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00:00 – INTRO
00:30 – YOSHANDO COMES ON
2:10 – NEW YORK ENERGY
4:24 – FROM FINGERBOARDING TO SKATEBOARDING
13:10 – YOSHANDO’S TYSHAWN JONES VIDEO
15:49 – TURNING SKATING INTO A CAREER
17:13 – HAROLD HUNTER FOUNDATION
20:30 – WOODWARD WITH MIKE MO
26:49 – JAMIE FOY
29:35 – INTRO TO MUSIC
33:37 – MEETING LUIS MORA
35:38 – MOVING TO CALIFORNIA
43:27 – CREATING THE BBYYOSHANDO PLATFORM
46:38 – CREATING YOSHANDO’S SARAI BRAND
49:20 – UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA TO MAKE A LIVING
54:06 – YOSHANDO’S WORK ETHIC
55:17 – FAVORITE X GAMES MOMENT
57:10 – MT RUSHMORE OF SKATEBOARDING
1:04:38 – WHATS NEXT?
1:06:43 – A MILLION BARS

What it do another episode of grind and unwind but yeah this is grind and unwind a show that we do here weekly a podcast where we talk to people that are just doing stuff or not Legends whoever doesn’t matter all right chat without further ad do I’mma bring him on

In I think I gotta say the first part it’s baby oos shando I’mma bring him in ready y’all make some noise Give It Up baby y shando oh hey there we go there we go man yeah we here we in the building bro we here yo what’s popping chat what’s popping

Gary what’s the word gang what’s going on man so yes sir some movie man basically bro I I I brought you here to commend you on all the the content that you’re deciding to put out to the world and actually stay hungry stay eager keep

Doing it you know I I’m not really on social media I catch lot of your YouTube shorts a lot of your things that like go up to YouTube I’ve seen a lot of your music videos back in the day so ain’t no way you feel me so you said what ain’t

No way for real my music for real I seen a music video from you like from a while ago it was like a long time damn so damn good looking what the bro it’s tapped in I appreciate you gay yeah so um bro I gotta be tapped in I have to

It’s like a thing I have to do I’m not going to lie hey we can’t we we can’t we can’t forget the fact that you’ve been doing thing for a minute too bro so we got to go ahead and command commend you bro you was a blueprint to

This man saying You’ been doing this for a minute man I appreciate you appreciate it but and I not even but but like also to add to that is you still have ended up on a radar from me from not even being on that which is like

Amazing push you feel me I you know I’m not really a comment reader but I have stepped in your comments to see how people do feel about it kind of crazy kind of crazy they’re crazy they’re mixed but I like how your momentum is not focused on anything but

Doing what you want to do where does that come from bro like where is that keeping your confidence level so high come from you see what’s on the brim right you see the New York on my hat right I’m not GNA lie that City built me up to handle Whatever Whenever However

Like I I just feed off of it energy whether it’s good energy bad energy whether people like what I do whether they hate it I’m going to be in there bro you know what I’m saying I like to go get to it I like to go get to this

Money I like to keep excelling everything I do whether it’s skating content music and I just fuel off of that bro so that’s where that’s where all that comes from man I was both for this I’m not going to lie wow Shout Out New York City shout out Queens man so

Shout out to Queens that’s where he’s from and and is there any other mixture you got any other family like anything else uh like are you you just straight are you got some Dominican or anything like that or what you got going on see the flag man shout out to all my

Dominicans out there and all that you feel shout out to Dominican Republic man my man yes sir Queens New York we’re aing in the building let’s go come on so now that makes me want to ask you yeah since I know where the start is it’s in New York it’s in Queens that

Neighborhood bro I I don’t know H how big is the skate scene over there out in Queens yeah all so Queens is kind of it’s kind of spread out and all that but where I come from is uh is W Haven so w Haven is like borderline Brook like I

Could D walk to Brooklyn if I’m my like in my hood or whatever it’s like a couple blocks like a 5 10 minute walk but over there like you feel me it’s not everybody skateboarding but you got all the hood you know what I’m saying all the hood kids skateboarding everything

So it’s pretty F we got we got our own little tight community and all that but it’s easy to get around in New York so it’s like feel me even if it’s not busting like in that area you could just go take the train 15 minutes and you end

Up in Brooklyn or in the city where everybody’s at when when did skateboarding enter your life how old 13 I was 13 bro y 13 I’m about to be 26 and like five more days so we going on 13 years strong yes sir shout out skateboarding gang No Cap so that’s yeah

That’s that’s actually amazing so it’s been a minute who brings skateboarding into your life how does that happen yo you it’s gonna be different from a lot of stories bro even though there’s probably a lot of people out there that could relate of course but

Let’s keep it a band bro let’s keep it a band fingard that yo I’m not going to lie bro so look I know a lot of people started off with like Tony Pro Skater ahh whatever nah so boom Middle School everybody in the lunch got their Tech

Decks I never seen a Tech Deck before but boom they pop them sh out whatever we all they like yo let’s play skap we all we all having like uh like a it’s kind of like a battle of the barracks but we didn’t know what that was everybody was just playing Skate having

Little fingerboard tournaments and all that in the lunchroom every time so I ended up getting one of them and then I was like yo I’m falling in love with this I started learning tricks get that first finger board how’d you get your first tech deck all right never mind

Keep good you all good baile you all good your face your face when you said it fail I was like hold on I was wondering if somebody did a trick on the table and you was like hey let me see that fingerboard real quick and then they know it might have happened like

That I’m not going to lie it might have or might somebody might have gave it to me I don’t even know hold on real quick one second allegedly okay let’s go back to it allegedly it might have happened like that yeah right but no look I started uh

Whatever I got introduced to at the at the school lunch table took it to the crib boom every day I’m just doing I’m not even skateboarding yet boom I’m just watching MTH fingerboarding videos I’m looking up Pro fingerboarders amateur fingerboarders fingerboard companies and that’s how I learned about skate trucks

I didn’t even watch no skate videos or none of that okay like so um boom after I started getting nice with the fingerboard and all that then uh I used to go to my uh my pops CP because he lived in the Bronx and every time like I

Was with him I had to say this crib he was like yo bro I’m not going to lie I’m not trying to hear all day you got you got to do something real you got you got to do some grown man stuff and all that

Right so I’m like all right so give me a skateboard then nah he’s not jacking it boom I’m like whatever ended up finding the skateboard in the uh in a garbage somewhere like Somewhere in Brooklyn somewhere Brooklyn I was in front of my mom’s uh old church and all that

Brooklyn garbage bro that hold on that’s nasty Gage I had I had superpowers I’m not going to lie that’s that board took me to where I had to go I’m not going to lie so it was basically that my Pop’s not trying to get me the skateboard he

Was like yo you got to stop Tech decking and all that you got to get on some real grown man Stu so that ended up with me finding the board in the garbage you feel me I found that stuck with it started watching escape videos and all

That uh and then slowly kind of gravitated away from fingerboarding even though we still get busy like that I’m not gonna lie slowly gravitated away from that and then I started just taking skateboarding just mad serious I fell in love with it after that wow so so at 13

We still we still in middle school we young do you like is the same click of people do they also skate outside of it and you’ve only seen them Tech Deck in that school or did they not skate at all kind of like how you did it was just it

Was just a bro nobody skated in that school there was one other person in that school that skated he was my man he was uh my roomate at my last cre but he got his own uh his own spot right now and all that but it was just me and him

Me and him you feel me then we fast forward came to La together like 10 years later whatever however long it took but I was the only skateboarder in that school for Mad long I’m not going to lie all able to like high school and even at high school we only had about

Like my high school is different than New York cuz I know everybody in Cali like everybody skate in high school everybody skate Middle School in New York n there was probably like three four skaters in the whole High School feel me within all those four years I

Was there for real wow that’s crazy bro so X Games Mod you feel me like now it’s really hard to get really good at skating without a big community of skateboarders around you did you find challenges in that like did you find like because honestly bro falling in

Love with this thing that’s really hard to learn without like okay I got like a big like you said your story is not typical so you just kind of doing it off the strength you probably just pushing around I know that there wasn’t the best

Skate parks 15 years ago 10 years ago in New York at all you feel me it’s a lot of street spots they haven’t built Lees yet so yeah yeah so I’m not going to lie it was It was kind of hectic bro cuz like I at that time my mom’s would like

She would only let me skate from so in New York blocks we got a street all whatever boom she she was like you got to skate from this street light to this street like you can’t get off the block I got to be able to see you my

Peripheral tip and that all happened cuz uh my older brother he had got locked up uh a couple years prior to that he was uh he did a couple years in jail and at that time she was like nah I’m not gonna have you go down that same path you

Can’t go out you can’t go to the park you can’t do this this this you can’t go to no friends trip none of that she thought I was going the same Lane which is for the best kids real quick exactly yeah yo shout out to her though cuz you

Feel me she she did her thing with that she kept me out of trouble but with that I could only skate from pole to pole on my block so it was just like whenever I could get home after school because I even had after school after

School bro so PR I could really yeah I could only really skate on the weekends type you feel me so I would just take whatever whatever time I had and just practice like Ali’s up the curb you feel me I would try to do shet all that and

That it was it was tough bro but you feel me eventually that led up to me just growing up a little bit sneaking away I’ll be like yo my like I’m about to go to the I’m about to go to the deli real quick I’m be right back boom yeah

Go to the uh Supermarket parking lot I’m just skating over there boom then that goes for me going to the skate park and I’m just sneaking out to the city just just trying to just trying to be able to skate you feel me like just P to PO

I can only get this good skating from there you feel me but what’ll let you know like that’s what I’m saying so so now when we get the skateboard we’re going back and forth you’re on YouTube looking at those fingerboard have we switched to the skate videos at this

Point in time yeah so yeah yeah yeah around this time all right once I really start diving into skateboard and and start falling in love with it that’s when I’m like all right I’m seeing Rodney Mullen you feel seen the Rodney mull video all that those are the first

Ones that I watched but I skipped a lot I skipped a lot and this is GNA sound crazy bro cuz I started just diving into only New York skateboard I only I I didn’t care about like the California I didn’t care about the OG none of that

Bro I wasn’t even watching none of that I was watching local New York skate videos uh like ctis snacks.com I was watching uh Supreme started dropping videos around that time like super early I was watching all that kind of Stu so that was like I was I wanted to be like

Them I just want to skate like them you feel me so you talking like those early Supreme Vlog type days when strob first start releasing stuff before CH Dro okay yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly exactly wow but uh that was like my first reintroduction I was like yo like this

Is fire like people in people in New York is skateboarding they skating off of buildings they skating off of all these different things like this is lit I want to do that you feel me it wasn’t really like I wanted to be like in uh like doing the whole California thing

Whatever like skating School yards I was like nah I want to be skating weaving through cars skating on the train all that hop and turn so I was like I wanted to do that me okay but I mean that’s just like almost like how music is like

For the underground scene of music it’s you feel me there’s a lot of people that got in the club 50 but then there’s mixtap 50 that people didn’t get exactly TRX 50 to Street up like you want to literally you feel me I I I completely

Understand that you know a lot of people will take that as like oh I was not even trying to Jack California or any of that type of stuff yeah no not at all cuz I I I’m I’m in Cali right now you feel so that that goes to show you feel me it

Had nothing to do with that but it was definitely like I’m so big on my roots and all that bro I just I just love East Coast skateboarding specifically New York City skateboarding bro that’s me which actually takes us which actually I wna I want to pull something up what’s

The word it’s about to get spicy I don’t know you laughing it’s about to get spicy in here what you got bro I got hold on one second I I had a I have my my tag but one second it’s not working I was going to pull up a clip bro when I

Get it I I when I get it and it pulls up I’ll let you know but I can tell that you pay attention to East Coast skateboarding so um I already know where this is going yeah exactly bro this is one of the when it comes bro it’s one of the first

Things I’ve seen of you and it made me go on the biggest dive through YouTube that I could to watch as much of your content as possible so okay okay okay when I um it was uh yes sir I already knew it was going be

The TJ bro yes sir hey Jones is my brother I love his ass to him out him I just do this all the time randomly like for a long time so what I seen bro when I see someone do it mind you bro why is why that not playing bro oh my God

I’m G give you the whole context to this whole video right right after yo shout to everybody in the chat too I see y’all bro not working but it’s all good it’s my not working bro uh what I was F to say first and foremost TJ the

Goat big inspo in my life as far as like skateboarding been one been my favorite skater for Mad long inspired me to start my brand and all that bro so anybody that ever thought it was hate y whing bro I dead love this kid with all my

Heart bro you feel me he’s a cool ass dude I with him nothing but respect but as you was saying like like you see how youed I us mimicking him all the time yo bro when I tell you everybody in like in New York at a time was just

Mimicking him bro not hating but just cuz of like it was so different it was just funny bro like his whole demeanor and everything I was like I got to turn this into a video gang I got to turn this into a video bro nah bro how long

Have you been around Jones like have you been have you kicked it with him at the like the stuff you doing because you know he don’t let a lot of people in bro you feel me he don’t let a lot of people in he’s not I don’t bro I don’t I don’t

Even I don’t even know him like he he’s ComEd on my before all that we got mutuals but I never like kicked with him and none of that but I’m saying bro has been my favorite skater since I started skating so when I told you I was diving

Into early Supreme videos and all that even though he was the same age as me he was already going crazy so I was like yo I’m trying to skate like this kid he on Supreme he on America he on all this now I’m trying to be like this kid bro so

Bro off always gravitated towards him I understood his style I’m not even going to lie bro I wanted to skate like bro at some point so that’s kind of why I already understood how like he how how how to how to get the switch position

And all that and all cuz he was my favorite skater always but he’s fire though he’s five you got that man down to a science bro the fall off push nah I literally you know how people be like like when somebody text you you say LM

LMO with a straight face yeah yeah bro when I sent this to bro I was screaming I ain’t sing it to Jones I was screaming bro so I’m cing yeah that was super super good yo I’m I’m glad you found some humor in there bro a lot of people

Liked it bro that one that one went kind of crazy I’m not going to lie yeah bro I think it was GNA go that crazy but everybody was jagging everybody thought it was just as funny CU if anybody’s ever seen him or know him they know like

You can’t even take the hate to that that’s how oh my goodness it’s down to the point bro it’s down to the point man so uh now we’re moving more into skateboarding you saying you’re super inspired by East Coast and how that how that energy is right now now when does

Skateboarding become like after you say you lead a you lead a poll to pole you actually start getting to the city what age does it take that switch because everybody gets the switch when you’re like hey I kind of want to film or I might want to be sponsored but even not

Or even if you’re not chasing sponsors you’re getting in that crew where somebody has a camera how long does that take so that took that took like 3 years I’m not going to lie that was like the right around the time where I turned like 16 that’s when I started figuring

Out like oh people got sponsors bro like hold up people can make money off of this people could like do x amount or whatever I was like oh yeah I’m about to go to the city I’m about to make some connections I’m about to do whatever I

Got to do bro because I’m trying I’m trying to get out the trenches with this you feel me I’m trying to skateboard for life I’m trying to get out of my hood I’m trying to do whatever so around the time when I turned 16 I was just going

To the city I was just meeting other local skaters and all that and uh this I’m I’m G give them a big shout out because they was the reason my whole life changed I don’t know if you’re familiar with them but shout out to the Harold Hunter Foundation it’s a uh

Foundation in New York that just kind of they be blessing uh all the younger on the young kids in the in New York City that don’t really got money like that they’re not fortunate they send them out to Woodward you know what I’m saying they give uh they give y free completes

And all that they give you y skate lessons all that bro but they took me in when I was mad young sent me to Woodward uh they got me my first job at a skate shop damn near and all that you feel me they red me with a bro they got me into

Border m contest how did you make that connection bro just by just by going to the city bro I was one of those kids that was like if I found out about somebody boom I’m G to post something on on the media because Instagram was out

At that time so I make I’ll post something on Instagram and I’m tagging every New York company I’m tagging har Hunter I’m tagging Zu York shut I’m tagging every company so they all see so I’m making it like a stand like yo I’m here I’m here I’m outside I’m at every

Contest I’m the first one at every contest I’m here feel me so they uh they accepted me to go to ww and that’s how I built my relationship with them from there and everything else is unfolded after that that’s when like the sponses came through that’s when like uh the

Contest all that shout out to them bro they really they really did their thing what’s the first board you started getting uh from a real company it was called shut I don’t know if you ever heard of shut sh yeah yeah yeah so uh there was like a sister company to uh

Zoo York there was like you know how we got girl and chocolate New York is like it’s like Z York and shut and let me show you something too because a lot of people don’t even know this yeah go ahead I’m show you this go ahead go

Ahead he’s going to get the product real quick I used to go by my by my real name a lot of people don’t even know this bro I was actually blessed to get my you know what I’m saying my name on that like my actual name my actual name is

Joshua for those that know me and all that but they gave me uh they gave me a board a couple years ago right before I left the company and all that but they they really that was my favorite company ever bro only 3 just went Federal on

You who said what who said what I think that’s first and last I I don’t know why he went that crazy what he say Joshua green did he say my actual government yeah of course I had to check bro I bro I’m not gonna lie I hate that name so much but

My my viewers already know they love they love using that on me why why you hate your name why you hate your name I don’t I don’t bro do I do I look like a Joshua to y’all bro Joshua green I look like a like Devonte or something

Like I feel like I do not look like that’s made up bro my name is Gary Rogers do I look like a Gary Rogers anybody if I get to be Gary Rogers you for sure could be Joshua Green family I’m telling you my name my name looks

Like that’s bro I swear to God every time I get pulled over by them they let me go reading the name bro they like I guess I guess it does have it benefits know what I’m saying so go ahead yeah man no no no I’m saying uh what what was

I saying oh yeah they gave me that and everything yeah um but yeah that was like that first like real company that I gravitated towards to and all that that was like that was my dream company to be a part of and all that and they look

They was one of the first companies to embrace me they got they got me uh my first job cuz they had a store in the Lower East Side right by the Lees park it was like a shut NYC like flagship store yeah so that was my first job they

Had me work in that shop I was learning about skaters I was meeting mad skaters they taught me everything I knew about skateboarding bro helping me fly out to certain places and all that uh getting me into contest so shout out to them bro for real fire bro let’s make some yes

Sir bro yes sir shout out to them shout out to the OG mano it’s so fire bro yes sir um how was that first Woodard experience movie movie bro cuz I told you I was going from pole to pole on the Block pause to going to to Woodward for

For one week for free bro with like 20 other kids from New York on a coach bus and they giving us money and they giving us decks and they giving us all this I was like yeah got to see my first uh like real Pro skaters over there I think

It was uh that first week damn I don’t even it might have been like Mike Mo and perod that’s when like Mike Mo broke his leg and all that you was at that trip you were on thatp yes bro I I was there when it happened that I heard it I heard

Everything all that bro they was like yeah Mike Mo just broke his leg I was like n they lying gang I swear to God I’m everything I love bro yeah yeah yeah it was different no let’s go into that do you remember the I was camping you was literally there the day that

Skateboarding changed bro like that was like No Cap I was de ass there bro bro yo bro all the whole New York C was like nah what we didn’t even get to see him SK it was like the first day he pulled up I think it was it was crazy bro it

Was It was kind of wild but that that was that was a movie that was that’s why I I can forever remember one of those experiences because of that even though it was kind of unfortunate and all that at least we still got Mike moo yeah type

Type type he’s alive you feel me he’s kicking he’s doing his thing but it’s like my thing is saying he said Shan capping he who this I’m I swear I swear to everything I love I’m not capping bro I swear to everything I love I’m not C

There’s no reason there’s no reason for me to cap about that bro if I can remember straight it was like he he broke it in like uh he was in a golf cart I think or something like that at night and I guess he was like driving to

Something like that that’s what I heard you know how many people wanted to steal golf carts at wward but after that nobody wanted to at all yeah bro cuz ain’t nobody trying to break that yo people be underestimating those things first off kids underestimate bro y’all missed it this generation mind you y’all

Got Versace plug y you know what I’m saying y’all got a lot of good skateboarders that got a lot of style and a lot of stuff I want y’all while we’re talking to watch bro Mike Mo Capaldi bro this they don’t even know I

Got J right now we have Mike Mo I a even GNA lie to you bro they got Dylan J that was the name I was thinking of and I just went to the first one because I’ll be freestyling it they got Dy J bro we

Had Mike Mo cap we had Mike Mo Capal G and it was something else bro this was this energy this skateboarder this everything was like bro stop you can’t even was him he still is him I’m not gonna lie he still is him he still got

It you feel me hold on what I what I got going on I messed up the whole yo I love you Brian I got I messed up the whole thing I closed my YouTube you good you good yo shout out to everybody in chat for tuning in right now show love G

Shout out yeah shout out Brian Arnette all y’all that’s in there there we go yes sir shout out to you too Evan I love you look got my son right there let’s go Mike Mo right here oh my goodness bro come on bro so so now that takes me to

Like this point I know you were like watching a lot but you’re 16 at this point so have you opened up your plethora of like who you’re watching at this point like go from east coast to where trying to get more world arounded and you’re getting into

Like did you% did you have any idea about who you liked from you know another part of like did you start to grow other favorites like a perod or like a as far as like West Coast skaters and all that uh I’m not going to lie I

Really wasn’t uh not so much of West Coast but I I did gravitate heavy towards Trevor Cen for a minute I’m not going to lie that’s my boy Trevor Cen is really him bro like he was one of my he’s also one of my favorite skaters to

This day bro he was really you know what I’m saying putting on especially at a young age and all that but um oh yeah I’m not gonna lie hold on Carson I’m not going to lie I had a Carson phase too Carson is him we all that’s a

Godfather it’s stock that’s like C is literally a Kobe phase you know how some people be for you know what I’m saying like that’s what I’m saying bro cson is really him bro if you never had a cson phas you you a even really a skateboarder I’m not going to lie we all

Went through it it’s you have you got to check that footage you got to know you have to definitely bro it’s a must definely but I ended up doing my research like along down the lines and everything too like I I I ended up learning my history with like West Coast

Skateboard East Coast skateboarders all the ogs all the older companies and all that like I I did my history and all that did you start to kind of combine it in skateboarding and skateboarding at that point and didn’t separate the two because now you 16 17 you going to Wards

And things everybody’s like popping out to visit you start to get like a you know like this other found respect for skateboarding it you’re sponsored you at the shops you feel me it’s going up for you right CU now that that’s when I started realizing it was more than just

Like just skateboarding it was it’s like a whole like and I don’t even want to sound corny with this but it’s really a whole lifestyle bro it’s really a whole lifestyle in its own it’s like it’s something that the the normal person cannot view it as like the normal person

See it’s like oh yeah they they’re just doing tricks but like once you dive in and you really a skateboarder and you making your friends and you taking them trips and you you get the feeling from Landing the trick or you get the feeling from winning the contest and losing the

Contest and all that mad different emotions that you get bro you really start to understand on a whole different level G so when you come home from wward what what do you what do you feel like oh it’s I’m I’m uping it that’s when I that’s when I really started just

Learning tricks I’m not going to lie like you know when a lot of people be like oh yeah if you go to Woodward you you going to really become that yeah I was like yeah n that’s cat I’m like what it’s a skate par bro what’s really gonna

Happen like when I tell you something switches when you get to Woodward and when you come back home you like oh yeah I don’t the yeah you got to up it you got you feel me so I just came back to the hood skating way harder way harder

Like learn learning a bunch of more tricks cuz I’m looking I’m I’m over here in the hood like okay we all skate this way I go to Woodward I’m seeing kids doing big spin front board straight for lips you want to know what’s crazy bro

Actually I forgot to even say this in my cabin my first cabin at Woodward guess who I was bunking with bro but he was like in the bunk right across from me bro Jamie Foy boy like bro Jamie was trying to sell me Jamie tried to sell me

In EN Joy board for $35 bro at what we was in a save cabin and all that but that’s when it switched cuz I was like he’s waking up doing TR FP Li on the five block first try come up big front board in the five block like off the

Weake and I’m like nah I’m trash bro that’s how you feel was like I’m I got to go back to the hood and I got to just start upping it so that’s when I started just trying more advanced stuff I started forcing myself I’m like even though I probably shouldn’t have forced

Myself I was like N I gotta I gotta flip in I gotta do all this I gotta you feel me I gotta snap because there’s some kid on the other side of the world in Florida or in Cali or wherever they we I was I can’t be trash I can’t be trash I

Can’t be weak I got to get my weight up big as hell yeah yeah at that at that time he was way bigger I’m not going to lie that’s why I was like I’m garbage bro ain’t no way bro he was he was way bigger yeah

Yeah yeah he was sing bro big I definitely went back to the hood like I gotta get I got to get on it Hae was big as I’m saying that right here shout out to Jamie though my blood boil bro I I can’t stand his greatness

Bro I can’t stand I can’t that new that new uh that new footy and that baker has a Death Wish bro that Gap 50 son that I don’t even bro I don’t it don’t even make sense to me how it got to this point bro like I already knew bro was

Like going amount to being who he is but now you just doing like video game in in a good way too like it really don’t add up bro you know why bro Jamie can’t hoop Jamie not a b Jamie don’t you gotta be he gota be good at something

Right Jamie don’t rap Jamie drives his car to the skate park and skateboards his ass off that’s what he knows how bro there’s parents that remember the chunky pink kid pulling up to the contest and years straight wearing the wearing the pink T-shirt you feel me shout out to Jamie

Boy that is my family that my young I’m super I got a poster of him on my wall his Yo’s in the chat for Jamie Ford bro come on bro he’s really he’s really him bro come on bro J Jamie’s really him I’m not going to lie

Bro put for Florida I’m not going to lie off he really did so for real but uh but yeah that yeah leaving W just made me want to go back to the hood just hungry and just get into it and just start sking contest and all that

You know what I’m saying yeah start and motivating my friends to get on the same timeing too you feel me pushing everybody to skate harder and all that and feel me like I left the hood I went I went over to I went to Philly or what was it Pennsylvania yeah it’s in

Pennsylvania psylvia you feel me I went over best believe I got all of my mans to Woodward the year after that and the year after that yeah we took yo they they funded a couple of us bro they took they took me over there probably like

Three times maybe three or four times so at this point now the crew is growing the people that you meeting at the contest you starting to film little stuff locally you like 16 17 and and and you get to this point so now you know that it’s a different energy a different

Spirit clipping up gaining understanding what’s the switch because I I know I think you get the music at what 1920 yeah I think I was like 20 maybe 21 something like that that all that all happened when I came to Cali I’m not going to lie okay and what’s the story

That was like what’s the story behind that oh man I’m not gonna lie bro it was I so my I I first got introduced to music from uh my older brother like I said he got locked up for like8 and a half half years and all that and when he

Got out I seen him doing his thing music he’s like a couple years older than me but he just came out and just got on it he he was taking me to the studio with him uh he was like bro H having me like record his little Studio Vlogs and all

That he would record all his music in the crib yeah on like on just a little uh what do you call it just s like little macb like the older MacBooks and all that boom so he’s doing that and then uh I just see him start moving up

And everything like there’s uh bro this video is with my brother and cardi B like cardi B got my brother’s chain on and everything bro I’m not I can’t even make this up so I see him he’s on probation doing like shows doing whatever he got to do

Bro like locally I’m like damn like music is kind of lit but at this time I’m still not even like really thinking about it like that I’m just like all like that’s cool like he’s doing his thing but when I got to Cali and we might jump we might jump across a bunch

Of like whatever like stories and all that but when I got to Cali at some point I was like cool like I I I like skateboarding and all that but how like like I said bro I’m from New York I like to chase any back possible how can I

Just develop a new hobby into son that I could just make a bag off of you feel me so like yeah skateboarding is cool but I Jack music Let me just try music out boom I just I just started making music on my phone on his on his it’s called

Band lab band lab was out like a couple years ago whatever boom I start making music on band lab and Lis mois Crib in uh in Nevada we was on a skate trip my son put me on my son Han shout out to Han he gave me a pair of headphones nah

He’s from uh Paris he’s from Paris okay okay no Noah out to him but we was on a skate trip uh in luis’s garage and I we in the garage like yo bro like you got to try this you got to try to make music on this so I’m like I’m playing around

With it I’m just I’m just around making some whatever yeah get back to LA I’m like damn let me actually try to do this dropped like three little songs whatever I wasn’t really jacking them and then one hit and then when that one hit to me I was like no I really got

To put this out then Luis heard it Luis was like N I got to use it in the video then he used it and I jumped it up to like 100k and I dropped another one called retro F and that’s song jumped up to like 2 million cuz he used that in

The video again and that’s when I was like oh there might be some motion right here with this music right now you feel me that’s what I’m talking about bro you know what I’m saying so I was like damn this is kind of different right now I could I could see motion with

Skateboarded and making music nah it’s up I’m about to violate feel me which is like a very rare thing it’s almost like so so basically I feel like let me let me bring you back real quick I feel like you got into a space where you weren’t

Too deep into skating to get yeah kind of this is what happens to a lot of skateboarders they’re not able to make music but you’re popping from it because you’re not that deep in the skate scene because you remaining kind of east coast is what you’re saying even though you

Moved out to LA you still got this whole East Coast type of got to point I didn’t get like too like too industry too like into whereas like companies looking at me like all right bro you can’t be doing that or people looking at me like yo why

You making music even though it was a little bit of that as as some point when I first started but it wasn’t as extreme like as if somebody like I don’t know like if P Ross started just dropping music right now you’re not going it’s

Not going to be the same nobody PR Rock could spit absolute bars yeah you feel me but yeah I I just started experimenting bro and that just it just taught me a lot even outside of making music I was like what other Hobbies can

I explore and just make a bag off of and just you know what I’m saying that’s when content creator came that’s when when when streaming came that’s when starting to brand and everything came through I was like I’m about to just test the waters I’m about to see how far

I could take it yeah bro so so now we’re like I said you’re 202 one doing music at this point right you got a couple songs that have hit for you um but at the same time you stand on that board you are still progressing you are still

Getting but then how do you run into Lis MOA like when you come out to California what’s that story that got you here so boom crazy story bro I’m not going to lie this is insane bro back in the day you know this is a minute ago you ain’t

Just slid to Cali you know you live n yeah I TR I tried to move to Cali uh once before I actually made the move but I that that was I just came over here tried it out it didn’t work I went back but the second time I was like nah bro

It was Winter it was crazy blizzard outside I’m like yo I’m getting trash I feel like I’m getting old and even though at the time I moved to Cali when I was like 19 I was like damn I’m getting mad old bro no I was like 18 or

19 one of those I was like y I feel like I’m getting old I feel like yo bro what if I don’t go pro what what if none of this happens bro boom so why why do you feel like that happens is it is this social media like like have like an

Honest moment like are you looking because basically like you said you always trying to get a bag so you focusing on anybody that is so you’re watching it so now are you observing and getting that feeling at 19 that’s early AG my mindset back then wasn’t like it

Really wasn’t how it was right now I’m not going to lie I used to compare myself to a lot of other people bro like I told you TJ been my favorite skat since I was a kid so when I see Tj going pro for fa and getting the Adidas check

And doing all this and he’s traveling he’s doing all that I’m like damn bro am I doing something wrong I’m over here whing bro I got to get to it and not even just TJ and J I’m talking about mad other skaters that had it exactly me because I’m looking at everybody getting

They their first pro shoe their first pro board and I’m just a New York in my mom’s crib in in a blizzard like damn bro I’m I’m just in here I can’t do nothing bro I gotta get to Cali bro I got to do something so that Christmas

Came around I got like $800 for Christmas or something like that I was like I was like where you everything I love bro I’m flying bro I don’t care I’m f one bro me and two of my mens we uh we got a take right no my bad we bought the plan

Ticket and then we had like eight we had I had like 800 left over after that after I bought the ticket right there you go and that that was like money saved up from work and everything too because that’s when I stopped working that shut okay so bought the plane

Ticket I was on Craigs just looking for cribs and Cali and all that like just trying to find any type of like room for rent all that boom we find something it says room for rent in California 575 a month I’m like say less say no more I

Don’t even care I don’t care what it look like I’m just over there I get my own room me and my man can split a room we good buy one way ticket bro say peace to my mom’s whoever bro I’m like I’m out boom get to Cali right yeah get to that

Crib uh first thing I do is hand him the money CU I can’t you feel me I it was it was a crazy situation I I give them 575 over so I’m left for like 200 200 something right now right like I bet they take the money like I bet this is

Your room I look in the room gang there are three or four bunk beds in that room right I wasn’t renting a room I was renting a bunk bed bro I’m not even he moved into a hostel type it was 20 people in that crib bro

20 something men in that crib bro for real I was like no way I just did this we yo me and my man looking at sh I’m like yo I know we did not just do this bro and we had like separate rooms and all that we wasn’t even all in the same

Room I was like gang I just I just f i i got2 200 something dollars to my name right now I was like forget it I’m going just make it work boom you know what I’m saying so whatever there’s like 20 Sun people in that crib there like 20 son in

The back house bro it was like real like jail style type right so I’m just applying a mad job bro not let y’all see the crib first like he didn’t let y’all see the room until after you handed that cash huh n and even even if there was

Nowhere else to go cuz not like I didn’t have no like friends out here really like that I had like maybe like like Manny was the homie but I wasn’t just going to be like yo Manny let me just stay at your crib for x amount of times

I got a one way I up I wasn’t going to do that I wasn’t going to do that to anybody I was like I I did this to myself I got to just figure it out I can’t put this nobody I got to just

Learn how to get to it yeah so get that crib uh ended up getting a job like two months later and all that I’m over here finessing rent I’m over here making fake like uh not P like fake uh rent receipts I I don’t know what you’re saying I

Don’t know what you’re saying you get what I’m saying I don’t know what basically I covered rent for like eight months of those you know I’m saying of that of that year got a job and everything yeah you worked hard got every dollar real rent real money he’s

Saying that as a joke cuz he he told me earlier he was going to say that as a joke and I was like when are you going to use know I’m an actor bro y know I be AC there you go SK stuff all right

Continue I got you come on come on so I get a job at bong that last like three months quit then I started I worked at Shake Shack for 45 minutes quit wasn’t jacking it boom and then I got a job at Brooklyn projects and shout out to Dom

At Brooklyn projects he he held me down over there for like two years and from that I was able to get my first crib Brooklyn projects 2019 no 2018 and 2018 through 2020 when Co started No Cap I was in there I had short dreads I had real short black

Dreads and all that I was there every day I was there like five six days a week over there bro J I had to go cop something from Brooklyn projects one time oh did I help you I might help think so bro I think so I might helped

You bro I’m not going to lie I I’m not lying I’m hella good at like glimpses of faces and stuff like that so that’s my hair wasn’t as long okay I had went in there randomly cuz I was over there I was at I was at PR and I think I

Need they didn’t have so I had to go up the street it was the day I took me and Alex were over there and I think I wanted to skate the ramp but I didn’t have shoes it was it was I was having a full black man moment of just like I

Ain’t got my skate shoes so damn um yeah so I went in there but okay so now that might have been me that helped you out over there I’m not going to lie that that definitely might have been me so you’re over at Brooklyn projects another thing I want to like

Try to kind of like inter or like get to know is you what’s your hopes of do what do you want to do in California are you just like that’s how you get the board that’s how you make it because you said if you watching TJ he stayed in New York

To get his deals and get his stuff popping it wasn’t where location was like Jones was still in the projects Pro board yeah getting shoes like realiz like you feel me the py elevator I’m we taking it upstairs still he Pro it’s still they they they they’ like looking

At it from a whole different point of view they don’t even know what’s really going on yeah but at that time I was like I know I got whatever bro like I got this job I I got this job right now I got my crib I I’m skating for a

Certain amount of companies and all that let me just try to try my best to turn myself up so that’s I was posting on Instagram every day you know when the IG edits was going up you feel me yeah I’m I’m try I’m posting every every day bro

I was doing this method bro where I was going to uh just popping Pro skaters popping Skate Pages at the time and I would go to the following list and I would click each one of their followers spam their page with a bunch of likes

And all that I would comment on the post and I would go through like counts I was like a thousand counts a day bro just to get my get my following up my boy went through the uh what’s his name uh little Mau approach my boy you feel me I had to

Do I but that’s how I got to my first 10K yeah that’s how I got to my first 10K and that’s I was I just want to be out here just just utilizing you know another thing is people say that it’s like thirsty or whatever you were

Utilizing what the app is it is to connect a lot of people yeah a lot of people thought it was corny but I was like yo but how many of y’all know me right now right like I know I know I’m doing something you feel me it’s not

Like I just I’m gonna sit here and wait for somebody to just give it to me I got to go and get to it yeah but along the lines of me doing that me building my platform up a little bit uh is when uh Luis Moore came into play bro and bro

I’m not going to lot put me on he he kind of gave me that crazy good cos sign at first I’m not going to lie yeah he help he helped my my build my platform up a little bit get my name out there took me on trips and all that shout out

To him that was like my first introduction to seeing what it was like and I was like ah there’s a possibility bro I’m out here for a reason I know I can make this work definitely who who filmed this part uh one of my one of my man’s in New

York uh shout out Roy Warrior that’s where he go by Stefan sing my man from Queens yeah yeah he filmed all this except for that Cali clip uh somebody out here filmed that shout out to Matt okay that’s fire so so now now you like I’ve utilized social media what it’s for

I’ve built myself I’ve given myself this platform you you know I was still lowkey at the time don’t get me wrong you still that’s what I’m saying you still low you still lowkey but you turning up Louis is you in this YouTube world you getting this following it’s like you’re with all

The right people you obviously have a good enough energy to like be around all these good people and you still p your up when does the content realizing that content is the way come for you like obviously you see L’s numbers and stuff but you like nah bro

Like you can sit here and skate all day but if they not rocking with you they not rocking with you because it’s literally there’s literally 10 companies that will let you live decent in this thing you feel me yes bro so it all happened with uh with Co bro once I

Stopped working at Brooklyn project you know everybody lost I didn’t lose my job essentially I just like it was a pause where nobody was going to work for x amount of time so I was like all right I am not working right now I got to do

Something like you feel me like there was like curfews and all that remember they was giving like everybody you got to be inside the crib at 4:30 or you getting booked or whatever it is you know it it was kind of crazy at that time but either way I was like w there’s

This brief break where I don’t got to go to work and I was like not paying rent at the time because of the whole Co thing going on losing my job I was able to finesse whatever at that time I was like let me just let me just try out Tik

Tok bro me my girl was like yo you got to try out Tik Tok everybody going up on this like nobody was skateboarding on Tik Tok yet this is like yeah mid 2020 something like that right so boom I’m like I bet um I was like cool let me

Just try it out I tried it for like a week it didn’t work out nothing nothing here I was like yo this is trash boom whatever came back to like a month later I was like let me just let me just cuz I was posting regular skateboard and stuff

At first none of the SK is going out I was like yo this is pointless bro boom so after that this is when this is when that time that everybody’s getting like a million views just uploading this is where Tik Tok was busting bro like you

Could go viral for for anything bro okay so at this time I was like let me try something different I made I made like a little fake skate three skit it was like one of those like little follow missions you feel me had my man pull up with the

Camera just walk I’m like yo just walk past me I’m I’mma stop you I’mma give you this board and I’m going just tell you the follow me we just going to skate down this hill boom did that posted it not thinking nothing of it gang we ran

Like 700,000 views that same day I was like whoa hold on hold on hold on I a never seen no view count that high on any video you ever did that anything you done yeah yeah yeah right so I’m like heard it bet part two next day drop part

Two as I walking on my crib to make part two the next day somebody’s walking in front of my apartment like yo bro I seen that video you just posted bro like you’re sick you got to keep doing your thing I was like I was like ain’t even

Been a day been on Tik Tok I’ve been on Tik Tok a week yeah I’m like bet bet bet bet bet so boom drop part two part two go up part three go up then I’m like let me sauce it up let me let me throw some

Little acting in a different in a different way and all that right so I just did like a long I did like a long ass manual down Hollywood I was like yo bro yo I was like you want to get this clip real quick I was said bet come pull

Up come follow me real quick did like a little long Manny down Hollywood went up change it to nose Manny for the next video went up every video after that just boom boom boom everything is hitting so I’m like oh bro we red like a 100,000 100,000 followers in a couple

Months that’s I was like okay yeah this is this is lowkey what I got to stick to right now this is what’s working out for me bro this is really what’s hitting so that’s when content creator got introduced that’s like a whole new world for me bro and it wasn’t up until last

Summer that it really started hitting bro because I’ve been making Tik Tok since like 2020 but last year like summertime is when it really just started going crazy bro and like Instagram right now because I just started posting on Instagram I was against posting on Instagram for the

Longest up until like maybe like three weeks ago but uh last it just started going crazy trying to look for the a these are all we we’ll bring that back in a second so so now like you said bro you now you’ve ran it up you said 100K on the different ones this

This concept is working for you to do more so skits than um than actual skateboarding than actual skateboarding so you running it up and then are you are you using it to fuel your insta or any of your other stuff like hey subscribe here or links or whatever it

Was it was a little bit it was a little bit of that but I wasn’t really trying to push that on to Instagram so I that’s when I was like I could use it for something else boom I started up a brand called sah I was like yo I know I’m

Getting these numbers I know if I started the brand it would go just as crazy so I made a page got got some samples and all that and I just took some photos just wearing it made an Instagram page and it it ran up like a th followers overnight on Instagram just

For me making the uh that one video I was like damn I was like that’s kind of crazy even though it’s like a th followers is not you know what I’m saying th followers followers for a business in a day bro exactly that’s why I was like I was like damn okay there

Might be some motions so I just kept doing that and doing that and doing that I was like all right this is lowkey kind of working out for me bro this is kind of making some sense and then I would promote music every now and then promote

My brand every now and then I’ll go and promotee my Instagram and I knew every time I promoted it it would go up everything would shoot up a little bit so I was like ah okay I I figured it out this is where I was like I just want to

Do content full-time I’m not really tripping on like skating for companies like that cuz I wasn’t making no money Through Skateboarding and even with content I wasn’t even really making content money up until last year like March last year March I wasn’t even making Tik Tok money for like probably

Like two years and all that but when I seen that first Tik Tok check I was like oh say less gang like it’s over bro like feel me it it all just started working okay and you know I’m like the king cuz like like you said we both from them

Places that you don’t want to live your whole life I I don’t want to pocket watch I want kids to understand the concept how many of these things are you doing before the check rolls in and it’s good are we making Tik toks every day

Are we just living off the big ones I mean y see y’all see how I jug it on Instagram I post like a couple times a day on Instagram so at this point I’m posting one to maybe one to four times on uh on Tik Tok at this point a day I’m

Saying there’s yeah no cap a day how how well are each of them doing so yeah some of them obviously like some of them I was just doing the just talking to my phone like a comment reply son so those will do like kind of whatever but

Sometimes they’ll shoot up crazy but the skits every time guarantee they was going they was they was just moving they was just moving you feel me I knew every time I Dro like a decent skit it would go up it’s like a brief look at Sarah we’re gonna be playing that in the

Background while we’re shout to my man’s Keegan right there so so the man bro because you know there’s that Creator money that a lot of lot of people think it’s easy to chase off like getting a viral video or having a thing but then a lot of people don’t actually appreciate

The work so you got to have a high level of consistency to actually start to see these things that’s what I’m saying and you see that first Tik Tok check and you’re like holy hell these things took me 15 seconds a p or a minute a piece

It’s about four minutes of work but you know cuz I’m not gonna lie it gets to that point bro because a lot of people thought probably thought at first when I was whatever seeing all these millions of views and all they like oh yeah he’s up he’s making money bro my first first

Two years of making Tik Tok I only made $1,000 bro in two years bro off of just like revenues like AdSense whatever all that but uh once that new program they they came up with a new program a new way to pay um bro there was one month I was

Like yeah I was like I’m I was like yeah I like I was like oh man bro I’m saying yeah shout out to Tik Tok bro real my boy say hold I’m saying I was like it’s over this my boy said I’m out here

Getting to it so then now now do do you feel as a content creator that you have now find that found a new nine to-5 in having a high level consistency like because does it take like how much are you because now the algorithm has pushed everybody out Tik Tok has been mad

Pushed down are we still are we still some times coming across 700k are you highly in the algorithm or oh yeah so so so Tik Tok right now is not jacking me like that as much as it was like we still have you switch over but I’m

Saying like yeah are you still seeing like during that time like how fast was the cut off of that money situation thing like over there how long was that how long like was like money lasting type or yeah like how long was that consistently going up for you or did you

See like a good burst and then like a off like after you start putting more and doing stuff I’m not going to lie it’s still moving right now to this day thank God obviously there C there’s certain months where it’s like it won’t be as high as another because there was

There was a uh there was a month where I bro we we don’t R we went viral that month that that’s all I’m really saying we had like some good brand deals and all that it was a great month but the month after that it was like we didn’t

Go as rival but it wasn’t like it wasn’t like it wasn’t healthy like it was still good thank God yeah but uh even to this day right now like we still we still good right now the only reason why I’m just take I’m taking a little step back

And so I I took like I said I took like a a month to go and big up my my Instagram because I was like bro I can’t have like 300 something thousand followers on Tik Tok and then my Instagram at like 30k so let me just

Take a month to go and get it right let me let me tap in the live stream and get my my live streaming platform right and just do do whatever I can right now I’m working on just building up my live streaming platform and then I’m just

Going to go crazy again with everything boom four Tik toks today four IGS today live streaming feel me all that I’m not like I really I just do this bro I really just love doing this G but everybody that’s in chat I want you guys to listen this is somebody that’s

Willing to work for this this is not somebody that this is not somebody that is watching somebody else do it because like you said there is no skateboarding on there’s nobody you can even watch their formula this is early by yourself because like you know the Louis’s and

You know the other popping YouTube you like yo I gotta be locked in on a whole other type of energy bro like it’s on it’s on some yeah Essen you got to really just want it bro I’m not I tell people all the time that watch me like

Bro I moved into I moved into this crib bro the only thing I have in my room is is my PC setup I didn’t put no bed in here I didn’t put no TV there’s no nothing because every time I walk into my room I want to just be able to walk

In and just work if I’m in here I’m streaming if I’m not I’m editing other than that I’m not in the crib I got to bed in my girl room she got she got I we working I want I was like we hustl but hold

On no TV is one thing son my boy no bed I was like no I got I got a better my girlfriend I just don’t I force myself to not be in his space asthma because I let her do her thing I just go in there sleep at

Night wake up and just get to it bro I don’t really want to like I don’t like scrolling on my phone I don’t like doing none of that so I’m like least I just come in here and I just get to it yeah I love to work bro that’s my

Favorite thing is working I love it that’s the best thing you could do honestly you got one life you might as well go crazy you feel me and lit and create I’m not g to do nothing else nobody’s telling me to do I want to do my own

So you get exactly what I’m saying that’s what I’m talking about you I’m saying so so that’s why I wanted to make sure that these these youngans whoever is watching this or whoever’s even if you old as hell like yes you could be in this content space you might have some

Viral stuff but you have to follow up with keep that motion got to keep it cuz the algorithm wants you to work for it but if you work for it it will compensate you if you play the game it it can work out for you so that’s that’s

Super good that you decided to like make sure you go back to insta because that’s where really all of it is like yes there’s brand deals but there’s a bunch of stuff going on so so you get your insta right you say you on 30k what helps you build that audience you doing

The you are you using reels or what is that thing is that so I was at 30k for like uh I was at 30k for like two like two years maybe three years and I’m like yo bro I seen PA just start reposting all my viral Tik toks on NAA and they

Was going up millions and millions millions views all this everything I’m like damn I’m like you know what let me just try it bro let me just try it boom I start posting bro like I said started posting three weeks ago we went from 30k to 100 20 whatever the we at right

Now in like three weeks so it just started it just started picking up so that that just gives it just motivates me I’m like yo I know if I try to do something it’s gonna work I know it’s going to bust so it’s just seeing seeing that slight little that little progress

Right there you feel me it just keeps me and up you know what I’m saying yeah but uh yeah bro wait what they saying in the chat yo y yo y got to stop flaming my mans bro it’s a little inside you you understand they flaming my little homie bro it

Looks like look okay so now I want to kind of like refer over to this you say you didn’t have a typical welcome into skateboarding but I do want to ask you what is your favorite X Games moment if you have one my favorite X Games

Moment o all I’m pretty sure this was the X Games moment was it the one where they held it at Love Park in Philadelphia and ain’t Coston went like a contest I’m not tweaking let me know if I’m bugging I’m pretty sure that was a Philadelphia one right Philadelphia X

Games it was like some real Street thing I’mma look it up please let me know if I’m tripping I’m almost positive I’m almost positive I’mma look it up it has to be you’re right if it’s not then I’m fake you’re right I’m right right yeah yeah

Yeah seeing that was crazy I’m like yo they had a plaza with it bro they I love pun that’s amazing like that don’t even make sense that’s y that’s that’s what I’m talking about yeah I just put a lot of y’all on y a even know that actually

Happened I’m telling you I dope my little histories H like I’m telling you K yep yep yo look at Salma bro he over here yo he got the short I gotta dive into that bro you got the 2011 Chief Keef dreads I’m pretty sure won I don’t know

If he for sure but I remember like I visually remember him like just skating that and me like I told you I had a Coston face so I I I just gravitated towards that I was like yo this is amazing right here bro yeah they was outside bro this is that’s an awesome

Moment by the way that is a history moment for you kids I’m G wait till c gets on the screen before I turn hold on where is C at we gotta get at least one C tricky here yeah he’s he’s somewhere over there yeah there you go that’s how right to

Him right to him that’s how true it is G come on now look at C man so no that’s that’s a fire that is a fire thing and then now I gotta ask now I gotta get to the second part of it these are just a

Couple you feel me try to do my little X Games moments you feel me but then now I want to ask you who was your Mount Rushmore of skateboarding your four favorite people of all time all right all right all right this is this is kind of damn this is kind of

Tough I’m not going to lie a lot of people might not even agree with but this is my personal opinion right exactly real quick hold on let me tell this to chat chat this is the four people he likes all right Mount Rushmore the goats the goats go his people this

Is who his four goats and favorite people are go ahead y sh all for different reasons all for different reasons number one I don’t care what nobody has to say Rob de to bring entertainment like that into skateboard and bringing that back into this giving

Y SLS doing all this having TV shows all that Rob de is on there Rob de is on there I’m not going to lie to you taan got to come on bro like he my favorite skat since I was a kid New York’s finest I’m not gonna lie really put my city on

I’m not gonna lie oh my god oh oh my God number three number three number three we got we got to give it to Rodney I’m not going to lie we got to give it to Rodney Mullen I’m not goingon lie that’s great yes sir when it

Comes to Street skateboard I know a lot of Y want me to say Tony hog but I’m going to say Ronney just cuz Street skateboarding he he just he invented a lot of stuff he showed us what was possible with that you feel me five

Number four the last one this is a good one oh number four number four on that Pioneer list right now it could damn that’s that’s a hard one bro I’m trying to really I’m trying to really figure outad go ahead uh o O Let’s see matter of fact I can’t even lie thr

Tony Hawk on there go ahead Tony stop playing people he got into skateboarding that’s that is a great great list I fully like I understand that so now we’re going to get back into the topic of conversation about growing before we going to get into this million

Bars is like you said you went back you’re at 30k for two years now you shot up 100K are you now like you you’re the like you said you’re over here on Instagram doing your stuff um what what is that world feel like how do you feel

About the negativity that you might have seen in that does it not bother you at all I I don’t care for that I’m not going to lie people be thinking that should be affecting me I like I said I be I be feeding off of anything bro with

It’s positive or negative all it does just give me reason to keep going I’m not going to lie whe whether the comments was there whether the comments is not there I’m F I’m going to just keep rushing just cuz I like just I just like exceling with what I’m doing you

Feel me so that the hate comments I bro I I real life could care less I’m not going to lie majority of the time those people end up turning into the fans like long along down the lines and all that it’s plenty of times how did you learn

Marketing so well because when I watch your videos bro you turn your deck over pause to like show like what board you got you know how to like you to okay see I took inspiration from all all like you feel me just going out with every trip

We go on see how like he’s really getting the details and like whatever like it’s just grip tape you know what I’m saying just certain Boll shots all that you know what I’m saying I was like all how can I translate that into short form content bro because I know nobody’s

Doing that short form and then that’s it worked out bro shout out to him he really put me on to that I’m not gonna lie wow that stuff is so important people don’t be a lot of people don’t think about it like that a lot of people

Just think like yeah just hold the camera just like n bro all them little them little Clips those all matter the fact that strob sold faces to the only dudes that have sold boards in the last 10 years everybody comments why are we looking at his face for so

Long bro that type of detail is why it happens staying in on something keeping that key focus is why it happens for a lot of guys people can hate it all they want bro yeah bro it’s what works one it’s you going to rec one you going to

Remember it always you always going to remember it just cuz you’re the only person doing that but look at how many people going to bite after they see that bro for example strob style filming how many people started zooming in and doing all that bro you know what I’m saying

When team light work was doing all them Instagram edits how many people started making them edits after that throwing songs behind it started zooming in on on the Feats and all that let’s keep it a ban bro so everybody every you don’t got to like it but you you gonna have to

Respect it bro because it’s it’s it’s like some Pioneer they they’re the first ones to do it yeah exactly and did it did it with like a lot of people that were the pioneers of that stuff just kind of did it with like you can leave your comment we’re not going to respond

We just going to keep doing what we doing we’re just going to keep going Whoever likes it will stay and the haters you can cut and I I like how you have deflected that energy and made sure that you turn everything you’re doing because the the the goal is to never end

Up back at that crib in the east coast that’s what I’m talking about you don’t ever want to go back over there because ain’t nothing good over there there’s there there’s no nobody to look forward to over there there nobody to look up to there ain’t nothing over there man y go

To just keep pushing forward you don’t want to end up back in them Origins so you know what growth is the the most key and that’s what I appreciate you know there’s a lot of Disconnect between cuz bro I come from like that core F the

Corporate all that I come from that bro like that’s that’s who my ogs were so it’s like the kids that are the kids that are doing uh skits and all this other stuff you got a lot of older heads that is like so feeling they not feeling

It they feel all these types of ways remember how it was like you’re a YouTube skater or you’re a Tik tocker you this so you ask every now everybody’s using these platforms to try to make a living while the guys that were doing it are now doing very well so

It’s like we can hate all of it or you could just kind of realize that it’s not that big of a deal if people are good at the craft and love the craft like I’ve seen you switch from blunt handrails so every piece of content that you make

Every piece of content you make makes me like all right cool you feel me my thing is yeah yeah that’s there’s this there was a video uh it was this cat his name was psychedelic I think it was called I don’t know if have you seen that he looked like LeAndre sounds familiar

Though he looked like LeAndre bro he was he had a music video and he was like alling the stairs and stuff like that and the hater in me was about to be like he’s not even a real skateboarder and I was just like you know what I’mma just

Turn it off it’s not for me I don’t hate him I don’t want saying if it’s not for you it’s that not there’s nothing wrong with it it don’t got to be for there’s so much that I see on the internet especially with skateboard and I’m just

Like yo gang what nah I’m not I’m not jacking that bro but I’m not I’m never G to be like yo bro why you doing this why you doing like you should quit skateboard you should quit making like never not bro because I know exactly how

That is bro if I’m not jacking it that’s cool I might I might around with that same person later on like a year or two from now you feel me but they develop their content to something else that I end up liking you feel me they making their content for them

They’re not making it for me you should be making content because you like it not making it for nobody else we picking our top fours we dropping our content we using our platforms to make it in a certain way that’s what I’m saying bro

If y like it yall like it if you don’t like it that’s that’s exactly why you can scroll that’s why you could block that’s why you could just exit out you don’t got to you don’t got to feel it 110% so now let me ask you this that

Cliche question that everybody ask but like in the best way where where does the energy take you next are we focused on are we focused on the acting are we focused on sah more are we gonna are we going to tap back into music where’s that energy going next so right now I’m

Really I’m really just trying to get a balance of everything I want all my like whatever my most popping platform is that’s cool I want all my all my platforms everywhere to reach that with my clothing BR be reaching those same numbers my music to reach the same

Number live streaming all that but yes I am working on like acting and stuff I don’t want to like even say nothing but like feel me that’s that’s going on feel me go God God is going to work in his ways right there there you go but I’m

Also just trying to like get on my on my big boy I’m saving my money I’m really working on uh trying to get my real estate stuff going on trying to get a couple franchises I’m I’m bro I’m really I’m trying to see longevity bro so I got some franchises that I’m

Looking at just trying to save my you know what I’m saying I’m trying to own trying to own that dominoes down the block I’m trying to own that that you know I’m saying that whatever whatever store it is bro just I’m trying to get my on the right spots and just like make

My money make money for Tapped in y’all don’t even know that y’all can put down payments on franchises did y’all know that kid did not know you can go get a down payment on a franchise and pay it off like how you do anything else but

Since if it’s like a place like a Subway people are going to eat it every day and you can make your money back and pay it off and then that 3% down payment 5% down payment you could do all that bro you just got to get your funds right

Just don’t get your money just hold it hold that money bro sh trying to put y trying to tell them bro I be telling them all the time man for real now this is what we do to wrap up the show it is called grind

Unwind I am going to pick out a Beat from my producer D and we going we going you feel me if you want to hop in oh yeah go mid bars let’s get the mid bars on the way come on chat yo chat throw some words throw some words already bro

Let’s get the mid bars man let me see y’all hear the Bey I did this on Brian stream the other day too this how true it was yeah hold on where’s my is it playing can y’all hear it you hear it hey yeah I can hear it

They can definitely hear it this is grinding on wi episode like 20 or something I forgot I don’t remember 19 19 that’s impossible it’s about to be even it’s got to be even there’s no way it’s 19 it’s got to be 20 uh oh yo yo

Hey I’m a yo shando that’s the real East Coast they call me GCO I’m a skateboard goat I’ve been hosting these shows and I do it for a minute hold on your Shan though the boy is not finished I don’t got to be on flun Flex to really get it

Put the down payment boy then you can have it not rent it you can actually own it on and on and go ahead and go and buy your home and then honestly put some diamonds on your Dome and had a whip sitting on that Chrome and make sure the

Sureties is always hitting your phone and when you get so much money they won’t leave you alone I got blue Dru ructions can’t say nothing I know that I’m coming up young GCO stunting I never be frontting like for real but it’s skateboard PE and if you don’t love

Skateboarding you go to hell I’m not going to jail the FED tried to get me they tried to lock me down but they couldn’t rock with me I got away and I stayed up on a good path now I go to the bank and me and the tell do math add it

All up getting them bucks I never be shook I never get stuck I had good luck Tony Hawk put me on now I’m at the house streaming at the home maybe not this could be a place I’m not at I could have a little rental property and then go to

Another house on the other side of town you don’t know what I do you really not around I love macaroni see that’s my favorite snack I love when it makes the macaroni sound from the back relax let me actually not pay attention to chat I’m actually just on the beat only

Spitting facts I could be great I never be fake shout out to the narcissist y’all ain’t going to be at I don’t eat bananas because I am allergic I only like the Shorties with the asses that be twerking I used to be jerking back up in

The day not the pause version like the Dan way it’s just so ridiculous it’s not written way youst your do this it’s nothing bro I’m telling you honestly it’s Furious I’m serious every beat you can catch your boy just really cooking up up on the street kick pushing but not

Like Lupe I’m talking like real skate I’m talking like 2day I’m talking like taan I’m talking like daywon every time I get up on the beat man I’m on on this is like the best beat I’ve had I’m really spitting I’m telling y’all this off the top it’s not written blue hair

In his chair pink hoodie sayah the Beats of over I guess I’m gone about to say by peace we wrapping another episode grind my fault hey I love y bro appreciate the opportunity man I appreciate you sir apprciate all right y’all be easy bro love all y bro everybody in chat man I

Appreciate y’all grinding unwind every Tuesday every Thursday 6 PM 900 p.m. on the west coast catch us here X Games we go