JAMES JEFFERSON Jr. - Sipping Oyster Syrup

so I got this right here. That's a secret ingredient and I'm scared to know what is in it. So we got this the secret of geting, the secret agreedients, the secret ingredients. And we have crackers because you know I love crackers. Crackers and some of my favorite things room his planet, and um, so I want you to take a cracker put on your plate. We got salt it. What were you gonna walk? The walk everybody through? What the all the ingredients? So now this is what we

call oysters. Now this ain't the ones you get a noboo and I'm glad you smell it. There you go, y. Yeah. So the important part is where people mess up. You gotta you gotta drain the oils out of it. That's a lot more than I remember back in the day. I can't believe I used to eat this. It's like the crackheads of the sea. So, just like a little behind the story, James was talking about eating like romen, and I was like, oh, I don't everyone does romen?

You know I roll? And then I was like, you know, what other dishes do you have? And then he came up with this particular dish, and then I was like, man, I should have stuck with um. It's tradition to take a sip of good. It's my culture. You have to, all right. So now you just trying to get me to eat the oyster. So you have the oysters, and here used it is everybody pretty take about two three of them. Oh we're not even using that. No, use your hands with no, man, this is no look I'm

gonna show you. Just go like this safe covid edistion. Just put them on there like that looks like many brains I'm using. Alright, fun, grab the oysters. I can't tell you how great this texture feels. There's now oysters and muscles are are different right. I didn't say that about no muscles, just like they look and feel like muscle. Is Honestly, I don't think these are oysters. They've just been telling us this. I think this is something like

pig attistance in the sea. So now you grab the mustard. You know, you gotta shake your mustard up because if you don't the liquid to come out. You know, that's a little hood tricked. N that a little much, But okay, here you go. I mean the smell is like I was, and she got the warmest mustard in the fan, and then you put some hot sauce on it. Yeah, fish your face, I disrespected me. Body, No, no, it's great, man, this is oh yeah, so this is what you ate? Yeah,

this was. This is a little snack. My mom always had weird, little little like pregnant white women snacks, and this is one of them. Now I'm looking at it, I'm mad. I made this a thing. Like it's not like this came like this. We made this a thing. Yeah, I don't know what to call it. Didn't get another cracker. Okay, so we're making a sandwich, oyster sandwich. You squeeze it together. This is definitely a broke fish, because when I was shopping for it was like extremely affordable. How much is

it cost you? I think it was like less than five bucks? There you go, So are you ready? Chairs you take the first? Every wanna find up sick or with some kind of belly aches or you see any alarms. This is this is the dish that sent me there, oyster, hot sauce, mustard. Why don't I have to go first? I just want to see because I ain't Here we go, here we go. I can't appreciate it. I ain't eating this bullshit. Let me see, I actually doesn't take that bad good yea, now, little um see food with some

some mustard. I think the mustard set it off. Yeah, I'm thankful you added the mustard in the hot sauce. If you put these with an egg and a cup of noodle, a balled egg and a cup of noodle. Fire, Oh gosh, I see a pack of ramen on here, and I'm terrified that that's the next Yeah, nothing wrong here. We got one of these because we can't fit the rest in the budget to feel like that's what we used to do with these, so like we was back

when I was younger, we used to play outside. So when we play outside, you have to grab a snack real quick. Were playing high to go see we go whatever we're doing, so we have to grab some quick. We had a bunch of prominent guys because we're broken. You know, you buy you buy fourty of them for two dollars and back in the day, so you would take to take the powder. I like how you got chicken because I'm black and I'm black too. I know. I just wanted to make you feel uncomfortable for a second.

I want you to question your identity. I feel like, um, and this is gonna send sound like a general statement, but I feel like when you're mixed, black people tends of question blackness and the white people just only see you as black because you like skin because any side, no, that's not true. You know you're black. The way you'd be dressing. You wear boots every day, the weddings, all that Timberland's. When you broke, you probably wear them them

lug boots, boots. So when were you eating this? This is this is when you at the house watching the movie. My mom used as all the time. The oysters were just a stable. When I was growing up, oysters mustard, and my dad used to eat him too, but used to put him in top ramen, but cooked. So this is what I call roth. Would this be like in

your household? Would this be considered like an appetizer? Or is this like I feel like my breath is going to smell after you know, it did already before we started. But but it that's not a little bit more funkier now, But this is more of a snack. You can't get full off this, but this you eat two, it eats you in the game. Yeah. The scary part about what I'm watching you do with this ramen is that there's no boiling water. No, you don't need that. This is

you on the outside. You grab one of these, you go outside, you go play and go seek with the homies. So you know you're gonna go first. Why is it I have to go first on all these dishes? I feel like you're testing me to see silvery is a even well, ladies go first? Man up, come on, here we go. Mm hmm, not that bad. Look at you hear that? You hear the crunch? It sounds like she's chewing on rocks. You know what, I don't even know this was possible. I don't know how I started this one.

You didn't have water or stove that poor, so like your mom kind of taught you this. My mom and my dad taught me into like oysters, and my mom taught me to like put them with like mustard, and then I put the crackers myself always, I'm always a big card person. My mom likes oysters just by themselves. She could just do this, dip in the hot sauce and be good. Okay, and then and do you eat the star deans in the can? See? I'll eat the

sardines that I can or the muscles. I didn't know if they sold oysters like this just is crammed up like kitty litter. Yeah, but the ramen? Did you come up with? Romy? And rom has always been a state, I think in every But I'm saying, did you come up with eating it dry like a cracker? Where did you learn that from someone? I started that on my own. So you're taking full credit on braw Top problem. Please don't disrespect my creation. Okay, okay, so was braw Top

problem with my thing? Because I never liked the texture of noodles, So you don't eat spaghetti it becomes like guard bread or something like that. I just don't like texture, like soft textures. So when did you decide you were going to start? Because I feel like, you know, I look at a lot of different influencers online and you definitely have like the most celebrity attention, celebrity input, celebrity

back and forth on your feed. When did you decide you were going to be that man that's gonna just I'm gonna go up and keep it all the way real and not care if these celebrities like it or not. So I started before I started doing um online content, I was doing stand up comedy. I started doing it when I was thirteen years and thirteen and a half to be fourteen, and so I spent a lot of time doing stand up from the age Fourtunas catched the buses out to the comedy clubs, the high Cafe, the improv,

the ice house, all the way up nights. My mom didn't know where I was just to be out the comedy clubs. She also gave me these oysters, so let's you know what's going on my house. So at eighteen, UM I got a radio job at the clar Clip channel, and UM, there was was doing a live remote a Unise studios and we had this band here called three oh three. The band had three songs on the radio. They had some hot records, but nobody gave a funk about them. Nobody people will come up. I said, the

three or three they got that song. I forget the song, but nobody cared. But then there's a skinny little white kid. Are you saying that? At Universe Studios? Probably like an hour later, And this is around two thousand nine, two thousand ten, and everybody knew cholos, little black kids, old white ladies wanted to picture with him, and me and my co workers was like, who's that? And then one of the people told he's he's on YouTube. And in my head and two thousands said, what was that? Yeah?

It was, it was. It's probably been out before. I knew YouTube was the thing just to watch visit, but I didn't know you could be a personality on it. And um so when I when when when I seen the online thing, I just you just gotta adapt. So I got online. Didn't know how to do it. For the first five six years. I was cussing too much

and being raggedy and just just being raw. So around two thousand and fifteen, two thousand sixteen, I kind of motor myself to be a little better, to be acceptable by the guidelines and community gidelines and stuff like that, and me just talking about celebrities and me, I just I just really don't care what people think. I just just truly I've been around. I've been around celebrities I talked about and I they kind of give me a

look like that motherfucking looked familiar. And I have celebrities d m me before their DJs are managers threatened. I've been threatened before by a few celebrities. Yeah, I'm not gonna say who, but I've been Now was gonna be my next question? Do SI so? Um? Now I remember so for those of you that don't know, I've known James for a very long time since it was a little high schooling. And nobody knows that by the way you said, those those people that don't know that don't

know nobody knows we go way back. But I'll never forget um. I had a company previous to this Celeberty High and I'll never forget you. And Cameron had did an interview with Kevin Hart right and at the time, you know, James was exactly who you you see him as today, very colorful, very mohawks. He had like these hamburger head uh socks and and he had these weird earrings.

Just say I was ugly back then, They're just going to say, that's what you're trying to say, because the way you're talking about is like, it's just he had all is weird and hamburger. And then when you see someone's baby and you don't want to say it's ugly, and you're like, I big, Like I was just doing that. But I'll never forget during this interview, so Cameron Head came and he was like very professional, and I was like, you know, these celebrities knew they were being interviewed by

high school kids. But I'll never forget that interview was a pivotal moment for me also being a young person, which was during the interview, Kevin Hart had addressed who he felt was going to have like this long successful career, and I am merely thought he was gonna like look too, because Cameron's dressed like he has a suit on yet he was like super professional glasses and he said, hey, how are you doing like hey, like like like he's like Clark Kent. He was super professional and I totally

got it. And that's how one of them, James shows up. I think he had a mohawk. It was just like extreme and I was like, semi mortified, semi wanted to pull James from the interview. I said, I didn't know this, Thank you for telling me that. But I was just

like I felt on the lines of Cameron. But one of the things that Kevin Hart addressed, and I'll never forget this, is that by James being unique, he was like, I will always remember you, and you will always stand out, and you know, he could see this bright future head and I remember just being taken back by that statement, Like how important is to be yourself? I learned that from our Lawrence. That's the funny thing. I did an interview somebody talking about like, um, how did he get

his successes? He said, took longer because he was trying to be himself. I don't want to conform to anybody, especially My thing is I think who I am it is perfect enough. Some some a lot of black people, they like try to perform to two white guylines and try to make sure they're happy. Not me. If I'm that guy, would be that guy all the time. But you don't ever walk into an office and put on like a white person voice. No, this is the thing,

you know what I'm talking about? What about Nick Good? Hey, I'm John, Nice to meet you. That's the That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is I'm not just ignorant, just ghetto, super loud person. Naturally, I go to restaurants, I'm myself. But if there's a time where I still talk like who I am, I'm not gonna change who. I Am not going to change my morals. I'm not gonna change eyes, how I treat certain people. Anybody's equal to me. Everybody don't care if you're a billionaire janitor.

Everybody is equal to me. So I just want to I purposely make content. Was talking about like black lives matter and stuff like that, because when I was younger, I've been through a lot of racist things. I had a lot of UM, I had some crazy things happened to me. UM in middle school. I don't even you know this one middle tell us something I don't know. Please.

So I was in middle school and I was the president of middle school and the reason why I was president of the president gets to be Santa Claus, and I want to be Santa Claus. So I went to a racist area in middle school and so, um, apparently I'm I'm I'm eighth grade. I don't know what's going on the whole school. Apparently it was. It was it was a problem that I was gonna be Santa Claus, a black Santa Claus. I didn't notice at the time.

I had to counsel saying, are you sure you'd be, like, yeah, I want being president, and my teacher and student government teachers. And then so when I was Santa Claus, the next day after my Santa Claus set up when he was taking picture with the kids and all that next day the schools tacked up with niggers all over the school. Yeah I'm not I'm not saying it was because of me, but I was black Santa Claus. And then the next day that's not the first time at the school it

was tacked up, but it just so happens. I felt like that has something to do with me. And then by five years later in high school, I seen a white girl that went to that middle school. She told me her father took her out that school because they allowed a black sand they allowed me to be Santa Claus may be in black in Santa Claus is a

fictional character. It's like if you came as a black Jesus, I could I could see them almost trying, because you know how you read the Bible, and it's like the way they described Jesus at the end of the day, Jesus is Mexican, because at the end of the day. When I was in high school, I was I had transferred high schools, and I'll never forget. I would always leave my locker open because I could never I just, for whatever reason, suck at the locks, like you know,

the directions and stuff. Just three numbers. Struggled with that. I struggled really hard. Three numbers literally be at my locker like twenty minutes. So I would always leave it open. And uh, one day I came to school and I would always have my dry race board in there, and they had put swatzikas in KKK in it, and I I'm Jewish and Jamaicans. It was like, damn, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, Jamaican, Yeah, kids are kids are evil. Two kids, it's always it's always gonna be here. This

evil has always gonna be here. But that's why you just gotta be strong within yourself. You gotta love yourself first and fun everybody else. Yeah, I agree, and but I remember that being the first time that I had, I think more trust issues because you knew about races and I had seen my neighbors called my mom the N word like the like that was. I was like, probably ten, the first time I've seen them treat her differently. But did you reallye that what's going on? When you

did you? Did you just accept it? I think that was my maybe my first encounter with the N word. It was just like, oh, my first encounter. I think we was so memorable because they treated her so bad and she was so nice, and she would just be like, you gotta push through it. You gotta be nice. And those same neighbors that called her the N word and all. It took her like twenty years, but eventually they're like cordial,

like they don't talk to her like that anymore. But as a kid, you you develop a sense of fear, like, oh, there's a blind hatred. When they did it in my high school, I skipped prompt because I was so paranoid, like I didn't know who had done it at the time, you know, they were it was burned across like weird stuff. I was like, oh man, this is like upstate New York. Okay, yeah, in Brooklyn, we didn't really deal with it, but an upstate it's not enough diversity. But it was traumatic, you know,

So what did you learn from it? Like do you feel like like today, like do you put up with it? And so if somebody did that today and you knew who it was, what is your actually, Well, I remember my senior year there was an incident where a boy called me the N word to my face, and you know, I'm Jamaican from Brooklyn. I've folled him to the same dude came up to you and litterally and called you a N work to your face. What are you doing?

I'm creature of habit probably tight boots okay around there because my fiance would be like, you know, he'd probably be like that. That's the crazy thing with just being black, Like you see these videos I'm not talking about like the cop ones, but just videos of just a random white person rund a black person and the black people. We just have to naturally be the calmed ones, because

if we snap, were looked at as the animals. Nobody asked, oh, why did you smash his head with the frying pan, But you didn't see the fitting twenty second before that when he said it, called him an inn word thirty two times and saying all this race, I think it needs to be legal. I think I need to be about to just ailbow somebody, and they call me a racial slurk. It's a reaction, it's a work. It's an emotional reaction out of people. I actually had an incident

this past weekend. My fiance and I were traveling to Austin and, uh, there's a white clerk at the counter, and we're having issues like the hotel room. You know, we ran out a suite and the suite wasn't like up to COVID standards. You know, we're from l A. Austin's out there, but we were like, hey, you know, so anyways, we were like, you know, it's not clean. You know, we need to like either get a different

hotel or just you know whatever. So the lady they initially fought us on it, but they said, you know it will switch a room downgrade it because they didn't have any more sweets, and we switch rooms. We check out the next day and I we asked for a receipt and the ladies like all flustered. She's like getting all angry. And the fear that crept into me at that time was I left the counter to take a call and my fiance, you know, he's trying to be

calm and this you know this white ladies. She starts escalating, hyperventilating. I put on my camera because I think as a woman, you're vulnerable. It was like, you don't want anything to happen to your your fiance. Yeah, and um so anyways, she starts hyperventilating, screaming bully and no, no, and she's behind like a counter, but she's put it on the whole song and dance yes, and he's just calmly speaking

to her. And the whole time he's like, we gotta be calm because you know, we're black and people are gonna, you know, trying to make us out to be the bad guy. And he's like colched me to you know, part of me was like, you're not even wrong. That's called the police and the police came and the police

were looking at her like she was crazy. But the whole time, the whole thing we're telling ourselves is be calm, make sure that um you know, because we're automatically judged at a higher degree, which sucks because we're all sitting there prepping ourselves even though we weren't wrong the entire time for this crazy when it comes to us, people forget to ask why they acted that way. They just get the actions. That sucks, But not that I don't

want to spend more time on this topic. I have to know who are like, yeah, quick pivot, I have to know why I have you because we don't have that much time left. But I do have to know. In regards to you being in an influencer, what would you say, like, who is your favorite celebrity to cover or favorite topic to cover? Besides you know, the Black Lives movement? Okay, so I make it. I'm I don't talk about black women. I found a black pop. Don't

see that there was a problem. At one point in time, I used to use a motion of my videos like like stuff I was angry at. But now I would you say it was a problem because I had I'm a comedic channel, so I still talk about the same issues, but I always take a comedic approach. I try to be smart about it. So things I love talking about, like talking about with rappers Messing. I used to like talking about six nine. But I think we're part of

the problem. While he's popular, people like people like blogs or just keep people like that are literally popping because of the hate. Trump was popping because of the hate. If people that hated Trump didn't say ship, then nobody want to MAGA. It should be a regulass president doing this thing Trump. I sick of sick of Trump, Like I don't care politics all that, just him, this orange motherfucker, just the way he acted as a grown ass man, just not even as a president, just as a grown man.

It's just pissing me off. And um and it was just too much. And actually I see just things are getting better in media. It's like you're not looking at CNN every day. You just able to watch stuff again, not worried about Trump gonna start a war with buddy buddy with North Korea, buddy buddy with Russia and all these people, and just he just got on my nerves. I didn't like that time. It was a very like Twitter feedes was all about him, Like how many Orange

jokes could I come up with? I called him tangerine, I called him vitamin C, called them all type of your rang of than I'm like, I'm running out of orange ship that I can't make any more videos on him. So who was your favorite person in me and the cover? I like covering the Rock because he has you all have like a little good relationship going. Yeah, he posted a few of my videos me rosing. He wasn't He was at the WUF So that's all they did was talking to each other. So what I do to him,

I'll be clowning him. He'd he'd be talking in the d M s and stuff like that. But other than that, The Rock somebody I like, I like making fun of people in their life's not too affect it. What do you mean? So let's say Kim Kardashian really has something going on in her life like like deep. I don't like making videos about that because that's something that's really affective. Are you talking like the Kim and Kanye? Just what is Kims got going on? That's so deep? And I'm

not poking fun of it. I just do it out there if somebody is going through something deep where I start to notice their life is really being affected. Like Jesse Smolet, like he was wrong what he did, but you could tell in his interviews something's going on with him. So I stopped stopped talking about Oh that's cool. So you're like the anti bully comedian. You just have a little hard I have a heart. And then it's it's

you can go too far in situations. Um, I can make a video and then to be and get a bunch of views and comments and likes because it's a trending topic, and then I can keep making videos. But it's at what point of my doing I'm just doing it for cloud. Now I'm doing to make people. I'm trying to entertain people. I'm not. I don't want to never do anything for cloud. I was wondering, like what the difference is between the cloud and you doing it

for content? And I also want to circle back to I know we're limited in time, guys, but I also want to circle that back to, um, the why you don't touch on black women. Okay, so the difference between cloud and content, it's talent. People, you ask them of somebody. Okay, why you want a bunch of followers on TikTok or Twitter? I just want them. That's the Kim Kardashian effect. I just I just have them. You have the cloud, that's the cloud. I just I just want cloud. Now me,

I have a talent. I want to do this for my stand up career. And that's why I'm growing an audience because it makes my my job easier to promote shows and stuff like that, and people can see my style of comedy and people fall in love with what I do. So I have a purpose of why I want the contents to have the cloud. But most of people just make content that all the time. People follow me and you go to their page not doing nothing,

which want me follow nothing? And then he said about the black woman, Um, I think I'm very big on protecting hashtag protect black women. I just think, um like, I'm very picky like um like, I think black women they have to go through racism and sexism. And uh, I know a lot of white people. They can't acknowledge their white privilege, but I can acknowledge my male privilege. So I would like to use my mail privilege to help black women we loves those sweet it's because it's

it's the truth. There's situations with black women. You take a black girl, she's tworking, just with her girlfriends, a bunch of black black men in the conversation. Look at these thoughts, look at these holes, look at these same situation. I see that all the time in the shade room Hollywood, A lot post a picture of a white girl. It's working and all they're just having fun. What's the difference. It's just because black women look better with bigger butts

and stuff like that. It's just Yeah, I'll tell you something that's kind of funny. And I discovered it in my twenties when I decided to finally put on a dresses. You know, I would see, say a white girl wears the dress on for the first time, being pretty. But but yeah, I remember, you know, I would go to the store in the same dress that like a white girl where I will put on and when I will put on the sun dress, it would look like a

club dress because of the curves. But when she will wear it looked like an innocent dress like the sun dress. And that's not your problem. They're booty flattered in the photo up monopoly board that that's on them to be honest, So continue about bad But yeah, I remember discovering that kind of early. But there is a double standard, you know,

it's definitely a double stand And you're right. Race does or race does play a role in those those conditionalized black people to hate on other black people, so they only gotta do it. Yeah, we can't get no unity because we're conditionalized. We fight over stupidest things. You brought it up earlier. Light skinned versus dark skin. You're black at the end of the day, and if a white man walking here, you're a black chick. White people always see me as black Black people many debate my blackness.

But now since we are on an episode that eating want broke, I am just curious as an influencer, what do them checks be looking like? Is it worth it? Like? Is it work? Because it's a few years to get your following in your your situation. So so if you're an influencers in it for the money, then you don't do what I do because I cut. I'm very opinionated, so a lot of people don't want their brand next.

So I my videos make some money, but like somebody with my amount of following and they're just doing TikTok dances and regular videos with mug Banks. They're probably making a shipload of money. But I've never got into making creative content to be a big influence. I got into prating content so I could use it for my stand up. So I never intended to make a bunch of money

off of this. I do make some money, don't get me wrong, but it's harder for me because I bet on there talking all this ship and I'm you can't put the muzzle on. No, But you do have this new podcast? Are we? Are we able to promote it? So? So the two things I got. I got my own podcast called off the Mic podcast. That's the place it is, what it is? It should I say that I shouldn't say on the mic, So it's called Off the Mike. And then my radio show, Blue Leg Caps Show. It's

a syndicated radio show. We're in the Vegas We're in five markets. I don't know, but I see you guys move around a lot. Yeah. We just launched in Vegas, uh this weekend. Actually, yeah, So we're pretty pretty much of your your hip hop radio show where we're not politically politically correct. Um, we have fun. So that's two things I have on air right now, my podcast and I'm on the co host of the Blue Way Cap Show.

Do you think they'll ever get to a point in time where you'll take a check and maybe curb some of your personality or are you gonna stick to it and take the Martin Lawrence round Martin Lawrence all the way? Be myself. I've I remember, this isn't like two thousand seventeen I had. I don't want to say the company, but it was gonna give me a big check. And then I gave them the video that I was going to do because they had to. They had to review it.

And they say, yeah, that the problem is great, but we can't be in this video. And I said, I don't want to tell you. I'm not gonna make a PG video for your ask take like, that's that's my thing. If you're if you're true to yourself, people, the people will find you. If the people find you, then the companies are gonna have to funk with you. That's simple as that. So just take your time, stop performing to people, and just be yourself. Everybody's a sucking clone now, Yeah,

that's all TikTok is. Anybody's copying each other's content, just doing voiceovers and dances. I enjoy your content a lot, but you know, like I said from the from the Kevin Hart interview, it's just like at the end of the day, you being yourself and staying true to yourself, you out of water. So you don't want to oysters oyster syrups um. Yeah, so you being yourself, you know, is really I think your secret to success. Do you

do you feel the same. Yeah. I have to be and you have to be yourself, and you have to anything you have to do. You have to study. You have to study algorithms. You have to study to study which platform, how to get a better retention rate. You have to study. Like the reason why I make content the way I do it because I studied algorithm. A lot of people it's just a little tip a lot of people that they pick up their phone and then they do this, Hey, this is Colin with um blah blah.

Motherfucker's is gone already. They don't care about what So you gotta come on push play and said, this is the ship I've seen to day, just because now because now people sell what you what you say? So, because the goal is do you want to be a user on social media or do you want to be an asset? If you're seen as an asset on Instagram, Instagram is

going to promote you. They go, they see the analysts, okay, on this page down it's he got nine hours of watch time today, and they go, does the other page you promote? So you had the goal is every platform is to keep people on on on your page because do you get promoted more? Yes? And what I've learned definitely, even in this interview, is that time is the most valuable thing that you have. And look how much time and money and effort is spent in consuming that time.

You got to choose what you you know you're spending only only currency that you can't replace. Yeah, well, thank you so much for coming and trying to poison me another I'll take it. I'll take one more bite. All right, where's the camera down? Dramatic? It actually wasn't it? Just you know, I can have a little bit of m hm. So I'll let you tewning on breakfast. Well, thank you for joining us on another episode of Eating Wall Broke.

But James Alredy Jefferson Jr. For more Eating Wall Broke from I Heart Radio and The Black Effect, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.