Speaker 1- A lot of my friends that I grew up with were going to jail or ended up dead or shot in the streets. So I felt victim to doing illegal stuff. But it was the moment that we got arm robbed where I have a gun to my head now. And once I saw a barrel of that gun being pointed at me, that was the moment I noticed, okay, if I survive this, I'm going to become a comedian or die trying. - Boosty! - My comedy comes from that place of a healing, wanting to make our situation better at home. It's like one time I watched my brother get beat for wetting the bed. It was a lot. So I would always try to step in to try to be like a coping mechanism for him. Maybe it's my mom. So I knew I was funny. I knew I was very entertaining, but it didn't hit me until like college. And I started to figure out, okay, wow, all the people I look up to are all like comedic legends. And I feel more connected to them than anything I've ever felt in my life. That is my purpose. So I left college. I went home. I wrote all these goals down on a sheet of paper. Now I'm locked in. I have no other option. I'm sitting here in a room, no mattress. My car got repossessed. I actually made that like a content piece, but I feared nothing because I'm like, I have nothing left. But I knew I'm like, I'm going to keep going. I'm going to continue to keep pursuing, making videos, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And then the thing that changed my life was Drake calling for the Laugh Now, Cry Later major video.
Speaker 2Everything shifted after that. - Trisky, I had this crazy story that they accidentally sent you Jim Carrey's money. No, they sent an email showing how much he would be getting paid for that hour. - People are saying it was in the region of insane. I hope he didn't see mine 'cause that would have been a little bit embarrassing. - And then in March you did a skit and it did hundreds of millions of views. And then it sounded like Trump did ask to sue you. - I don't know if that's true. I'm not looking to get sued by nobody. I'm not looking for it. - Who was he talking about? - Guys, I've got a favor to ask before this episode begins. The algorithm, if you follow a show, will deliver you the best episodes from that show very prominently in your feed. So when we have our best episodes on this show, the most shared episodes, the most rated episodes, I would love you to know. And the simple way for you to know that is to hit that follow button. But also, it's the simple, easy, free thing that you can do to help us make the show better. I would be hugely grateful if you could take a minute on the app you're listening to this on right now and hit that follow button. Thank you so, so, so much. - Trisky, I really believe that to understand somebody, somebody who is an anonymous person, is an anomaly. And you very much are an anomaly. You first have to sort of understand their earliest context. And I went through all of these old photos of you as a young boy to try and build some of that context in my own head. - Sure, yeah. - What is it that most people might not know about that earliest context that's most informative to sort of who you are today?
Speaker 1What remains? - I still literally feel like this little boy in all these pictures. Like I see these moments and it reminds me of how free I was able to be as a kid. And I wanted to be so much. And my mom and my grandparents, they always supported me being just open and free and having this, what is that right there? - That was your dad and your brother? - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad and my brother right here, for sure. Even looking at these pictures, I had no idea around this time who I was gonna become. This is, this is dope. How did you get these pictures, by the way? Where did you find all this? Did my mom send you these? -
Speaker 2I was looking through some of the, the videos that your parents recorded of you at that time. And you've got like. -
Speaker 3It's hard, do you have any more questions about me? - About your teacher and how you're doing at school. -
Speaker 1Great. - That's me in character right there. That's literally in character. - Literally. We would put on these, these camcorders to let me be free. So that was like my outlet to be able to do these characters and, and, and be myself, you know? - The day is on. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have multiple videos. I know you probably got more. There's one of me in a, in a diaper, like wrapping. - That's another crazy one. - I wasn't sure if this was last week or. - Yeah. That's my cousin, Bree. - Oh my God. - What did you come up with as boss? - Nah, it just. That's the beginning of "Could Have Been Records," right? - Yeah. - Nah, those are the moments, you know, we used to put on these performances for my family. And I'm just grateful that we were able to be ourselves. And, and, and I was able to be myself. And I was able to be myself. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as we continue to go through puberty and got older. Whereas for me, I feel like I might've found a coping mechanism with comedy and maybe he never found that coping mechanism from that trauma. And I feel like trauma can sometimes give you the good route or the negative route. And I feel like a lot of that going on in our house early on made a plate of role in him being diagnosed with that. And yeah, that's the sad side of the story. But yeah, even with him, I think early on, I would always try to make him laugh because I knew we were in a fucked up situation. One time I watched my brother get beat for wetting the bed and it was the simplest thing and I couldn't understand. I was like, why is he getting beat this bad? It was very far, not the normal belt type thing. It was very, very far. So I would always try to step in either after or during these moments to try to be like a coping mechanism for him or like maybe it's my mom and he's arguing with her and they're getting physical as well. So I would always try to be, oh, the funny guy maybe at the dinner after or maybe after the next day goes by and I'm trying to lift everybody's vibe up. So you watched your mother get hit as well? For sure, for sure, for sure. Not physically hit, but I've seen different. Things of like the choking and, you know, pushing her out the door and then locking the door and then I got to go and be the one staring at her at the door and she's like open it and he's like, you better not open that door. And I'm in between a rock and a hard place trying to figure out, do I open this door with my mom or is he going to come? So it was a lot of different situations of trying to figure it out at a very young age. And it started so young that I some back to something. Things are kind of blurred for me, but I do know that my comedy comes from that comforting type of space. I can read a room and sense any type of danger. I can read a room and sense any type of happiness, sadness, anything in any situation. Somebody could be mentally ill. Somebody can be physically hurt. Somebody could be anything. And I always have been a good judge of character as well. So I feel like that has helped me in my career for sure. There's two things I wanted to add to that.
Speaker 2Part of the reason I noticed this, obviously I've sat here 700 times or something. And you're one of the first people to stop mid conversation as you're speaking and say, you look like you had something to say there, Steve. Yeah. Because you were looking at my face. Yeah, I can read. People don't usually do that. So it's funny because I meet some people who are much more aware of me. You know, some people that are just talking and they're giving their answers to my questions. And then there's this other very rare group of people, often comedians who I almost feel like I'm speaking to them even when I'm just sat here thinking because they're like hyper aware in that sense. For sure. And you just. You just did that to me. So I thought, oh, he is super, super aware, which kind of correlates to everything, you know, you were saying that. For sure. For sure. But it always comes at a cost. Yes, I agree. All gifts do. I sat with them. I think it was Michael Jordan's trainer. He also then trained Kobe. And he said to me, he goes, our dark sides are linked to our light side. So the things people clap for are inherently linked to the things that we then struggle with. Yeah. That's true for yourself. I'm very true.
Speaker 1And I think through life, I've learned that. Not all teachers have the best way of teaching, which I speak on his lessons. Like he had many of lessons that were really good and on the positive side of life where I had to eventually come to sources and just tell myself like, wow, like I cannot look for more success and look for the light at the end of the tunnel without forgiving any and everything in my past. And that came with having to forgive my father in my head and also to forgive my father in my life. And I think that's what I learned. Face to face of like, it's all, we just let it all go. And I think that helped me continue to move forward and not have any grudges. Grudges can really hold a lot of weight on you. Maybe his mother was abusive to him or his upbringing was in a different type of area in the world where it was like Northeast DC, very trauma neighborhood. That's very like, you know, a negative place to grow up in. And he's from like the project buildings. So that, but yeah, I think the lessons he had were very good. He always talked about not half-assing anything. If you're going to do something, do it all the way. If you're going to mop the floor, don't just do this side of it. Do it like this. If you're going to clean the dishes, do all the dishes. Don't just, don't half-ass rinse it and then put it in there. But his lessons would be over the top. He's going to break the dishes. If you do it, he's going to throw it up in the air and watch it crash on the ground. And then he's yelling to the highest he could yell. And it's just so, it used to be a lot, you know? And I think it almost like, you know, people talk about you, like, how can I be broken if I've already been broken at an early age? And I kind of feel that way. Like people be like, oh, it's not too much of a burden on you in your career. It's not too much. I'm like, how could I be broken? If I feel like I've already gone to my furthest extent, I can only continue to push myself to higher levels because I feel like I've gone through everything that could be the worst possible situation, at least in my brain. But yeah, he had very good lessons and always had quotes and sayings on things. Like, I actually have to bring it up. But it's confusing because at an early age, I had no idea. Oh, okay. It only takes one, whoa, shit. I really fucked this up to negate 10 attaboys. I have no idea. Still to this day, I get confused. But I understood. Let me tell you when I understood that. I understood that as life went on and I start to notice a lot of my friends that I grew up with and the area I grew up in were going to jail or falsely being accused of things or ended up being dead or shot in the streets. And we've seen a lot of that stuff because I come from a neighborhood where it's the suburb, but it also had a mixture of the real Atlanta in there as well. But yeah, so these things were very confusing to me early on. But as I continued to grow in life, every single lesson that he had taught me and that he had told and talked about and constantly over, over, over, over again, spoke on, it started to come back to me in my later years of life. And I began to grow an appreciation for it after I forgave him for all these past trauma situations and everything that happened. But yeah. And when you say forgive, do you have a good record? Do you have a good relationship with him now? Yes. Very, very good for sure. Um, yeah. And, and I think you just, you, in anything in life, you have to move on from things and continue to push. I think you can, you can never grow to do great things without looking back and being like, okay, I have to close the door on this. I cannot hold this grudge because if you hold a grudge, you got to think about what a grudge is. A grudge is on you as a burden. That's a burden to everything. It's not just physical. It's a mental thing that can really rot people's brain out. It's a thing. I'm sure you probably, you know.
Speaker 2Of course. Yeah. But a lot of people think of forgiveness as letting them win or justification.
Speaker 1Or they feel like a loser because, oh, I'm not going to forgive them for that. I've never, I'm a hold that grudge to the death. It's like, yo, you're not helping yourself. That's actually a, a you thing that has nothing to do with them or what they did. If you, if you hold onto that, that's a forever thing for you.
Speaker 2And, uh, one of the things that will give you as great resilience, I imagine. Um, you talked about it there, you said, how can anything break me when I've already been broken to the fullest extent? Again, with that comes a set of issues you can tend with as an adult. I mean, I experienced it myself, which is you, if, if my parents were quite, um, there wasn't a lot of love between them. So I, I, one of the lessons I inherited was that relationships look like this. And this isn't necessarily a great thing that I want. Wow. So I swerved relationships at every opportunity I was presented. I'd pursue people. And then the minute they turned to me and said, do you want to be in a relationship? I was like, it's too much.
Speaker 1It's too much. I've seen this before. I'm getting away from this now. I know where this goes. I know what you mean. I deal with that as well. For sure. I know exactly what you mean. Yeah. Have you, have you, you've experienced that yourself as well? Yes. I feel like I continuously have grown a relationship with women in a way where I feel like I almost get scared with getting too close. Kind of like how you explained. Because of maybe I haven't seen the successful home of two parents or two people in a relationship. Yeah. Maybe I haven't seen it with my own two eyes to work. And I feel like that kind of does hinder me a little bit because it, it, it, it does come in between when I, I feel these feelings for this girl and I almost jump back immediately as soon as they're like, nah, nah, nah, I don't trust her. Because I know what this comes with. And they're like, yo, what do you, what do you mean? We never, we didn't even get a chance to fully. And I don't know. It's, it's a natural mind thing that happens to me. And I still, to this day, I have no idea if you want to be my doctor for this. No, no, I just, I'm just, I have no idea why I feel like that has something to do with it. Maybe I haven't seen it in a way that's healthy and that might be the reason why, but I still, that's it. That's a question. question that I need to answer.
Speaker 2to someone that you were in a relationship with and i said to them is drew affectionate
Speaker 1you laugh and you know the answer you just don't know no no i i feel like they they would tell you that i am until i'm not and i basically just i just pull out like i pull back i like i almost feel once i i get too close i can't trust it it's just it's almost like a magnet when you reverse it on the other side it's like when it comes too close it starts to repel itself that's how i feel when it comes to me getting more and more closer with the female yeah
Speaker 2that makes sense i think that's what i experienced up until i was about 27 years old i'm sure and but i'm 31 still yeah it ain't
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Speaker 1it's just it's hard to trust you after you become i think when you're when you when you're kind of successful at the beginning it's not hard to trust you just like yo she likes me for me but also she can still like me for this celebrity i am and kind of 50 50 but as you become more and more successful you have this doubt in your mind like this could absolutely be her in love with just druski and not drew at all is that just a convenient excuse for the whole avoidant no no no i'm i'm serious i i i promise like it's it's a question in every superstar's mind i guarantee you even with when they are with somebody fully they still have a question in the back of their mind does this person just love the superstar of me that's so interesting and it does bother somebody who is super successful because you see all these people will scream and and chase you and you have a show or maybe a meet and greet and you see how people react to you or you go on the street and you almost want you want to believe that this person that you're dating also is genuine like how these fans are like yo okay maybe she just loves me for me maybe this is a not kind of like how the fans just love me for that you want her to believe that this is the same type of real thing but it's hard to believe after you see all of this stuff you only know me for that you didn't meet me when i was just at home living with my mom broke on the sofa you know what i'm saying like you didn't see the real side of who i actually am you know if you get what i'm saying you see the you see the new personality sort of say yeah it's tough it's tough out here man could have been love
Speaker 2so you go off um you go off to college and you um you last was it two semesters before you dropped
Speaker 1out yeah no i i i started at a at a a school that was in gwinnett county where i grew up so i spent like a year and then a another half of a semester there and i got my enough credits to transfer because i was like okay i've got to get out of here like i know my life is bigger than this and also at the time i wasn't thinking oh i want to be a superstar i was just thinking i wanted a real college experience i wanted to go to a four-year college i didn't have the grades to do it in high school and go straight there i want to find a way to do it in college so i think when i went to georgia southern as the school following that i just wanted to find the college ecosystem of like what's the vibe here oh let's party let's do this and i didn't find that as soon as i got there it's almost like i didn't get the immediate this is college like i thought i would get after i got there and i went into like a deep depression because i had two guys that i knew went to the school from like like you know somebody from your county of course and i was like okay i'll link up with him he'll be a great friend to be along with on this ride of whatever this new school is and i would try to link up with them and for some reason it always was a hassle for me to link up with them they always would be like oh we always got to pick you up you don't have a car and i'm like no i'll get an uber to y'all well if you don't have any money to get into the game there's no point in coming back and i'm like okay i'll get an uber to y'all well if you don't have any money to get into the game there's no point in coming because we can't pay for you or i want to come to the party with y'all oh well you have the same shoes that you hoop in why would we bring you like you they will always have jokes about maybe i felt like i wasn't deserving enough to be around them sort of say and i felt like almost very for the first time in my life very depressed and that kind of bothered me because i started to just not even go to classes anymore at this new school i was just staying in my dorm room so i went to not even go into class anymore i started to just not even go to classes anymore i stopped going to classes for like the whole second semester of being at that school no classes sat in my room and would just sit and think i'm calling my friends back at home they're not doing nothing so i kind of didn't want to go home because i'm like damn they're not doing shit i'm not gonna go back but also like what am i doing here i'm not doing anything here either what is my purpose in life so sitting in there and being depressed and sad and looking at myself in the mirror i started to figure out i'm like damn i'm not doing anything here i'm not doing anything damn what do i really want to do in life is any of this really makes sense like i'm here for sports journalism but do i want i know i want to be on tv like i took sports journalism to be maybe an espn sports cast just to get my face on tv i didn't know i was like maybe i want to do that it sounds cool but as i continued to do more i guess soul searching sort of say just sitting in the room and thinking about what i want to do these i would sit and watch steve harvey's interviews on like what is it uh do you want to do in your life jump jump off a mountaintop and take a risk and like i would watch all these videos of everything of people i looked up to kevin hart and and i started to figure out okay what's my purpose these are the people i look up to but what exactly do i want to do and as i continued to do more search and i started to figure out okay wow i think all the people i look up to are all like comedic legends i'm watching will ferrell stuff chris farley these are guys that i find as my heroes i think since i've always been the funny guy in every classroom everything i've done sports i get kicked off the football team for being funny all this stuff is because i am a comedian i i and it was almost like i'm an i felt like an idiot i'm like damn i'm sitting over here in college that is my purpose this is it i'm i i feel more connected to them than i've ever felt to anything i've ever felt in my life why the things they would say in a kevin hart interview the things he would say in a steve harvey interview the things will ferrell would say or chris farley would say or jim carrey i felt more attached to it because they also felt a need and a purpose to become like a hero of comedy i don't i don't know it sounds dumb because when you tell your parents oh i want to be a comedian they're like oh you're like basically a clown i guess and you'll go start doing stand-up rooms and maybe you make it maybe you don't it sounds kind of silly telling people or your hometown friends oh i'm gonna be a comedian but as i continue to do more and more research on everything i wanted to do i started to figure out okay this is my purpose and it always has been and i see these videos of me as a kid i'm remembering memories of all this stuff early on this is it and that and that's when i just had like a i don't know what they would call like epiphany you know um but yeah that was that was a big uh change for me in my career well not even my career at the beginning processes
Speaker 2when you say i was depressed that word can mean lots of things to lots of people for sure what what does it mean in your definition in that moment of your life if i was a fly on the wall or you know just in the room but also if i was inside your head at that time what would i hear and what would i see if i was a fly on the wall i think you would just see
Speaker 1me in there confused man i would sit in my room for hours i would sit there and play 2k i would sit there and play music for hours and not i wasn't really doing anything i had no friends at that school i would walk to like the corner store my mom will send me like twenty dollars i'll buy as much as i could get to be able to stay in the room and not go out and socialize with all these people at this huge school i would get as much food as i could get at the time to go back and just be in the room and that's what i know i was like yo i'm really like in a state i've never been in in my life imagine i'm used to being at a high school where i was known as the class clown anybody in my family knows me to be the the guy that brings the warmth to the room and to make everybody laugh and he's he's always bringing good energy to now i'm sitting here almost hiding away from society and very very dark on myself i was i'm very like hard on myself about everything that i want to do and and i was it took it took a while for me to understand what it was i think me going on youtube and trying to research successful people i started to line up the people that i i found inspiring and every single one of them were all comedians i i felt more attached to every single one of them that i've ever felt the test
Speaker 2anybody else in my life it's funny because through your childhood you uh you're a comedian you know clearly from all the videos that i've seen and uh people think of comedians as giving like you make us laugh yeah but obviously that you get something from that too sure and then suddenly you're in this room and you're no longer getting that thing yeah whatever it is for sure what is that thing i knew
Speaker 1that was a thing early on when i was a kid i would have these conversations with myself of at home after elementary of did i make the class laugh today and why was why does that feel so good to me to brag about or i would ask other students who's the funniest to you in this class or who's the funniest in our grade and i would really ask i was like why do you feel like he's funny like why is why is mikey funnier than me tell me tell me why and it was almost like a competition in my head that nobody knew about but it was in me you know i'm saying like i i felt like it was it meant something if they told me oh you're of course you're the funniest guy in in our grade duh and how would that make you feel that made me feel successful it felt like i won the mark twain award of the school like that is like the oscar for me at a young age if somebody told me oh my god you're
Speaker 2the funniest at the school i think it's interesting often that your nature was clearly you're a comedian but that's not a career that kids are taught about they're taught about like you said like your dad said like go get your ass blown off and all these other things but they find a trade the final trade yeah but until you have you're given a word for it sometimes it doesn't you don't really you don't have that epiphany i thought that about like being an entrepreneur i didn't know it was a thing until i was 19 and i was already doing it and then i heard the word and someone gave it meaning i was like oh that's the thing you can do as a job yeah and then suddenly you know mind expansion
Speaker 1yeah you know what it was i i knew i always knew that comedy was a thing i didn't know that i wanted to do it as a job i didn't know that i wanted to do it as a job as bad as i was doing it i was always watching it i always watched my mom would show us in living color movies like what about bob early on my dad would always have the chapelle show on and i would try to sneak and watch that because i was very like much rated r and the kids mine they would they'd be like oh you can't watch this stuff get upstairs and i would still try to sneak behind the stairs and look like oh my god that's so funny and i would try to say these jokes back at school that i hear dave chapelle saying or blank man like he was like he was like a guy in a wheelchair from and live in color that ended up becoming a movie and they made this whole thing called but but the fact of the matter is that i always it was always in front of me and i always was a big fan of comedy i just didn't know that my mom sort of say was influencing and she and i say my mom because she would always put this stuff in front of us because she wanted she wanted the best for us but she always she she was the like almost like the seesaw to level everything out if something bad happens with my dad my mom was always there to level it out she was the one that would come in and tell him like david that's too much and sometimes he would bark at her and be like get the fuck out of here like these boys are going to end up being men they need to learn this now but she always had like quotes or or good things she would always say like just just continue to believe in yourself continue to know this so she was my mom was always a big believer in anything becoming big you know yeah so i gotta i gotta give her a lot for that you'd
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Speaker 1video that talked about just taking a risk and just jumping and he spoke on just take the leap of faith and just jump stop overthinking everything nothing happens without taking this risk and i knew he continued to say something in these videos of if you believe there's something more to your life there is if you have that vision that keeps popping up in your head that means it that very much so is in your life and i just kept hearing him say that i played the video back played the video back again played the video back i'm like damn what the hell that means there is because i i kept feeling that feeling i kept having i'm like there's more to my life than what it is right now and i knew it in the back of my head i was like i know it i know it i know it there's more to this than than what i feel it's in the back of my and i and i continue and that's what resonated with me from the video that i watched on him that was it was like life-changing i speak to steve oh man well you got to show me man he would he
Speaker 2wanted to send you a little uh a little video message as
Speaker 4well hey what's happening trusky hey look man i heard they was doing something for you so i wanted to jump on here man and just give you some uh some big ups man let you know man i've been watching you for a while from the distance man we've only spoken once but look man i think you're special you got a gift man you're really really special and with that specialness man comes some responsibility and so just be careful and just be careful and just be careful and just be careful man remember everything your mama and your grandmama told you because you're gonna need all of that because you're killing the game and once you start killing the game it's like chess man we're out here playing chess the object is to kill the king sad but true keep your faith brother stay funny man if you need me call unc i got you this is crazy
Speaker 1that that is nuts bro that is amazing man and that and that really is a full circle moment and i can't believe i'm hearing him say that and wow man somebody somebody that definitely i looked up to him amongst you know the other kings of comedy as well as like wow man that's that is that's deep
Speaker 2that's deep what happens from there you go from being in that room you're watching these steve harvey videos presumably you gotta call your mom and you gotta tell your mom that you're dropping out yeah she uh she wasn't happy
Speaker 1about that she i remember she cried and she she hung up on me and she was like this this is just so dumb like what are you talking about what did you say i couldn't get any words out she hung up but i remember seeing her crying on the facetime after i just wanted to tell her what my vision was on because you know you you say i'm dropping out but then of course i have a rebuttal i have a great idea yeah and she hung up immediately so then i called my friend he came and grabbed me from the school in the middle of the night i was like four hours away from atlanta georgia i'm deep down in southern georgia um and we drove all the way back and when i got there of course she let me in the house and i think it was just a confusing time because i'm also not making any money so she's like now what like now what are you gonna do and i had this big plan and i told her what i was gonna do i'm like i'm gonna be a comedian i'm gonna be on tv i promise you in a year i'm gonna make sure i'm on tv and if i'm not i told her this wild story i'm gonna kill myself i said if i don't become a comedian and i don't become a famous comedian on tv i'm gonna kill myself and she's like don't say stuff like that that is that is so dumb i want you to go home art for whatever you're doing. But that is just, why do you feel like it has to be comedy? And I was like, this is something that, and I continue to break down everything. I'm like, this is what I've always wanted to be. And I had, it's almost like you had this great idea, but nobody sees the vision. So then I went to my grandparents. I told them the same vision that I had. They lived down the street from her. And they were like, this is so, what, like, what are you talking about? Go back to school, get your education. And then you do all that other stuff because they had the old school mindset of, they probably seen people that didn't go to school and they seen people that didn't go to school. People that did go to school, get a job. People that didn't go to school became maybe crackheads in their era. I don't know, like, or became failures in life. So they didn't, they never really saw the good side of what is. And I was like, the 0.1 of people, maybe even less than 0.1% of people that are able to accomplish that after dropping out is like very unlikely. So immediately when I told my grandparents, they were like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. They said, don't, we know what's going to happen. You going to drop out. You're going to be calling us asking for money. Don't be calling our house and pulling up and you're going to be doing drugs. And I'm like, guys, listen, I'm not going to be doing that. They're like, no, no, no, no. You know, your grandparents, black grandparents, they don't give a shit. They're like, don't be coming over here and bothering us. We know what's about to happen. Like, you're going to be a crackhead. And I'm like, listen, guys, I have a plan. And essentially I didn't do it immediately. I started trying to work at Red Lobster and then I worked at like a Longhorns and I worked at Outback Steakhouse and McDonald's. I started to work jobs because it was like a quick money thing. And then I fell victim to being, living in Atlanta where I was doing illegal stuff. And now I'm seeing myself go into this whirlwind of, damn, I came home to do this. Drug dealing. No, no. You said illegal stuff. No, in Atlanta, there's like a, it's like a scamming circle of where a lot of people fall victim to. It's like, you can do quick, easy scams with banks or doing card scams, just stuff like that. And I never was a bad guy. I just, I felt like that was an easier way to do it while I'm trying to pursue this stuff. But I felt like the karma of this stuff was weighing on me. It's like, I'm going to do, I'm going to try to pursue comedy. I'm going to do it while doing this. And it never worked out. I didn't even pursue it. I just was Flirting with it. I was going back and forth. Yeah, I was just continuing to flirt back and forth with the idea of it. And then it was the moment that we got arm robbed where I had a outer body feeling of, wow, I came home to be in this predicament where I have a gun to my head now. And now it's like, how did I even get here? So let me rewind back. That was the last moment I said, okay, if I'm going to do anything, I'm going to become a comedian or die trying. That's it. I have no other outlet. Now I know, once I saw the barrel of that gun being pointed at me and my friend at the time, it was a bad scamming situation gone left. That was the moment I noticed, okay, if I survive this, I am going to turn my life around and I'm not going to go to a job. I'm not going to go back to my mom's house and try to say, oh, I'm doing this. I'm going to lock in, actually do it. And from there on, I went home. And my mom, she was kind of in the mix of what happened a little bit too. She had heard, cause she saw me walking around the house being stressed out. I told her what's going on. And I wrote, down all these goals because she would always say, you can't do anything without writing things down. Ever since I was a kid, she was like, you should write that down. If you want to remember something, write it down, write it down.
Speaker 2Do you remember what the goals were?
Speaker 1The first one I ever wrote was don't have a plan B. Your plan A will work. No plan B, your plan A will work. The second one I wrote was about. Was the, about hosting a tour on there? Yeah. Yeah. Hosting a tour was definitely on there. Hosting. And awards evening. Yeah. That both of those was on there. I wrote down that I wrote down being a comedian. I wrote down amongst a lot of other things. How do you, how do you know that? What is it? What is it on there? How do you know that? That was, that was on there. I haven't sent y'all production.
Speaker 2So we've got this scamming thing we do where we can scam. Starring a major movie. For sure. All that is down there, man. And you were 23 at the time, roughly. Yes. 23. So what's happened then? So you left college at what age? I left college around 21, 22,
Speaker 1in between 21, 22. I left college. So it's a year or two at home with your mom. Year and a half. I'll probably say a full year has been at home before all that transpired. I tried the jobs and tried the legal stuff that didn't work. And now I'm here. And I start to actually do the things that I wrote down. What does that mean specifically? I think the first thing that happened after I wrote these goals down, the first thing that happened, everything was taken away. It felt like. It felt like everything dropped out before it got good. Everything. I wrote down these goals, wrote the date on there. Boom, I'm doing it. I was like, all right, now I'm locked in. This is it. I'm all in. There's no other plan B, nothing. Immediately, my car gets repossessed. I'm like, yo, what the fuck? Now I can't travel and do nothing. So it's funny because it's like, as soon as you want to. Pursue all these things. Everything has to come out. And it's confusing because most people never get a chance to see the real side of success because they quit. At that moment, that breaking point of everything falling out of your life, they're like, oh my God, I didn't pray for all this stuff. I didn't wrote everything down. I got this, this board of this mood board. I got everything. And then I'd lose this and see, it don't work. I'm not going to stop here. I actually made that like a content piece. I recorded my car getting repossessed and people were like, yo, what the hell are you posing this for? I was like, well, there it is. There she goes. But really I was sad as shit. I was like, damn, I got nothing. But I, I feared nothing because I'm like, I have, I have nothing left. I'm sitting here in a room, no, no mattress. I'm laying on the floor. I'm using my little sister's blanket that she has as a blanket on the ground. Like I don't have any dressers in here. Like, you know, when you go to college, your mom gives away all your shit. Like she, she sells it or she puts it in some warehouse. So I didn't have none of my stuff. I just was laying on the floor and I was like, yep, I had my car, but now that's gone. So what else could I lose? Like I'm, my back's against the wall. And that's what I did. I continued to boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I wasn't going to stop. And I was using my mom's, house as essentially a movie set. I started to flip the couch upside down. I wanted to do a surveillance camera at the top left side of the room to make it look like I'm on first 48. I'm interviewing myself on the first 48 episode. Boom. That's one of the skits. I have another skit where I'm using this jacket that my mom had in the closet and I'm putting that on. I'm acting like a news reporter, Fox five in the backyard. And I I'm putting the phone cropped up on the trash can outside in the backyard. And my mom used to come home. She'd be like, what the fuck? Are you doing? She used to see the house in shambles, but I got to give it to her because she, she stuck through it with me. I would always give her these updates. Like I have 10 K followers now. I have 15 K followers. She's like, okay, so what does that mean? Did you make any money? I'm like, no, but I have people watching. And I was like, Oh, I got a hundred K followers. Did you make any money yet? No, but people are watching. And I continuously just kept giving these updates as eventually I started to make money through promotion. I would promote people's music, music and their, their videos and throw it on my story. And I would do a full day of promotion. It would make me a couple hundred dollars maybe. And that would be enough to maybe go out that night or it just wasn't like, it wasn't anything real fulfilling or I would help my mom with groceries. Like I would try to do things to, you know, make money, but it wasn't really making any real money at the time. And then I continued to keep building. So yeah, no, I think those, those early moments really shaped, a lot for me.
Speaker 2I mean, I've got a, a video here as well that I found. Um, you can explain what this one is to me.
Speaker 3Man. Yeah, man. What the fuck going on, man? That was, that was fresh off a scammer right there. Fresh off a scammer. Shot me up. Shot me up. Shot me up. Got all this ice on. Shot me up. Yeah. Ain't no going up like this, huh?
Speaker 1That was actually, my first video I ever posted on socials ever, ever first video ever. That's when Instagram first started the whole 15 second video post thing. You know, Vaughn was doing it for like six seconds and I didn't never was on that. And I came around and it was like 15 seconds on Instagram. You could post a video on my friend Chauncey. And now he's like my lead comedic writer. And he was like, bro, just go like, just post it. And I was like, cause it's kind of like, it's kind of silly. I'm just acting like I had like, those are like $1 bills, bro. I was acting like I was fucking ones. And I'm just, and he was like, just post it. And I think that got like. maybe 80 comments 60 or 70 comments something like that was like hometown people and they were just like oh my god this is so funny we see what you're doing that's that's dope hopefully you do more like people were just supporting it i was like all right well i'm more creative than this and i started to continuously become more and more creative because i was like all right i did that but that's like silly stuff i know what i'm capable of but yeah that that was the very first video i ever threw up this one i found really interesting i'm
Speaker 2just gonna play it fast
Speaker 5you're saying in that video that you're gonna be on meek
Speaker 2mills level someday and that you dapped him up and told him that i lied about
Speaker 1that i did not dab him up and tell him that i saw him at a party and i was so you're saying in that video that you're gonna be on meek mills level someday and that you dapped him up and told him that i lied about that i did not dab him up and tell him that i saw him at a party and i was so influential i shouted it over somebody like yo meek i'm a big fan man i i'll be on your level someday i didn't shake his hand i was just i was just chatting but in our in our county we have almost like what you would call like a hood legend lou williams he went to the same high school i went to he made it to the nba played amongst a bunch of teams six man you probably know him drake did a song about lou will you know balling out a circle net like lou will so he was almost like the hero to us he would throw these parties which were like essentially like you know have all these celebrities come to gwinnett county at the time gwinnett county is not on the map it's not like a known thing like we're just like a suburb outside of atlanta and he would have these celebrities come to these parties and we would be able to go because we're locals in gwinnett so you would see all these celebrities and i was like wow i would look at lou will's house he's currently in the nba and i'm like wow this is insane and meek mill came one night and i i said i told him that but i just shouted it and he had a bunch of security with him he let us over there but yeah i was you could tell i was man i was it's a kid manifesting yeah manifestation and like there was no stutter in my speech right there i i definitely felt that way about everything i was doing and i probably have said a lot of things around the time that probably weren't recorded where i was very like trying to pursue greatness i've always been a big fan of pursuing greatness my entire life i never want to just be good i always wanted to be great um so yeah that that just shows right there now i'm surprised one of my friends he still had that clip they sent it to me and i posted it yeah the
Speaker 2thing i find interesting generally is in that situation look at that context you're in your mother's house you're using the front room and a blanket as both your bed and also your sort of creative studio objectively in that situation the odds are stacked against you but but in your head you're thinking i'm either going to be great or in your words i'm going to kill myself yeah it was a little far a little far a little far when you said that what did you actually mean what did you mean i felt like you meant it but i was i was i was you
Speaker 1know what it was i was so i was i was chasing being great and i and i might have been far-fetched and me to say something as wild as that but that's honestly how i felt like i was going to make it happen or i was going to see perceive myself as a failure i didn't see anything different i saw nothing else but a green light down this tunnel i saw nothing i i i knew in the back of my mind what i was capable of i already knew i felt like my entire life i knew but i just didn't put the pieces together but when i told my mom that i was going to be great and i was going to that i knew i said okay i have committed to something that i know there is no possible in or out i'm going to do this or die trying truthfully you know like i feel like i i'm either gonna do this or i'm not and i'm gonna make it happen so i knew i wasn't gonna kill myself essentially i knew i'm not gonna kill myself because you believe because i believe i'm going to do it but if i don't i'm out of here sounds crazy but it's true sounds crazy but it's true man that's how much belief i had in myself and that's how i felt like with my back against the wall like i really did want to do it that bad and still like i do feel the same about achieving greatness i don't tend to like things that are just good and people are like oh my god i became rich i'm i'm good man i'm going on vacation i don't do any vacationing i i i i i find it soothing to be in a chaos situation of work and juggling a multiple projects at once like that is what i want to do this is what i got into it for so that that's my full goal yeah
Speaker 2and when you look back on that season of life where you're you first move home with your mom as as a 31 year old now what has it taught you about what it takes to be successful broadly again remove luck from the equation but what has it taught you about what let's remove some people getting fortunate with lottery tickets whatever else but generally what has it taught you about what it takes to be successful in the pursuit of a goal like that where to be honest not many people ever make any money yeah the odds of you being successful as a comedian defined let's define the nuts as making being able to provide for yourself in a family slim it's it's crazy odds but the
Speaker 1thing is most people don't really want to be great most people just say it because it sounds good like i i would be around a lot of guys and be like yo let's do it wake up in the morning let's and it would just fall out everybody eventually just goes away everybody that said they were going to do it they do it one day they're not showing up the third or the second day nobody nobody shows up continuously for the work and once i notice there's a small amount of people that are showing up for the actual work of anything it just showed me okay i'm in a lane of this of my own i'm pursuing something that most people say but they're not really trying to pursue everybody wants to be number one you want to be the best you want to be the best you want to be the top of the list everybody wants to be the top of the list but nobody really wants to do the work nobody's obsessed with it continuously every day and night having dreams about it nobody's sitting and editing with their editors 18 hours plus of like just sitting looking at clips nobody's going and doing tours while trying to continuously film a tv show could have been love in the middle of that tour nobody's trying to also shoot a movie like right now we're with universal the catch with emma stone chris pine we're also still trying to fulfill my social media presence i'm trying to juggle all these things in one because i want to be great i don't want to just do it and be like okay i'm gonna take some time off and just no i really want to be number one i i don't i'm not really falling victim to being okay with being cool with number two or three and i joke about all the time because one of my favorite movies is talladega nights and ricky bobby said if you ain't first you're last and i and we me and my family joke about all the time we laugh about it but i kind of took that vision seriously because that's really how i live my life and that's really how i feel because what else could be other than wanting to be number one what happens when you become number one you still got to keep pushing the pouch because somebody's chasing there's somebody coming somebody's on the way so i feel like the journey never ends because you're always continuously chasing you know if it's not the people before you is trying to continue to set the bar high for the people behind you
Speaker 2yeah so and what does being great mean in your definition of the word like if i said because you know you said that you stated that the goal is to be great how would you know you've become great i think being great has a lot
Speaker 1of different meanings it doesn't it doesn't have a money value or a certain touring value or or i think just being great in all ways just comes down to just how far you're willing to set the bar there's always people before you that have done great things you got eddie murphy that has set the bar fucking way up here then you got kevin hart that's fucking damn near where eddie's at and he looks very healthy he looks like he might take it further than eddie who knows i don't know but there's always somebody gaining on that right behind the greats before you the same with kobe jordan lebron somebody's going to continue to keep setting the bar higher so it's like we're all trying to just leave a legacy sort of say like i think that's what we're all trying to do and you want to be in that conversation you want to be in that conversation when it's all said and done i would love to be in that conversation it's not saying i want to be surpassed and we all want to surpass great things we all do but just to be in that conversation and to be remembered and to leave a legacy that's what matters one of the
Speaker 2things that i've observed with people that go in the pursuit of greatness and achieve it it's just they have they have like a different level of like patience and they have a longer time horizon because with eddie with kevin it takes a lot of like lonely lonely years decades sometimes i've sat here with the greatest illusionist in the world and he told me that he spent 10 years doing card tricks on restaurant tables and you go what a crazy fucking thing to do like whatever or like this other i mean even jimmy carter to me like he dropped out of his his great job i believe it was in marketing and spent five six years getting paid absolutely nothing just cracking jokes in pubs and stuff and you're like what a what sane person yeah would would think would take that trade yeah when i zoom back into where you were in your mother's house how long was it how from that i guess from university from college to the moment where you go actually chit this is this might be able to pay my way that i so i can move out how long was that period
Speaker 1of time years man honestly years we're talking like years of seeing nothing and i think people don't see that people see with social media there's a bunch of quick reaction to things and people like oh my god this person oh they went viral for that oh my god now what can i do with this people always worried about oh i'm gonna take this thing i did this video or i did and and now i'm trying i'm gonna go get a team i'm gonna go it's like what are you doing you don't need a fucking team keep grunt do it again do it again man and and and when you're trying to be great you never get a chance to celebrate the things that you have done you almost don't feel in the moment because you're looking for what's the next thing and i kind of give credit of that because i do the same thing i do it all the time we did the bet awards and the next day i was already flying to go shoot my tv show collecting praise with mike epps that we just shot i
Speaker 6had somebody in the congregation asked why i'm wearing christian dior and christian lupitans because i'm a christian and i walk in the blood of jesus give him some praise give him immediately the next
Speaker 1day we almost i didn't even get a chance to take it in i'm like oh my god i just did a bt words something i always want to do in my life boom i'm on the plane i'm at the next thing immediately after i do collecting praise we shot that for two weeks back to back boom on a plane the next day after the final day of that we're all clapping everything on a plane next day we're shooting the catch with emma stone and chris bond the next day so it's like you never really get a chance to take a lot of these things in because you're continuously progressing progressing progressing and my mom would always i feel like she influenced me to be like that because i would come home from school all the time and be like oh i got a a b on this test she's like oh you could have done better i'm like all right i did this at school they told me i was oh come on you could you could have done better on that not like it's not enough but it's like you always can do better there's even if you got an a on this why did you get an a plus do you want to be a dad yourself yeah yeah for sure of course
Speaker 2where's that gonna fit in this crazy life we have no idea
Speaker 1i gotta
Speaker 2find a wife
Speaker 1first bro i'm trying to find love first bro i have no idea no but i i think both of my parents they they they both did that same shit of like i would bring my dad math equations and him being a pilot he would break it down in crazy ways of like what the fuck like i would say oh this is division could you help me with this and he'll take 40 minutes to be like oh you you answered it but you could have done the long division this way okay let's do it let me tell you mx times bx squared you could get this answer reversed let's reverse this answer if you get this you get it multiple different ways so i'll be like what the hell bro i just brought you a simple division equation why did you make it long division and then go into mx times bx squared but these are my parents though they're always looking for the greater thing always no matter what it was even if it was academics you could have done better or you could have gotten it a never a correct answer in my household because there's different ways you could find an answer to anything so imagine what that does to my mind of damn i've gotta find a way and not just in one way i gotta find it in multiple different ways so when i do my type of comedy i never sit on doing one thing if i do one thing that's amazing i'll come back and hit another situation i'll hit another situation i'm gonna be funny in this way too i'm not just gonna be funny in this way i can also be funny in this way i'm not just gonna be funny in this way i can also be funny in this way at a live show i can also be funny in a sketch version i can also be funny in a movie i can also be funny on a tv show i can also be funny in a commercial you see a t-mobile commercial you see drewski's face on it with zoe zaldana and jeff bridges why the fuck is drewski on here with zoe zaldana i don't know but it works it's a comedic relief of this commercial but i feel like my life has gone in that direction because of these upbringings of these teachings that both of my parents had set for me and i don't know why but i feel like my life has gone in that direction
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Speaker 1yeah well i had a moment i went i went to like quote unquote at the time it might have been 2022 i kind of after covid died down i was gaining a little bit more traction everywhere and i had told her that a celebrity had posted me and i was so excited i was like oh my god a celebrity posted me and she was like oh my god she's like so so she's like so what happens now did they did they tag you in it do people follow you i was like no they didn't tag me it's just they just posted the video she's like like is there opportunity like are you going to choose like a video are you doing anything with them i was like no no they just they just reposted my video it's like now what and i'm like well i'm back to square one it's like yeah my parents were big on breaking things down so you feel never really fulfilled you don't feel fulfilled with anything because you are always trying to figure out okay this opportunity is great but what's next
Speaker 2do you feel fulfilled with your work
Speaker 1now no not yet too young it's just too much more to go man way too much look what jim carrey did look at eddie murphy man look what uh chris farley has achieved adam sandler man these guys are fucking are you happy though i'm very happy very happy but
Speaker 2fulfilled no i have so much more is it not possible to be fulfilled and also to be in pursuit is there a way you're saying to be both
Speaker 1yeah like to be fulfilled with no no your hunger has to always continue to live any anybody that's you look at me like nice try anybody that is pursuing greatness will never tell you that the hunger has stopped it has to continue to keep going there's there's no way no way man
Speaker 2so closing off in this period of your life where you're still at your mom's house when did that change what was the moment where you were like sure i can leave now
Speaker 1well i had all my clothes stacked in the living room because i people started to send me so many merch clothes you know when you become you know at the time like everybody's an influencer they they would send influencers all type of loads of clothes they want you to wear it in your next video or whatever you're doing so i had all these clothes stacked up in her like dining room area i wouldn't even say living room it was like the dining room in the front of the house and i started to kind of make some money to where i was like all right maybe i need to find like an apartment now that now i have some type of money i can actually get out of here but i think me crowd enough that dining room i started to notice okay now i can kind of live on my own but it wasn't until i started to actually the thing that changed my life at the time was drake calling for the laugh now cry later music video everything shifted after that because brand started to take me seriously it wasn't no more sending free merch and oh you get this or we'll bring you out to this event and we just want your appearance and you can get in free now it's transactional with everything once i was seen on a higher level with you know drake is i think at the time is little dirk we had marshall lynch kevin durant odell beckham jr all in this video alongside with me and me being the comedic relief in this video which was called laugh now cry later this meant a lot more than just how did that another music video where were you when you found that out that he had called no he just he just was a was a big fan of a lot of the stuff i was posting during that early time but it wasn't until then no real money was coming in no money at all but that that shifted everything because brands started to see me in a broader light um and they started to see me as an actual star sort of say instead of just another amongst all these other guys who are doing comedic things you know but were you speaking to me about the fact that you were a comedian directly on dms yes yeah it was just all through dm at the time um up until i met him but yeah all that was like very just short back and forth laughing at this video laugh at that video find this funny find that funny and then we had like a long conversation once he told me that i would be starring in that music video and that was just about like leading this generation of comedy and just what i am to you know the world at the time and and then i'm hearing his words i'm like yo maybe this dude's just gassing me up i don't this is this is wild to hear from somebody who is in my eyes a full-blown superstar megastar but yeah could that that's one of those things is just like could never repay him and like that was to take a chance on me at the time just doing silly stuff of what i i thought was great but at the time it was so looking back i've had great stuff but it's like so minimal to what i do now it's like i can't believe he took a chance you know on me in that circumstance but it shifted everything it shifted everything almost immediately almost almost immediately yeah i think it was it was almost a more of a seriousness that people took me more than just showing up for things you know the transactional conversation started to go into
Speaker 2play when you look back on your arc and you hear about other people's journeys and arcs what else have you learned about again what it takes there's the obsession there's the dedication there's the hours what about like the business part like how do you climb ladders is it people is it knowing a guy it's all all relationships
Speaker 1even in the biggest buildings majority of it is relationships of course your talent weighs a lot but relationships are very much key what does that mean for
Speaker 2someone that has no idea what goes on in these buildings a relationship is key because these
Speaker 1people want to know that you are a good person to be around they want to know if you're going to be starring in my t-mobile commercial we want to have dinner which we want to see what type of person you are they want to make sure you're not a guy that's going to go out and do nothing wild after we trust you with this you're going to be all over tv we trust you with these things you we sign you to a nike deal you're in the t-mobile deal you these people it's all about relationship who you know how you treat people they they like to sense what type of person you are in a separate environment from who you are the celebrity drewski you know what i'm saying like people tend to want to meet who the real you is before we present you to our world we want to see who you are as a person so i feel like a lot of my upbringing was around this broad horizon of different different ethnicities different genders of everybody we we had indian people mexican white black african jamaican everything you could ever think with that county so that type of stuff shaped me to be able to go in these rooms with these bigger brands and be able to talk to
Speaker 2anybody did you have to learn everything to do that did you have to mature or learn a skill of like coming from where you come from to be in a room with these big brands and these people in suits in corporate america
Speaker 1nah man it's it's it's funny because i always have been a people person like i anytime i would as a kid go into a grocery store my mom i would like if i saw a kid's parent that plays with me on the football team i saw his parents walking around i would go up and talk to his dad and like make him laugh and joke i'm like hey man give me a cigarette man let me get a cigarette you better go outside smoke a poop man and just jokingly talk as if i'm not 10 years old but i think that is a big part of what i've learned about you know just the industry in general it's about more about relationships and you know how you treat people and how this interview goes or how this you know this dinner is with this guy who may not know nothing about you he may not know your background nothing are you able to have a one-on-one conversation with him and have him trust you and whatever goes down whatever you're talking about are you a good person and i think it comes down to that regardless of anything you do yeah so it's interesting because
Speaker 2when you're dealing with like corporate america and you're dealing with these big brands and you mentioned t-mobile and all these other brands you've got this this this sort of off-camera drew guy who meets them for the dinner but then you've got drewski on camera and drewski on camera part of comedy is you really like push the boat out you say the part out loud that most people wouldn't say how what is your decision framework there with like because there's this term you know i worked in advertising for a long time there's this term brand safety which means like is this person sufficiently sanitized enough that we can use the word like trust this person with the brand but then on the other hand the thing that people love about you is you say the part that other people don't say you point at it what's your risk when you're thinking about content what's the like framework you use to decide whether this is okay or if it's not okay for sure no that's a
Speaker 1great question um i think the way i look at all of this stuff and and people ask me that all the time in person whenever i see them is that i've never punched down with any jokes that i ever do any jokes i ever do always come from a good hearted place even if i'm doing auditions a skit that i do anything you can never show me something that i've done that was like oh that's punching down or that wasn't inclusive of the other person that might have been in that situation or oh he doesn't know he doesn't he doesn't touch on this because of that or he doesn't do that i always come from a light-hearted place in a good hearted place of my comedy i never was the guy to be because you do have it you have those guys out there like a sasha baron cohen that has like the dark humor of things and maybe he might have upset some people that were you know and it might come from a bad place i don't know i've never met the guy i don't know but i come from a good place with majority of all i've just got this mental
Speaker 2flash of you doing this but even then even even
Speaker 1with that even with that comes from a good place didn't touch on anything because at the at the in the same time i'm not a political guy i'm not a guy that's going out here trying to portray this like i know anything about anything i am just the guy here for laughs comedian i don't care for none of that serious stuff people ask me all these deep questions i'm like anything like that like i think i'm just being me i never was trying to get into no deep side of anything with nothing you are consistent that's why i went through i was going through all
Speaker 2of your all of your skits um and i was thinking he's consistent with with your values and what you're not aiming at anyone in particular you're just pointing out the funny and never punching
Speaker 1down that's a that's a big one people can never show me anything it was like okay he's punching down at this this is a it's coming from a bad place it's always me genuinely just speaking on what's funny or mannerisms or things that i i see people do where i'm people watching or you know just exposing things to the world that we see that we don't notice that we see yeah and it has nothing to do with the fucking political side or the race side and all that stuff it's just stuff that's going on in real life that we see sometimes comedians have a have a way of showing the viewer something that they don't notice that they see it could be in the back of your brain you can bring it to life and be like wow i might have saw that 15 years ago but that's funny because i remember seeing that you bring these things to life this is what a great comedic actor does
Speaker 2i think it's probably there's probably something in the fact that if if both sides at some point are angry at you or shouting at you for doing something at least that means that you're not politically affiliated necessarily because
Speaker 1you're trying to know what the fuck i don't even i don't But that means that you're just finding things funny
Speaker 2everywhere versus just finding them funny over there or just finding them funny over there.
Speaker 1I agree. I think I just, I've never had the want to do that. And some people like you, you have these late night shows that talk about that type of stuff or, you know, these guys that that's their spill. That's not my spill. Same with podcasters. Yeah. Some people have, yeah, they touch on that stuff. And I feel like with you, you never get too in depth with any of that. You let them talk and you just ask whatever you're going to ask. And it just happens how it's going to happen.
Speaker 2Yeah. And I'll sit with Michelle Obama or J.D. Vance or Ivanka Trump or Kamala Harris. I've sat with all of them. I'll sit with all of them and I'll ask the questions I'm curious about. And I think it's possible just to be curious, you know. So it sounded like Trump did ask Erica Kirk to sue you, though. But you must be. This is crazy. I don't know if that's true. I don't know. It looks like it. It looks like it. I read it and I thought that can't be. That's there's no way that's true. There's no way that's true. Here we go. In March, you released the video of how conservative white women in America act. And it did hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of views. I think I watched it like 20, 20 times. Insane, man. Insane. And then in April, exactly one week later, Trump made the comment to Erica Kirk that she should sue him. He didn't say who, but I'm just saying. Who knows? I don't know if he'll sue her. What was he talking about?
Speaker 1I don't know. What was he talking about me? To this day, I have no idea. But people sent me that video. I just didn't know if it was pretending towards me. I just. It's crazy. Just left it alone. I have no idea. I have no idea. I don't know. I don't know. That's crazy, though.
Speaker 2Yeah. But even in a weird way, it does speak to the impact that your work is.
Speaker 1If he was. I don't know if he was, though. Do you know if he was? I'm not looking forward to that. No, man. No. For sure, no. Is it a compliment in a weird way? Uh. not necessarily i don't think i would looking to get sued by anybody we have too much shit that we're pursuing right now to be looking forward to that no not at all
Speaker 2that's crazy hey i love how you it's like that's crazy no but that is it's crazy thinking about it i'm like thinking about you in that room with your sister's blanket and then i'm and then i just had this mental yeah then trump's like sue him in the white house which is just that's crazy
Speaker 1i
Speaker 2don't know man kind of inspiring in a weird
Speaker 1way no but i don't think that was towards me you're
Speaker 2saying i think it was i don't think it was well we'll never know until someone asks him but i mean yeah so since then it's been you've had a unbelievable career you've and you've really managed to do something that very few people who start out you've really managed to do something that very few people who start out making content on the internet are able to do which is traverse multiple industries and mediums i feel like i've seen you everywhere from commercials did you do the super bowl yeah we
Speaker 1did a super bowl commercial did the super bowl last year was dunkin donuts super bowl commercial
Speaker 2this year it was t-mobile with the backstreet boys this dunkin donuts commercial yeah i had this crazy story that they accidentally sent you jim carrey's money
Speaker 1harry's no they didn't send the money they sent an email showing how much he would be getting paid for that hour oh or the two that he was there insane and they weren't supposed to they were actually mad that i even spoke on that but he didn't even show up he didn't even accept no i don't i don't think he ever said yes to it but they accidentally sent it to me assuming that it was i guess jim carrey's management they sent it to my management and i think they accidentally sent the proposal oh which was supposed to be for him and they might have sent my proposal to him but his proposal didn't work out i can only imagine if he saw the amount i was getting that's probably why he didn't do this shit he probably saw my jim carrey saw the proposal how much i was getting paid for this shit i don't know i don't know but um yeah no it was it was an insane amount of money and i was like wow i i that that gives me a lot of inspiration to become
Speaker 2on that level one day people are saying it was in the region of five million dollars it's around that yeah for two years i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know two for two hours of shooting and they sent you that figure so you got to see what he was being paid for two hours i think we didn't
Speaker 1see mine because that would have been embarrassing
Speaker 2so that's a 2.5 million dollars an hour to shoot a commercial and he said no he said no so imagine
Speaker 1what he wants i'm not sure if it's money yeah and that is something i look up to him about he's one of those guys that doesn't look at a money sign and just say yes to he's one of those guys that cares about his craft and his legacy he still hasn't done a grinch 2 yet i know they're shooting it right now but up to this date they didn't until last week they didn't announce it they were shooting grinch 2 so how much money was he wanting before or was it even about money or did he just not want to do another one you never know i don't know but i feel like he's very specific about everything that he does you ever seen fire marshal bill from in living color no i don't know oh my god you have no idea you haven't seen shit that's the like damn near the beginning of the character of grinch fire marshal bill is like the teaser of what the grinch became and the mask it has a twist of the mask in there too but like so he was like the only white person on a living color at the time he's a but just check it
Speaker 2out he's like a very philosophical
Speaker 1for sure wise yeah he's very wise man have you met him never met him one day that's another guy that's on my um list that i would love to meet man love love love to meet
Speaker 2part of the game that we often don't speak about as well with people like yourself is just the rejection along the way because your story could quite easily be portrayed as this sort of like you know bump in the road here college a couple issues here this situation happens great calls after you've spent a long time on your own posting and compounding and then off to the races happy ending but there's still rejection along the way i was reading that you were rejected by a lot of people and i was like you're rejected by both netflix and amazon yeah early on what was the proposal you made to them and what was that
Speaker 1i think it was multiple it wasn't just one time i think we've we've years and years of proposals and i had like different fx proposals that we were supposed to get a show with fx it was a no we're supposed to do a movie with amazon it was a no supposed to do multiple different products with netflix no no no no no no no no no and we just never gave up and i eventually said if i'm getting money from these companies and they're paying me instead of going and buying a car or another house or maybe a nice jewelry and all this stuff i'm going to invest in myself and i decided to just go and all these show ideas that i had i'm going to do it on youtube and spend my own money to invest into it and i'm going to do it on youtube and spend my own money to invest into it and i'm going and that and that is essentially what i did and i think that's brought to you could have been auditions that's brought to you could have been love that's brought to you could have been house could have been daddy amongst other things like you've seen in the jerusalem universe of taking it to another level with all the sketches and the production i've done and the millions of dollars i've spent and all these things i started to just believe in myself and not turn around and try to oh i'm going to come back and try to do the same proposal again in a better way it's like i'm just bet on myself and i'm going to do the same proposal again in a better way and i'm going to myself and then they call now it's yeah it's a whole different story now now they want to purchase these shows that we've made and do more in the future yeah so now it's a bidding war what is the lesson there the lesson there is just believing yourself man before anybody sees the vision you have to see it if you don't see the vision yourself you're almost doing yourself a disservice it has to start with you and i think most people don't understand what they have in front of them everybody's like oh i'm waiting on the big movie i'm waiting on my big movie break once i do it i'm gonna do this once they give me an opportunity i'm waiting on my opportunity i'm gonna just keep until they give me i'm gonna keep you don't even believe in yourself man all that money you got last year from this and that and all these things you didn't put not one dime into your content you still shooting the same shit with the same phone and that's cool some people are cool with that you don't need much not saying you need the big productions i have you don't but are you really doubling down and betting on yourself if you're not investing in your own stuff and that was a conversation i had to have with myself and i was like damn i'm gonna show them not by coming back and doubling back i'm gonna show them by doing it myself and having them wanting what i did in reverse and maybe they don't want that maybe they'll see what i was capable of doing and then wanting to do other things
Speaker 2but along the way you're gonna have to have a lot of smart people for sure who by their job title or their status or their linkedin bio yeah evidently know much more than you do telling you that you're wrong telling you that that idea is not a good one yeah and that is something that i guess you have to like conceptualize in your head like how do i deal with that this smart person at insert streaming platform is telling me no yeah but i think yes
Speaker 1and they plenty plenty of people have told me no man even down to the dudes that i was telling you that were making fun of me at the college saying oh you don't even have no shoes to go out with us why would we pick you up i told those guys on the the second the last week i kind of was going to classes that i was gonna try to pursue comedy and they were like bro come on man they were like yo you're funny bro but you ain't you ain't that funny think about what you're going up against you going up against like kevin hart or like the kings of comedy bernie mack and all these guys think about it bro what they doing that's what they're doing that's what they're doing that's that's big that's like unfathomable like you can't even till that day i'll never forget that conversation because it was like a little side conversation with them maybe it was like oh whatever they probably might not even remember that conversation it was just like a whatever
Speaker 2conversation to them were they right when they said by the way drew those legends are up there
Speaker 1and you're down here not not a shot they weren't right not at all i believed even then i i could already see it happening like i had visions of it already being in front of me before i even got a chance to actually do it i guess also what
Speaker 2i'm saying is like they they could have been theoretically right that there was a long gap it's not to say you couldn't close it
Speaker 1no no there's not to say i couldn't close it i agree yeah but what they were saying is almost like as if it wasn't even possible yeah okay the way they put it was almost like come on man that's so that's so wild to think do you
Speaker 2know i say this is because there's so many kids out there that are like i don't know i don't know i don't know kids right now that are looking at you or they're looking at i don't know insert sports athlete or insert podcaster and they're going they're looking up at a mountaintop and they're going objectively that person is better than me they have the skills they have the mannerisms they have the body language down like the gap is so big that i won't even bother and that's kind of what i'm pointing at is did you ever feel did you ever know the gap was big i
Speaker 1never looked at it like it was a big gap i always felt because when i'm gonna tell you the the problem with looking at once you process your brain of thinking this is so far unattainable the journey becomes becomes not even like you're not even thinking these steps could happen there has to be steps so i from me seeing that those guys are great they've all done amazing thing i look up to all of them but i know it's achievable i i had steps in place that i knew and nobody else could see these steps up to this level of trying to be great nobody else sees that you you're the only person that is able to see these small steps so once i started to see the small steps i'm like i'm only going up a ladder i'm not not getting closer i said i know that this is a far maybe thing but i'm not looking at it like that because every small thing i'm i feel like i'm gaining in on it so you just focus on the small steps i was focused on the small so i never if you focus on the far goal no you'll never achieve shit man i'm saying it's funny but it's the truth it's like let's say you're like oh i'm gonna win an oscar and you just start as an actor yes you can say i want to win an oscar but what are the small steps you're gonna do before achieving what are the all these stairs all the way to where the this oscar is at if you don't look at all these stairs bro you it's like looking at a mountain without the ladder you gotta find a way to climb this if you don't see if you don't have no steps or no ladder or nothing you don't have no way to get to it i agree with what he is saying in a way but not really it's like i'm gonna build my own steps to get in there because he's saying don't even bother yeah he's saying don't even bother that is so far out come on man you're funny but you ain't these dudes is like he's looking at him like they're like a god like this is don't look at yourself like that that's you as if they didn't come from the
Speaker 2same thing because those gods those people you're looking up to they when they were 19 20 yeah that they probably you believe that they just were always
Speaker 1destined exactly you're not thinking that you're you're thinking you see them in this light of like oh my gosh this is that guy but you don't see the process once you break down what every single great person has done you start to see they all took these steps nothing just was like an overnight
Speaker 2thing i do ask myself though because that through that through that journey up the ladder uh sane people it goes back to what i was saying earlier like same people wouldn't i wouldn't bother because there's always up the ladder naysayers and there's easier money at red lobster yes there's easier money at this call center over here selling this you can scam that over here like there's a there's other things going on and uh there's
Speaker 1easy money everywhere too yeah that's that's a thing that most people don't recognize some people glorify money than they glorify the actual pursuit of of the greatness most people will go and grab the money because the money's good and they'll they will dilute the whole brand and wash it away before it was ever even able to start the whole thing i've had a lot of people like oh come and do my music video do this and when i was on the way up and i kept thinking i was like damn if i do all these random music videos yeah he got a couple thousand dollars for me he's a drug dealer he got a couple thousand i'd go grab this but i'm thinking about my image i'm like damn this dude music sucks if i'm doing this for a quick two thousand dollars and i'm on the way i'm on the way i see where my greatness is going but if i grab this quick money this might kind of take me off of my pivot i want to only do special things i'm not i don't maybe i just kind of don't look at the money right now and i only focus on the the main goal and that's what i started to change my way of thinking because at first i was grabbing all the money i'm promoting everybody's music or video and all this stuff i was like oh yeah i'm promoting your your merch and all this then i started to see him like damn i'm creating these great things and i'm giving these looks to all these other things and not myself this is not where i envisioned myself to be i want to not care about all this i want to put all this in the back of my mind i'm not even thinking about money i'm thinking about where i'm going i
Speaker 2was going to say uh i was just what you you look very healthy look like you've been drinking water drinking water no but you look like you've been like hitting the gym or lifting weights or something
Speaker 1nah man i just i i had you're filming yeah no i yeah we're filming but also like i just had to like start eating kind of right too like i i started to care about what i was putting into my body and not just not caring i always will continue to be a heavyset guy i want to be you know one of the heavyset legends of all time but you ain't got to be the biggest dude in the business i was like okay i'm gonna be a healthy heavyset guy and once i set my mind i was like all right that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna be a healthy heavyset dude because i i understand what my image is i know that's what i want it to be and i've always looked up to all the great legends that were like heavyset dudes like chris farley cedric's entertainer jack black these are guys that like heavyset guys i look up to so i never not wanted to be there i just knew i was like all right both both things can be true when did you when did you think this i think like a year ago he was just like all right every decision doesn't just got to be drinking every night and every decision don't got to be just gorging yourself with food just because you got money now you know it's like okay you can eat these things and still go hoop at the gym with your boys both things can be true and that's why i was like okay a good balance is a healthy lifestyle i just wanted to have a good balance with each so i'm at a weight where i feel like all right i'm comfortable that i'm good i'm good you're looking good yeah thank you man i appreciate
Speaker 2that what is next for you in your world what is what is the big goals the big aims you're on set shooting a movie if we sit down in five years time and it's been a great five years since we last spoke what happened
Speaker 1i became a superstar that is my full pursuit right now is now you see you don't see the blonde hair you don't see the long beard you don't see the drewski that you once saw the social media guy you see the superstar drewski and what he has evolved to become that is what my next five-year goal is and continuously pass that like my next 30-year goal is to be the number one comedian of my generation and be the face of comedy for the next 30 years how eddie murphy did or how kevin hart did or the list could go on like will ferrell and all these guys that i look up to i want to have a run like that my thing is not just doing one thing for one era i like to watch people and how they evolve and how they have done different things over their career when you see eddie go from the raw stuff into the movies where he's alongside one of the biggest white actors of that time and he leaves snl and then he goes and does family movies and all this and then he does like harlem nights with uh richard pryor and he does life with martin lawrence and they team up and you see cook me i would want to do that same type of stuff for my generation i want to team up with all the big comedic people of this time i want to be the face of this generation for comedy have you learned to
Speaker 2talk big because a lot of people don't have the guts to say i want to be a superstar i want to be the number one in my generation have you learned to talk like that is it a useful way of talking or have you always spoken like
Speaker 1that i've always spoke that way always always even from early on days like i i i'd always wanted to be more than just good and i know i say that a lot but that is a it's a true thing i've
Speaker 2got the video from you 10 years ago and you're saying i'm going to be on the same level as me no no i know 10 years ago let's see yeah
Speaker 1yeah but at the time the the bar was set lower than what i have the bar set now one of the things that i always wanted to do i wanted to continue to evolve so certain things that i've said then i've noticed that i've grown since then and i want to break the chains of that i want to continue to evolve and become this newer person and i want to continue to grow as a person i want to do the jamie foxx and doing the ray biopic and you get an oscar for that oh my god that's amazing but then turn around and do django which is a mixture of comedy and real acting and then turn around and do a a funny comedy movie so it's like that's the type of evolving i'm looking to do in my career where i can continue to just keep transcending and i and i didn't learn to talk that way that is something that was taught to me from my upbringing just being confident in myself and just knowing who you are and that might have been because my mom was recording me from three four five six seven years old and continuously on and always trying to have home videos of me dancing and making my family laugh and all this crazy stuff but yeah these are things that i built confidence over time to become you know this
Speaker 2person and if you could rewind the clock and say a couple of words to this drewski on his uh in that college dorm room on his own no friends what does that guy need to hear i would say
Speaker 1to believing yourself more than you have ever believed in your entire life you can be iconic you are great you are one of one and to stay consistent even when the road looks rough and you cannot see the hole at the end of the tunnel because that's something that most people usually jump off the railroad for they can't see the outcome once it gets kind of blurry and it's foggy and the nose or like like i said my car got repossessed most people quit that's the point most people quit their girl cheats on them or something bad happens when you you You sat on your knees and you prayed all night and you prayed, oh, my God, God, please give me this. I'm looking for this. I want this to happen for me. Then, boom, God starts to shift things. Things start to shift. And the people, oh, my God, I asked him for this. It's because he put you through the trial. You didn't even get through the trials and the tribulations yet. He started to remove things from your life as soon as you asked for it. And now you're questioning why it happened. It's like this is what you essentially wanted. This is what you asked for. And most people, they get off the track before it even starts. They can't see the outcome, so they get worried and they just jump off. And that's what I would tell myself, man. Stay to it.
Speaker 2Stay to it. There's an interesting point here, which is, you know, a lot of us, we talk about never quitting. But sometimes you do have to quit, right? Because, like, you quit college. I quit college. And there's this weird thing because there's certain
Speaker 1things, certain things. Rappers, if you're out there and you're still rapping past 30, quit. Get the fuck off that mic and get the hell out of that studio. Quit that shit. So you're right. Sometimes you do. Get the fuck out of that studio, man. I agree. No. To some sort, it's true. It's true. Yes. Yes. There's a hell of a way to wrap the entire conversation.
Speaker 2But it's interesting because I think everything's nuanced. And when you've got a passion, of course, you pursue it. And especially when there's evidence. Yeah. But I wonder in your industry, because there's going to be a lot of people who are pursuing comedy who might not have the – and this is always the, like, balancing act. I think, you know, I started a podcast and it went well. So I've got a little bit of, like, survivorship bias in a way. Yeah. So the advice I might give. With young podcasters, it's just like, well, just, like, start it in your kitchen and then just keep at it for six years and then – But there might have been some advantages that I'm not aware of. In your case, I go – I looked at you at six years old. You were funny. Yeah. You were funny at six. I wasn't funny at six. Yeah. So if I tried to be you, I objectively would have at least had a harder time, if not total failure. Yeah. So there's almost this weird, like, self-awareness component of knowing thyself. because i might stay in the studio past 50 if you know what i'm saying yeah because people like me and you we often we we survived we got there so we look back down and just go you know consistency is the number one thing but somewhere in there there's like an element of self-awareness and you must get it all the time you must have people roll up to you and just start
Speaker 1cracking jokes yeah you have to have a good fake laugh i will say oh shit because it does get bad people just want to come up to you and say random shit yeah but no i i do agree with you you have to have a sense of awareness and your judgment has to be on point because it's not just about staying consistent it's about knowing the feeling of this is the thing so it took me some time with that it did take me time but i think most people aren't they're not okay with sitting down and silence most people will say i'm so confused i'm i can't figure out what i want to do i don't know what i want to do i i have all these great things i want to do i want to do everything but they don't never put their phone down they don't never try to sit with theirself and figure things out nobody tries to remove themselves from all the stuff that same person will tell you that go get high or get drunk or go and leave and go talk to somebody else and maybe it hurts for them to do that and that's the thing that people won't sit with themselves and do but that is one of the main things that shifted my entire life was sitting down in silence and figuring out what is it that i want to do you go through everything you grew up loving to do you go through everything that you want to pursue and you figure it out through all that but until you sit in silence and sit with yourself as the true you not the you that's high not the you that's drunk not the you that just wants to go to a friend and talk shit and go back and forth about oh we're so we want to do all this shit no you got to sit with yourself and figure this shit out most people don't want to do that and that's cool but that is the key to figuring it out
Speaker 2by far trisky we have a closing tradition where the last guest leaves a question for the next not knowing who they're leaving it for the question left for you if you could make it happen who would you most want to be like in your next life oh man that's
Speaker 1currently alive doesn't say michael jackson why he's arguably the most iconic individual of all time he achieved real greatness real greatness of like of all aspects of perfecting a craft he figured out a way to do it all he had gangsters dancing in his music video he changed his persona he continued to evolve with his career he went from the kid artist most people can't go from the kid to the real one and still have success they can't do that most people can never do that bro he created a whole new entity a whole new person and you forgot that he was the jackson five kid you this is a whole new god i would say it would have to be him for
Speaker 2sure i watched your uh skit pretending to be life in the 1960s where you could get away with just about
Speaker 1anything how was
Speaker 2school jack it was good i finally started passing my classes again
Speaker 5jack you got a girlfriend ain't y'all worried about selling records calm down joseph you're scaring the boys talking about hit records who done made a hit record in this house i'm tired of dancing you want me to take this belt off fix your face michael before i fix it for you joe can we get ice cream after this yeah that was some aspects of joe jackson
Speaker 1that my dad had some personality yeah oh damn yeah for real it wasn't hard uh to rip that belt off man i've seen it before yeah hell yeah
Speaker 2what can people look forward to from you where should we point them what are you working with what's your next big project
Speaker 1next big project uh the collect and praise show that's coming out in november yeah me and mike epps it's a show about mega pastors i did a mega pastor skit that was huge um and this show is a huge comedic semi-scripted tv show that'll be coming to netflix and youtube okay so so it is it is between both of us and it is honestly one of the biggest culture shifting shows of all time bro this shit is going to be amazing so that that's a big one that's coming the catch with emma stone chris pine that's coming out in may of 2027 that's a while out and then just more of druski like you're also just going to see me everywhere tv commercials uh movies that we're doing ourself um we just got a movie picked up by netflix i can't speak on what it's called um and yeah amongst so many other things man i'm i'm trying
Speaker 2to achieve greatness so it's super inspiring for so many reasons it's inspiring because you're so young but it's also it's inspiring because you're so willing to vocalize your your focus on being truly great and i think that asks of everybody listening how can we be greater you know and also considering where you've come from in the turbulent childhood you had and those were very much stacked against you for numbers of reasons for you to pass your way through that and climb to the very top of your industry with much more room to continue to grow in the 60 70 years you have probably left on this planet is going to be unbelievable to watch and you're a good human being you're going to be a good human being thank you on camera which i i respect tremendously so we're all going to be cheering for you and thank you so much for being here it's been an
Speaker 1honor to meet you man i'm a big fan of your show you do really well with everything you Bye.
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