Blurgotti: Clippers, Cameras, and Comedy
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Unquestionable The Podcast S2E6 – Blur Gotti: From Barber Shop Hustle to the Mic
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The crazy thing is, I had actually relapsed, right?
Speaker A:I had been sober for a while and had relapsed.
Speaker A:And now I didn't know they were gonna drug test me this day.
Speaker A:And we go in there, and they're like, yeah, you need to drug test so you can get in to basically be eligible for probation, get into drug court and shit.
Speaker A:And I was like, oh, shit.
Speaker A:I'm thinking I'm going to jail today.
Speaker A:But my lawyers, and even the lawyer, he's like, I ain't gonna lie, dude.
Speaker A:You're fucked.
Speaker A:Those are the exact words.
Speaker A:He's like, you're fucked, dude.
Speaker A:I was like, what?
Speaker A:Like, huh?
Speaker A:You supposed to be my faith.
Speaker B:I was supposed to have faith.
Speaker C:All right, we back y' all Another episode of the unquestionable podcast, Bro, we got Blur Gotti here.
Speaker C:Shout out to the homie for pulling up.
Speaker A:Thank you for pulling up, bro.
Speaker A:I appreciate y' all having me, bro.
Speaker A:This is dope.
Speaker A:I like what y' all doing.
Speaker B:No, I appreciate you coming, bro.
Speaker B:How you doing?
Speaker B:How you doing?
Speaker A:I'm doing good, bro.
Speaker A:It was a long day.
Speaker A:I came straight from cutting hair, you know, I mean, I was in the shop all day.
Speaker A:Came straight here.
Speaker A:I did.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:My bad.
Speaker A:I was late, bro.
Speaker A:I was trying my hardest, bro, but, you know, they was trying to get in.
Speaker A:I squeezed a couple people, and they had some money, so, you know, can't.
Speaker C:Say none of that.
Speaker B:That's always comes first.
Speaker B:No problem.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Nah.
Speaker B:But, bro, like, going into barbering, you know, we want to hear more about kind of what got you into it.
Speaker B:Your past, your background, growing up, everything like that.
Speaker A:Hell, yeah.
Speaker A:Hell, yeah.
Speaker A:So I used to always try to cut my mom here when I was a little kid.
Speaker A:I don't know why.
Speaker A:Like, I look back at it now, but I guess I liked it back then, right?
Speaker A:Like, so she used.
Speaker A:One time I accidentally cut it with real scissors.
Speaker A:So she got me to, like, the plastic ones, and she was like, let me fake cut her hair.
Speaker A:And then I started, like.
Speaker A:I remember I would, like, line myself up with, like, a big, big razor after, but I'd have it hella short, like a one.
Speaker A:And then you could line it up like that.
Speaker A:I see my cousins do it.
Speaker A:So I started doing that.
Speaker A:And then we had.
Speaker A:We had moved to.
Speaker A:To Concord from out this way, right?
Speaker A:And there was no barber shops out there that I knew of.
Speaker A:So for a while, I was going to this one Chinese lady, and.
Speaker A:But the crazy thing is, she knew how to do lineups.
Speaker A:Like, she used to do, like, designs, and the lineups was cool.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was cool.
Speaker A:But eventually, this dude named tj, that's my uncle right there.
Speaker A:Shout out to tj.
Speaker A:He from.
Speaker A:He from Oakland, actually.
Speaker A:But he ended up.
Speaker A:When I was in sixth grade, he ended up opening the shop out there.
Speaker A:And there was other barbershops around at the time, but I don't really like them.
Speaker A:I don't like the way they cut my hair.
Speaker A:But he opened it, and I went there, and he knew how to do everything I wanted.
Speaker A:Like, he used to do, like, the Bay Bridge in the back of my head, and.
Speaker A:And I was like, 12 when I first started going there.
Speaker A:And then, you know, he knew all my folks, my mom, my dad, everybody.
Speaker A:So my mom used to drop me off there.
Speaker A:I used to hang out there.
Speaker A:You know, on Saturdays.
Speaker A:There's hella people there.
Speaker A:You gonna get stuck there for, like, four hours, probably, and my mom gonna go.
Speaker A:Go do errands, and so she's not really tripping.
Speaker A:So she, like.
Speaker A:You know, moms back then, they liked it.
Speaker A: urs just because this is like: Speaker A:And then eventually, as I got older, you know, I'm walking.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm not going home after school.
Speaker A:I'm like, you know, like freshman, sophomore year, I'm going to the barbershop.
Speaker A:I'm just hanging out.
Speaker A:They let me smoke weed with them now, shoot dice with them.
Speaker A:All the fun, you know, and it gets a point.
Speaker A:I'm selling a weed, too, so it's cool.
Speaker A:It's the place to be.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:And I just hung out there a lot that actually saw.
Speaker A:And then in the.
Speaker A:When I was like, 16, I had been lining myself.
Speaker A:I had got a pair of peanuts.
Speaker A:Like, you know what the wall peanuts is?
Speaker A:The little white ones.
Speaker A:You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker A:Y' all seen them?
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:I had a pair of them, and I was lining myself up, and my partners used to be like, that look fake cool and that.
Speaker A:You know, we used to be wanting to buy weed, and so their moms used to give them, like, 30, 20.
Speaker A:Like, back then, haircuts was cheaper for a haircut.
Speaker A:They'd be like, hey, just cut my hair and it will buy weed with the money.
Speaker A:And I'm like, it's good.
Speaker A:And that's what we used to do.
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker A:So that's kind of how it started.
Speaker A:And then my barber would see them when they come in, they'd be like, hey, hey, that's kind of cool, Mike.
Speaker A:Like, Mike, that's cool.
Speaker A:That's not that bad.
Speaker A:Like, you might as well start doing this.
Speaker A:And then he had gave me a pair of, like, old rusty ass clippers.
Speaker A:And that was my first pair of real clippers, other than like some Walmart joints or something like that.
Speaker A:But they worked.
Speaker A:And I started.
Speaker A:That's when I started messing around.
Speaker A:And then eventually I ended up going to barber school later on and all that.
Speaker A:And then that's.
Speaker A:There's a whole more story to that too.
Speaker A:Know what I'm saying?
Speaker D:That's crazy, man.
Speaker D:It's.
Speaker D:It's like you going out to barber school and you, like, taking that step to be like, all right, I'm ready gonna.
Speaker D:I'm gonna be ready to pretty much just get this.
Speaker D:Get it going, get it popping, you know?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:The crazy thing is the.
Speaker A:For.
Speaker A:I went to barter school twice.
Speaker A:I wasn't ready.
Speaker A:Like, you talking about your first.
Speaker A:I wasn't ready at all, bro.
Speaker B:No, talk more about that.
Speaker B:Why weren't you ready?
Speaker D:Most people be getting.
Speaker D:Getting a barber school after they're done, they're ready to, like, you know, so look, open up their shop, check it out.
Speaker A:So look what happened.
Speaker A:This what?
Speaker A:So, like I said, I have been doing it for hobby and stuff.
Speaker A:Like how I was telling y' all.
Speaker A:So When I was 19, I went to jail for my first time.
Speaker A:And when I had got out, I hadn't had a job yet, and I hadn't been back to school since I had already dropped out of high school.
Speaker A:I had got a ged, but so my mom and my PO at the time, they're like, look, my mom like, either you gonna get a job or you gonna go to school or you gonna get out.
Speaker A:And my PO like, either you gonna get a job, you gonna go to school, or else, like, we gonna take your ass back to jail.
Speaker A:And I was like, all right.
Speaker A:And then so I was like, I ain't gonna get no job.
Speaker A:I was like, I don't want no job.
Speaker A:So I was like.
Speaker A:And, you know, I'm still in the streets and shit.
Speaker A:So I'm like, I go to school.
Speaker A:So I'm like, but I'm gonna go to barber school.
Speaker A:So I go.
Speaker A:I make it like seven months through.
Speaker A:So, yeah, like, seven months, I was like, that's like more than halfway.
Speaker A:Damn near.
Speaker A:And I ended up getting arrested again.
Speaker A:And I get dropped from the class or whatever, right?
Speaker A:And I ended up going back Five years later and going back to barber school again.
Speaker A:And that was after, you know, because when I got out, everybody was like, oh, you gonna go back to school?
Speaker A:I'm like, nah, that I'm gonna just keep running the streets and.
Speaker A:And I actually ended up the thing that made me go back for the second time.
Speaker A:During COVID I had caught a case.
Speaker A:I actually just got a probation for it.
Speaker A:I just finished probation like a couple weeks ago.
Speaker A:Really appreciate you.
Speaker A:I thought I never gonna get off, but so I ended up catching that case, right?
Speaker A:It was a drug, it was a sales case.
Speaker A:So when the.
Speaker A:It's cover time, right?
Speaker A:So when it happens, what happens is I get or because it's cold, they not really keeping nobody unless you like beating up your baby mama or like shooting, killing people, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So they or me 72 hours.
Speaker A:When I get out, I already know that, like I'm in Nevada.
Speaker A:This how happened in Nevada?
Speaker A:I'm in Nevada, I'm from the Bay Area.
Speaker A:I got caught with a gun too.
Speaker A:So I'm like, they finna try to throw me energy out here.
Speaker A:I'm like, I gotta get.
Speaker A:As soon as I got to her, we packed up all that, got the fuck up out of there, you know.
Speaker A:And then we came back to California.
Speaker A:Now, so I had saved up like a little head rich fortune at this time, like close to a hundred thousand.
Speaker A:But that went away.
Speaker A:I had.
Speaker A:We was living in hotels and.
Speaker A:And I'm.
Speaker A:I ain't gonna lie, I stopped hustling, but I'm still getting high because I know I'm doing perks and all the.
Speaker A:At the time, like I'm making a lot of money.
Speaker A:I'm just.
Speaker A:I'm off.
Speaker A:I got a bad drug habit too.
Speaker A:At the same time, it's crucial.
Speaker A:Like I'm spending like 500 a day on pills, but I'm making so much money it don't even matter, right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And it's bad for that.
Speaker A:So now I'm just off all the money because I gotta stay in hotels.
Speaker A:I need to get high still before.
Speaker A:Before I get sick or whatever, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So mind you, they.
Speaker A:It takes like 12 months for them to file, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:11 to 12 months for them to file.
Speaker A:I have another warrant out at the time.
Speaker A:Me and her is doordashing.
Speaker A:Let me see if this water real quick.
Speaker A:I don't have a license.
Speaker A:I had a license in years.
Speaker A:She tired of driving.
Speaker A:We've been on the road for the Last month, who knows?
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So I'm driving.
Speaker A:We get pulled over because we don't have a front license plate, right?
Speaker A:It's in the window, but it's not on the front.
Speaker A:That's what.
Speaker A:She just was bored.
Speaker A:I already know.
Speaker A:She's like, you got license?
Speaker A:I'm like, nope.
Speaker A:She's like, what's your name?
Speaker A:Remember now?
Speaker A:I'm like, I.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I don't know exactly what warrant I have.
Speaker A:I'm like.
Speaker A:But I could feel it, like at this moment in that.
Speaker A:That time of my life, I was living with warrants, multiple warrants, all the time.
Speaker A:Like it was normal.
Speaker A:So, like, getting pulled over by the police wasn't my option.
Speaker A:So I'm like, no.
Speaker A:I'm like, here we go.
Speaker A:She come back.
Speaker A:She's like, yeah, you got a warrant?
Speaker A:It's a different case out of another county, right?
Speaker A:That I've been.
Speaker A:Had a warrant for it.
Speaker A:So they pick me up on that.
Speaker A:Or they had just filed or something, who knows?
Speaker A:But I had been on the run from.
Speaker A:I had left that from the other case, if this all makes sense.
Speaker A:Yeah, I caught that.
Speaker A:I had got.
Speaker A:Went down for the other case.
Speaker A:They hadn't filed.
Speaker A:You you see?
Speaker A:I'm saying.
Speaker A:So I left on that one from that state, came back, they had filed on the other.
Speaker A:The charge they probably had been waiting to file on.
Speaker A:And then they got me like that I had ended up bailing out at the police station.
Speaker A:I didn't even make it through extradition or nothing because I was supposed to go to another county.
Speaker A:This hella far.
Speaker A:And so when I get on, like, I gotta do something.
Speaker A:Like, I can't just show up to all these court cases with my life the way it is.
Speaker A:Like, you feel me?
Speaker A:I'm like, I'm on drugs.
Speaker A:You can clearly tell I'm on drugs, too.
Speaker A:Like, it's not a secret.
Speaker A:So I'm like, all right, I'm gonna go to rehab, and then we'll figure it out from there.
Speaker A:Let me get clean first.
Speaker A:Let me make that the first step.
Speaker A:So I go to rehab and I do three months.
Speaker A:But I'm cutting everybody into rehab.
Speaker A:I have my pops, he's.
Speaker A:He dropped me off some Walmart clippers.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker A:Just the clipper, though, not the liners, nothing.
Speaker A:There was some Gars and some cigarettes is what he gave me, I remember.
Speaker A:And I've been cutting myself in there and cutting all of, like, the people in there, even some of the people that worked there.
Speaker A:I was cutting them, and by the end of it, you know, you get an exit plan, and they're like, you know, Mike, that's my real name.
Speaker A:They're like, if when you leave up out of here, you have a great head on your shoulders, you very smart.
Speaker A:Like, you have.
Speaker A:You're very talented.
Speaker A:You know, you're good at doing a lot of different things.
Speaker A:You articulate.
Speaker A:Your sky's the limit for you if you just stay on the right track.
Speaker A:I'm like, yeah, I know, but I've been hearing that all my life.
Speaker A:So I'm like, yeah, whatever.
Speaker A:But they're like, bro, for real.
Speaker A:Make an exit plan.
Speaker A:They're like, you should go back to barber school.
Speaker A:Because you said you've been to barber school before, and we seen you could hear you good.
Speaker A:It couldn't hear.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'm like.
Speaker A:They're like, you know what?
Speaker A:Call them.
Speaker A:Call them tomorrow.
Speaker A:I'm like, all right.
Speaker A:Because at this time, I'm like in the headspace where I'm like, I'm willing to do whatever to save my life, because I'm.
Speaker A:I already know I'm looking at, like, anywhere from, like, five to ten years for show in Nevada by itself.
Speaker A:I'm not really worried too much about the other case.
Speaker A:I know they're gonna just give me a little slap with the.
Speaker A:The one for the drugs.
Speaker A:And again, I'm stressing about that, so I'm like, all right, all right.
Speaker A:Because they haven't even filed yet, but I know I'm on borrowed time, so I.
Speaker A:I ended up calling them.
Speaker A:I enrolled back.
Speaker A:Mind you, they don't know it's me from the last time.
Speaker A:And I didn't even tell y' all how bad I was at that school last.
Speaker A:The first time.
Speaker A:I was selling heron in there.
Speaker A:I was selling meth in there.
Speaker A:Damn.
Speaker A:Feel me?
Speaker A:I had knocks coming in, like, trading me PlayStation Threes and, like, on some real knock shit, like, in front of everybody, like.
Speaker A:Like they knew what was going on.
Speaker A:But, like, they were at the time, they were so busy trying to make sure their school was staying afloat because it was so new and they were trying to get accredited by fafsa.
Speaker A:So they're not even.
Speaker A:They're kind of, like, letting slide, and I'm pushing the envelope hard.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Hard.
Speaker A:But they're letting me go.
Speaker A:And then eventually I ended up getting drops.
Speaker A:They're like, thank God I don't tell them it's me.
Speaker A:They don't realize it's me.
Speaker A:So I Get back in row.
Speaker A:So when I.
Speaker A:When I finally get up out of there a week later, I start in barber school.
Speaker A:And then the first day, the director sees me, and we have mask on, because it's post Covid.
Speaker A:Like, we can be around each other, but you got how to mask on, remember?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And she's like, hey, pull your mask on.
Speaker A:I'm like.
Speaker A:And I know.
Speaker A:I know who she is, right?
Speaker A:And I'm smiling already because I know who she is.
Speaker A:And she was like.
Speaker A:She says my name.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:She was like, we gonna have problems this time?
Speaker A:I'm like, nah.
Speaker A:And I told her what.
Speaker A:Like, what I've been.
Speaker A:I just finished rehab.
Speaker A:My beverage.
Speaker A:I just finished rehab, and I.
Speaker A:I'm here to do it different this time.
Speaker A:She's like, all right, cool.
Speaker A:And then she was, I'm gonna give you another chance.
Speaker A:Cause I really.
Speaker A:If you didn't say what you just said, I really don't want to let you come back.
Speaker A:And I was like, it's good.
Speaker A:Like, I get it.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:I deserve that.
Speaker A:But thank you, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:For the opportunity.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:And then, you know, I do my thing at barber school, and.
Speaker A:And the crazy thing is, I almost didn't finish again.
Speaker A:Because now I'm telling you, I'm on borrowed time, right?
Speaker A:We're like, maybe I have, like, a month left, but before I graduate, we go to the club.
Speaker A:I remember I was already working in the shop.
Speaker A:It was a Saturday.
Speaker A:My boy called me.
Speaker A:He like, let's go to the club.
Speaker A:We go.
Speaker A:Fight happened outside.
Speaker A:Whatever.
Speaker A:The police pull up, we get.
Speaker A:They run my name.
Speaker A:They say, you know, you a felony fugitive.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm already knowing.
Speaker A:I could just feel it.
Speaker A:Even though I didn't know if they had filed for sure or not.
Speaker A:But I just said, I can feel it right now.
Speaker A:It's going to be the time.
Speaker A:Like, everything's going way too good.
Speaker A:I'm already making money in school, booked out, working at the shop and doing school all at the same time.
Speaker A:I'm like, it's going way too good.
Speaker A:I already know.
Speaker A:Yep, take me.
Speaker A:Boom.
Speaker A:I know that Reno has to come pick me up because the case is out there.
Speaker A:I call, I talk to the school.
Speaker A:When my girl talks to the school, they're like, the thing is, is they had just got.
Speaker A:The hours had just got reduced at the school to less than what I.
Speaker A:I'm supposed to do.
Speaker A:But now the curriculum is different.
Speaker A:So now FAFSA has Changed the rules.
Speaker A:You can't go and leave absences loas.
Speaker A:Before you could do that, I could have really just took like, I need two months loa to make sure I don't miss no school.
Speaker A:But now you have only two weeks before you can come back.
Speaker A:And it just had.
Speaker A:Just went into effect, right?
Speaker A:Like a week before I got arrested.
Speaker A:So like now I'm in a rock and a hard place, right?
Speaker A:She's like, you have two weeks to get back.
Speaker A:And that's all I can do.
Speaker A:And I'm like, okay.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:When Reno.
Speaker A:Look, when Reno tell you they coming to get you, the day they say they gonna be there, they.
Speaker A:They be there because they like, they like we gonna be there on this day.
Speaker A:It's literally two days before I need to be back in school.
Speaker A:They already telling me, the lawyers and, and even Reno when they pick me up, they're like, oh yeah, you have a bail.
Speaker A:If you, you got the money on your books, you can bail out when you get there.
Speaker A:I already had put the money on the books because I knew that.
Speaker A:So she had.
Speaker A:My girl had put some money on the books.
Speaker A:I get there, I bail out as soon as I get there.
Speaker A:I only sit there for like eight hours, maybe 12.
Speaker A:I forget.
Speaker A:It sucked.
Speaker A:I know that much.
Speaker A:Then I ride the greyhound back to sack the next day.
Speaker A:I get to Sack at like one o' clock.
Speaker A:My boy that I got arrested with, well, he didn't get arrested, but I was with when I got arrested.
Speaker A:He feels so bad for taking me to the club and he can pick me up from Sack.
Speaker A:The teachers let him leave too, because they know that he coming to get me because he's supposed to be at school.
Speaker A:Yeah, he gets us.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:He made me a psych at one.
Speaker A:I actually, I'm talking to her on the phone.
Speaker A:She like, if you like, you have to be here before, like 30 minutes before school's over.
Speaker A:School's over at 5.
Speaker A:I make it there like 4:20, clock in and graduate like, oh, like three weeks later.
Speaker A:That's a wild ass story.
Speaker B:Talk about back and forth, bro.
Speaker C:Stress into the last minute.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:I never thought I was gonna finish barber school, especially from my first experience.
Speaker A:Like, even when I first started back, it felt like the mountain was so high to climb.
Speaker A:I just remember the first day, like we gonna see, like, either this is gonna go extremely well or this is gonna go extremely bad.
Speaker B:How would you say that those like trials and tribulations have shaped you as like a barber, businessman, entrepreneur?
Speaker A:I wouldn't.
Speaker A:I Wouldn't change it.
Speaker A:I wouldn't change any of it, bro.
Speaker A:You know, they say that, like, you know, your trials and tribulations really make who you are as true, bro.
Speaker A:I wouldn't be as hungry, as wise, as polished as I am now if it wasn't for all those mistakes and shit I went through before.
Speaker A:I'm gonna touch the stove type of dude, like you say, time.
Speaker A:Oh, let me see.
Speaker A:Like, I've always been that guy, so I had to learn all the lessons the hard way.
Speaker A:But it's like, I learned so many more lessons than I.
Speaker A:I'm only 30, but I made.
Speaker A:Even when I was in rehab, I made dudes that were like, 60 are like, bro, you've experienced more life than I have at 60 and 30 years already.
Speaker A:Like, so I feel like I.
Speaker A:It's helped me a lot.
Speaker A:A lot.
Speaker B:No, definitely.
Speaker C:That's dope.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:As long as you.
Speaker C:You came out and you did the right thing, bro.
Speaker C:No matter how you get there, the path is the same.
Speaker C:The same road that everybody take who is successful, bro.
Speaker A:It's a rough road.
Speaker A:It's a tough road, but now it was all worth it, bro.
Speaker A:I wouldn't change it, and I'm blessed for sure.
Speaker A:So shout out.
Speaker A:You know, that's what's up.
Speaker C:So talk about how.
Speaker C:How a little bit of how you got started with the content creation, bro.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:So that didn't happen until like a year or two later.
Speaker A:After.
Speaker A:Two years later, after I got out of school, I was already making a name for myself in the barber industry, right?
Speaker A:Like, I was doing barber battles.
Speaker A:I was winning this.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I had a.
Speaker A:I had a great list of clientele.
Speaker A:Like, I was popping wherever.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:I was super Lazar barber.
Speaker A:Even coming out of school, I had.
Speaker A:I was already winning barber battles.
Speaker A:So I was like a D1 draft pick coming out of barber school.
Speaker A:I could go to all the dopest.
Speaker A:All the dopest barbershops in the Bay Area, even all the way to sac.
Speaker A:People in SAC was asking me to work in sac.
Speaker A:Like, the dopest shops was like, come work here.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:But I decided.
Speaker A:What I decided to do is I decided to go be by myself in Antioch at a shop where I was going to be the only barber, because I had already worked in a couple of shops while I was in school.
Speaker A:So I already kind of had an idea what I was doing.
Speaker A:So I'm like, I don't even want to.
Speaker A:I don't even want to go To a shop, just establish.
Speaker A:I'm going to just eat right.
Speaker A:I'm like.
Speaker A:Because I already, like, I was already in that mindset.
Speaker A:Like, I'mma eat regardless.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Cause all the stuff I had went through that we had just talked about, I was in a different mindset.
Speaker A:I'm like, I want to do it this way.
Speaker A:I want to.
Speaker A:I don't want no help.
Speaker A:And I want.
Speaker A:And everybody's like, you sound crazy.
Speaker A:So I'm like, oh, for real?
Speaker A:Like, I like, I love hearing it.
Speaker A:You sound crazy.
Speaker A:I'm finna do it then.
Speaker A:And that's what I did.
Speaker A:And I ended up just start buzzing.
Speaker A:So I focused on that for like the first, first like two years.
Speaker A:And if I didn't, content wouldn't be a possibility.
Speaker A:Because a lot of the, A lot of my content other than the skits, is the gems and like the game that I give out to the young barbers.
Speaker A:And if I didn't do the two years, hard seven days a week, nine.
Speaker A:Like nine in morning, at 11 o' clock at night, I didn't take a break for like the first like, like, like, like two, three years.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And if you include barber school, that's like four years.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker E:And you're doing content like while you were coming.
Speaker A:No, this is when I'm just, I'm just posting before and after.
Speaker E:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:At this point.
Speaker A:But I have to do all this to even have the, the concepts to make the content.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker A:Because even in my skits, it's relatable because it's a real life situation.
Speaker A:I just made it funny.
Speaker E:But, but like, did you make like just videos of you just cutting hair regardless?
Speaker A:Yeah, always.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:So I was posting, I was always trying to find cool ways to post haircuts, but I wasn't trying to be a personality.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:You see what I'm saying?
Speaker A: ke, yeah, I had built up like: Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker A:Or like other barbers.
Speaker E:And then you got more into the skits of like barbering and all that.
Speaker E:Okay, okay.
Speaker A:Maybe like two years.
Speaker A:Three.
Speaker A:Almost like two and a half years into me already.
Speaker E:Because I feel like barbering and like even tattooing is like kind of almost the same thing where like you guys promote the art as like, as a tattoo artist.
Speaker E:Tour barbers, they promote like, you know.
Speaker A:Oh yeah.
Speaker A:Without, with social, without no social media right now, you're.
Speaker A:It's a lie.
Speaker A:It's gonna be a hard, hard journey for you.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:For sure.
Speaker A:So I was already doing for and afters trending, trending sounds, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker A:Oh, I was hidden a little bit, but I wasn't worried about being an influencer, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, was not my goal.
Speaker A:I just wanted clients.
Speaker A:And that's what I tell barbers now.
Speaker A:You don't have to be an influencer, but if you want to get clients, this is how I do it.
Speaker A:And I did use a lot of Instagram to get a lot of my clients, because I would just make every haircut I did Take a picture, post on your story, tag the dudes you posted, and be like, before I.
Speaker A:Bro, I didn't care.
Speaker A:Before you even got out this chair, you finna repost this?
Speaker A:Yeah, everything was getting reposted.
Speaker A:And like I told y' all earlier when we was talking outside, you cut one leader of each friend group, they all gonna get cut.
Speaker B:And that's what I'm doing.
Speaker A:But, yeah, so fast forward after a little bit, like, yeah, two and a half, three years into, like, me just grinding, right?
Speaker A:Fresh out of school, I end up finally starting to settle this court case, right?
Speaker A:Because after I had built out now, I had waited for, like, another 11 months to go to court, and I finally started going to court.
Speaker A:The crazy thing is I had actually relapsed, right?
Speaker A:I had been sober for a while and had relapsed.
Speaker A:And now I didn't know they were going to drug test me this day.
Speaker A:And we go in there, and they're like, yeah, you need to drug test so you can get in, Basically be eligible for probation, get into drug court.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And I was like, oh.
Speaker A:And I pissed dirty.
Speaker A:And they were like, okay, I'm thinking, I'm going to jail today.
Speaker A:But my lawyers, and even the lawyer, he's like, I ain't gonna lie, dude.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:Those are the exact words.
Speaker A:He's like, you're.
Speaker A:Dude, so what?
Speaker A:Like, huh?
Speaker B:I was supposed to have faith in you somehow?
Speaker A:Because I'm like.
Speaker A:Because I've already been through this justice system.
Speaker A:I'm like, bro, just talk about how you really just.
Speaker A:You up.
Speaker A:You relapsed.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You had just got sober.
Speaker A:Like, tell them you go back to your program.
Speaker A:And so I go back to.
Speaker A:I'm like, I go back to an outpatient program.
Speaker A:I'll piss test every week.
Speaker A:Whatever you want to do.
Speaker A:Like, you're gonna piss this twice a week.
Speaker A:And either you can come all the way out here to do it, or you can pay for it yourself and go back home.
Speaker A:I'm like, well now I'm gonna have to pay for it myself.
Speaker A:I'm paying like 150 bucks twice a week to piss test for them.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Feel me at like a lab court, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like with just people trying to get jobs and I'm trying to stay free and this.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know you're not supposed to go there for these kind of drug test.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I did that for like a month or two.
Speaker A:I had a caseworker and.
Speaker A:And I would check in with that fool.
Speaker A:And so at the time you can't even smoke weed, right.
Speaker A:So I'm like, I'm so bored.
Speaker A:I'm sober as a.
Speaker A:Like you can't even drink cuz they're alcohol testing.
Speaker A:So I'm sober than a can't smoke, drink nothing.
Speaker A:All I can do is smoke cigarettes.
Speaker A:And I'm like, I gotta, I'm hella like I, I need something to like, like just think of like do.
Speaker A:And I, once I get into something, what's the word I'm looking for?
Speaker A:I like over excel.
Speaker A:Or like I binge on it or like I just get way too into it.
Speaker A:It's like a adh.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's like an ADHD trade, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, and I really.
Speaker A:But I'll do it until like masters master it and then like.
Speaker A:But I'll be so hyper fictional, like just so focused on it.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker A:Like I'm tweaking, staying up till 2 in the morning watching YouTube videos and you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like I get like that and I'm like, that's how I figure out where I get where I want to be.
Speaker A:I'll tweak you.
Speaker A:I mean I run myself just, just like ragged doing it.
Speaker A:But so I was like, I'm gonna start making content.
Speaker A:I was bored.
Speaker A:So I like I was saying, I started making those little like the sound, those trending sounds like voiceovers, Funny, funny ones.
Speaker A:I was going for the funny ones, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Because I was like, funny sales, right?
Speaker A:And I was like, if I can make it to where the other barbers can relate to it, people will repost it.
Speaker A:I was like, all right, cool.
Speaker A:And most of my followers at that time were barbers, so that made the most sense.
Speaker A:Or the client of a barber, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So make it about one or the other or about both, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I started doing that and I did it for like a couple weeks.
Speaker A:And I was kind of doing it like every couple days.
Speaker A:Every day or every other day wasn't that consistent.
Speaker A:And I hit.
Speaker A:I got a millie.
Speaker A:Like, and the millie happened in like three days.
Speaker A:Like, it.
Speaker A:I just remember it went 100k.
Speaker A:And then I woke up.
Speaker A:Next day it was like 300k.
Speaker A:And I woke up the next day, it was like a million.
Speaker A:And it was.
Speaker D:It's pretty far.
Speaker A:A little, you know, it's 9 79.
Speaker A:That's why you gonna die.
Speaker A:The little baby Reed.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It was his sound.
Speaker A:He was his freestyle.
Speaker A:And I was like.
Speaker A:And I just played the sound.
Speaker A:I, like, had me with the clippers standing behind his chair, like, digging to it.
Speaker A:I was getting to it, right?
Speaker A:And I was.
Speaker A:And I've made it, like.
Speaker A:And I put like, pov.
Speaker A:You make little bro rap for a free lineup.
Speaker A:And that went viral, bro.
Speaker A:And I kept going after that.
Speaker A:Like, but I was.
Speaker A:I still wasn't being that consistent.
Speaker A:But, like, that's assets going to be million.
Speaker A:Like, I think the next one, by the time I hit a million, I just posted my next video.
Speaker A:That was like three days later.
Speaker A:But I was.
Speaker A:That's when my girl was like, you could do this for real.
Speaker A:Like, you just got a million.
Speaker A:You're just getting all these followers.
Speaker A:I went from like 3,000 to like 6,000, 7,000 followers.
Speaker A:And like a couple days.
Speaker A:So I'm like, all right.
Speaker A:So the next one I think I did, I slapped my pun in the back of the head with some powder.
Speaker A:And we made it looks.
Speaker A:It's not even real, but we made it look so real.
Speaker A:And he chased me around the shop and everything.
Speaker A:And we made it look so real that everybody thought it was real.
Speaker A:And that was my second million.
Speaker A:And I posted that, like, literally, that was like my follow up video to that.
Speaker C:Damn, that's crazy.
Speaker A:Yeah, crazy.
Speaker A:And then hard on it.
Speaker A:I was telling y' all, I started geeking and I got on YouTube and I was like, how I literally search how to sustain Instagram growth or some like that from viral video.
Speaker A:And then it just.
Speaker A:I started watching all these different dudes.
Speaker A:They were showing me how they would grow their whole page, like 10,000 followers in.
Speaker A:In 90 days, right?
Speaker A:It was basically post once a day, every day for 90 days.
Speaker A:But make sure you post good, like relative educational or funny.
Speaker A:But if you can do all three, you just.
Speaker A:You're gonna ding, ding, ding, win the prize.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And that's what I started.
Speaker A:That was my formula from there.
Speaker A:And then I just started figuring out.
Speaker A:And then I started doing different, you know, I mean, skits.
Speaker A:Then I got into actual skits, not just the voiceovers.
Speaker A:Like, every little.
Speaker A:Every.
Speaker A:Every Friday I ever reenacted or every movie, like all about the Benjamins or Paper Soldiers or something like that that I ever reenacted as a child growing up, like, to perform in front of.
Speaker A:I used to do that.
Speaker A:So I used to.
Speaker A:I used to watch, like, hood movies and a reenactment and perform for my aunties, and that's hella fun.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Like, my favorite characters was like, any of my games characters, like Dayday or like Reggie from All about the Benjamins or like, any of those hood movies, bro, that was my.
Speaker A:So, like, when I started doing the skits, it, like, this is easy, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I just use, like, kind of use movie references as my foundation, but then kind of just related to barbering.
Speaker A:And then I had unlocked this.
Speaker A:I know I peeped.
Speaker A:I was like, oh, I was going to just be a barber influencer.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But I just unlocked this niche where people like my barber content.
Speaker A:But it's not even barbers either.
Speaker A:It's barbers and people outside.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I ended up getting on this or and all types of.
Speaker A:And then it's just from there.
Speaker A:That's when I just kept going, bro.
Speaker A:And, you know, the content has evolved and evolved and, you know, I mean, this is from there.
Speaker C:That's dope, bro.
Speaker C:You ever go through anything, like, while you're doing that?
Speaker C:Because I know, like you said, you cracked off pretty early.
Speaker C:Was there ever any, like, drought, like, where you felt like, damn, like, this is a lot of work?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So what happens is, bro, when you're making your content creator and you're getting followers, you hit ceilings, right?
Speaker A:So you gain like.
Speaker A:Like, I got like, 15, I got stuck, right?
Speaker A:And I got to, like, 20.
Speaker A:I got stuck.
Speaker A:And I got to, like, 30.
Speaker A:I got stuck.
Speaker A:But what happens is you've gained all the followers you can from the.
Speaker A:From the level of content you're pushing out at that moment, right?
Speaker A:So you have to evolve because people are getting tired of seeing the same thing.
Speaker A:And yeah, you might be making it for you page, but all those people, you're getting the views because people are seeing it, but they've seen you do this already, even though my.
Speaker A:Even though they might not have added you.
Speaker A:So now it's time to elevate and evolve or add Another kind of.
Speaker A:And then every time I would hit a ceiling, I would just add, you know, I mean, like, let me find another concept.
Speaker A:Let me play with some concepts.
Speaker A:Let me, like.
Speaker A:And then keep the ones that are working, of course, but, like, even revamp those and make them a little bit better, you know, I mean, somehow, some way.
Speaker A:And then you guys, like, not only just that, like, when I got to a certain amount, you get to a certain amount of followers.
Speaker A:At first, I wasn't talking to schools or at first, like, let's start.
Speaker A:First thing I started doing, I wasn't doing.
Speaker A:I hit 10k.
Speaker A:I wasn't doing ambassador deals and promos.
Speaker A:I started doing those, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And then it got me to the next step.
Speaker A:And then I, I got stuck again.
Speaker A:I think the next thing, I hadn't spoke at schools, started speaking to schools.
Speaker A:It got me to the next hump.
Speaker A:Then it was, I got to a hump and I was like, make a clothing brand.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And then I just keep elevating from there and from there, and I made a Shopify.
Speaker A:And then I.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Now I've done this.
Speaker A:I've.
Speaker A:I started going to these shows with my vendor booth.
Speaker A:Now I'm doing this on top of this.
Speaker A:And you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And it's just always about evolving and growing.
Speaker A:You're always going to hit ceilings, though.
Speaker A:It's about trying to figure if are you going.
Speaker A:Because you're going to get.
Speaker A:You're going to come to that point where you're like, I think, I think this is as far as I'm going to go.
Speaker A:Because it feels like that you get to the ceiling, and that's what it feels like.
Speaker A:And I'll talk to other content creators.
Speaker A:They say the same thing.
Speaker A:And it's like, just try to push through it, figure it out.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's the hardest part about it.
Speaker A:But some, as long as you just.
Speaker A:If you want to do it, you'll figure it out, bro.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:No, definitely.
Speaker A:It gets frustrating, though.
Speaker A:No, I feel like writer's block or something.
Speaker B:So you, you talk about, you know, the online following and you talk about how you, you made a clothing brand, like, how did that, like, switch flip, in a sense, and you make that transition from that online presence into, like, profiting off of that online presence, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Outside of just the bookings, you know what?
Speaker A:I'm right.
Speaker A:So I had to.
Speaker A:I Had to hit that ceiling, right, that I was talking about.
Speaker A: So I was around like: Speaker A:And I mean I'm at 50, I'm at 49 point something right now.
Speaker A:I'm about to hit 50.
Speaker A: ,: Speaker A:And I was getting booked for all these shows and, and it was cool.
Speaker A:I had already went through the phase where I was.
Speaker A:I had did my free shows right, Where I didn't get paid for anything.
Speaker A:But I was a big, I was just an up and coming name, you know.
Speaker A:So I did them for the exposure.
Speaker A:And then I had got to the point to where I was doing them, where they were flying me out and they're paying me a little bit of chunk of change and in the room and stuff like that.
Speaker A:But then you start to realize I just took a whole weekend off of cutting hair to come out here and shake hands and kiss babies, which is very cool.
Speaker A:But after about the 10th time, you've been to every state that has a barber show.
Speaker A:So you can only do this so many more times before it's not doing anything.
Speaker A:And my girl, me and my girl had sat down.
Speaker A:We're like, we have to figure out a way to, to make this worth it.
Speaker A:Because it's a platform.
Speaker A:Like you have a platform.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, definitely.
Speaker A:Everybody loves you with these things.
Speaker A:You're one of the biggest things in there when you're in those rooms and it's clear as day we don't have anything.
Speaker A:And that's when we dropped the clothing line.
Speaker A:And it just so happened.
Speaker A:Or we'll started talking about dropping the clothing line.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And it just so happened that the clipper brand that I had signed to maybe a few months before that had been beefing with like it's an industry beef with another company.
Speaker A:They don't have.
Speaker A:They have clippers now.
Speaker A:At the time they didn't have clippers, they just have products.
Speaker A:But it's like the biggest brand, the most successful brand.
Speaker A:The dudes became a millionaire off the brand.
Speaker A:And he started off on YouTube just as a tutorial barber, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Just so happened we were beefing with them and I saw it as the biggest opportunity of a lifetime to get my name.
Speaker A:My name was already growing, but I was like, I can get farther now if I hop into this.
Speaker A:Be very.
Speaker A:Why did you throw.
Speaker A:Get into the beef?
Speaker A:I'm like, why wouldn't I?
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:I would be dumb not to.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I'm the funny trolley barber.
Speaker A:So this is perfect for me because that's what they were doing.
Speaker A:We're trolling each other.
Speaker A:I'm like.
Speaker A:I'm like a created character when it comes to this, bro.
Speaker A:We're finna.
Speaker A:I'm gonna go crazy.
Speaker A:And I woke up, I said my she.
Speaker A:My girl showed me what was going on.
Speaker A:I immediately knew exactly what I was gonna do.
Speaker A:I took their logo, put it on a white background, cross it out with like spray paint looking thing.
Speaker A:Put their names, but like trolley names, not their real names, cross them out, put on Tupac, hit him up.
Speaker A:Took my fucking shirt off and sang the fucking song and put how TPOB feels about the other brand, right?
Speaker A:And that shit goes fucking up the dude.
Speaker A:The dude, the CEO, the guy that owns the company, repost the video.
Speaker A:And as soon as I got the message, the notification, he reposted it, got him.
Speaker A:That's all I needed.
Speaker A:That's all I wanted.
Speaker B:Yeah, I don't.
Speaker A:This ain't personal.
Speaker A:I just.
Speaker A:It's all business with me.
Speaker A:But if.
Speaker A:And if you can't see that, you're an idiot.
Speaker A:But it just like when Tupac and Biggie Beef is sold records, we sold.
Speaker A:He sold a lot of products.
Speaker A:And I sold just off my, My.
Speaker A:My promo code alone that I was making.
Speaker A:That's all the money I made was just from my promo code off those clippers.
Speaker A:I made a lot of money off that.
Speaker A:Just that I know my.
Speaker A:The brand, the CEO of my brand made tons of money off that beef.
Speaker A:And then I dropped my first drop of clothes, which was your favorite barber, because like I told you, this guy was the biggest.
Speaker A:One of the biggest YouTube barbers.
Speaker A:Him and 360 Jeezy.
Speaker A:Shout out to 360 Jeezy.
Speaker A:That's my dog.
Speaker A:They're the two top dogs and they've been for a long time.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So it is a lot of people's favorite barber.
Speaker A:So I.
Speaker A:That's why I dropped that.
Speaker A:And it sold out.
Speaker A:I sold 100 shirts in like two days.
Speaker D:It's pretty hard, bro.
Speaker A:And that's how we got the Blur print and it.
Speaker A:You know, I'm on the.
Speaker A:Maybe like my 10 drop.
Speaker A:I have like, like six different ties.
Speaker A:Not just clothes.
Speaker A:I have other stuff, you know, I mean, I have hats, capes, all types of on there, you know, I mean, check out my Shopify blueprint shop.
Speaker A:It's not hard.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:But yeah, that's.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's how I did story.
Speaker C:That's dope, bro.
Speaker A:That's hella dope.
Speaker A:Appreciate you, bro.
Speaker A:It's been a dope ass journey.
Speaker A:Shout out to my girl too, because she, she helps a lot.
Speaker A:Like I've been telling y' all, you know, you really need a team behind you.
Speaker A:And sometimes your girl just the hardest player on the team.
Speaker A:On your team, sometimes she even go harder than your boys.
Speaker A:But whether it's your girl or you have your best friend, it's just gonna go hard for you.
Speaker A:You need somebody.
Speaker A:And sometimes one person or two people is better than the whole.
Speaker A:A whole group of people that aren't gonna put in as much you can find.
Speaker A:Two solid people are gonna put it in the world versus 15 people that's barely gonna put in anything, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So I think that's one of the main things you should the team part.
Speaker A:But don't focus on big team.
Speaker E:Just have a solid foundation around you.
Speaker A:The team will grow when you need it to grow, and you'll get the people as you go, as I have.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But to start, you just maybe one, maybe even yourself.
Speaker A:Yeah, just blessed to have that one or that too.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:No, definitely.
Speaker E:And with everything that you're doing, are you trying to, like, just go strictly get away from barbering and just do, like, skits and entertainment like that, or are you trying to always be, you know, having someone in the booth?
Speaker A:I'm gonna do both.
Speaker A:I think I'm gonna do both.
Speaker A:I think I'm getting.
Speaker A:I think I'm starting to.
Speaker A:I've always been out.
Speaker A:See.
Speaker A:Luckily, like, I hadn't locked this niche where it wasn't just barbers watching my barber content.
Speaker A:I was making funny skits that were just funny all the way around, even.
Speaker A:But I was just using barbering as my foundation or like my setting, you know, I mean, every content creator has their setting.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And that was an easy way to pick a setting for me.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And it's so easy to make jokes because the barbershop is a place where jokes are made already.
Speaker A:So naturally, the, the masses don't see it as just one niche, but whether the way the bar, other barber influencers do it.
Speaker A:Yes, of course you're going to see it that way because.
Speaker A:Because it's very broad and boring and it's straight barber, like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, so you can tell what, like, it's just straight to point.
Speaker A:Mine is like a skit of like a, a mom coming in but like, that everybody has seen, other than just barbers, even if you just been waiting in there, you've seen a mom look like the kind of mom I would walk in looking like, you know what I'm saying, and do a scenario.
Speaker A:And everybody's seen it in real life, so everybody think it's funny.
Speaker A:But now I am going to.
Speaker A:I've definitely been going outside of the barber realm and it's been.
Speaker A:I've been very successful doing it, I feel like.
Speaker A:And I've gotten a lot of, A lot of praise and notice from it.
Speaker A:So I do both.
Speaker A:And I feel like I've been able to balance it really well.
Speaker A:But I'm always going to drop gems for the barbers and shit like that because, I mean, that's, that's my, that's my, that's, that's my, my fan base.
Speaker A:That's my consumer.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, of course.
Speaker A:But I mean, look at Vic Blends.
Speaker A:Look at the other guys that have done it, that they're still barber.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker E:Still keeping it, keeping in touch with it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But they're, they're expanding.
Speaker A:I think that's really what I want to do with it.
Speaker A:You feel me?
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker E:Just go as far as you can with it.
Speaker A:Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker A:I'm not, I'm not saying I want to do it the way they did it at all, my way.
Speaker A:Just like I've done this whole way.
Speaker A:And that's why everybody's been so shocked to see, because originally in the bar, I.
Speaker A:In the beginning, a lot of the big, the bigger, the big heads in the barber industry, the upper, upper people in the industry, they're like, but that's not going to work.
Speaker A:It's only going to get this working right now, but it's only going to get you so far.
Speaker A:You know, I mean, it's, it's too much.
Speaker A:Even if you like the way they would tell me I've toned it down.
Speaker A:But in.
Speaker A:I wouldn't say I tone it down.
Speaker A:I've just mastered it and, and polished it and figured it out.
Speaker A:And I've still, I'm still, still do it the same way I did.
Speaker A:Still just as crazy.
Speaker A:I still just as crazy.
Speaker A:Not a pocket.
Speaker A:I do watch what I say a little bit more, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:And less opinionated.
Speaker A:But other than that, it's still the same shit, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But they told me it wasn't gonna work and it worked, so that's what I'm saying.
Speaker A:My, my way is going to be always going to be different.
Speaker B:No, definitely.
Speaker B:And like you said, a lot of your videos, they connect with broad audiences.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker B:What would you like credit that connection to?
Speaker A:Like life experience, you know, I've been around a lot of different kinds of people, bro.
Speaker A:Like, I've been blessed to wear like, you know, we moved from out this, out this way.
Speaker A:When I was younger, my mom had me going to better schools, but I was, you know, I mean, I always had family that was in the mix.
Speaker A:And then even as I got older, I would always run back to be in the mix, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, but I got the best of both, best of both worlds because I play sports and shit.
Speaker A:And I, I ain't gonna lie, I was good, so I went to good schools, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So I got to be around the rich white kids and be around those kind their parents and learn how to be at their houses and be around those kind of people.
Speaker A:But also I was very street smart and still moved in the streets, you know, I mean, so I got the best of both worlds.
Speaker A:And then whether it was me going to, like I said, like, I might go golfing with my white friends and then.
Speaker A:But I've been in jail with the thugs and, and with the homies, you know I'm saying.
Speaker A:Chilling, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But I've been everywhere.
Speaker A:So I think just having all these, being able to connect and know how people relate and respond, I think is what's got me so far, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And made it to where everybody likes it because I just use like it might be a barber setting, like I said, but the video is relative to life and just, you know, I mean, to make everybody feel or laugh.
Speaker A:And like I said, now I've gotten out of that or not out of it, but outside of the box of barbering, I make regular videos too, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:No, that's dope.
Speaker B:That's dope.
Speaker B:And I even see like in your clothing brand, like you still resonate with like a large audience.
Speaker B:Like even I saw your recent drop.
Speaker B:Was it Respect the Garage barber?
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, and I thought that was dope, you know, because a lot of people, like I've heard you say, they kind of dis or disregard the fact that most people start that way, you know what I say?
Speaker B:You know, most people start at that, at the crib or just cutting the homies because they don't want to pay to go to the barbershop or something.
Speaker A:Like that, you know, and from a.
Speaker A:From a Selling from a.
Speaker A:The supplier standpoint, right?
Speaker A:Or like the seller standpoint, it's.
Speaker A:It's an easy win because everybody either started there or you're there right now.
Speaker A:So you could buy it for the nostalgic feeling, or you could buy it because you're there right now.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So marketing wise, it's easy be.
Speaker A:It's a layup, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:For sure.
Speaker A:It made perfect sense.
Speaker B:No, definitely talking about barbers, bro.
Speaker A:What's.
Speaker C:What's, what's the most.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker A:I don't even know what you're gonna ask.
Speaker A:I'm just like, well, what's like the.
Speaker C:Most annoying type of client to cut?
Speaker A:Just the one that, you know, either.
Speaker A:Either his girl picking the haircut or he look, he do this.
Speaker A:He like, move a lot.
Speaker A:I mean, that's.
Speaker A:It's pretty simple, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:Or they're like talk when you're trying to line up their mustache or something.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Or talk to everybody else or like.
Speaker A:Or the client that talked to your client while he.
Speaker A:So he.
Speaker A:Now he start talking.
Speaker A:Like, I don't.
Speaker A:Just.
Speaker A:Just the ones that's gonna make your job hard.
Speaker A:I feel it.
Speaker A:I'll feel it.
Speaker B:I feel it.
Speaker C:That's crazy.
Speaker B:No, talk about some of those, like, pet peeves or some of those, you.
Speaker A:Know, the girlfriend picking a haircut.
Speaker A:Pet peeve, bro.
Speaker A:Like, sit your ass in the car.
Speaker A:Just.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:Like, let him come and get it.
Speaker A:Don't come in here.
Speaker A:And even if you is paying for it and picking it, send them.
Speaker A:Send them with a picture.
Speaker A:We got it.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker E:Like, I've never been to the barbershop.
Speaker C:They're trying to be hella boss.
Speaker A:And yeah, they chat about this.
Speaker A:There's one girl.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And to what you said, like, I brought my girl in, but even then, she just.
Speaker A:She doesn't even want to come in.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:She'll probably come in for two seconds and dip, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, but.
Speaker A:Or we.
Speaker A:We got an Uber, so she had to come in back when we was broke, you know, like some.
Speaker A:Like that maybe.
Speaker A:But even then, she's not gonna tell you how I'm gonna get my.
Speaker A:But yeah, this.
Speaker A:This girl.
Speaker A:This girl that's probably my.
Speaker A:The one I hate the most.
Speaker A:But yeah, this girl, literally, she's like, when you.
Speaker A:She's like, oh, yeah, my mom's a hairdresser.
Speaker A:When you hear like that, or my dad's a barter, just know you in for it.
Speaker B:They better critique you.
Speaker A:Yeah, they don't know.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:They act like they're the ones doing.
Speaker A:It because probably wasn't even good at cutting hair.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, your mama probably not even good at it.
Speaker A:Like, but you gonna see.
Speaker A:But that's what happened.
Speaker A:So now she like, yeah, can you, like, she tries using all the terms.
Speaker A:Can you do that?
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Like this right here?
Speaker A:And I'm doing it.
Speaker A:She's like, are you gonna.
Speaker A:I'm like.
Speaker A:And she's getting up.
Speaker A:And then, like, I had walked away.
Speaker A:She tried to, like, grab my.
Speaker A:My.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But my.
Speaker A:My sister, she working.
Speaker A:She a barber too.
Speaker A:She owns the shop.
Speaker A:Shout Out Dominique.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:She said, no, don't touch his.
Speaker A:Like, Dominique.
Speaker A:I ain't gonna like Dominique.
Speaker A:One of the ones.
Speaker A:She gonna tell you off.
Speaker A:Rip.
Speaker A:Like, she.
Speaker A:She on that, like.
Speaker A:And she was like, no, no.
Speaker A:She said, little girl, don't touch that.
Speaker A:That's exactly what she said.
Speaker A:And then I came back around.
Speaker A:She said she was finna try to touch your.
Speaker A:I was like, I'm looking.
Speaker A:I'm like, I'm pretty much done, though.
Speaker A:And she's like, can you just touch it right here?
Speaker A:I'm like, see, the thing is, like, you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker A:Because if I touch the la.
Speaker A:Like I told you the last dude it up and I told you we just let that grow and.
Speaker A:But, yeah, that's just a long story short.
Speaker A:But, yeah, she was on my last nerve that day for sure.
Speaker A:For sure.
Speaker A:My biggest pet peeve.
Speaker C:That's hella funny.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Being.
Speaker C:Being on.
Speaker C:On the clientele side, you never really think about that.
Speaker C:And you always like.
Speaker C:I mean, me personally, you always in there just like.
Speaker C:I'm trying to just make it easy for everybody.
Speaker A:I'm saying, you wish everybody thought like that.
Speaker A:Because I think like that.
Speaker A:I just sit there and shut up.
Speaker C:Yeah, I'm trying to get you.
Speaker A:I'm trying to get in and out as much as you do their thing.
Speaker A:Like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:That's me.
Speaker A:But you think every week common sense ain't too coming, Brody.
Speaker C:Facts.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:I feel like I might be.
Speaker B:I don't know if this is, like, stupid or something, but I would barely even look at the cut.
Speaker B:I just.
Speaker B:I trust what they cut and I leave.
Speaker B:Well, if it's up I'm like, I gotta deal with that.
Speaker B:So I get the next guy.
Speaker A:That's the average person's response.
Speaker A:You know, most men, we're simple, bro.
Speaker A:We just want to look better than we do.
Speaker B:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker A:Most people, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And don't get me wrong, there's about 25, 30 out there this extremely picky.
Speaker A:But most, most people just want to see that the hairline is straight for.
Speaker A:I mean, if you get that, that haircut, make sure that straight, it's faded.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:Ain't no the crazy lines in the fade or nothing and we up out of here.
Speaker B:No, for real.
Speaker A:And we might be able to deal with one little faint one, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, you see a little thing, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:My still might tip them just because like, you know, you got me at a reasonable time.
Speaker A:And that's what they.
Speaker A:Because you're paying for time, bro.
Speaker A:Most people are paying for time.
Speaker A:Whether you're coming in for me to talk to you about your wife and kids, you got to get it out of here because you run a business.
Speaker A:You got, you got, you got to do whatever your your may be, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:But you're paying for your time.
Speaker A:So for what I tell people is the best barbers are decent haircutters and, and great professionals.
Speaker A:That's what makes a good barber.
Speaker A:You see what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Because it's like 80% mental and 20% haircuts.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:To make, that's how you make money.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:You see, I'm saying gotta be a likable person.
Speaker C:Have people wanna come back.
Speaker A:You have, you have good.
Speaker A:If you're good.
Speaker A:If you're, if you're good like at talking and consulting with the clients and remember their name, their dog's name, what they just always remember what they did before with it before they like, I'm going to the so and so's birthday.
Speaker A:That's why I'm getting this when they come back.
Speaker A:How is so and so's birthday?
Speaker A:Yeah, it's easy.
Speaker A:You know I'm saying, like.
Speaker A:And for some people, that's enough to give you $100.
Speaker B:Not for sure.
Speaker A:It's just, it's different strokes for different folks.
Speaker A:You just gotta know who you're dealing with out there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, for sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker E:I've seen people's chairs where like the barber made me feel like they didn't even want to cut my hair.
Speaker E:I'm like, well, damn, son, I thought you Want to make some money today?
Speaker A:Yeah, like he mad that you there, right?
Speaker A:I'm trying to.
Speaker A:Hey, I've seen barbers like that and I get why they feel like that.
Speaker A:He's probably just tired.
Speaker A:But even when I do feel like that, I still try to just be like.
Speaker A:I was like, yeah, you know, it's been a long day, bro, but how you doing?
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:But I kind of let him know, like I'm whooped.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm trying to be cool as possible, bro.
Speaker A:I'm just tired, bro.
Speaker A:So like let's get this out the way.
Speaker A:How you doing?
Speaker A:How the kids cut here?
Speaker B:I can't do much talking, but I'll listen.
Speaker A:And most of the time the dude at the end of the day is just getting off work anyway, so he only wants to.
Speaker A:Hello, how are you cut here?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Anyway, so you're good types it or.
Speaker E:You got that yapper barber who's just yapping.
Speaker E:You know, it's funny too.
Speaker E:I was checking your videos out tonight.
Speaker E:Like I think it was so funny how you make fun of yourself, you know, as a barber.
Speaker A:Oh yeah.
Speaker E:I'm just like, damn, dude.
Speaker E:I behave when barbers be doing that.
Speaker E:Just like you making those videos as a barber.
Speaker E:I'm like that.
Speaker E:That's funny.
Speaker E:He knows what it's like then.
Speaker A:I know what I do.
Speaker A:I know we all do it, bro.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Some people are worse than others, but I know we all do.
Speaker A:Like so.
Speaker A:And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker A:It's so relative.
Speaker A:But you see how all men get haircuts.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I don't have to.
Speaker A:I can make the content for you too.
Speaker A:It's not just about the barber.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because you be watching like these do be doing that and then a lot, bro.
Speaker A:You'd be surprised, you know how many 40 year old moms follow me, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like I have crate like my, my following because I, because I started doing.
Speaker A:Now I do current events.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:That's one of my new ones.
Speaker A:Green screen current events.
Speaker A:Oh, that's cool.
Speaker A:Put it up in the back.
Speaker A:You know, just troll about to not troll about it, but be fun.
Speaker A:Show my personality for 45 seconds on the topic.
Speaker A:Pretty much that's what it is.
Speaker A:That's all you're doing.
Speaker A:That's cool.
Speaker A:And, and it's been working.
Speaker A:But it gives me like a different fan, like a different kind of base.
Speaker B:Fan base.
Speaker A:It's just another fan base.
Speaker A:And it's cool.
Speaker E:Doesn't look at you.
Speaker A:It's like you Know, like, moms are like anywhere from like 30 to 40, but they with me.
Speaker A:They think I'm hella funny.
Speaker A:And like, I think it's cool, though.
Speaker A:It's just like a new add on to what I've already had.
Speaker A:Hey, shout out to y' all.
Speaker B:Your videos are hella funny.
Speaker B:Like the one where you said, this is what your barber really doing.
Speaker B:When he ain't replying, it is like blowing up your.
Speaker B:Blowing up the photo.
Speaker B:You just played Xbox.
Speaker A:That should have like 5 million views.
Speaker A:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker B:That's just hilarious, cuz you really.
Speaker A:It's relative.
Speaker A:It really happens.
Speaker A:What are you doing?
Speaker E:Don't you not want to make money?
Speaker B:Or it be the times where you need the haircut the most?
Speaker A:Like today.
Speaker A:And to the barber, it's like, man, it's Sunday.
Speaker A:This fool don't need it that bad thinking about it.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:And we're not, bro.
Speaker A:I ain't going to lie.
Speaker A:We've been dealing with with y' all all week, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So once we get on that game, I ain't going to lie.
Speaker A:Any barber could tell y' all this.
Speaker A:Once we get on that game, I'm not thinking about that phone.
Speaker A:Like, I'm locked in.
Speaker A:I'm locked game.
Speaker A:I'm in the park.
Speaker A:Like, I play 2K.
Speaker A:So in my mind, I'm there.
Speaker A:I'm in the park.
Speaker A:I'm not barber right now.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm him.
Speaker A:I'm the dude on the court right now.
Speaker A:That's where I'm at.
Speaker A:I'm not even on the small forward.
Speaker A:If you want to talk, contact me.
Speaker A:Hit me on my 2K phone.
Speaker A:On the phone on 2 said, ping my line.
Speaker A:Hit me on there.
Speaker A:My course.
Speaker E:What do you think is like the proper way to get paid as a barber?
Speaker E:Because I'd be hanging, going to a barber and they don't have the one app and it's like, man, I only got this app.
Speaker A:Cash is king, brother.
Speaker E:Cash is the way to do it.
Speaker A:Every.
Speaker A:Cash or Zel?
Speaker E:Cash.
Speaker A:Zel.
Speaker A:Go straight to your bank.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And you don't have to do no transfer.
Speaker A:You don't have to do.
Speaker A:Put no extra money, cuz I'm not going to lose no money.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker A:So Zeller.
Speaker A:Zeller or cash.
Speaker A:Those are the two best ones.
Speaker B:I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker B:As a, as a consumer, we'll take whatever though.
Speaker B:That's my biggest pet peeve, though.
Speaker B:When I go To a barbershop.
Speaker B:They're like, no, you gotta pay through the app.
Speaker B:You gotta pay through that or whatever.
Speaker B:I'm not trying to.
Speaker A:I don't even have a set up where you can pay through my app.
Speaker A:Yeah, no, I'll fuck with that.
Speaker A:But my demographic, you know, I kind of.
Speaker A:I work where my barbershop is, is more like inner city, you could say.
Speaker A:So my demographic doesn't think like that.
Speaker A:They don't want to pay through that.
Speaker A:Most of them, they have.
Speaker A:They have debit cards and.
Speaker A:But like, they don't use them.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Like most.
Speaker A:Like most people do.
Speaker A:Like, if I worked in one creek, that would be great.
Speaker A:But that's the demographic you're dealing with.
Speaker E:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker A:So it just.
Speaker A:I think it just depends on where you're at.
Speaker B:No, for sure.
Speaker B:And keep.
Speaker B:To keep on the barbershop talk.
Speaker B:Real quick.
Speaker B:I want to ask you what.
Speaker B:What are your top three unwritten rules that, like, you know, most people might not know?
Speaker B:Maybe it's a, you know, well known unwritten rule.
Speaker B:But what would you say is a barbershop unwritten rule?
Speaker A:Don't say.
Speaker A:If I don't point out something that, you know that like, is messed up to hearing notice because I won't have to fix it.
Speaker A:That's crazy to.
Speaker A:If you hear me trying to convince somebody to get a haircut, convince him with me.
Speaker A:And three, you know, keep all your baby mama and all that out the shot, I guess.
Speaker C:Don't bring no drama.
Speaker A:Yeah, all that.
Speaker A:Keep all that personal out the shot.
Speaker B:No, that's funny.
Speaker C:That person don't point.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:They'll be like, hey, brother, you gonna like.
Speaker A:I'm like, bro, he wasn't even catching up.
Speaker A:But now he know, like, no.
Speaker A:Cause like.
Speaker A:Like, there's the barber eye and then there's your eyes.
Speaker A:Your eyes don't see what we see.
Speaker A:Yeah, y' all still see an A plus haircut.
Speaker A:Like, because it is like, it still really is.
Speaker C:But, like, it's just like the small nitty gritty.
Speaker A:Nitty gritty.
Speaker A:And we was like, really trying to nitpick it.
Speaker A:As a barber, you could be like, hey, but, you know, you could take the guard right there.
Speaker B:You see the details.
Speaker C:I know that for a fact because there was one time I was in the barbershop.
Speaker C:It's the homie to the next.
Speaker C:He's like, hey, hold on.
Speaker C:He's like, wait, you got like.
Speaker C:He's saying, take the guard down, bro.
Speaker C:Fade him a little bit more right there.
Speaker C:And I was looking at it I.
Speaker A:Was like, now if it's like a new barber, a newer barber, and he.
Speaker A:And it's really like something that needs should be fixed before he walks out the shop.
Speaker A:Because, you know, shop reputation is on the line.
Speaker A:Not even if you own the bar shop, but the whole shop's reputation on the line if a bad way haircut walks out of it.
Speaker A:Because they could.
Speaker A:They.
Speaker A:It might be a walking.
Speaker A:Doesn't even know anybody's name.
Speaker A:He'd be like, yeah, that guy.
Speaker A:And now I think it's you.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, but so you.
Speaker A:You always want to make sure a bad haircut don't walk out, but like the littlest something that you really wouldn't know, like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, just a little bit of weight right here that you wouldn't even gonna notice.
Speaker A:Not even a bit.
Speaker A:No, but none of your people was even gonna notice it when they stared at it, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So, like, they're like, hey, you gonna shut up?
Speaker A:Cut that out.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Cut that out.
Speaker C:That's hella funny, bro.
Speaker B:And talk about, like, the competition or like even just like, you know, the trash talk, everything like that, it from barber to barber.
Speaker B:Because I was even at the barbershop a month back, bro.
Speaker B:And bro took forever.
Speaker B:Like, I was sitting there sweating, palm sweating, because it's been like two hours, barely lining me up and everything.
Speaker B:And the barber right next to him like, bro, I've already been through two haircuts.
Speaker B:Hurry your ass.
Speaker E:Was he like a new guy, though, or.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker A:Probably had to have been, as I've.
Speaker E:Had that situation too, where he took a minute and then the other barber had to come help him.
Speaker E:Like, yo, bro, you want me?
Speaker A:There's always a new barber.
Speaker E:You don't want to be shy and get up in there.
Speaker A:He said, yeah, and nowadays.
Speaker E:And then me too, I'm sitting in the chair like, yo, I got pulled places to be.
Speaker E:But I know you perfection right now.
Speaker A:But I ain't that good looking.
Speaker E:You hear me?
Speaker A:I'm so glad that y' all are saying this, because I talk about this.
Speaker A:And the problem right now is I'm going tell you why.
Speaker A:California, they just lowered the hours to a thousand hours.
Speaker A:It takes six months to go to barber school.
Speaker A:Everybody going to barber school now sees, like, me on the Internet.
Speaker A:God said he made six.
Speaker A:Six figures last year.
Speaker A:Couldn't air.
Speaker A:Yeah, but you know how hard it was to do that.
Speaker A:It was a Lot of work.
Speaker A:They don't see that hard.
Speaker A:They're like, I'm going to barber school with no experience, none.
Speaker A:Never even touched the clippers.
Speaker A:And just.
Speaker A:And just after I'm done, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to make 100k, right?
Speaker A:Then that's the guy that you get cutting your hair that has the guy like, hey, bro, no, this is how you do it.
Speaker A:And you're like, shouldn't you have learned that?
Speaker A:Yeah, you see what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But that's why that shit's happening more.
Speaker A:Because, bro, when I was a kid growing up, that didn't happen.
Speaker B:No, for sure.
Speaker A:The barber, he might not have been as good, but he wasn't gonna need no help though.
Speaker A:Like, you feel me?
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:He might not have been as good, but he ain't gonna need no help.
Speaker B:Not at all.
Speaker B:But barbers were also a lot older, I feel like, when we were kids.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, now, because now, like I said, there's people like me on the Internet making 12 year olds want to be bars.
Speaker A:And I think it's the coolest thing in the world.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker A:Y' all say, hey, little kids keep wanting to be a barber.
Speaker A:Just know it's hard work.
Speaker C:This takes like, it's put the time.
Speaker A:In and it takes time, right?
Speaker A:You can't just wake up and charge a hundred dollars.
Speaker A:Yeah, you can't.
Speaker A:Like, I charge like anywhere from kids.
Speaker A:Kids are 40, 50 for a regular adult haircut, and 60 with 60 up with beard.
Speaker A:And if you want styles and it's plus, you know, I mean, can go all the way.
Speaker A:Just depends.
Speaker A:And generally most people pay me $60, tip me $20, make about eight hours.
Speaker A:Took me a long time to get there, though, you know?
Speaker A:See what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, yeah, I didn't just wake up and get a hundred dollars for haircuts all the time, bro.
Speaker A:I get it a lot now, but it took years.
Speaker A:But I've been cutting since I was 16.
Speaker B:No, for.
Speaker A:I'm saying that's a lot of work, you know, but everybody wants instant gratification.
Speaker A:That's not how life works in general.
Speaker A:You see what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Life don't work like that at all in any aspect of life does it work like that.
Speaker A:So it's, you know, but that's the problem.
Speaker A:That's why you got little Timmy over there getting help.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:It's been happening to me a lot because I just moved out.
Speaker A:Happening more and more.
Speaker A:There's more, bro.
Speaker A:And the thing is the older barbers like me.
Speaker A:Well, I'm not, I'm 30.
Speaker A:But are just seasoned barbers, right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:We're already booked and busy.
Speaker A:We can go to a suite.
Speaker A:We can cut hair in a spot like this if we want to because we already have the clientele.
Speaker A:And me, I work in a shop where I'm.
Speaker A:There's only one other barber and they're only there twice a week.
Speaker A:I'm there by myself most of the time.
Speaker A:There's no walk ins.
Speaker A:I don't care because I have a clientele base.
Speaker A:You see what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But so now when a, when a barber shop are looking for barbers, they come to me.
Speaker A:I'm like, I'm cool where I'm at.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:The dude in the streets.
Speaker A:I'm good where I'm at.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I don't need to come over there.
Speaker A:Would you go, go check out the barber school?
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker B:That's where they come from.
Speaker A:That's where they come from.
Speaker A:And it's a.
Speaker A:I'm not trying to knock nobody.
Speaker A:I think I keep going.
Speaker A:It's a hard journey.
Speaker A:I, you know, I mean I make.
Speaker A:I, I talk about this every day in my content.
Speaker B:But just put in your 10,000 work that.
Speaker A:That's all I can say.
Speaker B:Just like any said 10, 000 hours.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:You gotta just put it in.
Speaker A:And going to school isn't gonna be enough, bro.
Speaker A:You have.
Speaker A:It's just like bro, no NBA player ever just only went to practice.
Speaker A:They practice outside of practice.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker A:It's the same thing.
Speaker C:Perfecting your crab going to take a.
Speaker A:Lot more than just school ain't going to be enough.
Speaker C:Learn it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:So do something a little bit extracurricular activity.
Speaker A:More than extra off the back.
Speaker A:Bring them all, bring them all, bring them all.
Speaker A:No, this is these pants tight.
Speaker B:So what would you say to the, to the up and coming barber that maybe you know is coming up in the current climate and what is the path that success in your eyes just.
Speaker A:It's pretty much everything I just said, bro.
Speaker A:I mean everybody.
Speaker A:There's no correct.
Speaker A:There's, there's no correct path.
Speaker A:Everybody's journey is different.
Speaker A:Everybody starts at different times.
Speaker A:Whether you're starting at 4.
Speaker A:I've seen people started 40 and I've seen people started 8.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:No matter where you're starting, it's just like I said, whoever works the hardest makes the most.
Speaker A:Do you necessarily need to be the best at cutting hair?
Speaker A:No, you don't but you need to outgrind everybody and be at least good, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, you need to be good before you start.
Speaker A:That's another thing.
Speaker A:Just like, bro, just everybody's journey is different.
Speaker A:When you.
Speaker A:When you're worth 10, charge five, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, we're 20, charge 10 gets.
Speaker A:And then gets where you need to be and get those reps and, and put in the work.
Speaker A:This shit's not easy.
Speaker A:You're not going to go to sleep and wake up and be.
Speaker A:Be me or another guy, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:That's already.
Speaker A:It's successful for me or even more successful than me, because there is barbers out there that it is, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, I just happened to find another route to help me be so successful as well, on top of my success already.
Speaker A:But just, just work hard and have that.
Speaker A:You gotta have that Kobe kamamba mentality.
Speaker A:You gotta work out, work everybody.
Speaker A:That's what I always tell is how I like to say it like this.
Speaker A:Because I.
Speaker A:I played, I was in the streets and I sold dope.
Speaker A:And, and for the youngins, it's easy way for them to understand it.
Speaker A:When you on the block, there's 50 people on the block, everybody selling the same dope.
Speaker A:It's all the same shit, whether it's weed, crack, heron, fentanyl, whatever the fuck it is.
Speaker A:Everybody's got the same shit.
Speaker A:But what's gonna make you, like, what are you gonna do to get yourself out there and make everybody want to buy it from you?
Speaker A:There's hella barbers.
Speaker A:There's hella people cut hair just as good as me or better.
Speaker A:But what, what I go out there and I make sure I get the clients and I make, you know, I mean, I stand.
Speaker A:I make myself stand out.
Speaker A:Just like when I was on the block, I was nice to the Knox, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I make friends with them, so they come by for me.
Speaker A:Even though there's 50 people on the block, they got the same shit I got.
Speaker A:They just like me better.
Speaker A:So that's why I'm selling my more.
Speaker A:My product is the same thing when you cut hair.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's the best way I can put it.
Speaker A:So yourself.
Speaker A:Yeah, is you selling yourself, bro?
Speaker A:But you got to work yourself up to be a product that's sellable.
Speaker B:Yeah, I feel that.
Speaker B:And it translates into every aspect because it's like in your content and you're.
Speaker A:And keep, keep, you know, I mean, Excelling and trying to turn up your amount, like, you should keep trying to become better, you know?
Speaker A:I'm saying, like, don't just reach a point.
Speaker A:A lot of artists do this too.
Speaker A:They get to a point where they're like, good enough, and they're like, I'm cool right here.
Speaker A:But that's also why you only make like 70,000 a year versus a motherfucker to make it.
Speaker A:I made 130,000 my first year on accident.
Speaker A:Yeah, I just grinded out and I.
Speaker A:But I was.
Speaker A:I had dedicated myself to the passion to where, when I was in the position in the shop, that opportunity was presented.
Speaker A:I was ready for the opportunity.
Speaker A:My skills was there, and all I had to do was just have to hustle, you know what I'm saying, and to drive.
Speaker A:So I think as long as you're always working and ready for the opportunities.
Speaker A:I see a lot of people miss their opportunities because they come and they're not ready.
Speaker A:Yeah, but if you're always ready, you don't have to get ready and you'll be ready for where and the opportunities come, you know, I mean, they come so random, so ready.
Speaker C:So you gotta get.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:The opportunities come when you least expect it.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So just always be ready.
Speaker A:That's what I would always tell people.
Speaker C:Shout out your clothing brand for the one time.
Speaker A:Hey, it's the blueprint, bro.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's not the blueprint.
Speaker A:It's Gotti with the blur print.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Yes, sir.
Speaker B:What can we expect next?
Speaker B:Like, what's.
Speaker D:Without withholding too much information?
Speaker D:What.
Speaker D:What can we expect at least for the people who.
Speaker D:With you, like, what.
Speaker A:What's going on?
Speaker A:We just gonna keep.
Speaker A:We're gonna keep scaling that.
Speaker A:Of course.
Speaker A:It's only going to get bigger and better and we're gonna, you know, I mean, it's.
Speaker A:It's closed.
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:It's just gonna get bigger and better.
Speaker A:That's all.
Speaker A:That's all I could really do at the club, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But just be on the lookout.
Speaker A:I'm gonna start doing more.
Speaker A:More courses, you know, try to start some classes up.
Speaker A:But I want to take that on the road, though.
Speaker A:Like, do so rather than just a mean greet, start doing like the 10 people seminars where you spend, you pay like, you know, everybody, every person pays like maybe 250, 500, whatever.
Speaker A:But you spend the whole eight hours with me.
Speaker A:We go through everything, you know, what I'm saying, yeah, from cutting hair to the content to promote to marketing, to.
Speaker A:To the whole breakdown, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:And as far.
Speaker A:And then also, like, you know, I mean, there's others you can do.
Speaker A:There's that.
Speaker A:There's that route, the tour route where we'd.
Speaker A:I'd want to go take that like.
Speaker A:Like state to state.
Speaker A:Whether it's me renting out the venues or people using, like, using barber supplies as the venues or whatever.
Speaker A:That's how a lot of people do it.
Speaker A:There's a lot of things I want to do, bro.
Speaker A:I'm gonna be real.
Speaker A:People ask me about a shop, probably not to stop.
Speaker A:I want to get a school.
Speaker A:But that's way.
Speaker A:That's probably gonna be later on down the line, you know?
Speaker A:I mean, there's a lot of stuff I got coming, bro.
Speaker A:It's just a matter of just getting all this stuff in order.
Speaker A:It's all coming, though.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And there's just so much.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm really into him, but I'm always trying to find ways to invest, so there's.
Speaker A:There's always ways that people don't hear about.
Speaker A:That's not con.
Speaker A:You know, I mean, not necessarily, like, in the country, people want to be.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You don't necessarily want to see it, so.
Speaker A:But I do.
Speaker A:There's other.
Speaker A:I do too.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:It's legal, by the way.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But I'm just saying, like, you gotta let them know.
Speaker A:There's so many things I want to do.
Speaker A:It's just, I.
Speaker A:I'm a dreamer, bro.
Speaker A:I've always been a dreamer since I was a little kid.
Speaker A:I was only child for, like, a long time, so I was like 8 or 9.
Speaker A:So I spent a lot of time just daydreaming.
Speaker A:And I've always, like, dreamed for the stars, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:So I feel like all the stuff that's happening now, I.
Speaker A:I've always dreamed about that.
Speaker A:It wasn't just like, oh, I'm so lucky.
Speaker A:It happened like.
Speaker A:Yeah, I.
Speaker A:As a little kid, I always wanted to be like, a mogul.
Speaker A:I just didn't know how it was gonna get there.
Speaker A:I just happened to use it.
Speaker A:This is just my way in the door.
Speaker C:Nah, you could tell, bro, it's a testament to.
Speaker C:To your upbringing and like, how you were saying earlier, you wouldn't change nothing for the world, bro, because it made.
Speaker A:You who you are.
Speaker C:You could tell that your passion is there, bro.
Speaker C:Clearly it's been working for you and that's probably why you've been so successful.
Speaker A:I appreciate, I appreciate you, bro.
Speaker A:A lot, bro.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's dope when other people see it because some.
Speaker A:I move so fast and I, I grew up like I, I accomplished a lot of things in like sports and academically before I dropped out of high school.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But it was my, my mom, she never made to where like it was like we said we didn't celebrate like, we celebrate like, yeah, good job, but our next like next thing.
Speaker A:So I don't really celebrate my own wins as much.
Speaker A:But that's a.
Speaker A:I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker A:It's a good skill to learn in a sense because you have to be that way so you can get more wins.
Speaker C:Yeah, you gotta be your biggest critic for sure.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:But so I don't always notice all my wins as they're happening.
Speaker A:So when other people point them out, I appreciate it.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Definitely break by break.
Speaker B:You're building the solid dope foundation, bro.
Speaker B:Yeah, I can see going many places, bro.
Speaker B:I could even see you stepping in that comedy space and stuff like that, bro.
Speaker B:You're, you know, you're funny ass.
Speaker B:Dude, your videos are great, bro.
Speaker A:Some people from Tubi been adding me, bro.
Speaker A:People that make two B movies.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Hey, anybody make move to be movies, YouTube with the boy.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:I'm ready, bro.
Speaker A:I feel like I could play a lot of different characters, bro.
Speaker B:No, definitely.
Speaker A:I don't even have to be like, obviously I'm really good at the funny hood characters, but I could play other characters too.
Speaker A:I've done it.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker E:Ice Cube.
Speaker E:Get the next barbershop.
Speaker A:Ice Cubes.
Speaker A:Just hit me in general.
Speaker A:Yes, sir.
Speaker A:Shout out Cube.
Speaker B:No, for real.
Speaker A:That barbershop movie, like I said, that's another one of them ones that really I used to.
Speaker A:I used to imitate a lot and help like mold me or like it's.
Speaker A:It's crazy how those move.
Speaker A:You don't realize how much those movies back in the day for me molded what is going on right now.
Speaker A:Like, it gave me a lot of my personalities, you know, like in the.
Speaker C:Humanity in real life.
Speaker A:It gave me a lot of my personality.
Speaker A:Like, no, just the funny me and stuff like that.
Speaker A:Like, so that it'd be dumb, it'd be dope as to work with Cube or even like Mike Eps and I know, like, yeah, like, you know who.
Speaker A:Lou Lou do too much.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Like so he's from Maniac, but, like, he started off doing Coming, and Mike Epps is his biggest.
Speaker A:Like, that was his favorite comedian growing up and he even got to work with him.
Speaker A:So, like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Not that I'm anywhere near the comedian that Lou is.
Speaker A:Shout out to Lou, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:But like, it.
Speaker A:To see his dream, like, come together like, that would be, you know, I mean, that's dope as.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:See somebody that you would.
Speaker D:You would.
Speaker A:Like, like, I've seen him in real life way before that I saw, you know, I mean, I seen Lou in real life before that.
Speaker A:So, like.
Speaker D:Okay, but still, like, would you be down to make some content with him, too?
Speaker A:Oh, hell yeah.
Speaker D:No, no, but I'm saying, you know, too much.
Speaker D:Hella funny playboy from the baby.
Speaker A:What I'm saying is not that.
Speaker A:Not that it's.
Speaker A:Oh, it's just.
Speaker A:He's just regular.
Speaker A:I'm saying that, like, I had seen him in real life before he got to that point.
Speaker A:So to see him at that point now is like, bro, shot.
Speaker A:Like, good for you, bro.
Speaker A:I know I don't know him personally.
Speaker A:I know people that are really close to him, but I never knew.
Speaker A:I never really knew him personally.
Speaker A:I just seen him around as we were growing up and stuff.
Speaker A:You know, I mean, but to see him where he's at now is double.
Speaker A:Just like Simba.
Speaker A:No, to see what Simba's doing now is fucking dope.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Yeah, just like.
Speaker A:Because, bro, all those people, we.
Speaker A:Even if you didn't actually meet them in Face to Face, right?
Speaker A:Per se.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Just watching them where they started just back before and seeing what they're doing now.
Speaker A:Sim is writing songs.
Speaker A:Some of.
Speaker A:Some of the hits you hear on the radio right now.
Speaker A:From my.
Speaker A:From what I've heard.
Speaker B:No, definitely facts.
Speaker B:We need to see Blair, Gotti, Kasani, Bo.
Speaker A:I don't know who.
Speaker A:I don't know who cuts Lou, but hey, look, you know what I'm saying with me.
Speaker A:But his boy.
Speaker A:Shout.
Speaker A:His boy, one of his best friends is actually in barber school right now.
Speaker A:Shout out to Scotty, but.
Speaker A:So I'm pretty sure he probably gets kept by him.
Speaker B:No, that's dope.
Speaker B:The skit would be hilarious.
Speaker A:I tap in.
Speaker A:I ain't too good to tap in.
Speaker A:That's got me really far, too.
Speaker A:Not thinking that.
Speaker A:Being scared to holl at people.
Speaker B:Us too, definitely.
Speaker A:It's got me really far because a lot of, like, you.
Speaker A:You a lot of people.
Speaker A:I don't want to take them up first.
Speaker A:I want to act like I'm on his dig, like too good for him.
Speaker A:Yeah, I hit it.
Speaker A:If, if I feel like you'll read, like you'll see it because you like, like if I see that you'd be active on my.
Speaker A:I just said you.
Speaker A:I guess you reachable, you know what I mean?
Speaker A:So I'll shoot it out there.
Speaker A:Like, bro, you trying to work.
Speaker A:And you'd be surprised how many people are like willing to work with me because I.
Speaker A:I don't see myself as big as other people see me, I guess.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So like when I hit other people up in the bay, they'd be, they'd be like, yeah, it's good.
Speaker A:But there are people I've been watching for years.
Speaker A:So I'm like, that's crazy.
Speaker A:Like, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Like, I did see, I just get some skits with Sealy, okay.
Speaker A:I was dope as.
Speaker A:I've been watching Sealy forever, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:I did, I mean, base stocks around my age too, but I've been watching base stock before I got Big Baby.
Speaker A:Me and base dog did skits together.
Speaker A:There's hell of people, you know, I mean, I got skits on the way.
Speaker A:Even some rappers from out here too, from the channel.
Speaker A:We got some shit on the way, but it's just a matter of sometimes we don't got time to link.
Speaker A:They'd be busy.
Speaker A:Yeah, there's.
Speaker A:I've been, I've been in talks with a lot of.
Speaker A:Since I started going outside the box.
Speaker A:I've been talking a lot more just like regular content creators that just make other content, not just barbershop.
Speaker A:And so now I got some people that is trying to work and some dope people too.
Speaker A:Like some people from.
Speaker A:I don't know, you know who two times Monte is?
Speaker A:I am Monte.
Speaker A:He does like, if you're in East Oakland, go to this gas station.
Speaker A:It's the safest gas station.
Speaker A:But it's not.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker B:Yeah, no, I've seen it, bro.
Speaker A:He's hella funny.
Speaker A:I'm gonna do something with him coming up.
Speaker A:Or like that's just an example, you know, saying, I can't wait to do that one.
Speaker A:That shit's gonna be funny as.
Speaker A:And I'm about to work with the little Y N dudes, the ones that do all the little Y N skits, Little light skinned, one of them tap you.
Speaker A:I'm gonna do one with them.
Speaker A:I'm gonna be hung.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:No, that's dope.
Speaker B:I'm excited to see what you got.
Speaker C:Thanks coming from the boy, man.
Speaker A:Appreciate y' all, bro.
Speaker C:Likewise, bro.
Speaker C:Appreciate you pulling up, man, making the time for us even after a long day of work, man.
Speaker C:We appreciate it, bro.
Speaker A:Oh, no, it's all good.
Speaker A:I appreciate y' all, bro.
Speaker A:I would have did it.
Speaker E:He said he's going back to work after that.
Speaker A:I'm getting on the game.
Speaker A:I'm getting on 2K, bro.
Speaker C:Yeah, what you want?
Speaker C:PS5 or Xboy P5, bro.
Speaker A:I'm playing the box since 360.
Speaker B:Same here.
Speaker B:That's lit well for your supporters, you know that.
Speaker B:That always be watching.
Speaker B:What's one last piece of advice you got to leave with them.
Speaker B:Your best piece of advice, man.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:Stay hungry, stay foolish, and turn your passion to profits, brother.
Speaker B:No, that's awesome.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker B:Nah.
Speaker B:Well, we appreciate you coming, man.
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Speaker A:I would come back.
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Speaker A:Even if you ever want me as like an extra host or something, bro.
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