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#112 - Concrete · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Bule Cap Podcast special guests got my guy Yo Concrete
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  Speaker 1: in the building was v welcome man. So for people
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  Speaker 1: who don't know, the last couple of years, you've been
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  Speaker 1: like building a following on ig doing comedy shit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but give me some of your background before you decided
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  Speaker 1: to do the Instagram comedy shit, because you've been around
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  Speaker 1: for a minute, like just kind of in the scene
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  Speaker 1: of LA and the music shit. So kind of break
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  Speaker 1: down some of your like how you got kind of
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  Speaker 1: introduced into just the entertainment world, ma'am. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: seventeen years in doug you know it sound was like fifteen, right,
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  Speaker 1: DJ and producing this shit type of shit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And like in two thousand, I want to say six
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  Speaker 1: or seven, Uh, I started really getting like a little
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  Speaker 1: momentum with the music. And I had a record I
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  Speaker 1: called Industry Beefs. You're rapping Okay? Yeah? I was producing
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  Speaker 1: rapping my own shit at the time. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: is one like having the studio at your crib was
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  Speaker 1: like a big deal, a big deal, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: I had a record called I had a record called
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  Speaker 1: Industry Beefs and that caught the ear of Steve la
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  Speaker 1: Belle and shout maniac. Yeah, so maniac, I mean Bell
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  Speaker 1: and and Sewn and Lewis. And this is around the
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  Speaker 1: same time. Like I remember when Steve had me come
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  Speaker 1: over this house, right, it was me, Sean and Steve's
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  Speaker 1: Bell and we were at his house and he was
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  Speaker 1: Jamie Adler was hanging around somewhere. Yeah, he was somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, crazy story. Jamie Allen saw me getting arrested.
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  Speaker 1: I got arrested at his fuck at his office right
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  Speaker 1: there in the Hollywood. So we were at his house,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he's like, yo, man, I really you know,
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  Speaker 1: like like I like your record and you know, thinking
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  Speaker 1: about you know, hopefully you know, getting to manage you.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, yo, I have this other kid that
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  Speaker 1: I want to show you and just let me know
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  Speaker 1: what you think, you know, And we're go into his
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  Speaker 1: garage and he pops, you know, pops his record and
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  Speaker 1: this is his record called the Bulletin. A bulletin got
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  Speaker 1: no names at the time. You know. It's like Nip
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  Speaker 1: was barely like coming up, you know. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: me and him got signed the same week to like
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, to get managed by the team,
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  Speaker 1: and that like that was the beginning of more or
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  Speaker 1: less like me kind of getting my feet with like
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  Speaker 1: in the industry, you were managed? How long were you
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  Speaker 1: managed by Lobell? I was looking for like four years.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's crazy. Yes, like, man, that's crazy. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I got to you know, get records
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  Speaker 1: with a few of his other artists like Bone Thugs
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  Speaker 1: and Sean Yeah. Yeah, yeah, man, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And then, uh, you know, my first record hit the radio.
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  Speaker 1: It is called Certified Cush. You know, shout out to
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  Speaker 1: DJ Felly fell on the whole team, Yeah, like they
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  Speaker 1: that power was that? Who was that? Was that? Just you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. That was a solo record called Certified Cush.
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  Speaker 1: And then I had a second record come out, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, that one did like pretty well, like I
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  Speaker 1: think we did like sixty five stations across the country
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  Speaker 1: type of joint, you know, and that was that was
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  Speaker 1: called we Can Make It Rain. And it was more
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  Speaker 1: like a you know, poppy industry record, you know. I was,
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  Speaker 1: I was, I was really trying to get in there
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  Speaker 1: on some like bad you were going by Concrete at
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  Speaker 1: the time, Noah, No, I used to go as Bretta
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  Speaker 1: What was it Bret to oh shit, I think I
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  Speaker 1: re yeah, And this is how I know, like most
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  Speaker 1: of these dudes, you know, like Bash, A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people see me doing skits now with Bash or Frankie.
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  Speaker 1: I've known these guys, these artists, and it's like dog,
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  Speaker 1: I used to open up for these dudes when I
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  Speaker 1: was like, you know and like really in the rap game.
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  Speaker 1: And then I went from you know, my you know, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: my my brother passed away in two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 1: He was like my hype man, my day to day
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  Speaker 1: manager and everything kind of deal, you know. And I
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  Speaker 1: passed away in two thousand and eight, and I decided
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  Speaker 1: to just stop rapping during the time of like the
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  Speaker 1: record high starting to pop. Yeah. So you so you
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  Speaker 1: just getting on the radio, I was getting on the radar,
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  Speaker 1: was trying to do shows, I was trying to travel
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  Speaker 1: and you know, do my thing. And your brother passed
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  Speaker 1: and passed away to just walk away from doing music, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was like I'm done with it, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: I just I just started, you know, you started seeing
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  Speaker 1: like you know, people start acting different, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: it was you know, I actually credited like I'm gad
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  Speaker 1: if I if I would have blown up. Then you know,
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  Speaker 1: I probably would have just I probably would have killed
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  Speaker 1: myself or something because I wasn't in the right statement.
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  Speaker 1: I was just I was just being you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: imagine being twenty one and then you know, like you
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  Speaker 1: have a record on the radio at a time when
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  Speaker 1: having a record on the radio deal was a big deal,
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  Speaker 1: huge deal. Yeah, back then it was a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: So much now yeah, So it's like everywhere I went,
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  Speaker 1: it was like, you know, it was like people already
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  Speaker 1: knew who I was, and it was you know, people
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  Speaker 1: started acting different. So and you know, things are being
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  Speaker 1: presented to you that your record to radio. Who was
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  Speaker 1: your like Steve, Steve you guys. I mean I had
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  Speaker 1: a few people. I mean, I had a few people
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  Speaker 1: working the record. One dude, I'm not gonna mention his name,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, you know, we had Leilani. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, yeah, I mean, but we had like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like a ton of people were really fucking
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  Speaker 1: with the records. So they were like, yo, man, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just down to help out the situation. Like sixty five stations,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's nic. Yeah, that was cool man. So I
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  Speaker 1: would see the little bds, you know, reports, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Okay, cool, this is really happening. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're tired. And then I was like, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Like from one day to another. I remember I put
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  Speaker 1: out like one last music video with me and my wife,
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  Speaker 1: Nikki Diaz, and you know, we just did like one
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  Speaker 1: record and then I ended up just you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: a video right here, no more in my neighborhood, and
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  Speaker 1: that was it. I was like, come out, what happened
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  Speaker 1: when you told Steve You're going to retire? Oh? They
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  Speaker 1: weren't happy? What are you doing? Yeah? Yeah, nah man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they weren't happy. I mean, you know because
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  Speaker 1: like when I left them, you know, I ended up
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  Speaker 1: doing like a collaboration with with Gorilla Black and his
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  Speaker 1: brother Hot Dollar, so I was, I was, I was
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  Speaker 1: doing some stuff with them called Dollar Figure. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know either. I didn't know either up until I started
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  Speaker 1: meeting them really hanging around them, and then yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I meant, you know, I got the call from Steve,
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  Speaker 1: I got the call from like big you, and it's
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  Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, and it was it
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  Speaker 1: was tough, man. It was tough because I really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do music, but It's just I just it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in my heart to try to talk you out of retiring. Nah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I guess, I mean it was they just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to see who my head was at, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like Sean and Lewis kept in. I mean I talked
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  Speaker 1: to them still to this day, you know, and recently
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  Speaker 1: they told me like, yo, like I want you to
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  Speaker 1: do some music, and I'm like, I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just yeah, I was an ask you, like, so
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  Speaker 1: you retire from music? That's a wait. This is like
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. Two thousand and eight kind of
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  Speaker 1: bleeds into like twenty and ten. But by by twenty
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  Speaker 1: and ten, I'm trying to hold like a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: odd jobs. Yeah. I was gonna say, what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: Like what, like, what's the next decade of your life
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  Speaker 1: look like? Because I feel like you just started to
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  Speaker 1: get into the comedy thing recently, right, Yeah. The next
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  Speaker 1: decade after that, I was literally just I remember I
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  Speaker 1: got fired from my last job. I calmed my way
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  Speaker 1: into an accounting job at this in factory to you
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  Speaker 1: at the corporate office. My mom loves us store. It's
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  Speaker 1: like somehow Conning Metal, Arizona that I used to go
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  Speaker 1: to every fucking week with my mom. She picked me
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  Speaker 1: up from high school and we go to the fires
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  Speaker 1: Padatas place and get shipped. My mom loves a deal,
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  Speaker 1: I trust me. I love that place. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've always working on the corporate side. There was on
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  Speaker 1: the corporate side. Somehow, some way, I go boo then
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  Speaker 1: a little bit a little fictitious thies on the on
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  Speaker 1: the resume, on the resume about about about accounting, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then I mean I was doing really good, man,
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  Speaker 1: just collecting pennies and just you know, typing shit in
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  Speaker 1: and I was I was doing good. But the dude
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  Speaker 1: was like, man, you're not happy. He literally called me
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  Speaker 1: to his obways like bro. I'm like, man, I'm not happy.
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  Speaker 1: He sees it in my eyes and he's like, bro,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give your last check and just man,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see you later. Brother. Wow. I was like what
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  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, man, just go do your music because
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  Speaker 1: he had known that I was, you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: like all right. So I went home and I told
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  Speaker 1: my wife. I was like, well, she's my girlfriend at
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  Speaker 1: the time, my wife now, but I was like, look,
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  Speaker 1: with this money, I'm gonna buy a camera. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: buy a camera. There's this YouTube ship right now and
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  Speaker 1: people are just doing a bunch of music videos. At
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  Speaker 1: this time, I already had relationships in the industry more
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  Speaker 1: or less, and I was like, look, I'm gonna call them,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell I'm gonna do the music videos for free,
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  Speaker 1: and let's go. And that's exactly what I did. Like
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  Speaker 1: the first dude to I Think I did a music
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  Speaker 1: video for was Essay Dazz, and then My Boy and
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  Speaker 1: It Means, and then My Boy. As a dad, I
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  Speaker 1: was like for the third video, I was like, look, man,
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  Speaker 1: don't pay me, just buy me this lens. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: for real, Yeah, look here's here's an Amazon Lenk dog
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  Speaker 1: By that lens. I need that the lens. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: you make a video look better, and that LANs Man.
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  Speaker 1: I did like two hundred music videos on that lands. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: So you were shooting, so you became a video director.
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  Speaker 1: I became a videographer, like in twenty ten. And you're directing,
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  Speaker 1: you're editing as well. Everything everything there was. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: remember I I went and bought like a little mac,
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  Speaker 1: little iMac computer, and you know, and then again, this
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  Speaker 1: is a time where like people having a video on
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  Speaker 1: YouTube was was was crazy for sure. For sure, different era,
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  Speaker 1: different area, is such a different like there was none
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  Speaker 1: other comedy shit really going on. It was it was
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  Speaker 1: there was no vloggers. It was just straight either you
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  Speaker 1: had a music video or some corporate shit up there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or you were a big artist. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean even big artists. This is when at the
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  Speaker 1: time when they were leaving like terrestrial television like BT.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like like nobody was really carrying on.
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  Speaker 1: Like Black Diamonds was popping. There was like yeah that
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  Speaker 1: was yeah, you know, oh yeah, yeah, for sure, Black Diamonds,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Power of Tang. I mean, I mean there
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  Speaker 1: was a bunch of dudes that were you became just
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  Speaker 1: a videographer for artists over two hundred videos. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like in the first two years. Oh wow, so you
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  Speaker 1: were really well I was just cracking them out. What
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  Speaker 1: was the biggest video you did? What? I mean, what's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest what I've done? Yeah, like that you've done that?
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  Speaker 1: Like as far as views or songwise, like what's what's
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  Speaker 1: what's I mean? I wouldn't even I wouldn't even I
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  Speaker 1: can't even tell you because I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean as far as like the biggest one that
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  Speaker 1: I might have, I don't know. It could be something
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  Speaker 1: with Scan, but I don't know. I mean I got videos.
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  Speaker 1: I got millions of views with like Trisha Leo, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, I started doing just like I got out
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  Speaker 1: of the hip hop situation, like I started doing different genres,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So I got like millions of views on
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  Speaker 1: like a done ship, millions of views on straight like
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  Speaker 1: you know what people will consider Mexican rap. I guess,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but like I guess all in all my views,
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably I'm probably good at a billion. At a billion?
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  Speaker 1: Would you? Uh? Are you still doing any of that now? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So you're still doing that? Yeah. I just got back
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  Speaker 1: from Miami last week with Magic. It shot a music
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  Speaker 1: video with him in Miami. Oh man. Yeah, so a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't see it because I'm showing. So listen,
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  Speaker 1: you do, all the music video shit keeps you kind
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  Speaker 1: of in the in the in the industry, in the industry, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then at what point in time do you realize
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  Speaker 1: that there's something with the ig comedy shit, Because I
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  Speaker 1: that's more recent so like, yeah, how'd you make that?
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  Speaker 1: You know? I mean, I've always been funny around my boys.
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  Speaker 1: I've always fucked around, and I've always done characters. And
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  Speaker 1: I was acting during during the ten years that I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing music videos, you know, I went to auditions and
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  Speaker 1: booked a few gigs. You're still you were doing? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure, Like I was on Wheelfred with Elijah wood I.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I did a few movies. Uh. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So I was always acting, but it wasn't consistent enough
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  Speaker 1: for me to be like, Yo, I'm gonna just stay
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  Speaker 1: here and hopefully I make money. He's like, nah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I got a wife, I got you know, I got
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  Speaker 1: I got a kid, Like I just can't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so we gotta pay bills. Yeah, dude, So I kept
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  Speaker 1: the shooting. I was like, you know, I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna chill on the acting and doing all these fucking
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  Speaker 1: auditions because it was like, even though you're booking, right,
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  Speaker 1: but you're booking one out of thirty, so you gotta
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  Speaker 1: go on a lot of times. So you gotta go
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  Speaker 1: on sixty auditions take a lot of your bandwidth. It does, bro,
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  Speaker 1: It's just a lot of time and like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you're spending yourself out thin with that shit. So
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  Speaker 1: then so that I'm doing all that, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't until two thousand and I want to say eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: I was shooting the music video for my boy said
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  Speaker 1: go on and come to Menace, and we were at
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  Speaker 1: the Unfair Fact right thereby, like we're big got killed
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  Speaker 1: at those those lights, yeah, the Miracle Mind lights, And
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  Speaker 1: it's the last shot of the music video. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we got all the gear in the truck. We're like,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna park the truck right here. We're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: hit this corner and go to the lights and shoot
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  Speaker 1: the scene and get back in the car and dip.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe take about ten minutes, ten to twelve minutes. By
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  Speaker 1: the time we got back, forty thousand dollars worth of
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  Speaker 1: gear was gone. Oh shit, and this is all your gear.
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  Speaker 1: Get gone. Fuck. My boy said, God had to off
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  Speaker 1: his Rolex put in the car and he was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave it in my bag. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: it for this shot. With like his iPad, and he
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  Speaker 1: had like a bunch of records written, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: old thing, you know. So we come back and everything
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  Speaker 1: it's gone, dog caw everything I worked for a kid
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  Speaker 1: for the last ten years in that. I mean that's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of equipment. Yeah, bro, lights, lenses, laptop, everything, everything.
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  Speaker 1: Though I took the whole fucking kitchen that day, all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of stands and ship right, someone sold the actual vehicle. No,
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  Speaker 1: they just they they went and did a dumping, like
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  Speaker 1: a grabbing dump, you know, just put into the car
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  Speaker 1: and boom it was. It was a ring that was
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  Speaker 1: happening at that area. So come to find out happened
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  Speaker 1: to me last year, you know, to follow me out
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  Speaker 1: of the bank, cracked my window. Yeah, I had fifteen
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  Speaker 1: grand cash on me. I ran into a ups store
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  Speaker 1: to get something notarized, and within two minutes of being
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  Speaker 1: in the store, they cracked my back window. I had
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  Speaker 1: the I had the money, I left it in the
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  Speaker 1: car under my seat, of course, and they took my
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  Speaker 1: bra I never wanted to commit murder in my life.
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  Speaker 1: I can only imagine how you felt, Oh, Doug, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to commit murder. But I was calling all
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  Speaker 1: the whole I called everybody I knew. I was like, yo, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even want the money back. I want my
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  Speaker 1: fucking laptop back, put the word out. That's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: I did. I called everybody I knew in every hood.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yo, put the word out, and especially
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  Speaker 1: in that hood, I was like, yo, dog, I know,
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  Speaker 1: you guys know something. Man, you know, I remember I
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  Speaker 1: did it. I did the most vulnerable post on social
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  Speaker 1: media had ever done. I hate mofuckers cry on social media, right,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm there with like, and I even put that
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  Speaker 1: shit in black and white so they can feel it more.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, man, if anybody knows anything, So any
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  Speaker 1: idea who did it? Or? Oh? No? Yeah? I mean
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  Speaker 1: they ended up catching the guys and ship. Did you
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  Speaker 1: get your ship back? Nah? Nah, there's like restitution, but dude,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna see that back, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: expect it. You know, they caught the guys, but you
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  Speaker 1: never got your ship. Nah? No, man, they had sold
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  Speaker 1: that ship by the time that, you know, like they
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: weren't gonna wait on my ship. They were like, this
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: is the first ship we're gonna get rid of. You know.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: They found a backpack. Right. They called me like at night,
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: like I'm fucking crying at home. They called me like
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: at four o'clock in the morning and shit, and they're like,
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: we found the backpack. When we found the case, I
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: was like, all right, cool. So I get over there
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: and the dude was like, yeah, it's a black backpack
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: and I was like, perfect, it's mine. It has my
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: laptop and my hard drives. I had just shot some
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: music videos in Whatatemala or no on Doudas and I
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: had just shot some music videos and on Doudas and
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: that footage was in there. So I was like, you know,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: that was like twenty thousand dollars, so you had that
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: that was in there. So I get to the police
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: shop and it's not my fucking backpack. Dog, It's not
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: my backpack, right, So I opened a backpack and it
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: has a bunch of IDs and credit cards. I asked
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: ports all kinds of shit. I was like, well, you
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: guys might need this back He's like, oh shit, we
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: didn't even go through it. I was like, thanks man,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: and then they found the case. One thing they did
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: find was a twenty thousand dollars Panasonic monitor for like,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: you know, for playback on set, and I guess like
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: it must have been too heavy for them, so they
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: just dropped it. Fuck and other cops like, yo, we
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: found this, and I was like, ooh, twenty g's here
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: we go. Took that home? That was it? And yeah,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: so yeah, anyway, anyway, so I do this post on
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: social media, crying, asking, fucking begging for people to just
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: give me anything, right, And you know, that was the
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: most broken I had ever or you know, the most
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: vulnerable and transparent I have been on social media up
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: until this point. All people know is that I travel.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I shoot, I'm here, I'm there, I'm traveling everywhere type
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: of shit, you know, but nobody cares about that shit, right,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: That post got a out of love. Did you get
• 15:31
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• 15:34
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• 15:37
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• 15:40
  Speaker 1: you know, Jacas actually threw like a little fund raiser
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: for me and I was able to get like a
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: few grand and you know, get a laptop and shit
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: like that. You know, so you know, shout out to
• 15:47
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• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Nothing like that people, man, and that's the man that's
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: happened to me twice. It's terrible, Dog, it's crazy because
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: you brought a baby Bash. We were in Lake Havasu
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and eleven and Baby Bash was doing
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: a radio event for spring Break and our room was
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: next to his room, and uh, somebody fucking the maid
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: somebody They ran like like cleared out everyone's rooms, took
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: my fucking laptop of my heart drive. At the time,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I'm like making thirty grand a year doing radio in
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas, so like my MacBook is like it's everything. Yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: So I was sick to my stomach, like there's nothing
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: like getting getting having someone jackie for some shit that's
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: like it ain't even about like I had pictures of
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: my kid on there. You know. It was just so
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: much motherfucker fucking made me want to kill a motherfucker.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dog, Yeah, that's how I felt, dude. And
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: you know, like I'm already doing comedy at this time, dude,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Like you know, I'm I'm behind the scenes writing comedy
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: for other dudes and writing skits for other dudes and whatnot.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: And my boy was like, you know what, dude, like,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: you look like shit, man, you gotta do something. He's like,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: nobody's gonna do your comedy how you would do it,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: con so why don't you just give it a shot
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and see if it works sound? And then I did
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: one video man, and I had like, I don't know,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: two thousand followers, and like, overnight I went up to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: like twenty five hundred or something. I was like, Okay,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I got five hundred followers overnight with this shit. That's
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: a big deal, you know. I was like, I just
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: got a fourth of the followers that I have overnight,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: all right. And then I remember, like, you know, cause
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: before it's like the only people that commented, like you know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and that I'm doing cool shit, like I'm in I'm
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: in you know, Jamaica with the Marley's I'm in you know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: fucking Europe, like I'm doing cool shit. But like, you know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the only people that comment is just like your mom
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and your cousin, like, hey, good shit, man, keep pushing, right,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like that's it. You know.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: And for this shit, it was like people I didn't
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: even know. I was like, oh shit, okay, it wasn't
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: just followers, and there were comedis like yo, man, funny shit.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, cool. And then the next
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: day I did another skit and then that one went
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: kind of That one went kind of big me at
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: a Lakers store where I'm seeing this this this person
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: get It's kind of a reaction video this person get
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: kicked out of the store and I'm reacting to it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And that one, when you know that one again game
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: like a thousand followers overnight, like oh this ship there's
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: something to this. All right cool, you know, and then yeah, man,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: from there just kind of snowballed into like this fucking
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: thing that It's like in two years, man, I've been
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: blessed to get casted for movies now and you know,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: doing TV shows. My TV show drops on November on
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: two B and wow, I got on my TV Yeah man,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: we just we just we know. Won in the ward
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: yesterday for the the Panemicic Easter LA Film Festival for
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: like I think, like funniest comedy and you know, funniest
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: comedy TV series. So it's cool what's your involvement with
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the with the TV series. I'm the star of it. Yeah,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: that's weird to say, man, that's with any of the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: writing or any of the idea. Yeah, yeah, no, of course.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: But I think for season two, we just you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: see season one is wrapped. And for season one, yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I mean obviously, I mean I had a lot of
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I had a lot of involvement as far as like
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: improvising and rewriting some of the stuff and kind of
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you know and unless you know, secondhand directing a little bit,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you know, But definitely for the second season, I will
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: have a bigger part in it. It's the second season
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: already green lit. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: we a man, I feel like there's needs to be
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: more Latino actors too. I'm tired of seeing Carlos in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: every fucking movie. What's his name? You know, the guy
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: who's in front by guy Noel Noel, But he's like
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the guy, he's like the go to guy every movie.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: It's like it's like, is there nobody else? Like yeah,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just you know, like I guess for me,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: like it's always been difficult to book those roles, you know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I don't really have like a menacing face and ship.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: He fits the part. Yeah. So it's like I you know,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: like for me to like like even when I booked
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the Elijah you know, like on on on Wilfred, you know,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it was like this gangster dude, I love that show,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you know, and and I'm robbing Elijah Wood and that ship,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: and and and my cousin, Like, my cousin's watching this show.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: He's a gangster. He was like I would have slapped you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Well you didn't even look scary. And I was like, yeah,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: all right, good, you know, yeah, fucking fucking you know,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I catch the check. What's the name of the TV show? Well, Fred, No, No,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the TV show that? Oh, Ghetto Busters. Ghetto Busters. Yeah,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: when's the first season debut? I believe November fourth? Oh yeah,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: that's big Man Toob's dope. It's like an app Like
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: it's like free TV. Yeah, yeah, there's free TV. You
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: just go there and watch it, have a subscription, nothing, nothing,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Just go up there and watch it. Yeah, it's vibe man.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: So what is kind of like since you've been doing
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the IG comedy thing, Like obviously there's a lot of
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: quote unquote IG comedians there's a bunch. Yeah, what has
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: been kind of like your secret into like kind of
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: standing out. And I don't follow trends. I don't follow
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the trendy TikTok of the day. I'm not doing squid
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: games this week. Mmm. You know, I technically go against
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the grain on everything that happens, you know. I mean,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: if it's something that's like I remember, like, I mean
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: one of the biggest kits that did was an R
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Kelly skit, right, you know, and that was around the time. Yeah,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that was it was trendy, but it just you know
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of people would making like, for example, that's it.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I remember a lot of people were playing Gael King's
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: part the interviewer, and I was like, fuck that man,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: how funny would it be to see the camera man's
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: point of view? True? Right? So I ended up doing
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that and then that shit got me like twenty thousand
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: followers overnight. Cameras, you know, that's a great So I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: played the cameraman point of view because everybody else was
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: playing the Gael King like the interviewer, like they wanted
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to put themselves in the moment, right, I was like, Nah,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: that's just that's already a scene as it is, let
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that happen, let me add the cameraman point of view,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and then that's just it was. It was out of here,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, it's just you know, like I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: don't you know, social media comedy is really like again,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and I feel like it's comedy is just like music, subjective, right,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: people like what they like. Yeah, but I just tend
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to go against the green. Like I don't like to
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: follow the trends, you know, and I like to be
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: as original as possible, as original as possible, you know
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You know, Like even when I do
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: my characters, like you know, like when I did it
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: was so funny. Like recently, somebody was asking me, like, man,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: how do you bridge the gap between black and brown
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and trying to you know, the comedy, And I was like,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to bridge no gap. I'm just doing me,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you know. Like when I did Andre three thousand, I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: wasn't thinking like I'm gonna do Andre three thousand because
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: it's gonna get me closer to the black community. I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: was like, no, I would just be a funny ass
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: fucking Andre d thousand, the Mexican version, like that shit
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: would be funny and dude, and I had a bunch
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of comments on my TikTok and on Instagram like loving it,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: you know, and from the black community, they're like, man,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: see here's a comedian. I didn't have to do black face,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: none of that to just be for sure. And I
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: think you know that to me means a lot, you
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, I'm not doing comedy for
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: anybody specific. I'm just doing what I think is funny
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to me. And if you happen to be white, Black,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: or Asian or Mexican and you like it cool, Like,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: do you find that TikTok's a little bit easier to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: get traction on than ig because I feel like TikTok,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I've seen people go from like zero to like like
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: quick on TikTok. They're doing the right ship. Oh yeah,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Like I's a slower climb. Yeah, I mean, I mean definitely,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I's a slower climb now because of the fact that,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you know, just the algorithms are different and you know whatever,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I don't really pay attention to that. I came into Look,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I started my my Instagram or really like really started
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: pelling on the Instagram two years ago and at the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: time dudes that were already big in the social media
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: where we're like, you're getting followers in a time where
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: it's hard to get followers. Not for sure, I just tricky.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I feel like TikTok, Like, as long as you just
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: stay consistent on TikTok. Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: You'll be all right. But I mean, but you gotta
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: stay consistent in all your I mean, I say, consistent
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: on my Facebook. TikTok. How's how's your Facebook? Because face,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: people don't realize Facebook, do I got millions of views
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: on Facebook. People don't even realize. Yeah, Facebook is popping,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: just like be forgetting that Facebook is still the thing.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: But I'm like, yo, Facebook, especially for like Facebook, like
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: like comedy ship, Like, yeah, Facebook is cracking. Dog. I
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: probably have the most million views videos on there. Yeah
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Facebook is a movie. You know. That's you know, I mean,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: that's the most I've done. But yeah, man, you and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Jay Valentino did a like a little tour together. Shout
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: out to him too. He's yeah, shouts too. He's been
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: killing it for a while. I remember when I first
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: met him, I was like, bro, we gotta put you
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: on the radio, and then I don't know what ended
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: up happening. I know he did like a weekend with us,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: like real, but the station's tripping. He needs to be
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: on the radio. Yeah, that being said, how'd that go? Oh?
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: That was dope, guys. I'm just kind of pulling up
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to like I'm not gonna lie to look random as fuck. Dog,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: it looks it was super random, dog, I mean, you know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: like I was. You know, it's like you you think
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: you popping right, And so I decided to put this too.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I was like, a, J, let's go on this little
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: like pull up tour. We'll just do a bunch of
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: meet and greets. It should be fine, right, So we
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: do the flyer and we get a really good response
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: and shit right, and like a week before, two weeks
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: before we're leaving, I told you, I was like, hey, J,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: check this out. Dog. I have a feeling that what
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't go as planned and nobody shows up.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I was like, it'd be great if we just shot
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: this ship right. It'd be absolutely epic if we just
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: shoot the tour and show what it is to be
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: a comedian or to be somebody trying to make it
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: right and that's exactly what happened. We had good good turnouts,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: we had really bad turnouts. What was the worst place?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: The worst place fuck Albuquerque. I think Albuquerque thought we
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: were hurting. Phoenix Two Songs was lit. Uh, you know,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Opasso was good, Dallas was cool, Houston was like Houston
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: ended us booking, like I ended up booking someplace. Actually know.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but it was an Odessa. Odessa.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Odessa was bad. It sounds like interesting, I'll give you
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: a tipic because I didn't even. I didn't even. So
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: this dude calls me. He's like, yo, man, we want
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to bring you guys out to Odessa. And then I
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: was like all right, cool. They're like, well, where's that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, it's a cell phone spot. You guys
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: would be good. I was like, a cell phone spot,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: we can we set up somewhere. They're like yeah, dog.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: So we get there and we just I mean, you know,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: it's a tighty little town. Yeah, tighty little town. So
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you're kind of driving by and all we see is
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the fucking cemetery. We're like, what the fuck? I was like, dog,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and I called the dude was like, hey, this is
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: a cemetery. He's like, yeah, we're right at the corner.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So it was this little bit. It was like, this
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: is the whole cemetery and his story was right at
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the corner by a cemetery. On the cemetery. Bro Like,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: there's flowers and graves all around his shop. I asked
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: him what the fuck was going on? He was like, Yo,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: they went and bought all the houses in the land
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: here the city to put a cemetery. I'm the only
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: one that didn't sell. What the fuck we're sitting there.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: So we're sitting there, bro, Like you want us to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: do it? Me and Green at a cemetery. Bro, Like,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: you guys documented this. Everything is documented, man, It's being
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: it's being added though. We guys it's dude. The ship
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: is really good. San Antonio was was, oh, man, are
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: there any other creators that that you fuck with that
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: are kind of like in the Latin comedy lane, like
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: because there's a lot of there's a lot of people
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: doing their thing, you know. I think like Mikey Luciano
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: knows best from Phoenix is Yeah, I know who he is. Uh,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: we just we just tapped in with I think they're
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: called the Mexican waves. M. Yeah, I worked with them before. Yeah,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: there's like I just feel like there's like a it's
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: really popping right now, you know what I'm saying, Like
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: outside of J Like, who are some of the other
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: people who you want to collaborate with or you or
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: who you have worked with? I mean, I think everybody
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that I've wanted to collaborate I think I did, you know,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and if I don't know them, it's because we just
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: haven't came across I haven't came across your page or
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: whatever the case. But I mean, you know, like man
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: like for the last two years and even until now,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: for me, it's it's it's really been about like showing
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: proof for myself. Yeah, you know, I kind of felt
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that I needed I need to do my comedy right now.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I need to do what I think is best for
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: me and not necessarily collaborate with someone because they got
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: cloud because they're popping. It's like I want to earn
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: my seat at the table, you know. And that's why
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I started doing stand up, because there's a certain stigma
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: about oh, if you ig comedians stand up, you can't
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: do stand up, or you like you don't deserve a seat.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm like at this table. Stand up
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: comedians look down on people who do ig comedy. Yeah,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I mean I've had stand up comedians tell me like
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: you ain't it? Yeah, you know that in a bad way. Yeah.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And then so I said, fuck it, all right, cool,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I need to earn my seat. I'm gonna earn my seat.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: And this is even when I already had George Lopez
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: hit me up and be like, yo, I see you
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: keep doing your thing, like your next type of ship.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And then I've had other comedians hit me up like
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know, Felippus Spars has been really supportive.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Uh, you know, Fit Creeper
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: has been really support them. You know, these are all
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: guys that do stand up you know. Jerry Garcia you know,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: which you know, gave me an opportunity to do the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: you know, to HOSTSOS tour with them, so it was
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: his MAGA routine. Yeah, sou as a comedian. All these
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: guys have been like that, have been in the industry
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: for you know that between all of them, they got
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: one hundred plus years of experience as stand up to
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: tell me like yo, pursue this shit. This is this
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: is this is where you need to be. Then it
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: was kind of like all right, because I was fighting standards.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Say how's the stand up thing, because that's a hard
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: thing to get into. Man, it's not the same obviously,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I mean it's yeah, I mean it's not the same, right,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you know. Luckily for me, I come from a rapper's lane,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: so you're not scared to be on stage. So I'm
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: scared to be on stage and command attention and do
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: crowd work and do all that shit, right, So I've
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: been there before. Now was just implementing tours and shit. Yes,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: kind of like for sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, from doing I mean, you know,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: like people tell me like, like you should be able
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: to handle this, you know, three hundred play you know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: three hundred person crowd at the laugh Factory, And I
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: try to tell them, like, it's different having seventeen thousand
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: people that half of them are not even paying attention
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to you, yeah, because it's just so much shit going
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: on a drunk people to three hundred people right in
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: front of you, and the life harder. And they're all like,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you know, but yeah, and then I come on entertain us,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: make me laugh, you know, like it's time. Let's go
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: out paid twenty five and let's get it. But nah
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: do it. It's been really good, you know according to
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: my peters and the people that have been are like, yo,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: like you're killing this. So so it's been cool. Man.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: How do you feel like, you know, cause from your perspective,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you have a unique perspective coming as a rapper shooting videos.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I mean you've seen a lot of erarors of like
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Latin hip hop and where it's came from, where it's going.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I do feel like, uh, you know, when I was
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: coming up in radio, there was like the low Rider
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: car scene, and there was obviously you know, MC magic,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: there was Caponi, there was Little Rob all these guys.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: But I feel like a lot of that music was
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: kind of if you weren't in that world, it was
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: it was very it was like you had to know.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I guess it was hard to cross over, right because
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: it was. There was the Chicano rap era, which was crazy.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: That shit was lit, high power records, all that shit
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: was going crazy. But I feel like now there's like
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of Mexican artists who are coming up where
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: it's just like like that's the thing. Their music is dope,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and they happened to be Mexican, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I mean as opposed to like back in the day,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like you, yeah, like you were complimentalizing to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a certain genre of music, right, Like that was a
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: ship that I was fighting for ten years ago, you
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Fifteen years ago though, you know,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: like you know shit that me and Bash were fighting for,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: like where it was like yeah, because I feel like
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Bash did a good job, you know, being like, dude,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I'm just making bangers. Yeah, and he and he was
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I mean he was making radio shit.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: He was making kiss FM type music what they call it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Whatever, Like shit, that's like
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: just super pop and no matter if who it is,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: it's all yeah, no matter the race it is, yeah,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: it's on. But that was a ship that you know,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I was fighting for twelve years ago where it was
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: like when people used to like, are you ual kind
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: of rapper? I'm like, no, I'm not just rappers. And
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I was doing that type of music. I wasn't necessarily
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: banging on my music. It was just I was just
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: doing good street music or you know shit that was
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: potentially going to be on the radio, you know what
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I wasn't never aiming for anything like that.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: And then you know that goes the same with my comedy.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm not doing comedy for just Chicano's either.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I do cater to it, you know what I'm saying,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: But I don't just specifically do it for them, you know,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I do it for whatever I think is funny. And
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that was the same thing with music. I wasn't doing
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: this type of music or that type of music. I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: think what's happening now with you know, with all the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: artists that are starting to pop that are essentially Latino descent,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: which like the Little Pumps, and you know what I'm saying,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Like all these dudes like that's dope, man, Like that's
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: the ship that we wanted to do twelve years ago.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: And you and because of the culture changing and because
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of social media, it's more acceptable to just be another
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: race and be able to get on like that. You
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's I don't think Little Pumps
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the first one or you know, I mean the Takashis
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: of the world or I mean, I mean there's splaining
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the latink the bad bunnies are taking over, you know
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I mean, it's it's it's that
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: kind of vibe. I think the industry in the world
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: is starting to see that the Latino market is the
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: consumer and they buy records, facts and they follow it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: The fast is growing, you know what I'm saying, because
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: we're you know, like we're the ones that essentially buy
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the ticket when you're up, and we are the and
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: we are the people that buy tickets when you're down.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: When you're down, we go see you at the car show,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: we go see you at these places. We are the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: ones that support a lot of these rappers that were
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: hot twenty years ago. You know what I'm saying. I
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: host a lot of the shows. You know what I'm saying,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: We the Latino consumer is the one that buys. And
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, once they really grabs the situation,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, we're gonna see an influx of
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of rappers even here from it. Later it's
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: gonna start to pop, and not just one. I mean,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: you know what, obviously we got the King Little G's,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: we got the Drummer Boys, you know. Yeah, I mean
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of dope artists. You know what I'm saying,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: rucchie Uchie's Mexican. Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, I mean,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: so there's a lot of dope artists that are waiting
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: just to bubble, you know what I'm saying, to get
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: that one record that's gonna take him to the next level.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I think all of them are just one record away,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, one record away, you know
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: what I mean. Obviously such an air like like like
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: pay so swat, Like there's so many dope young Mexican
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: rappers that are like bubbling baby young and there's just
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: tons of them. Yeah. Yeah, there's so many of them.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I'm such a crazy movement going on right now, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: they're starting to see that. You know, we we really
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: support the ship. We buy this ship, and you know,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully it gets bigger than what it is now.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Besides the TV show, What's like next for you? Man?
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I got a movie coming out. It's called The Chat
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: That and Oat Milk starring uh Jerry Garcia, Duno, Yeah, hilarious, Yeah,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Duno and me and uh and man, we got some Yeah,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: that's the dopeest movie. I can't wait for that to
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: come out. Man, that's gonna be dope. And it's called
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: The Chat That and Oat Milk. And then I'm working
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: on the TV show and now called uh The King
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: of Downey Uh and then that's again with me Jerry
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Garcia and I forgot the other gentle Man, but that's
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: what Chicago, uh, Chicano Hollywood and then they call it
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: right yeah, Chico Hollywood Love And what else am I
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: working on? And then I'm working on a movie. It's
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: my first uh, my first like serious role is and
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: this is a movie called Sam's Cry. I play Dad
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that just he's kind of like a rolling stone but
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: drug addict and kind of wife beat the type of dude.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that was crazy to play. And then I
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: finished shooting that in November. Are you're going to make
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: a return of the rap game? I had a really
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: good conversation with MC magic not too long ago, and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: what the Magic say? He says, I got momentum? He says,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: why not for real? You know? Yeah? But it's like,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: can do a comedy album? Yeah, but it's like, what
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: do you rap about that? You know what I'm saying,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: do a comedy album. Yeah, I mean I get it, man,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I just you know, like if anything, I'm gonna just
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: wrap to the ladies, I said, you know, I don't know.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know if people want to hear me, like
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: do comedy wrap you know, because man, you know, Food's
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: going Wild is doing really good at that. Like I
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: ain't trying to you know, I ain't trying to step
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: on these toes. Man, Yeah, shout out. What's the guys
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: in that? Foo's gonna wile the guy with the mister
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: e man. You know, like man, he's he's killing it, bro.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: You know, like ship like that, like that kind of content,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: like that's amazing context. You know, they kill it. There's
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many fucking dope pages out there, dude.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: It's just you know community, Food's gone Wild. There's a
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: lot of the food yo. Man. Yeah, I'm just trying
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: to keep up with them, dog because really selling out
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the Novo that's crazy, right, Like a comedy page comedy ship, Yeah,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: that's dope. And then you know, but he wanted implemented
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the music and that was I mean that ship is smart, bro,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: That ship, you know, I can't you know, you can't
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: knock that, bro, You can't knock that. Like the dude
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: made something out of nothing and and and and and
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: and that's dope, you know, like something out of a
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: page that's essentially free. Bro, for sure, what's your I G?
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Everybody know where they can follow at Concrete Live. You
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: can follow me at Concrete that's on all platforms at
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Concrete Live. Yeah, I'll up man go follow him. Yeah,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: appreciate you pulling up. Thank yes, sir. Appreciated brother, hell
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: sir