#112 - Concrete

introduced into just the entertainment world, ma'am. I mean, I'm seventeen years in doug you know it sound was like fifteen, right, DJ and producing this shit type of shit, you know, And like in two thousand, I want to say six or seven, Uh, I started really getting like a little momentum with the music. And I had a record I called Industry Beefs. You're rapping Okay? Yeah? I was producing rapping my own shit at the time. You know, this is one like having the studio at your crib was

like a big deal, a big deal, you know. And I had a record called I had a record called Industry Beefs and that caught the ear of Steve la Belle and shout maniac. Yeah, so maniac, I mean Bell and and Sewn and Lewis. And this is around the same time. Like I remember when Steve had me come over this house, right, it was me, Sean and Steve's Bell and we were at his house and he was Jamie Adler was hanging around somewhere. Yeah, he was somewhere.

I mean, crazy story. Jamie Allen saw me getting arrested. I got arrested at his fuck at his office right there in the Hollywood. So we were at his house, you know, and he's like, yo, man, I really you know, like like I like your record and you know, thinking about you know, hopefully you know, getting to manage you.

And he's like, yo, I have this other kid that I want to show you and just let me know what you think, you know, And we're go into his garage and he pops, you know, pops his record and this is his record called the Bulletin. A bulletin got no names at the time. You know. It's like Nip

was barely like coming up, you know. And I remember me and him got signed the same week to like you know, you know, to get managed by the team, and that like that was the beginning of more or less like me kind of getting my feet with like in the industry, you were managed? How long were you managed by Lobell? I was looking for like four years. Oh wow, that's crazy. Yes, like, man, that's crazy. Yeah yeah, you know. So I got to you know, get records with a few of his other artists like Bone Thugs

and Sean Yeah. Yeah, yeah, man, you know what I'm saying. And then, uh, you know, my first record hit the radio. It is called Certified Cush. You know, shout out to DJ Felly fell on the whole team, Yeah, like they that power was that? Who was that? Was that? Just you? Yeah? Yeah yeah. That was a solo record called Certified Cush.

And then I had a second record come out, and you know, that one did like pretty well, like I think we did like sixty five stations across the country type of joint, you know, and that was that was called we Can Make It Rain. And it was more

like a you know, poppy industry record, you know. I was, I was, I was really trying to get in there on some like bad you were going by Concrete at the time, Noah, No, I used to go as Bretta What was it Bret to oh shit, I think I re yeah, And this is how I know, like most of these dudes, you know, like Bash, A lot of people see me doing skits now with Bash or Frankie.

I've known these guys, these artists, and it's like dog, I used to open up for these dudes when I was like, you know and like really in the rap game. And then I went from you know, my you know, unfortunately, my my brother passed away in two thousand and eight. He was like my hype man, my day to day manager and everything kind of deal, you know. And I passed away in two thousand and eight, and I decided to just stop rapping during the time of like the

record high starting to pop. Yeah. So you so you just getting on the radio, I was getting on the radar, was trying to do shows, I was trying to travel and you know, do my thing. And your brother passed and passed away to just walk away from doing music, Yeah, I was like I'm done with it, you know, because I just I just started, you know, you started seeing like you know, people start acting different, you know, and it was you know, I actually credited like I'm gad

if I if I would have blown up. Then you know, I probably would have just I probably would have killed myself or something because I wasn't in the right statement. I was just I was just being you know, I mean, imagine being twenty one and then you know, like you have a record on the radio at a time when having a record on the radio deal was a big deal, huge deal. Yeah, back then it was a big deal.

So much now yeah, So it's like everywhere I went, it was like, you know, it was like people already knew who I was, and it was you know, people started acting different. So and you know, things are being presented to you that your record to radio. Who was your like Steve, Steve you guys. I mean I had a few people. I mean, I had a few people working the record. One dude, I'm not gonna mention his name,

but uh, you know, we had Leilani. I mean I was like, yeah, yeah, I mean, but we had like, I mean, like a ton of people were really fucking with the records. So they were like, yo, man, I'm just down to help out the situation. Like sixty five stations, that's that's nic. Yeah, that was cool man. So I would see the little bds, you know, reports, and I was like, Okay, cool, this is really happening. And then you know, you're tired. And then I was like, that's it.

Like from one day to another. I remember I put out like one last music video with me and my wife, Nikki Diaz, and you know, we just did like one record and then I ended up just you know, doing a video right here, no more in my neighborhood, and that was it. I was like, come out, what happened when you told Steve You're going to retire? Oh? They weren't happy? What are you doing? Yeah? Yeah, nah man,

I mean they weren't happy. I mean, you know because like when I left them, you know, I ended up doing like a collaboration with with Gorilla Black and his brother Hot Dollar, so I was, I was, I was doing some stuff with them called Dollar Figure. I didn't

know either. I didn't know either up until I started meeting them really hanging around them, and then yeah, man, I meant, you know, I got the call from Steve, I got the call from like big you, and it's like you know what I'm saying, and it was it was tough, man. It was tough because I really wanted to do music, but It's just I just it wasn't in my heart to try to talk you out of retiring. Nah, I mean I guess, I mean it was they just wanted to see who my head was at, you know,

like Sean and Lewis kept in. I mean I talked to them still to this day, you know, and recently they told me like, yo, like I want you to do some music, and I'm like, I don't know, man, I'm just yeah, I was an ask you, like, so you retire from music? That's a wait. This is like two thousand and nine. Two thousand and eight kind of bleeds into like twenty and ten. But by by twenty and ten, I'm trying to hold like a bunch of odd jobs. Yeah. I was gonna say, what do you do?

Like what, like, what's the next decade of your life look like? Because I feel like you just started to get into the comedy thing recently, right, Yeah. The next decade after that, I was literally just I remember I got fired from my last job. I calmed my way into an accounting job at this in factory to you at the corporate office. My mom loves us store. It's like somehow Conning Metal, Arizona that I used to go

to every fucking week with my mom. She picked me up from high school and we go to the fires Padatas place and get shipped. My mom loves a deal, I trust me. I love that place. So, you know, I've always working on the corporate side. There was on the corporate side. Somehow, some way, I go boo then a little bit a little fictitious thies on the on the resume, on the resume about about about accounting, you know.

And then I mean I was doing really good, man, just collecting pennies and just you know, typing shit in and I was I was doing good. But the dude was like, man, you're not happy. He literally called me to his obways like bro. I'm like, man, I'm not happy. He sees it in my eyes and he's like, bro, I'm just gonna give your last check and just man, we'll see you later. Brother. Wow. I was like what He's like, yeah, man, just go do your music because he had known that I was, you know, I was

like all right. So I went home and I told my wife. I was like, well, she's my girlfriend at the time, my wife now, but I was like, look, with this money, I'm gonna buy a camera. I'm gonna buy a camera. There's this YouTube ship right now and people are just doing a bunch of music videos. At this time, I already had relationships in the industry more or less, and I was like, look, I'm gonna call them, I'm gonna tell I'm gonna do the music videos for free,

and let's go. And that's exactly what I did. Like the first dude to I Think I did a music video for was Essay Dazz, and then My Boy and It Means, and then My Boy. As a dad, I was like for the third video, I was like, look, man, don't pay me, just buy me this lens. He's like, for real, Yeah, look here's here's an Amazon Lenk dog By that lens. I need that the lens. He's like, you make a video look better, and that LANs Man.

I did like two hundred music videos on that lands. Dude, So you were shooting, so you became a video director. I became a videographer, like in twenty ten. And you're directing, you're editing as well. Everything everything there was. Yeah, I remember I I went and bought like a little mac, little iMac computer, and you know, and then again, this is a time where like people having a video on

YouTube was was was crazy for sure. For sure, different era, different area, is such a different like there was none other comedy shit really going on. It was it was there was no vloggers. It was just straight either you had a music video or some corporate shit up there, you know, or you were a big artist. And you know, I mean even big artists. This is when at the time when they were leaving like terrestrial television like BT. You know, it's like like nobody was really carrying on.

Like Black Diamonds was popping. There was like yeah that was yeah, you know, oh yeah, yeah, for sure, Black Diamonds, you know, Power of Tang. I mean, I mean there was a bunch of dudes that were you became just a videographer for artists over two hundred videos. Oh yeah, like in the first two years. Oh wow, so you were really well I was just cracking them out. What was the biggest video you did? What? I mean, what's the biggest what I've done? Yeah, like that you've done that?

Like as far as views or songwise, like what's what's what's I mean? I wouldn't even I wouldn't even I can't even tell you because I mean, I don't know. I mean as far as like the biggest one that I might have, I don't know. It could be something with Scan, but I don't know. I mean I got videos. I got millions of views with like Trisha Leo, like you know, I started doing just like I got out of the hip hop situation, like I started doing different genres,

you know. So I got like millions of views on like a done ship, millions of views on straight like you know what people will consider Mexican rap. I guess, you know, but like I guess all in all my views, I'm probably I'm probably good at a billion. At a billion? Would you? Uh? Are you still doing any of that now? Yeah? So you're still doing that? Yeah. I just got back from Miami last week with Magic. It shot a music video with him in Miami. Oh man. Yeah, so a

lot of people don't see it because I'm showing. So listen, you do, all the music video shit keeps you kind of in the in the in the industry, in the industry, right, and then at what point in time do you realize that there's something with the ig comedy shit, Because I that's more recent so like, yeah, how'd you make that? You know? I mean, I've always been funny around my boys.

I've always fucked around, and I've always done characters. And I was acting during during the ten years that I'm doing music videos, you know, I went to auditions and booked a few gigs. You're still you were doing? Yeah, for sure, Like I was on Wheelfred with Elijah wood I. You know, I did a few movies. Uh. You know. So I was always acting, but it wasn't consistent enough for me to be like, Yo, I'm gonna just stay

here and hopefully I make money. He's like, nah, man, I got a wife, I got you know, I got I got a kid, Like I just can't, you know, so we gotta pay bills. Yeah, dude, So I kept the shooting. I was like, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna chill on the acting and doing all these fucking auditions because it was like, even though you're booking, right, but you're booking one out of thirty, so you gotta go on a lot of times. So you gotta go

on sixty auditions take a lot of your bandwidth. It does, bro, It's just a lot of time and like, you know, like you're spending yourself out thin with that shit. So then so that I'm doing all that, and you know, it wasn't until two thousand and I want to say eighteen. I was shooting the music video for my boy said go on and come to Menace, and we were at the Unfair Fact right thereby, like we're big got killed at those those lights, yeah, the Miracle Mind lights, And

it's the last shot of the music video. You know, we got all the gear in the truck. We're like, we're gonna park the truck right here. We're just gonna hit this corner and go to the lights and shoot the scene and get back in the car and dip. Maybe take about ten minutes, ten to twelve minutes. By the time we got back, forty thousand dollars worth of gear was gone. Oh shit, and this is all your gear. Get gone. Fuck. My boy said, God had to off his Rolex put in the car and he was like,

I'm gonna leave it in my bag. I don't need it for this shot. With like his iPad, and he had like a bunch of records written, you know, just old thing, you know. So we come back and everything it's gone, dog caw everything I worked for a kid for the last ten years in that. I mean that's a lot of equipment. Yeah, bro, lights, lenses, laptop, everything, everything. Though I took the whole fucking kitchen that day, all

kinds of stands and ship right, someone sold the actual vehicle. No, they just they they went and did a dumping, like a grabbing dump, you know, just put into the car and boom it was. It was a ring that was happening at that area. So come to find out happened to me last year, you know, to follow me out of the bank, cracked my window. Yeah, I had fifteen grand cash on me. I ran into a ups store to get something notarized, and within two minutes of being

in the store, they cracked my back window. I had the I had the money, I left it in the car under my seat, of course, and they took my bra I never wanted to commit murder in my life. I can only imagine how you felt, Oh, Doug, Yeah, I wanted to commit murder. But I was calling all the whole I called everybody I knew. I was like, yo, like, I don't even want the money back. I want my fucking laptop back, put the word out. That's exactly what I did. I called everybody I knew in every hood.

I was like, yo, put the word out, and especially in that hood, I was like, yo, dog, I know, you guys know something. Man, you know, I remember I did it. I did the most vulnerable post on social media had ever done. I hate mofuckers cry on social media, right, and I'm there with like, and I even put that shit in black and white so they can feel it more. And I'm like, man, if anybody knows anything, So any idea who did it? Or? Oh? No? Yeah? I mean they ended up catching the guys and ship. Did you

get your ship back? Nah? Nah, there's like restitution, but dude, I'm not even gonna see that back, so I don't expect it. You know, they caught the guys, but you never got your ship. Nah? No, man, they had sold that ship by the time that, you know, like they weren't gonna wait on my ship. They were like, this is the first ship we're gonna get rid of. You know. They found a backpack. Right. They called me like at night,

like I'm fucking crying at home. They called me like at four o'clock in the morning and shit, and they're like, we found the backpack. When we found the case, I was like, all right, cool. So I get over there and the dude was like, yeah, it's a black backpack and I was like, perfect, it's mine. It has my laptop and my hard drives. I had just shot some music videos in Whatatemala or no on Doudas and I had just shot some music videos and on Doudas and

that footage was in there. So I was like, you know, that was like twenty thousand dollars, so you had that that was in there. So I get to the police shop and it's not my fucking backpack. Dog, It's not my backpack, right, So I opened a backpack and it has a bunch of IDs and credit cards. I asked ports all kinds of shit. I was like, well, you guys might need this back He's like, oh shit, we didn't even go through it. I was like, thanks man,

and then they found the case. One thing they did find was a twenty thousand dollars Panasonic monitor for like, you know, for playback on set, and I guess like it must have been too heavy for them, so they just dropped it. Fuck and other cops like, yo, we found this, and I was like, ooh, twenty g's here

we go. Took that home? That was it? And yeah, so yeah, anyway, anyway, so I do this post on social media, crying, asking, fucking begging for people to just give me anything, right, And you know, that was the most broken I had ever or you know, the most vulnerable and transparent I have been on social media up until this point. All people know is that I travel. I shoot, I'm here, I'm there, I'm traveling everywhere type of shit, you know, but nobody cares about that shit, right,

That post got a out of love. Did you get your little gofund me popping? Nah? No, no, no, but my boy, uh you know my boys from twenty seven Junkies, my cousin uh, Burst Rock and the whole team, and they, you know, Jacas actually threw like a little fund raiser for me and I was able to get like a few grand and you know, get a laptop and shit like that. You know, so you know, shout out to that man. So that was the team, right that that

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you brought a baby Bash. We were in Lake Havasu in two thousand and eleven and Baby Bash was doing a radio event for spring Break and our room was next to his room, and uh, somebody fucking the maid somebody They ran like like cleared out everyone's rooms, took my fucking laptop of my heart drive. At the time, I'm like making thirty grand a year doing radio in Las Vegas, so like my MacBook is like it's everything. Yeah.

So I was sick to my stomach, like there's nothing like getting getting having someone jackie for some shit that's like it ain't even about like I had pictures of my kid on there. You know. It was just so much motherfucker fucking made me want to kill a motherfucker. Oh yeah, dog, Yeah, that's how I felt, dude. And you know, like I'm already doing comedy at this time, dude, Like you know, I'm I'm behind the scenes writing comedy for other dudes and writing skits for other dudes and whatnot.

And my boy was like, you know what, dude, like, you look like shit, man, you gotta do something. He's like, nobody's gonna do your comedy how you would do it, con so why don't you just give it a shot and see if it works sound? And then I did one video man, and I had like, I don't know, two thousand followers, and like, overnight I went up to like twenty five hundred or something. I was like, Okay, I got five hundred followers overnight with this shit. That's

a big deal, you know. I was like, I just got a fourth of the followers that I have overnight, all right. And then I remember, like, you know, cause before it's like the only people that commented, like you know, and that I'm doing cool shit, like I'm in I'm in you know, Jamaica with the Marley's I'm in you know, fucking Europe, like I'm doing cool shit. But like, you know, the only people that comment is just like your mom and your cousin, like, hey, good shit, man, keep pushing, right,

you know what I'm saying, Like that's it. You know. And for this shit, it was like people I didn't even know. I was like, oh shit, okay, it wasn't just followers, and there were comedis like yo, man, funny shit. I was like, all right, cool. And then the next day I did another skit and then that one went kind of That one went kind of big me at a Lakers store where I'm seeing this this this person get It's kind of a reaction video this person get kicked out of the store and I'm reacting to it.

And that one, when you know that one again game like a thousand followers overnight, like oh this ship there's something to this. All right cool, you know, and then yeah, man, from there just kind of snowballed into like this fucking thing that It's like in two years, man, I've been blessed to get casted for movies now and you know, doing TV shows. My TV show drops on November on two B and wow, I got on my TV Yeah man,

we just we just we know. Won in the ward yesterday for the the Panemicic Easter LA Film Festival for like I think, like funniest comedy and you know, funniest comedy TV series. So it's cool what's your involvement with the with the TV series. I'm the star of it. Yeah, that's weird to say, man, that's with any of the writing or any of the idea. Yeah, yeah, no, of course. But I think for season two, we just you know,

see season one is wrapped. And for season one, yeah, I mean obviously, I mean I had a lot of I had a lot of involvement as far as like improvising and rewriting some of the stuff and kind of you know and unless you know, secondhand directing a little bit, you know, But definitely for the second season, I will have a bigger part in it. It's the second season already green lit. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we a man, I feel like there's needs to be

more Latino actors too. I'm tired of seeing Carlos in every fucking movie. What's his name? You know, the guy who's in front by guy Noel Noel, But he's like the guy, he's like the go to guy every movie. It's like it's like, is there nobody else? Like yeah, I mean, I just you know, like I guess for me, like it's always been difficult to book those roles, you know, I don't really have like a menacing face and ship.

He fits the part. Yeah. So it's like I you know, like for me to like like even when I booked the Elijah you know, like on on on Wilfred, you know, it was like this gangster dude, I love that show, you know, and and I'm robbing Elijah Wood and that ship, and and and my cousin, Like, my cousin's watching this show. He's a gangster. He was like I would have slapped you. Well you didn't even look scary. And I was like, yeah, all right, good, you know, yeah, fucking fucking you know,

I catch the check. What's the name of the TV show? Well, Fred, No, No, the TV show that? Oh, Ghetto Busters. Ghetto Busters. Yeah, when's the first season debut? I believe November fourth? Oh yeah, that's big Man Toob's dope. It's like an app Like it's like free TV. Yeah, yeah, there's free TV. You just go there and watch it, have a subscription, nothing, nothing, Just go up there and watch it. Yeah, it's vibe man.

So what is kind of like since you've been doing the IG comedy thing, Like obviously there's a lot of quote unquote IG comedians there's a bunch. Yeah, what has been kind of like your secret into like kind of standing out. And I don't follow trends. I don't follow the trendy TikTok of the day. I'm not doing squid games this week. Mmm. You know, I technically go against

the grain on everything that happens, you know. I mean, if it's something that's like I remember, like, I mean one of the biggest kits that did was an R Kelly skit, right, you know, and that was around the time. Yeah, that was it was trendy, but it just you know a lot of people would making like, for example, that's it. I remember a lot of people were playing Gael King's part the interviewer, and I was like, fuck that man, how funny would it be to see the camera man's

point of view? True? Right? So I ended up doing that and then that shit got me like twenty thousand followers overnight. Cameras, you know, that's a great So I played the cameraman point of view because everybody else was playing the Gael King like the interviewer, like they wanted to put themselves in the moment, right, I was like, Nah, that's just that's already a scene as it is, let that happen, let me add the cameraman point of view, and then that's just it was. It was out of here,

you know. But yeah, it's just you know, like I don't you know, social media comedy is really like again, and I feel like it's comedy is just like music, subjective, right, people like what they like. Yeah, but I just tend to go against the green. Like I don't like to follow the trends, you know, and I like to be as original as possible, as original as possible, you know what I'm saying. You know, Like even when I do my characters, like you know, like when I did it

was so funny. Like recently, somebody was asking me, like, man, how do you bridge the gap between black and brown and trying to you know, the comedy, And I was like, I'm not trying to bridge no gap. I'm just doing me, you know. Like when I did Andre three thousand, I wasn't thinking like I'm gonna do Andre three thousand because

it's gonna get me closer to the black community. I was like, no, I would just be a funny ass fucking Andre d thousand, the Mexican version, like that shit would be funny and dude, and I had a bunch of comments on my TikTok and on Instagram like loving it, you know, and from the black community, they're like, man, see here's a comedian. I didn't have to do black face,

none of that to just be for sure. And I think you know that to me means a lot, you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm not doing comedy for anybody specific. I'm just doing what I think is funny to me. And if you happen to be white, Black, or Asian or Mexican and you like it cool, Like, do you find that TikTok's a little bit easier to get traction on than ig because I feel like TikTok, I've seen people go from like zero to like like quick on TikTok. They're doing the right ship. Oh yeah,

Like I's a slower climb. Yeah, I mean, I mean definitely, I's a slower climb now because of the fact that, you know, just the algorithms are different and you know whatever, I don't really pay attention to that. I came into Look, I started my my Instagram or really like really started pelling on the Instagram two years ago and at the time dudes that were already big in the social media where we're like, you're getting followers in a time where

it's hard to get followers. Not for sure, I just tricky. I feel like TikTok, Like, as long as you just stay consistent on TikTok. Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying, You'll be all right. But I mean, but you gotta stay consistent in all your I mean, I say, consistent on my Facebook. TikTok. How's how's your Facebook? Because face, people don't realize Facebook, do I got millions of views

on Facebook. People don't even realize. Yeah, Facebook is popping, just like be forgetting that Facebook is still the thing. But I'm like, yo, Facebook, especially for like Facebook, like like comedy ship, Like, yeah, Facebook is cracking. Dog. I probably have the most million views videos on there. Yeah Facebook is a movie. You know. That's you know, I mean, that's the most I've done. But yeah, man, you and Jay Valentino did a like a little tour together. Shout

out to him too. He's yeah, shouts too. He's been killing it for a while. I remember when I first met him, I was like, bro, we gotta put you on the radio, and then I don't know what ended up happening. I know he did like a weekend with us, like real, but the station's tripping. He needs to be on the radio. Yeah, that being said, how'd that go? Oh? That was dope, guys. I'm just kind of pulling up

to like I'm not gonna lie to look random as fuck. Dog, it looks it was super random, dog, I mean, you know, like I was. You know, it's like you you think you popping right, And so I decided to put this too. I was like, a, J, let's go on this little like pull up tour. We'll just do a bunch of meet and greets. It should be fine, right, So we do the flyer and we get a really good response and shit right, and like a week before, two weeks before we're leaving, I told you, I was like, hey, J,

check this out. Dog. I have a feeling that what if it doesn't go as planned and nobody shows up. I was like, it'd be great if we just shot this ship right. It'd be absolutely epic if we just shoot the tour and show what it is to be a comedian or to be somebody trying to make it right and that's exactly what happened. We had good good turnouts, we had really bad turnouts. What was the worst place? The worst place fuck Albuquerque. I think Albuquerque thought we

were hurting. Phoenix Two Songs was lit. Uh, you know, Opasso was good, Dallas was cool, Houston was like Houston ended us booking, like I ended up booking someplace. Actually know. I hate to say it, but it was an Odessa. Odessa. Odessa was bad. It sounds like interesting, I'll give you a tipic because I didn't even. I didn't even. So this dude calls me. He's like, yo, man, we want to bring you guys out to Odessa. And then I was like all right, cool. They're like, well, where's that.

They're like, oh, it's a cell phone spot. You guys would be good. I was like, a cell phone spot, we can we set up somewhere. They're like yeah, dog. So we get there and we just I mean, you know, it's a tighty little town. Yeah, tighty little town. So you're kind of driving by and all we see is the fucking cemetery. We're like, what the fuck? I was like, dog, and I called the dude was like, hey, this is a cemetery. He's like, yeah, we're right at the corner.

So it was this little bit. It was like, this is the whole cemetery and his story was right at the corner by a cemetery. On the cemetery. Bro Like, there's flowers and graves all around his shop. I asked him what the fuck was going on? He was like, Yo, they went and bought all the houses in the land here the city to put a cemetery. I'm the only one that didn't sell. What the fuck we're sitting there. So we're sitting there, bro, Like you want us to do it? Me and Green at a cemetery. Bro, Like,

you guys documented this. Everything is documented, man, It's being it's being added though. We guys it's dude. The ship is really good. San Antonio was was, oh, man, are there any other creators that that you fuck with that are kind of like in the Latin comedy lane, like because there's a lot of there's a lot of people doing their thing, you know. I think like Mikey Luciano knows best from Phoenix is Yeah, I know who he is. Uh, we just we just tapped in with I think they're

called the Mexican waves. M. Yeah, I worked with them before. Yeah, there's like I just feel like there's like a it's really popping right now, you know what I'm saying, Like outside of J Like, who are some of the other people who you want to collaborate with or you or who you have worked with? I mean, I think everybody that I've wanted to collaborate I think I did, you know, and if I don't know them, it's because we just haven't came across I haven't came across your page or

whatever the case. But I mean, you know, like man like for the last two years and even until now, for me, it's it's it's really been about like showing proof for myself. Yeah, you know, I kind of felt that I needed I need to do my comedy right now. I need to do what I think is best for me and not necessarily collaborate with someone because they got cloud because they're popping. It's like I want to earn

my seat at the table, you know. And that's why I started doing stand up, because there's a certain stigma about oh, if you ig comedians stand up, you can't do stand up, or you like you don't deserve a seat. You know what I'm like at this table. Stand up comedians look down on people who do ig comedy. Yeah, I mean I've had stand up comedians tell me like you ain't it? Yeah, you know that in a bad way. Yeah. And then so I said, fuck it, all right, cool,

I need to earn my seat. I'm gonna earn my seat. And this is even when I already had George Lopez hit me up and be like, yo, I see you keep doing your thing, like your next type of ship. And then I've had other comedians hit me up like you know, uh, you know, Felippus Spars has been really supportive. You know what I'm saying. Uh, you know, Fit Creeper has been really support them. You know, these are all

guys that do stand up you know. Jerry Garcia you know, which you know, gave me an opportunity to do the you know, to HOSTSOS tour with them, so it was his MAGA routine. Yeah, sou as a comedian. All these guys have been like that, have been in the industry for you know that between all of them, they got one hundred plus years of experience as stand up to tell me like yo, pursue this shit. This is this

is this is where you need to be. Then it was kind of like all right, because I was fighting standards. Say how's the stand up thing, because that's a hard thing to get into. Man, it's not the same obviously, I mean it's yeah, I mean it's not the same, right, you know. Luckily for me, I come from a rapper's lane, so you're not scared to be on stage. So I'm scared to be on stage and command attention and do crowd work and do all that shit, right, So I've

been there before. Now was just implementing tours and shit. Yes, kind of like for sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.

I mean it's you know, from doing I mean, you know, like people tell me like, like you should be able to handle this, you know, three hundred play you know, three hundred person crowd at the laugh Factory, And I try to tell them, like, it's different having seventeen thousand people that half of them are not even paying attention to you, yeah, because it's just so much shit going on a drunk people to three hundred people right in

front of you, and the life harder. And they're all like, you know, but yeah, and then I come on entertain us, make me laugh, you know, like it's time. Let's go out paid twenty five and let's get it. But nah do it. It's been really good, you know according to my peters and the people that have been are like, yo, like you're killing this. So so it's been cool. Man. How do you feel like, you know, cause from your perspective, you have a unique perspective coming as a rapper shooting videos.

I mean you've seen a lot of erarors of like Latin hip hop and where it's came from, where it's going. I do feel like, uh, you know, when I was coming up in radio, there was like the low Rider car scene, and there was obviously you know, MC magic, there was Caponi, there was Little Rob all these guys. But I feel like a lot of that music was kind of if you weren't in that world, it was it was very it was like you had to know. I guess it was hard to cross over, right because

it was. There was the Chicano rap era, which was crazy. That shit was lit, high power records, all that shit was going crazy. But I feel like now there's like a lot of Mexican artists who are coming up where it's just like like that's the thing. Their music is dope,

and they happened to be Mexican, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, I mean as opposed to like back in the day, I feel like you, yeah, like you were complimentalizing to a certain genre of music, right, Like that was a ship that I was fighting for ten years ago, you know what I'm saying. Fifteen years ago though, you know, like you know shit that me and Bash were fighting for, like where it was like yeah, because I feel like Bash did a good job, you know, being like, dude,

I'm just making bangers. Yeah, and he and he was you know, I mean, I mean he was making radio shit. He was making kiss FM type music what they call it. You know what I'm saying. Whatever, Like shit, that's like just super pop and no matter if who it is, it's all yeah, no matter the race it is, yeah, it's on. But that was a ship that you know, I was fighting for twelve years ago where it was like when people used to like, are you ual kind of rapper? I'm like, no, I'm not just rappers. And

I was doing that type of music. I wasn't necessarily banging on my music. It was just I was just doing good street music or you know shit that was potentially going to be on the radio, you know what I'm saying. So I wasn't never aiming for anything like that. And then you know that goes the same with my comedy. You know, I'm not doing comedy for just Chicano's either. I do cater to it, you know what I'm saying, But I don't just specifically do it for them, you know,

I do it for whatever I think is funny. And that was the same thing with music. I wasn't doing this type of music or that type of music. I think what's happening now with you know, with all the artists that are starting to pop that are essentially Latino descent, which like the Little Pumps, and you know what I'm saying, Like all these dudes like that's dope, man, Like that's the ship that we wanted to do twelve years ago.

And you and because of the culture changing and because of social media, it's more acceptable to just be another race and be able to get on like that. You know what I'm saying. It's I don't think Little Pumps the first one or you know, I mean the Takashis of the world or I mean, I mean there's splaining the latink the bad bunnies are taking over, you know what I'm saying, Like I mean, it's it's it's that

kind of vibe. I think the industry in the world is starting to see that the Latino market is the consumer and they buy records, facts and they follow it. The fast is growing, you know what I'm saying, because we're you know, like we're the ones that essentially buy the ticket when you're up, and we are the and we are the people that buy tickets when you're down. When you're down, we go see you at the car show,

we go see you at these places. We are the ones that support a lot of these rappers that were hot twenty years ago. You know what I'm saying. I host a lot of the shows. You know what I'm saying, We the Latino consumer is the one that buys. And I think, you know, once they really grabs the situation, you know, you know, we're gonna see an influx of a lot of rappers even here from it. Later it's gonna start to pop, and not just one. I mean, you know what, obviously we got the King Little G's,

we got the Drummer Boys, you know. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of dope artists. You know what I'm saying, rucchie Uchie's Mexican. Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, I mean, so there's a lot of dope artists that are waiting just to bubble, you know what I'm saying, to get that one record that's gonna take him to the next level. I think all of them are just one record away, you know what I'm saying, one record away, you know

what I mean. Obviously such an air like like like pay so swat, Like there's so many dope young Mexican rappers that are like bubbling baby young and there's just tons of them. Yeah. Yeah, there's so many of them. I'm such a crazy movement going on right now, and they're starting to see that. You know, we we really support the ship. We buy this ship, and you know, I mean, hopefully it gets bigger than what it is now. Besides the TV show, What's like next for you? Man?

I got a movie coming out. It's called The Chat That and Oat Milk starring uh Jerry Garcia, Duno, Yeah, hilarious, Yeah, Duno and me and uh and man, we got some Yeah, that's the dopeest movie. I can't wait for that to come out. Man, that's gonna be dope. And it's called

The Chat That and Oat Milk. And then I'm working on the TV show and now called uh The King of Downey Uh and then that's again with me Jerry Garcia and I forgot the other gentle Man, but that's what Chicago, uh, Chicano Hollywood and then they call it right yeah, Chico Hollywood Love And what else am I working on? And then I'm working on a movie. It's my first uh, my first like serious role is and

this is a movie called Sam's Cry. I play Dad that just he's kind of like a rolling stone but drug addict and kind of wife beat the type of dude. So yeah, that was crazy to play. And then I finished shooting that in November. Are you're going to make a return of the rap game? I had a really good conversation with MC magic not too long ago, and what the Magic say? He says, I got momentum? He says, why not for real? You know? Yeah? But it's like, can do a comedy album? Yeah, but it's like, what

do you rap about that? You know what I'm saying, do a comedy album. Yeah, I mean I get it, man, I just you know, like if anything, I'm gonna just wrap to the ladies, I said, you know, I don't know. I don't know if people want to hear me, like do comedy wrap you know, because man, you know, Food's going Wild is doing really good at that. Like I ain't trying to you know, I ain't trying to step on these toes. Man, Yeah, shout out. What's the guys in that? Foo's gonna wile the guy with the mister

e man. You know, like man, he's he's killing it, bro. You know, like ship like that, like that kind of content, like that's amazing context. You know, they kill it. There's I mean, there's so many fucking dope pages out there, dude. It's just you know community, Food's gone Wild. There's a lot of the food yo. Man. Yeah, I'm just trying to keep up with them, dog because really selling out the Novo that's crazy, right, Like a comedy page comedy ship, Yeah,

that's dope. And then you know, but he wanted implemented the music and that was I mean that ship is smart, bro, That ship, you know, I can't you know, you can't knock that, bro, You can't knock that. Like the dude made something out of nothing and and and and and and that's dope, you know, like something out of a page that's essentially free. Bro, for sure, what's your I G? Everybody know where they can follow at Concrete Live. You can follow me at Concrete that's on all platforms at

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