Speaker 1: I'm big on Lebron man. I'm not like Jordan doesn't
Speaker 1: like people and staying away from you know, the black
Speaker 1: people and stuff, you know, no shade. But people wanted
Speaker 1: to love him. Yeah, you know. And I think especially
Speaker 1: our people because we buy all this stuff all my life.
Speaker 1: The grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle back price one
Speaker 1: a slice, got the bron dice to swad all my life.
Speaker 1: I've been grinding all my life, all my life, been
Speaker 1: grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle back price, one a slice,
Speaker 1: got the bron dice to swad all my life. I've
Speaker 1: been grinding in all my life. Hello, welcome to another
Speaker 1: edition of Club Shaha. I am your whole Shannon Sharp.
Speaker 1: I'm also the propriuder of Club Sha Sha. And the
Speaker 1: guy that's stopping by for conversation and the drink today
Speaker 1: is one of the Internet's favorite comedians. He's a turn
Speaker 1: movie TV star, entrepreneur, owner of a football team, who
Speaker 1: e o of Kulda Being records. Drew Ski Come on, now,
Speaker 1: I didn't bad. Thanks for stopping by getting me a a coming.
Speaker 1: It's all your time, yes man, I feel good man,
Speaker 1: you know, just blessed brother. Yeah, yeah, just black excellence.
Speaker 1: That's all it is. Let's toes oh man right off? Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: this is my knjact Laportier. It's uh it's a vs OP.
Speaker 1: We won Best Tasting Vsop twenty twenty two. So this
Speaker 1: is to your success. We're gonna talk about that. Thank you, brother.
Speaker 1: Hm oh oh boy, I might, I might not sleep about.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do something after this. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do something. We gotta go out. We gotta go out, man,
Speaker 1: We gotta do something. We gotta hit the club something, man. Congrats,
Speaker 1: congrats on the tour. Yes, you guys could have been
Speaker 1: record taded on you. You're about to start a thirty
Speaker 1: city tour where you're the headliner. Yes, sir, talk to
Speaker 1: me about that. Man. Uh. You know, I opened up
Speaker 1: for a lot of different artists before this tour. Got
Speaker 1: a chance to open up for j Cole, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty one Savage, they were both on the tour. Got
Speaker 1: a chance to open up also for a Little Baby
Speaker 1: and Chris Brown. Wow. It went on a big United
Speaker 1: States tour as well. So I just figured it's time.
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't done anything for my fans yet.
Speaker 1: It's been six years. I've been going hard, going strong,
Speaker 1: putting out content, you know, doing live pop ups, doing
Speaker 1: live shows here there, you know, but I never did
Speaker 1: anything for my own fans. So now this is my
Speaker 1: time and an introduction to my fans to come out
Speaker 1: and show me love and you know, and and and
Speaker 1: also continue to like it, like get get a vibe
Speaker 1: for the comedy that I'm putting out, you know. So,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it's gonna be a great tour. Man. I'm
Speaker 1: super excited, you know, I just got a lot of emotions,
Speaker 1: like for real, like a you know, nervous, excited, you know,
Speaker 1: don't know what they expect. You know, this is my
Speaker 1: fans first time, right, So yeah, you mentioned putting out
Speaker 1: content for your fans. What should your fans expect? It
Speaker 1: should definitely expect a little bit of it could have
Speaker 1: been records, so to see you're gonna be in the building.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that right now, right yeah, man, So yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll get it. They're gonna taste the all things. Man.
Speaker 1: We're actually looking right now for opening for the tour.
Speaker 1: So okay, yeah, so this is this is gonna be dope.
Speaker 1: So you're looking for somebody hopefully you can provide them
Speaker 1: a break. That guy that you mentioned, Chris Brown, little Baby,
Speaker 1: I think you open for Jack Harlow twenty one earlier, earlier.
Speaker 1: So so when you said, what did you learn from
Speaker 1: these artists? Because Chris Brown some of the biggest artists
Speaker 1: and in their in their chosen profession, and you're opening
Speaker 1: for them. So when you're around them, what are you seeing? Like? Damn?
Speaker 1: If I get an opportunity to be a headline of man,
Speaker 1: this is the way I'm gonna approach it. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I got I got the best of both worlds. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, I went out of Jake Cold Tour very
Speaker 1: quiet backstage, you know, not a lot of women. Uh
Speaker 1: just chill, chill vibe, you know. Uh. Then I got
Speaker 1: a taste of that a good or a bad thing.
Speaker 1: You know, it works own brother women, you know, so
Speaker 1: it is one, it is no more. But you know,
Speaker 1: then I got a taste of little Baby Chris Brown. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: it's flooded back there. You can't even well, you can't
Speaker 1: even get you can't leave your great room with it
Speaker 1: to hear stuff, you know. So I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be right in the middle man, right, Just I like
Speaker 1: a little bit of Jake Cole. But you gotta, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta, you gotta have a little fun. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a little fun. You gotta have maybe not
Speaker 1: five hundred of them stage, you know. Nah, I'm messing around, man. Nah.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing that I learned from them
Speaker 1: they're so locked in regardless of what's going on right
Speaker 1: stage and stuff. I had a chance to talk with
Speaker 1: all of them, and like they're so serious about their craft,
Speaker 1: you know, getting prepared before the show and not having
Speaker 1: too many distractions before the show, maybe after the show,
Speaker 1: you know, at times, right. But I think that that's
Speaker 1: something that I took from that and was seeing how
Speaker 1: serious it is and the preparation it takes to get
Speaker 1: to that point. So, yeah, that's that's a big thing.
Speaker 1: I was reading when you you mentioned that you opened
Speaker 1: for Jack Harlow early early in his career, and I
Speaker 1: read I was reading that you showered at the rest
Speaker 1: stop and you were performing in front of fifty people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you think at the time that you're showering at
Speaker 1: a rest stop and you're performing in front of fifty
Speaker 1: people that you would later become the headline of your
Speaker 1: own thirty thirty city tour and become this. Yes, I
Speaker 1: actually did, because we used to have conversations, me and
Speaker 1: Jack on the bus. We was on a beat down
Speaker 1: bus from out man, look like like the school bus
Speaker 1: are the great hund bus with the magic school bucks.
Speaker 1: That's what we was on the magic school bus. Nah.
Speaker 1: We were just stacking on talking to each other and
Speaker 1: I had to come by myself. He had all his friends,
Speaker 1: so I wasn't familiar with him or everybody else he
Speaker 1: was with. It was just I just had to come
Speaker 1: on and do my thing. And we used to have
Speaker 1: talks all the time on the bus, like hey man,
Speaker 1: this is what we want to do, this is my goal,
Speaker 1: this is where I want to be, and this is
Speaker 1: how I want to be. So me and him familiarize
Speaker 1: ourselves with each other knowing that we wanted to do this.
Speaker 1: So it was just we we both were on the
Speaker 1: same page with our goals, you know, so we we
Speaker 1: we just man, everything happened. So it's just like we
Speaker 1: just continue to go and the goals only get bigger.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, that's probably the biggest thing I remember
Speaker 1: from that tour on a series, right, Yeah, when you're open,
Speaker 1: when you're when you're opening for and they for rappers,
Speaker 1: R and B whatever, Jack Hard I think Jack Carlos
Speaker 1: RB guy rapper and you get a little baby or savvagee.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to open for someone like that and
Speaker 1: you're a comedian as opposed to opening for someone that's
Speaker 1: a comedian also, So how how would you prepare to
Speaker 1: do something like that when the crowd is like so different? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think the biggest thing I did, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate the fans for adapting to it. I think
Speaker 1: I kind of created a lane for myself where I've
Speaker 1: never really seen anybody do that type of stuff, especially
Speaker 1: not in the stadiums I was going to, and you know,
Speaker 1: just going out there with improv, Like I'm literally going
Speaker 1: out there sucking around, I mean, messing around with the
Speaker 1: good make sure I got yeah, yeah you're good, you good?
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, so just messing around with the fans.
Speaker 1: I think, just I'm just appreciative that they were able
Speaker 1: to adapt to such a big change. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: it was definitely very different from what you know you're
Speaker 1: used to, but ended up turning out every single tour
Speaker 1: was really good. Yeah, you allow fans on stage, what
Speaker 1: are some of the craziest interactions that you had with fans.
Speaker 1: Uh Man, I had this dude he came on stage
Speaker 1: and he tried to get undressed. Huh. Yeah, he tried
Speaker 1: to get undressed on stage, man, And and the fans
Speaker 1: were familiar with him because he's been on one of
Speaker 1: my could have been records. But and you know, I
Speaker 1: know he'd take his shirt off, right, I ain't know
Speaker 1: he was gonna get naked. Come on, Joe, he tried
Speaker 1: to get naked, man, and you know, we stopped it.
Speaker 1: We stopped and right before it went. But he's he's
Speaker 1: a dancer, man, He's a hell of a dancer. We
Speaker 1: let him do his thing. But yeah, that's probably the
Speaker 1: craziest that has gotten on stage bringing fans on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do, you do a lot of h IG Live
Speaker 1: because that was basically like you will perform me. That
Speaker 1: was kind of like your tour before you actually got
Speaker 1: a tour. Yes, yes, uh ig Live was was big
Speaker 1: around the time. Like you said, during COVID COVID, everybody's
Speaker 1: just tuned in and and just like you said, for
Speaker 1: your show, just it was like the main time if
Speaker 1: you were doing anything, a lot of people were chilling
Speaker 1: back from accident. Yeah. But for the hustlers, Yeah, it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: hit the hit the road running because it's watching payments
Speaker 1: all that stuff. They I'm telling you, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: was watching you gotta get getting ready to revenue somehow.
Speaker 1: You're not lying, man. So I think it could have
Speaker 1: been records. We built up the fan base and even
Speaker 1: my families for like, you know, for comedy, just me
Speaker 1: in general was built up during COVID and I had
Speaker 1: everybody's attention, you know, they were doing the verses and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I was just trying to figure out my own
Speaker 1: for for comedy, you know. So I ended up working
Speaker 1: out perfectly. But now we still do it and the
Speaker 1: numbers continue to grow increase, right, So that's so in
Speaker 1: other words, you started I kind of like like club
Speaker 1: we started this in nineteen ninety six and Greenly, Colorado
Speaker 1: doing the training camp. Yeah. And so actually club was
Speaker 1: not my was not my room. It was my neighbor's room, okay,
Speaker 1: because I didn't want them coming in there, rolling dice,
Speaker 1: playing cards, playing PlayStation, drinking and in smoking cigars in
Speaker 1: my room. Because when I wanted to go to bed,
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to bed. So I put the
Speaker 1: club in the room and then's like, well, how you
Speaker 1: have a club? It's not your room? I said, what
Speaker 1: is it? Because y'all accepted it. And so what started
Speaker 1: that is like running a joke like here we are
Speaker 1: like twenty five, almost thirty years later and we got
Speaker 1: club Sha. We're doing interviewl another levels. Yes, with some
Speaker 1: of the biggest stars like yourself. Yes, I want to
Speaker 1: know how did you get the name Drew Sky? How
Speaker 1: did you come up with that? Man? In middle school,
Speaker 1: everybody started calling me Drew Sky because around that time,
Speaker 1: it was a show. It was like a college college
Speaker 1: Hill show. If you remember College Hill, I do remember.
Speaker 1: It was a college Hill Atlanta, and it was a
Speaker 1: dude on there that we used to wrap. It was
Speaker 1: wrapping some songs like bootydoo or something, and everybody thought
Speaker 1: it was so funny. And my name was Drew. It
Speaker 1: was just regular Drew. And I remember all the kids
Speaker 1: would come back to school they Drew seeing that bootydoo
Speaker 1: and I'm like, like like, Drowski. Ain't nobody ever called me Drew?
Speaker 1: So that kind of like just adapted just at a
Speaker 1: young you know, people weren't calling me like everywhere drew,
Speaker 1: you know, but just as the kids at school would
Speaker 1: slowly start staying and it just became like, okay, you
Speaker 1: can never pick what your you know, your nickname will be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, once you answered you it a
Speaker 1: couple of times you stu you stub ain't nobody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get bigger because hey, you know my name is
Speaker 1: Yeah when you when you do these ig live you
Speaker 1: average of one hundred thousand viewers. I mean so and
Speaker 1: you said that every time we do it, they just
Speaker 1: get bigger and bigger. Is this your opportunity to work
Speaker 1: on new material before you actually hit the stage? I
Speaker 1: think this and also this show that we're doing on
Speaker 1: YouTube called could have been auditions, right, this is those
Speaker 1: are both avenues where I practice, you know, improv skills
Speaker 1: and practice majority of like the jokes and stuff. So
Speaker 1: it just gives me a way to because of course
Speaker 1: everybody doesn't see everything when we record the could have
Speaker 1: been auditions, like we have one tomorrow in LA and
Speaker 1: they only see twenty minutes of what took maybe four
Speaker 1: hours of TIRA right, So yeah, like that those are
Speaker 1: definitely those platform for that. Yeah. Right, so I'm looking
Speaker 1: at somebody saying you had some very funny encounter with
Speaker 1: some celebrities when you hung up on AB and told
Speaker 1: him to apologize Tolebert, come back, you know you're wrong.
Speaker 1: I wanted to apologize man, because he know listen, man,
Speaker 1: CT is a real thing. Come on back. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And I know so you think there's
Speaker 1: something you and I see Listen, I don't got hidden.
Speaker 1: I used to play football. I played. I played a
Speaker 1: couple of years on. I played Church Direct League, okay,
Speaker 1: and I was pretty good. You know, I probably say
Speaker 1: I was an All Star in the Church Direct League. Uh,
Speaker 1: while you look like that now you're saying that's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm saying you took a sip. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, Church Direct League just as
Speaker 1: good as you know, whatever lead. Yeah, I'm saying, what
Speaker 1: lead NFL? Yeah, we got rank. So you played defense
Speaker 1: on offense. I played offense. I was a fullback. You're
Speaker 1: a fullback fullback. So in other word, you like a
Speaker 1: just the US Kyle Houston. So you you you I
Speaker 1: was kind of like a T. J. Duggan. Oh okay.
Speaker 1: So they so they gave you the ball, but it
Speaker 1: was well, I got a couple of trophies. I can
Speaker 1: show the trophies now Church League. But like I said,
Speaker 1: I got I got beat up a couple of times,
Speaker 1: so I know what CT looks right. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I see I finally got a chance to talk
Speaker 1: to him, I could have been I said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you need to go apologize. What did he say? He
Speaker 1: hung up. I ain't wanna hear that. You know, you
Speaker 1: know how that CT his brain probably just you know,
Speaker 1: it's scrambling, scrambled. Was it all for the skit? Or
Speaker 1: do you really think he should apologize? Truthfully, I do
Speaker 1: think he should apologized because he gave me opportunity of
Speaker 1: a lifetime. Man. You know, it ain't nobody, especially nobody
Speaker 1: else Tom Brady's caliber doing that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, Nah, on a serious note, I
Speaker 1: definitely do think so. But hey, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, man, he he is. He's doing numbers with
Speaker 1: that song that put that ship on. Yeah, so I can't,
Speaker 1: but hey, it is a win win win. On Twitter,
Speaker 1: you offered you offered Meek mil An opportunity to side
Speaker 1: with Yeah, Meek Mill. I don't know if he really
Speaker 1: gonna comply though, he I mean, yeah, yeah, in his
Speaker 1: own world. Man, I try. I tried to reach out.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of times you try to reach out,
Speaker 1: just like I try. What about up and coming aspiring
Speaker 1: rapper instead of one that's already established, don't you think?
Speaker 1: I mean I do. I do also have a lot
Speaker 1: of up and coming rappers that I do try to
Speaker 1: you know, get I got some. I got these boys
Speaker 1: in a program and a prison program right now, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help them get about the prison program
Speaker 1: and get out here good stuff in the world. One
Speaker 1: of them just got taken to uh what you call
Speaker 1: the place where the solid solitari. Yeah, one of them
Speaker 1: taking the well, I don't know what is the how
Speaker 1: you put. We're working on his conduct. We're working on conduct.
Speaker 1: The more story, we're working on working. Yeah, I'm giving
Speaker 1: him out. One of them, get did something. I can't
Speaker 1: even speak on them, but it'll be working on them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these everybody everybody need a chance. Let go. He probably
Speaker 1: gonna have to be in there. Dangerous. Yeah, he's dangerous yea,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we're gonna we're gonna we might just work
Speaker 1: with him through zoom through you know, the little thing
Speaker 1: they got in there, I might not need to bond
Speaker 1: him out, but uh yeah, I'm looking at your CEO
Speaker 1: of a record company. So obviously you know, you understand,
Speaker 1: like so many, so many people have said about the
Speaker 1: bad deals that they've signed, that was the reason why
Speaker 1: we started could have been recordized, Okay, because seeing so
Speaker 1: many you know, people my skin color just continuing to
Speaker 1: sign their life away, it just amazed me. And I
Speaker 1: took so much interest into like knowing, like why do
Speaker 1: we continue to sign this? And then later on downline
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, after labels, labels, the labels, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, why why would you initially have signed this?
Speaker 1: If you do you have the talent, what what made
Speaker 1: you want to do it? But I get it, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because they do because they were unsure,
Speaker 1: I think, or uneducated on what really that deal was, right,
Speaker 1: you know. So my big thing was I'm gonna, let
Speaker 1: you know, straight up, be giving out three sixties. Okay,
Speaker 1: we we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: the same thing. But I'm gonna tell your so, ain't
Speaker 1: nobody signed yet? Maybe because that yeah, but listen to hold.
Speaker 1: I'm telling my people what it is off real. I
Speaker 1: tell you we're gonna, We're gonna if you oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm gonna tell you and you expected I'm
Speaker 1: saying the prisoners be with it. So yeah, man, what
Speaker 1: record example hip hip hop record example or record exact?
Speaker 1: Or who who inspired you to say? You know what,
Speaker 1: I want to become a CEO of a record label.
Speaker 1: I want to do right thing by people who inspired you.
Speaker 1: Uh probably shouldn't. I and people, that's why, but I
Speaker 1: mentioned him and P Diddy though. P Diddy you know
Speaker 1: I like, I like when he gets angry with his
Speaker 1: so you dirty red five heart. Yeah, man, you know
Speaker 1: you know that what inspires me inspire me, brother. But yeah,
Speaker 1: those are the two for sure that got me into
Speaker 1: one to create my own record company. But I was
Speaker 1: I was hoping you said, like Barry Gordon very Man
Speaker 1: might be one of the more man another inspiration you
Speaker 1: mentioned it. Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up. Man.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like, yeah, So let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, who's on your mount rushmore of hip hop
Speaker 1: music exacts? A man got to give it a master
Speaker 1: p master p up there can we name current or
Speaker 1: I gotta be you want to put on there could
Speaker 1: be all current, they could be all okay, I like
Speaker 1: uh ceop from quality control. Okay, he didn't only four right, four,
Speaker 1: that's all. I gotta put sugar down, sugar up, the
Speaker 1: sugar up there. Man, I'm telling you, you've seen what
Speaker 1: he did, and he left that Russ very gordy. But
Speaker 1: what should created was disciplined from his from his artists.
Speaker 1: You gotta discipline him sometimes. Man, Come when du the calls.
Speaker 1: Have you done any work with Diddy? Yes? I actually
Speaker 1: did a commercial. We did it. We did a commercial
Speaker 1: about a year and maybe two years ago now and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you get a sponsor deal on YouTube, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we did a show. We did a show after that.
Speaker 1: We did a uh because I had snuck into his house.
Speaker 1: We did a deli on to Kuiller I used to do.
Speaker 1: He got leak out. He behind a brick wall and
Speaker 1: he got Now his sons helped me out. Not his son, Okay,
Speaker 1: his son helped me out. I was. I was with
Speaker 1: them and then he I snuck in there somehow. But no,
Speaker 1: we we ended up starting up. We got a YouTube show.
Speaker 1: Off of that. Yeah, I'm looking at some of the
Speaker 1: brands that you've secured deals with. You got blood Light, Sealser,
Speaker 1: beats By, dre ATNT, Call of Duties, Ruffles, Mountain, dew, KFC,
Speaker 1: Happy Dad, Heard, Sealeser, Google Pixel. Yeah. Yeah, you've been
Speaker 1: able to do so pel Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you've been
Speaker 1: able to do so much. Yes, through social media. Social
Speaker 1: media can be a blessing and a curse. Correct. Yes,
Speaker 1: you've been able to use it as a blessing. Oh
Speaker 1: why haven't you been cursed so far? You know, when
Speaker 1: you walk with God, brother, it's a special thing. But
Speaker 1: you're strong on me if you want a strong on
Speaker 1: people when you walk up with God. Let's see, I
Speaker 1: got a good intention God no, God no, God no,
Speaker 1: my heart through everything. God know me, so you know
Speaker 1: I think. But yeah, no, I'm honestly blessing and uh
Speaker 1: with the cancel culture and all this stuffy kind of
Speaker 1: just gotta know. You know, when you got a strong
Speaker 1: and base man, you really can't compete with that. I
Speaker 1: don't feel like any of that really exists when you, you
Speaker 1: you know, are walking with God though, man for real,
Speaker 1: for what have you learned about business? And how have
Speaker 1: over the years you've grown, how have your style changed?
Speaker 1: Knowing as you mentioned, cancel culture. M that's deep. So
Speaker 1: you're saying like spending wise, spending money wise. We talked
Speaker 1: about just cancel culture in general both. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean you got the dogs on. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know you like that. I mean obviously, look, people got
Speaker 1: a flashy person though, man, I've never been flashy. You know,
Speaker 1: you got the jack nothing. This stuff was all gifts,
Speaker 1: like I said, Uh, but yeah, man, I think I
Speaker 1: learned early on when when you know, before I even
Speaker 1: got famous, that just about spinning and stuff, because I
Speaker 1: used to splurge and try to like get every Jordan
Speaker 1: drop or I'll just break my neck to try to
Speaker 1: get anything expensive that I thought was cool, like if
Speaker 1: you know, in high school and stuff, everybody's trying to
Speaker 1: wear the design of belts right right right, sign of
Speaker 1: shoes and all this everybody trading clothes. So I used
Speaker 1: to I think that around that time it kind of
Speaker 1: showed me like that none of this stuff was really
Speaker 1: it's kind of like meaningless a little bit, like I
Speaker 1: if I didn't learn that, then I would have probably
Speaker 1: spent every last dollar I got in my pocket, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I'm glad I did learn
Speaker 1: that before I got money in my pocket. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I tend to just buy it like you know, you
Speaker 1: know I shop at Dick Sporting Girls bro Right. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean if you buy a sneakers, why shouldn't you
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, but I'm not really a high end
Speaker 1: like trying to buy a whole bunch of expenses stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Business obviously with business, you know you got you got
Speaker 1: those guys and that. How how have you been able
Speaker 1: to avoid and in this business the backstabbing, the jealousy,
Speaker 1: the envy. How have you been able to like navigate
Speaker 1: those waters? It's crazy. We were just at an event
Speaker 1: and we you see it all the time, especially in Hollywood. Man,
Speaker 1: it's like it's you just gotta continue to smile and
Speaker 1: just just know you you just walking with God. It's
Speaker 1: not it's because you see all the fake people. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you might say hey to somebody, act like they can't
Speaker 1: hear you, right, you get that, you know you know
Speaker 1: how you know, maybe you saying what's up to somebody,
Speaker 1: they've seen you from across the room, the like, can't
Speaker 1: see you. So you know, I just I just like
Speaker 1: to just be a genuine person, That's what. What about
Speaker 1: what about the ones that they say one thing to
Speaker 1: your faith, but behind your back they say something entirely different. Oh, man,
Speaker 1: them them the ones. Man, I can't Yeah, but no,
Speaker 1: I like I'm saying, I'm still How do you deal
Speaker 1: with that? I think I think my my my biggest way.
Speaker 1: I think I just stick to the only the people
Speaker 1: that I have in my own circle, right, like like
Speaker 1: the one that my team that I work with, and
Speaker 1: maybe my close friends in the industry. I only tend
Speaker 1: to be around that crowd. I don't like to go
Speaker 1: and like be like if I'm not invited or nothing,
Speaker 1: or if I feel like I'm stretching myself out to
Speaker 1: be in this scenario, or if you're inviting, you're not
Speaker 1: showing up. Yeah no, if I'm invited, if you're not invited,
Speaker 1: you're not going because I don't you know, if I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to be there, it's it's meant to be. If
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be at that red carpet, it's meant
Speaker 1: to be. I I have something to show for it. Like,
Speaker 1: of course I do want to be at a lot
Speaker 1: of awards shows I do, Like I see it on
Speaker 1: TV and I'm like, man, what am I gonna be
Speaker 1: on there? But I haven't been invited, so I in
Speaker 1: my mind it helps me grind harder to know like,
Speaker 1: all right, you're gonna be there someday, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: be invited. You're not gonna force because sometimes you go
Speaker 1: to those events that you do get invited to and
Speaker 1: you see somebody like what he not even supposed to
Speaker 1: be on this, like what are you doing? Right? But
Speaker 1: they're trying to sneak and get their picture And then
Speaker 1: you see him on the internet like yeah, man, me
Speaker 1: and sharing a shot were working boy, And You're like, man,
Speaker 1: you ain't really working. So I'd hate to be one
Speaker 1: of those grinds. So that kind of motivates me to
Speaker 1: just be like, okay, just grinding into it's time for
Speaker 1: you to be invited to that type of stuff. What
Speaker 1: did you get with your first big check? What was
Speaker 1: the first when you got something? Like you got some money, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm out, m M. What y'all think I spent on
Speaker 1: a big first check over? Man? They probably know for really,
Speaker 1: I haven't really splurred splurs. I retired my mom Okay,
Speaker 1: I just recently retired. My mom. You ain't buying no car,
Speaker 1: you ain't getting old. I got the same car I
Speaker 1: had before I was famous. Boy have a car with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: jeep Jeep Cherokee. Yeah, Jeep Cherokee twenty thirteen Jeep Cherokee.
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm in the problems of pimping it out
Speaker 1: right now. I ain't gonna buy no new I'm pimping.
Speaker 1: Oh you my run car. I promise you, I promise you.
Speaker 1: I got the same car. Man. We have graded the
Speaker 1: house and stuff. My team lives with me and stuff,
Speaker 1: so it's a good scenario. But yeah, no, I haven't
Speaker 1: a lot of people ask you why I haven't gotten
Speaker 1: a new car either. You haven't. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: want anything. You don't want to obviously, you know you
Speaker 1: could get a car, but yeah, travel so much. Jory. Jewelry, Yeah, jewelry, No, not.
Speaker 1: Jeory's not even my thing. I got a couple of
Speaker 1: gifts from you know, some jewelers that given me. You know,
Speaker 1: they just want you to wear your stuff right and
Speaker 1: say you got it from them. So I think I'm
Speaker 1: cool with that. Like, my mind is just so. I
Speaker 1: was so confused when I got into the industry, bro,
Speaker 1: because I used to believe a lot of these dudes.
Speaker 1: I'll see like them wearing all this stuff and I'm like, dang,
Speaker 1: like they probably spent so much. And then I got
Speaker 1: famous and like Deor will send a package to the
Speaker 1: house and be like, please wear this at your next
Speaker 1: big event. Or Jeweler, yeah, they'll do like different. No
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying Dior, no, no, no no, no.
Speaker 1: But because ain't nobody but big companies will do that
Speaker 1: and like and just want you to, like, you know,
Speaker 1: wear whatever they send it, or like a jeweler will
Speaker 1: just give stuff and then just be like, hey, so
Speaker 1: you got it from me, now just hey, that's it.
Speaker 1: But so when I learned that side of the game,
Speaker 1: it's like damn, I was. It's a whole money right
Speaker 1: right where y'all freaking yeah DM using the DM Are
Speaker 1: you trying Are you trying to shoot the skit with
Speaker 1: with Spice and Shaq? Yeah, I think uh oh no,
Speaker 1: Blorilla trying to get with shot Yeah, I mean Shack
Speaker 1: trying to get yeah yeah, yeah, yeah that's who it was.
Speaker 1: I Spice, I was trying to get with spice. That
Speaker 1: was me. I still ain't got a chance. What you
Speaker 1: I mean, you try watching, you can get an info
Speaker 1: you and there you play you get Come on, man,
Speaker 1: you know you gotta you gotta let it ride. Man,
Speaker 1: you gotta let it come to you. So right now
Speaker 1: I'm in that process. Shout if you're watching this, Oh
Speaker 1: you're gonna be watching. I'm looking. But you ain't got
Speaker 1: you got a number? You got a number now, I
Speaker 1: ain't get a number. I ain't number. Now. I said,
Speaker 1: I said, you gotta let it come to you, man,
Speaker 1: because at the end, look, look I'm harlow pool one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah jack Jack Jack got it though I ain't
Speaker 1: got you know, keep talking about you. The prize a
Speaker 1: prize too. She y'all can't be too prize. Yeah, she's something,
Speaker 1: she's something. I'm like, I'm like, she got she got
Speaker 1: a little some Um I'll bean you, I bean you
Speaker 1: just boo jabbing or would you like no, no, no no
Speaker 1: on a serious no? You know I really, I really
Speaker 1: would you know? I like shouting like I ain't you know.
Speaker 1: That's why I told her. I'm like, it ain't even
Speaker 1: about the music and all that. Like with me, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get me, you know what I'm saying. So I tried,
Speaker 1: but she ain't. Really she ain't right, not yet, not yet.
Speaker 1: Once you see this, she probably gonna be like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you like to talk about me publicly and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so she probably have been The celebrities left you on red. Uh,
Speaker 1: celebrities in general. You're talking about girls I tried to
Speaker 1: shoot up. Yeah, girls, I try. Yeah. Uh. If they've
Speaker 1: left you on red and you see him out in public,
Speaker 1: you're like, you know, I I tried to heart, but
Speaker 1: you know I tried. I haven't been left on red.
Speaker 1: Majority majority of any anything I reach out to will
Speaker 1: the fine. Yeah, I ain't telling. I ain't saying I
Speaker 1: get them. All I said they repine talking about like
Speaker 1: that ain't fine. Man. That don't mean they're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, do you read all your d m uh No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I tried to sometimes, like if I put
Speaker 1: out like a post where I want response to my
Speaker 1: fans and stuff, but yeah, they flooded. Man. People say,
Speaker 1: oh type of crazy stuff, right, I don't even I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't get a chance to even look at all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But yeah, some celebrities do though. Yeah, those
Speaker 1: celebrities look at it. Have you ever been starstruck by
Speaker 1: somebody that have responded that that hit you up? Or
Speaker 1: you've been somewhere and it's like you doing yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: has some human star struck buy another celebrity? I think Rihanna.
Speaker 1: I've seen Rihanna at a at a at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: I was out with when they say that rocket, okay,
Speaker 1: you ain't try to no no no no, no no no.
Speaker 1: She was out with like her friends and stuffing, and
Speaker 1: she was. You know, they have these little private rooms
Speaker 1: out here in LA and I was like in a
Speaker 1: private room where it was like me and was in La. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like where you eat dinner, you know. I ain't never
Speaker 1: been a with everybody. Yeah, it'd be like a team's
Speaker 1: girls whatever. They have little private rooms you know where
Speaker 1: you Yeah, they put music in there. I ain't know
Speaker 1: nothing that. It's like the only little I've been in
Speaker 1: there ain't been no private room, yeah man, you know,
Speaker 1: but so yeah, I was, I was. I was. I
Speaker 1: was in our little section and I walked out, went
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, and I had seen Rihanna sitting in
Speaker 1: like a little area. She noticed me and I and I.
Speaker 1: It was such a weird like interaction that I didn't
Speaker 1: know if I was supposed to come and give a hug,
Speaker 1: you know, so I kind of did one of those
Speaker 1: you know, backtrace front space, back trades front space, and
Speaker 1: then I came and I gave a hug, and it
Speaker 1: was just awkward and I fumbled it. Man, I fucked
Speaker 1: on the back. That's before she was aside rocket all.
Speaker 1: You might could have had a chance. He's like, hey, Rihanna,
Speaker 1: how you how you doing? Thanks to see you. I
Speaker 1: love you. My mom wasn't even thinking. I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, yeah you froze. You froze bad. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going to the bathroom. So I'm already you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm chilling. Yeah, I see, I'm like, good, God, don't
Speaker 1: mind it. So, but you don't know if some celebrities
Speaker 1: will act like they don't even know who you is. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm doing yeah jump broke right, Yeah I
Speaker 1: won't get that. I got yeah yeah, so yeah, man,
Speaker 1: but it was awkward. When you meet the celebrity, do
Speaker 1: you automatically tell them who you are? Because anytime I
Speaker 1: meet somebody famous, I always say, hey, I'm shutting sharp.
Speaker 1: They're like, I know who you are, but I just
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do that. Yeah, yeah, just because you know,
Speaker 1: just be I don't want to. I don't want to
Speaker 1: assume you know who the hell? Yeah you're a genuine human.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm saying what Yeah, So who the
Speaker 1: first celebrity you met that coach side just like, bro,
Speaker 1: I like what you do? Hey, keep doing your thing,
Speaker 1: I think mmmmmm, I think Little Yadi was one of
Speaker 1: the one of the first people. I actually did a
Speaker 1: skit with him early on, and uh, he thought I
Speaker 1: was very funny. And that's kind of like the introduction
Speaker 1: possibly how Drake found me, you know, through through me
Speaker 1: and y'alllly doing the video we did like a quick skit.
Speaker 1: It didn't blow up or nothing, but yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: He actually genuinely enjoyed my comedy and he was like, yo,
Speaker 1: I want to do something with you, Like I don't
Speaker 1: even want to just watch or like I think that
Speaker 1: it's funny or help you out in no way, like
Speaker 1: I just want to just be involved in whatever you're doing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he came down to my world, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and yeah, so what was it like Meaty Drake.
Speaker 1: It was dope. Man, it was dope. It was definitely
Speaker 1: done because you know I was I made him last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was at the Dale concert once she had on.
Speaker 1: The old perspective was that he came. He knew who
Speaker 1: you was, Bro. You know, I got to tell a bro.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm bro, I know who you are. He say,
Speaker 1: I love what you do. M'm I do know what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like damn, But it's another genuine person. You don't see
Speaker 1: your main genuine right in the industry. Man. He's like
Speaker 1: a real person, right, he not like fake and see
Speaker 1: you this time? Don't see this right genuine oside. But
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know the ones that this person this day,
Speaker 1: that one of the next day. You know what I'm saying. So,
Speaker 1: you know what I don't really I'm not a I'm
Speaker 1: not an out person. Yeah, kind of like home, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of to myself, kind of staying in my little
Speaker 1: tight look by my little bubble. So I don't really
Speaker 1: meet a whole lot. I mean, yeah, if I go
Speaker 1: to it like a sporting or being or something like that,
Speaker 1: But as far as I don't really do the whole
Speaker 1: lot of red carpets and I'm who I am, and
Speaker 1: you know I'm not. I don't look at myself it's
Speaker 1: being famous. I just go do what I do and
Speaker 1: I come home to me, you know. But I mean people,
Speaker 1: I'm real. But I'm saying you've even gained more famous
Speaker 1: yea nowadays, even to the young generation, like everybody knows
Speaker 1: who you are. You know what I'm saying, regardless of
Speaker 1: the fact of how you look at it. If funny,
Speaker 1: I can say that because a lot it might not
Speaker 1: even know that you used to play fall. I know
Speaker 1: they probably people ask me all the time, said how
Speaker 1: do you know so much about sports, especially football? And
Speaker 1: I said, man, I study a lot. They say, we
Speaker 1: can tell because he's like the new fans that don't
Speaker 1: know nothing about it. And then they see me getting out. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you should have told me that you like. But it's
Speaker 1: it's it's funny that I'm more famous and more well
Speaker 1: known now in television than I ever was when I
Speaker 1: played football. That's crazy because we when we took my
Speaker 1: brother to college. My brother went to Savannah State in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, twelve, Yeah, and I remember taking him. I
Speaker 1: was still in high school at the time, and I
Speaker 1: remember we took our drive. It was like four hours
Speaker 1: down to Savannah from Atlanta area, and we drive on
Speaker 1: there and my and my brother gets out and we
Speaker 1: go to the football thing and they see this. You know,
Speaker 1: I see you everywhere everywhere at the school. Like I'm saying,
Speaker 1: they talk about you, like the coach everything, and he
Speaker 1: was going to play football, so they were big on
Speaker 1: just praising your name out there, and I just thought
Speaker 1: that was so crazy. You know, it's like a full
Speaker 1: circle moment getting to meet you and do this with you.
Speaker 1: Drake's playing, You've been on Drake's play. I want to,
Speaker 1: but I haven't. I haven't, man that Virgil one, Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't seen that. But you know it's
Speaker 1: a thirty seed of playing for like ten of us.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this on. You'll get Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get this one. You'll big, you'll a big sneaking ficionado.
Speaker 1: What what what? What? What's your favorite kick? Right now?
Speaker 1: I'm really into like the low top dunks stuff like
Speaker 1: you know, uh yeah, like these and they have so
Speaker 1: many different assortments of different yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: like school. They have the Kentucky dunks. They have they
Speaker 1: got everything everything, so I haven't got a chance to
Speaker 1: get all of them. But yeah, I think those those
Speaker 1: are the ones that really get me. What you you
Speaker 1: don't have that you I gotta get that shot. Those
Speaker 1: dunks that the green emerald ones that sparkly, those are
Speaker 1: like the cactus. There's like a sparkle one. I have
Speaker 1: the silver ones that the cactus. Right, Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: they Yeah, but it's like twenty thirty thousand dollars something crazy.
Speaker 1: But I'm doing something crazy, y'all know that the price crazy?
Speaker 1: Look at like you up the Kentucky Derby. You have
Speaker 1: been to the Derby? Never? That was my first time? Man?
Speaker 1: That was what was that experience? Because there's nothing like it? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, And I think did you have a hat?
Speaker 1: Did you get the hat? Yeah? I got you gotta
Speaker 1: have a cowboy hat though I ain't had a had
Speaker 1: you gotta get you gotta get up a door or
Speaker 1: or you got nah, you gotta get a hat. Hat. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe they thought I was racist then because I had
Speaker 1: a cowboy had a whole had a whole hill billy outfit. O. Man,
Speaker 1: they probably like, who this trying to be cut down? Here? Man,
Speaker 1: you know, but nah, I that was my first time
Speaker 1: and I got around, you know, all these people. I
Speaker 1: think they weren't even used to seeing that many maybe celebrities. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like me Drake Jack and like this is
Speaker 1: like peak Jack where he's just going yeah through the
Speaker 1: roof and that's the city. So it was just was.
Speaker 1: I remember they had like this field and we were
Speaker 1: all in like this building in the middle of the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby and the people that, like the camera crew,
Speaker 1: they were like, yo, y'all should walk out there and
Speaker 1: just say with something. It was supposed to be just
Speaker 1: real quick. And we went out there and like everybody
Speaker 1: like wasn't even looking at the horses anymore. Like everybody
Speaker 1: ran and it looked like almost like we're looking down
Speaker 1: and it's like a show right full of like twenty
Speaker 1: thousand people, and it was just crazy if you were
Speaker 1: just screaming our names and stuff. So it's definitely a
Speaker 1: bucket lift thing I've had the UH. I was very
Speaker 1: fortunate to get an opportunity to go and twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: and to be there and I went the year after
Speaker 1: American Pharoh had won the Triple Crown, so it got
Speaker 1: an opportunity to me. Bob Baffert was sitting up there,
Speaker 1: were talking to him. But to see that and to
Speaker 1: see the hat, because it's all about the hat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can work. I mean, I don't know nothing about that.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about the whole A lot of
Speaker 1: the women have on flip flops or sandals, but it's
Speaker 1: all about the lead for the guy. It's all I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy. You know they have this seals, but it hat.
Speaker 1: It's all about the hat. Yeah, yeah, I got to
Speaker 1: look into that, look at that next Yeah, I'm definitely
Speaker 1: tried to look I've definitely tried to look. Get gonna
Speaker 1: look up next year. If you go out there for real, Okay,
Speaker 1: you happened. It happen. Brother, You've been around some heavy
Speaker 1: here and you're Drake and En Hard. Yes, sir, what
Speaker 1: is some of the best advice? And because you see
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart, he's in commercials, he's in you know, sitcoms,
Speaker 1: he's doing I mean, Kevi and I told us the
Speaker 1: brother do you sleep? I mean, I mean when when
Speaker 1: when do you have vacation? I mean you're shooting the
Speaker 1: movie on vacation. But I've never seen anything like I
Speaker 1: didn't work ethic. Yeah, it's crazy that that's honestly what
Speaker 1: what what made me such a huge fan of him
Speaker 1: as well too, just early on, before I even got
Speaker 1: any of the fame. But when I got a chance
Speaker 1: to meet him, he gave me a couple. He gave
Speaker 1: us so many gems. Man, Me and my team, we
Speaker 1: were sitting and talking to him after his show, and
Speaker 1: he gave us one of He was a joke at first,
Speaker 1: but then he told us the real At first he said,
Speaker 1: he said, where's your crew? Man, like, where's your friends?
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, they're right here. He one
Speaker 1: of my boys getting to drink. One of my boys
Speaker 1: talking to a girl. I was like, Yo, you gonna
Speaker 1: come here? And Kevin R standing here. He said, okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, this ain't gonna work. He said this, okay, Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't know these was your boys. This, this ain't
Speaker 1: gonna work right here, And I was like, what he said?
Speaker 1: He got on this, He got on that. He just
Speaker 1: started roasting them. But it was funny, but then he
Speaker 1: really told us some real like stuff. He was like, nah,
Speaker 1: I really want to genuinely talk to y'all. You know,
Speaker 1: the roller coaster is only as long as somebody's watching.
Speaker 1: Before he said, the roller coaster goes up. He said
Speaker 1: some analogy about like how the roller coaster goes up,
Speaker 1: but only it only goes up as long as somebody's
Speaker 1: watching and making sure you guys will continue to stay
Speaker 1: on track. And because the roller coaster can fall at
Speaker 1: any moment, you won't even know because you'll continue to
Speaker 1: just ride and think, oh, I'm famous, I'm lit, We're good.
Speaker 1: I don't got to really work that hard no more,
Speaker 1: we're good. He said, if nobody's watching that you'll just
Speaker 1: be on for the ride and you'll just go downhill
Speaker 1: from there. So that it was it was an analogy
Speaker 1: that has something to do that. I don't know exactly
Speaker 1: what he said, but it kind of hit me and
Speaker 1: my team and everybody. We talked about that and it
Speaker 1: was just that was really impactful to us. For real.
Speaker 1: The kid tell you don't be a bit. Yeah he
Speaker 1: told us that too, He said that too. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're like, oh, I think he just wanted He
Speaker 1: was just like, yo, you know you're not you're you're
Speaker 1: opening for these artists and stuff. You you are special,
Speaker 1: like you are a great talent. You need to go
Speaker 1: and do your own things right, like you you have it,
Speaker 1: you got it, stop thinking that. You was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw I saw those shows. I came and watch
Speaker 1: and I didn't even know he came and watch, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, damn you spot on me, like you
Speaker 1: came and you didn't say nothing like so it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen your little things, like you know, that's cool
Speaker 1: and all, but you know, stop being a bit and
Speaker 1: I just hit me too. That was another piece of advice.
Speaker 1: Were you afraid to go out on your own you could?
Speaker 1: You could say that. I think it's it's it's something
Speaker 1: that kind of gets stuck to some people who do
Speaker 1: social media as you get the fame of being on
Speaker 1: camera first or being on your own phone camera, which
Speaker 1: gives you a comfortable feeling, you know. With uh, with that,
Speaker 1: it's almost backwards because for them, they had to start
Speaker 1: before they gotten onto a camera. Correct, They had to
Speaker 1: go and do it in front of people, right, So
Speaker 1: it's like a complete hundred percent flip right. So uh yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's kind of like what he was telling me
Speaker 1: and just letting me know that is like, bro, get
Speaker 1: out there and do your things real. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: at I watched I don't know if you watched The
Speaker 1: Golden Glows. But Eddie Murphy got there. I think the
Speaker 1: sess would be the meal of War. And he stood
Speaker 1: up there and say that three things and you have
Speaker 1: a very long and promising career. He's like, pay you.
Speaker 1: I think he say, pay your taxes, mind your business,
Speaker 1: and keep will Smith named wife name out of your mouth.
Speaker 1: Has someone ever been upset with you with something you said? Ah? Man?
Speaker 1: Or you try to avoid you try to you know,
Speaker 1: you don't talk about nobody. I mean not yet, nobody,
Speaker 1: nobody has. I haven't had that type of scenario. I
Speaker 1: haven't really talked about anybody in the public eye like that. Nah,
Speaker 1: not at all. I tend not to not to mess
Speaker 1: with it. Stay out of people's business, that's the real thing,
Speaker 1: for real, because you don't know what somebody got going on,
Speaker 1: Like I ain't know what they had going on that
Speaker 1: he just had a bad day, bad day. It could
Speaker 1: have just got out an argument, you know, anything could
Speaker 1: have been happening, you know, so yeah, you just never know.
Speaker 1: Like so he right about that. Stay out of people business,
Speaker 1: ain't mine. Do you have you ever been booed M
Speaker 1: and not yet. Shit, I'm at I ain't looking forward.
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, hey, even a ball Lebron's y'all an airball? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I ain't looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: But you know, I know I'm human, So uh, just
Speaker 1: hopefully not on this tour. Right, We'll do one small show.
Speaker 1: You I could boot me off that small show. Don't
Speaker 1: do this tour here though? What what? What advice would
Speaker 1: you give comedians that kind of started the way you did?
Speaker 1: You started on the internet and you kind of built
Speaker 1: this large following, so big that you're able to headline
Speaker 1: your own thirty city tour. What advice would you give
Speaker 1: somebody that wants to go the route that you went?
Speaker 1: I would just say, stay consistent, man. I think we
Speaker 1: we all lose track of like where we're going, and
Speaker 1: sometimes when you fail. And and I think it was
Speaker 1: times where I had videos I thought was gonna do great,
Speaker 1: or like a scenario where I thought maybe I should
Speaker 1: quit this tour when I was on tour with Jack,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, just not feeling comfortable, Like I wasn't
Speaker 1: comfortable on the tour bus and I didn't have my
Speaker 1: friends with me, and I was like, I just want
Speaker 1: to go home. I don't feel like finishing this. But
Speaker 1: it's like if you if you do that, one of
Speaker 1: the consequences, so it makes you think. So I'll say
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is consistency. And I know I used
Speaker 1: to hear celebrities say that type of stuff back when
Speaker 1: I would watching anybody like man, everybody say that stay consistent,
Speaker 1: that's whatever. But honestly, genuinely, that's really it right there,
Speaker 1: because it don't matter what happens. If you, like you said,
Speaker 1: get booed off the stage or something goes wrong and
Speaker 1: this goes left, stay consistent. As long as you stay consistent,
Speaker 1: it will continue to work. You know, and know what
Speaker 1: you staying consistent with because it's some of them rappers.
Speaker 1: I think you need to quit. Don't take the wrong way, boy,
Speaker 1: you need to quit. Don't take that the wrong way.
Speaker 1: Don't take that mess is wrong. You are You mentioned
Speaker 1: your team? You got a couple of your homeboys. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you have a writing team. You've assembled a great team
Speaker 1: around you that you're like, Okay, this is my group,
Speaker 1: this is my five six guys or who ga whomever, Yes,
Speaker 1: this is who I'm taking to the top. Yes, I
Speaker 1: have that simpled already. Man. We have writing meetings all
Speaker 1: the time, like weekly, you know, nightly, Like we whenever
Speaker 1: we get a chance to all come together and like
Speaker 1: just be in the office at the house and just
Speaker 1: write and come up with funny stuff. Happens all the time.
Speaker 1: And even when we just have quick conversations, sometimes we
Speaker 1: gotta pull out our phone notes, right and got to
Speaker 1: type it in there, just because it's something that we
Speaker 1: are laughing about or a scenario where we're talking about.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's I'm big on that for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been on a date and like, hold on,
Speaker 1: baby just came to all the time. That happened everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, man,
Speaker 1: even in my sleep, I mean I've been waking by
Speaker 1: my sea and grab my phone and just I swear brouh,
Speaker 1: because stuff always be coming to me or I think
Speaker 1: about stuff. Like even my homeboys are said, they'll be
Speaker 1: like bruh. Like I'll be asleep on the sofa maybe right,
Speaker 1: and they'll notice me get up and like just they'd
Speaker 1: be like, yo, what's going on with you? Man? I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I just thought of something. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: just random those stuff, and I think, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: what's keeping you think it's something you at dinner or
Speaker 1: y'all at home watching the movie. I'm definitely I'm definitely
Speaker 1: pulling out the phone notes. It is like, bruh, it
Speaker 1: don't matter what's going on. And so so how how
Speaker 1: do they respond when you do that? Uh? They don't
Speaker 1: like when I when I be on my phone or
Speaker 1: locked it on my phone and and I'm and I
Speaker 1: can't hear anything, right, so they'll be saying my name Drew,
Speaker 1: Drew and I and I don't say anything, you know.
Speaker 1: So I think that's that's a big pet peeve for
Speaker 1: you know, and you do they understand that what you're
Speaker 1: trying to do a lot of them don't. A lot
Speaker 1: of them don't because you know, people think like when
Speaker 1: you when you're a comedian, they're like, oh, it's all jokes.
Speaker 1: You ain't. You ain't working hard, right? What you what?
Speaker 1: You You ain't working on nothing? But really it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't ain't because you take a real life situation
Speaker 1: but you're putting but you're making them funny. Yes, So
Speaker 1: if something happens and you know, with people laughing, you know,
Speaker 1: majority of the times they don't take the grind or
Speaker 1: whatever you say you're doing serious. Yeah, yeah, you let
Speaker 1: fans record your show when you're practicing that. Right now,
Speaker 1: we're trying to decide how this tour gonna go because
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if we're gonna take everybody's fine.
Speaker 1: I want people to enjoy it, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: go viral like moments, craziness, whatever happens. So I think
Speaker 1: we will allow I think out of respect, people may
Speaker 1: not record the whole thing. Fully, we would ask up that,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't like to take people's phone,
Speaker 1: not at this level, you know, seeing like every time
Speaker 1: everywhere I go they put they put that phone in
Speaker 1: that bag. They don't know about that, And we thought
Speaker 1: about doing that, but I think I wanted a lot
Speaker 1: of the show will be like improv and like new
Speaker 1: stuff in that city. So I wanted people to record
Speaker 1: and like enjoy the moments that made go viral and
Speaker 1: go go anywhere. You You've made some some legendary skits
Speaker 1: that that's going, as you mentioned, gone viral. Have anybody
Speaker 1: approached you by like doing a TV show or doing
Speaker 1: you know, your own variety sketch yeah. Yeah, we're in
Speaker 1: talks right now. Uh. I have a TV show that's
Speaker 1: been greenlit with FX, shooting with FX and Kevin Hart
Speaker 1: and Stacy Scher also is involved. So uh yeah, we
Speaker 1: got some we got some stuff going on. I'm also
Speaker 1: working alongside with spring Hill okay, yeah, with Lebron Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lebron mav Company. Yeah. They. I was just in the
Speaker 1: The House Party movie okay. Yeah, so that was a
Speaker 1: good like starting let me be there? Yeah, did you
Speaker 1: did you this come on that? Did you go watch it?
Speaker 1: I did? I haven't watched it coming up to night.
Speaker 1: You should go watch it. I'm definitely gonna watchin. I'm
Speaker 1: definite gonna see it, you know, any anytime. You know,
Speaker 1: it was very funny if we put somebody, I'm going
Speaker 1: to see it. I'm gonna watch us and make in
Speaker 1: you know, and Magic Johnson Theaters. Yeah, he was going
Speaker 1: to Magic. No, no, how about to say come on now?
Speaker 1: I don't know you remember Lenix Mall used to have
Speaker 1: a movie theater. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. Actually it was bad. Bro, you've been in
Speaker 1: that's the most high end mall. That's ghetto ever man,
Speaker 1: you been ever dude, pull out man. Yeah, the man man,
Speaker 1: one of one of my homeboys. He just wanted the
Speaker 1: movie a couple of months ago and he, uh, somebody
Speaker 1: got shot in the movies over a seat. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: seat in Atlanta. That might have been. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, that matter Atlantic Station because you know they
Speaker 1: they closed the Tara. You don't what it used to be.
Speaker 1: So that was Atlanta Station. Yeah, that was that feel.
Speaker 1: It wasn't feel phil flapp Arena. Yeah, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, that's exactly where that was. Damn, I
Speaker 1: might need to move because I'm like, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: telling a quarter mile from boys getting rough. Yeah them
Speaker 1: nice areas ain't nice no more. But you know, you
Speaker 1: know they don't get everybody in there, Georgiana relacting, everybody
Speaker 1: who care the handgun. You don't need no permit. This
Speaker 1: the wild, wild, wide, open wide. You got to be
Speaker 1: cared about you talk to people because people ain't nuckling
Speaker 1: up no more. They that's why I just stay ducked
Speaker 1: off man' that's why. Hey, that's why I don't go nowhere.
Speaker 1: You know what all the movie they scream them on TV. Now, no, man,
Speaker 1: you're born in Baltimore. Moved to Atlanta at a young age.
Speaker 1: Well you want to Maryland, Maryland, Maryland? Yeah, moved to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: How when you moved to it? One? So I remember
Speaker 1: a lot, you know Baltimore, you know Maryland they got
Speaker 1: horse from Yeah, yeah, I'm talking about huge. We we
Speaker 1: we used to always go back all the time. Man.
Speaker 1: I never rode no horses. But I'm big on you know,
Speaker 1: the whole DMV because we were literally high family everywhere
Speaker 1: throughout the whole DC, Maryland. Right. Yeah, So in Atlanta?
Speaker 1: What high school do you go to? Atlanta? South? South?
Speaker 1: So you from you from guant Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what the that's what the TV show was called South, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's based on me, you know, almost being a
Speaker 1: super senior in high school. But the whole show is
Speaker 1: not based on like high school. It's like one season
Speaker 1: will be based like like super senior high school, and
Speaker 1: then it goes on about like my life, you know
Speaker 1: South if you kind of like fifty fifty black white
Speaker 1: in the high it was so is that how you
Speaker 1: learned that? To make black and white people laugh? Say no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, Yeah, I was very funny in high school, man.
Speaker 1: I was I was class clown man. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: up there, but uh yeah it was. It was definitely
Speaker 1: fifty fifth throughout my whole time growing up in Georgia.
Speaker 1: Like I had white friends that had black friends, Mexican friends,
Speaker 1: you know, Indian friends or whatever. Uh. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: learned so much from so many different cultures and being
Speaker 1: around and seeing how this family have dinner, this family
Speaker 1: have dinner, or how they do this and how they
Speaker 1: do that. So it's so much different funny scenarios that
Speaker 1: I have learned from just seeing it all. Right, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Gett is a great place. Man. It helped
Speaker 1: me with a lot of my comedy. You're from the
Speaker 1: I think, the same neighborhood as the Megs. Did you
Speaker 1: know them? No? I didn't know that, but they actually
Speaker 1: they were a big inspiration to me when I was
Speaker 1: in college because they were just around that time. They
Speaker 1: were popping off, right. I've seen how big it was
Speaker 1: and Goranette and how big of a deal it was
Speaker 1: for everybody, and for me, I just was so motivated
Speaker 1: because I'm like, yo, it's somebody from Quintonett, right, Like
Speaker 1: we knew some athletes that went right. Yeah, yeah, some
Speaker 1: things but like somebody entertainment, you know, and and doing
Speaker 1: like music or whatever. I think that was just such
Speaker 1: a big deal to me and I was I was
Speaker 1: so inspired by that, bro. So I'm I'm glad I'm
Speaker 1: able to be one of those people because I don't
Speaker 1: know who it is that's from Gornette as well, that's
Speaker 1: probably watching me like inspired the same way. Yeah, you say,
Speaker 1: you know the Megos, you probably gotten very familiar with
Speaker 1: them after your their success, your success, your initial reaction
Speaker 1: when you found that that takeoff one of the members
Speaker 1: of the Megos uh had lost his life life in
Speaker 1: a senseless shooting. So what was your initial reaction and
Speaker 1: that did they have that change the way you move? Oh?
Speaker 1: For sure? For sure. It was very sad though, man,
Speaker 1: because he was just one of it, Like the chill Cools. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Quable in them. They they were
Speaker 1: kind of more outright. He's just so chill. It's like
Speaker 1: you wouldn't expect that to happen to him, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think it was it was very sad, and
Speaker 1: like for everybody in Granette, it was such a big
Speaker 1: deal because it was it was somebody like it's not
Speaker 1: too many of us that a famous from them, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was, it was, It was. It was
Speaker 1: a very sad moment when you see all these rappers
Speaker 1: P and b Rock and Young Dolph and and Pop smoking.
Speaker 1: You see these guys tragically and senselessly losing their life.
Speaker 1: Yeah over some bull Joze Man, go change dollars seven
Speaker 1: sneakers Bulljoz. So, So how do how does? How does?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Like? Nah, bro, I can't even
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't know y'all. I can't invite y'all in.
Speaker 1: I look my team, we do what we do and
Speaker 1: then we shut it that. I try. I try to
Speaker 1: be very strategic with that, just knowing you know that
Speaker 1: I'm on the scene and around a lot of the
Speaker 1: same type of different, you know, scenarios, not necessarily like
Speaker 1: not like involved in like gambling or going to know,
Speaker 1: you know, trap house or not. No, we ain't doing
Speaker 1: none of that, but like just being in the public eye.
Speaker 1: It just helps me to understand like how to move different, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I try not to make the same mistakes
Speaker 1: right that I've honestly witnessed. So yeah, man, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's sad though, because we gotta do better. Man. It's
Speaker 1: literally like you said, senseless yeah, senseless stuff man. Yeah, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: you know you look at rapp, I mean since the
Speaker 1: nineties with the R and B, with La Reid, and
Speaker 1: you got Jermaine Dupriest so so deaf, so much, I mean, uh, outcast,
Speaker 1: and then you got t I and you got looted,
Speaker 1: so you got all the little I don't think a
Speaker 1: little a little bit. I don't claim must do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah from way no, no, I think yeah he's from Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Well he tried to claim up to a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And you look at Atlanta. You know we had bmmlu
Speaker 1: and now we got a gunning and young thug. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How do you think this situation is gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: turn out? And how did they change what you rap about?
Speaker 1: What you sing about? Is this? Am I just singing
Speaker 1: making this up? Or this really happened and I'm putting
Speaker 1: this in my music. I think this is all fairly new,
Speaker 1: because you know, we a lot of rappers are known
Speaker 1: for going to jail. But and this way with the
Speaker 1: like this whole New Rico case thing, that's like that's
Speaker 1: like next levels anybody. They're putting that reco your name man,
Speaker 1: man there trying to doing it so it's it's just crazy.
Speaker 1: I think it's like it's so new to us, and like,
Speaker 1: I think it definitely changed the way people are gonna
Speaker 1: wrap from here on out and talk about certain stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't even heard rappers. They'll be rapping and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about uh uh, Like they won't say the name
Speaker 1: no more. They like they might be talking about some whatever.
Speaker 1: They're talking about some murder or something something. They don't
Speaker 1: say the name. No, you just hear a little stuff.
Speaker 1: It's changing over time. Everybody's like, all right, let's get
Speaker 1: smarter with this because we ain't gonna continue to keep
Speaker 1: going to jail. They can't. It will be used a gift.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it's getting weird, especially in Atlanta. She
Speaker 1: ain't playing that lady. That lady, she ain't playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she ain't playing. She's never how well she bad? She
Speaker 1: has a bad mother. Watch your mouth you praise this
Speaker 1: how that experience and Will Packard produced the movie. I
Speaker 1: had him on oh man, yeah, well my boy, Yeah
Speaker 1: yeah that was fun man, getting to getting to see everybody.
Speaker 1: Chloe Bailey was also in that movie. It was it
Speaker 1: was It was a really really fun movie to shoot,
Speaker 1: and it was different for me because also, yeah, Country
Speaker 1: Wayne was in it. Yeah, we had we had fun.
Speaker 1: We had to. I got to see what Country Wayne
Speaker 1: in it. It's gonna be so funny, man. But uh,
Speaker 1: it was just very different for me because it's comedy, yes,
Speaker 1: but it was also like kind of like, uh, it
Speaker 1: was like a musical almost because we were doing songs
Speaker 1: in and performance. It's kind of like I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of like, you know how drum line was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like drum line at this age, you
Speaker 1: know where we but we're in churches, okay, so we're
Speaker 1: like church praise teams with each other. So it's so
Speaker 1: funny man. But yeah, you get to see me danceing
Speaker 1: do all type of stuff in this thing. This is
Speaker 1: your first movie. Yeah, this is my very first movie
Speaker 1: before House Party. House Party happened and around the same time.
Speaker 1: You know, that was just a cameo, but this was
Speaker 1: my first one actually be in the main character. So
Speaker 1: how much of your lines were freestyle and how much
Speaker 1: did you stick to the script. They let me kind
Speaker 1: of have you know, they let me do my thing,
Speaker 1: and that because I and they everybody knew who I was,
Speaker 1: so they let me. They let me do my thing
Speaker 1: I was I was, you know, only they would give
Speaker 1: me like I might have had like one liners for
Speaker 1: a day and they like Jery just doing things, so
Speaker 1: I would, I would, you know. It's a couple of
Speaker 1: different times where I used very good improv skills. Man,
Speaker 1: it was fun. Though. It was filmed at Tyler Perry Studios. Right, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: We we filmed around the Atlanta area, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: at Tyler Perry. It might have been some scenes there,
Speaker 1: but uh no, no. We were using like landmarks in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: like the uh to Change Trap House. Okay, we had
Speaker 1: some scenes there. We had some scenes at some of
Speaker 1: the biggest churches in Atlanta. Huh whatta get rid? Oh no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, when you go to we went to uh
Speaker 1: past the Eddie Long Church. Okay. You remember pasted, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people remember past. New Birth? Yeah, new
Speaker 1: birth yeah, yeah, we're talking about Yeah, man, our movies
Speaker 1: and TV. Is that's something that you want to get in, Yes,
Speaker 1: for sure, that's that's like the next big thing I
Speaker 1: want to do. I think I definitely, Man, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: This has all been new, So I got two under
Speaker 1: my belt now I'm trying to start. You're doing film
Speaker 1: with Kevin hartspoo me, you and Kevin k And also
Speaker 1: me and Jack Harlo have a movie that we're working
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes. So yeah, that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: And also I'm looking to produce with my production company
Speaker 1: for Lifers. Okay, I'm looking to produce some movies ourselves
Speaker 1: under our belt. So yeah, that's gonna that's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: To give me your top three comedians that turned actor
Speaker 1: m Chris Tucker number one, Okay, Chris Tucker for sure. Uh,
Speaker 1: Martin Lawrence okay turned to actor turned actor. Gotta put
Speaker 1: Chris Farley or Will fare Chris Farley, Will Farrell in
Speaker 1: that for sure one of the two. I don't know
Speaker 1: between them two, but Chris Farlan, Will Farrell, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they even started out doing comedy first or
Speaker 1: stand up first. But yeah, yeah, Chris Sucker, Martin Lawrence,
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell or Chris Farland that. Yeah, I'm sorry, ye
Speaker 1: I would have put you in the listing. Yeah, oh man,
Speaker 1: I can't leave dope. Ah. He won the once Bernie Man,
Speaker 1: Sorry Bernie up there, but he ain't. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: such a big fan of Chris Tucker Man. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: so stupid man for real, he is crazy in movies. Man,
Speaker 1: you dropped out of Georgia Southern. You and I were
Speaker 1: talking before we started taping. My two oldest kids graduated
Speaker 1: from Georgia Southern. Dropped out. Why damn you gotta say
Speaker 1: dropped up? Henna, make sure I know I dropped out.
Speaker 1: I can still go back. I'm still okay. Financially okay,
Speaker 1: technically the financial Yeah, yeah, uh no, you said what
Speaker 1: made me? Yeah, well you decide to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I think just my mind just wasn't there,
Speaker 1: like I was. I got to that school and it
Speaker 1: was such big classes and like you know, classes with
Speaker 1: like two thousand people in it, and I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody in here, and it's like a huge auditorium. Like
Speaker 1: I just couldn't make that connection of like knowing what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do and in this scenario. So it just,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I couldn't. I couldn't get a
Speaker 1: grasp for what I wanted to do around that time.
Speaker 1: So I just started you know, I was in my
Speaker 1: dorm around that time, or really my apartment that my
Speaker 1: mom was paying for, and she thought I was still
Speaker 1: going to classes, but I had completely stopped. And that
Speaker 1: was around the time when I really started like studying
Speaker 1: on my phone, just stuff I was inspired by, Like
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. I was watching him talk after his shows, Yeah,
Speaker 1: talk about the leap of faith or just jump and
Speaker 1: just stuff like that, or or watching p Diddy interviews
Speaker 1: or Will Smith interviews and listening to their story. So
Speaker 1: they were making a lot of sense at what the
Speaker 1: scenario I was in and what I was feeling in
Speaker 1: the you know, and and what their goals were and
Speaker 1: how it made them feel. So I think that's what
Speaker 1: clicked for me. And I was like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: it because this is really I can connect with what
Speaker 1: they're saying, Like I literally feel exactly what they're talking about,
Speaker 1: So this gotta be it, right. So I had so
Speaker 1: much faith in me just knowing in my gut because
Speaker 1: a lot of people will never take that leap. A
Speaker 1: lot of people will be like I feel that, but
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure I'm secured. I was just a hey, right,
Speaker 1: your grandma said, boy, I don't call me, oh yea
Speaker 1: so mad. Look, she can't they can't. They can't pick
Speaker 1: me up. You know what I'm saying. I went back
Speaker 1: down there. They can't pick me up, and she was
Speaker 1: so bad because you know from where she's from. She's like,
Speaker 1: we don't even know nobody that go to school. This
Speaker 1: is this is like, I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: They just were assuming the worst, like they probably thought
Speaker 1: I was about to get in the streets for real, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because like if he ain't
Speaker 1: going to school, I know because I was class clown,
Speaker 1: Like I know he's getting into something. He ain't gonna
Speaker 1: do nothing good. So when I told him I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a comedian, they just thought that was just
Speaker 1: so like right, because that sounds like that sounds so
Speaker 1: goofy saying I think about it like I'm being comedians,
Speaker 1: like saying, but what you but what you wanted to
Speaker 1: do with your life? A degree wasn't required. Yes, me,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. In the battle state, I made you in eligibility.
Speaker 1: I need to stay eligible for the next message so
Speaker 1: I can play football. But I couldn't drop you. And
Speaker 1: a lot of others, but a lot of no, but
Speaker 1: what really one of the things that that that helped
Speaker 1: me go to class. Yeah that's where the girls were. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: the girl with class. I needed to see that. Help
Speaker 1: you do your work too, I did. I did they work?
Speaker 1: Help you do your work? I know, I actually did.
Speaker 1: I did my girlfriend? Be real, somebody somebody wrote the paper.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no no, no, I did did. I did
Speaker 1: my girlfriend all your papers? I did all my paper.
Speaker 1: You did your girlfriend's work? I did? Oh? Man, I
Speaker 1: did he studious? You know what? For no reason? Something?
Speaker 1: Actually you I got a prescription. Actually, actually I told actually,
Speaker 1: I told her. I told a female that I did
Speaker 1: my girlfriend's homework. She said, I was corny. Man, don't
Speaker 1: don't listen to them. Many hold on. She told me,
Speaker 1: say you went to the NFL, so that mean you
Speaker 1: were really really good in college. I was like, yeah
Speaker 1: I was. I was really good in college. And you're
Speaker 1: doing what you would She said, stripper, you like you did?
Speaker 1: I said, I mean he comes. I mean if Bill,
Speaker 1: if my girlfriend loved me and she needed, she would
Speaker 1: did that. So I thought it was fair play. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just they just stucking on. Yeah. I used to me.
Speaker 1: I used to be in the library, in the little room,
Speaker 1: steady room, I was, I was feel that. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at hold on a military kid. Your dad graduated
Speaker 1: from the Air Force Academy, went to Howard and is
Speaker 1: on the Wall of Honor nominee at the Smithsonian National
Speaker 1: Era in Space Museum. I don't know how much that
Speaker 1: is true. Your mom has a mess in science and
Speaker 1: public health and once worked in the CDC. Uh, you
Speaker 1: sound like them. That's what they were saying. You want
Speaker 1: of all things, you got everything. That's what they were saying.
Speaker 1: They because a lot of time, a lot of times
Speaker 1: kidd follow the path that their parents, you know it
Speaker 1: doctor lawyer or whatever the case. Yeah, but you gotta
Speaker 1: understand that my parents not. I mean, my dad was
Speaker 1: very and maybe because he was so disciplined and disciplined
Speaker 1: us and you know, being being hard on us. I
Speaker 1: think maybe that is what created me to I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a mixture of a lot of things. And my
Speaker 1: mom also supported me being funny, but to an extent,
Speaker 1: Like she didn't want me to do it at school,
Speaker 1: but she would let me. She understood that I was
Speaker 1: like the funny man, and I would always like because
Speaker 1: they requires you not to get our script right. Is
Speaker 1: this I wake up at this time, I do this, this, this,
Speaker 1: and this. I come home, I do this, this and this.
Speaker 1: I go to bed and instructure is over. That's yeah.
Speaker 1: He literally used to make us make our bed and
Speaker 1: he would have us put it into it's this thing
Speaker 1: you it's like these corners you gotta put as a crease.
Speaker 1: You gotta be at a ninety degree angle. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: if it ain't, he said, he said, if I can't
Speaker 1: drop a penny on it or something, if I can't
Speaker 1: drop a in a flip or something, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's nuts. But it's something with the military. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: we used to have got to be tight man. So
Speaker 1: he don't play. And I think it was it was,
Speaker 1: it was. I think it was just genius the way
Speaker 1: it all came together. And and my life. I think
Speaker 1: I'm just thankful that that I'm the person I am today.
Speaker 1: But yeah, my mom would support it. She was recording
Speaker 1: me and stuff. My dad not so much, but he
Speaker 1: would watch all the raw comedy that I learned from.
Speaker 1: He would watch late at night and like the living
Speaker 1: room maybe you know, he'll have a chair like this
Speaker 1: with the back of it is to where the steps is.
Speaker 1: I would come down there and sneak and just be
Speaker 1: watching and looking what he's watching. And he's watching like
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle, like you know, some of the craziest stand
Speaker 1: up specials like uh, We're Your Pride. Yeah, And I'm
Speaker 1: just like this behind the corner, just looking late at night.
Speaker 1: He's like two am in the morning and I'm just looking,
Speaker 1: just staring, trying to see like what Like I was
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out, like what is this? You
Speaker 1: know he will watch this, Yeah you left that prior
Speaker 1: but Oya, no, no, no, but you don't that those
Speaker 1: are the ones that he would watch. But maybe I
Speaker 1: wasn't a big fan of but that's where the raw
Speaker 1: stuff would come from. My mom would watch more so
Speaker 1: like entertainers, okay, like you know, you know she would
Speaker 1: watch stuff like that, like you know Martin, And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the job that you had, oh man, Sammy,
Speaker 1: oh man. Don't think I don't bring that work that
Speaker 1: Red Lob bring that you probably end up bringing all
Speaker 1: the biscuits home, traveling park warehouse. How did those jobs
Speaker 1: shape the kind of skits that you do? I think
Speaker 1: that's just all Atlanta, man, Atlanta just as like a
Speaker 1: melting pot for a whole bunch of ways you can
Speaker 1: get money. Uh So yeah, that that that's kind of
Speaker 1: like what inspired it. But I was a server. I remember,
Speaker 1: I used to work at a how with the tips.
Speaker 1: The tips was I was like, it was like they
Speaker 1: was working good at the time. At the time I
Speaker 1: was getting girls, So it wasn't It seemed to me
Speaker 1: that everything that you did a lot try to get
Speaker 1: the honey. You like, why you did it? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: weren't trying to make no money. But I'm saying they
Speaker 1: would help though, because you know you, I could get
Speaker 1: my hair cut all the time. So when I would
Speaker 1: go to work, I worked at a red lobster. A
Speaker 1: lot of girls coming there and they drink them. But
Speaker 1: when the dude, not all the time, not the time
Speaker 1: they drink them. They come in there, drink their little
Speaker 1: frozen and drink girls night. I'm telling me, But so
Speaker 1: hold on, that's normally the other way around. The guys
Speaker 1: come in there and talk to the waitress of the
Speaker 1: content and not not that I was one of the
Speaker 1: only male waitress. I'm telling I was trying knock down
Speaker 1: their things back there beyond uh back in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I had all girls service working with me.
Speaker 1: I was one of the only male dudes that was working.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get all of them. I actually got
Speaker 1: caught up trying and talk to all the girls. See
Speaker 1: you do it too much. I got in trouble because
Speaker 1: they were all gossiping to each other. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that I got all their numbers. I'm texting them every
Speaker 1: time I leave work. I don't know they going and
Speaker 1: like talking a lot of somewhere. It's group chats and
Speaker 1: stuff talking about me, like they got crazy ended up.
Speaker 1: It's too much. I'm coming to work. I'm getting bugged. Like, man,
Speaker 1: that good. I'm telling you. I read it that you
Speaker 1: you went to school you wanted to be a sportscaster.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I actually got to talk
Speaker 1: to uh Stan Varrette rely on when I was at
Speaker 1: GGC at the first college I was at. My school
Speaker 1: counselor went to college with Stan Vrett, really close friends.
Speaker 1: When I met my school counselor and she was like,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just want to be on TV. I want to do, like,
Speaker 1: I want to be on ESPN. She's like, oh my, my,
Speaker 1: one of my best friends from college is Stan Brett
Speaker 1: and he's on ESPN every night. I was like, what,
Speaker 1: she put me on FaceTime with him? And I don't
Speaker 1: know even though if he remembers that, but uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: she put me on face time with him and I
Speaker 1: had a conversation with him and he was just like, man,
Speaker 1: you know, just stay consistent and stay in school. But
Speaker 1: the best advice. I don't remember exactly what he said,
Speaker 1: but it was clearly you dropped that. I had nothing
Speaker 1: he said. But yeah, man, he's a good guy. Though
Speaker 1: he's you're a big sports fan, Yeah, yeah, who's your team?
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily have a team. I'm fans of the players. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of who's your player? Who your
Speaker 1: favorite player? I'm big on Lebron Man. I like. I
Speaker 1: like the way he got his whole career going. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and the way he's just a social person. He's not
Speaker 1: like Jordan and not like doesn't like people and staying
Speaker 1: away from you know, the black people and stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: no shade, but uh but you got me, Jordan, I mean,
Speaker 1: but you know, It's just it was one of those
Speaker 1: things where people wanted to love him, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think especially are people because we buy all his stuff, everything, everything,
Speaker 1: and I just feel like he could have, you know, show.
Speaker 1: But I think I think that at that level of celebrity.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been around have you ever met Like
Speaker 1: I said, I've never been around him, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. If I can't, I
Speaker 1: can't really say. It's unlike anything you've ever experienced. He
Speaker 1: doesn't seem real. When you meet Jordan, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like he's levitating. Wow, is it really like that? I've
Speaker 1: never met I've a billionaire. No, I've never met anybody
Speaker 1: that's been around this man for the first time. Just
Speaker 1: said he didn't seem real. Why it isn't a good way,
Speaker 1: it's a good way. No, I mean he's like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want us, I don't want to be blasphem
Speaker 1: us or its sacrilegious, but he's all he's like, he's
Speaker 1: like he's levitated, like he got it, like he ain't real.
Speaker 1: What what makes you say that? Though? What does he do?
Speaker 1: What is he doing? He doesn't do anything, He's playing
Speaker 1: golf with no gold sticks. Dude. I walked on the
Speaker 1: elevator ninety three Super bowlers in Atlanta and this was
Speaker 1: he with his first wife and I got him an
Speaker 1: elevator and I'm looking at him and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sharing it. You know, I know who you are.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, and I'm thinking to myself. But I
Speaker 1: just kept looking at him, and I though he's thinking
Speaker 1: to himself, weird. I don't like, this is Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking in my head, I'm like, this, this
Speaker 1: is Michael Jordan. And it was like he was like levitating. Yo, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. It was like I've never serious up.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. I gotta I gotta meet him. Nohing,
Speaker 1: So you know that I gotta give it to Lebron
Speaker 1: just because you know Lebron. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: judging the book by his cover. I don't know. I've
Speaker 1: never met. I've never met, but I think but I
Speaker 1: think the thing is that Lebron is kind of like
Speaker 1: the Jordan. But I don't think any athlete will ever
Speaker 1: especially American athlete. Now, I don't know anything about the
Speaker 1: soccer like MESSI and rinaldo things like bath Neymar Okay,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about it. You got you got, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you I gotta. Yeah, I probably would meet Jordan
Speaker 1: before he passes. You know. You got, you got, you got,
Speaker 1: you got that. That's a bucket list. You stayed oh
Speaker 1: Dale doing the pandemic. Yeah, yeah, yeah I did. I did, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was. That was actually around that time when I
Speaker 1: was getting a lot of eyes on me. Man. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was, it was, it was. It was like a
Speaker 1: great scenario for me, honestly because I was able to
Speaker 1: live for free. I had a chef, we had cleaning
Speaker 1: ladies just coming every day. They're doing my laundry, so
Speaker 1: I had nothing but time to yeah with jokes and
Speaker 1: all the type of stuff, so you know, and he
Speaker 1: had his his homeboys there so they also would be there,
Speaker 1: and one of his boys as a comedians, so it
Speaker 1: almost you know, it was almost perfect for me because
Speaker 1: we're shooting videos and coming up with new jokes going
Speaker 1: and and just every everything you were trading you going.
Speaker 1: You feel like they had they had mean all the
Speaker 1: type of meal plans and stuff. Yeah, you was. I
Speaker 1: think the cook don't like me though, because I kept
Speaker 1: asking for a little I had kept asking for too much,
Speaker 1: and she was like, I'm making Odell's food, I'm asking
Speaker 1: for cream boole and all the type of I want.
Speaker 1: You know, I just wanted to live the life a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know. But yeah, it was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a great time. I think it was. It
Speaker 1: was a whole summer, though, it was a group of months. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You you have an ownership stake in the Fan Control League.
Speaker 1: So what owner are you? Like? You like a Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones or you one of those guys that's out front
Speaker 1: you always talk getting front of the camera, or you
Speaker 1: wasn't even older than you sitting back. That's me right there.
Speaker 1: I'm on the field, I'm out front. I'm messing around
Speaker 1: with the fans. You know. Yeah, I'm one of those
Speaker 1: those I'm one of those guys. Man, I'm in front
Speaker 1: of the camera. Twenty four seven. You know Terrell Owens
Speaker 1: is Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's not. He played, he commentated,
Speaker 1: He do everything I do. He coached, He wanted to
Speaker 1: play in the NFL. You think he can play in
Speaker 1: the NFL again? What position? The same position? Yeah? Man, Wait,
Speaker 1: these boys coming in. The boys coming in quicker, faster
Speaker 1: and faster. They fast, man, I ain't gonna lie. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but uh, he probably
Speaker 1: can play like you know, some tight end. I think
Speaker 1: he'll get off. He's a little smaller to be playing time.
Speaker 1: Yeah you're tall. Yeah, but he's thinking, oh okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that's different. Yeah yeah, yeah, nope, run across the middle.
Speaker 1: Ain't gonna that ain't happening. You stayed next to Lebron
Speaker 1: the fan one of your autograph, Yeah, yeah, yeah, at
Speaker 1: a Where are we at? We were in Summer League
Speaker 1: in Vegas? Right, we were Summer League in Vegas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was yeah, that was just past somebody thought was
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah yeah, yeah. And I just came to
Speaker 1: one of the games and him and Russ walked into
Speaker 1: the remember the arena, and everybody literally lost it. Like
Speaker 1: nobody was even watching the game anymore. They're screaming Lebron, Lebron, Lebron.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, I'm not one of
Speaker 1: those guys that like, oh, he gotta come and talk
Speaker 1: to me, And you know, I just got up. I
Speaker 1: went over there and I said, what's up to him?
Speaker 1: This is my first time meeting him. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: said it was up to Russ because I met Russ
Speaker 1: before and I said it was up to Russ. And
Speaker 1: I saw Lebron, I was like, what's going on? But
Speaker 1: he already knew exactly who. I was like, what's going on? Well?
Speaker 1: I was like, boy, what's y'all boy doing tonight? Man?
Speaker 1: What y'all doing to night? And he laughing. He's just like, man,
Speaker 1: get him out of here, bright, like shut up, man.
Speaker 1: But it was it was a good It was a
Speaker 1: good interaction. But the whole time I was talking to right,
Speaker 1: it was a dude up there. It's like throw did
Speaker 1: go to bed rocking, baber go to bad I'm like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this dude is crazy. So Lebron was laughing at that too.
Speaker 1: He's like, man, all right, but it was it was
Speaker 1: good though. Did you see the Clippers I on? Will
Speaker 1: you will? Yeah? Yeah? He tried to talk like me,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, he got it though, he got it.
Speaker 1: I like the way he took a little bit of
Speaker 1: that CEO from could have been records all. I like
Speaker 1: to see that though. That was cool. Celebrity boxing. Would
Speaker 1: I do it? Yeah? Hello? Are you nuts? Because man, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's real. But I think you could train it.
Speaker 1: I mean you've been right. They gotta punched me. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I ain't doing it, crazy boy, you know you're not.
Speaker 1: But you hung out with Floyd. Floyd gonna be your trainer. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And I got to get in the ring with somebody
Speaker 1: like Javanta or somebody. I ain't doing it. I might
Speaker 1: do another celebrity, though I do another celebrity. I just
Speaker 1: bob and weave. Yeah, it depends on the celebrity though.
Speaker 1: Like you, I don't know. I ain't getting there with
Speaker 1: you saying I picked my boys right, and I ain't
Speaker 1: getting in there with like I getting there a right
Speaker 1: waves or somebody somebody around my side that makes sense, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't getting there, you know. Yeah, man, when did
Speaker 1: you Are you looking to settle down? Are you looking
Speaker 1: for that woman to settle down with? Or are you
Speaker 1: dating with the intent to get married or you're dating?
Speaker 1: I'm dating, I know, intending to get married. I tell
Speaker 1: you that. But uh, yeah, no, I tried out, you know,
Speaker 1: serious relationship not too long ago. You know, you know
Speaker 1: the whole public relationship thing that, yeah, man, because everybody
Speaker 1: gets in between you know, everybody want to talk about
Speaker 1: who who's this person been when who that, you know,
Speaker 1: history and all this stuff. So I think the next
Speaker 1: relationship at some point, whenever it happens, you know, gotta
Speaker 1: be private. Yeah, when that lady out there, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta be private. Yeah, gotta be private because you
Speaker 1: know what I noticed by private, people can't help up
Speaker 1: with the don't they can't say nothing. It's crazy, man,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about literally like everywhere, everybody got an input.
Speaker 1: I'm like Jesus Christ, this is like yeah, man, probably yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: Is that how you do it? Private? Private? Yeah? Private. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of success from that. Man. Right now.
Speaker 1: I'm just you know yeah yeah, yeah, you live and learn, yea.
Speaker 1: Who you can trust? What you can you know, what
Speaker 1: you can say. You know, everybody's not going to leave
Speaker 1: the relationship with the same the same thing that you
Speaker 1: got out of the relationship. But hey, what it is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you ain't lying, bro. It's stressful man. It was only
Speaker 1: like a good month two months and it was like
Speaker 1: I just posted shout it right, y'all already got all
Speaker 1: this dirt, right, Yeah, it's crazy every I mean everybody
Speaker 1: out of pass man, I mean just you know, and
Speaker 1: then you get constantly get thrown up in your face
Speaker 1: and then you're like, damn, I thought I thought I
Speaker 1: had one. Yeah, well you'd be thinking you had one
Speaker 1: all the time. I'm telling you, yeah, yeah, deceive him.
Speaker 1: But see, hey, if you keep it private, if things
Speaker 1: break up, don't nobody know. You'll never know if you
Speaker 1: got a hole on your hand. You never know if
Speaker 1: you got a hole or not. You're just loving that.
Speaker 1: You don't know what you got to be happy keep
Speaker 1: I would get you out of here this one. You
Speaker 1: have to look. Thank you brother, you're promoting anything and
Speaker 1: how can people get tickets? People can get tickets at
Speaker 1: life from the world dot com. Y'all make sure y'all
Speaker 1: grab that man could have should have to coming to
Speaker 1: the city. N you bro, appreciate your great man. Thank
Speaker 1: you all my life? That running all my life? Sacrifice
Speaker 1: Hustle Bay, the Price, Want a Slice? Got the rolling diags?
Speaker 1: Wa all my life? I've been running all my life,
Speaker 1: all my life, and running all my life, sacrifice Hustle Bay,
Speaker 1: the Price, Wanna Slice? Got the rollingdaceness? Why all my life?
Speaker 1: I've been running all my life