Are Jamaica. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.800 No, I'm saying, like a Jamaican you got twenty jobs. 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:46.400 I thought we had something else in common. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.240 Jamaicans do think that I'm Jamaican, as my dreads that 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:50.400 I don't know. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.400 Nah, I didn't think you were Jamaican until you said it. 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:53.880 But then I was like, no, he ain't no Jamaican. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:55.400 Jamaican you are. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.240 Yeah, I like that, but go on. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.840 So, yeah, this is just like college broke shway, you 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.640 know what I'm saying. Like I was working. I was 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:09.279 working at this music rental shop that rented out like speakers, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:10.760 and I hated the job, but. 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.840 I was just trying to stay immersed in music. I 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.960 was trying to act like I was doing school, but 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.080 I wasn't getting any credits. Like I was basically just 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.080 flunking out of class. And that's kind of when I 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.600 wanted to, Like, I was just really focused on just 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.080 trying to figure out how I was going to get. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.560 The entertainment thing going, you know, primarily acting. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.479 Acting, But in college I kind of was giving up 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.520 my acting low key and like transitioning into music and 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.560 like that's where in San Diego was starting to like 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.320 I was on Craigslist looking for bandmates and shit like that. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:44.239 And yeah, after a while, I quit going to school 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.520 in San Diego and moved back to Malibu where I 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:47.960 grew up. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.560 And I know it sounds like I grew up in a. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.880 Rich ass town because I was about to come get you. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.000 What's the Malibu situation? The heck, let me tell you. 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.200 I already know your story is going to be interesting. Okay, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:02.000 your music is different as a tras, No you could 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.280 just let's just just put it right here. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:06.640 We don't have any trash cans. We don't have any 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:07.440 trash cans at this time. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.760 Take me back to Malibu. So you you were back 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.080 home to Malibu, Okay. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.200 Freak, it's like first Prinson Bell there and stuff, like 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.320 I moved to Malibu, uh, to live with my grandparents 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:20.520 when when I was five years old. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.720 So I lived, lived in on the beach and stuff. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.040 They lived close to the beach, the beach, but very 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.360 close to the beach. We lived in a mobile home park. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.720 But in Malibu it's like really glamorous and ship. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.480 You put me in a mobile home park and mallible, 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:35.960 I'll take it. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.120 Look and this mobile home park there are a million 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:39.880 dollars mobile homes and shff like that. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.480 But my grandparents were just really fortunate and they and they. 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.680 They bought into Malibu in like the seventies, so sheep, 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.840 So we kind of got grandfathered in no intended nice 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.560 you did, you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, I 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.640 grew up in Malibu, but I grew up, like, you know, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.800 in the very lower middle class in Malibu. And you 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.280 know my grandma, which in itself gave me some drive. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.080 It's because all my friends were hella rich, you know 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.280 what I'm saying, And I was. I was in the 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.920 mobile home park, you know, doing my thing. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.760 But no, honestly, growing up there, I couldn't have picked 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.640 a better situation like living by the beach my whole life. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.600 So you went to live with them at five? Where 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:15.320 were your parents? 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:18.840 So my mom was in Florida at the time. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.520 But I love how you're handling this meet. I didn't 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:23.960 know you was gonna do all this. I would have 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.280 got you plastic gloves. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.080 Or something, plastic gloves, growth the hell. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.440 Just so because you're gonna tell no, no, no, my. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.080 Hands are clean. I just washed them right now in 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:31.880 the bathroom. Okay. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.760 No, I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about you 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.280 touching the MIC's. Eventually everyone does that. They'll touch the 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.559 me on this show if you guys are listeners, and 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.679 at some point they'll go like this, and at some 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.600 point they'll move there here out of their face. I've 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.400 literally had to pull crown beef out of girls here, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.640 okay on the show like Home. Still, girl, you got 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.480 a piece of If I get. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.319 Grabbed beef in my head, to leave it, just leave 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:53.240 it right. They don't even tell me. 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:53.800 Okay. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.240 But yeah, So I grew up, So I grew up 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.679 in Malibu with my grandparents. Not not many people of 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.000 color out there, you're gonna mean. And I grew up 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.719 with not tons of money, but I grew up with 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:09.000 mad love. And my grandparents were amazing because my grandparents, again, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.839 they weren't rich, but they I never saw them work 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.599 for anybody. You did what I'm saying, Like like my grandparents, 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.120 my grandfather, they were both in the arts. So my grandfather, 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.640 you know, like aspiring actor, my grandmother an actress. But 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.679 while they're waiting for those things to pop, you know, 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.160 my grandfather said fuck it, like I'll be the handyman 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.920 for these rich people, like I'll go fix these houses. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.760 And my grandma did decide business where she would have 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.360 had like a cleaning business. So we were like service people. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.000 You did what I'm saying in this rich town. And 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:40.760 so that's what I was around, you know, tons of 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.560 rich people. I grew up not having tons of dope, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:44.960 but it gave me your drive to be like, all right, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.480 let's get let's let's get this paper, let's see. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.360 Like how I can be creative and find my way 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:50.920 in this world. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:55.000 And yeah, were your parents like what happened where you 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:55.959 ended up with them? Though? 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:01.520 My parents told me when they were young, so I 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:02.920 guess at the end of the day that this couldn't 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.160 really raise me. You know, my mom I was having 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:06.920 some drug and alcohol problems when I was living with 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.439 her in Florida, and she ended up like in the 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.000 hospital or something. And then one of my aunts got 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.800 in touch on my grandma and sent me out to 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.880 go live with my grandparents, which I thought was just 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.720 gonna be a temporary, temporary thing. But when I got here, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:24.800 I was like, can I please stay here? Like, yeah, 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.320 of course, please Can I stay here and not go back? 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.079 Type of situation. And you know, my grandmother was the 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.720 one who championed it. My grandmother, Candice. She's amazing. She's 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.520 my mother's mom, and she's the rock in the family. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.760 She's an incredible woman. I get a lot of my 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.480 ambition and drive from my grandmother, for sure. And my 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:50.600 grandma said, you staying here, baby, and literally yeah, enrolled 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.040 me into kindergarten. You know, I had I was all 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.199 messed up. I was like I had ringworms, I was 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.360 all skinny, mountain nourished, the whole shit, you know. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.559 And my grandma took me in, you know, and and 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.240 changed my life. Yeah, and my grandfather as well. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.640 You know, they both what's beautiful about them is they 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.559 were done raising kids. They were in their you know, 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:17.360 fifties and sixties, Their kids were all grown, and they 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.720 were like chilling in their little mobile home park moving 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.040 their life doing their acting stuff, and then here I come, 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:27.320 so thank y'all for taking a second chance and decided 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.080 to have a whole nother life with me, because yeah, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.959 it really helped me out obviously. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.480 Yeah you know what I mean. But beautiful when you 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.960 add that to the malleable part of the story. Yeah, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.360 so you went back after college, You went back to 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.320 and you had did you have to tell your your 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.720 grandparents that you were flunking out of school? 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.160 They knew it was messed up too, because I was 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.560 getting all these grants all like you know, like kind 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.160 of like financial aid type shit for the books and 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:53.720 all that, and. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.520 I would start strong week one. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.959 I was killing them with the organization, was turning in 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:05.760 homework and it was just yeah, we just I went. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.920 I went. That was my second college. I went to 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.800 Pierce College in I know, Pierce in the Valley. I 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.439 went to Pierce in the Valley. First I did I 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.280 did music theory and I did like I took to 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.160 a couple I took a few classes just to get 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.160 my credits. I played basketball for PEERCE for a little bit. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.760 I couldn't hang So where'd you go? And say you 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.160 went to a four year in San Diego. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.760 Or another junior college. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:29.120 Why did you even do that? 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.040 Because I was just you know, no, it was the 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.040 whole thing, like, you know, my grandparents are old school, 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.000 so it's like, go get your education, get out the house. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.800 You know, you graduated high school. You got to get 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.320 you can't stay here. So I was all right, cool, 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.480 So Pierce didn't work. So then I was like, all right, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.280 maybe if I go somewhere, like, you know, kind of 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.240 further away. Sanday was only three hours away. Got a 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:51.920 little house with me and like three of my homies, 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.760 and that's where I first started to loking weed. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.720 To be honest, that San Diego little house, and yeah, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:12:59.439 I don't know. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.920 I think those two college situations let me know that 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:03.559 college wasn't for me, but at least I got the 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:04.280 experience of it. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:05.360 In San Diego. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.040 I purposely chose that college because it was right next 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.200 to San Diego State. So I didn't go to San 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:11.480 Diego State, but I was party, but. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.439 I was getting the I was getting the experience of. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.120 So I got my college experience. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.839 I didn't get no credits, but I was out there 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.559 partying and doing my thing and having fun. And then 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:30.079 I moved back to La started my band up. You know, 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.440 it was a little mix between hip hop and rock. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.800 A big inspiration for me was, you know, Pharrell and 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:42.400 Nard in Search of It still my favorite albums ever. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.400 And so it was cool for me to see Pharrell 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.120 because you know, like I told you, I grew up 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.960 in an all white neighborhood, rich ass neighborhood. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.480 So my style as I was growing up, I was 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:53.880 just trying to figure out what it was. You know, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:54.640 am I a skater? 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.160 As I got older and started playing basketball, I would 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.439 hang out from more black kids from the city who 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.200 would clown me like, Yo, what the fuck is. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.920 Up with your hairline? Like how you talk? Crazy? Like? 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.319 So once I had that, I had to like figure 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:09.959 out like what my style was or how I fit in. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.760 And then Farrell came out with fucking the rock shit 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.800 the trucker hat. He grew up on the beach town, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.640 so I really connected with for I was like, oh shit, okay, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:23.760 I see this vibe. Yeah I can do this. Yeah, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.600 And so you know I kind of started inspired me 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.480 to start this little rock band that I had, and 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:31.840 and that's where my hustle started. I mean, we were 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.760 selling you know, merch out the trunk and playing shows 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:36.480 all over the town. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.080 And were you the one that was responsible? You're the 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:40.680 one that put together the group, so you were the 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.320 one responsible for booking the shows. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:42.840 Yeah. 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:44.920 Wow, So you're like the leader of the group. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.360 Like I told you, Like my grandparents are all little hustles. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.560 My grandmother is like a producer. I've watched her my 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.960 whole life, like put on events, on golf tournaments, put 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:54.960 on fundraisers. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.960 So I just I love that. I love putting things together. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.200 Oh we gotta you need to book some shit, all right, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.320 I'll holler at them, you know what I'm saying. So yeah, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.200 that has always been like something that I love. All Right, 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.560 to the dish. We got the ground beef, we got 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.280 the onions, yea, and garlic right, and the garlic. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:15.120 It's simmering. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.000 Oh my god, you're talking like a shift. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:17.640 Do you hear me? 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:18.520 You're hilarious. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:20.240 It's simmering. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.200 And guys, this meal is cheap at shit, one dollar 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:29.440 and fifty cents probably for this since since you know 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.200 what I mean, you go to like Chick fil a, 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.680 you spend ten, thirteen, fourteen dollars on this. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:34.680 It's crazy. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.800 So you might as well come home and just you 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.360 hear me. After this, we'll do a whole other cooking 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:41.200 shit on all other shit. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.920 You're hilarious. By the way, we always invite if you're 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.400 like a creative and you do cooking, you're more than 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.880 welcome to use our studio and take advantage of it 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.720 because we're the only cook top studio in Don't. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:53.960 Tip me because I'm gonna be here like trying to 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.400 cook some little YouTube for I. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.440 Meal prep every just so you know, I know you 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.200 think I live off eating one broke dishes. I meial 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:05.600 prep every Sunday and Wednesday. Okay, I eat all home 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.240 cooked meals. That's why I don't uber eat buddy, So. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.440 Sunday you only meal prepper two day. Sunday, Monday Tuesday 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:15.040 meal prep the whole week. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.960 But every once in a while, like if I have 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.640 friends come over, right, I give them a meal prep 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.880 my neighbor whoever, and trust me that meal prep will 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.600 dwindow real quick. But I meil prep every meal and 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.520 I eat I basically what I make for my daughter, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.840 like her meal. Her lunchbox is super impressive, but mine 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.240 is like half impressive. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.560 It's hers, So I like that taking care of how 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:55.840 old your daughter three? So yeah, congratulations mama. Okay. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.400 So after I had my band for a while, we 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.840 were playing a lot locally, like all over California, like 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.200 from this place, a legendary location called the Malibu in 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.280 which is located obviously in Malibu, and so that was 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:09.720 the place we were playing a lot. We would play 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.680 all up and down the coast from coast to Mesa, 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.879 San Diego, just building a vibe. I ended up meeting 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.879 this Cisco Aldler, who is the son of Blue Eldler, 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:26.359 legendary producer. Cisco also lived in Malibu and had like 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.200 some success with his band and all that stuff. And 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.960 a homegirl of mine was a mutual friend, and she 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.399 was like, yo, you know, Cisco makes beats. And at 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.920 the time, my writing was primarily to just like guitars 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:40.320 and stuff. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.640 I wasn't like a I wouldn't consider myself a traditional 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.520 rapper at this point. You know. I was very like 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.280 inspired by like the red Hot Chili Peppers and rage 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.680 against the machine, like rock shit. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.040 But I couldn't sing, so I would rap you did 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.040 what I'm saying, So I would like musically and and texturally, 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:58.280