How To Monetize Streaming on Twitch & YouTube - Tips with DDG & Big Boy - NEW LiveStream Interview

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:04]Hello.

[00:00:08]How does one get paid streaming?

[00:00:12]>> And I know that probably may sound very basic, but >> No, no, it's cool. It's um through ads.

[00:00:17]>> Like ads and people like subscribe. It's like $5 to subscribe or like $7 or whatever. Twitch take a little bit take a little bit of money off top but that's how you get paid off ads >> and it's monthly subscribers >> right? How many subscribers do you have?

[00:00:34]Can you share that or >> Yeah.

[00:00:36]>> Okay.

[00:00:37]>> The most I ever had was like 70,000.

[00:00:39]Like 75,000 >> and they pay like5 to $7 a month >> and then there's other dollars on top of that.

[00:00:46]>> Yeah. You get ad revenue.

[00:00:47]>> Jesus.

[00:00:50]>> Oh man. This is like a first first. You know what I'm saying? We We have people that come in with cameras, but this is like our first first like stream stream.

[00:00:58]If you're going to do your first stream stream with someone, it's got to be DDG.

[00:01:01]Welcome to the neighborhood, bro.

[00:01:02]>> What's up, man?

[00:01:03]>> You hell, it's a pleasure. Hey man, you know what's wild? As long as I've been in the business, oh, am I learning a lot of [ __ ] from you >> for real?

[00:01:11]>> What? Hey, man, you got For one, you already lapped us financially. You know what I mean? Like, like, for one, so you you're you're a great role model and a great blueprint to look at, man. How did the streaming start for you?

[00:01:25]>> Shoot, man. I I started off doing YouTube.

[00:01:27]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And how many followers do you still have on YouTube?

[00:01:31]>> I got like >> four other channels. Like I got like one with like four million, one with three million.

[00:01:37]>> Got one with like a million I don't even use.

[00:01:40]>> Can I have it?

[00:01:42]>> Hey man. So do you still super serve content to your YouTube channels?

[00:01:46]>> Yeah. What my main focus is like with the streaming now. Like I have like somebody clipped my streams and then put it on YouTube and it kind of count towards the same thing.

[00:01:55]>> So you still have a machine. So you didn't you didn't abandon YouTube?

[00:01:59]>> Nah. No, I didn't abandon it.

[00:02:00]>> How did you start off with YouTube though? You know what I'm saying? Cuz I I know when it comes to you, there's always been a musical bone in you, you know what I mean? And it's And has it always been entertainment for you as well?

[00:02:13]>> I mean, yeah. I just started off doing it like throughout high school or whatever. And then like my homies thought my skits was funny. I just kept doing it. And then I got like a $200 check >> and then I ended up quitting my job. And just >> Where you working at?

[00:02:27]>> TJ Maxx.

[00:02:28]>> So you working at TJ Maxx. You see you you see everybody like TJ Maxx?

[00:02:32]>> But but you see $200, right?

[00:02:34]>> Yeah.

[00:02:35]>> And you know that the the $200 from content >> early on you saw that is like, man, no, there's there's something going on here.

[00:02:44]>> Yeah. That's like if you go outside and you do a front flip and somebody come up to you, "Oh, $10 for that."

[00:02:50]>> You're like, "Shit, flip my do like hell yeah." You That's when you tell the homies like, "Man, I don't know what this flipping [ __ ] is."

[00:02:58]>> Yeah.

[00:02:59]>> But they paying me for these for these flips.

[00:03:01]>> So you see that man, you quit TJ Maxx.

[00:03:03]Do do family understand? Cuz like now when you look at it, >> it's genius.

[00:03:09]>> Yeah. But when you tell somebody, man, I'm quitting my job or I'm going to go into social, you know, into social media or I'm going into content creation, that was ear that was early still early on, too. Yeah.

[00:03:21]>> What do people tell you at that time?

[00:03:23]>> I mean, it it definitely wasn't understandable at the time, >> but like as you know, more money start coming in, it was like, "Okay, now I get it. I see why you doing it." Cuz I dropped out of college and everything after that.

[00:03:36]>> Yeah. Cuz you you were in in university.

[00:03:38]>> So you had somebody or you had >> what we felt like is a life plan. You know what I'm saying? You do the high school. You say, "I'm going to go to school." Did you know what you wanted to do after college?

[00:03:48]>> What was the major?

[00:03:50]>> I I went to college for what you doing right now? I Yeah, I went to college for broadcasting.

[00:03:55]>> Really? Oh. So, so you you had a a feel for all this engineering, broadcasting, being on mic.

[00:04:01]>> Yeah. But I ain't going to lie, when I got to college, like I I graduated valadictorian in high school, right?

[00:04:07]>> Go ahead now. You're not bragging, but that's beautiful.

[00:04:09]>> Yeah. I don't really tell people that. I keep that to myself. But >> no, we got to celebrate smartness, too, though, man, cuz we celebrate a lot of dumb [ __ ] >> Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So, validictorian. So, you graduate validictorian. So, college is a given.

[00:04:22]>> Yeah. So, I went to college, first generation college student. You know, my whole family wanted me to graduate, everything. Um, but when I got to college, I I knew I wasn't going to finish.

[00:04:33]>> Right.

[00:04:33]>> Because I was making like $700 a month, >> which is nothing.

[00:04:38]>> Right. Right. Right.

[00:04:38]>> But when you in college, 17 years old, >> it was like $700 a month. Then >> So you were making $700 a month from content.

[00:04:47]>> Yeah.

[00:04:47]>> Oh, okay. Yeah.

[00:04:48]>> Yeah. I'm making $700 a month. Then then >> I don't even make $700 a month for my content. So you know what I'm saying? So 700 So yeah. So at 1718 >> Mhm. And then from there like 700 turned into 1,500,500 turn into 5,000 5,000 turn into 10,000 to 10,000 turn into 40 and then I'm like yeah I'm moving to LA.

[00:05:12]>> Yeah. How young are you when this is happening though?

[00:05:14]>> I 18.

[00:05:16]>> Damn.

[00:05:16]>> 18 19.

[00:05:18]>> So and that's from content you seeing that. Is that monthly?

[00:05:23]>> It's monthly. Yeah. So literally you you lapping pretty much lapping your parents.

[00:05:29]>> Yeah.

[00:05:29]>> Annual.

[00:05:30]>> Yeah, for sure.

[00:05:31]>> Yeah.

[00:05:33]>> That's when you that's when your parents out there pop LOCKING AND [ __ ] LIKE >> keep doing the flips.

[00:05:38]>> Hell yeah. Like you better get your ass out of college.

[00:05:41]>> The [ __ ] you doing sitting up there rotting yourself in college?

[00:05:44]>> So you knew like at that moment we like if my son was like making 10 20 30 40 racks of I I would tell him like, "Yo, what we doing here?"

[00:05:52]>> Yeah.

[00:05:53]>> You know what I'm saying? like why are you going to school? Like you know what I'm saying? So and you can go get your education. I'm not tripping off of anybody getting their education. You know what I'm saying? But a lot of education and a lot of degree and all that kind of stuff is you want to get into the work field.

[00:06:07]>> Yeah. If I wouldn't have dropped out at that time, I wouldn't be here today.

[00:06:11]>> Really though?

[00:06:11]>> For sure. You know, >> were you contemplating dropping out or because if you say first, you was the first in the family to graduate. So there's a pressure there too. Not to graduate. I mean to go to college.

[00:06:22]There's a pressure there too though, right?

[00:06:24]>> Yeah.

[00:06:25]>> Yeah. So, it's like I'm I'm I'm already motivating my whole family to go to college at this point and >> then I would just jump up and drop out.

[00:06:33]>> Yeah.

[00:06:33]>> So, I definitely thought about it, but I'm like, nah, I'm I'm getting too much.

[00:06:36]>> You trying to balance both of them for a second, too?

[00:06:39]>> Yeah.

[00:06:39]>> It would have been a hot second for me, though. I would have been like, "All right."

[00:06:42]>> Yeah. I start skipping school to do videos because it just didn't make sense for me to be waking up at 8:00 >> learning about something I don't care about >> when I'm making 20 $30,000 a month. You know what I mean?

[00:06:55]>> I'm going to dip.

[00:06:56]>> Hey man, at at a young age, 17, 18, 19, >> and if you making 20, 30,000, 40,000 a month, even 10,000 a month, it'll be hard for a teacher to tell me something.

[00:07:10]>> Yeah.

[00:07:10]>> You know what I'm saying? Like, and I'm not a disrespectful person, but I'll be like, "Man, suck my dick."

[00:07:16]You know, like, they be like, "Dude, you didn't turn in your assignment." I'll be like, "Yeah, I did. Of course I did."

[00:07:21]Like, at some point, man, does that does that become a lot, too, though?

[00:07:27]>> No. I mean, I was I wasn't telling to suck.

[00:07:30]>> Not like that. You know what I mean? But a vibe of it, though. You know what I'm saying?

[00:07:34]>> Yeah. Like, I ain't going to lie. I >> But not getting up and going to school at 8 is lowkey suck my dick.

[00:07:39]>> Yeah.

[00:07:39]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:07:40]But I was like noticeably having more money than a lot of all the students in the college. Like I'm walking around with bait on. I got an electric skateboard >> riding a class. Like I'm just living life. You know what I mean?

[00:07:52]>> You like, man, what the hell is going on with this dude? Like what the [ __ ] >> Yeah.

[00:07:57]>> So you can see it in your lifestyle.

[00:07:59]>> Yeah.

[00:07:59]>> Where are you at at that time? Where's school? Where's home?

[00:08:02]>> Central Michigan University. So at Central Michigan University, what made you say, "Man, I I got to get I got to get out of here because the content's working there, right?"

[00:08:13]>> Yeah. But it was just like So what happened was I came to LA on my birthday, my 19th birthday, and when I got here, I just fell in love with it cuz I always wanted to live here. Like all the people that I looked up to in the content space was living here.

[00:08:29]>> Like who? like his name like Fuzzy Tube, somebody named Mystic Got Jokes. Like I'm watching these people and they living the lifestyle that I wanted to live.

[00:08:39]>> So I'm like, man, let me go ahead go here for my birthday. And then I came out here with like a ex-girlfriend. Came out here for like three, four days and I was like, yeah, I'm moving.

[00:08:48]>> What did you see in those three, four days?

[00:08:51]>> I went to the beach. I went to um Santa Monica.

[00:08:55]>> I I went to I stayed at this Best Western in Hollywood. Mhm.

[00:09:00]>> And then I walk down, go to the Hollywood uh Walk of Fame. Oh, yeah.

[00:09:04]Walk up and down. This back before it was ghetto.

[00:09:07]>> Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Cuz that's what I was about to go. I was about to say, man, now that you know, you're like, where the hell was I at? Like, yeah, it's a it's a like I trip up for people that come to Hollywood. I'm like, oh yeah, you got to effed up out here.

[00:09:20]>> Yeah. So, you see that >> and you're like, man, I I got to be there.

[00:09:24]>> Yeah. Cuz I'm from Pontiac. Like, I don't see nothing like that. Like I'm walking up and now I'm seeing foreign whips everywhere. Everywhere I turn, it's a Lamborghini. It's a Ferrari over here. I'm like, "Yeah, this is motivating." Who do you come out when you go back and say, "I'm moving to LA."

[00:09:40]How long before that first trip to when you were actually here?

[00:09:45]>> Uh, probably like a month or two.

[00:09:48]>> Damn. Who do you bring with you?

[00:09:50]>> I brought I I moved out here with an ex-girlfriend.

[00:09:53]>> Okay. So, it's just y'all. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:09:54]>> So you you came out by yourself to create content by so it wasn't like a crew team.

[00:10:00]>> Me and this girl that I was with, >> right?

[00:10:03]>> We was like doing content together.

[00:10:05]>> Oh [ __ ] >> So then you know people like couples and [ __ ] >> We move we moved out here. Boom. That that was shortlived.

[00:10:13]>> Is she still in this that space now?

[00:10:15]>> No.

[00:10:15]>> Oh damn. She got to hate you.

[00:10:17]>> No, she cool.

[00:10:18]>> I would.

[00:10:19]>> She cool.

[00:10:19]>> She subscribe to your >> I don't know. She was probably hoping you lost at that wall and out [ __ ] LIKE GET HIS ASS, NICK. Get him.

[00:10:31]But but so you come out here and it's like GDG like man stop it, [ __ ] Like [ __ ] Hey man, but when you when you come out here, you already know you have a purpose.

[00:10:41]>> Yeah.

[00:10:42]>> Did it start immediately for you when you get out here?

[00:10:45]>> Yeah. I ain't going to lie. Like I just started making content friends. LA friends. You know how LA Friends is.

[00:10:52]>> Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Hell yeah.

[00:10:53]>> When you lit, you you have all the friends.

[00:10:56]>> Yeah. Like Yeah. I know that GDD.

[00:11:00]>> I know that guy. Hell yeah. Oh, so you hip to the [ __ ] too. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:11:04]You hit to the $3 bill. It could be fake and phony. But that's everywhere though.

[00:11:09]You know what I'm saying? So when you come out here, you got your partnership.

[00:11:11]Yeah.

[00:11:11]>> When does that go >> astray or however, how does that end?

[00:11:16]>> Uh I mean, uh we just wouldn't see an eye.

[00:11:19]>> Okay. So personal relationship stuff and business. Okay.

[00:11:23]>> Yeah. We just wasn't I I was just overly locked in and she just we just wasn't seeing eye to eye. We was arguing and it was kind of like messing up my locked inness.

[00:11:33]>> Right. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. Hell yeah.

[00:11:34]>> I'm like, "Okay." Eventually, you know, the arguments got worse and worse and I'm like, "All right, I got to step away."

[00:11:40]>> Did it immediately start to look like when you moved out here, did you immediately see the success of it?

[00:11:46]>> For sure.

[00:11:46]>> Damn.

[00:11:47]>> It was night and day. Like >> if I would have moved out of LA at that time, I don't think I would be as big as I gotten.

[00:11:55]>> Damn.

[00:11:57]>> But those are also, man, like there's innovative pieces that you do as well.

[00:12:02]You know what I'm saying? Like like cuz now I see and people say like at one point people got into podcasting. You start seeing a lot of podcasting. Yeah.

[00:12:11]>> And you see a lot of podcasting now. Are you starting to see a lot more streaming?

[00:12:17]>> For sure. Oh my god, bro.

[00:12:19]>> But I think it's cool for the culture because it's bringing fans to watch streamings.

[00:12:24]>> Right. Right. Right. Right.

[00:12:25]>> Like the average person don't watch streams. They just see clips. But like as like their favorite people start getting into it, they going to get interested and then when they people in their stream, they going to go discover other people like myself or whoever else. So I think it's good for the industry, but >> you know eventually everybody going to fizzle out. I know it's like oversaturated right now, but the people that that's not really sitting on here for hours and hours and hours, they ain't going to be successful.

[00:12:53]>> Hey man, when when you look at the content of it though, how how much are you on per day? Like what's your commitment or does it vary?

[00:13:03]>> It just depends. Like some I didn't got on stream for four minutes before.

[00:13:07]>> Okay.

[00:13:07]>> I didn't got on there for five minutes just to like tap in. Like my thing is I always like to if you know that let's just say you like Starbucks, right? You know Starbucks is open every day. You don't know when it's going to be open, but you know it's open every single day.

[00:13:24]Some Starbucks open till 11. Some Starbucks open to 10:00, but you know it's open, right? So as long as you able to go get your coffee that day, you going to keep coming back, >> right?

[00:13:34]>> You know what I mean? So I I just tell them like I'mma be on every day. Even if I get on for five minutes, 4 minute, boom, boom, boom. But usually it's like four hours, it'd be like eight hours.

[00:13:43]>> Damn.

[00:13:44]>> It's like a real shift.

[00:13:45]>> Then you just And and at some point is he either kicking kicking it, walking around, lifestyle, whatever it may be.

[00:13:51]>> Little backpack.

[00:13:52]>> Yeah.

[00:13:52]>> Backpack thing. That's how you able to like go out in the real world. It's like vlog.

[00:13:57]>> How long with your partner that got the backpack on? How long does that battery last? Or how how often do you know you know I'm we all taking notes and [ __ ] You know what I'm saying? No, I think that >> this isn't an interview. This is a seminar.

[00:14:09]>> One battery like 4 hours. We got a bunch of batteries.

[00:14:12]>> Is there a protective plate in that?

[00:14:14]Because that's Wi-Fi, right?

[00:14:15]>> Yeah.

[00:14:16]>> Is there a protective plate or you don't care about homie catching something?

[00:14:18]>> N radioactive [ __ ] Hell yeah.

[00:14:24]>> Put a burrito next to him. [ __ ] Just heat up. Be a ninja turtle in a month.

[00:14:29]>> Hell yeah.

[00:14:34]>> That's easy. Yeah, that's Do you ever put it on yourself?

[00:14:38]>> Yeah.

[00:14:38]>> Oh, he was like, "Hell no, man."

[00:14:40]>> No, it's cool. Like I know how to use it just like he know how to use it.

[00:14:43]>> Yeah.

[00:14:43]>> So that So how many people do you have that backpack or is he the guy?

[00:14:47]Backpack, camera. Like >> sometimes it be other people, but mostly him. He >> was cool.

[00:14:53]>> So you got to find the right crew.

[00:14:55]>> Like I said, this ain't an interview.

[00:14:56]This a seminar. I'm right. We know writing all this [ __ ] down. If I'm not successful by next year, >> it's blame it on me.

[00:15:02]>> Yeah. So, so you go on every day to make sure that there's content each and every day.

[00:15:08]>> And then man, you see now where >> even with award shows or something like the dollars are going to streaming content, social media, like you know what I'm saying? Like people aren't sitting up a lot of times. I mean, there's still dollars in advertising, but people aren't sitting up and spending their money, their budgets >> like how we used to see like, oh, you know, such and such show is coming on.

[00:15:30]I'm going to put my money there. When the eyes are really, you can see the eyes that's watching you.

[00:15:35]>> Yeah.

[00:15:35]>> Do you get a lot of those checks?

[00:15:37]>> Well, with like just like companies, like brand deals and stuff.

[00:15:41]>> Yeah.

[00:15:42]>> Damn.

[00:15:42]>> It depends on like I don't know. I never been like a super brandandy type of dude. I don't know why, but sometimes it it bring me back to the TJ Maxx days >> when I'm working for somebody. Like I don't like sending >> pictures in. Oh, is this a good picture?

[00:15:58]No, redo it. Like >> I don't know. Maybe that's >> checking in like the corporate. It felt it it feels too corporate America.

[00:16:05]>> Yeah. I hate I don't like to be overly too business with stuff unless it's like it really makes sense and it's like a brand that I really like, you know, >> right?

[00:16:13]>> But for the most part, I just be here streaming.

[00:16:15]>> Let me ask you this, man. And this is this is me really wanting to know.

[00:16:19]There's a naivity and an innocence to a lot of the questions I'm going to ask, right?

[00:16:23]>> How does one get paid >> streaming?

[00:16:27]>> And I know that probably may sound very basic, but >> No. No. It's cool. is um through ads.

[00:16:32]>> Mhm.

[00:16:32]>> Like ads and people like subscribe, right? It's like $5 to subscribe or like $7 or whatever.

[00:16:40]>> Twitch take a little bit take a little bit of money off the top, but that's how you get paid off ads >> and it's monthly subscribers.

[00:16:46]>> Mhm.

[00:16:47]>> Right. How many subscribers do you have?

[00:16:49]Can you share that or >> Yeah.

[00:16:51]>> Okay.

[00:16:51]>> The most I ever had was like 70,000.

[00:16:54]Like 75,000 >> and they pay like5 to $7 a month. And then there's other dollars on top of that.

[00:17:01]>> Yeah. You get ad revenue.

[00:17:02]>> Jesus Christ.

[00:17:03]>> Yeah. But now I got like 12 or something like that.

[00:17:06]>> 12,000. How does now how does that every month >> the subs go away?

[00:17:12]>> Right.

[00:17:12]>> So say you sub right now unless you >> renew.

[00:17:16]>> Unless you renew it go away.

[00:17:18]>> So do you have to do something to bring people back?

[00:17:21]>> Like my man Ty Hollywood that DJ with you, right? Ty is like big you leaving you leaving money on the table. I'm like, "Bro, man, where the table?" You know what I'm saying? Like, he's like, "Man, the table right here." Ty, a good dude, too, man. That you you got a solid brother out there with you, too. But so, so the subs and everything >> is how you get down. And then there's there's the ads.

[00:17:41]>> Yep.

[00:17:41]>> And you say you make more in a month.

[00:17:44]>> You told academics and that was last year. I mean, you say you make more in a month than you did in your for your entire epic recording deal.

[00:17:51]>> Yeah. I mean, like, you know how you get your your advances.

[00:17:56]>> Right. Right. Right. Right.

[00:17:57]>> Yeah. Yeah. I spent that.

[00:17:58]>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. But you don't need an advance now.

[00:18:01]>> No, I don't.

[00:18:01]>> Jesus Christ.

[00:18:02]>> It's cool though. I like advances.

[00:18:03]>> Right. Right. Right. Right. Like, man, I like money big. Don't get it messed up.

[00:18:08]I I could just You can live with it and you can live without it, too, though.

[00:18:11]>> What's What's the Is there a next move that you feel is coming with streaming?

[00:18:15]Cuz now I'm looking at Ryan Garcia streaming, you know. Uh, of course Dean got got, you know, Broner in it now. I see Rampage. Grand Page said he make more of a streaming than he did in his entire UFC and MMA career.

[00:18:30]>> Yeah, >> I want that story.

[00:18:32]>> I mean, shoot.

[00:18:33]>> No, I mean, I want that story for me where I can say, man, I made more from streaming than I did in radio.

[00:18:38]>> Yeah.

[00:18:39]>> Yeah.

[00:18:39]>> It's it it just take a lot of work, you know? That's all it is. But I think the more people start crossing over to media like like for instance with me doing this tour and live streaming me >> doing sound check >> running into fans going on stage showing like the whole process behind touring is bridging that gap between like streaming and traditional media.

[00:19:04]>> So I feel like the more when streamers do that like we need to see like Kevin Hart in his trailer you know what I mean? We need to see like the rock practicing his lines, you know what I mean? Like >> let us behind like >> Yeah. We see [ __ ] like that. I think it's going to it's going to bridge that gap for streaming and traditional media to the point where, >> you know, it's like, okay, now it's all one >> because it's like separated now.

[00:19:28]>> People do want to look behind the curtain.

[00:19:30]>> Yeah.

[00:19:31]>> You know what I'm saying? Like we even get people DDG that come in here and this room and that corner is so known that people come in and they're like, "Oh shit." You know what I'm saying?

[00:19:41]Because they they want to see it. With you doing the tour right now, does that make the content a little easier?

[00:19:47]Because now you're saying, man, they can see the sound check. They can see the meet and greets. They can see the [ __ ] you know, pieces of the show.

[00:19:53]>> That right there is like that's the ultimate backstage experience, right?

[00:19:58]>> Yeah. And it's dope because I haven't been on tour in like five years. So I just, you know, when you when you don't go on tour for so long, you don't really know how the turnout going to be until you till you go out there.

[00:20:10]>> So me going out there and and selling out 500 cat venues or 800 cat venues and then also having 10 to 12,000 people watching, you know, it just make >> the music >> Yeah.

[00:20:24]>> just come full circle for me.

[00:20:26]>> It's like you damn near doing like a a a forum or crypto every night. Exactly.

[00:20:30]>> You know what I'm saying? as far as like eyeballs and attention and everything like that.

[00:20:34]>> And and the tourists blame the chat.

[00:20:37]>> Yeah.

[00:20:38]>> I be having a chat on the screen.

[00:20:40]>> Really though.

[00:20:41]>> And so while you while you performing and you do show it on the screen, you'll see the >> Yeah. And you know you come to my show, you ain't going to be >> if you in the front, you got to turn up because the camera on you.

[00:20:52]>> Oh yeah.

[00:20:52]>> Yeah. So you gota >> So So the tour ends here in LA.

[00:20:57]>> Yeah. This today is the last show.

[00:20:59]>> Why LA? so I can go home. I was about >> Hey, bro. I was about to say that, man.

[00:21:05]Like, do do you miss like home like your bed, though, >> man? I I've been here for like two days.

[00:21:11]>> Okay.

[00:21:12]>> And I ain't going to lie, like I wish my tour was a little longer.

[00:21:15]>> Oh, really?

[00:21:16]>> Yeah.

[00:21:16]>> Cuz you already tapped. You already checked in.

[00:21:18]>> You know, like I didn't already sat down. I laid in my bed. I'm like, "All right, I'm bored again."

[00:21:22]>> Hey, man. That's the same way I would feel on certain things. I be like, "Man, I can't wait to get home." Then you get home, you're like, "All right."

[00:21:28]>> Yeah.

[00:21:29]Like [ __ ] I'm home. You know what I'm saying? What do you do with all the gear when you're on tour? Do you leave [ __ ] in the hotel >> or do you pack everything?

[00:21:37]>> No, we pack everything.

[00:21:38]>> Really, though?

[00:21:39]>> Yeah.

[00:21:39]>> Let me I got this thing now where I leave my t-shirts. Not like anybody.

[00:21:42]>> Oh, yeah. No, no, I leave t-shirts and draws.

[00:21:44]>> Okay. Yeah, the drawers I got to take because it's different. You know what I'm saying?

[00:21:47]>> I don't need nobody coming in like, man, this big boy [ __ ] >> This nasty [ __ ] it. Now, do you have t-shirts and and and boxes and all that on your writer contract or are you doing your tour yourself?

[00:21:59]>> I'm doing it myself.

[00:22:00]>> Damn.

[00:22:00]>> So, I'm paying.

[00:22:01]>> You funded your tour?

[00:22:02]>> Pay for everything. Well, I got like a little help.

[00:22:04]>> Yeah, but but you you also don't succumb to uh to the empire to the you know, I mean, to the to the to the system either because you you use your own money. You bet on yourself.

[00:22:15]>> Yeah, I'm using my own money. I ain't making no money on this tour.

[00:22:18]>> Really, though?

[00:22:18]>> Nope.

[00:22:19]>> That's a hell of a powerful thing to say.

[00:22:21]>> Yeah. I'm just doing this just to get out there and really just start. I know the money going to come, but it's like I ain't been on tour for so long. If I would have been consistently touring for my last time, I'd probably be at 200 2,000 cap, you know what I mean? Like I'd probably be way higher on the capacity of my venues, but I'm >> I'm I'm liking the fact that I can show like a storyline and a growth >> to the >> And you say you doing like venues of like because you're going to do the Roxy out here, right? So you figure if you say you're doing the venues between five and eight, probably some threes and four certain places or >> So does that trip you out that all those people came to see you >> still? Yeah, >> it's different because I'm looking at >> usernames and comments. You know what I mean? I'm just look I'm just reading stuff. I ain't really seeing it. So when I get to my meet and greet and it's people crying, it's people just just happy to see me bringing me all types of gifts. I'm like, "Yeah, this this is bigger than just looking at a screen and seeing folks just comment, you know."

[00:23:24]>> Is that power also a little scary?

[00:23:27]>> Nah, I got nice people that support.

[00:23:30]It's It's a few It's a few people that's a little a little off, but it's It'd be cool. It come from a good part. Come from a good part.

[00:23:37]>> You know what's crazy about live streaming is you can't say, "Oh, man.

[00:23:40]Edit that out." Nope.

[00:23:41]>> You know what I'm saying?

[00:23:43]>> Because cuz you know, we record everything. So, we're the king of like, "Oh, man." Yeah. I don't know. You know what I'm saying? Like your [ __ ] just be live. Whatever happens happens.

[00:23:53]>> Mhm.

[00:23:54]>> You got to be extra. I mean, it is what it is. So, you you comfortable with it?

[00:23:58]>> Yeah. I'm media trained.

[00:24:00]>> So am I. But I'm not comfortable with that.

[00:24:03]>> You notice every time your boy screen the camera, I keep going, I >> The worst thing The worst thing I ever said on stream was at Wilding Out the other day.

[00:24:12]>> Oh, really?

[00:24:13]>> That's the worst thing.

[00:24:14]>> Hey, man. Speaking of whing out, we we literally had Nick Cannon and Rip Mike Hills, Rip Michaels in the neighborhood and we were talking about Wilding Out.

[00:24:24]>> And Wilding Out is one of those things, you know, uh over 20 seasons of Wilding Out. They say the craziest [ __ ] on Wilding Out.

[00:24:32]>> And when I saw you and Nick go at it, I don't I didn't think that was the craziest [ __ ] I heard on Wilding Out.

[00:24:40]But it felt >> It did feel like that because >> Did it feel like something to you? It did.

[00:24:44]>> Right.

[00:24:45]>> It did. Just because I'm so used to like, >> you know, I know what not to say.

[00:24:51]>> Right. Right.

[00:24:51]>> I would never call nobody baby mama [ __ ] You know, it's not nice.

[00:24:55]>> Right.

[00:24:56]>> A while in the board. Like I said some some crazy stuff. But it was just like I was trying to get in that wild and out pocket.

[00:25:02]>> You know what I mean? I'm like I can't be two PR here, right?

[00:25:06]>> I get a pass today, right? I didn't.

[00:25:11]When when you do that and you guys put put it up here for me when you do that, did you really go to uh AI or go to uh to the chat?

[00:25:21]>> Yeah, I asked CHBT. What should I say?

[00:25:23]Cuz you know, man, they be h they be having their lines ready.

[00:25:26]>> Hey, man. See, that's what people don't know. That's what people don't know about Wilding Out. Yeah, Nick.

[00:25:31][ __ ] >> Nick probably Nick probably wrote that line about me last week, right?

[00:25:36]>> Had it in his notes just waiting. So when you say you went to went to chat when you was that in real time?

[00:25:43]>> Yeah, I did it all on stream.

[00:25:45]>> Oh, so when So when he said that, you you immediately went like this.

[00:25:48]>> No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I did it like before we got on stage on stream.

[00:25:53]Yeah. And it told me to say that while on the borderline.

[00:25:56]>> Oh man.

[00:25:56]>> Wow. Hey man, you know what I love about it too DDG is like you you already kind of like ah yeah you know because I don't think from even just sitting down with you and also watching c certain things you don't seem like the I'm going to hurt somebody or you know what I'm saying you know there's some stuff that it's just like oh man these [ __ ] are too much I don't get that from you >> yeah I'm a nice guy >> until you said this >> is it hard to listen to >> Was it hard to listen to >> right now?

[00:26:29]>> No.

[00:26:30]>> Okay.

[00:26:30]>> They doing this show just to pay child support, but really you should while in the board.

[00:26:36]>> Then it wasn't even on beat.

[00:26:38]>> Hey man, >> and let me tell you too, man. I don't think that people like, "Oh, Nick was upset." I'm like, "Dude, they just done said everything about Nick." Unless you could tell me something different. I don't think that upset Nick.

[00:26:50]>> I think you can't really say too much.

[00:26:52]Like, >> what you going to say? Something about Mariah Carey? like we are and they said they say that every show, every episode it's like it's not much you can say.

[00:27:00]>> And you think so?

[00:27:01]>> I I I feel like his reaction Yeah. I think he kind of got just a little bothered.

[00:27:04]>> I don't think so, man.

[00:27:06]>> I've seen See, I watch Wilding Out and then my kids, they'll watch like the highlights.

[00:27:10]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:27:11]>> Nick is the target >> on every Wilding Out Wild style. He's the target. And I mean, they get brutal.

[00:27:19]And Nick know like Nick is the producer.

[00:27:22]Nick is the creator. Nick, do you know what I'm saying? Like Everybody come at Nick.

[00:27:27]>> Yeah.

[00:27:27]>> So, I don't think that that's the one.

[00:27:29]>> I don't think he cared.

[00:27:30]>> Nah, I I Man, I don't think so. So, let me play the rest of you.

[00:27:37]>> Wow. And a pork. That's horrible.

[00:27:39]>> And see, Nick does that.

[00:27:40]>> He told me to say that.

[00:27:41]>> Yeah, I bet you did. He told you wrong.

[00:27:43]Took wrong advice. I'll give you one.

[00:27:46]Talk about my kids. Yeah, that's fine.

[00:27:49]But at least my baby mama let me see mine.

[00:27:52]>> Hey, man. Does that hit you?

[00:27:55]It didn't. It's not true. Like I see my kid.

[00:27:58]>> Right. Right. Right. But then you come back and freestyle that like it's not true. I see mine all the time. What made me mad is after he said that he just walked away. I'm like, no, you can't JUST SAY >> I didn't know what I was going to say when he came back, >> but I was like, I got to say something, >> right? Like, no, you ain't leaving on that. Pick your mic back up. You ain't dropping no [ __ ] mic over here.

[00:28:20]>> Yeah. And then like when I started my barb, I had to let them know I do see my kid.

[00:28:23]>> Right. Right, right, right. Check, check. Yeah, I see my kid. One, two, one, two, one, two. But you know what's wild about that too, man, is >> hilarious.

[00:28:32]>> I don't have like That's why I asked you, did it upset you? Because there's some people that things can kind of roll off of. You know what I'm saying? And I'm not a roll off like I love clowning, but there's just some [ __ ] I like, oh no, that you know what I mean?

[00:28:46]>> It didn't upset me. It just threw me off a little bit cuz I didn't know what to say, >> right?

[00:28:50]>> You feel me? So I'm like, damn, what do I say? I'm telling him to come back, right? This what I'm thinking in my head. I'm like, tell him to come back here so I can say something.

[00:28:57]>> And he's walking back. What do I say?

[00:28:58]>> Yeah. What do I say? I don't know what to say. So, I was like, let me just think of something. And then I just called his baby mama horse. I didn't have nothing else.

[00:29:06]>> And then even Nick was like, not all of them. You know, he's having he's having fun, bro.

[00:29:11]>> You know what I'm saying? I think that we take it and we create the animosity and the beefs and all that kind of stuff. I I think I think we create I think we create that, bro. I don't I don't know. Were y'all good after?

[00:29:24]>> Yeah. Okay. Cool.

[00:29:25]>> All right. So So you could feel if it was anything different.

[00:29:28]>> Yeah. I don't think he care. I mean, I didn't care.

[00:29:31]>> Yeah. I know. I just didn't know what to call.

[00:29:34]>> Hello, Nick. I I just know like I was at that Kevin uh heart roast, right?

[00:29:40]>> I can't do that.

[00:29:41]>> Yeah, they was saying some mean stuff.

[00:29:43]>> Oh my god, man. And then you bring my enemy on too. You know what I'm saying?

[00:29:46]I'm like, nah, man. Like the first thing soon as they would have been like, "Hey, welcome to the big boy roast." Yeah, big boy got that knot in the back of his head, I would have been like, "Man, I'm flying all y'all [ __ ] heads."

[00:29:57]Like it would, man, it would have been two two and a half minutes of of a roast, man. So, it's a different kind of skin when you do that kind of stuff.

[00:30:04]Yeah. When you stream, right, streaming is your world.

[00:30:08]>> Yeah.

[00:30:09]>> Was it different walking into Nick Cannon's world?

[00:30:12]>> Yes.

[00:30:13]>> Yeah. See, that's another thing. See, I ain't no I'm not really a roaster, you feel me? Like, >> I crack jokes. I make everybody laugh, >> you know what I mean? I don't crack jokes at one person. Sometimes I do, but it's like >> that I can't do that off the fly, >> right?

[00:30:27]>> Like that. So, I was just trying to get in where I fit in, but I knew I couldn't hide the whole time.

[00:30:32]>> Would you do it again?

[00:30:34]>> Yeah.

[00:30:34]>> Okay. And and the reason why I asked that too, man, is because like I do radio and I'm so comfortable here and I'm so comfortable with just speaking, but when I go somewhere else is somebody else's so-called house, it's a little different for me. Yeah.

[00:30:50]>> You know what I'm saying? No matter how confident I am on how I get down here, like your stream, that's your platform, all that is you. And now you walk into someone else's world, but you bring your world in, but you walking into someone else's world. And I and I and and I love Nick and I know how they get down, but I've seen, you know, they got the they got punchlines already.

[00:31:10]>> This things that's written already. You know what I'm saying? The wild style, some of that stuff is written already.

[00:31:14]And I cuz I did wilding out and I was like, "Ah, she didn't write that."

[00:31:19]>> You know what I'm saying? We This ain't coming off the fly. You know what I mean? So So, but you know, I I thought you I thought I wanted to speak to you about it because hell, it's everywhere.

[00:31:28]>> Yeah.

[00:31:28]>> Yeah. It's everywhere, bro.

[00:31:30]>> Yeah. It was a good moment, though.

[00:31:33]Hey man, do you look at a lot of social media as far as like Instagram, Tik Tok? Like, are you looking at that too?

[00:31:41]>> Yeah, it's my job. I'm on there all the time, unfortunately.

[00:31:45]>> Yeah. See, >> so I see everything. I got really thick skin for the internet. Like I can search my name right now on Twitter, somebody random just talking [ __ ] for nothing.

[00:31:55]>> How do you learn that?

[00:31:57]>> What?

[00:31:57]>> Like it takes time to develop that thick skin, right?

[00:32:00]>> Yeah. Yeah, I mean I learned it because they never come up to me in person. Like I've never got a live hate comment. One time though, I was in New York, right?

[00:32:09]And I was at I was getting like a little chopped cheese or whatever and I was walking like I walked behind the uh you know how the aisles got the shelves or whatever >> and then I heard a girl that Diddy G, I don't like him.

[00:32:24]>> Are you live on stream? Yeah, but she didn't she didn't know I heard her, but then when I walked around, she was just looking at me. She didn't say nothing.

[00:32:33]>> So, I'm like, "Oh, yeah. Haters be scared."

[00:32:36]>> Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[00:32:36]>> Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, they they just say stuff on the internet because they projecting or they like they would never say nothing like that to me in person.

[00:32:44]>> Yeah, man.

[00:32:44]>> One person did say something in person.

[00:32:47]It's like this little meme. They say doodoo garbage, right? Because it say is DDG doodoo garbage. Whatever. Boom.

[00:32:54]Somebody said it and we put him on his pockets.

[00:32:57]>> So, you know, we making >> Was the camera on camera?

[00:33:00]>> You have to turn the camera off. Yeah.

[00:33:01]Hell yeah. He got put on his pockets.

[00:33:03]>> Jesus Christ. He know now, huh?

[00:33:05]>> Yeah, he know. He ain't going to say do the garbage no more.

[00:33:07]>> Oh, no. How you doing, sir? DDG.

[00:33:11]That's when that [ __ ] That's when that [ __ ] change up like a [ __ ] Hey, how you doing? Everything all right?

[00:33:16]Yeah. But you know what it is too, man?

[00:33:18]I think that people start off negative first.

[00:33:22]>> Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like you could probably have somebody to be like, "Man, [ __ ] him. Fuck." And then they see, "Oh, what's up, bro?"

[00:33:28]>> You know what I'm saying? Or the the crazy negative that you'll see is probably one of your biggest not one of your biggest fans, but they a fan of you.

[00:33:36]>> Yeah.

[00:33:36]>> Like cuz they're just if I'm not effing with you, I'm just not >> I'm not effing with you.

[00:33:41]>> I'm not going to comment. I'm not going to follow you. I'm not going to get in there and say certain things. I think I'm just cut from a different school and a different cloth, too.

[00:33:49]>> That's facts.

[00:33:49]>> You know what's next for you? cuz I'm going with you.

[00:33:53]>> Uh, shoot, man. I'mma just continue doing what I'm doing. After I finish my show today, I'm probably gonna take a little break from streaming.

[00:34:01]>> What's a break?

[00:34:03]>> Three, four days.

[00:34:04]>> Okay. What do you do for three, four days? Like, >> I'm going just stay in the studio.

[00:34:07]>> Damn. So, you you stop working to work.

[00:34:10]>> Exactly.

[00:34:10]>> Okay. Just >> work for me is fun. Like, I don't understand the concept of just chilling.

[00:34:17]It's very hard for me to do that.

[00:34:19]Especially because I ain't got no girlfriend, >> right? If >> I had a girlfriend, then I could just chill.

[00:34:23]>> But I'm pretty sure you got a gang of options.

[00:34:25]>> Nah.

[00:34:25]>> Okay.

[00:34:27]>> That's good you said that.

[00:34:28]>> Yeah. They probably in the chat right now. They probably in the chat like, "Yes, she do." Yeah.

[00:34:34]>> So, not not being in a relationship.

[00:34:35]That do is your concentration level a little different?

[00:34:39]>> Yeah, for sure. It's easier to navigate.

[00:34:42]it's easier to do like particular content without having to worry about too much or like anybody's feelings getting involved, you know?

[00:34:49]>> Is it going to be hard for you to find that person too? Because you you run different, you live different, your life is different. It's going to be hard to find someone that you know that can work with you. Not necessarily. It's just like when I get to that point where I feel like I want to be in one, I stop myself. Gotcha.

[00:35:11]>> Because I'm like, >> you know how to >> Yeah, I know how to be like, "Okay, I gotta let me chill."

[00:35:17]>> Because I'll be overly in involved.

[00:35:20]>> How do you find privacy?

[00:35:24]>> Like, cuz you live in front of millions of people.

[00:35:27]>> How do you find privacy?

[00:35:29]>> I mean, I know when to cut the camera off, >> but it's like if I'm like talking to somebody or messing with somebody, boom, boom. Then they found out. They find out somehow someway. They just know >> really.

[00:35:42]>> I don't know how they know, but they just know. It's It's really nothing I can do.

[00:35:47]>> Man, have you had a moment that and I'm pretty sure, >> but you just got to give me one cuz I know it's had to happen >> that you got caught on live where it was like, god damn it. And I don't mean caught like relationship wise. Just something that you was like, man, damn, we were live.

[00:36:04]>> You know what I'm saying? Something in your nose. You know, you got to take a [ __ ] Whatever it is.

[00:36:08]>> Yeah. Yeah, I mean I'm pretty pretty open on on on the stream. They kind of like know, but like I don't think so.

[00:36:16]>> Damn.

[00:36:17]>> I'll be on point.

[00:36:18]>> So, do you tell someone like will you look in the camera like, "Hey, chat, I got to go [ __ ] real quick."

[00:36:22]>> Yeah.

[00:36:23]>> Okay.

[00:36:24]>> N I don't tell.

[00:36:25]>> OH, OKAY. OH, OKAY.

[00:36:27]>> NAH, I got a lot of girls that watch.

[00:36:30]>> Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz girls don't [ __ ] >> Yeah. Girls just >> Yeah. They I don't know what it is.

[00:36:35]Girls don't ever say, "I got to go shit." You know what I'm saying? I've worked with Anie for like what 15 years.

[00:36:40]I don't think she [ __ ] >> My I've never heard her say, "Hey babe, you know, when we get a break, I got to go shit." Like, you know, >> so what do you do when you like do you just like if you're on for 4 to eight hours, what do you do when you have to go do something personal?

[00:36:57]>> Like use the bathroom?

[00:36:58]>> Yeah.

[00:36:59]>> Shoot. I just go use the bathroom. I get a camera to him >> and take your mic off.

[00:37:03]>> Talk to him. Yeah. Take my mic off, have him talk to him a little bit, >> you know. I come back, let nothing happen.

[00:37:09]>> Hey man, and and not to not to give out my man right here salary. What's my man's name right here?

[00:37:16]>> Edmond.

[00:37:16]>> Edmond. Not to give out his salary, but do you think Edmond make more than Louisie?

[00:37:22]>> She might.

[00:37:24]>> And Louis is like I think he does he do he do other things on the side too. So like him filming for me, he made clothes.

[00:37:33]>> Okay.

[00:37:33]>> So like all the clothes he got on the clo this got on. Yeah, this clothes.

[00:37:38]>> Oh, you got to charge him for that then.

[00:37:40]>> No, [ __ ] that.

[00:37:42]>> I like n man. I'm like, man, I'm wearing your G and you just gave him a shout out, too.

[00:37:46]>> You crazy as hell. Go get one of my >> Go get one of my Hello hoodies and have this [ __ ] put it on. Hey, man.

[00:37:52]When do you know somebody's [ __ ] with you because of who you are >> like for real or somebody that's just like, man, how do I get in? Cuz I see I see live streams, people start jumping in the camera. How do you know somebody is genuine with you or they just want to be in the in the stream or be next to you?

[00:38:11]>> I think over time.

[00:38:13]>> Yeah. And you learn >> kind of Yeah, I can kind of tell. I can kind of sense energy like cuz I got a really small circle of people I keep around me. Like I ain't just out here buddy buddy with everybody or you know pulling up to random people cribs. I got to really know you to really rock with you.

[00:38:28]>> Right. And you're you're a business and an empire, >> a corporation and an entity. Is that one of the Hello Hoodies?

[00:38:35]>> Oh man, what is >> Oh, man. That's one of my Hello Hoodies right there, man. You crazy as hell, man. That What's What size you rock?

[00:38:42]>> Like a medium large?

[00:38:44]>> What size is that?

[00:38:44]>> It's a medium.

[00:38:45]>> It's a medium. It's good.

[00:38:46]>> Yeah. All right. Go ahead now, man. Take that with you. Hey, dude. If I walk out of here and that [ __ ] is like in the parking lot, my [ __ ] my [ __ ] going to be HURT LIKE A [ __ ] YOU KNOW HOW you get so hurt you don't want to tell anybody else? Like, I wouldn't even come up be like, "Man, he put my [ __ ] hoodie down. I just take my [ __ ] just put it in the car like damn I thought we was bonding like a [ __ ] over there man.

[00:39:08]>> So what am I missing out on? You know because Tai Hollywood he always say big like how does one start streaming?

[00:39:18]>> Just start, man. Just got to start it.

[00:39:22]>> That's literally it.

[00:39:23]>> Cuz this could have been a Well, it is for you, >> but this could have been a stream >> for sure. Do you feel like I should let people in a little bit more to the live interviews or what we do in my neighborhood?

[00:39:34]>> Radio's live anyway sometimes. So I feel like >> so just turn the camera on.

[00:39:38]>> Yeah. Any artist you have in here, you can for sure stream it. What are they going to say? No.

[00:39:41]>> Yeah. Exactly. Especially when they walk in, we just throw the [ __ ] on.

[00:39:45]>> Yeah.

[00:39:46]>> Is there anybody that you've met that you didn't know that they knew who you were? Like a celebrity?

[00:39:52]>> Uh yeah. All the time.

[00:39:54]Now I feel like everybody know who I am.

[00:39:56]>> Right. It might be some people out there that don't. I don't think Taylor Swift know who I am.

[00:40:01]>> I think she does.

[00:40:02]>> You think so?

[00:40:03]>> What? Taylor Swift know who I am.

[00:40:05]>> Okay.

[00:40:05]>> So, she gota definitely know who you are. You know what I'm saying?

[00:40:09]>> If she came down here, she had to know.

[00:40:11]You know what I mean?

[00:40:13]>> She got she got to Hey, man. So, so when you when you go somewhere, >> do you get recognized a lot?

[00:40:20]>> Yeah.

[00:40:21]>> Even more when you when somebody have when the camera with you too.

[00:40:25]>> The camera with me for sure. Yeah.

[00:40:26]>> But like even like everywhere I go, LA is like is cool, you know? Everybody >> Yeah. Everybody in the business, we see people.

[00:40:35]>> Yeah. We see you.

[00:40:36]>> We might tell our homie when we get home.

[00:40:38]>> But you go somewhere else.

[00:40:40]>> Yeah. If I go like like in New Jersey, I couldn't even walk. Like I the mall, they people it's crowds outside the store >> watching me shop.

[00:40:49]>> You know what I mean? Like it depends on certain markets and certain places. Like LA, you know, everybody cool.

[00:40:55]>> Yeah. If you could run into somebody here, >> you know, I might see Brad Pit if I walk downstairs. I ain't going to go up to him and fan out. It's Brad Pit, you know.

[00:41:03]>> But you've been in malls where D shut shut him down kind of mall.

[00:41:06]>> Yeah.

[00:41:06]>> I remember one time, man, I was in Philly. This is years years ago. And I was with Tyrese, right? And Tyrese, you see Tyrese, you know. Oh, that's Tyrese.

[00:41:14]Tyrese, you know, >> but man, we were in Philly and we were in the mall together and people didn't give a [ __ ] about me, you know. I used to be a bodyguard back in the days.

[00:41:22]Yeah. Before I got into radio. This is your 32. I've been in radio before you were born, but I used to be a bodyguard for >> 32.

[00:41:28]>> Yeah, this is year 32 for me in radio.

[00:41:30]>> Oh, I thought you said 1932.

[00:41:32]>> I was going to SAY Victorian the [ __ ] >> Yeah. Like like man this dude better get into streaming right now. He was like they going to have to stream HIS FUNERAL. LIKE [ __ ] what the [ __ ] That's a clip. Like [ __ ] god damn. He was like 32. I'M LIKE YEAH.

[00:41:53]THAT [ __ ] START going carry the one like, "Oh [ __ ] damn. He like older than my great great granddaddy." But no, I I was in the mall with with Tyrese and I had to go back into bodyguard status because they literally chased him out the mall and that's when I like you'll go other places and the it's different when you go to other places like I can travel like there is nowhere in the world DDG that I've been that I haven't been recognized. Israel, Japan, Tokyo, I mean, uh, Korea, Africa, uh, Ger, anywhere in the world. And it's not just the radio, it's the content. You know what I'm saying? It's the content. So, when you start seeing things like that, everybody's a little more visual right now.

[00:42:41]>> Everybody, bro, that's why I'm saying when you you stream so much, you know, people that know you visually, it's got to be crazy for you.

[00:42:49]>> No, for sure, >> man. Next next time you go to like Jersey or And Ty, where did where did you go on to tour? Did you do the whole tour?

[00:42:56]>> Have you seen that?

[00:42:58]>> Yeah, man.

[00:42:59]>> Yeah.

[00:42:59]>> Yeah. And Ty, you know, >> Ty, you know what I mean? Ty probably knocking him down out there. Okay. Just I ain't going to do all that. I ain't going to do that.

[00:43:11]>> Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[00:43:12]Hell yeah.

[00:43:13]>> Y'all want to go to the show tonight?

[00:43:16]>> But you know what I love about Tai as well? for as popular as you are, >> Tai don't use you. You know some people you'll see they be like, "Oh yeah, >> like like I know phony [ __ ] around me and Ty when he's not with you, >> he's with me."

[00:43:33]>> Yeah.

[00:43:33]>> You know what I'm saying? And he never >> dude is about who he's [ __ ] with. You good? You good? You know that kind of thing, man. I've never seen him put [ __ ] on my name. Never seen him put [ __ ] on your name. Never did one of I don't know if he [ __ ] behind my name. I haven't seen it.

[00:43:49]>> You know what I'm saying?

[00:43:51]>> But I've never seen him. You got a good dude out there with you, man. And I hate that this is his last moment working with you. Cuz I know you was talking about you going to let him go. Not just from >> not just from the tour, but you know, any any future you you see.

[00:44:05]>> No, that's that's my chat. My chat he >> the chat be like get rid of him.

[00:44:10]>> Yeah, it be him.

[00:44:11]>> Like who is he? Get rid of him. Like why is he wearing True Religion jeans?

[00:44:17]What's up with the nails?

[00:44:18]>> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. No, we not going to do that.

[00:44:21]>> He said it. They don't like his gunshots. The gunshot button that he used.

[00:44:26]>> Now, I was singing one song. It's like a very slow song. It's a song that you should not have gunshots in.

[00:44:33]>> And he kept hitting the gunshots and they've been on him ever since. And to my MAMA to my baby, hold on, man.

[00:44:47]That's Tai being a star too though.

[00:44:49]>> Hey man, so you're reading your chats right now, right?

[00:44:54]>> What are they saying?

[00:44:55]>> They laughing.

[00:44:56]>> Can you Can you even stop to read it?

[00:44:57]Cuz it's literally just going to >> I know, man. Hey, man. Let me tell you the cold piece though, right?

[00:45:02]>> Wild.

[00:45:02]>> Like how I told you everybody streaming now.

[00:45:06]>> I've seen people that be like, "Yeah, Big Big is live in the chat. What's up?"

[00:45:09]And I I see mother and I'm like, man, we might as well just FaceTime.

[00:45:15]Like, bro, like there is nobody in there. There is nothing scrolling. Like, bro, you might as well just give me your information and let's just let's just talk to each other. You know what I'm saying? I got one of my homies I joined I I went into his uh his Instagram live.

[00:45:33]>> Yeah.

[00:45:34]>> And it was like me and him in his Instagram live. And I remember I told him I said hey man I said let's just hang up and you just you know >> I I he announced me oh big is in the chat and then I was like [ __ ] it's just us you know literally I can tell this dude my social security number because nobody was in this [ __ ] >> just one >> yeah man and I and literally I just told him I said hey Ty said I said Ty >> I said, "Man, just FaceTime me, bro.

[00:46:09]Like, we ain't even got to do this." You know what I'm saying? Like, like Big, you know, Big's in the chat. I'm like, "Ty in the chat. Big in the chat. Ty in the chat. Big in the chat. Ty in the chat." That That's all we did. It was like tennis. Big Ty. Big Ty. You know what I'm saying? So, we literally started having personal conversations like, "Man, did you eat that spaghetti I made?"

[00:46:28]>> Cuz nobody in that [ __ ] you know, >> man like calling DJ gunshots ON THE TRACK CLOWN.

[00:46:37]Say what now?

[00:46:38]>> Somebody took a photo of me like I should slap him.

[00:46:41]>> Really though.

[00:46:42]>> Yeah, I wish they would. You know what I'm saying? We all come off the porch.

[00:46:48]Hold on. Say >> chat is saying W for big boy. He's hilarious as hell and legends.

[00:46:54]>> Hey man, let me tell you. When I first ask you what they're saying, I start sweating.

[00:46:59]They laugh.

[00:46:59]>> You know, I don't even SWEAT DURING INTERVIEWS. I'M LIKE, [ __ ] what they saying? Hey, dude. And when I asked what they saying, I went Oh my god.

[00:47:08]>> Hey, man. But yeah, you you got thicker skin, bro. I can't Hell no, man. I be I have a grand opening, grand closing.

[00:47:15]>> Yeah, it ain't it ain't easy.

[00:47:16]>> No, it ain't. Huh. And people think it is, huh?

[00:47:19]>> They do.

[00:47:20]>> And then they find out.

[00:47:21]>> Yeah. It's >> That's why you say it's going to weed itself out too, huh?

[00:47:25]>> Yeah. Cuz you know it's it's it probably be the biggest rapper in the world. Get on there withund viewers don't know how to act like, "Hey man, this ain't right."

[00:47:34]>> Right. just don't feel like it's supposed to feel and then they leave.

[00:47:38]>> And so did you feel like of course where you are now there is a growth to your audience >> for sure.

[00:47:45]>> When I first started getting on I had them 200 viewers I had them 300s you know I had the 500 for a little minute.

[00:47:52]>> What's in there for you now?

[00:47:54]>> Right now let's see five >> 500.

[00:47:59]>> Oh damn it's like 500. Oh, we killing it. [ __ ] >> Hey, DDG. This sound like a partnership, right?

[00:48:05]>> Yeah.

[00:48:06]>> Hell yeah, man. Like, [ __ ] This sound like a little partnership. We done cracked 5,000 and we holding on to them, huh?

[00:48:13]>> Yeah. By the time I get to the show, cuz I'mma keep going live until I get to my show.

[00:48:17]>> Oh, [ __ ] >> It ain't going to get no better than this.

[00:48:20]>> Okay, it is. Go ahead. Go ahead.

[00:48:21]>> Yeah. By the time I get there, it be like 10:12.

[00:48:24]>> 10 12 between there.

[00:48:26]>> Just hanging.

[00:48:27]>> Let's do Like there's some times, man, when when my kids, you know how Kai Kaisen out would do the like them marathons.

[00:48:33]>> I just be like, >> "Who watching this at 3:00 in the morning?"

[00:48:36]>> Yeah.

[00:48:37]>> But somebody watching.

[00:48:38]>> They do. And sometimes they fall asleep.

[00:48:39]>> Yeah. And leave it on, huh?

[00:48:40]>> Yep. They get hit with all them ads.

[00:48:45]>> You down there hoping they fall asleep, huh? Cha-ching.

[00:48:47]>> Hey, dude. That's when you be like, "Hush little baby, don't say a word.

[00:48:51]Mommy's going." I I just be like slow jams and put on all kind of slow [ __ ] like you getting sleepy like put you take your ass to sleep. You said so the ads they going to run anyway.

[00:49:03]>> Yeah.

[00:49:03]>> Jesus Christ.

[00:49:04]>> Unless you subbed up.

[00:49:06]>> So if you subscribe, you don't get no ads.

[00:49:09]>> Oh >> yeah.

[00:49:11]>> There's a lot to not a lot to learn, but there's things to learn about this. Mi did you look you look very like inquisitive about >> I'm just like taking it in you know like making sure I'm taking these notes but I did want to know um how did the collab happen with Wendy Ortiz and like you know your your friendship and like you guys went to Japan together like why did you want to collab with her?

[00:49:32]>> You huh >> wait what do you mean?

[00:49:35]>> Never mind >> I'm confused.

[00:49:38]>> No it's um >> I forgot >> you for me [ __ ] N uh I forgot. I think we DM'd each other or whatever like on Tik Tok something. I forgot. I think she did like a dance to one of my songs before.

[00:49:52]>> Oh, okay.

[00:49:53]>> I had this popular song called Pink Dreads >> and Oh, I do know that song.

[00:49:57]>> Yeah. Everybody was doing this dance to it and stuff and then she did it and then I followed her >> and then we planned a collab. Yeah.

[00:50:05]>> And then we planned a collab and then it just went stupid viral.

[00:50:09]>> Right. And when you go to like other countries, they they on you too.

[00:50:14]>> Damn, that's a lot of power, bro.

[00:50:16]>> What's the craziest thing you bought from all of this like streaming >> that you remember?

[00:50:21]>> The craziest thing I bought?

[00:50:23]>> Um, I mean, I bought regular stuff, you know?

[00:50:27]>> No, regular for you.

[00:50:30]>> Yeah, there different there's different uh like scales of regular.

[00:50:33]>> Yeah, they adding, you know, >> properties and stuff and >> Oh, yeah.

[00:50:39]and watches. And how young are you? 28.

[00:50:41]>> Yeah, 28.

[00:50:41]>> Yeah, of course you bought properties.

[00:50:44]>> Yeah, of course. At 28, you got all these properties. Couple AP watches.

[00:50:49]>> You have an AP watch?

[00:50:50]>> I do, but I'm I think I'm going to sell it.

[00:50:52]>> Really?

[00:50:53]>> You saw what's going to happen?

[00:50:54]>> No. What's that?

[00:50:55]>> They're like They're like a Swatch and AP are >> going to do some type of collab to release some like super affordable. Uh, >> what's super affordable?

[00:51:03]>> $400.

[00:51:03]>> Oh, really though? I get what? I get that.

[00:51:05]>> That's what I'm saying. I'm I'm f to get rid of my AP and go buy me some $400 swatches.

[00:51:12]>> Now, how much did your AP cost?

[00:51:15]>> It's like at 180 right now.

[00:51:17]>> Damn, that's >> I got in at 200. I'm already losing. I got hit on the head. But it's like >> 200 racks.

[00:51:24]>> Yeah, bro. I don't >> How many you get for 200,000? Like, how many you get?

[00:51:27]>> How many swatches?

[00:51:28]>> No. Yeah. How many watches do you get?

[00:51:30]Like APS.

[00:51:31]>> If I spend if I sell my watch and buy some swatches. Now, you say you paid 200,000.

[00:51:37]>> Yes. For the watch I have.

[00:51:39]>> One.

[00:51:39]>> One.

[00:51:39]>> Oh, you got one watch for 200. Okay.

[00:51:41]Yeah.

[00:51:41]>> Okay. I thought you bought it through the company.

[00:51:43]>> Oh, no. No, no, no.

[00:51:44]>> Okay.

[00:51:44]>> But I got I don't like It's certain ways to like get connected with the actual store >> where you can pay retail, but the watch I got is like discontinued. They don't make it no more.

[00:51:54]>> Does that bring the value up or bring it down?

[00:51:56]>> Yeah, cuz you can't get it nowhere.

[00:51:57]>> Okay.

[00:51:58]>> But I bought it at resale. Whoopy-doo.

[00:52:01]But I think I'm gonna get rid of it and then I'm gonna go buy me some $400 watches.

[00:52:05]>> Damn. I I get that. Why would I spend all this money and somebody else everybody else gonna get the same effect?

[00:52:12]>> Wait, so are they going to look the same?

[00:52:15]>> Yeah, that's what I heard. I heard they like >> I'm going to wait too then.

[00:52:17]>> That's what I'm saying.

[00:52:19]>> Or you know what? It even be better, bro, if you just gifted me the one you have now.

[00:52:24]>> You know what I'm saying? And then I'll buy you the $400 one.

[00:52:27]>> Okay.

[00:52:27]>> All right. So deal. We'll wait till these come out. When they dropping, Lou?

[00:52:30]Uh, I don't know that I >> I can put my money together now. I start saving now, man. I get you.

[00:52:34]>> I heard it can't come out like on the weekend or something like this.

[00:52:37]>> This weekend like coming up.

[00:52:38]>> Let's see.

[00:52:39]>> Damn.

[00:52:39]>> But you know, they going to buy them up.

[00:52:41]They going to resell them for like 10 bands.

[00:52:43]>> Mm. Not when we go stream live with our new collaboration we got. You know what I'm saying? Not not with not with our new business venture that we have, bro.

[00:52:51]Not at all, man. Is there anything that aside from the watch, you know, cuz that could be impulse buy or that that like you work hard, so you should be >> getting something for yourself. And I tell people, never apologize for your hard work and your success. You never apologize for that.

[00:53:04]>> Is there anything that you've purchased that you knew was dumb as [ __ ] though?

[00:53:11]>> Oh, that's a great question. It's a lot.

[00:53:13]>> We've been here about an hour and that's the first great question.

[00:53:15]>> No, no, no, no, no. You got a lot of good questions.

[00:53:22]>> I would say tour bus.

[00:53:26]>> Really?

[00:53:27]>> You want to know why, bro? Go ahead.

[00:53:29]>> I've been on tour.

[00:53:31]>> Uhoh.

[00:53:32]>> I, you know, tour costs a lot. I spent about $100,000, right, on this bus. It ain't even mine.

[00:53:39]>> Yeah.

[00:53:40]>> I spent about $100,000 on this bus. I slept on it two times.

[00:53:45]>> Yeah.

[00:53:46]>> I've been flying everywhere.

[00:53:48]>> I've been like just traveling regular. I was in Miami. I flew.

[00:53:53]>> So the bus is on the the bus is still on the tour >> with nobody on it. So he's just rolling and >> so he's just driving just chilling. He got >> He got his family in there, >> right? Laying in my bed and everything, man.

[00:54:04]>> So you So you of course rent the tour bus for the tour about about a 100 racks >> and you've only slept on the bus twice.

[00:54:13]>> Twice cuz >> So you also accumulating miles of course hotels and you're flying some of the team with you.

[00:54:21]>> Exactly.

[00:54:21]>> Oh.

[00:54:22]>> Whole team getting flights. So, it's like I just wanted to be comfortable on tour because I'm like, "Okay, cool." I know I ain't I ain't doing like 5,000 cap rooms. So, I know like the money I'mma take home ain't going to be crazy, >> right?

[00:54:36]>> But I'm like, I don't really care about making money. I just want to be comfortable, not even knowing I was going to be on flights the whole time. I even missed another dumb thing. Well, it's not dumb because it came from the heart. I missed my flight to Dallas. I had a Dallas show, right? And I was in Miami. It was F1 >> in Miami. Boom. All the flights booked.

[00:54:55]I booked a 6:00 a.m. flight on Southwest >> so I can get to Dallas.

[00:55:01]>> I come back to my apartment. I pack my clothes. I put them all by the door at like 4:00. I'm like, "Let me sit down for a second." And then called Uber.

[00:55:10]>> Uhoh.

[00:55:10]>> I sit down. I woke up the next day.

[00:55:13]>> So I was like, >> "You missed the show, too?"

[00:55:15]>> I was about to miss the show.

[00:55:16]>> Okay.

[00:55:17]So then I had to get a jet to get to the show. Mind you, I'm already ain't making no money, >> right?

[00:55:24]>> So I'm like, but it's no way that I can miss the show because I'm like, okay, cool.

[00:55:29]>> I didn't already seen how these people tripping about me. I didn't already seen how people crying to see me and stuff.

[00:55:34]It I know I ain't doing this for the money.

[00:55:36]>> So I had to pay $25,000 >> to get there >> to get to Dallas.

[00:55:40]>> And then the $100,000 bus is still >> And that $100,000 bus just on the road just drive by itself.

[00:55:47]Damn.

[00:55:48]>> Yeah. It was like I've been losing money the whole time, but it's a learning experience.

[00:55:52]>> Yeah.

[00:55:52]>> It's cool.

[00:55:53]>> Is this your first funded tour like this for you?

[00:55:56]>> This the most I ever spent on the tour for sure.

[00:55:58]>> Yeah. Like I my last tour I went on with Kevin Gates.

[00:56:02]>> I got tour.

[00:56:02]>> That had to be interesting.

[00:56:04]>> Yeah.

[00:56:04]>> I got a lot of tour support for that. So I ain't really come out of pocket too much.

[00:56:08]>> Um but this one >> I paid for the buses, everything.

[00:56:12]>> You got to be the king of multitasking, too. Yeah. because you haven't skipped a beat during our sit down right now, but you also still check in on your chat.

[00:56:24]>> You know what I'm saying? So that that's like the king of multitasking for real.

[00:56:28]And then >> I know you got a good team, but you also got to be the one that >> kind of on the the Yep. Yes to this, yes to that. You know what I'm saying? So, it's probably a lot that goes on that you really got to be hands on.

[00:56:45]>> Yeah, my brain like autopilot when it come to like content and then just trying to control everything, but I'm I'm on top of it. Like, if I start lagging, I'mma know >> you. So, nobody got to tell you.

[00:56:58]>> They don't tell me. They don't tell me.

[00:57:00]They be like, they just start typing one letter and then I look at him >> and then he got to put the backpack down. We got to figure it out.

[00:57:07]>> And what's that one letter? F. If they say F, that mean it is lagging.

[00:57:13]>> Oh, that's the worst feeling ever.

[00:57:15]>> There's no way you can block that. You know how they got comments and [ __ ] that you can block certain words.

[00:57:19]>> Yeah, you can't block F.

[00:57:21]>> Yeah, >> look into it. You know what I'm saying?

[00:57:23]>> I can block it, but I want them to tell me if it's lagging because it helps me.

[00:57:28]Like they typing it right now.

[00:57:29]>> It's wild. You got like 5 thou They typing F.

[00:57:32]>> Yeah.

[00:57:32]>> Oh [ __ ] We better hurry and finish this.

[00:57:35]>> Amen. But it's like you got 5,000 if there's 5,000 people there, you got 5,000 bosses, business associates. You know what I'm saying? Like like >> critics.

[00:57:45]>> Yeah. They they they lowkey work for me.

[00:57:47]>> Yeah. And with you.

[00:57:49]>> They do work for me. I say with me.

[00:57:51]>> Yeah.

[00:57:51]>> I'm not paying them.

[00:57:55]>> Yeah, man.

[00:57:57]Put him on that bus that's traveling by itself.

[00:58:00]>> Hell yeah. If I would have known, man, I would have just jumped on the bus. [ __ ] So the y'all the last spot were y'all in Vegas.

[00:58:08]>> Yeah.

[00:58:08]>> Before y'all came here. How did you get from Vegas to here?

[00:58:11]>> Oh wow. Bro, where's the bus, >> bro? You know why?

[00:58:15]>> Ty, how did you get back?

[00:58:16]>> You flew. You drove.

[00:58:18]>> You did the bus. Yeah. Ty was like, "Man, I get on there."

[00:58:21]>> But it's like this is why >> I was all in your bed.

[00:58:24]>> You was all in the back.

[00:58:26]>> Yeah.

[00:58:27]>> You got more than one bus.

[00:58:28]>> I had a bus and I had a wagon.

[00:58:30]>> Okay. You got to get out of here.

[00:58:31]>> Yeah, man.

[00:58:31]>> All right. I'm not I'm not even feeling bad for you. You know what I'm saying? I ain't even feeling bad, bro. No. But thank you for coming into the neighborhood, bro. I've been waiting on this and I I enjoyed our conversation, man. And I feel like I should pay you for all this knowledge you just gave us, >> but I won't.

[00:58:46]>> Okay.

[00:58:46]>> Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But but I won't, man. And and you know, and thank you to the chat as well, man. I got I got to start getting my chat lingo up, too, cuz I'm about to go. Hey, man. I'm telling you, soon as you leave here, I that work machine. I told you. I told you. I told you. I told you, Tai Hollywood, I told you. I told you. I told you. My producer Jay's going to be like, "Big, I told you. Get the guy's number." No. But thank you for coming into the neighborhood, man. And God willing, I I'll see you back up in here, man. And you wear a lot of hats, bro.

[00:59:14]You know, so I don't I don't even know where to start at. If it's the artist slash, the content creator slash the streamer slash the, you know, you're a good individual. I can feel, you know what I'm saying? I can I can feel your your aura.

[00:59:25]>> Yes, sir.

[00:59:26]>> And I thank you for coming into the neighborhood, DBG.

[00:59:28]>> Appreciate it.

[00:59:28]>> There it is, man. Big boy. Big boy.