The Breakfast Club - Eating While Broke: DC YOUNG FLY - Noodles and Nostalgia

Episode Date: September 28, 2024

The Black Effect Presents... Eating While Broke! On this episode of Eating While Broke, we've got the talented DC Young Fly in the house.    Join us as we dive into some classic, budget-friendly dishes and laugh our way through DC's wild stories and culinary creations. From ramen and hot dogs to the legendary Sweet Baby Ray's sauce, we're serving up nostalgia with a side of comedy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have very, very special guest, DC Youngfly in the building. What it do? What it do? Yes. I thought we was already recording. Oh, you was, you was.

That was crazy. You was putting on a good show. We were 25 minutes, 30 minutes in. I just knew it. I was like, ooh, this good. Oh, and none of that shit gonna get used? Oh my Lord. I want none of that shit gonna get used oh my lord so what are you gonna have me eating today

oh we starting for real for real what you gonna cook for me oh this how the show go okay alright well ladies and gentlemen

today I'm having beef and noodles. I got some this one's a the OG classic the OG classic the triple OG you know when you add the hot dog

in the dish you kind of like what's the what's the school they go to to go to be a chef culinary school

no not it's culinary but cordon bleu yeah this is like the stage right before cordon bleu you feel me they be like show me your dish oh that's that It's culinary, but it caught on blue. Yeah. This is like the stage right before caught on blue. You feel me?

They be like, show me your dish. I be like, oh, that's mad. So you whip out there, put it with the noodle. You caught on blue that motherfucker. But what kind of sauce do you got? I probably told you to get the sweet baby raid, but it's all good. All this time and you just now realizing the missing ingredient? But no, see, when I realized what we were doing, I forgot the extra.

But now that I'm here, I'm like, damn, it is a little bit more to it. But this the main dish, though. Okay, so what's the missing sauce you said? Sweet Baby Ray. What is that? Is that hot sauce? No, that's barbecue sauce. Yeah, barbecue sauce?

You don't know about Sweet Baby Ray. But wait, you add that to ramen? You don't know about Sweet Baby Ray. Do you really add that to ramen you don't know about sweet baby right do you really add that to your ramen uh-uh you don't know about sweet baby no i know every black oh my god if you still eat hot sauce you are technically asleep we have been past the hot sauce stage. That shit was from 99 to the 2000 when Back That Ass Up came in.

We on Sweet Baby Ray. Okay. He got a promotion. He got the sweet chili. That really the one that hit the switch. Is this Atlanta based or something? Nah, Sweet Baby. He nationwide. Sweet Baby nationwide.

As soon as you go on the barbecue, he got a whole section. It ain't just like a little, like a shelf. Shelf, shelf, shelf. Come on down. Okay. You look out the whole aisle,

you're like, ooh, that's Sweet Baby Ray. They all him. Nah, you got to add that on top of that. And Sweet Baby Ray good with steak Chicken And just a good little you know what I'm saying

Additive you know what I'm saying You can put into whatever you got man I really wish I would have tried it with the Sweet Baby Ray now You ain't never had Sweet Baby Ray Well not with ramen and hot dogs Yeah and you know what You'll be the first guest to ever do ramen With hot dogs with Sweet Baby Ray

It would have been legendary. I ain't see Sweet Baby Ray need to go on hand and put me in the commercial. Yeah, at this point. No cap. First day, come on. You ain't never had Sweet Baby Ray. What? So now I'ma show you what I'ma do with this though. Here's a butter knife. Y'all got beef. See, let me show you something. We have beef and chicken.

Don't worry about it. We're going to mix it up. We're going to get both on. I don't know if you have enough water. We got enough water. That pot big. No, that pot... I'm going to stay out of the kitchen. You are so thoughtful. We don't need all that. Here we go. We're going to get this right, beef.

You can't even be next to. We're going to chop it up. We got to chop it up like you're going to do something with it. Oh, this is real beef. I'm going to put it on there and cut it at the end. Okay, then you got the butterfly. Ooh, you got the butterfly. Butterfly.

Stick it in the middle so we can burn in the middle. All right. To all my real noodle pioneers out there. What's the first thing you do with the noodle? What you do with the noodle? You break it. All right then, you done did something before. Don't nobody eat long ass noodles

that's sitting there all the time. Don't nobody do all that pussy ass shit. We want them noodles to be right here. Nigga be sitting here twisting in that shit.

Get your pussy ass on, man. We want little ass noodles, man. I've never seen someone cut the hot dogs before they boil them. Oh yeah, you gotta cut the hot dogs. You see them. Oh, yeah. You got to cut the hot dogs. You see their pat? Woo-hoo.

You got to save it. When you see it, you hear how full it is. You're like, yeah, that's a lot of sauce. All the young kids know that sauce. You got to have you some sauce. With that beef sauce. Yeah. Which one better, beef or chicken?

Chicken. Well, I'm an anti-beef-er. And you know what? I'm over here tripping. I can't eat chicken. It's just the flavoring. I'm still up here about to kill myself for this show. There's no chicken in it. No, there's chicken in this.

Yeah, but I'm saying, so remove the flavor. So this really, but no, but this has been like put to the side, been prepared like it was going to be chicken. So we the side, been prepared like it was gonna be chicken. So we gotta throw it away like it was chicken. Okay. Damn, boy, I was gonna mix the sauce. I almost did it again. It's all good.

Yeah. Gonna put that in there right out there. And that's simmering. That's what you call simmering. Okay. Okay. All right, you're just gonna let that... Add a little. Sometimes when you

crush them up too much, you look stupid, but now they look like Frosted Flakes. They just in there, little-ass noodles. Okay, then we're gonna dunk these in like they're some oysters. okay then we're gonna dunk these in here like they're some oysters and you let that cool okay so take me back to what was going on when you were eating ramen consistently it was some dope selling for real for real yeah so it wasn't making a profit? No. It made enough profit, but you know, you got to like manage your money.

And you know what I'm saying? Don't live over your means. You know what I'm saying? I knew then I could survive off of Church's two-piece, no, three, two drums and a wing and two biscuits. I do that two times a day on scrape. I ate. I ate. I thought I did. No did no nigga you ain't eat you you barely can buy you feel what i'm saying but as a youngster you like shit that shit called me seven dollars to the max and i made three four hundred today

shit what the hell i'm up here eating a hundred dollar worth of food for so you know that was around about that time how old were you uh 1920 1920 and then i just want a quick picture of your home life growing up my home life parents together separated no they separated been separated since i was like six years old uh dad stayed on bank kid i stayed in adamville mom stayed in adamville with the stayed in Adamville. Went to Calver, Maze, Creme. Graduated from Creme.

It's not a public school on the east side, but it's an alternative school. Open campus. You could be 40 and come back and get your GED.

Right. You'll be in class with a nigga that's 16. You're like, well, you old as fuck. He was a nigga in the bathroom. I knew that nigga

was undercover, bro. We shooting diamonds, right? I look up, I'm like, this nigga ugly, but We shooting diamonds right I look up I'm like This nigga ugly But he look old as fuck He probably like Every little bit of 20 something

And I tap my ponder Cause I'm thinking There's a police undercover I'm like bro Hold up hold up hold up I said hey bro I said who you with He talking about

Uh uh Woot woot And I'm like You go to school here He was like yeah He got a notebook and everything I'm like what program you in He was like I'm in the GED program I was like how old you is He was like I'm 28 I was like, you go to school here? He was like, yeah. He got a notebook and everything. I'm like, what program you in? He was like, I'm in the GED program.

I'm like, how old you is? He was like, I'm 28. I'm like, bro, we 17. You ain't here with some 17, yo. But how much money you got, though? Put out. So we gambling with an old ass nigga. So them the type of environments that I was in when I was growing up in 1920.

I'm just outside. Just trying to figure it out. How'd you end up in alternative school? Were you? I got caught at school with some weed. Okay. So you selling weed pretty much? Yeah, I was selling weed at school.

Don't do that, kids. That's bad. That's a crazy feeling. You don't even know what you're getting yourself into. You think you're just getting some money, but they got a real no drug policy, zero drugs, ex-school, and that shit come with like 10 charges that you don't need no nothing back. So when you're that age, did you have an idea on what you wanted to do with your life? As a youngster?

No, I wanted to play ball. I wanted to play ball. I really had a dream in basketball. And then once I told I was no good, it fucked me up. You know what I'm saying? Who told you you were no good? A coach. I think he's still living.

Nigga, I ain't coach Matt. So he was playing at high school and it was just like. nigga, not in Co-Math. So he was playing at high school and they was just like... Yeah, I went to another high school. When I got kicked out of my first high school,

I went to another high school and they was a little bit more advanced. You know how certain schools be more advanced? So you good over here, but over here, you ain't really that good.

You know what I'm saying? The E-Boys advanced. And like you playing in the country and you like, but E-Nigga down here so sorry that you come in the city.

You like, but you need to go back to the country. Because you'll get a better chance at the country. So that type of, I understood that once I got older. Because at Cal, we were just starting the school. And in the particular school that I was at, School of the Arts, I kind of had like the best jump shot.

You know, I probably. You was a man there. I had the best potential that could represent that school. You know what I'm saying? You know, I'm like, you may be all right, but if we need a team, we're going to at least start with you. You know what I'm saying? We ain't got to train you.

You know what I'm saying? But when I went over there to May, them boys over there, they're like, these boys go to summer leagues and all this extra shit. And I'm like, oh, yeah, i ain't do the summer league programs and all that i just waited to basketball season to come around y'all niggas do this shit year round while i'm playing baseball you still playing basketball so it was like oh yeah and once that shit happened it was just like all right i'm in the streets for real like all right what what did that do because i thought it was gonna be basketball and since it ain't basketball and what's your parents saying

when all that what did you say oh yeah I thought I said cocaine at 15 16 years old I sold cocaine the next week

okay but you still in school though yeah okay so you in school you still in cocaine your basketball dreams yeah

that's you know what okay so it like he took my my dreams and put them in the ball like Space Jam. And booted that bitch. And I ain't never seen it again. I still watch it.

No! I've been sorry. I go on the basketball court. You know what I'm like? Bro, I play like I believe him. I'm like, that's what you were talking about okay yeah they weren't gonna never make it so it was like yeah but that's why i don't crush people dreams now because i've been in like certain situations where i know what they feel like i can't crush nobody dreams as a child it it it was It was crazy

That it had to be that real And that harsh You know what I'm saying But it was good That I had it at an early age Because Somebody who may think They're strong

Probably went through that Like at 25 You feel me May not even know How to deal with that shit Yeah You're thinking you read it You feel what I'm saying

But I had to deal with that shit At an early age Like somebody telling me Some shit that I I believed in Since I was a child And telling me that I was no good and then i wasn't gonna be shit with it and it was just like find something else to do it was like i ain't never heard that in my life you know and once that happened i was just like all right i was always open-minded to

doing new shit if this don't work so i've been like that since 15 if this don't work i'm gonna do that if that don't work i'm gonna do that so what made the drugs not work i didn't say that didn't work i mean the drug well you obviously you pivoted out of it so yeah it just wasn't for me okay so what was the thing that made it not for you it was just god telling me it wasn't for me okay it was just you gotta be you gotta be paying attention when when you go through shit and he make you sit still and it's a and it's a time of reflection you know i'm saying you have to really reflect and and try to make sure that your next move is your best move you know i'm saying so the person that y'all know today and who who i've become and who i am and what i stand for was a person that was just like i

i had a street mentality just like that like how i'm so adamant about doing this i was adamant in the street like i was adamant like i want to sell drugs like if we got to make the plug i got to learn how to whip cocaine like i'm trying to whatever lane there was where there was the money was being made i have to learn that and be that and do that. And I got stabbed up in 2013 and I had to sit down and really just reflect on my life and figure it out. And that's when Divine and the comedy came about, you know, when I had nothing. God knew that I had to take my hands away because you have to see a dog with your hand. Is that where you got hurt? Yeah, I got stabbed right here and i got stabbed right here and i got

stabbed over here and i got stabbed in my back okay so it was like i was in the cast for a couple months long time but it's like when you when you break bones and you shatter bones and you cut things that's a long recuperation like that's a long especially when you have to relearn to use things you can sit there and be like i I'm going to get my feeling back. But you don't get that actual muscle memory. You have to work on that. You know what I'm saying? Especially when something happened to you and then you like have to start over.

You'll think like, oh, my hand ain't going to come back like this. No, if I wasn't doing this every day, I should have been just like this. Stuck. Wow. So I had to work on it and that was a time of reflection and trying to get my life together and then that's when the vine came about you said vine vine vine the infamous vine six second video six second video okay so vine comes off you're coming out of the cast i'm still in it my hand don't recuperate to like two years later

okay so what what happens with Vine? My boy Fat and Paid, my boy Moneybag Mafia, US 2500, we all started on that Vine together back then. It was a union of Atlanta Viners and we represented Georgia at the time.

But people don't know, Vine was a huge thing for people that was a huge thing for people that was on social media and people repping a side of town like people may look at it

like it was people like that was on Vine nah we was representing like like Georgia cause you got NOLA

that's how people know Super them and Tokyo Vanity because they represented Louisiana and now I know that cause I was in that area you feel me so it was like who's in Louisiana no soup with them and Tokyo Vanity because they represented Louisiana. And now I know that because I was in that area. You feel me? So it was like, who's in Louisiana

popping? They was popping. Who is Georgia popping? Me and my partners popping. And it was like, that's how King Badge popping. Oh, that's the West Coast niggas. You feel what I'm saying? So it was like everybody was representing something and once that popped off, it was like people was following it. I didn't know how big it was. I didn't know people was doing this on a spare time i was selling dope

i did not know people was on the internet looking at video yeah but vine was a very challenging application because it was six seconds to get it wasn't it six seconds or how long was it was six seconds you gotta also understand. That's crazy that I think about it like that. I wasn't paying attention to none of that shit. So you weren't on socials at all? No. No, I was on social, but I'm like Facebook, checking DMs, hoping somebody said something. Like, it was that type shit.

Like, you know that regular life shit? Like, did she write back ass nigga? That was me. You know what regular life shit like Did she write back ass nigga That was me you know what I mean Like what is that To do on Facebook besides Scroll on your feed But that's I'm gonna sit down And do that later on

But we not recording no videos I know I'm in the streets man This shit is telling on yourself what am I recording So anyways You in the streets you you adopt the divine platform okay i was nervous you were nervous so you're on the vine was it hard to adopt the six second comedy it was hard to adopt doing that shit anyway because i ain't know what that shit was were

you editing videos or just shooting and no that's just six seconds so you ain't no time you can't edit them it was like well the la the la crews be. But we knew we was different from them. I told my partner, I said, hey, bro, they're great at this. Like, they're already setting a standard and a mark of saying, all right, there's a level to get to. But look, bro, we in the hood, bro. We can't flip no car. I told my partner this verbatim. I said, bro, we can't be coming up with shit thinking we're going to flip a car and then hoping we get somebody to edit it. That is going to flip. No, then hoping we get somebody to edit it.

That it's going to flip. No, nigga. I got roaches in my house. I'm going to show them these roaches that I can flip. And goddamn, that's what they're going to get. And when I did it, and the folk were like, look at the roach. I was like, bro, they're so fascinated about this roach. I was like, I got some more. You feel me?

So I was just fascinated that got some more. You feel me? So it was like, I was just fascinated that they was fascinated by this shit. Like, they ain't never been in the hood. And I would just

open up the door just like, what this hood life was about, but how we can just keep our, you know what I'm saying, humility about shit.

You feel what I'm saying? Like, we good. The way you look at us is like, those guys over there, they're in the ghetto and they some thugs like nah nigga we really be laughing this shit off buddy yeah you feel me like look at this shit now you're intrigued because i'm showing you a day in the life of what did like if you watch me and you follow me i literally showed you a day in the life of my life

yeah i showed you how it started from where it started to where i am now these motherfuckers been in my goddamn face so you're doing successful on you you you're starting to pick up on vine what's your next play we go to instagram because uh the time is longer time is longer and not only that it was like when nobody over there. Nobody. And this is before Vine falls off completely. And they really weren't falling off. It was just they had other apps that was being competitors, and they was giving us more seconds.

And it wasn't really no way for us to make income off of Vine like that. It was more so notoriety. And when Instagram came out, it was a little bit more faster than Vine. And the income started coming when people wanted you to come out for appearances and stuff. You're not getting called out for appearances on Vine. I don't care about that shit. You're just known on one of these little social media platforms and back then the big labels didn't really know what to do with these upcoming social media stars. They knew people

from YouTube and you got to also understand, my range of YouTube, we watching we going on YouTube to watch fights and shit. Like world star type stuff? Yeah, like we ain't going on to watch nothing productive. Not alone. We got the access to go Yeah, like, we ain't going on that to watch nothing productive. Not long, we got the access to go look up

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backtrack after the hand situation you completely stopped doing deal dealing right yeah i knew that wasn't gonna do nothing okay i had to make i had to make a uh a pack not really a pack it was just a uh a promise to the high power that if i take this serious i ain't really gonna be selling no dope well i'm not gonna be selling no dope it took me a minute to get my like just, completely stopped. Probably, like, a year. Okay. Two years. You know how niggas need to be trying to be in the street. You know what I'm saying?

Hands back and forth. Straddle that line. I'm not supposed to have my hands touching and doing all that. You're not a street dealer. You're not. You can't ask me for some weed and not receive money for it. I'm going to feel so bad. I can't.

I can't hand for hand do no drug transaction like that shit. I'm going to feel so bad. I can't hand for hand do no drug transaction like that shit. I'm going to feel horrible. You know what I'm saying? So it's like I leave that alone to become this, I guess, this comedian or whatever this is. It's working. I know I'm going to get something out of it, but I don't really know.

I'm really trying to be a music star. So I'm going to just get the notoriety to drop an album and then get signed. So the goal was music. I'm going trying to be a music star. So I'm going to just get the notoriety to drop an album and then get signed. So the goal was music. Yeah. I'm going to get signed. That's what I thought. I did it the second month I started.

The first month, I was like, ooh, shit. I dropped an album the second month. Nobody was messing with you? No, they listened to it, but I didn't get signed. That's why I was like, shit, maybe I do need to say something dope. What is this? I don't know what it is yet. I don't get signed. That's why I was like, shit, maybe I do need to sell some dope. What is this? I don't know what it is yet. I don't know what this is.

You know, I got to wake up and really don't want to do this shit and record videos and my hand hurt and I want to make some money. I can't sell no dope. But when do you see your first check

after you do the switchover? No, I ain't make no money like two and a half years later. That's what I'm trying to tell people. You got to stay down for the come up. So you stayed down for two and a half years and no dope dealing. Yeah.

So you're really, so is this when you're really struggling and you're eating these beef ramekins? No, I'm not. I'm not struggling. I know how to hustle. That's the thing though. I wasn't, I just, I wasn't selling weed. I wasn't i just i wasn't selling weed i wasn't selling cocaine it was just like all right the vine was it was a it was a thing it was a little thing on vine where you could do

ads for a company or something make a couple of dollar then instagram you do a couple shout outs then i started being able to get booked in in clubs to do appearances so you kind of make a couple thousand with the club appearance so like all right i probably made three four thousand a month three thousand a month but it like i ain't gotta say no dope yeah of course you feel me i could use this in order to do this but i don't know how hard to go at this i don't even know what this is i'm just using it right now to do enough to get by and then once other things start coming about like all right you gotta learn how to do stand-up that's what was gonna be my next question

and all that and it was like i needed to perfect marketing myself on instagram for me to keep going to the next level so now i knew i'm like okay i'm getting booked for appearances this is 2014 and 15 and it's like all right but i gotta be a comedian i gotta learn this so i didn't go get no money for a whole year just so i could be able to understand what being a comedian was 2014 i started doing comedy 2014 i ain't start booking shows for real to like 2016 wow so for two years you're basically just studying comedy yeah i'm working i'm learning you're learning so are you going out every night are you just watching old school videos no we i'm watching videos and watching other the legends and going to all the open up pop up you know i'm saying the open mics you were doing i'm doing all those every

week and how was your first time going up my first time going up it was in a music show and they were just looking but you got to break the ice though so that's the thing i broke the ice and now i'm able to call myself a comedian because i done what comedians do grab the mics and try to tell jokes from people that you don't know right then and there but it was like all right where do i go from this do i continue or it's a journey it's a journey i remember the day i started to where i am now like even with the confidence and being able to go on stage with the confidence of saying i'm a performer but i remember the stages of me not understanding like this job picked me because god wanted me to do this and this was way quicker than any like when you do your collar ste quicker than any, like, when you do your collar, Steve Harvey said it. He said, when you do your collar,

you feel me, God bless you abundantly. You feel me, like. That's why I said it was nothing but good came out of this. Yeah. When I sold dope, it was bad. It was not, I'm going to say bad. It was just stressful. It was

stressful. You don't feel like your life right now can be stressful we consider stressful no it's not that it's just that's why i got my hustle from that's why you realize people that's complacent they don't have the energy to hustle you gotta have a certain energy to be a hustler that undeniable determination of going to get it by any means, it can be a sense of stress. Yeah. If you're not strong enough to understand, like,

I got to do this in order to get to the next day. Like, it was day and I didn't feel like sitting dope, but it was like my phone ringing. I got to get up, go down here, go whatever. I got to go to the store. I got to go pack this shit up. I got to go here. He's just carving.

I'm sleeping here i'm hungry here i want to sit down as soon as i sit down my phone just rung again got it but you want some money no so you're doing you're doing your comedy so before this comedy it was very clear though that this is the path you are agreed with God to take. Yeah. Okay. So you're doing your comedy two years, still struggling. When's your first real big break?

By the way, are you still cooking them hot dogs? No, I had to let it simmer. I thought it was hot dog soup in it. I let it come down, but it didn't eat a little water. A little rice. When you cook at home, are you like this? me tell you something. When I was coming to Atlanta, I was like, I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this.

I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this.

I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this.

I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. I'm going to cook this. you gotta mix it in. Put it all in there at once. Who are you? I'm trying to, I'm like watching you cook. You don't do that. Let me tell you something. When I was coming to Atlanta, all I could think was I can't wait to see DC cook something. You could ask Ryan,

you could ask anybody behind the scenes. I was like, I just want to see DC cook. With this here? This ain't nothing extravagant. No, you do all the sound effects. This is a very special experience.

This ain't nothing extravagant. Right sound effects this is a very special experience right there that's what's yeah they're gonna make a tape better even in the mind so my question was okay you're you made it you made it through your two years. Correct. What's your next big break? Because you had a lot. Well, I'm still working on it. Technically, the next year in 2015, I get booked for Wild N Out. And then that was the beginning of the industry break. I had the social media break with Vine and Instagram. But then now it's like the industry break. It was like, ooh.

Now, did Nick reach out to you or did you audition? I was on a management team at the time called Archive Nation. We had Young Thug and Emanuel Hudson. You know what I'm saying? It was a great management team at the time. And they had Emil Hudson in. He had an audition. And it just so happened that they knew that I was around and was around with the same team.

And it was like, yeah, you know what I'm saying? We got a walk-up audition, too. So I ended up going to do the audition. And Nick was there. And he was like, yeah, I know. You know what I'm saying? Let me see something. This shit.

He was like, all right, we'll do this. This shit. And he was like, cool. I ain't hearing nothing from it. Hearing them back. You know, I will do this. This shit. It was like, cool. I ain't hear nothing from it. Hit them back. I think I made it just the experience that I was proud of. Like, damn, I just before the

front of Nick Cannon. You know, this shit crazy. This is wrong. Shout out. You know what I'm saying? Couple of days later, then I know Emmanuel had to get it got flown out to go start working.

And then they called like two days later we're like we're on DC too oh and what was it where were you at when you got the call I was at the management office and you know it hadn't settled in but it was just like you know I got that hunger I got that hunger you know from the streets that you know you always want an opportunity and when you when you get that opportunity, like, man, I'm finna show. I'm just finna show out. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't give a fuck.

I'm finna show out. Whatever I got to do, I'm going to show out. I'm going to give it my all. You know what I'm saying? And learn at the same time. But I know it's a reason why you're there, so you got to know why you're there. You feel me? That's why I don't get when people don't want to be great.

You know what I'm saying? Like, it's a certain energy that you got to put out there to be like man i want to do this to last for a long time you know what i'm saying and i ain't doing this because i know i'm deserving man ain't none of this belong to me you're deserving you don't deserve none of this because you look around the blessing not only on you anyway god blessing everybody that's around you you ain't the only one that work you know what i'm saying so it's like you got to take your opportunity and go crazy with it you know what i'm saying because you know what you were just it remember yeah right then like nigga this is different like it's you're literally living the the the new stages of your life but i'm not

not used to it because i was gonna be in the entertainment because i come from theater and i was gonna do music and act it's it's just the difference of the renaissance now no you're not doing music first no you're not gonna act just yet you're gonna be a comedian so you're saying like the order was the order was just switched it was switched and it was a new and it was a new job description you know i was funny you were probably figured it out in a movie or so but it was just switched. It was switched and it was a new and it was a new job description. You know what I'm saying? I was funny. You probably would have

figured it out in a movie or so, but I wasn't going to be no stand-up comedian. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. I probably would have played a funny role in a movie. But you were like,

but you funny. But I wouldn't have been no stand-up comedian. Well, I'll tell you this. I admire that. I did not know that part of your story, but I admire the fact that you did the work to do the stand-up comedian because you were like hey i gotta do

what i gotta do to get to the next yeah but that's usually you meet comics and like someone in my group said i was funny and you know i just i knew i was funny i i got clad clown in in 12th grade same time while i'm selling dope so it ain't i always was a clad clown in 12th grade. Same time while I'm selling dope. So it ain't. I always was a clad clown and a renaissance man in my school. It's just the way my life turned out. I'm just, you know, it is what it is. What are your parents saying

the whole time while all this is going on? I made my mama put it in God's hand. You keep referencing God, like was God big in my household? Yeah, yeah real big my dad was a pastor you know you're cooking for both of us you don't eat beef you gotta just give me i gotta act like i'm giving it yes all right gotta get her her death center yeah can't even be around it but i'm gonna do it for the show hey i gotta you know what all right i'll take one for

team this is my baby all right here it is i want to eat i want to eat your cooking i ain't gonna give you too much don't you eat that shit you act like i'm gonna like i don't know okay let's see all you added was the beef flavor that's it that's it. And a beef hot dog. Oh, let's try this. Mmm, cheers. See, that was wrong, y'all. Cheers. There, okay?

You could eat. I didn't eat off the fork, DC. You could eat it. Okay, ready? I'm a little bad, too. I pray for my food. You're going to pray that loud. You're going to pray for mine. I mean i mean you know i don't know how everybody relationship is no man pray for mine i pray for the food but if you want to be with me no man go ahead go ahead pray pray you know what i'm saying pray pray okay thank you heavenly father for this

beautiful meal we pray that this food grant us the nutrition that we need in jesus name we pray yahshua name we pray amen amen man my name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. My, delicious. I don't know about you. Yeah, these noodles are definitely overcooked and all that. But you know what I'm saying? You could literally not chew. You have no teeth in your mouth. It melt in your mouth. Let me show you what we do.

Not in your hands. When it ain't saucy enough. What you do ladies and gents? You pack another one. That's for the rich folks in the hood. They can waste noodles. So you cook one and throw the other one in the tray. Why? Because you needed the sauce. You need more seasoning? Sounds like that's what you need. First of all, didn't you say your mom used a lot of salt and all that is this a generational this ain't that okay thanks thanks

for looking out for mine so you've been at this for over what 10 years now yeah 10 years in august you said what big bus take it with you that mean delicious what was the last time you ate this you eat this all the time i ain't this shouldn't you years no you have a private chef now no i used to eat this with hot chocolate hot chocolate i don't know don't ask me why hot chocolate i just felt business like when i was drinking the hot chocolate i don't know it would be in the mud too so i get through and be like i don't know you don't drink know. You don't drink coffee? No. I don't drink coffee. Nah, I ain't with that coffee shit.

I love hot chocolate. I actually, in LA when we shoot, I shoot, I usually drink Yoo-Hoo's on set. Really? I freaking love Yoo-Hoo's.

I don't know why. You showing your age. It's okay. I'm still young. You are. I'm just saying, my brother say Yoo-Hoo. Hey, man.

They be good. The kid, now they don't even know that thing you say Yahoo. First'm just saying. I'm about to say, yoo-hoo. All right, man. That'd be good. The kid, now they don't even know. That thing you say, Yahoo. First of all, I used to call it Yahoo, but my team corrected me

a hundred times. They like, stop calling it Yahoo. It's Yoo-hoo's. The Yoo-hoo's is the chocolate milk of them all. Yeah, and you know what else? Did you know that they have

the strawberry flavor? A lot of people don't know that. You was one of them. You was one of them in the school getting strawberry milk no i just forgot about it like two years ago anybody who grabbed the strawberry milk in school you are aggravated first of all i always grab the chocolate but i just discovered okay yeah

yeah and now that i am not broke anymore not that it makes a difference i'm nesquik all day now that's quick that's quick is way better than you who's that though did you know you who's have no dairy for real i think so actually i'm lying i told someone that that was on my show and then they drank it and then i read later on the back it said like dry milk that's why you got to do your own research you almost ate pork and beans that's why I had to look thank god okay so you've been doing at this for a while

so you get through the the while and out auditions what's your next play and wait when you do your first season are you making

bread bread or are you just happy that you made it to the next level making money that's all you gotta get to that part when you making money

early in buying like nah it's a struggle through the whole process yeah You made it to the next level. Making money. That's all you need. You got to get to that part. When you making money early in life, it's a struggle. How long was the struggle? Through the whole process. That's why everybody don't make it in this industry. It's a struggle for a long time. That was your generational thing that you was talking about?

Yeah. It's a struggle. Nah, man. You know what I'm saying? No, I didn't make no money. I didn't make no money until later on in the industry. Yeah. It's a struggle. Nah, man. You know what I'm saying? No, I didn't make no money. I didn't make no money until later on in the industry. Okay.

When you say making money, like, you're able to pay, you know, who you need to pay. Yeah. Are you able to, like,

self-maintain with no side hustles? Yeah, no side hustles. After walling out or a little after after walling out? You know, if the corporate

gonna be your new hustle, you gotta know how to perfect your new hustle nice so there was something you mentioned earlier about like cleaning up your instagram to help market yourself better what did you mean by that show the world what you want to know okay people a lot of people expecting people to know who you are nobody know who you are or give a fuck people give yeah no nobody care nobody cares nobody cares who you are in the industry. Nobody gives a fuck about what you do. Nobody cares. What you mean? Man, I don't care. All that walking in, you know who I am.

I don't give a fuck. That shit don't scare nobody unless it scare somebody. But you ain't the only motherfucker doing that. And you really too high. You expensive. They can't wait to pay a motherfucker cheap price. It's like selling dope.

You walking in this motherfucker talking about you the nigga with all the dope and this how high you is. And they like, but guess what? This nigga's buying this stepped on bullshit. So you can get your ass up out of here. Because I can make a profit selling this stepped on shit. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay.

I'm okay. So that's why me selling dope gave me a business mind. That was my what you call it? Alley hoop beginners class

until actually going to school for business. Okay. Because even when you look at all like all the narcos and all that I look at all that shit. They great businessmen your heart your heart gotta be intact okay so you what is one of the most painful lessons you learned in being in the industry thus far

painful lesson i'll let you get to me uh he ain't got no friends nobody cares who you are and what you do that's what you learned in the industry yeah but now

I come to 85 South shout outs to everything you guys have built here right and there's so much love in this environment it's absolutely

thank you beautiful especially coming from LA cause LA you don't you don't feel this type of first of all there's no hospitality like what i've experienced here at 85 um is that why you built this i would say this domain over here because you wanted a safe haven because this doesn't feel like industry over here right it feels like love and family it's very structured but it's um you know

when when when god aligned you up with people that's you know god-fearing and really have a vision and trust people you know you can really build anything and i think the infrastructure on building something or or how it's to be done we really don't have no guide for it you know a lot of people think like oh you know take 300 three million on my brother and roll fabricating shit they're like even you say like how long did it take for you to make money take you a long time to make some money and depending on what you think is money yeah that was gonna be also another question was like what did at least when you get that first check from being broke, you was like, yo, there was had to have been that moment of like, yo, I just knew what I was risking to get this money that I ain't risking no more. What do you mean?

Are you comparing it to the drug? Yeah, I'm just saying risking period of like, oh, I got four thousand and I didn't have to risk my life for it. You feel me? That's more motivational like i feel like that pre that your life before is where you kind of hold that bar of everything is it yes that's that's how i that's my analogy for it all it's like oh this is the cocaine this is the weed this is the plug oh this is Pablo Escobar. You know what I'm saying? Everything has

an analogy for it because I know how serious it was. Don't put your name on bad dope. You want to have an easy sale. Okay, you know what to do when you have a hard sale. Okay, you know when it's slow. Okay, you know when it's speed up. Okay, but that's your measuring tool? That's my measuring tool. And then on the

office. When it's business. Yeah, but then you have this other measuring tool when it comes to God and spiritually. Yeah. So you can always have a great heart and a great character so you won't become wicked in the world. But I'm also thankful that I'm not in the streets because I'd have been a very not likable person. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Like, y'all know me. And it's crazy because, like, even when in high school you see me,

I'm winning class clown and all that. But it's like my friends know me for that. My peers may have seen me in there. You know, you know me for that. But if I don't know you, I ain't speaking. I ain't really, you know, I ain't really, I'm not really a friendly person. You know, I'm not like, hey, no, no, no. I'm not just attracting energy that i don't know

i don't really don't want to be involved i really don't want to have the conversation well i appreciate you taking the time to do this show no more definitely i appreciate you man you seeing this great meal you know i made a mess your shit's so clean over there yeah thank god i didn't take the bite of the beef do Do you want my little beef piece? Mm-mm. You sure? I'm already eating the no-buy. You stay loving that seasoning.

That's it right now. During the pandemic. Yeah, ain't nobody go to work. How'd you get by? You had the money from while? Girl, I ain't have no damn money. During the pandemic? I ain't have no money.

That was a couple years ago Yeah So, what happened? What do you mean you didn't have any money during it? I ain't had no money Shit, I ain't got no money now You know, we just got by You know, shit We know how to live

We know how to live by our means You know what I'm saying? I know what I need I know how much to eat Did you build this infrastructure during the pandemic Or was it in process prior to the pandemic? This right here is a collective of people credit. We did it to business way like everybody else do. But were you doing this during the pandemic or prior to the pandemic?

What year is it? 2024? 2024? You looking at Ryan for the answer? ryan what's the answer no probably like toward the end around like 2021 because the pandemic was a long time the people depending on how long your pandemic was my pandemic i had no pandemic well i guess in atlanta apparently you guys were only shut down for three weeks up here. No, we were shut down for eight months. Eight months?

How was LA shut down for three weeks? I mean, you talking about nightlife. You talking about, see, I'm a businessman. I'm not saying during the day LA was still shut down, okay? No, eight months. We shut down in Atlanta before we even went back to work again. I remember the day we was at work and they told us to hold tight. They sending people home.

Like, we in the arena. I sold out 20,000 seats at Wild N' Out. They sending 20,000 people home because they just did a mandate. Told them, hey man, y'all get up out of here.

In the middle of it? No, while they coming. Nigga, they literally like, it was a world shutdown. They saying no gathering over 500 people.

If you got anything, man, that shit is, man, your ass is, man, your ass is damn near about to commit a felony crime. Like, we're having a world crisis. Shut that shit down. There's 20,000 people in Baltimore coming to the show and them folk being turned around.

Because we just did a show and watched the D.C. the day before. 15,000. I remember that. Like, it was yesterday. We all sitting downstairs in the arena like what the fuck is going on this shit got to be fake no that shit real eight months this year eight months so now you are dc dc the most poppin everybody the mosquito fly yeah dc the mosquito fly and uh where what do you have ironed out for your future?

I mean, you know, I just want to be an executive, man. You know what I'm saying? Like looking at the people like, you know, like Mario Van Peebles. What's what you call? Who be at the Knicks games, man? Spike Lee. You know what I'm saying? Like, you want to just be moguls in the culture for helping others.

You know, I think a lot of people are like, put me on. And you're like, bro, first of all, you're asking somebody to put you somewhere where you don't even know where you want to go. All right? And he's using his face card his pool and when you're doing it as a team you have to win as a team when one person fucks up it's you fuck your recruiter that's why people don't even know how business is it's work like it's a business that's why i would i love being i won't go to school for being like i just i'm just so intrigued like this is a business we built this shit from ground up i love it from dirt and clay and then look you know what i'm saying so it's like every time i come in i'm like bro we can do anything we put our fucking mind to it's just you know was this building just

a lot i mean it was nothing it was a building but it wasn't this infrastructure when it was like it was open space so you know every wall every corner you guys went into the bat i love the bathroom painted floors i was like that's ryan freak ass every time you're going there people are like i didn't heard to get the fuck up out of their bathroom man but it was like the touch of the detail around here is pretty impressive yeah you know everybody People are like, they been heard to get the fuck up out of their bathroom, man. But it was like, the touch of the detail around here is pretty impressive. Yeah, you know, everybody had their little detail.

You know, Ryan won't do the bathroom, so... We gave it to him. But I am a little confused how you guys have a dishwasher here that has never been used. But, you know, it's safe to say that... You didn't even wash their ass, man. You didn't get the fuck on, man. Get the fuck on right here.

I think we got washing machines at the house. You don't want to ever wash your clothes. No, dishwasher. You guys have a whole dishwasher. The tape hasn't ever broke. I don't think a lot of people use a dishwasher. Let me tell you, in the last three days. It's like you walking in and you still see the dishes dirty.

You better clean these bitches yourself. Let me just tell you something right now okay yes i do it works it's not like back in the day when they didn't work plus they have like these special pods that like make it all spot where i come from you had a dishwasher and it didn't work it may have cut on yeah yeah but if you cut that bitch on here come the water leak take that shit off nah let me tell you something my dishwasher breaks is immediate emergency like book whoever get your fingers dirty especially when nails like it's you know i figure you want to sit it in and press play i do like rinse and like you know make sure the food's off and all that you know if there's anything i think that's what my mama forgot when we got our dishwasher. She forgot to rinse the food off.

Yeah. And then you're supposed to. She put it in there. It's soap, steel, dry soup and spaghetti. No, you're not supposed to do that. That's how they break too. Yeah. And you want to know another secret that's so random, kind of similar to the beach thing

is a lot of people don't know how to load a dishwasher correctly i was just going to say that like you go on silverware in the back yeah go on youtube and learn how to load a dishwasher it's behind the dishwasher up now you gotta take the rack out like the silverware not a lot of people don't know how to load a dishwasher and i learned that if you load it correctly It also helps Clean the dishes properly Well they need to

Teach you that too though So YouTube I learned it on YouTube Gee The access of the internet Is crazy right now You was looking up bites And I was looking up

How to wash my dish clean You gotta understand Worldstar was Man that's all I looked up Was battle rap And bites I heard Worldstar I didn't care to look up

Nothing else Did Worldstar ever help you At any point in your career? Yeah, Worldstar's still helpful now. They got a huge platform. Shout out to Worldstar, man. I'm saying it helped you personally in your career.

Yeah, but anytime you put some shit on Worldstar, man, that was our first exposure to the shit. That's what you want. Don't you get put on Worldstar. But if you make Worldstar, that's some good shit. But if you got put on Worldstar but if you make world star that's some good shit but if you got

put on world star unintentionally well that's bad that mean the world seeing your ass get beat up in your whole career what would you say is your biggest highlight um my biggest highlight I'm just saying I'm like ooh You know what I mean You know just realizing That's just what I'm supposed to be doing You know what I'm saying I think that's the biggest highlight of it all

Confidently knowing that God got my back You know what I'm saying I think that's the biggest highlight of it all like confidently knowing that God got my back you know what I'm saying he got my friends back you know what I'm saying you gonna always go through stuff

but as long as you just stay righteous and your spirit don't break you know we human bro you know what I'm saying that's why I'm glad I do comedy and I stay out of the way

you know what I'm saying I'm human I'm a real human and a lot of stuff that agitate me people won't know that it agitate me cause I'm doing God's work you know i'm saying i can't react off impulse i think a lot of people act off impulse and if i was an impulse person and if i was to react off impulse

impulsively um you probably wouldn't like me yeah if you have to choose between being an executive and talent would you give up being talent to be executive? I'm not saying that I'm not negating one or the other, but I'm saying if you had to choose between the two. No, it's just hard because I am the talent. But in order for you to take control of your business, you have to become an executive. You know, and I think a lot of talent just focus on being talent and thinking talent is all i just told you don't know about go fuck about you that's the executive that's the executive saying hey my nigga you think you that fat let me tell you who you ain't let me tell you the people that have done it before you you gotta be a historian of your culture of whatever you're doing you want to be great you think you're great or you think you're doing a good enough job like that's that's that's how i train myself and

coach myself like mentally in my head like to continue could it be great if it's nine to five i want to come in this bitch from eight to eight to seven i like that yeah i'm gonna still get some sleep but you only be better for yourself the the hours that you're not supposed to be. So when you overwork, you know what I'm saying? You like to overwork. I like to say majority of my life I was overqualified. That's why I didn't get picked. And then, you know, they try to make it seem like you the problem.

It's like, no, you're a threat. I like that. I like that. So where can everyone keep up with you? Hey man Follow your boy DC Young Blizzle

Everywhere You dig what I'm saying? You know what I mean? Just You know 85 South We going crazy man You know

The tour going crazy Celebrity Square Is going crazy I just produced A movie that's dropping March 1st In theaters With Mario Van Peebles

Called Outlaw Posse So make sure y'all Go check that out So that's the Executive 1st in theaters with Mario Van Peebles called Outlaw Posse so make sure y'all go check that out so that's the executive bag that I'm trying to tap into to be able to walk around you know in the industry to be like you know I'm a producer not only as a producer I'm just streaming no we

produce theatrical and shout out to Mario Van Peebles for allowing me to have that experience because that's a that's one of those ones that don't come by often you know and that's a a sign to say um not only was i an actor i also had i also had input on this movie and how it's supposed to be perceived and and it's a great movie if you like westerns go see it man if you don't still go see this shit because it's shit off the chat see it support thank you don't still go see this because this off the chat see it support thank you again

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